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Date Sent: 2018-10-28
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Monday, October 29, 2018 |
Volkswagen has bet $30 billion to start beating Tesla in 2020
Volkswagen has bet $30 billion to start beating Tesla in 2020 -- What a bunch of idiots -- Wendy McElroy: In a Stateless Society Crypto is Law and Justice -- Jaron Lanier interview on how social media ruins your life -- SpaceX Borrowing to Global Internet and BFR future -- Virgin Orbit Just Attached a Rocket to Its Cosmic Girl Mothership for the 1st Time -- FBI Director Christopher Wray is LYING to America about the fake pipe bombs: -- Khashoggi, Erdogan and the Truth 253 -- Losing The War On Cash - Swedish Central Bank U-Turns On 'Cashless Society' Agenda -- Chris Duane - Is This WHY JP Morgan Is Stacking Silver? -- Hayabusa2 Braces for a Rocky Landing on Asteroid Ryugu -- Want to Make Money as a Programmer? Learn Blockchain Development -- What to Eat When You're Broke -- Pesticide contamination in cannabis is a big problem: Here's what you need to know -- 3 Steps to Get the Government Out of Your Life -- U.S. Completes Largest Ammo Shipment To Europe Since NATO Bombing Of Yugoslavia -- Xhoneybadger.com Pays Viewers Cryptocurrency to Watch Content -- Jaron Lanier: Who Owns the Future? -- Your phone is trying to control your life -- China's transport infrastructure + military spending < US military spending -- Economist: if Crypto "Remains" Illegal, Adoption Will be Difficult -- What "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" Taught Me About Survival -- Hello Google Chrome: What the Hell Happened to Autoplay Ad Blocks? -- Brutally Honest: Facebook Removes then Restores Images from Yemen -- Wall Street Legend Issues Urgent Buy Alert: "Invest in This Company NOW" -- "Screw Your Optics, I'm Going In" -- China's first private rocket fails after launch -- AI Humanoid 'Sophia' Is Granted First Ever Robot Visa, Speaks With President -- Chris Duane - Bitcoin Hacker Attack On My Email -- Gab Booted By Hosting Company After Synagogue Shooting; Chief Tech Officer Steps Down --
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News Link • Transportation
Volkswagen has bet $30 billion to start beating Tesla in 2020
10-28-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by brian wang
Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess has promised the NEO electric car in 2020 with 400 kilometer (250 mile) range at a price of $28,000. Volkswagen has invested $30 billion into electric cars and batteries. They are building a large plant in Shanghai.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
What a bunch of idiots
10-28-2018
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https://www.sovereignman.com, by Simon Black
Tell me this isn't crazyâ€"
A few days ago the creator of the most famous consumer 'credit score' in the United States announced a major overhaul in how it rates borrowers.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Wendy McElroy: In a Stateless Society Crypto is Law and Justice
10-28-2018
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https://news.bitcoin.com, Wendy McElroy
The economic analysis of crime starts with one simple assumption: Criminals are rational. A mugger is a mugger…because that profession makes him better off, by his own standards, than any other alternative available to him…. If muggers are ration
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Jaron Lanier interview on how social media ruins your life
10-28-2018
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https://www.youtube.com, Channel 4 News
Jaron Lanier, the Silicone Valley 'computer philosopher', thinks social media is ruining your life.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • FBI
FBI Director Christopher Wray is LYING to America about the fake pipe bombs:
10-28-2018
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https://www.naturalnews.com by Mike Adams
Yes, they were HOAX devices
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News Link • Turkey
Khashoggi, Erdogan and the Truth 253
10-28-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, by Craig Murray
The Turkish account of the murder of Khashoggi given by President Erdogan is true, in every detail.
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News Link • Cashless Society
Losing The War On Cash - Swedish Central Bank U-Turns On 'Cashless Society' Agenda
10-28-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
Cash is less of a threat to central bank policies when interest rates rise above zero...
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Chris Duane - Is This WHY JP Morgan Is Stacking Silver?
10-28-2018
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https://www.youtube.com
Is This WHY JP Morgan Is Stacking Silver?
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Hayabusa2 Braces for a Rocky Landing on Asteroid Ryugu
10-28-2018
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https://www.space.com, by Hanneke Weitering
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft is getting ready to touch down on asteroid Ryugu, where it will scoop a sample of the asteroid's rocky surface that will eventually be sent back to Earth.
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News Link • Blockchain
Want to Make Money as a Programmer? Learn Blockchain Development
10-28-2018
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https://www.ccn.com
Despite the year-long bear market that has seen the prices of major cryptocurrencies drop 70 to 80 percent, the demand for blockchain developers is still at an all-time high.
