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Finnish FM Elina Valtonen has argued that nobody knows how “serious” the conflict could become Helsinki agrees with Paris that all options must remain on the table to support Kiev’s war effort…

Japan To Restart World’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Japan is stepping up efforts to have local authorities approve the restart of the world’s biggest nuclear power plant,…

Playing the role of the faithful corporate republican, former Vice-President Mike Pence appears on Fox News today to advocate for the nation state of Israel and disparage President Donald Trump. One does…

Riley Gaines, 15 Other Female Athletes Sue NCAA Over Transgender Madness In the latest attack on transgender madness in women’s sports, former University of Kentucky Wildcats swimmer Riley Gaines and 15 other…

Bankruptcy Laws Plus Inflation Equals Scam Via SchiffGold.com, At the end of 2022, investors all around the world who had bet big on cryptocurrency and had their cryptocurrency stored by the crypto…

US military aid to Kiev has strained its own stockpiles as the Congress-approved money pot ran dry The US Defense Department has asked the Congress to allocate at least $6.5 billion to replenish…

US To Back Nevada Lithium Project With $2.26 Billion Loan By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Lithium Americas Corp has received a conditional commitment for a $2.26-billion loan from the U.S. Department of Energy to…

“I Can’t Even Save”: Americans Are Getting Absolutely Crushed Under Enormous Debt Load While Joe Biden insists that Americans are doing great – suggesting in his State of the Union Address last…

The 10 Senate Seats Most Likely To Flip Authored by Sean Trende via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The 2024 presidential election has grabbed most of the headlines recently, but the Senate…

Judge Scott McAffee and his wife previously donated to the campaign of Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis, so the decision today doesn’t exactly come as a surprise. Judge McAffee doesn’t want to…

No ‘lasting peace’ is possible without Ukraine gaining control of the Russian peninsula, the French president has claimed Ukraine must regain control over all the territories it once held, including Russia’s Crimean…

Germany, France and Poland affirmed unity on Ukraine after a rift over ground troops and long-range missile supply German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that countries that support Ukraine are not at…

Does Big Tech Have The Right Talent To Win Our Confidence With Its AI Creation? Authored by Shannon Edwards via The Epoch Times, The biggest generative AI gaffes of late, including Google…

US Banks See Large Deposit Inflows As Bailout Fund Expires, RRP Liquidity Plunges With The Fed’s bank bailout facility now expired (and the one-year term loans starting to mature), it is perhaps…

The social media influencing campaign was intended to foster ‘paranoia’ among top leaders in Beijing, Reuters reported Former US President Donald Trump authorized a secret CIA influence campaign aimed at smearing the…

Taibbi: Why The TikTok Ban Is So Dangerous Authored by Matt Taibbi via Racket News, Did they tell you the part about giving the president sweeping new powers? It’s funny how things…

‘Bad News’ Battered Bonds, Big-Tech, & Banks On The Week; Copper & Crude Rip An ugly week on the macro side – hotter than expected inflation, slower than expected growth, weaker than…

Another Ship Hit By Missile In Red Sea; Former NATO Commander Warns ‘Maritime Risk’ Highest Ever Iran-backed Houthi rebels have attacked more than 40 merchant vessels amid the ongoing war in Gaza…

School Where Student Was Beaten Into Seizure Has History Of Alleged Anti-White Racism Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Missouri school where a black student beat a white girl into a…

The incident occurred off the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, with media reports blaming the interference on Moscow The UK Ministry of Defence has publicly expressed concerns after a RAF plane with Defence…

Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye have been seeing a big surge in tax revenues, according to the fiscal authorities Tax revenues in Russia’s four new regions have continued to grow, with a total…

‘Affirmation At All Costs’: What Internal Files Reveal About Transgender Care Authored by Jennifer Galardi via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The battle over transgender care continues as a new report published…

Copper Soars, Iron Ore Tumbles As Goldman Says “Copper’s Time Is Now” After languishing for the past two years in a tight range despite recurring speculation about declining global supply, copper has…

Consequences Minus Truth Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “People crave trust in others, because God is found there.” – Dom de Bailleul The rewards of civilization have come to seem…

BoJ Mouthpiece Confirms Historic End Of Negative Rates Next Week, 1st Hike In 17 Years For the past few weeks we have diligently reported on the fact that The Bank of Japan…

