Turn Goldman anger into government action
• MSNBCWall Street's wimp's only apparent skill is rigging the game. MUST WATCH VIDEO AT Site geithner and white house at fault. On right side of column Should Geithner be blamed for bank bonuses?
Current News Headlines
These pages list the most recent news stories reported by the readers and editors of Freedom's Phoenix:
California to ban big-screen TVs?
• The ExaminerIn a recent report from the Los Angeles Times, it appears that California is about to take yet another choice away from its residents. Big Screen T.V.'s are apparently such a power drainer, that the legislators in California are working on legislatio
Is Google Becoming Big Brother?
• Newsbusters“Big Brother is Watching You!” Such was the cautionary phrase the citizens in George Orwell’s “1984” were regularly reminded of. According to a recent article in Mother Jones, today it is Google that is watching you:
Genesis 5
• arcleinThe conclusion we can draw from this interpretation of Genesis is that modern man was deliberately bred out and inserted into choice locales throughout the world with the necessary agricultural skills. It was a scientifically planned endeavor. If
Drought: California Agriculture in Collapse
• CryptogenAs California prepares for its fourth year of drought, farmers are nervous in California’s San Joaquin Valley. The valley’s eight counties, if they were their own state, would be the top producing one in the nation. Nearly all the U.S. cantaloupes, g
Cartoon that speaks volumes
• Day by Day
Britain: Supranational Banking Organization May Be Needed
• CryptogenA global body with legal powers may be needed over time to enforce the world’s new financial rules, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) said on Wednesday.
Made in the USA: New Web Site Promotes American Products
• Made In the USAIn just a month since its official launch, a new Web site MadeInUSA has signed up more than 350,000 U.S.-based companies looking to encourage consumers to "be American and buy American." Creators of the site hope to ensure that as many jobs as poss
Goldman Sachs Tightens Its Grip On Our System
• The Golden TruthSeriously? This kid's greatest accomplishment to date was creating a Clinton supporter website at NYU. Please wake me up from this bad dream...
Things going wrong in the gold market
• Market SkepticEarlier this week, I wrote about possible “incongruities” in the gold bar registry of GLD.Specifically, here is what has happened to the GLD bar list which is published each Friday at approximately 4:30 pm EST.
WSJ: Capital Drain Promises More Pain for Dollar
• Commodity Trader Alerthe U.S. dollar may need to raise capital. The Treasury Department is due on Friday morning to release Treasury International Capital data for August, tracking capital flows across U.S. borders.
What Is The Rationale Behind The SEC's Hiring A 29 Year Old Goldmanite As Its COO?
• Zero HedgeWhile one may or may not have feelings about Goldman's tentacled capture of various regulatory agencies, the most recent news out of the SEC that it would be hiring a 29 year old former Goldman Vice President Adam Storch as its COO, questions the rat
Grayson's Campaign Should Add a Point on Gold
• Economic Policy JournalThe gist of the report is that there is serious circumstantial evidence that the Federal Reserve has mismanaged the nation's gold supply to the point that for all practical purposes the gold in the Fed vaults does not belong to the Fed.
Is political correctness to blame for lack of coverage over horrific black-on-white killings in Amer
• Daily MailIt was the kind of crime that strikes terror into the hearts of parents everywhere. A bright young couple were carjacked after a Saturday night date and murdered in the most brutal way imaginable.
Stocks tumble on Bank of America, GE earnings
• BreitbartStocks are falling sharply after a bigger-than-expected loss at Bank of America and a weak report from General Electric.
Solar Magnetic Decline
• arcleinA new analysis from a team at the National Solar Observatory suggests that we may be in more than just an unusually long dry spell between sunspot cycles. The team measured the strength of the magnetic fields in the center of sunspots using infrared
The Obama Fiasco With Conrad Black
• arcleinConrad Black on U. S. President Barack Obama: "This emperor still has no clothes, and it is not racism to notice it." The whole Obama era to date has been wasted in a historic, amateurish botch of the health-care issue. This began as a crusade
LEAKED NETWORK MEMO REVEALS: Obama Controls Your Television Set
• Big HollywoodOn September 10th of this year the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) posted a press release informing the world that “from October 19-25, more than 60 network TV shows [will] spotlight the power and personal benefits of service,” and that this
Texas governor: Executed inmate was 'a monster'
• AP[kinda defensive for a murderer, Gov.] A man put to death in 2004 for killing his three children was "a monster," and suggestions that he may have been innocent are anti-death penalty propaganda, Gov. Rick Perry said.
Two Madoff victims file lawsuit against the SEC
• Reuters2 victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, seeking at least the $2.4 million they lost in the fraud. The victims said the agency was negligent and breached its duties by fai
A Note to the Huffington Post: Federalism Is Not ‘Progressive’
• Josh EbochContrary to the prevailing attitude in politics and the media today, the words of our founders do still have meaning for many Americans. They value both the letter and the spirit of the Constitution, and, as its Tenth Amendment underscores, that docu
Embattled Pakistan faces its worst-case scenario
• ReutersThe worst-case scenario facing Pakistan -- prolonged insecurity with militants launching bloody attacks on the key pillars of the state -- is no longer just a risk for markets and Western policymakers to fret over. It is already here.
House backs Guantanamo prisoner transfer
• ReutersThe House voted to allow foreign terrorism suspects from the Guantanamo Bay prison into the United States to face trial. The measure, included in a $42.8 billion bill to fund the Homeland Security Department, must be passed by the Senate before Presi
The State Hates the Internet
• Lew Rockwell (HT Liberty Pulse)Lew Rockwell on the Mark Carbonara Show
Natural Food Fight: Whole Foods and Health Care
• ReasonReason.tv talked to protesters, Mackey, and employees about "the Whole Foods alternative to ObamaCare."
LA. Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License
• The Associated PressA Lousiana Justice of the Peace has denied issuing a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.
6 year old boy feared floating away in homemade balloon found
• Washington Post (video)A rambunctious 6-year-old boy had climbed into a homemade helium balloon, the anchors announced gravely. Now he was floating so prettily 7,000 feet above Colorado, toward the heavens, at the mercy of the winds. For three hours on a workaday Thursd
Obama Indecision Cost Lives
• You TubeEvery day that Obama fiddle farts around and delays action on his field commanders request for help (MORE TROOPS) cost lives for those already on the ground. Obama needs to get off his NOBEL ass and do his JOB!
Interracial couple denied marriage license in La.
• AP[dinosaurs still roam the Earth] A Louisiana justice of the peace refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. In his experience most interracial marriages do not last long.
An Unconstitutional Nobel
• Washington PostArticle I, Section 9, of the Constitution, the emolument clause, clearly stipulates: "And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title from any King, Prince or foreign State."
