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Date Sent: 2019-12-17
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, December 18, 2019 |
Washington Post's Afghanistan Story Reveals Core Folly of American Defense Strategy
Washington Post's Afghanistan Story Reveals Core Folly of American Defense Strategy -- The Military's Sci-Fi Fantasy For The Super Bowl Of Wars -- Politics Drops Its Pretenses -- DNA from Stone Age woman obtained 6,000 years on -- French strikes: Flights, trains, Metro and buses cancelled on Tuesday's 'day of protest' -- Trump conservative critics launch PAC to fight reelection -- Alan Greenspan says inflation 'is inevitably going to rise' as deficit balloons over $1 tril -- Afghanistan War ?" The Crime of the Century -- Whistleblower Says FAA and Boeing KNEW 737 Max Would Crash -- Sore Sports: Russia Barred From Olympics for Thwarting Washington's Geopolitical Game Plan? -- Will the Secessionist Epidemic Ever End? -- The Israel Lobby's Hidden Hand in the Theft of Iraqi and Syrian Oil -- The real reasons the US government is so secretive about UFOs -- Donald Trump was elected to break the elite. Of course they want to impeach him -- Trump angrily objects to impeachment, calls it 'perversion' -- Industrial Production Rebounds after GM Strike Ends -- Angogenisis treatment -- Did The Rivian R1T Electric Pickup Just Win The Truck Tailgate War? -- A Pentagon Paradise Built on Lies -- Judge sentences ex-Trump campaign aide Gates to probation and 45 days in jail -- Barr Brings Justice Back to the Department of Justice -- Will the federal government's nonstop spending binge continue? -- Who's Afraid of Decentralized Currency? -- 12-17-19 -- Bob Murphy - Dr Phranq Tamburri = Trump Report - Tim Picciott (MP3s) -- Consumption Doesn't Make Us Happy -- Joe Rogan Talks Bohemian Grove & Secret Societies -- Virginia Activates Official Militia in Response to Gun Confiscation Threats. Lawmakers Want To Make -- Afghanistan War - The Crime of the Century -- PewDiePie Speaks MAJOR TRUTH Reveals Social Media Manipulation -- Wikileaks Bombshell: UN Agency FAKED Douma 'Gas Attack' Report by Ron Paul --
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News Link • Afghanistan
Washington Post's Afghanistan Story Reveals Core Folly of American Defense Strategy
12-17-2019
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https://www.rollingstone.com by Matt Taibbi
Why are we still in Afghanistan? Because our policies make failure inescapable
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Military's Sci-Fi Fantasy For The Super Bowl Of Wars
12-17-2019
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https://www.theamericanconservative.com by Jeff Gr
The Marines are emulating 'Ender's Game' and the Army is dreaming of 'Starship Troopers.' The taxpayer should be looking for an exit.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
Politics Drops Its Pretenses
12-17-2019
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https://www.lewrockwell.com by Jeff Deist
Can the increasing politicization of life in America be stopped, or even slowed?
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
DNA from Stone Age woman obtained 6,000 years on
12-17-2019
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https://www.bbc.com, By Helen Briggs
Thanks to the tooth marks she left in ancient "chewing gum", scientists were able to obtain DNA, which they used to decipher her genetic code.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • France
French strikes: Flights, trains, Metro and buses cancelled on Tuesday's 'day of protest'
12-17-2019
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https://www.thelocal.fr,
French transport strikes enter their 13th day on Tuesday with another round of street protests planned, including a major demo in Paris. Trains, flights and the Paris Metro are all facing disruption on Tuesday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump conservative critics launch PAC to fight reelection
12-17-2019
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https://apnews.com, By STEVE PEOPLES
A small group of President Donald Trump's fiercest conservative critics, including the husband of the president's own chief adviser, is launching a super PAC designed to fight Trump's reelection and punish congressional Republicans deemed his
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Alan Greenspan says inflation 'is inevitably going to rise' as deficit balloons over $1 tril
12-17-2019
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https://www.cnbc.com, Jeff Cox
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned Tuesday that inflation is going to pose a larger threat to the U.S. economy as budget deficits continue to rise.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan War â€" The Crime of the Century
12-17-2019
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https://original.antiwar.com by Ron Paul
"We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan. We didn't know what we were doing." So said Gen. Douglas Lute, who oversaw the US war on Afghanistan under Presidents Bush and Obama.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Whistleblower Says FAA and Boeing KNEW 737 Max Would Crash
12-17-2019
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https://www.youtube.com by Ben Swann
I explain how a whistleblower has come forward stating that he had warned both the FAA and Boeing that the 737 Max would crash and that the FAA predicted the jet would crash at least 15 more times and yet waited until a second deadly crash before gro
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Sore Sports: Russia Barred From Olympics for Thwarting Washington's Geopolitical Game Plan?
