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Switching attack vectors, President Trump moves to the culture war.  In a post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump announces a shakeup of the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees and appoints himself…

This is cool.  The U.S. Debt Clock tracking system is now also monitoring the savings generated through the Dept of Govt Efficiency (DOGE). $68 Billion and growing. [LINK HERE] Posted in Big…

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba was asked for his first impression of President Donald Trump at the conclusion of their first meeting.  You could hear a pin drop as the White House…

Netanyahu Suggests Palestinians Can Have A State In Saudi Arabia Via Middle East Eye Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested on Thursday that Palestinians should establish a state in Saudi Arabia, rather than in their homeland,…

‘Worse Than World War II’ – Visualizing US National Debt (As A Percent Of GDP) Since 1900 This year, U.S. national debt is set to approach 100% of GDP, up from 36%…

“Recycling” Makes Plastic Pollution Worse Via Brian McGlinchey at Stark Realities If you’re like many people, you’ve always thought a numbered-triangle symbol on the bottom of a plastic container tells you it’s…

Trump Says He Will Investigate California’s High-Speed Rail Project Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that his administration will investigate the long-delayed California high-speed…

Trump Envoy Demands Hezbollah Be Booted From Lebanese Govt In ‘Red Line’ Trump’s newly appointed regional diplomat, United States deputy envoy to the Middle East, Morgan Ortagus, is in Lebanon where she’s…

Death And Taxes: A New Take On An Old Problem Authored by Robert F. Mancuso via RealClearMarkets, Death and taxes. They are often called the only two certainties in life.  Yet for…

More Government Workers Accept Trump Admin Buyout Offer, Official Says The number of workers who have decided to accept the buyout offer from the Trump administration has risen by about 25,000, according…

Trump Signs Order Sanctioning The Hague’s ICC Over Treatment Of Israel President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the Hague-based court targeted…

The US president has called for the agency to be shut down The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is riddled with almost unprecedented levels of corruption, and should be shut down,…

Syria’s New HTS Government Clashes With Hezbollah On Lebanese Border In First For the first time since Assad’s ouster in early December, Syrian Army under the new Islamist government of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham…

DOJ Issues Directive Ending Biden-Era Task Force Aimed At Seizing Assets Of Russian Oligarchs Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice (DOJ) disbanded a program started under…

Diplomacy with Pyongyang is key to stability, according to the US president US President Donald Trump has expressed his desire to reestablish relations with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, highlighting their past…

America’s Electric Grid Is At Risk – And We Need Coal To Save It Authored by Emily Arthun via RealClearEnergy, A recent report from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) sounds…

California Town Explores Installing Cameras To Monitor Migrant Boat Arrivals Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, A recent uptick in the arrival of smuggled migrants landing on Southern California shores…

Dzerzhinsk has been liberated after five months of intense fighting The Russian Defense Ministry has released a compilation video on Saturday, highlighting moments from the five months-long battle for the town of…

Prime Minister Viktor Orban has announced plans to disclose foreign funding to organizations that undermine his government Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has declared that he will implement measures ensuring the transparency of…

How It Worked… Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “They never prepared for algorithms that could map everything. For personnel pre-positioned everywhere. For a president who counts every week like it’s his last.” …

The decision follows the rapper’s recent antisemitic statements, including expressing admiration for Hitler and self-identifying as a Nazi Russian fashion designer Gosha Rubchinsky announced on Firday that he is ending his collaboration…

The rapper made dozens of offensive anti-Semitic posts on X, coming under a storm of criticism US musician and fashion designer Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, found himself at the center…

Watch: Maxine Waters Flips Her Wig As Dept. Of Education Employee Blocks Path Sanpaku-eyed lawmaker Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was beside herself on Friday, after several Democratic lawmakers attempted to enter the…

The pontiff emphasized the importance of forgiveness and dialogue under any circumstances Pope Francis has urged young Ukrainians to exercise forgiveness in the face of the country’s conflict with Russia, despite all…

A Third Of All US States Now Exploring Bitcoin, Crypto For Public Funds Authored by Vince Dioquino via Decrypt.co, A growing wave of U.S. states are pursuing legislation to establish strategic Bitcoin reserves or…

