 |
REAL TIME SPOT PRICES
Bitcoin Average: $79870.24
Gold: $4702.8 Change: $(31.70)
Silver: $83.72 Change: $(2.26)
|
|
|
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: 2011-02-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, February 17, 2011 AM edition |
Obama budget plan shows interest owed on national debt quadrupling in next decade
Investigative spotlight turns on Army captain who helped bust counterfeiter -- Secret Report Ordered by Obama Identified Potential Uprisings
-- Angry Demonstrations in Wisconsin as Cuts Loom -- Obama, GOP
freshmen win in jet engine budget fight -- Somali pirate gets more than
33 years in prison -- Police in Bahrain Clear Protest Site in Early Morning Raid
-- Community Farmers: Two Words Critical To Survival -- Church building
confiscated to pay tax debt - Baptist Temple tax dispute -- Scientists: Data reveals new Ice Ages can occur in just months -- Looney Tunes Propaganda: It May Be Time to Believe in Housing Again --
Bartering, Inflation, and Growing a Garden -- China announces shakeup
of rare earths industry -- Is Hosni Mubarak already dead? -- Bush Sr.
and the Medal Of Freedom: Rewarding A JFK Assassination Conspirator? --
Misunderstanding about Defunding Obamacare
Poses Some Real Danger -- First in the
Nation: Idaho House Passes Health Care Nullification -- How Much More
Demand Can Silver Handle? -- States have same power as Congress to
propose amendments to the Constitution -- Afghan War Draws in China and Russia -- Gerald
Celente on Obama’s budget: “They’re bankrupting the country!” --
WTC Hard Drives Show $100 Million In Criminal Credit Transfers Before
Towers Fell -- Hosni Mubarak’s Death Could Come At Any Time: Arab News Report --
Pakistan, the Davis case, civil unrest and John Kerry reporting for
duty -- NATO chief Petraeus to leave
post by end of year: report -- Google ‘very, very proud’ of cyber
revolutionary -- Libya protests: Second city Benghazi hit by violence
AZ:Join GATA Fri./Sat. at the Phoenix
conference; Moving the
Freedom's Phoenix warehouse
this weekend
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama budget plan shows interest owed on national debt quadrupling in next decade
02-17-2011
•
Washington Post
Interest payments on the national debt will quadruple in the next decade and every man, woman and child in the United States will be paying more than $2,500 a year to cover for the nation's past profligacy, according to figures in President Obama's n
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Whistleblowers
Investigative spotlight turns on Army captain who helped bust counterfeiter
02-17-2011
•
Washington Post
But now the investigator is being investigated.
The U.S. Marshals Service, which is responsible for security at federal courthouses, complained to the Army that Poulos's investigation was "inappropriate, impermissible, and not taken lightly," acco
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Foreign Policy
Secret Report Ordered by Obama Identified Potential Uprisings
02-17-2011
•
NY Times
President Obama ordered his advisers last August to produce a secret report on unrest in the Arab world, which concluded that without sweeping political changes, countries from Bahrain to Yemen were ripe for popular revolt, administration officials s
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • TAXES: State
Angry Demonstrations in Wisconsin as Cuts Loom
02-17-2011
•
NY Times
As four game wardens awkwardly stood guard, protesters, scores deep, crushed into a corridor leading to the governor’s office here on Wednesday, their screams echoing through the Capitol: “Come out, come out, wherever you are!”
