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Date Sent: 2018-12-17
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, December 18, 2018 |
China and Russia band together to Modify The Atmosphere
Doug Casey on the Paris Riots -- China and Russia band together on controversial heating experiments to modify the atmosphere -- Rothbard Was Right -- The Maria Butina Case Is Not About Spying -- Exclusive: The U.S. has more military operations in Africa than the Middle East -- Latest Odds of a Shooting War Between NATO and Russia -- Mexico Will Have the World's Biggest Legal Pot Market Soon -- Massachusetts Seeks to Disbar and Silence Attorney Fighting to Expose Corruption ... -- RIP Bush, Yellow Vest Revolt & Ron Paul -- Media Continues To Ignore Yellow Vest Protests -- Pioneering precision laser beam that zaps 'impossible to treat' brain tumours... -- Reality Check Rewind: The True Meaning of the Second Amendment -- Tucker Tells the Trump Truth -- Deep fake technology outpacing security countermeasures -- 3D-printed heads let hackers ?" and cops ?" unlock your phone -- U.S. Navy may stop docking in Haifa after Chinese take over port -- Jaw-dropping moment Brit surfer catches 'biggest wave EVER ridden' ?" at 100ft tall -- Escobar: How The New Silk Roads Are Merging Into Greater Eurasia -- SHOCKING! GOP senator resigns suddenly -- The Establishment Wants PewDiePie GONE! -- US Commits To "Indefinite" Occupation Of Syria; Controls Region The Size Of Croatia -- BCH Devs Publish Bi-Directional Payment Concept Based on IPFS -- Who Controls Bitcoin Core? Programmer explains. -- A Crackdown on Cash and Bitcoin? Curbing Crime vs. Empowering the Surveillance State -- The Daily: Trump Chooses Bitcoin Advocate as Chief of Staff, Congressman Proposes Wall Coins -- Ukraine's Putschist Regime Planning Belligerent Provocation Along Russia's Border -- The Clinton Foundation Racket -- "Peak TV": Streaming Originals Overtake Basic Cable -- Das: "The Bubble Is Losing Air. Get Ready For A Crisis" -- The Venezuelan Crypto Revolution - Venezuela Will NEVER Be The Same! (with Rod Ambrissi) --
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News Link • China
China and Russia band together on controversial heating experiments to modify the atmosphere
12-17-2018
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https://www.scmp.com, Stephen Chen
The countries are testing a technology for possible military application, say Chinese scientists involved in the project
Militaries have been in a race to control the ionosphere, which allows radio signals to bounce long distances for communication,
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United States
The Maria Butina Case Is Not About Spying
12-17-2018
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https://www.bloomberg.com, By Leonid Bershidsky
Why did U.S. authorities bother to pursue a Russian gun-rights activist for activities they could easily have ignored? The answer should worry you.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Exclusive: The U.S. has more military operations in Africa than the Middle East
12-17-2018
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https://news.vice.com By Nick Turse
The deadly ambush in Niger last October that left four U.S. serviceman dead prompted months of hand-wringing inside the Pentagon. But that botched operation, which drew national attention to U.S. counterterror operations throughout Africa should not
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Robert Lee
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News Link • NATO
Latest Odds of a Shooting War Between NATO and Russia
12-17-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com By Ann Garrison
Hungarian scholar George Szamuely tells Ann Garrison that he sees a 70 percent chance of combat between NATO and Russia following the incident in the Kerch Strait and that it is being fueled by Russia-gate.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Mexico
Mexico Will Have the World's Biggest Legal Pot Market Soon
12-17-2018
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https://www.caseyresearch.com, By Nick Giambruno
Mexico's war on drugs was a bloody fool's errand from day one.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • WTF?
Massachusetts Seeks to Disbar and Silence Attorney Fighting to Expose Corruption ...
12-17-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com by Terri LaPoint
Attorneys and guardians have plundered the estate of Marvin Siegel, a retired attorney from Boxford, Massachusetts. At the same time they have gone through the courts to isolate him from his children and essentially imprison him in his own home.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • France
RIP Bush, Yellow Vest Revolt & Ron Paul
12-17-2018
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https://www.youtube.com, RT America
Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos discuss the passing of George H.W. Bush and why France's Yellow Vest revolt is a rejection of neoliberalism. Doctor Ron Paul talks about the future of trade, NATO and his hopes for America in 2019.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Media Continues To Ignore Yellow Vest Protests
12-17-2018
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https://www.youtube.com by Ben Swann
The Yellow Vest protests in France have only received a small amount of media coverage in the U.S. and there may be good reason for it. Is the fact that these protests began over a Carbon Fuel Tax and have spread to general dissatisfaction with big g
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Pioneering precision laser beam that zaps 'impossible to treat' brain tumours...
