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Business Insider
01-05-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Analysts' Top Materials Picks: FireFly Metals (MNXMF), Wacker Chemie AG (WKCMF)
There's a lot to be optimistic about in the Materials sector as 2 analysts just weighed in on FireFly Metals (MNXMF – Research Report) and Wacker Chemie AG (WKCMF – Research Report) with bullish sentiments. Protect Your Portfolio Against Market Uncertainty Discover companies with rock-solid fundamentals in TipRanks' Smart Value Newsletter. Receive undervalued stocks, resilient to market uncertainty, delivered straight to your inbox. FireFly Metals (MNXMF) In a report released yesterday, Peter Kormendy from Shaw and Partners maintained a Buy rating on FireFly Metals, with a price target of A$1.90. The company's shares closed last Wednesday at $0.51, close to its 52-week high of $0.56. Kormendy has an average return of 99.0% when recommending FireFly Metals. According to Kormendy is ranked #6649 out of 9437 analysts. The word on The Street in general, suggests a Strong Buy analyst consensus rating for FireFly Metals with a $1.12 average price target, an 112.0% upside from current levels. In a report issued on April 28, Macquarie also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a A$1.60 price target. DZ BANK AG analyst Peter Spengler maintained a Buy rating on Wacker Chemie AG yesterday. The company's shares closed last Monday at $73.93. Spengler has an average return of 7.5% when recommending Wacker Chemie AG. According to Spengler is ranked #2186 out of 9437 analysts. Wacker Chemie AG has an analyst consensus of Strong Buy, with a price target consensus of $106.75, which is a 44.4% upside from current levels. In a report issued on April 22, Jefferies also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a EUR100.00 price target.
Fox News
24-03-2025
- Fox News
Kidnapping suspect arrested after authorities discover missing juvenile in her attic: police
A Kentucky woman was arrested last week after local authorities found a missing juvenile in her attic. Scottsville resident Donna M. Spengler, 42, was arrested in the early morning hours of Mar. 21, according to the Scottsville Police Department (SPD). She was charged with kidnapping, first-degree hindering prosecution and custodial interference, in addition to endangering the welfare of a minor and second-degree unlawful imprisonment. In a Facebook post, the SPD explained that it had received a call at around 12:30 a.m. that morning about "a missing juvenile potentially located at the home of [Spengler]." When the SPD and the Allen County Sheriff's Department arrived at the scene, Spengler "claimed to be the sole occupant of the residence," authorities said. "Following the investigation, authorities discovered the missing juvenile hidden in the attic of Spengler's home," the report noted. The juvenile was then taken to the Warren County Juvenile Detention Center under a court order. Spengler was subsequently transported to the Allen County Detention Center, where she is being held on a $50,000 bond. Fox News Digital reached out to the SPD for additional information about the kidnapped juvenile, but did not immediately hear back. Authorities are actively investigating the incident. No additional details are known at this time.
Russia Today
16-03-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
The West lives in a simulation while Russia is shaping the real world
The conflict in Ukraine is not about Ukraine. It is the West's last delirious attempt to exert control over a world that no longer needs it. The West, lost in the labyrinth of its own technocratic nightmare, flails like a dying beast, mechanized and blind. The German historical philosopher Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), in 'Man and Technics' (1931), wrote of the Faustian civilization's ultimate downfall, where technology, once an extension of organic culture, becomes an iron cage, trapping its creators in a world they no longer understand. The Western response to Ukraine is precisely this: Drones, sanctions, media narratives manufactured in real-time, an illusion of omnipotence maintained by algorithms, and artificial intelligence. But reality is slipping through the cracks. The more the West mechanizes, the more it loses its ability to perceive the living, breathing cultures it seeks to control. A ceasefire? A negotiation? The West proposes them like a bureaucrat offering a new tax code, as if war were a spreadsheet that could be adjusted to fit quarterly projections. US President Donald Trump's emissaries meet with Russian officials, not because they believe in peace but because the old America – his America – has sensed the shift. A world order of raw power is replacing the West's dream of digital hegemony, and Russia, China, and a thousand-year-old history stand against it. Spengler saw it coming: The machines would