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama, GOP freshmen win in jet engine budget fight
02-17-2011
•
AP
Determined to reduce deficits, impatient House Republican freshmen made common cause with President Obama, scoring their biggest victory to date in a vote to cancel $450 million for an alternative engine for the Pentagon's next-generation warplane.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • TERRORISM
Somali pirate gets more than 33 years in prison
02-17-2011
•
AP
A Somali pirate who kidnapped and brutalized the captain of a U.S.-flagged merchant ship off the coast of Africa in 2009 was sentenced to more than 33 years in prison Wednesday by an emotional judge who told him he deserved a stiff punishment for lea
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Activism
Police in Bahrain Clear Protest Site in Early Morning Raid
02-17-2011
•
NY Times
Without warning, hundreds of heavily armed riot police officers rushed into Pearl Square here early Thursday, firing tear gas and concussion grenades at the thousands of demonstrators who were sleeping there as part of a widening protest against the
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Media: Television
US Patent 6506148 " Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors
02-16-2011
•
Speak Truth 2 Power
The TV and your computer monitor can be used to manipulate your nervous system. Here is the proof. Read it and weep.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
|
News Link • Food
Community Farmers: Two Words Critical To Survival
02-16-2011
•
MatrixUSA.org
When it comes to basic survival there are only but a few things that are truly critical and important to achieving that goal. Everyone should already be aware and know about things like air to breathe and water to drink.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Fisher
|
News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Fox News Caught In Shocking Dirty Tricks Stunt Against Ron Paul
02-16-2011
•
PrisonPlanet.com
News channel deceptively represented Paul’s 2011 CPAC straw poll victory with footage from 2010 event at which Mitt Romney supporters had loudly booed result
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • Entertainment: Games
New Monopoly trades money and dice for no-nonsense computer
02-16-2011
•
Yahoo
A new version of board game staple Monopoly will ditch the dice and paper money in exchange for an ominous computer tower that monitors player activity. Hasbro unveiled the product --somewhat ironically dubbed "Monopoly Live" -- at this week's Toy Fa
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Glenn Jacobs
|
News Link • Climate Change
Scientists: Data reveals new Ice Ages can occur in just months
02-16-2011
•
Terrence Aym
Don't let anyone tell you that Ice Ages take thousands of years to happen. After all, anyone that researches what happened to the Woolly Mammoths some 10,000 to 11,000 years ago in the tundra of northern Siberia will understand that an Ice Age and m
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Terrence Aym
|
News Link • Housing
Looney Tunes Propaganda: It May Be Time to Believe in Housing Again
02-16-2011
•
CNBC.com
It's not as hard, however, to believe in housing. By that I mean that as the economy improves, and consumers start to feel better about their personal finances, they are starting to think about investing in their homes again.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Food
Bartering, Inflation, and Growing a Garden
02-16-2011
•
activistpost.com/
If a disaster were to strike " natural or manmade " you could expect those grocery store shelves to be bare within hours.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • China
China announces shakeup of rare earths industry
02-16-2011
•
news.yahoo.com/s/ap
China plans to tighten control over rare earths producers and restrict output in a five-year development strategy, the Cabinet said Wednesday, amid concern abroad about plans to reduce exports of the exotic minerals used in high-tech goods.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • World News
Is Hosni Mubarak already dead?
2/16/2011
•
therealnewsnow
The President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, resigned from his post last week handing over power to the armed forces, supposedly. In a television address, Omar Suleiman announced that the president had “waived” his office and handed over authority to the S
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
The Real News
|
News Link • Conspiracies
Bush Sr. and the Medal Of Freedom: Rewarding A JFK Assassination Conspirator?
02-16-2011
•
dailymail.co.uk/news
Barack Obama honoured former president George H.W. Bush with the Medal of Freedom today, telling him his 'humility and decency reflects the very best of the American spirit'.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Federal Reserve
FOMC Minutes: Fed Knows Carrying Costs Will Blow Up The Economy
02-16-2011
•
Market-ticker.org
The FOMC put you on notice with this set of minutes: They know this is going to blow up, they expect it to blow up, and there is no way to avoid it blowing up as carrying costs will double while the output to cover it will grow by less than 30%
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Tea Party
Misunderstanding about Defunding Obamacare Poses Some Real Danger
02-16-2011
•
http://drscoundrels.com
Misinformation and misinterpretation causes stir that blames the Republican dominated House Rules Committee for the failure to defund Obamacare. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
James Hyde
|
News Link • Constitution
First in the Nation: Idaho House Passes Health Care Nullification
02-16-2011
•
Tenth Amendment Center
In an historic vote in the Idaho House of Representatives, the Federal Health Care Nullification Act (originally authored by the Tenth Amendment Center) passed by a vote of 49-20. The bill states that "The Legislature of the state of Idaho, therefo
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Michael Boldin
|
News Link • Economy - International
Surprise, surprise… US picks up the Panama FTA again
02-16-2011
•
www.sovereignman.com
One of the things that always intrigued me about Panama is how quickly this place moves… it was among the first things that I noticed when I first started coming here almost 10-years ago" there’s always something major happening.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • Gold and Silver
Questions: Mubarak’s out, Gold in Panama… and am I nuts?
