 |
REAL TIME SPOT PRICES
Bitcoin Average: $80140.55
Gold: $4663.8 Change: $(49.90)
Silver: $80.27 Change: $0.05
|
|
|
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: 2009-10-05
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, October 5, 2009 AM edition |
8 US Troops Die in Attack on Afghan Outpost -- Obama to tackle military gay ban at 'right time'
Obama Kowtows to China -- Martial Law Is Their Business, And Business Sure Is Swell -- A Lighter Damnation: "Clemency" for Veronica Rodriguez and Daryl Buck -- Man raided for Tweeting about what he heard on police scanner --
Texas DA Accused of Stealing From Motorists Wants To Defend Herself
With The Booty -- The Wrongful Execution of Cameron Todd Willingham -- Family Says 911 Tape Caught Cops Planning Cover-Up After Shooting -- Rampant Fraud and Ponzi Scheme Caused Crisis -- Dr. Ron Paul speaker at Freedom Summit -- 5 Years After SpaceShipOne: Commercial Spaceflight Ready for 'Go' -- Stock Market Crash /Collapse Dead Ahead Say Faber, Rogers, Dent and Celente --
APF Spokeswoman Breaks Down During Press Conference -- China's 60 Years
of Communism military parade -- Judge Accused of Trading Sex for
Leniency -- Police Chiefs Endorse Anti-Terror Community Watch -- Kidnapped infant kidnapped again . . . by the state -- Billions in US aid never reached Pakistan army -- Afghan soldier shoots dead two American troops -- Boosting a Brain Wave Makes People Go Slo-Mo -- Ahmadinejad revealed to have Jewish past
|
News Link • WAR: About that War
Eight U.S. Troops Die in Attack on Afghan Outpost
10-04-2009
•
Washington Post
Firing rockets and rifles, Taliban militiamen attacked American and Afghan military outposts in a daylong siege on Saturday that killed 8 U.S. soldiers and two Afghan security forces in one of the deadliest battles in months, according to U.S. and Af
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Obama Administration
Obama to tackle military gay ban at 'right time'
10-04-2009
•
AP
President Barack Obama will focus "at the right time" on how to overturn the "don't ask, don't tell" ban on gays serving openly in the military, his national security adviser said. "I don't think it's going to be " it's not years, but I think it will
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • General Opinion
The Mistake of Compromise
10-04-2009
•
Christine Smith's Blog
Worthy goals, for yourself, as well as worthy goals for society, will never be achieved by compromise of your principles.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Christine -
|
News Link • China
Obama's Meeting With the Dalai Lama Is Delayed
10-04-2009
•
Washington Post
In an attempt to gain favor with China, the United States pressured Tibetan representatives to postpone a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Obama until after Obama's summit with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, scheduled for next month,
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Police State
Martial Law Is Their Business, And Business Sure Is Swell
10-04-2009
•
Pro Liberate
When company personnel rolled into town in a convoy of black Mercedes SUVs embossed with seals advertising a non-existent "City of Hardin Police Department,"the company's payroll has increased by at least one, and possibly two, key local figures.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Criminal Justice System
A Lighter Damnation: "Clemency" for Veronica Rodriguez and Daryl Buck
10-04-2009
•
Pro Liberate
Veronica Rodriguez and Daryl Buck were both residents of Oregon when they were convicted of first-degree sexual assault on a child younger than 14 years of age. Neither case involved coercion, seduction, or nudity. In fact, neither case involved actu
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Police State
Queen man raided for Tweeting about what he heard on police scanner
10-04-2009
•
Blog of Bile
FBI anti-terrorism agents raided the Queens (NY) home of a self-described anarchist charged with tweeting protesters with instructions on how to evade police at the (Pittsburg, PA) G-20 summit.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Criminal Justice System
Texas DA Accused of Stealing From Motorists Wants To Defend Herself With Money She’s Accused of Stea
10-04-2009
•
The Agitator
The town’s police had been pulling over motorists along a main highway, seizing their property (cars, cash, jewelry, etc.), then presenting them with an unsavory bargain: Sign a waiver forfeiting all of their property over to the police, or be arrest
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Surveillance
Brewery's Nanny State beer swipe
10-04-2009
•
BBC News (h/t The Agitator)
A brewery has launched a low alcohol beer called Nanny State after being branded irresponsible for creating the UK's "strongest beer". Campaigners welcomed the 1.1% alcohol Nanny State but said the name showed a lack of appreciation of the problem
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Death Penalty
Nightline: The Wrongful Execution of Cameron Todd Willingham
10-04-2009
•
Youtube (h/t The Agitator)
A September 17, 2009, Nightline report on the execution of an innocent man in Texas. Cameron Todd Willingham was convicted and executed of arson murder based mainly on discredited arson analysis.
