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Date Sent: 2018-04-18
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, April 18, 2018 |
Famed War Reporter Robert Fisk Reaches Syrian 'Chemical Attack' Site, Concludes They Weren't Gassed
Secret surveillance software created by EX-SPIES is harvesting Facebook photos... -- Coming Attractions: The Rise of VR Porn -- 04-18-18 -- Karen Kwiatkowski - Davi Barker - Drew Phillips -- LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon -- How to Build a Mini Supercomputer for Under $100 -- "Self-Centered, Self-Serving Jackass": FBI Insiders Furious After Comey Interview -- Pulitzer Prize Hypocrisy -- Hard-Won Homeschooling Freedoms Are Under Threat and Must Be Defended -- Against Humdrum Activism: A Critique of the Conventional Reaction by John Myers -- CW Use in Syria -- US Wants OPCW to Rubber-Stamp Official Falsified Douma Narrative -- The NYT Gives Unindicted War Criminal Feature Op-Ed Space -- The Crisis Is Only In Its Beginning Stages -- The Blessings of Panarchy -- Majority Of Investors Starting To Cash Out, Convinced Market Peaks In Second Half -- Inside the Shadowy PR Firm That's Lobbying for Regime Change in Syria -- America First---R.I.P. -- China To Remove JV Requirements For Foreign Automakers, Tesla Wins -- A Simple Poop Transplant Could Fix a Debilitating Brain Disease, Study Shows -- Winter Is Coming -- The Corrupt U.S. Congress Cheers as the War Industry Steals Billions from the People's Coffers! -- Bitter lessons 25 years after Waco, Texas, siege -- Syria: Hospital Workers Say There Was No Poisoning -- Cannabis: A Lost History -- Syria - Pentagon Hides Attack Failure - 70+ Cruise Missiles Shot Down -- How Libor's Surge Will Help Pop The Global Bubble -- Baboons used 55-gallon barrel to escape from San Antonio research facility, officials say -- Clean up San Francisco's streets, tourist industry pleads -- The Supreme Court just handed the Trump administration a loss on immigration... -- Robot to run for mayor in Japan in 'world first' promising 'fairness and balance' fo --
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News Link • Syria
Famed War Reporter Robert Fisk Reaches Syrian 'Chemical Attack' Site, Concludes...
04-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Famed War Reporter Robert Fisk Reaches Syrian 'Chemical Attack' Site, Concludes "They Were Not Gassed"
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Secret surveillance software created by EX-SPIES is harvesting Facebook photos...
04-17-2018
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https://www.prisonplanet.com, Daily Mail
Secret surveillance software created by EX-SPIES is harvesting Facebook photos to create a huge facial recognition database
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News Link • Investigations
"Self-Centered, Self-Serving Jackass": FBI Insiders Furious After Comey Interview
04-17-2018
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https://www.prisonplanet.com, Zero Hedge
Current and former FBI agents are furious after former Director James Comey gave his first interview since President Trump fired him last year to ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Sunday night, reports the Daily Beast â€" which was privy to a play-by-
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News Link • Activism
Against Humdrum Activism: A Critique of the Conventional Reaction by John Myers
04-17-2018
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http://zerogov.com, Bill Buppert
"Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled aw
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News Link • Syria
The Crisis Is Only In Its Beginning Stages
04-17-2018
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https://www.paulcraigroberts.org,PaulCraigRoberts
Many, including Russia's President Putin, have asked why the US launched an illegal attack on Syria prior to the chemical weapons inspectors examining the site of the alleged chemical attack.
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Feature Article • Constitution
The Blessings of Panarchy
Paul Rosenberg
Whatever complaints we may have about the US Constitution, it's hard not to appreciate this phrase in its preamble: [to] secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity…
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News Link • Stock Market
Majority Of Investors Starting To Cash Out, Convinced Market Peaks In Second Half
04-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
One month ago, Morgan Stanley ominously predicted that the market hit its 2018 - and perhaps cycle - highs in the late January melt up.
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News Link • Syria
Inside the Shadowy PR Firm That's Lobbying for Regime Change in Syria
04-17-2018
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https://russia-insider.com, Max Blumenthal
Posing as a non-political solidarity organization, the Syria Campaign leverages local partners and media contacts to push the U.S. into toppling another Middle Eastern government.
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News Link • United States
America First---R.I.P.
04-17-2018
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http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com, David Stock
When the Cold War officially ended in 1991, Washington could have pivoted back to the pre-1914 status quo ante.
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News Link • Transportation
China To Remove JV Requirements For Foreign Automakers, Tesla Wins
04-17-2018
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https://insideevs.com, MARK KANE
China will phase out the joint-venture requirements for foreign automakers, which could open the way for more fair business practices for automakers such as Tesla.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
The Corrupt U.S. Congress Cheers as the War Industry Steals Billions from the People's Coffers!
04-17-2018
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https://www.newsbud.com, CHRISTIAN SORENSEN
Why does Washington, D.C., always opt for war? First and foremost, war is very profitable.
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News Link • FBI
Bitter lessons 25 years after Waco, Texas, siege
04-17-2018
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http://thehill.com, By James Bovard
Twenty-five years ago today, FBI tanks smashed into the ramshackle home of the Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas.
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News Link • Syria
Syria: Hospital Workers Say There Was No Poisoning
04-17-2018
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https://needtoknow.news, Jake Morphonios
Trump based his belief that there was a gas attack in Syria on staged photos of dead children, and a viral video showing children being showered with water in a hospital after the report of a chemical attack.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Cannabis: A Lost History
04-17-2018
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https://topdocumentaryfilms.com,
With the ongoing debates regarding its legalization in the United States, cannabis remains a relevant topic of interest in our modern times.
