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Date Sent: 2026-07-17
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Friday, July 17, 2026 |
REPORT: Pentagon Draws Up Plans for Possible Military Action Against Communist Cuba
Leavitt Signals Major Reveal Ahead as CNN's Kaitlan Collins Questions Why No One Has Been... -- A 28 Item Grocery Order From Target That Cost $64.50 In 2020 Is Now $158.30 In 2026 -- The Predatory Logic of the State -- Heavy Overnight Iranian Attack On Bahrain, Gulf Allies, After US Launched 6th Straight Night... -- The Promise Of A Quick Victory Turns Into A Stagnating Conflict... -- The Problem Isn't Flock or Ring -- VW by Half . . . -- Can Trump Sue Himself? -- Anthropic is launching its own drug discovery programs for rare diseases using Claude... -- Metaplanet Adds 2,823 Bitcoin, Reaches 43,000 BTC and Becomes World's Third-Largest... -- EMF Exposure -- A Major Factor in the Development of Autism -- SpaceX AI Satellites Will Have 250 Kilowatts of Power -- 2026-07-17 -- Ernest Hancock interviews Arthur Kanegis, Director of The World is my Country -- Erin Brockovich - Whistleblowers Expose Toxic Runoff from AI Data Centers | SRS #322 -- Can nicotine make you smarter? Why biohackers -- and conservative pundits... -- Lindsey Graham To Be Suitably 'Honored' By Senate -- Cancer Scientist: This Common Daily Diet May Be Feeding Cancer! - Thomas Seyfried -- Bombshell just dropped... -- OpenAI model accused of deleting files without consent -- Starship's Thirteenth Flight Test aborts at last second -- China Is Preparing For $38,000 Gold -- Hegseth Announces New Mandatory Military Testosterone Tests -- 'Really big news': What to know about Trump's primetime speech on Thursday -- RESCHEDULED SHOWS: Aircrete Harry, Arthur Kanegis, Dexter Taylor -- Doug Casey on Trump Accounts and the Coming Raid on Retirement Savings -- House Passes SAVE America Act as Part of MUST-PASS National Security Bill... -- The Technocrats Want Your Water: UN's "Global Water Bankruptcy" Exposed -- Bright Videos News, July 15, 2026 - Catastrophic Consequences To Follow Continued War... -- People Making Money from Bubbled Stocks Don't See That They're Financing the Control Grid --
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News Link • Cuba
REPORT: Pentagon Draws Up Plans for Possible Military Action Against Communist Cuba
07-17-2026
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com, By Ben Kew
Senior Pentagon officials are reviewing military options for Cuba as the Trump administration intensifies pressure on Havana's communist government.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Investigations
Leavitt Signals Major Reveal Ahead as CNN's Kaitlan Collins Questions Why No One Has Been...
07-17-2026
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com, By Jim Hoft
Leavitt Signals Major Reveal Ahead as CNN's Kaitlan Collins Questions Why No One Has Been Charged Over Election Interference
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Inflation
A 28 Item Grocery Order From Target That Cost $64.50 In 2020 Is Now $158.30 In 2026
07-17-2026
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https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael
The cost of living has become absolutely suffocating for millions of Americans.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
The Predatory Logic of the State
07-17-2026
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https://mises.org, AgustÃn Toptschij
Governance--understood as the set of mechanisms aimed at coordinating social life and regulating conflict--has been a constant feature of human existence from the moment people find themselves living in proximity to one another.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Heavy Overnight Iranian Attack On Bahrain, Gulf Allies, After US Launched 6th Straight Night...
07-17-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Heavy Overnight Iranian Attack On Bahrain, Gulf Allies, After US Launched 6th Straight Night Of Strikes
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Promise Of A Quick Victory Turns Into A Stagnating Conflict...
07-17-2026
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com, by Myles Morell
The Promise Of A Quick Victory Turns Into A Stagnating Conflict â€" Pressing Lawmakers As New Fears Of A "Forever War" Are On The Rise
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
The Problem Isn't Flock or Ring
07-17-2026
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https://www.ericpetersautos.com, By eric
These Flock (and Ring) cameras that are popping up everywhere are worrying but not for the right reason.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
VW by Half . . .
07-17-2026
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https://www.ericpetersautos.com, By eric
It's a shame that politicians don't face the same (or any) consequences that attend political decisions. Dr. Fauci, for instance, is free.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Lawsuits
Can Trump Sue Himself?
07-17-2026
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by Andrew P. Napolitano
The question recently asked by a federal judge in Miami -- can the president sue an entity in the executive branch of the federal government and benefit from the resolution of that lawsuit? -- seems to beg the question.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic is launching its own drug discovery programs for rare diseases using Claude...
07-17-2026
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https://www.activistpost.com, Lance D Johnson
Anthropic is launching its own drug discovery programs for rare diseases using Claude superintelligence
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Metaplanet Adds 2,823 Bitcoin, Reaches 43,000 BTC and Becomes World's Third-Largest...
