 |
REAL TIME SPOT PRICES
Bitcoin Average: $63441.38
Gold: $4218.3 Change: $7.6
Silver: $67.91 Change: $0.68
|
|
|
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: 2011-04-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, April 19, 2011 PM edition |
Britain to send military advisers to Libya -- Debt warning rocks US economy
Michigan: Police Search Cell Phones During Traffic Stops -- Syria 'lifts emergency law' -- LIBYAN REBEL WAR CRIMES: The Videos America Doesn’t Want You To See -- U.S. Gov’t Agency Plans $2.84 Billion Loan for Oil Refinery—In Colombia -- Obama’s testy exchange with a reporter: ‘Let me finish my answers’
-- Fox News host Shepard Smith praises WikiLeaks -- Western Wars Are
for Oil? -- Secret memo shows JFK demanded UFO files 10 days before
death -- China Urges US to Protect Creditors After S&P Warning
-- Ron Paul Supports U.S. Interest with Israel -- Paul Farrell On The
10 "Doomsday Trends" Set To Destroy America -- Fed Aims at Mortgage
Fraud, Shoots Housing Market in the Gut -- The Colonial "Axis of Evil" Prepares for the Invasion of Libya -- Americans Shun Cheapest Homes in 40 Years as Owning Loses Appeal -- Interest on National Debt is Biggest Projected Problem, Not Healthcare -- The Israeli Lobby's Poisonous Influence on US Policy -- Hundreds of NYPD cops may be punished for fixing parking tickets
-- Cursing makes you feel better when hurt: study -- Gunman kills two
inside Afghan defence ministry -- Snipers, cluster bombs panic Libya’s
Misrata -- Oklahoma passes law to restrict Westboro Baptist protests -- Koch Industries buying ads to refute news stories -- Video: Robots Finally Enter Crippled Japanese Nuclear Reactor, Find High Radiation Levels
|
News Link • WAR: About that War
Britain to send military advisers to Libya
04-19-2011
•
english.aljazeera.net
Foreign minister says team will be sent to help support Libya's opposition council, but will not train or arm rebels.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Debt warning rocks US economy
04-19-2011
•
RawStory.com
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's has cut the outlook on US sovereign debt to "negative", raising doubts about Washington's ability to tackle its huge debt and fiscal deficits.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • Government
Syria Meets New Defiance With Bullets and a Warning
04-19-2011
•
nytimes.com
The government in Syria tried to placate protesters with declarations of reform
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • WAR: About that War
Libyan rebels get organized
04-19-2011
•
english.aljazeera.net
Recently, the rebels' tactics and organization have improved, and they now resemble a trained militia, if not an army.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • Government
US denies seeking Assad's ouster
04-19-2011
•
english.aljazeera.net
State department says it isn't undermining Syria's regime, after WikiLeaks exposed financing of opposition groups.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • Surveillance
Michigan: Police Search Cell Phones During Traffic Stops
04-19-2011
•
TheNewspaper.com
ACLU seeks information on Michigan program that allows cops to download information from smart phones belonging to stopped motorists.
The Michigan State Police have a high-tech mobile forensics device that can be used to extract information from c
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Justin Tyme
|
News Link • Government
Syria 'lifts emergency law'
04-19-2011
•
english.aljazeera.net
Government approves bill lifting emergency law, in place for 48 years, following demands by pro-democracy protesters.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • NATO
Pretext For War On Libya Proven Fraudulent By Casualty Figures
04-19-2011
•
prisonplanet.com
Data clearly shows Gaddafi has not deliberately targeted innocent civilians
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • Energy
U.S. Gov’t Agency Plans $2.84 Billion Loan for Oil Refinery"In Colombia
04-19-2011
•
prisonplanet.com
The U.S. Export-Import Bank, an independent agency of the federal government, is now planning a $2.84-billion loan for a massive project to expand and upgrade an oil refinery"in Cartagena, Colombia.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • Obama Administration
Obama’s testy exchange with a reporter: ‘Let me finish my answers’
04-19-2011
•
RawStory.com
President Barack Obama had a few testy exchanges during a White House interview with a local Texas reporter who berated and interrupted him several times.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • Whistleblowers
Fox News host Shepard Smith praises WikiLeaks
04-19-2011
•
RawStory.com
Documents released by the secrets outlet seem to be “the only straight answers we get any more.”
