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The US-led bloc needs to come to terms with the fact that it’s strategy has completely failed and get real about peace terms Joe Biden is expected to make some new decisions…

Unraveling The Nuclear Fusion Confusion Authored by Duggan Flanakin via RealClearEnergy, Major shifts have been taking place in the race to commercialize nuclear fusion, but one high school senior has shaken the…

A giant of Scottish politics, Salmond was the driving force behind the nation’s 2014 independence referendum

The specialists handle counter-terrorism operations and have trained divers within their ranks, Der Spiegel reports Germany’s Interior Ministry will permanently station a police tactical unit at the Baltic Sea port of Neustadt…

Boris Johnson insists he had nothing to do with the derailing of negotiations between Moscow and Kiev early in the conflict Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he was “amazed” to…

Gradually, Then Suddenly… Authored by James Rickards via Daily Reckoning, Over the past century, monetary systems change about every 30–40 years on average. Before 1914, the global monetary system was based on…

Shills For Harris: Kamala Townhall For “Undecided Latino Voters” Curated With Avowed Supporters Indepedent journalist Michael Tracey, working with Glenn Greenwald, has uncovered a remarkable scandal at a recent Kamala Harris townhall…

Jon Stewart Claims Americans Don’t Need Guns To Protect Their Constitutional Rights Donald Trump’s recent return to Butler, PA where he was nearly assassinated due to Secret Service incompetence (or deliberate failure)…

Washington would consider an attack on the former US president an act of war, the outlet has reported US president Joe Biden has told the White House National Security Council to warn…

Human error” led to the publication of Bernard Arnault’s email address, the Department for Business and Trade has said The British government has apologized for revealing the personal email address of Bernard…

Bad Griesbach is overburdened with migrants who should be distributed more fairly, Mayor Jurgen Fundke says The mayor of the Bavarian town of Bad Griesbach, Germany, has refused to accept new Ukrainian…

US Electricity Generators Binge On Ultra-Cheap Gas By John Kemp of Kemp Energy Exceptionally low gas prices have driven gas-fired generation to a record high in the United States, in the process…

“New Marching Orders From NATO”: Checking In On France’s Military Build-Up On The Eastern Flank  France has embarked on a quiet force build-up and expansion of its troops and military presence in…

Our analysis of U.S. consumer prices in 2019 showed that prices of imported goods actually declined despite import tariffs. A 2024 report from CPA takes a look at the impact to Chinese…

President Trump has proposed that homes in critical areas be granted tax credits for the installation of emergency generators.  It is a smart plan given the nature of crisis events that have…

More than 50 officers took part in the hunt for draft dodgers according to local media reports Military conscription enforcers have carried out a major raid at a rock concert in the Ukrainian capital,…

Lavrov’s Interview With Newsweek Concisely Summarized Russia’s Positions Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, This might be the first time that average Americans read a top Russian official’s views without a filter……

Senegal’s first president believed his country needed a stable political system that could endure beyond his tenure, and he succeeded Senegal is once again demonstrating peaceful transition of power – a rare…

A discussion on Russia’s 2021 security proposals to NATO could have averted the crisis, Hungary’s foreign minister believes The current standoff between Russia and the West could have been avoided if NATO…

About 10% of the plane maker’s staff are expected to lose their jobs The US manufacturer Boeing has announced plans to eliminate around 10% of its workforce over the coming months, as…

The NATO country will strike all strategic targets along the Russian border if Moscow attacks the bloc, Rajmund Andrzejczak has said Poland and its allies will instantly launch a long-range strike on…

The bloc’s current policy towards Moscow was developed in a “different era” and needs to be changed, a US official has said NATO’s defense ministers will meet in Brussels next week to…

Moscow will have a say in how the conflict with Kiev ends more so than Washington, the former Russian president has said Washington might be mistaken to believe that the Russia-Ukraine conflict…

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…

America In The Age Of Nero Authored by J. Peder Zane via RealClearPolitics, Americans are like members of a quarrelsome family, so intent on arguing their petty grievances around the kitchen table…

Slovakia has no more arms to spare for Kiev, the country’s foreign minister has said Bratislava will not supply military equipment to Kiev from its own stockpiles but will continue to assist…

These Are The 10 Fastest-Developing Cities On Earth Out of the world’s top 15 growth hubs, 14 are forecast to be located in Asia, according to the Growth Hub Index 2024 by British real…

