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The US president admits that Americans may face an economic impact from new measures against Canada, Mexico, and China US President Donald Trump has acknowledged that Americans could feel “some pain” from…

A quick review and a little warning of sorts, in a good way. Two weeks into the second term of President Trump and the activity when combined with the future outlook is…

Those who do not pretend already know the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is the cover agency for CIA influence operations worldwide.  However, technically USAID is supposed to be the charitable…

During a Fox News interview, Senator Lindsey Graham says he is a yes on RFK Jr, Kash Patel and now Tulsi Gabbard, specifically because the latter has now assured him, she will…

Saying DNI nominee is disqualified for her prior position on FISA-702 and her previous position on Edward Snowden, SSCI Vice-Chair hopes the republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee do not allow Tulsi…

President Trump arrives back in Washington DC and holds a presser on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews.  WATCH: . These remarks will be the headlines tomorrow. Posted in Big Government, Donald…

In December of 2016 when we discussed the possibility of President Trump’s then new and unique tariff approach, we predicted negligible impact – if any at all.  It was a theory at…

President Trump’s Border Czar, Tom Homan, appears on Fox News Sunday to talk about the massive drop (-93%) in attempted border crossers and the success of the current deportation operation.  Homan also…

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…

Meet The Original ‘Conspiracy Theorists’: Reagan & The 99th Congress Called Vaccines “Unavoidably Unsafe” Authored by Ginger Taylor via The Brownstone Institute, Meet the original “Conspiracy Theorists,” Ronald Reagan and the members…

The US president has warned “something very powerful” will happen unless Panama curbs Chinese influence over the canal US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has urged Panama to reduce Chinese influence over…

The Secret Tariff Code Is Buried In ‘Section 2, Item (h)’ Of The Executive Order Authored by ‘sundance’ via TheConservativeTreehouse.com, Remember when President Trump established the “External Revenue Service?” … It’s all…

Kiev received far less than the amount repeatedly cited by President Trump and other US officials, the Ukrainian leader insists Washington has provided Kiev with just over $75 billion in military and…

How Trump’s Dismantling Of USAID Marks A Seismic, Historic Shift In America’s Role In The World The most consequential decision and executive order which came within the opening days of President Donald…

Rounding Up The Usual Suspects: Grassley Releases Familiar Name In The Origins Of The Trump Investigation Authored by Jonathan Turley, For Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the weaponization of the…

Illegal Migrant Protests Ramp Up In US Cities In Response To Trump Deportations Civil actions from the political left are notoriously seasonal and the winter cold usually keeps fragile progressives indoors.  However,…

“Legitimately FAKE NEWS”: White House Debunks Dem Freakout Over DOGE Access To “Secure Spaces” As Musk Drops Redpills Over USAID Biolabs The latest Democrat freakout is over the speed and effectiveness of…

Elon Musk has accused the agency’s officials of seeking to “cover up their corruption” Two senior security officials with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have reportedly been placed on leave…

The billionaire has branded the US Agency for International Development a “criminal organization” Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has accused the US Agency for International Development (USAID) of financing bioweapon research, including projects…

Rickards: A US Recession Is Coming Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, The new Trump administration is off to a fast start. All of the key nominations for the Trump cabinet and…

Tether Is Back On Bitcoin – Lightning Dominance Is Just Starting Authored by Guillaume Girard via BitcoinMagazine.com, Earlier today at the Plan B Conference in El Salvador, Tether made an announcement that…

Zelensky: Trump Talking To Putin About Ukraine Without Us Is ‘Very Dangerous’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that Russia and the United States are already talking about how to wind down the…

The billionaire has called for humans to reach the Red Planet to check an unusual rock formation SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has called for astronauts to be sent to Mars to investigate…

All About The New Trump Tariffs, And Why The Hysteria Is Overblown By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities What a week! DeepSeek, Cheap AI, the Fed, some Mag 7 earnings, and now…

The operation has resulted in a massive forced displacement, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA The Israel Defense Force (IDF) demolished dozens of buildings in the city of Jenin in the…

Gold Hits New Record High; Dear Jerome Powell, Is Everything Under Control? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Gold does not believe the Fed has things under control and neither do I….

