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The GOP frontrunner has slammed the border deal unblocking funding for Kiev as a “gift” to Democrats Former US President and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is undermining Republican efforts to strike a…

Visualizing All The Nuclear Waste In The World Nuclear power is among the safest and cleanest sources of electricity, making it a critical part of the clean energy transition. However, nuclear waste,…

The Delusions Of Davos And Dubai, Part One: Achieving Universal Energy Security Authored by Edward Ring via American Greatness, Wind and solar energy cannot lift humanity into prosperity. But as an impressive…

Gov. Greg Abbott has waged a legal battle with federal agencies over his immigration policies A large group of Republican governors has issued a joint statement voicing “solidarity” with Texas Governor Greg…

Around 33% of all seaborne oil exports from the sanctioned country have been transported on tankers with British insurance, a report has found The UK has insured around a third of all…

The country’s revenues from the sector exceeded $45 billion in 2023, preliminary data shows Russia raked in record earnings from agricultural exports last year, Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev has announced, citing preliminary…

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…

Justin from Canada is oh not too happy with Tucker Carlson for traveling to Calgary (rebellious audience 4,000) and then stadium show for 8,000 rebels in Edmonton.  Apparently, Justin does not like…

C.S.Lewis’ “That Hideous Strength” Matches Orwell’s “1984” As A Prognosticator Of The Perils Of Progressivism Authored by Rob Natelson via The Epoch Times, Many commentators have pointed out – correctly – that…

Visualizing 150 Years Of Exports From Top Economic Superpowers Historically, the biggest economies in the world have also been those that dominate international trade overseas. Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte and Bruno Venditti…

Cultural Replacement: Why The Immigration Crisis Is Being Deliberately Engineered Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, There is absolutely no doubt – Elements of our own government are deliberately encouraging the acceleration…

On Wednesday, Russia claimed an IL-76 transport aircraft carrying 65 Ukrainian POW’s was shot down en route to a POW exchange in the Belgorod region. Western media, particularly those with a vested…

The GDP Number Was Great… There Is Just One Huge Problem Earlier today we reported that according to Biden’s Bureau of Economic Analysis, in the fourth quarter US GDP grew at a…

Trump Is Not The Cause Of The Chaos Authored by J. Peder Zane via RealClear Politics, Supercharging their efforts to gaslight America, Donald Trump’s enemies are denying the law of physics. At…

The move leaves Hungary as the last holdout in approving Stockholm’s application to join the US-led military bloc Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has formally ratified Sweden’s bid to join the NATO…

Israel Attacks Hezbollah Airstrip Believed Built By Iran To Launch Drones In the latest development along Israel’s war-torn northern border with Lebanon, new Israeli strikes have taken out an airstrip which served…

Azerbaijan was accused PACE of bias following a row over the rule of law Azerbaijan may quit the Council of Europe due to a dispute over human rights, the country’s official news…

New Delhi will start exporting long-range supersonic missiles co-developed with Moscow to  Manila next month India is gearing up to export BrahMos – a long-range supersonic missile jointly developed with Russia –…

To Get US Residency Still Requires The COVID Jab Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It’s helpful to think of a COVID experience as a never-ending house…

It’s Still 90 Seconds To ‘Midnight’ Since 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has been tracking world events and assessing how close we are to “destroying our world with dangerous technologies…

FBI Seizures From Safe Deposit Boxes Violated US Constitution: Federal Court Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The FBI’s seizure of contents from safe deposit boxes during a…

Nikki’s Haley Mary: Begging Democrats For Money After Trump Threatens Donors Following news that Billionaire Democrat megadonor Reid Hoffman withdrew support for ‘Republican’ presidential candidate Nikki Haley, Donald Trump pounced, threatening to…

Government Suppressed, Censored Concerns Over Mail-In Voting In 2020: Documents Authored by Autsin Alonzo via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Newly released documents allege that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)…

Sullivan Dispatched To Politely Ask China To Pressure Iran On Halting Houthi Attacks The Biden administration, despite trying to flex US military muscle in the Middle East as an imperium in decline, is asking…

Maryland Library Event Rolls Back Scheme Charging White People More Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An event being held at a public library in Maryland is no…

President Trump is messaging support for the state of Texas through his Truth Social account. Sending out a series of unambiguous recommendations today, President Trump has recommended that all republican states rally…