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Tuesday April 19th, 2011
04-19-2011
•
lewrockwell.com
The EU Crack-Up - Lew Rockwell on the inevitable outcome of conglomeration, fiat money, fractional banks, and bailouts. / The Real Reason for the 'Civil War' - Believe none of the official tales, says Kirkpatrick Sale. / Egypt's Revolution Has Just B
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • Energy
Western Wars Are for Oil?
04-19-2011
•
dailybell.ch
Capitalism always seeks to exploit the worker and is always expansive. Wars are always those of exploitation.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • Conspiracies
Secret memo shows JFK demanded UFO files 10 days before death
04-19-2011
•
aolnews.com/
Two of them were written by Kennedy on the same date, Nov. 12, 1963 -- 10 days before his assassination. One was to the CIA director, asking for UFO files (See JFK Doc 2); the other was to the NASA administrator...
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Housing
Realtor Housing Propaganda Backfires On Believers
04-19-2011
•
Market-ticker.org
Yep. They were pumping that $8,000 "credit" for buying a house, remember? How'd it work out?
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • China
China Urges US to Protect Creditors After S&P Warning
04-19-2011
•
CNBC.com
China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that the United States must take "responsible" measures to protect investors in its debt after Standard & Poor's threatened to lower its credit rating on the United States due to a bulging budget deficit.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Just For Fun!
Wishin' I was fishin'. (These boys don't even use a pole!)
04-19-2011
•
www.youtube.com
The challenge here is keeping alert so that you don't get hit in the face by a 20 lbs. fish as it jumps in your boat!!!!
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Chip Saunders
|
News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
BRICS Make Move to Shove Dollar Aside
04-18-2011
•
Yahoo Finance
China, India, Russia and Brazil just spent their entire summit meeting discussing the system that will replace the US dollar as the world's reserve currency.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Chip Saunders
|
News Link • Israel
Ron Paul Supports U.S. Interest with Israel
04-19-2011
•
Newsmax.com
Evangelical Christian minister Doug Wead weighs in on a misleading fundarising letter circulated by Gary Bauer and David Horowitz about a recent foreign aid bill Ron Paul sponsored.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Paul Farrell On The 10 "Doomsday Trends" Set To Destroy America
04-19-2011
•
ZeroHedge.com
“Collapse may come much more suddenly than many historians imagine. Fiscal deficits and military overstretch suggests that the United States may be the next empire on the precipice.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • New World Order
Getting Off The Globalist Chessboard: An Introduction
04-19-2011
•
ZeroHedge.com
To put it simply, America is nearing a checkmate scenario. Like the final torrid maneuvers of a rigged chess match, we have been pressed, manipulated, and attacked into the last remaining corner of the “grand global chessboard” left to us...
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Housing
Housing Completions Plunge To All Time Low
04-19-2011
•
ZeroHedge.com
Of note is the completions number in one unit structures which came at what is probably a record low 374k. But since nobody cares about the actual final outcome...
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Aims at Mortgage Fraud, Shoots Housing Market in the Gut
04-19-2011
•
OfTwoMinds.com/blog
Just when the country needs the most experienced and knowledgeable mortgage professionals to help liquidate the flood of foreclosed homes, the Fed is making it unprofitable for loan officers to accept these deals."
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Foreign Policy
The Colonial "Axis of Evil" Prepares for the Invasion of Libya
04-19-2011
•
InformationClearingHouse.info
[I]t is impossible to imagine a future for Libya with Qaddafi in power,” wrote Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, and David Cameron in a joint article published simultaneously in the New York Times and several European newspapers...
