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Date Sent: 2017-12-23
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Saturday, December 23, 2017 |
House Republicans Secretly Gathering Evidence To Launch Case Against DOJ & FBI
House Republicans Secretly Gathering Evidence To Launch Case Against... -- How Facebook's Secret Unit Created Digital Propaganda Troll Armies To... -- Here Is The One Commodity That Is More Volatile Than Bitcoin -- Bombshell Report Reveals Up To 30% Of Federal Inmates Are Illegal Immigrants -- Boom Just Lowered On Clinton Crime Family And Obama Regime... -- Checkmate Humanity -- Confirmed: Clinton Operatives in FBI Manufactured Russiagate -- Mistrial declared by Judge in 'Battle of Bunkerville' Trial of Bundys -- 'McLaughlin Group' to return in 2018 -- Oil-Yuan-Gold: China Has a Plan to Break the Petrodollar -- Anarchy and Voluntaryism -- Privacy Complaints Mount Over Phone Searches at U.S. Border Since 2011 -- Jeff & Catherine Austin Fitts - $21 TRILLION, The Financial Coup & Rings Of Saturn -- Trump Says US 'Foolishly Spent $7 Trillion in the Middle East' -- When Washington Assured Russia NATO Would Not Expand -- De Facto Travel Restrictions Now Exist For Americans -- Secretary Of The Interior Orders First-Ever National Survey Of Critical Minerals -- Secretary Of The Interior: Public-Private Partnerships Will Blanket All Public Lands -- "I'm Truly Starting To Fear The Worst For The US Car Industry..." -- Facebook Handing Over More Info To US Government... -- New Home Sales Spike Most in 25 Years: What's Going On? -- Spending Up Far More than Real Income: Per Capita Income Stagnates -- President Trump Using "Rope-a-Dope" Strategy to Bring Down the Deep State -- Inside the First Church of Artificial Intelligence -- High 99.9+% fidelity quantum dot qubit is promising for large scale systems -- Gold, Yuan, Or Crypto? Ron Paul Asks 'What Will Replace Dollar Hegemony?' -- See through walls with android smartphone attachment -- Chinese steel and coal workers can become Didi drivers until self driving arrives -- Thousands Abandoning Illinois and Its Big Government Debacle -- Boeing reveals MQ-25 refueling drone for the US Navy --
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News Link • FBI
House Republicans Secretly Gathering Evidence To Launch Case Against...
12-23-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
House Republicans Secretly Gathering Evidence To Launch Case Against DOJ and FBI: Report
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News Link • Propaganda
How Facebook's Secret Unit Created Digital Propaganda Troll Armies To...
12-23-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Shelley Kasli
How Facebook's Secret Unit Created Digital Propaganda Troll Armies To Influence Elections
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News Link • Bitcoin
Here Is The One Commodity That Is More Volatile Than Bitcoin
12-23-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
There has been a lot talk lately - and especially after today's latest crash - regarding how volatile Bitcoin is, and for good reason, Bitcoin's 30 day realized volatility is a shade under 96% at 95.5%, which implies a daily move of 5.8%.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Bombshell Report Reveals Up To 30% Of Federal Inmates Are Illegal Immigrants
12-23-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released its findings on the immigration status of federal prison inmates, as mandated in a controversial Executive Order signed during the President Trump's first week in the White House.
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News Link • Clinton News
Boom Just Lowered On Clinton Crime Family And Obama Regime...
12-23-2017
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http://allnewspipeline.com, By Susan Duclos
With all the hyperbole regarding the tax reform bill being passed, the news that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had ordered DOJ prosecutors to interview FBI agents that investigated corruption in regards to the much-talked about Uranium One deal as
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Checkmate Humanity
12-23-2017
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lewrockwell.com
In four hours, a robot taught itself chess, then beat a grandmaster with moves never devised in the game's 1,500-year history and the implications are terrifying
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News Link • Clinton News
Confirmed: Clinton Operatives in FBI Manufactured Russiagate
12-23-2017
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lewrockwell.com By Roger Stone
Conspiracy to overthrow elected president by criminal mafia confirmed
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News Link • Courtroom and Trials
Mistrial declared by Judge in 'Battle of Bunkerville' Trial of Bundys
12-23-2017
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lewrockwell.com By Chris Eger
A federal judge in Las Vegas on Wednesday declared a mistrial in the case against rancher Cliven Bundy, his two sons, and a fourth man who took part in the 2014 confrontation with the federal government.
