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Date Sent: 2015-08-28
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Friday, August 28, 2015 |
Financial Times Calls For Abolishing Cash
Charles Schwab Breaks: "System Is Temporarily Unavailable" -- The Investor Revolt Arrives: This Hasn't Happened Since Q4 2008 -- Treasury Yields Are Tumbling -- 'Unprivileged Belligerents'- The US War On Journalists by Ron Paul -- This Just In!: The Government is Lying! -- Bitcoin is maturing: Patrick Byrne & Jinyoung Lee Englund on the cryptocurrency. -- Economics of a Crash -- Cannabis For Kids: How One Little Girl's Tumor Almost Disappeared After Using CBD Oil -- Princeton University and Coursera Launch Free Online Course on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies -- Updated: Major Mining Pools Make Stand Against Bitcoin XT Fork, Support for BIP 100 Grows -- Self-Defense and Police State Home Invasions -- Sweden and Ecuador to begin Julian Assange talks next week -- Black New Orleans 10 Years Post-Katrina -- Wall Street Rally: Hold the Cheers -- New Study: Almost All Ground Beef Is 'Contaminated With Fecal Matter' -- India Unveils The World's First 100% Solar Powered Airport -- The Communist Computer Club for Kids -- The microbot designed to push all your buttons -- Mexico warns Texas not to refuse its immigrants' babies U.S. birth certificates -- Pentagon teams up with Apple, Boeing to develop wearable tech -- America Is So in Play -- US Political System Faces the Trump Test -- Survey: Ecuador Best Country for Expats -- The right to protest in Ecuador is absolutely granted -- The Only Thing That Was Preventing A Rate Hike, Just Flashed A Rate Hike "Green Light" -- Washington Intends Breaching Iran Nuclear Deal -- 08-28-15 -- Gary Johnson - Will Pangman (MP3 LOADED) -- Phony Reports of Russian Casualties in Ukraine Resurface -- Another Ticking Time Bomb-----Wall Street Loans Collateralized By Stocks & Bonds --
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News Link • Currencies
Financial Times Calls For Abolishing Cash
08-28-2015
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InfoWars
The Financial Times has published an anonymous article which calls for the abolition of cash in order to give central banks and governments more power.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Charles Schwab Breaks: "System Is Temporarily Unavailable"
08-28-2015
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Zero Hedge
It has not been a good week for the retail brokers: on Monday, TD Ameritrade infuriated thousands, when the system broke just as the market crashed, preventing countless retail traders from buying (or selling).
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Investor Revolt Arrives: This Hasn't Happened Since Q4 2008
08-28-2015
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Zero Hedge
There's little question that the collapse of the financial universe in 2008 dealt a dramatic blow to retail's confidence in US capital markets. Taxpayers were forced to foot the bill for a Wall Street bailout just as 45% of their 401ks was being
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Treasury Yields Are Tumbling
08-28-2015
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Zero Hedge
After 3 days of carnage and a day of stability, it appears the death of the bond bull market has once again been greatly exagerated.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
'Unprivileged Belligerents'- The US War On Journalists by Ron Paul
08-28-2015
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Ron Paul Liberty Report
A new Defense Department manual allows for detention of journalists indefinitely if the military thinks they are sympathizing with or cooperating with the enemy. But who is the enemy when wars are no longer declared?
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government
This Just In!: The Government is Lying!
08-28-2015
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LewRockwell.Com
Yeah, I know, you're as shocked as I was. What?! The government might lie about things? No! Say it isn't so! Behold! Here is it! Oh, but that's not the government, that's the military! Well, uh, militaries never fall far from the tree, so it
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin is maturing: Patrick Byrne & Jinyoung Lee Englund on the cryptocurrency.
