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Date Sent: 2018-12-17
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Monday, December 17, 2018 |
Lasers help keep CubeSats on target to handle large data downlinks
Escobar: How The New Silk Roads Are Merging Into Greater Eurasia -- Sears gets approval to pay $25.3 million in bonuses to top execs after filing for bankruptcy -- Das: "The Bubble Is Losing Air. Get Ready For A Crisis" -- Hanson: House Prices Are More Vulnerable Than Most Think -- New Rules of engagement between Syria and Israel, as Russia changes its position -- The Festering Social Rift Over Pensions -- "Peak TV": Streaming Originals Overtake Basic Cable -- FBI Docs Reveal: "Flynn Was Not Lying Or Did Not Think He Was Lying" -- Mysterious 'UFO' drifts past Elon Musk's SpaceX capsule sparking claims it's proof.. -- China Warns of Escalation Over Huawei Incident -- North Korea Slams Hostile US Sanctions and Pressure -- Ukraine's Putschist Regime Planning Belligerent Provocation Along Russia's Border -- The Clinton Foundation Racket -- Groups Exposing Israeli High Crimes Receive French Human Rights Award -- US Medicare-For-All & Big-Tech: The Future Of Mass Patient Surveillance -- Rich Americans Say Money Trumps Love In Relationships -- US Commits To "Indefinite" Occupation Of Syria; Controls Region The Size Of Croatia -- California Devastated Utility Proposes $2 Billion Rate Hike To Fund "Wildfire Safety" -- Trump Working On Extraditing "Coup-Plotting" Erdogan Foe Gulen, Turkish FM Claims -- Ancient, never-looted tomb discovered in Egypt -- The Bizarre Viral Story Of The Professor Who Hired Mercenaries To Rescue A Student From ISIS -- Former FBI SSA Exposes McCabe & Mueller's "Unethtical, Target & Destroy Coercion" Tact -- Russia's New Rules Of Engagement In Syria -- "I Know How To Cut Well" - Erdogan Reveals More Audio Of Khashoggi Killing -- Bare-Breasted 'Mariannes' Face Off With French Police; -- Mueller Destroyed Messages From Peter Strzok's iPhone; OIG Recovers 19,000... -- The Supreme Court Judgement And Scotland's Colonial Status -- 'I think he is a terrible human being': -- From self-drivers to auto-expansion chambers: Amazing camping trailers of 2018 --
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News Link • Communications
Lasers help keep CubeSats on target to handle large data downlinks
12-16-2018
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https://newatlas.com, David Szondy
An MIT team is working on a new aiming system that will allow CubeSats to use lasers for high-bandwidth communications with Earth.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Escobar: How The New Silk Roads Are Merging Into Greater Eurasia
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Pepe Escobar
Russia is keen to push economic integration with parts of Asia and this fits in with China's Belt and Road Initiative...
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Sears gets approval to pay $25.3 million in bonuses to top execs after filing for bankruptcy
12-17-2018
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https://thehill.com By Aris Folley
A U.S. bankruptcy court on Friday reportedly approved Sears's request to pay as much as $25.3 million in bonuses to the company's top executives and high-ranking employees, just months after the company filed for bankruptcy.
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News Link • Central Banks/Banking
Das: "The Bubble Is Losing Air. Get Ready For A Crisis"
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Satyajit Das
The shift to tighter monetary policies in the West is weakening credit markets. Over-indebted emerging markets face headwinds from rising borrowing costs and dollar shortages... Investors need to focus on their response to financial stresses in an er
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News Link • Housing
Hanson: House Prices Are More Vulnerable Than Most Think
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Mark Hanson
Dear Fellow Housing Market Observers,
This is my last note of the year and it deals with house prices into the next cycle.
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News Link • Syria
New Rules of engagement between Syria and Israel, as Russia changes its position
12-17-2018
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https://ejmagnier.com by Elijah J Magnier
Syria will adopt a new rule of engagement with Israel now that Russia has taken a tougher and clearer stance on the conflict between Israel and the "Axis of the Resistance".
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News Link • Pensions
The Festering Social Rift Over Pensions
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Adam Taggart
Why does he get to retire and I don't?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
"Peak TV": Streaming Originals Overtake Basic Cable
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
A brand new report from FX Research determined that for the first time, more scripted television shows were released by online streaming platforms like Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix in 2018 than aired on basic cable, pay cable and broadcast television.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • FBI
FBI Docs Reveal: "Flynn Was Not Lying Or Did Not Think He Was Lying"
12-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Sara Carter
The Special Counsel's Office released key documents related to former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn Friday.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
US Medicare-For-All & Big-Tech: The Future Of Mass Patient Surveillance
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tho Bishop
As tech executives continue to be grilled in front of Congress, the growing Bernie Sanders-wing of the Democratic Party is preparing to push its misnamed "Medicare for All" into the political mainstream after its political gains in the midterms.
