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Date Sent: 2017-12-07
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Friday, December 8, 2017 |
California continues to burn as fast winds create whole new blazes, while flames leap
California continues to burn as fast winds create whole new blazes, while flames leap... -- What Is Money? (Yes, We're Talking About Bitcoin) -- Cryptocurrency Miners Are Using Old Tires to Power Their Rigs -- Thorcon floating supertanker molten salt reactors starting with 2021 prototype -- AI AlphaGo Zero started from scratch to become best at Chess, Go and Japanese Chess within hours -- Nuclear powered drones are technically feasible and could fly for years -- Banks Issue Last Minute Warning About Risks Of Bitcoin Futures, Ask Regulator For Review -- Interview 1331 ?" New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato -- Senators Grassley/Feinstein Introduce Law Against Cash And Bitcoin -- This Is What The First Soft Artificial Heart Looks Like -- Trump Calls on Saudis to End Yemen Blockade -- The Curtain Rises On Trump Theater -- Cash After the Collapse: 6 Multi-Purpose Preps You Need in Emergency Supplies -- Bitcoin's Berserker Run Resumes After Exchange Breaks; -- Survey: Okay To Kill Two Million People In A Preemptive Nuclear Attack -- Game changing nuclear molten salt reactor will be cheaper than natural gas -- Cut, Spend And Borrow---Why The GOP Is Heading For Fiscal Calamity, Part 3 -- Actually getting rid of a USA worth of coal usage within a decade -- Pope wants to change 'Lord's Prayer' as it implies God 'induces temptation' -- The Problem With Crypto-Currencies -- Nikki Haley casts some doubt on U.S. athletes at 2018 PyeongChang Olympics -- What we know about the deadly Aztec High School shooting -- White cop Martin Slager, who shot and killed unarmed black man Walter Scott as he ran... -- Underwater drone explores the depths, with or without you -- Siberian Super Volcano Erupts Spewing Scorching Hot Ash 6 Miles Into The Sky -- Scientists 'Inject' Information Into Monkeys' Brains -- Warning: 'They Need The Markets To Implode' To Usher In Cashless System -- The Latest: Franken says he's been an advocate for women -- Starvation and Cholera in Yemen -- A Radical Critique of Universal Basic Income --
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News Link • California
California continues to burn as fast winds create whole new blazes, while flames leap...
12-07-2017
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http://www.dailymail.co, By JAMES WILKINSON
California continues to burn as fast winds create whole new blazes, while flames leap freeways and astonishing photos show the more than 128,000 acres that have been scarred by the uncontrolled infernos
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News Link • Bitcoin
What Is Money? (Yes, We're Talking About Bitcoin)
12-07-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Charles Hugh Smith
Good ideas don't require force. That describes the Internet, mobile telephony and cryptocurrencies.
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News Link • Currencies
Cryptocurrency Miners Are Using Old Tires to Power Their Rigs
12-07-2017
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https://motherboard.vice.com, Christopher Malmo
This new "waste-to-energy" setup is meant to be less resource intensive.
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News Link • Energy
Thorcon floating supertanker molten salt reactors starting with 2021 prototype
12-07-2017
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
ThorCon is a liquid-fuel fission power plant, under development in the US, to be built in a far-east shipyard, then floated to Indonesia, with testing starting in 2021.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
AI AlphaGo Zero started from scratch to become best at Chess, Go and Japanese Chess within hours
12-07-2017
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
The AlphaZero program developed by Google and DeepMind took four hours of playing against itself to create chess knowledge beyond any human or other computer program. It could beat any person and beat the best World Computer Champion Stockfish 28 win
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News Link • Drones
Nuclear powered drones are technically feasible and could fly for years
12-07-2017
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
From 2008-2011, Sandia National Labs and Northrop Grumman designed nuclear drones that would be able to fly for many months.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Banks Issue Last Minute Warning About Risks Of Bitcoin Futures, Ask Regulator For Review
12-07-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
As we countdown to the launch of bitcoin futures trading on the CBOE (10 December) and CME (18 December), the big banks â€" via the Futures Industry Association - have suddenly got cold feet about the risks.
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News Link • Corbett Report
Interview 1331 â€" New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
12-07-2017
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https://www.corbettreport.com
Welcome to New World Next Week â€" the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:
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News Link • Senate/Senators
Senators Grassley/Feinstein Introduce Law Against Cash And Bitcoin
12-07-2017
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http://thedeepstate.com, Simon Black
This one is almost too ridiculous to believe.
Recently a new bill was introduced on the floor of the US Senate entitled, pleasantly,
"Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017."
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
This Is What The First Soft Artificial Heart Looks Like
12-07-2017
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http://miami.cbslocal.com, By Giovanna Maselli
MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- Scientists have created the world's first soft artificial beating heart.
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News Link • Surviving the Collapse
Cash After the Collapse: 6 Multi-Purpose Preps You Need in Emergency Supplies
12-07-2017
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Jeremiah Johnson
Hopefully, our readers will not suffer indigestion of their holiday meals or have a damper placed upon the holiday largesse of gift-giving and happy moments.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin's Berserker Run Resumes After Exchange Breaks;
12-07-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Bitcoin's Berserker Run Resumes After Exchange Breaks; Novogratz Says "Not Close To The End"
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News Link • Energy
Game changing nuclear molten salt reactor will be cheaper than natural gas
12-07-2017
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Recently , Terrestrial Energy Inc.'s (TEI) announced the completion of the first phase of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's (CNSC) pre-licensing vendor design review.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Cut, Spend And Borrow---Why The GOP Is Heading For Fiscal Calamity, Part 3
12-07-2017
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By David Stockman
The GOP's delusional theory that the $1.8 trillion of business tax cuts (corporate and pass-thrus) in the Senate bill will pay for themselves in higher investment, growth, jobs, wages and revenue reflows is about as realistic as the Bitcoin Mania.
