 |
REAL TIME SPOT PRICES
Bitcoin Average: $61924.67
Gold: $4080.8 Change: $10.5
Silver: $63.81 Change: $0.52
|
|
|
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: 2010-11-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, November 24, 2010 AM edition |
We hate obese passengers and people with personal hygiene issues, abused' TSA staff vent
Coalition of 45 groups seeks investigation of FBI over peace activist
raids -- Polygamy in Canada: How many wives can a man have? -- Tokers blow smoke at pot fines -- Appeals court derails use of GPS in case -- TSA Searches: Are Trains and Subways Next? -- The Myth of Palestinian Victimization - by Michael Renzulli -- Sting Lures Alleged Malaysian Hacker to U.S. for Arrest -- How to avoid both the naked body scanner and TSA gropes! -- Ron Paul Interviewed by Sean Hannity (11/22/2010) -- LP Monday Message: Libertarians mourn death of David F. Nolan -- FreedomsPhoenix.com - WeWontFly.com Hands of Blue TSA Packet (5 min 28 sec VIDEO) -- Ron Paul: Crotch Groped by TSA, Calls for Boycott of Airlines -- Airport Screeners: Denied radiation badges? -- Paul Craig Roberts: TSA Gestapo Empire
-- TSA is An International Laughingstock: No Respect , No Respect At
All -- Foreclosure-Gate: Countrywide’s mortgage fraud could threaten
BofA -- Florida Oil Spill Felony Arrest for 10 Gallons of Vegetable Oil -- Bernanke Is Making the Crisis Worse
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 is NATIONAL
OPT-OUT
DAY!
|
News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
We hate obese passengers and people with personal hygiene issues, abused' TSA staff vent
11-23-2010
•
Daily Mail
Furious security staff hit back at pat down searches in airports across America, claiming that they hated dealing with obese travelers and those with personal hygiene problems. They hated having to carry out body searches, with one claiming it was wo
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • TERRORISM
Coalition of 45 groups seeks investigation of FBI over peace activist raids
11-23-2010
•
Rawstory
On September 24th, the FBI raided the homes of 14 peace activists in Minneapolis and Chicago, ostensibly searching for possible "material support" to terrorist organizations. "Prosecutions for protected political activity have a chilling effect, not
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Marriage
Polygamy in Canada: How many wives can a man have?
11-23-2010
•
BBC News
An unusual legal test case is taking place in Canada aimed at clarifying whether polygamy is a crime. Does the country's anti-polygamy law violate a constitutional guarantee of the freedom of religion? Over the next few months, a court will decide.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • TAXES: Local
Tokers blow smoke at pot fines
11-23-2010
•
Boston Herald
Potheads who’ve found the grass is greener under the state’s mellowed-out marijuana law have racked up as much as $64,500 in unpaid fines in Boston alone, thumbing their noses at hundreds of citations that cops have written up, but authorities are po
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Surveillance
Appeals court derails use of GPS in case
11-23-2010
•
Washington Times
A sharply-divided federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that police can't use GPS to track a suspect's vehicle without a warrant, rejecting a bid by the Justice Department to have the life sentence of a convicted drug dealer reinstated.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Transportation
TSA Searches: Are Trains and Subways Next?
