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Date Sent: 2026-04-21
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, April 22, 2026 |
Wheat Spread Blows Out As Drought Chaos Plagues America's Breadbasket
Why Is Trump So Desperate To Secure The Strait of Hormuz? -- Florida Orange Production Down 95%, U.S. Cattle Herd Smallest Since 1951,... -- What Do Pirates Eat? -- A well site explosion triggers a large fire and evacuations in Texas, but no injuries -- "We're On Borrowed Time": Vitol LNG Chief Warns Of Coming Food Price Shock -- The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does -- BREAKING NEWS: DOJ Indicts Far-Left Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 Counts -- Trump Gives an Indefinite Cease-Fire to Iran. What Is This War? -- BREAKING: President Trump Extends Ceasefire with Iran at Pakistan's request -- $2.2 billion in perfectly timed oil trades over the last 30 days -- With Foad Yesterday -- Anthropic and Status of AI Data Centers -- Sam Altman's World ID Expands Biometric Identity Checks -- Robert Kiyosaki: "You Will Be Homeless" -- ActBlue Employees Invoked Fifth Amendment 146 Times During House Probe -- US Senator Urges Delay Of CLARITY Act Senate Markup Until May: Report -- The Trump Administration Has Been Negotiating With The Wrong People In Iran This Entire Time -- Focus on the Sixth Amendment -- Since everyone is pocket watching, here's Nick on having his assets frozen by the federal... -- Dow Jones Adds and Removes Companies 20 Years too Late -- MAJOR UPDATE: White House Enters TOTAL Panic Mode Over The Disastrous Handling Of The Iran... -- Spain Mass Amnesty Has French Nationalists Calling For An End To Free Movement Of Non-EU... -- Eurosceptic Radev Wins Absolute Majority In Bulgarian Election -- The silent submarine hunter that could reshape future naval warfare -- The world's first AI art museum opening in USA - with 'Infinity room', 'machine hall -- Ark of the Covenant's final resting place pinpointed by archaeologists as fresh search begins -- Trump Cryptically References US Intercepted Chinese 'Gift' To Iran -- The Real Reason U.S Is Going to War With Iran | Tucker Carlson Interview -- SF706 -- THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE --
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News Link • Agriculture
Wheat Spread Blows Out As Drought Chaos Plagues America's Breadbasket
04-21-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Hard red winter wheat (HRW) futures widened to their largest premium over soft red wheat (SRW) in more than two years as severe drought intensified across key breadbasket regions in the Great Plains and Midwest.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Why Is Trump So Desperate To Secure The Strait of Hormuz?
04-21-2026
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https://patrickwood.substack.com, Patrick Wood
um... It's not about nuclear stockpiles in Iran.
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News Link • Military
What Do Pirates Eat?
04-21-2026
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By Karen Kwiatkowski
Scenes like these are shocking Americans back home, many of whom have not been paying close attention to Donald Trump's trade wars, hot wars, trash-talking wars, and money wars.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Texas
A well site explosion triggers a large fire and evacuations in Texas, but no injuries
04-21-2026
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Associated Press
NACOGDOCHES, Texas (AP) - An explosion at a Texas natural gas or oil well site set off a large fire that was seen for miles and led to some evacuations, but caused no injuries, authorities said Tuesday.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Food Shortages
"We're On Borrowed Time": Vitol LNG Chief Warns Of Coming Food Price Shock
04-21-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Pablo Galante Escobar, the head of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at Vitol, warned the audience at the FT Commodities Summit earlier today that the "world is on borrowed time" and that the Gulf energy shock will develop into a food crisis unless LNG flo
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corbett Report
The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does
04-21-2026
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By The Corbett Report
The purpose of a system is what it does. But what does this deceptively simply aphorism mean? And how can we use it to explain the Iran war and every other important systemic event in the world? Good questions. Let's answer them!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Investigations
BREAKING NEWS: DOJ Indicts Far-Left Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 Counts
04-21-2026
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Gateway Pundit
SPLC Used Donor Money to Pay KKK to Stage 'Hate Crimes' (VIDEO)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Trump Gives an Indefinite Cease-Fire to Iran. What Is This War?
04-21-2026
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Glenn Greenwald Substack
Trump has two options: (1) end the war without achieving its stated aims and without victory, or (2) continue to fight this destructive and costly Middle East war.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
BREAKING: President Trump Extends Ceasefire with Iran at Pakistan's request
04-21-2026
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Gateway Pundit
Over the weekend, President Trump told Fox News reporter Trey Yingst that he was going to "blow up the whole country" if Iran did not agree to the US's peace plan.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
$2.2 billion in perfectly timed oil trades over the last 30 days
04-21-2026
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Linkedin
Three major announcements, Three oil crashes And every single time someone placed massive short positions minutes before the news went public.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Sam Altman's World ID Expands Biometric Identity Checks
04-21-2026
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https://www.infowars.com, by Ken Macon
A biometric identity system built on iris scans is expanding into mainstream online services while its backers outline new ways to tie verified identity to revenue generation.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Robert Kiyosaki: "You Will Be Homeless"
04-21-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by ITM Trading
Vietnam vets were spat on. Today, boomers are being set up for the same betrayal--just with rotisserie 401(k)s instead of rotten eggs.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Courtroom and Trials
ActBlue Employees Invoked Fifth Amendment 146 Times During House Probe
04-21-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Bryan Hyde
The House Administration, Oversight, and Judiciary Committees has released a joint interim staff report on its investigation into alleged donor fraud by ActBlue.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Senate/Senators
US Senator Urges Delay Of CLARITY Act Senate Markup Until May: Report
04-21-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Brayden Lindrea
A US senator has reportedly urged Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott to delay the markup for the crypto market structure bill until May, as banking and crypto representatives need more time to resolve disagreements over stablecoin yield provisions.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
The Trump Administration Has Been Negotiating With The Wrong People In Iran This Entire Time
04-21-2026
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https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael
It turns out that the Iranian officials that the U.S. has been negotiating with do not actually have the power to make a peace deal. So this may help to explain why there has been so much confusion.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
Since everyone is pocket watching, here's Nick on having his assets frozen by the federal...