Macron’s latest sallies and the spat they have caused show that Western Europe must finally be honest about the causes of the Ukraine war The current situation in the conflict between Ukraine…

Fisker Shares Surge On Talks With Large Automaker Following Bankruptcy Fears  Troubled EV maker Fisker saw its shares in New York implode on Thursday after The Wall Street Journal reported it had…

Kremlin spokesman said that the current president favored the e-ballot due to its ease and accessibility Incumbent Russian President Vladimir Putin exercised his voting rights in the presidential elections on Friday. The…

French leader has promised to incorporate ‘consent’ into new legislation on sexual assault, having opposed its inclusion in EU directive The President of France Emmanuel Macron has come under fire after saying…

Markets Are Still Waiting For Godot In China’s Money Data Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, China’s money growth data for February released overnight modestly disappointed to the downside. Real M1…

Oil Set For Strong Weekly Gains On Demand Revisions As Gas Price Surge To Accelerate Crude oil prices were set for a weekly gain of about 4% after the International Energy Agency…

Oh Canada: Parliament Moves To Impose Potential Life Imprisonment For Speech Crimes Authored by Jonathan Turley, We have previously discussed the unrelenting attacks by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his allies on free…

South American Gangs Target Mansions In Baltimore As Biden’s Border Crisis Spreads Chaos The Biden administration’s disastrous open southern border policies have sparked a catastrophic wave of violent crime committed by illegal…

Household Equity Allocations Suggests Caution Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Household equity allocations are again sharply rising, as the “Fear Of Missing Out” or “F.O.M.O.” fuels a near panic mentality to chase markets higher. As…

Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill To Reduce Workweek To Just 4 Days Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced legislation this week which would standardize a 32-hour workweek for the same pay. “Today, American…

Watch: Joe Rogan Mocks Neil Young Over ‘Return’ To Spotify Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Podcast King Joe Rogan took a swipe at Rock Grandpa Neil Young Thursday after Young announced…

The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling on Moscow to return gold sent to the Russian Empire by Romania in 1916 Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has vehemently rejected the EU’s…

Netanyahu Greenlights Rafah Offensive, Rejects ‘Still Absurd’ Hamas Ceasefire Plan Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued formal approval for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to go into Rafah while announcing the…

Russia’s president has vowed retaliation for the ongoing Ukrainian attacks on border regions The continuing Ukrainian attacks and strikes on the Russian border regions are primarily aimed at disrupting the ongoing election…

Washington will resort to any possible means in its efforts to harm Moscow, Ambassador Anatoly Antonov has claimed The US is prepared to condone “terrorist activities” by its “satellite states” in an…

Steven Mnuchin told CNBC he is putting together an investor group to try to buy the short-video app Former US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has said he is building an investor group…

The entry ban targets US policymakers, business people, journalists and academics   Russia has put 227 US citizens on its entry blacklist, including State Department spokesman Matthew Miller and other high ranking…

France seemingly wants to increase its involvement in the Ukraine conflict, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said French President Emmanuel Macron is right to call Moscow an “adversary” because Paris is already indirectly…

Zick Zack TikTok By Bas van Geffen of Rabobank In the original song, Rammstein sings about the passing of time, ‘Tick tack’, and fighting ageing with plastic surgery, ‘Zick zack’. However, with…

Disappointed ‘Independents’ Drag Down Consumer Sentiment In March While inflation expectations have normalized, based on UMich’s survey… Source: Bloomberg …consumer confidence overall disappointed in preliminary March data… Source: Bloomberg And while both…

A tech-savvy 16-year-old was arrested for allegedly helping foreign criminals defraud his fellow citizens Russian law enforcement has caught a teenager in St. Petersburg who was allegedly part of a Ukraine-based cold…

Shares Of Polish Retailer LPP Fall 30% After Hindenburg Alleges ‘Sham’ Divestment Of Russian Assets Shares of Polish retailer LPP, trading in Warsaw, are down more than 30% in mid-day trading after…

Illegal Immigrants Leave US Hospitals With Billions In Unpaid Bills By Autumn Spredemann of The Epoch Times Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants are flooding into U.S. hospitals for treatment and leaving…

US Industrial Production Sees More Downward Revisions (You Can’t Make This Up) Another day, another downward-ly revised dataset… In today’s episode of ‘shit you believed in the past is not real at…

