 |
REAL TIME SPOT PRICES
Bitcoin Average: $80245.46
Gold: $4682.1 Change: $(5.90)
Silver: $84.91 Change: $(2.45)
|
|
|
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: 2014-01-25
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, January 25, 2014 |
Newspaper conglomerate building massive database of gun owners
ObamaCare death debt? States can seize assets to recoup Medicaid costs -- Pushback Against Federal Roadside Checkpoints Increasing -- Purdue cops throw student journalist to ground, seize his camera and detain him for three hours -- Former Republican Senate aide dead of apparent suicide after child
porn arrest -- AZ Sheriff Arpaio punishes ‘unpatriotic’ inmates after
ethnic targeting costs county millions -- San Jose police could tap into volunteer residents' private security cameras -- Marijuana export could pay off Hawaii’s debts, lawmaker says -- Blimplike surveillance craft set to deploy over Maryland heighten privacy concerns -- Generations of American Military & Their Families Were Poisoned Without Care at Fort McClellan -- The Economics of the Police State | Thomas E. Woods, Jr. (Video) -- Freedom Summit Schedule (subject to change) -- Edward Snowden says ‘no chance’ of fair trial in U.S. -- EMERGENCY: Obama Has
Launched Purge -- 4000-Year Old Tablet Reveals New Details About
Noah's Ark... -- Again, Argentina? -- "Excuse me, Congresswoman,
we have some breaking news. Justin Bieber" -- This is Why
MSNBC Has Lost Half its Audience -- After the Collapse: Six Likely
Events That Will Follow an Economic Crash -- Guns: Highlight A
Bright Spot In The US Economy, Whitehouse Can’t Understand Why --
Hickok45 Reviews the Glock 42 -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News,
January 26, 2014 Edition -- US stocks slammed; Dow falls
300-plus points in worst week since 2011 -- Report: NFL
prepared to move time or day of Super Bowl -- Drone Warfare -- India Forces Drug Companies To Give Up Patents Early --
01-24-14 -- Josh Tolley - Corey Kealiher (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
AZ: [Phoenix] Showing of "Money For Nothing:
Inside the Federal Reserve" Documentary, Tuesday, Jan 28; Arizona
Breakfast Club Saturday Feb 1st, 2014, 8-10 a.m. @ Coco's
(Paradise Valley Mall) with Patrick Wood speaking; Freedom Tech Workshop #1 - Saturday February 1st 2014;
Memorial for Jack McLamb Saturday February 22nd, 2014, 2-4 p.m.
(MST) - Phoenix, AZ; Freedom Summit 2014 Meetup
NV: Ernie Hancock at Passport to Freedom 2014, Jan.
23-25, 2014, starts this Thursday
|
News Link • Gun Rights
Newspaper conglomerate building massive database of gun owners
01-24-2014
•
The Daily Caller
Civitas Media, which owns 88 newspapers in 12 states and more than 100 total publications, is planning to use public records requests to build their databases, according to an internal Civitas email obtained by the Buckeye Firearms Association
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Healthcare
ObamaCare death debt? States can seize assets to recoup Medicaid costs
01-24-2014
•
FOX News
He wanted no part of the government's so-called free health care: The potential death debt. Though many may not realize it, states are allowed to recover the cost of health care after someone's death by seizing their assets.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Bill of Rights
Pushback Against Federal Roadside Checkpoints Increasing
01-24-2014
•
.
Once the Court establishes the [stop] is “slight,” it asserts without explanation that the balance “weighs” in favor of the state. The [majority] ignores we have required the Government to prove that it had reasonable suspicion for a minimally intrus
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Purdue cops throw student journalist to ground, seize his camera and detain him for three hours
01-24-2014
•
TechDirt
Exponent photo editor Michael Takeda, a junior in the College of Technology, was slammed to the ground by the Purdue Police after being found in the Electrical Engineering Building taking photos. The area had not been closed off to the public
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Former Republican Senate aide dead of apparent suicide after child porn arrest
01-24-2014
•
Rawstory
The former staffer to Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) who was arrested in December for possession of child pornography was found dead of an apparent suicide at his parents’ house in Maryland. The body of Ryan Loskarn, 35, was found on Thursday
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Criminal Justice System
AZ Sheriff Arpaio punishes ‘unpatriotic’ inmates after ethnic targeting costs county millions
01-24-2014
•
Rawstory
Last week, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s use of racial and ethnic profiling cost Maricopa County at least $22 million to monitor and re-train those in the county’s employ.