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News Link • Political Theory
'McLaughlin Group' to return in 2018
12-23-2017
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http://thehill.com, BY JOE CONCHA
The iconic political panel show, "The McLaughlin Group" is set to return to the airwaves on Jan. 7, according to an announcement by Washington, D.C., ABC affiliate WJLA.
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News Link • China
Oil-Yuan-Gold: China Has a Plan to Break the Petrodollar
12-23-2017
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http://russia-insider.com, Pepe Escobar
Beijing is launching yuan-denominated oil futures fully convertible into gold.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Privacy Complaints Mount Over Phone Searches at U.S. Border Since 2011
12-23-2017
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nytimes.com By Charlie Savage
They spoke of being humiliated and shaken. They described being "made to feel like a criminal." And they maintained that their rights had been violated.
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News Link • Government Waste
Jeff & Catherine Austin Fitts - $21 TRILLION, The Financial Coup & Rings Of Saturn
12-23-2017
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https://www.youtube.com, Jeff Rense
This Jeff Rense Program Hour Is from 12-18-17 with Guest Catherine Austin Fitts.
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News Link • Seriously?
Trump Says US 'Foolishly Spent $7 Trillion in the Middle East'
12-23-2017
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AntiWar.com by Jason Ditz
Trump Seen Upset at Not Getting Mideast Support at UN Vote
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News Link • Trump Administration
When Washington Assured Russia NATO Would Not Expand
12-23-2017
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theamericanconservative.com, Andrew J. Bacevich
How America's failure to honor a 1990 commitment led to many of today's global crises.
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News Link • Political Parties
De Facto Travel Restrictions Now Exist For Americans
12-23-2017
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www.paulcraigroberts.org, Paul Craig Roberts
Dear Friends, I apologize for dumping this on you at Christmas, a time for peace and joy. But these are the facts. We can ignore them only at our peril.
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News Link • United States
Secretary Of The Interior Orders First-Ever National Survey Of Critical Minerals
12-23-2017
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https://www.technocracy.news, Alternate Author
In keeping with Public-Private Partnerships, Secretary Zinke has ordered an inventory of all mineral resources on public and private land in the U.S. When he states "Other nations are far ahead of us with mapping of their mineral resources, leading
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News Link • United Nations
Secretary Of The Interior: Public-Private Partnerships Will Blanket All Public Lands
12-23-2017
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technocracy.news, U.S. Department of the interior
In 2016, the UN convened the Third International Conference on Financing for Development and stated "both public and private investment have key roles to play in infrastructure financing, including through public private partnerships". It is now
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
"I'm Truly Starting To Fear The Worst For The US Car Industry..."
12-23-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Ethan Gaines
I love selling cars, the industry gave me a purpose after the shitty experience of being a corporate cog. But I'm truly starting to fear the worst for the American car industry.
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News Link • Housing
New Home Sales Spike Most in 25 Years: What's Going On?
12-23-2017
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www.themaven.net, by Mike Mish Shedlock
New home sales rose a whopping 17.5%, the strongest gain since 1992 and the most homes sold in one month since 2007.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Spending Up Far More than Real Income: Per Capita Income Stagnates
12-23-2017
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themaven.net by Mike Mish Shedlock
Real (inflation-adjusted) income rose 0.1% in November. Expenditures rose 0.4%. Per capita, income is stagnant.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
High 99.9+% fidelity quantum dot qubit is promising for large scale systems
12-23-2017
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Nature Nanotechnology â€" A quantum-dot spin qubit with coherence limited by charge noise and fidelity higher than 99.9% Jun Yoneda, Kenta Takeda, Tomohiro Otsuka, Takashi Nakajima, Matthieu R. Delbecq, Giles Allison, Takumu Honda, Tetsuo Kodera, Shu
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News Link • Currencies
Gold, Yuan, Or Crypto? Ron Paul Asks 'What Will Replace Dollar Hegemony?'
12-23-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
All Empires have collaborators and accomplices.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
See through walls with android smartphone attachment
12-23-2017
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
See through walls with android smartphone attachment.
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News Link • China
Chinese steel and coal workers can become Didi drivers until self driving arrives
12-23-2017
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
China's new economy â€" internet-based business ranging from e-commerce to car-hailing services â€" grew twice as quickly as overall gross domestic product in the 10 years to 2016.
