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Date Sent: 2026-09-17
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Friday, September 18, 2026 |
There's a new bank scam, and it's incredibly sophisticated
Sean Stone's 10 Things to Learn: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Soul -- 2026-09-17 -- Ernest Hancock interviews Charlie Robinson (Macroaggressions Podcast; Activist Post) M -- 2026-09-17 -- Ernest Hancock and Dr Phranq Tamburri (Trump Report) MP3&4 -- From Climate Doom To AI Apocalypse: New Crisis, Same Fear Playbook -- Killing Her Three Children: Lindsay Clancy and America's Mental Health Crisis -- Housing Starts Decline 2.6 Percent in August, Overall Weakness Continues -- "We are heading for an economic disaster by CHOICE!" President Reagan's Economic Advi -- 189 Children Found, Over 12,000 Arrested In Memphis Task Force Operations -- Saudi Arabia Is Cancelling European Crude Cargoes -- ISRAEL has taken over iPhone -- US clears way for $24.3-bn military aircraft sale to Saudi Arabia amid West Asia war -- Trump's govt makes 'treasonous' claim -- Small, spry solar-roofed tractor looks to replace diesel -- Speaker Johnson Cancels Thursday House Session, Pushing Hegseth Impeachment Vote... -- HOA seizes man's $450K home over $977 debt - and sells it for just $8K -- RFK Jr. on the VACCINE CARTEL... -- Debt: The First Five Thousand Years by David Graeber -- How a solar farm in the Gobi Desert created a new ecosystem -- Tucker Carlson Sounds Alarm Over Trump's Planned 'Largest Transfer Of Ordinance In Modern H -- IRGC Announces Attack On Another Tanker In Hormuz, As Trump Mulls 'Annihilate Them Or Not' D -- House Of Representatives Goes On Break After Long, Hard Stretch Of Not Working -- Syrian Protests Spread To Aleppo, Raqqa While Jolani Enjoys Red Carpet At Dubai Media Event -- Next Issue Of The Wild Bunch: How To Survive With The Bare Minimum -- World's smallest CT scanner fits in the palm of your hand -- Did Johnson Just Adjourn Congress for 7 Weeks to Avoid Massie's Impeachment Articles... -- By Inviting Canada To Join, The EU Has Revealed Their Plan To Transform The European Union... -- Paramount Eyes California Exit, Hunts Nashville Offices As "Insane Communist Wackos" Ruin -- Lavrov Warns That If NATO Attacked Russia, War Would Be "Very Short" -- Doug Casey on Trump's $5,000 Checks and Buying Votes With Printed Money --
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News Link • Scams
There's a new bank scam, and it's incredibly sophisticated
09-17-2026
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Linkedin
I'll expect it to be soon everywhere in Europe.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Books
Sean Stone's 10 Things to Learn: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Soul
09-17-2026
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Tucker Carlson Network
10 Things to Learn: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Soul explores what it means to remain fully human in an age increasingly defined by technology, optimization, and artificial intelligence.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Social Engineering
From Climate Doom To AI Apocalypse: New Crisis, Same Fear Playbook
09-17-2026
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Zero Hedge
As we pointed out last week, the narrative around AI as an existential threat to humanity merely seems like a coordinated information operation that pairs perfectly with resurrecting a stalled bipartisan AI safety bill on Capitol Hill.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Housing Starts Decline 2.6 Percent in August, Overall Weakness Continues
09-17-2026
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Mish Talk
The trends in housing all remain down: starts, permits, completions, and sales.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
"We are heading for an economic disaster by CHOICE!" President Reagan's Economic Advi
09-17-2026
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Redacted - YouTube.com
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points, a unanimous decision signaling that fighting inflation is the top priority. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh described the U.S. economy as resilient, but economist Steve Hanke argues the
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News Link • Investigations
189 Children Found, Over 12,000 Arrested In Memphis Task Force Operations
09-17-2026
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Zero Hedge
A law enforcement initiative in Memphis, Tennessee, has resulted in 189 missing children being found and the arrest of 12,747 individuals over the past year, with overall crime expected to hit a 25-year low, the White House said on Tuesday.
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News Link • Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia Is Cancelling European Crude Cargoes
09-17-2026
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Linkedin
The East-West pipeline closure has stopped being a Middle East story and become a European supply story.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Israel
ISRAEL has taken over iPhone
09-17-2026
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Twitter
New iPhones will have an Israeli chip inside of them, the CX1 and all of your wireless data will pass through them.
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News Link • Saudi Arabia
US clears way for $24.3-bn military aircraft sale to Saudi Arabia amid West Asia war
09-17-2026
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First Post
The proposed deal includes 48 F-35 fighter jets, 49 Pratt & Whitney engines, communications equipment, spare parts and other support items
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News Link • Iran
Trump's govt makes 'treasonous' claim
09-17-2026
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Responsible Statecraft
More than six months of conflict have burned billions of dollars while badly depleting missile stockpiles, according to two new officials reports
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Small, spry solar-roofed tractor looks to replace diesel
09-17-2026
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New Atlas
For small-scale farmers, diesel is a recurring headache. A bill that swings with global oil prices and never really goes away. Battery power has been pitched as the fix for years, but it's barely made a dent in the tractor market
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Speaker Johnson Cancels Thursday House Session, Pushing Hegseth Impeachment Vote...
