 |
REAL TIME SPOT PRICES
Bitcoin Average: $79702.14
Gold: $4717.7 Change: $3.3
Silver: $86.79 Change: $0.35
|
|
|
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: 2012-07-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, July 3, 2012 AM edition |
Poor Land in Debtor's Jail as Prison Industrial Complex Adds Huge Fees for Probation
US manufacturing shrinks for first time in 3 years -- Montana’s Governor Sweitzer blasts Supreme Court for overturning Corrupt Practices Act -- Saudi warns against travel to Lebanon -- Israel Attacks Southern Lebanon, Destroys Discovered Surveillance Device -- California lawmakers approve foreclosure-protection law -- Charles Rangel race vote fraud -- Iranian authorities acknowledge impact of sanctions -- 4409: Beavis and Butthead Discover FreedomsPhoenix.com -- 07-03-12 -- Scott Horton - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Independence Day? - by Christine Smith -- L.A. Cops Embrace Crime-Predicting Algorithm -- German Supreme Court To Make A Decision That Will Make The Obamacare Drama Look Like Child's Play -- Byron Wien: I Spoke To The Smartest Man In Europe, And What He Had To Say Was Terrifying -- Financial Coup d’Etat in Europe: Government by the Banks, for the Banks -- Her Majesty's BBC's Syria Coverage: "Sorry for the Lies"...
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday; Party at Hancock's -
Come meet Glenn Jacobs, aka Citizen X - Friday, July 13th - 5 p.m. til ?
|
News Link • Criminal Justice System
Poor Land in Jail as Companies Add Huge Fees for Probation
07-02-2012
•
New York Times
It is a story about the mushrooming of fines and fees levied by money-starved towns across the country and the for-profit businesses that administer the system. Growing numbers of poor people are ending up jailed and in debt for minor infractions.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US manufacturing shrinks for first time in 3 years
07-02-2012
•
AP
US manufacturing shrank in June for the first time in 3 years, adding to signs that economic growth is weakening. Production and exports declined, and the number of new orders plunged. Comes as employers scale back hiring,
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Corruption
Montana’s Governor Sweitzer blasts Supreme Court for overturning Corrupt Practices Act
07-02-2012
•
Rawstory
“We had a system that actually worked,” Schweitzer went on, as Hayes chortled in the background. “And the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., a place where nothing works, they told us, ‘No, we don’t like your system. We think you ought to go to the co
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Syria
Saudi warns against travel to Lebanon
07-02-2012
•
AFP
Tensions in Lebanon are rising after deadly clashes linked to the conflict in neighboring Syria erupted on several occasions in the past few months. Syria and Lebanon share a complex web of political and sectarian ties and rivalries that often spill
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Israel
Israel Attacks Southern Lebanon, Destroys Discovered Surveillance Device
07-02-2012
•
AntiWar
An Israeli warplane, or an unmanned drone by some accounts, attacked a site in southern Lebanon today, destroying what Hezbollah officials say was a surveillance device they had just uncovered attached to their communications network.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Housing
California lawmakers approve foreclosure-protection law
07-02-2012
•
Reuters
The legislation would bar banks from moving ahead with foreclosures while still negotiating with homeowners over loan modifications. It would also allow lawsuits against banks for so-called "robo-signing,"
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Charles Rangel race takes chaotic turn
07-02-2012
•
Politico
It’s a bizarre situation that just keeps getting weirder, a strange case of missing precincts, questionable ballots and utter confusion over who’s to blame for the mess and when the race might be settled.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Iran
Iranian authorities acknowledge impact of sanctions
07-02-2012
•
Washington Post
With downgraded nuclear talks with world powers set to begin Tuesday, there are growing signs in Iran that Western sanctions are hurting the nation’s economy and alarming its decision-makers.
Authorities remain defiant, but they increasingly are a
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • History
Independence Day?
07-02-2012
•
Christine Smith's YouTube channel
Why celebrate the leaving of one empire for the making of another? 6 minute video I made a year ago on July 2, 2011.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Christine -
|
News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
DNA sequenced for parrot's ability to parrot
07-02-2012
•
http://www.bio-medicine.org, Ashley Yeager
Scientists say they have assembled more completely the string of genetic letters that could control how well parrots learn to imitate their owners and other sounds.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Newly discovered dinosaur implies greater prevalence of feathers
07-02-2012
•
http://www.bio-medicine.org, Kendra Snyder
A new species of feathered dinosaur discovered in southern Germany is further changing the perception of how predatory dinosaurs looked.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Revolutionary 'DNA Tracking Chamber' Could Detect Dark Matter
07-02-2012
•
technologyreview.com, Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1206.6809
An unlikely group of physicists and biologists plan to build a dark matter detector out of DNA that will outperform anything available today
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • European Union
German Supreme Court To Make A Decision That Will Make The Obamacare Drama Look Like Child's Pla
07-02-2012
•
http://www.businessinsider.com, Simone Foxman
A hearing at Germany's version of the Supreme Court, to be held on July 10, could destroy all the optimism from the last EU summit.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • Media: Print
Byron Wien: I Spoke To The Smartest Man In Europe, And What He Had To Say Was Terrifying
07-02-2012
•
http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
Blackstone's Byron Wien is up with a new column, wherein he relays a conversation he had with someone he only refers to as The Smartest Man In Europe.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
News Link • European Union
Financial Coup d’Etat in Europe: Government by the Banks, for the Banks
07-02-2012
•
http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Ellen Brown
On Friday, June 29th, German Chancellor Angela Merkel acquiesced to changes to a permanent Eurozone bailout fund"“before the ink was dry,” as critics complained.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Her Majesty's BBC's Syria Coverage: "Sorry for the Lies"...