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News Link • Drones
Boeing reveals MQ-25 refueling drone for the US Navy
12-23-2017
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Boeing revealed its MQ-25 unmanned refueling drone.
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News Link • Russia
NEWSBUD EXCLUSIVE ?" What Did Putin Mean When He Thanked the CIA??
12-23-2017
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newsbud.com, Professor Filip Kovacevic
A quiet December 17 Sunday morning in the U.S. was shaken by a geopolitical sensation.
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News Link • Agriculture
Newsbud Exclusive- A Geopolitical Primer on GMO Crops.
12-23-2017
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https://www.newsbud.com, F. William Engdahl
By now it is commonplace that most people in the western industrial world link the corporation Monsanto with something not healthy nor quite good.
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News Link • Yemen
US State Dept: No Military Solution to Ending Yemen War
12-23-2017
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AntiWar.com by Jason Ditz
Official Blames Houthis for Continuing to 'Menace' Saudi Invaders
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News Link • Trump Administration
America's Collapsing Prestige
12-23-2017
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www.paulcraigroberts.org, Paul Craig Roberts
The Niki Haley moron appointed as US ambassador to the UN by Trump to destroy America's reputation in the world is today sucking her thumb
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Putin Accuses US of Plotting to Withdraw From Missile Treaty
12-23-2017
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AntiWar.com by Jason Ditz
Sees Allegations Against Russia as Prelude to Pullout
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News Link • Yemen
A 'Hideous Milestone' in Yemen: One Million Cases of Cholera
12-23-2017
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theamericanconservative.com
The Red Cross reports that there are now more than a million cases of cholera in Yemen:
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News Link • Poland
The West Proves That Poland's Loyalty Was Worthless
12-23-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Andrew Korybko
Poland, one of the most loyal EU members, was just stabbed in the back by Brussels after the bloc initiated punitive Article 7 proceedings against it, proving that Warsaw's unwavering loyalty to the West was worthless this entire time and thus givi
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News Link • Political Theory
Zuesse: Americans Are Only Now Beginning To Learn They Live In A Dictatorship
12-23-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Eric Zuesse
The first time when it became clear to me that I live in a dictatorship was in 2014 when reading, prior to its publication, the landmark (and still the only) scientific empirical study to address the question as to whether or not the United States fe
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News Link • FBI
FBI Fires Suspected Leaker And Comey Ally James Baker
12-23-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Just hours after FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe delivered private testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, his boss, FBI Director Christopher Wray, announced that the bureau's top lawyer would be leaving his post, an attempt to bring in
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News Link • General Opinion
"The World Is Criminally Corrupt & Broken" - A Surprising Dinner Conversation With...
12-23-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Mike Krieger
"The World Is Criminally Corrupt & Broken" - A Surprising Dinner Conversation With The Younger Generation
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News Link • Propaganda
NY Times Frets About Russian Propaganda, Ignores Massive Troll Farms Run by America...
12-23-2017
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http://russia-insider.com, Adam Johnson
NY Times Frets About Russian Propaganda, Ignores Massive Troll Farms Run by America and Its Allies
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News Link • Military
Navy grants fitness amnesty to 48,000 sailors who failed test
12-23-2017
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https://www.navytimes.com, By: Mark D. Faram
The Navy will grant a clean slate to nearly 50,000 sailors with fitness failures in their records, part of new shakeup for fleet-wide fitness rules announced Thursday.
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News Link • Racism
How I Confronted My Own Privilege as a Person of Color
12-23-2017
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arclein
How we got to this point of convergence-as employees of Microsoft-is a tale of deep deprivation and extraordinary strength on Tanmay's part and privilege and mediocrity on mine. It's an object lesson in the inequality of endowments and circum
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Scientists: Man-Made DNA To Create Semi-Synthetic Strain Of Bacteria
12-22-2017
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technocracy.news by Lauran Nergaard
There is no ethical debate taking place in public view that argues the case against using synthetic DNA to create life-forms not found in nature. In our opinion, it is patently insane because once established in a gene strain, it becomes permanent an
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: December 24, 2017 Edition
12-22-2017
John Semmens
This week, Congress passed and President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The measure reduces taxes on corporations from 35% to 21% and on 80% of taxpaying individuals by smaller percentages. Democratic rhetoric attacking the the legislation p
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Crashes Again, Coinbase Suspends Trading:
12-23-2017
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themaven.net by Mike Mish Shedlock
What, Me Worry?