Another Russian Oil Refinery Engulfed In Fire After Drone Attack From Ukraine Ukraine government sources have continued to boast of launching drone and missile strikes deep into Russian territory, targeting especially the…

Kiev has protested HBO’s casting of Milos Bikovic in the Emmy-winning series Claims that actor Milos Bikovic is a “genocide supporter” or international law violator are utterly baseless, the Serbian Ministry of…

Each successive US generation has seen larger numbers of self-identified non-heterosexuals More than one in four (28%) Americans between the ages of 18 and 25, known as Generation Z, identified as LGBTQ…

In The Biggest Cases, Big Law Tilts Decisively Left Authored by Ryan Bangert via RealClearWire, In a rigorous and important study that should surprise no one, University of Notre Dame law professor…

The disconnect between the working class and the self-proclaimed elites that rule above them is very clear in this self-admission from UAW Boss Shawn Fain. UAW President Shawn Fain admits he endorsed…

The Kremlin has approved the sale of Rinat Akhmetov’s former coal properties A Russian conglomerate will be allowed to buy out the coal-mining companies previously owned by Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, the…

Watchlisted: You’re Probably Already On A Government Extremism List Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught.”…

Bank Bailout Fund ‘Arb’ Usage Soars (Again) Amid Money-Market Fund Outflows, Large RRP Drain Money-market fund assets fell for a second week in a row, led by the departure of assets from…

US Military Build-Up Since Gaza War Began Has Cost $1.6 Billion  Via The Libertarian Institute The Senate is planning to add money to upcoming legislation to fund President Joe Biden’s military buildup in the…

The most brutally Machiavellian Senator, Mitch McConnell (U-DC), is the leader and source of anxiety created by the coalition of professionally republican liars we call DeceptiCons.  They are a select group of…

Ukraine killed its own soldiers on purpose, Russia’s UN envoy has said Ukrainian troops have shot down a Russian military plane carrying Ukrainian soldiers in order to derail an upcoming prisoner swap,…

Pakistan Deports Half A Million Illegal Immigrants In Just 3 Months Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, Pakistan has announced it has deported over half a million illegal immigrants in just…

Intel Tumbles After Guidance Misses Expectations Despite Strong Q4 Earnings After several years of constant earnings disappointment culminating with the catastrophic earnings release for Q4 2022, which was clearly meant to be…

Nikki Haley Has Four Choices… Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Nikki Haley just lost the New Hampshire primary by 11 percent. She had earlier come in third in the…

A feud over the nation’s border crisis has become a test of whether a state can defy the federal government to protect itself An escalating feud between US President Joe Biden and…

Faced with growing resistance, the US and its allies have turned to fear-mongering, Sergey Naryshkin has said The populations of Western countries have become disillusioned with the Ukraine conflict, the head of…

Bonds & Black Gold Bid, Big-Tech Skids As ‘No Landing’ Narrative Gores Goldilocks Strong GDP growth (but cool inflation), strong new home sales (but cool home prices), strong labor market data (jobless…

Ahead Of The February 2 “Fireworks”, Goldman Spots A “Phenomenon That Has Never Before Occured” Echoing the observations from Nomura’s Charlie McElligott, who warned that as we head into the “largest event-risk”…

FDA’s New Rule Allows For Medical Research Without Informed Consent Authored by Amie Dahnke via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In an effort to encourage the discovery of more treatment and diagnostic…

Recent statements by a Ukrainian dissident have revealed worrying ties between the US President’s family and certain elements in Kiev Ahead of the 2024 US presidential election, there’s been much talk about…

Biden Dispatches CIA Director To Negotiate Major Gaza Ceasefire Deal On Thursday The Washington Post is reporting a hugely unexpected development related to the Israel-Hamas war, writing that President Biden will send CIA Director…

The US Has The Biggest Govt In The History Of The World… By A Very Wide Margin Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, How does it feel to have…

Kansas City Griefs: Manufacturing Survey Screams Stagflation In January Regional factory activity in the Tenth District of the Kansas City Fed declined sharply in January, with production and new orders plunging but…

Kiev claims that Serbian-born Milos Bikovic “supports genocide” The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has demanded that Serbian-born actor Milos Bikovic be axed from HBO’s award-winning series ‘The White Lotus’ over his close relationship…

Denver Health At “Critical Point” As 8,000 Migrants Make 20,000 Emergency Visits Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The Denver hospital system is turning away local residents because it is flooded with…

Solid 7Y Auction Sees Jump In Foreign Demand, Sends Yields Lower After yesterday’s catastrophic 5Y auction, there were concerns that today’s traditionally weaker 7Y “belly” auction would send yields into the stratosphere….