07-02-2012
•
http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Felicity Arbuthno
As the sabre rattling towards Iran and the ongoing tragedy in Syria become increasingly hard to unravel, "media errors" or perhaps even "obfuscation" create their own navigational complexities.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Iraq
US gone, Iraq starts to improve economically
07-01-2012
•
New York Times
One has a designated prayer room. Another frisks patrons at the entrance, requiring them to check their pistols, like coats in a fancy restaurant. They are good places to escape the desert heat, and in a conservative Islamic culture, they are one of
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
‘Is that a crime?’: Witness says man shot by police was rushing cousin to hospital
07-01-2012
•
.
A Johnstown man who survived a deadly shooting early Monday by three Johnstown police officers said that he and his cousin, Elip Cheatham, were trying to get another wounded cousin to a hospital and were not attempting to run down police.
“If it w
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Japan readies nuclear reactor as protests mount
07-01-2012
•
The Raw Story.com
Engineers were Sunday readying to refire a nuclear reactor, despite growing public protests in the aftermath of meltdowns at Fukushima, ending nearly two months in which Japan was nuclear-free.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Roger Young's "I Hereby Secede" video
07-01-2012
•
youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Make your claim to individual sovereignty clear by declaring and affirming your personal secession.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Government
As crops rot, millions go hungry in India
07-01-2012
•
Reuters
Every day some 3,000 Indian children die from illnesses related to malnutrition, and yet countless heaps of rodent-infested wheat and rice are rotting in fields across the north of their own country.
It is an extraordinary paradox created by a rig
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Activism
NYPD Publishes Poster of "Professional Agitators," aka Citizens who Record Cops
07-01-2012
•
Photography Is Not a Crime
The New York City Police Department issued a notice to officers to be aware of a pair of “professional agitators” who like to video record police performing their duties. It was the agitators themselves who discovered the flyer when they walked insid
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Government
Iron Chains vs. Steel Chains
07-01-2012
•
Lew Rockwell blog
What difference does it make if you have to wear leg irons or handcuffs made of iron, rather than steel? What difference does it make if you are forced to buy health insurance due to a monetary penalty, rather than due to its being regulated as an it
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • World News
China dispatches patrol ships as tensions with Vietnam mount
07-01-2012
•
The Raw Story.com
China has deployed four patrol ships to a disputed area of the South China Sea, state media said Sunday, amid a deepening row with Vietnam over competing territorial claims.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
"Showtime Syndrome" in Evansville: Online Trash Talk about Cops Triggers SWAT Raid
07-01-2012
•
by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
“The community absolutely has to have law and order. If that’s removed, all kinds of chaos and violence will result,” insisted Evansville, Indiana Police Captain Andy Chandler in an interview with Pro Libertate.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
"Elektable" (Ron Paul Short Film)
07-01-2012
•
http://www.youtube.com/
All scenes for the film were shot in Chicago over 4 days using the Red One MX and Epic Cameras. The sets shown in the film were custom built for this effort.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • WAR: About that War
Anti-War's Angela Keaton on Women, War and the Ethics of Empire
07-01-2012
•
http://thedailybell.com
Introduction: Angela Keaton is the Director of Operations at Antiwar.com. She is currently chairman of the board for the Ladies of Liberty Alliance (LOLA) and national secretary for Outright Libertarians.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Wallet Voting
PorcFest 2012 - Agorist Extravaganza! via ShireSilver.com
07-01-2012
•
http://shiresilver.com
Thanks to the folks at Freedom's Phoenix, the Silver Calculator App, and Don't Tread On Meme we were able to utilize the amazing Moneylith. The Moneylith is a fairly typical vending machine, but this one was loaded with most of the alternative curren
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Drew
|
News Link • WAR: About that War
Turkey scrambles F-16 jets on Syria border
07-01-2012
•
http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Turkey has scrambled six F-16 fighter jets near its border with Syria after Syrian helicopters came close to the border, the country’s army says.
