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Massive New Russian Natural Gas Pipeline To China Faces Delays By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Russia and China are still at odds over the costs and delivery prices of a new major…

The State Of The World’s 7,168 Languages What are the roots of a living language, and how many are at risk of extinction? This graphic via Visual Capitalist, from Stephen Jones, CEO of…

The comments come days after Kiev uncovered another major arms corruption case The Ukrainian military and politicians do not believe in victory, and expecting defeat, are stealing Western aid on a massive…

Watch: Israeli Commandos Disguised As Medics Raid West Bank Hospital, Killed 3 Palestinian Militants Via Middle East Eye Israeli commandos disguised as medics, patients and other Palestinian civilians raided a hospital in the occupied West Bank…

Antonio Guterres is responsible for the actions of refugee agency workers whom Israel accuses of aiding Hamas, Israel Katz said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres must resign from the post that he has…

Orban Hits Back After Secret EU Plan ‘To Sabotage Hungarian Economy’ Revealed “Hungary does not allow blackmail,” Hungary’s minister for European affairs, Janos Boka, has lashed out in response to the FT-reported secret…

The politician and his wife were accused of selling gifts in state possession during his premiership from 2018-2022 Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife have been sentenced to 14…

Testing for the weapon was only recently concluded, and it has yet to reach Washington’s own inventories The US military is planning to provide Ukraine with its first shipment of a new,…

The South American country’s economy is now projected to contract for a second straight year The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised down its economic outlook for Argentina, forecasting a second straight…

Counterfeit notes worth over €5 million were discovered last year, according to the Bundesbank The number of fake euro banknotes in circulation in Germany increased sharply last year compared to previous years,…

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…

Greg Abbott And The Invasion Of The Border Snatchers Submitted by Donald Jeffries via “I Protest”, We’ve come a long way from the Boston Tea Party. What would happen to “extremists” throwing…

Monitor’s Report In Fraud Case Contains “Factual Inaccuracies”, Is “Disingenuous” Says Trump Attorney Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Attorneys for former President Donald Trump on Monday responded…

Russell Brand is a former lefty who took the red pill and over time joined the great awakening.  As an outcome of his current perspectives and influence, Brand is currently labeled a…

FOMC Preview: No More Tightening Bias While the market is split about the March – and subsequent – Fed meetings, tomoorrow’s FOMC decision is clear: the Fed will keep rates unchanged at…

Utah Passes Bills Banning DEI And Men Using Women’s Bathrooms Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Utah Legislature on Jan. 26 approved two conservative-minded bills that prompted…

Calling Someone ‘Transphobic’ In Florida Could Cost Accusers $35,000 Or More Under New Law In what could very clearly become the slipperiest of slopes, a bill introduced in the Florida Senate would…

French President Emmanuel Macron is reminding the European leaders of their responsibility to fund the multinational corporate war machine, especially if the United States doesn’t find a way to send $60 billion…

US officials have accused Ankara of threatening NATO’s security with its purchase of a Russian air defense platform The United States will only allow Türkiye to return to the F-35 program if…

Republican Senators are very worried about the bloom coming off the border security ruse, and as a consequence, their Ukraine money might not be delivered.  The multinational corporations, military contractors and Blackrock…

More Israeli Troops To ‘Go Into Action’ Soon At Lebanon Border: Defense Minister As the region braces for the consequences of major US airstrikes on ‘Iranian proxies’ in Iraq and Syria, Israel’s…

Foreign ministry was reacting to media reports that New Delhi is ‘pivoting away’ from its key partner for weaponry systems New Delhi continues to be interested in defense cooperation with Moscow, Deputy…

The Beltway Judge Hearing Trump Cases And Her Anti-Trump, Anti-Kavanaugh Husband Authored by Julie Kelly via RealClear Wire, Washington glitterati assembled at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in…

Taxpayer-Funded Electric Busses Are Sitting Broken Down And Idled Across The Country Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but the billions of dollars we’re spending to convert the country to…

Delaware Court Judge Voids Elon Musk’s $55BN Compensation Package A Delaware judge voided Elon Musk’s $55 billion pay package after a Tesla shareholder brought a case to court claiming it was excessive….

