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EU leaders “panicked” over remarks that were actually about military instructors, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba has claimed Ukraine doesn’t need NATO troops on its territory to defeat Russia, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba…

Mikhail Podoliak wants civilians in the neighboring country to “live in bomb shelters” so that they would change their view on the conflict Ukraine should step up its ground and artillery attacks…

The newly reelected president has urged officials to tackle the challenges facing the country Russian authorities have significant work ahead of them to address the challenges facing the country, President Vladimir Putin…

Scottish Police Trained To Target Actors And Comedians Under Hate Crime Laws; Report Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Police in Scotland are being trained to target actors and comedians under new…

Lawmakers have agreed to suspend import duties and quotas for another year  The European Parliament has extended the suspension of all tariffs and quotas on Ukrainian agricultural food imports to the EU…

Sliding Swiss Watch Exports “Could Be Negative For Luxury Stocks”  Swiss watch exports have declined for the second time in three years, primarily due to a slowdown in shipments to China and Hong…

The former US president faced virtually no opposition as all other main Republican candidates have dropped out of the race Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has easily won the GOP primaries in five…

Western claims that democratic processes in Russia are meaningless are irrelevant, Anatoly Antonov has said Moscow does not care what US Secretary of State Antony Blinken or any other biased observer thinks…

Breakthrough Catalyst Turns Sewage Into Clean Energy By Brian Westenhaus of OilPrice.com Pohang University of Science & Technology scientists have developed a catalyst for the urea oxidation reaction, enhancing hydrogen generation efficiency….

COVID-19 Infection Increases Risk Of Autoimmune Diseases By Up To 30 Percent: Study Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Juan Gaertner/Shutterstock) Surviving COVID-19 may leave you at heightened…

Nicholas Hawkes admitted to sending explicit photos to a 15-year-old girl and 60-year-old woman in February Convicted pedophile Nicholas Hawkes has become the first person to be jailed for the crime of…

President Putin has said a buffer zone will be created to protect civilians from long-range attacks Around 9,000 children will be evacuated from Russia’s Belgorod Region on the border with Ukraine, following…

Former Top Polish Army Chief Admits “Ukraine Is Losing The War” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, A former top Polish army chief says Ukraine is losing the war and that…

Jens Stoltenberg mixed up Baku with Tbilisi while pressing for NATO expansion in the latter city NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg confused the capitals of Georgia and Azerbaijan midway through his multi-day trip…

In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post…

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And…

New York Times, After Years of Appeasing CCP, Now Plans Attack On Dissidents In US Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The New York Times for nearly six…

Duty, Honor, Nothing Authored by ‘Citizen Soldier’ via RealClear Wire, My father remembers a trip with my grandfather to the U.S. Military Academy in the early 1960s to watch a baseball game….

The organizers were urged remove the players in solidarity with Ukraine Russian esports athletes should be excluded from the Counter-Strike 2 competition, which is currently taking place in Copenhagen, Danish Culture Minister…

Egypt Saw Gas Trade With Israel Soar In 2023, As Economy Falters  Via The Cradle Israel’s NewMed Energy reported on Tuesday that natural gas exports from the Leviathan field to Egypt increased by 28 percent in…

Woman Who Worked For Congress After Jan. 6 Charged In Capitol Breach Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A woman who worked for multiple members of Congress after…

Sorghum: The Ancient Grain For Modern Health Authored by Emma Suttie via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Although many may not have heard of sorghum, it is an ancient grain that has…

The government has the MPs calling to end the deliveries of weapons amid the continuing war in Gaza Canada will halt future arms sales to Israel, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly told the…

FBI Has To Face Lawsuit Over ‘No-Fly List:’ Supreme Court Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The FBI must face a lawsuit filed by a Muslim man who…

The Israeli PM has insisted that the operation to eliminate Hamas must go forward, regardless of US opposition Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to call off a major ground offensive…

Young People Aren’t Nearly Angry Enough About Government Debt Authored by The American Institute for Economic Research, Young people sometimes seem to wake up in the morning in search of something to…

It’s Time For GOP To Unite Behind Trump Authored by Bernie Marcus via RealClear Wire, For the first time in my 94 years on earth, I fear for the future of our…

