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Date Sent: 2015-12-21
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, December 21, 2015 |
Update: SpaceX Postpones Falcon 9 Florida Landing Attempt Till Monday (TODAY!)
Federal Ban lifted on medical marijuana -- "This is a Coup" - The Story of How Greece Lost Its Democracy -- CISA IS NOW THE LAW: HOW CONGRESS QUIETLY PASSED THE SECOND PATRIOT... -- First They Jailed the Bankers, Now Every Icelander to Be Paid in Bank Sale -- SNL perfectly captured the dynamics of the Republican presidential race -- My bacon was a little Chewie -- Gun Control Executive Orders Expected Within Weeks -- Libya 2.0 Ahead? -- China Now Has So Much Bad Debt, It's Selling Soured Loans On Alibaba -- Putin Blasts Interventionist US Foreign Policy, Calls Forcible Regime Change... -- Europe, Turkey Close Airspace To Russian Warplanes Flying Anti-ISIS Missions... -- Here's What Spain's Messy Election Result Looks Like Right Now -- 2015 Car of the Year Finalist: The remarkable Tesla Model X -- Huge Fukushima Cover-Up Exposed, Government Scientists In Meltdown -- Here's every US state's unemployment rate -- Putin just gave his biggest signal yet that he intends 'to stay the course' in Syria -- I tried one of the indoor 'screen golf' ranges that South Koreans are obsessed with... -- Rand Paul on the War Path, Goes After Republican Front-Runners -- Bezos Takes Hands-On Role at Washington Post -- Kurt Russell to 'The View': -- US Special Forces thrown out of Libya after secret mission revealed -- Politically correct universities 'are killing free speech' -- Turkey's Erdogan meets Hamas leader Meshaal in Istanbul: sources -- New $250 million luxury resort planned for Cayman Islands -- SpaceX Will Launch (And Land?) Its Most Powerful Rocket Yet -- The 'Uber of laundry' relies on this one tool to get to its customers faster -- Here's why the drug that helped Jimmy Carter get 'cancer-free' is such a big deal -- What If There Were No Muslims In America? -- Star Wars smashes US box office record --
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Update Landed! VIDEOS: SpaceX Falcon 9 Florida Landing Monday - LANDED!
12-21-2015
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http://www.forbes.com
The rocket was due to blast off at 8.29pm ET on Sunday, but SpaceX decided to go for the second launch opportunity at 8.33pm ET today instead.- (We're Going To Space... And Government Is Not Invited)
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Federal Ban lifted on medical marijuana
12-21-2015
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Inquisitr
The near 2,000-page federal spending bill that was passed the other day included a provision that lifts the medical marijuana ban. The war on medical marijuana is now nearly over.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government
"This is a Coup" - The Story of How Greece Lost Its Democracy
12-21-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Mike Krieger
This morning, I started watching a mini-documentary on this past year's Greek saga titled, "This is a Coup," which I found to be exhilarating, disheartening, infuriating, touching and powerful.
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
CISA IS NOW THE LAW: HOW CONGRESS QUIETLY PASSED THE SECOND PATRIOT...
12-21-2015
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http://www.thedailysheeple.com, ZERO HEDGE
Update: CISA is now the law: OBAMA SIGNS SPENDING, TAX BILL THAT REPEALS OIL EXPORT BAN
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Justice and Judges
First They Jailed the Bankers, Now Every Icelander to Be Paid in Bank Sale
12-21-2015
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realfarmacy.com
Iceland made world news by jailing their crooked bankers that had an involvement in the 2008 financial crisis, and now they will pay every Icelander for the sale of Íslandsbanki, one of its largest banks.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
SNL perfectly captured the dynamics of the Republican presidential race
12-21-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Maxwell Tani
The "Saturday Night Live" recap of the latest Republican presidential debate reflected fairly accurately the state of the GOP primary.
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Control Executive Orders Expected Within Weeks
12-21-2015
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Prison Planet.com
After countless mass shootings during his time as president, all of which failed to inspire the public to yield on gun rights issues, Obama has had enough with our political system.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China Now Has So Much Bad Debt, It's Selling Soured Loans On Alibaba
12-21-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
As those who frequent these pages are no doubt aware, NPLs at Chinese banks are rising.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Putin Blasts Interventionist US Foreign Policy, Calls Forcible Regime Change...
12-21-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Putin Blasts Interventionist US Foreign Policy, Calls Forcible Regime Change "Intolerable"
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • World News
Europe, Turkey Close Airspace To Russian Warplanes Flying Anti-ISIS Missions...