A recent wave of major fires across the EU country could be the result of deliberate sabotage, according to Leszek Miller Ukrainian agents may be responsible for a series of arson attacks…

The US president has also expressed hope he will hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the coming days, too US President Donald Trump has stated that he will likely have…

Consumer Credit Unexpectedly Surges By Most On Record Despite All-Time High APRs We have repeatedly warned that with their savings – and especially “emergency covid savings” – gone or nearly gone, Biden…

Lost In Today’s Job Revision Chaos: Over 1 Million Foreign-Born Workers Found A Job… And No Native Borns Slowly, the unprecedented payrolls fabrication of the Biden administration, which we spent much of…

14 States To File Lawsuit Against DOGE Access To Government Payment Systems Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A coalition of 14 state attorneys general said on Thursday that they…

Tesla Sales Tumble 11.5% In China Due To Increased Domestic Competition, Market Saturation Tesla sales in China fell -11.5% for the month of January, mainly due to increased saturation and competition in…

The Hunt Continues: Zelensky Extends Forced Conscription & Martial Law Again Via Remix News, Ukraine has long stopped being a democracy and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky just made sure to keep it…

The secret order reportedly requires the tech giant to provide a backdoor to encrypted cloud data The UK government has issued a “technical capability notice” to Apple, compelling the tech giant to…

The ban on biological men in women’s sports is an actual move to protect women, unlike most of the leftist posturing done to date It was US President Donald Trump – a…

Zapped: Department Of Transportation Halts Funding For Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal program that granted funds to states to build a…

Bill Ackman Goes Full Bull On Uber, Acquires 30 Million Shares Bill Ackman, the billionaire CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, wrote on X on Friday morning that his team has acquired…

USS Intimidator To Panama By Philip Marey, senior US strategist at Rabobank The Bank of England’s MPC cut the benchmark rate by 25 basis points to 4.50%. This move was fully expected…

The US president has previously complained about “liberal” paper straws, saying they disintegrate while in use US President Donald Trump has promised to sign an executive order against paper straws next week….

Budapest and Washington are preparing an agreement to boost US investment, according to Hungary’s leader Hungary is preparing a significant economic agreement with the United States, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has announced….

Auto Stocks On Watch After Report That EU Considering Reducing Tariffs On U.S. Imports Auto stocks jumped mid day on Friday after the Financial Times reported that the EU is prepared to…

Trump Begins Sanction Campaign Against Tehran’s “Oil Network” The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) unveiled on Thursday the first round of sanctions against Iran under President Trump’s second term, reinforcing his…

Finland has been calling on its population to prepare for a military confrontation, according Russia’s envoy The Finnish authorities have been churning up an atmosphere of “war psychosis” and urging people to…

The Indian prime minister will visit the US next week for talks on illegal migrants and tariffs Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to hold a bilateral meeting with US President…

The statement comes after the US president imposed punitive measures on the court for going after Israel’s PM and ex-defense chief The International Criminal Court (ICC) has said it will continue to…

Kiev’s forces have been trying to continue their unsuccessful offensive push in the area The Russian military has thwarted a Ukrainian effort to continue their offensive in Kursk Region, the country’s Defense…

What’s Keeping Corporate America Up At Night? Three Themes From Earnings Calls  Goldman Sachs analysts highlighted three key themes emerging from this earnings season that are top of mind for corporate America:…

Elizabeth Warren Destroyed By X Community Notes Over Pharma Corruption Authored by Ben Bartee via PJMedia.com, If ever you needed proof that X Community Notes is vastly superior to corporate “fact checks”…

Democrats Send UMich Inflation Expectations Exploding Higher In Feb With Democrats driving inflation expectations (dramatically) higher in January, all eyes will be on this morning’s UMich preliminary data for February… and right…

Forecasting Error Puts Fed On Wrong Side Again Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The Federal Reserve’s record of forecasting has frequently led it to respond too late to changes in economic…

