 |
REAL TIME SPOT PRICES
Bitcoin Average: $62967.77
Gold: $4218.3 Change: $7.6
Silver: $67.91 Change: $0.68
|
|
 |
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: 2012-03-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, March 8, 2012 AM edition |
Obama Admin. Decides to Aid Syrian Opposition -- Are we headed for a Bay of Pigs in Iran?
Fed mulling sterilized bond purchases: report -- U.S. to sell $6 billion in AIG stock -- A Personal Quest to Clarify Bin Laden’s Last Days Yields Vexing Accounts -- Greek debt write-down: The era of risk-free government bonds nears its end -- Iowa law sets up fight between animal activists, farms -- Biggest solar storm in years races toward Earth, could disrupt power grid, GPS and more -- AIPAC Works for the 1 Percent -- The "Pink Slime" in Your Kid's School Lunch -- Colbert On Targeted
Killing: "Due Process Just Means There's A Process That You Do" -- Corporate Whistleblowers Get the Silent
Treatment -- Mitt Romney faces the fundamental problem
confronted by all zombie hunters -- Mexican Activists Protest Drug War Through Public Art (PHOTOS) --
The 10 Companies That Profit Most From War -- Western Hypocrisy and
the Russian Election --Fracking Could
Cause a New Global Water Crisis -- On Stealing School and Other
"Crimes" -- Pentagon Admits More
9/11 Remains Dumped in Landfill -- 16,022 Ron Paul Votes
Stolen by Voting Machines.. Watch Diebold Machine in ACTION! -- AZ -
TRAFFIC CAMERAS WON'T BE ON THE BALLOT -- 'Blind' Fed Owns More US Treasuries Than China –
Buying Silver and Gold as Part of Our Preps -- California’s adoption
of UN Agenda 21 regionalism and the attempts to neutralize County
Sheriff's -- Stop Agenda 21 Action Kit -- Why Buy the Cow? - by Peter Schiff -- Obama’s Kill
Policy -- New York Prostitution Ring Provided Minors For Wealthy
Elitists -- Is a House Ever a Good Investment? -- Understanding the unemployment rate:
It’s not 8.3% -- Republican candidates bid to be toughest
on Iran -- NATO Intervening in Syria -- To Kill
a Duke Lacrosse Team -- Will Israel Assassinate Obama?
|
News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Admin. Decides to Aid Syrian Opposition
03-07-2012
•
by John Glaser
The Obama administration has retreated from its initial refusal to stay out of the conflict in Syria by agreeing this week to provide direct humanitarian and communications assistance to the Syrian opposition.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed mulling sterilized bond purchases: report
03-07-2012
•
Reuters
Federal Reserve officials are considering a novel approach to bond buying aimed at countering some of the worry that another round of asset purchases by the central bank could fuel inflation, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Bailouts
U.S. to sell $6 billion in AIG stock
03-07-2012
•
Reuters
The Treasury Department said it will sell $6 billion worth of American International Group stock and struck another deal for the insurer to pay down $8.5 billion more in obligations, taking a major step forward in an election year to unwind the unpop
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • TERRORISM
A Personal Quest to Clarify Bin Laden’s Last Days Yields Vexing Accounts
03-07-2012
•
New York Times
In his quest for the truth about his country’s most notorious guest, Shaukat Qadir started where it all ended: the room where Osama bin Laden was killed. Last August, Mr. Qadir, a retired Pakistani Army brigadier, retraced the steps of the American c
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Economy - International
Greek debt write-down: The era of risk-free government bonds nears its end
03-07-2012
•
Washington Post
The big banks have opted in. Some pension and hedge funds have opted out.
Late Thursday in Athens, Greek officials will begin the final tally of a massive debt write-down to see if enough investors have agreed to participate to allow them to decla
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Activism
Iowa law sets up fight between animal activists, farms
03-07-2012
•
Washington Post
Iowa, the country’s top producer of pork and eggs, attracted national attention this month when it became the first state to adopt a law that’s designed to curtail the undercover operations of animal rights activists on farms.
Another seven states
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Solar Flares
Biggest solar storm in years races toward Earth, could disrupt power grid, GPS and more
03-07-2012
•
Washington Post
Earth’s magnetic field is about to be shaken like a snow globe by the largest solar storm in five years.
