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Date Sent: 2026-05-18
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, May 18, 2026 |
Investors have never used this much leverage: - Prepare for Collapse:
Prepare for Collapse: Interest Rates Will Crash The Economy -- The First Domino in the US Debt Crisis -- LIVE: Food & Oil Shortages Incoming & the Data Center Military Takeover | Sunday w/ Seth -- Doctors' AI Systems Are Hallucinating Nonexistent Medical Issues During Appointments... -- And Now Comes The Motor Oil Shortage! Get It While It's Cheap -- Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed during graduation speech about AI -- Trial over Musk's claims against OpenAI spotlights trust issues -- Finland's Sand Battery Delivers Cheaper Heat with 70% Lower Emissions -- Trump's Peace Plan: Middle East Unites Against Iran #shorts -- Living 35 ft underground: inside a preserved Titan II nuclear missile silo -- Every Beginner Messes This Up On Their Fence (Even Some Pros) -- Attack Drone Hits Near UAE Nuclear Power Plant -- Massive Mushroom Cloud 'Test' Blast Rattles Uninformed Residents Outside Jerusalem -- The Petrodollar Is Coming Apart in Real Time. Trump Calls It a Win. -- The Long Bond Just Hit Pre-2008 Financial Crisis Levels--And Even Iran Is Noticing -- Ground Beef Soars to $6.90 per Pound. Trump Has No Winning Actions -- I Tracked Down the Hidden Workers Secretly Powering ChatGPT -- AI is Sending People into Psychosis -- YPF launched the largest crude oil export program in Argentina's history... -- Tens of thousands join rival marches in London -- UN IPCC climate group reverses course on doomsday predictions... -- False Flag Alert! U.S. Intelligence Claims Cuba Considering Drone Strike On Key West Florida... -- Exclusive -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Biden Admin's 453 Pages of Food Guidelines... -- Comedian replacing Stephen Colbert appears to take a swipe at his predecessor as he vows... -- Trump Tells Iran 'Clock Is Ticking, Move Fast' After New Peace Proposal As Analysts Predict. -- Associated Press Warns That Trebuchets Are Exempt From U.S. Gun Laws -- America's $65 Trillion Problem -- Keep Some Dry Powder -- Mining groups and rural unions clashed with law enforcement Thursday in La Paz, Bolivia... --
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Investors have never used this much leverage:
05-18-2026
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https://www.linkedin.com, The Kobeissi Letter
Investors have never used this much leverage: US margin debt surged +$83 billion in April, to a record $1.3 trillion.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Prepare for Collapse: Interest Rates Will Crash The Economy
05-18-2026
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https://www.youtube.com, VRIC Media
Peter Schiff joins Darrell on the show to break down why he believes inflation is re-accelerating, interest rates are heading higher, and the U.S. economy is far more fragile than markets are pricing in.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
LIVE: Food & Oil Shortages Incoming & the Data Center Military Takeover | Sunday w/ Seth
05-18-2026
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https://rumble.com, Man in America
US wheat production just hit its lowest point in over 50 years, motor oil shortages are quietly being warned about, and the military is moving in behind some of the biggest data centers in America, bypassing local votes entirely.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Doctors' AI Systems Are Hallucinating Nonexistent Medical Issues During Appointments...
