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Date Sent: 2018-08-23
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, August 23, 2018 |
Amazon Bans Gun Book
Life expectancy declines seen in U.S. and other high-income countries -- Racetrack with 'moving grandstand' proposed in New Mexico -- Move over, Musk: Kalashnikov unveils 'electric supercar' -- The New Cold War Flops -- Reordering Power in Europe: The Putin-Merkel Meeting -- Musk Hires Morgan Stanley As Advisor On Going Private Transaction -- The No Fly License -- Australia Government Collapse: 13 Ministers Resign, PM Turnbull Outed -- Asteroid mining for water with a few hundred spacecraft can be profitable -- Luongo: "Humanity Has Had Its Fill Of George Soros" -- Tucker Carlson Cuts Off Immigration Analyst's Mic After Getting Bested in Debate -- Israel - Green Light for Up to 500,000 New Carry Permits -- Exposing Idemia: The Push For National Biometric IDs In America -- The Impossible Job: Inside Facebook's Struggle to Moderate Two Billion People -- China Rebuffed: Australia Bans Huawei From Massive 5G Network Project -- Flashback 2012 ?" The Atlantic Ties Facebook Directly To Technocracy -- KNIFE HORROR Paris attack... -- Bret Easton Ellis on American Psycho, Hollywood Hypocrisy, and the Excesses of #MeToo -- Will the Real John Brennan Please Stand Up? -- Senate Blocks Voting on Amendment to Defund Yemen War -- Facebook Kills "Inauthentic" Foreign News Accounts - U.S. Propaganda Stays Alive -- Waikiki Beach Meditation powered by EXPLORE.org -- OK, Let's Talk About Impeachment -- US Bank Profits Hit A Record $60 Billion In Q2 -- Bitcoin Stabilizes After SEC Rejects 9 ETF Applications, China Crackdown -- The Brennan-Rosenstein-Mueller?"Comey-Presstitute Witch Hunt -- US Has 'Frozen' Hundreds of Millions in Russian Assets -- Department of Treasury -- Oil boom may provide windfall to New Mexico, public schools -- Koch group spends $1.8 million in ads for Wisconsin's Walker --
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News Link • Books
Amazon Bans Gun Book
08-23-2018
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https://freebeacon.com
Retail giant says book violated guidelines, won't say how
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Life expectancy declines seen in U.S. and other high-income countries
08-23-2018
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https://www.reuters.com by Lisa Rapaport
Life expectancy is declining in high-income countries worldwide, driven in part by the effects of the opioid epidemic on younger adults in the U.S. and the impact of a severe flu season on older adults in other nations, two new studies suggest.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • New Mexico
Racetrack with 'moving grandstand' proposed in New Mexico
08-23-2018
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https://apnews.com
A Las Vegas casino executive is proposing a new racetrack and casino in eastern New Mexico with a "moving grandstand" that will allow an audience to travel alongside running horses.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Move over, Musk: Kalashnikov unveils 'electric supercar'
08-23-2018
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https://www.breitbart.com by AFP
Russian arms maker Kalashnikov on Thursday presented its new electric car inspired by a rare 1970s model, saying the new technology will rival Elon Musk's Tesla.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Polls-Polling Data
The New Cold War Flops
08-23-2018
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https://original.antiwar.com, by Justin Raimondo
Poll shows anti-Russia campaign had little effect
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Germany
Reordering Power in Europe: The Putin-Merkel Meeting
08-23-2018
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https://original.antiwar.com, by Gilbert Doctorow
During this past Saturday, 18 August, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a brief visit to Austria to attend the wedding of the country's Minister of Foreign Affairs Karin Kneissl.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Musk Hires Morgan Stanley As Advisor On Going Private Transaction
08-23-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
First Elon Musk said he had hired Goldman Sachs (along with a bunch of other advisors), even though the bank initially denied it had been formally retained.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
The No Fly License
08-23-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Eric Peters
The Orwellian spin cycle is picking up speed.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Australia
Australia Government Collapse: 13 Ministers Resign, PM Turnbull Outed
08-23-2018
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https://moneymaven.io, by Mike Mish Shedlock
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will soon be gone as key ministers resign and back his rival Peter Dutton.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Asteroid mining for water with a few hundred spacecraft can be profitable
08-23-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
The maximum distance for asteroid mining 3 million miles (0.03 AU) with current technology. The corresponding delta-V is 437 meters per second. The near earth asteroids that are in range should contain more than one million liters of water.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Soros News
Luongo: "Humanity Has Had Its Fill Of George Soros"
08-23-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tom Luongo
"You either die a Hero, Or you live long enough to see yourself become the Villain. "
-- The Dark Knight
George Soros has made that transformation into the Villain. Not that he was ever the Hero, but he is in his mind.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Tucker Carlson Cuts Off Immigration Analyst's Mic After Getting Bested in Debate
08-23-2018
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https://www.mediaite.com, by Aidan McLaughlin
Tucker Carlson's ability to embarrass his guests in bitter debates on his Fox News show has been well documented. But there is one recurring guest who manages to trounce Carlson at his own game: Alex Nowrasteh, a senior immigration policy analyst a
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Israel - Green Light for Up to
500,000 New Carry Permits
08-23-2018
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http://jpfo.org, By Luis Valdes
