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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
The Russian social network VK removed the mutual aid section from a diabetes community called “Nyura Sharikova. Sakharny Diabet” at Roskomnadzor’s request, the project’s founder Nyura Sharikova announced on April 21. The independent Russian investigative outlet iStories drew attention to her statement.
Alexander Bastrykin, the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee, has ordered a review of books by children’s author Grigory Oster over content that raises “pedagogical concerns,” the agency’s press service said on April 21.
A Kyiv court has ordered the detention of Mykhailo Drobnytsky, 27, one of two patrol officers who fled from the attacker during the mass shooting on April 18.
A teenager in Perm sustained burns after picking up a device disguised as a bundle of banknotes that detonated when he lifted it off the ground, Perm Krai’s Territorial Security Ministry announced, according to the Russian news agency Interfax on April 21.
Russia’s state-backed messaging app Max has been renamed in app stores, where it now appears as ”Макс” (Maks) on both the App Store and Google Play.
2026.04.18
Before the war in Iran, the biggest risk to maritime shipping in the Persian Guld was the Houthis in Yemen. The Houthis are an Iran-aligned rebel group that attacked, and continue to attack, though on a much lesser scale, freighters in the Red Sea to pressure Israel to stop its military campaign in Gaza.
After the October 2023 Gaza war began, the Houthis declared any Israel-linked, or US/UK-linked ship in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait a target in support of Palestinians.
Continue reading One man, one missile – Richard Mills at Ahead of the Herd.
2026.04.16
Electric Metals (USA) Limited (TSXV:EML, OTCQB:EMUS) has the highest-grade manganese deposit in North America and is potentially poised to emerge as a low-cost producer of 100% domestically sourced, high-purity, battery grade, manganese products (HPMSM) for the electric vehicle battery and energy storage sectors.
Manganese is a key metal in EV batteries/ energy storage due to its prominent role in lithium-ion battery chemistries.
Manganese
Aside from iron, manganese is the most essential mineral in the production of steel.
2026.05.16
On Wednesday, April 15 Torr Metals (TSXV:TMET) provided an exploration update at its 332-square-kilometer Kolos Copper-Gold Project in southern British Columbia, where crews have recently mobilized to site.
At the Bertha Zone, geophysical work continues to advance the company’s understanding of a large, structurally controlled copper-gold system discovered through inaugural Phase I drilling in late 2025.
Phase II drilling will initially focus on the Bertha North target, along strike of the current known extent of a northwest-trending picrite corridor, identified as a strong geochemical and structural concentrator of copper mineralization.
2026.04.15
The global push for energy security and the resurgence of nuclear power are intensifying the hunt for high‑grade uranium in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin. In the eastern Athabasca region, discovery‑stage exploration has reached a fever pitch, where closeness to established high‑grade deposits can turn a single drill result from noteworthy to extraordinary almost overnight.
Cosa Resources
Cosa Resources (TSXV:COSA) (OTCQB:COSAF) is a Canadian uranium exploration company operating in northern Saskatchewan.
By Matt Nagashima, MA Global History – The Collector
By the late 16th Century, the Spanish Empire stretched from the Mediterranean to the Canaries, across the Atlantic to the Americas, past the Pacific all the way to the Philippines. Ever searching for new lands to conquer, the governor of Manila laid out plans to invade Ming China using Spanish Troops, Japanese Mercenaries, and Filipinos. King Philip II considered his designs.
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Continue reading Spain’s Failed Quest to Rule the World Ends in Asia 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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