12-21-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com,
Europe, Turkey Close Airspace To Russian Warplanes Flying Anti-ISIS Missions, General Says
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Here's What Spain's Messy Election Result Looks Like Right Now
12-21-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Update: Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's PP places first with 114-118 seats, TVE exit poll shows.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Transportation
2015 Car of the Year Finalist: The remarkable Tesla Model X
12-21-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Benjamin Zhang
The Tesla Model X crossover is one of the most eagerly awaited vehicles in recent memory. Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the production electric crossover during a massive gathering at a company facility in Fremont, California, on Tuesday night.
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Huge Fukushima Cover-Up Exposed, Government Scientists In Meltdown
12-21-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Fukushima radiation just off the North American coast is higher now than it has ever been, and government scientists and mainstream press are scrambling to cover-up and downplay the ever-increasing deadly threat that looms for millions of Americans.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Here's every US state's unemployment rate
12-21-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Andy Kiersz
The Bureau of Labor Statistics just released their monthly report on unemployment rates among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and things are looking fairly good.
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News Link • Syria
Putin just gave his biggest signal yet that he intends 'to stay the course' in Syria
12-21-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Natasha Bertrand
The Russian military can "train" in Syria "for a long time without any serious harm to Russia's budget," Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his annual marathon press conference Thursday morning.
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
I tried one of the indoor 'screen golf' ranges that South Koreans are obsessed with...
12-21-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Eugene Kim
I tried one of the indoor 'screen golf' ranges that South Koreans are obsessed with, and it was a blast
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rand Paul on the War Path, Goes After Republican Front-Runners
12-21-2015
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Popular Liberty
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky lashed out Sunday at the leaders of the Republican presidential field, hammering Donald Trump as unelectable and inconsistent, charging that Ted Cruz "wants to have it both ways" on a number of issues and calling for Marco
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Kurt Russell to 'The View':
12-21-2015
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breitbart.com
Founding Fathers Had 'Very Strong Reason' for Second Amendment
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
US Special Forces thrown out of Libya after secret mission revealed
12-21-2015
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telegraph.co.uk
A unit of US Special Operations Forces have been spotted inside Libya after photographs were posted online on the North African country's air force social media page
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Robert Lee
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News Link • PC: Political Correctness
Politically correct universities 'are killing free speech'
12-21-2015
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telegraph.co.uk
British universities have become too politically correct and are stifling free speech by banning anything that causes the least offence to anyone, academics argue
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Turkey's Erdogan meets Hamas leader Meshaal in Istanbul: sources
12-21-2015
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yahoo.com
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan met with Khaled Meshaal, leader of Palestinian militant group Hamas, on Saturday in Istanbul, Turkish presidential sources said, a day after Israel and Turkey said they were close to patching up five-year political ri
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Architecture
New $250 million luxury resort planned for Cayman Islands
12-21-2015
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gizmag.com
The Cayman Islands is not short of luxury resorts
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
The 'Uber of laundry' relies on this one tool to get to its customers faster
12-21-2015
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Business Insider
Americans spend billions of dollars every year in the name of convenience.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Here's why the drug that helped Jimmy Carter get 'cancer-free' is such a big deal
12-21-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Lydia Ramsey
Former US President Jimmy Carter announced on Sunday that his latest brain scan showed no sign of cancer, a few months after revealing that he had been diagnosed with melanoma that had spread from his liver to his brain.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Star Wars smashes US box office record
12-21-2015
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Financial Times
Star Wars: The Force Awakens generated more than half a billion dollars in its opening weekend, smashing the box office record in the US and underscoring why Walt Disney paid $4bn for the rights to the series three years ago.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Transportation
Why Flying Home for the Holidays Might Be Greener Than Driving
12-21-2015
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Wired
This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Landmark Algorithm Breaks 30-Year Impasse
12-21-2015
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Wired
A theoretical computer scientist has presented an algorithm that is being hailed as a breakthrough in mapping the obscure terrain of complexity theory, which explores how hard computational problems are to solve.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Paul: Nobody Read The $1.1 Trillion Omnibus Bill
12-21-2015
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Prison Planet.com
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Sunday said he voted against the $1.1 trillion government spending bill that passed Congress last week because nobody had a chance to read the behemoth legislation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
The Masonic Grand Master - by Eric Margolis
12-20-2015
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Lew Rockwell blog
Gladio, its far right members and its arms caches remained. In the 1980's and early 90's, Gladio and Gelli would be involved in numerous plots and intrigues paving the way for fascist coups. CIA and Britain's MI6 were implicated.
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