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Date Sent: 2018-08-21
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, August 22, 2018 |
Russia Buys Over 800,000 Ounces Of Gold In July After Dumping US Treasuries
Russia Buys Over 800,000 Ounces Of Gold In July After Dumping US Treasuries -- Facebook apologises for blocking Prager University's videos -- Internet Buzzing After Julian Assange's Mother Implicates Seth Rich In DNC Leak -- Water Ice on the moon is definitively confirmed -- Texas Exports More Oil Than It Imports For First Time Ever -- Becoming an exponential winner - SU Summit 2018 -- Jeff Bezos Talks About Blue Origin at Satellite Event. -- Poll finds Libertarian Senate candidate running ahead of GOP in New Mexico -- The Rabbit Hole is Much Darker and Far More Sinister Than You Imagined -- America Is Overdue For Another Economic Disaster -- Hutton Blames "Shit Life Syndrome" For Brits' Slumping Life-Expectancy -- Interview 1379 ?" Patrick MacFarlane on Liberty and the Law -- If You Read Between The Lines, Global Economic Leaders Are Telling Us Exactly What Is Coming -- South Africa's president declares it is time to 'correct a past wrong' - -- Cohen Pleads Guilty To 8 Counts, Says Violated Campaign Law At "Direction Of Candidate"; . -- Freedom in the 50 States -- Used Car Prices Hit All Time High -- Life After Google: People Will Tire Of 'Usurping Human Minds' -- Man sues over Google's "Location History" fiasco, case could affect millions -- Facebook's Secret "User-Reputation Score" Exposed -- A Future World of Haves and Super-Haves SU Global Summit 2018 -- Genocide of the Greek Nation -- BofA's "Emerging Market Crisis" Indicator Was Just Triggered -- Microsoft threatened to drop hosting for Gab over hate speech posts -- "We Are Not Going Bankrupt" Musk Vows As Tesla Suppliers Panic Over Stopped Payments -- Iran Unveils New Domestic-Made Fighter Jet Amid Rising Military Tensions -- Elon Musk Deletes His Instagram Account, Leaving 8.2 Million Followers Guessing -- Author: 'Democrats Plan To Cheat' In The 2018 Midterm Elections -- Manafort convicted on 8 counts; mistrial declared on 10 other charges -- Ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen pleads guilty to campaign finance violations --
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Russia Buys Over 800,000 Ounces Of Gold In July After Dumping US Treasuries
08-21-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
Russia buys 839,000 ozs of gold in July as it diversifies reserves from USD
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Facebook apologises for blocking Prager University's videos
08-21-2018
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https://www.bbc.com
Facebook has apologised for removing several videos posted to its platform by a US right-wing non-profit group.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
Internet Buzzing After Julian Assange's Mother Implicates Seth Rich In DNC Leak
08-21-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
The internet is buzzing with theories after Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange's mother, Christine Assange, tweeted - and then deleted - what many believe to be a suggestion that murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich "leaked docs proving corruption."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Water Ice on the moon is definitively confirmed
08-21-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
There has been directly observed definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Oil
Texas Exports More Oil Than It Imports For First Time Ever
08-21-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Irina Slav
The Texas Gulf Coast oil terminals sent abroad more crude than they received in April, the Energy Information Administration said this week. During that month, crude oil exports from the Houston-Galveston port district exceeded imports by 15,000 bpd.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Becoming an exponential winner â€" SU Summit 2018
08-21-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Amin Toufani is an economist who discussed that there will be exponential winners and losers.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Jeff Bezos Talks About Blue Origin at Satellite Event.
08-21-2018
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https://www.youtube.com, ExpovistaTV
"SATELLITE" is one of the main gatherings for the satellite industry and it is organized by Via Satellite Magazine.
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News Link • Polls-Polling Data
Poll finds Libertarian Senate candidate running ahead of GOP in New Mexico
08-21-2018
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http://thehill.com, By Megan Keller
Libertarian Party Senate candidate Gary Johnson is polling at 21 percent in New Mexico, behind Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) but with nearly twice the support shown for GOP candidate Mick Rich in the poll.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Q and the Anons
The Rabbit Hole is Much Darker and Far More Sinister Than You Imagined
08-21-2018
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youtube.com - SGTreport
Fiona, a former child victim of very powerful people is not afraid to name the names of those she alleges abused her as a child. And according to Fiona, the CIA and the British Crown control most of the human trafficking activities around the world.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
America Is Overdue For Another Economic Disaster
08-21-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by George Will
Underneath the current economic boom, there are some truly worrying signs...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Hutton Blames "Shit Life Syndrome" For Brits' Slumping Life-Expectancy
08-21-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Will Hutton
Life expectancy figures are going into reverse. But abandoning Brexit could save us
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corbett Report
Interview 1379 â€" Patrick MacFarlane on Liberty and the Law
08-21-2018
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https://www.corbettreport.com
Patrick MacFarlane of LibertyWeekly.net joins us to discuss his podcast on libertarian legal theory. Today we look at his work on the Supreme Court's Masterpiece cake ruling and on the entrapment defense in the FBI's Muslim patsy cases.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
If You Read Between The Lines, Global Economic Leaders Are Telling Us Exactly What Is Coming
08-21-2018
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Sometimes, a strongly-worded denial is the most damning evidence of all that something is seriously wrong.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
South Africa's president declares it is time to 'correct a past wrong' -
08-21-2018
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk By Bridie Pearson Jones
-by grabbing land from white farmers as £10m hunting lodge is targeted for seizure by the state
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Courtroom and Trials
Cohen Pleads Guilty To 8 Counts, Says Violated Campaign Law At "Direction Of Candidate"; .
