 |
REAL TIME SPOT PRICES
Bitcoin Average: $63155.67
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: 2011-06-07
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, June 7, 2011 PM edition |
U.S. Plans Private Guard Force for Iraq: State Department Prepares to Hire 5,100
Tasered Suspect Dies in BSO Custody -- Rogue Planets: Billions of Jupiters on the Loose in the Milky Way -- USA urged to end two inmates' 40 year-long solitary confinement -- The Global Debt Crisis: How We Got in It and How to Get Out -- CDC Misrepresents Their Crime Data to Promote Gun Control -- Abdulaghani Aliryani & daughter Lara Aryani - Yemen / Jesse
Freeston - Honduras -- 6 Real Examples of Food Terrorism -- Why You Need An "Evil Plan" In Advance Of The Next
Revolution -- The Economic Depression Slams Obama's Poll Numbers -- Multiple Credit Cards In Your Phone and The
Disappearance of Cash -- Global Entry: TSA's Biometric Reprise
of "Papers, Please" -- Bill Bonner: The Once and Future Dips of the US
Economy -- Tension in the Air: Banks are Concerned About Mortgage
Slowdown -- Is Foreclosure Via
Facebook Coming to the US? -- Defiant Indian guru vows to resume
hunger strike -- Three arrested,
accused of illegally feeding homeless -- Jon Stewart’s The Daily
Show ratings soar, Fox News slumps in May numbers -- Amateur-Built
Danish 'Non-Profit Rocket' Blasts Off from the Baltic Sea -- Google
Wallet: Who'll Buy In? -- NRA's Guide to the Interstate Transportation
of Firearms -- Libertarian Law,
Religion and the Growing US Police State -- Fukushima Surrounded
by Radioactive Dead Zone
|
News Link • Iraq
U.S. Plans Private Guard Force for Iraq: State Department Prepares to Hire 5,100
06-07-2011
•
NATHAN HODGE, WSJ
The State Department is preparing to spend close to $3 billion to hire a security force to protect diplomats in Iraq after the U.S. pulls its last troops out of the country by year's end.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Leon Felkins
|
News Link • Police State
Tasered Suspect Dies in BSO Custody
06-07-2011
•
nbcmiami.com via Rense.com
Officers feared for the life of their Patrol Car's doors and windows... (ok, that's not in the article - that's just me being facetious - Ed)
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
|
News Link • Energy
Startup Thinks It Can Make Flow Batteries Cheaper
06-07-2011
•
Kevin Bullis via PopSci.com
The key is a modular design, which could make the technology practical as a way to keep the grid stable and reduce electricity costs.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Rogue Planets: Billions of Jupiters on the Loose in the Milky Way
May 18, 2011
•
Michael D. Lemonick, Time.com
A team of astronomers is reporting the discovery of 10 objects roughly the size of Jupiter that seem to be on the loose, roaming the galaxy untethered to any star.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Tyger Gilbert
|
News Link • Criminal Justice System
USA urged to end two inmates' 40 year-long solitary confinement
06-07-2011
•
Amnesty International
Louisiana must remove 2 inmates from the solitary confinement they were placed in almost 40 years ago. Albert Woodfox, 64, and Herman Wallace, 69, were placed in "Closed Cell Restriction" in Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) since they were convi
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Global Debt Crisis: How We Got in It and How to Get Out
06-07-2011
•
truthout.org
Countries everywhere are facing debt crises today, precipitated by the credit collapse of 2008.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
|
News Link • Gun Rights
CDC Misrepresents Their Crime Data to Promote Gun Control
06-07-2011
•
Pajamas Media
A recent Centers for Disease Control report shows how biased data sampling supports anti-rights propaganda.
In a new report, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) attempted to link firearms with violence, especially against children. The authors wr
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Justin Tyme
|
News Link • Bioterrorism
6 Real Examples of Food Terrorism
06-07-2011
•
Farm Wars
The latest warning coming from British intelligence that al-Qaeda and other political organizations could contaminate the food supply is part of a continuing plot line that hides the obvious: our food already has been poisoned...
