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Russia Halts Large Chunk Of Kazakhstan’s Oil Export Capacity By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Russia has ordered shut two of the three moorings of the main oil export terminal on the Black…

Aleksey Andreev has highlighted Moscow’s flexible approach to helping other countries develop technologies that promote self-sufficiency Russia is ready to support African countries in developing technologies that promote self-sufficiency and sovereignty, Aleksey…

The revision of deals with foreign partners such as the EU and France is part of Senegal’s push for sovereignty, Aminata Toure has told RT Senegal remains committed to the process of…

Two people were injured and dozens evacuated after a UAV strike damaged two buildings in the city of Taganrog A Ukrainian drone raid damaged residential buildings in the southern Russian city of…

Docville has dropped the documentary showing Russian soldiers’ perspectives after objections from the Ukrainian Embassy The Docville documentary film festival in Belgium has canceled its screening of ‘Russians at War’ after a…

New Delhi will continue its long-standing friendship with Russia despite Western pressure, Jaiveer Shergill has said India will not “bow down” to the West on a range of issues from security to…

Which AI Chatbots Collect The Most Data About You? The harbinger of the AI revolution, ChatGPT, remains the most popular AI tool on the market, with more than 200 million weekly active users….

The investigation concerns threats received by the judge who sentenced the presidential hopeful French prosecutors have launched an investigation into threats against the judge who presided over a case in which right-wing…

Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to Russia in May for a full state visit Chinese President Xi Jinping will be Russia’s main guest at the 80th anniversary of Victory Day celebrations…

Turkey Moves To Take Control Of Strategic Airbase In Central Syria Via Middle East Eye Turkey has begun efforts to take control of Syria’s Tiyas air base, also known as T4, and is preparing to…

US Treasury Targets Hezbollah’s Iran-Backed Aid Network Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Individuals and entities helping to finance the Hezbollah terrorist group were sanctioned by the Department…

Top German Politicians Are Calling For Resumption Of Russian Gas In Europe, the lure of a return to cheap energy is ever-present, and that conversation is becoming easier as the Trump administration…

The American military is unprepared to deter its adversaries, John Caine has said The US military would be unprepared for a protracted war with China due to shortcomings in the defense industrial…

USAID And The Architecture Of Perception Authored by Josh Stylman via The Brownstone Institute, The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has long portrayed itself as America’s humanitarian aid organization, delivering…

16 years after the monarchy was abolished, a violent push to restore it reveals a deep hunger for competent leadership Violent protests took place in Nepal last week as pro-monarchy groups demanded…

Kirill Dmitriev will reportedly meet with Trump’s Ukraine negotiator, Steve Witkoff Russian President Vladimir Putin’s envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, will visit Washington this week, CNN and Axios reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar…

Iran ‘Incredibly Weakened’ By Over 200 US Strikes On Houthis: White House The White House on Tuesday declared that Iran has been “incredibly” weakened as a result of the Pentagon operation against…

Russian Arctic LNG 2 Project Resumes Gas Processing By Charles Kennedy of Oilprice.com Arctic LNG 2, the processing and export facility that was billed as Russia’s flagship LNG project, has gradually resumed…

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) says that it has run out of funds because of Donald Trump’s executive order The US state-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) began furloughing staff at its…

FBI Weaponizes Background Checks To Enforce California Gun Ban Submitted by Gun Owners of America, When you go to a gun store to buy a new gun, you can expect a few…

Top presidential adviser Mike Waltz reportedly kept “potentially exploitable” information on his private email Members of the US National Security Council (NSC), including national security adviser Mike Waltz, have used personal Gmail…

China’s Role In US Fentanyl Crisis Directed By Regime Leadership, Expert Says Authored by Terri Wu & Olivia Li via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Tensions have been simmering between the United…

Indian Refiners Seek Alternatives To Russian Oil After Trump Tariff Threat Indian oil refiners have started looking for alternative supplies of crude after President Trump threatened secondary sanctions on Russian energy exports…

“There Will Be No Negotiating”: Tesla Firebombing Suspect Hit With Federal Charges, Faces 20 Years In Prison Authored by Rudy Blalock via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Department of Justice…

Houthis Say They’ve Downed 16th Reaper Drone After Trump Warned ‘Real Pain Yet To Come’ On Tuesday the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, claimed that they shot down another American MQ-9 Reaper…

