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Date Sent: 2018-07-29
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Monday, July 30, 2018 |
Catalonian Quest for Independence is Undeterred
Robots Could Soon Have More Sensitive Skin Than You Do -- Special forces test out 'Boba Fett' combat helmet -- NASA Is 3D Printing Chainmail for Space Travel -- Former CIA Officer: Clinton "Involved In Biggest Treason In History" -- The cost of child care just hit an all-time high -- Merkel's conservatives hit 12-year low in German poll -- Is America's birth rate about to start booming? -- From a Space Station in Argentina, China Expands Its Reach in Latin America -- NEXT-GEN NUCLEAR IS COMING--IF SOCIETY WANTS IT -- Seasteading and Health Care: Islands of Innovation -- Report: FBI Has 'Ongoing' Relationship With Left-Wing SPLC -- Is the End of Facebook Nigh? -- See How A Total Tesla Solar Ecosystem Gets Installed -- NASA Electric X-57 Maxwell Airplane Debuts at AirVenture 2018 -- German woman receives large fine for criticising refugees on Facebook -- Domestic Surveillance Being Conducted On Americans By TSA -- Defrosted Nematode worms come back to life after 42,000 years and are... -- Improving flow in lymph nodes in the neck improves memory and learning and... -- A Wake-Up Call for Iran: The Real Cost of America's 'Liberation Wars' -- Farmlands -- Weekly Update: President Trump Congratulates Judicial Watch -- South Africa: A Lesson In Registering Guns -- Trump Moves to Counter Potential Red Dawn Invasion -- Trump Threatens To "Shut Down" Government Over Border Security, Meets With NYT Publisher -- Times publisher asks Trump to reconsider anti-media rhetoric -- Churches may have to pay taxes, and members of Congress may pay politically -- Army on standby for no-deal Brexit emergency -- Amsterdam 'lawless jungle' at night, ombudsman warns -- Madrid taxis join Barcelona strike against Uber --
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News Link • Spain
Catalonian Quest for Independence is Undeterred
07-29-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Attilio Moro
"Freedom for the political prisoners," read banners hanging on hundreds of balconies from Placa Catalunya to La Ramblas, and from the Vila de Gracia to the Gothic Quarter.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Robots Could Soon Have More Sensitive Skin Than You Do
07-29-2018
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https://curiosity.com, by Curiosity Staff
Robots may soon be more sensitive than humans--at least when it comes to their skin. Researchers from Glasgow University have developed a type of artificial skin that is more sensitive than our own. Just add this to all the ways robots are taking ov
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News Link • Military
Special forces test out 'Boba Fett' combat helmet
07-29-2018
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https://nypost.com, By Sam Christie
SAS soldiers are trying out "Star Wars"-style bulletproof helmets in the war against terror. The SAS is the UK's answer to the Navy SEALs.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA Is 3D Printing Chainmail for Space Travel
07-29-2018
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https://curiosity.com, by Curiosity Staff
Chainmail was a form of armor popular during Medieval times that consists of hundreds of small metal rings linked together to form armor. While better protection has long made it obsolete, NASA has reimagined its potential as a way to protect astrona
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News Link • Clinton News
Former CIA Officer: Clinton "Involved In Biggest Treason In History"
07-29-2018
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informationclearinghouse.info By Greg Hunter
Former CIA Officer and whistleblower Kevin Shipp says what Hillary Clinton did with her charity and Uranium One while she was Secretary of State was a crime for the history books.
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News Link • Family
The cost of child care just hit an all-time high
07-29-2018
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https://moneyish.com by Alisa Wolfson
Parents are willing to go into debt to pay for child care, according to a new study.
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News Link • Germany
Merkel's conservatives hit 12-year low in German poll
07-29-2018
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reuters.com
Support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc, trying to move beyond a bitter dispute over migrant policy that threatened the coalition, has fallen to its lowest level since 2006, a poll showed on Sunday.
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News Link • General Opinion
Is America's birth rate about to start booming?
07-29-2018
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https://nypost.com By Michael Barone
Sometimes a society's values change sharply with almost no one noticing. In 1968, according to a Gallup survey, 70 percent of American adults said that a family of three or more children was "ideal" -- about the same number as Gallup surveys s
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News Link • China
From a Space Station in Argentina, China Expands Its Reach in Latin America
07-29-2018
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https://www.nytimes.com
Our correspondent went to the deserts of Patagonia to examine how China secured its new base, a symbol of its growing clout in the region.