07-17-2026
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https://www.activistpost.com, Micah Zimmerman
Metaplanet Adds 2,823 Bitcoin, Reaches 43,000 BTC and Becomes World's Third-Largest Corporate Treasury
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
EMF Exposure -- A Major Factor in the Development of Autism
07-17-2026
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https://www.activistpost.com, Dr. Joseph Mercola
This interview was recorded in November 2018 at the annual Academy for Comprehensive and Integrative Medicine (ACIM) convention in Orlando, Florida, but it was only last year that it ran on the site.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
SpaceX AI Satellites Will Have 250 Kilowatts of Power
07-17-2026
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian Wang
SpaceX will increase the peak power per Starmind AI satellite up to 250 Kilowatt with some added batteries.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
Erin Brockovich - Whistleblowers Expose Toxic Runoff from AI Data Centers | SRS #322
07-17-2026
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https://www.youtube.com, Shawn Ryan Show
Erin Brockovich is an environmental advocate, consumer activist, and author who rose to national prominence after helping expose one of the largest groundwater contamination cases in U.S. history involving Pacific Gas & Electric.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Can nicotine make you smarter? Why biohackers -- and conservative pundits...
07-17-2026
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https://nypost.com, By McKenzie Beard
Can nicotine make you smarter? Why biohackers -- and conservative pundits -- are embracing the controversial habit
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Senate/Senators
Lindsey Graham To Be Suitably 'Honored' By Senate
07-17-2026
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https://www.youtube.com, RonPaulLibertyReport
The late Senator, Lindsey Graham was best known for his enthusiastic embrace of war and sanctions. His former colleagues in the Senate have found a perfect, ironically suitable way to honor him.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cancer Scientist: This Common Daily Diet May Be Feeding Cancer! - Thomas Seyfried
07-17-2026
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https://www.youtube.com, The Diary Of A CEO
1,700 Americans will die from cancer today. 70 every single hour. Professor Thomas Seyfried says it doesn't have to be this way, and that mainstream oncology has been wrong about cancer for 100 years.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Pandemic
Bombshell just dropped...
07-17-2026
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https://www.youtube.com, Russell Brand
Sonia Elijah argues that some of the most important decisions of the Covid era were driven by flawed models, conflicted institutions, and financial incentives rather than settled science.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI model accused of deleting files without consent
07-17-2026
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https://www.msn.com, by Copilot
Unexpected data loss: Developers claim GPT-5.6 Sol deleted local files, production databases, and project work without confirmation, causing significant disruption.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Starship's Thirteenth Flight Test aborts at last second
07-16-2026
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Watch on SpaceX.com or X or or or
Lots of New Mile Stones this flight" To be confident of a good flight, 2 Raptors will be removed & replaced. Most probable launch timing is early next week."
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • China
China Is Preparing For $38,000 Gold
07-16-2026
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https://www.youtube.com, Andrei Jikh
China Is Buying A Lot Of Gold
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Hegseth Announces New Mandatory Military Testosterone Tests
07-16-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Jack Phillips
Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday announced a measure to screen U.S. armed forces members' testosterone levels and offer therapy as a way to optimize the military's performance.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
'Really big news': What to know about Trump's primetime speech on Thursday
07-16-2026
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By Al Jazeera Staff, Reuters and The Associated Pr
The address comes as the White House revives scrutiny of the 2020 election and pushes new voting restrictions.
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News Link • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock
UPCOMING SHOWS: Patrick Wood, Phranq Tamburri, John Sneisen, Chace Barber, and Dr Judy Mikovits
10-24-2022
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Ernest Hancock
LIVE STREAM Thurs Oct 8 @ 10 am EDT: Patrick Wood (recent book, Crucible of Tokens); 1:15 pm EDT: Dr Phranq Tamburri (Trump Report); 7 pm EDT: John Sneisen - Northlink Network Atlas
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Retirement
Doug Casey on Trump Accounts and the Coming Raid on Retirement Savings
07-16-2026
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https://internationalman.com, by Doug Casey
International Man: The government is now offering "Trump Accounts" for children, with a $1,000 federal contribution for eligible kids born from 2025 through 2028.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
House Passes SAVE America Act as Part of MUST-PASS National Security Bill...
07-16-2026
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com, By Jim Hoft
House Passes SAVE America Act as Part of MUST-PASS National Security Bill -- Rep. Thomas Massie Votes No
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
Bright Videos News, July 15, 2026 - Catastrophic Consequences To Follow Continued War...
07-16-2026
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https://www.brighteon.com, Health Ranger Report
Bright Videos News, July 15, 2026 - Catastrophic Consequences To Follow Continued War Escalation + Interview with Daniel Davis (Deep Dive)
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Inflation
People Making Money from Bubbled Stocks Don't See That They're Financing the Control Grid
07-16-2026
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The Solari Report - Catherine Austin Fitts
What is inflation? There are different definitions and the term is used differently - ranging from describing monetary inflation to the increase in the cost of goods.
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Donna Hancock
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