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Date Sent: 2017-12-10
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Monday, December 11, 2017 |
New CME Bitcoin Futures And The Goldman Sachs Connection
Pentagon To Undergo First Ever Audit After Decades Of Sloppy Accounting And Missing Trillions -- The China-Russia-Canada-America Train / Tunnel Link? -- Interview 1332 - Financial Survival in the Civilization Clash -- A growing kingdom has to start somewhere--in this case, low Earth orbit works. -- Peak Fantasy Time -- 44,000 US Troops on 'Unknown' Deployments Worldwide -- The Sugar Conspiracy -- How urban agriculture is transforming Detroit -- Electric off-roader blurs the line between motorcycle and bicycle -- If You Don't Own Any Bitcoin, Read This -- AIs Won't Command Us to Obey. They Will Seduce Us. -- BlockSci Traces Transactions Performed With Dash, ZCash, and Other Currencies -- Tech's new D.C. partner: Charles Koch -- The U.S. Media Yesterday Suffered its Most Humiliating Debacle in Ages: -- ROGER STONE: Time For Real Net Neutrality -- Roadkill on Capitol Hill -- FOX seeks actors to be Los Angeles Rams fans for Eagles game -- In Jerusalem, Three Religions Collide and Violence Is Never Far Away -- What Happens When .... -- Join With Me and Let's Change the World -- Self driving trucks, trains and drilling save costs and boost mine production -- Oisin Biotechnologies -- Watch CNN Trot Out Reporter Who Published Fake News To Correct His Own Fake News -- The Myth of "Unaffordable" Health Insurance Just Won't Die -- WaPo Reporter Tweets Picture Of -- -- Bridgestone rolls out an airless bike tire -- What You're Not Being Told About The Real Economy -- Everyone In The (Stock Market) Pool? -- Iran's Revolutionary Guard Sends Formal Message To US Military: Leave Syria Or Else --
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News Link • Bitcoin
New CME Bitcoin Futures And The Goldman Sachs Connection
12-10-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Embedded into Bincoin's genesis block by Satoshi Nakamoto on January 3, 2009, the day Bitcoin went live, was a message which is now well-known throughout the Bitcoin community. This message, taken from The Times newspaper of that day, read "Chanc
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Pentagon To Undergo First Ever Audit After Decades Of Sloppy Accounting And Missing Trillions
12-10-2017
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zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
After decades of waste, overpayments, trillions of missing or improperly accounted for dollars, and most recently losing track of 44,000 US soldiers, the Pentagon is about to undergo its first audit in history conducted by 2,400 auditors from indepen
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
The China-Russia-Canada-America Train / Tunnel Link?
12-10-2017
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http://russia-insider.com, Paul Goncharoff
The 'peace dividend' was supposed to allow for projects with a positive economic future, like this one.
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News Link • Corbett Report
Interview 1332 - Financial Survival in the Civilization Clash
12-10-2017
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https://www.corbettreport.com
James Corbett joins Alfred Adask on the Financial Survival program every other week to discuss politics, finance, economics and society.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
A growing kingdom has to start somewhere--in this case, low Earth orbit works.
12-10-2017
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https://motherboard.vice.com, Samantha Cole
Asgardia, the little space nation that could, placed a tiny satellite into low Earth orbit on Thursday. This makes it the first independent "nation" to have 100 percent of its territory in space.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Peak Fantasy Time
12-10-2017
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By David Stockman
If you want to know why both Wall Street and Washington are so delusional about America's baleful economic predicament, just consider this morsel from today's Wall Street Journal on the purportedly awesome November jobs report.
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News Link • Food
The Sugar Conspiracy
12-10-2017
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https://www.corbettreport.com
An explosive new study in the PLOS Biology journal confirms three things that independent health researchers have been saying for years:
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News Link • Agriculture
How urban agriculture is transforming Detroit
12-10-2017
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https://www.ted.com, Devita Davison
There's something amazing growing in the city of Detroit: healthy, accessible, delicious, fresh food. In a spirited talk, fearless farmer Devita Davison explains how features of Detroit's decay actually make it an ideal spot for urban agriculture.
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News Link • Transportation
Electric off-roader blurs the line between motorcycle and bicycle
12-10-2017
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newatlas.com by Spiros Tsantilas
The lightweight LMX 161-H is an electric motorcycle styled after downhill bicycles, fusing elements from both worlds. Initially designed for extreme off-road use, the two-wheeler is now the subject of crowdfunding campaign in search of the resources
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Blockchain
BlockSci Traces Transactions Performed With Dash, ZCash, and Other Currencies
12-10-2017
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themerkle.com
Blockchain analysis has become a booming industry over the past few years. Companies active in this industry scour public blockchains to identify suspicious or illegal transactions.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Tech's new D.C. partner: Charles Koch
12-10-2017
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politico.com By NANCY SCOLA
Libertarian billionaire Koch and left-leaning Silicon Valley are working together to advance the argument that innovation is most likely to flourish when government leaves it alone.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
ROGER STONE: Time For Real Net Neutrality
12-10-2017
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dailycaller.com
In 2015, when writing his dissenting opinion against FCC 15-24 -- formally known as the Report and Order on Remand, Declaratory Ruling, and Order in the Matter of Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet, but commonly referred to as 'Net Neutral
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Media -**QQ**Fake News**QQ**
FOX seeks actors to be Los Angeles Rams fans for Eagles game
12-10-2017
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phillyvoice.com
When the Eagles visited the Chargers of Los Angeles -- previously of San Diego â€" earlier this season, it was essentially a home game for Philadelphia. Chargers quarterback Phillip Rivers said the 26-24 loss to the Birds was "not a home game" becau
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
In Jerusalem, Three Religions Collide and Violence Is Never Far Away
12-10-2017
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unz.com by Philip Giraldi
I lived in Jerusalem for four years in a flat with a fine view of the Mount of Olives, which will supposedly split apart on Judgement Day and the dead in the vast cemetery on its slopes will rise again.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
What Happens When ....