Slap On The Fani: Fulton DA Told She Can Stay On Trump Case If Lover Pulls Out An Atlanta judge, who donated to Fani Willis when she was running for office, ruled…

Desperate Dems Demand SEC Block All Future Crypto ETFs, Pressure Brokers Due To “Enormous Risks” For the 9th straight day (and 15th of the last 16), Bitcoin ETFs saw net inflows yesterday……

Thinking About Moving? These Five States Just Recorded Largest Housing Inventory Surges  Can’t find a house to buy? The underlying problem remains a persistent housing shortage and elevated mortgage rates that have…

New Delhi has dismissed the White House’s concerns over its citizenship law as “lectures” India’s foreign ministry dismissed on Friday the US State Department’s “concerns” over a new citizenship law, terming them…

Experts have attributed the shortages in Cote D’Ivoire and Ghana, which produce more than half of the world’s cocoa, to extreme weather The world’s largest cocoa producers, Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) and…

Benjamin Netanyahu said the IDF is prepared to conduct the attack and evacuate the civilian population Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the latest truce and prisoner-exchange proposal by Hamas and…

Despite All The ‘Benefits Of Illegal Immigrants’ NY Manufacturing Sector Is A Stagflationary Shitshow New York state factory activity contracted in March by more than forecast as gauges of orders, shipments and…

Futures Gain As Ides Of March “Quad Witching” Looms S&P futures are modestly in the green, paying no attention to today’s historical “Ides of March” cautionary date as we continue higher ahead…

Retail Stocks Increasingly Exposed To Growth Slowdown Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Leading indicators for US retail sales are sending a more mixed message that points to a less upbeat…

Washington’s envoy accuses Viktor Orban’s government of jeopardizing relations Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is isolating his country from the Western “community of democracies,” US Ambassador David Pressman claimed on Thursday in…

Potential delivery of German-made Taurus missiles to Kiev could undermine Berlin’s own security, Sahra Wagenknecht says Lawmakers across the German political spectrum who are considering delivering long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine should…

The Supreme Court in New Delhi has banned a scheme that allowed anonymous donations to parties A company owned by ‘Lottery King’ Santiago Martin has topped a list of India’s leading political…

Nearly half of owners of virtual currencies in the US plan to vote for the former president, according to a Paradigm survey Former US President Donald Trump appears to be the leading…

BYD Running Into “Challenges” Expanding Overseas, Likely To Miss Internal Sales Target For ’24 We wrote back in January that BYD had surpassed Tesla in fully electric vehicle deliveries for the first…

Separating Information From Disinformation: Threats From The AI Revolution Authored by Per Bylund via The Mises Institute, Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot distinguish fact from fiction. It also isn’t creative or can create…

The singer has said he wants to deliver a “message of peace” at his concert in the Kremlin The renowned Italian singer Enzo Ghinazzi, best known as Pupo, has arrived in Russia…

A protester poured green liquid detergent into a ballot box while shouting out pro-Ukraine slogans, according to media reports A young woman has been arrested after trying to ruin ballot papers at…

The Palestinian group said it will discuss a permanent ceasefire with Israel after the exchange of prisoners, the outlet has reported Palestinian armed group Hamas is calling for an exchange of prisoners…

Everything you need to know as Russians head to the polls to elect their leader Voting has begun in Russia’s 2024 presidential election. It will continue until Sunday, and in many ways…

59% of Investors Concerned About Greenwashing In Financial Industry Via City A.M., Most investors with supposedly sustainable ISAs unknowingly support banks funding fossil fuels. Many believe sustainable funds cannot include fossil fuel…

Russia Claims It Has Killed 6,000 Foreign Fighters In Ukraine, Including 491 Americans Russia’s Defense Ministry issued a report Thursday which said its forces have killed nearly 6,000 foreign mercenaries and volunteers fighting on…

The deaths reportedly resulted from ceremonies in Angola earlier this year At least 50 people have died in Angola after being coerced into drinking a herbal potion to prove they were not…

The West African nation’s president has vowed to free hundreds of hostages without paying a ransom Militants who kidnapped 286 children and staff from a school in northern Nigeria last week are…

The head of the Social Democrats in parliament, Rolf Mutzenich, said it is time to stop thinking only in terms of how to “wage a war” It is about time Germany shifted…

Problems After COVID-19 Vaccination More Prevalent Among Naturally Immune: Study Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), People who recovered from COVID-19 and received a COVID-19 shot were more…