11-23-2010
•
InfoWars
Soon after taking over the TSA Pistole told USA Today that he will work to expand airport Gestapo zones. “Protecting riders on mass-transit systems from terrorist attacks will be as high a priority as ensuring safe air travel,
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Survive a TSA Screening
11-23-2010
•
coyoteden via WIRED.com
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has run afoul of security experts and the general public by introducing some radical changes to how airline passengers are screened -- just in time for the holiday travel peak
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others
11-23-2010
•
AP
Cabinet secretaries, top congressional leaders and an exclusive group of senior U.S. officials are exempt from toughened new airport screening procedures when they fly commercially with government-approved federal security details.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Glenn Jacobs
|
News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Exclusive: NASA’s Plan to Save Astrophysics From Space Telescope’s Budget Overruns
11-23-2010
•
Lisa Grossman via WIRED.com
The $1.5 billion in cost overruns needed to complete the planned successor to the Hubble Space Telescope had NASA astrophysicists fearing for the future of other projects.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Tron’s Triumphant Return to Cyberspace
11-23-2010
•
Adam Rogers via WIRED.com
You will like Tron: Legacy. It’s a command. Don’t even try to fight it. Come December 17, when the movie comes out, your butt will be in a seat and your head will be plugged into migraine-inducing Urkel goggles like everybody else
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
News Link • Federal Reserve
Sting Lures Alleged Malaysian Hacker to U.S. for Arrest
11-23-2010
•
Kim Zetter via WIRED.com
A Malaysian man has been arrested after Secret Service agents caught him in a sting operation and found 400,000 bank card numbers on his computer.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
News Link • r3VOLution Continues
How to avoid both the naked body scanner and TSA gropes!
11-23-2010
•
Farm Wars
Matt made it through airport security without being irradiated or sexually assaulted by TSA. Read the account, and listen to the recording to see how he accomplished this. Then think about what would happen if others started doing this, en masse.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
|
News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Don't touch my junk? Grow up, America.
11-23-2010
•
Washington Post
The uproar over the new procedures is overblown and immature. The marginal invasion of privacy is small relative to the potential benefit of averting a terrorist attack. Meanwhile, some of the loudest howls of outrage emanate from those who would be
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Homeland Security
Ron Paul Interviewed by Sean Hannity (11/22/2010)
11-23-2010
•
RonPaul2012Podcast
A generally friendly, agreeable interview about TSA policy ensued, despite the host's propensity for right-wing statism and uniform worship.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Donna Hancock
|
News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
LP Monday Message: Libertarians mourn death of David F. Nolan
11-23-2010
•
LP.org
The Libertarian Party informs their members of David Nolan's death. At the end of the Press Release is a resolution presented by David to the World.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Ron Paul: Crotch Groped by TSA, Calls for Boycott of Airlines
11-23-2010
•
YouTube
Appearing on the Alex Jones Show today, Texas Congressman Ron Paul expressed his outrage and disgust with the TSA and its unconstitutional naked body scanners and genital groping under the transparent pretense of protecting the American people from t
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Donna Hancock
|
News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Airport Screeners: Denied radiation badges?
11-23-2010
•
Science Friday
I continue to wonder why those TSA folks who stand by x-ray machines for a whole day do not know how much radiation they are exposed to. Last weekend, one of them told me she asked for a radiation badge and was told she could not wear one.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Homeland Security
Paul Craig Roberts: TSA Gestapo Empire
11-23-2010
•
InformationClearingHouse.info
What terrifies you the most. Terrorists, who in all likelihood you will never encounter in your lifetime, or the TSA that you will encounter every time you fly and soon, according to Pistole, every time you take a train, a subway, or drive in a car..
