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Date Sent: 2018-02-23
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Friday, February 23, 2018 |
Bigelow Aerospace Launches New Company to Operate Private Space Stations
Existing Home Sales Plunge 3.2%: Worst January Since 1999 -- Netflix Just Unveiled the Trailer for 'Lost in Space' Reboot -- and It Looks Awesome! -- Why the most-recent selloff was just the beginning -- The Albatross Of Debt: The Stock Market's $67 Trillion Nightmare, Part 1 -- Don't Worry, It's Only a "Pre-Bubble" -- Global Growth? Retail Sales Flop in US, UK, Canada, Germany, Australia -- David Stockman: "This Time Is Completely Different...But Not In A Good Way" -- Airbus' 'flying taxi' isn't much to look at, but it's a major step toward electr -- 'Star Trek Online' Offers Custom 3D-Printed Starships -- THE U.S. DRUG WAR AND CANNABIS PROHIBITION ARE ABOUT TO GET STONED -- Centralized Cryptoruble Not Possible, Minister Tells Putin -- California Bill Aims to Recognize Blockchain Records -- Maduro Asks Venezuela's Banks to Mine and Use Cryptocurrency - Unions Outraged -- America's Elite Thinks it Has a Divine Right to Rule the World -- Mueller's Fraudulent Indictment -- Comrade Pelosi and the Democrats have Borscht All Over Their Faces!! --
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Bigelow Aerospace Launches New Company to Operate Private Space Stations
02-23-2018
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https://www.space.com
A company that builds big, inflatable space habitats has launched a new venture that will market and operate these structures in Earth orbit and beyond.
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News Link • Housing
Existing Home Sales Plunge 3.2%: Worst January Since 1999
02-23-2018
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https://www.themaven.net, by Mike Mish Shedlock
Economists expected last year's strength to continue. It petered out in December and the floor fell out in January.
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Netflix Just Unveiled the Trailer for 'Lost in Space' Reboot -- and It Looks Awesome!
02-23-2018
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https://www.space.com
The classic sci-fi series "Lost in Space" is launching back to television on April 13 by way of Netflix, which unveiled the first teaser for the series today (Feb. 21).
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Stock Market
Why the most-recent selloff was just the beginning
02-23-2018
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https://www.sovereignman.com, Simon Black
On October 19, 1987, the Dow experienced its biggest one-day percentage loss in history â€" plunging 22.6%.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Albatross Of Debt: The Stock Market's $67 Trillion Nightmare, Part 1
02-23-2018
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davidstockmanscontracorner.com by David Stockman
This is getting pretty ridiculous. For old times sake, we recently checked on the Federal debt level during the month we arrived in the Imperial City as a 24-year old eager beaver. That was June 1970 and the Federal debt held by the public was $275 b
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News Link • Economy - International
Global Growth? Retail Sales Flop in US, UK, Canada, Germany, Australia
02-23-2018
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https://www.themaven.net
Consumers unexpectedly threw in the towel in 5 countries but the central banks and the IMF insist everything is fine.
On February 14, I noted US Retail Sales Dive, Negative Revisions Too. This will impact both 4th quarter and first quarter GDP estim
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Stock Market
David Stockman: "This Time Is Completely Different...But Not In A Good Way"
02-23-2018
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zerohedge.com by David Stockman
If you don't think the stock market is a giant accident waiting to happen, just consider the two most crucial developments----soaring stocks and soaring deficits--- since November 7, 2016.
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
'Star Trek Online' Offers Custom 3D-Printed Starships
02-23-2018
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https://www.space.com
"Star Trek Online" players can put a lot of time into choosing, outfitting and customizing their starships, and now that work can follow them into the real world -- with hand-painted 3D-printed starships based on their exact designs.
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News Link • Drug War
THE U.S. DRUG WAR AND CANNABIS PROHIBITION ARE ABOUT TO GET STONED
02-23-2018
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https://stonecoldtruth.com
Will we see 420 Legalized Under Trump?