12-17-2019
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https://www.lewrockwell.com By Robert Bridge
Once again, Russia is suffering from the tainted judgment of non-transparent Western institutions, this time from the World Anti-Doping Agency, which just banned Russia from all international sporting events.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Secession
Will the Secessionist Epidemic Ever End?
12-17-2019
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https://www.lewrockwell.com by Patrick J. Buchanan
Fresh from his triumphal "Get Brexit Done!" campaign, Prime Minister Boris Johnson anticipates a swift secession from the European Union.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
The Israel Lobby's Hidden Hand in the Theft of Iraqi and Syrian Oil
12-17-2019
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https://www.lewrockwell.com by Agha Hussain
The outsized role of U.S. Israel lobby operatives in abetting the theft of Syrian and Iraqi oil reveals how this powerful lobby also facilitates more covert aspects of U.S.-Israeli cooperation and the implementation of policies that favor Israel.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
The real reasons the US government is so secretive about UFOs
12-17-2019
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com, by Tom Rogan
Two years ago Sunday, the New York Times broke the stunning story of a secret Pentagon program to study unidentified flying objects.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
Donald Trump was elected to break the elite. Of course they want to impeach him
12-17-2019
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arclein
And honestly, that's just fine with Trump's supporters. What better evidence is there that you've shaken Washington to its core when the minders of a system you've come to despise are leveling the gravest punishment the system permits against th
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robert klein
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump angrily objects to impeachment, calls it 'perversion'
12-17-2019
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By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK
President Donald Trump is angrily objecting to the House of Representatives' articles of impeachment, accusing Democrats of "perversion of justice and abuse of power" in their effort to remove him from office.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Industrial Production Rebounds after GM Strike Ends
12-17-2019
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https://moneymaven.io/mishtalk by Mish
With GM back in swing, Industrial production rose 1.1% after two dismal months.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Angogenisis treatment
12-17-2019
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arclein
There are many different types of therapies for cancer treatment. However, the choice of cancer therapy is determined by various factors such as the types of tumors (benign or malignant), the stage of diagnosis, and the potential ability of the patie
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Transportation
Did The Rivian R1T Electric Pickup Just Win The Truck Tailgate War?
12-17-2019
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https://insideevs.com By Eric Loveday
Is this the slickest tailgate we've seen to date?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
A Pentagon Paradise Built on Lies
12-17-2019
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arclein
We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan - we didn't know what we were doing. What are we doing here? We didn't have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.
Another interviewee, Col. Bob Crowley, stated,
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robert klein
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News Link • Courtroom and Trials
Judge sentences ex-Trump campaign aide Gates to probation and 45 days in jail
12-17-2019
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http://news.trust.org, By Sarah N. Lynch
A federal judge sentenced U.S. President Donald Trump's former deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates to serve an intermittent term of 45 days in jail and 36 months of probation, saying that while she was moved by his extensive cooperation with prosecu
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Barr Brings Justice Back to the Department of Justice
12-17-2019
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arclein
Bill Barr just broke up a massive scheme to illegally funnel foreign money into darn near every Democratic political candidate and organization. This is just the start of what's looking like a very long and painful year for the corrupt Democrats. A
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robert klein
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Will the federal government's nonstop spending binge continue?
12-17-2019
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https://thehill.com, By Maya MacGuineas
Later this week we will reach the expiration date on the current short-term continuing resolution that is funding the federal government and preventing a shutdown.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Corbett Report
Who's Afraid of Decentralized Currency?
12-17-2019
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James Corbett - The Corbett Report
The problem, as usual, is that most people are unaware we are even at this fork in the path, let alone that we have a decision to make.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Virginia Activates Official Militia in Response to Gun Confiscation Threats. Lawmakers Want To Make
12-17-2019
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The Organic Prepper by Daisy Luther
... This a Felony. To all of those who like to mock gun owners and ask if they're going to fight tyranny in a militia, Virginia's answer is a clear and adamant "yes." That's exactly what they're planning to do.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Afghanistan War - The Crime of the Century
12-17-2019
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Ron Paul Institute - Ron Paul
This wasn't just a matter of omitting some unflattering facts. This was about bald-faced lying about a war they knew was a disaster from almost day one.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Wikileaks Bombshell: UN Agency FAKED Douma 'Gas Attack' Report by Ron Paul
12-17-2019
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Ron Paul Liberty Report
New documents released by Wikileaks confirm that within the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons there was a massive push to alter the findings of the "Fact Finding Mission" sent to Douma, Syria to investigate an alleged gas attack las
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