 |
REAL TIME SPOT PRICES
Bitcoin Average: $78897.55
Gold: $4680.2 Change: $(34.20)
Silver: $87.35 Change: $0.91
|
|
|
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: 2016-04-24
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Monday, April 25, 2016 |
401K Coming Crisis - Robbing Your Future for Govt. Employees
It's Now Cheaper To 'Buy' A Dry Bulk Freight Tanker Than A Starbucks Coffee -- Charles Koch: 'It's possible' Clinton is preferable to a Republican for president -- South Korean exports -- the world's economic 'canary in the coal mine' ... -- University of Florida Holds First Brain-Powered Drone Race -- Tesla Energy Reveals Powerpack Pricing, Starting From 200 kWh Of Storage -- Rigged process? Wait till Trump sees how Pennsylvania picks delegates -- Exclusive Interview: Seymour Hersh Dishes on Saudi Oil Money Bribes and the Killing... -- Line by line, how the US anti-encryption bill will kill our privacy, security -- Andrew Bacevich and America's Long Misguided War to Control the Greater Middle East -- Ominous Signals From The Red Ponzi--- -- Physicists Squeeze Water Molecules Into an Entirely New State -- Entire Police Force in Colorado Quits, Abandoning Their Posts -- Obama Escalates Brexit Fearmongering Campaign -- Daily Market: This page contains the latest Dry Bulk Shipping News -- Turkey's Erdogan Goes Full-Dictator: Arrests Dutch Journalist For Critical Tweet -- 10 Sci-Fi Dystopias That Are Everyday Realities Today -- Japan's Next Generation of Farmers Could Be Robots -- How to Find Water in the Wild -- Banking on New Mexico Releases Five-Year Financial Model -- Epigenetic Eugenics, The Population Control Of Today -- Solar Impulse 2 successfully completes flight to California after 62 hours -- Samsung SDI Drops Fuel Cell Business To Focus More Intensely On Batteries -- Charles Koch: 'It's possible' Clinton is preferable to a Republican for president -- Eurozone Ministers Fear "Stampede Risk" in Bonds if Schaeuble Gets His Way -- Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton: The Palestinian Defender vs. the Israel Apologist -- Hyper Vision -- Why Secrecy Rules Apply to Everyone -- White House Set To Release Secret Pages From Sept 11 Report -- Why Obama Opposes Brexit --
|
News Link • Stock Market
It's Now Cheaper To 'Buy' A Dry Bulk Freight Tanker Than A Starbucks Coffee
04-24-2016
•
Zero Hedge
Just 3 short months ago, we detailed how - thanks to the collapse in China's growth and massive commodity inventory gluts, the cost of renting a Dry Bulk Tanker was less than the cost of renting a ferrari for a day...
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Charles Koch: 'It's possible' Clinton is preferable to a Republican for president
04-24-2016
•
politico.com
Billionaire businessman Charles Koch said Sunday that "it's possible" another Clinton in the White House could be better than having a Republican president.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Drones
University of Florida Holds First Brain-Powered Drone Race
04-24-2016
•
motherboard.vice.com
An announcer shouts "Three, two, one, go!" and several drones take off, whizzing around a Florida gymnasium and racing towards the finish line.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Energy
Tesla Energy Reveals Powerpack Pricing, Starting From 200 kWh Of Storage
04-24-2016
•
insideevs.com
Tesla Energy launched its online ordering site for the Powerpacks energy storage systems.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rigged process? Wait till Trump sees how Pennsylvania picks delegates
04-24-2016
•
mcclatchydc.com
Voters admit they don't understand the way the Keystone State GOP chooses delegates
The campaigns seem adrift also in trying to explain a convoluted process
Which candidate do the people on the ballot favor? Voters left to guess
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Saudi Arabia
Exclusive Interview: Seymour Hersh Dishes on Saudi Oil Money Bribes and the Killing...
