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Date Sent: 2026-01-05
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, January 5, 2026 |
THEY ARE PANICKING: U.S. Gov Spends $7.4B to Secure Silver Before It's Gone
We All See What Washington Is Doing -- The Telegraph: After Venezuela, Trump sets sights on Greenland? -- China Launched "Large-Scale" Military Drills Near Taiwan -- Regime Change and Nation-Building Are Back! -- Iran Protest Deaths Rise As Trump Warns Tehran It Could "Get Hit Very Hard" By US -- This Is The Part Of The Story That Leads To War With Russia And China -- Did Trump Steal Venezuela in Order To Use Its Oil To Pay U.S. Government's Debts? -- Aircraft carrier nuclear reactors could help solve AI's power problem -- If We Have the Balls to Enforce it, Our Constitution Will Destroy the Financing of Communalism... -- Non-existent "Super Flu" hits the US. -- What Race? Meta "Joining Forces" With China-Founded Manus AI In $2 Billion Deal -- 10 Things Preppers Are Sick of Hearing -- TSA Starts Collecting 'DNA' With Law Now In Effect At US airports -- Walz Drops Out Of Governor's Race Amid Somali Fraud Scandal -- Trump Admits He Wants To Take Venezuela's Oil And Give It To US Corporations -- Trump just changed EVERYTHING with this move and China and Russia just raised the stakes -- House of Pain - Jump Around -- Who Let a Foreign Regime Into America's Voting System? -- PANIC among British Elites -- Maduro & His Wife Plead Not Guilty In NY Federal Court As Rival Protests Rage Outside -- Silver: Dept. of War to Build Metals Refinery in Blow to China - With JPMorgan Financing the Deal -- Maduro CAPTURED! Walz Dropping Out? Mamdani's Price INCREASE + Khamenei's Escape Plan -- Ron's Take: What America First means to me. -- 'Origami' helmets, robots and Mars bases deploy with the pull of a string -- Caesar or Christ: Who Can Save Europe? -- Somalians, IQ, and the Fraud of Diversity -- Can Cardboard Actually Warm Your Garden Soil in Winter? -- Why The U.S. Just Invaded Venezuela -- Visualizing All Of The World's Oil Reserves By Country --
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News Link • Government
We All See What Washington Is Doing
01-05-2026
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Karen Kwiatkowski Substack
After the 2024 Israeli program to booby trap commercial pagers, sell them to Hezbollah, and conduct a set of denotations that killed and maimed over 3,280 people, 60 Minutes interviewed a supposed Mossad agent who explained how the world works. "We
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Trump Administration
The Telegraph: After Venezuela, Trump sets sights on Greenland?
01-05-2026
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Technocracy.news
The President says US needs Danish territory 'for defence' from China and Russia
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
China Launched "Large-Scale" Military Drills Near Taiwan
01-05-2026
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Activist Post
These drills are coming just days after China sanctioned some United States defense firms over its delivery of weapons to Taiwan.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Regime Change and Nation-Building Are Back!
01-05-2026
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Ron Paul Institute - Ron Paul
As was the case the morning after "Shock and Awe" signaled the start of the Iraq war, many are cheering the US military raid on Venezuela and capture of its president, Nicolas Maduro. Overwhelming US military power â€" and likely some bribed Vene
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Iran Protest Deaths Rise As Trump Warns Tehran It Could "Get Hit Very Hard" By US
01-05-2026
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Zero Hedge
This time, the warning hinted more strongly in the direction of a military response, after last week he said something similar but somewhat vague - that he would come to the protesters "rescue" if they start being killed. Big on everyone's mind follo
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Venezuela
This Is The Part Of The Story That Leads To War With Russia And China
01-05-2026
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The Economic Collapse Blog
The dramatic events that just occurred in Venezuela have shocked the entire world. But almost everyone is missing the bigger picture. A very tense geopolitical game of chess is playing out right in front of our eyes, and the stakes are incredibly h
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Venezuela
Did Trump Steal Venezuela in Order To Use Its Oil To Pay U.S. Government's Debts?
01-05-2026
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LewRockwell.com - Eric Zuesse
The world is selling US bonds and America is running out of money â€" it's as simple as that. With the oil that the Americans want to steal, they will once again have assets with which to refinance ailing America.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Aircraft carrier nuclear reactors could help solve AI's power problem
01-05-2026
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New Atlas
If you have a redundant nuclear aircraft carrier lying around, you can give HGP Intelligent Energy a call. The Texas-based developer wants to repurpose the nuclear reactors used to power carriers to generate electricity for onshore data centers.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Constitution
If We Have the Balls to Enforce it, Our Constitution Will Destroy the Financing of Communalism...
01-05-2026
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LewRockwell.com - Andrew Wallace
...and the Deep State; the Alternative is Civil War and Dystopia.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
Non-existent "Super Flu" hits the US.
01-05-2026
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Activist Post
Even the most cursory of actual reading of mainstream sources made it quite clear: there is no such thing as "super flu".
