 |
REAL TIME SPOT PRICES
Bitcoin Average: $78821.36
Gold: $4690.1 Change: $(24.30)
Silver: $87.52 Change: $1.07
|
|
|
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: 2013-01-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, January 19, 2013 |
Ex-New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin charged with taking bribes, travel perks from city contractors
America Should Declare Bankruptcy: Doug Casey -- Newest WMD for Pint-Sized Terrorists: Bubbles -- Conviction Tossed Out in ’89 Killing in Brooklyn -- NYPD Cop Handcuffs Photojournalist and Deletes Video Footage of Stop-and-Frisk Detainment -- Pork-Barrel Spending: The History of Lipsticking Pigs - by Wendy McElroy -- Colorado theater shooting judge orders Fox reporter to testify -- Violence in America: Ban all Guns, Knives, Bats, Bras, and Rocks! - by Greg Dixon -- As Dispute Over Islands Escalates, Japan and China Send Fighter Jets to the Scene -- German Priests Carried Out Sexual Abuse for Years -- The Fed’s 2007 crisis response: Twinkies, pessimism pills, and missed warnings -- TSA to pull revealing scanners from airports -- Of Course, Gun Laws MUST Exempt the Police -- National Database of “Mentally Ill” is, Itself, Insane -- Thank you for contacting me regarding our 2nd Amendment rights - U.S. Rep. Trent Franks (R - Az) -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, January 20, 2013 Edition -- The Real Goal?... A National Database -- Why is Adam Lanza’s Documentary History Missing? -- IT IS ON! Obama Comes For Our Guns! -- Ron Paul: People Have a Natural Right to Defend Themselves -- Good news for a change about job creation
CALL TO ACTION:
March on State Capitals, today 19 Jan, 2013! -- Gun Control = More Crime
|
News Link • Corruption
Ex-New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin charged with taking bribes, travel perks from city contractors
01-18-2013
•
AP
More than a decade ago, Ray Nagin was elected mayor of New Orleans on a vow to root out corruption in a city plagued by decades of it. On Friday, he was indicted on charges he lined his pockets with bribe money, payoffs and gratuities
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Gun Rights
CALL TO ACTION: March on State Capitals, 19 Jan, 2013!
01-18-2013
•
www.youtube.com
The proposed AWB seeks to criminalize millions of good Americans is a power grabbing, Marxist attempt at people control. We stand and be counted NOW, not cower in our houses hoping for the best and ranting anonymously on the internet about crap that
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Donna Hancock
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
America Should Declare Bankruptcy: Doug Casey
01-18-2013
•
Yahoo! News blog
“Bernanke is quite correct, it is theatrics,” Doug Casey tells The Daily Ticker. “The problem is the amount of debt itself. The problem is so big at this point, I think it’s very questionable whether this can be solved at all.”
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Education: Government Schools
Newest WMD for Pint-Sized Terrorists: Bubbles
01-18-2013
•
Lew Rockwell blog
We find the heartbreaking saga of a 5-year-old girl, playing with her friends while awaiting transport to the gulag--sorry, the big ole yellow bus. Our anonymous child brandished her "pink bubble gun" and announced to her fellow internees-sorry, stud
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Criminal Justice System
Conviction Tossed Out in ’89 Killing in Brooklyn
01-18-2013
•
New York Times
A federal judge tossed out the conviction of a man who has spent 23 years in prison ... ruling the trial prosecutor was “overzealous and deceitful,” the man’s lawyers were “indolent and ill prepared,” and the decisions of the trial judge were “incomp
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NYPD Cop Handcuffs Photojournalist and Deletes Video Footage of Stop-and-Frisk Detainment
01-18-2013
•
Photography Is Not a Crime
A New York City police officer handcuffed a photojournalist before deleting his footage Wednesday, forcing the photographer to view the NYPD in a new light. “I’ve always been very pro-cop, never been anti-cop,” Shimon Gifter said
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Welfare: Political
Pork-Barrel Spending: The History of Lipsticking Pigs - by Wendy McElroy
01-18-2013
•
Future of Freedom Foundation
A December 15, 2012, headline in the New York Post declared, “Obama Sandy Aid Bill Filled with Holiday Goodies Unrelated to Storm Damage.” The announced purpose of the $60.4 billion bill was to provide disaster aid to East Coast individuals and commu
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Justice and Judges
Colorado theater shooting judge orders Fox reporter to testify
01-18-2013
•
Reuters
A Colorado judge ordered a Fox News reporter on Friday to testify in the case of accused theater gunman James Holmes and shed light on her anonymous sources for a story about a notebook connected to Holmes.
Arapahoe County District Judge William
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • China
As Dispute Over Islands Escalates, Japan and China Send Fighter Jets to the Scene
01-18-2013
•
New York Times
Last week, the Chinese government sent a civilian surveillance plane, a twin propeller aircraft, to fly near the uninhabited islands at the heart of a growing feud between China and Japan. Tokyo, in response, ordered F-15 fighter jets to take a look
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Religion: Believers
German Priests Carried Out Sexual Abuse for Years
01-18-2013
•
New York Times
The church’s credibility regarding its commitment to an impartial investigation suffered when bishops canceled an independent study into the abuse scandal amid allegations by the independent investigator, that the church was censoring information.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Federal Reserve
The Fed’s 2007 crisis response: Twinkies, pessimism pills, and missed warnings
01-18-2013
•
Washington Post
The Federal Reserve published transcripts of its closed-door policy meetings in 2007, the first year of a financial crisis that remade the global economy, and a year in which the United States fell into what would become the deepest recession of
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA to pull revealing scanners from airports
01-18-2013
•
Washington Post
The Transportation Security Administration will remove 174 full-body scanners from airport security checkpoints, ending a $40 million contract for the machines, which caused a uproar because they revealed spectral naked forms of passengers.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Gun Rights
Of Course, Gun Laws MUST Exempt the Police
01-18-2013
•
Lew Rockwell blog
Apparently, when the legislature wrote New York's new gun law, they did not exempt the police, who carry 15 rounds in their handguns and much more in their "assault rifles." Not surprisingly, they already are working on an amendment to allow the poli
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Propaganda
National Database of “Mentally Ill” is, Itself, Insane
01-18-2013
•
http://www.plunderbund.com/
What information would this database contain? The names of everyone who has ever sought therapy? The prescription medication all mental health patients have taken in the past or at present? And at what point is someone too “mentally ill” to own a gun
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, January 20, 2013 Edition
01-18-2013
John Semmens
Attorney General Says Requiring DOJ to Comply with Law “Too Risky”
Attorney General Eric Holder is asking a federal court to absolve the Department of Justice (DOJ) from complying with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) because “not to do so wo
•
•
|
News Link • Conspiracies
Why is Adam Lanza’s Documentary History Missing?