05-18-2026
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https://futurism.com, By Joe Wilkins
Doctors' AI Systems Are Hallucinating Nonexistent Medical Issues During Appointments With Patients
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Oil
And Now Comes The Motor Oil Shortage! Get It While It's Cheap
05-18-2026
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https://www.youtube.com, Uncle Tony's Garage
Using things like explosions and global conflicts as an excuse to gouge the consumer is a tactic as old as time itself, and now the word is getting around that the latest fiasco in a far away land is about to hit the motor oil industry causing shorta
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed during graduation speech about AI
05-18-2026
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https://www.msn.com, by Mirna Alsharif
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed multiple times Sunday while discussing artificial intelligence during a commencement speech at the University of Arizona.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Trial over Musk's claims against OpenAI spotlights trust issues
05-18-2026
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https://www.msn.com, by Copilot
Trust on trial: Closing arguments focused on whether OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been truthful, with both sides raising credibility concerns.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Finland's Sand Battery Delivers Cheaper Heat with 70% Lower Emissions
05-18-2026
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https://www.linkedin.com, Dr. Martha Boeckenfeld
Four childhood friends tested a prototype in a grandfather's garden.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Trump's Peace Plan: Middle East Unites Against Iran #shorts
05-18-2026
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https://www.youtube.com, PrometheanAction
IT'S OVER: Trump and Iran Just Shut Out the UK
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Living 35 ft underground: inside a preserved Titan II nuclear missile silo
05-18-2026
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https://www.youtube.com, Kirsten Dirksen
For decades, four missileers at a time lived 35 stories underground in this Titan II command complex outside Tucson, Arizona - working shifts that took them even deeper, 145 stories down into the earth. It tested the limits of both body and mind.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • DIY-Do it yourself
Every Beginner Messes This Up On Their Fence (Even Some Pros)
05-18-2026
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https://www.youtube.com, SWI Fence
There is one way to completely mess up your fence from the very beginning, and it has to do with the concrete in the fence post hole. Today I'm breaking down the exact way folks get this wrong, and showing you why it matters.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • UAE United Arab Emirates
Attack Drone Hits Near UAE Nuclear Power Plant
05-17-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Abu Dhabi authorities report that a kamikaze drone struck an electrical generator outside the inner perimeter of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant in Al Dhafra.
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Israel
Massive Mushroom Cloud 'Test' Blast Rattles Uninformed Residents Outside Jerusalem
05-17-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Late Saturday night, a massive explosion and a bright fireball illuminated the skies over Israel's Beit Shemesh, deeply rattling local residents and setting off rampant speculation in local media and online commentary.
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
I Tracked Down the Hidden Workers Secretly Powering ChatGPT
05-17-2026
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More Perfect Union - YouTube
These workers are training AI to take their own jobs.
There's a hidden workforce powering the rise of ChatGPT, and nearly 1 in 5 of them have fallen into homelessness.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • United Kingdom
Tens of thousands join rival marches in London
05-17-2026
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BBC
Tens of thousands of protesters joined two rival marches in London on Saturday - the Unite the Kingdom rally organised by far-right figure Tommy Robinson, and a pro-Palestinian demonstration.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Climate Change
UN IPCC climate group reverses course on doomsday predictions...
05-17-2026
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https://www.climatedepot.com, By Ryan King
UN IPCC climate group reverses course on doomsday predictions -- and Trump takes victory lap: 'WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!'
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • False Flag Operations
False Flag Alert! U.S. Intelligence Claims Cuba Considering Drone Strike On Key West Florida...
05-17-2026
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https://www.alexjoneslive.com, By Kelen McBreen
False Flag Alert! U.S. Intelligence Claims Cuba Considering Drone Strike On Key West Florida, American Military Vessels & Guantanamo Bay Amid Trump Admin Push For Regime Change
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Food
Exclusive -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Biden Admin's 453 Pages of Food Guidelines...
05-17-2026
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https://www.breitbart.com, Breitbart TV
Exclusive -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Biden Admin's 453 Pages of Food Guidelines 'Written by Lobbyists,' Made Us Sick
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Humor
Comedian replacing Stephen Colbert appears to take a swipe at his predecessor as he vows...
05-17-2026
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https://www.dailymail.com, By ANNA WRIGHT
Comedian replacing Stephen Colbert appears to take a swipe at his predecessor as he vows to avoid politics and 'just be funny'
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Iran
Trump Tells Iran 'Clock Is Ticking, Move Fast' After New Peace Proposal As Analysts Predict.
05-17-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Trump Tells Iran 'Clock Is Ticking, Move Fast' After New Peace Proposal As Analysts Predict Likely Return To War
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Gun Rights
Associated Press Warns That Trebuchets Are Exempt From U.S. Gun Laws
05-17-2026
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https://babylonbee.com, BabylonBee.com
The Associated Press has warned that despite their deadly nature, medieval trebuchets are mostly exempt from firearm regulations in the United States.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economic Theory
Keep Some Dry Powder
05-17-2026
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https://www.crisisinvesting.com, Doug Casey
Hold enough investable cash that a 50% market decline feels to you like an opportunity, not a dagger in your belly.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
2026-05-13 -- Ernest Hancock interviews Chris Horlacher - MP3&4
Chris Horlacher on Canada's descent into lawlessness: Courtroom subversion by CSIS results in an intolerable situation for ALL CANADIANS! Also, The Equibit Lawsuit, and his book: The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya: Revelations Concerning the Nature of Hum
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