The cooperation between the two countries has been “a great success,” the Russian leader has said Russia and China have a great track record of working together on the world stage, Russian…

Large Overnight Israeli Airstrike On Beirut Kills Hezbollah Official & Bystanders  Just before 4am local time, while much of the city was sleeping, Beirut was pounded by another large-scale Israeli airstrike, reportedly…

Wall Street, the Bankers, the Hedge Funds, the multinational corporations, K-Street Lobbying firms, Democrats, Republicans, leftists, globalists, and every other segment of the financial media who define themselves through the prism of…

Hollywood Claims Rachel Zegler Is “An Icon” Despite Epic Snow White Bomb Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years you’re probably familiar with the controversy surrounding the…

Jim Quinn: Prophets, Nomads, & A Fourth Turning Accelerating Towards A Bloody Climax Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “In retrospect, the spark might seem as ominous as a…

At today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, former Speaker Newt Gingrich spoke about judicial overreach in lower federal courts blocking President Trump’s actions.  WATCH: . Now, to the stuff that really matters.  Congress…

212,268 Pounds Of Egg Products Potentially Containing Bleach Recalled Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Hundreds of thousands of pounds of egg items are being pulled off the…

Fifty Achievements In Fifty Days Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, Many friends of mine are frustrated at what they consider slow progress from the Trump administration. Whatever the pet…

Luigi Mangione has been charged with gunning down a health insurance boss in New York US prosecutors have asked for the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, a man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare…

Some 17 vehicles got torched at a dealership outside Rome in the latest global string of attacks on the company A Tesla dealership outside Rome was hit by a major fire early…

Britons with jobs linked to the Russian state must register or face criminal prosecution The UK government has announced that anyone working for the Russian state in Britain must register under a…

The Best And Worst Performing Assets Of The “March Meltdown” And “Queezy Q1” The first quarter was an incredibly tumultuous period for markets, with the S&P 500 posting its biggest quarterly decline…

The sides are focused on improving diplomatic ties, according to the Russian foreign minister Moscow and Washington are making progress in removing obstacles in diplomatic relations and plan to meet for the…

Repeating 2022? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In last week’s post, “Is the correction over?” we wrote about the potential for a rally back to the 200-DMA. However, the failure of that test…

Mercedes May Abandon U.S. Entry-Level Market In Trump Era As President Trump’s long-anticipated reciprocal tariff deadline approaches tomorrow, early signals suggest that the global trading system may soon undergo disruptions and structural shifts….

The Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Should Turn On Principle Not Politics Authored by Jonathan Turley, Today, the voters of Wisconsin go to the polls in what may be the single most expensive…

President Xi Jinping has called for Beijing and New Delhi to work more closely following a period of strained relations Chinese President Xi Jinping, on Tuesday, called for China and India to…

“Evil People”: Organized ‘Bankrupt Tesla’ Group Tied To Formerly USAID-Funded Disinfo Queen On Tuesday morning, former Biden administration “disinformation czar” Nina Jankowicz repeatedly refused to disclose who’s funding her new gig –…

“Maryland Father” Or MS-13 Migrant Gangster. Which Is It, MSM? Left-leaning corporate media unleashed another info war against the Trump administration after The Atlantic published an overnight story titled “An ‘Administrative Error’…

Trump Says Nothing ‘Off The Table’ In Obtaining Greenland Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump said over the weekend that he has “absolutely” had real…

Kiev has repeatedly attacked Russia’s energy infrastructure despite the truce being in effect, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said Ukraine has repeatedly breached the US-brokered partial ceasefire and continued to attack Russian…

AI Program Refuses To Generate Image Of Muhammad Due To ‘Credible Threat Of Violent Backlash’ Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, AI program ChatGPT refused when asked to generate an image…

The conviction of the French opposition leader has effectively silenced the electoral voice of millions, Italian PM Giorgia Meloni has said Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has condemned the conviction of French…

The EU should also apply more sanctions on Russia, the bloc’s top diplomat has said Russian assets frozen over the Ukraine conflict should remain immobilized until the hostilities are over, a group…

The case of the National Rally leader and presidential favorite, conveniently taken off future ballots, is part of a long pattern Earlier this week, the anti-establishment French political leader whom all polls…