04-21-2026
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https://x.com, 1stclassclips
Since everyone is pocket watching, here's Nick on having his assets frozen by the federal government.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Stock Market
Dow Jones Adds and Removes Companies 20 Years too Late
04-21-2026
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian Wang
A reporter who did not pick Google or Amazon or Nvidia for the Dow says SpaceX is too risky to join other indices. SpaceX is getting accelerated inclusion into the Nasdaq, MCSI and maybe the SP500.
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News Link • Iran
MAJOR UPDATE: White House Enters TOTAL Panic Mode Over The Disastrous Handling Of The Iran...
04-21-2026
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https://www.infowars.com, Infowars.com
MAJOR UPDATE: White House Enters TOTAL Panic Mode Over The Disastrous Handling Of The Iran War That Has Already Triggered Global Financial Meltdown & Endangered Republican Control Of Senate!
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News Link • Spain
Spain Mass Amnesty Has French Nationalists Calling For An End To Free Movement Of Non-EU...
04-21-2026
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https://www.infowars.com, by Staff
Spain Mass Amnesty Has French Nationalists Calling For An End To Free Movement Of Non-EU Nationals As Fears Of Migration Wave Grow
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Eurosceptic Radev Wins Absolute Majority In Bulgarian Election
04-21-2026
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https://www.infowars.com, by Staff
Bulgarian ex-president Rumen Radev--an EU critic who has called for renewing ties with Russia-- hailed a "victory of hope" after his coalition topped the eighth parliamentary elections in five years.
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News Link • Military
The silent submarine hunter that could reshape future naval warfare
04-21-2026
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https://newatlas.com, By David Szondy
For over a decade, Saildrone has been building extreme long-endurance sail/hybrid autonomous sea vessels for ocean data collection and mapping. Now, the company is adapting the tech to create a super-quiet, long-range sub-hunter craft.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
The world's first AI art museum opening in USA - with 'Infinity room', 'machine hall
04-21-2026
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https://www.dailymail.com, By ERIN DEBORAH WAKS
The world's first AI art museum opening in USA - with 'Infinity room', 'machine hallucinations' and bespoke fragrances made from data
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Archaeology
Ark of the Covenant's final resting place pinpointed by archaeologists as fresh search begins
04-21-2026
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https://www.dailymail.com, By STACY LIBERATORE
The location of a chest believed to contain the Ten Commandments has long been a mystery, but archaeologists may be closer to finding the lost Ark of the Covenant.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Trump Cryptically References US Intercepted Chinese 'Gift' To Iran
04-21-2026
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
President Trump made an interesting and somewhat cryptic China reference in a series of Tuesday morning Iran-related statements, given to CNBC.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
The Real Reason U.S Is Going to War With Iran | Tucker Carlson Interview -- SF706
04-21-2026
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https://rumble.com, Russell Brand
Today I'm talking with Tucker Carlson about what happens when politics stops making sense and something deeper starts to emerge--where power really sits, why war keeps happening regardless of who's in charge, and whether democracy as we understa
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News Link • WAR: About that War
THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE
04-21-2026
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https://www.theburningplatform.com, Administrator
There's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Political Theory
Grand Theft World Podcast 283 | The Abuse of Logic with Guest Teace Snyder
04-21-2026
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https://grandtheftworld.com, Grand Theft World
Grand Theft World Podcast 283 | The Abuse of Logic with Guest Teace Snyder
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
CATL's Latest LFP Battery Blows The Competition Out Of The Water
04-21-2026
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https://insideevs.com, By: Iulian Dnistran
The third-gen Shenxing LFP battery promises ultra-fast charging speeds, with sub-4-minute 10-to-80% top-ups.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Japan
Japan's Takaichi chooses guns over butter -- at her peril
04-21-2026
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https://asiatimes.com, by William Pesek
Takaichi increasingly focused on constitutional reform and remilitarization, neither of which will fix Japan's many economic ills
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Next, an Iran nuclear deal with Chinese characteristics
04-21-2026
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https://asiatimes.com, by Bill Emmott
Signatory to the JCPOA and a country already helping Iran with weapons and finance, China could lead a consortium to handle the enriched uranium
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Go Grow: Leading Through the Food Crisis
04-21-2026
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UNSHADOWED - Substack - Ice Age Farmer
5 essential steps to start now and be the leader your family and community need
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