08-28-2015
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Patrick Byrne
WATCH Our lead story: What is insider trading 2.0? It's a term that New York State Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman coined on Tuesday to describe high frequency trading. Erin brings you the details.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Economics of a Crash
08-28-2015
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LewRockwell.Com
This month has seen something that happens not very often: it appears to be the early stages of a global stock market crash.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Cannabis For Kids: How One Little Girl's Tumor Almost Disappeared After Using CBD Oil
08-28-2015
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True Activist
Here is a fascinating clip from a National Geographic documentary 'Cannabis for kids', which explored the stories of various sick children whose parents turned to marijuana therapy to help them overcome their illnesses.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
Princeton University and Coursera Launch Free Online Course on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
08-28-2015
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Bitcoin Magazine
A Princeton University free online course on "Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies" will be offered by Coursera beginning September 4, 2015.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
Updated: Major Mining Pools Make Stand Against Bitcoin XT Fork, Support for BIP 100 Grows
08-28-2015
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Bitcoin Magazine
It has been little over a week since Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen included Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 101 (BIP 101) into the alternative Bitcoin implementation Bitcoin XT.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Self-Defense
Self-Defense and Police State Home Invasions
08-28-2015
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The Daily Bell
It's 3:00 in the morning. Your wife and young children are asleep. You hear a commotion outside, followed by the sound of a window rattling. You get up, grab your 12 gauge and creep down the stairs.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Sweden and Ecuador to begin Julian Assange talks next week
08-28-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com,
Ecuador seeking formal agreement on judicial cooperation before Swedish prosecutors can interrogate WikiLeaks founder
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
New Study: Almost All Ground Beef Is 'Contaminated With Fecal Matter'
08-28-2015
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True Activist
When investigators gathered 300 packages containing 458 pounds of ground beef from stores in 26 cities, they found that every single one contained fecal contamination.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
India Unveils The World's First 100% Solar Powered Airport
08-28-2015
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True Activist
An airport in Kerala, India will become the first in the world to be completely powered by a 12-megawatt (MW) solar power plant.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Cuba
The Communist Computer Club for Kids
08-28-2015
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Motherboard
I am sitting in a communist computer club for children in downtown Havana, and I am being pushed pirated material from around the world by the Cuban government.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The microbot designed to push all your buttons
08-28-2015
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Gizmag
The mechanical button or switch is that most simple of user interfaces. So simple that just about every electrical device in the home, from lights to coffee machines, will have one.
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News Link • Immigration
Mexico warns Texas not to refuse its immigrants' babies U.S. birth certificates
08-28-2015
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Fox News Latino
The Mexican government is warning that Texas' denial of birth certificates for U.S. children born here to undocumented immigrants stands to imperil the relationship between Mexico and the Lone Star State.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Pentagon teams up with Apple, Boeing to develop wearable tech
08-28-2015
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Yahoo News
The Pentagon is teaming up with Apple, Boeing, Harvard and others to develop high-tech sensory gear flexible enough to be worn by people or molded onto the outside of a jet.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
US Political System Faces the Trump Test
08-28-2015
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The Daily Bell
George Will, who often has no problem embracing Big Brother, found enough small-government vocabulary to write an entertaining takedown of Donald Trump's immigration plan.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Emmigration
Survey: Ecuador Best Country for Expats
08-28-2015
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http://www.usnews.com, By Deidre McPhillips
South American country tops for second year in a row.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
The right to protest in Ecuador is absolutely granted
08-28-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Your article (Protests by 1,000s of Ecuadorians meet with brutal repression 19 August, theguardian.com) omits the fundamental fact that the minority sectors of the population, exercising their right to protest, have resorted to violence in their aim
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Only Thing That Was Preventing A Rate Hike, Just Flashed A Rate Hike "Green Light"
08-28-2015
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Zero Hedge
Overnight, UBS' Drew Matus - who still expects a September rate hike - writes that while "domestic momentum seems strong enough to support the beginnings of policy normalization with a rate hike in September"
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
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Ernest Hancock
08-28-15 -- Gary Johnson - Will Pangman (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
Gary Johnson (Former New Mexico Governor and unannounced 2016 Libertarian Presidential Candidate) comes on the show to talk about his campaign - Will Pangman (Marketing Manager with AirBitz.co) comes on the show to talk about his move to AirBitz
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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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