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Date Sent: 2018-05-14
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, May 15, 2018 |
Retirees Face A "Pension Crisis" Of Their Own
Why Traditional TV Is in Trouble -- A Beginners Guide To The Conflict In Yemen -- Israel Kills 55, Wounds 2,000 Gazans In "Terrible Massacre" As US Opens Jerusalem Embassy -- Meryl Streep to Star in Panama Papers Thriller for Steven Soderbergh (Exclusive) -- NYSE's Plans For 'Physical Delivery' Of Bitcoin Pave Way For Major Crypto Adoption -- Doctors Who Discovered Cancer Enzymes In Vaccines All Found Murdered -- Russia Deploys Exotic New Weapon: A "Budget Surplus" -- An "Audible Gasp" Was Heard When The Chicago Fed Unveiled Its "Solution" To The -- Main Events This Week: -- Argentine Peso Collapses To New Low Despite Massive Intervention -- US will promise N. Korea's Kim Jong-un it will not seek regime change ?" Pompeo -- Is This Why Trump Folded: China Holds Up U.S. Pork, Auto Imports -- Gunman who attempted to rob young children and families outside a school is killed by... -- US Treasury Shorts Hit Record High As Foreign Banks Dump Bonds -- John Kerry Spotted In Secret Meeting With Iranian Officials As Bolton Threatens EU... -- China will follow SpaceX reusable rockets with Long March 8 first stage reuse around 2021 -- German Bank Allows Users To Transfer Loans Anywhere In The World Using Bitcoin -- Goldman Trading Co-Heads Quit -- Can We Blame The Bankers? (Spoiler Alert: Yes!) -- HSBC Completes First Trade-Finance Deal Using Blockchain, -- China's First Domestically-Built Aircraft Carrier Begins Sea-Trials -- Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Sportsbetting Ban -- Europe Keeps Buying Iran Oil, But Banks May Hinder Trade -- Hawaii Residents Flee Volcano As New Fissure Sends Lava "Several Hundred Feet Into The Air" -- Eric Peters: "This Is How You'll Know The Cycle Is About To Turn" -- The Skripal Affair: A Lie Too Far? -- Fury at 'inclusive' high school that allows ANYONE to join the cheerleading team... -- Bloody Monday: Israeli snipers kill scores of Palestinians and wound 2,400... -- "Federal Agent On A Mission"? Man With Body Armor, Large Cache Of Weapons... --
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News Link • Retirement
Retirees Face A "Pension Crisis" Of Their Own
05-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
A couple of weeks ago, I discussed the coming "Pension Crisis." The important point made was the unrealistic return assumptions used by pension managers in order to reduce the contribution (savings) requirement by their members.
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News Link • Yemen
A Beginners Guide To The Conflict In Yemen
05-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Stucky
Don't have the time to do research on the Yemen conflict? Here ya go, as brief as we can make it...
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News Link • Israel
Israel Kills 55, Wounds 2,000 Gazans In "Terrible Massacre" As US Opens Jerusalem Embassy
05-14-2018
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zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Update IV (4 pm ET): The death toll is now 55. The number wounded has climbed to more than 2,000.
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News Link • Bitcoin
NYSE's Plans For 'Physical Delivery' Of Bitcoin Pave Way For Major Crypto Adoption
05-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Marie Huillet
Analysts Dominic Chu and Bryan Kelly weighed in on recent reports that the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) plans to offer Bitcoin (BTC) swap contracts, on CNBC Tuesday, May 8. Both Chu and Kelly argued that the fact that these contracts would be settl
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News Link • Death
Doctors Who Discovered Cancer Enzymes In Vaccines All Found Murdered
05-14-2018
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http://woked.co, by Daisy Magnum
A number of holistic medical professionals who had found cancer enzymes in vaccines have been found dead.
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News Link • Russia
Russia Deploys Exotic New Weapon: A "Budget Surplus"
05-14-2018
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https://www.dollarcollapse.com,
The price of oil is rising, which is obviously good news for those who sell it to the rest of us.
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News Link • Pensions
An "Audible Gasp" Was Heard When The Chicago Fed Unveiled Its "Solution" To The
05-14-2018
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zerohedge.com By Mark Glennon
An audible gasp went out in the breakout room I was in at last month's pension event cosponsored by The Civic Federation and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
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News Link • Argentina
Argentine Peso Collapses To New Low Despite Massive Intervention
05-14-2018
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zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Update: *ARGENTINE CENBANK SAID TO OFFER $5B IN PESO MARKET AT 25/USD - That's 10% of reserves!!
