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As the fighting approaches its third year, Russia has the upper hand but there is no immediate conclusion on the horizon The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) spent the summer trying to…

Newest Ukraine-related measures include keeping deceased individuals on the blacklist The European Union intends to continue freezing the assets of blacklisted Russian nationals even if they have died, the bloc announced on…

Valery Zaluzhny has reportedly admitted that the president’s firing of recruiting chiefs undermined mobilization efforts Ukraine’s highest-ranking general has reportedly claimed that President Vladimir Zelensky’s decision earlier this year to fire the…

The Truth About The Economy That The Mainstream Media Is Not Telling You Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, If it seems to you that the economic headlines that we are being…

Watch: YouTuber Suffers Catastrophic Failure While Testing Rocket Launcher Don’t let anyone tell you being a guntuber is easy.  US Army veteran Adam Knowles experienced the danger first hand while testing a…

The White House has warned that the money will run out after another round of weaponry is announced later this month The administration of US President Joe Biden has warned that it…

The former president’s comments came a day after he said undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country” Former US President Donald Trump has said he will oversee the largest mass…

Central Banks Brought Excessive Inflation; Now They Bring Stagnation… Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Although the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank’s message regarding interest rate cuts seems clear, reiterating their commitment to reducing inflation, the…

Loyal appointees would enable the Republican to rule more effectively than the first time Donald Trump’s potential second term in the White House might see Washington stop funding Ukraine, withdraw from NATO,…

West Jerusalem has displayed “an appalling lack of distinction” in its war in Gaza, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell condemned what he described as…

Trump Attorneys Ask Fulton County Judge To Dismiss Indictment Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Former President Trump’s Georgia attorneys submitted a court filing on Dec. 18 arguing that the…

Faith in President Vladimir Zelensky has also greatly deteriorated among the country’s residents, according to a new survey Ukrainians are losing trust in the country’s public institutions, a new poll conducted by…

Nikola Founder Milton Sentenced To 4 Years After Invoking Cherokee Heritage, Mother’s Cancer, At Bizarre Hearing Update 1338EST: Milton has been sentenced to four years.  AUSA Podolsky: We can have it out…

The move is part of a renewed effort to “broaden” the appeal of the Roman Catholic Church The Vatican has said in a landmark ruling approved by Pope Francis that Roman Catholic…

Ripple, Coinbase, a16z Invest $78 Million In Pro-Crypto PAC Ahead Of US Elections Authored by Gareth Jenkinson via CoinTelegraph.com, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has publicly announced the company’s intent to support “pro-crypto’…

Kiev’s Western benefactors have reportedly turned from optimism to seeking a “new theory of victory” over Russia Discouraged by Ukraine’s failed counteroffensive and no longer seeing a “convincing theory of victory” over…

A Shocking 40% Of Student Loan Borrowers Missed First Payment After Pandemic-Era Freeze Expired In October, the number of Americans delinquent on subprime auto loans hit the highest rate on record, amid…

West Jerusalem must work towards a two-state solution or risk the conflict spiraling out of control, Ben Wallace has warned Israel’s heavy-handed approach to its war against Hamas is weakening its position…

How about a thread for party food and treats? Lots of people are entertaining in these last days running up to Christmas. Sometimes in our family we just have a night or…

Eric Swalwell And The Politics Of Contempt Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in The Hill on the bizarre scene last week in front of the Capitol when Rep. Eric…

The Israeli Defense Force says it wants to drive the Hezbollah militant group out of the southern part of the country The Israeli military has developed plans to invade neighboring Lebanon with…

US Defense Chief In Israel Pressuring Netanyahu Govt To Scale Back Killing Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is the latest high-ranking US official to visit Israel on Monday, where he’ll get a closer…

Peter Schiff: Fed Tries To Temper Rate Cut Enthusiasm Via SchiffGold.com, After the Federal Reserve effectively surrendered to inflation at its December meeting, projecting three rate cuts next year, New York Fed President John…

Centuries after the Netherlands colonized South African lands, the indigenous people feel neglected There were extraordinary scenes in October outside the Slave Lodge in Cape Town when King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima…