12-10-2017
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wired.com
That statement probably requires some explanation. Two researchers named Adam Hammond and Julian Brooke have spent the past few years developing software that analyzes literary databases. (AI writes SciFi)
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
Join With Me and Let's Change the World
12-10-2017
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paulcraigroberts.org by Paul Craig Roberts
Harvard Researchers Conclude That Margaret Mead Was Right: It Only Takes A Few To Change The World
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Self driving trucks, trains and drilling save costs and boost mine production
12-10-2017
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nextbigfuture.com by brian wang
The mining company Rio Tinto has been running robotic trucks for over ten years. Seventy-six of their 400 mining trucks are robotic.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Media -**QQ**Fake News**QQ**
Watch CNN Trot Out Reporter Who Published Fake News To Correct His Own Fake News
12-10-2017
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Prison Planet.com
CNN made an egregious reporting error Friday on the potential connection between Donald Trump Jr. and Wikileaks.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare
The Myth of "Unaffordable" Health Insurance Just Won't Die
12-10-2017
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https://fee.org, by John Tamny
Health insurance is expensive, true, but so were cars, calculators, and cellphones, once. The difference is functioning markets.
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News Link • Transportation
Bridgestone rolls out an airless bike tire
12-10-2017
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newatlas.com by Ben Coxworth
It was six years ago that we first heard about Bridgestone's prototype AirFree Concept automobile tires, which utilized flexing thermoplastic resin "spokes" instead of compressed air.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Stock Market
What You're Not Being Told About The Real Economy
12-10-2017
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zerohedge.com by Jeffrey Snider
The year 2000 was a transition year in a lot of ways.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Stock Market
Everyone In The (Stock Market) Pool?
12-10-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
The percentage of households' financial assets currently invested in stocks has jumped to levels exceeded only by the 2000 bubble.
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News Link • Iran
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Sends Formal Message To US Military: Leave Syria Or Else
12-10-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Elijah Magnier
Well informed sources have said the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp Brigadier General Haj Qassem Soleimani sent a formal verbal message, via Russia, to the head of the US forces command in Syria, advising him to pull out all US for
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Zealous Pursuit Of State-Sponsored Collapse
12-10-2017
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by EconomicPrism's MN Gordon
Government intervention into a nation's economy is as foolish as attempting to control the sun's rise and fall by law or force. But that doesn't mean governments don't meddle each and every day with the best â€" and worst â€" of intentions.
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News Link • Currencies
Crypto-Cornucopia Part 4 - "Without It, You're Talking Mad Max"
12-10-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Well, all parts of the system rely on accurate record-keeping.
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News Link • China
The $10 Trillion Investment Plan To Integrate The Eurasian Supercontinent
12-10-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Federico Pieraccin
The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), by lending out money using an alternative currency to the dollar, opens up huge spaces for investment and the strategic transformation of the region.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Auckland Man Sells House To Build Bitcoin Mining Rig
12-10-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
In the latest indication that the cryptocurrency market top has arrived, a 30-year-old IT professional in New Zealand â€" who didn't want his identity revealed, presumably for fear he would be targeted by criminals (or worse: tax collectors) â€" so
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News Link • Central Banks/Banking
Enron 2.0? ECB, Global Banks On The Hook For $21 Billion In Steinhoff Implosion
12-10-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Earlier this week we reported that as part of the stunning, unexpected collapse of South African retail giant Steinhoff, which also owns France-based Conforama furniture chain, Mattress Firm in the U.S. and Poundland in the U.K., none other than the
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin's Growing Price Gap Between Exchanges Creates Potential Headaches...
12-10-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Bitcoin's Growing Price Gap Between Exchanges Creates Potential Headaches For Futures Trading
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News Link • Bitcoin
Is Bitcoin Just A Brilliant Wealth Redistribution Scheme?
12-10-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Valentin Schmid
Many older, wealthy people are losing out, while younger risk takers are getting rich...
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bulgaria Government Shocked To Discover It Owns $3 Billion In Bitcoin
12-10-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Bulgaria's GDP is about $52.4 billion (2016), so it is quite a shock that the Bulgarian Government is sitting on an approximate $3 billion worth of Bitcoins seized in an anti-corruption operation back in May.
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News Link • Libertarian Advisor
THE LIBERTARIAN ADVISOR PODCAST : EPISODE 8 - COMPARING BITCOIN / CRYPTO CURRENCIES TO THE US $
12-23-2017
In this podcast we discuss Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz's claim that bitcoin ought to be outlawed.
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Tim Picciott
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Doug Casey on the New Fed Chair
12-09-2017
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lewrockwell.com by Doug Casey
A few words are in order about the likely new Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell.
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News Link • Stock Market
Six Ways US Stocks Most Overvalued in History
12-09-2017
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themaven.net by Mike Mish Shedlock
US large cap stocks are the most overvalued in history. Let's investigate six ways.
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