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Technocracy
What Race? Meta "Joining Forces" With China-Founded Manus AI In $2 Billion Deal
01-05-2026
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Technocracy.news
Technocrats of a feather, flock together. There is no race with China, but the feigned urgency is to simulate spending, issue Executive Orders, and push our own government to pursue AI innovation, all at the hands of billionaire arch-Technocrats.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Prepping
10 Things Preppers Are Sick of Hearing
01-05-2026
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Organic Prepper - Daisy Luther
If you have a prepper in your life, let me warn you: there are some things they've heard many times ...
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Venezuela
Trump Admits He Wants To Take Venezuela's Oil And Give It To US Corporations
01-05-2026
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The Free Thought Project
Donald Trump imposed a naval blockade on Venezuela and admitted he wants to take its oil and give it to US corporations: "We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out, and we want it back".
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Venezuela
Trump just changed EVERYTHING with this move and China and Russia just raised the stakes
01-05-2026
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Redacted - YouTube.com
The U.S. just struck Venezuela and captured Nicolás Maduro - and if you think this is about drugs, you're missing the real story. This is the biggest game of geopolitical poker we've seen in years: the U.S. vs. China/BRICS, a battle over mineral
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News Link • Venezuela
Maduro & His Wife Plead Not Guilty In NY Federal Court As Rival Protests Rage Outside
01-05-2026
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Zero Hedge
Caracas meanwhile orders police to arrest anyone who helped US military assault...
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Silver: Dept. of War to Build Metals Refinery in Blow to China - With JPMorgan Financing the Deal
01-05-2026
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Zero Hedge
Korea Zinc plans a $7.4 billion investment to construct a large-scale non-ferrous metals smelter in Clarksville, Tennessee, a project U.S. officials say will materially expand domestic critical minerals processing capacity and strengthen supply chain
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Maduro CAPTURED! Walz Dropping Out? Mamdani's Price INCREASE + Khamenei's Escape Plan
01-05-2026
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PBD Podcast - YouTube.com
Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Vincent Oshana, and Adam Sosnick discuss the dramatic capture and U.S. indictment of Nicolás Maduro, speculation over Tim Walz dropping out of Minnesota's Gubernatorial race, Mamdani's NYC bus fare increase, and r
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Building and Construction Materials
'Origami' helmets, robots and Mars bases deploy with the pull of a string
01-05-2026
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New Atlas
When people are dropped into the most dangerous of conditions - as when disaster strikes, or during exploration of another planet - they generally have the highest number of needs and the lowest amount of resources and time.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • European Union
Caesar or Christ: Who Can Save Europe?
01-05-2026
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Crisis Magazine
In the dire civilization-ending circumstances we are in, it's tempting to grasp onto anything or anyone that would promise a way out, but Catholics should remember: Christ is the only way.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Scams
Somalians, IQ, and the Fraud of Diversity
01-05-2026
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Activist Post
For whatever reason, an inordinate number of Somalians migrated to, or perhaps more accurately were placed in Minnesota. Africa is pretty hot. And yet they were attracted to, or steered to, a state with one of the coldest climates in the country.
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News Link • Agriculture
Can Cardboard Actually Warm Your Garden Soil in Winter?
01-05-2026
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Moondoe's Homestead Adventures - YouTube.com
In this video, we test a simple cardboard garden hack to see if it can help insulate soil, suppress weeds, and retain heat during the cold months - using nothing but free cardboard and what we already had on our homestead.
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News Link • Venezuela
Why The U.S. Just Invaded Venezuela
01-04-2026
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https://www.youtube.com, Andrei Jikh
Why The U.S. Just Invaded Venezuela
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News Link • Oil
Visualizing All Of The World's Oil Reserves By Country
01-04-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Oil remains one of the most strategically important resources in the global economy. It powers transportation systems, underpins industrial activity, and continues to shape geopolitics and trade flows.
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News Link • FBI
Dan Bongino Officially Leaves FBI After One-Year Tenure, Says Time at the Bureau Was...
01-04-2026
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by Cassandra MacDonald
Dan Bongino Officially Leaves FBI After One-Year Tenure, Says Time at the Bureau Was 'the Honor of a Lifetime'
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: January 4, 2026 Edition
01-02-2026
John Semmens
Penniless Refugees Become Millionaires
As accusations of day care fraud swirl around in Minnesota two strong voices came out swinging at the accusers. Gov. Tim Walz (D) said "what we're all seeing here is racism, pure and simple. Republicans are a
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Opinion • Politics: General Activism
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Wish List for America for 2026
01-02-2026
Frosty Wooldridge
In the ongoing debate, we're all a part of the "Social Contract" that binds us together as a cohesive, viable and lawful civilization. It takes all of us, all of our input at the local, statewide and national levels--to grow a better America.
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Opinion • Politics: General Activism
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Wish List for America for 2026
01-01-2026
Frosty Wooldridge
In the ongoing debate, we're all a part of the "Social Contract" that binds us together as a cohesive, viable and lawful civilization. It takes all of us, all of our input at the local, statewide and national levels--to grow a better America.
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