This week, Sheriff Arpaio announced that he is punishing 38 unpatriotic inma
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Surveillance
San Jose police could tap into volunteer residents' private security cameras
01-24-2014
•
.
Police would tap into private video camera recordings from San Jose residents who agree to provide access to authorities under a proposal that would expand investigators' watchful eye over the city but is raising big brother-type privacy concerns.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Drug War
Marijuana export could pay off Hawaii’s debts, lawmaker says
01-24-2014
•
.
Cabanilla hopes to legalize cultivation, manufacturing and exporting of marijuana and marijuana food products in Hawaii to pay off the state’s billions of dollars in unfunded liabilities as well as make infrastructure repairs and fund public educatio
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Surveillance
Blimplike surveillance craft set to deploy over Maryland heighten privacy concerns
01-24-2014
•
Washington Post
They will look like two giant white blimps floating high above I-95 in Maryland, perhaps en route to a football game somewhere along the bustling Eastern Seaboard. But their mission will have nothing to do with sports and everything to do with war.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Military
Generations of American Military & Their Families Were Poisoned Without Care at Fort McClellan
01-24-2014
•
.
He choked on his words as he described the helplessness and desperation. There was nothing he could do. His newborn son, born with unexplainable birth defects was fighting for his life, and the doctors could not explain the cause.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Police State
The Economics of the Police State | Thomas E. Woods, Jr. (Video)
01-24-2014
•
http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Recorded at the Mises Circle Southwest Regional in Houston, 18 January 2014. Includes an introduction by Jeff Deist.
In the modern United States, federal laws are now so numerous and written so broadly and vaguely, that it is nearly impossible to
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Chris Menke
|
News Link • Surveillance
Edward Snowden says ‘no chance’ of fair trial in U.S.
01-24-2014
•
http://chrisinmaryville.net/
... “Returning to the US, I think, is the best resolution for the government, the public and myself, but it’s unfortunately not possible in the face of current whistleblower protection laws, which through a failure in law did not cover national secur
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Chris Menke
|
News Link • Archaeology
4000-Year Old Tablet Reveals New Details About Noah's Ark...
01-24-2014
•
http://www.dailypaul.com, emalvini
4000-Year Old Tablet Reveals New Details About Noah's Ark
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Economy - International
Again, Argentina?
01-24-2014
•
Daily Paul.com
Again, Argentina? Printing their way into collapse and default like 2001? The IMF and Creditors have them by the short hairs now (sigh) say good-bye to your national assets. Greece 2.0... or can Chinese investment rescue them?
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Surviving the Collapse
After the Collapse: Six Likely Events That Will Follow an Economic Crash
01-24-2014
•
http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Mac Slavo
It’s not too difficult to understand that we are well on our way to a paradigm shift in America; in fact we’re in the midst of it right now. The writing is on the wall and can no longer be ignored.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Gun Rights
Guns: Highlight A Bright Spot In The US Economy, Whitehouse Can’t Understand Why
01-24-2014
•
http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Jeff Knox
It has been suggested that Barack Obama is the greatest firearm salesman in history, and with good reason. Gun sales have boomed under Obama’s watch.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Gun Rights
Hickok45 Reviews the Glock 42
01-24-2014
•
http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Max Slowik
So are you onboard the Glock 42 train yet?