Survey Reveals Extreme Bias Toward Jan. 6 Defendants Among Potential DC Jurors Authored by Patricia Tolson via The Epoch Times, For fear of being judged by biased jurors, Jan. 6 defendants have…

The French president, who will be chief guest at a New Delhi military parade on Friday, toured the city of Jaipur with the Indian PM  French President Emmanuel Macron landed in India…

Russia Builds Out Arctic Oil Route As Middle East Tensions Escalate Authored by Simon Watkins via OilPrice.com, Russian President Vladimir Putin has long seen the development of the country’s Arctic resources as…

The Russian military has blamed Kiev for shooting down the Il-76 transport over Belgorod Region Russian investigators have found what appear to be fragments of one or more missiles among the debris…

A Moscow court has found Igor Strelkov guilty of inciting extremism online Former Donetsk militia commander Igor Strelkov was sentenced by a Moscow court on Thursday to four years in a penal…

The alliance is a “walking war machine,” Beijing’s Defense Ministry has said NATO is a “walking war machine” that has been spreading chaos across Asia since its formation, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman…

The US has not commented on the attack, which left 65 POWs dead Ukrainian forces used a US-supplied Patriot missile to shoot down a Russian cargo plane carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of…

Trump Trade Advisor Navarro Sentenced To Four Months For Ignoring J6 Subpoena Former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro was sentenced to four months in jail on Friday for ignoring a subpoena…

A major blaze has broken out at Gandhi Hospital in the Iranian capital A massive fire has broken out at Gandhi Hospital in Tehran, spreading to multiple floors of a facility billed…

“BTFP Is Being Phased Out Before Rates Are Cut: Does A Crisis Finally Lie Ahead?” By Michael Every of Rabobank Unpopulism The Fed just tweaked its BTFP programme. It’s still being phased…

How information technology became a powerful tool for provoking armed conflict in any African state The issue of peace and security remains one of the key challenges facing African countries and an…

‘The Entire Journalism Industry Is In Freefall’: Taylor Lorenz Vlogs The Death Of MSM As BuzzFeed, Insider And Vice Jettison Assets Corporate media is on life support. Driven to cut costs by…

The Maine Event That Wasn’t: Bellows Fails Again To Force A Ruling On Trump Disqualification Authored by Jonathan Turley, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows lost another attempt to force review of…

Northrop Grumman Shares Hit Turbulence After Billion Dollar B-21 Raider Contract Charge Northrop Grumman shares hit turbulence at the start of the US cash session after the defense contractor reported a $1.2…

The Swiss government has adopted an anti-Russian stance on European security, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has suggested that Switzerland is no longer a neutral country,…

Microsoft will lay off 8% of the workers at its gaming unit Microsoft is cutting around 1,900 employees in its gaming unit Activision Blizzard and Xbox this week, CNBC reported on Thursday,…

With the economy surging, New Delhi has been buying crude from whomever offers the lowest price, an Oilprice report notes India is set to overtake China as the single biggest driver of…

As Elections Loom, CDBCs Are Becoming ‘Hyper-Politicized’ Authored by Andrew Singer via CoinTelegraph.com, Central bank digital currencies are becoming more politicized globally, “but in the U.S. they seem to be ‘hyper-politicized’”… It’s…

Microsoft To Fire 1,900 Workers Across Gaming As Its Market Cap Hits $3 Trillion Microsoft, which is hitting a daily all time high every day now because supposedly everyone will be using…

The preliminary analysis for Power of Siberia 2 has already been carried out, Aleksandr Novak has said   The timing and cost of the construction of the new mega pipeline Power of…

Darya Trepova has been sentenced to 27 years behind bars for the assassination of military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky Darya Trepova, who was found guilty of assassinating Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky last…

New Home Sales Rose Over 4% In 2023 (Prices Tumbled), As Existing Sales Hit Record Low On the heels of the worst year ever for existing home sales, new home sales were…

Syrian Kurds should understand that US troops in the country are there “illegally,” the Russian foreign minister has said  Any groups in Syria that are looking to the US for protection will…

