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Date Sent: 2018-01-14
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Sunday, January 14, 2018 |
Boeing's Experimental Cargo Drone Is a Heavy Lifter
Boeing's Experimental Cargo Drone Is a Heavy Lifter -- Surging Russian-Chinese Trade Pressures Petrodollar -- 'He feels really bad': Civil Defense employee who sparked terror in Hawaii by accidentally.. -- Prince Alwaleed Moved To Highest Security Saudi Prison After Refusing To Pay $6 Billion... -- Gene therapy getting approved to treat major diseases of muscle and blood -- DOJ Unseals Indictment Involving Uranium One Scandal -- Planetary Resources Arkyd-6 launched and deployed successfully -- SETI Institute finds lunar lava tubes that could provide easy access to water ice -- Boeing reveals the model for a competing design for a reusable hypersonic plane -- Mike 'Dirty Jobs' Rowe Destroys Woman Who Wants Him Fired For Being... -- Russia approves operation of 70 Megawatt floating nuclear reactor -- Love Him or Loathe Him, Trump is Liberating us All From The Empire's Lies -- The Persecution of Julian Assange -- Trump's Failed Coup in Iran -- Losing Control of the American Fear Machine -- Moby Says CIA Agents Asked Him to Spread the Word About Trump and Russia -- "We Know Who They Are": Putin Claims "State Provocateur" ... -- Russian Special Forces Eliminate Militants Behind Syrian Airbase Attacks -- Vegas Gunman Sent Cryptic Email Suggesting He May Have Had Help -- Bitcoin Mining Fees Soar As China Crackdown Progresses -- Platelet coated stem cells Could Offer Targeted Heart Repair -- Subnanometer brain like atomristors operated at 50 gigahertz -- 20 wheeled squad support robots have been ordered by the US Army -- Newsbud Exclusive- Who Made Haiti a "Shithole"?? -- Erik Prince, the Afghan War, a Private CIA and China's Silk Road -- FBI: 'Evil Geniuses' Making Device Encryption Better -- Rome's "Empire Without End" and the "Endless" U.S. War on Terror -- The Same Democrats Who Denounce Donald Trump as a Lawless... -- North and South Korea to Hold Working-Level Talks -- Human skeletal muscle grown from stem cells --
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News Link • Drones
Boeing's Experimental Cargo Drone Is a Heavy Lifter
01-14-2018
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https://www.wired.com, Alex Davies
Most likely, your expectations for the age of drone delivery involve cute li'l quadcopters that descend onto your porch with a gentle bzzzz, deposit a box of diapers or a pizza or whatever else you just ordered online, before zooming back to base, re
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News Link • China
Surging Russian-Chinese Trade Pressures Petrodollar
01-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tom Luongo
The latest trade figures on Chinese/Russian trade should be further warning to the U.S. that economic sanctions do not work. In May 2017 Russian and China agreed to increase bilateral trade to $80 billion by the end of 2018.
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News Link • Hawaiian Islands
'He feels really bad': Civil Defense employee who sparked terror in Hawaii by accidentally..
01-14-2018
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By KEITH GRIFFITH and JENNIFER SMITH
'He feels really bad': Civil Defense employee who sparked terror in Hawaii by accidentally triggering ballistic MISSILE warning will be 'retrained' say officials after thousands fled to bomb shelters
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News Link • Saudi Arabia
Prince Alwaleed Moved To Highest Security Saudi Prison After Refusing To Pay $6 Billion...
01-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Prince Alwaleed Moved To Highest Security Saudi Prison After Refusing To Pay $6 Billion For Freedom: Report
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Gene therapy getting approved to treat major diseases of muscle and blood
01-14-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Researchers review the pioneering work that led the gene therapy field to its current state, describe gene-editing technologies that are expected to play a major role in the field's future, and discuss practical challenges in getting these therapie
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News Link • Russia
DOJ Unseals Indictment Involving Uranium One Scandal
01-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
The Department of Justice unsealed an 11-count indictment on Friday to a former DoD intelligence analyst-turned uranium transportation executive who stands accused of a bribery and money laundering scheme involving a Russian nuclear official connecte
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Planetary Resources Arkyd-6 launched and deployed successfully
01-14-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
The Planetary Resources Arkyd-6 spacecraft was launched and deployed in space. This 6U cubesat is packed with power including 17 computing elements.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SETI Institute finds lunar lava tubes that could provide easy access to water ice
01-14-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
The SETI Institute and the Mars Institute announced today the discovery of small pits in a large crater near the North Pole of the Moon, which may be entrances to an underground network of lava tubes.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Boeing reveals the model for a competing design for a reusable hypersonic plane
01-14-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Boeing revealed a model of a mach 5+ hypersonic plane that will compete to become the follow up to the SR71 blackbird.
