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Date Sent: 2018-08-18
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Saturday, August 18, 2018 |
Louisiana Bans BofA, Citi From Bond Sale Over "Restrictive Gun Policies"
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: August 19, 2018 Edition -- Trump administration nearing deal with Mexico on revised NAFTA -- but issues with Canada remain -- Swamped in Inflation, Venezuela Will Cut Five Zeros from Currency -- Far-right Sweden Democrats hope to topple century of socialism -- From Boston To Ferguson To Charlottesville: The Evolution Of A Police State Lockdown -- New Mexico Jihad Compound Destroyed by Unidentified Authorities, But Something Is Fishy -- Get in Line: Backlog for Big Rigs Stretches to 2019 -- The Fatherland of Philosophy -- Can America Ever Come Together Again? -- Turkey's Collapse Could Send "Millions" Of Refugees Flooding Into Europe -- Escobar: All Hands On Deck As The Caspian Sails Toward Eurasia Integration -- Supercapacitors power the Note 9 stylus -- but are they ready to replace batteries? -- The 20-Year Patent on Teledildonics Has Expired -- To impeach or not? If Democrats win, they'll face a January quandary -- NATO Repeats The Great Mistake Of The Warsaw Pact -- Shocking Report Details How CIA Hubris Exposed Agents In China, Resulting In 30 Executions -- Lance Roberts: The Markets Are Now Waving A Huge Red Flag -- Europe Is Undergoing a Conservative Christian Revival - and the Media Aren't Telling You About I -- Modern Censorship Is Voluntary -- Seats in Congress Gained/Lost by the President's Party in Mid-Term Elections -- Yazidi 'ex-sex slave' trapped both in Iraq and in German exile -- Trump Strikes Back at 'Ringleader' Brennan -- Paul suggests granting Assange immunity in exchange for congressional testimony: Report -- John Brennan Is No Match For Trump -- "Code Yellow": Google Employees Revolt Over Clandestine China Project -- "Deeply Troubling" - Wall Street Journal Implores "What Was Bruce Ohr Doing?" -- Distributed 2018: Keynote Address with Patrick Byrne, Overstock.com/tZero -- 08-17-18 -- Roger Ver - Colin Cantrell -- (VIDEO & MP3s LOADED) -- Investigative Journalist Found Dead in D.C. Hotel Room Weeks After Reporting Bill Clinton to FBI --
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News Link • Gun Rights
Louisiana Bans BofA, Citi From Bond Sale Over "Restrictive Gun Policies"
08-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
The blowback against bank virtue signaling has begun.
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Opinion • Government
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: August 19, 2018 Edition
08-17-2018
John Semmens
Senator Introduces "Accountable Capitalism Act"
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) is sponsoring legislation that would negate the control of corporate shareholders and transfer authority to government. Her bill--the "Accountable Capitalism Act
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump administration nearing deal with Mexico on revised NAFTA -- but issues with Canada remain
08-17-2018
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https://pilotonline.com, By Don Lee
The Trump administration is close to striking a deal with Mexico on a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement, analysts said, but thorny issues are yet to be resolved with Canada, the third party in the trilateral pact.
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News Link • Venezuela
Swamped in Inflation, Venezuela Will Cut Five Zeros from Currency
08-17-2018
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https://www.wral.com, By Nicholas Casey
Faced with nearly incomprehensible inflation -- 32,714 percent as of Wednesday -- Venezuelan officials thought they had a solution: They changed the color of the bank notes and increased their denomination. Then they said they would lop off three z
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Sweden
Far-right Sweden Democrats hope to topple century of socialism
08-17-2018
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https://www.nbcnews.com, by Alexander Smith
A party with its roots in neo-Nazism and white nationalism may be on the verge of an election victory.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
From Boston To Ferguson To Charlottesville: The Evolution Of A Police State Lockdown
08-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by John Whitehead
It takes a remarkable force to keep nearly a million people quietly indoors for an entire day, home from work and school, from neighborhood errands and out-of-town travel.
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News Link • United States
New Mexico Jihad Compound Destroyed by Unidentified Authorities, But Something Is Fishy
08-17-2018
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https://needtoknow.news, Oxygen
ollowing a court order, authorities seized a stolen RV at a New Mexico compound where five adults are accused of abusing 11 children and training them for school shootings. It is not known which law-enforcement agency seized the RV.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Get in Line: Backlog for Big Rigs Stretches to 2019
08-17-2018
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https://www.wsj.com,
With freight demand red-hot, truck manufacturers expect to break records for orders this year, and deliveries will reach deep into next year
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Political
The Fatherland of Philosophy
08-17-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Bionic Mosquito
Citing Don Luigi Sturzo:
Philosophy and history will always remain two branches of one knowledge and speculation of man. If their convergence and reciprocal influence ceases, philosophy becomes sterile tautology and history an incoherent succession
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
Can America Ever Come Together Again?
08-17-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com By Patrick J. Buchanan
If ex-CIA Director John Brennan did to Andrew Jackson what he did to Donald Trump, he would have lost a lot more than his security clearance.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Turkey
Turkey's Collapse Could Send "Millions" Of Refugees Flooding Into Europe
08-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
As Turkey braces for a fresh round of US sanctions amid a plummeting lira and what Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an says is "economic warfare" with Washington over the detention of US pastor Andrew Brunson, millions of refugees - primarily fro
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News Link • World News
Escobar: All Hands On Deck As The Caspian Sails Toward Eurasia Integration
08-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Pepe Escobar
The five states surrounding the sea â€" Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan â€" have reached difficult compromises on sovereign and exclusive rights as well as freedom of navigation
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
The 20-Year Patent on Teledildonics Has Expired
08-17-2018
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https://motherboard.vice.com, by Samantha Cole
The 1998 patent on "interactive virtual control of sexual aids" has expired, but that doesn't mean we should have a sex toy free-for-all.
