 |
REAL TIME SPOT PRICES
Bitcoin Average: $62944.19
Gold: $4206.2 Change: $(4.50)
Silver: $66.9 Change: $(0.33)
|
|
|
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: 2011-11-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, November 23, 2011 AM edition |
NYC sues roll-your-own cigarette shops over taxes
Mayor Is Upset That Citizens Have Been Informed of Possible Police Abuse -- Blago adviser gets 10½ years, minus time served -- UK/US Prepare Christian Genocide in Syria -- FBI Sanctioned for Lying About Existence of Surveillance Records -- FOX's Megyn Kelly on pepper spray: ‘It’s a food product, essentially’ --
Ambassador of Pakistan to the U.S. Is Forced Out -- Who’s on the Line?
Increasingly, Caller ID Is Duped -- License plate readers: A useful tool
for police comes with privacy concerns -- Ron Paul Highlights in 11/22/2011 Debate (Video) -- Al-Qaeda targets dwindle as group shrinks -- Quantum Trapping Levitation (Publisher Recommended wow Wow WOW!) -- Pregnant Seattle protester miscarries after being kicked, pepper sprayed -- Romney admits destroying government records to thwart ‘opposition research team’ -- Jim Grant Says ECB will Print Money -- Atlas Shrugged Movie Merchandise -- Is Gold Still the Answer for Investors?
|
News Link • TAXES: Local
NYC sues roll-your-own cigarette shops over taxes
11-22-2011
•
AP
There is no place in the U.S. more expensive to smoke than New York City, where the taxes alone will set you back $5.85 per pack. Yet, addicts who visit Island Smokes, a "roll-your-own" cigarette shop in Chinatown, can walk out with an entire 10-pack
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Mayor Is Upset That Citizens Have Been Informed of Possible Police Abuse
11-22-2011
•
The Agitator
A dash cam video shows a cop pepper spraying and choking a man he confronted for jaywalking. Mayor Gerard is “gravely disappointed,” but not by anything in the video. His consternation is over the fact that it was released to the public.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Government
Blago adviser gets 10½ years, minus time served
11-22-2011
•
AP
Rezko was a political fundraiser for Obama during his campaigns for Illinois senator, though not for his presidential campaign. Obama has not been accused of wrongdoing in the case, but his relationship with Rezko became an issue
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • WAR: About that War
UK/US Prepare Christian Genocide in Syria
11-22-2011
•
Lew Rockwell
As the UK Independent newspaper reports in its Saturday edition, the British government has formally opened talks with the Syrian rebels. This move parallels early Western efforts in Libya in advance of the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime and install
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
FBI Sanctioned for Lying About Existence of Surveillance Records
11-22-2011
•
Electronic Frontier Foundation
An order from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has revealed the FBI lied to the court about the existence of records requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), taking the position that FOIA allows it to withh
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Megyn Kelly on pepper spray: ‘It’s a food product, essentially’
11-22-2011
•
.
Fox News' Megyn Kelly discussing pepper spray and the weekend clash between police and Occupy protesters at the Univ. of California-Davis with Bill O'Reilly on Monday night.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Foreign Policy
Ambassador of Pakistan to the U.S. Is Forced Out
11-22-2011
•
NY Times
The accusations center on a memo that Mansoor Ijaz, an American businessman of Pakistani origin, said Mr. Haqqani asked him to have delivered to Adm. Mike Mullen, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff asking for American help in heading off
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Communications
Who’s on the Line? Increasingly, Caller ID Is Duped
11-22-2011
•
NY Times
Telemarketers increasingly are disguising their real identities and phone numbers to provoke people to pick up the phone. “Humane Soc.” may not be the Humane Society. And think the I.R.S. is on the line? Think again.
Caller ID, in other words, is
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Police State
License plate readers: A useful tool for police comes with privacy concerns
11-22-2011
•
Washington Post
Police figured out the name of the suspect very quickly. But locating and arresting him took a little-known investigative tool: a vast system that tracks the comings and goings of anyone driving around the District.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ron Paul Highlights in 11/22/2011 Debate (Video)
11-22-2011
•
CNN
Visit RonPaulNow.com for all debates plus other interviews
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Joe Plummer
|
News Link • Energy
Advance Could Challenge China's Solar Dominance
11-22-2011
•
Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.com
New technology could tip the balance back in favor of some solar-panel manufacturers outside China.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
News Link • Afghanistan
Al-Qaeda targets dwindle as group shrinks
11-22-2011
•
Washington Post
Ayman al-Zawahiri and his second in command, Abu Yahya al-Libi, are the last remaining “high-value” targets of the CIA’s drone campaign against al-Qaeda in Pakistan, U.S. officials said, although lower-level fighters and other insurgent groups remain
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Energy
In Search of the Ideal Grid Battery
11-22-2011
•
Prachi Patel via TechnologyReview.com
Researchers at Stanford make an electrode that can be recharged 40,000 times without losing much capacity.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Quantum Trapping Levitation (Publisher Recommended wow Wow WOW!)
11-22-2011
•
youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Tel-Aviv University demos quantum superconductors locked in a magnetic field (www.quantumlevitation.com). For an explanation of the physics behind this demonstration, visit www.quantumlevitation.com/levitation/The_physics.html.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Pregnant Seattle protester miscarries after being kicked, pepper sprayed
11-22-2011
•
www.rawstory.com
“I was standing in the middle of the crowd when the police started moving in,” Fox recalled. “I was screaming, ‘I am pregnant, I am pregnant. Let me through. I am trying to get out.’” She claimed that police hit her in the stomach twice before pepper
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Romney admits destroying government records to thwart ‘opposition research team’
11-22-2011
•
www.rawstory.com
WCVB-TV reported Friday that as Romney’s term as governor Massachusetts was ending, all of his administration’s emails were wiped from the servers. At the same time, eleven of his top aides purchased their computer hard drives for $65 each, and the r
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Federal Reserve
Jim Grant Says ECB will Print Money
11-22-2011
•
youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Wow (the Bloomberg girl is too bubbly) but Grant scares me with what he has to say.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Privacy Rights
Screening Still a Pain at Airports, Fliers Say
11-22-2011
•
nytimes.com
The lines will still be long and the screening still invasive at airport checkpoints this Thanksgiving.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Donna Hancock
|
| Tags: freedoms, phoenix, archives, politics, libertarian, alternative, government, freedom |
|
|
News Link • 
Feature Article • 
