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Leaked Letters Show Iran Quietly Buying Control Of Chinese Ports; Report -
Leaked Letters Show Iran Quietly Buying Control Of Chinese Ports; Report
Report: Leaked Letters Show Iran Quietly Buying Control Of Chinese PortsAuthored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice,Iran has been using oil terminals and storage facilities in China to ship its oil to its biggest buyer and keep sanctioned tankers operating despite the U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil exports, Iran I...
Follow The Money: Florida Subpoenas DSA Over Cuban, Chinese Cash Days After Socialist Election Sweep -
Follow The Money: Florida Subpoenas DSA Over Cuban, Chinese Cash Days After Socialist Election Sweep
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Tuesday issued an investigative subpoena to the Democratic Socialists of America, saying his office is examining whether DSA accepted contributions or support "from foreign sources of concern, including the regimes in Cuba and China," and w...
Kurdish Leader Courted by Washington Urges 'Mighty US' To Make Peace With Iran -
Kurdish Leader Courted by Washington Urges 'Mighty US' To Make Peace With Iran
Via Middle East EyeThe US needs to stop treating Iran as if it is governed by "mad mullahs" and engage in dialogue with the Islamic Republic, which is emerging "stronger but different" from the US-Israeli war, a senior Iraqi Kurdish official said on Thursday."Iranians are often misunderstood in the West....
Wisconsin Retiree Hands Gold To A Stranger In A Fast-Food Parking Lot After Fake FBI Calls - Then It Got Worse -
Wisconsin Retiree Hands Gold To A Stranger In A Fast-Food Parking Lot After Fake FBI Calls - Then It Got Worse
A Wisconsin retiree lost more than $400,000 of her retirement savings over three months to scammers who posed as her investment company, the sheriff's office, the FBI, the Federal Trade Commission and, finally, the Better Business Bureau, according to an InvestigateTV repo...
Democrat Doublespeak: A Dangerous Deception -
Democrat Doublespeak: A Dangerous Deception
Authored by D. Padgett Blakley and Richard Blakley via American Thinker,The term "newspeak" comes from George Orwell's 1984, a novel that highlighted a tyrannical regime's intentional use of ambiguous speech to prevent people from being able to think critically, until they are brainwashed into believing that 2+2=5.Was that merely the far-...
Just A Coincidence? Both Trump And Ro Khanna Sold Nvidia Stock Before CEO Scandal Erupted -
Just A Coincidence? Both Trump And Ro Khanna Sold Nvidia Stock Before CEO Scandal Erupted
A trust linked to the wife of Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), one of Congress's most vocal advocates for banning lawmakers from trading stocks, sold Nvidia shares near their peak, weeks before scandal engulfed the company, sending its stock plunging. The scandal also led to Jensen Huang's ouster as CEO...
Russia's Largest Oil Refinery Again Struck, In 8-Hour Drone Attack Wave -
Russia's Largest Oil Refinery Again Struck, In 8-Hour Drone Attack Wave
Ukraine struck Russia's Omsk oil refinery in its latest long-range drone attack, in at least the third known such attack on the site of the war. Notbaly the Omsk oil refinery is the country's largest.The drones traveled over 1,800 miles to reach the Siberian refinery, and regional officials say it was subject t...
Gun-Grabbers Smell Blood After Democratic Midterm Sweep -
Gun-Grabbers Smell Blood After Democratic Midterm Sweep
Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times,Advocates for stricter gun laws are pushing for new legislation as Democrats are set to take control in Congress and several states after the midterm elections.Groups such as Everytown for Gun Safety, Brady United Against Gun Violence, and Giffords hailed the Democratic wins, wi...
Burger Wars Heat Up: Fast-Food Chain Dubbed "100 Times Better" Declares War On McDonald's With $2 Menu -
Burger Wars Heat Up: Fast-Food Chain Dubbed "100 Times Better" Declares War On McDonald's With $2 Menu
The fast-food burger wars are heating up as a smaller McDonald's rival rolls out a new lineup of burgers, fries, and other favorites priced under $2, escalating the battle for cash-strapped Americans squeezed by years of inflation.Checkers & Rally's has introduced its new "Cha-Chi...
Democratic Senator Says 'Beauty' Of Ukraine War Is Paying Ukrainians To Kill Russians -
Democratic Senator Says 'Beauty' Of Ukraine War Is Paying Ukrainians To Kill Russians
Authored by Dave DeCamp via Antiwar.com,Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) said on Monday that the "beauty" of the nearly five-year-old Russia-Ukraine war is the fact that the US is "paying Ukrainians to kill Russians."
Graves of Ukrainian soldiers killed in the war with Russia at a cemetery in Kharkiv, U...