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News Link • NATO
NATO Repeats The Great Mistake Of The Warsaw Pact
08-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Martin Sieff
Through the 1990s, during the terms of US President Bill Clinton, NATO relentlessly and inexorably expanded through Central Europe. Today, the expansion of that alliance eastward â€" encircling Russia with fiercely Russo-phobic regimes in one tiny co
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Shocking Report Details How CIA Hubris Exposed Agents In China, Resulting In 30 Executions
08-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
A bombshell new report in Foreign Policy reveals that up to 30 CIA agents and assets working in China were identified and executed by Chinese counterintelligence over a two year period after the CIA's encrypted communications system was infiltrated.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Europe Is Undergoing a Conservative Christian Revival - and the Media Aren't Telling You About I
08-17-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com By Dr. Stephen Turley
It's not just Russia - its the whole continent
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Censorship
Modern Censorship Is Voluntary
08-17-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Luis P. Almeida
In the early days of the browser based internet, Google came to prominence as a search engine because it was able to feature the most relevant websites at the top of its search results.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Seats in Congress Gained/Lost by the President's Party in Mid-Term Elections
08-17-2018
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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu,
Citation: Gerhard Peters. "Seats in Congress Gained/Lost by the President's Party in Mid-Term Elections." The American Presidency Project. Ed. John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California. 1999-2015. Available from
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Germany
Yazidi 'ex-sex slave' trapped both in Iraq and in German exile
08-17-2018
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https://www.france24.com, LALISH
A young Yazidi woman who fled to Germany but returned home to northern Iraq says she cannot escape her Islamic State group captor who held her as a sex slave for three months.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump Strikes Back at 'Ringleader' Brennan
08-17-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com By Ray McGovern
There's more than meets the eye to President Donald Trump's decision to revoke the security clearances that ex-CIA Director John Brennan enjoyed as a courtesy customarily afforded former directors.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Wikileaks
Paul suggests granting Assange immunity in exchange for congressional testimony: Report
08-17-2018
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https://www.washingtontimes.com By Andrew Blake
Julian Assange should be let off the hook for releasing stolen material through his WikiLeaks website if he agrees to testify in person before lawmakers investigating his publication of Democratic Party documents, Sen. Rand Paul said in an interview
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
John Brennan Is No Match For Trump
08-17-2018
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http://www.moonofalabama.org
U.S President Trump revoked the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan.
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
"Code Yellow": Google Employees Revolt Over Clandestine China Project
08-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
Google employees have issued a "code yellow" alert to company executives over brewing opposition to a planned censored search engine in China, citing "urgent moral and ethical issues" in a letter circulated internally, reports The Intercept.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Investigations
"Deeply Troubling" - Wall Street Journal Implores "What Was Bruce Ohr Doing?"
08-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
The Wall Street Journal continues to counter the liberal mainstream media's Trump Derangement Syndrome, dropping uncomfortable truth-bombs and refusing to back off its intense pressure to get to the truth and hold those responsible, accountable (in
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News Link • Blockchain
Distributed 2018: Keynote Address with Patrick Byrne, Overstock.com/tZero
08-17-2018
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YouTube.Com - Distributed
Keynote Address with Patrick Byrne, Overstock.com/tZero at the inaugural Distributed 2018 conference hosted by BTC Inc, ConsenSys and Wanxiang Blockchain Labs.
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
08-17-18 -- Roger Ver - Colin Cantrell -- (VIDEO & MP3s LOADED)
Roger Ver (Bitcoin Evangelist; Angel Investor; CEO Bitcoin.Com) on Bitcoin/Bitcoin Cash, Crypto markets, etc... Colin Cantrell (Nexus Developer) gives an update on Nexus Earth and all things crypto; 3D Blockchain; Nexus Conference Sept 19-22, 2018 in
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News Link • Clinton News
Investigative Journalist Found Dead in D.C. Hotel Room Weeks After Reporting Bill Clinton to FBI
08-17-2018
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True Pundit
...& DHS for Allegedly Raping Boy
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • FBI
Peter Strzok fired by FBI but still works for the CIA
08-17-2018
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DC Clothesline
That's right, not only was Strzok employed by the FBI until his abrupt public departure from the bureau on Monday, Strzok has been sheep-dipped by the CIA where he currently remains employed to this day.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Cyberspace and the New Economy
In Frantic Text To DOJ's Bruce Ohr, Christopher Steele Hopes "Important Firewalls Will Hold
08-17-2018
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Zero Hedge - Tyler Durden
Newly released text messages between Steele and Ohr before Comey's congressional testimony raise questions
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Corbett Report
What's the FBI's Role in the #TaosCompound Scandal? James Corbett/James Evan Pilato
08-17-2018
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James Corbett - The Corbett Report - YouTube
Interview 1377 â€" New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Kids
The three-year-old with an IQ of 171
08-17-2018
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BBC
"Though these children's brains are zipping ahead at lightning speed, their bodies and emotions are still children and we always have to remember that," she explains.
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