Right Doubling Down On Ayn Randism
• HuffingtonPost.comThe newest fantasia is "going Galt" - in which the fabulously affluent "withdraw" from "producing" which somehow leads to the end of civilization.
Current News Headlines
These pages list the most recent news stories reported by the readers and editors of Freedom's Phoenix:
Leviathan’s Plan for Emergency: No Thanks!
• Gary D. Barnett for LewRockwell.comWhile the concept of government-run, military-style detention centers is not a new idea, another and new step toward this end has recently taken place.
Unnatural Disaster
• Thomas Woods for LewRockwell.comIf politicians are honest in seeking a culprit, they will find that it’s not capitalism. It’s not greed. It’s not deregulation. It’s an institution created by government itself.
Fox Admits To Planting Political Brainwashing In Popular TV Shows
• PrisonPlanet.comCorporation boasts of “inserting messages” about global warming into hit shows like The Simpsons, 24, Prison Break & Family Guy
Kepler Spacecraft Blasts Off to Hunt Earth-Like Worlds
• Space.comNASA's new planet-hunting Kepler telescope launched into space late Friday, lighting up the night sky above Florida as it began an ambitious mission to seek out Earth-like planets around alien stars.
Colbert calls Hannity's praise for Rush 'obsequious crack-licking'
• RawStory.comSeeing a pattern in the rush by Republicans to compliment Rush Limbaugh immediately after they have offended him and been castigated for it on his radio show, Steven Colbert theorized that FOX's Sean Hannity must have said something truly horrend
US and Russia discuss disarmament
• Al JazerraThe United States and Russia plan to have a new disarmament agreement by the end of the year, Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has said.
Immigration Socialism
• FFF / Jacob HornbergerMr. Libertarian, you support socialist central planning in immigration and argue that it can work in that arena. Well, then as a can-do people Americans should be able to make socialism work in public schooling and healthcare as well.
Obama, You're No Stranger to the Bong: An Open Letter to the President
• Reason TVThank you, President Obama, for keeping your campaign pledge to end raids on medical marijuana dispensaries that are legal under state laws in California and elsewhere.
Alien captured on CCTV (or Fun With Big Brother)
• YoutubeHow an 8 foot alien was spotted on CCTV cameras prompting 3 police cars to respond to the scene in Bournemouth, UK. James Sanger,music producer of Keene tells the story.
Hutto Detention Center to Remain Open
• Community Impact NewspaperThe ACLU and its clients claimed the facility was being run as a prison, with child detainees forced to remain inside cells most of the day while wearing prison uniforms. [FEMA, shmeema. Get excited about REAL detention camps.]
FEMA trailers found in Grovetown Georgia (15 miles from Freedom Fighter Radio's Studio)
• Augusta ChronicleNineteen trailers deemed uninhabitable and labeled as scrap ended up in a mobile home park near Grovetown.Though labeled by FEMA as scrap, meaning they were not to be used as residences, the trailers wound up being owned by KDM Development Corp. in P
Gandhi Items, Sold To Airline Magnate, Will Go To India
• International Herald TribuneMallya pledged through a representative to return the items to India for public display. But Prabhu Dayal, the Indian consul general in New York, said, "There is still a legal matter to be resolved,"...
Airlines Stay Clear of North Korea After Threat
• Breitbart via DrudgereportSouth Korean and foreign airlines rerouted their flights away from North Korean airspace Friday after the North threatened passenger planes amid heightened tensions on the divided peninsula, officials said.
Quantum Dot Solar
• arcleinScientists in the UK and US have shown how to increase photovoltaic efficiencies by attaching nanocrystal quantum dots to patterned semiconductor layers. The approach exploits the phenomenon of non-radiative energy transfer and could, say the researc
Exploiting Polar Bears
• arcleinDeclaring the polar bear as endangered never made any sense whatsoever. Now we discover that it provides a convenient straw man to promote the anti development agendas everywhere else of the radical left.
Senate Panel Approves Tuition Bill (FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS!)
• Denver Post via ALIPAC.us newsletterA Senate committee today approved a bill that would allow illegal immigrants in Colorado to receive in-state tuition despite arguments it was unfair and would provide false hope.
Backdoor Bailouts for Goldman Sachs?
• Ritholtz.com/blog/Who is being made whole at the taxpayer expense? The taxpayer isn’t merely getting screwed here, we are taking the royal shaft up the patootie in previously unimaginable ways.
The A Word
• TruthDig.comI’ve been groping for the precise word to characterize the zeitgeist of this (unfortunately) historic moment. I know it’s not merely “demoralized.” It’s a something far more dread-laden—a word I finally found during a visit last week to central Mexic
The US Army Document That Proves the US is the World's Number One Sponsor of World Terrorism
• The Existentialist CowboyIn a ‘manual’ which is was released only to ’students from foreign countries on a case-by-case basis only’, the US Army outlines a program of what it now calls ‘irregular warfare’, in fact US state sponsored terrorism, insurgency, and PSYOPS.
Senator Bernie Sanders Eviscerates Ben Bernanke
• YouTube.comSenator Bernie Sanders seems to be the only member of the Washington party with the guts to ask Ben Bernanke who received $2.2 Trillion from the Federal Reserve.
Economic Destruction of America Step One of A Global Banking Power Grab
• InfoWars.comThe economic meltdown is merely a means to an end. It is being done deliberately, they say, at the very highest levels to achieve a well-planned outcome. What outcome is that? Global rule over all banking, of course.
World Trade Center 7 Demolition Acceleration
• Architects and Engineers for 9/11 TruthNIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) finally admits Freefall Speed.
Anti-surveillance filmmaker plans eye-socket camera
• ReutersA Canadian filmmaker plans to have a mini camera installed in his prosthetic eye to make documentaries and raise awareness about surveillance in society.
Obama's Radicalism Is Killing the Dow
• Wall Street JournalIt's hard not to see the continued sell-off on Wall Street and the growing fear on Main Street as a product of the realization that our president's policies are designed to radically re-engineer the market-based US economy, not just mitigate
In Yer Face! Custard Pelts UK's Business Secretary
• SKYAn anti-Heathrow protester has sloshed green custard into Business Secretary Lord "Col. Custard" Mandelson's face as he arrived at the Government's low carbon economy summit. An activist from campaign group Plane Stupid, covered the
Can a Comedian Take Over the Space Station?
• SpaceNASA's naming contest for a new space station module now faces a fresh challenger in the form of comedian Stephen Colbert. Colbert urged fans to put his name in the running on Tuesday's episode of his fake-conservative show "The Colbert
Employment Report: 651K Jobs Lost, 8.1% Unemployment Rate
• CalculatedRiskblog.comNonfarm payrolls decreased by 651,000 in February. The economy has lost almost 2.6 million jobs over the last 4 months!
Jobless rate bolts to 8.1%, 651,000 jobs lost
• APThe U.S. unemployment rate bolted to 8.1 percent in February, the highest since late 1983, as cost-cutting employers slashed 651,000 jobs amid a deepening recession. Both figures were worse than analysts expected and the Labor Department's report
Frank Will Push for Repeal of U.S. E-Gambling Ban
• PC MagazineA senior Democratic lawmaker said on Thursday he would push to pass legislation to repeal a three-year-old U.S. ban on Internet gambling that has hurt trade ties with European Union.
