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Haley’s Top Backers Include Democrat Donors, Silicon Valley Billionaires Authored by Austin Alonzo via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is racking up endorsements from key conservative fundraisers…

Washington and Seoul are readying themselves for war and Pyongyang will not “stand idly by,” its defense ministry has declared The North Korean Defense Ministry has accused the US and South Korea…

Britain’s military is making contingency plans for deployments to the battlefront, Kiev’s former diplomat to London has claimed British military leaders are making contingency plans for sending troops to Ukraine in case…

Large Majority Of Americans Believe Israel “Is Trying To Avoid Civilian Casualties” Despite Recent Killings, But… Amid ongoing pro-Palestine protests (on and off campuses), antagonistic back-and-forth exchanges on display in Washington press-briefing…

No one would risk attacking “the strongest… defense alliance in the world,” Hungarian FM Peter Szijjarto has said Russia poses no immediate threat to NATO, including to those members of the bloc…

Moscow’s forces receive decent training and are well-motivated, the former deputy secretary of Kiev’s Security Council says Russian troops receive decent training at their rear bases before being sent to the front…

California Circles The Toilet Bowl Authored by MN Gordon via EconomicPrism.com, “I go with the word ‘serious.’  A serious budget problem.  I would stop short of calling it a crisis.” – Legislative…

Antoni Macierewicz accused Warsaw of “lawlessness” for shutting down his probe into the 2020 disaster The head of a commission investigating a 2010 plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski has…

Rickards’ Five Forecasts For 2024 Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, I have five forecasts for 2024 to help keep you ahead of the curve in positioning your investment portfolio. My overall…

How Skeptical Are Europeans About Vaccinations? 32 percent of people surveyed in Poland as part of Statista’s Consumer Insights survey say they have little confidence in the safety of vaccinations. As Statista’s Anna Fleck…

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has vowed to challenge the consensus in Brussels The EU’s backing of Ukraine, sanctions on Russia, and “fanatic” environmental policies are “destructive for Europe,” yet Brussels does…

Time To Bring Nuclear Energy Into The 21st Century Authored by Jack Spencer via RealClear Politics, The silver lining of this month’s United Nations COP28 global warming conference is the growing consensus that…

The Foreign Ministry said the man succumbed to injuries sustained as a result of an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday France’s Foreign Ministry has condemned an Israeli airstrike in Gaza that led to…

This week’s EU summit saw the bloc’s leaders play a clever political game by maneuvering into advantageous positions If for President Vladimir Zelensky Ukraine’s failures in Washington represent a serious disappointment after…

Bottom? Turmoil In Used Rolex Market Might End After Fed’s Bizarre Pivot  The secondary market for pre-owned Rolex and Patek Philippe watches has been spiraling down since peaking in early 2022, mainly because…

A gunfight between Russian and Ukrainian forces is underway in a border village, Vyacheslav Gladkov has said The Russian village of Terebrino, in Belgorod Region, has been attacked by Ukrainian forces, local…

United Russia has approved the incumbent leader’s run as an independent candidate The convention of the ruling United Russia party has unanimously approved President Vladimir Putin’s bid to seek reelection next year…

“A No Brainer”: Musk’s Starlink Breaks Through Bureaucracy And Corruption In Africa Authored by Darren Taylor via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Elon Musk’s revolutionary satellite internet service, Starlink, is spreading across…

Packages will be confiscated if they contain sanctioned goods Germany may confiscate gift parcels sent from Russia ahead of this year’s festive season, the country’s Federal Customs Service announced in statement on…

Congress Approves Bill (Aimed At Trump) To Prevent Any President From Exiting NATO Buried within the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that was just passed in both the House and Senate…

Red caviar output has hit its highest level in over a decade, an industry group says The production of red caviar in Russia has reached its highest level in over a decade,…

Moscow has no fundamental disputes with Western countries, but they insist on confrontation, the president has said Russia does not have the slightest reason to attack NATO, President Vladimir Putin has said,…

4th Generation Devastation: The West Has Been Targeted In A Cowardly Globalist Mind War Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, When I first encountered the concept of 4th Generation Warfare around 20 years…

