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The US president earlier said he understands Russia’s position that Ukraine should not be part of the military bloc Russia welcomes the statements made by US President Donald Trump regarding Ukraine’s NATO…

Biden-Era Climate Rule Dead After Court Grants Dismissal Of Appeal Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A climate rule issued during the Biden administration is officially dead after…

UV-treated mealworm powder can be added to bread, cheese, pasta, and other food products under new regulation The European Commission has approved a new food ingredient made from dried and ground mealworm…

De Beers CEO Signals US Diamond Recovery, Criticizes China’s Fake Stones Grown “In Microwaves” De Beers Chief Executive Officer Al Cook spoke with Bloomberg Television on Tuesday at the Mining Indaba conference…

Why The US Grows While The EU Slows: Adam Smith’s Recipe Authored by David Hebert via the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), What explains the curious lack of economic progress in…

Military Plane Carries Indian Migrants Back From US In Furthest Deportation Flight Yet Indian media is reporting an unprecedented first – that US military flights are being used to deport illegal migrants…

The US president recently imposed tariffs on Chinese goods, prompting retaliatory measures from Beijing US President Donald Trump has stated that he is in “no rush” to engage in discussions with Chinese…

China Finds Leverage Ahead Of Trade Talks: Beijing Mulls Probe Into Apple’s App Store Practices Beijing appears to be reviving several antitrust investigations against US big tech companies.  Financial Times reported on Tuesday…

Washington is sending obsolete weapons to Kiev and replacing them with new systems ordered from private contractors, the Ukrainian leader has claimed The Ukraine conflict has been a bonanza for the US…

The departure from Senegal comes months after its leader said a defense pact with Paris is incompatible with the nation’s sovereignty France has handed over three military bases to Senegal, beginning the…

‘Red Hand’ Revolt In Serbia: People Power Or Color Revolution? by Nebojsa Malic via The Libertarian Institute, For six weeks now, Serbia has been rattled by what purports to be a student…

NATO members are reportedly discussing a joint mission to dissuade Donald Trump from seeking US sovereignty over the Danish island The German government could pledge troops to a proposed NATO mission in…

The US president’s proposal for the enclave’s future would infringe on the rights of Palestinians, a leader of the militant group has said Hamas has rejected US President Donald Trump’s proposal to…

Kinshasa has requested an urgent meeting to address the situation in Goma after the city was captured by M23 rebels The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has called for an emergency…

“Permanent peace” in the enclave can only be achieved through the establishment of a Palestinian state, Riyadh has said Saudi Arabia rejects any attempts to displace the Palestinians from their land, the…

Around 10,000 employees will be indefinitely furloughed while the new US administration reviews the agency’s work The US Agency for International Development (USAID) will place nearly all of its employees on administrative…

These Are Europe’s Most In-Demand Jobs Looking to move to Europe and wondering what kind of jobs one could get there? We have some insights to share. This chart, via Visual Capitalist’s…

Trump’s Interest In Ukraine’s Rare Earth Minerals Might Backfire On Zelensky Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Trump’s confirmed interest in Ukraine’s rare earth minerals is being interpreted by some as beneficial for Zelensky…

Russia is open to talks with Kiev despite the Ukrainian leader’s lack of legal authority, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Moscow is ready for talks with Kiev even though Ukraine’s Vladimir…

Despite Nepal being the world’s second most water-rich country, which provides immense potential for hydroelectric power production, India has the primary influence over its energy security Nepal’s current total energy demand is…

Nigeria’s group partner status offers new economic opportunities for both sides The assessment of Nigeria as the ninth partner state in BRICS marks a significant milestone in the history of this group….

