Tardy Politician Parks on Sidewalk
• WBIR.comRepublican state Rep. Stacey Campfield of Knoxville says he parked his car up on the Tennessee Capitol sidewalk with the hazard lights blinking because he was late for the House floor session.
Current News Headlines
These pages list the most recent news stories reported by the readers and editors of Freedom's Phoenix:
New Market Potential Target of Eminent Domain
• WATE 6For the first time, New Market property owners are talking about offers from a company that wants to buy their land for a proposed rail facility...The company has the option to acquire the land through eminent domain if property owners refuse to sell.
Vibrant Response 2009 Info/Rumors
• Connecticut Survivalist AllianceWhile the Patriot (Sovereign-Citizen) and Militia communities has been focused on National Level Exercise 2009 (NLE 09), the far more upsetting “Vibrant Response 2009” exercise is being held right now at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
New Market Potential Target of Eminent Domain
• WATE 6For the first time, New Market property owners are talking about offers from a company that wants to buy their land for a proposed rail facility...The company has the option to acquire the land through eminent domain if property owners refuse to sell.
Trilateral Member Hormats nominated to State Department
• Patrick Wood- August ReviewOn July 18, 2009, another Trilateral Commission member has been nominated to a strategic post in the Obama administration, bringing the total number of Obama’s Trilateral appointees to twelve.
Dmitry Orlov's Interview on Russia Today: America's Collapse
• YouTube.com"Those soldiers will have to be brought back, and those bases will have to be shut down. So that means a lot of soldiers and no economy, no domestic economy to integrate them into." Dmitry Orlov
The Physicians' Declaration of Independence
• Aapsonline.org"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one Profession to dissolve the Financial Arrangements which have connected them with Medicare, Medicaid, assorted Health Maintenance Organizations, and diverse Third Party Payers..."
Net Neutrality Bill Calls on FCC to Babysit ISPs
• PC MagazineNet neutrality took center
stage again when several House members introduced a bill
intended to preserve the open nature of the Web by asking the Federal
Communications Commission to keep a watchful eye on Internet service
providers.
Truth Rising - Peter Schiff Moneybomb - August 7th, 2009
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Skype is in danger, owner says
• Christian Science Monitor
For Skype, the line could be going dead.
At issue is a key piece of software code licensed to Skype by a company called Joltid. For months, Joltid and Skype have been scrapping over the legal rights to the code – and now, the battle has gotten serious enough that eBay, which owns Skype, is getting worried. If Skype loses the right to the software code, “Skype’s business as currently conducted would likely not be possible,” eBay said in a quarterly filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
A day of reckoning for Bush's 'torture' lawyers - by Ron Sokol
• Christian Science MonitorUnder even the most dire conditions, there is a gold standard when it
comes to applying the rule of law. It was set 65 years ago by a former
attorney general of the United States. At issue today is whether the
current attorney general will uphold that standard.
Could the great recession lead to a great revolution?
• Christian Science MonitorA look at mass protests during the past 500 years reveals surprising clues. [When a socialist wakes up and smells the coffee it becomes time to manipulate the situation to ... more of the same control.]
Pentagon, Eyeing Iran, Wants to Rush 30,000-Pound Bomb Program
• Bloomberg.comHale, in his July 8 request, said there was “an urgent operational need for the capability to strike hard and deeply buried targets in high-threat environments,” and top commanders of U.S. forces in Asia and the Middle East...
Catherine Austin Fitts: Life vs. Death
• Solari.com/blogWhat this means is that if people do not need the products and services of the banks and corporations, rather than let them die, we are going to use government and central banks to simply take money from people to keep a bank or corporation alive...
Ray McGovern: “Christians” Wink at Torture
• AfterDowningStreet.orgAnyone harboring doubts that the institutional Church is riding shotgun for the system, even regarding heinous sin like torture, should be chastened by the results of a recent survey by the Pew Research Center.