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News Link • United States
Actually getting rid of a USA worth of coal usage within a decade
12-07-2017
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
In 2011, President Obama set a U.S. energy target: produce 80 percent of electricity from clean energy sources by 2035. Reaching that goal would involve removing two thirds of coal usage in the USA. The US is not on a path to making that happen.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Pope wants to change 'Lord's Prayer' as it implies God 'induces temptation'
12-07-2017
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https://www.express.co.uk, By Vincent Wood
POPE Francis has called for the Lord's prayer to be changed â€" arguing that the translation used by many parts of the world goes against the teachings of the Bible.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Nikki Haley casts some doubt on U.S. athletes at 2018 PyeongChang Olympics
12-07-2017
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www.nbcnews.com, by Erik Ortiz and Ali Vitali
Nikki Haley, America's ambassador to the United Nations, suggested that the United States' participation in February's Winter Olympics in South Korea remains up in the air, while the White House said Thursday that "no official decision has been made"
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News Link • Mass Shootings
What we know about the deadly Aztec High School shooting
12-07-2017
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http://www.koat.com
Three people are dead including a shooter opened fire at Aztec High School Thursday morning. The shooter is among the dead.
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
White cop Martin Slager, who shot and killed unarmed black man Walter Scott as he ran...
12-07-2017
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http://www.dailymail.co, By ASSOCIATED PRESS
White cop Martin Slager, who shot and killed unarmed black man Walter Scott as he ran away then tried to cover it up, gets 20 years for second-degree murder
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News Link • Drones
Underwater drone explores the depths, with or without you
12-07-2017
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https://newatlas.com, Ben Coxworth
We've featured a fair number of underwater drones over the past few years, and they're pretty much all remotely-controlled by their shore-based users.
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Siberian Super Volcano Erupts Spewing Scorching Hot Ash 6 Miles Into The Sky
12-07-2017
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http://www.shtfplan.com, Mac Slavo
A Siberian super-volcano is worrying scientists after it's shocking and sudden eruption flung hot ash six miles into the sky. This volcano is one of the most active in Russia.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists 'Inject' Information Into Monkeys' Brains
12-07-2017
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https://www.nytimes.com, Carl Zimmer
When you drive toward an intersection, the sight of the light turning red will (or should) make you step on the brake. This action happens thanks to a chain of events inside your head.
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News Link • Stock Market
Warning: 'They Need The Markets To Implode' To Usher In Cashless System
12-07-2017
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http://www.shtfplan.com, Mac Slavo
Market analyst Lynette Zang predicts in the next market meltdown, "real estate, stocks, and bonds will all crash." When asked when this will happen, Zang says, "Enjoy your Christmas," but in 2018, all bets are off.
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News Link • Governors
The Latest: Franken says he's been an advocate for women
12-07-2017
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https://www.yahoo.com, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., and the allegations of sexual misconduct against him (all times local):
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News Link • Yemen
Starvation and Cholera in Yemen
12-07-2017
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Adil E. Shamoo
War is taking Yemen back to the dark ages, with US assistance
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News Link • American History
John F Kennedy To 9/11: Everything Is A Rich Man's Trick
12-07-2017
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Joe Martino
What you'll learn in this film you won't learn in school… this is perhaps one of the greatest tricks of the elite. Convincing us we are learning what we think is ultimate truth when in reality much of the time they are careful lies.
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News Link • Australia
Australia Stock Exchange Adopts Blockchain
12-07-2017
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https://www.themaven.net, by Mike Mish Shedlock
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) will replace its current clearing system with blockchain technology.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump: 'I'll Build a Wall Around Banks to Keep Bitcoin Out'
12-07-2017
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https://news.bitcoin.com, William Suberg
Disclaimer: This article is satire. None of the quotes in this article are real and do not reflect the opinions or proposed policies of the people named in the article.
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News Link • Internet
The Lunatic Technocracy to Introduce Truth Algorithms for Us
12-07-2017
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https://www.technocracy.news, By: Phil Butler
This article stresses what I have stated many times, "The inmates have taken over the asylum" while the staff was locked up in the inmate cells and treated as the crazy ones. Big Tech is truly out of control and exercises undue influence over all
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News Link • Activism
Breaking: Sibel Edmonds Will Be in Texas to Take on the Terrorist Gulen Network!!!
12-07-2017
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https://www.newsbud.com, SIBEL EDMONDS
Join Newsbud's founder Sibel Edmonds as she announces she will be in Austin, Texas with members of the Newsbud team to take on the Gulen network and their pocketed politicians on Tuesday December 12th.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Lightning At Last? Bitcoin Scaling Layer Almost Ready
12-07-2017
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coindesk.com by Alyssa Hertig
Bitcoin's long wait for the Lightning Network is almost over.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin's insane energy consumption, explained
12-07-2017
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arstechnica.com by Timothy B. Lee
The skyrocketing value of Bitcoin is leading to soaring energy consumption.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin $14,000: The Latest Milestone
12-07-2017
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forbes.com by Charles Bovaird
Bitcoin rose above $14,000 today, reaching its latest milestone as the digital asset's sharp rally continued.
The cryptocurrency climbed to as much as $14,095.61 on CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index (BPI).
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Could Fall 'Big Time' But Not Just Yet, Says Crypto Trader
12-07-2017
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forbes.com by Roger Aitken
With the price of Bitcoin rising to a new record and in touching distance of the $13,000 mark, ...
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