Kiev could pursue a ‘dirty bomb’ project for blackmail, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has claimed Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s statements on obtaining nuclear weapons are cause for serious concern, Russian…

Eighty years after the historic Yalta Conference, Russia’s long-serving chief diplomat reflects on its legacy Eighty years ago, on February 4, 1945, the leaders of the victorious powers of World War II…

The agency’s employees will be given a chance to resign with benefits, according to CNN and the Wall Street Journal The CIA has offered so-called buyouts to its agents as part of…

Where USAID Cash Is (Was) Going The website of the United States Agency for International Development went dark over the weekend and employees were put on leave, as Elon Musk said Monday that…

Kiev should trade its natural resources for further American aid, the US president has recently said Ukraine’s supporters must help push Russian forces out of the mineral-rich former territories of the country…

Switzerland Halts Foreign Aid To Eritrea Over Refusal To Accept Rejected Asylum Seekers Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Switzerland has halted its development aid to Eritrea due to the African…

Oh, this is rich…. “The lawsuit, which claims violations of First Amendment rights and of the federal Privacy Act, asks to bar the Justice Department from aggregating and disseminating the identities of…

As noted in the visible scale of media panic, Washington DC federal officeholders (many in their pajamas as they work from home) are having fits of apoplexy as the Trump administration bears…

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a press conference following a bilateral meeting in the White House. The anticipated start time for the presser and remarks is approximately…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio was again asked about the USAID review pause and the likely impact to the matrix of NGO’s and financial dependents, including the families of DC politicians, if…

Get ready for a key geopolitical battle; the fight to end the Marshall Plan. Since the end of World War II, the USA has permitted a system of one-way trade rules that…

New York Aldi Cashiers Reject Regular Customer’s $2 Bills, Claiming They’re Fake One step closer to a Central Bank Digital currency, and 1984… As the younger generations grow up, the norms we…

In overall cabinet confirmation progress, today Pam Bondi was confirmed (54-46) by the full senate.  Attorney General Pam Bondi is now in place at the DOJ. [link] Director of National Intelligence nominee,…

President Trump signs several executive orders February 4th, and holds a lengthy press conference to discuss details of ongoing operations by the administration. Within the XO’s President Trump targeted several sub silos…

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 Postal Service Suspends Shipments Of Parcels From China, Hong Kong The US Postal Service has suspending inbound international packages from China and Hong Kong Posts, delaying or blocking shipments from giant…

lol… Don’t you just love it when exactly what you knew would happen, starts to happen – SEE PREDICTION HERE. This is, quite simply, a super-blast of Trumpian fuel that will overwhelm…

TV Keeps Losing Ground Just 59 percent of people surveyed by Statista Consumer Insights in the United States in 2024 had watched linear television in the last twelve months. In contrast, 86 percent said…

California Passes $50M Bill To Resist Trump Agenda Authored by Eric Lendrum via American Greatness, On Monday, Democrats in the California State Legislature passed a $50 million spending bill aimed at resisting…

The Most Important Trade Chart In The World Markets this year – and newsflow in general – seem to be rolling from one mega theme to another at breakneck speed. As DB’s…

The US president envisions a “long-term ownership” of the enclave, resettling the Palestinians in other states US President Donald Trump’s proposal for a US takeover of Gaza is worth considering and will…

The US president plans to demolish the enclave and resettle Palestinians elsewhere US President Donald Trump has proposed that the United States assume control of the Gaza Strip, describing the area as…

Assassination Bombing At High-Security Area Of Moscow Kills Pro-Russian Ukrainian Separatist Another mysterious assassination of a pro-Russian official has rocked Moscow. Over the nearly three-years of the Ukraine war, there’s been a…

Pacific Coast Highway Reopens After Devastating Palisades Fire Authored by Rudy Blalock via The Epoch Times, The Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) partially reopened on Monday, nearly a month after the Palisades Fire…

Trump Withdraws From UN Human Rights Council, End Funding To UNRWA President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday withdrawing the United States from the UN Human Rights Council, UNRWA, and…

Palestinians Would ‘Love To Leave’ Gaza, US Could ‘Take It Over’ Trump Proclaims Alongside Netanyahu Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was all smiles as he visited the White House and met with…

Militant groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham took power in Damascus in December, toppling the government of Bashar Assad The Syrian transitional government consists of jihadists who are moderating their rhetoric while…

What DeepSeek Says About Nuland’s Role In Ukraine War Authored by Cathy Vogan via ConsortiumNews.com, News of a Chinese AI program named DeepSeek outperforming Western AI for a fraction of the cost…

Anonymous FBI Agents Sue To Prevent Trump from Knowing Their Roles In J6, Mar-a-Lago Raid Authored by Ken Silva via HeadlineUSA, Nine anonymous FBI agents filed a lawsuit Tuesday to prevent the…

