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President Trump has asked the Supreme Court to allow the legal arguments with presidential immunity to follow the traditional path through the appeals court [pdf court filing].  Special Prosecutor Jack Smith wants…

Car Ownership Costs In America Are Skyrocketing Thinking of buying a vehicle soon? Rising car ownership costs might cause you to think again. Owning a truck or car has become far more expensive than…

Americans are advising the EU how to get around their laws to seize Russian assets, Moscow’s top diplomat has said Washington is directing Western efforts to find a legal loophole to steal…

Growing Number Of GOP Candidates Pledge To Disavow COVID-19 Vaccine And Big Pharma Authored by Matthew Lysiak via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), COVID-19 and concerns over the influence of pharmaceutical companies…

An interesting poll out of New Hampshire [UML Poll Here] [Topline pdf Here] shows something perhaps many expected. President Donald Trump still dominates the field with 52% and leads in every demographic. …

Congratulations To Everyone From Illinois Who Left By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk For the 10th consecutive year, Illinois lost population. Only West Virginia was worse. Illinois Population Drops 10 Consecutive Years The…

“Constraints” imposed by Niger’s military government reportedly played a role in the decision The French government intends to shutter its embassy in Niger indefinitely, Reuters reported on Thursday. According to a letter…

Russian activists and lawmakers have demanded the law enforcement agencies investigate a scandalous event attended by many celebrities A popular Russian blogger and TV personality, Anastasiya Ivleeva, has landed in hot water…

Fat Leonard, Who Filmed Orgies Involving Senior Navy Admirals, Extradited To The US By Venezuela As part of a prisoner exchange in which Joe Biden granted clemency to a prominent moneyman for…

Thousands Of Doctors Take Legal Action Against Transgender Mandate Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A group of 3,000 doctors and medical professionals is suing the U.S. Department…

Banks’ Usage Of The Fed’s Bailout Facility Soars To New Record High For the second week in a row, money-market funds saw outflows, down $16.1BN this week, Source: Bloomberg Once again, institutional…

Victor Davis Hanson: The Colorado Insurrection Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, Donald Trump is being erased from the Colorado primary (and general?) ballot, by warping the 14th Amendment, and in a way…

Bitcoin, Bullion, & Big-Tech Bounce As Rate-Cut Hopes Roar Higher Personal Consumption growth slowed (3 months ago) and so did Core PCE inflation (to 2%); Jobless claims fell (to 2023 lows) as…

A team of scholars has urged more “media literacy” and fact-checking of online searches Using online search engines to look up more information about news stories can lead to believing “low-quality sources,”…

Ukraine launched the US-made projectile towards the 19-km Crimean Bridge, Kherson Region’s governor, Vladimir Saldo, says Vladimir Saldo, the governor of the Kherson region, announced on Thursday through a Telegram post that…

This guy really is a piece of work.  During a CBN interview, DeSantis was asked about the politically motivated DOJ attacks against President Donald Trump.  Within his response, the Florida governor found…

“In Argentina, Contracts Can Be Settled In Bitcoin”, Foreign Minister Affirms In a groundbreaking statement, Argentina’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Diana Mondino, has confirmed the country’s stance on embracing Bitcoin for contractual agreements. In…

Biden Is Using The Term Bidenomics Again, What Else Can He Do? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Biden abandoned the term Bidenomics for over a month. He’s now back at it,…

Smash-And-Grab Gang Loots Chanel Store Blocks From White House Mayor Muriel Bowser’s leadership in Washington, DC, has become a spectacular disaster. The nation’s capital is grappling with a massive surge in carjackings…

This is somewhat of a predictably tragic outcome all things considered. I remember a previous conversation on these pages when GM moved massive investment into China to build their mid-size SUV brand,…

The Palestinian enclave is on the brink of famine, the organization has warned Almost everybody in Gaza is facing “crisis levels” of hunger, and rates of disease among children have skyrocketed, the…

Argentina’s president has suggested those opposed to his “shock therapy” are fond of “communism” Demonstrators outside the Congress in Buenos Aires protesting deep cuts to the government are nostalgic for a system…

Peter Schiff: Did The Fed Steal The Santa Claus Rally? Via SchiffGold.com, The US stock market had a potentially significant day on Wednesday. Markets have been rallying on the hope of interest…

