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Date Sent: 2018-02-15
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Friday, February 16, 2018 |
Inside the First Commercial Astronaut Training Program
Canadian Bank Builds Vaults for Safeguarding Cryptocurrencies -- 'Humans Die. Cryptocurrencies Don't': Why You Should Begin Planning Your Estate... -- Bitcoin Miners Flock to the 'Buckle of the Power Belt' -- Nikolas Cruz Publicly Stated He Wanted to Shoot Up a School... -- Trump cites mental health in shooting, no mention of guns -- Bad News for Buyers: U.S. Mortgage Rates Hit Highest Since 2014 -- The Trump Presidency: A Repeat Of G.W. Bush? -- Google turns on default adblocker within Chrome -- Kushner Investors Subpoenaed by U.S. Tax Authorities, Source Says -- Curious video interview of school shooting witness -- Worst Media Reactions to Florida High School Shooting -- Dr. AWR Hawkins?"Florida School Shooting: Time to Arm Teachers for Self-Defense -- Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand -- Doesn't Anyone Care About Deficits Anymore? -- Don't Let Trump's Fed Pick Choke the Recovery -- How You Can Distinguish Fake News from Real News, According to the Expert -- MetLife's Misplaced-Pensioner Issue Sparks New State Queries -- Nets Push Bogus School Shooting Stat from Anti-Gun Lobbyist Group -- Fallout from Trump's Jerusalem Declaration -- Student at Douglas HS goes viral for her 'raw response' to @RealDonaldTrump -- CNN's Philip Mudd Cries While Pushing For Gun Control In Wake Of Florida Shooting -- Climate change revealed this U.S. military secret -- Tractor Hacking: Watch Our Documentary About Farmers Fighting for the Right to Repair -- Cryptocurrency Mining Is Stopping Us From Finding Aliens, Critics Claim -- Hackers Exploit Telegram Zero-Day Flaw to Mine Cryptocurrencies -- Token Holders Don't Give a Damn About Voting Rights and Community Governance -- Bitcoin: Head Of Bank For International Settlements Calls For Clampdown -- PragerU vs YouTube case has enormous implications for the future of online FREE speech -- Elon Musk's Broadband-From-Space Plan Clears Crucial U.S. Hurdle --
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Inside the First Commercial Astronaut Training Program
02-15-2018
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https://motherboard.vice.com, Daniel Oberhaus
How Starfighters went from an aviation demo group to a permanent installation at NASA, and why they're betting big on civilian spaceflight.
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News Link • Currencies
Canadian Bank Builds Vaults for Safeguarding Cryptocurrencies
02-15-2018
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https://www.ccn.com, Iyke Aru
Threats to precious belongings are reasons why they are usually kept in secure environments.
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News Link • Currencies
'Humans Die. Cryptocurrencies Don't': Why You Should Begin Planning Your Estate...
02-15-2018
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https://www.ccn.com, Josiah Wilmoth
'Humans Die. Cryptocurrencies Don't': Why You Should Begin Planning Your Estate Immediately
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Miners Flock to the 'Buckle of the Power Belt'
02-15-2018
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https://www.ccn.com, Gerelyn Terzo
Wenatchee, Wash., which a local daily dubbed the 'Buckle of the Power Belt' for its vast hydropower potential back in the 1920s, is drawing in bitcoin miners these days.
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News Link • Mass Shootings
Nikolas Cruz Publicly Stated He Wanted to Shoot Up a School...
02-15-2018
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http://thefreethoughtproject.com, By Rachel Blevin
Nikolas Cruz Publicly Stated He Wanted to Shoot Up a School--The FBI Knew and Did Nothing
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News Link • Mass Shootings
Trump cites mental health in shooting, no mention of guns
02-15-2018
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abcnews.go.com By catherine lucey
President Donald Trump struck a solemn tone Thursday after the deadly school shooting in Florida, describing a "scene of terrible violence, hatred and evil" and promising to "tackle the difficult issue of mental health," but avoiding any mention of g
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News Link • Housing
Bad News for Buyers: U.S. Mortgage Rates Hit Highest Since 2014
02-15-2018
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https://www.bloomberg.com, By Prashant Gopal
Shanne Sleder, a San Diego mortgage banker, recently had to break the bad news to some would-be homebuyers: Borrowing costs jumped about 6 percent since he pre-approved them a couple months ago.