After hurtling through space for a day and a half, a massive cloud of charged particles is due to arrive early Thursday and could disrupt util
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Israel
AIPAC Works for the 1 Percent
03-07-2012
•
www.truthdig.com - By Chris Hedges
The battle for justice in the Middle East is our battle. It is part of the vast, global battle against the 1 percent. It is about living rather than dying. It is about communicating rather than killing. It is about love rather than hate.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Food
The "Pink Slime" in Your Kid's School Lunch
03-07-2012
•
By Tom Philpott
Like a horror-film villain, "pink slime""the cheeky nickname for scraps of slaughtered cow that have been pulverized, defatted, subjected to ammonia steam to kill pathogens, and congealed into a filler for ground beef"takes a pounding but keeps comin
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Media: Television
Colbert On Targeted Killing: "Due Process Just Means There's A Process That You Do"
03-07-2012
On Tuesday, Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert took on Attorney General Eric Holder's legal justification for killing American citizens abroad suspected of terrorism, particularly Holder's argument that "due process and judicial process are not one and
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Whistleblowers
Corporate Whistleblowers Get the Silent Treatment
03-07-2012
•
By Eyal Press
Why does Washington ignore people who blow the whistle on corporate fraud?
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Mitt Romney faces the fundamental problem confronted by all zombie hunters
03-07-2012
•
By David Corn
The GOP front-runner's grabbing more of the delegates"but he's being pursued by living-dead competitors he can't vanquish.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Mexico
Mexican Activists Protest Drug War Through Public Art (PHOTOS)
03-07-2012
•
HuffingtonPost
While drug-related deaths continue to escalate as the Mexican drug war wages on, Mexican youth have resorted to peaceful and artistic forms of protest against the violence.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The 10 Companies That Profit Most From War
03-07-2012
•
24/7 Wall St.
Global sales of arms and military services by the 100 largest defense contractors increased in 2010 to $411.1 billion, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Environment
Fracking Could Cause a New Global Water Crisis
03-07-2012
•
Common Dreams staff
Numerous communities where fracking has occurred in the U.S. have had their public water resources contaminated as a result of fracking.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
The Vetting: Obama Embraces Racialist Harvard Prof
03-07-2012
•
www.breitbart.com
"Breaking footage shows a young Barack Obama leading a protest at Harvard Law School on behalf of Prof. Derrick Bell, a radical academic tied to Jeremiah Wright. We will be releasing significant information in the coming hours."
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Pentagon Admits More 9/11 Remains Dumped in Landfill
03-07-2012
•
by grtv
A new report released on Monday by the Pentagon reveals that some of the unidentifiable remains from victims at the Pentagon and Shanksville sites on September 11th were disposed of in a landfill.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Techno Gadgets
Apple lifts lid on 4G iPad, keeps prices
03-07-2012
•
By Poornima Gupta and Alexei Oreskovic
Apple Inc took the wraps off a faster 4G-equipped iPad starting at $629, hoping the latest version of its tablet can safeguard its dominance over rivals ranging from Amazon.com Inc to Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
16,022 Ron Paul Votes Stolen by Voting Machines.. Watch Diebold Machine in ACTION!
03-07-2012
•
Uploaded by LedaOhio6
People keep pointing out the OBVIOUS that this is NOT Ron Paul.. DUH! This is Metaphorically speaking and it's FAR WORSE today.. I would BET he's had many times this amount stolen given his enormous popularity..
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Camera Fraud
AZ - TRAFFIC CAMERAS WON'T BE ON THE BALLOT
03-07-2012
•
Arizona Republic
Arizona voters won't get the chance this November to ban all photo-enforcement cameras in the state. In an effort to keep the greedy camera companies in business and apparently save us from ourselves,
the Senate on Tuesday voted 14-15 against Sen
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Michele Power
|
News Link • Federal Reserve
'Blind' Fed Owns More US Treasuries Than China " Ruining Fixed-Income Policy Gauge
03-07-2012
•
by Staff Report
As long as there is confidence in the Fed, the Fed's strategy may pan out, right?
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Gold and Silver
Buying Silver and Gold as Part of Our Preps
03-07-2012
•
by Jeff
You may ask questions like: how and from who, or what kind, or what is the spot price? I am writing this to give a little direction and share some of our experiences in this matter.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Voting: Voter Information
War, Social Values, and Ron Paul
03-07-2012
•
by Jon Basil Utley
Is supporting war more important for evangelicals than their social values? Isn't Ron Paul a social conservative?