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, January 26, 2014 Edition
01-24-2014
John Semmens
Police Commissioner Says Bludgeoning of Jaywalker Justified
New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton defended the bludgeoning of 84 year old Kang Wong by City police officers as “fully justified.” The incident occurred as part of the City's
•
•
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US stocks slammed; Dow falls 300-plus points in worst week since 2011
01-24-2014
•
cnbc.com
U.S. stocks fell sharply and Treasuries rallied on Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling triple-digits for a second session and posting its worst week since November 2011, as investors pulled money from emerging markets and other ass
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Report: NFL prepared to move time or day of Super Bowl
01-24-2014
•
breitbart.com
The NFL has determined any decision to play the Super Bowl on a day other than Feb. 2 would have to be made 36 hours in advance, it was reported Thursday.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Drones
Drone Warfare
01-24-2014
•
thebureauinvestigates.com
More than 2,400 dead as Obama’s drone campaign marks five years
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Drugs and Medications
India Forces Drug Companies To Give Up Patents Early
01-24-2014
•
popsci.com
It's part of a program to make pricey Western drugs affordable to Indian citizens, too.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
01-24-14 -- Josh Tolley - Corey Kealiher (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
Josh Tolley (author, entrepreneur, and radio personality) comes n the show to share his brand of activism in teaching people about liberty - Corey Kealiher (Co-producer/Co-Director of "For Liberty", Founder HoopydooIndustries) on what he has been up
•
•
|
News Link • Whistleblowers
Transcript from Live Q & A with Edward Snowden - Today, Jan. 23, 2014
01-23-2014
•
DailyPaul.Com
Amongst other things, he says: Whistleblower protection laws do not cover national security contractors such as himself. That's interesting; guess none of the people (ie congress people,etc) saying he should have stayed here and then he would be cons
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Donna Hancock
|
News Link • Police State
"Cooperate" With the Police -- Or Be Assaulted in Front of Your Children
01-23-2014
•
freedominourtime.blogspot.com
“See " this is what happens when you don't cooperate with the police!” snarled Neil Uhrig as he pinned Melissa Miller to the floor of her home.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Police State
Whatever Happened to Peace Officers?
01-23-2014
•
Lewrockwell.com
Editor’s Note: The following is a selection from a speech by Mises Institute President Jeff Deist at the Southwest Regional Mises Circle in Houston, “The Police State: Know It When You See It,” on January 18, 2014.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Federal Reserve
The Fed Only Gave Germany Back 5 Tonnes of Gold in Over a Year
01-23-2014
•
Lewrockwell.com
On January 16, 2013 Germany’s central bank, the Bundesbank, said it will ship back home all 374 tonnes it had stored with the Banque de France in Paris, as well as 300 tonnes held in Manhattan by the US Federal Reserve, by 2020.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Business/ Commerce
Smith & Wesson to End Most CA Sales Due to Microstamping Regulation
01-23-2014
•
http://www.breitbart.com, by AWR Hawkins
On January 22nd renowned gun maker Smith & Wesson joined Sturm, Ruger, & Co., by announcing it would cease California sales of its semi-automatic pistols due to microstamping requirements that went into effect last year.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Immigration
Michigan seeks visas to lure immigrants to Detroit
01-23-2014
•
yahoo.com, By Jeff Karoub and David Eggert
Mich. governor seeks 50,000 work visas over 5 years to entice immigrants to bankrupt Detroit
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The New Debt Ceiling Deadline Is Going To Be Earlier Than We Thought
01-23-2014
•
http://www.businessinsider.com, Brett LoGiurato
The U.S. is likely to exhaust its borrowing authority on the earlier side of what Treasury Secretary Jack Lew had estimated, he said in a letter to Congressional leaders on Wednesday.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Religion: Believers
Pope Francis, in Social-Media Message, Calls Internet a 'Gift From God'
01-23-2014
•
http://www.nationaljournal.com,
The pope takes a stand for Internet optimism, in a time when it is fraught.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Business/ Commerce
A 'tsunami' of store closings expected to hit retail
01-23-2014
•
http://www.cnbc.com,: Krystina Gustafson
Get ready for the next era in retail"one that will be characterized by far fewer shops and smaller stores.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Military
In South Korea, US Special Ops Train to Help Overthrow North Korean Regime
01-23-2014
•
http://antiwar.com, John Glaser
Today at Al Jazeera America I argue that the U.S. should stop occupying South Korea, not only because they don’t belong there but because the highly militarized alliance between the U.S. and South Korea doesn’t actually weaken North Korea, but helps
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Economy - International
The IMF's Meaningless Words
01-23-2014
•
thedailybell.com
IMF Raises Global Outlook as Advanced Nations Accelerate ... The International Monetary Fund raised its forecast for global growth this year as expansions in the U.S. and U.K. accelerate, and urged advanced economies .....
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Propaganda
The Influenza Deception
01-23-2014
•
theorganicprepper
With the latest round of hysteria regarding the prevalence of the annual flu season and the “need” for the flu vaccine in full swing, one unaccustomed to reading the details of government statistics....
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
| Tags: freedoms, phoenix, archives, politics, libertarian, alternative, government, freedom |
|
|
Feature Article • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
Feature Article • 
Opinion • 
Feature Article • 
Opinion • 
Feature Article • 
Reference Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