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News Link • Search Engines
Google turns on default adblocker within Chrome
02-15-2018
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theguardian.com by Samuel Gibbs
Users of latest Chrome browser on Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Android will have some of most intrusive types of ads blocked automatically
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Kushner Investors Subpoenaed by U.S. Tax Authorities, Source Says
02-15-2018
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https://www.bloomberg.com, By David Voreacos
U.S. tax authorities have requested documents from lenders and investors in real estate projects managed by Jared Kushner's family, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Mass Shootings
Worst Media Reactions to Florida High School Shooting
02-15-2018
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Prison Planet.com by Louder With Crowder
A high school shooting in Parkland, Florida happened a few hours ago. As of the writing of this post least 20 victims have been taken to hospitals with 16 fatalities reported.
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News Link • Mass Shootings
Dr. AWR Hawkinsâ€"Florida School Shooting: Time to Arm Teachers for Self-Defense
02-15-2018
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breitbart.com by AWR Hawkins
The heinous attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School demonstrates anew the necessity of arming teachers so they can defend students from determined criminals who come to campus to do harm.
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News Link • New Zealand
Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand
02-15-2018
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Prison Planet.com by The Guardian
If you're interested in the end of the world, you're interested in New Zealand.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Doesn't Anyone Care About Deficits Anymore?
02-15-2018
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bloomberg.com, By Peter Coy and Sahil Kapur
Voters don't seem to, and Republican lawmakers have stopped pretending.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Don't Let Trump's Fed Pick Choke the Recovery
02-15-2018
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https://www.bloomberg.com, by Karl W. Smith
Economist Marvin Goodfriend has been way too jittery about inflation. And he's been wrong.
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News Link • Media -**QQ**Fake News**QQ**
How You Can Distinguish Fake News from Real News, According to the Expert
02-15-2018
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http://www.thedailybell.com
What kind of fake news is most damaging? Is it the kind that puts out a conspiracy theory with no evidence? Or is it a headline story that can easily be debunked, designed to ride a wave of viral clicks which only lasts hours or days?
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News Link • Pensions
MetLife's Misplaced-Pensioner Issue Sparks New State Queries
02-15-2018
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By Katherine Chiglinsky and Neil Weinberg
MetLife Inc. provided new details this week about how it lost track of thousands of pension clients. But state and federal inquiries promise to drag on for months and will make it hard to put the scandal behind it any time soon.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Nets Push Bogus School Shooting Stat from Anti-Gun Lobbyist Group
02-15-2018
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newsbusters.org By Nicholas Fondacaro
In the aftermath of Wedneday's terrible school shooting in Parkland, Florida, the liberal media callously rushed to use the deaths to push for more gun control.
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News Link • Mass Shootings
Student at Douglas HS goes viral for her 'raw response' to @RealDonaldTrump
02-15-2018
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Prison Planet.com by Twitchy
"Sarah," reportedly a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS in Parkland, Florida, has gone viral over this no-holds-barred response to President Donald Trump's "prayers and condolences" tweet after yesterday's horrific mass shooting:
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News Link • Mass Shootings
CNN's Philip Mudd Cries While Pushing For Gun Control In Wake Of Florida Shooting
02-15-2018
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Prison Planet.com by Chris Menahan
CNN counterterrorism analyst Philip Mudd started crying on Wednesday while pushing for gun control in the wake of the school shooting in Florida.
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News Link • Agriculture
Tractor Hacking: Watch Our Documentary About Farmers Fighting for the Right to Repair
02-15-2018
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https://motherboard.vice.com, Jason Koebler
We went to Nebraska to meet the farmers fighting John Deere's repair monopoly.
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News Link • Currencies
Cryptocurrency Mining Is Stopping Us From Finding Aliens, Critics Claim
02-15-2018
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https://www.ccn.com, Josiah Wilmoth
Over the years, cryptocurrency critics have unleashed a barrage of attacks on the nascent technology. Now, though, it seems that they are reaching the bottom of the barrel.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Hackers Exploit Telegram Zero-Day Flaw to Mine Cryptocurrencies
02-15-2018
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https://www.ccn.com, Francisco Memoria
According to Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs, hackers have been using a zero-day exploit in Telegram to infect its users with a cryptocurrency-mining malware, so as to mine privacy-centric cryptocurrencies like Monero, Zcash, and others. On
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