 |
REAL TIME SPOT PRICES
Bitcoin Average: $79712.07
Gold: $4683.9 Change: $(50.60)
Silver: $85.24 Change: $(0.73)
|
|
|
ARCHIVED NEWSLETTER |
|
Sign up
to receive the Freedom's Phoenix Headlines by Email. |
|
HELP FUND FREEDOM'S PHOENIX!
Make a one-time or periodic contribution.
Use your credit card or PayPal account. |
|
Join us on our
Social Networks |
Share this page with your friends
on your favorite social network:
|
 |
|
|
|
Date Sent: 2009-03-07
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, March 7, 2009 |
Madoff Is Expected to Plead Guilty on Thursday -- Court Puts Off Decision On Indefinite Detention
Freedom Bank of Georgia Seized, 17th U.S. Failure This Year -- Surging U.S. Unemployment Rate Pressures Obama for More Action -- ‘Going Galt’: Everyone’s Doing It! -- Mafia Cops keep their pensions -- Federal Courts in Va., N.Y. May Take Some Guantanamo Cases -- Obama To Lift Stem Cell Taxpayer Funding -- Right Doubling Down On Ayn Randism -- Ron Paul agitates Jim Baker over War Powers -- Unnatural Disaster - by Thomas Woods -- US and Russia discuss disarmament -- Immigration Socialism - by Jacob Hornberger -- Hutto Detention Center to Remain Open
AZ: This Morning Arizona Breakfast Club – PhotoRadar Enforcement
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Surging U.S. Unemployment Rate Pressures Obama for More Action
03-06-2009
•
Bloomberg
The jump in the U.S. unemployment rate to the highest level in a quarter century last month suggests the recession is deeper than the Obama administration forecasts and additional measures may be needed to restart growth.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Freedom Bank of Georgia Seized, 17th U.S. Failure This Year
03-06-2009
•
Bloomberg
Freedom Bank of Georgia was seized by regulators, the 17th bank closed this year, as the recession persists and a jump in unemployment pushed more borrowers behind on home loan payments.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Economy - International
Lloyds Said to Cede Control to U.K. to Tap Government Insurance
03-06-2009
•
Bloomberg
Lloyds Banking Group Plc, Britain’s biggest mortgage lender, will cede control to Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s government in exchange for tapping a guarantee program backing 260 billion pounds ($367 billion) of assets, two people familiar with the p
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Criminal Justice System
Madoff Is Expected to Plead Guilty on Thursday
03-06-2009
•
NY Times
Bernard L. Madoff is expected to plead guilty on Thursday to charges that he operated a worldwide $50 billion Ponzi scheme, according to court documents filed late Friday.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Mafia Cops keep their pensions
03-06-2009
•
NY Times
3years ago Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito, were convicted of serving as assassins and spies for the Mafia while they were employed as detectives for the Police Department. Because they retired before they were accused of crimes, their pensions
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
‘Going Galt’: Everyone’s Doing It!
03-06-2009
•
NY Times
The right has a new hero to lead the Tea Party revolts Rick Santelli started: John Galt.
According to the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, sales of Atlas Shrugged hit an all-time high last year, and have “almost tripled” in the first seven w
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Criminal Justice System
Federal Courts in Va., N.Y. May Take Some Guantanamo Cases
03-06-2009
•
Washington Post
Federal authorities have finished compiling detailed electronic dossiers on 241 detainees who remain in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and interagency review teams have begun studying the individual files. The process could see som
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Torture
Court Puts Off Decision On Indefinite Detention
03-06-2009
•
Washington Post
The Supreme Court yesterday vacated a lower court's ruling that the president has the right to indefinitely detain a legal U.S. resident as a terrorism suspect, and put off a decision on one of the most expansive legal claims of the Bush administ
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Domestic Policy
Obama To Lift Ban on Stem Cell Taxpayer Funding
03-06-2009
•
Washington Post
President Obama's decision to lift restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, scheduled to be announced Monday, is expected to provide a major boost to one of the most promising but controversial fields of biomedical r
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • NeoCons
The Great Non Sequitur
03-06-2009
•
Washington Post
Forget all of this. This is run-of-the-mill budget trickery. True, Obama's tricks come festooned with strings of zeros tacked onto the end. But that's a matter of scale, not principle.