“Business Climate Remains Much Worse Than Normal”, Tri-State Leaders Warn Activity continued to decline in the Tri-State region’s service sector, as executives from New York, northern New Jersey, and southwestern Connecticut warn…

The restrictions will start applying on January 1, 2024, according to a press release The EU will impose a ban on the direct or indirect import, purchase, or transfer of diamonds from…

“We Sold Over $100 Million Of Gold During The Quarter”: Costco CFO Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Wholesale retailer Costco sold more than $100 million worth of gold in…

High Immigration Linked To Worsening Inflation, Bank Of Canada Deputy Governor Says Well here’s an inconvenient talking point for Justin Trudeau and his staff: Bank of Canada Deputy Governor Toni Gravelle gave a…

Researchers say ‘neural network’ has dominated search engine queries and gained prominence in the press and on social media The Russian Language Pushkin Institute has ruled ‘neutral network’ as its word of…

The platform has been accused of violating the terms of the bloc’s sweeping Digital Services Act The European Union announced on Monday that it was taking “formal infringement proceedings” against Elon Musk’s…

Cause Of Professional Soccer Player’s Sudden Collapse Remains A “Mystery” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news What caused a fit, healthy, young footballer to suddenly collapse in the middle of the…

Key Events This Pre-Holiday Week: BOJ, PCE, Durables And A Some Other B-List Things With all major macro events for 2023 now in the rearview mirror as trading desks empty out and…

The proposed agreement reportedly faced opposition from US lawmakers The US will not go through with plans for a “foundational” trade agreement with the UK, Politico reported on Monday, citing sources close…

Foreign interventions cannot solve security problems in Haiti, as long as they remain the main reason for insecurity in the country Last month Kenyan lawmakers approved a plan to send 1,000 police…

Efforts to rebuild the Kakhovka Dam could be based on blueprints preserved in state archives, the leader of Kherson Region said The Kakhovka Dam, destroyed amid the Ukraine conflict, could be rebuilt…

Seaing Red By Benjamin Picton, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank The NASDAQ closed at a record high on Friday evening. This came as the US 10-year yield fell another basis point to…

AAPL Tumbles After Halting Watch Sales In The US After taking a late-Friday punch in the face from China – which reportedly announced a more widespread ban on iPhones across government and…

Wikipedia Does Fire Drill To Downplay Harvard’s Gay Plagiarism/Antisemitism Scandal Wikipedia’s woke editors are scrambling to downplay recent scandals involving Harvard President Claudine Gay. In recent days, editors have removed mention of…

The defense ministers of Berlin and Vilnius have signed a plan for a major military deployment Germany and Lithuania on Monday signed a roadmap for what is set to become the largest…

India has intensified studies in the region, which it believes holds the key to global climate, sea levels, and biodiversity India is sending its first-ever winter expedition to the Arctic to conduct…

The PM’s speech was for the first time interpreted in real-time by the government-developed language technology, ‘Bhashini’ Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public speech on Sunday at Varanasi, a holy site for…

Those affected will be given 30 days to leave Latvia, the Baltic state’s migration chief has said Latvia is planning to expel more than 1,000 Russian citizens, the head of the national…

Global Trade At Risk As Shippers Shun Red Sea Over Houthis Attacks Amid further attacks and reroutings… Suez update: 46 container ships now have diverted around the Cape of Good Hope rather…

EU Hits Musk With X Probe On Possible ‘Disinformation’ European Commissioner Thierry Breton announced an investigation into Elon Musk’s ‘free speech’ social media platform X for failure to combat ‘illicit content and disinformation.’ This…

Risk-Asset Tailwinds Grow As Global Liquidity Ends Year On High Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Global liquidity is ending the year on a very strong footing, supporting risk assets. Liquidity…

Futures Rise After 7 Weeks Of Gains, Oil Jumps As Shippers Halt Red Sea Crossings After 7 consecutive weeks of gains, US equity futures edged higher, and traded near session highs even…

Japan’s Nippon Steel To Buy US Steel For $14 Billion  Nippon Steel Corp., Japan’s largest steel production company, announced Monday morning that it will acquire Pittsburgh-based US Steel in an all-cash deal,…