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News Link • Prepping
What to Eat When You're Broke
10-28-2018
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https://www.theorganicprepper.com, by Daisy Luther
The lower your income is, the more difficult it is to be particular about what you feed your family.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Pesticide contamination in cannabis is a big problem: Here's what you need to know
10-28-2018
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https://www.naturalnews.com by Isabelle Z.
As medical marijuana regulations loosen around the nation, more and more people are turning to cannabis for its health benefits.
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News Link • Freedom
3 Steps to Get the Government Out of Your Life
10-28-2018
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https://www.thedailybell.com by Joe Jarvis
Believe it or not, the best way to get a stalker out of your life is to ignore them. You don't give them any recognition, and you don't react to their threats.
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News Link • Trump Administration
U.S. Completes Largest Ammo Shipment To Europe Since NATO Bombing Of Yugoslavia
10-28-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Is something big coming related to heightened tensions either with Russia, Iran, or Syria? It appears the U.S. military is publicizing a "show of force" of sorts, but not exactly in the conventional way of deploying tanks, ships, and aircraft.
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News Link • Media: Internet
Xhoneybadger.com Pays Viewers Cryptocurrency to Watch Content
10-28-2018
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https://news.bitcoin.com, Jamie Redman
On Oct. 16, Elise de Loos from Cashpay Solutions launched a new video website called Xhoneybadger.com, a platform that utilizes bitcoin cash for ad revenue that's shared with its users. Basically, Xhoneybadger members are paid in tokens called hone
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jaron Lanier: Who Owns the Future?
10-28-2018
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www.youtube.com, The Agenda with Steve Paikin
From media to manufacturing to medicine, technology is reshaping the face of more and more industries, marching them lock-step into an information economy.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Your phone is trying to control your life
10-28-2018
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https://www.youtube.com, PBS NewsHour
Whether you're killing time in line at Starbucks or scrolling through an endless meme stream on Twitter, your smartphone is trying to seduce you.
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News Link • China
China's transport infrastructure + military spending < US military spending
10-28-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by brian wang
China spends about $440 billion per year on transport infrastructure and $240 billion per year on the military in 2018.
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News Link • Cyberspace and the New Economy
Economist: if Crypto "Remains" Illegal, Adoption Will be Difficult
10-28-2018
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https://www.ccn.com
At Bloomberg Ideas, an event that features leading experts in various industries, George Mason University economics professor Tyler Cowen stated that if crypto remains illegal, adoption will be difficult to achieve.
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News Link • Prepping
What "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" Taught Me About Survival
10-28-2018
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https://www.theorganicprepper.com, by Meadow Clark
Survival isn't just a "someday" mindset â€" it's how to insulate yourself from the elements, extreme deprivation, and nary-do-wells â€" at all times. Right now.
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News Link • Internet
Hello Google Chrome: What the Hell Happened to Autoplay Ad Blocks?
10-28-2018
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https://moneymaven.io, by Mike Mish Shedlock
What happened to Google Chrome blocking videos, autoplay ads, and other obnoxious practices?
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News Link • Stock Market
Wall Street Legend Issues Urgent Buy Alert: "Invest in This Company NOW"
10-28-2018
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https://banyanhill.com by J.L. Yastine
Paul Mampilly is a legend on Wall Street.
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News Link • Mass Shootings
"Screw Your Optics, I'm Going In"
10-28-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
- Trump-Hating Gunman 'Tweeted' Before Killing 11 In Pittsburgh Synagogue Attack
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
China's first private rocket fails after launch
10-28-2018
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https://nypost.com by AP
The first attempt by a private Chinese company to send a rocket into space has failed.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
AI Humanoid 'Sophia' Is Granted First Ever Robot Visa, Speaks With President
10-28-2018
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https://www.forbes.com by Paul Armstrong
The AI humanoid, 'Sophia' (see above), has been making a worldwide tour on behalf of her creator, Hanson Robotics of Hong Kong, and made an unexpected stop to the Caucasus this week.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Gab Booted By Hosting Company After Synagogue Shooting; Chief Tech Officer Steps Down
10-28-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Update2: Gab's Chief Technology Officer, Ekrem Büyükkaya, announced on Sunday that he was leaving the company because the "attacks from the American press have been relentless for two years now and have taken a toll on me personally."
