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Date Sent: 2015-12-30
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, December 31, 2015 |
Watch This Homemade, Gas-Powered Lightsaber Destroy Things (Publisher Recommended)
Financial Armageddon Approaches: U.S. Banks Have 247 Trillion Dollars Of Exposure To Derivatives -- 100 Skills Every Man Should Know -- Can't Wait For (Or Afford) A Tesla Powerwall? Why Not Build Your Own For $300? -- This was the last year of VR's beta test -- The Deep End 005: Rick Simpson / Cannabis Hemp Solutions to Human Problems -- Abolish All DUI Laws: Intro - By Attorney Marc J. Victor -- Those Demanding Free Speech Limits to Fight ISIS Pose a Greater Threat to U.S. Than ISIS -- Congress Wants NASA To Create A Deep Space Habitat By 2018 -- 2016 Is "Terminal Phase of Most Destructive Ponzi Scheme" in History -- The Vast Majority Just Aren't Making It Anymore: "Honey, I Shrunk the Middle Class" -- The Bail-Ins Are Back! Portugal Slaps Senior Bank Bondholders With €2 Billion Loss -- The New Cartel Running The Oil Sector -- January 1, 2016: -- Spying on Congress and Israel: -- Arrests, Attacks, and Increasing Recognition: -- America's Incarcerated Population, Largest in World, Grew Even More Last Year -- Time For Torches & Pitchforks-- -- Michael Moore says Donald Trump will 'absolutely' be the Republican candidate -- VIDEO: NYPD Cops Break Into Student's Home and Beat Him for Walking His Dog With No Leash -- New World Order Is Doomed -- "The Wicked Russians are Coming" -- Floating anti-plastic waste dam to be tested in North Sea -- Militiamen, ranchers in showdown for soul of Burns -- VertiGo - A Wall-Climbing Robot including Ground-Wall Transition -- Russian court jails blogger for five years for 'extremist' posts -- Apple's Tim Cook defends encryption. When will other tech CEOs do so? -- DARPA Wants To Turn Small Ships Into Drone Aircraft Carriers -- America Is Being Destroyed By Problems That Are Unaddressed -- 8 forward-thinking vehicles to propel us into 2016 --
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News Link • How To
Watch This Homemade, Gas-Powered Lightsaber Destroy Things (Publisher Recommended)
12-30-2015
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popsci.com
Looks cool, probably smells terrible
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Financial Armageddon Approaches: U.S. Banks Have 247 Trillion Dollars Of Exposure To Derivatives
12-30-2015
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Did you know that there are 5 "too big to fail" banks in the United States that each have exposure to derivatives contracts that is in excess of 30 trillion dollars?
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News Link • Energy
Can't Wait For (Or Afford) A Tesla Powerwall? Why Not Build Your Own For $300?
12-30-2015
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insideevs.com
Not so long ago (well, 7 months ago) Tesla Energy announced the "Powerwall" energy storage solutions to quite a lot of fanfare.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
The Deep End 005: Rick Simpson / Cannabis Hemp Solutions to Human Problems
12-30-2015
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patreon.com
Guest Bio: Rick Simpson is a retired power engineer who worked for 25 years in the medical system in Canada. After suffering a severe head injury in 1997 he took all the medications that the doctors prescribed, but their side effects did nothing but
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Abolish All DUI Laws: Intro - By Attorney Marc J. Victor
12-30-2015
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youtube
We should abolish all DUI laws and replace them with nothing! I am not suggesting we should have people driving while they are a danger to others.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Free Speech
Those Demanding Free Speech Limits to Fight ISIS Pose a Greater Threat to U.S. Than ISIS
12-30-2015
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theintercept.com
In 2006 -- years before ISIS replaced al Qaeda as the New and Unprecedentedly Evil Villain --
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
2016 Is "Terminal Phase of Most Destructive Ponzi Scheme" in History
12-30-2015
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shtfplan.com
Editor's Comment: Most anyone who follows the economic news already knows that the signs of collapse are all over the wall, but what numbers and statistics on paper can't convey is the pain that ordinary people are going to feel as a result of th
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Vast Majority Just Aren't Making It Anymore: "Honey, I Shrunk the Middle Class"
12-30-2015
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shtfplan.com
Editor's Comment: It just ain't what it used to be. The dollar has been stretched to the max, and most people have been stretched too thin. While many Americans have been out of work and discouraged from returning to the work force, many more peo
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News Link • Economy - International
The Bail-Ins Are Back! Portugal Slaps Senior Bank Bondholders With €2 Billion Loss
12-30-2015
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Zero Hedge
A little over a week ago, Portugal announced that for the second time in less than two years, Lisbon would be forced to bailout a large lender.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
The New Cartel Running The Oil Sector
12-30-2015
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Zero Hedge
As oil prices wallow near multi-year lows, it's becoming increasingly clear that the new cartel controlling oil prices is not OPEC but world credit markets.
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News Link • Prisons & Incarceration in America
America's Incarcerated Population, Largest in World, Grew Even More Last Year
12-30-2015
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theintercept.com
The federal government's Bureau of Justice Statistics has released new numbers detailing how America's incarcerated population -- already the world's largest -- grew even bigger in 2014.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Michael Moore says Donald Trump will 'absolutely' be the Republican candidate
12-30-2015
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Business Insider
Michael Moore has never been one to hold back his opinions, so when the Oscar-winning filmmaker airs his thoughts about Donald Trump, it tends to make news.
