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Date Sent: 2018-10-20
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Saturday, October 20, 2018 |
Ernest Hancock @ Trump Rally in Mesa, AZ - Pictures & VIDEO LOADED
10-19-18 -- Ernest Hancock @ Trump Rally in Mesa, AZ - Pictures from Rally Loaded - VIDEO LOADED -- SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: October 21, 2018 Edition -- How & Why Big Oil Conquered The World -- The Canary In Coalmine: Bank OZK Plummets After Shock Commercial Real Estate Write Downs -- Subprime Loans Are Back, Proving We Have Learned Nothing from 2008 -- Poll: Support for Gun Control Drops Ahead of Midterm Elections -- The Fed Is The "Biggest Threat" To Every American, Not Just The President -- White House greets a 2020 challenge from Hillary Clinton as 'Christmas coming early'... -- Honduras: Video Shows Women with Children Are Being Given Cash to Join the Caravan... -- Existing Home Sales Drop For 7th Straight Month As Homebuilders Stocks Collapse -- Saudi Royal Family Considering Replacement For Crown Prince bin Salman: Report -- Volocopter flying taxi sets down in Singapore -- What makes the 'ultimate superhuman'? Design for a perfect person... -- Where Does Your State Rank on Individual Tax Burden? A Look at All 50 States -- China's AI Tech Exports Are Seeding Surveillance Societies Globally -- Can carbon fiber car panels double as energy storage materials? -- The Pharmacy of the future... -- The Real Reason the Deficit Is Exploding Again -- This 3D Human 'Mini-Brain' Is Made of Stem Cells and Can Live For Months -- Spanish Yields Blow Out Amid Italy Contagion As Italian Banks Scramble For Dollar Funding -- The military draft is making a comeback in Europe -- Explain the Chinese spy, Sen. Feinstein -- 5 Lucrative Jobs That Don't Require a College Degree -- These Researchers Want to Send Smells Over the Internet -- Pat Buchanan Fears Refugee Caravan Puts Trump's Legacy On The Line -- Woman Cyclist Cries Foul After Biological Male Wins Women's World Championship -- On Helping Others To Learn -- Existing Home Sales Drop 6th Consecutive Month -- Texas Democrats Caught Mailing Pre-Filled Voter Registrations To Non-Citizens -- "One Size Fits Germany" Math Impossibility, Get Your Money Out of Italy Now! --
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Opinion • Government
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: October 21, 2018 Edition
10-19-2018
John Semmens
Hillary Mulling Another Run for Office
Former Clinton aide Philippe Reines says the twice unsuccessful presidential candidate is "seriously considering running against Trump in 2020. On the one hand, she's really disappointed in how voters treat
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News Link • Oil
How & Why Big Oil Conquered The World
10-19-2018
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https://www.corbettreport.com, Corbett
Oil. The 19th century was transformed by it. The 20th century was shaped by it. And the 21st century is moving beyond it.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Canary In Coalmine: Bank OZK Plummets After Shock Commercial Real Estate Write Downs
10-19-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
In what may be the deadest canary in the commercial real estate coal mine yet, Bank OZK shares have plunged 26% today after the bank reported abysmal third-quarter earnings that trailed expectations...
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News Link • Housing
Subprime Loans Are Back, Proving We Have Learned Nothing from 2008
10-19-2018
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https://fee.org, Brittany Hunter
Many are claiming that this time will be different than the last. This should concern just about everyone.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Poll: Support for Gun Control Drops Ahead of Midterm Elections
10-19-2018
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https://freebeacon.com, by Stephen Gutowski
Gallup finds gun-control support down 6 points from February
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
The Fed Is The "Biggest Threat" To Every American, Not Just The President
10-19-2018
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Ron Paul Institute - Chris Rossini
The average person doesn't know what the Fed is, or what it does, and President Trump has not helped in that regard. Instead of explaining to Americans that we're in a massive artificial economic bubble created by the Fed, the President has opted to
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News Link • Clinton News
White House greets a 2020 challenge from Hillary Clinton as 'Christmas coming early'...
