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Western nations want a Russian defeat and are not prepared to compromise, the foreign minister has told MPs The West will not offer a realistic diplomatic solution to the Ukraine conflict because…

How Much Do Scam Text Messages Cost Americans? They’re a nuisance for the majority of the population that can spot them from a mile away, but falling prey to scam text messages…

AI & The New Kind Of Propaganda Authored by Johann Eddebo via Off-Guardian.org, Do you remember how the unconstitutional, pastel-authoritarian and totally batshit insane “Disinformation Governance Board” – with its Mary Poppins-cosplaying,…

A legendary private art collection in Russia is up for grabs after owner’s death This week Russian arts expert Nina Moleva passed away aged 98. President Vladimir Putin is supposedly named as…

Christian Lindner believes that structural reforms are needed to strengthen the competitiveness of the EU’s economic heavyweight Germany needs structural reforms to boost its competitiveness, Finance Minister Christian Lindner said at an…

South Africa’s deployment as part of a regional mission follows a resurgence of armed clashes in the central African country South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorized the deployment of 2,900 soldiers…

Israel is using whatever level of force they want in any area without accountability, Nabil Fahmi told RT The Red Sea region is “on fire,” Egyptian diplomat Nabil Fahmi has told RT…

The USSR gave Afro-Asian writers a platform to campaign for Palestinians, take stands on Vietnam, European colonialism and apartheid It is unclear when ‘Lotus’, a literary magazine of progressive Afro-Asian writers largely…

The Russian leader has not made any such proposal to the US, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said A media report suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin reached out to the US with an…

The group will account for 40% of global GDP within four years, the head of the New Development Bank has said The BRICS member states will overtake the G7 in terms of…

Jeffrey Sachs: The Biden-Schumer Plan To Kill More Ukrainians Authored by Jeffrey D. Sachs via Common Dreams, President Joe Biden is refusing to fold a losing hand as he bets with Ukrainian…

STIs Are On The Rise In Europe Europe is seeing a surge in the number of cases of sexually transmitted infections. As Statista’s Anna Fleck details below, according to the European Centre for…

‘Safe’ Food Additive May Have Consequences For Gut Microbiome Authored by Amy Denney via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A naturally derived antibiotic that helps preserve food by killing any threatening pathogens…

The bloc’s 13th package of economic restrictions on Moscow will reportedly impact Chinese and Indian companies for the first time Beijing rejects “illegal sanctions” and will defend the interests of its companies,…

Jl 2:12-18 Even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD, your…

Visualizing The Future Demand For Battery Minerals Battery minerals are vital for the clean energy transition. They power cost-effective, on-demand energy systems and are at the core of decarbonizing transportation. In the…

98% Of Austria’s Gas Imports Still Come From Russia, An All-Time High Since War Began Authored by Denes Albert via ReMix News, A lack of diversification has led to nearly all of…

Speaker Mike Johnson is opposing the draft legislation over its failure to address border security US Democrats are piling the pressure on Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to put to the floor…

During his two-day visit to the country, Modi will also unveil Abu Dhabi’s first Hindu temple, built at a cost of $84 million India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signed…

A senior Russian security official has questioned the health of the leadership in Washington A high-ranking official in Russia’s Security Council has voiced alarm over the risk of a nuclear “catastrophe” arising from the…

Trains running between Frankfurt and Stuttgart were cancelled on Monday after infrastructure was vandalized A number of high-speed trains travelling between Frankfurt and Stuttgart were canceled on Monday after key infrastructure was…

The Institut International d’Etudes Bancaires was set up in the aftermath of World War II to foster closer ties among financial institutions For more than seven decades, a secretive and highly influential…

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…

Land Of Spooks And Shills And Sheeple Submitted by Donald Jeffries via “I Protest”, Trust is a rare commodity in today’s world. Maybe it always has been. I remember trusting some older…

Where Tuning Into The Radio Is More (& Less) Popular To mark World Radio Day, Anna Fleck created the following chart looks at data from Statista’s Consumer Insights macro survey on where radio lovers reside. Of…

Higher Education Reform, Civic Thought, And Liberal Education Authored by Peter Berkowitz via RealClear Wire, For decades, American colleges and universities have desperately needed reform. The urgency of the moment may create…