01-18-2013
•
http://minutemennews.com
We can speculate about his mental health or his medications or his video games or his mother, but we have no solid evidence of anything; just changing stories,... Adam Lanza is the perfect propaganda tool for demonizing guns.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Obama Administration
King: I Have a Dream. Obama: I Have a Drone.
01-17-2013
•
antiwar.com
A simple twist of fate has set President Obama’s second Inaugural Address for January 21, the same day as the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Iraq
Iraq Slaughter: 55 Killed, 288 Wounded
01-17-2013
•
antiwar.com
Iraq’s, so far, deadliest day of 2013 left at least 55 Iraqis killed and 288 more wounded.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
UPDATE 1-Malicious virus shuttered U.S. power plant -DHS
01-17-2013
•
reuters.com
computer virus attacked a turbine control system at a U.S. power company last fall when a technician unknowingly inserted an infected USB computer drive into the network, keeping a plant off line for three weeks, according to a report posted on a U.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Conspiracies
Was Aaron Swartz Killed By An
MIT Satanic Child Porn Ring?
01-17-2013
•
rense.com
Let us start by dismissing the prosecution’s ludicrous charge that any programmer as talented as Aaron Swartz would dedicate his life to stealing an archive that dispenses its academic papers for a few dollars apiece to the public or for free to stud
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Conspiracies
The Sandy Hook Shooting - Fully Exposed
01-17-2013
•
youtube
First off I would like to thank the users that contributed to this video, including IDAHOPICKER, MAX MALONE and OneTruth4Life. this is not meant to offend anyone but merely to raise questions that need to be answered. I am not pointing the finger bec
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • NATO
The Age of the Siege: Nazi Military Tactics Revisited
01-17-2013
•
Global Research
NATO Strategies, Economic Sanctions and the "Responsibility to Protect"
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Hot New Russian Rocket Fuel
01-17-2013
•
arclein
According to Energomash chief executive Vladimir Solntsev, the Atsetam fuel will help increase the efficiency of rocket engines by at least one third in the future.
He said that in particular, the new fuel may be used in upper-stage rocket engines
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
robert klein
|
News Link • Activism
Syria's Christians
01-17-2013
•
arclein
Posed with terrorism and killings directed at them by Islamist groups, Christians in Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon and elsewhere in the Muslim world have had to seek refuge in the West. ProfessorYossi Shain, head of the Abba Eban Diplomacy Program at Tel Avi
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
robert klein
|
News Link • Gun Rights
Piers Morgan Chickens Out Of Second Debate With Alex Jones
01-17-2013
•
Daily Paul.com
CNN host Piers Morgan has seemingly chickened out of a second clash with Alex Jones on gun control, refusing to respond to a challenge by Jones that would have seen the two square off in a moderated debate.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Africa: On the Map
5 children killed as African Union peacekeepers mistakenly open fire on school
01-17-2013
•
RT.com
Five children and two adults were killed when African Union (AU) troops mistakenly shot into a religious school while pursuing militants, according to media reports.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Employment & Jobs
US programmer outsourced own job to China, spent workdays on Reddit and Facebook
01-17-2013
•
RT.com
A programmer at a US company outsourced his job to a Chinese contractor for a fraction of his six-figure salary. After handing over his login information, he spent his days on Facebook and perused cat videos while the Chinese firm worked in his name.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • World News
Militants: 35 hostages die in Algerian raid
01-17-2013
•
Associated Press
Algerian forces raided a remote Sahara gas plant on Thursday in an attempt to free dozens of foreign hostages held by militants with ties to Mali's rebel Islamists, diplomats said.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Gold and Silver
All Aboard The Gold Repatriation Train: First Germany, Next: The Netherlands?
01-17-2013
•
http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
While moustachioed managers, contrary to the far better insight of their superiors, and mainstream spivs are trying to talk down Germany's somewhat stunning shift in thinking - i.e. to repatriate its gold - as nothing but political pandering (or cost
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Crossing Through The "X Date" - What Happens After The US "Default"?
01-17-2013
•
http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Call it "X Date", call it "D(elinquent/efault)-Day", call it what you will: it is simply the day past which the US government will no longer be able to rely on "extraordinary measures" to delay the day of reckoning, and will be unable to pay all its
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Federal Reserve
It Will Take The Fed Seven Years To Deliver 300 Tons Of German Gold
01-17-2013
•
http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
With the market yet another algo-controlled snoozer, programmed to close the S&P just green (as otherwise confidence in central planning may fail), the key things we learned today are as follows:
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
| Tags: freedoms, phoenix, archives, politics, libertarian, alternative, government, freedom |
|
|
Opinion • 
Feature Article • 
News Link • 
Feature Article • 
News Link • 
Opinion • 
Feature Article • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