Israel, a nation about the size of New Jersey and with a similar sized population, has begun to back away from their long-standing gun control policies.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Exposing Idemia: The Push For National Biometric IDs In America
08-23-2018
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technocracy.news, Twila Brase and Matt Flanders
This is a must-read report on a corporation that is helping China to build spy networks and India to build a national id system, but also create drivers' licenses in the U.S. Personal identification is a major requirement of Technocracy since the 1
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
The Impossible Job: Inside Facebook's Struggle to Moderate Two Billion People
08-23-2018
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https://motherboard.vice.com by Jason Koebler
Moderating billions of posts a week in more than a hundred languages has become Facebook's biggest challenge. Leaked documents and nearly two dozen interviews show how the company hopes to solve it.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Australia
China Rebuffed: Australia Bans Huawei From Massive 5G Network Project
08-23-2018
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https://www.technocracy.news, Tyler Durden
Since Huawei and the Chinese Technocracy are closely aligned, Australia has finally figured out that if allowed to participate in their 5G rollout, Huawei would be a direct conduit for espionage. China openly seeks to be the global leader in 5G techn
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technocracy
Flashback 2012 â€" The Atlantic Ties Facebook Directly To Technocracy
08-23-2018
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https://www.technocracy.news, Alexis C. Madrigal
Facebook 2018 is a realization of Technocracy-in-action and was clearly defined in 2012 by The Atlantic Magazine. Furthermore, the tie to 1930s Technocracy is historically correct as advocating that "engineers and scientists would rule." Google,
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Robert Lee
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News Link • France
KNIFE HORROR Paris attack...
08-23-2018
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thesun.co.uk, By Jay Akbar and Peter Allen
Police shot the attacker dead shortly after he reportedly barricaded himself inside his mum's house shouting: 'I'll smoke you all'
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News Link • Hollywood-Entertainment Industry
Bret Easton Ellis on American Psycho, Hollywood Hypocrisy, and the Excesses of #MeToo
08-23-2018
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https://reason.com, Nick Gillespie & Paul Detrick
The novelist talks about film, #MeToo, Hollywood hypocrisy, the savviness of Kim Kardashian, and the longevity of American Psycho and Less Than Zero.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Senate/Senators
Senate Blocks Voting on Amendment to Defund Yemen War
08-23-2018
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https://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
Sen. Murphy's amendment won't get hearing for Defense Appropriations Act
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Facebook Kills "Inauthentic" Foreign News Accounts - U.S. Propaganda Stays Alive
08-23-2018
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http://www.moonofalabama.org
Today anyone can create content and rent or buy virtual claqueurs in from of "likes" on Facebook or "followers" on Twitter to increase its distribution.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Waikiki Beach Meditation powered by EXPLORE.org
08-23-2018
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https://www.youtube.com
This is a pre-recorded meditative film but you can watch the hurricane unfold on our other Hawaii Cams https://explore.org/livecams/hawaii/h...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Impeachment
OK, Let's Talk About Impeachment
08-23-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Nicholas Colas
Impeachment was clearly the word of the day, so let's talk about it.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Banks/Banking
US Bank Profits Hit A Record $60 Billion In Q2
08-23-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
The happy days on Wall Street have never been happier.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Stabilizes After SEC Rejects 9 ETF Applications, China Crackdown
08-23-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
After tumbling last night as headlines hit that the SEC rejected another nine Bitcoin ETF applications, cryptocurrencies have stabilized (for now). Additionally, a broad crackdown on crypto in China has not triggered wholesale selling.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Courtroom and Trials
The Brennan-Rosenstein-Mueller?"Comey-Presstitute Witch Hunt
08-23-2018
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www.paulcraigroberts.org, Paul Craig Roberts
Russiagate is an orchestration. It is the response of the military/security complex to Donald Trump's presidential campaign statement that he intended to normalize relations with Russia.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Sanctions
US Has 'Frozen' Hundreds of Millions in Russian Assets -- Department of Treasury
08-23-2018
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https://russia-insider.com by RT
Russia's money that Russia can no longer get to. Little wonder Russia dumped/moved its entire US bonds stock
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News Link • New Mexico
Oil boom may provide windfall to New Mexico, public schools
08-23-2018
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https://www.sfgate.com, Morgan Lee
A surge in New Mexico's income linked to an oil boom may give legislators an extra $1.2 billion to work with as they craft the next annual budget, state economists announced Wednesday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Wisconsin
Koch group spends $1.8 million in ads for Wisconsin's Walker
08-23-2018
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https://abcnews.go.com, By scott bauer
More than $7 million in advertising has flooded into the Wisconsin governor's race in the week since Democrats chose their candidate to try to unseat Republican Gov. Scott Walker in November.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Alibaba slips after earnings fall short
08-23-2018
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https://www.cnbc.com by Arjun Kharpal
Alibaba reported better-than-expected revenue, but profit fell short.