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News Link • Syria
Syria - Pentagon Hides Attack Failure - 70+ Cruise Missiles Shot Down
04-17-2018
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http://www.moonofalabama.org
The U.S. military seems to hide that its attack on Syria last Saturday largely failed. We checked the numbers and sources and said so in our weekly review published yesterday. This post is extending yesterday's analysis.
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News Link • Economy - International
How Libor's Surge Will Help Pop The Global Bubble
04-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Jesse Colombo
Four years ago, I wrote a piece for Forbes called "This New Libor 'Scandal' Will Cause A Terrifying Financial Crisis," in which I explained that the "real" Libor scandal wasn't the Libor rigging scandal, but the fact that that Libor int
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News Link • Texas
Baboons used 55-gallon barrel to escape from San Antonio research facility, officials say
04-17-2018
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https://www.mysanantonio.com, By Fares Sabawi
Texas Biomedical Research Institute officials are making changes to their enclosure after four baboons briefly escaped from the facility on Saturday.
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News Link • California
Clean up San Francisco's streets, tourist industry pleads
04-17-2018
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https://www.sfchronicle.com, By Heather Knight
As president of S.F. Travel, the city's visitors bureau, Joe D'Alessandro's job is to promote San Francisco. You'd think he'd be hyping the city's gorgeous vistas, top-notch restaurants and glorious museums.
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News Link • Courtroom and Trials
The Supreme Court just handed the Trump administration a loss on immigration...
04-17-2018
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Associated Press
The Supreme Court said Tuesday that part of a federal law that makes it easier to deport immigrants who have been convicted of crimes is too vague to be enforced.
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News Link • Japan
Robot to run for mayor in Japan in 'world first' promising 'fairness and balance' fo
04-17-2018
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mirror.co.uk, ByAbigail O'Leary Anna Verdon
The robot mayor promises to statistically analyse petitions put forward to the council and settle conflicts between its citizens
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Woman Partially Sucked Out of Jet When Window Breaks Mid-Flight; Plane Lands Safely in Philadelphia
04-17-2018
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https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com, By NBC10 Staff
The jet's left engine blew shortly after takeoff, passengers said. Pieces of shrapnel flew into the plane's fuselage and at least one window, the passengers and FAA said.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump: Prisoner of the War Party?
04-17-2018
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original.antiwar.com, by Patrick J. Buchanan
"Ten days ago, President Trump was saying 'the United States should withdraw from Syria.' We convinced him it was necessary to stay."
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News Link • World News
Siemens Is Blanketing Europe With Smart Meters, Including Portugal
04-17-2018
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www.technocracy.news,By: Sapotek, Portugal
Thanks to a TN reader in Portugal (hat tip to JL), this article points out that Smart Grid via Smart Meter installation is a global affair, as pointed out by this article translated from a Portuguese journal. All of the global Smart Grid initiative w
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists: 'Planet-Hacking' Plan For Atmosphere Could Keep Earth Habitable For Longer
04-17-2018
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technocracy.news, Written By: Kevin Loria
Speculative chemtrail theories have abounded for years because people are either too lazy or too ill-equipped to do the proper research into the real roots of atmospheric tampering, namely, scientific geo-engineering. The real story behind geo-engine
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News Link • Israel
Israelis Kill Unarmed Protesters, Barely Notice
04-17-2018
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https://original.antiwar.com, by Uri Avnery
Write down: I, Uri Avnery, soldier number 44410 of the Israel army, hereby dissociate myself from the army sharpshooters who murder unarmed demonstrators along the Gaza Strip, and from their commanders, who give them the orders, up to the commander i
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News Link • Russia
Russia Starts Blocking Telegram Messenger
04-17-2018
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usnews.com, By Maria Kiselyova and Jack Stubbs
Russia's state telecommunications regulator said on Monday it had begun blocking access to Telegram messenger after the company refused to comply with an order to give Russian state security access to its users' secret messages.
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News Link • Crime
Couple ambush and zip-tie 'predator who had targeted their 13-year-old girl'...
04-17-2018
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https://www.mirror.co.uk, ByAnna Verdon
The girl's mother had set up a meeting with the man after allegedly finding messages from him on her daughter's phone
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News Link • Courtroom and Trials
Facebook must face class action over facial recognition: U.S. judge
04-17-2018
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https://www.reuters.com, David Ingram
A U.S. federal judge ruled on Monday that Facebook Inc must face a class action lawsuit alleging that the social network unlawfully used a facial recognition process on photos without user permission.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Recycling hope for plastic-hungry enzyme
04-17-2018
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http://www.bbc.com, By Mary Halton
Scientists have improved a naturally occurring enzyme which can digest some of our most commonly polluting plastics.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump puts the brakes on new Russian sanctions, reversing Haley's announcement
04-17-2018
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by Philip Rucker, Carol D. Leonnig, Anton Troianov
President Trump on Monday put the brakes on a preliminary plan to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia, walking back a Sunday announcement by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley that the Kremlin had swiftly denounced as "int
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News Link • Activism
Woman refuses to sing national anthem at baseball game after team bans guns
04-17-2018
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http://savemyrights.com, By Aaron Colen
Alishia Wolcott was supposed to sing the national anthem before a minor league baseball game in Nevada this summer. But when the team enacted a policy that prevented her from bringing her gun, she bowed out, The Associated Press reported.
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News Link • Future Predictions
Edgar Cayce May Have Been Right About Russia's Role in Preventing World War III
04-17-2018
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http://www.wakingtimes.com, Dylan Charles
The U.S. has been attempting to enter Syria for almost five years now, and the chemical weapons pretext has been in play since the invasion of Iraq.
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