Six jets were sent to the area in response to three such incidents on Saturday, the statement said, a
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Chris Menke
|
News Link • Religion: Believers
Mormons quit church in mass resignation ceremony
07-01-2012
•
http://www.reuters.com, By Jennifer Dobner
A group of about 150 Mormons quit their church in a mass resignation ceremony in Salt Lake City on Saturday in a rare display of defiance ending decades of disagreement for some over issues ranging from polygamy to gay marriage.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Iran
Iranian submarines to navigate Caspian Sea " report
07-01-2012
•
http://www.rt.com
Tehran plans to deploy “light submarines” to the Caspian Sea, Iranian Navy top brass has told Fars news agency.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Syria
Annan: Russia, West agree on transition government for Syria
07-01-2012
•
http://www.rt.com
The Syrian crisis is to be resolved by a transition government consisting of the current authorities and opposition leaders. The proposal was announced by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan after talks in Geneva.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Energy
Smart Meter = Smart Surveillance
07-01-2012
•
http://govtslaves.info, Michael LeMieux
We have all heard a lot of discussion lately on the energy department’s move toward a “smart grid” and the use of “smart meters” fueled by the stimulus funding from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Kids
Arpaio's PD arrests 6 year old without legal ID
06-30-2012
•
BeatTheChip
A 6 year old girl was arrested and now sits in an Arizona ICE detention facility in accordance with SB 1070 rulings.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sheila Dean
|
News Link • Surveillance
Darrell Issa Puts Details of Secret Wiretap Applications in Congressional Record
06-30-2012
•
www.rollcall.com
In the midst of a fiery floor debate over contempt proceedings for Attorney General Eric Holder, House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) quietly dropped a bombshell letter into the Congressional Record.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Economy - International
Eric Sprott - Central planners are lying to us
06-30-2012
•
King World News
Just as it was easy for me, back in 2007, to say GM, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Citigroup are broke, you just take a look at the balance sheet. You’re beyond a Minsky moment, and most countries are in that situation today.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Glenn Jacobs
|
News Link • Egypt
Egypt's next leader vows to work to free sheik in N.Y. bomb plot
06-30-2012
•
New York Times
President-elect Mohammed Morsi's rousing tribute to Egyptian sovereignty included a promise to work for the release of the Egyptian-born Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, jailed for plotting a series of New York City bombings.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge gives Nilan harassment protection from Valenti, orders him to redact blog
06-30-2012
•
.
A judge granted Meredith Nilan a harassment prevention order against local blogger Dan Valenti, and ordered him to remove any references to her from his website, Planet Valenti. Nilan faced criminal charges related to a car accident
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Education: Government Schools
Disturbing e-mails could spell more trouble for Penn State officials
06-30-2012
•
CNN (video)
With convicted serial child sex abuser Jerry Sandusky behind bars, new questions are surfacing about what Penn State officials knew about the coach's encounter with a boy in the shower -- and whether they covered it up.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Criminal Justice System
Holder? Prosecuted? White House says forget it
06-30-2012
•
The Ticket
The Department of Justice will not prosecute Attorney General Eric Holder after the Republican-led House of Representatives voted to hold him in contempt of Congress, the White House said .
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Congress-Congressmen
House could arrest Holder with inherent contempt power
06-30-2012
•
Washington Times
Despite voting to hold Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt of Congress, there’s little House Republicans can do in the short term to compel him to turn over documents " unless it wanted to revisit a long-dormant power and arrest him.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Employment & Jobs
The Sharp, Sudden Decline of America's Middle Class
06-30-2012
•
http://www.rollingstone.com, by Jeff Tietz
They had good, stable jobs - until the recession hit. Now they're living out of their cars in parking lots.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • TAXES: Federal
Judge Napolitano: "Individual Mandate Most Bizarre Tax in the History of the Country."
06-30-2012
•
http://www.dailypaul.com, by adampeart
"Individual Mandate Most Bizarre Tax in the History of the Country."
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Secret Government Projects
Department of Defense Caught Lying About Use Of Domestic Spy Drones
06-30-2012
•
http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Watson
Offices of two US Senators contradict statements of Special Operations Command
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • China
U.S. exempts China, Singapore from Iran sanctions
06-30-2012
•
http://www.rawstory.com, By Agence France-Presse
The United States exempted China and Singapore from sanctions over purchases of oil from Iran hours before a deadline, saying that major economies were united in pressuring Tehran.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
B612 Sentinel: The First Privately-Funded Deep Space Mission
06-30-2012
•
http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
The B612 Foundation will use its deep-space craft to map the orbit of every potentially Earth-smashing asteroid for the next hundred years
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Robert Lee
|
| Tags: freedoms, phoenix, archives, politics, libertarian, alternative, government, freedom |
|
|
Feature Article • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
Feature Article • 
Feature Article • 
News Link • 
