Pony up, Cattlemen!
• Farm WarsMaybe we can ask the BLM to give our wild horses a Special-Use Permit, or a right-of-way, so the horses can get a drink of water on our publicly owned land.
Current News Headlines
These pages list the most recent news stories reported by the readers and editors of Freedom's Phoenix:
Court strikes down part of Sarbanes-Oxley law
• ReutersThe Supreme Court on Monday struck down part of a law to prevent fraud committed by companies like Enron and WorldCom, saying a board to police public companies' auditors violated the Constitution.
Oil Spill Will Bring More Pain To Troubled Florida Homeowners
• Businessinsider.com/On an aggregate basis, 81% of all loans in the state are ‘underwater’, and the average mark-to-market loan-to-value ratio of Florida loans is 138%. ‘Nearly 40% of all Florida borrowers owe more than 150% of the value of their homes,’ said Slump.
Tesla increases size of IPO by 20 percent
• ReutersElectric carmaker Tesla Motors raised the number of shares it will sell in its initial public offering by 20 percent, an early sign that investor interest in the startup is strong.
David Icke: 'And The Sea Shall Turn To Blood'...
• Rense.comThe potential magnitude of what is unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico simply cannot be overstated. It is far, far worse than is being admitted and what we are allowed to see is catastrophic enough.
Supreme Court rules that all Americans have fundamental right to bear arms
• Washington PostThe court was considering a restrictive handgun law in Chicago and one of its suburbs that was similar to the District law that it ruled against in 2008. The 5 to 4 decision does not strike any other gun control measures currently in place, but it pr
GREAT G-20 Photostream!
• NationalPost via Rense.com THANKS!!!SUPER pics - I could see us there doing this... : )
The Fed In Panic: Public Catching On To The Scam
• EconomicPolicyJournal.comWhenever anyone has ever told me something was too complex, there was usually a scam around the corner, as indeed it is with the Fed. The Fed is, itself, a scam. The complex matter in which they carry on is done to obfuscate the scam.
Supreme Court is Correct in Striking Down Chicago Gun Ban
• Paul LevinsonWhatever we may think about guns, the Second Amendment needs to be respected as a part of the Constitution. It applies to states and localities through the Fourteenth Amendment.
Supremes UPHOLD Second Amendment!!!
• Gene Kernan; www.TheAmericanRepublic.comIn a blow to Chicago (and "14th Amendment citizenship is evil" proponents everywhere), Alito, joined in some parts by Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, and Thomas; in others with Roberts, Scalia and Kennedy, with Scalia, and Thomas concurring, fired an
White House Preparing National Online 'Biometric' ID Plan
• Blacklistednews.com/That path forward will hinge on a new draft of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, due to be released Friday for the first time to the public, for a three-week comment period. Formerly known as the National Strategy for...
18 States Facing Brutal Austerity Cuts: Arizona Tops The List of Cutters
• Businessinsider.com/This fiscal year will be a bloodbath for many states and Arizona tops the list of cutters. Arizona -- 35% Cuts FY2011 shortfall: $3.1 billion % of FY2010 budget: 35.3% Previous cuts: $5.1 billion in '10; $3.7 billion in '09
James Howard Kunstler: Say What?
• Kunstler.comEarth to President Obama: there isn't going to be a next time. This time was enough to git 'er done. Wall Street - in particular the biggest "banks" - packaged up and sold enough swindles to unwind 2500 years of western civilization.
Belgium church panel on sex abuse shuts after raid
• APA Catholic panel investigating clerical sex abuse in Belgium is shutting down to protest a police raid on its church offices. Belgian authorities betrayed the trust of nearly 500 victims who had made complaints over the past 2 months to the church pa
Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia dead at 92
• APRobert C. Byrd , the longest serving member of the U.S. Senate, a fiery orator and hard-charging power broker who steered billions of federal dollars to his beloved West Virginia, died Monday. He was 92.
Jim Cramer Stock Outrage
• The Daily BeastThe stock guru's top pupil, baseball star Lenny Dykstra, was secretly paid to plug stocks on TheStreet.com and give access to Cramer, reveals Randall Lane in his new book, The Zeroes.
Blackwater plunged into controversy again
• Jeff Stein, Washington PostEven as CIA Director Leon Panetta gave the security contractor formerly known as Blackwater a clean bill of health on Sunday, the firm was plunged into a new controversy over its past dealings, this time in Sudan.
Signs of The Apocalypse: Paul Krugman Thinks We Are In A Depression
• NYtimes.com/We are now, I fear, in the early stages of a third depression. It will probably look more like the Long Depression than the much more severe Great Depression. But the cost — to the world economy and, above all, to the millions of lives blighted...
Fed Has Lost It; Publishes Essay Bashing Bloggers
• ZeroHedge.comKartik Athreya has written the most idiotic "research" piece to come out of the Federal Reserve since 1913, and the Fed has written a lot of idiotic research since then - after all you don't destroy 98% of the dollar's purchasing power in 97 years...
46 States Facing Greek-Like Budget Crisis
• Businessinsider.com/Forty-six states face budget shortfalls that add up to $112 billion for the fiscal year ending next June, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington research institution. State spending is 12 percent of U.S. GDP.
White House Budget Projections: 1980 to 2085
• Businessinsider.com/Here are the long-run budget projections from the White House's fiscal 2011 budget, which was released in August 2009. Note the catastrophic long-term deficit projection, and the static level of receipts.
RBS tells clients to prepare for "monster" money printing by the Federal Reserve
• Telegraph.co.uk/We cannot stress enough how strongly we believe that a cliff-edge may be around the corner, for the global banking system (particularly in Europe) and for the global economy. Think the unthinkable," he said in a note to investors.
Cancer Therapy Goes Viral
• arcleinIn a two-pronged attack, these viruses specifically target tumor cells while delivering a cargo of immune-boosting genes. In contrast, viruses that cause cancer, such as the human papillomavirus that is responsible for most cases of cervical cancer,
Illuminating the Mysterious Placebo Effect
• arcleinMuch of this attention is a result of the kind of brain imaging Dr. Wager does, and he is a leading figure in the new generation of placebo researchers.
Kim's Rein of Terror
• arcleinYet, after 57 years of an uneasy armistice, if another war breaks out on the Korean peninsula, Seoul will be obliterated and millions will die.
Perennial Grains Emerging
• arcleinBy contrast, annual grains can lose five times as much water as perennial crops and 35 times as much nitrate, a valuable plant nutrient that can migrate from fields to pollute drinking water and create “dead zones” in surface waters
Food and Depopulation (Part 2 of 4)
• Farm WarsMonsanto’s Monopoly: A monopoly is exclusive control of a commodity or service that makes it possible to manipulate prices. This is accomplished through governmental regulations used to enforce the monopoly.
Food and Depopulation (Part 2 of 4)
• Farm WarsMonsanto’s Monopoly: A monopoly is exclusive control of a commodity or service that makes it possible to manipulate prices. This is accomplished through governmental regulations used to enforce the monopoly.
CIA Director Panetta: ‘There May Be Less Than 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan’
• Glynnis MacNicolThis morning on This Week CIA director Leon Panetta told Jake Tapper that there were less than 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Panetta said. “At most, we’re looking at 50 to 100, maybe less."
Joint Chiefs chairman reiterates security threat of high debt - impacts Military Purchases!
• Roxana Tiron, The HillPentagon leaders, the military services and contractors must work together to cut bloat and unnecessary programs, the chairman of the JCOS said Thursday. .The goal is to find more savings within the defense budget without cutting the top-line number
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