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Russia
Centralized Cryptoruble Not Possible, Minister Tells Putin
02-23-2018
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https://news.bitcoin.com
The Russian Ministry of Finance is not against a national cryptocurrency, provided the state does not participate in it. The creation of a centralized coin, like the cryptoruble, seems impossible, as cryptocurrencies are based on decentralized ledger
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News Link • California
California Bill Aims to Recognize Blockchain Records
02-23-2018
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https://news.bitcoin.com
The state of California has introduced a new bill that aims to recognize blockchain transactions, digital signatures, and smart contracts as a legal form of record. Assemblyman Ian Calderon introduced Assembly Bill 2658 on February 20 in order to re-
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News Link • Venezuela
Maduro Asks Venezuela's Banks to Mine and Use Cryptocurrency - Unions Outraged
02-23-2018
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https://news.bitcoin.com
Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro has authorized all savings banks in the country to mine and use the recently launched national cryptocurrency, the petro. Union leaders are outraged by the suggestion, calling the petro a scam, accusing Maduro o
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News Link • United States
America's Elite Thinks it Has a Divine Right to Rule the World
02-23-2018
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http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org, by bryan macdonal
America's ruling class has a curious attitude to democracy. It seems to be interpreted as something that's good for the US and its allies but bad for critters who won't accept their role in the "America-led international order."
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News Link • Russia
Mueller's Fraudulent Indictment
02-23-2018
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https://original.antiwar.com, by Justin Raimondo
The Internet Research Agency: clickbait farm or KGB plot?
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News Link • Political Parties
Comrade Pelosi and the Democrats have Borscht All Over Their Faces!!
02-23-2018
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https://www.newsbud.com, LT. COLONEL TIM FERNER
On Friday, 02 February 2018, the much hyped Nunes Memo was finally released (Ward & Aleem, 2018). Partisan politics took centre stage as the Democrats and Republicans marched out some of their respective party's best deceivers to make their case to
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News Link • General Opinion
Russiaphobia Is Out of Control
02-23-2018
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paulcraigroberts.org by Paul Craig Roberts
As has been made perfectly clear, Mueller's "indictment" of 13 Russians and 3 companies is just another hoax. See: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/02/16/result-muellers-investigation-nothing/ and: http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/02/mue
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News Link • Military
A Top-Secret US Military Base Will Melt Out of the Greenland Ice Sheet
02-23-2018
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https://motherboard.vice.com, Kate Lunau
Planners thought it would stay buried in ice forever.
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News Link • Korea/North Korea
Yes, the United States Used Biowarfare on North Korea
02-23-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By David Swanson
It's sort of silly that it matters. The United States bombed North Korea flat with ordinary, non-bioweapons bombs. It ran out of standing structures to bomb. People lived in caves, if they lived.
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News Link • Clinton News
Hillary's WORST NIGHTMARE Now Coming True Over Who She Hired To Do Her Dirty Work
02-23-2018
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https://www.youtube.com, The Next News Network Ver
Hillary's WORST NIGHTMARE Now Coming True Over Who She Hired To Do Her Dirty Work
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
How to Tell the Difference between an Entrepreneur and a Crony
02-23-2018
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fee.org by Mark J Perry
"Competition breeds competence."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Venezuela
Venezuelan COPS Kidnapped Pro Athlete's Elderly Mom and Held Her For Ransom…
02-23-2018
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by J.G. Martinez D.
Venezuelan COPS Kidnapped Pro Athlete's Elderly Mom and Held Her For Ransom…and This ISN'T Unusual
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Interstellar travel and biosphere reboots means there are a lot of aliens in the galaxy
02-23-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
In 1961, radio astronomer Frank Drake developed a pedagogy for analyzing the question of the frequency of extraterrestrial civilizations. Robert Zubrin shows a couple of significant mistaken assumptions by Drake. Robert Zubrin wrote this for Centauri
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mark Dice -Student Exposes CNN's Scripted Town Hall Discussion on Gun Control
02-23-2018
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https://www.youtube.com, Mark Dice
Colton Haab, a 17-year-old junior at Stoneman Douglas High School, reveals how CNN's Town Hall discussion on gun control actually worked.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX Gets a Shout-Out from Vice President Pence for Falcon Heavy Success
02-23-2018
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https://www.space.com
Shortly after the Falcon Heavy lifted off on Feb. 6, sending SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster into the great beyond, President Donald Trump tweeted a hearty congratulations. And Wednesday (Feb. 21), during the second-ever meeting of the newly r
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News Link • China
Chinese paper says U.S. should learn from China, restrict guns, protect rights
02-23-2018
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https://www.reuters.com
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The United States should learn from China and "genuinely" protect human rights by restricting gun ownership, an editorial in a widely read state-run Chinese newspaper said on Friday.
