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Date Sent: 2016-02-05
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Saturday, February 6, 2016 |
UN Commission Calls On Caribbean to Become Digital Currency Hub
A peek at Playboy's new non-nude magazine -- Arizona Breakfast Club Sat Feb 6th, 2015, 8-10 a.m. - Featured Speaker Patrick Wood; Jacek Spendel -- Myth-Busters: Supply & Demand Still Exists! by Ron Paul -- HYPERINFLATION! Venezuela Orders Bank Notes by Planeloads -- Putin Advisor: Accepting Bitcoin Payments in Russia is a Crime -- WATCH: Golf Robot Named LDRIC Hits A Hole-In-One -- Iowa Democratic Party Asserts Private Right Not to Disclose Vote Counts -- Trump says he'll be at next Fox News debate moderated by Megyn Kelly -- President Obama Proposes $10 Per Barrel Tax On Oil In Push For Cleaner Transport -- "A Key Technical Indicator Just Rang The Bell On The Cyclical Bull Market" -- Where to Hide Your Money From Reckless Governments -- Cash is way more popular than stocks or bonds -- Those new USB-C cords can fry your laptop -- Robust Job Growth Doesn't Make Sense And The Numbers Show Why -- The Chart Of Doom: When Private Credit Stops Expanding... -- How Uber Profits Even While Its Drivers Aren't Earning Money -- HSBC fined $470m for 'abusive mortgage practices' during 2008 crisis -- Pope, Russian patriarch to talk about persecution of Christians -- Illinois can't pass a budget and the most vulnerable are getting hurt -- Who's to blame for Portland's soaring home prices? -- Epic Super Bowl 'snack stadium' inspiration -- Suzuki Intends To Commercialize Hydrogen Fuel Cell Motorcycles -- Despite Republicans' calls, ABC declines to include Fiorina in debate -- Super Bowl 50 to Resemble a War Zone -- WikiLeaks' Assange calls on Sweden, Britain to allow him freedom after U.N. panel report -- Think the Iowa polls were bad? Wait until New Hampshire -- Can the Koch Brothers Stop Trump? -- TRUMP: CRUZ DECEIVED STOLE IOWA -- US weighs options as IS presence soars in Libya --
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News Link • United Nations
UN Commission Calls On Caribbean to Become Digital Currency Hub
02-05-2016
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coindesk.com
The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has published a report examining digital currencies and how they can be used to address regional payments issues.
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News Link • Media: Print
A peek at Playboy's new non-nude magazine
02-05-2016
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cnn.com
Playboy's revamped magazine is on newsstands now. What's changed? The models are keeping their clothes on. CNNMoney gives you a behind the scenes look at the iconic publication's reinvention.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Myth-Busters: Supply & Demand Still Exists! by Ron Paul
02-05-2016
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youtube
Governments are constantly trying to outfox economic laws. Whether it's printing money, creating minimum wages, or even "regulating" companies to gain votes, the government continues to fight battles that it cannot win. The market is forever undefeat
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Putin Advisor: Accepting Bitcoin Payments in Russia is a Crime
02-05-2016
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coindesk.com
An advisor to Russian president Vladimir Putin has reportedly spoken out about bitcoin, going as far to suggest that taking payments in the digital currency is a criminal act.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
WATCH: Golf Robot Named LDRIC Hits A Hole-In-One
02-05-2016
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NPR.org
A hole-in-one is a cause for celebration, even (especially?) when a robot does it...LDRIC, a cleverly named golf robot, aced the par-3 16th hole at Arizona's TPC Scottsdale course earlier this week on just its fifth try.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Iowa Democratic Party Asserts Private Right Not to Disclose Vote Counts
02-05-2016
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truthinmedia.com
The Des Moines Register is calling for an audit of the Democratic caucus results after several reports of precincts being decided by coin flips and missing caucus-goers.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Trump says he'll be at next Fox News debate moderated by Megyn Kelly
02-05-2016
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politico.com
Donald Trump says he will attend the next Fox News debate on March 3, even with Megyn Kelly co-moderating, a week after skipping the network's debate in Iowa to hold his own event.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
President Obama Proposes $10 Per Barrel Tax On Oil In Push For Cleaner Transport
02-05-2016
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insideevs.com
President Barack Obama proposed setting a $10 fee per barrel of oil, paid by oil companies, as a way to fund cleaner transportation investment.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
"A Key Technical Indicator Just Rang The Bell On The Cyclical Bull Market"
02-05-2016
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Zero Hedge
While the primary topic of Albert Edwards' most recent note is the question how long China can sustain its FX intervention before tapping out and letting the hedge funds win with their short Yuan bets once total reserves drop below the critical redli
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Where to Hide Your Money From Reckless Governments
02-05-2016
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internationalman.com
A major central bank just made a desperate move…
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Those new USB-C cords can fry your laptop
02-05-2016
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cnn.com
The gadget world is slowly adopting a new power cord standard called USB Type-C. They're small, multipurpose, universal, reversible and might fry whatever gadget you plug them into.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Robust Job Growth Doesn't Make Sense And The Numbers Show Why
02-05-2016
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Zero Hedge
With the BLS's release of Q4 productivity figures, we get to check the BLS's estimates just in time for today's increasingly irrelevant payroll report.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Chart Of Doom: When Private Credit Stops Expanding...
