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Around 1,000 national guardsmen will help Texas fortify the US-Mexico border Governor Ron DeSantis has announced that he will deploy members of the Florida National Guard to assist Texas in repelling an…

Kiev lost 23,000 troops and 3,000 pieces of military equipment last month, Moscow’s defense minister has said Ukraine lost more than 23,000 troops in January, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said,…

OPEC+ Members Will Review Extending Production Cuts In Early March  Last November, OPEC+ agreed to voluntary oil production cuts totaling about 2.2 million barrels per day. These cuts begin in the first quarter of…

Elizabeth Rosenberg is reportedly leaving the US Treasury Department for the private sector One of the main architects of the US sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukraine conflict is leaving her…

Treasuries May Look Past Non-Farm Payrolls To Powell’s Interview Authored by Ven Ram, Bloomberg cross-asset strategist, The non-farm payrolls data for January is unlikely to move the needle much for the rates…

The incident in Kenya’s capital has killed at least three people and left hundreds more injured At least three people are dead and nearly 300 others have been left injured in Kenya’s…

Futures Soar After Tech Earnings Blowout, Putting S&P On Track For Gains In 13 Of Past 14 Weeks US futures and global markets rallied on Friday after tech megacaps Meta and Amazon.com posted…

Cocoa Prices Hit 46-Year High As Drought Concerns Threaten West African Crops Cocoa prices climbed to a 46-year high this week in New York as concerns mount that seasonal Harmattan winds across…

January Jobs Shocker: Payrolls Explode By 353K, Double The Expected And Higher Than All Estimate As Wages Surge Well, we did warn readers that anyone hoping for a negative print in an…

The Russian president condemned Kiev’s forces for firing at ambulances in Donetsk The Armed Forces of Ukraine have turned into a terrorist organization that intentionally attacks ambulances, Russian President Vladimir Putin has…

A secret plan has been hatched in Washington to bring about the downfall of the Ukrainian leader, a veteran journalist claims Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky wants to fire his top general, Valery…

The Hungarian leader personally met with demonstrators in Brussels ahead of an EU summit on Ukraine aid Close associates of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban are reportedly responsible for organizing the farmers’…

Fugitive Wanted For London Acid Attack That Injured 12 Is Afghan Asylum-Seeker & Convicted Sex Offender Authored by Thomas Brooke via ReMix News, The prime suspect being sought by police in connection…

Las Vegas Super Bowl Tickets Topped A Record $9,800 A Seat Average ticket prices for this year’s Super Bowl matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers topped as much…

Iraqi Parliament Is Calling To Ditch US Dollar For Oil Trade Via The Cradle The Finance Committee in the Iraqi parliament made a statement on Wednesday calling for the sale of oil in currencies…

Migrants Who Beat NYPD Cops Released With No Bail, Given Free Tickets To California Under Fake Names Four out of five illegal migrants who were caught on camera attacking two NYPD cops…

New applications have been submitted to establish facilities on the continent, according to Moscow’s Rossotrudnichestvo agency More than ten new Russian language and culture centers, or ‘Russian Houses’, are set to be…

Pretoria’s foreign minister says hundreds of civilians have been killed in the besieged Gaza since last week’s ruling South Africa has accused Israel of disregarding a ruling by the International Court of…

Is This The World’s Most-Expensive And Most-Delayed Power-Project? Authored by Leonard Hyman and William Tilles via OilPrice.com, Yes, they are still building the Hinckley Point C nuclear power station in the United…

British Zennials Panic Over Talk Of Potential Military Conscription For War With Russia Just as American Zennials took to social media a few months ago to express their outrage after rumors swirled…

The EU’s industrial powerhouse is plagued by falling orders and growing production costs Germany’s automobile industry is in decline and the country needs assistance to salvage it, Russian President Vladimir Putin said…

Ukrainian leaders feel a “negative aftertaste” after the failed counteroffensive last year, Mikhail Podoliak has said Ukraine’s much-hyped summer counteroffensive ended in disappointment, Mikhail Podoliak, a senior adviser to President Zelensky, has…

Ukraine’s top military commander reportedly warned the president on Monday that Kiev could expect heavy losses to continue in 2024 Kiev should brace itself for another year of extensive casualties, Ukraine’s top…

Nearly $5 billion in interest was generated last year, the company has revealed Major EU clearinghouse Euroclear has revealed that it accrued almost $5 billion in profit from frozen Russian assets last…