The song ‘Sigma Boy’, recorded by Russian schoolgirls, has reached Billboard’s top ten after going viral on social media Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation has accused the viral pop song ‘Sigma Boy’…

More economic pressure could be applied on Moscow over the Ukraine conflict, Keith Kellogg has said US President Donald Trump is prepared to intensify sanctions on Russia in order to push for…

Trump DOJ Hits Illinois, Chicago with Lawsuit Over Sanctuary Laws Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, This one will stick. The courts will uphold this. I expect Trump will win. Pam Bondi…

Negotiating with Washington is “neither wise, intelligent, nor honorable,” the Iranian supreme leader has said Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has warned that Tehran will respond with tat-for-tat measures to any hostile…

January Jobs Growth Below Estimates Amid Massive Revisions Which Trim Unemployment, Reduce Historic Payrolls There were no strong convictions ahead of today’s jobs report – perhaps because everyone by now knows the…

Futures Flat Ahead Of Payrolls US equity futures are unchanged, with tech lagging and small caps leading as traders hunker down ahead of a payrolls report that is expected to show 175,000…

Cocoa Prices Go Bitter After Hershey CEO Spots “Demand Destruction” Cocoa futures declined in New York following comments from Hershey CEO Michele Buck, who indicated on an earnings call with investors that…

Goldman “Cautiously Optimistic” On China Tech As DeepSeek Fuels Bullish Bets Goldman’s Hailey He remains “cautiously optimistic” about Chinese stocks, noting that “AI enthusiasm sparked by Deepseek” has driven tech shares into…

New US Attorney General Pam Bondi has disbanded a task force targeting Russian elites and redirected its resources to fight drug cartels The US Justice Department under Attorney General Pam Bondi has…

NATO Troops To Defend Greenland? Report Says Europe Mulls Options To Deter Trump New reports say that European countries are actually discussing sending troops to Greenland in order to deter President Donald…

Richard Medhurst says officials told him he is suspected of being a member of Hamas – an allegation he strongly denies Independent British journalist Richard Medhurst, known for his pro-Palestinian stance, has…

The apparent decision comes after Elon Musk’s agency uncovered millions of taxpayer dollars spent on a Politico subscription US President Donald Trump’s White House has ordered the General Services Administration (GSA), a…

The sub-heading tells the story. It is essentially, a predictable outcome, a conversation we began here several months ago. …”At the Education Department, the [DOGE] team has turned to artificial intelligence to…

Moscow is appealing to American patriots, while Washington is seeking tips from disgruntled military researchers The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is reaching out to CIA officers who want to jointly resolve…

Republican Nancy Mace has disclosed DEI programs she claims involved “painful and deadly experiments” Around $10 million in American taxpayer funds was spent last year on experiments using “transgender lab rats,” Republican…

The Reserve Bank of India has reduced the repo rate to 6.25%  The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its key interest rate for the first time in five years on Friday….

The former Ukrainian stronghold of Dzerzhinsk has been fully captured by Moscow’s forces after months of intense fighting The Russian Defense Ministry announced the liberation of the Donbass town of Dzerzhinsk on…

A direct conflict between the two world powers is unnecessary, but would benefit Kiev, Mikhail Podoliak believes A US-Russian war would be advantageous to Ukraine in the current conflict with Moscow, according…

NatGas Volatility Blows Out To Record For March Futures The March natural gas contract has been on a rollercoaster ride over the past month, driven by several factors, including polar vortex blasts across…

TikTok’s Actual Offense? Innovating While Not Being American Authored by John Tamny via RealClearMarkets, Ten days ago the shares of Nvidia corrected 17 percent. How could this have happened to such an…

Tokyo’s “unfriendly stance” towards Moscow makes discussions impossible, Nikolay Nozdrev has said Moscow cannot engage in talks with Tokyo on a formal peace treaty as long as the Japanese government follows the…

The country’s new defense minister has told the outlet that Moscow’s continued military presence is negotiable if it benefits Damascus Syria is open to allowing Russia maintain its air and naval bases…

Manufacturing was the main driver of the country’s economic growth, according to the prime minister Russia’s GDP reached a record high last year, according to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, who made the…