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
VIDEO: NYPD Cops Break Into Student's Home and Beat Him for Walking His Dog With No Leash
12-30-2015
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thefreethoughtproject.com
A 25-year-old student at Nassau Community College was recently caught on video being viciously assaulted and repeatedly pepper sprayed after two NYPD officers from 105th precinct saw him walking his 5-month-old puppy without a leash.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • New World Order
New World Order Is Doomed
12-30-2015
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veteranstoday.com
Hersh's article is a breakthrough only for people who have been bamboozled by the Zionist media and the Neoconservative ideology, which perpetuated the colossal lie throughout 2013 and much of 2014 that ....
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News Link • Propaganda
"The Wicked Russians are Coming"
12-30-2015
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LewRockwell
A striking example of how dangerously Americans are misinformed and misled by the war party was featured in a major article on 24 December, New York Times.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
Floating anti-plastic waste dam to be tested in North Sea
12-30-2015
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yahoo.com
A revolutionary floating dam that traps plastic bags, bottles and other waste choking the world's oceans will be tested at sea for the first time in 2016, the Ocean Cleanup foundation said.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Militia
Militiamen, ranchers in showdown for soul of Burns
12-30-2015
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oregonlive.com
The strangers carrying the whisper of danger arrived in the vast territory of the Harney Basin just before the holidays.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
VertiGo - A Wall-Climbing Robot including Ground-Wall Transition
12-30-2015
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disneyresearch.com
VertiGo is a wall-climbing robot that is capable of transitioning from the ground to the wall, created in collaboration between Disney Research Zurich and ETH. The robot has two tiltable propellers that provide thrust onto the wall, and four wheels.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Russian court jails blogger for five years for 'extremist' posts
12-30-2015
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yahoo.com
A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced a blogger to five years in jail for what it said was his extremist activity on the Internet after he urged people to attend a protest against high transport fares and criticized Russian intervention in Ukraine.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Apple's Tim Cook defends encryption. When will other tech CEOs do so?
12-30-2015
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TheGuardian
More high-profile titans need to use their platforms to make crystal clear how important encryption is to users everywhere
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
DARPA Wants To Turn Small Ships Into Drone Aircraft Carriers
12-30-2015
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popsci.com
And they've got just the little plane to make it work
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News Link • WAR: About that War
America Is Being Destroyed By Problems That Are Unaddressed
12-30-2015
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paulcraigroberts.org
One hundred years ago European civilization, as it had been known, was ending its life in the Great War, later renamed World War I.
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News Link • Transportation
8 forward-thinking vehicles to propel us into 2016
12-30-2015
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gizmag.com
The continued minituarization of electronics, advances in materials technology, a growing emphasis on clean, sustainable modes of transport and imaginative thinkers with out-of-the-box ideas have converged to give us some truly audacious vehicle desi
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News Link • Iraq
Iraqi Commander Claims That US Secretly Evacuated ISIS Leaders To Safety
12-30-2015
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Prison Planet.com
As the Iraqi army and popular troops complete the liberation of the central Iraqi city of Ramadi from ISIS control, US forces are planning to interfere and evacuate ISIS leaders, according to an Iraqi commander.
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News Link • Syria
Turkey supports ISIS, wants to revive Ottoman Empire - Syria's UN envoy
12-30-2015
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prisonplanet.com
Syria's envoy to the UN has accused Turkey of supporting terrorist groups and covering for their invasion into Syria. Urging the UN to end Ankara's "violations and crimes," Bashar al-Ja'afari also warned that Erdogan's goal is to "reviv
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Financial Armageddon Approaches: U.S. Banks Have 247 Trillion Dollars Of Exposure To Derivatives
12-30-2015
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Prison Planet.com
Did you know that there are 5 "too big to fail" banks in the United States that each have exposure to derivatives contracts that is in excess of 30 trillion dollars?
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News Link • Transportation
Tesla's new rival just revealed the first glimpse of its concept car
12-30-2015
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Business Insider
The secretive electric-car startup Faraday Future is building the suspense for its concept car ahead of its big reveal next week.
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News Link • China
China's Unprecedented Real Estate Bubble Is a Ticking Time Bomb
12-30-2015
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davidstockmanscontracorner.com
We woke up this morning to find oil prices weighing on the market… again… with China suffering the biggest losses.
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News Link • Adam vs The Man
Adam Kokesh on Reddit AMA Dec 30 at 8pm EST
12-30-2015
I've never done this before. Should be fun!
https://www.reddit.com/r/libertarianmeme/
Liberated,
Adam
PS Thanks to a generous donor who wishes to remain anonymous, we were able to order another 10k copies of FREEDOM! so stay tuned for an
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Police State
Police Say It's Unconstitutional To Mandate Drug Testing On Officers
12-30-2015
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http://www.trueactivist.com
A civil rights grievance has been filed against the city of Pittsburgh, with officers claiming that being required to undergo mandatory drug testing is a violation of the Constitution.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Homeland Security
REAL ID to Go Live in 2016, Drivers' Licenses from 11 States May Be Rejected By TSA
12-29-2015
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truthinmedia.com
A 10-year-old law requiring states to meet the federal government's REAL ID identification standard is set to take full effect in 2016, and people in 11 states with non-compliant ID cards may be required to begin using passports to board planes as so
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Wireless Tech Will Free Us From the Tyranny of Carriers
12-30-2015
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http://www.wired.com
Cell coverage can be fickle. You might get great reception at home but spotty coverage at work or at the gym even though other carriers work fine. And even if your carrier has your entire city pretty well covered, all bets are off when you travel.
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