Schumer Under Investigation While Trump Reshapes Washington Authored by Roger Kimball via American Greatness, Senator Chuck Schumer is a lawyer, so presumably he is familiar with the provisions of 18 U.S. Code §…

NATO and the EU should deploy additional forces to the Baltic Sea, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has said NATO should ramp up its presence in the Baltic Sea to discourage Russia or…

The likely next chancellor wants to adopt the right-wing AfD’s migration policies while still sidelining the party itself Germany has the blues. So far, so ordinary. But, with only weeks to go…

The American president cited the trade benefits and military protection that Ottawa would receive amid an escalating tariff dispute between the two countries US President Donald Trump has reiterated his proposal for…

President Trump has triggered punitive tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China for their role in the manufacture and delivery of fentanyl into the United States while disregarding their responsibility to secure the…

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…

Remember when President Trump established the “External Revenue Service?” … It’s all connected and sequential. Almost everyone will miss, in part because outcomes appear in a sequence that few care to follow,…

I love it when a plan comes together. It all just makes buckets of sense when we watch it rolling out. We have talked about these plans, specific plans, and objectives for…

It would be “unfair” to hold people responsible for the sins of their ancestors, the Russian president has said Germany should not bear the blame for its Nazi past forever, Russian President…

Berlin will also withdraw from the World Health Organization and Paris Climate Agreement, Alice Weidel has said The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party intends to close the nation’s borders and halt illegal…

Efforts to address the issue have failed to improve outcomes for victims of abuse, the National Audit Office has reported Attempts by the UK authorities to address the issue of violence against…

The military’s medical commission is a mere “formality” in many cases, a recruitment officer has told an investigative outlet The Ukrainian military is enlisting men diagnosed with schizophrenia amid the struggling mobilization…

Some Hospitals Stop Transgender Surgeries On Children After Trump’s Order Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Hospitals in Colorado, Virginia, and the nation’s capital said on Jan. 30 they have…

Five Takeaways From Trump’s Plans To Build An Iron Dome For America Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Trump signed an Executive Order to build an Iron Dome for America, which aims to defend…

Opponents of the new US leader’s political trajectory within the bloc will soon be brought to heel, the Russian president believes The EU has always taken its political cues from Washington and…

Lawsuit Alleges FAA Denied 1,000 People Air Traffic Controller Jobs To Meet Diversity Hiring Targets Just as multiple air travel related tragedies have taken place, it’s been reported that the FAA is…

Poland did not invite a delegation from the country to this week’s ceremony commemorating the liberation of the Nazi death camp Russian President Vladimir Putin has slammed Poland for excluding Russia from…

Trump Orders First Airstrikes On Foreign Soil Since Taking Office In apparent continuity with the GWOT era of the prior two decades, the Trump White House has announced the president ordered a wave…

Biden Must Explain What The Ukraine War Was For Authored by Ted Snider via TheAmericanConservative.com, It is no longer easy to tell what the Ukraine War was for. Very early on, U.S….

Alice Weidel has said she hopes that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will be able to stop the fighting swiftly Alice Weidel, the co-leader of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party,…

Farmers across the region are struggling with soaring production costs, cuts in government funding, and increasing regulatory hurdles  EU fertilizer producers have called for steeper tariffs on imports from Russia than what…

London earlier pledged to contribute $2.8 billion for Ukraine aid as part of G7 loans to be repaid by profits from Moscow’s frozen funds Kiev has received final approval to tap a…

Colonel Rostislav Karpusha ordered a missile strike on a boarding school in Sudzha, according to investigators in Moscow The Russian authorities have charged in absentia a high-ranking Ukrainian officer with terrorism for…

US President Donald Trump has accused the network of tipping the scales in favor of his Democratic rival ahead of last year’s election CBS News has agreed to provide the US Federal…

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be settled through a two-state solution, they have said in a statement A group of Arab nations has spoken out against the suggestion by US President Donald Trump…

