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Date Sent: 2015-08-27
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, August 27, 2015 |
China Sells U.S. Treasuries to Support Yuan
Trump vs. Jorge Ramos on Birthright Citizenship, Wall, Deportation: (VIDEO) -- 08-27-15 -- Phranq Tamburri - Celestino Fernandez - Paul Puey (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED) -- Oil Industry Needs Half a Trillion Dollars to Endure Price Slump (VIDEO) -- Tesla With 'Insane Mode' Busts Curve on Consumer Reports Ratings -- Coming To A Sheriff's Office Near You -- World is still hooked on cheap money -- A Dream Come True: Huge Lego Bricks for Building Real Stuff -- No More Trews: Activist-Comedian Russell Brand Says Goodbye To His Followers -- BTCChina Support Gives BIP 100 Bitcoin Hashrate Majority -- Here Come the Anti- Silver Stories -- Sibel Edmonds: ISIS Is US -- Environmental Police Agency -- When You Answer The Phone And No One Is There -- Heard of China's Fake Rolexes? Now There's a Fake Goldman Sachs (VIDEO) -- Donald Trump trounces GOP field, Biden leads general election match-ups -- Fabricated Pentagon Reports on ISIS -- Who Tipped Off Al-Qaeda in Syria? by Ron Paul -- What drought? Some L.A. County supervisors have their cars washed 2, 3 times a week -- Malaysia to block websites promoting anti-government rally -- Rabbis Against Peace and Stability -- Reality Check: 'Anchor Babies' And Trump's U.S. Citizenship Claims (VIDEO) -- One Of Monsanto's Top Rivals Just Turned Down A $47 Billion Buy Out -- Bears Are "Covering" Everywhere, Especially Here -- Dow up 200 points as calm returns to U.S. stocks -- Plastered on the New York Daily News and Post front pages: an execution -- Study Shows That Uber And Other Rideshares Significantly Cut Down On Drunk Driving Deaths -- No One Is Ready for the Next Katrina -- In Seattle, Rand Paul blames both parties for 'horribly broken' system -- Is Donald Trump Just a Summer Fling? --
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News Link • China
China Sells U.S. Treasuries to Support Yuan
08-27-2015
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Bloomberg
China has cut its holdings of U.S. Treasuries this month to raise dollars needed to support the yuan in the wake of a shock devaluation two weeks ago, according to people familiar with the matter.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Trump vs. Jorge Ramos on Birthright Citizenship, Wall, Deportation: (VIDEO)
08-27-2015
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Free Thought Project
"We're Going To Start With The Gangs"...Univision anchor Jorge Ramos took on Donald Trump at a press conference held by the Republican presidential candidate in Dubuque, Iowa on Tuesday evening.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Oil Industry Needs Half a Trillion Dollars to Endure Price Slump (VIDEO)
08-27-2015
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http://www.bloomberg.com
At a time when the oil price is languishing at its lowest level in six years, producers need to find half a trillion dollars to repay debt. Some might not make it.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Transportation
Tesla With 'Insane Mode' Busts Curve on Consumer Reports Ratings
08-27-2015
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http://www.bloomberg.com
The combination of power and efficiency was so off-the-chart that the group had to recalibrate its ratings methods "to account for the car's exceptionally strong performance," according to a statement. Ultimately, the car was given a score of 1
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Opinion • Police State
Coming To A Sheriff's Office Near You
08-27-2015
Chuck Baldwin
On the front cover of Washington State's August 2015 "Inlander" magazine, Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich is shown hands on hips standing on top of the "Don't Tread On Me" (Gadsden) flag. The title of the article is "Daring To Tr
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News Link • Federal Reserve
World is still hooked on cheap money
08-27-2015
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CNN Money
Central bankers are swooping to the rescue of shaky economies, soothing investor panic for now but highlighting a global addiction to easy money.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Building and Construction Materials
A Dream Come True: Huge Lego Bricks for Building Real Stuff
08-27-2015
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Wired
Most people might stop at fantasizing about life-size building blocks, but not Rosan. He created them. Rosan is the founder of EverBlock, a modular system of full-scale plastic blocks that, like Lego, stack atop each another and lock together with ra
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
No More Trews: Activist-Comedian Russell Brand Says Goodbye To His Followers
08-27-2015
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True Activist
Brand decides to withdraw from bashing the establishment due to the 'overwhelming' witch-hunt it's caused in his personal life
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
BTCChina Support Gives BIP 100 Bitcoin Hashrate Majority
08-27-2015
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Coindesk
With the addition of the Chinese bitcoin firm today, the proposal now has support from the top three 'blockmakers' â€" who account for over 50% of the network's hashrate.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Here Come the Anti- Silver Stories
08-27-2015
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Popular Liberty
No mention is made, however, that gold doesn't default or go bankrupt either.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
Sibel Edmonds: ISIS Is US
08-27-2015
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Sibel Edmonds on Lew Rockwell
As the US prepares a military coup in Turkey.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
When You Answer The Phone And No One Is There
08-27-2015
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com
According to experts, these kinds of calls are step one in a phone fraud scheme that could lead to your identity being stolen and/or your bank account drained. The silence on the other end of the phone is actually a computer gathering information abo
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
Heard of China's Fake Rolexes? Now There's a Fake Goldman Sachs (VIDEO)
08-27-2015
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http://www.bloomberg.com
China has been accused of pirating movies, handbags, Rolexes -- even cars. Add Goldman Sachs to the list.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Donald Trump trounces GOP field, Biden leads general election match-ups
08-27-2015
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CNN
Vice President Joe Biden fares better against top GOP candidates in hypothetical general election match-ups than Hillary Clinton, according to a new national survey.
