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Date Sent: 2026-08-12
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Wednesday, August 12, 2026 |
Remember The Alamo: Don't Sharia my Texas
I've Fought Fires for 20 Years. I've Never Seen This -- Four Kids "Safety" Bills, Supporting Online Digital ID Agenda, Hit Senate Floor -- No Fourth Amendment In American airports? -- Defra left with egg on its face in online revolt over chicken database crashes website... -- Veteran saw collapse abroad. Now builds antifragile family homestead -- If the Economy Is Fine.. Why Are So Many Struggling? -- Fractional distillation: One crude oil, many products. -- Occupy The Land Videos - New Video Posted August 7... -- Major City Routing 911 Calls to AI to Decide Who Gets a Human and Who Doesn't -- Ukraine Suspends Attacks On Tankers Using Russian Black Sea Port, At Vance's Urging -- Turkey Thinks Israel Fabricated Trump Air Force One Assassination Plot -- Trump: US Controls Hormuz Strait, 'I Think We Will Keep It' - Confirms Economic Siege Strate -- Socialism: A System Where The Government Uses Your Money To Solve Everyone Else's Problems -- LFP Battery Capacity For Dummies: In Only 2.5 Minutes! -- Don't Make This HUGE Mistake, Do's and Don'ts of Copper Stacking. -- 130 million in Bitcoin gone... -- The robot dog anyone can build. -- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott effectively pauses new data center projects pending statewide grid audit -- The Fifth Estate Myth: When Independent Journalists Protect Power Instead of Challenging It -- Hut! Hut! Hut! Leads to All Fired Up . . . -- The Posse Comitatus Presidency: Trump's Standing Army on American Streets -- Trump: 'WE Control Strait Of Hormuz!' -- Check Out the New Rob Braxman Tech Channel - Tech Deep Dive -- 'How Can We Help You Kill More Russians?' German Reporter To Zelensky At Belgrade Meeting -- China's Gold Buying Is Not Simply a Bet Against the Dollar -- Russia's Only Anti-War Party Banned From Parliamentary Elections Over 'Foreign Funding' -- South America Just Rejected Socialism. So Why Is North America Buying It? -- Ex-DSA Member Blows Whistle Over "Mob Tactics" Used On Dissenters... -- Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum Is Betting Its Future On Quantum Security And AI --
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Remember The Alamo: Don't Sharia my Texas
08-12-2026
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https://alamo.lifechristian.tv/
This film is not merely a warning. It is a call to action. It demands that Americans open their eyes, ask hard questions, demand answers from their elected officials, and stand up, before the freedoms that define this nation are quietly legislated aw
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Natural Disasters
I've Fought Fires for 20 Years. I've Never Seen This
08-12-2026
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Wranglerstar - YouTube.com
We drove 5 hours to Spokane to see what we could do to help - arriving right as evacuation zones started lifting. What we found: 921 structures destroyed, 65,000 people evacuated, and devastation through suburban neighborhoods unlike anything I've se
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Four Kids "Safety" Bills, Supporting Online Digital ID Agenda, Hit Senate Floor
08-12-2026
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Free Thought Project
KOSA and the CHATBOT Act say they do not require age verification. Their duties still revolve on knowing a user's age.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Fourth Amendment-Search and Seizure
No Fourth Amendment In American airports?
08-12-2026
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Technocracy.News
It isn't just about airports, but about all ports of entry at the border and any checkpoints set by CBP within 100 miles of a border. If you refuse to hand over your phone, you could be charged on the spot. Your digital life isn't in your suitcas
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Chickens and Turkeys
Defra left with egg on its face in online revolt over chicken database crashes website...
08-12-2026
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Daily Mail
...as pranksters list rubber chickens and chicken nuggets as 'pets'. People who keep chickens in their garden now face prison and large fines if they fail to register them all under strict new rules brought in to tackle bird flu.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Veteran saw collapse abroad. Now builds antifragile family homestead
08-12-2026
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Kirsten Dirksen - YouTube.com
For the past 20 years, Josh and Chiara Morris have built a 360-acre homestead in the Missouri Ozarks that today provides their family with all its own food, water, shelter, and energy, and even its income. It's a fully engineered system for self-reli
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
If the Economy Is Fine.. Why Are So Many Struggling?
08-12-2026
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Noel Lorenzana, CPA - YouTube.com
Is the current economic situation actually healthy? The economy is supposedly strong, so why are millions of Americans borrowing money just to buy groceries? If inflation is under control, why are families draining their savings, credit card debt ris
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Oil
Fractional distillation: One crude oil, many products.
