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Date Sent: 2018-01-18
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Friday, January 19, 2018 |
Airbus Teams With Rolls-Royce For Electric Airplane
Wells Fargo Glitch Leaves Customers With Empty Bank Accounts -- Graphene Nanoribbons are 100 times brighter than previous single molecule devices -- Ex CIA Agent Arrested For Stealing Top Secret Information For China That Led to Death of U.S. Agents -- Welcome To The Neighborhood. Have You Read The Terms Of Service? -- China Has Infiltrated U.S. Classrooms With Government-Run Educational Institutes -- New battery technology using ionic liquids under development at Keio University #DigInfo -- Remember CIA's Heart Attack Gun? CNN Predicts Trump Will Die From Heart Attack -- Longeveron developing stem cell treatments for Frailty, Alzheimers and other aging diseases -- China's mobile payments volume could exceed global credit card volume in 2018 -- Russian and UK physicists develop superconducting quantum state detectors -- Housing Starts Unexpected Dive 8.2%: Economists Blame the Weather -- Snowfall blankets all 50 states -- A Turkish-Kurdish War in Syria May Be Imminent -- British man kicked off flight for wearing all his clothes to avoid baggage fee -- Minnesota's "Little Mogadishu" celebrated at Reason.com -- Facebook, Google tell Congress they're fighting extremist content with counterpropaganda -- 01-18-18 -- Hancock's Natural Flu Remedies - Dr Phranq Tamburri = The Trump Report -- (VIDEO & MP3s) -- Greenwich Luxury Homes Get Biggest Discounts Since Lehman Fell -- NFL Ratings Plunge As 23 Million Fewer Viewers Watch Divisional Playoffs -- Trump's Fake News Awards -- Movie Theater Attendance Hits 24-Year Low, Ticket Prices Rise Nearly 4 Percent -- Goldman Sachs Once Looked Invincible. Now It's Losing Money. -- St. Louis Federal Reserve Reps in Favor of Cryptocurrencies -- Social Network Yours.org Raises $1.5m to Introduce Cryptocurrency to the Masses -- In Venezuela, money has stopped working -- U.S. Chill Map -- 'Star Wars' Toy Sales Fall in 2017 as Movie-Tie Fatigue Sets In -- America Has a Foreign Tourist Problem -- Did Donald Trump Change His Mind on Domestic Spying? --
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Airbus Teams With Rolls-Royce For Electric Airplane
01-18-2018
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https://insideevs.com, by Mark Kane
Airbus, Rolls-Royce, and Siemens team up to develop E-Fan X hybrid-electric flight demonstrator in 2020 using BAe 146 as a flying testbed.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Banks/Banking
Wells Fargo Glitch Leaves Customers With Empty Bank Accounts
01-18-2018
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http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com,
Many Wells Fargo customers got a terrifying shock after finding their checking accounts drained due to a series of errors by the embattled bank.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Graphene Nanoribbons are 100 times brighter than previous single molecule devices
01-18-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Researchers observed a bright and narrow band emission of red light from individual graphene nanoribbons, only 7-atom-wide, at a high intensity comparable to bright light-emitting devices made from carbon nanotubes.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Ex CIA Agent Arrested For Stealing Top Secret Information For China That Led to Death of U.S. Agents
01-18-2018
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http://www.newsweek.com, By Christina Zhao
Updated | A former CIA officer, who was charged and arrested on Monday for unlawful detention of national defense information, is suspected to have been spying for China and betraying covert U.S. informants to Beijing.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Canada
Welcome To The Neighborhood. Have You Read The Terms Of Service?