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News Link • General Opinion
Rich Americans Say Money Trumps Love In Relationships
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
Bloomberg has obtained a new report that reveals the truth about money and relationships in the upper echelon of society.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
US Commits To "Indefinite" Occupation Of Syria; Controls Region The Size Of Croatia
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
"We don't want the Americans. It's occupation" -- a Syrian resident in US-controlled Raqqa told Stars and Stripes military newspaper. This as the Washington Post noted this week that "U.S. troops will now stay in Syria indefinitely, controlling a th
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
California Devastated Utility Proposes $2 Billion Rate Hike To Fund "Wildfire Safety"
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
One month after the stock and bonds of troubled California Utility Pacific Gas & Electric cratered after the company hinted of a liquidity crisis as a result of mounting legal obligations following California's destructive Camp Fire, shocking and inf
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump Working On Extraditing "Coup-Plotting" Erdogan Foe Gulen, Turkish FM Claims
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
One month after speculation swirled that as part of the detente between the White House and Turkey - and attempts to silence Turkey's ongoing disclosures of Jamal Khashoggi 's demise at the hands of Saudi operatives - Trump was quietly preparing to e
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News Link • Archaeology
Ancient, never-looted tomb discovered in Egypt
12-17-2018
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https://nypost.com By Eileen AJ Connelly
Egypt announced the discovery of an "exceptionally well preserved" ancient tomb--and the best part may be, it's never been looted.
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News Link • Positive News
The Bizarre Viral Story Of The Professor Who Hired Mercenaries To Rescue A Student From ISIS
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
An epic and unheard of story of a rescue operation to free a graduate student from ISIS captivity is grabbing world headlines after it was revealed that a professor at a Swedish university financed and put together the whole plan by hiring mercenarie
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News Link • Investigations
Former FBI SSA Exposes McCabe & Mueller's "Unethtical, Target & Destroy Coercion" Tact
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com Via SaraCarter.com
Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent Robyn Gritz has asked SaraACarter.com to post her letter to Judge Emmet G. Sullivan in support of her friend and colleague retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, who will be sentenced on Dec. 18.
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News Link • Syria
Russia's New Rules Of Engagement In Syria
12-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Elijah Magnier
Syria will adopt a new rule of engagement with Israel now that Russia has taken a tougher and clearer stance on the conflict between Israel and the "Axis of the Resistance".
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News Link • Turkey
"I Know How To Cut Well" - Erdogan Reveals More Audio Of Khashoggi Killing
12-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
During a Friday speech at an event in Istanbul, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed new details from the audio recording of the Dec. 2 Jamal Khashoggi murder, quoting a section of the tape wherein one of the Saudi killers said, "I know ho
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News Link • France
Bare-Breasted 'Mariannes' Face Off With French Police;
12-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
Bare-Breasted 'Mariannes' Face Off With French Police; Tear Gas, Pepper Spray Used On Protesting Yellow Vests
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News Link • Investigations
Mueller Destroyed Messages From Peter Strzok's iPhone; OIG Recovers 19,000...
12-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
Mueller Destroyed Messages From Peter Strzok's iPhone; OIG Recovers 19,000 New "FBI Lovebird" Texts
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News Link • World News
The Supreme Court Judgement And Scotland's Colonial Status
12-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com
London's Supreme Court, sitting in judgement on its Scottish colony, has ruled that parts of the Scottish Government's UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Legal Continuity) (Scotland) Bill exceed the powers of the Scottish Parliament.
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News Link • Trump Administration
'I think he is a terrible human being':
12-16-2018
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By KEITH GRIFFITH and FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
'I think he is a terrible human being': Embarrassment for Trump's new chief of staff Mick Mulvaney as video emerges of him revealing his contempt for the President during 2016 election campaign
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News Link • Transportation
From self-drivers to auto-expansion chambers: Amazing camping trailers of 2018
12-16-2018
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https://newatlas.com, C.C. Weiss
Not that 2017, 2016, or other years of recent memory didn't have moments of their own, but 2018 really seemed to be the year of weird, wild camping trailers.
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News Link • Trump Inauguration
Judicial Watch: Documents Reveal Obama State Department Urgently Provided...
12-16-2018
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https://www.prisonplanet.com, Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch: Documents Reveal Obama State Department Urgently Provided Classified 'Russiagate' Documents to Multiple Senators Immediately Ahead of Trump Inauguration
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