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Ex-CIA-Linked Afghan Who Shot D.C. Troops Entered U.S. As Biden-Era Asylee The nation was horrified Wednesday afternoon - just as millions were hitting the roads, crowding TSA lines at airports, or grabbing last-minute groceries at supermarkets or the local butcher shop for today's Thanksgiving feast - by news that an Afghan national opened fire on two West Virginia National Guard members, leaving both critically wounded just outside the White House complex. The suspected attacker, identified as Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who entered the U.S. in 2021 under the […]

Tether's 116-Ton Gold Hoard Rivals Reserves Of Korea And Hungary: Jefferies Authored by Amin Haqshanas via CoinTelegraph.com, Stablecoin issuer Tether holds 116 tons of physical gold, placing it on par with central banks such as those in South Korea, Hungary and Greece. Tether is “the largest holder of gold outside central banks,” Jefferies wrote in a recent analysis, per a report by the Financial Times. The investment bank added that Tether’s growing appetite for gold may be playing a larger role in the metal’s recent surge than previously assumed. According to […]

US Adoptions From Abroad Are Declining The number of children adopted from abroad is declining in the United States, according to data from the U.S. Department of State. As Statista's Anna Fleck details below, while more than 12,700 children were adopted internationally in 2009, that figure has dropped to under 1,200 in 2024. You will find more infographics at Statista This is due to several reasons. For example, although the U.S. signed the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption in 1994, it wasn’t until […]

FBI Seizes $13-Million Mercedes Unicorn From Olympian Snowboarder Turned 'Cocaine Kingpin' Submitted by The Bureau's Sam Cooper, In the aftermath of their second Ryan Wedding indictment bombshell, the FBI's Los Angeles field office dropped one of the most surreal photos of the Giant Slalom case this week: a silver, open-top Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR roadster — valued at roughly US$13 million — parked under fluorescent lights in a federal impound warehouse. Agents say the 2002 Mercedes CLK-GTR was seized from the organization of Ryan James Wedding, the former Canadian Olympic […]

Where Do You Find The Most AI Leaders In Europe? Corporate spending on AI is surging. So, our friends at The Big Search asked themselves a practical question: who is actually building and deploying AI inside Europe’s major consumer goods, retail and digital marketplace companies? For this analysis they identified 471 individuals, who have proven themselves as AI trailblazers. As Statista's Mathias Brandt details below, collectively, these AI leaders represent the new generation of executives: technically skilled, commercially oriented and visibly engaged in the broader […]

Le Pen's Revenge? Bardella Projected To Win 2027 French Election Runoff In All Scenarios Via Remix News, A new poll indicates that Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally (RN), would secure a victory in the second round of the 2027 French presidential election in every matchup tested. Although elections are still 18 months away, it shows a considerable shift in French public support to right-wing, conservative positions. The new Odoxa-Mascaret poll released Tuesday, conducted for French news outlet Public Sénat and other regional press outlets, suggests a clear […]

Revisiting Rush Limbaugh's True Story Of Thanksgiving - Now More Relevant Than Ever The late radio host Rush Limbaugh used his 2010 Thanksgiving broadcast to remind listeners of the true story of Thanksgiving. It's a lesson that feels especially relevant today, as the Democratic Party is being swallowed whole by radical left-wingers in the Democratic Socialists of America movement, who seek to undermine the nation from within (in what we've coined "Invisible Insurrection") and push the country into a socialist hellhole and eventually communism. In less than 36 days, Zohran […]

Thanksgiving: America's Forgotten Religious Holiday Authored by J.T. Young via RealClearReligion, Thanksgiving is America’s forgotten religious holiday. Not simply a holiday, it was meant to be a true holy day. That it is forgotten as such runs counter to the original Thanksgiving. It also runs counter to logic. And it also runs right into those who seek to imbue it with their own cultural causes. America has many holidays that have nothing to do with “holy days,” from whence the word came. Labor Day is a holiday but not a holy day. Arbor Day is on the calendar but […]

FDA Chief: Fauci '100% Involved" In "Massive" COVID-19 Origins Cover-Up Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary accused former top health official Dr. Anthony Fauci of orchestrating a "massive cover-up" of the origins of Covid-19. In an interview with "Pod Force One” podcast, Makary said that Fauci, who served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease during the pandemic, worked to suppress the Wuhan lab-leak theory. "One thing that's extremely obvious that very few people realize, and certainly hardly anyone in the medical […]

Alzheimer's Disease: The Most Common Neurodegenerative Disease - Here Are The Causes Authored by Mercura Wang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurological disorder that gradually destroys memory, thinking skills, and the ability to perform everyday tasks. As the single most common neurodegenerative disease, it affects more than 6 million Americans—most of them age 65 or older. The disease is irreversible and fatal. It often begins subtly—years before it’s diagnosed—showing up as everyday lapses that are easy to brush off. […]