Authorities Probing Fire That Damaged Headquarters Of New Mexico Republican Party Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Federal and local authorities are investigating a fire that damaged the…

USDA Paid To Study Queer Farmers, Latinx Masculinity, More On Taxpayer Dime Authored by Casey Harper via The Center Square, U.S. taxpayers have shelled out tens of thousands of dollars in recent…

The two countries have simply been pursuing their own “long-term interests,” the Chinese foreign minister has said The close partnership between Russia and China poses no threat to other nations and cannot…

Bitcoin Could Reduce Dominance Of US Dollar, BlackRock’s Larry Fink Warns Authored by Christopher Tepedino via CoinTelegraph.com, The US dollar could lose its status as the world’s reserve currency to Bitcoin or…

“Someone Will Be Arrested”: Elon Musk’s DOGE Finds Massive Social Security Fraud Scheme  One day after Elon Musk and Antonio Gracias—founder and CEO of the Chicago-based investment firm Valor Equity Partners, and now…

JOLTs Job Openings Drop Despite Odd Jump In Federal Openings; Hires Hit 5 Month High One month after we got a “goldilocks” JOLTS report which showed an unexpected increase in job openings,…

The number of individuals on the list continues to grow despite Western sanctions The number of Russian billionaires has grown over the past year despite Western sanctions aimed at destabilizing the country’s…

Trump Dials Back Putin Criticism, Renews Attacks On Zelensky For Stalling Minerals Deal It was only on Sunday that President Trump declared he’s “very angry” at Russian President Putin, statements which featured…

April Fools By Michael Every of Rabobank April Fools Spot the April Fools’ Day jokes among the following recent headlines: The Daily Mail says Trump could technically be President for a further…

Xiaomi Shares Slide After SU7 Sedan With Intelligent Assisted Driving Crashes, Three Dead Shares of Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer Xiaomi tumbled in Hong Kong trading on Tuesday following a deadly crash involving one of its…

China Holds Huge Military Drills From ‘Multiple Directions’ Around Taiwan China on Tuesday launched major combined forces exercises around Taiwan as a “stern warning” in the wake of US Defense Secretary Pete…

Berlin will provide Kiev with an additional $12 billion over the next four years, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has said Germany will provide an extra €11.25 billion ($12 billion) in military aid…

Manufacturing PMIs Sink Despite Surge In ‘Hard’ Data; Prices Paid Spike To 3-Year-Highs While hard data continues to improve, ‘soft’ data hit a new six-month low yesterday as more regional Fed surveys…

The White House has accused the university of failing to adequately address anti-Semitism on its campus The administration of US President Donald Trump has announced that it is reviewing around $9 billion…

The state of the agreement raises concern about whether Ukraine will remain a sovereign nation, Pyotr Poroshenko has said The Ukrainian government’s attempts to negotiate a favorable rare-earths agreement with the US…

Finland’s accession to NATO reduced the relationship between Moscow and Helsinki to “zero,” Dmitry Peskov has said Russia has never been the first to damage relations with other countries and continues to…

Tehran has urged international action against the US president’s “reckless and belligerent” remarks Iran has lodged a formal complaint with the United Nations Security Council over US President Donald Trump’s threats of…

Washington’s ceasefire plan does not address the roots of the hostilities, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has said Moscow has not heard any signals from the US urging Ukraine to end…

The thinly veiled threat reportedly refers to Hungary, which has blocked several of Brussels’ foreign policy decisions The incoming German government plans to play a larger role in EU decision-making, including by…

The move comes amid strained relations between France and the North African country which began deteriorating last July French President Emmanuel Macron has spoken with Algerian leader Abdelmadjid Tebboune about the state…

The US president earlier threatened not to defend the bloc unless it drastically increases defense spending NATO will remain intact despite pressure from US President Donald Trump, EU foreign policy chief Kaja…

The narrative on an event from three years ago is under scrutiny. Here’s a closer look at the evidence On the first day of April in 2022, shocking videos began circulating on…

A drone caught the vehicle mid-attack in Kursk Region, according to the ministry The Russian Defense Ministry has released footage of a Russian kamikaze drone operator successfully engaging a Ukrainian mine-clearing vehicle…