01-18-2018
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www.technocracy.news, By: Matthew Braga
Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society says, "The whole point of a smart city is that everything that can be collected will be collected." This is exactly what TN has stated over and over for the last two years. The Technocrat mi
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China Has Infiltrated U.S. Classrooms With Government-Run Educational Institutes
01-18-2018
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https://www.technocracy.news, By: Ethan Epstein
Those who don't understand that China is a Technocracy will not understand why it has a major initiative to indoctrinate American students with Technocrat philosophy. Chinese state-run schools in America would have been unthinkable thirty years ago
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New battery technology using ionic liquids under development at Keio University #DigInfo
01-18-2018
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https://www.youtube.com, ikinamo
Katayama Laboratory, Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University Investigating electrochemical reactions in ionic liquids
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Longeveron developing stem cell treatments for Frailty, Alzheimers and other aging diseases
01-18-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Longeveron is a life sciences company developing biological solutions for aging and aging-associated diseases through the use of Allogeneic Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells, harvested and grown at our facility in Miami, Florida, from adult-donor bone mar
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China's mobile payments volume could exceed global credit card volume in 2018
01-18-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Digital payments in China are processed by scanning QR codes at the point of sales which link to the customer's bank account in China.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Russia
Russian and UK physicists develop superconducting quantum state detectors
01-18-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Russian and UK physicists have developed a superconducting quantum state detectors.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
Housing Starts Unexpected Dive 8.2%: Economists Blame the Weather
01-18-2018
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https://www.themaven.net, Mike Mish Shedlock
Housing starts dove 8.2% in Dec., well under the consensus estimate and also lower than the lowest economist's estimate.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Snowfall blankets all 50 states
01-18-2018
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http://www.nbc15.com, Brian Doogs
Wisconsin isn't alone when it comes to the cold and snow. The latest blast of wintry weather brought accumulations as far south as the Gulf Coast! Wednesday morning started off with snow cover in all 50 states and 52.3 percent of the country covered
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
A Turkish-Kurdish War in Syria May Be Imminent
01-18-2018
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http://russia-insider.com, Patrick Lang
Turkey has threatened to invade Kurdish-held Syria many times before but this time they may really do it. How will the Kurds' American backers react?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
British man kicked off flight for wearing all his clothes to avoid baggage fee
01-18-2018
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https://www.upi.com, By Ray Downs
A British man was prevented from boarding a British Airways flight from Iceland to London after he attempted to wear 10 layers of clothes to avoid paying a baggage fee.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Minnesota
Minnesota's "Little Mogadishu" celebrated at Reason.com
01-18-2018
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https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com, Bruce Bawer
Not all that many years ago, the worst things you could say about Minneapolis were that it was very cold in the winter and, for an American city of its size, it was somewhat dull. On the plus side, this traditionally Scandinavian-American burg was a
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Facebook, Google tell Congress they're fighting extremist content with counterpropaganda
01-18-2018
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https://www.cnbc.com
Social media giants battle extremist content
23 Hours Ago | 04:31
Facebook, Google and Twitter told Congress Wednesday that they've gone beyond screening and removing extremist content and are creating more anti-terror propaganda to pre-empt
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Housing
Greenwich Luxury Homes Get Biggest Discounts Since Lehman Fell
01-18-2018
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https://www.bloomberg.com
The fourth quarter was the best time for luxury-home sales in Greenwich last year. It also had the biggest discounts in almost a decade for the tony Connecticut town.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
NFL Ratings Plunge As 23 Million Fewer Viewers Watch Divisional Playoffs
01-18-2018
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https://www.outkickthecoverage.com
This past weekend the NFL had three very competitive games among its four divisional round playoff contests. Unfortunately for the league, ratings continued to plummet.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Movie Theater Attendance Hits 24-Year Low, Ticket Prices Rise Nearly 4 Percent
01-18-2018
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https://www.thewrap.com/movie-theater-attendance-h
The National Alliance of Theater Owners (NATO) announced Wednesday that the national ticket average for 2017 rose 3.7 percent year-over-year to $8.93, up from $8.65 last year.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Goldman Sachs Once Looked Invincible. Now It's Losing Money.
01-18-2018
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https://www.nytimes.com
Goldman Sachs used to seem invincible. In the fourth quarter, it lost money. The Wall Street firm on Wednesday reported its first quarterly loss since 2011. It was the result of a one-time $4.4 billion charge stemming from the new tax law. But even
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Currencies
St. Louis Federal Reserve Reps in Favor of Cryptocurrencies
01-18-2018
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https://news.bitcoin.com/st-louis-federal-reserve-
Aleksander Berentsen and Fabian Schär of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis have recently published an article that emphasizes many of the benefits of cryptocurrencies. The article states "that cryptoassets are well suited to become an importan
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Social Network Yours.org Raises $1.5m to Introduce Cryptocurrency to the Masses
01-18-2018
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https://news.bitcoin.com
Crypto-focused social network Yours.org, which enables contributors to earn bitcoin cash for creating content, is poised to ramp up its operations after securing $1.5 million. The Series A funding, courtesy of mining specialists Bitmain and Nchain, w
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Venezuela
In Venezuela, money has stopped working
01-18-2018
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post
A friend recently sent me a photograph that tells a powerful story about the situation Venezuelans find themselves in now. It's not a very good picture, really, just a blurry cellphone shot of trash: some wrapping material, an old CD -- the detrit
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
'Star Wars' Toy Sales Fall in 2017 as Movie-Tie Fatigue Sets In
01-18-2018
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https://www.bloomberg.com
The warning signs for the toy industry started last year when "Cars 3" -- considered a surefire success -- proved lackluster for licensees like Mattel Inc.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • United States
America Has a Foreign Tourist Problem
01-18-2018
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https://www.bloomberg.com
A new travel industry coalition is urging the Trump administration to help stem a drop in international visitors.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Trump Administration
Did Donald Trump Change His Mind on Domestic Spying?
01-18-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com
Late last week, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, repeated his public observations that members of the intelligence community -- particularly the CIA, the NSA and the intelligence division
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