Schweizer Exposes DEI Fraud Machine Inside Federal Contracting Complex  Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and the investigative journalist who broke the Clinton Cash corruption story, has uncovered what may be one of the most brazen grifts operating inside the Capital Beltway. His new reporting exposes deep cronyism and corruption inside the Small Business Administration's 8(a) Business Development Program, where DEI-driven preferences opened the door for fraudsters to siphon off lucrative no-bid federal contracts. Instead of supporting […]

Domestic Military Manufacturing Is Essential For National Security Authored by Scott Vadnais via RealClearDefense, For nearly a century, America’s military strength has come largely through self-reliance. We not only made the ships, airplanes and tanks, our country supplied the parts and materials for these complex systems. But a lot has changed in recent times. Unfortunately, our military has increasingly relied on sourcing parts globally -- including from possibly unreliable places like China. It’s a disastrous side effect of globalization. For example, while modern […]

Taiwan Boosts Defense Budget To $40BN As President Lai Lashes Out At Beijing Taiwan on Wednesday announced a highly significant increase to a $40 billion defense budget, which it says is necessary in response to growing Chinese military pressure and harassment. Significantly it comes as nearby US-ally Japan is locked in a diplomatic battle with Beijing over Tokyo's increasingly vocal pro-Taiwan independence stance. China has condemned the growing 'militarism' of Japan regarding Taiwan's status. Anadolu/Getty Images The historic increase in the 2026–2033 defense spending […]

"Access To Power" Has Become "Access To Energy" By Ben Hertz-Shargel of Woods Mackenzie As industry concerns over an AI bubble mount, the scale of data center ambitions continue to grow. As of mid-October, the US data center pipeline reached 245 GW of planned capacity, driven by a handful of enormous, speculative projects. These projects, and the renewable deals hyperscalers are signing, skew heavily toward Texas. More than a quarter of pipeline capacity targets the state, whose pipeline nearly doubled from 35 GW in Q1 to 67 GW in Q3.  Data Center Alley gives way to Data […]

"Allahu Akbar": D.C. National Guard Shooter Identified As Afghan National Who Entered U.S. During Biden Years Update (2020ET): CBS News reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez confirms that the suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., is 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal. Law-enforcement officials told Galvez that Lakanwal entered the U.S. in 2021 during the Biden-Harris regime. CBS News: Multiple law enforcement officials say the suspect in the shooting of National Guard members in Washington, D.C. today is 29-year-old Afghan national […]

Thanksgiving Is Now One Of America's Most Dangerous Holidays, New Analysis Shows Insuranceopedia reviewed national datasets from the NSC, FEMA, NFPA, NHTSA, and the CDC to analyze accident trends surrounding Thanksgiving. The results show that Thanksgiving surpasses Christmas, Memorial Day, and even the Fourth of July in several key danger categories. Thanksgiving is the most dangerous U.S. holiday for fires, with a 388% spike in home fires. Thanksgiving week car crashes killed 2,525 people from 2020–2024, more than any other major holiday. 40% of all […]

Did Rubio 'Neo-Con' Trump's Ukraine Peace Plan? Authored by Daniel McAdams, Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute, Lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas; lie down with neocons, you wake up with wars. –Me So goes President Trump’s 28 point peace plan to end the Russia/Ukraine war. Revealed at the end of last week, the plan initially received a cautious but cautiously optimistic reception in Moscow. It was hardly a dramatic tilt toward the Russian position. Many of the plan’s points ranged from the implausible to the bizarre. For example the idea that […]

'Seditious Six' Scripted Video Appears To Be Part Of Left's Broader Color Revolution Against Trump America could use a breather from the Democratic Party's billionaire-backed dark-money NGO machine, which has spent years running a rolling color-revolution-style campaign against President Trump and anything aligned with America First (one that we've coined "invisible insurrection").  The pressure campaign is constant: activist fronts sparking orchestrated unrest in places like Los Angeles through the protest-industrial complex, followed by scripted influence […]

Public Schools Are Failing And Parents Are Bailing Authored by Larry Sand via American Greatness, Students attending American public schools are struggling. Test scores from the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), released this year, indicate that 33% of 8th graders—a greater percentage than ever before—are reading at the “below basic” level. Additionally, only 22% of high school seniors are proficient or above in math, down from 24% in 2019, and only 35% are proficient in reading—the lowest score since NAEP began in 1969—down from 37% in […]

Trump-MbS Meeting Was Strained Behind Closed Doors: 'Disappointment & Irritation' Axios reported some new details this week related to the recent meeting between US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House. There were more tensions in the private dialogue between the two leaders than previously known, and some significant disagreements centered on policy toward Israel. While the two leaders exchanged compliments in front of the cameras, aspects of the private discussion were strained, Axios noted. Officials described Trump as […]