Sofia slapped a hefty transit tax on Russian gas in October, a move which Budapest considers unacceptable Hungary will block Bulgaria’s entry into the EU’s passport-free Schengen area unless Sofia lifts its…

The Jewish state triumphed in the 1982 Lebanon War, but years later the victory appears pyrrhic The battle for Gaza adds yet another page to Israel’s long list of military operations in…

Divided into several parts, the country would have quickly succumbed to the pressure of foreign powers, the president has said The West was determined to break Russia apart after the collapse of…

Giovanni Angelo Becciu was found guilty of enabling a property scheme aimed at defrauding the Holy See out of millions of dollars A Vatican court has sentenced Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu to…

European agro-producers won’t be able to compete if the country is admitted to the bloc, the deputy agriculture minister says Ukraine’s admission to the EU could be perilous for the bloc’s agricultural…

More than 176,000 tons of liquefied petroleum gas have been supplied to Afghanistan this year Afghanistan has doubled imports of Russian liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) since the beginning of the year, as…

Reading 1 Is 61:1-2A, 10-11 The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me; he has sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor, to…

The Russian president has previously said that the indictment of the GOP presidential frontrunner looks like political persecution Former US President Donald Trump has quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin to prove his…

Austria has reportedly given its approval in return for the removal of Raiffeisen Bank from Ukraine’s blacklist EU members have reached an agreement on the 12th package of sanctions on Russia, TASS…

Shooting at people seeking to surrender violates the “open-fire regulations,” the chief of the general staff has said Three Israeli hostages who were mistakenly killed by Israeli forces on Friday did everything…

This year’s holiday meal will cost at least £4.14 per person, according to Good Housekeeping A traditional Christmas dinner could cost UK households 13% more than last year, as prices continue to…

Exports of light sweet crude have surged with increased deliveries by rail, data shows Russian oil companies have boosted exports of ESPO (Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean) grade crude to China through the port…

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…

Long-Term Use Of Statins Linked To Heart Disease: Studies Authored by Vance Voetberg via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), For decades, statins have been heralded as the reliable heroes in the battle…

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…

Americans Are Getting Married Older Than Ever Americans are delaying (or putting off altogether) getting married for longer than before, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. As Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, the median average…

Following a scathing insider report of the turmoil within the campaign and SuperPAC for presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, chief strategist Jeff Roe resigns. It is stunning to contemplate the starting point of…

Is Free Speech A Relic In America? Authored by James Bovard via The Brownstone Institute, Is the First Amendment becoming a historic relic? On July 4, 2023, federal judge Terry Doughty condemned…

St Isaac’s Cathedral St Petersburg, Russia Guess where? pic.twitter.com/n11re5OQdF — TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 17, 2023 Guess Where? pic.twitter.com/Ii00oBmTbQ — TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 17, 2023 Posted in Big Government, Russia, Uncategorized The post…

Four Major Shipping Firms Halt Red Sea Route After Houthi Attacks   Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis have launched a series of attacks on commercial vessels in the highly trafficked Red Sea strait as retaliation for…

Pumping Seawater Into Gaza Tunnels Proves ‘Successful’ But Majority Of Hamas Still Intact: Report Via The Cradle, The Israeli daily The Times of Israel reported late in the week that the attempt to pump…

Which Countries Are Most Interested In Generative AI? In the past two years, AI’s ability to produce text, images, audio, and video has become massively widespread. With millions of people worldwide now…

I say this discussion is disappointing, because it was heavily recommended to me.  Unfortunately, it is another regurgitation of the Potemkin face of the Deep State without hitting the main arteries. Overall,…

CDC Issues Health Advisory Over ‘Low Vaccination Rates’ Across US Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent out a…

Jewish Teacher Charged For Threat To Behead Muslim Girl Who Said Israel Flag Offensive A Jewish Georgia middle school teacher has been arrested for threatening to kill a Muslim middle school student…

This Bill Of Rights Day Has Come And Gone, Let’s Celebrate The Preamble Authored by Hans Zeiger via RealClear Wire, December 15th marked Bill of Rights Day, which commemorated the 232nd anniversary…

Virtue Un-Signaled: San Francisco Halts Reparations Office Due To Budget Cuts San Francisco has committed a dastardly act of racism, putting a halt to its virtuous office of reparations amid budget cuts….