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
|
News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Congress’ Slush Fund For Defense Earmarks
06-07-2011
•
Linda S. Carbonell
These earmarks, pork projects set aside for a particular Congressional district, are in a newly created special fund called the “Mission Force Enhancement Transfer Fund.” The fund has already hit $1 billion
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Leon Felkins
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Why You Need An "Evil Plan" In Advance Of The Next Revolution
06-07-2011
•
ZeroHedge.com
Paul Farrell explains: "Got your “Evil Plan” yet? You really need one. For self-defense, attacks, plain old survival. Why? Things are bad folks. And they’re going to get much worse. Trust no one. Believe nothing you hear. Nothing...
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Chart of The Day: America Is On the Wrong Track
06-07-2011
•
BusinessInsider.com/
The number of respondents who think things in the US are now on the "wrong track" is shooting up. This can't be good for things like spending, or other economic factors dependent on a robust consumer.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Obama Administration
The Economic Depression Slams Obama's Poll Numbers
06-07-2011
•
ZeroHedge.com
Eighty-nine percent of Americans say the economy is in bad shape; 57 percent say the recovery has not started and 66 percent said the United States was seriously on the wrong track.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Currencies
Multiple Credit Cards In Your Phone and The Disappearance of Cash
06-07-2011
•
onwallstreet.com
Google said its goal is to add more banks, allowing consumers to potentially register any card they have currently. Other experts say that Google's size and its strength in paid search and advertising provide financial institutions with a much...
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Homeland Security
Global Entry: TSA's Biometric Reprise of "Papers, Please"
06-07-2011
•
Guardian.co.uk/
Passengers are allocated the appropriate lane by an iris-recognition system linked to a government database, with known travellers going via a single, elongated arch through an x-ray check, a metal detector and a check for liquids.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bill Bonner: The Once and Future Dips of the US Economy
06-07-2011
•
DailyReckoning.com/
And if we’re right, this double-dip will be followed by a period of weak growth…followed by a triple dip. And then a quadruple dip. And then a quintuple dip.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Housing
Panic Threshold: 6 Reasons Housing Prices Aren't Rising
06-07-2011
•
BusinessInsider.com/
A big driver of the housing market is the creation of new households when young people go out on their own or through other vectors such as divorce. More young people are finding the working world increasingly hostile and are choosing to live...
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Housing
Tension in the Air: Banks are Concerned About Mortgage Slowdown
06-07-2011
•
NakedCapitalism.com/
This appears to have the mortgage industry in a Catch-22. Lenders need new borrowers to sop up the shadow inventory of foreclosed homes. They are scarce, however, because the traditional crop of “move-up” homebuyers is unable to sell existing homes…
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Housing
Is Foreclosure Via Facebook Coming to the US?
06-07-2011
•
NakedCapitalism.com/
One development overseas that may be coming to the US is using Facebook to send legal notices, such as foreclosure notices. As Bloomberg informs us, this practice has been accepted by courts in Australia, Canada, and the UK.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • World News
Defiant Indian guru vows to resume hunger strike
06-07-2011
•
http://hosted.ap.org/
A television star and yoga guru leading tens of thousands of people protesting Indian corruption said he would resume a hunger strike Monday in a northern Hindu pilgrimage city after police ousted him from the capital.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
|
News Link • Events: America
Three arrested, accused of illegally feeding homeless
06-07-2011
•
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/
Members of Orlando Food Not Bombs were arrested Wednesday when police said they violated a city ordinance by feeding the homeless in Lake Eola Park.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
|
News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show ratings soar, Fox News slumps in May numbers
06-07-2011
•
http://www.rawstory.com/
Comedy Central and "The Daily Show" both surged in the May Nielsen ratings, posting their best numbers yet. "The Daily Show" dominated its time slot across all of television...
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
|
News Link • Techno Gadgets
NASA's Next-Gen Spacesuit Could Have an In-Helmet Display
06-07-2011
•
http://www.popsci.com/
Though NASA holds the keys to some of the most sophisticated technologies ever to make it into low Earth orbit, the spacesuits that astronauts wear up there are still in many ways similar to those worn during the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
|
News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Microdrone Goes On Safari, Buzzing Kenyan Wildlife To Capture Footage
06-07-2011
•
http://www.popsci.com/
the latest generation of flying robots, from tennis-playing quadcopters to surveillance hummingbirds. But zebras, it’s fair to say, are not. So what happens when a drone buzzes a herd?