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News Link • Syria
Who Tipped Off Al-Qaeda in Syria? by Ron Paul
08-27-2015
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Ron Paul Liberty Report
Recent media reports that Turkey tipped off al-Qaeda's group in Syria to attack a US-backed team of "moderates" were denied by the Turks. Who's telling the truth?
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
What drought? Some L.A. County supervisors have their cars washed 2, 3 times a week
08-27-2015
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Daily News
Despite living in one of the most car-centric and image-conscious cities in the world, many Los Angeles drivers have cut their carwashes during the crippling drought.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Malaysia to block websites promoting anti-government rally
08-27-2015
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http://news.yahoo.com
Malaysia will block websites attempting to spread information about a two-day rally due to be staged in three cities this weekend by a pro-democracy group demanding Prime Minister Najib Razak's resignation.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Immigration
Reality Check: 'Anchor Babies' And Trump's U.S. Citizenship Claims (VIDEO)
08-27-2015
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http://truthstreammedia.com
This edition of Ben Swann's Reality Check explores claims by 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump that "anchor babies" are not U.S. citizens.
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News Link • Food
One Of Monsanto's Top Rivals Just Turned Down A $47 Billion Buy Out
08-27-2015
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True Activist
Monsanto has been known to buy out their competition every chance they get over the years, in further attempts to monopolize the biotech industry.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bears Are "Covering" Everywhere, Especially Here
08-27-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com
Back in December, Barron's told us that this time it was "different", so not to worry about a crash.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dow up 200 points as calm returns to U.S. stocks
08-27-2015
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CNN Money
The U.S. stock market is catching its breath Thursday morning -After several volatile days with huge swings in both directions, the Dow opened up a relative tame 200 points while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq both posted gains above 1%.
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News Link • Transportation
Study Shows That Uber And Other Rideshares Significantly Cut Down On Drunk Driving Deaths
08-27-2015
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True Activist
Rideshare services like Uber have been at the center of global controversy recently, as cab drivers all over the world are demanding that governments ban the services because they can't compete with them.
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News Link • Natural Disasters
No One Is Ready for the Next Katrina
08-27-2015
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Wired
Structural vulnerability comes from financial neglect, which leads back to politics. "There's a lot of political incentive to fund new, shiny infrastructure, but less of an incentive to be a responsible caretaker of stuff that's already built,
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
In Seattle, Rand Paul blames both parties for 'horribly broken' system
08-27-2015
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Popular Liberty
Rand Paul denounced his rivals in the pack of Republicans and Democrats running for president as warmongers and big-government enablers during a rally Wednesday in Seattle.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Is Donald Trump Just a Summer Fling?
08-27-2015
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http://www.bloomberg.com
There are significant differences between the billionaire's political ascendancy and those of other flash in the pan candidates.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Thanks to Congress the UN Plot to Confiscate American Guns Took a Giant Step Forward
08-26-2015
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thecommonsenseshow.com
Trapped within the fanfare Chinese Black Monday and the American stock market plunging almost 600 points yesterday, suspicious explosions in China and on an American military base, there has been a very important, but quiet development ,which is...
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Original Star Trek Galileo Spacecraft - Where Is It Today? | Video
08-26-2015
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youtube
The TV prop builder, Gene Winfield, 'beams' back to the time of construction to recount the backstory of the ship. It is currently being restored, more info about the project can be found at www.galileorestoration.com.
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News Link • Military
DoD manual allows journalists to be held as 'belligerents'
08-26-2015
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apnews.myway.com
New Defense Department guidelines allow commanders to punish journalists and treat them as "unprivileged belligerents" if they believe journalists are sympathizing or cooperating with the enemy.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Clean Slate: New Ferguson Judge Voids 10,000 Arrest Warrants
08-26-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, RT
The decision gives many residents of the troubled Missouri city a fresh start, just days before a court reform law is to take effect.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Redflex Stock Collapses In Wake Of Turmoil
08-26-2015
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, TheNewsPaper.com
After former top executive pleads guilty to corruption in Chicago, Illinois, Redflex Traffic System stock drops to an all-time low.
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News Link • Inventions
Deep-diving research submersible can plunge to 1,700 meters
08-26-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Colin Jeffrey
The team at U-Boat Worx (UBW) has produced a number of futuristic-looking, submersible craft designs over the years, including the Ferrari-esque HP Sport Sub 2 and the superyacht-friendly Sub 3.
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News Link • Energy
A California Company Thinks The Secret To Fusion Is A Long Tube
08-26-2015
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popsci.com
Take with a boulder of salt
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