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Date Sent: 2026-08-18
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, August 19, 2026 |
US Diesel Crack Surpasses $100 a Barrel for the First Time, Farmers Suffer
Trump's Disappearing Presidency -- WTF Just Happened to Retail Sales?! -- UPCOMING SHOWS TODAY: Eric Peters, Jeremiah Ferwerda, Phranq Tamburri, Donnie from OK -- Instead of watching 2 hours of Netflix tonight, watch this Stanford lecture -- 200GW Hiding in Grid, Sodium Batteries 10x Cheaper, Wave-Powered Datacenters w/ Ramez Naam -- President Trump ORDERED the acceleration of 6G deployment... -- Another Bubble? -- Nuclear vs Wind Turbines. -- UAE UNLOCKS BILLIONS IN FROZEN IRANIAN TREASURE - INCLUDING 2 TONS OF PURE GOLD! -- Report: Kushner-Netanyahu Meeting Ends With Agreement That Israel Will Keep Bombing Gaza -- US Pending Home Sales Plunge Back Near Record Lows In July -- Meta Faces Unprecedented Legal Reckoning Over Youth Mental Health... -- "Strain Is Spreading": FT Exposes Private Credit Distress At Decade Highs -- WSJ Catches Up, Discovers AI's Off-Balance Sheet Liabilities Are $3 Trillion... -- 12 Gigantic Red Flag Warning Signs For The Economy -- The Colorado River, Lake Powell, Lake Mead Problem Finally Hits Crisis Level -- Netanyahu's R�prise of the 'Iraq WMD Deceit' - Re-launched to Promote War on Iran -- Is Telo Trucks The Real Deal? I Interviewed The Founders To Find Out -- UAE 'on high alert' after detecting two ballistic missiles from Iran, warns of firm response -- 2026-08-19 -- Ernest Hancock interviews Jeremiah Ferwerda (Tesla Tech Maker) -- 2026-08-19 -- Ernest Hancock interviews Eric Peters (Eric Peters Autos) -- US interest expense on the national debt hit a record $1.4 trillion over the last 12 months. -- JD VANCE DECLARES THEY'RE ENDING THE DOLLAR AS RESERVE CURRENCY -- Commodities are making another move -- Rome never fell -- The Fed is buying US Treasury bills (i.e short dated US government bonds) at a faster pace... -- Martin Armstrong How Europe Destroyed Itself & What Comes Next -- The Dynamic Gastric Barrier: How the Human Stomach Outbuilds Auto-Digestion -- Ohio professor specialized in policing nails why Flock cameras are a threat to everyone --
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News Link • Oil
US Diesel Crack Surpasses $100 a Barrel for the First Time, Farmers Suffer
08-18-2026
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Mish Talk
Record high crack spreads. Serious economic ramifications.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump's Disappearing Presidency
08-18-2026
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Without Reservation - Karen Kwiatkowski Substack
Polymarket predicts Democrats taking both houses of Congress this November.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
WTF Just Happened to Retail Sales?!
08-18-2026
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Eurodollar University - YouTube.com
Blaming Amazon's Prime Day, everyone is trying to work around yet another "unexpected" negative number. Following an "unexpected" drop in July payrolls, the Census Bureau now reports an "unexpected" drop in retail sales alongside an "unexpected" setb
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
200GW Hiding in Grid, Sodium Batteries 10x Cheaper, Wave-Powered Datacenters w/ Ramez Naam
08-18-2026
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Peter H. Diamandis - YouTube.com
The mates sit down with Ramez Naam to discuss the state of energy, the grid's struggle to keep pace with AI, breakthroughs in sodium batteries and fusion, and whether wave-powered data centers could unlock a new era of energy abundance.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
President Trump ORDERED the acceleration of 6G deployment...
08-18-2026
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Linkedin
...with a goal to operate "IMPLANTABLE TECHNOLOGIES"
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Stock Market
Another Bubble?
08-18-2026
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Linkedin
The term "bubble" has been bandied about by a great many investors in recent months, and it already seems to have lost some of its novelty.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Nuclear vs Wind Turbines.
08-18-2026
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Linkedin
The nacelle of a wind turbine is the equivalent of a nuclear reactor.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
UAE UNLOCKS BILLIONS IN FROZEN IRANIAN TREASURE - INCLUDING 2 TONS OF PURE GOLD!
08-18-2026
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Linkedin
Picture this: a private jet loaded with literal tons of gold, taking off under the radar, flying straight into the heart of Iran.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Report: Kushner-Netanyahu Meeting Ends With Agreement That Israel Will Keep Bombing Gaza
08-18-2026
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Antiwar.com - David DeCamp
A meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a long-time family friend of the Israeli leader, ended with an agreement that Israel will continue so-called "targeted strikes" in Gaza
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Housing
US Pending Home Sales Plunge Back Near Record Lows In July
08-18-2026
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Zero Hedge
"Home prices are at record highs so houses for sale are sitting on the market longer, and fewer buyers are bidding above the asking price than a year ago, though there are large local market variations."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Central Banks/Banking
"Strain Is Spreading": FT Exposes Private Credit Distress At Decade Highs
08-18-2026
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Zero Hedge
Since last fall, we have repeatedly flagged the private credit sector's growing vulnerabilities.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
WSJ Catches Up, Discovers AI's Off-Balance Sheet Liabilities Are $3 Trillion...
