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Brits Spied On Paul Thacker, Matt Taibbi According To 'CONFIDENTIAL' Memo Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The DisInformation Chronicle, The British media has been consumed the last week over a scandal involving political operatives working for the British Labour Party who hired a PR firm to investigate seven reporters—one of whom is me. One close advisor to Prime Minister Starmer has resigned, and the British government has launched an investigation to uncover these attacks against the media. A British Labour Party official denied during a phone call that I was a focus of […]

IMF Urges Beijing To Curb Industrial Subsidies As Flood Of Chinese Goods Crushes Global Industrial Bases China's factory overcapacity is the result of Beijing's long-running industrial policies. Years of state support have built more factory capacity than domestic demand can absorb in the world's second-largest economy, flooding global markets with low-priced goods, from EVs to TVs. The end result is a growing risk of hollowing out industrial bases worldwide, and our latest example this week has washed up on Europe's shores in the form of EVs. China has absolutely killed the […]

Ex-CIA Analyst Peels Back The US Information Operation In Iran Authored by former CIA officer Larry Johnson As part of the US campaign to engineer a regime change in Iran, the US military and intelligence community are using Operational Preparation of the Environment aka OPE. OPE is defined in joint publications (e.g., JP 3-05 Special Operations) as non-intelligence activities conducted prior to or in preparation for potential military operations to set conditions for success. It encompasses shaping the operational environment through intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, […]

California Ranks Worst State For Air Quality, Wyoming Cleanest Wyoming’s air contains less than half the particle pollution found in California. Across the country, fine particle pollution levels range from just over 4 µg/m³ to nearly 12 µg/m³, a gap shaped by wildfire exposure, population density, and industrial activity. This map, via Visual Capitalist's DorothY Neufeld, ranks all 50 states by average particle pollution, based on EPA data from the America’s Health Rankings 2025 report. A Breakdown of States Ranked by Air Quality For the analysis, states were […]

How Bhattacharya's NIH Is Rethinking China, DEI, And High‑Risk Labs Authored by Jeff Louderback, Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), For decades, scientists have looked at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as an agency that publishes papers, according to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, in Washington, on Feb. 8, 2026. Irene Luo/The Epoch Times Under President Donald Trump’s second term, the emphasis for NIH funding has shifted to “provable, testable hypotheses, not ideological narratives,” he […]

Tesla Scores FCC Waiver For Wireless Cybercab Charging System On Wednesday, Tesla's first Cybercab officially rolled off the production line in Texas. The Model Y robotaxi is a two-passenger, self-driving EV with no steering wheel or pedals, though it will have a human "safety monitor" in most cases.  Congratulations to the Tesla team on making the first production Cybercab! https://t.co/TFSVQcbME5 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2026 What's more, Musk confirmed that they will cost under $30,000 - something he was challenged to do by YouTuber Marques Brownlee, who […]

Amid Minnesota Fraud Scandal, Legitimate Autism Centers Face Closure Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Minnesota autism center for adults and children, which has been operating for more than 20 years, is facing closure in the wake of the massive fraud scandal in the state that dates back more than a decade and involves more than $9 billion of U.S. taxpayer money. The Holland Center in Minnetonka, Minn., on Feb. 11, 2026. Larson told a House subcommittee hearing on Jan. 21 that her center and numerous others in Minnesota are facing collapse after […]

Do Democrat Cities And States Love Rolling In Their Own Filth? Were Democrats raised in a barn?  It's far worse - they were raised in places like San Francisco where sanitation standards are not far from street poop capitals like India. There's just something about left wing government that attracts a stench.  Maybe it's the laziness and the entitlement of socialism.  Maybe it's the inevitable economic malaise beating people down until they no longer care about the state of their surroundings.  Maybe leftists simply revel in decay, like pigs in their own filth.   Examples […]

Trump Orders Release Of All Files Related To UFOs & Aliens Update (2020ET): President Trump has just issued a statement via his social media feed that he will order the release of any and all files related to UFOs and aliens... "Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information […]

US Investigating Portland Public Schools For Racial Discrimination Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Federal officials are investigating Portland Public Schools in Oregon for alleged racial discrimination in the district’s Center for Black Student Excellence (CBSE) program, the U.S. Department of Education stated on Feb. 17. The U.S. Department of Education building in Washington on April 28, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times “CBSE’s guiding principles pledge to ‘center Blackness unapologetically’ by offering black students […]

