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Perhaps ironically, one of the most famous 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse paintings is by a Russian:
- Pestilence (on a White Horse -> COVID !?)
- War (on a Red Horse -> PUTIN !?)
- Famine (on a Black Horse -> HYPERINFLATION !?)
- Death (on a Pale Horse -> TOO LATE !?)
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Russian authorities have arrested a senior Rosatom executive on charges of financing the Ukrainian military. On Friday, federal agents detained Mikhail Shcherbak, the director of capital construction at Atomstroyexport, which manages Rosatom’s nuclear engineering division. Shcherbak has worked in the Russian nuclear construction sector for nearly two decades, participating in projects in Belarus and Iran, according to the independent outlet Agentstvo.
Adam Kadyrov, the 18-year-old son of the head of Chechnya, has been hospitalized in critical condition following a traffic collision in Grozny, the Chechen opposition Telegram channel Niyso and RFE/RL journalists reported on January 16. Niyso reported that Adam is unconscious, undergoing resuscitation, and being prepared for emergency transport to Moscow.
Like our earlier reports on the combat situation in Ukraine, this article reviews recent battlefield developments based on open-source information. Meduza has condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the outset, and our military analyses reflect our commitment to objective reporting on a war we firmly oppose.
The last two weeks have brought not one but two mysteries surrounding Russian men in Cyprus. The first involved Vladislav Baumgertner, the former CEO of a major potash producer, who went missing after leaving for a rock climbing trip on January 7. Then, a day later, diplomat Anton Panov died in a reported suicide in the Russian Embassy in Nicosia. According to subsequent media reports, he was working for Russian intelligence. It’s unclear whether the incidents are connected — or if they have to do with a separate ongoing Cypriot political scandal. Here’s what we know.
Moldova’s political news cycle this week was dominated by comments from President Maia Sandu about how she would vote in a hypothetical referendum on unification with Romania. Meduza explains the context behind Sandu’s comments, how Moldovan and Romanian politicians have responded, and whether her statement is likely to have concrete political consequences.
2026.01.18
The Arab Spring refers to a series of anti-government protests, uprisings and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. Largely a response to corruption and economic stagnation, the Arab Spring started over a shortage of bread.
When grain prices spiked in 2007, bread prices in Egypt rose 37%. Chronic unemployment meant more people depended on subsidized bread, but the government didn’t make any more available.
Continue reading American Spring – Richard Mills at Ahead of the Herd.
2026.01.16
Mercado Minera’s’ (CSE:MERC) properties, Copalito and Zamora, are located within the Western Mexico Silver Belt in Sinaloa state, Mexico. The properties are near power, roads, infrastructure and local workforces in a mining-friendly jurisdiction. This emerging belt of the prolific Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range, which hosts existing mines and recent discoveries, includes:
Vizsla Silver’s (TSX:VZLA) Panuco District First Majestic Silver’s (TSX:AG) San Dimas Pan American Silver’s (TSX:PAAS) Alamo DoradoCopalito Project
According to Mercado, their flagship Copalito Project presents a district-scale opportunity with known and drilled silver — gold-low-sulfidation vein mineralization that is open for expansion.
By Max Graham – Anchorage Daily News
A buildup of hazardous gas at Alaska’s Red Dog mine in recent weeks forced the huge zinc and lead operation to fit workers with respirators and ramp up air monitoring at the mine and in nearby villages.
Since November, reactive ore and waste rock at the remote Northwest Alaska mine has been generating higher-than-usual amounts of sulfur dioxide — a colorless gas that, in high enough concentrations, can cause health problems.
From SciTechDaily
Researchers at the University of Southampton have identified a new strategy that could strengthen how the immune system responds to cancer.
Reporting their findings in Nature Communications, the scientists describe the use of specially engineered antibodies designed to more effectively switch on T cells that are capable of destroying cancer cells.
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By Andjela Radmilac – CryptoSlate
BlackRock is telling clients to stop looking at artificial intelligence as software and start treating it as energy.
In its 2026 Global Outlook, the BlackRock Investment Institute argued that the AI buildout is pushing against physical limits and highlighted electricity as the constraint investors are underpricing.
The report’s headline-grabber is its warning that AI-driven data centers could consume as much as 24% of US electricity by 2030, a scale that would reorder everything from utility capex to industrial siting.
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Pulled conclusions from pooled data compilations
Using some of the world’s largest companies by market cap & some of the most quoted indices + two most sung alternatives: data for this millennia where available
- At 134x, Apple is the absolute stock price growth winner; with Amazon at 45x and Google at 32x
- Despite the lack of interest or dividends, gold at 6.6x looks good compared to any other stock or index!
- Barrick Gold on the other hand seems to be poorly correlated to anything including the gold metal itself!?
- But Barrick is the only stock producing negative correlations with most of the indices including a relatively high -0.77 with the Euronext100 index
- If one wast trying to get something totally uncorrelated on purpose- it would be hard to beat: gold and the Euronext100 index at -0.03; or Barrick and the Hang Seng index at 0.04; or gold and Merck at 0.16; or BTC and the FTSE index at 0.19
- Correlation against a basket of indices & alternatives is best in Disney and Google (0.81-0.82), albeit at different growth multiples
- If an average historical P/E is somewhere in the 20x range, then the current S&P quoted average which is in high 30s is as warned high, BUT: only Amazon and Visa seem to be widely out of range (justified by growth in online transactions?), with many below current & historical averages
- In the current world of no interest & no inflation, maybe the higher P/E averages are justified..? For how long, that is a different question…
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