The One Border Question Dems Can’t Answer Authored by Frank Miele via RealClear Wire, Conservative Republicans have managed to defeat the fake border security bill wrapped in a political ploy inside of…

Over 70% Of Service Members Say They Felt ‘Coerced’ Into Taking COVID-19 Vaccine: Survey Over 70% of individuals serving in the US military who responded to an Epoch Times survey said they…

Waste Of The Day: Despite Targeted Funding, California Prisons Didn’t Fix Disciplinary Process Authored by Adam Andrzejewski via RealClear Wire, Topline: California’s prison system received $34 million to institute reforms related to…

Hezbollah Chief Threatens More Displacement Of Northern Israel Residents As France Delivers Peace Plan France has issued a written proposal to Lebanon which seeks to de-escalate the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah…

The ‘No-Coiner’ Texts Arrive: A Bull Market Beckons Authored by Santiago Varela via Bitcoin Magazine, The subtle shift in social media conversations. The mentions in the mainstream media: “Bitcoin will now be…

Problem Of Rafah Is ‘Over A Million Civilians & 10,000 Hamas Operatives’; IDF Says China has continued showing its disapproval of Israel’s military operations in the Gaza Strip, which has also been…

US CBDC & The Western Sanctions Against Russia Authored by ‘Sundance’ via The Last Refuge, I made the notation during the Tucker Carlson interview that Russian President Vladimir Putin knows everything below in this…

“Rapes, Robberies, & Shootout” At Darién Gap As Biden’s Border Crisis Spreads Chaos As migrants from Central America surge north in hopes of reaching the US southern border, there’s a dangerous stretch…

Diversity Training Increases Prejudice An “Activates Bigotry” Among Participants, New Study Says Authored by Lee Harding via The Epoch Times, Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training is divisive and counter-productive and can…

Israel Blocks Flour Bibi Promised Biden Would Enter Gaza, Latest In Growing Rift There are more problems than meets the eye between the Biden White House and the Israeli government, at a moment…

Catherine Herridge has been released from employment with CBS as a round of job terminations and cost cutting initiatives have been triggered. Many people liked Herridge and she seemed to do a…

The move marks the first impeachment of a cabinet secretary since 1876 The US House of Representatives has voted to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, accusing him of failing to…

Republican senators Boozman, Capito, Cassidy, Collins, Cramer, Crapo, Hoeven, Ernst, Grassley, Kennedy, McConnell, Moran, Murkowski, Romney, Rounds, Sullivan, Thune, Tillis, Wicker, Young, and Cornyn all voted to send $95 billion to Ukraine,…

AMZN Shares Slide As Bezos Continues To Sell – Total Now $4BN Amazon’s billionaire founder Jeff Bezos has sold another $2bn worth of the company’s stock, bringing the total value of shares…

ZeroHedge Live Debate: The Fate Of The US Dollar ZeroHedge presents the latest debate in our series aimed at bringing long-form discussions on controversial topics back into the ideologically-siloed and echo-chambered media…

Study Finds Handwriting Increases Brain Connectivity Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In our digital age, laptops and smartphones have become appendages for students and professionals alike. But…

CIA Had Foreign Allies Spy On Trump Team, Triggering Russia Collusion Hoax, Sources Say Authored by Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, and Alex Gutentag via Public substack, Last year, John Durham, a special…

Search Trends For “Return Apple Vision Pro” Erupt As Users Complain Less than two weeks after the debut of Apple’s Vision Pro mixed-reality headset, priced at nearly $4,000, Google search trends indicate…

LYFT Adds $3 Billion In Market Cap, Then Crashes, As Idiot Algos Get Duped By Typo In Earnings Release For a perfect example of just how completely broken everything has become in…

Washington’s role in the military alliance is a “sacred commitment,” not a “burden,” according to the US president US President Joe Biden slammed his predecessor Donald Trump’s recent comments regarding NATO on…

The Super Bowl Shows A Way Forward Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, Public media culture has been mostly something to dread for several years at least. So we watched…

VP Kamala Harris Says “I Am Ready To Serve” As Biden’s Brain Comes Under Scrutiny “I am ready to serve. There’s no question about that,” Vice President Kamala Harris told the Wall Street Journal when asked…

Ottawa has cited a technicality in rejecting Moscow’s request for Yaroslav Hunka The Canadian government has declined Russia’s warrant for SS veteran Yaroslav Hunka, citing the lack of an extradition treaty between…

