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[Barchart @Barchart]

U.S. M2 Money Supply surpasses $23 Trillion for the first time in history 📈 🥳 🍾

[Dr. Potassium @potassium_phd]

10-2 Yield Curve 🏛️ — huge crash in the curve this morning, down to 0.283%.

Major recession indicator 🚨🚨🚨

Plan accordingly 🫡

[TheApeOfGoldStreet @TheApeOfGoldST]

Gold Miners Bullish Percent Index dropped to #ZERO

Lowest level in 10 years. Funny.

[Kirkland Lake Discoveries @KLDC_gold]

Mirado Fault Zone Shows Potential as a Key Gold Control ✨

A standout result from KLM26-006 confirms the Mirado Fault Zone is mineralized and may be a major control on #gold deposition across the Mirado Project.

🔩 The fault zone returned 2.46 g/t Au over 14.7 m, including 12.52 g/t Au over 1.8 m and 6.73 g/t Au over 1.8 m, accompanied by intense quartz-carbonate veining, strong alteration, and localized semi-massive sulphides.

🙌 With limited historical drilling of this important structure, these results highlight the potential for additional mineralized shoots along strike and at depth, strengthening KLDC’s evolving geological model and future exploration targets.

👉 https://t.co/mqIgFAkeQZ

$KLDC.v $KLKLF #GoldMining #Mining

[Eric Yeung 👍🚀🌕 @KingKong9888]

What is the United States truly afraid of right now? It’s not missiles or aircraft carriers.

It’s the 12 trump cards China is quietly discarding. Today, I’m going to break down exactly how China has been dismantling Western technological dominance step by step. Each one of these cards carries enough weight to keep the West up at night.

1. China ditched GPS. Its BeiDou navigation system now delivers centimeter-level precision, with over 100 million global users. Even Middle Eastern oil tycoons are abandoning GPS for BeiDou. Can you believe it? America’s all-seeing eye over the world has just gone blind.

2. China ditched Boeing. The C919 has already racked up over 1,200 orders, wiping out $80 billion from Boeing’s value in a single year. What used to be “better to buy than to build” has flipped — now buying Chinese planes feels like the smarter choice. Boeing was caught completely off guard

3. China ditched American chips. Yangtze Memory’s solid-state drives have slashed international prices in half. After the return of Kirin chips, Qualcomm panicked and cut prices by 30% overnight. The very thing they once used to choke China has become its own lethal weapon.

4. China ditched Windows. UnionTech UOS has surpassed 5 million installations, with national ministries and major banks fully switching over. Microsoft’s CEO is losing sleep, but there’s nothing they can do about it.

5. China ditched Western medical equipment. Shanghai United Imaging’s CT scanners are now entering clinics in the US and Europe. Germany’s Siemens had to slash prices on similar models by 40%. Chinese medical tech has planted its flag firmly on Western soil.

6. China ditched foreign fuel engines. BYD’s blade batteries left Toyota executives tearing down cars on the spot to study them. Tesla lost $1.2 trillion in market value in just three months. The era of gasoline cars is ending — and in the new energy world, China sets the rules.

7. China ditched Oracle databases. Ant Group’s OceanBase has shattered world performance records. Bank transaction systems no longer have to bow to American pressure. This is real technological sovereignty.

8. China ditched Western industrial software. Zhongwang CAD forced France’s Dassault to beg for mercy with price cuts. Sany Heavy Industry used domestic software to design the world’s largest tunnel boring machine. China has ripped a massive hole in the West’s monopoly on industrial software.

9. China ditched dollar settlement. The RMB cross-border payment system now covers 180 countries and regions. Saudi Arabia is now selling oil in RMB. The first major crack in American hegemony was torn open by China.

10. China ditched Western genetically modified seeds. Yuan Longping’s team developed salt-tolerant rice yielding over 1,000 jin per mu. China’s bowls now hold Chinese grain. Monsanto’s seed patents have lost their power, and China has taken full control of its food security.

11. China ditched American social media. Xiaohongshu (RedNote) has grabbed 30 million American users. Zuckerberg is watching helplessly as his daily active users plummet while Chinese social apps explode across the ocean.