Food security is key to the continent’s self-reliance and more imports are not the solution Today’s world is going through major transformations. Among the most sensitive issues remains the availability of food…

Ecuador must understand that sending Russian-made arms to the US violates existing agreements, the Foreign Ministry has warned Ecuador has made a “rash decision” by caving in to US demands for its…

Beijing has warned of ‘negative impacts’ as Kiev continues to target businesses that deal with Russia Beijing has demanded that Ukraine immediately remove all 14 Chinese companies from a list of businesses…

The $4 billion deal was reportedly stalled in Congress over an alleged Indian murder plot on American soil The US has cleared the sale of 31 drones and related equipment to India, worth almost $4…

Swiss City Of Lugano Embraces Diverse Digital Currency Future Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com, A future where Bitcoin, stablecoins and central bank digital currencies can coexist in the Swiss city of Lugano…

World’s Largest Uranium Producer Warns Of Production Woes The world’s largest producer of uranium issued a warning about production delays and escalating shortages of essential chemicals needed for extracting the heavy metal,…

Lloyd Austin has acknowledged that he did not handle his cancer diagnosis properly US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has apologized for attempting to hide his bout with cancer from the American people…

Majority Of Germans Reject Left-Liberal Government’s Radical Immigration Law Via Remix News, A majority of Germans oppose the government’s radical immigration law, which will allow up to 2.5 million foreigners to obtain…

The sector recorded a 1.7% drop during the Christmas season alone, official statistics show German retail sales saw a sharp drop in 2023, according to preliminary data released on Wednesday by Germany’s…

The moves reportedly follow warnings of secondary sanctions by Washington Turkish banks have started closing Russian corporate accounts and tightening policies for individuals following threats of secondary sanctions from the US, business…

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…

Escobar: Will The Hegemon Ever Accept A New Westphalian World Order? Authored by Pepe Escobar, A new book by scholar Glenn Diesen, The Ukraine War & The Eurasian World Order,  out in mid-February, asks…

Obama and Biden like Iran.  Obama and Biden are facilitating a pro-Iran policy.  Obama and Biden don’t want to do anything against the interests of their pro-Iran position.  That’s the simple baseline….

Tucker Carlson interviews Bret Weinstein who traveled to the Darien Gap to understand who’s behind the invasion of our country. His conclusion: “it’s not a friendly migration.” He sits down with Tucker…

Ukraine Publishes Video Showing Major Sea Drone Attack Of Russian Ship Off Crimea Even as the frontlines are stalled and look bleak, Ukrainian forces have continued to strike both deep into Russian…

Terror By Night: Who Pays The Price For Botched SWAT Team Raids? We Do… Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “We’re all potential victims.” – Peter Christ, retired…

January Jobs Preview: Market Wants A Miss As It Raises Rate Cut Odds With the QRA, Fed and all megatech earnings now in the rearview mirror, the busiest week of the quarter…

GM Shifting From EVs To Plug-In Hybrids, Following Industry Trends Don’t tell the Biden administration, but it’s almost as if the free market is capable of arriving at the most efficient solutions…

I have continually said, “The DNC wants power. The RNC wants money. The DNC uses money to get power. The RNC uses power to get money. The ideology of the DNC drives their donor activity. The donor activity of the RNC drives their ideology. This is the difference between the two clubs, two wings of the same…

Putin Envisages Building A New Veteran-Led Russian Elite Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The Russian leader knows the “new guard” of veterans haven’t been tainted by a life’s worth of Western-leaning…

The popular farmer and trucker protests in the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Romania, France and now Belgium are continuing. Sensing the problematic nature of the uprising, watching the protests escalate to direct confrontation…

Aozora Delivers Grim Reminder Of Japan Carry-Trade Risk By Masaki Kondo, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist Aozora Bank’s shock loss projection serves as a reminder of just how little room the…

It’s Biden Vs Texas (And Texas Is Right) Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, In what can only be a surprising move, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has openly defied the White…

Kiev severely lacks airpower and yet reportedly refused to accept two squadrons of Australia’s retired F/A-18 Hornets A senior Ukrainian Air Force official had brushed off Australian fighter-bombers as rubbish Canberra wanted…

What Is Nikki Haley Doing? Authored by Sean Trende via RealClear Wire, Before we start evaluating what Nikki Haley’s plans are for the Republican primaries, let’s get one thing out of the…

