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Date Sent: 2025-05-17
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Saturday, May 17, 2025 |
AI Chatbots "Hallucinating" Reality -- TGIF: Individuals, Not America, First
Turning All U.S. Roads into Toll Roads: "Tax by Mile" is Here -- SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: May 18, 2025 Edition -- FRIDAY FUN: Twitter/X Users Respond to James Comey Controversy by Creating Their Own... -- Banks are sitting on $500 billion in unrealized losses,... -- Paul Hellier and Iain Davis Discuss The Fake Choice Environment -- BREAKING NEWS...US Credit rating just downgraded...Not good keep prepping. -- Trump Destroying the World with Peace and Prosperity - News Update! -- There Is Only One Way to Eradicate Mexico's Drug Cartels -- At least 21 dead in Missouri, Kentucky as severe storms sweep central U.S. -- As The Sun Goes Nuts, Unusual Natural Disasters Are Occurring All Over The Globe -- How War Propaganda Has Fueled American Foreign Policy for a Century -- How Legal Immigration Is Keeping Farms Afloat -- The Rise And Fall Of Synthetic Food Dyes -- Bees Are Behind Our Food And Natural Medicines - And They're Disappearing -- Air Traffic Fail Exposes Biden Chaos -- 10 Inmates, Including Murderers, Escape From New Orleans Jail… May Have Had 'Inside Help' -- RFK's Deputy: Saviour or Wolf in Sheep's Clothing? -- One of America's biggest companies is imploding -- Zombie Voyager 1 Spacecraft Resurrects Its "Dead" Thrusters Over 15 Billion Miles Away -- Opinion: America just imported a mountain of gold. Here's why that should scare you. -- Growing Beans Is So Easy, You'll Drown In The Harvests -- Is Laser Welding the Future? Theo Laser Shows Us How It's Done -- Black hole dance illuminates hidden math of the universe -- The Biggest Misconception in Physics -- Charlie Kirk's Personal Story | EP 542 -- Why Trump Now says "Russia Will Have To Give Up All of Ukraine." -- Yes, the Visible Head of the Church Is the Pope--This Is Our Christian Faith -- Oren Cass: How Trump's Tariffs Are Reversing the Foreign Policy That Doomed America's Econom --
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News Link • Trump Administration
TGIF: Individuals, Not America, First
05-17-2025
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by Sheldon Richman
Let's hear no more about America First! It's a fraud, a cover for collectivist nationalism, and a distraction from what matters. (It also looks like camouflage for Trump Family First, but let's take it at face value for now.)
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News Link • Social Engineering
Turning All U.S. Roads into Toll Roads: "Tax by Mile" is Here
05-17-2025
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iAgenda 21
A key driver of road charge pilot programs is sustainable development, which in employs behavior modification techniques to steer individuals and communities toward environmentally and socially desirable actions, such as reducing carbon footprints or
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Donna Hancock
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Opinion • Government
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: May 18, 2025 Edition
05-17-2025
John Semmens
Dems Seen as "Liberal, Weak, Corrupt"
Political commentator Chris Cillizza says "polls showing that only a third of registered Democrats are optimistic about their Party strike me as very problematic. This is especially troublesome compared to pol
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
FRIDAY FUN: Twitter/X Users Respond to James Comey Controversy by Creating Their Own...
05-17-2025
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com, by Mike LaChance
FRIDAY FUN: Twitter/X Users Respond to James Comey Controversy by Creating Their Own Hilarious Shell Memes
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Social Engineering
Paul Hellier and Iain Davis Discuss The Fake Choice Environment
05-17-2025
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Iain Davis Substack
I took a break to talk to Paul Hellier, from Fair Food Forager. We discussed how we are being coerced and cajoled into accepting "gov-corp Technates" by an oligarch faction backing the Trump administration.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
There Is Only One Way to Eradicate Mexico's Drug Cartels
05-17-2025
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https://www.fff.org, by Jacob G. Hornberger
There is only one way to eradicate Mexico's drug cartels and the massive violence that has come with them.
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
At least 21 dead in Missouri, Kentucky as severe storms sweep central U.S.
05-17-2025
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MSN
At least 21 people have died after severe storms swept through the central United States, with possible tornadoes touching down in Missouri and Kentucky, according to authorities.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Solar Flares
As The Sun Goes Nuts, Unusual Natural Disasters Are Occurring All Over The Globe
05-17-2025
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https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael
Why is the mainstream media in the United States being so quiet about what is happening on the Sun?
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News Link • Propaganda
How War Propaganda Has Fueled American Foreign Policy for a Century
05-17-2025
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https://ronpaulinstitute.org, by Ryan McMaken
The New York Times this week reports that the Trump administration has canceled many grants that were to fund "research" on "misinformation."