Drug Trials Funded By Manufacturers Find 50 Percent Greater Drug Effectiveness Authored by Huey Freeman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Drug studies sponsored by drug manufacturers tend to report higher drug…

The French leader has accused the IDF of “deliberately” targeting UN peacekeepers French President Emmanuel Macron has reiterated his call for an arms embargo on Israel in response to ongoing violence in…

Ex-State Department Official Who Blew Up ISIS’s Bank Reveals Roadmap For “Striking Iran”  Top Israeli officials, including senior ministers and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, met on Thursday to outline a war strategy for Israel’s retaliation against…

Nearly 3 Million Americans Have Voted So Far. Here’s What We Know. Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Nearly 3 million Americans have cast early ballots either in…

Body Of Top IRGC General Finally Recovered In Beirut After 2 Weeks A high-ranking Iranian military officer who was considered a “key figure” that oversaw Tehran’s support to the ‘resistance axis’ abroad…

Nicaragua has accused the Jewish state of “genocide” of the Palestinian people The Nicaraguan government has announced its decision to sever diplomatic relations with Israel after the country’s National Assembly unilaterally condemned…

Niacin: The Energizer Powering Your Cells And Fighting Cancer Authored by Sina McCullough, Mercura Wang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Whether it is turning food into fuel, building cells, repairing DNA,…

Saudi Arabia Smashes Own Record For Most Executions In A Year Via Middle East Eye Saudi Arabia has executed 213 people so far in 2024, more than it has in any other calendar year…

Where Obesity Is Most Prevalent In The US Obesity is a major public health issue in the United States, affecting millions of Americans and placing a significant strain on the healthcare system….

The Republican candidate has requested US military aircraft transport after several attempts on his life Former President Donald Trump’s campaign has requested additional resources, including military aircraft, to protect the Republican candidate…

Trump’s Toughest Foe Could Be Harris Lawyer Marc Elias Authored by Paul Sperry via RealClearInvestigations, If Donald Trump gets past Kamala Harris on Nov. 5, he’ll likely face a fiercer opponent in…

Stockman On Whether Trump Can Bring The US Empire Home Authored by David Stockman via InternationalMan.com, As should be evident by now, Donald Trump is about 90% bombast and 10% substance when…

Coast Guard Rescues Man Floating On Cooler 30 Miles Off Florida Coast 30 Miles!!!! A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew on Thursday rescued a man spotted floating on a cooler in the…

Tonight, President Trump heads to Reno, Nevada, for a MAGA rally in a state that is moving rapidly toward Trump.  Nevada is always a challenge due to CA proximity and the use…

President Vucic claims he conditioned his visit to a Croatia-hosted event to toning down the final pro-Kiev statement Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic claims that he has managed to tone down a pro-Ukrainian…

Boeing Slashes 10% Of Workforce, CEO Warns “Hard To Overstate The Challenges We Face” In what some have called a panic/desperation negotiating tactic, Boeing has announced (late on a Friday afternoon) that…

Kamala Unwinding… Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “…we are facing a catastrophic collapse of governance. With democracy reduced to a tragedy or a farce (probably both things)…” –  Ugh Bardi…

Money-Market Fund Assets & Small Bank Deposits Surge To Record Highs… As Stocks Soar For the third week in a row (and 9th week in the last 10), money-market funds saw inflows…

The UN mission in Lebanon has faced four attacks over the past days, including three by the Israeli military, Andrea Tenenti has said The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) believes…

P. Diddy And US Attorney Damian Williams: Let The Games Begin Authored by Nick Braynt via nickbryantnyc.com, Andre Damian Williams Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, once again…

Appearing in Bradenton, Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis discusses ongoing recovery efforts from the aftermath of Hurricane Milton.  There is plenty of fuel in the supply chain, the issue is that many gas…

San Francisco To Shutter 9% Of Public Schools As Budget Crisis Explodes San Francisco is gearing up to shut down 9% of its public schools in a desperate move to fix a…

Republicans Increasingly Likely To Flip The Senate; Latest Poll Finds Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The best news for Republicans is not the uptick in polls for Trump. It’s the likelihood…

The Hollywood action star spoke about the Ukraine conflict in his new documentary Former Hollywood actor and martial artist Steven Seagal endorsed Moscow’s cause in a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin…

