Current News Headlines
These pages list the most recent news stories reported by the readers and editors of Freedom's Phoenix:
Garbage and Gravitas
• News LinkSt. Petersburg in revolt gave us Vladimir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin and Ayn Rand. The first was a novelist, the second a philosopher. The third was neither but thought she was both. Many other people have thought so too.
Beltway abuzz with talk of who could replace Emanuel as chief of staff
• News LinkWashington is abuzz over who will replace White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel should he choose to leave his position to run for mayor of Chicago.
Google Instant Is Less About Speed Than It Is About Volume
• News LinkGoogle really did just change the game in search today with the introduction of Google Instant. While Google execs at today’s event emphasized how much faster it makes search, Google Instant is really about showing you more search results.
MGM defends safety practices after lion attack caught on tape
• News LinkMGM Resorts defended its safety practices Wednesday after amateur video surfaced showing a lion attacking its trainer inside its habitat at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, as horrified visitors to the hotel looked on.
Economists cut U.S. growth forecast again
• News LinkProjected U.S. economic growth for the rest of this year and next was revised down for a third month in a row by a panel of about 50 economists.
Highway deaths fall to lowest level since 1950
• News LinkTraffic deaths have plummeted across the United States to levels not seen in more than a half-century, spurred by technology, safety-conscious drivers and tougher enforcement of drunken driving laws.
Exclusive: Whistleblower Claims Many U.S. Interpreters Can't Speak Afghan Languages
• News LinkMore than one quarter of the translators working alongside American soldiers in Afghanistan failed language proficiency exams but were sent onto the battlefield anyway, according to a former employee of the company that holds contracts worth up to $1
US losing war in Afghanistan: Taliban leader
• News LinkTaliban leader Mullah Omar said the NATO-led coalition is losing the war in Afghanistan, calling on Afghans to redouble their struggle and pressing the United States to withdraw.
Talk like a pirate, feel like a hero
• News LinkThe Arizona Browncoats and the Arizona Corsairs will present a sci-fi pirate-themed film festival noon to 7 p.m. Sept. 19 to mark Talk Like a Pirate Day — and raise some money for local and international charities.
Fidel Fesses Up
• News LinkCuba’s 1959 revolution happened before I was born. Fidel Castro won, and ruled the country with an iron fist and steel jaw until a few years ago, when he handed power over to his brother, Raul.
Billions needed to help Arizona retool economy, community leaders told
• Arizona RepublicArizona needs billions of dollars of infrastructure investment in the next few decades to create a sustainable, competitive economy. That message was delivered to 400 political, business and community leaders in proposed "legacy" projects aimed at
Southern Fascists: N. Carolina Sheriffs Want Prescription Drug Database
• Blacklistednews.com/North Carolina sheriffs want access to state computer records that identify people with prescriptions for certain drugs, an idea that patient advocates oppose..
Truth Hurts: CNBC Propaganda Wench Erin Burnett Slaps Down M. Pento
• Youtube.comEuropac's Michael Pento Is shouted down by CNBC propaganda wench Erin Burnette because he was a little to truthful.
Colleges Pimping Our Children to the Credit Card Companies
• Market-ticker.denninger.org/You mean to tell me that colleges have been getting a kickback on students going into debt on credit cards? So the deeper you go into debt and the more interest you pay, the more the college gets?
Phoenix housing market lacks supply of homebuyers
• AZcentral.comHome prices in the region fell 5 percent in August, as did the number of home sales. It was the second consecutive month of declines.
Emanuel would be 'excellent' mayor of Chicago, Obama says
• Christi Parsons, latimes.comReporting from Washington — White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel would do a good job as Chicago mayor, President Obama said in an interview Thursday morning, but he predicted Emanuel's decision about whether to seek the office likely wouldn't co
Deleveraging: Consumer Spending Declines Again In August
• Businessinsider.com/This is what happens when you have a gigantic debt pile weighing down your back. According to Gallup, consumer spending declined across the board in August.
The Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking.
• EconomicPolicyJournal.com• 61 percent of Americans "always or usually" live paycheck to paycheck, which was up from 49 percent in 2008 and 43 percent in 2007. • 66 percent of the income growth between 2001 and 2007 went to the top 1% of all Americans.
Jobless Claims: Watch The Birdie!
• Market-ticker.denninger.org/The other problem with these numbers is that in order to file for jobless benefits you must have had a job for a continual (and substantial) period of time - typically four quarters (one year) prior to being laid off. Therefore, "re-layoffs" don't..
Visualizing The Propaganda "Error Term" Behind The Bureau Of Lies
• ZeroHedge.comToday's announcement by the BLS that it decided to flat out estimate nearly a third of all initial jobless claims (courtesy of several large outliers) due to a "clerical holiday" which resulted in a major beat to estimates, caught many off guard...
Ladling Propaganda: BLS Made This Weeks Layoff Data From Rendered Lard
• ZeroHedge.comThe BLS has announced that as a result of the Labor Day weekend, 9 states (among which the biggest one California) did not report initial claims data to the bean counters, so instead the government had to "estimate" what the data would have been...
Hillary Clinton: Mexican drugs war is Colombia-style insurgency
• Matthew Weaver, guardian.co.ukHilary Clinton has sparked a diplomatic row with Mexico by likening the country's drugs war to a Colombia-style "insurgency", a charge angrily rejected by Mexican politicians. The US secretary of state pointed to the use of car bombs, a tool on
Global Economic Collapse Risk Level
• arcleinWhy? Let me be plain and blunt. The “unexpected developments” Bernanke referred to is the collapse of the global banks. This is FED speak and to those in the loop, this is the dire warning. So many renowned economists have misdiagnosed the obje
HIV Cure Protocol Developed
• arcleinThe process makes use of peptides, or short protein segments, which vastly increase the replications of the virus once it enters a cell, causing the cell's self-destruction, Haaretz said, citing one of the researchers.
California Pot Legalization ‘Could End Mexican Drug War’
• arcleinThe Mexican drug war that has taken the lives of 28,000 people over the past four years could conceivably come to an end if California votes to legalize marijuana, say prominent American and Mexican policy makers.
Nickel Borate Catalyst Boosts Electrolysis 200 Fold
• arclein“Our goal is to make each home its own power station,” said study leader Daniel Nocera, Ph.D. “We’re working toward development of ‘personalized’ energy units that can be manufactured, distributed and installed inexpensively. There certainly are majo
Gimme Back my Bullets (new attempt at gun control)
• Uncommon SenseWorking through the backdoor, radical leftist groups, the administration, the EPA and Regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein are carefully designing regulations to control the use of lead in products. While we all recognize the dangers associated with the use
A Labor Day Message from Ronald Reagan
• Uncommon SenseIf Ronald Reagan was around today he might give the same speech he gave on Labor Day, 30 years ago, with a few changes to reflect the current situation. While a few of the key factors are different the country finds itself in a very similar circumsta
Economists Cut U.S. Growth Forecast Again
• ReutersProjected U.S. economic growth for the rest of this year and next was revised down for a third month in a row by a panel of about 50 economists. The latest Blue Chip Economic Indicators report on Thursday said the weaker outlook for second-half 20
