 |
REAL TIME SPOT PRICES
Bitcoin Average: $63417.63
Gold: $4413.1 Change: $25
Silver: $65.65 Change: $0.06
|
|
|
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: 2009-10-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for October 17, 2009, Saturday edition |
Bill Shields Most Banks From Review -- U.S. Budget Deficit Widened to $1.42 Trillion
C.I.A. Is Still Cagey About Oswald Mystery -- Bailout Helps Revive Banks, and Bonuses -- Record-High Deficit May Dash Obama's Plans -- Trials Set For Police Chiefs Charged In Celebrity Surrogate Scandal -- Records withheld in Walmart nude photo case -- Obama Joker Artist Admits to Wrongdoing -- LatAm leftists tackle dollar with new currency -- The Gold Standard: A Standard for Freedom -- Death of Petro-Dollar -- Goldman Sachs-Robbing and Thieving The American Sucker-AGAIN -- Yes, Mass Extortion "Works" (for Some People) - by Larken Rose -- Dem officials set stage for corporate-backed health care campaign -- Arizona making way for creation of private toll roads -- Peter Schiff On Freedom Watch 10-15-09
|
News Link • Continental Congress 2009
Bill Shields Most Banks From Review
10-16-2009
•
NYT
Bowing to political pressure from community bankers, the House Financial Services Committee approved an exemption on Thursday for more than 98 percent of the nation’s banks from oversight by a new agency created to protect consumers from abusive or d
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
U.S. Budget Deficit Widened to $1.42 Trillion in 2009 (Update1)
10-16-2009
•
Bloomberg
The shortfall for the 12 months ended Sept. 30 was more than triple the $455 billion record set a year earlier, the Treasury Department said today in Washington.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
War game imagines Obama on the run
10-16-2009
•
Current
The year is 2011. President Obama has just outlawed the private ownership of firearms, announced that the Constitution has been dissolved and revealed that the United States is going to be replaced by the North American Union, an amalgamation of the
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
C.I.A. Is Still Cagey About Oswald Mystery
10-16-2009
•
NY Times
Is the Central Intelligence Agency covering up some dark secret about the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Probably not. But you would not know it from the C.I.A.’s behavior. For six years, the agency has fought in federal court to keep secret hundr
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bailout Helps Revive Banks, and Bonuses
10-16-2009
•
NY Times
One of the most powerful forces driving the resurgence on Wall Street is not the banks but Washington. Many of the steps policy makers took to stabilize the financial system helped set the stage for this new era of Wall Street wealth.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Obama Administration
Geithner, Summers, Bair on Wall Street
10-16-2009
•
Fox
In unprepared remarks given at a Wall Street conference hosted by The Economist magazine yesterday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner delivered this eye-brow-raising comment: “We’ve got unsustainable deficits over a five- to 10-year window.”The US
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Obama Administration
Record-High Deficit May Dash Obama's Plans
10-16-2009
•
Washington Post
The federal budget deficit soared to a record $1.4 trillion in the fiscal year that ended in September, a chasm of red ink unequaled in the postwar era that threatens to complicate the most ambitious goals of the Obama administration, including plans
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Climate Change
Media Cool To Global Warming
10-16-2009
•
AIM
Can it be true? Are the liberal media actually awakening to the climate reality that manmade global warming is a hoax perpetrated by environmental fear-mongers?
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Government
Obama urges people to serve their communities
10-16-2009
•
AP
Calling public service "the essence of our liberty," President Barack Obama urged Americans to step up and volunteer in their communities. "In the end, service binds us to each other and to our community and to our country in a way that nothing else
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Marriage
Judge's halt of interracial marriage sparks outrage
10-16-2009
•
AP
Louisiana's governor and a U.S. senator joined in calling for the ouster of a local official who refused to marry an interracial couple, saying his actions clearly broke the law. Keith Bardwell, a white justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish in th
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Trials Set For Police Chiefs Charged In Celebrity Surrogate Scandal
10-16-2009
•
WTOV
Trial dates have been set for two local police chiefs charged in connection with a celebrity surrogate scandal.
Martins Ferry Police Chief Barry Carpenter and Bridgeport Police Chief Chad Dojack appeared in a Belmont County court Friday for a stat
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Arizona's Top News
Peoria couple: Records withheld in Walmart nude photo case
10-16-2009
•
Arizona Republic
Tensions continue to grow between the state and a Peoria couple accused of sexual exploitation for taking nude photographs of their young daughters. Lisa and Anthony "A.J." Demaree, who are suing Walmart and Arizona for monetary damages, are now clai
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Neighbors thought dead man was Halloween display
10-16-2009
•
Breitbart
Residents of a Southern California apartment complex say they saw a lifeless body slumped on a neighbor's patio, but didn't call police because they thought it was part of a Halloween display.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Federal Reserve
Bonuses Put Goldman in Public Relations Bind
10-16-2009
•
Yahoo
A celebrated Goldman Sachs partner, Gus Levy, coined the maxim that long defined the bank, the savviest and most influential firm on Wall Street: “Greedy, but long-term greedy.”
