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Date Sent: 2026-05-17
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Sunday, May 17, 2026 |
London Erupts... Brits Want Their Country Back
Britain Is the Canary in the Coal Mine -- Indicting Raúl Castro could set up US military action in Cuba -- The Claude Delusion -- Plunder, War Profiteering, and Spirit Airlines -- Skilled Trade Rises in Value -- The Invisible Occupation: How Palantir and AI Built a Financial Prison the Masses Cheered For -- Ex-CENTCOM chief headlines lavish Israeli-American Council gala -- Musk v. Altman week 3: Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded blows over each other's credibility... -- Taiwan in the Crosshairs -- India Tightens Gold Import Rules as Rupee Falls to Record Low -- Mike Adams Joins Maria Zeee to Discuss AI World Simulations, Data Centers and Digital Control -- Our Emergency Water Plan Wasn't Good Enough - So We Built This -- Xi Warns Trump That Differences Over Taiwan Could Lead to 'Clashes and Conflicts'... -- They Took the Water, the Power, and the Land First -- Pax Silica: Who Owns the Rails of the AI Civilization? -- Extraordinary Breakthrough for Physics as Scientists Put Building-Size Magnet... -- Sodium Ion Batteries Can Reach 100 Gigawatt Per Hour Per Year Scale in 2027 -- Join The First-Ever Corbett Report Livestream! -- Some Antibiotics Alter Gut Microbiome Composition for Up to 8 Years -- Welfare-Warfare State Reform Is Not Freedom -- LFP Battery Explosion Risk! What you NEED to know.. -- Alien Expert Issues STUNNING News on Bodies Government is Hiding -- Farmers vs Data Centers: $26M Rejected -- Outrage: High School Hands Out Qurans to Students -- But Bans the Bible... -- Breaking from Washington -- Edward Snowden is coming home as a HERO! (FAKE?... buuuut) -- Europe No Longer Trusts America With Its Data -- Saudi Arabia Seeks Non-Aggression Pact with Iran Modeled After 1975 Helsinki Accords -- Is A Future War Between The US And Europe Unavoidable? -- Bond Market on Verge of Crash, Long Bond Yield Near 19-Year High --
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News Link • United Kingdom
London Erupts... Brits Want Their Country Back
05-17-2026
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Nick Shirley - YouTube.com
I went to the UK to cover their protest as the United Kingdom is more divided then ever, Tommy Robinson lead the march and Keir Starmer denounced the march.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Cuba
Indicting Raúl Castro could set up US military action in Cuba
05-16-2026
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https://www.yahoo.com, Aysha Bagchi
The federal government's moves to indict former Cuban President Raúl Castro will ramp up pressure for regime change in Cuba and could be a prelude to a U.S. military operation...
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Corbett Report
The Claude Delusion
05-17-2026
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James Corbett - Corbett Report
A funny thing happened earlier this month. Richard Dawkins, celebrated scientist and outspoken atheist, posted a cringeworthy think piece for Unherd concluding that Claude--a "next-generation AI assistant based on Anthropic's research into train
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Plunder, War Profiteering, and Spirit Airlines
05-17-2026
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The Libertarian Institute - Charles Goyette
You don't even have to turn on the financial news. You can tell whether oil prices will be up or down in the morning by simply reading the president's midnight social media posts
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Education: Opportunities/Resources
Skilled Trade Rises in Value
05-17-2026
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Armstrong Economics
For decades, society pushed the idea that success only came through a four-year university degree while skilled trades were treated as second-class careers.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
The Invisible Occupation: How Palantir and AI Built a Financial Prison the Masses Cheered For
05-17-2026
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Activist Post
As the state unleashes AI to police your bank account, starving the beast with decentralized privacy networks is the ultimate act of peaceful defiance.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Ex-CENTCOM chief headlines lavish Israeli-American Council gala
05-16-2026
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By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
Known as Israel's favorite American general, recently retired Erik Kurilla was credited with convincing Trump to bomb Iran in June 2025
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Courtroom and Trials
Musk v. Altman week 3: Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded blows over each other's credibility...
05-16-2026
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https://www.technologyreview.com, By Michelle Kim
Musk v. Altman week 3: Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded blows over each other's credibility. Now the jury will pick a side.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Taiwan
Taiwan in the Crosshairs
05-17-2026
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Armstrong Economics
President Trump is recommending that chip manufacturers IMMEDIATELY move their manufacturing facilities to AMERICA. The conversations with Xi have confirmed how China will move to take over Taiwan.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • India
India Tightens Gold Import Rules as Rupee Falls to Record Low
05-17-2026
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Natural News - Sterling Ashworth
India imposed new restrictions on gold imports, capping individual exporters at 100 kilograms and linking future approvals to export performance, according to a government notification cited by ZeroHedge.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Mike Adams Joins Maria Zeee to Discuss AI World Simulations, Data Centers and Digital Control
05-17-2026
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Brighteon - Mike Adams - The Health Ranger
Spiritual and Demonic Elements in AI Development, The Role of Data Centers in AI Domination, Globalist Agenda and Human Extermination, The Future of AI and Human Resistance, etc...
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Taiwan
Xi Warns Trump That Differences Over Taiwan Could Lead to 'Clashes and Conflicts'...