The USS Carney has shot down a wave of 14 UAVs launched from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen A US Navy destroyer deployed to the Red Sea amid Israel’s war with Hamas has…

Aidan Maese-Czeropski, an aide to Democrat Senator Ben Cardin, filmed himself having anal sex in the Hart Senate Office Building hearing room.  The video was shared on a platform where gay men…

Pro-Vaccine Journalist Who Called for Punishment For Refusing Jab Dies Suddenly Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Canadian journalist who took strong positions in support of COVID-19…

Waves of Kiev’s troops have reportedly been cut down in “futile” attempts to cross the Dnieper River in Kherson Ukrainian marines are reportedly frustrated over the orders they are being given to…

Number Of Americans In Upside-Down Auto Loans Continues To Worsen  Consumers face increasing financial difficulties due to elevated inflation, a generational high in interest rates, maxed-out credit cards, lack of personal savings, and…

DOJ To Charge Blaze Journalist Steve Baker Over Jan. 6 Authored by Joseph M. Hanneman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Journalist Steve Baker of Blaze Media, who captured some of the…

US & UK Warships Down At Least 14 Houthi Drones In Red Sea Capping off a week which saw daily attacks and threats on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, US and…

Families with children saw the steepest rise in homelessness this past year, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has found More Americans are homeless than ever before, according to a report…

Supreme Court Declines To Block Illinois ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks in Chicago, Ill., on Aug. 4, 2021. (Scott…

A survey has found that two-thirds of US adults under age 25 see Jews as “oppressors” Over half of US adults from ages 18 to 24 believe the ongoing crisis in Gaza…

Recruiters are “shoving people into cars” and pressing them into service against their will, the American newspaper reported Ukrainian military recruiters have taken to “snatching” men off the streets and forcing them…

Billionaire Kerry Stokes is Bruce Lehrmann’s puppet master for all his media interviews for 12 months which shows up in a contract Lehrmann signed with Stokes’ Channel Seven on either the 2nd…

The two parties have signed an agreement that paves the way for deeper cooperation The African Union of Broadcasting (AUB) and RT have signed a memorandum envisioning cooperation between the channel and…

Tucker Carlson Sends Trucks Emblazoned With ‘Corporate Media Is Dead’ Near Media Offices Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson reportedly parked billboard…

President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will hold a rally in Durham, New Hampshire on Saturday, December 16, 2023, at 2:00 p.m. ET. LIVE STREAM LINKS…

CNN Town Hall Host Tries To Disrupt Vivek Ramaswamy As He Reveals Truth Behind J6 Whether one supports the presidential candidacy of Vivek Ramaswamy or not, it’s impossible to deny that some…

Kiev has “squandered” its opportunity to negotiate a favorable peace deal, a top Russian diplomat says Ukrainian leaders have blown their chance to find a favorable exit from the country’s conflict with…

Watch: Joyless Leftists Kill Santa With COVID To Push Masks & Vaccines Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A morose leftist ‘activist’ group has produced a festive video in which Santa Claus…

If massive depopulation is the end goal, then continued support for Ukraine is the way to go Military conflicts are not the result of random chance. Deliberate planning is involved. It is instructive…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban previously threatened to use the “hard veto” against Ukrainian accession to the bloc German Chancellor Olaf Scholz convinced Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to leave the room…

Elon Musk Tells Italy: “Please Don’t Import Woke Mind Virus From America”  Elon Musk spoke at a political event in Rome organized by supporters of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. During the discussion,…

The US tech billionaire is reportedly constructing a Hawaii compound that includes a 5,000-square-foot underground shelter Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly started work on a $100 million family compound in Hawaii…

Congress members say New Delhi’s links to an assassination attempt against a New York-based Khalistan activist should be investigated The potential involvement of Indian government officials in a foiled assassination plot to…

Even The Pope Has Something To Say About Artificial Intelligence Authored by Brayden Lindrea via CoinTelegraph.com, Over the past year, there’s been no shortage of scientists, tech CEOs, billionaires and lawmakers sounding…

