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Date Sent: 2019-12-23
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Monday, December 23, 2019 |
Why America's Founders Didn't Want a Democracy
A year of media upheaval -- Tesla Cybertruck & Semi: Radical New Battery Design Anticipated -- The 10 Worst State Laws Proposed and Passed in 2019 -- FISA Court Refuses Review Of FBI Deception -- From Vietnam To Afghanistan, All US Governments Lie -- Michael Moore On 'Useful Idiots': "If The Election Were Held Today, Trump Would Win" -- The Hidden Military Use Of 5G Technology -- Legionaries founder sexually abused 60 boys, religious order's report says -- Ep. 0193: A State of Freedom w/Jason Sorens -- Hugh Hewitt: Christianity Today took aim at Trump, but it only hurt itself -- Michigan county threatens to demolish 14 Amish homes unless - -- Pete Buttigieg: Compensate and Amnesty Migrants Detained at the Border -- These Are All The International Brands That Have Apologized To China -- Adam Schiff Has 'No Sympathy' For FBI Victim Carter Page; Page Responds -- This Is Not Your Father's "Stodgy Old" Stock Market! -- Mass Shooting In Chicago House Party Leaves 13 Wounded, Where's The Media Outrage? -- Sorry Dems, US Employees Are The World's Happiest -- We Live In Hysteric Times: What Trump's Impeachment Really Means -- Holiday Season Hypocrisy Revisited -- India's Discriminatory Citizenship Law -- "I Find It Very Troubling" - Most Americans Lack Savings -- $3 Billion, 300-Acre MegaCity Envisioned For California's Record Homeless... But There's A T -- US Anti-Venezuela Propaganda Rages -- The Ugly Reality of Israeli Apartheid -- Tesco Halts Christmas Cards From China After 'Slave' Laborer In Prison Factory Begs For Help -- Aramco Slips For Fourth Day After Losing $2 Trillion Dollar Valuation -- The Fed Has Repeated The Mistake Of 1998 Which Ended With The Dot Com Bubble -- Nord Stream Sanctions: A Sad Coda To U.S. Foreign Policy -- World Bank Warns "Wave Of Debt" Could Unleash Historic Crisis, Crush The Global Economy --
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News Link • Books
Why America's Founders Didn't Want a Democracy
12-23-2019
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https://fee.org, Gary M. Galles
In his book "Liberty in Peril," Randall Holcombe challenges the presumption that liberty and democracy are complementary.
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News Link • Transportation
Tesla Cybertruck & Semi: Radical New Battery Design Anticipated
12-23-2019
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https://insideevs.com, George Bower
Check out our fun speculation based on known quantities.
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News Link • United States
The 10 Worst State Laws Proposed and Passed in 2019
12-23-2019
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https://fee.org, Jon Miltimore
If you think silly and arbitrary bans are a thing of the past, think again.
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News Link • Courtroom and Trials
FISA Court Refuses Review Of FBI Deception
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
This week, Presiding Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) Judge Rosemary Collyer, released two stern Orders taking the FBI to task for its repeated failures, omissions, and misrepresentations in its application and subsequent renewals to su
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News Link • Government
From Vietnam To Afghanistan, All US Governments Lie
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Gordon Evans
The Washington Post has, after more than two years of investigation, revealed that senior foreign policy officials in the White House, State and Defense departments have known for some time that the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan was failing.
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News Link • Future Predictions
Michael Moore On 'Useful Idiots': "If The Election Were Held Today, Trump Would Win"
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Matt Taibbi
In the first episode of Michael Moore's new podcast, Rumble, he tells a story of being given a gift of a new reel-to-reel tape recorder as a child, kicking off his media career.
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News Link • Military
The Hidden Military Use Of 5G Technology
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Manlio Dinucci
At the London Summit, the 29 member countries of NATO agreed to "guarantee the security of our communications, including 5G". Why is this fifth generation of mobile data transmission so important for NATO?
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News Link • Crime
Legionaries founder sexually abused 60 boys, religious order's report says
12-23-2019
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https://www.reuters.com by Philip Pullella
Sexual abuse of minors was rife among superiors of the Legionaries of Christ Catholic religious order, with at least 60 boys abused by its founder Father Marcial Maciel, a report by the group showed.
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News Link • General Opinion
Ep. 0193: A State of Freedom w/Jason Sorens
12-23-2019
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http://profcj.org
In this episode of the Dangerous History Project, CJ is joined by Jason Sorens, the political scientist who devised and founded the Free State Project, an intentional migration enterprise designed to entice large numbers of liberty-minded people from
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News Link • General Opinion
Hugh Hewitt: Christianity Today took aim at Trump, but it only hurt itself
12-23-2019
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https://www.spokesman.com By Hugh Hewitt
After more than a quarter-century of occasionally attempting to help direct traffic at the intersection of faith and politics â€" on radio, on PBS and in books â€" I am bewildered by Christianity Today editor Mark Galli's column on Thursday, which
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Pete Buttigieg: Compensate and Amnesty Migrants Detained at the Border
12-23-2019
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https://www.breitbart.com by Neil Munro
The migrant children who were detained at the border by President Donald Trump's deputies should get financial compensation from Americans, as well as quick citizenship, Mayor Pete Buttigieg told his national audience at Thursday's Democrat debat
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
These Are All The International Brands That Have Apologized To China
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Lucas Niewenhuis
The definitive list of international companies that have issued apologies to maintain their market access in China in recent years. Plus, a record of the even more widespread phenomenon of self-censorship for the Chinese market.