The UK’s Confraternity of Catholic Clergy felt compelled to respond to this week’s announcement on blessings and gay relationships An organization of British priests has released an open letter in which it…

At our family’s Christmas dinner, you will find a combination of old favorites and new recipes we are trying out for the first time. Some of our favorites come to us from…

Despite The Gaslighting, Americans Understand Inflation Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Everyday Americans understand inflation perfectly. But the egghead economists and policymakers who govern their lives don’t. That may be because…

Giuliani Files For Bankruptcy After $148 Million Verdict In the latest legal attack on Trumpworld and anyone who might support the former President (or dare question the results of the 2020 election),…

Maria Pevchikh, a British national, took over Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation earlier this year The Russian Interior Ministry issued a wanted declaration on Thursday for Maria Pevchikh, a key associate of Russian…

Fed Backs Self Into Corner Just As Inflation Revives Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The magnitude of last week’s dovish swing by the Federal Reserve now makes a rate cut…

Israel intends to fight until total victory, its prime minister has announced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue the war against Hamas until the Palestinian group is eliminated entirely…

Rocking Around The Plastic Tree For some families, the search for the right Christmas tree is an annual event. For large shares of Americans and Brits though, this search may have ended…

The killer traveled to the Czech capital after murdering his father earlier on Thursday, police said A gunman killed 15 people and injured two dozen others in an attack at Charles University…

The accused referred to himself as a ‘sick person’ when answering the charges A 50-year-old man has been charged by Irish police with the attempted murder of three young children in a…

The former US president is facing legal challenges in at least 16 states over his bid to return to the White House The decision this week by Colorado’s Supreme Court to disqualify…

Hamas Rejects Israeli Offer For 7-Day Truce As Reported Gaza Death Toll Reaches 20,000 Over the last several days there was a flurry of diplomatic activity in Doha and Cairo, as both…

CDC Admits No Data Support Advice To Take Mpox, Influenza, And COVID Shots Together Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

The group of Russian youngsters was traveling from a health camp in Siberia when the tragic incident happened The death of a 12-year-old girl exhibiting flu symptoms on a train has prompted…

“No Longer In The Bull Camp” Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, The Party is Over Since the Fed, I have been “torn” on what to do. This weekend, we worried…

US Leading Indicators Slump Signals “Short & Shallow Recession” In 1H24 The Conference Board’s Leading Economic Indicators (LEI) continued its decline in November, dropping 0.5% MoM (in line with expectations), while October’s…

Four in ten Germans have said they would never take up arms even to defend their nation, a fresh survey has shown A recent survey conducted by the German market and opinion…

At Least 11 Killed At Prague University In Sniper-Style Rooftop Mass Shooting Update(1105ET): Emerging news wire statements citing Prague emergency response services cite a much larger than expected death toll. Initially, vague police…

The Red Sea Crisis Has Created Winners And Losers: The US Is A Loser, The Winners Again Are China And Russia By Benjamin Picton of Rabobank Outside Reversal US stocks ended the…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has warned that the bloc’s economy would be killed if Kiev were allowed to join The European Union must carefully assess all the possible risks of granting…

NY Times Blasts Harvard’s Gay In Detailed Plagiarism Review As Scandal Spirals Out Of Control The New York Times has come out with a scathing article, analyzing five instances of plagiarism committed…

The armed suspect claimed he had “top secret” information for a general at the Air Force facility A Florida man has been arrested for trying to enter a military base while armed…

Why Traders Are Refusing To Give Up On The Idea Of A March Fed Rate-Cut Authored by Ven Ram, Bloomberg cross-asset strategist, Despite pushback from Fed officials, the markets are growing in…

The actor has said “there’s no way that he’s not the guy” to take down the GOP presidential frontrunner US President Joe Biden would be a better candidate than his predecessor Donald…

Police in the Czech capital say that multiple people were killed or injured A gunman has killed multiple people and injured dozens more in the Czech capital of Prague, police said on…

Angola is leaving the alliance following 16 years of membership Angola is leaving the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) because membership is not serving its interests, Oil Minister Diamantino Azevedo…

Russia will not collapse, so it would be better if the US and its allies changed their policy, the president has said Western nations that expect Russia to collapse are misguided and…