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Obama Administration
ARTISTLIARTHIEF: Obama Artist Shepard Fairey Admits to Wrongdoing in Associated Press Lawsuit
10-16-2009
•
Big Hollywood
L.A. Times just dropped this blockbuster:
In a strange twist to an already complicated legal situation, artist Shepard Fairey admitted today to legal wrongdoing in his ongoing battle with the Associated Press.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Currencies
LatAm leftists tackle dollar with new currency
10-16-2009
•
Breitbart
Leftist Latin American leaders agreed here on the creation of a regional currency, the Sucre, aimed at scaling back the use of the US dollar.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Currencies
The Gold Standard: A Standard for Freedom
10-16-2009
•
Kitco
At one time the case for the gold standard was practically self-evident -- undisputed by most economists and appreciated by both layman and professionals. Today, however, the case for gold is buried under decades of propaganda, misconceptions, and m
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
|
News Link • Humor
LibertyShock Rants about Lighter Etiquette
10-15-09
•
http://Libertyshock.com
Hear our take on Lighter Etiquette. It's an important issue that require serious consideration.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Nick Visperas
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Death of Petro-Dollar, Told Ya So
10-16-2009
•
Golden Jackass
The story hit like a thief in the night, even bearing Biblical proportions. The end of the exlusive sale of MidEast oil in US Dollars, the rise of Russian and Chinese influence in the Persian Gulf, the rise in importance for the IMF basket of curren
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
|
News Link • Continental Congress 2009
Hedge fund leaders gain clout
Industry advances its own reform ideas
10-16-2009
•
Boston.com
- Hedge fund managers - a secretive, lightly regulated group portrayed by some as villains in last year’s financial meltdown - appear to have a new degree of clout on Capitol Hill in shaping legislation that will determine how they will be regulated.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Corruption
Dem officials set stage for corporate-backed health care campaign
10-16-2009
•
Politico
No quid pro quo was involved, they insist, as do the lobbyists themselves.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Continental Congress 2009
Barney Frank's Bad Loans
10-16-2009
•
Zero Hedge
On October 8, the New York Times wrote a story on the Federal Housing Administration (F.H.A.) stating:
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Obama Administration
Soros: "I Am D.C.'s Daddy"
10-16-2009
•
Economic Policy Journal
Rolfe Winkler is at the Buttonwood Conference in NYC.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Climate Change
Not Evil Just Wrong
10-16-2009
•
Economic Policy Journal
Kristin McMurray with I'm with the Not Evil Just Wrong emails:Our premiere is coming up this Sunday at 8pm.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Cartoons and Web Graphics
'Ho White and the Seven Dwarves' Beer Advert Angers Disney
10-16-2009
•
Telegraph.co.uk
A beer advertisment featuring a ranchy version of Snow White has reportedly raised the ire of Disney.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
|
News Link • Currencies
The Federal Reserve Is Openly Telling You To Buy Gold And Silver
10-16-2009
•
Daily Markets (HT NewsPundit)
At the end of last year, I began writing about what I saw happening as the Federal Reserve started assuming the liabilities of the investment banks and the federal government began deficit spending at an unprecedented pace.I’ve been calling these cha
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Depression
Recession Will Be 'Full-Blown Depression': Strategist
10-16-2009
•
CNBC (HT Newspundit)
This global recession will turn into a "full-blown depression," Nicu Harajchi, CEO of N1 Asset Management, said Friday, adding that global stimulus hasn't come down to Main Street.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Activism
In case you missed it: the Catherine Bleish arrest story as told by Catherine.
10-16-2009
•
Catherine via Freetalk Live
It was late at night but the movement answered the call. Hear about the threats, the abuse, the trumped up charges. Hear about a victimized community in need of our freedom message. Hear about the thugs who oppress people for profit.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Found Zero
|
News Link • China
Peter Schiff On Freedom Watch 10-15-09
10-16-2009
•
You Tube
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
| Tags: freedoms, phoenix, archives, politics, libertarian, alternative, government, freedom |
|
|
News Link • 
News Link • 
Reference Link • 
Opinion • 
Reference Link • 