08-12-2026
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Linkedin
Fractional distillation of crude oil is the primary industrial process used to separate raw #petroleum into simpler, more useful mixtures of hydrocarbons based on their unique boiling points. #Crudeoil itself is a complex mixture consisting mostly of
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Major City Routing 911 Calls to AI to Decide Who Gets a Human and Who Doesn't
08-12-2026
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Gateway Pundit
Down in New Orleans, artificial intelligence is deciding which 911 callers get to speak to a person and which do not.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Ukraine
Ukraine Suspends Attacks On Tankers Using Russian Black Sea Port, At Vance's Urging
08-12-2026
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Zero Hedge
Washington tries to keep alternatives to Gulf oil and gas flowing...
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • False Flag Operations
Turkey Thinks Israel Fabricated Trump Air Force One Assassination Plot
08-12-2026
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Zero Hedge
Turkish officials suspect that an Israeli intelligence report about an Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump at the NATO summit in Ankara last month was a ruse designed to derail diplomacy between the US and Iran, Middle East Eye reported on Tu
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Trump: US Controls Hormuz Strait, 'I Think We Will Keep It' - Confirms Economic Siege Strate
08-12-2026
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Zero Hedge
As mediators cite 'absolutely no progress' on peace talk efforts...
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
Socialism: A System Where The Government Uses Your Money To Solve Everyone Else's Problems
08-12-2026
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The Economic Collapse Blog
They are coming for your money, and they have a ton of momentum right now.
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Donna Hancock
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Feature Article • Bitcoin
130 million in Bitcoin gone...
John Bush
Coinkite's Coldcard hardware wallet got hit. Somewhere around 100 to 130 million dollars worth of Bitcoin was swept straight out of users' wallets.
Here's what actually happened, in plain English.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott effectively pauses new data center projects pending statewide grid audit
08-12-2026
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Fox News
ERCOT says Abbott's directive effectively pauses data center projects as Texas reviews power demand
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Lawsuits
The Fifth Estate Myth: When Independent Journalists Protect Power Instead of Challenging It
08-12-2026
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Equibit
Over the past several months, we have documented a predictable pattern with independent Canadian journalists interested in the Equibit vs. CSIS lawsuit: initial enthusiasm, detailed questions, sometimes lengthy calls - followed by sudden, total silen
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
The Posse Comitatus Presidency: Trump's Standing Army on American Streets
08-12-2026
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John & Nisha Whitehead - The Rutherford Institute
One year after President Trump deployed military troops to the nation's capital, we find ourselves navigating a posse comitatus presidency in which the visual trappings of martial law are the norm, not the exception.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Trump: 'WE Control Strait Of Hormuz!'
08-12-2026
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Ron Paul Liberty Report - YouTube.com
In a Wednesday social media post, President Trump has declared that the US controls the Strait of Hormuz and that the US would likely "keep it." He repeated his previous claims that Iran has "no navy" and "no air force." Is this just another in a ser
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Technology: Software
Check Out the New Rob Braxman Tech Channel - Tech Deep Dive
08-12-2026
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Rob Braxman - YouTube.com
Hey friends -- I've started a new channel to focus there on more tech heavy content. Let me tell you the story and see if this interests you. If it does, then please subscribe to the new channel
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Germany
'How Can We Help You Kill More Russians?' German Reporter To Zelensky At Belgrade Meeting
08-11-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
It has never been a secret that much of the Western mainstream media "journalist and pundit class" are in reality warmongers and armchair interventionists and chickenhawks - or also activists and advocates operating under the guise of "objective repo
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China's Gold Buying Is Not Simply a Bet Against the Dollar
08-11-2026
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Martin Armstrong
The standard explanation is that China is buying gold because it wants to destroy the dollar.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Russia
Russia's Only Anti-War Party Banned From Parliamentary Elections Over 'Foreign Funding'
08-11-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
It's been no secret that Russian authorities have increasingly cracked down on public speech which opposes the war in Ukraine, or as the Kremlin calls it - the special military operation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
South America Just Rejected Socialism. So Why Is North America Buying It?
08-11-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Kaizen Asiedu
I've been in Colombia for the last three months.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Ex-DSA Member Blows Whistle Over "Mob Tactics" Used On Dissenters...
08-11-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Via RealClearPolitics
Ex-DSA Member Blows Whistle Over "Mob Tactics" Used On Dissenters, Debates Over Levels-of-Leninism
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum Is Betting Its Future On Quantum Security And AI
08-11-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Jason Nelson
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says quantum resistance, privacy, and AI-assisted security have become greater priorities for Ethereum since he published his 2023 roadmap.
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Robert Lee
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