Daily News Digest - Summary April 17, 2026

The Hospital “I Do NOT Consent Form” Protects You From Unauthorized and Unnecessary Procedures In the Hospital

Daily News Digest - Summary April 17, 2026

The Hospital “I Do NOT Consent Form” Protects You From Unauthorized and Unnecessary Procedures In the Hospital

by IDNCF™

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Anesthesiologist and Critical Care Doctor who Knows The Intensive Care Unit, ER, Operating Rooms, and Hospital Administration and credited for providing medical updates to 2025 version of the document.

The IDNCF™ works because it becomes part of your legal medical record. You also have proof it was received and if violated, is intentional medical battery which is not covered by medical malpractice insurance.

General Instructions for Caregivers and Consent document and Letter…


These highly profitable corporations paid zero federal income taxes last year

In 2025, Tesla reported $5.7 billion in U.S. profits. The company paid absolutely nothing in federal taxes.

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by Judd Legum and Rebecca Crosby

In 2025, Tesla reported $5.7 billion in U.S. profits. The company paid absolutely nothing in federal taxes.

To achieve this remarkable result, Tesla took advantage of several corporate tax breaks expanded or made permanent last summer as part of President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) — 100% bonus depreciation and immediate R&D expensing. It also generated savings by exploiting a long-standing deduction for executive stock options.

Tesla is not an anomaly. So far, 88 profitable corporations have reported paying $0 in federal income taxes last year, according to a new report by the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). The list includes Citigroup ($4.45 billion in profits), CVS Health ($6.57 billion), GoDaddy ($981 million), Palantir ($1.58 billion), PayPal ($1.43 billion), Walt Disney ($8.3 billion), and Yum Brands, the parent company of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, ($1.03 billion)…


Texas Doctor Offers Free COVID Vaccine Exemptions to Medical Students Amid Mandate Dispute

by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. The Defender

This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website.

Houston physician Dr. Mary Talley Bowden offered to write medical exemptions for medical students studying in Texas teaching hospitals that mandate the COVID-19 vaccine.

“I will write a medical exemption for any student in Texas facing this mandate — free of charge,” Bowden wrote in a post on X. “If they deny my exemption, I will help you find a lawyer and raise money to sue them,” she added.

Five teaching hospitals in Texas – including Houston Methodist – require all students to get a Covid shot in order to do rotations at their hospital…


$500,000 buys a “one-on-one meeting” with Trump

On Friday, President Trump is scheduled to appear at the Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, for a Turning Point USA event.

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by Judd Legum

On Friday, President Trump is scheduled to appear at the Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, for a Turning Point USA event. Trump’s appearance at the event is part of Turning Point USA’s “Build the Red Wall” campaign. It is an effort championed by Erika Kirk, the widow of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, to secure victories for MAGA candidates in the 2026 and 2028 elections by increasing Republican support in Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada.

The event is free for people who would like to listen to Trump’s speech from the pews at Dream City Church. But a more interactive experience is available — for a price.

An email sent by Sinan Kanatsiz, an obscure but well-connected figure in Trump’s political orbit, offers its recipients a “one-on-one meeting and private photo with President Donald Trump” in exchange for a “contribution of $500,000 to TPUSA PAC...


The Great Energy World War

The sea power projection paradigm that allowed small European nations (and then the USA) to dominate and colonize the world is coming to an end.

by Matt Bracken

The sea power projection paradigm that allowed small European nations (and then the USA) to dominate and colonize the world is coming to an end. The world will never be the same, and the birth pains of the emerging next world order will be agonizing.

The Scandinavian Vikings did not have gunpowder or cannons, but they mastered ocean navigation, and were able to assemble massive fleets that could raid or even invade other nations with up to thousands of seafaring soldiers. This was a precursor of Europe’s model for global colonization through naval power and protected ocean trade.