08-18-2026
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Zero Hedge
...And Growing $1.2 Trillion Per Quarter. The $1.8 Trillion Off-Balance Sheet Time Bomb At The Heart Of The AI Supercycle
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
12 Gigantic Red Flag Warning Signs For The Economy
08-18-2026
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The Economic Collapse Blog
We are facing a global energy crisis, a global debt crisis and a global inflation crisis all at the same time. In all my years, I have never seen anything like this.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Netanyahu's Réprise of the 'Iraq WMD Deceit' - Re-launched to Promote War on Iran
08-18-2026
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Ron Paul Institute - Alastair Crooke
President Trump took Secretary of War Hegseth's military cheerleading ("US military potency is awesome") at face value, only belatedly to discover that the US is out of interceptors in a war that hinges on air defences.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Manufacturing-U.S.A
Is Telo Trucks The Real Deal? I Interviewed The Founders To Find Out
08-18-2026
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Inside EV's
Telo says its mini electric truck will offer 350 miles of range, four doors, and the same bed length as a four-door Toyota Tacoma.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Currencies
JD VANCE DECLARES THEY'RE ENDING THE DOLLAR AS RESERVE CURRENCY
08-18-2026
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Linkedin
JD Vance just confirmed it: the dollar's global status is over because it lets Americans "consume too cheaply."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Martin Armstrong How Europe Destroyed Itself & What Comes Next
08-18-2026
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Strategic Horizons - YouTube
Martin Armstrong is the former chairman of Princeton Economics International Ltd. a former leading multinational corporate advisor with offices in Paris, London, Sydney, Hong Kong and Tokyo. He was hailed as Economist of the Decade and was named Hedg
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Dynamic Gastric Barrier: How the Human Stomach Outbuilds Auto-Digestion
08-18-2026
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Linkedin
The human stomach contains powerful digestive fluids, primarily hydrochloric acid, which can maintain a pH as low as 1.5 to 2.0. Despite containing acid strong enough to corrode metals like steel, the stomach avoids self-digestion through a sophistic
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Ohio professor specialized in policing nails why Flock cameras are a threat to everyone
08-18-2026
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YouTube.com Shorts
"Under Flock, we are all under investigation, at all times, for all crimes." - Dr. Viet Trinh
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Epic: Two Men Dress Up As Women To 'Declare for the 2027 WNBA Draft' During Basketball Game
08-18-2026
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Alex Jones Live
Men wearing wigs and dresses filmed at recent Las Vegas Aces game.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The extraordinary engineering that builds nature's only straight tusk
08-18-2026
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New Atlas
The narwhal's defining feature - its continuously growing tusk - is the only straight structure of its kind seen in nature.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Spain
Women Flee Ceuta After 15 Rapes Recorded Since Migrant Invasion
08-18-2026
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Zero Hedge
"What we are going through is very hard and it is very hard to hear journalists justify this Government, justify everything. We can't take it anymore, we feel humiliated, trampled.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Israel
US Issues Rare Condemnation Of Israeli Strikes On Syrian Airbase: 'Unnecessary Escalation'
08-18-2026
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Zero Hedge
A top regional Trump envoy has said the US is "deeply concerned" after major new Israeli airstrikes on Syria overnight, following months of an absence of such attacks, and in the context of the broader Iran conflict.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
The US Is Forcing Others To Take Sides, As Is China
08-18-2026
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Zero Hedge
The 60-day US-Iran Memorandum of Misunderstanding has lapsed, with Trump and Iran both rejecting any extension while claiming control of Hormuz.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Disengagement: Trump Vows New Strategy To 'Strangle' Iran Over Time
08-18-2026
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Zero Hedge
The US administration has already said this many times and in many different ways. We suppose President Trump wants the world to know that talks with Iran are really really over this time, and the gloves are coming off (again)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Grand Theft World Podcast 300 | Mass Debate Maxxing with guest Clint Russell
08-18-2026
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Grand Theft World - Rumble
AI tech creep -
Oracle Scary Tech -
Rabbi Shmuley goes to Iceland -
Charlie Kirk debate with Candace and Andrew
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Trump labels Strait of Hormuz 'new US territory' as Iran refuses to reopen waterway
08-18-2026
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First Post
US President Donald Trump has stepped up his confrontation with Iran over the Strait of Hormuz, posting a map on Truth Social that labels the strategic waterway as "new US territory"
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Canada
NEW RECORDS: Government BLACKLISTED Freedom Convoy Supporters & SHARED IT...
08-18-2026
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https://pressfortruth.ca
NEW RECORDS: Government BLACKLISTED Freedom Convoy Supporters & SHARED IT WITH THOUSANDS OF FIRMS!!
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Robert Lee
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