Now that all of the evidence against Willingham has
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Gun Rights
Mayor Against Illegal Guns
10-04-2009
We are honored that more than 450 mayors from big cities and small towns from across the country have joined the coalition of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, and we welcome other mayors to stand with us. We are committed to working with our fellow mayor
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Federal Reserve
Expert on Structured Finance and Derivatives: Rampant Fraud and Ponzi Scheme Caused Crisis
10-04-2009
•
Washington;s Blog
Wall Street supplies a swinging door of jobs for its financial regulators, and"in the case of many members of Congress and our Presidents"campaign contributions. This dependence is known as “capture,” and the result is that instead of reigning in Wal
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Corruption
Material, Non-Public Information? Why JPMorgan Does Not Care; And Why If You Are A Corporate Insider
10-04-2009
•
Zero Hedge
A recurring theme on Zero Hedge over the past few months has been the inordinate (and seemingly inexplicable if one takes at face value the arguments for an improving economy) amount of insider selling of corporate shares, which has reached a stagger
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
Feature Article • Federal Reserve
LewRockwell.com - October 4th 2009
Ernest Hancock
The Fed Fighter - A NY Times interview with Ron Paul / There Is No 'Jobless Recovery' There is no recovery at all, says Peter Schiff / How Goldman Sachs Persuades the Senate An inside look from Matt Taibbi. NB: some bad language.
•
•
|
News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
5 Years After SpaceShipOne: Commercial Spaceflight Ready for 'Go'
10-04-2009
•
Space
Its victory was hailed by the banner: "SpaceShipOne, Government Zero." It has been five years since SpaceShipOne screamed its way into the history books as the first privately built and financed manned craft to reach space. While that roar from the s
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Housing
Quality Tenants (North/Northeast Phoenix)
10-04-2009
I don't want my Son and Daughter-in-Law to buy a house right now. My son and daughter in law both have good jobs and a newborn and are looking for larger place to buy. My wife is a real estate agent and has been shopping with them for weeks. As pri
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Singularity Summit 2009: Open The Pod Bay Door, HAL
10-04-2009
•
Popular Science
Ray Kurzweil's concept of the Singularity rests on two axioms: that computers will become more intelligent than humans, and that humans and computers will merge, allowing us access to that increased thinking power. So it only makes sense to begin the
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
CAUTION: Stock Market Crash /Collapse Dead Ahead Say Faber, Rogers, Dent and Celente
10-04-2009
•
MarketOracle
For those that follow contrarian investors like Marc Faber, Jim Rogers, Gerald Celente and Harry Dent, this should come as no surprise.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Police State
APF Spokeswoman Breaks Down During Press Conference
10-04-2009
•
PrisonPlanet.com
A sobbing spokeswoman for the secretive company occupying the Hardin jail welcomed an investigation by Montana’s attorney general Friday and expressed concerns for her own safety amid rumors about her company.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Military
Ex-Darpa Chief Joins D.C. Lobbying Firm
10-04-2009
•
Wired
Former Darpa director Tony Tether is joining a Washington-area lobbying firm best known for its influence on Capitol Hill. But Tether " who served for more than seven years as the head of the Pentagon’s premiere research arm " says he won’t be doing
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Greenspan: No Second Stimulus, We're "Getting Close" To End Of Job Losses (VIDEO)
10-04-2009
•
Huffington Post
Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Sunday that the U.S. economy was "getting close" to the point where it would stop losing jobs. But during his appearance on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Greenspan also predicted that the level
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Foreign Policy
IAEA sets Iran inspection date
10-04-2009
Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will examine Iran's newly disclosed uranium enrichment plant on October 25, the chief of the UN nuclear watchdog has said.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Obama Administration
Economic Recovery " A Cruel Deception
10-04-2009
•
PakAlert Press
The usurper in the White House has pushed through the same flavor programs as FDR with the blessing of the crooks in Congress. One of the most unconstitutional New Deal swindles was the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA). This Act was passed in
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Water on the Moon: Hydrogen, Oxygen and Energy (VIDEO)
10-04-2009
The surprising discovery of Hydrogen at the Moon's South Pole is a tantalizing hint that there may be ice in the deep shadowed craters. Humanity may be granted an unexpected giant step to the stars. But we must have the guts to actually take it.