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Netherlands lacks oversight of country's E70 billion gold reserve, watchdog says -
From NL Times, AmsterdamWednesday, November 11, 2026
The Netherlands has no clear arrangements for how its gold reserves could be used in times of crisis. The Netherlands Court of Audit has said that the Dutch central bank (DNB) has not reached any agreements with the finance minister about the role the reserves should play in emergency situations.
The Netherlands' gold reserves have grown seve...
Bipartisan SILVER Act gains momentum in Congress as lawmakers eye national defense bill -
From the Sound Money Defense LeagueVia Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, IdahoThursday, November 12, 2026
WASHINGTON -- The bipartisan SILVER Act is gaining momentum with the addition of a dozen more House and Senate cosponsors as an effort gets underway to incorporate the common-sense legislation into the National Defense Authorization Act during the lame-duck session of Congress.
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If GATA's work is worth something to you, please help us -
7:06p ET Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA would like to think it has had a good couple of weeks.
First we brought you and the New Orleans Investment Conference a comprehensive summary of the last year's international intrigue about gold, bringing the secret knowledge of the financial universe out into the open so people outside the financial elites might act on th...
Reserve managers say gold is politically toxic to manage -
By Levente KoroesCentral Banking, LondonWednesday, November 11, 2026
https://www.centralbanking.com/central-banks/reserves/7977907/reserve-managers-say-gold-is-politically-toxic-to-manage
Gold is a politically difficult asset to manage as it about the "only thing that local politicians think they understand from a central bank balance sheet," a European reserve manager has told Central Banking'...
Vince Lanci: Is gold being spoofed lower again? -
9:26a ET Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
In his commentary today at VBLGoldFix, Vince Lanci picks up on GATA's report yesterday --
https://gata.org/node/25114
-- about the sharp increases in the gold swaps undertaken by the Bank for International Settlements in September and October.
Lanci concurs that the BIS is the coordinator of central bank efforts to restrain the...
Wolf Street
Sales of Existing Single-Family Homes Plunge to Lowest since 2010, Supply Hits 12-Year High, Condo Sales Plunge to Lowest in the Data, Supply Highest since 2011 -
The housing market just keeps getting worse. Sales in the West collapsed to the lowest since the 1990s, in the Midwest to 2011 lows, in the South to 2012 lows.
Household Debts, Debt-to-Income Ratios, Delinquencies, Foreclosures, Collections & Bankruptcies in Q3 2026 -
How Americans are handling their debts.
10-Year Treasury Yield Spikes as Inflation Spreads across Economy, Driven by Ugly Core Services CPI -
Inflation refuses to go back into the bottle, especially non-housing services inflation. Prices of food and core goods also jumped. It was ugly all around.
Legal Tender News
Legal Tender Forces Gold Out -
The government has many ways of forcing us to use their paper dollar as money. The tax on capital gains on gold (I wrote about this here) is one bullet in their gun. The legal tender law—U.S. Code ...
These Countries May Be Next To Accept Bitcoin as Legal Tender -
One of the main knocks against cryptocurrency has always been that it will never gain universal adoption, meaning its usefulness will always be limited. This perhaps changed forever on September 7, ...
This Day In Market History: Legal Tender Act Of 1862 -
What Happened? On this day in 1862, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Legal Tender Act into law. Where The Market Was: The Legal Tender Act predates both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones ...
Bill Introduced To Make Bitcoin A Legal Tender In Arizona -
Senator Wendy Rogers has introduced a bill proposing to make bitcoin a legal tender in the U.S. state of Arizona. The bill seeks to add bitcoin to the list of instruments considered legal tender in ...
What Is Considered Legal Tender in the US? -
"Legal tender" means that the financial instrument in question legally serves to pay any public or private debt. Federal law guarantees its printed value regardless of its intrinsic convertible value, ...
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North Korea's Binance hack faces U.S. crackdown as DOJ targets $1.2 billion in stolen crypto -
Federal authorities say they've taken infrastructure used in the FaceStealer scheme used to steal as much as $400 million in crypto assets.
U.S. President Trump names CFTC, SEC nominees for first time in a year -
U.S. President Donald Trump has named two potential commissioners each to the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Kalshi ends Donald Trump Jr.’s advisory contract over 1789 Capital’s Polymarket investment -
Trump Jr. joined Kalshi as a strategic adviser in January 2025, helping the prediction market expand its customer base and strengthen its market presence.
Illinois crypto tax is impossible to enforce as written, crypto industry tells court -
The legal battle to head off the crypto transaction tax in Illinois has drawn up a hefty roster of industry opposition, and they're saying the tax won't work.