State Farm Asks California Insurance Department For Emergency 22 Percent Rate Increase Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), California’s largest home insurer asked the state’s insurance department for…

The US president announced a plan to “level” the Palestinian enclave turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East” US President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will assume…

Time To Build Backyard Chicken Coop As Wholesale Egg Prices Hit New Record Highs The latest wholesale data from Urner Barry shows egg prices continuing to soar to new record highs amid…

The US president has doubled down on his Gaza resettlement idea during a meeting with the Israeli PM President Donald Trump, during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the…

7 Charged In America’s Biggest COVID Tax Credit Fraud Scheme Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, A group of seven who allegedly sought to steal hundreds of millions of dollars…

Elon Musk Is “Special Government Employee”, White House Confirms Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The White House on Monday confirmed that Space X and Tesla founder and CEO Elon…

USAID Panic Mode: Bill Gates Goes On MSM, Bashes Musk’s DOGE, Fear-Mongers About Next Pandemic Globalist billionaire Bill Gates made the rounds on far-left corporate media outlets on Tuesday morning, criticizing Elon Musk’s DOGE to fold…

What’s Happening Is Breathtaking… Authored by Chris Martenson via PeakProsperity.com, These are extraordinary times, and I mean that in every literal and historical sense I can muster. Trump has started a revolution,…

Alphabet Tumbles On Cloud, Revenue Miss; Expects Surge In 2025 CapEx Silicon Valley is still reeling from the sudden rise of China’s “budget” AI startup DeepSeek, which rocked the industry when it…

The nomination now proceeds to a full Senate vote, where Republicans hold a majority Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has moved closer to becoming the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services…

Numerous “foreign objects” have been recovered from the wreckage of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in December under unclear circumstances Kazakhstan’s Transport Ministry released on Tuesday a preliminary report on the…

The billionaire accused the former US president of using taxpayer money to support unlawful border crossings Elon Musk has accused the administration of former US President Joe Biden of redirecting billions of…

The Ukrainian leader has stated he considers the Russian president “an enemy” and believes the feeling is mutual Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has expressed readiness to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin…

The former Democratic congresswoman has secured a key Senate committee approval Former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has secured a crucial endorsement from the Senate Intelligence Committee to become the next US director…

Ahmed al-Sharaa has said the country needs time to establish a political system and rebuild its infrastructure Syria’s transitional president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has announced that elections will not be held for up…

Poland has reiterated its opposition to the new bloc-wide policy regarding asylum seekers The Polish government is firmly opposed to accepting any relocated asylum seekers under the EU’s migration pact, which threatens…

Panama Mulls Port Deal Cancellation With China After Rubio’s Sunday Rumble At Canal Days after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio blasted the Panamanian government for allowing Chinese “influence and control” over the Panama…

NJ Governor Taunts Tom Homan With Claim He’s Housing An Illegal; Homan Calls His Bluff; Murphy Admits It Was All A Lie Authored by Olivia Murray via AmericanThinker.com, Everyone already knows how…

Nuclear weapons and missile systems would be the only adequate substitutes to NATO membership, the Ukrainian leader has claimed Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has proposed that the West should give Kiev nuclear…

Still No Progress Made On Arranging Trump-Putin Summit, Kremlin Says The Kremlin on Tuesday responded to various international reports saying that progress is being made on preparations for a meeting between US…

US Senator Hints Trump’s Latest EO Could Mean The US Buying Bitcoin Authored by Turner Wright via CoinTelegraph.com, US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the government to create…

Ukraine Open To Trump Demand To Exchange Rare Earth Elements For Arms Apparently President Donald Trump’s ‘Victory Plan’ for Ukraine will involve the war-ravaged country agreeing to grant the US unprecedented access…

Multiple “foreign objects” were found inside the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed late last year, yet Russia has still received none of them Moscow has not received any of the “foreign objects”…

The Russian foreign minister has reaffirmed Moscow’s commitment to strengthening partnerships with Africa African countries are playing an increasingly important role in global politics and economics and are actively participating in addressing…

Trump’s Attack On The Deep State Is Spectacular And Almost Certainly Legal Authored by Andrea Widburg via AmericanThinker.com, In the last few days, Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) has effectively…