The US president has placed restrictions on Chinese goods in what he said was retaliation for failing to stem the flow of migrants and drugs into America China will file a lawsuit…

The SpaceX and Tesla CEO emerged as the largest political donor of the 2024 US election cycle, Federal Election Commission filings show SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk was “the biggest political…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said Canada must stand up for itself and protect its national interests amid US trade restrictions Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced retaliatory 25% tariffs on…

Escobar: The Chihuahua Energy Policy – It’s A Gas, Gas, Gas Authored by Pepe Escobar, Let’s start with the tale of an Empire bragging to the wind. Mr. Disco Inferno orders OPEC and…

Former Federal Reserve Adviser Arrested For Allegedly Passing US Trade Secrets To China Authored by Eva Fu via The Epoch Times, Prosecutors on Jan. 31 arrested a former senior Federal Reserve advisor,…

Widely Used Chinese-Made Health Monitor Using ‘Backdoor’ To Send Patient Data To Chinese IP Address They’ve hacked everything else in the U.S., so why would we be surprised to find out that…

The White House is reportedly considering merging the agency into the State Department The US Agency for International Development (USAID) website has gone offline following an executive order by President Donald Trump…

President Claudia Sheinbaum enacts ‘Plan B’ to protect national interests Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has accused the United States of fueling cartel violence by allowing powerful firearms to flow south, pushing back…

Trump’s Big-Stick Strategy Will Make America Respected Again Authored by Connor Vasile via RealClearPolitics.com, Despite his best efforts at saber-rattling, Colombia’s socialist president Gustavo Petro bent the knee and agreed to take in American…

Mexico’s President Claims She Has ‘Plan A, Plan B, Plan C’ In Response To Trump Tariffs Only a few days ago the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, was questioning with some skepticism…

John Brennan’s Protests To President Trump Lifting His Security Clearances Are Absurd Authored by Fred Fleitz via American Greatness, Former CIA Director John Brennan is angry that President Trump signed an executive…

One 21-Year-Old Who Worked A “Mass Scamming Call Center” In Dubai Blows The Whistle Ever wonder who the sociopaths are you see in Netflix documentaries, catfishing people from the internet using dating…

The billionaire expects his audit to face “extreme opposition from the grifters” Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been granted full access to the US Treasury Department’s payment system, according…

Military Strikes On Cartels Inside Mexico “On The Table”: Hegseth Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Announced Friday that all options, including military strikes against cartels on Mexican…

Trade Wars Begin: Trump Slaps 25% Tariffs On Canada And Mexico, 10% On China And just like that, the Trump trade wars have officially (re)started. As was widely previewed yesterday, President Trump unleashed the…

The US leader has ordered airstrikes in Somalia as a “message” to Islamic State terrorists and other adversaries President Donald Trump has ordered precision airstrikes in Somalia targeting an unnamed senior Islamic State (IS)…

Australian Spy Agency Collected “Signals Intelligence” On China COVID Origins: Former State Department Investigator David Asher, a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and the lead investigator of the State Department’s Covid-19…

The base is filled with anti-ship missiles equipped with anti-jamming systems, according to Tehran Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has unveiled a new underground base, reportedly located somewhere on the country’s…

The Ukrainian forces deliberately targeted a boarding school in Sudzha, according to the Russian Defense Ministry The Ukrainian forces have launched a targeted missile attack on a boarding school in the city…

‘Trantifa’ Insurrectionist Who Went To D.C. To Kill GOP Leaders Was Inspired By Luigi Mangione Via Headline USA, A Massachusetts resident went to the U.S. Capitol to kill members of President Donald…

Drone Horizons Authored by G.B. Rango via Pirate Wires (emphasis ours), The stadium is aroar with eighty thousand raucous attendees and casts a short shadow in the midday sun. In the distance,…

“It’s Like A Switch Was Flipped”: Border Encounters Plummet 94% Under Trump Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, illegal alien encounters at the southern US border have plummeted an average…

Officials in Washington have reportedly discussed pushing Kiev to hold a vote as part of an initial truce with Moscow Washington wants Kiev to have presidential and parliamentary elections, potentially by this…