12-17-2018
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk, By Carol Davis
A new precision laser beam that heats and obliterates previously inoperable brain tumours has been used on the first British patient.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Reality Check Rewind: The True Meaning of the Second Amendment
12-17-2018
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https://www.youtube.com by Ben Swann
Reality Check Rewind: The True Meaning of the Second Amendment
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
Tucker Tells the Trump Truth
12-17-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com By Robert Ringer
In an interview with a German newspaper, Tucker Carlson undoubtedly caused a lot of Trump supporters to flinch when he spoke frankly about what he sees as the president's shortcomings.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
Deep fake technology outpacing security countermeasures
12-17-2018
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https://www.biometricupdate.com, Anthony Kimery
In July, Sen. Marco Rubio appeared to be a lone cry in the dark when he declared in remarks he made at the Heritage Foundation that "Deep Fake" technology "which manipulates audio and video of real people saying or doing things they never said
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
3D-printed heads let hackers â€" and cops â€" unlock your phone
12-17-2018
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https://techcrunch.com, Zack Whittaker
There's a lot you can make with a 3D printer: prosthetics, corneas, firearms -- even an Olympic-standard luge.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
U.S. Navy may stop docking in Haifa after Chinese take over port
12-17-2018
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https://www.jpost.com, By Michael Wilner
Concerns prompt 'review' of Shanghai agreement within Israel's inner security cabinet, sources say.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Jaw-dropping moment Brit surfer catches 'biggest wave EVER ridden' â€" at 100ft tall
12-17-2018
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https://www.dailystar.co.uk, By Emmet McGonagle
A BRITISH surfer may have just made history by riding the largest ever wave.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Escobar: How The New Silk Roads Are Merging Into Greater Eurasia
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Pepe Escobar
Russia is keen to push economic integration with parts of Asia and this fits in with China's Belt and Road Initiative...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Senate/Senators
SHOCKING! GOP senator resigns suddenly
12-17-2018
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https://thehornnews.com
Sen. Jon Kyl, announced his sudden resignation Friday from the seat he was appointed to less than four months ago following the death of John McCain. The move gives Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey a second opportunity to fill the slot.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
US Commits To "Indefinite" Occupation Of Syria; Controls Region The Size Of Croatia
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
"We don't want the Americans. It's occupation" -- a Syrian resident in US-controlled Raqqa told Stars and Stripes military newspaper. This as the Washington Post noted this week that "U.S. troops will now stay in Syria indefinitely, controlling a th
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News Link • Bitcoin
BCH Devs Publish Bi-Directional Payment Concept Based on IPFS
12-17-2018
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https://news.bitcoin.com
On Friday, Openbazaar and Bchd developer, Chris Pacia, revealed a new Bchd project feature currently in the making that would allow for Bitcoin Cash-based bi-directional payment channels. Moreover, in contrast to the Lightning Network, the Bchd devel
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Bitcoin
Who Controls Bitcoin Core? Programmer explains.
12-17-2018
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https://www.youtube.com - Ivan on Tech
Who are the people in charge of maintaining the Bitcoin Core code repository and what kind of influence does GitHub have over the development process? We also discuss the Lightning Network, as some people in the crypto space claim that Lightning Netw
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News Link • Currencies
A Crackdown on Cash and Bitcoin? Curbing Crime vs. Empowering the Surveillance State
12-17-2018
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https://reason.com
Economists Kenneth Rogoff and Lawrence H. White face off over what the impact would be of a ban on cryptocurrency and phaseout of the $100 bill.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Trump Administration
The Daily: Trump Chooses Bitcoin Advocate as Chief of Staff, Congressman Proposes Wall Coins
12-17-2018
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https://news.bitcoin.com
In today's edition of The Daily, we feature a couple of stories from the U.S. political scene. President Donald Trump has chosen a known Bitcoin advocate as the Acting White House Chief of Staff. And a congressman proposes to fund the building of a
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
"Peak TV": Streaming Originals Overtake Basic Cable
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
A brand new report from FX Research determined that for the first time, more scripted television shows were released by online streaming platforms like Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix in 2018 than aired on basic cable, pay cable and broadcast television.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Banks/Banking
Das: "The Bubble Is Losing Air. Get Ready For A Crisis"
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Satyajit Das
The shift to tighter monetary policies in the West is weakening credit markets. Over-indebted emerging markets face headwinds from rising borrowing costs and dollar shortages... Investors need to focus on their response to financial stresses in an er
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Venezuela
The Venezuelan Crypto Revolution - Venezuela Will NEVER Be The Same! (with Rod Ambrissi)
12-17-2018
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https://www.youtube.com
Josh Sigurdson talks with Rodrigo Ambrissi, a YouTuber with a lot of influence in the Dash community who is making videos for Dash Digital Cash in Portuguese. Rod recently published the documentary 'Venezuela And The Cryptocurrency Revolution' on You
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