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A Third Of Glasgow Schoolchildren Don't Speak English Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Nearly one in three children in Glasgow’s primary schools do not speak English as their first language, according to new council data, highlighting a dramatic shift driven by record migration levels that are overwhelming local resources and raising urgent questions about integration and public services. The figures, revealed in a Telegraph report, show 31% of pupils in the city’s primaries requiring English as an additional language support, up from 25% five years ago, amid […]

Serbia Faces 'Lights Out' As US Denies Sanctions Waiver To Russian-Owned Oil Refinery In the wake of the recent US sanctions on Russia's two biggest energy giants, Serbia is in desperate need of a sanctions-waiver if the country hopes to keep the lights on. Serbia's government is this week warning it could slide into a severe energy and economic crisis unless Washington grants a 90-day exemption from US sanctions. Officials are essentially begging for enough time to enable the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) to take temporary control of the country’s only refinery, NIS, […]

UK Agrees To Pay More For US Medicines After Trade Negotiations Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times, The UK’s National Health Service will pay 25 percent more for new, patented U.S. medicines under the terms of a new trade agreement between the two nations. The deal is the latest in a series of agreements in which the United States has leveraged tariffs to secure concessions on prescription drug prices. This is the first deal reached with a nation rather than with pharmaceutical manufacturers. In return for this concession, the United States will forego tariffs […]

China-Japan Spat Looks To Be Boon For Russian Tourism & Industry In yet another sign of deepening Russia-China ties on all levels, which has also included cooperation on the military front in the context of the Ukraine war, President Vladimir Putin signed an executive order on Monday temporarily lifting visa requirements for visitors from China. Chinese travelers can now enter Russia without a visa for up to 30 days, either for tourism or short-term employment purposes. This move mirror's the Chinese government's earlier decision to grant visa-free entry to Russian […]

Letter Bombs And Hammer Attacks - US Adds European Antifa Groups To Terror List Authored by Janice Hisle and Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, An official U.S. terrorist list dominated by jihadist groups and a clutch of cartels has its first European additions in more than two decades: four Antifa groups. Designating groups as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) empowers U.S. federal authorities to investigate the groups’ supporters, prosecute them, and seize their assets. The European groups, which were added to the list on Nov. 20, include Italian […]

Trump Tells Netanyahu Don't Hinder Syria's Stability In Rare Rebuke President Trump has issued a rare criticism and brush back of Israel's expansionist policy in Syria, where in the south of the country Israel's military has launched recent deadly ground and aerial raids which go way beyond just the Golan Heights. Trump has warned that the future of Syria's stability is at stake. He wrote in a Monday post on Truth Social, "The United States is very satisfied with the results displayed, through hard work and determination, in the Country of Syria. We are doing everything within […]

Undercover Agent? Left-Wing Satirist? Questions Swirl After Fiery 'Hitler-Like' Speech At AfD Youth Congress Via Remix News, After a flamboyant speaker went viral at the Alternative for Germany (AfD) Youth Congress, there are questions about Alexander Eichwald. Speculation is growing about whether he is an undercover agent, a left-wing satirist, or actually just a genuine AfD supporter. Regardless of the truth, the AfD is already preparing to expel him from the party. Social media has been asking questions about Eichwald, who sported a blue dinner jacket, after his speech at […]

This Chemist May Have Cracked America's Rare Earth Problem Authored by Eva Fu & Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), One flash is all it takes. That’s how James Tour said the United States can tackle China’s rare earth dominance. James Tour, chemist and nanotechnologist at Houston's Rice University, in Scottsdale, Ariz All he needs is discarded electronics—of which the United States has mountains. And from these scraps, the Rice University chemist and nanotechnologist has pioneered a way to quickly extract rare earth metals. “We can pull out one metal […]

Herzog Admits A Netanyahu Pardon Would Spark Outrage, Destabilize Israeli Society Israeli President Isaac Herzog acknowledged this week that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request for a pardon in his corruption trial is generating significant debate and division within Israeli society. Herzog said that Netanyahu's formal petition for the charges and case to be dismissed "will be addressed with full care and precision," and pledged his decision will be guided solely by "the good of the state and Israeli society." He in the Monday comments admitted that Netanyahu’s move […]

Republican Matt Van Epps Wins Tennessee Special Election Republicans will hold onto Tennessee's 7th Congressional District despite a push by Democrats to flip the deep-red seat, the Associated Press projected Tuesday, as Republican candidate Matt Van Epps was set to defeat Democrat Aftyn Behn. The former state commissioner and Army helicopter pilot defeated the Democratic nominee, Aftyn Behn, with 53.9 percent of the vote in the highly publicized race, according to The Associated Press as of 9:45 p.m. ET. Behn had 45.1 percent, with nearly all votes counted.  The […]