An AfD candidate has been elected as town mayor for the first time The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has won a mayoral election for the first time, with candidate Tim…

The bloc’s member states should further strengthen economic ties, according to FM The sustainable development of financial relations and settlements within the BRICS organization is very important for all member states, Russian…

The Russian president has only been put forward as a party nominee once in his more than 20-year political career Russian President Vladimir Putin will seek reelection for a fifth term in…

The reported attempt to eavesdrop on Valery Zaluzhny has sparked speculation over who was behind it The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has confirmed that a listening device has been found in an…

BP Halts All Tanker Sailings Through Red Sea; UK Navy Receives Report Of Possible Explosion Near Yemen The number of major shipping firms halting all commercial sailings through the highly trafficked Red…

We Don’t Need To Fix FDIC, We Need A Genuinely Safe Bank Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, An article in the Wall Street Journal wants to add discipline to deposit insurance….

The long-range missile test comes after Pyongyang said US-South Korean drills were a “preview of a nuclear war” North Korea has test-fired a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that is capable of…

The West African nation’s leader has called the incident a tragedy At least 11 people have been killed and more than 80 injured in an explosion at a fuel depot in Conakry,…

The plans are contingent on the launch of Sibur’s new Amur GCC production facility Russian petrochemicals major Sibur International is planning to significantly increase polymer exports to India, company CEO Andrey Frolov…

Most of Moscow’s exports are going to China, according to Anton Siluanov Russia is rerouting most of its exports from the EU to Asian countries, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said at a…

The activation of Article 7 was reportedly floated after Budapest blocked a massive financial support package for Kiev The possibility of Hungary temporarily forfeiting its voting rights within the European Union is…

Over 200 million coronavirus jabs were reportedly sent to landfills simply because they were no longer needed The EU has reportedly sent at least 215 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the…

It Would Be The Ultimate Irony – A Gold Standard Returning Through The Backdoor Of Crypto Markets By Marcel Kasumovich, Deputy CIO, Coinbase Asset Management Markets forced crypto to clean up, inviting…

The agreement will see Lada vehicles assembled in Ethiopia Ethio-Engineering Group (EEG) and Russian carmaker Avtovaz have signed an agreement to produce Russian Lada vehicles in Ethiopia, local media reported on Sunday….

G7 Closer To Giving $300BN In Seized Russian Assets To Ukraine After Orban Blocked EU Funds Group of Seven member states are moving closer to approving a controversial plan that would funnel…

The former US president claims to be the only candidate who can promise to prevent World War III Former US President Donald Trump has claimed that the current situation in the Middle…

While in Russia, the top diplomat is expected to discuss improving connectivity to boost bilateral trade Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, India’s external affairs minister, is planning a trip to Moscow later this month to…

The US is attempting to impose “immorality, obscenity, and indecency,” Martin Ssempa has told RT Uganda is facing significant external pressure due to its anti-LGBT legislation, pastor and activist Martin Ssempa told…

Somalia has joined the regional trade community Somalia has officially become the eighth member of the East African Community (EAC) after more than a decade of lobbying to be admitted into the…

Marc Crispin Miller Exposes The “Rolling Thunder Global Propaganda” Campaign Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, New York University (NYU) Professor Mark Crispin Miller (MCM) is an expert in propaganda. Dr. Miller says from infection…

The US and its allies should demonstrate “political will” and insist on Kiev’s NATO membership, Arseny Yatsenyuk has said Meaningful negotiations between Ukraine and Russia will only be possible if the West…

Visualizing America’s One-Sided Love Of European Wine When the United States and the European Union finally buried the hatchet in a long-simmering dispute over government subsidies to Boeing and Airbus in June 2021, wine…

UK Vicar Under Investigation For Calling Trans Archdeacon “A Bloke” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A vicar is in trouble for expressing criticism of the Church of England’s decision to appoint…

The Swiss Are The World’s Greatest Savers The Swiss are by far the largest savers among OECD countries. As Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, according to data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,…

The incumbent president’s party is projected to secure a parliamentary majority Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has declared victory in Sunday’s parliamentary election in the Balkan country, after exit polls projected that his…