04-24-2016
•
http://www.alternet.org, By Ken Klippenstein
Exclusive Interview: Seymour Hersh Dishes on Saudi Oil Money Bribes and the Killing of Osama Bin Laden
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Surveillance
Line by line, how the US anti-encryption bill will kill our privacy, security
04-24-2016
•
http://www.theregister.co,
Analysis In the wake of the FBI's failed fight against Apple, Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) have introduced a draft bill that would effectively ban strong crypto.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Foreign Policy
Andrew Bacevich and America's Long Misguided War to Control the Greater Middle East
04-24-2016
•
theintercept.com
THE CONVICTION that invasion, bombing, and special forces benefit large swaths of the globe, while remaining consonant with a Platonic ideal of the national interest, runs deep in the American psyche.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Escalates Brexit Fearmongering Campaign
04-24-2016
•
mishtalk.com
President Obama stuck his face into Brexit campaign again today. Specifically, Obama warned a trade deal queue with the UK could last 10 years.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Stock Market
Daily Market: This page contains the latest Dry Bulk Shipping News
04-24-2016
•
dryships.com
Baltic Dry Index (BDI) +18 688
Rates
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Turkey
Turkey's Erdogan Goes Full-Dictator: Arrests Dutch Journalist For Critical Tweet
04-24-2016
•
Zero Hedge
One month ago, we cited Turkey's president Tayyip Recep Erdogan who said that "it is not only the person who pulls the trigger, but those who made that possible who should be defined as terrorists, regardless of their title," ...
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • History
10 Sci-Fi Dystopias That Are Everyday Realities Today
04-24-2016
•
https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Mark Oliver
Ray Bradbury once said, "I wasn't trying to predict the future. I was trying to prevent it." Really, that's the whole point of science fiction. The genre has never been about predicting new technologies. Instead, its purpose is to warn us abo
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • How To
How to Find Water in the Wild
04-24-2016
•
http://www.artofmanliness.com, Jeremy Anderberg
In any survival scenario, water is by far your most important resource. You can easily go a day without food, and usually don't need shelter right away, unless you're in freezing conditions.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Eugenics
Epigenetic Eugenics, The Population Control Of Today
04-24-2016
•
wearechange.org
In this video Luke Rudkowski interviews Mark Passio, researcher of the occult about today's current population control program that is being used against the people.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Solar Impulse 2 successfully completes flight to California after 62 hours
04-24-2016
•
theverge.com
After taking off from Kalaeloa Airport in Hawaii on Thursday, the Solar Impulse 2 successfully landed at Moffett Air Field in Mountain View, California last night. Pilot Bertrand Piccard spent a total 62 hours flying the solar-powered plane.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Charles Koch: 'It's possible' Clinton is preferable to a Republican for president
04-24-2016
•
politico.com
Billionaire businessman Charles Koch said Sunday that "it's possible" another Clinton in the White House could be better than having a Republican president.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • European Union
Eurozone Ministers Fear "Stampede Risk" in Bonds if Schaeuble Gets His Way
04-24-2016
•
mishtalk.com
German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble believes banks are too overloaded in the sovereign debt of their own countries.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton: The Palestinian Defender vs. the Israel Apologist
04-24-2016
•
truthdig.com
An amazing thing happened at the prime-time Democratic debate in Brooklyn on Thursday. A few days ahead of Tuesday's delegate-rich New York primary, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders dared to criticize Israel.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Hyper Vision
04-24-2016
•
Wired
The world's hottest startup isn't located in Silicon Valley--it's in suburban Florida. KEVIN KELLY explores what Magic Leap's mind-bending technology tells us about the future of virtual reality.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Criminal Justice System
Why Secrecy Rules Apply to Everyone
04-24-2016
•
theamericanconservative.com
Federal agencies relentlessly pursue suspected whistleblowers, while self-serving politicians escape punishment.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
White House Set To Release Secret Pages From Sept 11 Report
04-24-2016
•
Zero Hedge
Over the past several weeks, the White House has been very vocal about its opposition to both the Bipartisan Bill that would allow families of Sept 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for its involvement in the WTC attack, ...