Peter Schiff: Happy Days Aren't Here Again
• SafeHaven.comThe imbalances that caused the current recession have actually worsened. We are now in an even deeper hole than when the crisis began. Rather than wrapping up a recession, we are actually sinking into a depression...
Bombshell: Bin Laden Worked for US Till 9/11
• Informationclearinghouse.info/In the interview, Sibel says that the US maintained 'intimate relations' with Bin Laden, and the Taliban, "all the way until that day of September 11."
After $182 billion taxpayer rescue, is AIG on the verge of collapse?
• dailyfinance.com/The reality is that AIG seems to have been running something akin to a shell game of massive proportions. Its shell game version took the form of selling insurance and assigning the resultant risks among its 71 different North American insurance companies
Max Keiser's Latest With Dmitry Orlov and Dr Housing Bubble
• ZeroHedge.com"He basically predicted everything that has been happening in the US over the last five or six years, basically making the comparison between the US and Russia, demonstrating the collapse of Russia and the US are one in the same thing"...
Gary North: Why Bernanke Is in Panic Mode
• LewRockwell.comThe big bankers know that their banks would be insolvent without Federal Reserve bailouts, Treasury Department bailouts, and smoke-and-mirrors accounting.
Tell Israel: Cool the Jets!
• Informationclearinghouse.info/Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, who is wired into the cabinet of "Bibi" Netanyahu, warns that if Iran's nuclear program is not aborted by December, Israel will strike to obliterate it.
Weekly Unemployment Claims Portend Disaster
• Michael Shedlock / MishIn other words, the headline extended claims number of 6,416,250 is off by more than 2.6 million. And one also needs to add in another 352,000 from various state programs. The chart shows the exhaustion rate.
‘Next Wave’: Looming Financial Crisis Dampens German Banker's Earnings
• Jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com“We were struck by the 44 percent increase in problem loans in the quarter,” Morgan Stanley analysts Huw van Steenis and Hubert Lam said in a note today, cutting their rating on Deutsche Bank shares...
Do We Just Hand California Back To The Bank?
• HousingDoom.comAbout 1 in 10 Californians with a home loan is now in default, and there’s growing evidence that the mortgage meltdown is spreading to commercial real estate.
Major revisions to the GDP data
• TheMessThatGreenspanMade.blogspot.com/Data for the last year or so was revised downward pretty drastically - sequential quarterly growth rates in 2008 and early 2009 were updated as shown below:
The changing face of our economy
• TheMessThatGreenspanMade.blogspot.com/Economic growth has now contracted for four straight quarters, the longest stretch since the government began keeping records more than 60 years ago and, aside from rising stock prices, it's hard to see what will drive the economy forward...
FDIC Bank Failure Update
• CalculatedRiskblog.comThe FDIC closed five more banks on Friday, and that brings the total FDIC bank failures to 69 in 2009. The following graph shows bank failures by week in 2009.
Anti-gun Companies, Organizations, Media And Celebrities- Yes even Ed Asner is anti-gun
• ARMThe following organizations have lent monetary, grassroots or some other type of direct support to anti-gun organizations. In many instances, these organizations lent their name in support of specific campaigns to pass anti-gun legislation
Video: Rahm Emanuel Talks About Obama`s Private Military
• YoutubeRahm Emanuel Explains To A Reporter About Obama`s Private Military He Will Have.
The Jackasses did it……HR 2749 the Seizure of the US food supply and production passed the House
• Farm WarsDespite some really eloquent speeches to the contrary, our “for sale” House of Representatives passed the Food Fascism Act….euphemistically called a food safety act, by a margin of about 140 over the naysayer’s. True to form, Rosa DeLauro spoke about things she knows nothing about and couldn’t care less; Rosa just loves her some Monsanto! And that exclusion for farms??? Gone! And that includes you organic idiots who thought you had kissed enough behinds to have your industry excluded.
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