Oil Rig Survivor Part 1
• 60 Minutes - CBS"I'm gonna die right here." Mike Williams was the chief electronics technician aboard the Deepwater Horizon. He was below deck in his office when the explosion occurred.
Current News Headlines
These pages list the most recent news stories reported by the readers and editors of Freedom's Phoenix:
Redflex, DPS Ignore Arizona Sign Laws
• http://CameraFraud.comRedflex and DPS have never paid a lot of attention to the laws that regulate photo enforcement on our state’s highways, and that was evident again this week on the Westbound Loop 101 at Scottsdale Rd. CameraFraud has documented over 5 violations so f
A tentacle of 'The Omnipotent State' probes the Hancock Residence...
• Ed Vallejo Productions! LOL...and I just happened to be there with my HandyCam! Enjoy!
Homeland Security Pressures Vt. Farmer While Letting Southern Border Remain Open
• Mondo FrazierThe U.S.-Mexican border is rife with drug smugglers, violence and a gateway for illegals; Obama and AG Holder criticize Arizona’s attempt to get a handle on the situation. In the meantime, what does the Dept. of Homeland Security do? Threaten a famil
New Inks Could Mean Cheaper OLED Screens
• Katherine BourzacDuPont has developed a printing process to bring down the cost of high-performance displays.
Updated World War I and II Poster Art: Obama’s War on Capitalism
• RidesAPaleHorseThe federal government’s gobbling up banks, car companies, insurance companies, housing: it’s a war out there. Here’s some World War I and II posters--as well as some vintage editorial cartoons--updated for 2010.
Euro Stimulus Just Buys Time
• www.drscoundrels.comIsn't it interesting that the European version of a stimulus package isn't being touted as a "jobs creation package" or an "economy saving" idea? No - the leader of Germany, Angela Merkel says, We have done nothing more than to buy ti
Court: Sexually Dangerous Can Be Kept in Prison
• AP via Washington Post via DrudgeReport.comThe Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal officials can indefinitely hold inmates considered "sexually dangerous" after their prison terms are complete.
How Not To Be Melted
• Lew RockwellPodcast with Charles Goyette on Lew Rockwell Show
Darpa's Genetic Diagnostic Suite Will Know You're Sick Before You Do
• PopSciLong before you even feel sick, a new Darpa-funded bio-sensor will know what ails you.
Roommate’s Tip Led Cops to iPhone Finder
• WiredPolice closed in on the man who found and sold a prototype 4G iPhone after his roommate called an Apple security official and turned him in,
Five-Year-Old YouTube Tops Networks’ Primetime with 2 Billion Views
• WiredYouTube’s viewership now exceeds that of all three networks combined during their “primetime” evening time slot, with over two billion views per day, Google announced on Sunday.
Gadget Lab Hardware News and Reviews Android Comes of Age at Google Developer Conference
• WiredIn 2008, when Google organized its first developers’ conference, it gave attendees the first phones to run Android, its open source mobile operating system.
Worry that Gulf oil spreading into major current
• Yahoo NewsBP said Monday it was siphoning some of the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, but worries escalated about the ooze reaching a major ocean current that could carry it through the Florida Keys and up the East Coast.
Investing–The New Rules: Harness the Power of The Stock Return Predictor
• Rob BennettThe Stock Return Predictor is one of the most powerful online tools for investing today. Find out why.
Ron Paul Discusses Contagion, Gold, Goldman And The Fed
• ZeroHedge.com"When the history of this time is written people will say - how in the world did they believe that a few people in a secret room can decide what interest rates should be, how much the money supply should be, who should fail, what worthless assets...
Israel plays wargame assuming Iran has nuclear bomb
• AlertNetA nuclear-armed Iran would blunt Israel's military autonomy, a wargame involving former Israeli generals and diplomats has concluded, though some players predicted Tehran would also exercise restraint.
‘Mummy’ Merkel battered as Germans lose faith in EU
• Times OnlineAfter bailing out Greece and now the euro, Germany is fed up with being Europe’s paymaster
Charles H. Smith: Demographics and the End of the Savior State
• OfTwoMinds.com/blogThe notion that a central government could provide cradle-to-grave care for all its citizenry was only possible when the worker-to-retiree/recipient was on the order of 10-to-1 or 5-to-1. Now that it is effectively 2-to-1 in most of the developed wor
James Howard Kunstler: Something Happened
• Kunstler.comThe macro-swindle of a worldwide Ponzi orgy now stands revealed and the vacuum left in its place is about to suck everything familiar into it -- standards-of-living, hopes, dreams, not to mention lives. The political action will be a desperate...
Greece Considering Legal Action Against U.S. Banks for Crisis
• BloombergGreece is considering taking legal action against U.S. investment banks that might have contributed to the country’s debt crisis, Prime Minister George Papandreou said.
Gulf oil spreading into major current: Florida Keys and East Coast in Danger
• news.yahoo.com/s/apHogarth said a computer model shows oil has already entered the loop current, while a second shows the oil is 3 miles from it — still dangerously close. The models are based on weather, ocean current and spill data from the U.S. Navy...
Knowledge, Truth and Human Action: America Hits the Wall
• globalresearch.ca/Paul Craig Roberts writes, "Today Americans are ruled by propaganda. Americans have little regard for truth, little access to it, and little ability to recognize it. Truth is an unwelcome entity. It is disturbing. It is off limits.
Chris Hedges: BP and the ‘Little Eichmanns’
• Truthdig.comThey serve Thanatos, the forces of death, the dark instinct Sigmund Freud identified within human beings that propels us to annihilate all living things, including ourselves. These deformed individuals lack the capacity for empathy.
BP’s mile-long oil tube ‘not a solution to the problem’
• RawStory.comA BP statement said simply that the four-inch (10-centimeter) diameter tube inserted into the 21-inch leaking pipe using undersea robots had captured "some amounts of oil and gas."
Google grabs personal info off of Wi-Fi networks
• CNBC.comGoogle Inc. has been vacuuming up fragments of people's online activities broadcast over public Wi-Fi networks for the past four years, a breach of Web etiquette likely to raise more privacy worries about the Internet search leader.
M. Whitney: Financial Reform Will Cause "Tragic" Unemployment Levels
• Businessinsider.com/Unless real focus is afforded to re-engaging small businesses in this country, we will have a tragic and dangerous unemployment level for an extended period of time. Small businesses fund themselves exactly the way consumers do, with credit cards...
How the Germans Will Riot: They Run For The Gold
• EconomicPolicyJournal.comBasically, it’s a total joke as is everything else the politicians have done. No one and nothing is allowed to fail and this relates to the fact that the global monetary and financial system is a complete house of cards. It’s insanely bullish for gol
Gold Inventories Low, Panicking German Dealers Stage Run On Krugerrands
• ZeroHedge.comThe refinery, which usually sells 2,000 coins to each customer at a time, says that last week it received an order from one German bank for 30,000 coins. Another bank requested 15,000 coins.
Detroit SWAT raids wrong apartment - kills 7 yr. old girl
• The Detroit News"They blew my granddaughter's brains out. They killed her right before my eyes," Jones said. "I watched the light go out of her eyes. I seen it."