Children will even be prohibited from speaking the language during recess periods The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine has supported a bill that would outlaw speaking Russian in the country’s…

Bitcoin, Bullion, & ‘Biggest Shorts’ Blast Higher To End ‘Bad Data’ Week Goldilocks it wasn’t… as inflation macro data surprised to the upside and growth macro data to the downside (we love…

Nick Walsh has been accused of illegally crossing into Russia with the Ukrainian military A district court in Russia’s Kursk Region issued an in-absentia arrest warrant against an American journalist for CNN,…

Nation’s Largest Generic Drug Maker To Pay $450 Million To Resolve Kickback, Price-Fixing Claims Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and Teva Neuroscience Inc. (collectively, Teva) have agreed to pay $450 million to resolve…

Kiev won’t need more money if Trump wins and ends the war, Mike Johnson has said Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson is increasingly against additional funding for Kiev…

Is The Inflation Dragon Really Dead? By Philip Marey, Senior US Strategist at Rabobank Is the inflation dragon really dead? Markets are a bit cautious as we are heading for the weekend….

Government and private-sector liabilities abroad have dropped below $300 billion The amount of debt owed by the Russian state and private companies to foreign financial institutions has dropped below $300 billion for…

Goldman Finds “Trade-Down Phenomenon” Strikes Rich & Poor Consumers  Goldman hosted its Private Real Estate Retail (shopping center) Webinar on Thursday with panelists Mary Rottler from First Washington, Daniel Zatloukal from Inland Real…

Adversarial Process Or Oppo Research? Judge Agrees To Release More Trump Material Before The Election Authored by Jonathan Turley, It appears that U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan and Special Counsel Jack Smith are…

McDonald’s CEO Warns 2025 Will Be “Another Challenging Year” As Bidenomics Financially Crushes Working-Poor Americans  McDonald’s Chief Executive Officer Chris Kempczinski spoke at the Boston College Chief Executives Club event on Thursday, sounding the…

Progressives Issue Warning to Harris: Break With Biden On Gaza… Now Via Common Dreams With the high-stakes U.S. presidential election less than a month away, warnings about the possible political consequences of…

Boeing Union Fight Hits Turbulence, Files Unfair Labor Practice Labor strikes at Boeing’s commercial jet factories are approaching the one-month mark, with no end to the paralyzing labor action. This seriously threatens Boeing’s…

Today, President Trump will hold two campaign events, the first in Colorado (3:00pm EDT) and the second in Nevada (8:00pm EDT).  The first rally is being held in Aurora, Colorado, and is…

Company Recalls Nearly 10 Million Pounds Of Ready-to-Eat Meat, Poultry Over Listeria Risk Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Oklahoma-based BrucePac is pulling millions of pounds of meat…

The attack on Lebanon interferes in France’s sphere of influence, but Paris can’t do anything about it without Washington French President Emmanuel Macron would like Israel to slow its roll now, please….

The proportion of the population has risen by 10% in five years, the health minister has said The number of Russians diagnosed with obesity has grown 10% over the past five years…

The call to pull the network’s license is a threat to free speech, the FCC chief has said Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s criticism of the way CBS edited its interview with…

Single Deadliest Israeli Attack Of War Hits Central Beirut, But Hezbollah Commander Escapes On Thursday another major Israeli airstrike targeting central Beirut was an attempt to assassinate senior Hezbollah member Wafiq Safa, responsible…

Automation Could Make Or Break New US Port Strike Agreement Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, “No automation means no automation,” says the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), the union representing…

Silent Majority: Poll Finds Independents Are Far More Conservative Than They’re Willing To Admit Via Issues & Insights Editorial Board, If conservatives want to win elections, they don’t need to rile up…

Washington is “extremely unfriendly” towards Moscow, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to extend his congratulations to the US president-elect after Americans go to the…

Judge Rejects Georgia Voting Registration Extension After Hurricane Helene Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, A request by voting rights groups in Georgia to reopen voter registration to counter disruptions…

“It Will Happen”: Elon Musk Predicts Joe Rogan Will Interview Donald Trump Just minutes before the scheduled start of the much-anticipated Robotaxi event on Thursday night, Elon Musk took to Twitter to…

Futures Dip After Hot PPI, China Frenzy Unravels Futures are lower ahead of the last trading day of the week, but well off session lows as JPM earnings were solid enough to…

The number of people in favor of accepting refugees from the country has also dropped to its lowest level, according to the study Two-thirds of Poles believe that their government should send…

The US president has criticized his predecessor’s rhetoric about the recent hurricanes which have battered the nation US President Joe Biden has lashed out at his predecessor, Donald Trump, when asked about…

GDP Report Continues To Defy Recession Forecasts Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) recently released its second-quarter GDP report for 2024, showcasing a 2.96% growth rate….

