FDIC Faces Massive Problems
• myBudget360.com105 banks hold 77 percent of all banking assets. The impression we have is the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury will do anything including destroying the U.S. dollar to keep these banks propped up.
Current News Headlines
These pages list the most recent news stories reported by the readers and editors of Freedom's Phoenix:
The Unprecedented Duration of Unemployment
• CalculatedRiskBlog.comWhat really makes the current period stand out is the number of people (and percent) that have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more (red line). In the early '80s, the 27 weeks or more unemployed peaked at 2.9 million or 2.6% of the civilian labor...
The Other Scary Jobs Chart: The Mass Exodus From The Workforce
• Businessinsider.com/What it looks like is that a lot of frustrated workers were sold on the idea that there was some kind of recovery underway, and then realized they'd been lied to.
15 States Where Foreclosures Are Still Surging
• Businessinsider.com/Hawaii -- 34% up since March, 2010. One in 348 homes received foreclosure filings in April. It's much worse in Maui where one in 187 homeowners got the note. Statewide, they're up 116% since April 2009. Source: Realtytrac.com
Could We Actually See Negative 2% GDP Growth In Q3?
• Businessinsider.com/So the question becomes, what happens when the stimulus goes away in the latter half of the year? Have we gotten the economy to the point where it can grow on its own? To answer that let's take a look at some leading indicators.
Michael Badnarik Speaks Sunday Morning at the 2010 Libertarian National Convention (excerpt)
• Ed Vallejo Productions LOLFrom my "Psychictaxi" YouTube Channel - check it out!
Meat from a Petri Dish = Total Control of the Food Supply
• Farm WarsLumps of meat would be cultured in laboratory vats rather than carved from livestock reared on a farm.
An Effort to Protect Yourself from Chemtrail Poisoning
• Drina Brooke, certified community herbalistThe focus of this article is how you can take extra precautions to shield yourself from heavy metal poisoning from chemtrails.
It would appear Reuters has hired a company to basically go on an extortion campaign for them
• godlikeproductions.comThis affects all net sites/forums using Reuters: Just copy/paste the url into your browser & read the thread if the url provided comes up banned due to hotlinking. http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1089173/pg1
TV and Newspaper Coverage of Rally for George Donnelly
• The International LibertarianThe rally on Friday June 4, 2010 in Allentown, PA demanding the end of George Donnelly's legal ordeal was a smashing success. About thirty people marched in support holding signs and chanting. All was peaceful, the US Marshals behaved themselves thi
Hay on Oil on Water
• arcleinThe key point is that the necessary resource is available today and farmers with equipment are also available. No one else is at all. The only other possible option is to build berms which do not trap the oil but prevent further penetration only.
Was Noam Chomsky Denied Entry to Israel?
• The New York TimesSome have decried MIT professor Noam Chomsky for being denied entry to Israel claiming it is due to his views on the Israel-Palestine conflict. A check of the facts shows he was not and some surprising news about Chomsky himself.
Arizona Breakfast Club - 1st Saturday of Month - June 5th 2010
• ArizonaBreakfastClub.orgLook at the time...The United States has been in Afghanistan longer than Vietnam - PhoenixRising pro/anti SB1070 events - And we'll summarize the LPUS National Convention
The Westward shift of the Republican Party
• SlateSince the second Bush left the White House, something different appears to be happening in the Republican Party: a shift away from Southern-style conservatism to more of a Western variety.
Illinois: A State in Crisis
• News LinkIllinois a microcosm of America
Flotilla protesters threw guns overboard
• The Jerusalem PostAside from the knifes, rocks, and slingshots found in a search of the Mavi Marmara, weapons were discovered leading Israeli defense officials to believe that there may have been weapons on board along with plans to kidnap an IDF commando.
Turkey PM: Hamas is not a terrorist group
• The Herald Sun - AustraliaTurkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared on Friday at a rally in the Turkish province of Konya that Hamas is a resistance movement and not a terrorist group.
IDF: 50 flotilla passengers were Turkish mercenaries
• The Jerusalem PostThe members of the mercenary group were not carrying identity cards or passports. Each of them had an envelope in his pocket with about $10,000 in cash in which the funding for the mercenaries may have come from elements within the Turkish government
Legislators fight corruption by silencing their critics
• The AtlasphereIn an obvious attempt to hide their thuggery behind a veneer of paternalism, author Jacob Sullum points out some members of Congress are ignoring the phrase 'Congress shall make no law' when it comes to the First Amendment.
David Boaz: Russel Crowe's ROBIN HOOD angers progressives, gives them fits
• www.cato-at-liberty.orgThe movie, critics lament, is “one big medieval tea party.”
LIVE video and chat TONIGHT!!!
• Gary FranchiGary Franchi from the Reality Report is doing a live video stream tonight. You can call in, email, twitter him questions or comments. Also, if you want to share Youtube videos for everyone to talk about, simply send in the links, he will play it, an
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday June 4th 2010
• LewRockwell.comLift the Siege, Pat Buchanan on Gaza -
Are the world's industrial minerals threatened with extinction? (All things are finite after all
• Asimovs.comEveryone has heard of "peak oil" doctrine,...but "peak gallium"? Or "peak copper"?
Black Friday: Stock Markets Tumbling
• APStocks fell sharply today after the Labor Department said hiring remains weak and Hungary became the latest European country to report its economy is in crisis. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped nearly 250 points and fell below 10,000.
EEStor Grid Patent Note
• arcleinThe explanation in the patent of how an EESU could benefit the grid is pretty straight forward, so this is really no surprise. But it’s nice to see the company beginning to accumulate a sizable stockpile of patents to protect its IP. Despite the sile
Hubble Catches Star's Motion
• arcleinBy exploiting the exquisite image quality of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and comparing two observations made ten years apart astronomers have, for the first time, managed to measure the tiny motions of several hundred young stars within the
Bilderberg See People With Income As “A Threat” To Their Agenda
• PrisonPlanet.comBy carrying out their promise of a “post-industrial revolution,” allied with a “green economy” that in reality will cripple once thriving economies, they hope to make the population all but destitute to the point where their main concern...
BP to give $10 billion in profit payouts to shareholders, despite spill
• RawStory.comBP CEO Tony Hayward has indicated that he will go ahead with massive dividend payouts to shareholders in the aftermath of the worst oil spill in US history. $10 billion in payouts are scheduled for this year.
War on the World: Obama's Surge in State Terror
• Chris-floyd.com/That quote comes from a remarkably candid story in the Washington Post on Obama's "surge" in America's secret war on the world, which now encompasses no fewer than 75 countries.
Billboard Just Outside of Tucson
• e-mail from Tony Caputo (THANKS!)Hat tip to John Forster of Phoenix who actually suggested this very thing on May 26th in the Opinions section of the Arizona Republic! LMFAO!
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