 |
REAL TIME SPOT PRICES
Bitcoin Average: $80071.69
Gold: $4708.9 Change: $(25.60)
Silver: $84.49 Change: $(1.49)
|
|
|
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: 2009-05-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, May 1, 2009 PM edition |
1Q GDP fell 12.1% without falling imports -- Govt injecting veterans with cocaine for drug research
Phoenix: April Home Sales Reach Boom Time Levels -- Alleged Nazi Cleared For Deportation -- Top Senate Democrat: Bankers “own” US Congress -- Arizona 2009 job loss 10 times worse than expected -- Contractors paid $1,000 a day to supervise, design torture program -- Mish: Extreme Home Makeover Depression Edition II -- Taxpayers to get rude surprise from Obama's "Making Work Pay" tax credit -- Biosurveillance firm warned officials of flu 18 days before alert was issued
AZ: May Day Celebration this afternoon-evening
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Economy in Freefall: 1Q GDP fell 12.1 percent without falling imports
05-01-2009
•
Ritholtz.com/blog
What this means is that without the contribution from imports, GDP declined at 12.15% annual rate in Q1. In other words, all of the domestic activity was, as the employment numbers suggested, in free fall!
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • World News
Government injecting veterans with cocaine for drug addiction research
04-31-2009
•
Washington Examiner
Drug-addicted veterans are being injected with cocaine by researchers at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in taxpayer-funded studies, The Examiner has learned.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
|
News Link • Climate Change
Ozone Hole Purportedly Modifies Antarctic Winds
05-01-2009
•
arclein
Using satellite images of sea ice and computer models the scientists discovered that the ozone hole has strengthened surface winds around Antarctica and deepened the storms in the South Pacific area of the Southern Ocean that surrounds the continent.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
robert klein
|
News Link • Pandemic
Mass vaccination drill, in Alaska, puts health officials to practice
05-01-2009
•
ktuu.com
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska health officials and the Anchorage School District teamed up to prepare for a worst case scenario by practicing a mass dispensing of vaccines.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Xander Holman
|
News Link • Pandemic
Australians urged to stockpile food and water, but not to panic
05-01-2009
•
Sydney Morning Herald
The Federal Government's pandemic plan, a 132-page manual issued to medics, media and the public, insists that once the world reaches phase five, Australians should stock their pantries with food and bottled water to last 14 days
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Xander Holman
|
News Link • Housing
Phoenix: April Home Sales Reach Boom Time Levels
05-01-2009
•
HousingDoom.com
Higher end properties are going to have to drop their prices significantly to adjust to this market. That will tend to put downward pressure on all prices. High speculator participation and a cooling economy are also risk factors for the market.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Criminal Justice System
Alleged Nazi Cleared For Deportation
05-01-09
•
AP
CLEVELAND " A federal appeals court opened the way again Friday for the Justice Department to deport alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk to Germany to face 29,000 counts of accessory to murder.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Melinda Carey
|
News Link • Corruption
Top Senate Democrat: Bankers “own” the U.S. Congress
05-01-2009
•
infowars.com/ & Salon.com
Sen. Dick Durbin blurted out an obvious truth about Congress that, despite being blindingly obvious, is rarely spoken: "we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created " are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they f
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Arizona 2009 job loss may be 10 times worse than expected
05-01-2009
•
AZCentral.com
Arizona is expected to lose about 146,000 jobs this year, more than 10 times what was expected just six months ago, the Arizona Department of Commerce said Thursday in its semiannual employment forecast.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Torture
Contractors paid $1,000 a day to supervise, design torture program
05-01-2009
•
RawStory.com
Two former military officers, both psychologists, were paid $1,000 a day by the Central Intelligence Agency to supervise the torture and waterboarding of US detainees, according to a report published late Thursday.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Housing
Mish: Extreme Home Makeover Depression Edition II
05-01-2009
•
Michael Shedlock / Mish
Victorville- The housing collapse is taking a literal form for one bankrupt housing development. Four model homes and 12 nearly finished spec homes at Bear Valley Road and Highway 395 are being demolished.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • TAXES: Federal
Taxpayers to get rude surprise from Obama's "Making Work Pay" tax credit
05-01-2009
•
finance.yahoo.com/
Millions of Americans enjoying their small windfall from President Barack Obama's "Making Work Pay" tax credit are in for an unpleasant surprise next spring.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
H1N1 Flu Spreads to 11 Countries, Shutting Schools, Spurring Vaccine Hunt
05-01-2009
•
Bloomberg.com
Batches of seed virus are being developed for potential vaccine production, according to WHO. Paris-based Sanofi-Aventis SA, Baxter International Inc. of Deerfield, Illinois, and GlaxoSmithKline Plc of London are talking with world health authorities
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Biosurveillance firm warned officials of flu 18 days before alert was issued
05-01-2009
•
mcclatchydc.com/
A Washington state biosurveillance firm raised the first warning about a possible outbreak of swine flu in Mexico more than two weeks before the World Health Organization offered its initial alert about a public health emergency of international conc
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
Feature Article • Events: Arizona
May Day Celebration
Powell Gammill
You're invited to our May Day Festival in downtown Phoenix on May 1 from 5 - 8:15 PM. There will be light refreshments and a silent auction, but the highlight of the evening will be the Arizona premier of the full length documentary, “Made in L.
•
•
|
News Link • Science
Dinosaur Survivors of Yucatan
05-01-2009
•
arclein
With the large populations gone, the mammal populations obviously took off and began filling vacated niches as fast as possible including open plains needing large animals. The weakened ability of the large reptiles to rapidly reexpand their populat
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
robert klein
|
| Tags: freedoms, phoenix, archives, politics, libertarian, alternative, government, freedom |
|
|
Opinion • 
Opinion • 
Feature Article • 
Opinion • 