Watch: Iran, Russia, China Joint Drills Kick Off In Crowded Waters As NOTAM Issued The previously reported Iran-Russia-China joint naval drills have kicked off Thursday in Iran's increasingly crowded southern waters, as the United States continues expanding its military presence in the Arabian Sea. Iranian Navy Rear Admiral Hassan Maqsudlu has made it clear that part of the purpose of the exercise is to "prevent any unilateral action in the region" - a clear challenge to Washington and the Trump-ordered ongoing Pentagon build-up of aerial and naval assets in the region. Iranian […]

Disaster On The Potomac: What Role DEI Played In America's Worst Sewage Spill Via American Greatness, More than 240 million gallons of raw sewage has spilled into the Potomac River since a pipe burst last month, and the lackluster response of the DC Water Board is raising questions about the competency of those in charge. Dr. Unique Morris-Hughes was appointed as Chair of the DC Water Board by the Democratic Mayor of Washington D.C. Muriel Bowser, despite lacking expertise in wastewater management or engineering. Though Morris-Hughes has an extensive background in […]

Boasberg Rubber-Stamps DOJ Request To Keep FBI-Twitter Payments Secret When the Twitter files hit in December of 2022, they revealed that the Biden administration had paid Twitter at least $3.4 million between October 2019 and February 2021 to reimburse the pre-Musk, left-leaning social media giant for a flood of requests.  During this period, the Biden DOJ was going after vaccine skeptics, lab-leak proponents, 2020 election 'deniers,' Catholic parents, Hunter Biden laptop / Burisma content, and conservative news outlets. We also learned that the FBI's Elvis Chan and crew […]

Hawaii Bills Would Allow Gov't To Quarantine People, Enter Property, Seize Firearms, & Suspend Laws Authored by Jon Fleetwood, The Hawaii Legislature is advancing companion legislation that would formally codify sweeping emergency powers for the governor and county officials—including authority to quarantine individuals, enter private property without consent, suspend laws, and seize control of infrastructure—under the justification of preparing for future disasters and disease outbreaks. House Bill 2236 and Senate Bill 2151, both titled “Relating to Emergency […]

Done With Winter? Not So Fast As Weekend Snowstorm Risk Rises For US East Meteorologists on X are posting new weather models showing a setup for a potentially serious winter storm threat that could blanket parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast with wintry precipitation from Sunday into Monday. The elevated risk of a major snow threat is notable because the peak of Northern Hemisphere winter in the Lower 48 has already passed and temperatures have been trending higher. A major storm threat from Sunday into Monday could bring significant winter precipitation from Washington, […]

Small Businesses Compete... Why Can't Credit Card Companies? Authored by Adam Temple via RealClearPolitics, Families aren’t the only ones who’ve been struggling with affordability for years. So have the small businesses that power the American economy and create the majority of new jobs. There’s no shortage of commonsense ideas to give job creators relief, but President Trump just highlighted one of the most important: Stop credit-card companies from ripping off Main Street. This month, the president announced his support for the Credit Card Competition Act. At its […]

Trump's War Room Assesses The Midterms: It's The Economy, Stupid The 2026 midterms are (as always) shaping up to be the most consequential off-year election in a generation, and the people closest to Donald Trump know it.  If Republicans lose the House or Senate, Trump’s second-term agenda will be stopped dead in its tracks. That reality brought Trump administration officials, pollsters, and House Republicans together Tuesday night on Capitol Hill for a closed-door strategy session with one goal: don't blow it. Journalist Mark Halperin posted the details on X, and what […]

Medical Groups Sue FTC Over Probe Into Gender Dysphoria Treatments Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Two medical groups on Feb. 17 sued the federal government over its probe into the organizations’ recommendations for children with gender dysphoria, or the belief that they are a different gender. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in Washington on Aug. 6, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Endocrine Society said in separate lawsuits filed in federal court in the District of Columbia that the Federal […]

When markets turn volatile, the difference between paper gold vs physical gold becomes critical. While ETFs, futures, and unallocated accounts offer convenient price exposure inside the financial system, physical gold provides direct ownership outside of it. Understanding counterparty risk, margin-driven volatility, and ownership structure helps investors choose the approach that...