overtake the soul, and the West would become incapable of organic thought. This is why they cannot understand Russia – not because they lack intelligence, but because their intelligence has been reduced to an algorithmic process, stripped of cultural depth. The West is thinking in the way that a machine thinks, and Russia, still a creature of history, is thinking like an empire. Russian President Vladimir Putin dismisses the ceasefire offer because he knows it is a mirage. He speaks of root causes, of history, of a world that is not reducible to transactions and diplomatic maneuvers. The West recoils in horror. This is the fundamental difference: Russia still understands what war means, while the West sees only an endless data stream of casualties, arms shipments, and strategic objectives. Spengler called this the tragic turn of Faustian civilization – when man, having created his machines, no longer controls them. The West does not wage war for power or territory but to maintain the facade that it is still in control. War as process. War as algorithm. The end goal is never victory, only perpetual management of crises. Meanwhile, the financial technocrats of the G7 conjure $50 billion from thin air, leveraging interest from Russia's frozen assets, a sleight of hand that Spengler would recognize as the final stage of Western decay – economic manipulation replacing genuine production, artificial wealth replacing true cultural strength. The West no longer builds. It merely extracts, redistributes, and sanctions, hoping that the machinery of global finance can replace the natural momentum of a rising civilization. Russia, in contrast, returns to the old ways: Industry, military strength, self-reliance. The difference is stark. One civilization grows more entangled in its own mechanical hat tricks, the other returns to the fundamental logic of history. Spengler saw technology as both the great achievement and the final undoing of the West. It began as a tool, an extension of man's will, but in the late stages, it turns against its creators, reducing them to mere components in a system that no longer serves them. The West's obsession with sanctions, surveillance, and narrative control is not an expression of power. It is a sign of weakness. True imperial civilizations do not need to micro-manage the world; they shape it through sheer will. This is why Trump, despite his flaws, represents the only real possibility for a Western resurgence. He rejects the managerial ethos. He understands power instinctively, like the rulers of old. The new Conservative Revolution in America is not about ideology. It is about reclaiming agency from the machine. And yet, the media apparatus, a monstrous organism birthed by technics, continues its relentless march, shaping reality through distortion. Spengler wrote that the press, in the late stages of Western civilization, ceases to inform and instead dictates what must be believed. Ukraine is reduced to a symbolic battlefield in this grand narrative. Russia is the villain because the system requires a villain. The truth is irrelevant. The headlines are written before the events occur. The war exists less as a physical struggle and more as a media spectacle, a grotesque ritual in which Western leaders play-act as warriors while ensuring they remain far from the consequences of their own actions. But while the West is trapped in its simulation, Russia operates in the real. The battlefield is not a metaphor. It is a place where men kill and die. Spengler warned that the civilizations of the late stage would become incapable of true war – they would engage in conflicts but only as technocratic exercises, devoid of the deep, existential struggle that defined the great wars of history. This is why the West cannot win in Ukraine. It fights as a bureaucratic entity, not as a people. And Russia, for all its flaws, fights as a people. The difference is everything. So here we are, watching the end of an era. The West's technics cannot save it. The more it relies on technology, the weaker it becomes. The West's technocrats believe they are guiding history, but history is slipping from their grasp. Ukraine is just a chapter in a much larger story – the story of the old world returning, of empire reclaiming its place over the managerial state. And Trump? He is not the solution, but he is a symptom. A sign that somewhere, buried beneath the layers of bureaucracy and digital wallpaper, the West still remembers what power looks like. This war is not about Ukraine. It never was. It is about the final struggle between technics and history, between the machine and the soul. And in the end, the machine will fail. Spengler saw it. We see it now. And Russia, whatever else it may be, understands it better than the West ever will.
Yahoo
02-03-2025
- Yahoo
This mom paid $13,000 to get dropped in the wilderness by a luxury travel company. She said it changed her life.