Energy Secretary: Backup Generators At Commercial Sites Could Unlock 35 Nuclear Plants Energy Secretary Chris Wright has floated an unusual but very creative plan to quickly expand U.S. grid capacity: tapping the industrial diesel generators already sitting at data centers, big-box retailers, and other commercial sites. The proposal comes as multiple regional grids strain under the explosive power demand driven by the data-center boom. Leveraging these idled generators could serve as a short-term bridge until new generation comes online. Bloomberg quoted Wright on Tuesday […]

Pentagon Seeks To Explain A Little-Known, Forgotten 'Forever War' Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The US Department of War insisted on Tuesday that it’s not waging a "forever war" in Somalia despite the fact that the Trump administration has shattered the record for annual airstrikes in the country. Liam Cosgrove, a reporter for ZeroHedge, noted during a Pentagon press briefing on Tuesday that the US has launched 101 airstrikes (now 102) in Somalia and that US troops reportedly conducted a recent ground raid, and asked why the US military is still in the […]

"Power Up America" Needs 500,000 Highly Skilled Workers We've already pointed out that money isn't the problem in America's unprecedented data center construction buildout. Big Tech's AI capex splurge is effectively endless thanks to "circle-jerk" vendor-financing schemes, and land is plentiful. The real bottleneck? First, it was power - or rather, the lack of it - as the grid struggles to hook up hyperscalers sprinting toward ever larger and more power-hungry AI server racks. True. That is why Bitcoin is based on energy: you can issue fake fiat currency, and every […]

Why Healthcare Is In A Death Spiral: Follow The Money Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, If each of these is not a part of any 'reform,' than all that is being done is pouring money into a monopolizing cartel, just in a slightly different way. Unbeknownst to those of us with little inside knowledge of the complex financial plumbing of the US healthcare system, healthcare is in a death spiral that will surprise everyone but insiders who grasp the system's unsustainability. To help us outsiders understand the death spiral, I asked a senior MD to guide us […]

U.S. Navy's "Doomsday" Aircraft Vanishes Over Atlantic On Mysterious Mission A Boeing E-6B Mercury operated by the U.S. Navy, one of the service’s airborne nuclear command posts commonly known as the “Doomsday plane,” disappeared from civilian flight-tracking platforms Friday morning while operating over the Atlantic Ocean, according to tracking data, the Daily Mail reports. One of just 16 specialized 'Doomsday planes,' Mercury serves as a command-and-control hub for US Strategic Command, the Secretary of War and the President The aircraft, using callsign AFD FE2, was last […]

National Teachers Union Training Members To Promote LGBT Ideology, Parents Group Says Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The nation’s largest teachers union is planning a workshop on “Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice,” prompting criticism from a conservative national parent group that obtained the training handouts and released them to the public ahead of the session. Third grade literacy instructor Katelyn Battinelli speaks with students at Stark Elementary School in Stamford, Conn., on March 10, 2021. John Moore/Getty Images The National Education […]

Alabama Zoning Commission Rejects Proposal For Muslim School After Town Erupts In Fury A Hoover, Alabama zoning commission unanimously rejected a rezoning request Monday that would have allowed a Muslim K-12 academy to relocate to an office building in the Birmingham suburb, capping a contentious public hearing that packed roughly 170 residents into the room and erupted with heated testimony over concerns of growing Islamification of the area, 1819 News reports. Image: Via 1819 The Islamic Academy of Alabama, which has operated in neighboring Homewood since 1995 serving […]

She Saved Her Life. 7-Eleven Fired Her Authored by John R. Lott Jr. via RealClearPolitics, Stephanie Dilyard is lucky to be alive. Yet last week, 7-Eleven fired the 25-year-old after she used her gun to save her own life. Private companies have every right to set rules for employee behavior, but many corporate policies that require workers to remain passive and comply with criminals’ demands rest on a deeply mistaken view of crime data. “He threatened me,” Dilyard told Fox 25 in Oklahoma City. “[A]nd said he was gonna slice my head off, and that’s when I tried to […]

Chinese Magnet-Makers Find Loopholes To Dodge Beijing’s Rare-Earth Export Controls Chinese rare-earth magnet makers are quietly developing legal workarounds to Beijing’s tightened export rules, aiming to keep sales to Western customers moving even as China’s new licensing regime slows or blocks shipments of restricted materials, according to the Wall Street Journal. After Beijing imposed export controls this spring—part of a broader clash with Washington—magnets containing even trace amounts of dysprosium or terbium began requiring licenses that can take “weeks or […]

Energy Affordability Has Become The Kitchen-Table Issue Of The 2020s Authored by William Murray via RealClearEnergy, A not-so-glowing attribute of American democracy is the ability of voters to act shocked and blame whoever is in charge when things don’t go well. So, it makes twisted sense that, as 2026 approaches, the Trump administration should pay the political price for bad energy policies inherited from the Biden administration and Democratic governors. Years of flat energy demand and relatively stable electricity prices dulled Americans’ understanding of energy […]