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News Link • Energy
NEXT-GEN NUCLEAR IS COMING--IF SOCIETY WANTS IT
07-29-2018
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https://www.wired.com, By NATHANAEL JOHNSON
Back in 2009, Simon Irish, an investment manager in New York, found the kind of opportunity that he thought could transform the world while -- in the process -- transforming dollars into riches.
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News Link • Seasteading
Seasteading and Health Care: Islands of Innovation
07-29-2018
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fee.org by Brittany Hunter
Innovation in health care is woefully lacking and government red tape is largely to blame, but seasteading just might be a way to circumvent bureaucracy without sacrificing quality.
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News Link • FBI
Report: FBI Has 'Ongoing' Relationship With Left-Wing SPLC
07-29-2018
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https://www.prisonplanet.com by The Daily Caller
The FBI has an "ongoing" relationship with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a left-wing nonprofit that once placed Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson on an "extremist watch list."
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
NASA Electric X-57 Maxwell Airplane Debuts at AirVenture 2018
07-29-2018
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https://insideevs.com, BY MARK KANE
Shown some two years ago, an experimental all-electric airplane X-57 Maxwell, is being presented at the AirVenture Oshkosh 2018 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin (July 23-29).
The X-57 is expected to fly for the first time in 2019.
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News Link • Germany
German woman receives large fine for criticising refugees on Facebook
07-29-2018
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https://voiceofeurope.com, By VOICE OF EUROPE
A German cleaning lady received a fine of 1,650 euros for criticising refugees and the country's asylum policy, news outlet Wochenblick reports.
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News Link • Transportation Security Agengy/TSA
Domestic Surveillance Being Conducted On Americans By TSA
07-29-2018
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https://www.prisonplanet.com, The Boston Globe
Federal air marshals have begun following ordinary US citizens not suspected of a crime or on any terrorist watch list and collecting extensive information about their movements and behavior under a new domestic surveillance program that is drawing c
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News Link • Iran
A Wake-Up Call for Iran: The Real Cost of America's 'Liberation Wars'
07-29-2018
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https://www.newsbud.com, SIBEL EDMONDS
In this edition of Probable Cause, Newsbud's Founder & Editor Sibel Edmonds delivers a powerful message to the Iranian people, based on the bloody track record from America's 'liberation wars.'
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News Link • Trump Administration
Weekly Update: President Trump Congratulates Judicial Watch
07-29-2018
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https://www.judicialwatch.org
Big Victory: Judicial Watch Forces Disclosure of FISA Warrants Targeting Trump Team
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News Link • Gun Rights
South Africa: A Lesson In Registering Guns
07-29-2018
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https://www.alloutdoor.com by Kevin Felts
The landslide of gun control starts with registering your guns.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Trump Moves to Counter Potential Red Dawn Invasion
07-29-2018
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http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com by Dave Hodges
A combined domestic insurgency and a plot to invade the United States is in the words. Before describing these events, it is necessary to define terms:
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Trump Threatens To "Shut Down" Government Over Border Security, Meets With NYT Publisher
07-29-2018
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zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Not too long ago, in a less turbulent time before the trade wars, the biggest political risk facing the market was the threat of a government shutdown.
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News Link • Media -**QQ**Fake News**QQ**
Times publisher asks Trump to reconsider anti-media rhetoric
07-29-2018
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https://www.tampabay.com
The publisher of the New York Times said Sunday he "implored" President Donald Trump at a private White House meeting this month to reconsider his broad attacks on journalists, calling the president's anti-press rhetoric "not just divisive but increa
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Churches may have to pay taxes, and members of Congress may pay politically
07-29-2018
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https://www.mcclatchydc.com By Emma Dumain
Members of Congress should be able to work together to protect houses of worship from having to pay taxes, especially in an election year when both parties want to earn the faith community's vote.
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News Link • European Union
Army on standby for no-deal Brexit emergency
07-29-2018
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk
Ministers have drawn up plans to send in the army to deliver food, medicines and fuel in the event of shortages if Britain crashes out of the EU without a deal.
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News Link • Crime
Amsterdam 'lawless jungle' at night, ombudsman warns
07-29-2018
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https://www.afp.com
Tourist hotspot Amsterdam turns into a "lawless jungle" after dark with the police powerless to intervene against crime and violence, the city's ombudsman warned in an interview Saturday.
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News Link • Spain
Madrid taxis join Barcelona strike against Uber
07-29-2018
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https://www.afp.com
Taxi drivers in Madrid went on strike Saturday in solidarity with Barcelona cabbies protesting against "unfair competition" from Uber and Cabify.
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News Link • Family
The cost of child care just hit an all-time high
07-29-2018
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https://moneyish.com by Alisa Wolfson
Parents are willing to go into debt to pay for child care, according to a new study.