12. Finally, China ditched Western military equipment. The Fujian aircraft carrier’s electromagnetic catapult surpasses America’s Ford-class, and DF missiles have forced carriers to keep their distance. The U.S. military-industrial complex held emergency meetings overnight.

⭕️This isn’t just technological progress. These are twelve tolls of the bell signaling the decline of Western hegemony.

🔶Written by professor Yang Fan, born in 1951 in Beijing, is a professor of economics and doctoral supervisor at China University of Political Science and Law. He serves as Chairman of the Academic Committee of the Business School and was a visiting scholar at Peking University’s China Center for Economic Research. He is also the Executive Director of the Economic Research Association at the National Defense University.

[Mining Stocks @miningstocks]

🚨Gold has massive upside ahead — and inflation isn’t going away.

Macro expert Stephanie Pomboy @spomboy breaks down why the Fed’s old tools are broken with @TFMetals , why Yield Curve Control is likely coming, and why the end of globalization is pushing inflation and rates higher for years.

Hard assets are about to matter more than ever.

@SprottMoney

Watch here 👇

https://t.co/OhkscsGm7l #Silver #Inflation #Fed

[Kirkland Lake Discoveries @KLDC_gold]

This image, featured in our May 4 news release, showcases drill core from hole KLM26-004 within the South Zone ⛏️

📈 Recent drilling indicates potential lateral continuity, with KLM26-004 (~40 m from KLM26-002) intersecting higher-grade intervals within a broader mineralized system.

📋 Key observations from the core (visual observations only):
A – 54.80 m to 63.37 m: Broad mineralization, including a higher-grade interval within agglomerate
B – 58.62 m to 59.00 m: Multiple occurrences of visible gold
C – Reverse side of core at 58.81 m with visible gold
D – Close-up at 58.86 m showing visible gold

💡 These observations are consistent with previously reported assay results and support the interpretation of structurally controlled mineralization within the South Zone. Assays are required to determine grade and continuity.

For full details, including assay data and context, refer to the complete news release:
👉 https://t.co/A9s65NEaMm

$KLDC.v $KLKLF @DtGoldmesse #GoldMining #Mining

[Lex Corp News Letter @LexCorporation]

I shared this video while back comparing Filo Del Sol to what $MOG.v @mogotesmetals My interest has always been the target to the south 1.2km away. I bought in at .22c after getting stopped at .19c.
#copper #gold #silver #StocksToBuy #StocksToWatch #StocksInFocus #StockMarket 👇

[Karel Mercx @KarelMercx]

Silver backing futures keeps falling and is now down to 86.3M oz. Today I added silver lease rates and swap rates to the table.

Key takeaway from Wednesday's close: there is enough silver for those who want delivery in March and April, but the most important point remains that not a single gram of silver seems able to find its way to COMEX.

Today I added two extra columns.

The first is the lease rate. Under normal circumstances, 1-month silver lease rates trade around 0%. Sometimes slightly above zero if the lender wants to earn something, sometimes slightly below zero if someone has too much inventory. Anything above 0.5% already signals stress.

The average lease rate was +0.04% in 2023 and -0.18% in 2024. Today it stands at +1.6%.

The second is the swap rate. A lease means you lend out silver and receive a fee. A swap means you temporarily exchange your silver for cash. Cash earns interest and does not require storage or insurance, while silver does. In practice, a silver swap is mainly a way to temporarily turn silver into cash, so the swap rate normally tracks money market rates.

Under normal conditions, the silver swap trades slightly above the cash rate, because the owner of the silver also wants to earn a return. After subtracting the interest rate, the result should therefore be slightly positive.

But right now the swap is deeply negative. That means market participants are willing to pay to secure access to physical silver today, while only returning that silver to its rightful owner a year from now.

On paper, this looks like free arbitrage: buy silver today, do a swap, and deliver silver back in a year. The fact that this is not happening at scale tells you exactly where the stress is: the market does not trust that physical silver will be easy to source one year from now.

In other words, the problem is not money. The problem is certainty of delivery.

That is a very strong signal of real stress and real scarcity in the physical silver market.

The average swap rate was +0.27% in 2023 and -0.39% in 2024. Today it is -2.8%.

Are you finding these daily silver updates useful? Your feedback is always very welcome.

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Date: Trading day of the snapshot.

Registered Silver (oz): Silver in COMEX vaults that is warrant-issued and available for delivery against futures.

