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Date Sent: 2026-04-18
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Sunday, April 19, 2026 |
US Prepares To Board Iran-Linked Ships Globally Following Iranian Gunboat Attack On Tanker In Hormuz
'Dirty Jobs' host Mike Rowe is giving away $10 million to get Gen Z into trades... -- Google's Stake In SpaceX Could Be Worth $122 Billion At IPO -- Meta To Unleash First Wave Of Mass Layoffs May 20 As It Eliminates 10% Of Its Workers -- Does Trump Know Something We Don't About Potential SCOTUS Vacancies? -- Condo owners stuck with homes no one will buy as they wake up to grim repercussions of new laws -- A "Bulging Lobe" Of Polar Vortex Madness Headed For U.S. East -- Goodbye leather bondage gear, hello traditional nuclear family… -- The Senate just confirned close to 100 of POTUS's nominees today! -- Former AI SPAC Executives Indicted For Fabricating "Virtually All" Revenue And Customers -- BIG NEWS: Iran says the Strait is open to all, but Trump says Not yet. He wants to finish the deal. -- Victor Davis Hanson: "The Real Reason Tucker & Megyn Abandoned Maga is Not What You Think!" -- Trump Hails Iran's Full Hormuz Reopening As U.S. Reportedly Weighs $20 Billion Cash-For-Nukes... -- Trump Pushes Fantasy about Iran, Hormuz and Enriched Uranium -- Iran signals re-closure of Hormuz as it rejects uranium transfer abroad -- They Tried to Take 1,845 Acres… Then Everything Stopped -- Spain Erupts: Patriots Attacked By Socialist Mob Over Mass Illegal Migrant Amnesty -- Is America On The Verge Of A Nuclear Renaissance? -- Trump Turns The Screws On Israel In Biggest Pressure Move To Reign In Bibi Yet -- Former Congressman Blows The Whistle On Blackmail And Honeypots In Congress -- Shamed Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales slink out of Congress with a STACK of cash and fat pensions -- 10 Essential Barter Items When the Grid Goes Dark -- The Number of Dead Iranian Protesters Keeps Changing Because It's a Fictional Story -- Strait of Hormuz, the Dollar, and the Coming Energy Crisis -- Stocks Are Winners Take Most ?" and Who are the Top 30 Stock Winners from 2017-2025 -- Cuba Sends 'Secret Letter' to Trump ?" Report -- Now we're cooking with water! Startup offers a hydrogen-powered stove -- "Overwhelming Puke-Stream": It's All Going To Come Out Now... -- Ditch The Sanitizer And Exercise Your Immune System -- Beijing Boosts BeiDou Satellite System To Try And Compete With GPS --
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News Link • Iran
US Prepares To Board Iran-Linked Ships Globally Following Iranian Gunboat Attack On Tanker In Hormuz
04-18-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Captain in dramatic audio: "You gave me clearance to go... you are firing now!"
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Google's Stake In SpaceX Could Be Worth $122 Billion At IPO
04-18-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
A long-held investment by Alphabet Inc. in SpaceX could become one of its most valuable bets if the rocket company moves ahead with a public listing, according to Bloomberg.
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Meta To Unleash First Wave Of Mass Layoffs May 20 As It Eliminates 10% Of Its Workers
04-18-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
The FaceBook currently known as Meta for one failed venture that incinerated nearly $100 billion in cash for its failed transformation to a virtual reality hub while laying off thousands, is at it again.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Does Trump Know Something We Don't About Potential SCOTUS Vacancies?
04-18-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Matt Margolis
The midterm elections are coming up in November, and Democrats are generally favored to win the House, while the Senate is kind of a coin flip.
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News Link • Housing
Condo owners stuck with homes no one will buy as they wake up to grim repercussions of new laws
04-18-2026
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https://www.dailymail.co, By SADIE WHITELOCKS
Florida condo owners are waking up to a brutal new reality: their homes are becoming virtually worthless.
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News Link • LGBTQ-Gay Rights
Goodbye leather bondage gear, hello traditional nuclear family…
04-18-2026
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https://revolver.news
This was bound to happen sooner or later. Because Americans have grown really tired of being told they must celebrate Pride Month, affirm the sexual lifestyle of strangers, embrace the activism, and keep their mouths shut if they have any religious,
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Former AI SPAC Executives Indicted For Fabricating "Virtually All" Revenue And Customers
04-18-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
What looked like a booming AI company was, prosecutors say, an audacious house of cards built on deception.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
BIG NEWS: Iran says the Strait is open to all, but Trump says Not yet. He wants to finish the deal.
04-18-2026
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https://joannenova.com.au, By Jo Nova
Ships apparently are waiting for insurance calls and confirmation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
Victor Davis Hanson: "The Real Reason Tucker & Megyn Abandoned Maga is Not What You Think!"
04-18-2026
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https://www.youtube.com, Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein
Victor Davis Hanson: "The Real Reason Tucker & Megyn Abandoned Maga is Not What You Think!"
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Trump Hails Iran's Full Hormuz Reopening As U.S. Reportedly Weighs $20 Billion Cash-For-Nukes...
04-18-2026
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https://www.theburningplatform.com, Via ZeroHedge
Trump Hails Iran's Full Hormuz Reopening As U.S. Reportedly Weighs $20 Billion Cash-For-Nukes Deal
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News Link • Iran
Trump Pushes Fantasy about Iran, Hormuz and Enriched Uranium
04-18-2026
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https://ronpaulinstitute.org, by Larry C. Johnson
On Friday, April 17, 2026, President Donald Trump posted a flurry of optimistic messages on Truth Social (and referenced in interviews) framing the US-Iran war as largely over or nearing a swift resolution.