Not A Single Child Tested Proficient In Math In 67 Illinois Schools By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner of Wirepoints Last week, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Jordan Peterson helped expose the…

WTI Extends Gains After Big Product Draws; Pump-Prices Set To Soar Oil prices extended recent gains today, despite chaos across other asset classes, on concerns supply could be disrupted as Iran tested…

“Desperate Lunatics” Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, Think About It “It’s not enough to be against globalism or the WEF, we have to also be for something better.” – Tom…

The Knesset has advanced a censorship bill prepared back in October Israel has taken a step closer to banning Al Jazeera, after accusing a reporter for the Qatar-based network of working for…

The botched 2020 gender-reveal party sparked the El Dorado Fire, which killed a veteran firefighter and destroyed multiple homes The couple behind the deadly 2020 El Dorado Fire in California, Refugio Jimenez…

A recent report shows just how deep the split between wealthy university graduates and the rest is From their views on climate change to their views on education, the detached top one…

WSJ Reports Walmart In Talks To Buy Vizio TV Shares of Vizio Inc. surged in late afternoon trading following a report by the Wall Street Journal that Walmart is interested in acquiring the smart television…

The Fed Is Very Concerned Over Spending and Interest On The National Debt Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, A San Francisco Fed report highlights concern over Congressional spending that’s out of…

Critics have denounced US President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign for using a platform it banned federal employees from using US President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign has been skewered for flaunting its new…

Forty years ago, on February 13, 1984, Konstantin Chernenko became General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Remembered by his contemporaries as a sickly old man who moved with difficulty and had…

The EV Slowdown Isn’t Over Yet, RBC Says For the better part of the last 6 months we have been documenting the slowdown in EV adoption, with major legacy automakers scaling back…

Kiev has shifted to holding the line, Aleksandr Syrsky told German media Ukraine has “transitioned” from offensive operations to strategic defense, General Aleksandr Syrsky has told the German TV channel ZDF in…

Drivers for ride-sharing apps claim they face unfair working conditions and low pay Thousands of US and UK drivers for so-called ‘gig economy’ platforms like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and others plan to…

Holding Patterns By Jane Foley, Head of FX Strategy at Rabobank Right from the very first week of the year, Fed officials and other G10 central bankers have had reasonable success in…

The country risks ‘reputation damage’ over its controversial plan to send immigrants to Rwanda for processing A UK parliamentary committee has warned the British government against deporting immigrants to Rwanda, saying a…

Officials within the Church of England have called on worshipers to remember that “everyone is human,” even in times of war Christians in the UK have been urged to avoid language that…

Rickards: Why Gold? Why Now? Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Despite the Wall Street happy talk about the Federal Reserve winning the battle against inflation, that battle has not been won….

It’s Feeling Like “Last Days Of Rome”: Market Heading For Giant Gamma-Squeeze Blow-Off Top By Simon White, Bloomberg markets live reporter and strategist Options-driven fever of investors fearful of missing out in…

World Stumbles Into “More Dangerous Decade” As Defense Spending Soars, Says Military Think Tank As the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is less than two weeks away, a British military…

Do Call Skews Signal Bulls Are Maxed Out? Learn how volatility is really driving markets during today’s free SpotGamma webinar here at 1pm EST:  Volatility, Avoid the Riptide. With equities surging higher,…

Trump’s immigration crackdown would use federal officials and obscure laws to deport undocumented migrants, a report has claimed Former US President Donald Trump will seek to impose a series of aggressive restrictions…

The Israeli military has accused a Palestinian journalist working with Al Jazeera of also operating as a senior Hamas militant Mohamed Washah, a Palestinian journalist working for Al Jazeera is simultaneously working…

NATO can’t depend on US protection forever, a prominent member of Chancellor Scholz’s party has said US allies in Europe should not have to keep relying on Washington for a nuclear deterrent,…

Another Variant, Another Desperate Cry For Masks Authored by Ian Miller via The Brownstone Institute, For those of us on the side of sanity, reason, and data-driven evidence, the refusal of Covid…

A senior official with the fund has called for an assessment of the legal grounds before the immobilized reserves are seized Any steps towards seizing Russia’s frozen reserves should be backed by…

Hindenburg Highlights “Worthless AI Shell Game” Renovaro Led By CEO With Ties To NIH, Fauci Activist short seller Hindenburg Research released a new report this morning on Renovaro BioSciences, the second go-round…