Morocco has requested over 600 missiles thought to be in short supply due to the Ukraine conflict The US has given a green light to the possible sale of Javelin anti-tank missiles…

Bill Gates-Backed Company Seeks To Deploy Small Modular Nuclear Reactors In U.S. A company founded by Bill Gates is planning on being the first to build a new generation of nuclear power…

Judges have denied a request by the Biden administration to block implementation of a controversial new state law The US Supreme Court has rejected an emergency request by President Joe Biden’s administration…

Trump Sues ABC News, Host George Stephanopoulos For Defamation Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Monday against the American Broadcasting…

Boycott Slams Planet Fitness Shares As Americans Fight Back Against Wokeism Approaching the one-year mark since Bud Light’s controversial partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney on TikTok, a nationwide boycott of the light beer…

RNC Files Election Integrity Lawsuit Against Nevada Secretary Of State Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Nevada GOP have sued the…

Najah al-Shammari has been arrested in Stockholm for allegedly claiming Swedish public benefits while living in Baghdad Former Iraqi Defense Minister Najah al-Shammari has been arrested in Stockholm for allegedly receiving taxpayer-funded…

Billionaire Investor To Back Donald Trump 2024 Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Billionaire activist investor Nelson Peltz plans to vote for former President Donald Trump in the…

“It’s Enraging”: NYC Homeowner Arrested For Changing Locks After Squatters Take Over A woman who inherited a home in New York City full of people squatting illegally was arrested and led away…

“That’s Joe Biden?” Biden Family Associate Confirms Joe & Family Used Email-Aliases During Vice Presidency Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Eric Schwerin, an associate of President Joe…

Vengeance on Biden, curbing illegal migration, ending support for Kiev – The Donald will have a busy schedule should he win the presidency, but how much can he accomplish? In the event…

A veteran who fought for Nazi Germany and was recently celebrated in Canada’s parliament was given a medal Ternopol Region in western Ukraine announced on Tuesday that it had decorated Yaroslav Hunka,…

Italian singer Enzo Ghinazzi, best known as Pupo, had a show in Lithuania canceled after he recently performed at the Kremlin Concert organizers in Lithuania have canceled an upcoming performance by renowned…

Peter Navarro has become the first former White House official to be jailed for contempt of Congress Peter Navarro, the architect of then-President Donald Trump’s trade war with China, has become the…

WTI Slips After Small Crude Draw But Pump-Prices Hit 5-Month Highs Oil prices extended gains today to fresh cycle highs (5 month highs) as the demand/supply/geopolitical-premium balance appears to have shifted. “Oil…

Why Is The West Suddenly Revealing Its Troop Presence In Ukraine? Authored by Ted Snider via The Libertarian Institute It has long been an open secret that the West has been providing…

NVDA Fails To Impress, Bitcoin Battered, But Bonds & Black Gold Bid Ahead Of Fed NVDA showed off a new chip and a robot… BoJ did their hawkish thing (but promised to…

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Medics at a St. Petersburg oncology center have successfully performed six surgeries to remove 170 metastases from a patient’s lungs Doctors at Russia’s leading cancer treatment medical center have successfully removed 170…

There Goes The Fed’s Inflation Target: Goldman Sees Terminal Rate 100bps Higher At 3.5% Two years ago, we first said that it’s only a matter of time before the Fed admits it…

People have asked me why I have remained relatively quiet about the legal issue and targeting of Peter Navarro by a weaponized DOJ and Congress.  I will explain in greater detail after…

US Aims To Restock Strategic Oil Reserves By Year-End By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com The Biden Administration aims to have crude in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) back up to the levels…

Lloyd Austin has made a grim prediction about Kiev’s battlefield prospects Ukraine’s very survival could be at stake unless the West sends more military aid, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on…

Evidence Of Foreign Nationals Accessing Dominion Voting Machines Leaked To Public Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, A defamation lawsuit between Dominion Voting Systems and former Overstock.com CEO and Donald Trump…

Some 2,000 soldiers would be sent in the “initial stage” of the operation, Sergey Naryshkin said France is preparing its forces for deployment to Ukraine, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service…

“They Came For Me, They Can Come For You” – Former Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Reports To Prison Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, Peter Navarro voiced frustration at a…

