National DTV changeover needs more time and $650M more money
• USA TodayOur clueless leaders couldn't predict how many analog TV sets existed.
Current News Headlines
These pages list the most recent news stories reported by the readers and editors of Freedom's Phoenix:
Family fears for reporter who threw shoes at Bush. He has not been seen in awhile.
• Timothy Williams , New York TimesThe shoe-throwing journalist, Muntadhar al-Zeidi, 29, who was immediately arrested, has been allowed only two visitors — and none since Dec. 21, according to those close to him. His family and his lawyer say they do not know where he is being held,
Live Free Or Die: Capitalism At Risk
• Peter Schiff at europac.netThe Federal Reserve (Fed) has gone beyond playing with fire, and may have indeed set the house on fire. It’s one thing to push interest rates to near zero to stimulate the economy; it’s another to “monetize the debt” by printing money to buy governme
Bank of America to receive additional $20 billion
• International Herald Tribune"The U.S. government will continue to use all of our resources to preserve the strength of our banking institutions and promote the process of repair and recovery and to manage risks," regulators said.
Circuit City Will Liquidate 567 Stores
• CNBC.comElectronics retailer Circuit City Stores reached an agreement with liquidators on Friday to sell the merchandise in its 567 U.S. stores after failing to find a buyer or a refinancing deal.
The Icon Of Individuality Who Will Live Forever As “The Prisoner”
• Prisonplanet.com/as McGoohan put it, “A place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible, trying to break his spirit so that he accepts that he is Number 6 and will live there happily as Number 6 forever after,”
U.S. Constitution silent on local paper money: Communities making their own currencies
• post-gazette.com/Known as "BerkShares," the colorful currency is printed by a nonprofit group to encourage people to spend close to home in the state's Berkshire region. Customers who use the money also get a built-in 10 percent discount...
Obama's Banker Bailout: Fool Me Once
• TruthDig.comThe New York Times reported this week that “the Treasury says there is no urgent need” for additional money. Somehow, forcing average $40,000-aires to keep giving their tax dollars to Manhattan millionaires is depicted as the only “serious” course of
Black Angus Steakhouse Operator Files Bankruptcy
• Bloomberg.com“The debtors’ restaurants primarily are located in some of the areas hardest hit by the mortgage crisis, causing consumers in those markets to cut back on discretionary spending,” Lisa Poulin, ARG’s chief restructuring officer...
Arizona Education K-12 Faces 20 Percent Cut to Help Balance State Budget
• azstarnet.com/State aid for K-12 education could be cut by about $900 million and Arizona's three universities could lose more than $300 million between now and 2010 under options presented Thursday by Republican lawmakers who will be negotiating the state bud
Obama's Admin: U.S. ‘Bad Bank’ Plan Gets Momentum to Remove Toxic Assets
• Bloomberg.comRenewed questions about U.S. banks’ viability are pushing regulators toward a new plan that would remove toxic assets from bank balance sheets, in what may become the biggest effort yet to unfreeze lending.
Bank of America Posts Quarterly Loss After $138 billion Bailout
• Bloomberg.com“This thing is unraveling so fast Lewis may know his job is lost,” said Paul Miller, an analyst at Friedman Billings Ramsey Group Inc. in Arlington, Virginia, who has an “underperform” rating on Bank of America. The management team has “lost credibil
Orlando Florida Red Light Camera Nabs Wrong Driver
• http://freedomfighterradio.netORLANDO, Fla. — Red light cameras are supposed to keep our street safer, but Eyewitness News learned they make mistakes and you could get a ticket you don’t deserve. Orlando is one of only a few cities in Central Florida that fines red light runne
Jason Burmis Rebukes a Patriot on Alex Jones Show Today
• http://www.youtube.com/user/endtimewatchmanOn January 15,2008 Jason Bermis rebuked a patriot and showed the world his lack of knowledge in reference to the second amendment,and the militia. Watch the video response to this incident.
New York City to ban general public from owning geiger counters & other bio- chem- or general WMD de
• http://www.indymedia.ieThe NYPD whom you quite probably have seen on television have lobbied successfully to propose a municipal law “to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to permits for biological, chemical and radiological detectors.”
Resistance to U.S. Plan for Afghanistan
• Washington PostThe planned U.S. military and counterinsurgency drive in Afghanistan is meeting public and official resistance that could delay and possibly undermine a costly, belated effort that American officials here acknowledge has a limited window of time to s
Science closing in on cloak of invisibility
• AP"The new device can cloak a much wider spectrum of waves - nearly limitless - and will scale far more easily to infrared and visible light. The approach we used should help us expand and improve our abilities to cloak different types of waves,**
Senate and Congress OKs release of final $350B of bailout
• APTwo days after Obama personally lobbied for release of $350 billion in bailout funds, the Senate narrowly turned aside a bid to block the money.
U.S. House seeks $825 billion in new bailout
• ReutersDemocratic leaders in the House of Representatives unveiled an $825 billion tax cut and spending bill on Thursday they hope will help President-elect Barack Obama reverse the steep decline in the U.S. economy.
Supreme Court denies petition in Berg v. Obama
• sonoran news1/8/09, a Joint Session of Congress counted the electoral votes and declared Obama President of the United States, without a single member raising an objection. On Monday, the Supreme Court denied Attorney Philip Berg’s petition for a writ of certior
Suave actor Ricardo Montalban dies
• San Francisco Chronicleleading man who was one of the first Mexican-born actors to make it big in Hollywood and who was best known for his roles as Mr. Roarke on ABC's "Fantasy Island" and the villainous Khan of the "Star Trek" franchise, died Wedne
Nationalization rumors slam Citigroup, Bank of America
• Jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com & LAtimes.comThe hottest rumor on Wall Street today was that the government was planning to effectively nationalize Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp., perhaps as early as this weekend.
David Faber lets loose with his real opinion on Bank of America's new bailout
• YouTube.com & CNBC.comThis morning David Faber related a story concerning how the CEO of BofA had some type of oral agreement with Henry Paulson to use TARP funding to cover the the (full) cost of its acquisition of Merrill Lynch and Countrywide. David Faber lets loose.
LA Area Port Traffic Collapses in December
• Calculatedriskblog.comBut even more shocking and important for the U.S. economy is that export traffic has collapsed. For the LA area ports, outbound traffic continued to decline in December, and was 30% below the level of December 2007.
Art Hoax Unites Europe in Displeasure
• NY TimesThe piece, an enormous mosaic installed in the European Council building over the weekend, was meant to symbolize the glory of a unified Europe by reflecting something special about each country in the European Union.
NASA discovers evidence of possible 'life on Mars'
• Rawstory.comThe scientists said they have detected seasonal variations of methane emissions over some locations on Mars, but remain uncertain about the source of the gas.
$50 Billion Mystery: Madoff's fund may not have made a single trade
• news.yahoo.com/s/nm/Bernie Madoff's investment fund may never have executed a single trade, industry officials say, suggesting detailed statements mailed to investors each month may have been an elaborate mirage in a $50 billion fraud.
Patriots Awake!
• foundingfather1776.wordpress.com via Rense.comWhen all else fails, vote from the rooftops! (Print on the back of his shirt.)
All 155 safe after pilot ditches jet in NYC river
• BrietbartNEW YORK (AP) - A US Airways pilot ditched his disabled jetliner into the frigid Hudson River on Thursday afternoon after a collision with a flock of birds apparently knocked out both engines, but officials said rescuers pulled all 155 people on boar
My Plans for 2009
• Christine Smith BlogPublic office? Articles. New book.
