 |
REAL TIME SPOT PRICES
Bitcoin Average: $77397.87
Gold: $4539.2 Change: $(111.80)
Silver: $75.84 Change: $(7.52)
|
|
|
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: 2014-04-27
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, April 27, 2014 |
Ex-DHS watchdog put on leave after critical report -- Elon Musk Sues Fascist US Government
Weekend Watching: Under Our Skin - Documentary About Lyme Disease -- SpaceX Formally Protests US Air Force's Rocket Launch Block Buy Contracts -- SpaceX Reusable Rocket Test an 'Evolutionary' Breakthrough, Elon
Musk Says -- Bitcoins in Space: Private Deep-Space Venture Aims to
Launch 'BitSats' -- Lew Rockwell Needs Your Help -- The Wolf Of Wall Street Honest Trailer Is Effing Brilliant -- More renounce US citizenship but deny stereotype --
Bitcoin Internet: The Plan for a Decentralized Web that Runs on
Cryptocurrency -- Who's Building Bitcoin? An Inside Look at Bitcoin's
Open Source Development -- Kiev Wages Water Wars -- Unedited Tape of Bundy Emerges, Sheds Light on 'Racist' Remarks -- Will Humanity Survive the Depopulation Agenda of the Global Elite? -- As
Iraq violence grows, U.S. sends more intelligence officers -- Mexican
Vigilantes Search Caves for Cartel Leader
|
News Link • Homeland Security
Ex-DHS watchdog put on leave after critical report
04-26-2014
•
AP
Homeland Security Secretary Johnson put his agency's internal watchdog on leave after publication of a report concluded the employee was too cozy with senior agency officials and delayed or classified some critical reports to accommodate Obama
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Elon Musk: SpaceX Will File Suit Against the U.S. Government
04-26-2014
•
IO9.com
The gloves are officially off in the intensely mounting duel over multibillion dollar Air Force military launch contracts between SpaceX and ULA. "The official protest document will be available Monday, April 28th at www.freedomtolaunch.com and will
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Donna Hancock
|
News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Weekend Watching: Under Our Skin - Documentary About Lyme Disease
04-26-2014
•
http://www.dailypaul.com
What do you guys know about Lyme Disease? I have a friend who was diagnosed with it, and is undergoing (brutal) treatment. I didn't know much about it, so she recommended that I watch this film.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Donna Hancock
|
News Link • Solar Flares
Strong Solar Flare Sparks Radio Blackout (VIDEO)
04-26-2014
•
huffingtonpost.com
The sun erupted with a massive solar flare late Thursday (April 24), triggering a temporary communications blackout on some parts of Earth.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
SpaceX Formally Protests US Air Force's Rocket Launch Block Buy Contracts
04-26-2014
•
space.com
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is filing a formal protest in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims over a multibillion-dollar U.S. Air Force contract to its incumbent launch services provider, United Launch Alliance, SpaceX founder and Chief Executi
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX Reusable Rocket Test an 'Evolutionary' Breakthrough, Elon Musk Says
04-26-2014
•
space.com
The unprecedented reusable rocket test launched by SpaceX last week paves the way for a potentially revolutionary leap forward in the cost of spaceflight, the private company's founder Elon Musk said today (April 25).