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Homeland Security
TSA is An International Laughingstock: No Respect , No Respect At All
11-23-2010
•
Market-ticker.org
The TSA grope feast is now the butt of jokes in Japan.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Countrywide’s mortgage fraud could threaten BofA
11-23-2010
•
RawStory.com
If the mortgage notes were not properly distributed to the different parties involved, the foreclosure process could be stopped by anyone who asked where the mortgage note is or who holds it.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Florida Oil Spill Felony Arrest for 10 Gallons of Vegetable Oil
11/23/2010
•
FloridaVotes2010.com
Mathias Venditto has discovered how to power his Florida home by recycling waste vegetable oil, and turning it into bio-diesel. Waste vegetable oil is considered biodegradable. While on the campaign trail for the 2010 Florida State Elections, Mathia
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Mathias Venditto
|
News Link • Agriculture
Thank You Sen. John Tester for your Amendment to S-510
11-23-2010
•
The Survival Podcast
Due to my strong stance as a constitutionalists and libertarian the uninformed often call me a “right winger” which if you listen to the show is simply nuts. Unfortunately I don’t get to give many politicians a pat on the back be they Democrats or
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Justin Tyme
|
News Link • WAR: About that War
North, South Korean forces exchange artillery fire
11-23-2010
•
CNN
Two South Korean marines were killed and 15 South Korean soldiers and civilians were wounded when the North fired about 100 rounds of artillery at Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea, South Korea authorities said, according to the South Korean Yonhap
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Glenn Jacobs
|
News Link • Free Speech
Larson Loans, Frankenfoods, and Vaccines on the House
11-23-10
•
The PPJ Gazette
“The boys behind the curtain will try to first implement an ACTA-type bill with “official” congressional legislation approved by both the House and Senate in the U.S. and, absent or failing that, the treaty itself with an executive order; none of wh
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Marti Oakley
|
News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Man Charged With Possession Of Illegal App
11-23-2010
•
WLKY www.wlky.com
A Louisville man is facing several charges after police said his cell phone had illegal applications loaded on it.
According to arrest records, 21-year-old Cory Todd was driving his vehicle while playing loud music audible from 50 feet away.
Po
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Justin Tyme
|
News Link • Outdoor Survival
Senate Bill 510 Now On the Floor of the Senate
11-23-2010
•
The Survival Podcast
One of the most alarming bills to the TSP community this year has been Senate Bill 510 also known as “The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act” . I have talked about it on the air a few times. Unfortunately this bill is rife with rumors that state non
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Justin Tyme
|
News Link • TERRORISM
Perfect Timing! N Korea “attacks” S Korea just in time to distract from TSA GateRape Opt Out Protest
11-23-2010
•
PitchforksAtthegate.com
Obama today sent a personal thank-you to Kim Jon Ill of North Korea for the perfect news story to distract and divert attention from the TSA GateRape opt-put protests.
And now we hear that South Korea was conducting “excercises” in the area befor
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Andre Campos
|
News Link • Government
South Korean Trade Agreement: Another economy killing trade agreement in the Works
11-23-10
•
The PPJ Gazette
“We are being set up, as a nation. A food crisis is about to hit this country as our strategic grain reserve sits empty, as no commodities surpluses have been stockpiled and as absolutely every agricultural product is targeted for exporting to the hi
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Marti Oakley
|
News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Enhanced Pat Downs : The Screeners Point Of View
11-23-2010
•
BodyScannerTruth.com
The backlash has been loud and angry … but what is not heard or seen in the media is the quiet resentment of this new policy within the TSA.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Trouser Chili
|
News Link • Homeland Security
Majority oppose body scans, nearly half seek alternative to flying
11-23-2010
•
RawStory.com
The use of backscatter x-ray machines to scan travelers' bodies and new pat down procedures at airports will cause 48% of Americans to seek an alternative means of transportation, according to a Zogby International poll.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Radiation Dosimeter Badges for Frequent Fliers and TSA Employees
11-23-2010
•
MP Bio
MP Dosimetry provides the best value monitoring service with pricing up to
50% Lower than competitors. ($12 - $20 per badge depending on quantity)
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Big Pharma researchers working on drug to erase your memories
11-23-2010
•
naturalnews.com/
The idea that you can "heal" a patient by chemically lobotomizing them is, of course, entirely consistent with the core mythology of modern medicine: If something's wrong, you should poison it, burn it, irradiate it or cut it out...
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
News Link • Homeland Security
The Complete History of Airport Security, Visualized
11-23-2010
•
Gizmodo.com
The TSA's been under fire for everything from overly aggressive screenings to ongoing privacy concerns. That's where we are. But how did we get here? Like anything else: step by step.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Jack Gregson
|
| Tags: freedoms, phoenix, archives, politics, libertarian, alternative, government, freedom |
|
|
Opinion • 
Feature Article • 