Why No COVID Commission In The US? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, They were the hardest years of our lives, marked by the dissolution of rights, liberties, and hope. Sadness swept the land, as forced physical isolation and shattered civic life mutated toward mandates to wear masks and eventually to accept a new injection product. The liturgy of life fundamentally disrupted, we lost track of the passage of time and saw our social and community networks decimated. Government spending and money printing exploded as never before. For many the whole period feels […]

US Has Been Conducting "Bomber Attack Demos" Buzzing Venezuela Once Per Week Another US B-52 bomber conducted a flight near Venezuela's coastline earlier this week, according to flight-tracking data, continuing a pattern of regular bomber activity amid threated regime change action targeting President Nicolás Maduro. These flights have occurred at a rate of about once a week for over a month, and are meant as a very public threat and warning, given the bombers which often fly from bases deep within the continental United States intentionally keep their transponders on so they […]

Why This Fear Of Deflation? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, Certain myths survive from a period of trauma. They can be wholly incorrect and yet widely believed by nearly all living experts. The myth keeps moving from generation to generation and becomes doctrine, one which we dare not question for fear of contradicting the settled consensus. It so happens that “everyone knows” something that is entirely incorrect. The myth in this case is that deflation, in the form of falling prices, is always to be avoided at all costs. This myth is global. The other […]

OpenAI Needs To Fill $207 Billion Funding Hole By 2030: HSBC As the AI 'circle jerk' rages on, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, will need to raise at least $207 billion more by 2030 to simply keep the lights on, according a new analysis by HSBC which takes into account recently disclosed megadeals with Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle.  Even with bullish assumptions that include 3 billion users, rapid subscription growth, and a giant slice of enterprise AI spending, the company's projected revenues are nowhere near its exploding bills for energy and chips, the bank […]

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Connecting The Dots... Reveals A Dire Picture Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “Reflect on what happens when a terrible winter blizzard strikes. You hear the weather warning but probably fail to act on it. The sky darkens. Then the storm hits with full fury, and the air is a howling whiteness. One by one, your links to the machine age break down. Electricity flickers out, cutting off the TV. Batteries fade, cutting off the radio. Phones go dead. Roads become impossible, and cars get stuck. Food supplies dwindle. Day to day vestiges of modern civilization […]

This is the frightening endgame and why the stock market is surging.

Gold pushed higher overnight as traders priced in faster Fed easing and Treasury yields retreated. But the bigger story: with Jerome Powell's term ending in early 2026, uncertainty over Fed leadership is mounting. From Kevin Hassett's pitch to a shortlist of five candidates, the race to lead the Federal Reserve...

The economic collapse is accelerating. Take a look...

What is happening in the gold market is stunning.

Is socialism really “on the way,” or has the U.S. already crossed the line? Mike Maloney and Alan Hibbard break down the systems, incentives, and policies that reveal how deeply government control is embedded in everyday American life — and why it matters for anyone protecting their financial future.

Trump's $21 trillion investment claim shrinks to $3 trillion under scrutiny, while delayed GDP reports and disappointing retail sales raise questions about data integrity and economic strength. With consumers tapped out from years of rising costs and producer prices jumping again, the economic picture is murkier than ever. Meanwhile, China's...

Just what we need, more inflation and cheap money, plus a look at oil and gold miners.

Most cryptocurrencies claim decentralization, but few truly achieve it. Alan Hibbard breaks down why most networks remain centrally controlled—and why only systems governed by math or physics, like Bitcoin and gold, avoid the risks investors overlook.

Another bull market is about to kickoff as everybody is worried about the US dollar.

Gold held near $4,080 Monday as December Fed rate cut expectations surged, but a strong dollar and divided Fed officials kept gains modest. Treasury Secretary Bessent claimed tariffs don't drive inflation—contradicting CPI data showing a jump from 2.3% to 3.0% since April. UBS sees silver's pullback as a buying opportunity...

Today the top trends forecaster in the world discussed what surprises to expect for the rest of 2025 and 2026.

Today one of the greats discussed something very strange going on in the gold market.

There is something highly unusual occurring in the gold market. Take a look...

Mike just stepped off stage at the world’s oldest investment conference — and if you weren’t there, you missed something.  The New Orleans Investment Conference just wrapped with a record crowd. “We were bursting at the seams,” producer Brien Lundin told Mike.  But these weren’t casual observers. These were investors...

Gold investors face whiplash as conflicting signals roil precious metals markets. While New York Fed President Williams opened the door to December rate cuts, stronger-than-expected jobs data has traders second-guessing the Fed's next move. Meanwhile, gold demand is cooling across Asia amid price volatility, job openings continue their post-ChatGPT slide,...