Seven rockets have been intercepted over Belgorod but two residents suffered injuries and damage was reported on the ground, the local governor has said Ukrainian shelling of the capital of Russia’s Belgorod…

A series of shows featuring the Bolshoi Theatre’s principal dancer has been suspended amid protests from Kiev South Korea has canceled a series of performances by Svetlana Zakharova, a renowned ballerina from…

Britain needs to make “tough choices” to be able to counter the “threats” posed by Russia and China, a former head of MI6 has said Britain is engaged in a “gray war”…

“We Are Not Asking For Protection”: Mercedes CEO Slams EU, Urges No Import Tariffs On Chinese EVs “Don’t raise tariffs. I’m a contrarian, I think go the other way around: take the…

Ukraine has suffered over 1,500 casualties in a series of border raids this week, according to Moscow Russian military and security forces intercepted the latest Ukrainian attempt to breach the border on…

No ally will be able to trust Washington if Kiev falls, Josep Borrell has claimed A Ukrainian loss to Russia would hurt Washington’s credibility as a security provider, the EU’s High Representative…

Muslims Will Become Majority In Swedish Cities In Just 1 Generation, Boasts Pakistani-Born Theologian By John Cody of Remix News Swedish women have never had so few children as in 2023, new…

German Tank Builder Says “New Decade Of Security Policy Begins” As Defense Bull Market Roars  Former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO, Adm. James Stavridis, told Goldman’s Allison Nathan, “In my career, I’ve never seen…

President Emmanuel Macron’s transition from dove to hawk began last summer, the newspaper wrote The idea of sending Western troops to Ukraine was secretly discussed in Paris as early as last June,…

NATO’s ‘Welfare’ States: Treating The US As ‘Room Service’ Authored by Pete Hoekstra via The Gatestone Institute, Last month, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg conceded what former US President Donald Trump has been warning about…

The Taiwanese defense chief has confirmed US troops are training the island’s army, with some stationed six miles from mainland China US special forces personnel are stationed on some of Taiwan’s outlying…

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…

The Statistical Proof That Gaza Casualty Numbers Are Fake Authored by Abraham Wyner via DailySceptic.org, The number of civilian casualties in Gaza has been at the centre of international attention since the…

Kim Jong Un Drives Tank In Live-Fire ‘Preparations For War’ Drill North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has staged some interesting military theatrics ahead of next week’s expected visit of US Secretary…

California Activist Group Paying Teens $1,400 In Taxpayer Money To Undergo “Social Justice” Training By Ava Grace of Campus Insanity An activist group in California is reportedly paying $1,400 each in taxpayer…

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…

Serendipitously, or not – depending on who you talk to, I was previously scheduled to be in DC at the moment of inflection for the passage of HR7521, the proverbial “TikToK Ban…

“Urgent Action Needed” As Manhattan Rents Inch Towards Record Highs Housing affordability is at a crisis level in crime-ridden New York City. Mayor Eric Adams and progressives have no real immediate solution…

Republican Impeachment Investigators Subpoena 13 Years Of Hunter Biden’s Phone Records Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Republican-led House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed telecommunications company AT&T for…

Startup Says This Massive Plane Could Make Wind Energy Viable Meet the WindRunner. At a jaw-dropping 365 feet long and 79 feet tall, it’s a cargo plane unlike anything the world has…

Speaking to local media, Judge Scott McAfee confirmed the decision to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will be released tomorrow.  SEE VIDEO: District Attorney Fani Willis and Special Prosecutor Nathan…

Rudy Giuliani May Be Forced To Sell His Homes To Pay $148 Million Election Case Judgment Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former New York City Mayor Rudy…

Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric has expressed “concern” over attempted bombing of the Zaporozhye facility The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres’s spokesman has said that all sides are responsible for maintaining security of Russia’s…

Harvard Fellow Charged With Attempting To Smuggle $4 Million In Weapons For Coup In South Sudan By Lisa Schiffren of The College Fix A Harvard University fellow has been charged with attempting…

US Imposes 2nd Sanctions Round On Israeli Settlers, Same Day Schumer Attacks “Pariah” Netanyahu The United States slapped a second round of sanctions targeting Israeli settlers and ‘illegal outposts’ in the occupied West…

Earlier today in Florida, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, carefully listened to lengthy oral arguments about the initial charges brought against President Donald Trump in the classified documents case. While listening to…