March Open Interest (oz): Open interest in the March contract converted to ounces (contracts × 5,000 oz).

Implied Deficit (oz): March open interest (oz) minus registered silver (oz).

Daily OI Reduction (oz): The day-over-day decline in March open interest (in ounces).

Days to Clear Deficit: Implied deficit divided by Daily OI Reduction. A rough estimate of how many trading days it would take for the deficit to disappear if the current roll pace continues.

Deficit Clears By: The calendar date implied by “Days to Clear Deficit” (projected forward from the current date).

March Future: Settlement/close price of the March silver futures contract.

May Future: Settlement/close price of the May silver futures contract.

March–May Spread: March price minus May price.

SOFR carry %: The annualized financing rate (SOFR) used to estimate the interest component of carry between March and May.

Storage & Insurance: Estimated storage + insurance cost for holding silver from March to May, expressed in $ per oz.

Carry Adjusted Basis May Future ($): Total estimated carry cost between March and May (financing + storage/insurance), expressed in $ per oz.

Backwardation / Contango: A carry-adjusted signal. It compares the March–May spread to total carry. If this flips from contango to backwardation, the market is effectively saying: “I don’t care what the paper price is. I need physical silver. And I need it now.”

[GP Q @argosaki]

BREASTMILK
She thought she was studying milk.
What she uncovered was a conversation.

In 2008, evolutionary anthropologist Katie Hinde was working in a primate research lab in California, analyzing breast milk from rhesus macaque mothers. She had hundreds of samples and thousands of data points. Everything looked ordinary—until one pattern refused to go away.

Mothers raising sons produced milk richer in fat and protein.
Mothers raising daughters produced a larger volume with different nutrient balances.

It was consistent. Repeatable. And deeply uncomfortable for the scientific consensus.

Colleagues suggested error. Noise. Statistical coincidence.
But Katie trusted the data.

And the data pointed to a radical idea.

Milk is not just nutrition.
It is information.

For decades, biology treated breast milk as simple fuel. Calories in. Growth out. But if milk were only calories, why would it change depending on the sex of the baby?

Katie kept digging.

Across more than 250 mothers and over 700 sampling events, the story grew more complex. Younger, first-time mothers produced milk with fewer calories but significantly higher levels of cortisol—the stress hormone.

The babies who drank it grew faster.
They were also more alert, more cautious, more anxious.

Milk wasn’t just building bodies.
It was shaping behavior.

Then came the discovery that changed everything.

When a baby nurses, microscopic amounts of saliva flow back into the breast. That saliva carries biological signals about the infant’s immune system. If the baby is getting sick, the mother’s body detects it.

Within hours, the milk changes.

White blood cells surge.
Macrophages multiply.
Targeted antibodies appear.

When the baby recovers, the milk returns to baseline.

This was not coincidence.
It was call and response.

A biological dialogue refined over millions of years. Invisible—until someone thought to listen.

As Katie reviewed existing research, she noticed something unsettling. There were twice as many scientific studies on erectile dysfunction as on breast milk composition.

The first food every human consumes.
The substance that shaped our species.
Largely ignored.

So she did something bold.

She launched a blog with a deliberately provocative name: Mammals Suck Milk.
It exploded. Over a million readers in its first year. Parents. Doctors. Scientists. People asking questions research had skipped.

The discoveries kept coming.

Milk changes by time of day.
Foremilk differs from hindmilk.
Human milk contains over 200 oligosaccharides babies can’t digest—because they exist to feed beneficial gut bacteria.
Every mother’s milk is biologically unique.

In 2017, Katie brought this work to a TED stage. In 2020, it reached a global audience through Netflix’s Babies. Today, at Arizona State University’s Comparative Lactation Lab, she continues reshaping how medicine understands infant development, neonatal care, formula design, and public health.

The implications are staggering.

Milk has been evolving for more than 200 million years—longer than dinosaurs walked the Earth. What we once dismissed as simple nourishment is one of the most sophisticated communication systems biology has ever produced.

Katie Hinde didn’t just study milk.
She revealed that nourishment is intelligence.
A living, responsive system shaping who we become before we ever speak.

All because one scientist refused to accept that half the story was “measurement error.”

