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Date Sent: 2018-08-06
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, August 6, 2018 |
America's Billionaires Battle Each Other For Political Control Over Europe
America's Billionaires Battle Each Other For Political Control Over Europe -- "I'm Totally Freaked Out": Brazil's Elite Fleeing Bloodshed And Chaos -- New FBI Docs Reveal Agency Paid Steele, Admonished Him, And Strzok Sat On Weiner Probe -- Blue Origin staffing up and pushing for 2020 New Glenn launch -- Patrick Stewart is returning as Star Trek Captain Picard on CBS streaming -- Not Just Fangs: Manias and Echo Bubbles Abound -- Gold...Yuan...Crypto... -- "Reverse-Wealth-Effect" Looms As Global Housing Bubble Pops -- Google Declares Angela Merkel 'Leader of the Free World' -- Kentucky Democratic Sec Of State: Rand Paul Can Be Beaten, Just Ask His Neighbor -- You Think The Tesla Model 3 Supercharges Fast Now? Just Wait … -- No Hub, No Wheel: The Future of E-bikes? -- Tesla Model 3 Outsold All Mercedes-Benz Cars Combined -- How Criminals Recruit Telecom Employees to Help Them Hijack SIM Cards -- Welfare Spending Did Not Decrease Poverty, Capitalism Did -- Watch a Russian Jet Sink Ship With a Supersonic Missile in Drills (VIDEO) -- RED PILL NATION: 2/3rds of Russians Believe World Government Exists - Poll -- Here's Why Rip-Roaring Inflation Is Inevitable -- Russia Slams Leak Of Secret Memo On US-Moscow Cooperation in Syria -- Memo To Krugman: 7 Problems Cryptocurrency Solves -- The "Magnitsky Trio" Pushes For War With Russia With New Sanctions -- Streaming TV Doubles During Second Quarter, Report Says -- Facebook's Attention Machine, Explained -- Yummy: Lab-Grown Hamburger -- The Deep State Intends To Destroy Alex Jones-- -- China main SpaceX competitor as Russia is giving up -- Blue Origin staffing up and pushing for 2020 New Glenn launch -- Newseum apologizes for selling "fake news" t-shirt -- After SpaceX Starlink upgrading to terabit space satellite internet -- NASA 3D Printed Mars Habitat Design winners --
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News Link • Globalism
America's Billionaires Battle Each Other For Political Control Over Europe
08-06-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Eric Zuesse
A contest for political control of Europe is gearing up between two American teams, one headed by the long-established George Soros, and the other now being set up by the upstart Steve Bannon, US President Donald Trump's former campaign-manager.
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News Link • Brazil
"I'm Totally Freaked Out": Brazil's Elite Fleeing Bloodshed And Chaos
08-06-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Amid the economic, political, and social collapse, Brazil has been described by many as being in the midst of a "zombie apocalypse" as years of corruption and violence spectacularly implodes all at once.
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News Link • FBI
New FBI Docs Reveal Agency Paid Steele, Admonished Him, And Strzok Sat On Weiner Probe
08-06-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
In the last 48 hours, the FBI has released two caches of documents through their "FBI Vault" website related to the 2016 US election.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Blue Origin staffing up and pushing for 2020 New Glenn launch
08-06-2018
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nextbigfuture.com by brian wang
Jeff Bezos is increasing the staff of his rocket company Blue Origin to 3000 people over the next two or three years.
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Patrick Stewart is returning as Star Trek Captain Picard on CBS streaming
08-06-2018
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nextbigfuture.com by brian wang
Patrick Stewart is returning as Star Trek Captain Picard in a new streaming TV series. It will not be a Star Trek Next Generation reboot.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Stock Market
Not Just Fangs: Manias and Echo Bubbles Abound
08-06-2018
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https://moneymaven.io/mishtalk by Mike Mish Shedlo
It's not just the FANGs investors should be worried about. A Tweet and an article explain.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold...Yuan...Crypto...
08-06-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Dr.D
It's been a while since we last heard from Dr. D, but here he's back explaining why neither gold nor the yuan nor cryptocurrencies can or will replace the dollar as the reserve currency, but together they just might:
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News Link • Housing
"Reverse-Wealth-Effect" Looms As Global Housing Bubble Pops
08-06-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by John Rubino
Just a few months ago, real estate was on fire.
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News Link • World News
Google Declares Angela Merkel 'Leader of the Free World'
08-06-2018
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https://www.prisonplanet.com, by Breitbart
Thanks to its reliance on information from Wikipedia, the top Google search result for "leader of the free world" is not the President of the United States, with whom the term is normally associated, but crisis-engulfed German Chancellor Angela M
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News Link • Kentucky
Kentucky Democratic Sec Of State: Rand Paul Can Be Beaten, Just Ask His Neighbor
08-06-2018
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https://www.prisonplanet.com, by Daily Caller
Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes reportedly joked on Friday that Rand Paul "can be beaten," referring to the 2017 assault on the Kentucky senator by a neighbor.
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News Link • Transportation
You Think The Tesla Model 3 Supercharges Fast Now? Just Wait …
08-06-2018
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https://insideevs.com, by GEORGE BOWER
We are estimating 626 miles per hour charging speeds on Gen 3 Superchargers for the first half of the charge.
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News Link • Scams
How Criminals Recruit Telecom Employees to Help Them Hijack SIM Cards
08-06-2018
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by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Sources who work for some of America's major cellphone carriers tell us how criminals are trying to recruit them to help find new targets.
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News Link • Welfare: Social
Welfare Spending Did Not Decrease Poverty, Capitalism Did
08-06-2018
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https://fee.org, by Daniel J. Mitchell
Some argue that the big-government welfare state is to thank for the reduction in global extreme poverty levels, but they're just plain wrong.