The expectation of sweeping levies is creating uncertainty but unlikely to trigger a recession, the financial body’s managing director has said   US President Donald Trump’s push for tariffs is fueling significant…

The Chinese foreign minister says Moscow and Washington must lead responsibly amid growing global uncertainty China has welcomed recent discussions between Russia and the United States aimed at easing tensions and enhancing…

The DA party, which shares power with President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC, vows to oppose reforms until an official agreement is reached Despite promising discussions, the long-standing deadlock between the ANC and DA…

FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino both overlook key issues.  I’ll explain after a review of this update from Deputy FBI Director Bongino (as shared on his Twitter…

First Views Of Earth’s Polar Regions from SpaceX’s Dragon Capsule As Fram2 Mission Underway Seventeen days after Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully rescued two stranded astronauts from the International Space Station, the rocket company that…

Futures Slide After WaPo Report Trump Seeks 20% Tariffs On Most Imports US equity futures fell abruptly just around 6am ET, reversing earlier gains and unable to benefit from the positive risk…

Sen. Chuck Grassley Introduces ‘Judicial Relief Clarification Act’ To Rein In Activist Judges Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced a proposal  Monday to…

Germany’s Stern Magazine Calls For Conscription Of Young People To Take Up Arms “To Defend Diversity” In Pro-War Propaganda Piece Via Remix News, Stern Magazine is calling for mass conscription of German…

Canadians Leaf USA Out Of Travel Plans To Protest Trump Pissed off Canadians are skipping trips to the United States over President Donald Trump’s trade policies and ‘disrespect’ – after Trump’s repeated…

David Arakhamia, the head of the ruling faction in the Ukrainian parliament, has dismissed reports of plans to hold a snap vote Ukraine has no plans to hold a national election yet,…

At least 16 passengers sustained injuries in the attack, according to the mayor of the city of Gorlovka At least 16 people were injured in the Russian frontline city of Gorlovka when…

Over 640 confirmed infections have been recorded across 33 Nigerian states Nigeria recorded 3,465 suspected cases of Lassa fever between January and March 2025. 645 confirmed infections and 118 deaths were recorded,…

The Wall Street bank has raised the likelihood of a downturn to 35% ahead of the Trump administration’s massive tariff roll-out The US economy is facing an increasing risk of a recession…

Denmark Squandered Defenses Arming Ukraine, With Little Left To Defend Greenland Denmark has taken pride in being among the top four military donors to Ukraine over the past more than three years…

The bid to join the military bloc was what instigated Kiev’s conflict with Russia in the first place, the US president has said Ukraine will not gain NATO membership by relinquishing its…

The officers will reportedly rejoin the Burkina Faso army to help in its fight against terrorism Burkina Faso’s interim president, Captain Ibrahim Traore, has pardoned 21 soldiers convicted of attempting to overthrow…

Weapons Spending Around The World, And Why The German Stock Market Jumped The Gun One massive impact the Trump administration has already had, DB’s Jim Reid writes in his latest Chart of…

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President Trump held a press availability with Kid Rock to sign an executive order authorizing the Federal Trade Commission to respond to live entertainment ticket sale scalping {EXECUTIVE ORDER HERE}. The intent…

Last week President Trump announced secondary tariffs of 25% against any nation who purchases oil from Venezuela.  The approach was in response to the Venezuelan government refusing repatriation of their criminal gang…

The old world is fading. Moscow and Beijing are building the new one Russia and China have emerged in recent years as standard-bearers of a world that aspires to multipolarity, sovereignty, and…

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…

Toothless EU Re-Export Ban On Russian LNG Kicks In Authored by Julianne Geiger via OilPrice.com, The EU’s ban on re-exporting Russian LNG is now officially in effect. It essentially halts ship-to-ship transfers…

The US leader would not rule out secondary tariffs on Russia if the peace process stalls US President Donald Trump has said his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, would honor his part of…

British Council Institutes Harsher Criminal Sentencing, But Only For White Men The Sentencing Council of England And Wales, a non-departmental public body (faceless bureaucracy) which determines the guidelines for court punishments of…

Spain’s Vox Party Spokesperson Faces Hate-Crime Probe After Calling Out Link Between Immigration & Crime Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, A Spanish conservative lawmaker is facing a hate crime investigation…