US-supplied cluster munitions struck the animal park in Belgorod A Ukrainian artillery attack has resulted in the death of a Bennett’s tree kangaroo named Grundy, the Belgorod Zoo said on Tuesday. The…

Berlin will raid its own stocks and buy ammo from foreign suppliers to keep Kiev fighting, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has said Germany will supply Ukraine with €500 million ($543 million) worth…

If reelected this year, the former US president plans to facilitate negotiations between Moscow and Kiev The former US leader and Republican candidate in this year’s presidential election, Donald Trump, has reiterated…

Nineteen people from the two countries can compete, according to the International Olympic Committee Twelve Russian athletes and seven of their Belarusian counterparts have qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris…

Paris is prepared to fight the “toughest” battles to protect its interests, the chief of staff has declared France is ready to face whatever developments unfold internationally and is prepared for the…

Beijing earlier condemned PM Narendra Modi’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh amid tensions at the border The region of Arunachal Pradesh will always remain part of India and the people will continue to…

Stellar 20Y Auction Sees Surge In Foreign Demand, Biggest Stop Through In More Than A Year After several mediocre coupon auctions, moments ago – with some worried that demand for US paper…

Ford’s Hands-Free Driving Under NTSB Investigation After Fatal February Crash Move over Tesla and Cruise, it looks like Ford is now also under the “autonomous driving” microscope from regulators.  It was reported…

Junk Bond Default Surge Continues In 2024 Via SchiffGold.com, Consumers aren’t the only ones defaulting on their debts: Corporate bond defaults were up massively in 2023, especially for high-risk junk debt, and the…

Crédit Agricole Doesn’t Expect Trump’s Mounting Legal Issues To Derail Campaign Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden clinched their parties’ nominations last Tuesday, cementing a general election rematch in November….

AI Infiltrates Oil Industry To Speed Up Drilling, Cut Costs Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, AI-powered technologies are helping the industry to produce more oil and gas for less money. Bloomberg:…

Apple may block smartphones used by Russians if a global conflict breaks out, Anton Gorelkin has warned Western smartphones could stop working in Russia if the Ukraine conflict turns into a global…

China To Boycott Swiss-Hosted Ukraine Peace Talks Without Russia China has emphasized that it will boycott any future Ukraine peace talks if Russian representatives are not present and involved, Politico has reported…

Blackout Of Buybacks Threatens Bullish Run Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, With the last half of March upon us, the blackout of stock buybacks threatens to reduce one of the liquidity…

ABC has defended the film that Kiev’s envoy, Vasily Myroshnychenko, denounced as a “bowl of vomit” The Ukrainian ambassador to Canberra has demanded a meeting with the management of the Australian Broadcasting…

Azerbaijan is a flourishing market and is not re-exporting vehicles to the sanctioned country, a British motoring group has claimed An unprecedented surge in car exports from the UK to Azerbaijan is…

Hundreds of specialists will lose access to Large Hadron Collider, a spokesman for the organization told the agency The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will stop working with hundreds of scientists…

Project GR00T seeks to enable robots to understand language and emulate human actions to solve tasks, the US-based company said NVIDIA has announced a new project in the field of AI aimed…

The SpaceX CEO has said he uses “a small amount” of ketamine to treat depression Space travel tycoon Elon Musk has opened up about his struggle with depression, telling broadcaster Don Lemon…

Goldman Leads SuperMicro Stock Offering Just Two Weeks After Initiating Superbullish Coverage on The Stock And like that, the record momentum rally of 2024 is over. Just over a month ago, when…

Moscow has struck Kiev’s forces in positions near Belgorod and Kursk regions, the Defense Ministry has said Moscow has successfully struck the positions of Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance units near the Russian…

Doing business in the sanctioned country poses a reputational risk, the European Central Bank has warned The European Central Bank (ECB) has urged lenders to speed up their withdrawal from Russia due…

Bolsonaro Indicted By Brazilian Police For Falsifying Covid-19 Vaccine Records Federal police in Brazil have indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro for falsifying his Covid-19 vaccine card in order to travel to the…

Yen Tumbles After The First BOJ Rate Hike In 17 Years; It Won’t Last It was one small step for the Bank of Japan, but a giant leap for the yen —…