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News Link • Bitcoin
Wrapped BTC Is Coming to Ethereum
10-28-2018
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https://news.bitcoin.com, Kai Sedgwick
BTC is poised to make its Ethereum debut. An initiative involving several decentralized exchanges (DEXs) as well as crypto-custodians Bitgo will introduce "BTC-backed" WBTC, with the W standing for "wrapped." When WBTC launches in January 201
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News Link • Courtroom and Trials
Supreme Court Takes Case That Could End Internet Censorship, Expand First Amendment
10-28-2018
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https://citizentruth.org, by Carmine Sabia
After the recent purge of over 800 independent media outlets on Facebook, the Supreme Court is now hearing a case that could have ramifications for any future attempts at similar purges.
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News Link • Investigations
Musk Boasts That Funding Secured Tweet Was "Worth It", Calls FBI Investigation "Total
10-28-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
On Friday evening - the same day that it was reported that an FBI investigation into Model 3 production numbers was "intensifying" - Elon Musk again took to Twitter to taunt regulators...
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Reference Link • Coup
America's Red Letter Day Is 8 Days Away
Dave Hodges The Common Sense Show
Questions asked of experts in the military, border patrol, the "agencies" and in politics:
What is your anticipated result of the midterm elections?
What will happen if the Democrats win the House?
What will happen if the Democrats win both the Ho
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News Link • Transportation
US Air Force Talks SpaceX BFR for going anywhere on earth in under an hour
10-28-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
The new commander of AMC (Air Mobility Command), Gen. Maryanne Miller, said they have talked to SpaceX about transporting global cargo.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Russia "Accidentally" Leaks Schematics Of New, High-Speed Helicopter
10-28-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
As to how the Defense Blog and Scramble Magzine acquired leaked details of the Kamov Design Bureau's future high-speed helicopter for the Russian Armed Forces is beyond us.
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News Link • Technocracy
Quayside: Google's New Smart City Is A Privacy Nightmare
10-28-2018
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https://www.technocracy.news by Nick Summers
As Google applies its data management skills on a real city, Quayside, it is turning into a privacy nightmare. What it needs to do, it will not do because its prime directive is to collect identifiable data. De-identified data is totally useless to T
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Glenn Beck: Midterm Predictions and Social Media Censorship (Pt. 1 & 2)
10-28-2018
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https://www.youtube.com, The Rubin Report
Glenn Beck (TV & Radio host) joins Dave to discuss his predictions for the upcoming midterm elections, Trump, people on the left being afraid to speak up and how that relates to his profound experience in Auschwitz, Facebook and Google censoring and
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News Link • Deep State- Shadow Government
The Worst False Flag Event In History Was Successful
10-28-2018
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thecommonsenseshow.com, Dave Hodges
As a professor, I graded some very substandard midterm and final exams. As a former college basketball coach, I absolutely coached some horrific games. However, in all my years on the planet, I have never seen such an ill-contrived false flag event o
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News Link • Russia
MiG-31: The Near-Space Plane. Russia's super-fast interceptor
10-28-2018
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https://www.youtube.com, RT Documentary
Imagine flying a plane so high that the world looks spherical and the sky is pitch-black. The Mikoyan Mig-31 fighter is the only jet plane in the world to make it possible to fly on the very edge of space.
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
The Facebook Dilemma - FRONTLINE pbs.org
10-27-2018
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PBS.org
Is Facebook more harmful than helpful? On Monday, Oct. 29, and Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, FRONTLINE presents The Facebook Dilemma. This major, two-night event investigates a series of warnings to Facebook as the company grew from Mark Zuckerberg's Har
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News Link • Politics
Glenn Beck: Midterm Predictions and Social Media Censorship (Pt. 1 & 2)
10-27-2018
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The Rubin Report
Glenn Beck (TV & Radio host) joins Dave to discuss his predictions for the upcoming midterm elections, Trump, people on the left being afraid to speak up and how that relates to his profound experience in Auschwitz, Facebook and Google censoring and
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Opinion • Government
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: October 28, 2018 Edition
10-27-2018
John Semmens
A Few "Not Crazy Democrats" Appeal to Voters
With polls showing a close race with her Republican challenger Josh Hawley, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo) launched a campaign ad aimed at persuading voters that she is "not one of those crazy Democ
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Samsung's folding phone WILL go on sale next year - along with a Galaxy S10 with no...
10-26-2018
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https://www.dailymail.co, By ANNIE PALMER
Samsung's folding phone WILL go on sale next year - along with a Galaxy S10 with no notch and an 'invisible' fingerprint sensor under the screen
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News Link • Transportation
Tesla Model Y Prototype Approved For Productio
10-26-2018
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https://insideevs.com, BY VANJA KLJAIC
The information was confirmed by Elon Musk during the Q3 2018 financial call held earlier this week
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