‘IRGC Is Getting Out Of Dodge’: Biden Has Telegraphed Syria-Iraq Response Too Much US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in a Thursday press briefing claimed that “Our soldiers were killed by Iranian agents,”…

Trump Says He’s Interviewing Lawyers For E. Jean Carroll Appeal Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former President Donald Trump said he is interviewing attorneys to appeal a…

US lawmakers pressed the tech mogul to answer for damage inflicted on youths through his platforms Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg offered an apology to victims and relatives of people harmed by his…

Today’s Censorship Is Personal Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, The United States has the distinction the world over for being a home to the First Amendment, which guarantees free…

Double Standard: Pro-Life Activists Could Get 11 Years In Prison For Protesting Abortion Clinic One of the surest signs that a society is falling into authoritarianism is the development of double standards…

A Soft Landing Is A Fairytale Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times, The last time the phrase “soft landing” was this popular on the internet was on the eve of…

Joshua Schulte has been accused of the largest theft of classified data in the spy agency’s history A former CIA software engineer who embarrassed his employer by allegedy giving a massive trove of…

The only reason this story gained traction was because CCTV video was involved.  With tens of millions of violent illegal aliens throughout the country, just imagine how much crime is occurring without…

Apple Slides On Plunging China Sales, Service Revenue Miss, Disappointing Guidance After Amazon and Facebook reported blowout earnings, sending their stocks up double digits after hours and soothing the bitter taste left…

Ukraine Celebrates EU Approval Of $54BN Aid Package After Hungary’s Orban Caved “We have a deal,” European Council President Charles Michel announced on X Thursday, declaring that all 27 European Union countries have…

The two countries have pledged to collaborate in confronting threats posed by the Pentagon’s “biological activities” The Russian and Chinese governments have held an inter-agency meeting in Beijing to share their assessments…

California Legislature Introduces Slavery Reparations Bills Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, On Wednesday, lawmakers in the state of California introduced a series of bills aimed at providing reparations for historical…

Trump Prosecutor Avoids Tainting Fani, Gives Booty To Estranged Wife In Last-Minute Divorce Settlement Trump special prosecutor Nathan Wade will avoid testifying about his alleged relationship with Fulton County District Attorney Fani…

New Ad Agency Fights Back Against The Woke Advertising Cabal Authored by Lee Taylor of Uncommon Sense via the Daily Sceptic (emphasis ours), Are we in the final stages of mainstream media…

Amazon Soars After Beating Estimates, AWS Profit Impresses, Guides Higher With The Magnificent 7 stocks getting clubbed in recent days after disappointing earnings from TSLA and GOOGL and meh results from MSFT,…

How To Ensure A Big, Ugly War With Iran; VDH Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Iranian-backed militias have attacked American installations and forces in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan some…

Aidan Maese-Czeropski, an aide to Democrat Senator Ben Cardin, filmed himself having anal sex in the Hart Senate Office Building hearing room.  The video was shared on a platform where gay men…

‘Blood On Your Hands’: Mark Zuckerberg Obliterated As Tech CEOs Grilled Over Child Sexual Exploitation Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other social media executives were grilled over the issue of child sexual…

The US commander-in-chief has issued an executive order aiming to crack down on violence in the West Bank US President Joe Biden – facing anger from pro-Palestinian voters over his support for…

A ‘Well-Funded Cabal’ Influenced The 2020 Election—What Lies Ahead In 2024? Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Shutterstock) News Analysis While…

American forces are already gearing up to respond to the attack, according to multiple media reports Washington believes that Iran manufactured the drone which was used to kill three American soldiers in…

Health and education workers will no longer have to take regular shots against the virus The Russian Health Ministry has significantly relaxed its requirements for compulsory vaccination against Covid-19, declaring most people…

Stocks Soar Amid Hopes Regional Bank Crisis Will Lead To Early Rate Cut, More Fed Easing Another rollercoaster day for stocks. Following on the biggest drop for the S&P since September thanks…

Elon Musk Says Shareholders Will Vote On Reincorporating Tesla In Texas Elon Musk is picking up and moving to Texas…again. Having already moved Tesla’s manufacturing to the Lone Star state and in…

Biden’s Clueless Energy Policies May Cost Him Reelection Authored by Louis Navellier via The Epoch Times, The recent Arctic blast was great for natural gas demand, but last Friday it shocked me…