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
![Train Like An Ancient Hindu Warrior: The Steel Mace Workout [VIDEO]](https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Uploads/Pix/533/04/533-0426174108.jpg)
News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Train Like An Ancient Hindu Warrior: The Steel Mace Workout [VIDEO]
04-26-2014
•
artofmanliness.com
Train like an ancient Hindu warrior with a warrior mace. I tried to harness my inner 1970s Indian wrestler turned Bollywood action star in this video. Make sure to check out our text and illustrated guide version of this workout.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Books
Lew Rockwell Needs Your Help
04-26-2014
•
Lewrockwell.com
Murray Rothbard called his political philosophy anarcho-capitalism to differentiate it from the far more common “communist anarchism.” Or, rather, it was more common then.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The Wolf Of Wall Street Honest Trailer Is Effing Brilliant
04-26-2014
•
cinemablend.com
The Wolf of Wall Street was one of 2013's biggest successes. It gained a ton of award nominations. It was Martin Scorsese's most profitable picture to date, and it was a damned fun time at the movies.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Emmigration
More renounce US citizenship but deny stereotype
04-26-2014
•
news.yahoo.com
Inside the long-awaited package, six pages of government paperwork dryly affirmed Carol Tapanila's anxious request.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Internet: The Plan for a Decentralized Web that Runs on Cryptocurrency
04-26-2014
•
motherboard.vice.com
The core defining aspect of Bitcoin"and other cryptocurrencies arising in its wake"is decentralisation.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Bitcoin
Who's Building Bitcoin? An Inside Look at Bitcoin's Open Source Development
04-26-2014
•
motherboard.vice.com
One of the biggest stories so far this year has been the re-emergence of bitcoin, the little cryptocurrency that could. It’s been a wild ride, to say the least. Amid the craziness, it’s been easy to forget that bitcoin is a work in progress. Who are
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Just For Fun!
Landing the world's smallest parachute at Skydive Dubai
04-26-2014
•
youtube
Skydive Dubai proudly congratulates Ernesto Gainza with landing the world's smallest parachute, a JVX 35 sq foot canopy, for a new Dubai Guinness World Records! More to come from Project XCF!
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Vegetarians Less Healthy, Lower Quality Of Life Than Meat-Eaters?
04-26-2014
•
arclein
. However, the researchers do caution that continuing studies will be needed to substantiate some of the rather broad dietary distinctions, associations presented in this current re
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
robert klein
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Wolf Hunters of Wall Street - IEX
04-26-2014
•
arclein
“Everything was to excess,” he says. “I met more offensive people in a year than I had in my entire life. People lived beyond their means, and the way they did it was by going into debt. That’s what shocked me the most. Debt was a foreign concept in
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
robert klein
|
News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Brain Injury Produces Math Talent
04-26-2014
•
arclein
Padgett stopped going to work and spent all of his time studying math and physics, focusing on fractals, which are repeated geometric patterns.
Even though he showed no talent for art before, he started drawing fractals in extreme detail - someti
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
robert klein
|
News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Unedited Tape of Bundy Emerges, Sheds Light on 'Racist' Remarks
04-26-2014
•
.
A new, unedited version of comments by Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy has emerged, and it sheds some light on the context of his remarks, universally condemned on Thursday as horrifically racist. (Publisher Recommended)
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
Opinion • Bill of Rights
Words Eye View
Trinity Springs Baptist Church Wins Tax Case
04-25-2014
Greg J Dixon
Trinity Springs Baptist Church in Martin County, Indiana, a 157 year old church just won a great victory, not only for Trinity Springs, but for all of the unregistered churches of Indiana and the Biblical Law Center of Indianapolis that prepared the
•
•
|
News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
RT demands apology from Kerry: Take a number please!
04-26-2014
•
voiceofrussia.com
The recent comments by US Secretary of State John Kerry against Russian Broadcaster RT, which has been doing its utmost to try to present the truth about what is really happening in Ukraine against the onslaught of the unprecedented lock-step eschewi
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Iraq
As Iraq violence grows, U.S. sends more intelligence officers
04-26-2014
•
Reuters
The United States is quietly expanding the number of intelligence officers in Iraq and holding urgent meetings in Washington and Baghdad to find ways to counter growing violence by Islamic militants, U.S. government sources said.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Mexico
Mexican Vigilantes Search Caves for Cartel Leader
04-26-2014
•
AP
Vigilantes are searching an extensive cave system in the hunt for the last fugitive boss of the Knights Templar drug cartel, a "self-defense" group leader in western Mexico said Thursday.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Military Industrial Complex
U.S. examining Marshall Islands' nuclear lawsuits, defends record
04-26-2014
•
Reuters
The United States said on Friday it was examining lawsuits filed by the Marshall Islands against it and eight other nuclear-armed countries that accuse them of failing in their obligation to negotiate nuclear disarmament.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, April 27, 2014 Edition
04-25-2014
John Semmens
Administration Exploring Options for Curbing Anti-Muslim Hate Speech
The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Bill Killian, says “the Administration is looking into ways we can curb anti-Muslim hate speech. Such speech violates Mus
•
•
|
News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, Why Would They Do This?
