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Date Sent: 2018-02-25
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Sunday, February 25, 2018 |
Bank Run Feared After ECB Unexpectedly Pulls Plug On Latvia Largest Private Bank
Core Tubular Steel Slabs are up to 20 times lighter than reinforced concrete -- Major Taxi Disruption on Horizon: California Driverless Cars by April -- Spinlaunch is using large centrifuges to accelerate to payloads into space... -- ECB Pulls Plug on Latvia's Failing ABLV Bank -- Own Gold Before Pandora Reopens The Box -- Protect Kids or Confiscate Guns? -- Delingpole: NOAA Caught Lying About Arctic Sea Ice -- Donald Trump is reckless on Syria. It's his most dangerous foreign policy folly. -- This Upcoming "Black Swan" Event Could Wipe Out Your Life Savings -- Chung Kuo -- The End Of Globalism - With Doug Casey -- Elon touts Global gigabit broadband -- Measuring quantum computer reliability -- First Topological superconductor will enable new very long coherence time Quantum computers -- First skyscraper over one kilometer in height on track for 2020 completion -- Ted Cruz trails Senate challenger Beto O'Rourke in six-week fundraising haul. By a lot. -- CPAC speaker Mona Charen stuns with fiery rebuke of Trump, Le Pen -- The US vs. China: A Study in Opposites -- Actions of armed citizen saved mother, daughter (VIDEO) -- Does the ACLU Any Longer Defend Civil Liberty? -- Newsbud Exclusive ?" Divide & Conquer: UN Unleashes Global Mass Migration Plan!! -- Misunderstanding the Deep State -- China leads world with 8 CRISPR trials to treat cancer and CRISPR medicine is a national priority -- Memtransistors advance neuromorphic computing -- Archaeologists find ancient necropolis in Egypt -- Russiagate Suddenly Becomes Bigger -- China to scrap term limits for president, paving way for Xi to stay at helm -- Hero dog shot protecting teen during home invasion -- Security Council Ceasefire Resolution in Syria --
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News Link • Central Banks/Banking
Bank Run Feared After ECB Unexpectedly Pulls Plug On Latvia Largest Private Bank
02-25-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Last week we reported that as part of a rapidly deteriorating banking crisis in Latvia, which culminated with the detention of central bank head Ilmars Rimsevics on suspicion of accepting a bribe of more than €100,000 ...
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News Link • Building and Construction Materials
Core Tubular Steel Slabs are up to 20 times lighter than reinforced concrete
02-25-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Broad Group which has built factory mass produced skyscrapers has a new construction innovation â€" Core Tubular Steel Slabs (CTS).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • California
Major Taxi Disruption on Horizon: California Driverless Cars by April
02-25-2018
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https://www.themaven.net, by Mike Mish Shedlock
Driverless cars, with no person in the vehicle, may come to California as soon as April if rules are approved Monday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Spinlaunch is using large centrifuges to accelerate to payloads into space...
02-25-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
SpinLaunch is raising $30 million to use large centrifuges to power catapult to launch payloads into space.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Banks/Banking
ECB Pulls Plug on Latvia's Failing ABLV Bank
02-25-2018
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wsj.com By Patricia Kowsmann
Bank, which faces U.S. sanctions for allegedly helping North Korea, said it would be liquidated
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Own Gold Before Pandora Reopens The Box
02-25-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Egon von Greyerz
In the old Greek mythology, the opening of Pandora's box unleashed many evils on the world.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Children
Protect Kids or Confiscate Guns?
02-25-2018
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www.lewrockwell.com,By Patrick J. Buchanan
In days gone by, a massacre of students like the atrocity at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School would have brought us together.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Climate Change
Delingpole: NOAA Caught Lying About Arctic Sea Ice
02-25-2018
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http://www.breitbart.com, by James Delingpole
The Arctic is melting catastrophically! Sea ice levels are experiencing their most precipitous decline in 1500 years! Something must be done ?" and fast…
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
Donald Trump is reckless on Syria. It's his most dangerous foreign policy folly.
02-25-2018
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https://www.usatoday.com, James Bovard
Trump said Obama's 'horrendous leadership' on Syria could start World War III. He's made things even worse.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Future Predictions
This Upcoming "Black Swan" Event Could Wipe Out Your Life Savings
02-25-2018
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https://www.caseyresearch.com
First "Brexit," then Trump.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Chung Kuo
02-25-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Doug Casey
This article is entitled Chung Kuo, which means Middle Kingdom.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Globalism
The End Of Globalism - With Doug Casey
02-25-2018
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https://www.youtube.com, RonPaulLibertyReport
Is the globalism that seeks to concentrate power in a few unelected international bodies like the UN and IMF about to spectacularly crash?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Elon touts Global gigabit broadband
02-25-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Elon Musk tweets that the Starlink constellation of thousands of gigabit per second internet satellites will help get internet to the last billion and areas in the developed world with bad internet service.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Measuring quantum computer reliability
02-25-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Researchers have determined a method to identify characteristic statistical signatures across unmeasurable probability distributions. Instead of a complete "fingerprint," they were able to distill the information from data sets which were reduced
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
First Topological superconductor will enable new very long coherence time Quantum computers
02-25-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
A research team at Chalmers University of Technology is now among the first in the world to submit results indicating that they have actually succeeded in manufacturing a topological superconductor.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
First skyscraper over one kilometer in height on track for 2020 completion
02-25-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Jeddah Tower (previously known as Kingdom Tower, is being built in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, at a cost of SR4.6 billion (US$1.23 billion).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Texas
Ted Cruz trails Senate challenger Beto O'Rourke in six-week fundraising haul. By a lot.