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Conspiracies
California’s adoption of UN Agenda 21 regionalism and the attempts to neutralize County Sheriff’s
03-07-2012
•
PPJ Gazette
Labeled as “tin foil” conspiracy theorists, called crazy and lambasted for the inclusion of Tea Party property rights activists and repeatedly told that they were imagining things, California property rights advocates may not be so crazy after all.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Obama loses Dem primary in 15 Oklahoma counties
03-07-2012
•
www.google.com/hostednews/ap
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) " President Barack Obama collected the most votes in the Oklahoma Democratic primary, but lost in 15 counties.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Why Buy the Cow?
03-07-2012
•
by Peter Schiff
The communist revolutions in the 20th century sought to nationalize the wealth generated by privately held industries back to the "exploited" workers on whose backs the profits were supposedly derived.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Obama Administration
Obama’s Kill Policy
03-07-2012
•
JONATHAN TURLEY
On Monday, March 5, Northwestern University School of Law was the location of an extraordinary scene for a free nation.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Religion: Believers
Weaponizing Religion: Romans 13 Co-Author Tim Baldwin Reports
03-07-2012
•
Prisonplanet.com
Many Christian pastors and leaders today are erroneously reviving the divine-right-of-kings argument used in the Dark Ages, which created some of the most horrific human affairs in history.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Corruption
New York Prostitution Ring Provided Minors For Wealthy Elitists
03-07-2012
•
Paul Joseph Watson
Yet another elitist pedophile ring has been exposed with the bust of 44-year-old mother of four Anna Gristina, charged with running a prostitution ring out of a New York apartment that relied on police protection to provide wealthy clients with minor
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Employment & Jobs
Understanding the unemployment rate: It’s not 8.3%
03-03-2012
•
The Examiner
What we read, see on TV and hear on radio about the unemployment rate is not the whole story. The Bureau of Labor Statistics gives us "U-3," which is at 8.3%, but to see total unemployment including those who have stopped looking for jobs, the answ
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
James Hyde
|
News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Republican candidates bid to be toughest on Iran
03-07-2012
•
By Susan Cornwell
Republican presidential candidates competed to be the most hawkish on Iran and favorable to Israel before the powerful pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC on Tuesday, telling Iran it would be in real danger if it goes nuclear while they are in the White Hou
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • WAR: About that War
‘Syria Danny’ Caught Staging CNN War Propaganda Stunt
03-07-2012
•
www.prisonplanet.com
Astounding footage has emerged of ‘Syria Danny’ " the dubious “activist” who appears on mainstream news every week begging for a US or Israeli military invasion " in which he apparently coordinates gunfire and explosions to be staged during his inter
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Corruption
High-end madam busted for running upper East Side brothel is a suburban mom with four children
03-07-2012
•
New York Daily News
A high-end madam who boasted she used cops as security and made millions by peddling flesh " including underage girls " to rich and powerful clients (politicians) has been busted after a five-year probe, prosecutors said.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Men trying to be our God
Health Department Raids Community Picnic and Destroys All Food with Bleach
03-07-2012
•
adistinctiveworld.net via RTR.ORG
Think about what a 'Permit' opens the door to next time you fill one out - ESPECIALLY when 'under duress'.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
|
News Link • Drug War
U.S. Vice President Biden stands firm in Latin America drug debate
03-07-2012
•
By AFP
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said in Mexico Monday that he was open to joining a growing Latin American debate about legalizing illicit drugs, but only to show that a change of policy would not work.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
How To Get Anything Through TSA Nude Body Scanners
03-07-2012
•
www.youtube.com
The TSA's insistence that the nude body scanner program is effective and necessary is nothing but a fraud. The scanners are worthless, as anyone can beat them with virtually no effort.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Chip Saunders
|
News Link • TERRORISM
Al Qaeda says Yemen attack follows U.S. troop increase
03-06-2012
•
Reuters
The Yemeni branch of al Qaeda said Tuesday it attacked a U.S. intelligence officer after U.S. soldiers were sent to the country, whose new leader has vowed to fight the militant Islamist group.
In a statement posted on an Islamist website, al Qaed
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Economy - International
Four Greek pension funds refuse to join debt swap-official
03-06-2012
•
Reuters
Most Greek pension funds holding Greek sovereign debt have agreed to take part in a bond exchange to ease the country's debt burden but four have refused to do so, a Greek official said on Tuesday.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Internet
FBI: Irish misstep led to conference call leak
03-06-2012
•
AP
The FBI's indictment said that 19-year-old Donncha O'Cearrbhail intercepted the email and used the information in it to access and secretly record the Jan. 17 call, which hackers subsequently broadcast across the Internet.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
| Tags: freedoms, phoenix, archives, politics, libertarian, alternative, government, freedom |
|
 |