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News Link • Iran
Iran signals re-closure of Hormuz as it rejects uranium transfer abroad
04-18-2026
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https://www.middleeasteye.net, By MEE staff
Ships approaching the waterway on Saturday turn back after Iran's navy tells them it's 'shut again'
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News Link • Spain
Spain Erupts: Patriots Attacked By Socialist Mob Over Mass Illegal Migrant Amnesty
04-18-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Steve Watson
Violence broke out in the Spanish city of Granada when roughly 40 left-wing Antifa extremists tried to shut down a pre-election rally held by the nationalist party Vox in Plaza de las Pasiegas. Police had to form a cordon between the rival groups as
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News Link • Energy
Is America On The Verge Of A Nuclear Renaissance?
04-18-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Duggan Flanakin
It has been more than seven years since President Donald Trump signed the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA) into law...
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News Link • Israel
Trump Turns The Screws On Israel In Biggest Pressure Move To Reign In Bibi Yet
04-18-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
The Lebanon ceasefire appears to be legitimate and holding, and the biggest evidence of this is that Lebanese citizens themselves are pouring back into the war-ravaged south of the country, seeking to recover to their homes which are in some cases 'u
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Former Congressman Blows The Whistle On Blackmail And Honeypots In Congress
04-18-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
In a candid interview with Human Events editor Jack Posobiec, former Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) alleged that blackmail and sexual honeypot operations are far more prevalent than the American public is aware of.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Shamed Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales slink out of Congress with a STACK of cash and fat pensions
04-18-2026
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https://www.dailymail.co, By VICTORIA CHURCHILL
Despite quitting Congress amid mounting sexual scandals earlier this week, two former disgraced Capitol Hill lawmakers are leaving with a chunk of cash.
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News Link • Iran
The Number of Dead Iranian Protesters Keeps Changing Because It's a Fictional Story
04-18-2026
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Caitlin Johnstone
In online discourse with empire apologists these past few months I've been told that the number of dead protesters is thirty thousand, forty thousand, fifty thousand, sixty thousand, seventy thousand, eighty thousand, ninety thousand, and a hundred
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News Link • Iran
Strait of Hormuz, the Dollar, and the Coming Energy Crisis
04-18-2026
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Doug Casey
International Man: Iran is already turning the Strait of Hormuz into a geopolitical toll booth--restricting traffic, charging transit fees, and shutting out the US and its allies. If this continues, what happens to oil, trade, and the global economy
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News Link • Stock Market
Stocks Are Winners Take Most â€" and Who are the Top 30 Stock Winners from 2017-2025
04-18-2026
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian Wang
The U.S. stock market has been one of the greatest engines of wealth creation in human history. From 1926 to 2025, it generated nearly $91 trillion in shareholder wealth. Most stocks are not wealth creators â€" they are wealth destroyers.
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News Link • Cuba
Cuba Sends 'Secret Letter' to Trump â€" Report
04-18-2026
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https://www.infowars.com, by RT
The Cuban government attempted to open a direct back-channel with US President Donald Trump last week, tapping a private businessman to hand-deliver a sealed letter to the White House, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing sources.
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News Link • Inventions
Now we're cooking with water! Startup offers a hydrogen-powered stove
04-18-2026
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https://newatlas.com, By Etiido Uko
Imagine slashing your cooking electricity bill by a factor of six. That would almost be as wild as cooking with water!
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Ditch The Sanitizer And Exercise Your Immune System
04-18-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Joel Salatin
Bugs, viruses, and sickness--these maladies creep into countless conversations as people wrestle with the question: How do I strengthen my immune system?
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News Link • China
Beijing Boosts BeiDou Satellite System To Try And Compete With GPS
04-18-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
China is upgrading its BeiDou satellite navigation system, a domestic alternative to GPS, to expand its global reach and industry use, according to South China Morning Post.
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News Link • Iran
US Prepares To Board Iran-Linked Ships Globally Following Iranian Gunboat Attack...
04-18-2026
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Zero Hedge
...On Tanker In Hormuz. Captain in dramatic audio: "You gave me clearance to go... you are firing now!"
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News Link • Conferences
The Companies Behind Our Trucks (ConExpo 2026)
04-18-2026
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Edison Motors - YouTube.com
We didn't go to ConExpo 2026 just to walk the show floor. We went to meet the companies behind the parts we use on our trucks at Edison Motors and see how they're building equipment that actually holds up in the real world.
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News Link • Iran
Iran to control Strait of Hormuz traffic until deal is reached to end war: Top security body
04-18-2026
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https://www.presstv.ir
Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) says the Islamic Republic will maintain control of all traffic through the strategic Strait of Hormuz until a negotiated end to the US-Israeli-imposed war is achieved.
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News Link • China
Former Singapore PM Lee Kuan Yew Explains Difference Between American & Chinese Society
04-18-2026
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https://www.youtube.com, WiseOwlWealth
Why China & America Think Differently
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News Link • General Opinion
George Carlin Has A Way with Words
04-18-2026
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https://www.youtube.com,OfficialGeorgeCarlin
George Carlin described his comedy as focusing on 3 things: love of language and how we use it; the small things, moments we all share as humans; and the big topics of our culture--war, death, children, religion, etc.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
The Activation Tour - Prescott, AZ with Derrick Broze & Larken Rose - Friday, May 1, 6-10 PM
04-18-2026
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Derrick Broze
The first stop on Derrick Broze's 2026 Activation Tour will feature a talk from Larken and Amanda Rose! Derrick will also share a brand new presentation focused on diving deeper than ever into the need for Exit and Build strategy as the US faces war,
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