02-25-2018
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https://www.dallasnews.com, Katie Leslie
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's fundraising lagged far behind his top Democratic challenger during the first six weeks of 2018, a new federal campaign filing shows.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
CPAC speaker Mona Charen stuns with fiery rebuke of Trump, Le Pen
02-25-2018
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www.washingtonexaminer.com, by Gabby Morrongiello
"I'm actually going to twist this around a bit and say that I'm disappointed in people on our side for being hypocrites about sexual harassers and abusers of women who are in our party, who are sitting in the White House, who brag about their extrama
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United States
The US vs. China: A Study in Opposites
02-25-2018
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http://www.internationalman.com, by Jeff Thomas
In the first photo, taken in 1972, US President Richard Nixon made what was then considered a bold move, visiting Mao Zedong in Communist China. Literally, as well as figuratively, Chairman Mao is on the left and Mr. Nixon is on the right.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Crime
Actions of armed citizen saved mother, daughter (VIDEO)
02-25-2018
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http://www.guns.com, by Joey Clementine
Albuquerque police say the actions of the armed citizen involved in a deadly shooting Sunday likely saved the lives of a mother and daughter.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Does the ACLU Any Longer Defend Civil Liberty?
02-25-2018
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www.paulcraigroberts.org, Paul Craig Roberts
There are many signs of American collapse. One of the most scary is the fact that the American Civil Liberties Union no longer knows what are the civil liberties it purports to defend. Identity Politics has transformed civil rights into privileges fo
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
Newsbud Exclusive ?" Divide & Conquer: UN Unleashes Global Mass Migration Plan!!
02-25-2018
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https://www.newsbud.com, Chris Melidis
A new draft for managing mass migration was introduced by the United Nations about a month ago and is expected to be adopted by most of its member states later this year.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Deep State- Shadow Government
Misunderstanding the Deep State
02-25-2018
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https://www.newsbud.com, Kurt Nimmo
According to Donald Trump and his partisans, Democrats--Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Democrats in Congress, the liberal media--are the Deep State.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China leads world with 8 CRISPR trials to treat cancer and CRISPR medicine is a national priority
02-25-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
China has at least eight CRISPR gene therapy clinical trials to treat various forms of cancer. CRISPR is being tested as a treatment for cancers of the lung, bladder, cervix and prostate.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Memtransistors advance neuromorphic computing
02-25-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
A Northwestern research team has developed a novel device called a "memtransistor," which operates much like a neuron by performing both memory and information processing.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Archaeology
Archaeologists find ancient necropolis in Egypt
02-25-2018
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https://www.yahoo.com, MOHAMED WAGDY
Egypt's Antiquities Ministry announced on Saturday the discovery of an ancient necropolis near the Nile Valley city of Minya, south of Cairo, the latest discovery in an area known to house ancient catacombs from the Pharaonic Late Period and the Ptol
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News Link • Seriously?
Russiagate Suddenly Becomes Bigger
02-25-2018
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http://www.unz.com, Philip Giraldi
Will every critic of our government policies soon be indictable?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China to scrap term limits for president, paving way for Xi to stay at helm
02-25-2018
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https://www.japantimes.co, by Jesse Johnson
In a move likely to pave the way for Chinese leader Xi Jinping to stay at the country's helm beyond his second five-year term, the ruling Communist Party's Central Committee has proposed to remove term limits for the president and vice president.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Hero dog shot protecting teen during home invasion
02-25-2018
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http://www.king5.com, Natalie Swaby
Police are looking for suspects that shot Rex, a family's dog that jumped into action when he spotted intruders attempting to break into his home.
