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Date Sent: 2016-01-29
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Friday, January 29, 2016 |
60 teenagers reveal what they think is cool -- and what isn't -- in 2016
Guy With USELESS Degree From $62,965-A-Year College Whines About His Student Loans -- In a Huge Breakthrough, Google's AI Beats a Top Player at the Game of Go -- 20 Dead, 200 Hospitalized After Reports US Lab "Leaks" Deadly Virus In Ukraine -- This Ship Is A Hovercraft Until It's An Airplane -- Back to the Future DeLorean could be set for a comeback -- Drone Racing League: The Sport of the Future | DRL -- The U.S. Intervention in Libya Was Such a Smashing Success That a Sequel Is Coming -- Netflix and Amazon Offer Indie Filmmakers Hope (And Lots of Money) -- Astronomers generate image equivalent to telescope 63,000 miles wide -- Next-Gen Spacesuits - NASA Builds On Old Technology -- Who Can Afford The American Dream? "Rental Rates Have Reached Apocalyptic Levels" -- Sanders camp suspicious of Microsoft's influence in Iowa Caucus -- US considering fresh military action in Libya over Isis threat -- CRISPR Could Fix Blindness-Causing Mutation -- Shocking Crash: Durable Goods Orders Plunge 5.1%, Shipments Drop 2.2%, -- China Deploys in the Near East -- Basic origami fold could create anything from surgical stents to satellites -- This self-filling water bottle is the ultimate in vaporware -- Crash-proof drone put to the test in jagged glacial crevasses -- Small Arms Sales Skyrocket In Germany After Cologne Assaults - Media -- Circus Politics: Will Our Freedoms Survive Another Presidential Election? -- Silver Market In Disarray After Benchmark Price Fix Manipulation -- What Debate? Bing Predicts Trump Will Win Iowa Anyway -- Japan is building the world's largest floating solar farm -- Huckabee and Santorum to Attend Trump Event During Fox News Debate -- The big myth Facebook needs everyone to believe -- US sees possible N.Korea space launch in near future -US official -- Where was the FBI during the armed standoff in Oregon? -- Think Target and Home Depot invade your privacy? --
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News Link • Teen View
60 teenagers reveal what they think is cool -- and what isn't -- in 2016
01-28-2016
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Maya Kosoff
Too often when writing about what teenagers like, we neglect to talk to the most important group of all: teens. So we decided to put together a State of the Union on the American teenager.
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News Link • General Opinion
Guy With USELESS Degree From $62,965-A-Year College Whines About His Student Loans
01-28-2016
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LewRockwell
Slate, a once-semi-readable website, published a 2,925-word tome on Tuesday by a guy who is really sad because he managed rack up $200,000 in student loan debt by getting a useless degree at a fancypants private college and then, by borrowing more ca
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
In a Huge Breakthrough, Google's AI Beats a Top Player at the Game of Go
01-28-2016
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Wired
In a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence, a computing system developed by Google researchers in Great Britain has beaten a top human player at the game of Go, the ancient Eastern contest of strategy and intuition that has bedeviled AI expe
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
20 Dead, 200 Hospitalized After Reports US Lab "Leaks" Deadly Virus In Ukraine
01-28-2016
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LewRockwell
Amid the so-called "ceasefire" in Ukraine, yet ongoing shelling in many regions, the Donbass news agency reports that more than 20 Ukrainian solders have died and over 200 soldiers are hospitalized after an apparent leak of a deadly virus called
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Back to the Future DeLorean could be set for a comeback
01-28-2016
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gizmag.com
A cult icon it may now be, but by the time DeLorean's DMC-12 appeared in the first Back to the Future movie, production of the car had already stopped and the company had gone into liquidation. In 2017, though, it may start rolling off the production
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
Drone Racing League: The Sport of the Future | DRL
01-28-2016
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youtube
Check out some of the best crashes from the Drone Racing League. #DroneRacingLeague
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
The U.S. Intervention in Libya Was Such a Smashing Success That a Sequel Is Coming
01-28-2016
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theintercept.com
The immediate aftermath of the NATO bombing of Libya was a time of high gloating. Just as Iraq War advocates pointed to the capture and killing of Saddam Hussein as proof that their war was a success, Libya war advocates pointed to the capture and br
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Netflix and Amazon Offer Indie Filmmakers Hope (And Lots of Money)
01-28-2016
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Wired
The biggest players at the Sundance Film Festival are Hollywood outsiders. Amazon and Netflix, with their deep pockets and big ambitions, have picked up several films and have driven up the bidding for others.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Astronomers generate image equivalent to telescope 63,000 miles wide
01-28-2016
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gizmag.com
The cosmos came into sharper focus this week with astronomers releasing the highest resolution astronomical image yet.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Next-Gen Spacesuits - NASA Builds On Old Technology
01-28-2016
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Space.com
The space agency takes a look back at spacesuit history and leaps forward to how the latest suits were designed. NASA has been developing and testing new spacesuits to be used beyond low-Earth orbit
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
Who Can Afford The American Dream? "Rental Rates Have Reached Apocalyptic Levels"
01-28-2016
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http://www.shtfplan.com, Mac Slavo
Skyrocketing costs and shrinking opportunity are meeting head on with full on economic disaster. The Dude, Where's My Stuff? generation doesn't have much motivation to go on for growing up and getting their life together these days.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Sanders camp suspicious of Microsoft's influence in Iowa Caucus
01-28-2016
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msnbc.com
The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is raising questions about the involvement of Microsoft in the Iowa Caucuses, now just days away, and has built an independent system to check the official results.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