With the development of large ocean-crossing sailing ships mounted with cannons, the stage was set for the European colonization of much of the globe. Faced with overwhelming firepower, local principalities had no alternative but to submit to the demands of the emerging European sea powers.

Armed merchant ships, protected by their own nation’s warships, came to dominate much of the world between the 15th and 20th Centuries. European powers created their own colonies and established military bases within them for permanent forward area power projection…


Trump Flips & Demands FISA Renewal that Allows Warrantless Spying On US Citizens!

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978 contains section 702 that has been used to spy on Americans; it is set to expire on April 20.

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by Owen Shroyer, Trump and Glenn Greenwald

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978 contains section 702 that has been used to spy on Americans; it is set to expire on April 20. Donald Trump, vowed to “KILL FISA” during his campaign in 2024 based on his (quite valid) claim that spying powers had been abused against him by the Obama administration for political ends in the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump is now demanding that FISA be fully renewed: yet again, with no reforms, safeguards, or limits of any kind.

In 2013, there was a bill to rein in the NSA’s domestic spying powers by imposing serious limits on how such powers can be exercised when aimed at American citizens. But Obama was an enthusiastic supporter — and user — of the NSA’s domestic spying system and he instructed then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to conjure enough Democratic House votes to kill the bill. The same tactics are being used today.

Former Congressman Justin Amash wrote: “Trump falsely claims FISA 702 is simply foreign collection…


Pentagon ramps up plans for military operation in Cuba in case Trump orders direct intervention: report

Earlier this week, Trump said ‘we may stop by Cuba’ after the Iran war is resolved

by Brendan Rascius

The Pentagon is quietly laying the planning groundwork for a potential U.S. military operation in Cuba, even as the Iran war grinds on, according to recent reports.

Two sources familiar with the matter told USA Today on Wednesday that contingency plans are being developed in case President Donald Trump orders an intervention on the island nation. Trump has not announced plans to invade Cuba, but has floated the idea.

Sources also told Zeteo earlier this week that the Pentagon was given a directive straight from the White House to prepare for possible military action in the Caribbean…


Iran war latest: Trump reacts - and oil and gas prices tumble - after Iran reopens Strait of Hormuz

Keir Starmer is in Paris for a meeting about the Strait of Hormuz. But Iran appears to have declared the waterway is “open” - with Donald Trump reacting enthusiastically.

by Sky News (Live Coverage)

While we were hearing from the four European leaders in Paris, Donald Trump attacked NATO in his latest Truth Social post.

Despite Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron saying the UK and France will lead a defensive and neutral military mission to protect shipping, Trump has dismissed any offer of help from his NATO allies.

“Now that the Hormuz Strait situation is over, I received a call from NATO asking if we would need some help,” the president wrote.

“I TOLD THEM TO STAY AWAY, UNLESS THEY JUST WANT TO LOAD UP THEIR SHIPS WITH OIL…


Simplicius: Serious Escalation: Russian MOD Implies Threatening Consequences Against Europe for Being Party to Conflict

It has slowly become increasingly apparent that Ukraine may be utilizing the airspace of NATO countries for its recent spate of strikes against Russia...

by Simplicius

It has slowly become increasingly apparent that Ukraine may be utilizing the airspace of NATO countries for its recent spate of strikes against Russia. Specifically, it is the permissive Baltics that appear to be allowing Ukrainian drones to transit toward sensitive Russian sites near the Gulf of Finland and beyond, then blaming Russia when the drones crash on their territory.

Read the below—the Latvian ministry literally admitted the drone that crashed on its territory was Ukrainian, but proceeded to blame Russia anyway:

Drones have been recovered in the following locations which has led people to assume the flightpath from Ukraine as follows:

This would explain the so-called Russian “lack of air defense”. For a couple years now it has been obvious that most Ukrainian “deep penetration” attacks that were said to have bypassed Russian air defenses were actually done via some form of subversion—whether local man-on-ground drone teams or something like the above…


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