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News Link • Political Theory
Mike 'Dirty Jobs' Rowe Destroys Woman Who Wants Him Fired For Being...
01-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Derek Hunter
Mike 'Dirty Jobs' Rowe Destroys Woman Who Wants Him Fired For Being "Ultra-Right Wing Conservative"
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News Link • Russia
Russia approves operation of 70 Megawatt floating nuclear reactor
01-14-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Russia has approved the operation of the floating nuclear power plant Akademik Lomonosov.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Love Him or Loathe Him, Trump is Liberating us All From The Empire's Lies
01-14-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Vladimir Golstein
Trump and the Fine Art of Dialectics Alexander Blok, one of the smartest and most noble of Russians, wrote this amazing essay on Catiline, a Roman rebel whose plot was crushed and who was utterly maligned by the father of all bullshit, Cicero.
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News Link • Wikileaks
The Persecution of Julian Assange
01-14-2018
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www.paulcraigroberts.org, Paul Craig Roberts
"We need a political intervention to make this situation end. He (Assange) is the only political prisoner in Western Europe." Juan Braco
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump's Failed Coup in Iran
01-14-2018
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http://www.unz.com, Eric Margolis
Listen to the state-'guided' US media this past week and you'd believe a series of spontaneous anti-government protests broke out across Iran.
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News Link • United States
Losing Control of the American Fear Machine
01-14-2018
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theamericanconservative.com, By PETER VAN BUREN
How soon before we start demanding dangerous solutions to our mass-driven anxieties?
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Moby Says CIA Agents Asked Him to Spread the Word About Trump and Russia
01-14-2018
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https://pitchfork.com
"They said, like, 'Look, you have more of a social media following than any of us do, can you please post some of these things just in a way that… sort of put it out there.'"
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News Link • Russia
"We Know Who They Are": Putin Claims "State Provocateur" ...
01-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
"We Know Who They Are": Putin Claims "State Provocateur" Behind "Terrorist Drones" In Syria
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News Link • Russia
Russian Special Forces Eliminate Militants Behind Syrian Airbase Attacks
01-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com,
The Russian military announced late on Friday that it has tracked down and eliminated a group of rebels involved in attacks on Russia's main base in Syria after mobilizing "all manpower and materiel of Russia's multilevel military intelligence syst
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News Link • Mass Shootings
Vegas Gunman Sent Cryptic Email Suggesting He May Have Had Help
01-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
The gunman who opened fire on a Las Vegas music festival from the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino was an arms dealer, and his girlfriend handled his ammo and helped him load magazines, according to search warrants unsealed by a judge on Friday.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Mining Fees Soar As China Crackdown Progresses
01-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
South Korea's lawmakers and Ministry of Finance have reportedly shot down a crypto-trading ban proposed by the South Korean Ministry of Justice (since more than 2 million South Koreans own bitcoin, such a ban would inevitably lead to many retail tr
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Platelet coated stem cells Could Offer Targeted Heart Repair
01-14-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Although cardiac stem cell therapy is a promising treatment for heart attack patients, directing the cells to the site of an injury â€" and getting them to stay there â€" remains challenging.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Subnanometer brain like atomristors operated at 50 gigahertz
01-14-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Neuromorphic computing researchers have been working on the development of memory resistors, or memristors, which are resistors in a circuit that 'remember' their state even if you lose power.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
20 wheeled squad support robots have been ordered by the US Army
01-14-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
HDT Global (HDT) Wheeled Offload Logistics Follower (WOLF) robotic system has been awarded a Phase II Squad Multipurpose Equipment Transport Program contract.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Newsbud Exclusive- Who Made Haiti a "Shithole"??