20,000 Government Workers Take Trump Buyout Offer As Mass Layoffs Loom Approximately 20,000 federal workers, or around 1% of the federal workforce, have accepted the Trump administration’s “buyout” offer before Thursday’s deadline,…

About ten people have reportedly been killed in the town of Orebro About ten people have been killed in a mass shooting at an adult education center in western Sweden in what…

The president has required all FBI agents to fill out a questionnaire disclosing what role they played in the January 6 probes FBI agents investigating UFOs are concerned about losing their jobs…

House Panel Asks PBS, NPR Chiefs To Testify On Alleged “Biased Content” Authored by Mark Tapscott via The Epoch Times, The heads of the taxpayer-funded Public Broadcasting System (PBS) and National Public…

NY AG Letitia James Defies Trump’s EO, Orders Hospitals To Comply With State Laws Allowing Transgender Procedures On Kids Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, In open defiance of President Trump’s…

‘The Disaster After The Disaster’: Toxic Hazards Threaten Los Angeles Residents Authored by Beige Luciano-Adams via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Anita Ghazarian and Simon Penny live in a house on the…

Moderna Stock Dumps After RFK Advances To Full Senate Vote Shares of vaccine maker Moderna sold off to the tune of 5.5% on Tuesday after Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s…

Looking For Changes At The Fed Authored by Robert Aro via The Mises Institute, Last week, Fed Chair Jerome Powell held his first press conference under President Trump’s second term. Powell swiftly…

El Salvador Offers To Imprison America’s Dangerous Criminals “For A Fee” El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has offered to “house in his jails dangerous American criminals” and accept deportees of any nationality,…

The deportation comes amid President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration A US military plane has taken 205 illegal migrants back to India, an American official told Reuters on Monday. This reportedly…

A foreign policy based on exceptionalism risks undermining the global order, the Russian foreign minister has said The United States’ ‘America First’ policy has disturbing similarities to the slogan ‘Germany above all’…

The Hungarian prime minister has said his nation is ready for Donald Trump’s presidency despite the EU’s fears of a trade war Hungary does not share the EU’s concerns about a possible…

Russia will host the Intervision Song Contest later this year, according to an order signed by the president Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an order to hold the Intervision Song Contest…

For a fee, El Salvador is ready to accommodate any convicted criminals, be they illegal aliens or American citizens The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has proposed that the US “outsources…

Sam Altman has called the Chinese AI model “impressive” and welcomed competition, despite concerns over reverse-engineering GPT OpenAI has “no plans” to pursue legal action against DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup…

London is reportedly considering ramping up US arms and energy imports The UK government is considering purchasing more liquefied natural gas (LNG) as well as F-35 fighter jets from the US in…

Atrocities that happen on the inconvenient side of the barricades must not be swept under the rug Russia’s Investigative Committee has announced the initiation of a criminal investigation into the killing of civilians…

It Looks Like A Looming Monroe Doctrine Pan-North American Trade Stance Is Being Prepared By Michael Every of Rabobank 20,000 Ledes Under the “See!” The North American trade war is over before…

The industry is a major contributor to the country’s economy and job creation, says sector minister Patricia de Lille South Africa’s tourism industry recorded a 5.1% increase in international arrivals in 2024,…

The ‘Anne of Kiev’ brigade has formed a special branch to search for hundreds of soldiers who are believed to have gone AWOL An infamous French-trained Ukrainian brigade has initiated an investigation…

US Factory Orders Declined Overall In 2025 Despite a surge in the Manufacturing (soft) survey data in December and January, ‘hard’ data continues to disappoint… Source: Bloomberg …as US Factory Orders fell…

The US president has expressed willingness for dialogue with Moscow and a desire to end the Ukraine conflict Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been identified as potential venues for…

Job Openings Unexpectedly Crater By More Than 500K As Wheels Start To Fall Off The Job Market One month after we reported that job openings “unexpectedly” soared on “a record 2 month…

Trump To Restore ‘Max Pressure’ On Iran With EO Aimed At Driving Its ‘Oil Exports To Zero’ It’s long been anticipated and expected, but now it’s happening within just the first couple…