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Date Sent: 2018-08-08
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, August 8, 2018 |
Why it's time for Trump to play his ace in the hole
ALEX JONES, BIG TECH, AND THE DEEP STATE -- Why it's time for Trump to play his ace in the hole -- Elon Musk going from two public companies in 2016 to none -- Tesla shorts will get a final loss of about $2.7 billion -- How One Deleted Scene Turns Star Wars into a Struggle against Socialism -- Winning an Arms Race in Space Remains a Futile Fight -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein's Ties To China Go Way Deeper Than An Alleged Office Spy -- WikiLeaks says Senate panel requested Assange testimony for Russia probe -- Toddler's Popsicle-by-Air Marks Milestone in U.S. Drone Delivery -- Mortgage Purchase Applications Decline 4th Week, Refinancing Lowest Since 2000 -- Personalised AI-powered robots are getting more sociable... -- Get Ready for a Massive Government Spending Spree -- Oscars Won't Televise All Awards Live, Adds Popular Film Category -- Advocates condemn psych techniques used to keep kids online -- Tesla Board Responds To Musk LBO Plan Amid Furious Controversy, And One Burning Question -- Political War! Washington Goes Full Retard on the Russia Hoax -- INSIDE MAGIC LEAP'S QUEST TO REMAKE ITSELF AS AN ORDINARY COMPANY... -- More Lies About the White Helmets -- Intel Professionals Plead for Humanitarian Asylum for Julian Assange -- The Fantasy Of "Balanced Returns" Funding Retirement -- Why Is the Nanny State so Popular? -- "What They Did Was Unacceptable": Saudis To Dump Canadian Assets "No Matter The Cost* -- The Set-Up: No outcome can ever be allowed to produce the headline 'Trump Triumphs!' -- New Hampshire Dems Dump Clinton From Fundraising Dinner -- Rand Paul Delivers Letter From Trump To Putin -- Tesla and Elon Musk better proceed to vote on going private or Elon could be in trouble -- EXCLUSIVE: 'Thank you Apple, Facebook and YouTube!'... -- The Attack On Infowars is Deep State Cyber Warfare -- Optical Neural Network Demo Chip -- Chorus radio waves are one million times more intense near Jupiter's moon Ganymede --
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News Link • Trump Administration
Why it's time for Trump to play his ace in the hole
08-08-2018
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https://nypost.com, By Michael Goodwin
You return from a great vacation and POW -- reality hits like a punch in the nose. And that's not counting the hassle of New York airports and traffic.
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News Link • Energy
Elon Musk going from two public companies in 2016 to none
08-08-2018
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nextbigfuture.com by brian wang
Elon Musk Tesla and Solarcity were both publicly trading from 2012 to 2016. Tesla went public June 29, 2010. Solarcity went public Dec 12, 2012.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Stock Market
Tesla shorts will get a final loss of about $2.7 billion
08-08-2018
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nextbigfuture.com by brian wang
There were about 34 million Tesla shares that were shorted.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
How One Deleted Scene Turns Star Wars into a Struggle against Socialism
08-08-2018
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https://fee.org, by Grayson Quay
This scene in which Biggs urges Luke to fight to defend the free market did not make it into the final film.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Winning an Arms Race in Space Remains a Futile Fight
08-08-2018
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https://consortiumnews.com, by Jonathan Marshall
Donald Trump is not the first U.S. president to want to militarize life beyond Earth. But that is a bankrupt approach, believes Jonathan Marshall.
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News Link • Senate/Senators
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's Ties To China Go Way Deeper Than An Alleged Office Spy
08-08-2018
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http://thefederalist.com, By Ben Weingarten
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's warm relationship with and advocacy for Communist China go back decades and involve millions, if not billions, of dollars.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Investigations
WikiLeaks says Senate panel requested Assange testimony for Russia probe
08-08-2018
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http://thehill.com, By Morgan Chalfant
WikiLeaks is claiming that the Senate Intelligence Committee has asked its founder, Julian Assange, to testify as part of the panel's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
Toddler's Popsicle-by-Air Marks Milestone in U.S. Drone Delivery
08-08-2018
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https://www.bloombergquint.com, Alan Levin
From her home in a wooded hollow in Virginia hill country, Brianna Smith and her two-year-old son Jack entered the aviation record books on Tuesday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
Mortgage Purchase Applications Decline 4th Week, Refinancing Lowest Since 2000
08-08-2018
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https://moneymaven.io, by Mike Mish Shedlock
Mortgage applications are yet another sign that housing has peaked this cycle.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Personalised AI-powered robots are getting more sociable...