So Many Problems Continue To Plague The EV Industry Authored by Kristen Walker via RealClear Wire, The fourth quarter of 2023 was not good for Electric Vehicles (EV). Multiple manufacturers decided to…

Biden Admin Alters Course On Gas Stove Rule After Months Of Negotiations Authored by Allen Zhong via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Energy (DOE) released a watered-down finalized gas…

American F-16 Fighter Jet Crashes Off South Korea A US F-16 fighter jet has crashed in waters off South Korea’s west coast on Wednesday morning local time, according to initial reporting by…

Because of course he did….  Both the prosecutor Nathan Wade and District Attorney Fani Willis were on the cusp of losing control of their fabricated case against Donald Trump, because a hearing…

The incident reportedly occurred near a US Air Force base on the country’s southwestern coast An American F-16 fighter jet has crashed in waters near South Korea, sources told Yonhap News. The…

This Is The Way Mega-Cap Tech Earnings Begin: Not With A Bang But A Whimper After a two month meltup which priced-in not one but several quarter of sheer earnings (and guidance)…

Kiev’s top diplomat has admitted that Budapest is protecting Hungarian national interests Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba believes that the Hungarian leadership is not “pro-Russian,” despite some Western media and politicians’ attempts…

New York May Screw 4,000 Legal Residents Out Of A Job – So Migrants Can Have Them In a move that would once again punish those who entered the country legally, the…

CDC Issues ‘Health Alert’ Over Measles Cases Across US Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday sent a…

“It Must Be Stopped”: 12 Agriculture Officials Warn Largest U.S. Banks About Net Zero Agenda A dozen Republican state agriculture commissioners have penned a letter to six U.S. megabanks, informing them that their…

Arizona GOP Selects New Chair After Attempted Kari Lake Bribery Scandal Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Arizona Republican Party selected a new Trump-endorsed chair on Jan….

There’s always this interesting debate within Republican circles about the state of Texas.  The essential question is always about whether Texas is really ‘conservative’, like Ken Paxton, or whether Texas is really…

Valery Zaluzhny allegedly refused to step down voluntarily Ukrainian commander-in-chief, Valery Zaluzhny, has rejected President Vladimir Zelensky’s “offer” to resign and become the national security chief instead, the Financial Times and the…

Nuland ‘Sets The Record Straight’ On US Forever Occupation Of Syria For several days there has been a flurry of reports in both independent and mainstream media outlets suggesting the US could…

No Longer Craving Murder, Rapper Snoop Dogg Now Has “Nothing But Love And Respect” For Trump Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Rap star Snoop Dogg has expressed…

Speaker Johnson Rejects Pending Border Deal: Illegal Crossings “Must Be Zero” After years of insisting otherwise, the White House now calls the situation at the southern border “a crisis.” The administration had…

Things are going to roll out exactly the way they are easily predicted to roll out, as long as people stop pretending. An NBC article highlights South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn as…

Google Tumbles After Ad Revenue, Operating Income Miss As noted in our preview, JPM’s head of TMT trading said that GOOGLe is “probably the most controversial name of the group through our…

The bloc’s chief diplomat called for more weapons for Kiev and more sanctions on Moscow EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has rejected the notion of peace talks and a ceasefire in Ukraine,…

MSFT Shares Unimpresssed By Big Top- & Bottom-Line Beat With Microsoft standing alone above the $3 trillion market-cap level (after AAPL’s recent weakness), all eyes are on tonight’s earnings for any signs…

Yields JOLTed Higher, Stocks Lower Ahead Of Fed/Treasury Higher-than-expected job openings from the JOLTS survey lifted bond yields (optimistically) today but the real story was in the quits – which dropped to…

Can The Fed Cut Rates With Financial Conditions So Easy? Via Global Macro Monitor, The Fed’s attempt to tighten monetary policy is being cannibalized by the private sector’s accelerated easing of financial…

WTI Holds Gains After Another Big Inventory Draw At Cushing Oil prices ended higher after WTI bounced off $76, up to $78, reversing the prior day’s losses from concerns about China’s economy…

People across the country have been experiencing issues with access to websites on the national .ru domain Russia experienced a massive internet outage on Tuesday as people in several parts of the…

Senior US officials have reportedly pressed Beijing on alleged election meddling multiple times in recent months US President Joe Biden asked his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, not to “interfere in the 2024…