02-05-2016
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Zero Hedge
Once private credit rolls over in China and the U.S., the global recession will start its rapid slide down the Seneca Cliff.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
How Uber Profits Even While Its Drivers Aren't Earning Money
02-05-2016
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motherboard.vice.com
"If I'm doing something useful for the company, I should be paid for that time," Mark says to me as he drives me over the Brooklyn Bridge. "That's what work is, right?"
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Justice and Judges
HSBC fined $470m for 'abusive mortgage practices' during 2008 crisis
02-05-2016
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TheGuardian
Settlement with US Department of Justice centres on allegations that bank 'robo-signed' thousands of foreclosure documents without reviewing paperwork
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Pope, Russian patriarch to talk about persecution of Christians
02-05-2016
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yahoo.com
The patriarch of Russia's Orthodox Church will take part in an historic first meeting with the Roman Catholic pontiff on Feb. 12 because of the need for a joint response to the persecution of Christians in the Middle East, the Orthodox Church said.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Illinois can't pass a budget and the most vulnerable are getting hurt
02-05-2016
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cnn.com
Illinois has gone seven months without a budget, and it's having an immediate impact on the state's most vulnerable.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
Who's to blame for Portland's soaring home prices?
02-05-2016
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cnn.com
Everyone wants to move to Portland, Oregon. But the more popular it gets, the less affordable it becomes.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Epic Super Bowl 'snack stadium' inspiration
02-05-2016
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usatoday.com
Alec Baldwin plans to have a snack stadium at his Super Bowl party with Dan Marino-- or at least he does in this teaser for an upcoming Amazon Super Bowl commercial.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Suzuki Intends To Commercialize Hydrogen Fuel Cell Motorcycles
02-05-2016
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insideevs.com
Suzuki joins the hydrogen fuel cell alliance and intends to introduce FCV motorcycles and scooters in the near future.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Despite Republicans' calls, ABC declines to include Fiorina in debate
02-05-2016
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CNN
ABC announced Thursday that Carly Fiorina did not make the cut to appear at this weekend's debate, despite calls from several prominent Republicans who wanted her on the New Hampshire stage.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
WikiLeaks' Assange calls on Sweden, Britain to allow him freedom after U.N. panel report
02-05-2016
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http://www.reuters.com
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called on Britain and Sweden on Friday to let him freely leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London after a U.N. panel ruled he had been arbitrarily detained and should be awarded compensation.
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News Link • Politics
Think the Iowa polls were bad? Wait until New Hampshire
02-05-2016
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http://www.politico.com
Pollsters in Iowa are searching for answers after they failed to predict Ted Cruz's victory over Donald Trump and Marco Rubio. It might even be worse next week in New Hampshire.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Politics
Can the Koch Brothers Stop Trump?
02-05-2016
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http://www.vanityfair.com
"Everything is on the table," says one source. That includes sitting out 2016.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Politics
TRUMP: CRUZ DECEIVED STOLE IOWA
02-05-2016
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http://nextnewsnetwork.com
Donald Trump unleashed a storm of tweets on Wednesday accusing the winner of the Iowa Republican caucus, US Senator Ted Cruz, of stealing the election by telling voters that rival candidate Ben Carson planned to drop out of the race.
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News Link • Military
US weighs options as IS presence soars in Libya
02-05-2016
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http://news.yahoo.com
Washington (AFP) - Islamic State fighters have streamed into Libya in recent months, a US official said Thursday, heightening fears the extremists are gaining ground and influence in the north African country.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rand Paul in Retrospect
02-05-2016
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Antiwar.Com - Justin Raimondo
"[T]he Rand Paul that we were all hoping for - someone who would stand up to the War Party and refute their propaganda - is no more, if he ever existed in the first place. Instead of refuting the lies he's joining in the telling of them - and in doin
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Donna Hancock
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
02-05-16 -- Scott Horton - Carla Gericke -- (MP3's & VIDEO LOADED)
Scott Horton (Scott Horton Radio) on various foreign policy/civil liberty issues, summary of Iowa Caucus and looking forward to New Hampshire, Rand Paul, etc...- Carla Gericke (President of the Free State Project) on the FSP's goal of 20,000 signers
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