Peter Dutton is receiving free legal advice from law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler but Dutton won’t say why which is a massive scandal given we are only a few months away from…

The Russian Ministry of Defense has reported the destruction of an unmanned craft approaching the peninsula The Russian Defense Ministry has released a video showing the destruction of a Ukrainian unmanned boat…

The finance minister has described it as an effort to boost spending and support rapid growth  In an effort to fuel the economy, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced on Saturday that…

Syria’s Al-Qaeda Branch Dissolves, Says Goals Completed By Regime Change Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The Salafi jihadist group Hurras al-Din, Syria’s official al-Qaeda affiliate, announced this week that it was dissolving, saying…

Trump’s Overhaul Of The Federal Bureaucracy Backed By Recent Survey Research Authored by Elizabeth Sheld via RealClearPolicy, Since returning to office for a second term, President Trump has taken aggressive action to…

A spat between Ukraine’s defense minister and the arms procurement agency head reportedly risks “paralyzing” the country’s weapons purchases A dispute between Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and the military procurement agency…

Moscow has criticized Antonio Guterres for omitting the Red Army’s role in liberating Auschwitz during his speech Moscow has condemned remarks by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres which omitted mention of the Red…

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: “Identity Months Dead At DoD” After multiple US federal government agencies required employees to remove gender-identifying pronouns from email signatures on Friday evening, the Defense Department issued…

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…

NYT, NBC, NPR, Politico Evicted From Pentagon Press Offices In Favor Of Trump-Friendly Outlets The innumerable consequences of the 2024 election keep gushing forth at a pace that’s hard to keep up…

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…

300 priests are not enough: — Russian Orthodox Church calls for reinforcements for army’s clergy Moscow’s army is facing a spiritual shortfall and the Russian Orthodox Church has highlighted an urgent need…

A Finnish student was barred from the Olkiluoto NPP due to its “corporate security policy,” Yle reported A Finnish student was excluded from a field trip to the country’s largest nuclear power…

Stablecoin Volumes Surpassed Visa & Mastercard Combined In 2024 Stablecoins, which play a major role in the global cryptocurrency ecosystem, saw massive adoption in 2024, with their transfer volumes beating those of…

The Hidden Dangers Of AI In Finance Authored by Adam Sharp via DailyReckoning.com, Jim Rickards recently published a compelling article on AI risk for Insider Intel subscribers. In it, Jim discusses a different way in which…

Berlin will not spend almost half of its federal budget on defense, Boris Pistorius has said German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has said that Berlin simply cannot afford to spend 5% of…

West Jerusalem has freed 183 Palestinians as three captives have come back to Israel, according to the Red Cross Hamas has released three Gaza hostages as part of a ceasefire deal with…

There are no casualties, the government of the Lipetsk Region has said Part of a missile has fallen in Lipetsk Region, central Russia, regional authorities said on Saturday. There are no casualties,…

Russia May Lift Restrictions On Nukes If US Goes Through With Trump Missile Defense Order Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Russia may expand its arsenal of nuclear weapons if the US…

Trump’s envoy for special missions claimed the release was agreed upon with President Maduro during his official visit to Caracas Six Americans who were released from prison in Venezuela have departed for…

Sweden Lets 5 Suspects Held In Killing Of Quran-Burning Activist Go Free Iraqi refugee and anti-Islam activist Salwan Momika was shot dead overnight on Wednesday, shockingly as he was in the middle of a live-stream…

A Sevastopol resident has been penalized for social media posts advocating voluntary childlessness, marking the first enforcement of Russia’s new law A 29-year-old woman in Sevastopol has been fined 50,000 rubles (about…

The Net-Zero Gap: Global Green Spending Is Falling Short Of Targets Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, Global green energy investment hit a record $2.1 trillion in 2024, up 11% from 2023,…

US Transfers 90 Patriot Missiles From Israel To Ukraine In Pivot This week defense officials told Axios that the United States has begun transferring Patriot air defense interceptors from storage in Israel for eventual…