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Date Sent: 2015-08-28
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Friday, August 28, 2015 |
Another Ticking Time Bomb-----Wall Street Loans Collateralized By Stocks & Bonds
Margin Calls Mount On Loans Against Stock Portfolios Used To Buy Homes... -- Consumer Reports: The Tesla Model S P85D is so good it 'defies the laws of physics' -- Jerry Seinfeld Hilariously Trolls Cops After they Shut Down his Son's Lemonade Stand -- Drug War Insanity: Small Army Raids a Man's Home Over an Expired Medical Marijuana Card -- Top JPMorgan Quant Warns Second Market Crash May Be Imminent -- Airbnb Hires Ex-Clinton Aide to Play Nice With Policymakers -- The World's Longest Tunnel Is Complete -- A dentist from 'the Uber of teeth whitening' bleached my teeth in my living room -- Xi just changed the rules of the game in China... -- XTI Aircraft Company offers stakes in the TriFan 600 VTOL business plane -- Unreal. Activist Jorge Ramos Goes on Kelly File -- Where is Neo When We Need Him -- What Chinese Weapons Will Be At the Big 70th Victory Day Parade? -- Format Wars: Instagram Adds Portrait And Landscape Modes To Your Feed -- Scientists Find A Double Black Hole Inside A Nearby Quasar -- Japan Launches Latest Helicopter Carrier -- Oath Keepers Accuse Own Leaders of Racism after Withdrawing Support for Black Open Carry March -- 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 --
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Another Ticking Time Bomb-----Wall Street Loans Collateralized By Stocks & Bonds
08-27-2015
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By MICHAEL WURSTHORN and ANNAMARIA ANDRIOTIS
Loans backed by investment portfolios have become a booming business for Wall Street brokerages. Now the bill is coming due--for both the banks and their clients.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Margin Calls Mount On Loans Against Stock Portfolios Used To Buy Homes...
08-27-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Mike Krieger
Today's article from the Wall Street Journal on investors taking out large loans backed by portfolios of stocks and bonds is one of the most concerning and troubling finance/economics related articles I have read all year.
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News Link • Transportation
Consumer Reports: The Tesla Model S P85D is so good it 'defies the laws of physics'
08-27-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Benjamin Zhang
The Tesla Model S P85D performed well on Consumer Reports' road tests -- so well that the 80-year-old publication is calling the Tesla the best car it has ever tested.
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News Link • Police State
Jerry Seinfeld Hilariously Trolls Cops After they Shut Down his Son's Lemonade Stand
08-27-2015
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http://thefreethoughtproject.com, By Matt Agorist
To raise funds for a local baby clothes charity, funnyman Jerry Seinfeld and family set up a lemonade stand.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Drug War Insanity: Small Army Raids a Man's Home Over an Expired Medical Marijuana Card
08-27-2015
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thefreethoughtproject.com, By Justin Gardner
Attorneys are approaching Gregg Levendoski to defend his case after the medical marijuana patient was subject to a militarized raid over two dozen marijuana plants. 60 local, state and federal officers, including SWAT teams, stormed the property and
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Top JPMorgan Quant Warns Second Market Crash May Be Imminent
08-27-2015
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by ZeroHedge
Last Friday, when the market was down only 2%, we presented readers with a note which promptly became the most read piece across Wall Street trading desks...
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Airbnb Hires Ex-Clinton Aide to Play Nice With Policymakers
08-27-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com, by KARI PAUL
Airbnb has added former Clinton administration aide Chris Lehane to its ranks as it continues to battle with regulators and works to keep its apartment sharing service legal around the world.
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News Link • World News
The World's Longest Tunnel Is Complete
08-27-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com, BY RACHEL PICK
Switzerland has just completed work on the Gotthard Base Tunnel, which is 35 miles long and now the world's longest tunnel.
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
A dentist from 'the Uber of teeth whitening' bleached my teeth in my living room
08-27-2015
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Madison Malone Kircher
I normally use my living room almost exclusively for watching Netflix and eating takeout.
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News Link • China
Xi just changed the rules of the game in China...
08-27-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Linette Lopez
Xi just changed the rules of the game in China -- and that makes things scarier for everyone
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
XTI Aircraft Company offers stakes in the TriFan 600 VTOL business plane
08-27-2015
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gizmag.com
Crowdfunding is usually associated with consumer goods like smartwatches and drones, but XTI Aircraft Company of Denver, Colorado is hoping to score a double first with its TriFan 600.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
What Chinese Weapons Will Be At the Big 70th Victory Day Parade?
08-27-2015
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By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer
Helicopters and missiles and tanks, oh my!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Japan Launches Latest Helicopter Carrier
08-27-2015
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http://news.usni.org, By: Sam LaGrone
Japan has launched the second in its new class of helicopter carrier -- the largest Japanese ships since World War II -- in a Thursday ceremony in Yokohama.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Oath Keepers Accuse Own Leaders of Racism after Withdrawing Support for Black Open Carry March
08-27-2015
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thefreethoughtproject.com, By Jay Syrmopoulos
The goal of the march is to ensure that "every minority child sees that black men can openly carry to protect their rights," Andrews said.
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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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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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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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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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