Billionaires Launch Buyout Bids For SpaceX Rival As Rocket Race Heats Up The space race among billionaires for rocket launches intensified, with news Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Cerberus, a private equity…

Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant is restricting “legitimate speech” over the crisis in Gaza, according to a report Meta, the social media giant that operates Facebook, Instagram, and other widely used online…

Turley: SCOTUS Should Rule Unanimously Against Trump Ballot Ban Authored by Jonathan Turley, In his book Profiles of Courage, John F. Kennedy discussed figures who answered the call of history and how such…

The package contains over 300 measures to battle the country’s severe economic crisis Argentine President Javier Milei has announced sweeping economic reforms in a bid to combat the worst economic crisis in…

Dublin is taking action over a law that potentially grants immunity for crimes committed during ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland The Irish government is taking legal action against the UK over a…

Futures Rebound From Worst Market Rout In Three Months One of the ironic consequences of yesterday’s sharp, 0DTE-driven 1.5% selloff which was the biggest for the S&P since Sept 26 and which…

Final Q3 GDP, Personal Consumption Revised Sharply Lower As Core PCE Slumped To 2.0% Normally the market could care less about data that is at least 3 months old, like for example…

Philly Fed Flops – New Orders Plunge As Prices Paid Jump The Philly Fed’s latest survey shows that manufacturing activity in the region continued to decline overall in December, printing -10.5, will…

Women are “going to get hurt” if they are forced to compete with former men, a government spokesman has said New Zealand will cut off funding to sporting organizations that allow transgender…

There are fewer people signing up to train in the operation of Leopard 2 tanks, the German paper reports The Ukrainian Armed Forces are reportedly experiencing a shortage of personnel to train…

Markets Go Wild On 3-Month-Old (Revised) Data “Great” news America… economic growth in the 3rd quarter was not quite as hot as the government had previously guessed. ‘Worser-er’ data suddenly supports the…

A diplomatic source has claimed they are IT specialists, not intelligence agents Authorities in Burkina Faso have arrested four French civil servants with diplomatic passports and visas on espionage allegations. They were…

Initial Jobless Claims Near Record Lows, Continuing Claims At 2-Year-Highs After tumbling nears 2023 lows in the prior week, the number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose de minimisly from a…

Oil Tumbles After Angola Announces It Is Leaving OPEC Confirming a move which had been widely expected after the internal acrimony at the last OPEC+ meeting, moments ago Angola – also known…

Moscow is ready to boost its wheat exports, the foreign minister said Tunisia is interested in importing more Russian grain, and Moscow is prepared to meet the North African country’s demand, Russian…

Volumes are projected to reach $100 billion by 2030 Trade between India and Russia is expected to reach $100 billion by the end of the decade, Kommersant reported on Thursday, citing analysts…

The US and its allies are deliberately undermining global security, General Valery Gerasimov has warned Western actions directed against Russia are making Europe less safe, according to the head of Russia’s General…

Beijing Imposes Export Controls On Rare-Earth Processing Tech As Mineral War With US Heats Up Following the meeting between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation event…

All Ukrainian men of military-age who have fled abroad will be summoned to recruitment centers, Rustem Umerov has said The Ukrainian government wants all men of fighting age who left the country…

The bloc purchased replacement fuel at higher prices that “others could not pay,” Brussels’ top diplomat has admitted By weaning itself off Russian energy after the start of the Ukraine conflict, the…

The national train driver union threatens to protest with local farmers starting January 8 as labor talks break down The Union of German Train Drivers (GDL) is set to intensify its industrial…

“This Is Off The Charts”: Economist Claims 2024 Will Bring ‘Biggest Crash Of Our Lifetime’ In US Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An economist who focuses on…

Censors and politicians are unhappy about an acclaimed drama that has caused a stir in Kiev. Here’s why. The cultural war between Russia and Ukraine is one-sided. For Russians, it doesn’t exist at…

“Astonishing Audit Failure”: SEC Charges Tingo Group With “Massive Fraud” The SEC charged Tingo Group, a Nigerian “agri-fintech” company with “massive fraud” this week, claiming that almost every aspect of the company…

Putin Seizes Multi-Billion-Dollar OMV And Wintershall Stakes In Russian Ventures By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Germany’s Wintershall Dea and Austria’s OMV are being stripped of their multi-billion-dollar stakes in joint ventures developing…