Harvey Organ continues to expose the Harvey Organ continues to expose the ongoing massive fraud in the gold market, and gives an explanation of who is behind it.  This all started when gold began to threaten the existing world monetary order. massive fraud in the gold market, and gives an explanation of who is behind it.

The Fed's December decision just became a coin flip. September jobs beat expectations with 119,000 positions added, but traders slashed rate cut odds to 50% after Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack warned that easing now could "prolong elevated inflation." Her concerns mirror Main Street, where 70% of small businesses cite...

In The Physics of Money, Alan Hibbard reveals how entropy—the universal force of disorder—quietly erodes wealth. By viewing money through the lens of physics, he explains why real money like gold, silver, and Bitcoin excels at resisting this decay, while fiat currencies accelerate it. This episode reframes value, work, and...

Gold treads water near $4,100 as traders await key Fed minutes and delayed jobs data, while China rapidly closes the "gold gap" with the U.S. in a strategic de-dollarization push. Meanwhile, Americans are tightening belts this holiday season with spending down from last year's record highs. President Trump floats a...

After weeks of data blackout, the picture isn't pretty. Jobless claims show a cooling labor market while consumer sentiment crashes to near-record lows. Credit card delinquencies just hit 15-year highs with Americans carrying $1.2 trillion in debt. The S&P 500 faces its longest losing streak since August. Meanwhile, wealthy investors...

Mike Maloney warns that the 2025 economic crisis may be far worse than past downturns, with both the stock and real estate markets in historic bubbles and key indicators already flashing red before the real crash begins.

Inflation quietly erodes the value of your dollars, making the gold vs cash debate more important than ever. Learn why gold preserves purchasing power while cash loses it — and how this affects long-term wealth.

Analysts warn we may be entering a Super Capital Rotation — a massive shift of money from stocks into silver and gold. In a new discussion with Northstar Bad Charts, Alan Hibbard breaks down why silver could be the key trigger, the $55–$56 breakout zone to watch, and how this...

Fed Vice Chair Jefferson says labor risks are rising but rate cuts should move slowly—sending gold prices lower as December cut odds collapse to 42%. Meanwhile, retail investors are finally skipping the dip, corporate layoffs hit 22-year highs driven by AI investments, and crypto's small-cap coins plunge to pandemic lows....

In 2026, more investors are choosing to buy precious metals as gold and silver gain traction in modern portfolios. With rising inflation, shifting institutional strategies, and growing demand from central banks, precious metals are becoming a core asset for diversification and long-term stability.

Wall Street may be celebrating new highs, but recession pressures are already spreading across the real economy. As China accelerates its covert gold accumulation and silver enters a fifth straight supply deficit, precious metals continue to show strength while speculative assets falter. This week’s News Nuggets breaks down the new...

The government shutdown just ended, but the Fed's data problem is just beginning. With key economic metrics compromised or missing entirely, policymakers face tough decisions on rate cuts while gold climbs to fresh three-week highs around $4,207/oz. Add in Atlanta Fed President Bostic's retirement—opening a seat Trump could influence—and the...

Mike Maloney’s latest $200 silver prediction may no longer sound far-fetched. With central banks buying silver, nations restricting exports, and demand outpacing supply, silver is rapidly transforming from an industrial metal into a strategic, monetary, and national security asset.

Silver 2025–2030 forecasts point to sustained strength in the price of silver as soaring industrial demand, persistent supply deficits, and shifting global monetary trends reshape the market. Discover why analysts expect silver’s long-term outlook to remain one of the most compelling in the commodities sector.

The government shutdown is ending after 41 days, but Americans face mounting economic pressures—job security concerns are spiking, and car loan delinquencies just hit levels not seen since before the 2008 crisis. Washington's response? Trump's proposed $2,000 "tariff dividend" checks that would require borrowing $100+ billion we don't have. As...

Three central banks — Russia, India, and Saudi Arabia — have quietly begun buying silver, signaling its return as a true monetary metal. Mike Maloney explains why this marks the start of silver’s next major bull run and why owning physical silver matters more than ever.

Turning 73? This guide explains how to take RMDs from your Gold IRA, including options for physical precious metals distributions, IRS requirements, tax strategies, and approaches to preserve your gold and silver holdings while staying compliant with IRS rules. Learn whether to take cash or in-kind distributions and navigate the...

Gold and silver rallied Tuesday as economic warning signs mounted and JPMorgan forecast gold could reach $5,000 by 2026. The U.S. private sector shed jobs in late October while consumer spending showed fresh cracks, with even affordable chains like Chipotle feeling the pinch. As a record 42-day government shutdown nears...

In a world where everything — from your paycheck to your crypto wallet — claims to be “money,” Alan Hibbard asks a question few ever stop to consider:  What actually makes something a true store of value?  In Episode 3 of Hidden Secrets of Value, Alan breaks down the 12 properties that...