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Robert Lee
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Feature Article • Syria
Security Council Ceasefire Resolution in Syria
Stephen Lendman
Syria - Since the Obama administration launched naked aggression on Syria in March 2011, using ISIS and other terrorists as imperial foot soldiers, numerous Security Council resolutions were adopted to try restoring peace and stability to the country
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News Link • Central Banks/Banking
ECB Pulls Plug on Latvia's Failing ABLV Bank
02-25-2018
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wsj.com By Patricia Kowsmann
Bank, which faces U.S. sanctions for allegedly helping North Korea, said it would be liquidated
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Inventions
Flyboard Air redefines the concept of a hoverboard (Publisher Recommended)
04-11-2016
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http://www.gizmag.com
The Air ditches the water jet for what appears to be a jet turbine engine, and allows him to fly untethered through the sky to a maximum height of 10,000 feet and a maximum endurance of 10 minutes. (ahhhh,... No Freaking Way!!!)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Zapata Ezfly: The jet-powered aerial Segway anyone can fly
01-19-2018
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https://newatlas.com
The Zapata Ezfly looks for all intents and purposes like a Segway of the sky. You stand on a small platform equipped with a series of jet thrusters, holding two handgrips that come up from the base, then rise up into the air and zoom around, steering
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
JetPack Aviation JB-9 JETPACK
09-05-2016
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https://www.youtube.com, JetPack Aviation
JetPack Aviation introduces the JB-9 JETPACK - The world's only true JetPack. Exclusive footage of the first untethered JetPack JB-9 flights.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Jetpack pioneer David Mayman's new electric VTOL flying car project
02-03-2017
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newatlas.com by Loz Blain
Jetpack Aviation's David Mayman and Nelson Tyler have already brought honest-to-god jetpacks out of the pages of science fiction books and onto the market. Now, they plan to do the same with flying cars..
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
SureFly
02-21-2018
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http://workhorse.com
The time has come. After 78 years, the helicopter has been reinvented. SureFly is a personal helicopter/VTOL aircraft designed for safe and easy flight. With eight independent motors each driving a single carbon fiber propeller, a backup battery powe
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
AirSpaceX's autonomous, electric air taxi lands in Detroit
02-22-2018
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newatlas.com By David Szondy
Airspace Experience Technologies, LLC (AirSpaceX) has given a preview of its vision for the future of air taxi services at this year's North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Bigelow Aerospace Launches New Company to Operate Private Space Stations
02-23-2018
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https://www.space.com
A company that builds big, inflatable space habitats has launched a new venture that will market and operate these structures in Earth orbit and beyond.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX Just Launched Its First High-Speed Internet Satellites Into Orbit
02-22-2018
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motherboard.vice.com by Kaleigh Rogers
The goal, to create a constellation of more than 12,000 satellites, is part of a project called Starlink.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New flexible lithium ion battery flexes like a spine; may revolutionize wearable electronics
02-22-2018
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https://www.naturalnews.com
(Natural News) With the emergence of flexible -- as in bendable -- consumer electronic devices like smartphones and smartwatches, the demand has increased for similarly flexible high-performance batteries. This was the main motivation behind a stud
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News Link • Economy - International
Doug Casey On Why Gold Could Go "Hyperbolic" . I find this quite reasonable .......
02-21-2018
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https://www.themaven.net/mishtalk/economics/doug-c
"[gold] will continue to be used as money because none of these governments should, or do, trust each other. Or each other's phony paper fiat currencies. There could be a buying panic in gold and it could go much higher..."
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News Link • Internet
Within 24 months SpaceX could begin providing gigabit internet to the USA
02-21-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Elon Musk's SpaceX won an endorsement on Wednesday from Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai to build a broadband network using satellites.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Fifty SpaceX Falcon BFR could technically enable sustainable orbital colonies for...
02-21-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Fifty SpaceX Falcon BFR could technically enable sustainable orbital colonies for 2 million people by 2040
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News Link • Climate Change
Delingpole: NOAA Caught Adjusting Big Freeze out of Existence
02-21-2018
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http://www.breitbart.com, by JAMES DELINGPOLE
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has yet again been caught exaggerating 'global warming' by fiddling with the raw temperature data.
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News Link • Police State
Don't Talk to Police! Legal Behavior Justified a Search
02-21-2018
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http://www.thedailybell.com
It was legal to carry weed in his car when he was in Washington state. But now he was in Indiana, pulled over for a broken headlight. The cop didn't smell anything suspicious, nor did he suspect the driver of being impaired. But he did ask some qu
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Heating and ventilating a 10,000 person space station
02-21-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
The National Space Society has a 33-page analysis of heat and energy transport and management for an outline but realistic habitat design.
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News Link • China
China reveals military exoskeletons which are behind current US exoskeletons
02-21-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com
China has a new lighter and stronger military exoskeleton. Refinements in weight, ergonomics, and power supply could boost the second-generation exoskeleton's coefficiency ratio. Norinco claims that the reduced weight increases battery performance.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • How To
Surviving a gunshot wound: What to do if you get shot
02-22-2018
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https://www.naturalnews.com
(Natural News) Knowing how to properly maintain, clean and shoot a firearm is good, but if you don't know what to do in the event that you're the one who ends up with a bullet lodged inside your arm, then you might want to learn sooner rather tha
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