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Housing
Americans Shun Cheapest Homes in 40 Years as Owning Loses Appeal
04-19-2011
•
Bloomberg.com
“I know people who have watched their home values get cut in half, and I know people who are losing their homes,” said Pauli, 31, who works as a property manager for a real estate company. “It’s part of the American dream to want to own your...
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Interest on National Debt is Biggest Projected Problem, Not Healthcare
04-19-2011
•
GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
My biggest complaints against Obama's budget plan and the budget plan of Paul Ryan are: Neither plan balances the budget soon enough
Both ignore interest on the national debt
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Entertainment: Movies
What Conservatives Can Learn from the Atlas Shrugged Film Fiasco
04-19-2011
•
Pajamas Media
As of this writing, the popular Internet site RottenTomatoes.com is showing a pathetic 8% “fresh tomatoes” (positive reviews) for the long-awaited screen adaptation of Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged.
Even though Rand, an Objectivist, was an
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Justin Tyme
|
News Link • China
Roubini on China
04-19-2011
•
arclein
I’m writing on the heels of two trips to China during which I met with senior policy makers, bank executives and academics, just as the government launched its 12th Five-Year Plan, intended to rebalance the long-term growth model. My meetings deepene
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
robert klein
|
News Link • Agriculture
Continuing Expose on Colony Collapse Disorder
04-19-2011
•
arclein
Some beekeepers, worried by the collapse of their bee colonies in recent years, are pointing a finger this month at a class of insecticide (neo-nicotinoids) that they think is responsible for lowering the insects' resistance to disease.
R
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
robert klein
|
News Link • Science
Particle Discovery Creates Buzz
04-19-2011
•
arclein
he discovery comes from an atom smasher called the Tevatron at the Fermilab physics laboratory in Batavia, Ill. Inside the accelerator there, particles are ramped up to near the speed of light as they race around a 4 mile (6.3 km) ring. When two part
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
robert klein
|
News Link • Energy
Utility Grade Battery Storage in Texas
04-19-2011
•
arclein
That's one big battery. Such technology is likely to become crucial as wind farms become ever larger but erratic suppliers of electricity to the grid. In wind-blown West Texas, the region's massive turbine farms can generate more electricity than t
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
robert klein
|
News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Hundreds of NYPD cops may be punished for fixing parking tickets
04-18-2011
•
Kase Wickman via The Raw Story
The New York Police Department may fire up to 400 cops at the conclusion of a widespread corruption investigation. Anonymous sources inside the department told the New York Post that cops who were found to have "fixed" tickets would be let go.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
News Link • Military
Gunman kills two inside Afghan defence ministry
04-18-2011
•
The Raw Story
An Afghan army infiltrator opened fire inside the defence ministry in Kabul on Monday, killing two soldiers and wounding seven in an audacious strike on the heart of government claimed by the Taliban.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
News Link • Military
Snipers, cluster bombs panic Libya’s Misrata
04-18-2011
•
The Raw Story
Snipers, cluster bombs and intense shelling are spreading panic in Misrata, an AFP reporter said on Monday, as a doctor reported 1,000 people killed in six weeks of fighting in the besieged city.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
News Link • Government
Oklahoma passes law to restrict Westboro Baptist protests
04-18-2011
•
Eric W. Dolan
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed a bill into law Monday that restricts members of the Westboro Baptist Church from protesting at military funerals.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
News Link • Media: Internet
Koch Industries buying ads to refute news stories
04-18-2011
•
Eric W. Dolan
Koch Industries has launched a website and is buying advertisements on Google and Facebook to counter news stories critical of the politically-active company.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Video: Robots Finally Enter Crippled Japanese Nuclear Reactor, Find High Radiation Levels
04-18-2011
•
Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Nudging open a door with its extendable arm, a bomb-disposal robot became the first robot to enter a reactor building at Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, confirming high radiation levels that are unsafe for humans.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
| Tags: freedoms, phoenix, archives, politics, libertarian, alternative, government, freedom |
|
|
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
Feature Article • 
Feature Article • 
News Link • 
Feature Article • 
Feature Article • 
Opinion • 