Biden’s Trojan Horse Immigration Deal Would Allow Another 1.8 Million Migrants Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Republican Senators are willing to sell the farm for what would be a terrible deal…

Despite the extremely high level of support for the war in Israeli society, some Israelis advocate peace and condemn their government For more than 115 days Israel has been fighting in Gaza,…

Russia Hit With Widespread Internet Outage Nationwide Russia’s Digital Ministry announced on messenger platform Telegram that a “technical problem” has led to widespread internet outages across the country.  “A technical problem has arisen affecting…

Teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva was banned this week for four years over a doping violation ahead of the 2022 Beijing Olympics The United States has replaced Russia as the reigning Olympic…

For-Profit Ed Company Adtalem Shares Fall 20% After Being Targeted By Activist Short-Seller Safkhet Activist short seller Safkhet Capital Management LLC said this morning that it is targeting shares of for profit education…

Struggling For Recruits, US Navy Lowers Education Standard Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Navy said on Jan. 26 that it will start to enlist those…

The US president still has not revealed what form this response will take US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that he has decided how to respond to a deadly drone attack…

Kiev will barely be able to fulfill non-military spending obligations without promised Western aid, Politico reported Ukraine will barely be able to continue its conflict with Russia and sustain its economy without…

The agency has stepped up recruitment to counter Russia and China, William Burns wrote in an op-ed The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has admitted that his country no longer…

The Fed Prepares For A Bank Crisis While Telling Americans The Economy Is Strong Authored by Tho Bishop via The Mises Institute, Last Thursday, Bloomberg reported that federal regulators are preparing a proposal…

Only a “miracle” can reverse the problem, the renowned economist believes The burgeoning US debt pile is akin to a “death spiral” that only a “miracle” could extract the country from, economist…

Apple Slides, Drags Tech Lower After Analyst Predicts 15% Plunge In iPhone Shipments Apple stock, which on any given day is either the most or 2nd most valuable company in the world,…

Kiev has asked Berlin to pour funds into its budget instead of spending them on Ukrainians who fled to Germany Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has called on the German government to abandon…

‘Moment Of No Return’ Imminent As Biden Has ‘Decided’ On Response, Says Iran Supplied Weapons Used In Attacks A “decision” has been made, apparently, with CBS reporting: “Biden tells reporters that he…

US EV Sales Climbed 29% In Q4 By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com Plug-in electric vehicle sales in the United States rose by an annual 29% in the fourth quarter of the year,…

Reports of Valery Zaluzhny’s dismissal reveal problems with “media hygiene” in the country, state-run censor claims Rumors suggesting Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky had fired the country’s commander-in-chief, Valery Zaluzhny, were spread to destabilize Ukraine,…

Hunter Biden Partner Says Payments From China Were Delayed Until Joe Biden Left Office Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A former partner of President Joe Biden’s son…

Job Opening Unexpectedly Rebound Over 9 Million Even As Number Of Workers Quitting Their Job Plummets After declines in job openings accelerated in the latter months of 2023, prompting economists to pat…

Just Months After “Massive Labor Deal,” UPS Announces Massive Layoffs How it started: The most pro-union president in history, President Biden, applauded Teamsters and logistics company United Parcel Service last summer for agreeing…

The country may be downgraded if the war expands beyond Gaza, S&P has warned Global credit rating agency S&P warned on Monday that it could cut Israel’s sovereign credit rating if the…

In Shocking Reversal, Saudi State Unexpectedly Orders Aramco To Drop Oil Capacity Expansion Plans Oil traders were stunned this morning, when – in a huge reversal to its prior plans – the…

The aircraft crashed due to “external factors,” a source has told the news agency Flight recorder data from the Russian military transport plane that crashed while carrying Ukrainian POWs last week has confirmed…

The tech billionaire’s apologetic tour of Auschwitz after an offensive tweet is a massive moral failure The world’s richest man has visited one of the world’s darkest places. Elon Musk has gone…

Three militants were killed in the incident, including one accused of plotting an assault inspired by the October 7 Hamas attack Israeli commandos, some disguised as civilian Palestinian women and medics, conducted…