Esther Spengler saved $13,000 to spend three days alone traveling in the mountains of Morocco. Black Tomato's "Get Lost" experience drops travelers off in remote destinations around the world. The trips typically cater to wealthy travelers and CEOs seeking a mental and physical challenge. Esther Spengler was lost. She was around five years into the throws of postpartum depression and felt, "as so many mothers do," that she had lost her sense of identity after having two children, she said. Desperate for inspiration, she was researching for unique trips she and her husband could take to celebrate their anniversary in 2020 when she came across an usual service — a luxury travel company that would drop you in the wilderness and leave you to find your own way out. Spengler, who is now in her mid 30s and lives in Texas, became fixated on the idea. Her homebody husband could see her excitement and suggested she go on the trip alone while he stayed back to watch their kids. Over a year and half and thousands of dollars saved later, Spengler found herself alone in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco — now lost in a very different sense. "I had felt so long like a dead skeleton walking around and I felt all of a sudden this spark of life," Spengler said of the experience, which was organized by the UK-based luxury travel company Black Tomato. "It's completely change the trajectory of my life." Black Tomato's "Get Lost" experience is part of a growing trend of travelers, especially wealthy ones, opting out of traditional resort-style luxury in favor of nature-based adventures that can be more challenging, physically and mentally, than they are relaxing. The idea behind "Get Lost" is for the traveler to be dropped off in a remote area and navigate themselves out it, or to "get lost to find yourself," as the company puts it. Spengler told Black Tomato she wanted to go somewhere warm and far from the US, which is how she ended up in Morocco. She spent three days alone navigating herself out of the mountains, relying mostly on her map and compass to get to a set end-point in a more populated area. When she wasn't entirely sure she was headed the right way, she consulted a GPS device she carried with her for backup. "That's what I had been looking forward to, just being alone in the middle of nowhere," she said. "I wanted that isolation where you need space to just think and to be." "We see travelers seeking out activities that require more mental and physical exertion," Misty Belles, vice president of global public relations for luxury travel planning company Virtuoso, told Travel + Leisure last year. "C-suite clients in particular want experiences that go beyond their comfort zone." Rob Murray-John, head of special projects at Black Tomato who helps plan the "Get Lost" trips, said a wide range of people opt to go on them, adding that "often very successful individuals are doing this as a period of reflection." Some are experiencing or coming out of a period of personal hardship. Others might be a CEO weighing a career change, or have recently sold their business and are trying to figure out what comes next. Most, though not all, of the clients are wealthy, as the trips can cost upwards of $25,000 dollars. "From an ethos point of view, what connects everyone is that desire for wildness and complete disconnect from the outside world," he said. Spengler, whose husband was in the military, spent months saving and fundraising to be able to afford her trip, which cost around $13,000 when she went in October 2021. Each trip is entirely bespoke and catered to the individual, including "how lost" they truly want to be, Murray-John said. Some clients choose a country they'd like to visit, but that's about all they know ahead of time. Others don't know what country they are headed to but ask to be sent to a specific type of landscape, like a jungle, desert, mountain, or polar environment. Some clients who opt to fly private don't even know where they are headed until they arrive. The trips take place all over the world, with some past destinations including Mongolia, Peru, and Svalbard in Norway's Arctic. Once they fly into their destination country, they are met by on-the-ground guides and brought to a remote location over a day or more of travel, which could be by car, aircraft, four-by-four, or even yak. Then they typically undergo a day or two of basic survival training — learning things like how to build a fire, construct a shelter, or dig a hole in the ground to go to the bathroom. After training, the traveler, equipped with supplies that includes a map and compass, will split up from their guides and be left all alone to navigate themselves back to civilization over the course of several days. Though the person on the trip may feel totally isolated, Black Tomato is always tracking them visually and with satellite communication devices. The guides are on the ground trekking along — often with the client literally in their line of sight, even though the client can't see them — so that they can intervene if needed for safety reasons. Altogether, the trips require months of meticulous planning by Black Tomato, Murray-John said. "I really want people to experience travel in this way because I think it changes you for the better," he said. "Travel now is becoming a part of your therapy plan." After the end of the wilderness excursion, the client meets back up with the guides, celebrates, and typically spends a night or two at a hotel to cap off their trip with a bit of traditional luxury. At the end of Spengler's third day in the wilderness, when she started seeing signs of civilization again, she wasn't ready for it to end. By the time she returned home to the US, she said her perspective had entirely shifted. "I thought I'm not going back to the way it was before," she said. "I'm going to be responsible and take care of my family but I'm going to start living." She joined the Army — something she had always wanted to do — and started taking survival classes that involve putting her in tricky situations for days at a time in order to test her abilities. Spengler said the trip brought her a lasting sense of empowerment and resiliency, and that now when she experiences a hardship she is better equipped to get through it mentally. "It wasn't relaxing," she said. "It was an adventure." Do you have a story to share about a unique travel experience? Contact this reporter at kvlamis@ Read the original article on Business Insider