Qatari negotiators are awaiting a final response from Hamas officials, who have seemingly welcomed the plan Israel has agreed to a ceasefire proposal that would halt its war with Hamas, Al Jazeera…

Institutions Sold Stocks At Record Pace As S&P Hit All Time High After a near record stretch of euphoria, in which the S&P rose in 12 of the past 13 weeks during…

The Best And Worst Performing Assets Of January 2024 Despite the S&P hitting multiple all-time highs toward the end of the month, January was a mixed month as far as markets were…

An investigation of the ex-staffer who shared a video of himself performing lewd acts in a Senate hearing room has been closed US Capitol Police have declined to make any arrests after…

Both potential replacements for Valery Zaluzhny have declined to take his place, the German paper has claimed Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has been unable to fire the nation’s top general, Valery Zaluzhny,…

Rep Massie Hints At Impeachment If Biden Starts A War With Iran Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on Wednesday appeared to threaten to pursue the impeachment of…

Mass Media Die-Off Continues As Ambitious ‘Non-Partisan’ Start-Up Suddenly Goes Dark A news website launched just 8 months ago with $50 million and tall ambitions to rival the likes of the Los…

Premature Reports Of ‘Positive’ Breakthrough On Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal Update(1335ET): Oil has reversed, and is now surging, with Bloomberg providing the following limited details of what appears to be positive momentum, but…

Princeton ‘State Of The University’-Letter Claims Critics Use Anti-Semitism Concerns “As A Stalking Horse For Other Agendas” Authored by Daniel Idfresne via Campus Reform, Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber said certain critics…

Jimmy Kimmel Suggests Joe Biden Having Dementia Is A “Crazy Conspiracy Theory” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, During a monologue about the Taylor Swift psyop, late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel…

The bombing campaign may last for several weeks, American officials have said The US will carry out a series of strikes on “Iranian personnel and facilities” in Iraq and Syria in response…

Regional Bank Stocks Are Crashing Again… Yesterday it was NYCB that grabbed the headlines and spoiled Powell’s day. As we detailed here (and here), the banking crisis never went away and it…

COVID Inquiry Finds Lockdowns Were Terrible, While Reporters Call Bull**it On Government’s Lead Academic Advisor Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The Disinformation Chronicle, While America has chosen to ignore most COVID…

US To Launch Multi-Day Strikes Against ‘Iranian Targets’ Across Syria, Iraq The Biden administration is planning to launch a days-long or even potentially weeks-long bombing campaign on Iranian assets across the Middle…

Russians must start having more children so that their cities don’t become like Marseille, said the head of the city of Nevinnomyssk Men must till the soil and women must give birth,…

The incumbent president has opened up a lead over challenger Donald Trump in the 2024 US election race Female voters have propelled US President Joe Biden into the lead over Republican candidate…

The Most Litigious Place On Earth: Disney Loses Major Challenge To Florida Authored by Jonathan Turley, Last year, I criticized the lawsuit of Disney against Florida after losing its special status in the former…

Dmitry Rybolovlev had sued the auction house Sotheby’s for allegedly helping an art dealer defraud him A New York jury has ruled against Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev in a high-profile court case…

Beware The Subsides Of March By Michael Every of Rabobank Central bankers are no soothsayers: and what Fed Chair Powell said didn’t soothe. He didn’t cut rates, as the pink, dayglo-frosted end…

New Delhi is experimenting with radioisotopes to charge its robotic missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond Indians are ecstatic over their space program’s string of successes in recent months. The Indian…

New Delhi shipped engineering goods worth over $1 billion to Moscow last year, according to an Indian trade council  India’s exports of engineering goods to Russia more than doubled to over $1…

Manufacturing Surveys Show Rebound In January, But Prices Are Soaring Against a backdrop of strengthening ‘hard’ data, manufacturing surveys signaled a strong rebound in January. S&P Global’s Manufacturing PMI spiked from 47.9…

The remains of over 200 people thought to have been victims of ethnic cleansing in 1994 have been unearthed in recent days The remains of dozens of victims of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide…

The countries do not want to “stumble upon themselves” as a result of an international investigation, Dmitry Peskov has said The US and its allies have shown little interest in launching an…

New Delhi has announced an interim budget for the next fiscal year ahead of a general election in May The Indian government on Thursday presented the country’s interim budget for the 2024-25…