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Aubrey de Grey interviewed by Nextbigfuture on AgeX and progress to Radical Life Extension
12-23-2017
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Aubrey shared positive fundraising news for the SENS research foundation.
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News Link • Blockchain
A Simple Explanation of Hashgraph with Pictures
12-23-2017
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https://www.youtube.com, Hashgraph
NOTE: At 43:51 Dr. Leemon Baird says: 'Now C2 cant see it - there is no line from C2 to the black event."
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists finally issue warning against canola oil...
12-23-2017
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https://www.naturalnews.com, Isabelle Z.
If you thought canola oil was one of the "good" oils, think again. Although marketing campaigns position it as healthy, and it's popular because of its low price, this is one oil that isn't doing your body much good â€" as holistic health web
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News Link • Mexico
Mexico Suffers Deadliest Year Ever: Violence Hits Cabo, Tourist Havens
12-23-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Local authorities near the beautiful tourist town of Los Cabos on the Baja California peninsula found six bodies suspended from three different bridges this week.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Hedge Fund Behind Mystery "Bitcoin To $50,000" Bet Revealed
12-23-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
The crypto space was thrown into chaos today as the price of bitcoin and its peers plunged overnight, cementing the pioneering digital currency's worst week since December 2013, only to rebound dramatically into the close, wiping out virtually all lo
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News Link • Marriage
Two heterosexual Irish men marry to avoid inheritance tax on property
12-23-2017
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https://www.theguardian.com, Pádraig Collins
Matt Murphy, 83, intends to leave his house to his carer Michael O'Sullivan, 58, but it would have left him with a €50,000 tax bill
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News Link • Bitcoin
Blockchain Will Power Australia's Biggest Stock Exchange
12-23-2017
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arclein
The decision, ASX announced [PDF] today, comes after 'the successful build of [an] enterprise-ready' blockchain software that was put to 'extensive suitability testing' over a two-year period to meet the 'functional, capacity, security and
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News Link • Libertarian Advisor
THE LIBERTARIAN ADVISOR PODCAST : EPISODE 8 - COMPARING BITCOIN / CRYPTO CURRENCIES TO THE US $
12-23-2017
In this podcast we discuss Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz's claim that bitcoin ought to be outlawed.
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News Link • Agriculture
Why are America's farmers killing themselves in record numbers?
12-23-2017
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arclein
Ginnie felt an "oppressive sense of dread" that intensified as the day wore on. At dinnertime, his truck was gone and Matt wasn't answering his phone. It was dark when she found the letter. "I just knew," Ginnie says. She called 911 immedia
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News Link • Food
Chocolate intake and risk of clinically apparent atrial fibrillation
12-23-2017
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arclein
Moderate consumption of cocoa and cocoa-containing foods may promote cardiovascular health due to their high content of flavanols, a subgroup of polyphenols with vasodilatory, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits.3 ,4 There has been extensive r
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Eric Schmidt, Alphabet's 'Ambassador,' to Step Down: DealBook Briefing
12-22-2017
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nytimes.com
Good Thursday. Here's what we're watching:
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Scientists: Man-Made DNA To Create Semi-Synthetic Strain Of Bacteria
12-22-2017
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technocracy.news by Lauran Nergaard
There is no ethical debate taking place in public view that argues the case against using synthetic DNA to create life-forms not found in nature. In our opinion, it is patently insane because once established in a gene strain, it becomes permanent an
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News Link • Nevada
Vegas Police Captain Behind Gunfire Location System Reported Missing, 'Endangered'
12-22-2017
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http://thefreethoughtproject.com
During the middle of one of the most secretive investigations in history, a Las Vegas police captain has disappeared and is considered "endangered."
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Snowden's New App Turns Your Phone Into a Home Security System
12-22-2017
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https://www.wired.com
Your digital security, any sufficiently paranoid person will remind you, is only as good as your physical security. The world's most sensitive users of technology, like dissidents, activists, or journalists in repressive regimes, have to fear not jus
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News Link • Corbett Report
Interview 1336 - New World Next Year 2018 with James Evan Pilato
12-22-2017
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https://www.corbettreport.com
Welcome to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This year:
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