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News Link • Corruption
Adam Schiff Has 'No Sympathy' For FBI Victim Carter Page; Page Responds
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) says it's hard to feel sympathetic for former Trump campaign aide Carter Page, despite the fact that he was spied on by the FBI after the agency fabricated evidence to obtain a surveillance warrant from the Foreign Intelligenc
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News Link • Stock Market
This Is Not Your Father's "Stodgy Old" Stock Market!
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Bruce Wilds
The idea that investors will have time to exit the markets through the small exit doors it offers may be a bit optimistic during a panic.
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News Link • Mass Shootings
Mass Shooting In Chicago House Party Leaves 13 Wounded, Where's The Media Outrage?
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
AP News is reporting that an overnight mass shooting in Chicago's South Side left 13 people wounded, four are in critical condition on Sunday morning.
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Sorry Dems, US Employees Are The World's Happiest
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Despite the likes of Elizabeth Warren and AOC constantly complaining about the desperate state of American workers, and how miserable they are under the 'monarchic' rule of President Trump, Statista's Maria Vultaggio points out that, according to a n
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News Link • Impeachment
We Live In Hysteric Times: What Trump's Impeachment Really Means
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by James George Jatras
"America is a corpse being consumed by maggots. Liberals are rooting for the maggots. Conservatives are rooting for the corpse."
- @Vendee_Rising
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
"I Find It Very Troubling" - Most Americans Lack Savings
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
The economy might be strong in the U.S., but, as Statista's Maria Vultaggio details below, nearly 70 percent of Americans have less than $1,000 stashed away, according to GOBankingRates' 2019 savings survey.
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News Link • Scams
$3 Billion, 300-Acre MegaCity Envisioned For California's Record Homeless... But There's A T
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Ask any San Franciscan what the state of California has an excess of and the most likely answer will be homeless people (and their excrement, especially with the liberal mecca recording as many as 16,000 "feces complaints" in one week ).
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News Link • Activism
Tesco Halts Christmas Cards From China After 'Slave' Laborer In Prison Factory Begs For Help
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Ahead of the holidays, a young girl in London opened a Tesco supermarket Christmas card last week, was shocked to find a depressing note from a Chinese gulag, reported Sky News.
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News Link • Stock Market
Aramco Slips For Fourth Day After Losing $2 Trillion Dollar Valuation
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Saudi Arabia's stock market stalled on Sunday as Saudi Aramco shares continued a four-day decline, reported Reuters.
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News Link • Trump Administration
The Fed Has Repeated The Mistake Of 1998 Which Ended With The Dot Com Bubble
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
The Trump administration used the hammer of tariffs to negotiate a bi-lateral trade agreement with China, but in doing so also influenced a change in domestic monetary policy.
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News Link • Sanctions
Nord Stream Sanctions: A Sad Coda To U.S. Foreign Policy
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tom Luango
The U.S. crossed the Rubicon this week. And I'm not talking about the ridiculous impeachment of President Trump for doing his job.
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News Link • Economy - International
World Bank Warns "Wave Of Debt" Could Unleash Historic Crisis, Crush The Global Economy
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Something happens to the world's "really smart people" when the topic of debt is discussed: they become blabbering idiots.
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News Link • Crime
Muslim Police Officer, Hired To Promote Diversity, Ends Up Being Part Of Grooming Gang
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Paul Joseph Watson
A Muslim police officer in the United Kingdom who was hired to promote diversity ended up being part of a grooming gang that sex trafficked children.
West Yorkshire PC Amjad Ditta, also known as Amjad Hussain, was charged with sex offences against c
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News Link • China
Hong Kong Riot Cops Clash With Protesters Following Rally For China's Oppressed Muslims
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Riot police in Hong Kong forcefully broke up a pro-democracy rally in solidarity with millions of Uighurs - Chinese Muslims living under oppressive conditions, many in so-called 're-education camps.'
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News Link • Syria
Russia & Syria Signal West With Joint Naval Drills, "Hundreds" Of Airstrikes On Idlib
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Multiple developments related to Russia's military role in Syria mean that the years-long conflict could once again become front and center for Washington during 2020.
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News Link • Environment
The Human Cost Of The EV Revolution
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
There's a chance that the iPhone you're about to get for Christmas contains cobalt mined by a six-year-old.
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News Link • Immigration
Denmark: Why Integration Fails
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Judith Bergman
In a recent survey conducted by the Danish Ministry of Foreigners and Integration (Udlændinge- og Integrationsministeriet), 48% of descendants of non-Western immigrants in Denmark said that they think it should be forbidden to criticize religion, ac
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump Has Quietly Appointed 25% Of Circuit Court Judges As Smug Liberals...
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
While the smug left clinks champagne for "Merry Impeachmas" after the House passed articles of impeachment against President Trump, they're fast losing the battle when it comes to America's judicial landscape.
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News Link • Impeachment
Impeachment Will Go Down As One Of The Greatest Political Mistakes Pelosi Has Ever Made
12-23-2019
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https://warroom.org, by Staff Writer
Media consultant and former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer criticized Pelosi for politicizing impeachment by holding on to the articles of impeachment in the House. Fleischer said Friday if Pelosi really believed that Trump is an urgent threat to
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Secretive California Military Base Rattled By Five Earthquakes In One Day
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Five months after the biggest earthquake in two decades, a swarm of smaller quakes rattled a secretive Navy base in the Mojave Desert Thursday afternoon and before dawn on Friday, according to the US Geological Survey.
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News Link • False Flag Operations
The 12 Strongest Arguments That Douma Was A False Flag
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Caitlin Johnstone
There have been many US military interventions that were based on lies. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is not some kooky blogger's opinion. It is an extensively documented and indisputable fact.
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News Link • World News
2019 - The Year Of Manufactured Hysteria
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by CJ Hopkins
Well, it looks like we've somehow managed to survive another year of diabolical Putin-Nazi attacks on democracy.
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