08-08-2018
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk, Joe Pinkstone
Personal home robots that can socialise with people are starting to roll out of the laboratory and into our living rooms and kitchens. But are humans ready to invite them into their lives?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Get Ready for a Massive Government Spending Spree
08-08-2018
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https://www.nextgov.com, By Frank Konkel
A combination of factors will see federal agencies trying to spend as much as 40 percent of their budgets in the final two months of the fiscal year.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Oscars Won't Televise All Awards Live, Adds Popular Film Category
08-08-2018
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www.hollywoodreporter.com, by Scott Feinberg
The Academy's board of governors has approved several major changes to the tradition-bound ceremony's format in the hope of retaining the dwindling number of Oscars telecast viewers it still has and luring others back into the fold ahead of the 91st
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Children
Advocates condemn psych techniques used to keep kids online
08-08-2018
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yahoo.com, Lindsey Tanner and Matt o'Brien
Children's advocates want the American Psychological Association to condemn the tech industry's practice of using persuasive psychological techniques to keep kids glued to their screens.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Tesla Board Responds To Musk LBO Plan Amid Furious Controversy, And One Burning Question
08-08-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Update: almost one day after the Musk tweet, Tesla Board members Brad Buss, Robyn Denholm, Ira Ehrenpreis, Antonio Gracias, Linda Johnson Rice, and James Murdoch, finally issued a statement:
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News Link • United States
Political War! Washington Goes Full Retard on the Russia Hoax
08-08-2018
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https://original.antiwar.com, by David Stockman
It's hard to identify anything that's more uncoupled from reality than the Donald's Trade War and reckless Fiscal Debauch. Together they will soon monkey-hammer today's delirious Wall Street revilers and send main street's aging and anemic
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
INSIDE MAGIC LEAP'S QUEST TO REMAKE ITSELF AS AN ORDINARY COMPANY...
08-08-2018
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https://www.wired.com, by JESSI HEMPEL
INSIDE MAGIC LEAP'S QUEST TO REMAKE ITSELF AS AN ORDINARY COMPANY (WITH A REAL PRODUCT)
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News Link • Wikileaks
Intel Professionals Plead for Humanitarian Asylum for Julian Assange
08-08-2018
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by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
For six years, WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange has been effectively imprisoned without charges at Ecuador's London embassy.
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News Link • Retirement
The Fantasy Of "Balanced Returns" Funding Retirement
08-08-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Charles Hugh Smith
Consider how a "balanced portfolio" yielding "balanced returns" worked out for middle class retirees in Venezuela.
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News Link • Police State
Why Is the Nanny State so Popular?
08-08-2018
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https://fee.org, by Bill Wirtz
The idea of consumer protection remains important for governments because consumers have been taught to perceive themselves as victims.
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News Link • Saudi Arabia
"What They Did Was Unacceptable": Saudis To Dump Canadian Assets "No Matter The Cost*
08-08-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Update 2: Saudi foreign minister Adel Al-Jubeir has made a new statement - attempting to talk back The Kingdom's rhetoric somewhat (or perhaps avoid sending its Canadian asset prices tumbling into a firesale).
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News Link • Trump Administration
The Set-Up: No outcome can ever be allowed to produce the headline 'Trump Triumphs!'
08-08-2018
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by Vin Suprynowicz
At https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2018-08-07/trump-shadow-looms-over-elections-in-ohio-kansas , The Associated Press advises us at noontime (EDST) today, Aug. 7, that an "Ohio Race Pits Trump Coalition Against Democrats' Resistance
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News Link • New Hampshire
New Hampshire Dems Dump Clinton From Fundraising Dinner
08-08-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
It's not been a great couple of weeks for former President Bill Clinton. Having been heckled by angry Dutch hookers in Amsterdam, Hillary's husband has been scrubbed from the New Hampshire Democratic Party's annual fundraising dinner.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Rand Paul Delivers Letter From Trump To Putin
08-08-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
In a move that has already gotten him branded as the latest Russian spy by the #resistance, Senator Rand Paul said he delivered a letter from US President Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin's administration, with Moscow saying that it will consider it
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Tesla and Elon Musk better proceed to vote on going private or Elon could be in trouble
08-08-2018
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nextbigfuture.com by brian wang
Elon Musk could be in trouble if Tesla does not vote on the going private offer at $420.
Elon Musk twitter announcement on the buyout could look like stock fraud if they do not out the offer to a vote.