UMich Sentiment Slips In October As Inflation Expectations Rebound Medium-term inflation expectations picked up in preliminary UMich sentiment data for October, with the 5-10Y now at 2.9%… Source: Bloomberg This anxiety weighed…

Two of the country’s shipyards will work on the non-nuclear vessels for Rosatom, The Economic Times reports Russia’s state-run energy giant Rosatom is planning to have four non-nuclear icebreaker ships built in…

Hungary stands in the way of the formal prolongation of the program through 2026, a source told Semafor news outlet EU member states will likely continue training Ukrainian soldiers to fight Russia…

Spreading rapidly on social media, Univision was seemingly captured providing Kamala Harris a teleprompter script for responses during a townhall event. The controversial snippet is embedded below.  Additionally, after reviewing the entire…

A central bank dispute between Libya’s opposing governments had triggered the suspension of operations at the country’s oilfields Libya has restored oil production to levels achieved before a central bank crisis brought…

Autonomous vacuum cleaners across the US have been playing up, after hackers reportedly took control over them Owners of robotic vacuum cleaners in several US cities have reported their devices being hacked,…

The committee cited the threat of nukes being used in current conflicts The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded this year’s Peace Prize to a Japanese anti-nuclear-weapons organization, citing the threat of such…

JPMorgan Rises After NII, Trading Revenues Jump, Offset By Profit Decline, Unexpected Spike In Credit Loss Reserve Third quarter earnings season officially started this morning when JPMorgan reported earnings just before 7am…

The reply from the Democratic candidate was not the same in the preview as it was in the actual program The ‘60 minutes’ program on CBS has broadcast two different answers to…

The Market Is Not Positioned For the ‘Unwatched Inflation Pot’ To Boil Over Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The market is not ready for a re-rise in inflation, with positioning…

It will take 10-12 years to commission the first of the submarines, sources told the Times of India The Indian government on Wednesday gave long-awaited clearance for a project to build two…

After initially seeing this on social media without context, I had to go look at the originating source material. At first blush, it looks creepy, weird and ridiculous.  After going to the…

Core Producer Price Inflation Hotter Than Expected; Food Costs Surge After yesterday’s hotter-than-expected CPI, all eyes are on this morning’s PPI print for dovish hopes that the blip in CPI is ‘transitory’….

While “Fighting For Democratic Values”, Zelensky Seeks To Squash Any Dissenting Voices Authored by Liz Heflin via Remix news, The Ukraińska Pravda website is accusing the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky…

The British consumer-goods giant had remained in the country after a mass corporate exodus post-2022 over the Ukraine conflict British consumer-goods giant Unilever has completed its exit from Russia, the company said…

“‘We, Robot’ 10/10 Event”: Wall Street Reacts To Elon Musk’s Big Cybercab Debut Tesla’s shares stumbled in premarket trading after the company’s long-awaited robotaxi event in Burbank, California. The event showcased the robotaxi Cybercab,…

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon earlier reported that two of its personnel were wounded after being targeted by an IDF tank  Israel has faced international condemnation after a UN peacekeeping…

Elon Musk sent units for his satellite system to Ukraine early in the conflict, but later refused to provide the service for free Poland is paying all of the costs for Ukraine’s…

Tough Luck For NYC Apartment Hunters: Bargains Scarce As Rents Hover Near Record Highs Tens of millions of Americans have been battered by a multi-year housing affordability crisis, mainly during the Biden-Harris administration’s…

The Indian prime minister has said a solution to current conflicts “cannot come from the battlefield” Conflicts raging in different parts of the world are having the most negative impact on the…

The 2025 state budget faces a multi-billion-dollar shortfall, despite foreign aid Ukraine’s parliament has approved the country’s first major tax increase since the outbreak of the conflict with Russia in 2022, as…