Some Japanese commenters said Karolina Shiino’s victory had been a “political decision” Ukrainian model Karolina Shiino has ignited controversy by winning the Miss Japan 2024 beauty pageant. Although Shiino is a naturalized…

Alaska Air Warns “Challenging 2024 Start” & $150 Million Profit Hit From 737 Max 9 Groundings Alaska Air Group surpassed Wall Street’s profit forecasts for the fourth quarter but cautioned that the…

Leniency On Tap For Anti-Trump Leaker Of ThousandsOf Tax Returns Authored by Paul Sperry via RealClear Wire, Another apparent “sweetheart deal” negotiated by President Biden’s Justice Department in a politically charged case…

Initial Jobless Claims Bounce Back To 1-Month-Highs (From Near 54-Year Lows) After crashing near its lowest level in 54 years in the prior week, initial jobless claims jumped higher last week (from…

ECB Keeps Rates Unchanged, Sees “Declining Trend In Inflation” Continuing: Press Conference Live Feed Following yesterday’s dastardly stagflation signals from EU PMIs (weaker growth but prices rebounding), it was no surprise to…

Can We Get A 5th All-Time High In A Row: Futures Flat Ahead Of ECB, GDP Report After the S&P eeked out modst gains yesterday despite an intraday swoon, which helped it…

The union’s fourth work stoppage since November kicked off on Tuesday and is set to last six days German train operators have begun a six-day strike that will be their longest ever…

Q4 GDP Unexpectedly Soars, Driven By Lack Of Destocking And An RV Spending Spree With economist and Wall Street strategists confident that in the fourth quarter US growth would slow sharply after…

Stocks’ Perpetual Motion Machine Can’t Run Forever Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Perpetual motion machines shouldn’t exist. Yet the stock market seems to have found one. After initially striking turbulence…

National Economic Activity Unexpectedly Declined In December; Chicago Fed Index Shows Against expectations of a small rise from 0.03 to 0.06, The Chicago Fed’s National Activity Index (which draws on 85 economic…

‘Need Moar War’ – GDP-Driving Capital Goods Shipments Are Down Year-Over-Year After November’s huge jump (thanks to a surge in non-defense aircraft and parts orders – which we suspect we won’t be…

Jim Jordan Subpoenas HHS For Answers On US Program Sponsoring Illegal Immigrant Minors Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) subpoenaed the…

The Russian president went to Kaliningrad to promote economic and social development, Dmitry Peskov has said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s trip to the western exclave of Kaliningrad is not aimed at sending…

Brussels’ diktat on climate change and support for Ukraine is seen as more important than the people who actually feed the country The French government is scrambling to get a whole lot…

Despite the mammal’s death with her unborn calf, the team believes that IVF methods can save endangered African northern white rhinos Scientists with the BioRescue research consortium in Kenya have recorded the…

Kenneth Eugene Smith will be put to death using a method that advocates say is painless The US Supreme Court has denied a request to halt the execution of a convicted murderer…

The pontiff has repeatedly called for a resolution of the Ukraine conflict and has urged a ban on weapons production Russia welcomes initiatives from Pope Francis aimed at achieving a lasting peace…

Olaf Scholz has also claimed the previous governments failed to address difficult issues Germany’s economy outlook is marred by uncertainty brought on by the Ukraine conflict and the fallout of the Covid-19…

ECB Preview: Rates On Hold, Guidance Intact, But Brace For Collapse In April Rate Cut Odds The ECB policy announcement is due this morning at 13:15GMT/08:15EST, and Lagarde’s press conference starts half…

Drivers rather than regulators or politicians should decide which vehicles they choose, Akio Toyoda has said Electric vehicles (EVs) will never dominate the market and consumers should not be forced to buy…

Why Has The Number Of Measles Cases Been Rising So Rapidly All Over The World? Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Have you noticed that stories about measles have been popping up…

Ankara has assured Russia it will continue to abide by the Montreux Convention, the foreign minister says The US will not be able to persuade Türkiye to allow access for its warships…

Kiev is now only fighting to prolong the life of Zelensky’s regime, that’s why it’s doing stupid things On Wednesday, an Il-76 transport plane was downed in Russian airspace. It was reportedly…

Red Sea Blockage Leads To “Out Of Control” Shipping Rates; Charters Hits $100,000 Per Day One month ago, when it first became apparent that the Red Sea blockage by Iranian proxies would…