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News Link • States' Rights
States Mull 'Red Flag' Gun Seizures from People Deemed Dangerous
02-23-2018
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https://www.nytimes.com
In the last two months, law enforcement authorities in California took a gun away from a 38-year-old man who had threatened to kill himself, his wife and their young child if she left him.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Pence: To Lead in Space, US Needs Less Red Tape for Commercial Space Companies
02-23-2018
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https://www.space.com
At the second meeting of the newly reinstated National Space Council, held today (Feb. 21), Vice President Mike Pence and other U.S. officials emphasized that the U.S. is on top in space, but said that in order to stay there, the nation would need to
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News Link • Currencies
An Ethereum Classic Fork Snapshot Is Coming Next Week
02-23-2018
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https://news.bitcoin.com
Next week the ethereum classic (ETC) community is expecting to receive coins from a 'snapshot' fork called 'callisto' (CLO). The clone will be an exact copy of the ETC chain up until block 5,500,000 and ETC holders will receive a 1:1 ratio of
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News Link • Immigration
Border wall work begins in downtown Calexico
02-23-2018
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sandiegouniontribune.com by AP
The federal government began work Wednesday to replace a section of border wall in California, the first wall contract awarded in the Trump administration outside of eight prototypes that were built last year in San Diego.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Kurt Russell TAKES Whoopi Goldberg to SCHOOL on gun control
02-23-2018
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https://www.youtube.com, 50 Stars
Kurt Russell TAKES Whoopi Goldberg to SCHOOL on gun control, Kurt Russell & Ted Nugent defends guns, & the view debates gun control
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News Link • Clinton News
Clinton murder!? Witness comes forward in two Clinton-linked deaths (he has video!)
02-23-2018
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https://thehornnews.com
Former pro wrestler turned drug enforcer Billy Jack Haynes has come forward with a shocking claim: Bill Clinton was involved in the murder of two young men in Arkansas on August, 23 1987.
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News Link • Trump Administration
[CPAC] Mike Pence wants to take out Nancy Pelosi (here's his plan)
02-23-2018
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https://thehornnews.com
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has her sights set on reclaiming control of the House of Representative for liberals in 2018, warned Vice President Mike Pence.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump Proposes Bonus For Teachers Who Carry Guns
02-23-2018
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zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Just hours after President Trump angrily declared on Twitter that he never suggested that ....
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump Proposes Bonus For Teachers Who Carry Guns
02-23-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Just hours after President Trump angrily declared on Twitter that he never suggested that "teachers with guns" would be an appropriate deterrent to stop school shootings (before launching into a tirade about why doing precisely that would be a sensib
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News Link • Environment
Large city just days away from running out of water
02-23-2018
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arclein
"When Day Zero comes, they'll have to call in the army," said a man named Phaldie Ranqueste while he worked tirelessly to fill his S.U.V. with containers of water that he got from a natural spring. The fact that this is happening to Cape Town m
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News Link • Science
DuPont covered up the health risks of Teflon
02-23-2018
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arclein
And when it comes to teflon, the price tag is sure to send you looking for grandma's cast iron skillet. DuPont's toxic legacy has left a trail around the United States - with some of the most visible harm taking place in the Midwest and along t
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Evidence the corrupt EPA colluded with Monsanto to delay toxicology review of their controversial he
02-23-2018
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arclein
At the behest of Monsanto, a consortium of EPA officials aggressively pressured the ATSDR and HHS, claiming that a toxicology review on glyphosate is unnecessarily "duplicative" because the EPA was putting their own review together. Not surprisi
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News Link • Education: Unschooling
How a backwards shirt led to a lesson in kindness for P.E.I. kindergarten class
02-23-2018
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arclein
As she spoke, she saw one little child in the circle quietly took her arms out of her sleeves and turned her own shirt around.
Then, one by one, more children did the same.
Within minutes, almost every child in the class was sitting with th
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX Just Launched Its First High-Speed Internet Satellites Into Orbit
02-22-2018
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motherboard.vice.com by Kaleigh Rogers
The goal, to create a constellation of more than 12,000 satellites, is part of a project called Starlink.
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News Link • Stock Market
Peter Schiff: We're Ripe for a 1987-Style Crash
02-22-2018
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lewrockwell.com by SchiffGold.com
Stock markets have settled down after an awful couple of weeks earlier this month.
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