DTCC adds Solana to Wall Street tokenization plans, targeting 2027 rollout -
The securities infrastructure giant plans to bring tokenized stocks, ETFs and U.S. Treasuries to Solana as it expands next year's roadmap beyond Stellar and Arc.
Crypto for Advisors: The blockchain built to run financial markets -
Jupiter adds Anchorage-backed USDGO to its $1 billion Solana lending platform -
OSL offers a yield on USDGO only to professional investors, but Jupiter said its market lets other holders earn onchain at rates set by borrower demand.
The next Congress will write rules for AI and emerging tech. They should use the stuff first. -
The best thing industry leaders can do is to invest the time to ensure this country’s policymakers can experience the technology they’re regulating up close, writes Allie Page, executive director of American Innovation Project.
Nvidia CEO Huang quits company he co-founded, led for 3 decades. Shares slump -
CFO Colette Kress takes over as interim CEO after Huang steps down immediately as president, chief executive and board member, as shares tumble.
Bitcoin weakness erases September's bullish signal -
Your day-ahead look for Nov. 12, 2026
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Visa Adds Western Union’s USDPT for Stablecoin Settlement via Anchorage -
Anchorage Digital is partnering with Visa to allow select stablecoins issued by its federally regulated bank, starting with Western Union’s USDPT, to be used as native settlement assets on Visanet. Rapid Growth in Stablecoin Settlement Anchorage Digital announced Thursday, Nov. 12, that it is collaborating with Visa to support select stablecoins issued by its federally […]
Trezor Confirms Spy Implants in 3 Hardware Wallets, Cuts Resellers by 80% -
Trezor reported the discovery of three tampered Safe 5 wallets, an approximately 80% reduction in resellers, and a firmware update blocking the identified implants. CryptoBilis buyers should still move funds to new wallets, and purchases from March onward qualify for replacements. Trezor Details Firmware and Reseller Changes Hardware wallet maker Trezor said on Nov. 12 […]
‘Anthropic IPO Is Going to Rip’: Arthur Hayes Loads Up on Crypto Ahead of Debut -
Arthur Hayes said he was increasing crypto exposure ahead of Anthropic’s expected stock market debut next week. His near-term optimism followed earlier warnings about AI spending and a potential government rescue that he believed could benefit crypto. Hayes Builds Crypto Positions Ahead of Anthropic Debut Arthur Hayes, co-founder of cryptocurrency derivatives exchange Bitmex and chief […]
Futurebit Bitcoin Mining Rigs Hit Retail Stores as Solo Miners Keep Winning Big -
Bitcoin mining hardware is heading to retail store shelves as Futurebit partners with electronics retailer Micro Center to sell its Apollo III home mining machines, opening another avenue for consumers to participate in a network increasingly dominated by industrial-scale operations. Brooklyn-based Futurebit announced Thursday that its Apollo III Full Node will be available at four […]
Donald Trump Jr. Exits Kalshi Role as Democrats Plan to Scrutinize Family Crypto Ties -
Donald Trump Jr. is leaving his advisory position at prediction market platform Kalshi following his firm’s major investment in rival Polymarket, as Democrats prepare to investigate the Trump family’s growing financial interests in cryptocurrency and prediction markets. The departure, first reported by Bloomberg, ends an arrangement that had attracted political scrutiny because Trump Jr. […]
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Tenth Amendment Center
This isn’t an Instruction Manual. It’s a Warning. How Empires Fall. -
Collapse is self-inflicted: Benjamin Franklin knew the pattern all through history. In 1773, he wrote a masterpiece of biting satire - 20 rules for how a great empire destroys itself from within by making its own people see it as detestable. It was supposed to be a warning, but London completely ignored it and paid the price. Once you hear his “rules,” judge for yourself. Is this just another h...
Lost Cause: The Federal Government will Never Limit Itself -
Going to the federal government to convince the federal government to limit its own power? That’s not just dumb strategy and a lost cause. It’s dangerous to the Constitution and liberty. On this episode, it’s James Madison’s blueprint for beating the feds without relying on the feds to magically limit their own power. Plus the right to keep and bear arms as the ultimate safeguard for freedom.
T...
The Word “Emergency” Doesn’t Exist in the Constitution. That’s no Accident. -
That means the rules of the constitution apply whether someone calls it an “emergency” or not. On this episode, it’s the founders’ long-forgotten warning about the oldest weapon in the book. Let politicians have extra power or funding because THEY declare an emergency? And you’ll get never-ending emergencies.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
🤕 Medicare's AI Experiment | EFFector 38.20 -
When we need medical care, we expect decisions about our treatment to be made by our doctors, not a tech company's algorithm. But in January, the federal government launched a program that uses AI to evaluate Medicare beneficiaries' requests for certain procedures.