10-19-2018
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk, by FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
White House greets a 2020 challenge from Hillary Clinton as 'Christmas coming early' after former adviser to the failed Democratic candidate says chance she'll run again is 'not zero'
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News Link • Globalism
Honduras: Video Shows Women with Children Are Being Given Cash to Join the Caravan...
10-19-2018
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https://needtoknow.news, by Big League Politics
Honduras: Video Shows Women with Children Are Being Given Cash to Join the Caravan to Storm the US Border
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Existing Home Sales Drop For 7th Straight Month As Homebuilders Stocks Collapse
10-19-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
With US homebuilder stocks having their worst year since 2007, hope is high that September will show the long-awaited rebound in home sales (despite a soaring mortgage rate).
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News Link • Saudi Arabia
Saudi Royal Family Considering Replacement For Crown Prince bin Salman: Report
10-19-2018
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Zero Hedge - Tyler Durden
Khalid, who's even younger than MbS at 28, is said to be popular both at home and abroad, and is generally seen as someone who can improve the kingdom's image in the West.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
Volocopter flying taxi sets down in Singapore
10-19-2018
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https://newatlas.com, Nick Lavars
German aviation startup Volocopter is one of the more active players in the nascent flying taxi scene, having trialed its radical 18-rotor electric aircraft on its home turf, in Dubai and, more recently, in the US.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
What makes the 'ultimate superhuman'? Design for a perfect person...
10-18-2018
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk, by TIM STICKINGS
What makes the 'ultimate superhuman'? Design for a perfect person includes Usain Bolt's legs, Michael Phelps's arm span and the brain of a 'human calculator'
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News Link • TAXES: State
Where Does Your State Rank on Individual Tax Burden? A Look at All 50 States
10-19-2018
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https://fee.org, Craig Eyermann
There's a real lesson to be learned here, but it's questionable that elected officials know what it is.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China's AI Tech Exports Are Seeding Surveillance Societies Globally
10-19-2018
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technocracy.news, By: Romaniuk and Burgers
TN has warned repeatedly that China intentionally exports oppressive surveillance technology to the world, and that includes the United States. It is widely acknowledged that China is the 'perfect police state' and other authoritarian regimes wi
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News Link • Energy
Can carbon fiber car panels double as energy storage materials?
10-19-2018
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https://newatlas.com, Nick Lavars
Carbon fiber as we know it is one of the most impressive materials in our toolkit.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Future Predictions
The Pharmacy of the future...
10-19-2018
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https://www.ted.com, Daniel Kraft
We need to change how we prescribe drugs, says physician Daniel Kraft: too often, medications are dosed incorrectly, cause toxic side effects or just don't work.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
The Real Reason the Deficit Is Exploding Again
10-19-2018
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https://fee.org, Daniel J. Mitchell
America's long-run fiscal challenge is entirely the result of a rising burden of government spending.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
This 3D Human 'Mini-Brain' Is Made of Stem Cells and Can Live For Months
10-19-2018
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https://motherboard.vice.com, by Caroline Haskins
Biologists from Tufts University have fine-tuned an environment for 3D test tube "mini-brains" so that they can function like a living nervous system for months.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Spain
Spanish Yields Blow Out Amid Italy Contagion As Italian Banks Scramble For Dollar Funding
10-19-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Contagion from the recent surge in Italian yields has spread, and is hitting Spanish 10Y yields which over the past 3 days have blown out from 1.65% to as high as 1.82% this morning, before paring some of the move, printing at 1.77% last which is sti
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News Link • Draft
The military draft is making a comeback in Europe
10-19-2018
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https://www.lmtonline.com, by Rick Noack
For many young Europeans, a post-high-school "gap year" has become a rite of passage. Instead of proceeding straight to work or college, hundreds of thousands of newly graduated high school students enjoy a year of travel to see the world and celebra
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News Link • Corruption
Explain the Chinese spy, Sen. Feinstein
10-20-2018
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arclein
It seems improbable that Feinstein never once discussed anything sensitive in her car over a period of years. But let's assume that Feinstein was extraordinarily careful and never discussed any classified information in front of her driver or on an
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
5 Lucrative Jobs That Don't Require a College Degree
10-19-2018
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https://fee.org, Rebecca Zeines
Get with the times, think for yourself, and realize: you don't have to go to college to be successful.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Future Predictions
These Researchers Want to Send Smells Over the Internet
10-19-2018
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https://motherboard.vice.com,
With electrodes up the nose, they made people smell things that weren't there.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
Pat Buchanan Fears Refugee Caravan Puts Trump's Legacy On The Line
10-19-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Patrick Buchanan
Our mainstream media remain consumed with the grisly killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and how President Donald Trump will deal with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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News Link • Transgender or Indentifying As...