Democrat Mayor Asks For Federal Help After Mass Shooting At Child's Birthday Party In a surprising act of political awareness, Democrat Mayor of Stockton, CA, Christina Fugazi, announced her intention this week to ask the federal government for manpower to stop rising crime after a horrific mass shooting at a child's birthday party resulted in the deaths of 4 people and 11 wounded.  Though the investigation is ongoing, officials believe the attack was gang-related.  Suspects remain at large. "We've got approximately 5,000 gang members and 100 gangs in the city of Stockton," […]

The AI Challenge: Palantir, The Pope, And Paul Kingsnorth Authored by Peter Berkowitz via RealClearPolitics, As artificial intelligence extends to every corner of contemporary life, it brings remarkable capabilities and opportunities – along with dangers that strike at the foundations of individual freedom, human dignity, and the common good. Many incline to either extol AI’s blessings or condemn it as a curse. The savvy who learn from experience recognize that like all tools and contrivances, AI can be used for good and bad. Students of history grasp that as with […]

The New York Times Busts WaPo Over Bogus Hit Piece On Hegseth The Washington Post dropped a bombshell last week, claiming Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered a second missile strike on a drug boat in September to make sure survivors were killed. “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. ‘The order was to kill everybody,’ one of them said,” WaPo claimed, relying entirely on anonymous sources.  Hegseth promptly denied the report in a post on X. “As usual, the fake news is delivering […]

'Got Gold' For The Coming Reckoning? Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “China has been understating its gold reserves by possibly a factor of 10. I believe this is the biggest story in world finance. The West is either asleep at the wheel or ignoring it.” – Dominic Frisby The Financial Times reported that China is under-reporting their gold reserves, subversively hiding the fact they have accumulated 10 times as much gold as they have officially reported. The charts and data below from Visual Capitalist are based on “officially” reported […]

Gas Prices Hit Four-Year Low, Forcing Even CNN To Admit Affordability Squeeze Easing President Trump's Operation Affordability has focused on lower energy costs for consumers this year. The administration's aggressive "drill baby, drill" posture has translated into rising domestic supply, sending the national average for gasoline to the brink of the psychologically important $3 level. The latest data from the American Automobile Association shows the national average price for regular gasoline has fallen to a more than four-year low of $3.001 as of Monday. Seasonally, the […]

Besides silver, take a look at this metal.

Copper just joined gold and silver in record territory for the first time in decades — a powerful signal that investors are rotating into real, tangible assets. With supply tightening, central banks ramping up gold purchases, and global PMI data flashing slowdown, hard assets are emerging as the preferred hedge...

Today the price of silver futures traded as high as $59.36 as the price of silver remains in the early stages of a move that will take the price well above $100. And look at what is happening with gold, copper and oil.

Designing the perfect money reveals a simple truth: you can’t escape the Perfect Money Trilemma. Gold, silver, and Bitcoin endure because they choose security and decentralization over scalability—unlike most cryptocurrencies that only appear decentralized. This episode breaks down why real value always circles back to sound, Layer 1 money.

More reports of metals shortages plus a look at the road to $10,000 gold.

Silver touched a record high of $57.86 per ounce Monday, surging nearly 90% year-over-year as physical supply tightens and traders price in a December Fed rate cut. Gold also climbed to a six-week high of $4,241, with major banks including JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs now projecting prices could surpass $5,000...

55-year market veteran, James Turk, spoke with King World News about Friday's Comex shutdown and the wild trading in the silver market after it reopened.

Friday's Comex shutdown has sparked wild stories about a meltdown in the silver market.

Silver’s rally didn’t break — the CME did. As trading halted across major markets, silver kept surging, breaking out above prior highs despite margin hikes. With confidence in fiat eroding and price signals returning, this move mirrors the explosive setup of the late 1970s. Silver may be leading the next...

For more than a century, the London Gold Fixing—now the LBMA Gold Price—has set the benchmark that guides global gold transactions. Today’s transparent, twice-daily electronic auctions reflect real-time supply and demand, shaped by central bank policies, inflation, currency movements, geopolitics, and physical market fundamentals. Understanding these forces helps investors interpret...

Silver is seeing a historic 50-year upside breakout as gold continues its parabolic pattern.

Here is a look at the mega bubble in stocks and the gold bull market.

Is gold truly expensive at $4,000—or is the real price being held down? Mike Maloney and Alan Hibbard reveal the LBMA gold suppression chart, the structural silver deficit, and why both metals may be headed much higher.

The long term price target for silver is a jaw-dropping $370 as the miners prepare to blastoff.  Here is the shocking setup...

This crisis is about to supercharge the gold bull market.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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,...

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.