EFF sued for records on WISeR, seeking badly needed transparency about Medicare's AI experiment. In our latest EFFector newsletter,...
We’re Asking an Appeals Court to Require a Warrant for ALPR Searches -
Today, along with the ACLU, EFF filed an amicus brief in the Sixth Circuit court of appeals in United States v. Sturdivant, a case where police warrantlessly tracked a suspect’s movements using Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) data. Our brief details the vast, interconnected network of ALPRs that constantly track drivers around the country and argues that this tracking is a “search” under ...
Why Fewer People Are Challenging Bad Patents -
The number of petitions being filed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has collapsed. That’s not reason for celebration. The PTAB is an important line of defense against low-quality software patents being used in lawsuits against people and companies.
The drop didn’t happen because suddenly patents have become higher quality. It’s simply because USPTO leadership is increasingly refusin...
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Connecticut Couple to Resume Renting Trails to Hikers After Town Zoning Officials Fail to Respond to Request for Zoning Interpretation -
ROXBURY, Conn.—Today, Roxbury couple, Charles and Eli Copley, and their attorneys from the Institute for Justice (IJ), sent a letter to town officials informing them […]
The post Connecticut Couple to Resume Renting Trails to Hikers After Town Zoning Officials Fail to Respond to Request for Zoning Interpretation appeared first on Institute for Justice.
Idaho Supreme Court: Property Owners Cannot Challenge Meridian’s Ban on Tiny Homes on Wheels -
Boise, Idaho.—Today, the Idaho Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that Chasidy Decker could not challenge Meridian’s ban on tiny homes on wheels because […]
The post Idaho Supreme Court: Property Owners Cannot Challenge Meridian’s Ban on Tiny Homes on Wheels appeared first on Institute for Justice.
Institute for Justice Asks Federal Appeals Court to Make Clear that Using License Plate Readers to Track People is a Fourth Amendment Search -
ARLINGTON, Va.—Today, the Institute for Justice (IJ) filed an amicus brief in United States v. Sturdivant, asking the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to […]
The post Institute for Justice Asks Federal Appeals Court to Make Clear that Using License Plate Readers to Track People is a Fourth Amendment Search appeared first on Institute for Justice.
Second Amendment Foundation
TAURUS RENEWS PLATINUM-LEVEL CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP -
BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 24, 2025 — The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is pleased to announce that Taurus Holdings Inc. has renewed their commitment to the organization as a Platinum-level corporate partner. “At Taurus, we believe that the right to keep and bear arms is fundamental to the American way of life,” said Taurus USA
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CA NON-RESIDENTS CAN APPLY FOR CARRY PERMIT STARTING APRIL 22 -
BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 22, 2025 — Thanks to a preliminary injunction in the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) case CRPA v. LASD, starting Tuesday, April 22, non-resident SAF members can apply for a California carry permit. The injunction requires that California accept permit applications from any United States resident outside the state who is a
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SCOTUS DENIES CERT IN WORTH, SAF WIN IN EIGHTH CIRCUIT STANDS -
BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 21, 2025 — In a case that could potentially have far-reaching implications for similar lawsuits across the nation, the U.S. Supreme Court has denied Minnesota’s Petition for Writ of Certiorari in Jacobson v. Worth, the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) challenge to the 18-20-year-old carry ban in the state. Minnesota asked the
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Gun Owners of America
OH: SB 214 Heads to Governor DeWine’s Desk! -
SB 214 Passes the Senate on a Concurrence Vote! It now heads to Governor Mike DeWine’s desk! The Ohio Senate just passed SB 214 on a concurrence vote 21-9! This means the bill is headed to the desk of Governor Mike DeWine for his signature. This has been a victorious day in Columbus, and we couldn’t have done it without … Read more
OH: Public Safety Committee Advances SB 214 with GOA’s Amendments -
Urge Your Representative to VOTE YES on the Floor TODAY The House Public Safety Committee has passed Senate Bill 214 with our amendments! GOA sincerely thanks the committee for moving this bill forward and adopting the changes necessary to also de-regulate short barreled firearms. However, we aren’t done yet. SB 214 must also pass on the House floor, as well … Read more
GOA Celebrates 50 Years of No-Compromise Fighting for Gun Rights -
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 9, 2026 GOA Celebrates 50 Years of No-Compromise Fighting for Gun Rights Springfield, VA – Gun Owners of America (GOA) is celebrating 50 years of standing for the Second Amendment with No Compromise. Founded in 1976 by the late California State Senator H.L. “Bill” Richardson, GOA was established to give gun owners a stronger voice against … Read more
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