The US president looked visibly startled by the incident in videos A car smashed into one of the SUVs in Joe Biden’s motorcade as the US President was leaving his campaign headquarters…

The device was found at a facility slated for use by General Valery Zaluzhny, Kiev’s security service has said The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has launched a criminal investigation after a covert…

When Did Governments Become So Ridiculous? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The world media breathlessly reported last week on what they say was huge and important news. Two hundred…

High interest rates are reportedly siphoning money away from spending on health, education, and other critical needs Developing nations spent a record $443.5 billion to service their external public and publicly guaranteed…

Afghanistan’s poppy supply on the global market has plummeted 95% since last year’s cultivation ban, data shows Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, once the world’s top supplier, has plummeted since the Taliban…

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…

US Military Faces ‘Mutiny’ Of Enlisted Gen-Zers As TikTok Virus Spreads Gen-Zers in the civilian world have already taken to the Chinese social media platform ‘TikTok’ to blast Washington and the military-industrial…

Nobel Prize Winner Seeking to Cure Cancer With mRNA Technology Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Nobel Prize winner Dr. Drew Weissman talked recently about using mRNA technology…

Which Cars Have The Best Resale Value? For three years now, the used-car market has been booming, after the pandemic disrupted new car supply chains, sending secondhand vehicle prices skyrocketing. But which cars have…

Goodbye, Scout Snipers … For Now Authored by John J. Waters via RealClear Wire, Scout Snipers have a mantra. I learned that mantra years ago when I was assigned to lead a…

Fox News polling is generally skewed away from the reality of the base sentiment by the polling from Daron Shaw and Shaw Research and Associates.  They have a long history of polling…

Who Can Afford Kids These Days? Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The large data sets on the cost of living and the cost of children are…

Yes, Hunter Is Now In Contempt Of Congress Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in The Messenger on the decision of Hunter Biden to defy Congress in a press conference…

Vietnam has found itself in the position of kingmaker, being crucial for the plans of both Beijing and Washington for Asia Chinese leader Xi Jinping has just paid an official visit to…

Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz and former Department of Defense Chief of Staff Kash Patel discuss President Donald Trump’s criminal case, the J6 targeting and the use of FISA-702 to conduct…

Kremlin May Preemptively Bar Uranium Exports To U.S., Firm Warns Oil isn’t the only commodity at the center of tensions between the U.S. and Russia… Now Russian state-owned uranium company Tenex is telling…

President Donald Trump will deliver remarks today to a Team Trump, Nevada Commit to Caucus Event, in Reno, Nevada. at 5:00 p.m. ET  Livstream Links Below RSBN Rumble Livestream Link – RSBN…

Forcibly grabbed Ukrainians have shown “zero” effectiveness on the frontline and must be motivated properly, Kirill Budanov says Forcibly conscripted Ukrainians have been displaying subpar combat performance, Ukrainian military intelligence chief Kirill…

There’s Something Happening Here… Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform, There’s something happening hereBut what it is ain’t exactly clear – Buffalo Springfield Something is not right, and the drastically…

Moscow has ensured that local buyers get massive discounts when these companies sell their Russian assets Efforts by Ukraine and its Western backers to convince, shame, and sanction companies into leaving the…

Maher: “It’s Hard To Negotiate When The Other Side’s Position Is – You All Die And Disappear” Comedian Bill Maher discussed the Israel-Hamas conflict on Friday, suggesting that Palestinians get used to the…

The head of the Metula council has called for moving Palestinians into Lebanese refugee camps The Gaza Strip should be completely leveled and transformed into an empty museum like the Auschwitz concentration…

Helsinki has not had any “trouble” with Moscow for years but now it will, the Russian president has said Russia will create a new military district to reinforce its positions near Finland…

It Seems We Have Hit A Point Where A Wall Is In The Way Of “Kicking The Can” Much Further By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities I’ve been doing a lot of…

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Watch: Pro-Israel Congressmen Confronted Over Israel’s History Of Propping-Up Hamas Submitted by Decensored News,  “For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces.” So read an op-ed headline…

The number of Palestinian civilian casualties and near-total population displacement in Gaza have imperiled a lasting peace agreement The foreign ministers of Germany and the UK called on Israel to stop bombing…