04-24-2014
•
Simple Justice
Cops conducted an illegal search of a house. So far, nothing new here. Cops found nothing. Still, nothing new. Cops decide to plant meth in the house. Interesting, but impossible to prove. Cops caught on their own dashcam talking about it.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Bill of Rights
A Simple Rule, Slip-Slided Away
04-24-2014
•
Simple Justice
Until yesterday, we had a relatively clear rule for police to follow: an anonymous tip must be corroborated before it rises to the level necessary to seize a person. Then the Supreme Court decided Navarette v. California.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Miami detective faces drug, conspiracy charges in New Jersey federal court
04-24-2014
•
Reuters
A Miami-Dade Police Department internal affairs detective appeared in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, on Wednesday to face charges of aiding a drug smuggling gang, conspiring to distribute cocaine and trying to arrange a murder for hire.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • WAR: About that War
Ukraine forces kill up to five rebels, Russia starts drill near border
04-24-2014
•
Reuters
Ukrainian forces killed up to five pro-Moscow rebels on Thursday as they closed in on the separatists' military stronghold in the east, and Russia launched army drills near the border in response, raising fears its troops would invade.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Obama Administration
Japanese MP: Obama CHEATS and their looming divorce is 'an open secret'
04-24-2014
•
Daily Mail
A prominent Japanese politician has raised hackles as Barack Obama visits Tokyo by claiming it's an 'open secret' that he and the first lady are headed for divorce, and the president uses Secret Service agents to cover his extramarital affairs.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Racism
Ex-KKK Leader Was Given a New Identity Years Before Shooting
04-24-2014
•
ABC News
Frazier Glenn Cross, the man accused of murder in the shootings of three people outside Jewish facilities in Kansas last week was, for all practical purposes, born at the age of 49.
The federal government gave him that name when he was release
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Foreign Policy
F.B.I. Informant Is Tied to Cyberattacks Abroad
04-24-2014
•
New York Times
An informant working for the F.B.I. coordinated a 2012 campaign of hundreds of cyberattacks on foreign websites, including some operated by the governments of Iran, Syria, Brazil and Pakistan, according to documents and interviews with
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Drones
Court orders U.S. to release memo on drones, al-Awlaki killing
04-24-2014
•
Reuters
A federal appeals court ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to turn over key portions of a memorandum justifying the government's targeted killing of people linked to terrorism, including Americans.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Internet
ACLU steps in after Justice Dept. slaps gag orders on Twitter and Yahoo
04-23-2014
•
TechDirt
The ACLU has jumped into a troubling legal fight, in which it appears that the DOJ has issued gag orders against Twitter and Yahoo concerning grand jury subpoenas that have been sent to both companies.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Texas robbery victim forced kill his dog with his bare hands after cop shoots it for barking
04-23-2014
•
Rawstory
A Texas man said he was forced to kill his dog with his bare hands after an officer who he called to investigate a burglary shot the animal because it was barking. “I shot your dog, sorry,” Middleton recalled Dooley saying. Candy had been shot
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
75-year-old grandmother says she was restrained during police raid
04-23-2014
•
CBS News
Ruth Hunter, a 75-year-old woman, said she was tied up while State Police invaded her apartment. Officers told her what they were looking for. She said she had nothing to do with the investigation. A magistrate to issue a warrant for
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Drug War
Ex-sheriff's deputies charged with planting evidence at pot dispensary
04-23-2014
•
Los Angeles Times
Two former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies have been charged with conspiracy, perjury and altering evidence in connection with planting guns inside a medical marijuana dispensary to justify two arrests in 2011, prosecutors said.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Video: TSA Agents Pat Down 2 & 6 Year Old Children
04-23-2014
•
Infowars
Disturbing new video footage shows TSA agents performing full body pat downs on two infants aged just 2 and 6 years old, illustrating how the federal agency still targets children despite a partial rollback of the policy in 2011.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Surveillance
Face-recognition software: Is this the end of anonymity for all of us?