08-21-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
Update 6: Acknowledging the charges against him, Cohen said he was directed to violate campaign law at the direction of an unnamed candidate for federal office, whom he did not name.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Freedom
Freedom in the 50 States
08-21-2018
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https://www.freedominthe50states.org/
The overall freedom ranking is a combination of personal and economic freedoms.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Used Car Prices Hit All Time High
08-21-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Nicholas Colas
Regular readers know that we consider used car prices an important, if overlooked, indicator of the true state of the US economy. More Americans buy used vehicles than new ones, making them a deeper measure of consumer sentiment.
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News Link • Books
Life After Google: People Will Tire Of 'Usurping Human Minds'
08-21-2018
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https://www.technocracy.news by Tim Ciccotta
Futurist George Gilder re-states Technocracy's error in terms of Marx that because of technology, "human productivity has resolved to the point that we can focus solely on the distribution of the existing resources." Technocracy is a resource-b
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Courtroom and Trials
Man sues over Google's "Location History" fiasco, case could affect millions
08-21-2018
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https://arstechnica.com, Cyrus Farivar
If "Location History" was off, Google said it didn't keep data--but that's not true.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Facebook's Secret "User-Reputation Score" Exposed
08-21-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
In a hideous reflection of China's already-prevalent 'Social Credit' system - which is a rating assigned to each citizen based on government data regarding their economic and social status - The Washington Post reports that Facebook has begun to assi
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
A Future World of Haves and Super-Haves SU Global Summit 2018
08-21-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Peter Diamandis discusses how extreme poverty is being eliminated.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Greece
Genocide of the Greek Nation
08-21-2018
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www.paulcraigroberts.org, Paul Craig Roberts
The political and media coverup of the genocide of the Greek Nation began yesterday (August 20) with European Union and other political statements announcing that the Greek Crisis is over.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Banks/Banking
BofA's "Emerging Market Crisis" Indicator Was Just Triggered
08-21-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
While the market is distracted by record stock highs, a week-long vacation in Turkey, and a mysterious pre-talks bid in the offshore yuan, the truth is that this Emerging Market crisis has been a long time in the making, and based on the Brazilian Re
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News Link • Media: Internet
Microsoft threatened to drop hosting for Gab over hate speech posts
08-21-2018
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https://www.theverge.com, By Russell Brandom
Founder says 'Gab will go down for weeks/months' if dropped
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
"We Are Not Going Bankrupt" Musk Vows As Tesla Suppliers Panic Over Stopped Payments
08-21-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
Less than a month after the WSJ reported first that Tesla was quietly asking suppliers for "cash back" on existing and future projects, describing the request as "essential to Tesla's continued operation" and characterizing it as an investment in t
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News Link • Iran
Iran Unveils New Domestic-Made Fighter Jet Amid Rising Military Tensions
08-21-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
Amidst a tightening economic noose and now nearly weekly war of words with the Trump administration, Iran has just rolled out with its first 100% domestically-produced fighter jet.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Elon Musk Deletes His Instagram Account, Leaving 8.2 Million Followers Guessing
08-21-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
In the latest perplexing decision by Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO appears to have deleted his Instagram account, leaving some 8.2 million followers guessing what prompted the abrupt move.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Author: 'Democrats Plan To Cheat' In The 2018 Midterm Elections
08-21-2018
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http://www.shtfplan.com by Mac Slavo
In an interview with USA Watchdog's Greg Hunter, author Eric Eggers says that he has evidence that Democrats are planning to cheat in the 2018 midterm elections. "I think there is clear evidence that they [Democrats] are actively working to creat
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News Link • Courtroom and Trials
Manafort convicted on 8 counts; mistrial declared on 10 other charges
08-21-2018
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NBC News
The trial was the first public test of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible Russian meddling and obstruction of justice by Trump.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Courtroom and Trials
Ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen pleads guilty to campaign finance violations
08-21-2018
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CBS News
Former longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty Tuesday to eight counts -- including two campaign finance violations involving payments to silence women he believed could be detrimental to the 2016 presidential campaign. Cohen testified
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • California
Watch Out California! 53 Major Earthquakes...
08-21-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Michael Snyder
Is something unusual starting to happen to the crust of our planet?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Courtroom and Trials
Cohen Pleads Guilty To 8 Counts, Says Violated Campaign Law At "Direction Of Candidate"; .