All presidents do that. But few undertake the kind of
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Humor
Chuck Norris says if Ron Paul says a Politician is dishonest he will choke them unconscious
03-06-2009
•
YouTube
Chuck Norris on Glenn Beck (Fox News)
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • World News
UK's Business Secretary Lord Mandelson Slimed
03-06-2009
•
news.sky.com
Leila Deen, an activist from campaign group Plane Stupid, covered the politician in pea-green goo as he got out of his ministerial car.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Obama Administration
CHAVEZ CALLS ON OBAMA TO FOLLOW PATH OF SOCIALISM
03-06-2009
•
Drudge
...the "only" way out of the global recession. "Come with us, align yourself, come with us on the road to socialism. This is the only path. Imagine a socialist revolution in the United States,"
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jim Cramer On "Colbert Report" Night After Jon Stewart's CNBC Rant
03-06-2009
•
Colbert Report
Colbert told Cramer. "I got your back here. How dare people like Robert Gibbs or, for that matter, that pinko jon Stewart, attack you after all that you have done? What is it you do again?
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Obama Administration
White House Pushes Back On Budget Attack By Citing George H.W. Bush
03-06-2009
•
HuffingtonPost.com
After all, George H. W. Bush used the same practice during the final stages of the Cold War, and was vindicated.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Right Doubling Down On Ayn Randism
03-06-2009
•
HuffingtonPost.com
The newest fantasia is "going Galt" - in which the fabulously affluent "withdraw" from "producing" which somehow leads to the end of civilization.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Police State
Leviathan’s Plan for Emergency: No Thanks!
03-06-2009
•
Gary D. Barnett for LewRockwell.com
While the concept of government-run, military-style detention centers is not a new idea, another and new step toward this end has recently taken place.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Unnatural Disaster
03-06-2009
•
Thomas Woods for LewRockwell.com
If politicians are honest in seeking a culprit, they will find that it’s not capitalism. It’s not greed. It’s not deregulation. It’s an institution created by government itself.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Fox Admits To Planting Political Brainwashing In Popular TV Shows
03-06-2009
•
PrisonPlanet.com
Corporation boasts of “inserting messages” about global warming into hit shows like The Simpsons, 24, Prison Break & Family Guy
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Kepler Spacecraft Blasts Off to Hunt Earth-Like Worlds
03-06-2009
•
Space.com
NASA's new planet-hunting Kepler telescope launched into space late Friday, lighting up the night sky above Florida as it began an ambitious mission to seek out Earth-like planets around alien stars.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Colbert calls Hannity's praise for Rush 'obsequious crack-licking'
03-06-2009
•
RawStory.com
Seeing a pattern in the rush by Republicans to compliment Rush Limbaugh immediately after they have offended him and been castigated for it on his radio show, Steven Colbert theorized that FOX's Sean Hannity must have said something truly horrend
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Foreign Policy
US and Russia discuss disarmament
03-06-2009
•
Al Jazerra
The United States and Russia plan to have a new disarmament agreement by the end of the year, Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has said.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Immigration
Immigration Socialism
03-06-2009
•
FFF / Jacob Hornberger
Mr. Libertarian, you support socialist central planning in immigration and argue that it can work in that arena. Well, then as a can-do people Americans should be able to make socialism work in public schooling and healthcare as well.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Brock Lorber
|
News Link • Drug War
Obama, You're No Stranger to the Bong: An Open Letter to the President
03/04/09
•
Reason TV
Thank you, President Obama, for keeping your campaign pledge to end raids on medical marijuana dispensaries that are legal under state laws in California and elsewhere.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ken Demyen
|
News Link • Humor
Alien captured on CCTV (or Fun With Big Brother)
03/06/09
•
Youtube
How an 8 foot alien was spotted on CCTV cameras prompting 3 police cars to respond to the scene in Bournemouth, UK. James Sanger,music producer of Keene tells the story.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ken Demyen
|
News Link • Immigration
Hutto Detention Center to Remain Open
03-06-2009
•
Community Impact Newspaper
The ACLU and its clients claimed the facility was being run as a prison, with child detainees forced to remain inside cells most of the day while wearing prison uniforms. [FEMA, shmeema. Get excited about REAL detention camps.]
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Brock Lorber
|
News Link • History
Gandhi Items, Sold To Airline Magnate, Will Go To India
03-06-2009
•
International Herald Tribune
Mallya pledged through a representative to return the items to India for public display. But Prabhu Dayal, the Indian consul general in New York, said, "There is still a legal matter to be resolved,"...
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
|
| Tags: freedoms, phoenix, archives, politics, libertarian, alternative, government, freedom |
|
|
News Link • 
Feature Article • 
Feature Article • 
Opinion • 
Feature Article • 