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Deadly Carr Fire tilts away from Redding but still spreading with furious cadence
07-29-2018
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https://www.sacbee.com by Tony Biziak
The devastating Carr Fire continued to spread Saturday into rural areas of Shasta County, ...
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News Link • Texas
City report on Confederate monuments raises idea of renaming Austin
07-29-2018
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https://www.mystatesman.com By Philip Jankowski
Renaming of seven streets worthy of immediate action, report states, but renaming Austin not a simple matter.
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News Link • Media -**QQ**Fake News**QQ**
Tech firms should be made liable for 'fake news' on sites: UK lawmakers
07-29-2018
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reuters.com by Alistair Smout
Tech firms like Facebook (FB.O) should be made liable for "harmful and misleading" material on their websites and pay a levy so they can be regulated, British lawmakers said, warning of a crisis in democracy due to misuse of personal data.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Mattis: US Not Seeking Regime Change in Iran
07-29-2018
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AntiWar.com by Jason Ditz
Dismisses reports of planned US attack as 'fiction'
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Israeli DM Announces 400 More Settler Homes, Says Its Retaliation for Stabbing
07-29-2018
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AntiWar.com by Jason Ditz
New construction will take place near Ramallah
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News Link • Corbett Report
Episode 342 ?" Pricking the Filter Bubble
07-29-2018
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https://www.corbettreport.com
Recommended videos. Tailored newsfeeds. Personalized search results. Know it or not, we are increasingly living in filter bubbles that are being determined by algorithms we know nothing about.
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News Link • Housing
Housing Market Headed For "Broadest Slowdown In Years"
07-29-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
For those who have been focusing on corporate earnings, the stock market and the global economy, a more ominous - if under-reported - flashpoint has emerged in recent days after some scary housing market numbers were published over the past week...
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Meet Spot, the robot dog that can run, hop and open doors
07-29-2018
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https://www.ted.com, By Marc Raibert
That science fiction future where robots can do what people and animals do may be closer than you think. Marc Raibert, founder of Boston Dynamics, is developing advanced robots that can gallop like a cheetah, negotiate 10 inches of snow, walk upright
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News Link • Soros News
Bannon Sets Up For EU Showdown With George Soros
07-29-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
Steve Bannon plans to lead a populist revolt throughout Europe which, if successful, will crush George Soros and his network of open-border NGO's to smithereens, according to the Daily Beast.
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Here's How Systems (And Nations) Fail
07-29-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Charles Hugh Smith
These embedded processes strip away autonomy, equating compliance with effectiveness even as the processes become increasingly counter-productive and wasteful.
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News Link • United Kingdom
"An Unparalleled Economic & Political Crisis": Brexit Optimism Collapses...
07-29-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
"An Unparalleled Economic & Political Crisis": Brexit Optimism Collapses As Ministers Fear "Historic Catastrophe"
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News Link • Mexico
Record Murders Plague Mexico In First Half Of 2018: "The Figures Are Horrible"
07-29-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
Mexico's next president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor and outspoken critic of the political establishment - has a significant uphill battle once he is inaugurated as President on December 01: deadly violence in the count
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News Link • Sweden
Sweden Will Remain Sweden In Name Only
07-29-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By GEFIRA
For some time now the Gefira Team has been keeping track of the demographic processes that are taking place in Europe, especially in its Western part.
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News Link • Iran
Americans Overwhelmingly Reject Going To War With Iran, New Poll Finds
07-29-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
Americans are opposed to going to war against Iran by a more than two-to-one margin according to a new poll.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Lucasfilm confirms Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill will be in Star Wars: Episode IX
07-29-2018
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https://www.theverge.com, By Andrew Liptak
Today's casting announcement also includes Billy Dee Williams returning as Lando Calrissian
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Researchers Have Discovered a New Shape, and It's Inside Your Skin
07-29-2018
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https://motherboard.vice.com, By Michael Gaynor
The "scutoid" is a newly uncovered geometrical creation, and the secret to why our organs are shaped the way they are.
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News Link • France
Powder Keg Paris: As a devastating report reveals 300,000 illegal migrants are living...
07-28-2018
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http://www.dailymail.co, By ANDREW MALONE
Powder Keg Paris: As a devastating report reveals 300,000 illegal migrants are living in one French suburb... ANDREW MALONE explores the tensions in a community at odds with mainstream society
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News Link • Russia
7/21/18 Ray McGovern on Russiagate
07-27-2018
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https://scotthorton.org, by Scott
Ray McGovern discusses the recent indictment of 12 Russian operatives, and the "Russiagate" story in general.
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