04-23-2014
•
The Independent
The software is used for military surveillance, by police to identify suspects - and on Facebook. Now the US government is in the process of building the world's largest cache of face-recognition data, with the goal of identifying every person in the
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Surveillance
Sheriff ran air surveillance over Compton without telling residents
04-23-2014
•
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department acknowledged this week that Compton residents were not notified of an airborne video-surveillance program that was tested in 2012.
"No notification to the residents was made because this system was being
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS awards bonuses to 1,100 who owe back taxes
04-23-2014
•
AP
The Internal Revenue Service has paid more than $2.8 million in bonuses to employees with recent disciplinary problems, including $1 million to workers who owed back taxes. More than 2,800 workers got bonuses despite facing a disciplinary action
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Criminal Justice System
The FBI Allegedly Used the No-Fly List to Coerce Muslims to be Informants
04-23-2014
•
The Guardian
Four Muslim men accuse the FBI of using the "no fly" list as an threat to coerce them into cooperating with terror investigations. It's easy to see how it would be an effective threat: the highly secret no-fly list essentially creates a form of house
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Death Penalty
Death row case puts Oklahoma in legal bind
04-23-2014
•
AP
Two death row inmates who want to know the source of drugs that will be used to execute them have placed Oklahoma's two highest courts at odds and prompted calls for impeaching justices on the Oklahoma Supreme Court.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Police State
Liberty Advocate Framed by FBI? - The Schaeffer Cox Story
04/23/2014
•
Next News Network
Today we bring you the story of a group "seeking resolutions to America's woes" and we'll shed new light on a story of a man who some feel was set up by the government to silence him from speaking out to the American people about the loss of free
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Uncle Freedom
|
News Link • False Flag Operations
FALSE FLAG ALERT: Terrorist Casting Call in SC
04/23/2014
•
Next News Network
SOUTH CAROLINA - The United States Marine Corps is looking for a few good actors to play terrorists in upcoming training exercises. An advert seeking an actor to play an "Al Qaeda personality," a French-speaker with a college degree in chemistry an
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Uncle Freedom
|
News Link • New World Order
Trilateral Commission Globalists Converge on Washington DC
04/23/2014
•
Next News Network
Mark Anderson joins Gary Franchi to discuss this years meeting of the global elitist organization - The Trilateral Commission.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Uncle Freedom
|
News Link • Police State
Gun Grabbing Propagandists Caught on Tape
04/23/2014
•
Next News Network
Has Obama launched a "Gun Safety" program designed to actually teach gun confiscation propaganda? Anthony Antonello join Gary Franchi to reveal what he recored at a recent "meeting" he attended.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Uncle Freedom
|
News Link • Government
Under Western Skies
04-23-2014
•
by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
It's a movie cliche as old as the hills. The very first western film adventure, made by Thomas Edison in his rotating studio, was about a train robbery. The second almost certainly told the story I'm about to describe and which we've all seen a hundr
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Militia
Reid: ‘Something Will Happen’ To Stop Nevada Rancher Cliven Bundy
04-23-2014
•
lasvegas.cbslocal.com
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says “something is going to happen” to get Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy to stop letting his cattle graze on federal land.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
| Tags: freedoms, phoenix, archives, politics, libertarian, alternative, government, freedom |
|
|
News Link • 
Feature Article • 
Reference Link • 
Reference Link • 
Feature Article • 
Feature Article • 
Feature Article • 
