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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 !?)
- Meduza
- DW
- Ahead
A man sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Crocus City Hall attack has died by suicide at a Moscow pretrial detention center, RBC reported, citing the Moscow branch of Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service.
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry rejected any suggestion that Kyiv was behind the discovery of explosives near the TurkStream pipeline in Serbia. Spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said Ukraine had no involvement in the incident and called it a Russian false-flag operation carried out as part of Moscow’s broader interference in Hungary’s elections.
Telegram has begun flagging accounts that use unofficial versions of the app.
A cargo ship carrying wheat sank in the Sea of Azov off the coast of the Kherson region, according to Vladimir Saldo, the Russia-appointed head of the occupied part of the region.
Patriarch Kirill said at an April 4 service in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior that President Vladimir Putin had personally ordered the transfer of the Vladimir and Donskaya icons of the Mother of God to the Russian Orthodox Church.
2026.04.04
Drills could soon be turning at Rackla Metals’ (TSXV:RAK) Lentung (known previously as Lened) tungsten property in the Northwest Territories it acquired by claim staking in 2025.
According to the Vancouver-based company, an extensive historical dataset supports a high-grade tungsten project with district-scale potential to support a planned 10,000m drill program.
Before we get into Rackla’s Union Carbide’s now digitized data set I want to make clear to my readers that while the data set is extensive and, according to Rackla, appears to be of the highest quality it is historical, mostly internal to UC and pre 43-101 reporting requirements.
2026.04.02
Canada’s three northern territories represent ~40% of Canada’s landmass, but less than 0.1% of its population, or approximately 135,000 residents. That’s the size of a small city in southern Canada.
The desolation and far-flung nature of the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut — and we can add sparsely populated northern BC — has always presented huge development challenges.
These include a restricted transportation infrastructure, limited energy resources, and the significant expenses involved in operating within remote Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.
Continue reading Funding the Canadian North – Richard Mills at Ahead of the Herd.
From SciTechDaily
Scientists have taken a detailed new look at what happens when Arctic permafrost begins to thaw, revealing major changes to water flow and carbon movement across northern Alaska. The research, led by geoscientist Michael Rawlins at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, provides one of the most precise views yet of how this rapidly warming region is evolving.
Arctic rivers play an outsized role in Earth’s systems. They carry about 11% of the world’s river water into an ocean that holds only 1% of global ocean volume.
By Paul Johnson & Amy Judd – Global News
The B.C. government is falling short on its own goal to process mineral claims more quickly, according to industry leaders.
Todd Stone, president of the Association for Mineral Exploration, said B.C. has an “abundance of critical minerals, precious metals, (and) rare earth metals that the world needs and the world wants.”
However, Stone says that mining companies are facing excessive government red tape over exploration.
2026.04.01
Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd:
Marc, can you introduce yourself, give us a brief background on what you’ve been doing, what your qualifications are and what’s motivating you?
Marc Blythe – Founder & CEO, Au Gold Corp (TSX.V:AUGC):
Yes, my grandparents met on a gold field in New Zealand in the 1930s in the Depression era and that’s kind of how my family got into the gold mining business.
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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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