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News Link • United States
US will promise N. Korea's Kim Jong-un it will not seek regime change â€" Pompeo
05-14-2018
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https://www.rt.com
The US will have to assure North Korea it won't seek to undermine its leader Kim Jong-un, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has implied. That comes after years of slamming him as a dictator and squeezing his country with sanctions.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Is This Why Trump Folded: China Holds Up U.S. Pork, Auto Imports
05-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
President Trump surprised pundits and assorted watchers of the ongoing simmering trade war between China and the US on Sunday, when he pledged to help China's telecom giant ZTE Corp "get back into business, fast" after a U.S. ban crippled the t
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News Link • Crime
Gunman who attempted to rob young children and families outside a school is killed by...
05-14-2018
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk, JANET TAPPIN COELHO
Gunman who attempted to rob young children and families outside a school is killed by a waiting mother (who turned out to be an off-duty armed policewoman)
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News Link • Treasury
US Treasury Shorts Hit Record High As Foreign Banks Dump Bonds
05-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
A roller-coaster week for rates and the dollar did not stop large speculators adding to their already record-high short positions across the entire term structure.
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News Link • Iran
John Kerry Spotted In Secret Meeting With Iranian Officials As Bolton Threatens EU...
05-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
John Kerry Spotted In Secret Meeting With Iranian Officials As Bolton Threatens EU Firms With Sanctions
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News Link • China
China will follow SpaceX reusable rockets with Long March 8 first stage reuse around 2021
05-14-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
China aims to recover the first stage of the Long March-8 carrier rocket, which is still under development and is expected to make its maiden flight around 2021, according to a Chinese rocket expert.
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News Link • Germany
German Bank Allows Users To Transfer Loans Anywhere In The World Using Bitcoin
05-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
With the US set to blacklist Iran from global dollar-based transactions, here's an idea for Tehran: use Bitcoin to make, and accept, payments from its trading partners.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Goldman Trading Co-Heads Quit
05-14-2018
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zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Now that the vol - and trading boom - of the fist quarter is ancient history, many are wondering how revenues look like for the second quarter, which tomorrow will be half-way over. According to this update from Bloomberg, it's hardly glowing.
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News Link • Central Banks/Banking
Can We Blame The Bankers? (Spoiler Alert: Yes!)
05-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
At a Rethinking Economics conference in Oslo last month I pointed out that western politicians and economists are repeating policy errors of the 1930s.
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News Link • Blockchain
HSBC Completes First Trade-Finance Deal Using Blockchain,
05-14-2018
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zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Opening $9 Trillion Market For Mass Adoption
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News Link • China
China's First Domestically-Built Aircraft Carrier Begins Sea-Trials
05-14-2018
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zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
It is all coming together, and the United States should be terrified.
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News Link • Courtroom and Trials
Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Sportsbetting Ban
05-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
In a decision that could rob the American Mafia of one of its few remaining sources of income - and potentially save the ailing Atlantic City - the Supreme Court on Monday struck down a federal ban on sportsbetting, saying states should be free to de
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News Link • Oil
Europe Keeps Buying Iran Oil, But Banks May Hinder Trade
05-14-2018
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zerohedge.com by Tsvetana Paraskova
In the days following the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, Iran's European customers continue to buy Iranian oil and are in no immediate rush to replace volumes, but some refiners and traders have flagged financing issues as having the p
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News Link • Hawaiian Islands
Hawaii Residents Flee Volcano As New Fissure Sends Lava "Several Hundred Feet Into The Air"
05-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
New evacuations were ordered in the Puna district of Hawaii's Big Island Sunday after a massive 1,000-foot-long fissure opened on Kilauea volcano, sending bright red rock and magma hundreds of feet into the air with an ominous "jet engine" sound.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Eric Peters: "This Is How You'll Know The Cycle Is About To Turn"
05-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Yesterday, we showed that according to Macquarie strategist Viktor Shvets, the biggest danger facing investors in the next 12 months is a sudden, explosive move higher in the dollar, as a result of a quiet shrinkage in global dollar supply and an ina
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News Link • United Kingdom
The Skripal Affair: A Lie Too Far?
05-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Michael Jabara Carley
On 4 March 2018 it was a foggy day in southern England, and the MI6 Russian spy Sergei Viktorovich Skripal and his daughter Yulia stepped out for a stroll, stopped at the local pub in Salisbury, went to lunch at a nearby restaurant, and then took a w
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News Link • New Jersey
Fury at 'inclusive' high school that allows ANYONE to join the cheerleading team...
05-14-2018
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk, DEBBIE WHITE
Fury at 'inclusive' high school that allows ANYONE to join the cheerleading team - no matter how bad they are - after a single parent complained because their 'snowflake' child missed out on selection
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Bloody Monday: Israeli snipers kill scores of Palestinians and wound 2,400...