09-17-2026
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Antiwar.com
...Until After Midterms. The move came after seven House Republicans voted in favor of a resolution to end the Iran war
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News Link • Housing
HOA seizes man's $450K home over $977 debt - and sells it for just $8K
09-17-2026
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New York Post
An Arizona man lost the home he bought for nearly half a million dollars after falling just $977 behind on homeowners association fees - with the property ultimately selling back to the HOA for a mere $8,172.
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News Link • Books
Debt: The First Five Thousand Years by David Graeber
09-17-2026
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The Anarchist Library
What follows are a series of brief reflections (part of a much broader work in progress) on debt, credit, and virtual money: topics that are, obviously, of rather pressing concern for many at the current time.
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News Link • Energy
How a solar farm in the Gobi Desert created a new ecosystem
09-17-2026
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Linkedin
In the harsh, windswept expanses of the Gobi Desert, the installation of massive, gigawatt-scale solar farms has unexpectedly transformed thousands of acres of hyper-arid wasteland into thriving green oases. The fundamental catalyst for this ecologic
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News Link • Iran
Tucker Carlson Sounds Alarm Over Trump's Planned 'Largest Transfer Of Ordinance In Modern H
09-17-2026
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LewRockwell.com - Tyler Durden
After the US was essentially forced to conduct a major and rapid draw down of forces from the Gulf and Mideast region in the wake of Iran's 'unexpectedly' large retaliation for Operation Epic Fury, it seems all that Washington is left to do is
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News Link • Iran
IRGC Announces Attack On Another Tanker In Hormuz, As Trump Mulls 'Annihilate Them Or Not' D
09-17-2026
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Zero Hedge
While the White House has signaled it wishes to see 'quiet' in the Strait of Hormuz and de-escalation when it comes to Iran, it doesn'.)t seem heavily sanctioned-Tehran is yet willing to see it that way. Another foreign vessel has reportedly been hit
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News Link • Humor
House Of Representatives Goes On Break After Long, Hard Stretch Of Not Working
09-17-2026
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Babylon Bee
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson confirmed that weeks of constant thumb-twiddling had left representatives exhausted and in dire need of a vacation.
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News Link • Syria
Syrian Protests Spread To Aleppo, Raqqa While Jolani Enjoys Red Carpet At Dubai Media Event
09-17-2026
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Ron Paul Institute - Tyler Durden
Syria's fuel price hike protests have persisted from Sunday into the heart of this week, and increasingly they are becoming full on anti-Sharaa regime demonstrations.
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News Link • Prepping
Next Issue Of The Wild Bunch: How To Survive With The Bare Minimum
09-17-2026
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Alt-Market -- Brandon Smith
In the preparedness world we talk a lot about gear and the resources that give us the optimal chance for survival in the long term. However, what if we had nothing? Or next to nothing in terms of supplies and tools?
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
World's smallest CT scanner fits in the palm of your hand
09-17-2026
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New Atlas
Picture a CT scanner and you probably imagine a donut-shaped machine the size of a small car, standing about 6.6 ft (2 m) tall and weighing several tons. Chinese researchers just built one small enough to hold in one hand.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Did Johnson Just Adjourn Congress for 7 Weeks to Avoid Massie's Impeachment Articles...
09-17-2026
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Free Thought Project
... Against Hegseth?. "These people are such incredible cowards," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal. "They know that what Pete Hegseth has done, his role in driving us into the war, is absolutely wrong."
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News Link • European Union
By Inviting Canada To Join, The EU Has Revealed Their Plan To Transform The European Union...
09-17-2026
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https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael
By Inviting Canada To Join, The EU Has Revealed Their Plan To Transform The European Union Into A "Global Union"
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News Link • California
Paramount Eyes California Exit, Hunts Nashville Offices As "Insane Communist Wackos" Ruin
09-17-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Paramount Skydance Chairman and CEO David Ellison is exploring a potential California exit as the studio battles a multistate challenge to its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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News Link • Russia
Lavrov Warns That If NATO Attacked Russia, War Would Be "Very Short"
09-17-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has again responded to allegations of European officials that Moscow seeks to expand the war beyond Ukraine.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Doug Casey on Trump's $5,000 Checks and Buying Votes With Printed Money
09-17-2026
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https://internationalman.com, by Doug Casey
International Man: President Trump wants to send every adult American a $5,000 "dividend" if Republicans keep control of Congress. JD Vance went on Fox and defended the idea. We're talking about roughly $1.3 trillion. What do you make of this?
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