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News Link • Censorship
EXCLUSIVE: 'Thank you Apple, Facebook and YouTube!'...
08-08-2018
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk, by RYAN PARRY
EXCLUSIVE: 'Thank you Apple, Facebook and YouTube!' Alex Jones claims 5.6 million people have subscribed to Infowars newsletter in 48 hours as he calls 'bull***t' on tech giants who have blocked the conspiracy theorist's content
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Optical Neural Network Demo Chip
08-08-2018
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nextbigfuture.com by brian wang
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made a silicon chip that distributes optical signals precisely across a miniature brain-like grid, showcasing a potential new design for neural networks.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Chorus radio waves are one million times more intense near Jupiter's moon Ganymede
08-08-2018
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nextbigfuture.com by brian wang
The power of electromagnetic chorus radio waves are a million times more intense near the Jovian moon Ganymede, and 100 times more intense near the moon Europa than the average around these planets.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Incident Above Earth
08-08-2018
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arclein
Then suddenly I woke in what seemed like a hospital room. The first thing I noticed was I was laying on what appeared to be a hospital bed. I immediately assumed I'm in a hospital. As I realize there is no way I could be in a hospital I began to loo
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Menacing Bigfoot in Kentucky
08-08-2018
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arclein
As they started to head back on the highway, a large hairy bi-pedal creature stepped out of a wooded gully along the road (near Applegate Run) and stood in front of the truck. It was illuminated by the headlights...approximately 10 foot away from the
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Was That My Friend?
08-08-2018
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arclein
g. When I turned around I saw my friend walk off the trail about 100 feet ahead of me, and walk towards the edge of the lake. He had this mischievous grin on his face. I kept my eye on him as I walked towards where he stepped off the trail; I had the
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Red Toothy Humanoid Appears in the Night
08-08-2018
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arclein
When I turned over, I saw something that I just couldn't believe, and I sat up quickly in order to stay aware. I saw in the middle of my room, squatting by my doorway, a humanoid figure. It had red leathery skin, It was apparently male as it was sh
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News Link • Bitcoin
Fundstrat's Tom Lee: Bitcoin Misery Index Signal Crypto "Isn't Broken"
08-08-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Helen Partz
Bitcoin (BTC) "isn't broken" if it's holding at the current price and volatility levels, Fundstrat's Tom Lee said to CNBC's "Fast Money" on August 6.
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News Link • Free Speech
Apple, Google, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter Subvert the US Constitution, Free Speech...
08-08-2018
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By Paul Craig Roberts
Apple, Google, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter Subvert the US Constitution, Free Speech, and American Liberty
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News Link • World News
Breaking: 5 Arrested in Plot to Assassinate US Pastor Brunson & the CIA Connection
08-08-2018
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https://www.newsbud.com, by SIBEL EDMONDS
In this breaking news report, Newsbud's Founder & Editor Sibel Edmonds uncovers bombshell reports of a plot to assassinate the American pastor being detained in Turkey, Andrew Brunson.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Trump boasts he went '5 for 5' in Tuesday's elections
08-08-2018
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http://thehill.com, By Jordan Fabian
President Trump on Wednesday boasted that all five candidates he endorsed in this week's elections won their races, even as contests in Ohio and Kansas were too close to call.
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News Link • New York
Upstate New York Congressman Chris Collins pleads not guilty to federal insider trading charges
08-08-2018
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nydailynews, By Rich Schapiro and Khadija Hussain
Insider trading was a family affair for upstate New York congressman Chris Collins, federal prosecutors charged Wednesday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Wikileaks
US Senate Calls On Julian Assange To Testify
08-08-2018
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Zero Hedge - Tyler Durden
Julian Assange has been asked to testify before the US Senate Intelligence Committee as part of their Russia investigation, according to a letter signed by Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Mark Warner (D-VA) posted by the official WikiLeaks Twitter a
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Stock Market
Market Stunned After Musk Discloses Intention To LBO Tesla, Lawsuits Threatened
08-07-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Update 10: After all that, nobody has any idea what just happened, and a word being increasingly thrown around is lawsuit. As Yahoo's Rick Newman writes, if the LBO deal described by Musk with "funding secured" is true, it's a boon for shareholders
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
The Social Media Purge
08-08-2018
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LewRockwell.Com - Jeff Deist
The state and its cronyist friends have built a world that seeks to silence our perspectives. We must recognize that arguments and content mean nothing if conduits for disseminating them are shut down.
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