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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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Donald Trump’s push for U.S. control of Greenland has triggered a fresh round of instructions from the Kremlin on how Russian state media should frame current events. According to media guidelines obtained by Meduza, state-run and pro-government outlets were told to present the standoff as evidence of a weakening West, a fractured NATO, and an American president borrowing from Vladimir Putin’s playbook. And despite Putin’s public insistence that the Greenland dispute doesn’t concern Russia, the guidelines call for wall-to-wall coverage of the issue. Meduza’s Andrey Pertsev explains how the Kremlin is turning Trump’s Greenland gambit into a propaganda opportunity.
For two weeks now, Russia’s Belgorod region has been grappling with an energy crisis so intense that even Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov has called it “catastrophic.” After a Ukrainian attack on January 8, approximately 600,000 people were left without electricity, and repairs to the power grid are ongoing. Yet in most local media, news of the blackout is buried under reports about minor, unrelated events. The only Belgorod-based outlet offering uncensored coverage of the full-scale war and its consequences in the region is Pepel (“Ash”), a Telegram channel launched in fall 2022 that now has more than 107,000 followers.
U.S. President Donald Trump held a signing ceremony on Thursday for the founding charter of the “Board of Peace,” a new international body intended to help resolve global conflicts. Meduza explains what we know about the new initiative and what Ukraine and Russia have said about whether they will join it.
Russia’s military presence in Syria may be facing another drawdown. Days after bringing Kurdish-held territory under government control, Damascus is reportedly preparing to ask Russian forces to withdraw from the Qamishli airfield there. To understand what role the Qamishli airfield has played in Russia’s Syria policy — and why that role may now be exhausted — we spoke with an expert from Meduza’s Razbor (“Explainers”) team.
A trilateral meeting involving U.S., Ukrainian, and Russian delegations will be held in the United Arab Emirates, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said while answering questions after his appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday.
2026.01.23
Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd:
We’re going to the Salta province in Argentina, 80 kilometers northwest of the city of Salta, where mapping has outlined an oxide gold stockwork mineralized trend. Why don’t you tell us about it and getting boots back on the ground?
David Hottman, CEO, Orestone Mining:
The Francisco property was acquired by Orestone in 2025, and it hosts quite an exciting target that represents an opportunity to discover and outline an oxide open-pit gold-silver deposit.
Continue reading Under the Spotlight – David Hottman CEO Orestone Mining at Ahead of the Herd.
2026.01.23
Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd:
Malcolm, tell us how you developed this Bertha North target. What led you up there?
Malcolm Dorsey, CEO, Torr Metals:
What led me up into this area was, number one, from a broader view, there’s a really strong northwest-trending magnetic anomaly in that area.
And right on the margins of it was this historical soil anomaly that was already 800 by 500 meters in dimension, good strongly anomalous values within it of copper and gold.
Continue reading Under the Spotlight Part II – Malcolm Dorsey CEO Torr Metals at Ahead of the Herd.
2026.01.22
Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd:
It’s been six weeks since our last news release, December 4th. We have talked since then, but I want to go back to that news release because you just put out news.
We had our first ever drilling program on the Bertha IP chargeability target. And it was designed to evaluate the strike, down dip, and down plunge continuity of the Bertha supergene system.
Continue reading Under the Spotlight Part I – Malcolm Dorsey, CEO Torr Metals at Ahead of the Herd.
2026.01.21
Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd:
Simon, Grad had a geochemical signature typical of a Reduced Intrusion-Related Gold System, a RIRGS. But in the end, the drill results disappointed.
You just put out a report, and you give us a pretty complete rundown on what you think happened.
Can you just give us the nitty gritty of it, kind of explain what happened at Grad?
Continue reading Under the Spotlight – Simon Ridgway CEO Rackla Metals at Ahead of the Herd.
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.
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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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