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
|
News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Amateur-Built Danish 'Non-Profit Rocket' Blasts Off from the Baltic Sea
06-07-2011
•
http://www.popsci.com/
Copenhagen Suborbitals’ “non-profit rocket” successfully launched from its catamaran launch platform in the Baltic Sea today, notching a major milestone for the organization that plans to eventually send an amateur-built manned rocket into suborbital
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
|
News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
The First Clown In Space Shares His Photos With The World
06-07-2011
•
http://www.popsci.com/
It's pretty standard practice that when humans travel, they take photographs. And then they show them off upon return, both to remember their trip and to let others bask in their glory.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
|
News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Largest DNA-Based Computer Ever Built Can Calculate Square Roots
06-07-2011
•
http://www.popsci.com/
A test-tube circuit made of DNA-based logic gates can calculate the square root of numbers up to 15, using DNA replication and sequence binding to conduct computations.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
|
News Link • Techno Gadgets
2011 Invention Awards
06-07-2011
•
http://www.popsci.com/
Created by Mark Stark, The Stark Hand prototype provides an ingenious, comfortable, and very inexpensive alternative to the hook his friend Dave Vogt had worn all his life.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
|
News Link • Internet
Arabic Social Startup Stays Local
06-07-2011
•
http://www.technologyreview.com/
d1g.com shows the value of building a social networking site around local customs.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
|
News Link • Gun Rights
Guide to the Interstate Transportation of Firearms
06-07-2011
•
http://lewrockwell.com/
Federal and state firearms laws are subject to frequent change. This summary is not to be considered as legal advice or a restatement of law.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
|
News Link • Police State
Libertarian Law, Religion and the Growing US Police State
06-07-2011
•
http://www.thedailybell.com/
Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
|
News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Coffee cuts risk of lethal prostate cancer: study
06-07-2011
•
http://www.lef.org/
More is better when it comes to drinking coffee to ward off the risk of deadly prostate cancer, according to a major US study released Tuesday by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
|
News Link • Imperialism
Dr. Steve Pieczenik: Royalty Incorporated
06-07-2011
•
http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Alex talks with critically acclaimed author and former senior State Department official Dr. Steve Pieczenik about Rep. Anthony Weiner and a lewd photograph that appeared on the New York Democrat’s Twitter page.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
|
News Link • Police State
Police Now Have Unprecedented Power to Invade Our Home
06-07-2011
•
http://www.cato.org/
Before the American Revolution, when we were King George III's colonists, his customs officers and soldiers, writing general warrants (writes of assistance) all by themselves, barged into offices and private homes in dragnet searches.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
|
News Link • Science
Thorium Power Notes
06-07-2011
•
arclein
he world's growing need for energy, the limits of our supply of fossil fuels and concern about the effects of carbon emissions on the environment have all prompted interest in the increased use of nuclear power. Yet the very word "nuclear" carries
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
robert klein
|
News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Fukushima Surrounded by Radioactive Dead Zone
06-07-2011
•
arclein
ne soil sample taking 25 kilometers away from Fukushima showed Cesium-137 exceeding 5 million becquerels per square meter. This level, of course, makes it uninhabitable by humans, yet both the Japanese and U.S. governments continue to
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
robert klein
|
News Link • Economy - International
Why Muslim Cultures Lag
06-07-2011
•
arclein
The Muslim world, on the other hand, has struggled during this era of unprecedented global wealth creation. These countries have profited almost solely, by happy geological accident, from oil and gas extraction. Beyond these activities, economic acti
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
robert klein
|
News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Antimatter Atoms Trapped for 16 Minutes
06-07-2011
•
arclein
Antimatter atoms have been held captive and kept in existence for a whopping 16 minutes by a Canadian-led team " far longer than the researchers thought possible.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
robert klein
|
| Tags: freedoms, phoenix, archives, politics, libertarian, alternative, government, freedom |
|
|
Feature Article • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
News Link • 
Feature Article • 
Feature Article • 
Feature Article • 