Cyril Ramaphosa’s remarks come as US President Donald Trump threatens to cut funding to Pretoria over a land ownership law South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has said his country will “not be…

The nation faces the risk of major defeat in future conflicts without immediate reforms to outdated weapons programs, the tech billionaire has warned The US risks major defeat in the country’s next…

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has urged New Delhi to engage in dialogue on Kashmir, a region claimed by both nations Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called on India to engage in…

Microplastics Found In Brain Weighs As Much As A Plastic Spoon: Study Authored by Cara Michelle Miller via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Microplastics are making their way into human brains at…

Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s goal in Kiev was to derail efforts to resolve the conflict, Aleksandr Dubinsky has claimed The purpose of UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s recent visit to Kiev was…

The US president intends to keep fewer than 300 employees out of more than 10,000 at the agency, sources have told Reuters The largest US government workers’ union and an association of…

A new contingent of 144 Kenyan officers has arrived in Port-au-Prince to support a UN-backed mission A group of 144 Kenyan police officers arrived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to reinforce the UN-backed Multinational…

Aleksandar Vulin’s socialist party first floated the draft legislation last year Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin has vowed to keep pushing for a law which would brand foreign-funded NGOs as ‘foreign…

Anton Kobyakov believes that cooperation within the “framework of business events” will boost relations between Moscow and the continent Russia is actively developing partnerships with African countries and this remains a top…

The president’s offensive against America’s ‘state within a state’ marks the end of an era Over the decades, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has evolved into a “state within…

Here’s What To Know About US Withdrawal From The WHO Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), On the first day in office of his second term, President…

Decades-Long Chinese Influence In Panama Begins To Unravel Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), About 10 years ago, Louis Sola’s family maritime business was given a concession…

The NCAA has praised President Trump for issuing a national standard in an executive order this week The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which oversees student athletics in the US, has revised…

Ukraine Launches New Offensive In Kursk, Marks 6 Months Of Holding Russian Territory Ukraine launched a fresh offensive on Russian territory in the Kursk region, Russia’s military confirmed Thursday, which marks six…

Earlier Azerbaijan also took similar steps against the cultural institution France has frozen the bank accounts of the Russian House cultural center in Paris, effectively blocking its operations, Russian Ambassador Aleksey Meshkov…

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…

The women are suspected of plotting terrorist attacks against high-ranking Russian officers and the country’s energy infrastructure, the agency has said Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has said that its operatives have…

The flagship event will run from February 20 to 21 and focus on “New Materials and Chemistry” Moscow is set to bring together top minds in science and business at its “unique” annual…

USAID Is A Premier Weapon Of US Hybrid Warfare In The Southern Hemisphere Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Here’s the full interview that I gave to Sputnik Brasil about USAID, excerpts…

US “De Minimis” Exemption (Was) One Of The Highest In The World As a part of the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration Saturday on Canada, Mexico and China, so-called “de minimis”…

FBI Turned Blind Eye While Its Informant Stole $190K From Jan. 6 Protestor: Court Filing Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, A bombshell court filing alleges that an FBI informant stole…

Rubio To Skip G20 In Protest Against South Africa’s DEI And Climate Policies Authored by Andrew Thornebrooke via The Epoch Times, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will not attend the G20 in…

Former UPenn Athletes Sue To Expunge Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas’ Records Three former swimmers for the University of Pennsylvania have sued the Ivy League college to expunge the records of transgender athlete…

Bovard: Forty Years Bashing The National Endowment For Democracy Authored by Jim Bovard via The Libertarian Institute, At the start of this week Elon Musk posted on X: Those who know, please reply to…

Tomorrow’s Jobs Report Will Finally Capture The Surge In Illegal Aliens, Lead To Another Big Negative Payrolls Revision Remember last August when the Biden admin finally admitted it had been rigging the…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was designated as a target by CIA/USAID revolution efforts for his nationalist mindset and opposition to the global agenda of the European Commission.  Orban is also a…

Former USAID Administrator Samantha Power, the architect of the “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine (R2P) traveled to CBS HQ in New York for a late-night television appearance with Stephen Colbert.   The purpose of…