 |
REAL TIME SPOT PRICES
Bitcoin Average: $65304.46
Gold: $4337.1 Change: $118.8
Silver: $70.58 Change: $2.68
|
|
|
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: 2010-10-22
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, October 21, 2010 PM edition |
DoD Expands Domestic Cyber Role--Al-CIAda: Cleric on US kill list attended Pentagon lunch after 9/11
Why is Obama putting a Fannie Mae/Goldman Sachs lobbyist/consultant as NSA? -- Pilot Refuses Full-Body Scan, Says TSA Doesn’t Make Travel Safer -- Fannie, Freddie bailout could nearly double in size -- Wall St. mogul picked for State Department post -- Juan Williams: NPR Fired Me For Making "Bigoted Statement" -- The First Signs of the Coming Dollar Crash are in Hong Kong -- Parallels To World War 2: Global Debt Structure Could Collapse -- Nightmare Tax Bookeeping Rules Coming for Even Tiniest of Businesses -- Politician used active duty troops in security detail -- Charles Hugh Smith: Hyperinflation Is a Political Process --
Dead Sea Scrolls Online -- Closing the Muslim Mind -- Judge: CFTC
Corrupt, Wendy Gramm Criminal -- Chris Whalen on Foreclosure-Gate:
"Obama is walking in H. Hoover's shoes"
AZ: Tea Party events for activists this week; Objectivity in the Media with libertarian talk show host Jim Sharpe speaking; Karl
Rove, "War Criminal," In Phoenix 11/09/2010; AZC4L
Freedom Rally and Annual Convention Featuring Dr. Ron Paul November 19-20.
|
News Link • Military
DoD Expanding Domestic Cyber Role
10-21-2010
•
Defense News
The US Defense Dept. is quietly taking on an expanding role in defending US critical infrastructure from cyber attacks. In a break with previous policy, the military will provide cyber expertise to other government agencies and private companies
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Al-CIAda: Cleric on US kill list attended Pentagon lunch after 9/11
10-21-2010
•
RawStory.com
A US citizen linked to Al Qaeda who is being targeted for extra-judicial killing by the CIA lunched at the Pentagon several months after the 9/11 attacks, news sources confirmed Wednesday.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Obama Administration
Why is Obama putting a Fannie Mae/Goldman Sachs lobbyist/consultant as NSA?
10-21-2010
•
Washington Examiner
Obama last week tapped Tom Donilon as National Security Advisor. What’s Donilon’s resume? He was a top lobbyist at Fannie Mae during the housing bubble, when Fannie fought " with Democratic help " to avoid any restrictions or curbs on its work to inf
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Pilot Refuses Full-Body Scan, Says TSA Doesn’t Make Travel Safer
10-21-2010
•
CBS News
A pilot who says he’s tired of being manhandled by security agents is waiting to see if he will lose his job because he refused a full body scan. The 35-year-old Roberts wants to go to work and not be “harassed or molested without cause.”
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fannie, Freddie bailout could nearly double in size
10-21-2010
•
Washington Post
The federal bailout for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could nearly double in size during the next 3 years, according to projections from the companies' federal regulator. Fannie and Freddie, the federally controlled mortgage finance giants, will need as
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Obama Administration
Wall St. mogul picked for State Department post
10-21-2010
•
Washington Times
President Obama's nominee for deputy secretary of state earned $8 million in salary and bonuses since January 2009 as an executive at a Wall Street bank that received a federal bailout. Thomas Nides, a 6-figure fundraiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Positive News
Move Over Facebook, Here Comes RTR.org, the Social Network of the Revolution
10-21-2010
•
RTR.org
http://RTR.org/signup is the Social Network of the new Revolution. Our over 24,000 members are actively engaged in raising the public consciousness to the problems pressing America today; the economy, the Federal Reserve, the erosion of freedo
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Uncle Freedom
|
News Link • Activism
Let's roll! Attend the Tea Party Friday! (and other events)
10-20-2010
•
examiner.com
I know that liberty activists, anarcho-capitalists, libertarians, constitutionalists and (real) liberals are dismayed by the hijacking of the Tea Party by neo-cons, RINOS, moderates and your typical, unprincipled blah Republican Party.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Daniel Heller
|
News Link • Media: Television
Juan Williams: NPR Fired Me For Making "Bigoted Statement"
10-21-2010
•
Real Clear Politics
How NPR reported his departure: "Juan Williams' remarks on Monday night's episode of "The O'Reilly Factor" were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices and that they undermined Williams' credibility as a new analyst with NPR."
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Boneyard USA: 18 Iconic Products That America Doesn't Make Anymore
10-21-2010
•
Businessinsider.com/
"Buying American" used to be a popular political gesture. But these days it's becoming impossible.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Housing
Foreclosure Nation Map
10-21-2010
•
Ritholtz.com
Here is a fascinating graphic from the Washington Post about where in the US, by County, foreclosures have taken place, color coded by percentage.
