 |
REAL TIME SPOT PRICES
Bitcoin Average: $80710.38
Gold: $4666.3 Change: $109.7
Silver: $75.78 Change: $3.07
|
|
|
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: 2008-10-24
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, October 24, 2008 |
Asian Stocks Sink Over 800 points -- US lawmakers mull creation of domestic intelligence agency
Treasury Considers Backing Mortgages -- Newest Source of Teen Ire: Webcams in Their Cars -- Why McCain Has Lost Our Vote - Goldwater -- Maybe U.S. Needs Yard Sale -- U.S. to miss deadline on Mexico border fence -- Warren Buffett, Government Propagandist -- Ron Paul Candidate in California -- Scott McClellan bails on John McCain -- Willie Nelson, Jesse Ventura To Host Anti-War, Pro-Peace Event -- Greenspan Was 'Cheerleader for Imprudence' -- U.S. Might Pay Ethanol Plants for Corn Losses -- 'Flying vaccination syringe' mosquitos funded -- Mobile biometric scanners for all UK police -- Amero Uproar -- Blackwater sends warship to Gulf of Aden -- Jim Rogers Slams "Zombification" Of Economy, Warns Of Hyperinflation -- Pentagon Wants Packs Of Robots To Detect "Non-Cooperative Humans" -- Iraq Vet Crushed by Police Horse at Presidential Debate -- U.S. Missiles Hit Pakistan School: 8 Students Dead -- Ballot debacle predicted for November 4 -- Pakistan On The Brink Of Anarchy - A New Crisis For The U.S. Military? -- Homeland Security to take over airport screening with 'Secure Flight' -- Nouriel Roubini: "Situation of Sheer Panic" May Force Market Closure -- Greenspan: Current Financial Conditions a "Once In a Century Credit Tsunami" -- US foreclosure filings up 71% in 3Q
|
News Link • Economy - International
Asian Stocks Sink; Sony Drops on Earnings Revision
10-24-2008
•
AP
Asian stocks tumbled for a third day Friday on persistent worries that a global recession will eat into corporate profits. Shares of Sony plunged more than 12 percent after it slashed its earnings forecast for the fiscal year.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Treasury Considers Backing Mortgages
10-24-2008
•
Washington Post
The federal government may start guaranteeing home mortgages to persuade lenders to ease the monthly financial burden on struggling homeowners, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila C. Bair said.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Transportation
Newest Source of Teen Ire: Webcams in Their Cars
10-24-2008
•
Washington Post
Ken Richardson does not have to ride in his 17-year-old daughter's Ford Escort to know when she takes a turn too fast. The camera system installed in her car [from a government program] will e-mail him about it.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Arizona's Top News
Microchips guard against cactus theft
10/23/08
•
http://www.asuwebdevil.com/node/1879
Micro chipping cactus hmm wonder whats next? [ED] Federal officials are planning a project that will put microchips into saguaro cactuses to deter poachers who steal the cactuses and sell them to homeowners for landscaping, a Saguaro National Park of
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
|
News Link • Homeland Security
ARE YOU LIVING IN THE CONSTITUTION FREE ZONE?
10-23-2008
•
ACLU
The government is assuming extraordinary powers to stop and search individuals within this zone. This is not just about the border: This "Constitution-Free Zone" includes most of the nation's largest metropolitan areas.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Terry Bressi
|
News Link • Homeland Security
TSA Expands Electronic Boarding Pass Scanning Program
10-23-2008
•
Papers Please
What “standardized automated data” will be collected? And what is to stop the agency from collecting all data from all individual travelers and keeping track of it in massive database? After all, it has only been a couple months since the last time T
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Terry Bressi
|
News Link • Eugenics
McCain Brother Calls 911 About Traffic - Curses Operator
10-23-2008
•
Raw Story
Sen. John McCain's brother Joe called 911 because he was irritated with traffic. When asked if he was really calling the emergency line to complain about highway conditions, Joe McCain responded, "F--k you" and hung up.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Brock Lorber
|
News Link • Economy - International
Maybe U.S. Needs Yard Sale
10-23-2008
•
Eric Margolis
Mexico will want to buy Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. Russia, of course, will buy back Alaska and Washington State. China will purchase California; San Francisco will become "New Beijing."