05-16-2026
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https://news.antiwar.com, by Dave DeCamp
Xi Warns Trump That Differences Over Taiwan Could Lead to 'Clashes and Conflicts' Between the US and China
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Energy
They Took the Water, the Power, and the Land First
05-16-2026
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Madge Waggy
Then the Data Centers Became More Important Than the People Living Beside Them
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Extraordinary Breakthrough for Physics as Scientists Put Building-Size Magnet...
05-17-2026
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Good News Network
...into the Palm of Your Hand. This Tony Stark-like achievement promises unimagined possibilities in the fields of nuclear fusion and nuclear magnetic resonance.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Battery Project
Sodium Ion Batteries Can Reach 100 Gigawatt Per Hour Per Year Scale in 2027
05-17-2026
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Next Big Future
CATL will invest 5 billion yuan ($735 million) to significantly expand its sodium battery capacity by an added 40 GWh per year.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Corbett Report
Join The First-Ever Corbett Report Livestream!
05-17-2026
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James Corbett - Corbett Report
In an effort to make the Film, Literature & The New World Order podcast more like a "real" book club, we're going to try something different: a livestream! That's right, for the first time in Corbett Report history I'm going to be livestrea
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
Some Antibiotics Alter Gut Microbiome Composition for Up to 8 Years
05-17-2026
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Activist Post - Mercola
Most people assume antibiotics do their job and leave no trace - a short course, a quick recovery, and life goes on. But emerging research tells a very different story. A large-scale study published in Nature Medicine reveals that a single course of
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Welfare-Warfare State Reform Is Not Freedom
05-17-2026
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FFF.Org - Jacob Hornberger
The libertarian movement can be divided into two basic groups: libertarians who call for reforming welfare-warfare state programs and libertarians who call for dismantling welfare-warfare state programs.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Battery Project
LFP Battery Explosion Risk! What you NEED to know..
05-17-2026
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Will Prowse DYI Solar - YouTube.com
The Cause - StacheD Training - The Solution - Inconsistent Safety Standards - Discussion of Risk - The 4 Recorded Cases of Explosion - What I Am Doing Different - Why Rare? Perfect Storm Required? - Challenge for StacheD Training! - Conclusion
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Alien Expert Issues STUNNING News on Bodies Government is Hiding
05-17-2026
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Redacted - YouTube.com
Investigative journalist Timothy Alberino reveals that the recent UFO/UAP document disclosure is deliberately limited and part of an internal struggle between a "secrecy group" and a "disclosure group" in Washington. Alberino argues that the most sig
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Agriculture
Farmers vs Data Centers: $26M Rejected
05-17-2026
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Rumble - Man in America
They called them "stupid farmers." So these farmers turned down $60,000 per acre - a $26 million offer - to protect their land from becoming a data center.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Islam-Islamic Affairs
Outrage: High School Hands Out Qurans to Students -- But Bans the Bible...
05-16-2026
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https://www.rightjournalism.com, Natalie Dagenhard
Outrage: High School Hands Out Qurans to Students -- But Bans the Bible, Student Reveals in Shocking Video
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
Breaking from Washington -- Edward Snowden is coming home as a HERO! (FAKE?... buuuut)
05-16-2026
Under President Trump's leadership, the legendary NSA whistleblower is finalizing a game-changing clemency deal. Comey, FBI - Clapper, DNI, Brennen, CIA will be testified against. Now DNI head, Tulsi Gabbard, worked The Deal.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • European Union
Europe No Longer Trusts America With Its Data
05-16-2026
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Martin Armstrong
Europe is now openly discussing restricting Microsoft, Amazon, and Google from handling some of its most sensitive government data, including financial records, judicial files, and healthcare information, and this marks a major turning point in the r
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News Link • Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia Seeks Non-Aggression Pact with Iran Modeled After 1975 Helsinki Accords
05-16-2026
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https://mishtalk.com, By Mish
It appears Saudi Arabia has had enough of Trump's war.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Is A Future War Between The US And Europe Unavoidable?
05-16-2026
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https://alt-market.us, By Brandon Smith
For those who might have been out of the loop over the past few months, there is a war going on between the US and Europe.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Bond Market on Verge of Crash, Long Bond Yield Near 19-Year High
05-16-2026
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https://mishtalk.com, By Mish
The bond market thinks as much of Trump's China visit as I do.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
RFK just exposed everything...
05-16-2026
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https://rumble.com, Russell Brand
The conversation around antidepressants is changing, because once people start talking honestly about dependency, withdrawal, and overprescription, it stops being a private medical issue and starts looking like a much bigger question about how pain,
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Robert Lee
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Opinion • Government
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: May 17, 2026 Edition
05-16-2026
John Semmens
Are the Attempts to Kill Trump Real?
This week, a National Public Radio (NPR) headline asserted "new poll finds a majority of Americans unsure if attempts on Trump's life were real." The article went on to disclose that "30% of Americans think at
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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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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
2026-05-13 -- Ernest Hancock interviews G Edward Griffin - MP3&4
G Edward Griffin (Creature from Jekyll Island; Red Pill University) on world news, Red Pill Expo (July 11 & 12, 2026 in Las Vegas, NV), individualism vs collectivism, solutions, education, wars, economic and market conditions, globalist plans to ens
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
2026-05-14 Ernest Hancock interviews Dr Mary Ruwart - MP3&4
Dr Mary Ruwart (Chair of Liberty International and Secretary of the Foundation for a Free Society) on a Longevity & Freedom Webinar (June 13; September), Liberty International Journal, LI at Freedom Fest on Friday, July 10 in Las Vegas
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