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News Link • Russia
Watch a Russian Jet Sink Ship With a Supersonic Missile in Drills (VIDEO)
08-06-2018
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https://russia-insider.com, by Tyler Durden
Kh-31 was the first supersonic anti-ship missile in the world when it was first introduced
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News Link • Russia
RED PILL NATION: 2/3rds of Russians Believe World Government Exists - Poll
08-06-2018
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https://russia-insider.com
Meet the most woke white country in the world, not counting, perhaps, Croatia, and well, probably Ukraine.
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News Link • Russia
Russia Slams Leak Of Secret Memo On US-Moscow Cooperation in Syria
08-06-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
There's been a number of hugely significant developments in Syria at the end of this week -- all of which point to the war's end, with President Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian Army ultimately emerging firmly victorious.
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News Link • Sanctions
The "Magnitsky Trio" Pushes For War With Russia With New Sanctions
08-06-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tom Luongo
If half of what I have come to understand about the Curious Case of Bill Browder is true, then the "Magnitsky Trio" of Senators John McCain, Lindsay Graham and Ben Cardin are guilty of espionage, at a minimum.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Streaming TV Doubles During Second Quarter, Report Says
08-06-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
As a result of the accelerating cord-cutting trend, streaming TV increased in the second quarter, according to a new report from Conviva, a real-time measurement and intelligence platform for many of the world's largest streaming TV publishers, whi
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Yummy: Lab-Grown Hamburger
08-06-2018
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https://moneymaven.io/mishtalk by Mike Mish Shedlo
Mosa Meat receives $8.8 million in investment as the race to produce lab-grown meat ramps up.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
China main SpaceX competitor as Russia is giving up
08-06-2018
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nextbigfuture.com by brian wang
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has stated that it is not worth it for Russia to compete for space launches against SpaceX and China.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Blue Origin staffing up and pushing for 2020 New Glenn launch
08-06-2018
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nextbigfuture.com by brian wang
Jeff Bezos is increasing the staff of his rocket company Blue Origin to 3000 people over the next two or three years.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Media -**QQ**Fake News**QQ**
Newseum apologizes for selling "fake news" t-shirt
08-05-2018
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https://www.axios.com, Lauren Meier
Following substantial criticism over selling t-shirts adorned with the phrase: "You Are Very Fake News," the Newseum has issued an apology for selling the product, adding it has removed the shirts from the gift shop and online store.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
After SpaceX Starlink upgrading to terabit space satellite internet
08-05-2018
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nextbigfuture.com by brian wang
It's going to cost the mobile-phone companies, chipmakers, device manufacturers and software developers about $200 billion a year in research and capital spending to get 5G fully deployed.
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News Link • 3D Printing
NASA 3D Printed Mars Habitat Design winners
08-05-2018
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nextbigfuture.com by brian wang
NASA announced winners of the 3D printed Mars habitat design challenge.
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News Link • China
Airbnb tempts travelers with a night on the Great Wall of China
08-05-2018
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https://newatlas.com, Adam Williams
Airbnb has come up with another of its clever marketing stunts that offers competition winners a stay in one-of-a-kind locations. In a similar vein to its underwater bedroom and Lego House experiences, it's now offering the opportunity to spend one n
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Hair of the Dog
08-05-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Bionic Mosquito
Well, it has been quite the ride. Jordan Peterson and Christianity…quite an engaging topic. I have decided to stop responding to comments at the post â€" very complicated and I don't think I could keep up. Instead, perhaps a few thoughts here.
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News Link • Gun Rights
David Hogg protests outside NRA HQ -- protected by armed guards?
08-05-2018
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http://www.theamericanmirror.com, By Kyle Olson
Anti-gun protester David Hogg hates guns -- but apparently not enough to not be protected by them.
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News Link • Illinois
59 shot, eight dead in Chicago since Friday
08-05-2018
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http://abc7chicago.com, By Diane Pathieu
Dozens of people were wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday, police said.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Syrian Army Finds US Arms, Israeli Food in Militant Depot in Quneitra
08-05-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, Sputnik News
The find is the latest cache of foreign-made weapons discovered by the Syrian Army as it wraps up its operations against the terrorists in the country's south.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Edward Snowden: 5 Years In Russia & Still Relevant As Ever
08-05-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Seraphim Hanisch
TASS reported that August 1 was the five year anniversary of Edward Snowden's being granted temporary asylum in the Russian Federation.
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News Link • Courtroom and Trials
Cliven Bundy Vows To Fight DOJ Appeal Of Dismissal In Standoff Trial Case
08-05-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Chris White
The Nevada rancher who led a standoff with the federal government nearly four years ago is vowing to fight the Department of Justice's move to appeal a judge's decision to dismiss an indictment against the man.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Carbon nanotube reinforced graphene is twice as tear resistant
08-05-2018
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nextbigfuture.com by brian wang
Fracture-resistant "rebar graphene" is more than twice as tough as pristine graphene.
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News Link • Darpa
DARPA wants to speed up computers by over 1000 times while using less power
08-05-2018
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nextbigfuture.com by brian wang
DARPA has revealed the research teams selected to drive two efforts to go beyond Moore's law.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
In 5 years Lab Grown organs could start helping 115,000 in the US waiting for organs
08-05-2018
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nextbigfuture.com by brian wang
Bioengineered lungs have been grown in a Texas lab and transplanted into adult pigs with no medical complication.
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
South Africa On The Brink Of A Race War
08-05-2018
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https://yournewswire.com, Baxter Dmitry
South Africa is teetering on the brink of a race war after President Jacob Zuma called on parliament to pass a law allowing white-owned land to be "confiscated" by blacks without any form of compensation.
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