It is rather remarkable:
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Homeland Security
Fan with M16s sneaks into Michigan Stadium during big game
10-21-2010
•
www.myfoxdetroit.com
He didn't just get into the stadium. The man made his way onto the field with his M16s. It was a member of the authorized color guard who noticed the man was not with them and reported the imposter to U of M Police.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Chip Saunders
|
News Link • Criminal Justice System
Mothers Behind Bars
10-21-2010
•
AP
The Mothers Behind Bars report explores the egregious practice of shackling women during childbirth and other important issues affecting pregnant and parenting women"the vast majority of whom are non-violent, first-time offenders.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
CERN scientists eye parallel universe breakthrough
10-21-2010
•
Reuters
Physicists probing the origins of the cosmos hope next year they will turn up the first proofs of the existence of concepts long dear to science-fiction writers such as hidden worlds and extra dimensions. As their Large Hadron Collider moves into hig
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Archaeology
Ancient tomb discovered in Egypt
10-21-2010
•
Reuters (video)
A fifth Dynasty tomb of the priest Rudj Ka is discovered in an area south of the pyramid Khufu in Giza.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Federal Reserve
The First Signs of the Coming Dollar Crash are in Hong Kong
10-21-2010
•
EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Institutional investors are essentially left to judge a redneck beauty pageant: which of the three contestants is the least ugly?
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Currencies
Parallels To World War 2: Global Debt Structure Could Collapse
10-21-2010
•
ZeroHedge.com
Strangely, this past September, the US equity market rose by about 8.8%, its best return for that month, since that same September (1939). To me the parallels are ominous. What were those people thinking back in 1939? Could a coming world war...
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • TAXES: Federal
Nightmare Tax Bookeeping Rules Coming for Even Tiniest of Businesses
10-21-2010
•
EconomicPolicyJournal.com
How insane is the new rule on 1099 filings? It will go way beyond the tracking of those who buy gold coins. If you buy your employees a pizza once a week, that costs $20, you will have to provide your local pizzeria a 1099 form, since the annual...
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Bill of Rights
Tea Party Fascists: Joe Miller used active duty troops in security detail
10-21-2010
•
RawStory.com
Two of the guards who helped "arrest" the blogger-journalist, Alaska Dispatch editor Tony Hopfinger -- who was later released after questioning by police -- were actually active duty soldiers in the US Army.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Federal Reserve
Charles Hugh Smith: Hyperinflation Is a Political Process
10-21-2010
•
OfTwoMinds.com/blog
Destroying a currency is not like falling off a cliff; gravity does not take hold until the very end. Rather, the currency must be pushed and manhandled all the way up a long steep incline to the cliff's edge and then shoved off.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
If The Economy Is Recovering, Why Energy Demand Collapsing?
10-21-2010
•
Market-ticker.denninger.org/
The "Summer of Recovery" is now in our rear view mirror, so lets see what is happening in the real world with the US demand for oil. Oh, it's collapsing....
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Archaeology
Possible Geoglyphs Spotted in Peru
10-21-2010
•
arclein
used Google satellite maps and AstroFracTool, an astronomical image-processing program which she developed, to investigate over 463 square miles of land around Peru's Titicaca Lake .
She says she has identified shapes that were built by Andean com
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
robert klein
|
News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Silicon Strategy for Super Batteries
10-21-2010
•
arclein
Silicon has the highest theoretical capacity of any material for storing lithium, but there's a serious drawback to its use. "It can sop up a lot of lithium, about 10 times more than carbon, which seems fantastic," Wong said. "But after a couple
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
robert klein
|
News Link • Archaeology
Dead Sea Scrolls Online
10-21-2010
•
arclein
he project marries "one of the most important finds of the previous century with the most advanced technology of the next century," said Pnina Shor, the director of the p
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
robert klein
|
News Link • Religion: Believers
Closing the Muslim Mind
10-21-2010
•
arclein
Therefore, I was ineluctably led into a deep study of Islamic theology and into an examination of what constitutes justice in Islam.
I was also intrigued by Bernard Lewis’ work, which so effectively laid out “what went wrong” in the Islamic world wi
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
robert klein
|
News Link • Corruption
Judge: CFTC Corrupt, Wendy Gramm Criminal
10-21-2010
•
Ritholtz.com
Just when you think you have reached the bottom " your ability to get any more disgusted or outraged is finally at the point where it is unimaginable to think worse of Wall Street and its institutions " along comes a story that outrages you even more
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Housing
Deutsche Bank: Here's Why Housing Will Sink GDP Next Year
10-21-2010
•
Businessinsider.com/
The overhang of vacant homes remains elevated despite the historically low level at which residential construction has been running relative to GDP.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Housing
Chris Whalen on Foreclosure-Gate: "Obama is walking in H. Hoover's shoes"
10-21-2010
•
Market-ticker.denninger.org & YouTube.com
"This is cancer, this isn't a sudden crisis event thats going to erupt out of the ground like some monster and trying to eat us, this is a slow wasting process, and if we don't understand that that is the nature of deflation" Chris Whalen
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Events: Arizona
"Objectivity in Media" Lecture
10-27-2010
•
Phoenix Objectivists
For their last meeting in October to be held tonight, Phoenix Objectivists will be joined by 550AM KFYI radio talk show host Jim Sharpe for a lecture on "Objectivity in Media".
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
|
| Tags: freedoms, phoenix, archives, politics, libertarian, alternative, government, freedom |
|
|
Opinion • 
Feature Article • 
Feature Article • 
Feature Article • 
