 |
REAL TIME SPOT PRICES
Bitcoin Average: $63679.29
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: 2008-02-16
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Saturday, February 16, 2008 |
Ill. gunman quit taking meds, became 'erratic' -- Bush Wants Limits on Judges Access to Evidence
Arizona Rep. Shadegg reconsidering leaving -- Deputy charged for dumping paralyzed man -- British sink their teeth into debate over fluoride -- Baltimore's Craziest Cop Back for an Encore -- Greg Dixon: IRS ATTACKS PASTOR FOR ENDORSING HUCKABEE -- Gun Free Zone Death Toll -- Russia to double staff at Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant -- MISH: Housing Bottom Nowhere in Sight -- Olbermann: Bush 'panoramic invasion of privacy' is terrorism -- 24,000 Gitmo Interrogation Tapes -- Consumer Confidence Plunges -- MISH: Credit Crisis Is Viral And Spreading Fast -- Rep. Wexler grills Sec. Rice on her lying to get us into war -- Foreclosures Nearly Equal Home Sales -- Banks to ask government to assume bad loan losses
Daddy Bush rumored to endorse McCain Monday
|
News Link • Media: Television
NBC apologizes for Jane Fonda's offensive word
2-15-2008
•
Reuters
"I was asked to do a monologue called 'C***,' and I said, 'I don't think so. I've got enough problems," Fonda said. "Then I came to New York to see Eve and it changed my life." [We can't discuss literature?
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Legislative Mischief
Arizona Rep. Shadegg reconsidering leaving
2-15-2008
•
East Valley Tribune
U.S. Rep. John Shadegg said he will reconsider his decision to retire at the end of his term. He began wavering after learning that more than half of the Republicans in the House have signed a letter asking him to stay.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Deputy charged for dumping paralyzed man
2-15-2008
•
AP
A sheriff's deputy who was videotaped dumping a paralyzed man from a wheelchair onto a jailhouse floor has been charged with abuse of a disabled person, a third-degree felony, said Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Gun Rights
Police: Ill. gunman quit taking meds, became 'erratic'
2-15-2008
•
USA Today
Stephen Kazmierczak, the gunman who shot and killed five Northern Illinois University students Thursday, had recently stopped taking medication and "had become somewhat erratic in the last couple of weeks," Northern Illinois University Poli
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
British sink their teeth into debate over fluoride
2-15-2008
•
USA Today
One opponent is an executive member of the National Pure Water Assoc., which has helped keep fluoride out of England's water since 1960. "It's a fundamental human rights question. It's medication without individual consent."
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Drugs and Medications
University shooter interested in 'peace and social justice'
02-15-2008
•
CNN
These Campus shootings follow the same MO: Unsuspecting kid whom is on medication or had recently stopped shoots up a bunch of classmates. Is it the guns that kill or is it the prescription drugs?
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Queue Jackson
|
Opinion • Constitution
Words Eye View
IRS ATTACKS PASTOR FOR ENDORSING HUCKABEE
021508
Greg J Dixon
In an article in the July-September Trumpet Newsletter that I wrote entitled Caesar Calls in the Chips which follows this brief introduction I deal with the IRS attack on Pastors and churches that dare speak out on moral and social issues including
•
•
|
News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Who Owns YOU?
2-15-2008
•
ISIL
Who owns you? Well, if you believe that you do, you believe in Liberty! Self-ownership provides the foundation of Liberty. To deny an individual of Self-Ownership is to deny that individual of Liberty.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Queue Jackson
|
News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Speed Traps Worldwide Shown With Online Mapping Tool
02-15-2008
•
www.gpsdaily.com
Zooming in on local speed trap provides detailed information such as the type of speed detection used, posted speed limit, rating, and level of enforcement.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Why Ron Paul Fans Should Join Us
2-15-2008
•
Arizona Libertarian Party
Ron Paul is a lifetime member of the Libertarian Party. Ron Paul was the Libertarian candidate for President in 1988. Why? Because Ron Paul and the Libertarian Party share the same values:
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • TERRORISM
Atom Bomb Attack Instructions from the 1950s
02-15-2008
•
Mondoreb
Not sure what to do the next time terrorists set off an atom bomb? Take 2 minutes to watch this 1950s video on how to survive. Also, the old "atom bomb drill" grade-school students practiced in the 1960s.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Randy Ricochet
|
News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Free Zone Death Toll
02-15-2008
•
RidesAPaleHorse
A listing of all those gunned down in gun free zones since 1996.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Randy Ricochet
|
News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cameras Turn Lens on Police Activities
02-13-2008
•
Officer.com
Drive though some Baltimore neighborhoods at night and it quickly becomes obvious: The blinking blue-light cameras show the police are watching. But the police also are being watched.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Justin Tyme
|
News Link • Iran
Russia to double staff at Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant
2-15-08
•
Spacewar.com & AFP
The company planned to bring in up to 300 specialists within the next few weeks, and a total of 1,000 before the year was out, nearly doubling the current 1,500 Atomstroiexport staff at the site....
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Housing Bottom Nowhere in Sight
2-15-08
•
Michael Shedlock / Mish
Were the historical pattern to repeat, real house prices will not again reach the '04-'06 peak until the mid- to late '20s or perhaps even later.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Federal Reserve
Downey Financial has a problem with non-performing assets
2-15-08
•
CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
This would be a nice looking chart, except those are the percent non-performing assets by month. Yes, by month!
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Olbermann: Bush 'panoramic invasion of privacy' is terrorism
2-15-08
•
Rawstory.com
"If you believe in the seamless mutuality of government and big business â€" come out and say it!" he said. "There is a dictionary definition, one word that describes that toxic blend. You’re a fascist....
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Police State
Bush Wants Limits on Access to Evidence
2-14-08
•
Rawstory.com
The ruling held that, when Guantanamo Bay detainees challenge their status as "enemy combatants," judges must review all the evidence, not just the evidence the military chooses.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Police State
24,000 Gitmo Interrogation Tapes
2-15-08
•
Atlargely.com
The government records contain graphic evidence that interrogators regularly used force and violence while interrogating detainees. These same interrogators often hindered videotaping during interrogations....
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Consumer Confidence Plunges
2-15-08
•
News.Yahoo.com
"The sentiment index has only been this low during the recessions of the mid 1970s, the early 1980s and the early 1990s," survey director Richard Curtin said in a statement.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Credit Crisis Is Viral And Spreading Fast
2-15-08
•
Michael Shedlock / Mish
Ron Insana said, "I am going out on a limb here Maria, I think this credit crisis is viral and it's spreading quickly in all corners of the credit markets".
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Bush Administration
Rep. Wexler grills Sec. Rice on her lying to get us into war
2-15-2008
•
Youtube
On the day of the Roger Clemens, steroid use in baseball, congressional media bread & circus sideshow another hearing was occurring that the media completely ignored...on purpose.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Sacramento, California: Foreclosures Nearly Equal Home Sales
2-14-08
•
CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
Sacramento County's median sales prices for all new and existing homes are down 26.8 percent from January 2007.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Banks to ask government to assume bad loan losses
2-14-08
•
HousingDoom.com
This is not about "refinancing troubled borrowers." This is about getting bad loans off of lender’s books and having Uncle Sam [and taxpayers] to pick up the tab.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
|
| Tags: freedoms, phoenix, archives, politics, libertarian, alternative, government, freedom |
|
|
News Link • 
News Link • 