The core commerce business and growing cloud unit helped drive revenues for the Chinese e-commerce giant.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hollywood-Entertainment Industry
The New Politics of Hollywood Sex Scenes in the #MeToo Era
08-23-2018
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com by Tatiana Siege
Amid the added pressures of shooting in the nude, lawyers for actors are demanding more specific, ironclad protections in "nudity riders," including the ability to sue for leaked footage: "The idea of anything being erased from existence in the dig
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Iran Again Threatens Strike On US, Israel After Bolton Warns "Maximum Pressure" Coming
08-23-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
In what now seems like a weekly occurrence, Iran on Wednesday warned its military wouldn't hesitate to strike American and Israeli targets should it be attacked by the United States after previous words from the US national security advisor warning t
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News Link • China
DoD may cut funding to Chinese propaganda centers in U.S.
08-23-2018
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arclein
In July, distinguished author and professor Marshall Sahlins of the University of Chicago published an op-ed that identified the headquarters of the Confucius Institute as the Hanban. He wrote, "The governing council of Hanban, which annually sets
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Scientists Claim They've Solved The Bermuda Triangle Mystery
08-23-2018
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arclein
e Enigma," the scientists used indoor simulators to re-create the monster water surges. These waves, some of which measure 100 feet high, only last for a few minutes. They were first observed by satellites in 1997 off the coast of South Africa and
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News Link • China
China Launches Personal Attack At "Arrogant, Deceitful" Trump: "We Are Prepared To Fi
08-23-2018
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arclein
Given China's huge market, its systemic advantage of being able to concentrate resources on big projects, its people's tenacity in enduring hardships and its steadiness in implementing reform and opening-up policies, the country can survive a tra
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
"A Stealth Mortgage On Your House" - The Reality Of The Looming Pension Crisis
08-23-2018
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arclein
Unfunded pension obligations range from a low of $30,000 per household of four in Tennessee to a high of $180,000 per household in Alaska. They amount to less than 11% of the average home values in Florida, Tennessee and Utah and more than 50% i
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News Link • Stock Market
The 5 Previous Times This Stock Market Indicator Has Reached This Level --
08-23-2018
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
--Stock Prices Have Fallen By At Least 50 Percent
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
Dangerous Liberal Who Threatened Trump On The Loose
08-23-2018
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http://trumptrainnews.com, TTN Staff
Federal law enforcement officials are looking for an individual who has threatened to assassinate President Trump. The man is also wanted in Pennsylvania for multiple offenses.
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News Link • Transportation
EV Boss Says Taycan Is A True Porsche Inside & Out
08-23-2018
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https://insideevs.com BY VANJA KLJAIC
Innovative electric drive and eternal Porsche virtues definitely go together
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Welfare: Social
52.1% of Kids Live in Households Getting Means-Tested Government Assistance
08-23-2018
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https://www.cnsnews.com, By Terence P. Jeffrey
Will they be called The Welfare Generation?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems (Publisher Recommended)
10-31-2014
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http://www.newsweek.com
In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham Hall, the country house in Norfolk, England where Assange was living under house arrest.
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Opinion • WAR: About that War
"Christian War Fever"
08-23-2018
Chuck Baldwin
The signs are ubiquitous that Trump plans to take America to war against Iran and Syria in much the same way that G.W. Bush took us to war against Iraq and Afghanistan. All it will take is another false flag attack that can be blamed on Iran.
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News Link • Housing
Existing Home Sales Decline Fourth Month
08-23-2018
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https://moneymaven.io
Economists missed the boat again this month expecting a small rebound in existing home sales. Instead, sales fell 0.7%.
Existing home sales came in at 5.34 million units seasonally-adjusted annualized (SAAR).
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Gravity Jet Suit Flight experiences now and Future Racing Events
08-23-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com
Richard Browning spoke at SU Global Summit 2018 and demoed the Gravity Jetpack twice this week in the SF bay area.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Mexico
No Cops! No Government! Just Anarchy In Mexico Town
08-23-2018
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https://www.youtube.com
In this video, Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange gives you the latest breaking news on Cheran, Michoacan an anarchist town that's followed by anarchy principles and over 30,000 anarchists. We talk to Jeff Berwick the dollar vigilante who organizes one of
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Propaganda
The Polar Bear Hoax - #PropagandaWatch
08-23-2018
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https://www.corbettreport.com
Remember when National Geographic won the fake news award for their sensationalist fake news about the starving polar bear. Well guess who had to admit they went too far with pushing the climate change agenda? But what does it matter if everyone sees
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