Woman Cyclist Cries Foul After Biological Male Wins Women's World Championship
10-19-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, by Peter Hasson
A woman who lost a world-championship cycling race to a biological male who identified as a transgender woman criticized the result as unfair.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Existing Home Sales Drop 6th Consecutive Month
10-19-2018
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https://moneymaven.io, by Mike Mish Shedlock
Existing home sales declined 3.4% in September. This was the 6th month and the 5th month below the consensus estimate.
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News Link • Texas
Texas Democrats Caught Mailing Pre-Filled Voter Registrations To Non-Citizens
10-19-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
The Texas Democratic Party has been sending pre-filled applications to non-citizens with the citizen box marked "yes," according to new complaints filed Thursday by the Public Interest Legal Foundation.
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News Link • Italy
"One Size Fits Germany" Math Impossibility, Get Your Money Out of Italy Now!
10-19-2018
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https://moneymaven.io, by Mike Mish Shedlock
Italy, on the Euro, has a currency that is 9% too high. Germany, on the Euro, has a currency that is 11% too low.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Decorated Silver Star Veteran, POW Sentenced to 7 Years for a Gun He Bought 40 Years Ago
10-19-2018
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https://www.activistpost.com, by Matt Agorist
Alfred Pick served his country honorably. After going on over 100 combat missions in Vietnam, Pick was given the military's third highest honor, the Silver Star.
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News Link • Transportation
Ford boosts production of its $400,000 GT supercar as demand outpaces supply six-to-one
10-19-2018
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https://www.cnbc.com, by Robert Ferris
Ford is boosting the limited production of its $400,000 GT supercar to keep up with demand, the company said Thursday.
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News Link • Saudi Arabia
Tucker Carlson Tonight 10/19/18 | Breaking Fox News October 19, 2018
10-19-2018
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Tucker Carlson Tonight
Saudi Arabia - Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi died after 'fist fight'
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
President Donald Trump writes op-ed, says Democrats want open borders and socialism
10-20-2018
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arclein
The Democrats' plan means that after a life of hard work and sacrifice, seniors would no longer be able to depend on the benefits they were promised. By eliminating Medicare as a program for seniors, and outlawing the ability of Americans to enroll
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News Link • Food
Instant coffee
10-20-2018
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arclein
Even if you have a taste for fine coffee, you may soon be among them. Our age of creeping coffee mania means it's now possible to pay $2, $3, even $6 a cup for instant coffees made from single-origin, fair trade coffee beans, using methods that pre
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News Link • Free Trade
NAFTA 2.0: Free Trade or Central Planning?
10-20-2018
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arclein
The USMCA also requires Mexico to pass legislation recognizing the "right of collective bargaining." In other words, this so-called free trade agreement forces Mexico to import US-style compulsory unionism. If the Mexican legislature does not com
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Quantum mechanics time travel indicates no grandfather paradox
10-19-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by brian wang
Dr. Seth Lloyd, an MIT professor and self-described "quantum mechanic," describes the quantum mechanics behind time travel during a guest lecture at the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo. Recorded on Nov. 4, 2010, this is th
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
18 Journalists Killed in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory
10-19-2018
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https://cpj.org
between 1992 and 2018 / Motive Confirmed
Deaths by Type in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
Syria - U.S. (Again) Only Pretends To Fight ISIS
10-19-2018
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https://www.moonofalabama.org,
The U.S. occupation force and its Kurdish proxy SDF in northeastern Syria are supposed to fight the Islamic State in its last hold out northeast of Euphrates. But the operations against the handful of towns ISIS (grey) still holds - launched only af
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