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Trump says he's 'not toning it down,' drawing Clinton barbs
04-24-2016
•
By JILL COLVIN and WILL WEISSERT
A confident Donald Trump told supporters on Saturday that he's not changing his pitch to voters, a day after his chief adviser assured Republican officials their party's front-runner would show more restraint while campaigning.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Death
911 call in Ohio: 'There's blood all over the house'
04-24-2016
•
Sara Nealeigh and Doug Stanglin
The voice of the young woman who found the first of eight victims of execution-style killings in rural Ohio was breathless and distraught as she told the 911 dispatcher of her grim discovery: There was "blood all over the house" and the bodies of her
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Korea/North Korea
North Korea launches missile from submarine, South Korea says
04-24-2016
•
By Don Melvin, Jim Sciutto and Will Ripley
North Korea fired what is believed to be a submarine-launched ballistic missile off the east coast of the Korean peninsula, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said Saturday.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Internet
Facebook Hopes Its Antennas Will Force the Internet to Expand
04-24-2016
•
http://www.wired.com, CADE METZ
Facebook now builds wireless antennas that can beam Internet signals across cities and well beyond.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Drones
Inside the Devastation of America's Drone Wars
04-24-2016
•
Pratap Chatterjee and Tom Engelhardt
In our part of the world, it's not often that potential "collateral damage" speaks, but it happened last week.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Business/ Commerce
Boom: Largest Solar Energy Company SunEdison Files For Bankruptcy
04-24-2016
•
https://www.technocracy.news, CNBC
SunEdison, once the fastest-growing U.S. renewable energy company, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday as years of debt-fueled acquisitions proved unsustainable.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Bitcoin
MIT ChainAnchor - Bribing Miners to Regulate Bitcoin
04-24-2016
•
petertodd.org
Based on the information I have available to me, it appears that the MIT ChainAnchor Project is in part an attempt to get Bitcoin users.....
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Conspiracies
Doctors Who Discovered Cancer Enzymes in Vaccines all Found Murdered
04-24-2016
•
dcclothesline.com
Not long ago, Neon Nettle reported on the epidemic of doctors being murdered, most of which were in Florida, U.S. The scientists all shared a common trait, they had all discovered that nagalase enzyme protein was being added to vaccines which were th
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Syria
Cheney, Rothschild, and Fox News' Murdoch to Drill for Oil in Syria, Violating International Law
04-23-2016
•
http://thefreethoughtproject.com, Justin Gardner
Cheney, Rothschild, and Fox News' Murdoch to Drill for Oil in Syria, Violating International Law
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Russia
Russians and Chinese are ditching the dollar as Europeans start using renminbi in their...
04-23-2016
•
https://www.sovereignman.com, Simon Black
Russians and Chinese are ditching the dollar as Europeans start using renminbi in their reserves
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • New World Order
Flashback: Global Smart Grid Is Technocracy's Endgame
04-23-2016
•
https://www.technocracy.news, Patrick Wood
The dark horse of the New World Order is not Communism, Socialism or Fascism: It is Technocracy.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • China
Soros Warns China Credit Cycle Has Gone "Parabolic" Just To Keep Zombies Alive
04-23-2016
•
http://www.zerohedge.com,
After warning last year of a "practically unavoidable" hard-landing to come in China, George Soros unleashed his central-planner-crushing self last night on the great red ponzi.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Stock Market
"Something Disturbing Happened" - A Futures Trader Has Some Words Of Warning
04-24-2016
•
Zero Hedge
Two days after we posted a note by a commodity trader according to whom "What Is Happening Has Absolutely No Reasonable Explanation" late last night we received another warning from a futures trader, ...
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Criminal Justice System
FBI May "Leak" Clinton Email Probe If DOJ Blocking Continues
04-24-2016
•
Zero Hedge
The feud between the FBI and the Department of Justice over whether or not to proceed with charges against Hillary Clinton in the ongoing email investigation just took an unexpected turn.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Government Debt & Financing
US Taxpayer Is Now A Major Counterparty To Wall Street Derivatives
04-24-2016
•
Zero Hedge
According to a study released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in March of last year, U.S. taxpayers have already injected $187.5 billion into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two companies that prior to the 2008 financial crash traded on the New Y
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Gun Rights
What Would America Look Like If We Removed Urban Gun Violence From Our Society?
04-24-2016
•
ammoland.com
he left wing gun grabbers talk all about how guns are not an urban problem. I mean Bill Clinton may not see it this way, but his wife sure does.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
John Stossel Reveals He Has Lung Cancer, Says 'Hospitals Are Lousy at Customer Service'
04-24-2016
•
people.com
Fox Business Network's John Stossel has revealed he is suffering from lung cancer.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Books
Happy Birthday, "Shakespeare"!
04-24-2016
•
LewRockwell
April 12 marked the 450th birthday of the writer we know as "William Shakespeare." Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was born on April 12, 1550.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Currencies
Flashback - Carbon Currency: A New Beginning for Technocracy?
04-23-2016
•
https://www.technocracy.news, Patrick Wood
Critics who think that the U.S. dollar will be replaced by some new global currency are perhaps thinking too small.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
| Tags: freedoms, phoenix, archives, politics, libertarian, alternative, government, freedom |
|
|
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
Feature Article • 
Feature Article • 
Opinion • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