Watch: Ukraine Politician Throws Hand Grenades In Town Meeting, Wounding 26 A contentious meeting to discuss a Ukrainian village’s 2024 budget turned to carnage on Friday morning when a politician aligned with President…

Stockman: We Don’t Need Three More Stinkin’ Rate Cuts Via David Stockman’s Contra Corner Jerome Powell is not completely the blithering idiot he seems. Actually, playing the role of chairman of our…

The SpaceX tycoon has said that humanity is likely “the only consciousness that exists” Humankind is most likely the only species “in this part of the galaxy” with a consciousness, SpaceX CEO…

The 927-meter-long double-track passage is expected to help increase the volume of goods transported to and from Far Eastern markets The longest tunnel along the Trans-Siberian railway was opened in a ceremony…

Kiev still has “big plans” underpinned by Western equipment not yet destroyed, the report says Ukraine could be gathering forces to launch a fresh counteroffensive in 2024 after its first push, which…

Intentional Destruction: First COVID, Now Comes “The Great Taking” Authored by Matthew Smith via Doug Casey’s Take substack, The Great Depression was a well-executed plan to seize assets, impoverish the population, and…

Former President Donald Trump wanted to declassify the files, but the FBI and CIA fought to prevent this US intelligence agents have been searching for almost three years for a binder containing…

At least eight ships have been assaulted in recent weeks in the key waterway linking the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea Two global shipping majors, Denmark’s Maersk and Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd, halted…

Homelessness Soars To Record High In America Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, Homelessness has risen sharply in the United States, with a report from House and Urban Development (HUD)…

Israeli PsyOp Unit Runs War-Porn Telegram Channel Glorifying IDF Misconduct To cultivate war fever in Israeli society, an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) psychological warfare unit has been secretly operating a war-porn channel…

Military chief Boris Pistorius has said Europeans have five to eight years to arm up before US focus shifts to the Asia-Pacific European nations have less than a decade left to ramp…

The Russian president has been put forward as a party nominee only once in his 20-year political career Russian President Vladimir Putin has won the backing of a group of voters who…

Human Rights Advocates Urge Biden Administration To Blacklist Nigeria Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClear Politics, More than two dozen leading human rights, religious freedom, and Christian advocacy groups are pressing Congress…

Output and sales are forecast to reach record highs by the end of 2023 Worldwide demand for coal is set to reach a historic high this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA)…

Luongo: Running On Empty, The US Leaves Zelenskyy Hanging Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, n’ Guns blog, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made one last ditch effort to plead for US…

The White House is being urged to take action against New Delhi for alleged attempts to “silence religious minorities” The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a federal government body, has…

The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, was hospitalized last month due to an undisclosed health condition The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, has passed away at…

The Northern Sea Route is already a superior alternative to other major global trade waterways, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev says Russia is actively expanding trade via the Northern Sea Route…

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has signaled that Budapest will resist any attempts to put it at a disadvantage Hungary will block the EU’s accession talks with Ukraine if it believes they…

A spokesman for the Russian church branded the move “lawless” and an “attempt to intimidate parishioners” Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has been put on a criminal wanted…

The phygital movement is winning new fans ahead of the first-ever championship in Samara Over the course of two weeks, the main symbol of the Games of the Future, which combine e-sports…

Matthew Perry’s passing in late October was brought on by the “acute effects of ketamine,” the coroner’s office concluded The death of Canadian-American actor Matthew Perry in late October was caused by…

The total volume has hit almost £3 billion, according to Ofgem British households have piled up record debts of almost £3 billion ($3.8 billion) with electricity and gas suppliers, national energy regulator…

Romi Meitei’s film covering issues of violence and displacement in India’s remote Manipur state earned him the best director award at the Kazan International Muslim Film Festival When an insurgent group banned…

Sadiq Khan reportedly argued that the transfer would not benefit city residents, sparking outrage London Mayor Sadiq Khan has rebuffed a request from his counterpart in Ukraine’s capital to donate cars that…

The currency’s reputation has been jeopardized by Brussels’ freezing of Russian assets, Elvira Nabiullina says The euro could lose its status as a global reserve currency if Brussels goes through with threats…