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Eugenics
Why McCain Has Lost Our Vote - Goldwater
10-23-2008
•
CC Goldwater for HuffingtonPost.com
along with my siblings and a few cousins, will not be supporting the Republican presidential candidates this year. We believe strongly in what our grandfather stood for: honesty, integrity, and personal freedom, free from political maneuvering and fe
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Immigration
INTERVIEW-U.S. to miss deadline on Mexico border fence
10-23-2008
•
Reuters
WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - The United States will miss its deadline to complete a security fence along the Mexican border this year, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Thursday.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Media: Print
NYTimes profits slide; S & P downgrades credit rating
10-23-2008
•
breitbart.com
The New York Times Co. reported a steep drop in third-quarter profits on Thursday, the latest gloomy earnings report in an industry battered by online competition and falling print advertising revenue.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul Becomes Qualified as Write-In Candidate in California
10-23-2008
•
LewRockwell.com
The California Secretary of State will announce tomorrow that Ron Paul has been certified as an official write-in candidate for President.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Family
Christians and the Pro-Life Ploy
10-23-2008
•
G.C. Dilsaver for LewRockwell.com
Why do we have the breakup of the family? It is because the family has been supplanted by the State (and the corporation). In actuality families have absolutely no rights in the United States, indeed, children can be taken from the home on mere suspi
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Corruption
Repudiate the National Debt
10-23-2008
•
Murray N. Rothbard via LewRockwell.com
The White House and its leadership assured them that this breach in principle would be their last: that it was necessary for one last increase in the debt limit to give President Reagan a chance to bring about a balanced budget and to begin to reduce
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Propaganda
Warren Buffett, Government Propagandist
10-23-2008
•
Karen De Coster for LewRockwell.com
Buffett writes, "Buy American. I Am." He goes on to say that Americans should not panic and flee equities, but instead, they should buy them. That's right " Warren Buffett wants people to buy equity stakes in American companies.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Eugenics
McCain Supporter Robbed, Assaulted
10-23-2008
•
Pittsburgh Review-Tribune
A knife-wielding man robbed a McCain-Palin campaign volunteer and etched a “B” into her face after he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the woman’s car, Pittsburgh police said.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Brock Lorber
|
News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Destination Moon: historic day as India launches first space mission
10-23-2008
•
www.timesonline.co.uk
Yesterday’s launch is especially resonant for Mr Garirao’s generation, who are old enough to have lived through Partition and then witnessed India’s recent reemergence as a world power.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Federal Reserve
Greenspan Was `Cheerleader for Imprudence,' James Grant Says
10-23-2008
•
Bloomberg.com
Greenspan said today at a Capitol Hill hearing that he was ``partially'' wrong for opposing the regulation of derivatives over the years.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Eugenics
Scott McClellan bails on John McCain; President Bush still on board
10-23-2008
•
LA Times
So the week that began when one former top Bush administration figure, former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, endorsed Obama ends with the endorsement of another.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Energy
U.S. Might Pay Ethanol Plants for Corn Losses
10-23-2008
•
Des Moines Register
The U.S. Department of Agriculture may use its rural development money to assist ethanol plants that have suffered losses in the volatile corn futures markets, Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said Friday in Des Moines.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Brock Lorber
|
News Link • Politics: General Activism
Willie Nelson, Jesse Ventura To Host Anti-War, Pro-Peace Event
10-23-2008
•
InfoWars.com
Both Willie Nelson and former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura have been vociferously outspoken in recent months against the 9/11 cover-up, the war in Iraq and the recent Wall Street bailout.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
'Flying syringe' mosquitos, other ideas get Gates funding
10-23-2008
•
AFP
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded $100,000 funding for a Japanese proposal to turn mosquitos into "flying syringes" delivering vaccines. [You didn't think we would stop with fluoride in your water did you?]
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Police State
Mobile biometric scanners for all UK police
10-23-2008
•
Silicon
Handheld fingerprint readers will be rolled out to police across the UK from 2010 as part of the Project Midas scheme, allowing officers to perform on the spot ID checks without having to take suspects back to the station.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Police State
U.S. lawmakers mull creation of domestic intelligence agency
10-23-2008
•
CNN
The United Kingdom has MI-5, which roots out spies and terrorists in the British Isles.
Canada has CSIS -- the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Now Congress is asking: Should the U.S. have its own domestic intelligence agency?
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Secret Government Projects
Blackwater sends warship to Gulf of Aden
10-23-2008
•
Lloyd's List
BLACKWATER " the US private military contractor embroiled in controversy over its actions in Iraq " has sent a private sector warship equipped with helicopters to the Gulf of Aden, and is offering its services to shipowners concerned with piracy.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Energy
HelioVolt's solar materials plant to open Friday
10-23-2008
•
statesman.com
The company, founded by chief executive B.J. Stanbery in 2001, has pioneered the use of powerful and durable thin-film solar materials that can be made part of metals, plastic, glass or other materials that can be incorporated into the construction o
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • North American Union
Amero Uproar
10-23-2008
•
Snopes
Snopes researches the issue and tells us another story...