05-14-2018
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk, JULIAN ROBINSON
Bloody Monday: Israeli snipers kill scores of Palestinians and wound 2,400 and fire teargas at 35,000 protesters rallying against the US Embassy opening in Jerusalem overseen by Trump's Middle East envoy Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka
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News Link • Crime
"Federal Agent On A Mission"? Man With Body Armor, Large Cache Of Weapons...
05-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Shepard Ambellas
"Federal Agent On A Mission"? Man With Body Armor, Large Cache Of Weapons Caught In Waikiki Hotel
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Watch: Fed's Bullard Bashes Cryptocurrencies, Holds Q&A
05-14-2018
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zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
In an odd convergence, a sworn protector of the fiat currency regime, St. Louis Fed president James Bullard is presenting on the topic of cryptocurrencies, or rather "Non-Uniform Currencies and Exchange Rate Chaos" at the blockchain tech conference i
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News Link • Investigations
WSJ: "Mueller's Investigation Crosses the Legal Line"
05-14-2018
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zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
The Wall Street Journal continues to counter the liberal mainstream media's anti-Trump-ness with today's op-ed from Steven Calabresi, who served as a special assistant to Attorney General Edwin Meese (1985-87) and ...
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Tesla Bonds Extend Slide As Musk Announces "Thorough Reorganization"
05-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
While Tesla's stock price is modestly higher this morning, seemingly glued to the $300-ish level, the car-maker's bonds are leaking lower in price as Elon Musk told employees in a memo that he has been undertaking "a thorough reorganization of our co
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
"Blowback": The Consequences of Evil Government Actions
05-14-2018
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https://www.youtube.com
A free society needs very few laws, such as don't use aggressive force against another person or their property; and don't defraud someone or break a contract. Once government ventures out of these basic laws, tyranny starts to snowball. Over a c
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News Link • Puerto Rico
This Guy Didn't Wait for the Govt. to Restore Power in Puerto Rico. He Bought a Truck...
05-14-2018
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https://www.theorganicprepper.com
Learned to Do It Himself ...While everyone else was waiting for the government to restore power to Puerto Rico, Oscar Carrion and his friends went in together to buy a bucket truck and taught themselves how to repair wiring.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Max Keiser and Mish Discuss Charts, Employment, Gold in Latest Keiser Video
05-14-2018
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https://www.themaven.net
It's always a pleasure to do video podcasts with Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert. Here is one we did last week.
Max and Stacy talk about fake journalists, income, opioids, and charts.
I come in at the 12:45 mark to discuss jobs, unemployment, wage
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News Link • We Are Change-What Really Happened
Live! The Clintons Are Connected To What? China, Peace Talks, Q Anon And More
05-14-2018
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https://www.youtube.com
In this video, Luke Rudkowski and Jason Bermas discuss the latest global news and go beyond mainstream media lies and propaganda to bring you the full story...the true story.
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News Link • Philippines
Creation of a Fintech City to Push Fintech in Philippines
05-13-2018
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http://fintechnews.sg, Tom Noda
The plan to create a "fintech city" in the Philippines will be pushing through as rules and regulations have been issued by the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA), a government-owned and-controlled corporation tasked to manage and supervise t
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News Link • Transportation
Solar-equipped Off Grid adventure van puts focus on sustainability
05-14-2018
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https://newatlas.com
Van life, solar power, open-road adventure and sustainable wood ... what more could a fun-seeking millennial want? Maybe a table piled high with avocado toast and an integrated selfie cam with live streaming, but they'll have to figure that out on th
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News Link • Children
Alexa controversy: What are voice assistants teaching our children?
05-14-2018
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https://newatlas.com
In January 2017, toy company Mattel revealed a prospective new product â€" a voice-activated smart assistant designed to interact with your child at all stages of their development. Called Aristotle, the device was essentially an Amazon Echo for kids
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News Link • Wikileaks
Ecuador Prepares to Hand Julian Assange Over to UK, US - Reports
05-14-2018
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https://sputniknews.com
More than six years after Julian Assange moved himself into the confines of the Ecuadorian embassy building in London, the WikiLeaks founder finds himself in danger again.
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News Link • 3D Printing
These $10,000 Concrete Homes Are 3D-Printed in Less Than 24 Hours
05-14-2018
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http://mentalfloss.com
What makes housing so expensive? Labor costs, for one. According to a 2014 Census Bureau survey, the average single-family home takes about six months to construct, and that's a lot of man-hours. A new type of home from Austin, Texas-based startup IC
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