Current News Headlines

These pages list the most recent news stories reported by the readers and editors of Freedom's Phoenix:

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This is a little photo-to-video-with-music-thing (not sure what else to call it) I made in support of our time in 'Vegas for the FreedomFest. It was my 1st time attending this conference and I had a superior experience on so many levels that it's hard to count them all. Much 3V07-L0VE to all of you who made it so much darn fun!! Blessings to you who may want to become more active as a result of watching this~ CG

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HuffPo

A CIA supervisor involved in the "enhanced interrogation" program bragged to other CIA employees about using fire ants while during questioning of a top terror suspect, according to several sources formerly with the Agency. The official claimed to other Agency employees, the sources say, to have put the stinging ants on a detainee's head to help break him.

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Networked blogs

President Obama supports an international treaty creating sweeping gun control efforts. Click for the full text of this treaty. The below CNN News Story shows the extent to which Obama and the Democrats will go to eliminate the Second Amendment, and this by using a foreign treaty as the process. The second CNN video addresses the Obama's administration via Eri Holder threatening gun ownership by Americans. Afraid yet? With videos...

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Rawstory

A judge and jury in Beaver County, Pennsylvania ruled that a man who brought a holstered handgun to an Obama for President rally last year is not guilty of any crimes.

John Noble, who was also carrying a Christian Bible at the rally, made an Internet post prior to the rally saying he would "test what would happen." The judge called his actions "foolish," but not criminal.

 

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CBS

At least two Afghan villages have been blanketed with leaflets warning that if an American soldier kidnapped by the Taliban two weeks ago isn't freed, "you will be targeted." [Falluja II, coming to a war near you.]

Villagers said aircraft dropped the leaflets during the past several days.

Military spokeswoman Capt. Elizabeth Mathias confirmed that the leaflets were produced at Bagram Air Ba

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CBS

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the governor should dispatch state troopers to haul state lawmakers back into session. He wants them to approve the bill giving him authority over city schools.

The 2002 law giving Bloomberg control of the nation's largest school system expired last month. 

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KAET 15 TV (ABC)

A Social Security Administration motivational management conference held at a high-end Valley resort last week cost $700,000, the SSA told the ABC15 Investigators.

Costs for the conference at the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa included airfare, hotel entertainment, dancers, motivational speakers, and food, an administration official said.

A spokesperson outside the SSA's Phoenix office declined to comment.

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CQ Politics

The health care overhauls released to date would increase, not reduce, the burgeoning long-term health costs facing the government, Congressional Budget Office Director said.

This message did not sit well with congressional Democrats or the Obama administration, and

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Freedom Fighter Radio

It is the intention of Obama,Hillary Clinton, Walter Cronkite and many other politicians and representatives within the high ranks of The United States of America to pledge their allegiance to the United Nations and to dismantle all national boundaries

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At the age of 92 and responsible for steering the entire planet (especially the North American part) into any direction he was told; "Uncle Walter" finally gives up the ghost! As a 'journalist', or rather government-owned mouth piece he was extrodinarilly gifted at convincing the populace that whatever he said, was fact. This was usually supported by partial truth (BEFORE THE INTERNET) and was stamped with his "and that's the way that it is" signature sign off.

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cnn

It captivated millions of people around the world for eight days in the summer of 1969. It brought glory to the embattled U.S. space program and inspired beliefs that anything was possible.   It's arguably the greatest technological feat of the 20th century.  And to some, it was all a lie.

Forty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon, a small cult of conspiracy theorists maintains the historic event -- and the five subsequent Apollo moon landings -- were staged. These people believe NASA fabricated the landings to trump their Soviet rivals and fulfill President Kennedy's goal of ferrying humans safely to and from the moon by the end of the 1960s.

"I do know the moon landings were faked," said crusading filmmaker Bart Sibrel, whose aggressive interview tactics once provoked Aldrin to punch him in the face. "I'd bet my life on it."

Sibrel may seem crazy, but he has company. A 1999 Gall

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