Most refugees don’t complete government-funded courses, according to a draft report obtained by the news outlet Most of the Ukrainian refugees in Germany who enrolled for government-funded ‘integration courses’ have failed to…

The Supreme Court directed the state government to ensure a dignified burial for the people killed in the clashes Some 87 people from the Kuki and Zomi tribes who died in ethnic…

Ousmane Sonko, who is currently imprisoned, is reportedly being prevented from submitting his candidacy for the 2024 vote Jailed Senegalese opposition figure Ousmane Sonko is being illegally prevented from submitting his candidacy…

The bloc has been seeking to tap profits generated from the frozen funds Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has warned that Moscow will respond in kind if the European Union decides to utilize…

Kiev thought its forces could blockade the city of Melitopol within 15 days, according to Valery Gerasimov Ukrainian military planners expected swift progress in their summer counteroffensive, which was to culminate in…

Kiev did not receive enough equipment from the West, Czech President Petr Pavel has claimed Kiev’s much-touted summer counteroffensive operation has failed to produce “expected” results, and instead resulted in heavy casualties for…

Raiffeisen earlier announced plans for its Russian subsidiary to buy a stake in an Austrian construction group Shares in Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) rallied around 12% on Wednesday shortly after the banking…

“I Am Going To Red-Pill You About Vegetable Oils” In a post on X, Sao Paulo-based ‘Dr. Simon Goddek‘ announced, “I am going to red-pill you about vegetable oils.” In a detailed bullet point…

Do Your Part For Global Warming: Stop Breathing! Authored by Pete Colan via AmericanThinker.com, As if we aren’t already incredibly weary of climate hysteria where everything is to blame from cow farts…

The bloc’s top diplomat has admitted that not all member states see Russia as a “strategic threat” Josep Borrell, the top diplomat of the European Union, has emphasized the potentially severe consequences…

Fesco is now shipping cargo between Novorossiysk and Alexandria The FESCO Egypt Direct Line (FEDL) has been launched by FESCO Transportation Group, connecting Alexandria, Egypt, with Novorossiysk, Russia, with no need for…

Volkswagen, Audi, And Porsche Adopt Tesla EV Plug As NACS Becomes Gold Standard The Volkswagen Group announced its brands, VW, Audi, and Porsche, will be integrating Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) plug into…

The French president says the legislation undercuts the right-wing National Rally party, which supported it in parliament The ruling Renaissance Party has joined forces with the right-wing National Rally (RN) in France…

Anticipated rate cuts by the Federal Reserve are fueling investor enthusiasm and boosting the Russian currency In a plot twist to the year-end financial narrative, Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell has delivered…

The Ukraine Situation Is A Failure Of Strategy And Leadership Authored by András László via ReMix News, Additional funding for Ukraine has been delayed both on behalf of the U.S. and the…

Kiev’s manpower is “significantly worn out” as Russia’s “attrition strategy” is taking effect, a former German Air Force Colonel has said Around 800 Ukrainian troops are being killed and wounded daily amid…

West Jerusalem has reportedly proposed to halt its Gaza offensive for a week in exchange for the release of hostages Hamas has rejected an Israeli offer to cease fighting in exchange for…

International Tourism Approaches Pre-Pandemic Levels While few industries have been spared by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic over the past three years, even fewer have been hit as hard as the tourism…

France’s Le Pen Hails New Immigration Bill As “Ideological Victory” Authored by Denes Albert via ReMix News, Aid to non-EU migrants will be subject to a five-year residency requirement… An ad-hoc committee…

The threat follows news of Washington planning to set up a coalition to stop attacks on cargo vessels US warships will be attacked if Yemen’s Houthis are targeted by Washington, the group’s…

The online accommodation platform has been accused of tricking Australians to pay in US dollars Online accommodation provider Airbnb has been fined by an Australian court AU$15 million (US$10 million) and ordered…

The average customs agent will not be able to distinguish between gems of different origin, the CEO of De Beers says It is almost impossible for customs agents to distinguish Russian diamonds…

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…

Moscow’s soccer authorities have rejected a switch to Asia’s confederation The Russian Football Union (RFU) will “fight” for its membership in European football’s governing body, according to a top sports official. The…