Sometimes the biggest revolutions begin by listening to what everyone else ignores.

[Elliot Overton @EO_Nutrition]

One doctor completely eliminated complications in over 1,000 pregnancies

By giving large doses of vitamin B1 in the 3rd trimester

He documented everything:

- No preeclampsia
- No fetal deaths
- No prematurity
- No hemorrhaging
- No hypertension

The dose was 100mg/day

The pregnancies were described as trouble-free and the babies were particularly strong and healthy

In his words, there were zero adverse reactions or side effects

The doctor was named John Irwin, and he even wrote a book about it

"The Natural Way to a Trouble-Free Pregnancy: The Toxemia-Thiamine Connection"

[Bark @barkmeta]

Just got off the phone with a friend in DC with high level clearance at the Fed.

Today's Gold and Silver crash was much worse than we initially thought.

He confirmed at least one bank is INSOLVENT.

Not just underwater... COMPLETELY LIQUIDATED.

He hasn't seen anything like this since 2008. The situation is 100x deeper than anyone can imagine.

And now, the markets are closed...

Most people are heading into the weekend having no idea what's waiting for them on Monday...

But we're all about to find out...

[Andra @BioavailableNd]

Your pulse, pH, and spit are reporting your health. Try these cheap 12 at-home naturopathic tests. Your symptoms aren’t random, they’re a language.

1. Baking Soda Burp Test (Stomach acid)
¼ tsp baking soda in water, empty stomach.
Burp in <3 min = normal
No burp = low stomach acid
Low HCl = poor digestion, fatigue, mineral loss

[Gold Ventures 🟡 @TheLastDegree]

Lithium explorer Brunswick is off to a great start

After very successful first-pass drilling at Anatacau West, in which they hit the 3rd best hole in 2025

They now released the first resource from Mirage, blowing through most expectations

$BRW.V
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[Moe Bible Verses ✝️ @AnimeBibleVerse]

Many people don’t know that when the Bible says Jesus was laid in a manger, the Greek word for manger is “phatnē” which refers to a feeding trough, and many in Bethlehem were made of stone.

Here’s what’s powerful:
Shepherds in the Bethlehem region were known for raising sacrificial lambs for the Temple. When a lamb was born, it was carefully inspected for blemishes and often placed in a manger or trough to protect it from injury because a damaged lamb could not be offered to God.
So when the Lamb of God entered the world, He was laid in the *very place* where sacrificial lambs were kept.

And who did the angels announce His birth to?
Shepherds. Not kings. Not priests. Shepherds—men who understood sacrifice, blood, purity, and lambs without blemish.

When the angels said, “You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger” (Luke 2:12), it was a sign they would immediately recognize.

This child wasn’t just a baby. He was the final Lamb. The One who would take away the sin of the world. From the moment He was born, Jesus was marked for sacrifice—not by men, but by God.

✨ “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.” (John 1:29)

[Gold Ventures 🟡 @TheLastDegree]

$EQTY.v (Silver miner Equity Metals Corp) is primed to 10x on the upcoming mineral resource update for its Silver Queen project. Recent 2025 drilling results are exploding with high-grade hits, signaling massive resource growth ahead.
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[Gold Ventures 🟡 @TheLastDegree]

Founders Metals proves again that they know how to improve historical drill results

First holes into the new Parbo target deliver just that

+ Results out from 2 other Emerging Targets on the Antino project

$FDR.V
@FoundersMetals
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[Gold Ventures 🟡 @TheLastDegree]

Aftermath's highly anticipated resource update is seeing an increase in all FOUR contained metals Silver, Manganese, Copper and Zinc

Even more important: Significant increases to all resources' Indicated categories

$AAG.V
@AftermathSilver
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[Gold Ventures 🟡 @TheLastDegree]

While we're awaiting final assays from Minaurum's Phase 1 resource drilling

The company has been preparing for the follow up program

A very successful financing allows them to make this program 6 (SIX!) times larger

$MGG.V
@minaurumgold
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[Gold Ventures 🟡 @TheLastDegree]

Congratulations on the Group Eleven team for hitting an all-time high!

The most significant discovery in Ireland for over a decade just got even more exciting

As there's now a new discovery, adding a 3rd mineralised target to chase

$ZNG.V
@G11Res
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