US considering fresh military action in Libya over Isis threat
01-28-2016
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TheGuardian
Pentagon looking at 'military options' to stop Islamic State from gaining more ground, four years after US air campaign helped topple Libyan dictator Gaddafi
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Shocking Crash: Durable Goods Orders Plunge 5.1%, Shipments Drop 2.2%,
01-28-2016
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Huge Negative Revisions; Recession Here?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China Deploys in the Near East
01-28-2016
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LewRockwell
Tye Arab world today is dominated by the United States, who are intent on exploiting it and hindering its development.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Basic origami fold could create anything from surgical stents to satellites
01-28-2016
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gizmag.com
A versatile origami fold could be the key to creating just about any structure, from the nanoscale to full-scale buildings, according to new engineering research out this week. A team at Harvard says the key is a folding pattern known as the Miura-or
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
This self-filling water bottle is the ultimate in vaporware
01-28-2016
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gizmag.com
Austrian startup Fontus is developing a novel water bottle that is vaporware in just about every sense of the phrase. Not only does it not yet exist in the marketplace, but it is claimed to literally pull water vapor out of the air to fill itself.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
Crash-proof drone put to the test in jagged glacial crevasses
01-28-2016
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gizmag.com
Early last year a team of Swiss technologists was awarded US$1 million in prize money for a crash-proof drone designed to maneuver through confined spaces.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Self-Defense
Small Arms Sales Skyrocket In Germany After Cologne Assaults - Media
01-28-2016
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Prison Planet.com
Demand for self-defense weapons, such as non-lethal and gas pistols, pepper sprays and electroshock weapons has doubled in Germany, local license authorities say.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Circus Politics: Will Our Freedoms Survive Another Presidential Election?
01-28-2016
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fff.org
"Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest--forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of oth
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Silver Market In Disarray After Benchmark Price Fix Manipulation
01-28-2016
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
As Bulliondesk.com's Ian Walker reports, the silver market was thrown into disarray on Thursday after the LBMA Silver Price was set 84 cents below the spot and futures price this morning.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
What Debate? Bing Predicts Trump Will Win Iowa Anyway
01-28-2016
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Wired
Donald Trump is boycotting the Fox News Republican debate this Thursday, but according to a new prediction from Bing, it likely won't hurt his chances in the first upcoming February caucuses and primaries.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Japan is building the world's largest floating solar farm
01-28-2016
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Adam Vaughan
The Japanese electronics multinational Kyocera has begun work on what it says will be the world's biggest floating solar farm.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Huckabee and Santorum to Attend Trump Event During Fox News Debate
01-28-2016
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nytimes.com
Mike Huckabee, the winner of the 2008 Iowa caucuses who has been struggling to gain traction in this year's race, will appear with Donald J. Trump and an event for veterans that the billionaire businessman has scheduled as counterprogramming to ton
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
The big myth Facebook needs everyone to believe
01-28-2016
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Washington Post
In the middle of January, in a change noticed nowhere but Spain, Facebook added six words to a single dialogue box - and inadvertently stumbled into a tortuous national debate.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
US sees possible N.Korea space launch in near future -US official
01-28-2016
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news.trust.
The United States has seen increased activity around a North Korea site suggesting movement of components and propellant to be able to conduct a space launch in the near future, a U.S. official told Reuters on Thursday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Where was the FBI during the armed standoff in Oregon?
01-28-2016
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latimes.com
Out of sight, but listening and watching
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Gerrymandering Is Even More Infuriating When You Can Actually See It
01-28-2016
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Wired
President Barack Obama spent the last chunk of his 2016 State of the Union Address talking about how to "fix our politics." His first solution?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
State of the Game: Virtual Reality
01-28-2016
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gizmag.com
You've probably heard by now that virtual reality is supposed to be a thing this year.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Inventions
TheOUTlet pops the need for power strips
01-28-2016
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gizmag.com
The proliferation of electrical devices means that plug sockets are in increasing demand. Socket splitters and power strips can be used to solve this problem, but can be bulky and unsightly.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Next-Gen Spacesuits - NASA Builds On Old Technology
01-28-2016
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Space.com
The space agency takes a look back at spacesuit history and leaps forward to how the latest suits were designed. NASA has been developing and testing new spacesuits to be used beyond low-Earth orbit
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
However You Vote, The Secret Government Always Wins
01-28-2016
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https://www.youtube.com
Much is made of voting and elections in the US. But what if voting means very little, if anything? What if a permanent government is really in control of Washington that is not affected by elections? The existence of a "deep state" is no conspiracy t
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