The expansion of Israel’s ground operations in the southern Gaza city may further violate Palestinians’ rights, Johannesburg says South Africa urged the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to evaluate whether Israel’s planned…

“Whites Are Psychopathic”: UC Speaker Uses Black History MonthTo Launch Into Racist Attacks Authored by Jonathan Turley, The University of California (San Francisco) is under fire this week after hosting a racist speaker who attacked white…

Divergences And Other Technical Warnings Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, While the bulls remain entirely in control of the market narrative, divergences and other technical warnings suggest becoming more cautious may…

West Jerusalem must carefully consider any military action in Rafah, Foreign Secretary David Cameron has said Israel must carefully consider the consequences of further military action in Rafah in southern Gaza, which…

Chuck Schumer has rejoiced following a vote to continue funding the Ukraine conflict American senators from both parties coming out in support of aid for Ukraine and Israel is a powerful signal…

The Democratic and Republican rivals are just a “couple of old guys” hiding their senility, Mitt Romney says President Joe Biden and his likely election opponent Donald Trump are avoiding debates for…

A painting of adult actress Sasha Grey dressed as a winter character was spotted on fence near local education department building A portrait of former American porn star Sasha Grey has been…

For two years politicians and analysts have offered grim forecasts that never seem to materialize Ever since Russia’s military operation against Ukraine began in February of 2022, there has been a steady…

Estonia’s economy has been among the worst performers in the EU, a circumstance Kaja Kallas partly attributes to citizens overly focusing on their grievances Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has urged her…

Josep Borrell has urged the US to send “less arms” to Israel Supplies of weapons to Israel should be reduced as the country’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ignored international calls to…

NYC Mayor In $700 Fendi Scarf Tells Residents To Stay Home As Nor’easter Dumps Snow A nor’easter is blanketing parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast with snow on Tuesday morning, creating messy…

Houston PD Criticized For Agonizing Over Church Shooter’s Correct Pronouns Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, The Houston Police Department received criticism for agonizing over the culprit’s correct pronouns after an…

Resident is reportedly linked to Gurpatwant Singh Pannun who has been accused of making threats against India Police in Ontario, Canada, are investigating a shooting at the house of a Sikh separatist…

Senate Passes $95BN Ukraine-Israel Package But Johnson Signals Blockade In House Early Tuesday Senate Democrats and Republicans joined to pass the $95 billion national security package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan after…

Stocks, Bonds, & Bullion Puke After Hot CPI Print Hammers Rate-Cut Hopes “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth…” The soft-landing, Fed-will-cut-and-save-us-all, but mega-cap-tech-to-the-moon narrative just got punched…

The presidential candidate has renewed his verbal attack on low-spending members of the military bloc The rest of NATO needs to send as much aid to Ukraine as the US does, Donald…

Moscow has launched a criminal investigation into Estonia’s Kaja Kallas over the destruction of Soviet WWII memorials Russian authorities have issued arrest warrants for Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and Secretary of…

CPI Prints Hotter Than Expected In January As SuperCore Soared Expectations were for a big drop in the YoY consumer price index (from +3.4% to +2.9%) but instead it surprised to the…

Europe’s Biggest Tech Stock Just Flash-Crashed At the start of European trading this morning, ASML Holdings – Europe’s largest tech stocks – flash-crashed over 7% from the close last night, on massive…

Futures Slump, Tech Giants Drop Ahead Of CPI Report US equity futures and European bourses slumped before the release of closely watched CPI data that could set the stage for the timing of…

The leading cryptocurrency surged above the $50,000 mark this week The price of Bitcoin broke over the $50,000 mark on Monday, for the first time in two years amid investor excitement over…

JetBlue Shares Soar After Icahn Takes 9.91% Stake  JetBlue Airways Corp. is flying a new course after its move to acquire Spirit Airlines, Inc. was nuked by a federal judge last month. News…

Vienna has a long-term contract with Gazprom that runs until 2040 Austria’s plans to end a long-term contract for Russian gas would cause energy prices to “explode” and would fuel inflation in…

Are “Dragon Babies” Bumping Up China’s Birth Rate? The year of the dragon commenced Saturday according to the Chinese lunar calendar. Carrying the zodiac sign that has been associated with the birth…