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Gold’s Share of International Reserves Surges Dramatically
(Joshua D Glawson, Money Metals News Service) The global currency reserve numbers are in for 2025 Q1! The research has been compiled by gold analyst Jan Nieuwenhuijs of Money Metals, who is widely recognized for his deep research on central bank gold reserves and global monetary trends. As of the end of 2024 Q4, the…
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Gold’s Parabolic Run, Silver’s Breakout, and the Fed’s Surrender to Inflation
(Money Metals News Service) In a recent episode of the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey sat down with veteran trader and market analyst Greg Weldon, founder of Weldon Financial, to discuss the accelerating bull market in gold and silver, Federal Reserve policy, global de-dollarization, and what it all means for investors. (Interview Starts Around 7:30…
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Trial for Alleged Would-be Trump Assassin Ryan Routh Starts Next Week
(Headline USA) A man charged with trying to assassinate President Donald Trump last year in South Florida is set to represent himself during a pretrial conference on Tuesday, as final preparations are made for trial. Barring any delays, jury selection is scheduled to begin Sept. 8 in Fort Pierce federal court for the case against Ryan…
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Military Pursues AI Systems to Suppress Online Dissent Abroad
(José Niño, Headline USA) The U.S. military wants artificial intelligence to do what human propagandists cannot: create and spread influence campaigns at internet speed while systematically suppressing opposition voices abroad, according to internal Pentagon documents obtained by The Intercept. The classified wishlist reveals SOCOM’s ambition to deploy “agentic AI or multi-LLM agent systems” that can…
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Secret Service Snipers Didn’t Meet Requalification Requirements in 2024
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The DHS Inspector General has issued a report on the Secret Service’s counter-sniper team, finding that they’re overworked and not properly qualified. The DHS OIG study was commissioned after President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated at his July 13, 2024, campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. In that incident, Secret Service counter-sniper…
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Homeless Man Who Stabbed Woman to Death on Charlotte Train May Not Stand Trial
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Charlotte homeless man Decarlos Brown, who stabbed a 23-year-old female Ukrainian refugee to death on a train on Aug. 20, apparently may not stand trial after a local judge ordered him to undergo a competency examination at a psychiatric hospital. Judge Roy Wiggins signed an order Friday to send Brown to…
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Chinese Networks Use U.S. to Launder Billions for Mexican Cartels
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Chinese networks are laundering billions of dollars in drug cartel cash through the U.S. financial system, according to a new report from the Treasury Department. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network said banks flagged about $312 billion in transactions from suspected Chinese money laundering networks from January 2020 to December 2024.…
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Trump Puts White House Contractor on Blast, Blacklists from Future Projects
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Although the Elon Musk-fronted Department of Government Efficiency has faded into the background, President Donald Trump’s efforts to ensure fiscal responsibility and exacting standards from federal government workers remain in full force—right down to the manual labor. The former Manhattan real-estate mogul reverted back to his project-management days by chewing out…
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‘Worst-Smelling Man in Congress’ Announces His Retirement
(Headline USA) Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York says he will not run for reelection next year, according to an interview published Monday night by The New York Times. Nadler told the Times that watching then-President Joe Biden’s truncated reelection campaign last year “really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party,…
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Cap-Snatching CEO Teaches Kid a Valuable Life Lesson at U.S. Open
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Outrage simmered over on social media Friday as a viral video showed a grown man at the U.S. Open tennis tournament snatching a cap from a young autograph-seeker. NEW: Tennis star Kamil Majchrzak is looking for a young boy who had a hat snatched from him by a grown man at…