(besides,... I think that the Amero is going to be skipped and we'll see the 'Worldo' before Bush leaves office)
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Police State
Pentagon Wants Packs Of Robots To Detect "Non-Cooperative Humans"
10-23-08
•
InfoWars.net
The Pentagon has put out a request to contractors to develop teams of robots that can search for, detect and track "non-cooperative" humans in "pursuit/evasion scenarios".
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jim Rogers Slams "Zombification" Of Economy, Warns Of Hyperinflation
10-23-08
•
InfoWars.net
Well respected financial commentator Jim Rogers has slammed the economic policies of the American and British governments, arguing that they are "propping up zombie banks", and repeating his previous warning that an inflationary holocaust i
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Torture
Iraq Vet Crushed by Police Horse at Presidential Debate
10-24-2008
•
Revolutionary Politics
Shocking video shows former Army Sergeant Nick Morgan at the moment his head is crushed to the sidewalk under the hooves of a police horse.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
istvan lettang
|
News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Goodell: NFL isn't recession-proof; economy will challenge league
10-23-2008
•
USA Today
He cited stadium financing and struggling sponsors as challenges for the league. Borrowing money has become difficult and expensive for many businesses, potentially hampering the credit needed for stadium projects, and sponsorships.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Federal Reserve
Bank Bailout Update: Banks Hoard Money Meant to Boost Economy
10-23-08
•
Bloomberg.com
Banks getting $125 billion from U.S. taxpayers to unlock the credit crunch are saying they'd rather hoard the money than use it for loans, the head of the largest independent mortgage company said.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge Tells 40-Year-Old Woman 'You were a very unhappy lady when this 14-year-old boy seduced yo
10/22/08
•
www.glennsacks.com
About as clear an example of the female sentencing discount as you'll ever see, though this is so outrageous the word "discount" seems excessively tame.
Perhaps "tame" would be better applied to the sentence--no jail time..
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Glenn Sacks
|
News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. Missiles Hit Pakistan School: Eight Students Dead
10-23-08
•
news.BBC.co.uk
A suspected US missile strike has killed at least eight students at a religious school in north-western Pakistan, witnesses say.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Ballot debacle predicted for November 4
10-23-08
•
Guardian.co.uk
A "perfect storm" could be building for US election day on November 4 because of a combination of sky-high voter interest, new ballot machines and a shortage of poll staff, the independent Pew group warned yesterday.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Foreign Policy
Pakistan Is On The Brink Of Anarchy - A New Crisis For The U.S. Military?
10-23-08
•
Bloomberg.com
``The way the war is being fought is like putting out fire with gasoline,'' said Khan, who played for the Pakistani cricket team from 1971 to 1992 before entering politics.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Phoenix: 78 Percent of Homes Sold Were Vacant
10-23-08
•
HousingDoom.com
So you’re an owner-occupier trying to sell your home in Phoenix? The odds are against you.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Homeland Security
Chertoff: HSS to take over airport screening with 'Secure Flight'
10-23-08
•
Rawstory.com
"Secure Flight is a critical tool that will further improve aviation security and fix the major customer service issue of watch-list misidentifications, a frustratingly common occurrence for travelers under the existing airline-based system,"
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Housing
Snow Says U.S.'s Push to Expand Home Ownership Went `Too Far'
10-23-08
•
Bloomberg.com
Snow oversaw Bush's promotion of an ``ownership society'' that saw the portion of Americans who owned their own houses rise to an all-time high of 69.2 percent in the second quarter of 2004.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Nouriel Roubini: "Situation of Sheer Panic" May Force Market Closure
10-23-08
•
Bloomberg.com
Hundreds of hedge funds will fail and policy makers may need to shut financial markets for a week or more as the crisis forces investors to dump assets, New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini said.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Federal Reserve
Greenspan: Current Financial Conditions a " Once In a Century Credit Tsunami"
10-23-08
•
news.yahoo.com/s/ap
In his testimony, Greenspan put the blame for the subprime collapse on over-eager investors who did not properly take into account the threats that would be posed once home prices stopped surging upward.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US foreclosure filings up 71 percent in 3Q
10-23-08
•
news.yahoo.com/s/ap
Nationwide, nearly 766,000 homes received at least one foreclosure-related notice from July through September, up 71 percent from a year earlier, said foreclosure listing service RealtyTrac Inc.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
| Tags: freedoms, phoenix, archives, politics, libertarian, alternative, government, freedom |
|
|
News Link • 
News Link • 
Feature Article • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
Feature Article • 
News Link • 