Law Enforcement’s Abysmal ‘Clearance’ Rates Authored by Bill King via RealClear Wire, In Houston, a scandal recently broke when it became public that the police department had closed the investigation of over…

The bloc’s desire to gain a foothold in the region is no secret, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russia is well aware of NATO’s attempts to court post-Soviet republics in the South…

Acclaimed in the West, ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ recycled an image taken in Donbass more than eight years before the events depicted in the film At least one of the images featured…

The erectile dysfunction drug could ward off cognitive decline, new research suggests Sildenafil, the generic name for Viagra, may not only treat erectile dysfunction and pulmonary arterial hypertension, but also ward off…

Wall Street Bonuses Fall For Second Year To 2019 Lows Amid Capital Markets Freeze Wall Street bonuses have declined for two consecutive years, falling to levels last seen in 2019, according to…

Three Fantasyland Budget Projections By The Fed, Biden, And Congress Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, What’s the key item that’s wrong in the following table of GDP, inflation, unemployment, and interest…

“I’ve Changed My Mind”: Swedish Open Borders MP Makes Complete U-Turn Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, A Swedish MP who advocated for open borders during the 2015 refugee crisis said…

Housing Starts And Permits Surged In February (Despite Plunging Rate-Cut Odds) Housing Starts and Permits rebounded firmly in February from an ugly January. Starts soared 10.7% MoM (+8.2% exp) recovering some of…

US Futures Slide As Nvidia Keynote Disappoints And FOMC Decision Looms One day after we asked if Jensen Huang’s keynote speech at the NVDA GTC presentation would be a “sell the news”…

Why The BOJ’s Rate-Hike Is Actually Good For Markets Authored by SImon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The Bank of Japan finally exited its negative-rate regime. Far from being restrictive, though, the move…

The presumptive Republican nominee has said his administration would take “appropriate action” if the British royal lied about using drugs Former US President Donald Trump has hinted that Britain’s Prince Harry could…

A Bloomberg report last week suggested that the conglomerate was being investigated  India’s Adani Group has denied media reports suggesting it is being investigated by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) over…

Skyrocketing energy prices sent real wages plummeting in 2022 more than in any year since 1950, new research has shown. Germany’s 2022 living standards took the biggest downturn since World War II, a report released…

The president is already “making most of the decisions” in the country, Sergey Demchenko has said Ukraine may need to become a dictatorship in order to prevail in the conflict with Russia,…

Vkusno i Tochka raked in nearly $1.7 billion in 2023 Russian fast-food chain Vkusno i Tochka, which replaced McDonald’s after the US company left the country due to sanctions, more than doubled…

The Supreme Court earlier banned the scheme used for funding parties – weeks before a national election The Indian Supreme Court on Monday asked the State Bank of India (SBI), a government-owned…

The decision was reportedly made over a picture of Musa Evloev with a “No to Nazism” poster Russian wrestler and Olympic champion Musa Evloev has been barred from qualifying for the upcoming…

In Ukraine, Graham Urges Expanded Conscription Despite Mounting War Fatigue On his latest of far too many visits to Ukraine, Sen. Lindsey Graham on Monday urged legislators to expand the pool of…

BODEN & TREMP – The Memecoins We Deserve For Financializing Attention Via FinTech Blueprint, Today we highlight the following: DIGITAL ASSETS: Solana’s soaring memecoins and the echoes of King Lear’s fool CURATED UPDATES: Financial…

Visualizing Major US Banks By Commercial Real Estate Exposure The six largest U.S. banks saw delinquent commercial property loans nearly triple to $9.3 billion in 2023 amid high vacancy rates and increasing borrowing costs….

US Economic Conditions Scream “Buy Gold” Authored by Daniel Lacalle via The Epoch Times, The manufacturing and consumer confidence weaknesses of the United States are deeply concerning, particularly considering that all those…

The head of the Talant commune has said he cannot accept his subordinate’s “collusion” with Moscow The mayor of the commune of Talant in Cote-d’Or, southern France, Fabian Ruinet, says he has…

Cairo says Washington’s expression of opposition to the Jewish state’s plans for an operation in Rafah is not enough Washington must explain to Israel what the consequences would be of a ground…