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul Kills Plan To Allow Robotaxi Operations Outside NYC New York Governor Kathy Hochul has withdrawn a proposal that would allow commercial robotaxi pilot operations outside New York City limits without a human safety operator in the vehicle. The decision was first reported by Bloomberg News earlier Thursday and is a major setback for Waymo as it attempts a rapid US expansion this year. Bloomberg reported: The proposal, which Hochul had included in a policy preview she presented last month, would have allowed autonomous-vehicle companies such as Waymo to […]

Why Exactly Did They Destroy The Border? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Why would any president destroy the U.S. southern border? The Left typically “pounces” on anyone daring to suggest that the Biden administration had green-lighted illegal immigration to gain new constituents for agendas that otherwise were without broad public support. The Left smears critics of open borders as racist conspiracists spreading the “Great Replacement Theory.” Yet for years, Democrats and leftists themselves had written triumphalist books with titles […]

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Just When You Thought Obama's Tower Of Doom Couldn't Get Any More Ugly... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Barack Obama’s infamous Presidential Center in Chicago, already slammed as a dystopian “prison-like” monstrosity, has just received a bizarre new update that’s ignited widespread mockery online. The addition of disjointed words from one of Obama’s speeches has been dubbed “headache-inducing,” amplifying the backlash against this $830 million behemoth that’s overrun budgets, displaced locals, and turned a public park into a narcissistic […]

Canada Announces Plan To Recruit Foreign Soldiers For Fast Track Immigration It's a common theme throughout history - When governments go authoritarian, they often hire foreign soldiers in order to better control their respective populations or wage war on their neighbors.  The strategy is being implemented across Europe currently; with many nations taking in millions of third world migrants from Muslim nations and using targeted marketing to recruit them as police and military.  Not all mass immigration is about rigging elections in favor of socialists.  It's sometimes […]

Watch: GOP Releases Full Les Wexner Epstein Deposition The next day... The House Oversight Committee has released the full 5-hour deposition with Wexner, where he made a ton of hilarious faces and couldn't recall lots of things.  🚨 BREAKING: The House Oversight Committee is releasing the FULL deposition video of Les Wexner from our Epstein investigation. No spin. The American people deserve to see the testimony for themselves—transparency matters. Link to full deposition below 👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/TeJ50JAFnl — Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) February 19, […]

Ethereum Foundation Lists 'Quantum Readiness' As 2026 Priority Authored by Ciaran Lyons via CoinTelegraph.com, The Ethereum Foundation has announced it is targeting faster transactions, smarter wallets, better cross-chain interoperability, and quantum-resistant security as its “protocol priorities” in 2026. In a statement published on Wednesday, the Ethereum Foundation outlined several goals, including continuing to scale the gas limit — the maximum amount of computational work a block can handle — “toward and beyond” 100 million, a major topic of discussion […]

California Planning To Sue Trump Admin Over Revised Child Vaccine Guidelines Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), California Attorney General Rob Bonta said on Feb. 17 that the state plans to take legal action against the Trump administration over the recent modifications to the childhood vaccine schedule. A man holds his 14-month-old son while he gets the MMR vaccine at a clinic in Lubbock, Texas, on March 1, 2025. Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Jan. 5, with backing from Health Secretary Robert F. […]

Gold has officially posted a weekly all-time high above $5,000, signaling sustained momentum rather than short-term volatility. History shows that clusters of record weekly closes often occur during the strongest phases of a bull market. From the 1970s surge to today’s extended streak, past cycles suggest the most explosive gains...

The U.S. just added $1 trillion to the national debt this fiscal year — and the Fed can't agree on what to do next. From oil shocks to mining windfalls, here's what today's headlines mean for gold investors.

Friday's trading could be absolutely wild!

Here is a fascinating report that was just released illustrating the carnage from AI in global equity markets.

Selling gold and silver safely? Understanding where and how to sell is just as important as knowing when. This complete sellback guide explains your options, how live buyback pricing works, and how to ensure secure handling and fast payment whether your metals are stored at home or in a vault.

Gold is rebounding as the price of oil surges strongly. February 18 (King World News) – Email from King World News reader Robert E:  For some years I’ve followed king

Gold price support levels 2026 are holding after January’s 17% correction, with buyers defending the $4,600 zone. Silver remains volatile near resistance, while Washington’s new critical minerals price floor policy reinforces the strategic importance of hard assets.

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Retail investors just poured a record $48 billion into U.S. stocks in 21 days — at all-time highs. History shows similar surges in optimism often occur near major market peaks, including 1999 and 2007. With household equity allocations at historic extremes, the bigger question isn’t just how high stocks can...

Gold dipped below $5,000 as revised jobs data raised fresh concerns about economic momentum. Goldman says this isn’t a commodity supercycle, yet some analysts see gold heading toward $6,000 in 2026. Meanwhile, Sweden reopens its euro debate as the global order shifts.

We could finally be seeing the end of derivatives in the gold market.

Margin hikes can dramatically increase gold and silver volatility — not because fundamentals change, but because leveraged traders are forced to unwind positions. When exchanges like the CME raise margin requirements, cascading liquidations can accelerate corrections and intensify price swings. Understanding how leverage works in futures markets — and how...

Hedge fund bullish bets on gold have collapsed!