C
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Unhygienic German men voted the worst in bed and Spanish men voted best
10-04-2009
First the good news. English men make better lovers than the Germans.
Now the bad news. We are trailing behind the rest of the world when it comes to the language of love.
What was it that led 15,000 well-travelled women to come to such an igno
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
|
News Link • WAR: About that War
Is US strategy in Afghanistan working?
10-04-2009
•
Christian Science Monitor
Almost eight years into the war, Afghanistan, and to a lesser extent Iraq, now offer the purest test yet of a fighting doctrine that is rapidly sweeping the US military. While counter-insurgency methods were used by the US Army at various times throu
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Wingnuts Unite: Ron Paul Joins Michelle Bachmann in Weirdest Town Hall Ever
10-04-2009
Bush-era Republicans are trying to reposition themselves. As recently as last year's GOP presidential primary, Paul was ridiculed by the GOP mainstream for his opposition to America's costly military adventures abroad; the leading conservative websit
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Criminal Justice System
Ex-Ala. Judge Accused of Trading Sex for Leniency
10-04-2009
•
AP
Then his career collapsed under allegations he brought inmates to his office and spanked them with a paddle. Later accused of sexually abusing male inmates in exchange for leniency. The trial on charges of sodomy, kidnapping, sex abuse, extortion, as
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Criminal Justice System
Detainees Face Severe Conditions if Moved to U.S.
10-04-2009
•
Washington Post
For up to four hours a day, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, can sit outside in the Caribbean sun and chat through a chain-link fence with the detainee in the neighboring exercise yard at Guantanamo Bay,
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Police State
Police Chiefs Endorse Anti-Terror Community Watch
10-04-2009
•
AP
Police chiefs meeting in Denver adopted a model for a nationwide community watch program that teaches people what behavior is truly suspicious and encourages them to report it to police.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Family
Kidnapped infant kidnapped again . . . by the state
10-04-2009
•
AP
A newborn boy abducted by a woman posing as an immigration agent was again taken from his mother after a brief reunion, this time by state officials who said the baby and his three siblings would be safest with foster parents.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • WAR: About that War
Billions in US aid never reached Pakistan army
10-04-2009
•
AP
The United States has long suspected that much of the billions of [taypayer] dollars it has sent Pakistan to battle militants has been diverted to the domestic economy and other causes, such as fighting India.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • WAR: About that War
Afghan soldier shoots dead two American troops
10-04-2009
•
Reuters
An Afghan soldier on guard at a joint base with U.S. troops shot dead two American servicemen and wounded two others as they slept. The shooting took place after a combined team of Afghan and U.S. forces had returned from a joint operation late on Fr
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Whistleblowers
Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds? (Publisher recommended,... HIGHLY)
09-30-2009
•
The American Conservative
Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. Part of her job was to translate and transcribe recordings of conversations between suspected Turkish intelligence agents and thei
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Privacy Rights
What You Don't Know About RFID Can ASTOUND you!
10-04-2009
•
michaeljournal.org via print-humanbeingsfirst.blog
Did you know there was an RFID ink? How about RFID powder? How many people in America are already chipped?
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
|
News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Boosting a Brain Wave Makes People Go Slo-Mo
10-04-2009
•
Popular Science
Researchers manipulate a certain brain wave to slow down voluntary movement in humans
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Iran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed to have Jewish past
10-04-2009
•
Telegraph
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's vitriolic attacks on the Jewish world hide an astonishing secret, evidence uncovered by The Daily Telegraph shows.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
| Tags: freedoms, phoenix, archives, politics, libertarian, alternative, government, freedom |
|
|
Feature Article • 
News Link • 
Feature Article • 
Opinion • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
Feature Article • 
Feature Article • 