08-21-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
Update 6: Acknowledging the charges against him, Cohen said he was directed to violate campaign law at the direction of an unnamed candidate for federal office, whom he did not name.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Household hacks you HAVE to try:
08-21-2018
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk By Jessica Rach
From reviving a bottle of champagne with a RAISIN to using an apple slicer to make chips, the genius tricks for making everyday life easier
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Geology
What kills you when a volcano erupts? It's not what you think
08-21-2018
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arclein
Mount Vesuvius is what's called a composite volcano. Here the magma is made from lots of different types of rocks, liquids and gases, forced deep underground by plate tectonics. Under pressure and heat, this volatile mixture melts, and then rises b
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robert klein
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News Link • United Kingdom
UK buys Israeli anti-drone system which uses 5 kilowatt laser to takeout drones...
08-21-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
RADA Electronic Industries Multi-Mission Hemispheric Radars (MHR), which are embedded in the Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Drone Dome counter-drone solution, will be delivered to the British Army in the coming months.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
SU Global Exponential Medicine â€" self-healable electronic skin
08-21-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Daniel Kraft, Faculty Chair for Medicine and Neuroscience for Singularity University and Founder and Chair of Exponential Medicine, gave a very information dense talk on Exponential medicine. There were perhaps a hundred slides in 20 minutes.
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News Link • Environment
Tidal stream prototype clocks up 3 GWh of electricity in first year
08-21-2018
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https://newatlas.com by Paul Ridden
cotrenewables Tidal Power has announced that its 2 MW floating tidal stream turbine prototype has managed to generate more than 3 GWh of renewable electricity during its first year of continuous operation, which is reported to be more than the entire
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News Link • Architecture
Five of the finest flatpack homes
08-21-2018
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https://newatlas.com by Nick Lavars
There's little doubt that the neatly packaged nature of a certain Swedish furniture-maker's products are a big reason for its success, and lately we're seeing how flatpack kits can have a certain appeal for those looking into alternative housing solu
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News Link • China
China: He Who Has The Data Makes The Rules
08-21-2018
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www.technocracy.news, By: Christina Larson
Jinping's Scientific Dictatorship, aka Technocracy, relies on 'a combination of surveillance, AI, and big data to monitor people's lives and behavior in minute detail.' MIT correctly notes that China got these ideas in the mid-1980s, but fai
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
'Neuropolitics': Consultants Who Secretly Hack Voters' Brains
08-21-2018
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technocracy.news, By: Elizabeth Svoboda
Neuroscience is racing ahead of people's ability to comprehend what it is doing to them. Your simple pictures that exist everywhere these days can produce an emotional profile that can then be manipulated in order to change your mind on an issue. W
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Author: 'Democrats Plan To Cheat' In The 2018 Midterm Elections
08-21-2018
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http://www.shtfplan.com by Mac Slavo
In an interview with USA Watchdog's Greg Hunter, author Eric Eggers says that he has evidence that Democrats are planning to cheat in the 2018 midterm elections. "I think there is clear evidence that they [Democrats] are actively working to creat
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
US Foreclosures Rise For First Time In 36 Months
08-21-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com
One month ago we discussed why according to the recent data, the "Housing Market Headed For "Broadest Slowdown In Years." Fast forward to today, when we received the latest confirmation that the US housing market appears to have recently hit a downwa
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News Link • 3D Printing
3D Printable Gun Advocate Sued by 21 States, Launches Fundraiser
08-21-2018
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https://news.bitcoin.com/dd/
Embattled 3D printable gun advocate Cody Wilson and his Texas-based company, Defense Distributed are being sued by nearly two dozen states in the US. Attorneys General are marshaling a coast-to-coast legal fight against Mr. Wilson after he had an agr
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News Link • General Opinion
Battlefield America: The Ongoing War on the American People
08-21-2018
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https://www.rutherford.org
"A government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for any reason, is a government with a taste of blood and a thirst for power and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly fear."--John Salter
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Maple leaves may hold the key to wrinkle-prevention
08-21-2018
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https://newatlas.com by Ben Coxworth
As we age, an enzyme in our skin known as elastase breaks down the elasticity-maintaining protein elastin, causing wrinkles to form. Now, however, scientists have developed a natural product that may keep this from happening â€" and it utilizes maple
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Pensions
Each Household in Chicago Is Obligated to Pay Nearly $125,000 â€" Mostly in Pension Liability
08-21-2018
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https://needtoknow.news by ZeroHedge
Chicagoans have no idea how much pension debt Illinois politicians have placed upon them, a staggering total of $130,000 billion, which leaves each household on the hook for $125,000.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
'Journalist Michael Hastings Was Working On Story About CIA Chief John Brennan At ...
08-21-2018
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http://www.dcclothesline.com
The Time Of His Mysterious Death'...It's worth taking a second look at this article from 2013 now that former CIA director John Brennan is in the headlines attacking President Trump for trying to "silence" him.
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