Today Nomi Prins, who has given keynote speeches to the World Bank, IMF and Federal Reserve, predicted that despite the recent volatility, the price of silver will hit $180 by the end of 2026.

Today one of the greats in the business told King World News that COMEX must immediately move to radically reprice silver higher.

Discover how to strategically balance gold and silver in your investment portfolio. This comprehensive guide analyzes the gold-to-silver ratio, historical performance data, and risk-reward profiles to help smart investors optimize their precious metals allocation. Learn specific allocation strategies for conservative, moderate, and aggressive portfolios while understanding how industrial demand, inflation...

Here is why gold and silver are rallying after Thursday's takedown.

Gold steadies near $5,000 as inflation complicates the Fed’s next move. China’s retail demand surges, volatility rises, and miners expand exploration. Markets may be underestimating policy risk as rate-cut hopes face renewed pressure.

CME’s margin requirements silver hike played a central role in the dramatic collapse from $120 to the $70s in early 2026. After a historic rally fueled by leverage and speculation, the exchange raised margins from 15% to 18%, forcing traders to post more capital or liquidate positions. The result: cascading...

Markets brace for U.S. CPI data as gold reacts to strong jobs numbers, credit card debt hits a record $1.28 trillion, copper extends its rally, and new coal policy reshapes the energy outlook. Here’s what it means for inflation, rates, and metals.

Is a COMEX Silver Default in March really looming? With 400 million ounces of open interest and only 100 million ounces registered, headlines suggest a breaking point. But the math behind the panic misunderstands how futures delivery actually works. Here’s what investors need to know about open interest, delivery mechanics,...

The January jobs report showed stronger hiring, but sharp downward revisions reveal slowing momentum beneath the surface. As markets reassess rate-cut expectations, gold prices remain steady despite mixed economic signals.

Are gold and silver taxed differently? Many investors assume so — but the IRS treats them the same. Learn how gold and silver are taxed, what the collectibles classification means, how state sales taxes differ, and how IRAs can change the tax picture.

Daily News Nuggets | Today’s top stories for gold and silver investors  February 10th, 2026 | Brandon Sauerwein, Editor  Safe Haven Demand Powers Precious Metals Rally  Gold has climbed back above $5,000 an ounce, extending an extraordinary rally that has pushed prices to record levels. The move follows a highly volatile stretch that included the metal’s largest weekly sell-off in decades,...

Gold remains steady above $5,000 as the dollar weakens and investors position defensively ahead of crucial inflation and jobs data. Hedge funds are shorting U.S. stocks at record levels while China marks its 15th consecutive month of gold purchases—signaling a strategic shift in how markets view risk.

Liquidity isn't just about whether you can sell—it's about how fast, how cleanly, and at what cost. Gold and silver both trade globally, but they don't behave the same way when markets are stressed or timing matters. Gold maintains tight spreads and deep buyer networks even under pressure, while silver's...

Silver’s violent swings and rising margin requirements are rippling through precious metals markets. Asian gold demand is cooling short term, but analysts remain bullish on gold’s long-term outlook amid rising global risks.

Silver’s violent price swings aren’t anomalies or conspiracies — they’re structural. This breakdown explains why silver is so volatile, from thin investable markets and rigid supply to leverage, futures trading, and feedback loops that amplify every move.

Most investors compare gold and silver by watching price charts—but that's a mistake. The real differences don't show up on a screen; they show up after you own them. Gold concentrates massive value into a small, portable form. Silver spreads that same value across weight, volume, and bulk. Understanding gold...

Markets are shifting into risk-off mode. Silver and crypto slide as leverage unwinds, layoffs surge, and uncertainty grows. Gold’s relative stability highlights its role when investors prioritize resilience over speculation.

Daily News Nuggets | Today’s top stories for gold and silver investors  February 4th, 2026 | Brandon Sauerwein, Editor  Gold Over $5,000, Silver Surges After Deep Sell-Off  Gold futures reclaimed the $5,000/oz mark Wednesday, rebounding after last week’s historic plunge. Prices rose about 3% to roughly $5,070/oz, while silver surged 8–10% toward the $90/oz level. The bounce followed one of the sharpest precious-metals sell-offs in...

Silver’s wild price swings aren’t a sign the market is broken. They’re a hallmark of how silver reprices during major shifts. Understanding silver price volatility can help investors avoid panic and stay positioned for what comes next.

Gold climbed 6.2% and silver surged 10% Tuesday as precious metals rebounded from their worst selloff in decades. Mining stocks rallied alongside the comeback. Meanwhile, Trump unveiled a $12 billion mineral reserve to counter China and slashed India tariffs to 18%—though key details remain missing.