02-16-2011
•
www.sovereignman.com
To start us off, Jim asks, “Simon, I’m attending the workshop in Panama and I have gold (200 oz’s in total) I would like to store outside the US. I would really like to know if it is legal to carry gold into Panama, can you help?”
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan War Draws in China and Russia
02-16-2011
•
dailybell.com
Please don't look now, for everything is fine. Soon Afghanistan, pacified, will join the West.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gerald Celente on Obama’s budget: “They’re bankrupting the country!”
02-16-2011
•
prisonplanet.com
The new US budget was revealed by President Obama calling for America to rebalance the global economy, stressing that the US cannot rely on foreign governments to finance domestic consumption.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
WTC Hard Drives Show $100 Million In Criminal Credit Transfers Before Towers Fell
02-16-2011
•
PrisonPlanet.com
There was a sharp rise in credit card transactions moving through some computer systems at the WTC shortly before the planes hit the twin towers.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • World News
Egypt Welcomes the New Boss " Same as the Old Boss
02-16-2011
•
PrisonPlanet.com
The Egyptian people in Liberation Square celebrated, the world leaders weighed in, and the global media parroted the tale of “history in the making.” The big bad Hosni Mubarak has”listened to the voices of the Egyptian people” and has bowed to their
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • Government
Hosni Mubarak’s Death Could Come At Any Time: Arab News Report
02-16-2011
•
PrisonPlanet.com
Will Hosni Mubarak die before he writes his memoir?
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Fox News Caught In Shocking Dirty Tricks Stunt Against Ron Paul
02-16-2011
•
PrisonPlanet.com
News channel deceptively represented Paul’s 2011 CPAC straw poll victory with footage from 2010 event at which Mitt Romney supporters had loudly booed result
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Pakistan, the Davis case, civil unrest and John Kerry reporting for duty
02-16-2011
•
The Political Commentator
The Davis Case in a nutshell
Arrested January 27th in Pakistan, Raymond Davis was charged in the shooting deaths of two Pakistani's. Davis is a former Special Forces operative who claims that he was being tailed by the two men belonging to Pakist
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Michael Haltman
|
News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
4409 -- FACES OF INFLUENZA psa
02-16-2011
•
youtube.com
The Faces of Influenza campaign is designed to put a "face" on influenza and make money doing it. The Pharmaceutical companies received numerous duplicitous bailouts which in turn fund this propaganda.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • Food
Coca-Cola’s secret recipe finally spills out into public
02-16-2011
•
RawStory.com
National Public Radio’s “This American Life” has uncovered something that may as well have been a state secret: a photo of the original recipe for Coca-Cola. True to legend, the original recipe called for cocaine.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • NATO
NATO chief Petraeus to leave post by end of year: report
02-16-2011
•
RawStory.com
US war commander General David Petraeus will leave his post as chief of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan before the end of the year, the Times newspaper reported Wednesday.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • Internet
Google ‘very, very proud’ of cyber revolutionary
02-16-2011
•
RawStory.com
Google is "very, very proud" of cyberactivist Wael Ghonim, a young executive at the company who emerged as a leading voice of the Egyptian uprising, company boss Eric Schmidt said Tuesday.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • World News
Libya protests: Second city Benghazi hit by violence
02-16-2011
•
www.bbc.co.uk
Hundreds of anti-government protesters have clashed with police and government supporters in Libya's second city, in the latest display of unrest in the Arab world.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • World News
Thousands of police confront protesters in Yemen
02-16-2011
•
google.com
Authorities flooded the streets of Yemen's capital with 2,000 police Wednesday to try to halt six days of Egypt-style demonstrations against the president of 32 years, a key U.S. ally in battling al-Qaida.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • Government
Presidential Medal of Freedom given to former president George H.W. Bush, 14 others
02-16-2011
•
voices.washingtonpost.com
President Obama spent nearly every day for two years on the campaign trail blasting former president George H.W. Bush's son. But Obama has long praised the elder Bush, particularly for his foreign policy decisions, and on Tuesday he presented the 41s
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
| Tags: freedoms, phoenix, archives, politics, libertarian, alternative, government, freedom |
|
|
Feature Article • 
Opinion • 
Feature Article • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