01-14-2018
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https://www.newsbud.com, Kurt Nimmo
On January 11 during a meeting on immigration, President Trump asked why America accepts immigrants from "shithole countries." His remark was aimed at Haiti and Africa.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Erik Prince, the Afghan War, a Private CIA and China's Silk Road
01-14-2018
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https://www.newsbud.com, F. William Engdahl
In this exclusive episode of Newsbud's A Different View with F William Engdahl, Engdahl looks at an emerging security fiasco for China's ambitious multi-trillion dollar Eurasian Belt Road Initiative, sometimes called the New Economic Silk Road, a
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News Link • FBI
FBI: 'Evil Geniuses' Making Device Encryption Better
01-14-2018
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https://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
Presents Encryption as 'Urgent Public Safety Issue'
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News Link • History
Rome's "Empire Without End" and the "Endless" U.S. War on Terror
01-14-2018
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https://eidolon.pub, Nandini Pandey
Replaying the Roman Civil Wars in Reverse Since 9/11
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News Link • Trump Administration
The Same Democrats Who Denounce Donald Trump as a Lawless...
01-14-2018
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https://theintercept.com, Glenn Greenwald
Leading congressional Democrats have spent the last year relentlessly accusing Donald Trump of being controlled by or treasonously loyal to a hostile foreign power.
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News Link • China
The Chinese Are Now Spending As Much As Americans
01-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
In the US, the latest batch of data, released this week, showed retail sales climbed in December for the sixth straight month - though they missed expectations, with growth slowing to 0.3% MoM.
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News Link • Currencies
The Strange Case Of The Falling Dollar - And What It Means For Gold
01-14-2018
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by Alt-Market's Brandon Smith
Trillions of dollars in uncontrolled central bank stimulus and years of artificially low interest rates have poisoned every aspect of our financial system.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Why Professing Christ Is Becoming a 'Hate Crime' in the West
01-14-2018
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raymondibrahim.com
What is the source of dhimmitude--which in many ways paralyzes responses to Islam--in the West?
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News Link • Canada
Canada Slams Door On Illegal Immigrants Kicked Out Of US
01-14-2018
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americanactionnews.com by Remington Strelivo
President Trump announced that he would not extend the seventeen-year-long "temporary protected status" for Salvadoran refugees, essentially ordering them to return home within 18 months.
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News Link • Pakistan
US Preparing To Attack Pakistan?
01-14-2018
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lewrockwell.com by Eric Margolis
Henry Kissinger rightly noted that it's often more dangerous being an ally of the United States than its enemy.
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News Link • Pakistan
US Preparing To Attack Pakistan?
01-14-2018
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lewrockwell.com by Eric Margolis
Henry Kissinger rightly noted that it's often more dangerous being an ally of the United States than its enemy.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
China's Attack On The Dollar: What Does It Mean? by Ron Paul
01-13-2018
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Ron Paul Liberty Report
China has been accumulating gold for years, and are now taking steps to tie it to yuan. Interest rates in the U.S. are rising, and the Chinese are not so eager to keep piling up on U.S. dollars and U.S. Treasury debt.
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Chelsea Manning eyes U.S. Senate seat for Maryland
01-13-2018
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News.Trust.Org
Chelsea Manning, the transgender U.S. Army soldier who served seven years in military prison for leaking classified data, is seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate seat from Maryland, according to Federal election filings seen
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News Link • Government
We Aren't Lucky Enough for a Government Shut Down
01-13-2018
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The Daily Bell
People talk about bipartisanship like it's a good thing. But the point of Congress was never to get stuff done. The point was the make sure that only important stuff got done.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Next Up, Paying Uncle Sam Taxes in Bitcoin
01-13-2018
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Cryptocoins News
The ink is barely dry on President Trump's tax legislation, and a new bill has surfaced in Arizona that kicks things up another notch. The bill proposes using bitcoin to pay state income taxes, and it was submitted by Senators Warren Petersen and D
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News Link • TAXES: Local
$25 For a Pack of Gatorade! Nanny State Imposes Enormous Tax on Sugary Drinks
01-13-2018
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Free Thought Project
Seatle is imposing a massive tax on sugary drinks in a nefarious plan to raise the $15 million needed to fund its other programs.
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News Link • Trump Administration
10 Examples Proving The US Gov't is an Expert at Turning Countries into 'Shitholes'
01-13-2018
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Free Thought Project
The outrage over Trump's crude comments about foreign countries has gone above and beyond outrage attributed to what the U.S. has done in those countries.
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Mark Zuckerberg's Change of Heart Just Cost Him $3.3 Billion
01-13-2018
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Bloomberg
The co-founder of the world's largest social-media business saw his fortune fall $3.3 billion Friday after he posted plans to shift users' news feeds toward content from family and friends at the expense of material from media outlets and busines
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