People need to be given a “political horizon” toward a state of their own, the foreign minister said The UK is considering whether to officially recognize a Palestinian state, British Foreign Secretary…

During the meeting, the foreign ministers talked about the increasing terrorist threat on the African continent Russia and the Gambia held talks on issues in the Sahara-Sahel region, addressing concerns in Mali,…

Conference Board Confidence ‘Revised’ Lower For 3rd Straight Month, Present Situation At Pre-COVID-Lockdown Highs US consumer confidence soared higher again in January according to the Conference Board, with the headline up from…

The dollar-based international financial system is becoming “risky,” the head of Russia’s central bank says More and more countries are looking for alternatives to the Belgium-based SWIFT financial messaging system, the head…

“Path To Profitability”: GM Shares Soar As Higher Profits Forecasted For 2024 Shares of General Motors jumped 7% in premarket trading in New York after the Detroit automaker reported forecast adjusted earnings…

A court in the southern state of Kerala has convicted a group of men linked to the murder of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) regional leader A court in southern India’s Kerala…

The Kurils are part of Russia and are a legitimate base for its military, the former president has said Moscow is not against signing a peace treaty with Japan, but Tokyo must…

EU Miraculously Avoids Recession In Q4 As Spain’s Gain Offset Germany’s Drain After Q3’s 0.1% decline, the euro-zone was expected to see a similar economic growth (contraction) of -0.1% in Q4, crystallizing…

The share of the country’s transactions with other bloc members in national currencies has reached 85%, Elvira Nabiullina says The share of Russia’s settlements in national currencies with fellow BRICS countries has…

“Theory Of Reflexivity” And Does It Matter? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, I received an email this past week concerning George Soros’ “Theory Of Reflexivity.” “I am not a fan of Soros,…

US Home Prices Rose For 10th Straight Month In November, But Gains Slow Significantly Home prices in America’s 20 largest cities rose for the 10th straight month in November (the latest data…

Elon Musk Blasts Biden’s Push For Border Deal: “No Laws Need To Be Passed” Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Joe Biden’s call for a bipartisan Senate…

Futures Dip As Megacap Earnings Begin: Microsoft And Alphabet On Deck After yesterday’s late day meltup, sparked by an overly optimistic forecast of Treasury supply, which sent stocks to a new  all…

The Hungarian leader wants the bloc to dole out annual payments to Kiev rather than a €50 billion windfall Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said he proposed a compromise deal with…

States that acquire arms from Russia have no right to donate them without Moscow’s approval, the foreign minister stressed Moscow has become aware of several cases of Western powers asking certain countries…

Many of Kiev’s soldiers reportedly continue to use Russian despite efforts by the authorities to crack down Special courses will be created for Kiev’s troops so that they can improve their command…

The Fed’s Independence Was Nice While It Lasted Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Born in the 90s and tested to destruction during the Great Financial Crisis, modern-day central bank independence…

Namibia accounted for more than 40% of Russian imports of the delicacy in 2023, according to official data Namibia has become the leading supplier of oysters to Russia, with shipments amounting to…

Boeing Withdraws 737 Max 7 Safety Waiver Request Amid Mounting Pressure From Washington Boeing announced Monday evening that it had withdrawn an application to the Federal Aviation Administration for a safety exemption…

Tax-Cuts, Not Bidenomics Explains Surge In Consumer Spending In 2023 Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, On January 1, 2023, 38 states had noteworthy tax changes. 37 of the changes put extra…

Nigeria claims that Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso’s decision to quit ECOWAS was not made in good faith Nigeria has spoken out against a decision by the military governments of Niger, Mali,…

The global pop superstar publicly backed the US leader’s election campaign in 2020 US President Joe Biden is pursuing an endorsement from global pop superstar Taylor Swift ahead of November’s election, the…

More weapons and ammunition to Kiev is the “path to peace,” according to the bloc’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg Any negotiations between Moscow and Kiev about a peace agreement are “inextricably” linked…

Moscow is only trying to eliminate “historical injustice” by fighting Ukraine, the foreign minister said Speculation in the West that Russia could attack the Baltic and Nordic states once the Ukraine conflict…

2 In 3 Viewers Would Opt For Ads To Save Money On Streaming Following in the footsteps of Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max, Amazon started including ads before and during playback of…