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News Link • Immigration
How Legal Immigration Is Keeping Farms Afloat
05-17-2025
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by Darlene McCormick Sanchez
LAKE VILLAGE, Ark.--On a breezy day, sun and shadow dance across Mencer farms, turning it into a patchwork of green in the fertile Arkansas Delta.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
The Rise And Fall Of Synthetic Food Dyes
05-17-2025
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Marina Zhang
In 1856, 18-year-old chemist William Henry Perkin was experimenting with coal tar-derived compounds in a crude laboratory in his attic.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
Bees Are Behind Our Food And Natural Medicines - And They're Disappearing
05-17-2025
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Emma Suttie
Bees are dying--and at an alarming rate.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Air Traffic Fail Exposes Biden Chaos
05-17-2025
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https://gatewayhispanic.com, By Cristian Rosales
In a revelation that has stirred alarm among national security circles and outrage among millions of Americans...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Prisons & Incarceration in America
10 Inmates, Including Murderers, Escape From New Orleans Jail… May Have Had 'Inside Help'
05-17-2025
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com,by Cristina Laila
Local, state, and federal law enforcement are urgently looking for 10 inmates, including murderers, who escaped from a New Orleans jail on Friday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
RFK's Deputy: Saviour or Wolf in Sheep's Clothing?
05-17-2025
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Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
Look over there, not over here. While the internet was literally exploding on May 12 about Casey Means' appointment as Surgeon General, a Senate confirmation hearing â€" a much more important one â€" quietly flew under the radar.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
One of America's biggest companies is imploding
05-17-2025
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CNN
UnitedHealth Group, one of America's biggest corporations and a member of the exclusive Dow Jones Industrial Average, is suddenly unraveling.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Opinion: America just imported a mountain of gold. Here's why that should scare you.
05-17-2025
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MarketWatch
What do central banks know that the rest of us don't?
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Inventions
Is Laser Welding the Future? Theo Laser Shows Us How It's Done
05-17-2025
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https://www.youtube.com, Tech Ingredients
Today we take a trip to Theo Laser Inc. to see them demonstrate their new advanced laser welding machines. We were amazed by how much easier and efficient laser welding is compared to traditional methods. Make sure to check out their website with the
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News Link • General Opinion
Charlie Kirk's Personal Story | EP 542
05-17-2025
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https://www.youtube.com, Jordan B Peterson
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson engages in conversation with Charlie Kirk--author, speaker, and founder and CEO of Turning Point USA.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Why Trump Now says "Russia Will Have To Give Up All of Ukraine."
05-17-2025
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Eric Zuesse
On May 4th, U.S. President Trump -- about whom I had headlined on 4 December 2024, "Reuters reports Trump is set to continue Biden's policies on Ukraine." -- told NBC News, that "Russia will have to give up all of Ukraine. Because that's
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Religon: Pope News
Yes, the Visible Head of the Church Is the Pope--This Is Our Christian Faith
05-17-2025
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Robert Lazu Kmita
Hyper-papalism can actually lead one into schism. A correct understanding along with the firm belief in the primacy of Peter will keep Catholics firmly grafted to the Barque.
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News Link • Tariffs
Oren Cass: How Trump's Tariffs Are Reversing the Foreign Policy That Doomed America's Econom
05-17-2025
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https://www.youtube.com, Tucker Carlson
The point of the postwar global economic order was never to help the United States, says economist Oren Cass, and in the end it didn't. Thankfully Trump just blew it up.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Costco CEO Breaks Down How a Kirkland Product Gets Made | WSJ
05-17-2025
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https://www.youtube.com, The Wall Street Journal
Costco's CEO Ron Vachris sat down with The Wall Street Journal to discuss how its $86 billion Kirkland Signature brand runs and why it allows Costco leverage over many big brands.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Biden-Harris Deep Fake Administration
Biden-Hur Tape Drops, And Boy Is It Rough
05-17-2025
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
A segment of former President Joe Biden's October 2023 interview with special counsel Robert Hur just dropped, and boy is it rough.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Moody's Downgrades USA Credit Rating From Aaa
05-17-2025
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Earlier this week, we noted that short-dated USA sovereign CDS were trading wider than China and Greece as trade policy uncertainty and the debt ceiling 'X-date' loomed...
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News Link • Trump Administration
Beautiful: President Trump Sends Special Surprise Birthday Message to 104-year-old WWII Veteran...
05-17-2025
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by Margaret Flavin
Beautiful: President Trump Sends Special Surprise Birthday Message to 104-year-old WWII Veteran After Viral Party Invite (Video)
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Positive News
Teaching The Autism Community Trades | Episode 2 | People You Should Know
05-16-2025
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https://www.youtube.com, Mike Rowe
A new study shows the number of children and adults diagnosed with autism has increased by 175% over a decade.
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