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Consider this an open discussion and announcement thread. President Donald Trump is scheduled to make the announcement of his 2024 Vice-President pick today.  His running mate will be announced shortly. This is…

Judge Aileen Cannon has dismissed the classified documents case against President Trump that was brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith. Using a similar argument recently included by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas,…

The deal brings the country’s top tech player Yandex entirely under Russian ownership Yandex NV, the Dutch-registered parent company of Yandex, has announced it has finalized the sale of its Russian business,…

10 Burning Questions That Every American Should Be Asking About The Trump Shooting Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, The people that guard our leaders are…

Watch Live: Fed Chair Powell Speaks With David Rubinstein FedChair Jerome Powell is sitting down to have a conversation with David Rubenstein at the Economic Club of Washington. Just last week, in…

A shipment that included tanks, armored vehicles and air defense systems arrived in early July, a German news outlet is reporting The German government secretly delivered a new aid package to Ukraine…

Key Events This Week: Republican Convention, Retail Sales, Powell Speaks And Many More Earnings As DB’s Jim Reid writes (on his “day off”), the week starts off with the financial world assessing…

Trump Classified Docs Case Dismissed, Judge Finds Special Counsel Appointment Unconstitutional US District Court Judge Eileen Cannon has dismissed Donald Trump’s classified documents case, ruling that the appointment of Special Counsel Jack…

Abbott Demand Answers From CenterPoint As 260,000 Texans Still Without Power Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott demanded that utility firm CenterPoint Energy outline the steps…

Watch: New Video Shows Trump Shooter Climbing To Roof – People Warning Police New video evidence confirms that security teams on the scene of the Trump rally in Butler, PA were warned…

Elon Musk Is Right: End The Online Censorship Racket Authored by Jonathan Turley, Few Americans have ever heard of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, let alone understand how it shapes what…

With corporate outlets constantly demonizing the Orange Man, something like the Butler shooting was bound to happen Americans from across the political spectrum were treated to yet more evidence that Donald Trump…

The appointment of a special prosecutor was unconstitutional, a judge has ruled Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of former US President Donald Trump over the alleged mishandling of classified documents has been…

Kaja Kallas has quit her post to become the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas has stepped down as prime minister of Estonia, as she prepares to become the EU foreign policy chief,…

Donald Trump is expected to officially become the GOP’s presidential candidate, just days after an attempt on his life The 2024 Republican National Convention (RNC), where the party will approve its platform…

A man has confessed to 42 murders, according to officials in Nairobi Police in Kenya have arrested a man believed to have killed dozens of women over the past two years in…

Energy tycoon Mukesh Ambani has reportedly spent up to $600 million on the event  Film stars, politicians, athletes, and industrialists from around the world descended on Mumbai last weekend to attend the…

The Four Factions Vying For Control Of America Authored by Robert Arvay via AmericanThinker.com, The Democrat party has three main factions vying for control.   One of them is the Biden family.   Another…

Here Are The Markets Moving Higher As Trump’s Election Odds Rise “I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead,” former President Trump told the New York Post on Sunday…

Futures Jump As Trump Assassination Attempt Boost Yields, Dollar And Supercharges Market Rotation US equity futures are stronger with the Russell/small caps again outperforming as the market rotation was supercharged over the…

Swatch Shares Crash Most In Four Years As Profits Plunge On China Downturn  The worsening economic slowdown in China, a massive market for luxury goods such as watches and handbags, weighed on…

MSNBC Yanks ‘Morning Joe’ Reportedly On Fears Of Inappropriate Trump Shooting Commentary MSNBC has taken its celebrated “Morning Joe” off-air on Monday reportedly on fears that their well-known leftist hosts could say…

Bystanders reportedly tried to alert police of a gunman before shots were fired at Donald Trump at the weekend  Bobby Kennedy III, a member of the famous American political dynasty that has…

Goldman Net Income Surges 150% As Investment Banking Misses, Credit Loss Provisions Slide After a mixed bag of results from JPMorgan on Friday and a downright ugly net interest margin report from…

Kiev has imposed strict policies to eliminate Russian from public spaces There has been a drop in the use of the Ukrainian language in the national school system, particularly among students, according…

Paul Kagame, who has held the presidency in Rwanda for nearly a quarter of a century, is expected to win decisively Rwandans are casting their ballots in presidential and parliamentary elections, which…

The plan is based on the results of the Hungarian leader’s recent visits to Kiev and Moscow, political adviser Balazs Orban has said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has sent proposals to…

What Rate-Cuts Can And Cannot Do Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, June’s year-over-year Consumer Price Index is still running 3 percent, which is now considered more-or-less on target. Five…

The labourers were hired to work 12-hour days, seven days a week for about four dollars per hour Police in Italy announced they have freed 33 Indian migrants from abusive conditions and…

The army chief must go like his predecessor, as both belong to the “generals’ mafia”, Mariana Bezuglaya has said Ukraine’s top commander Aleksandr Syrsky is ready to lay down arms and capitulate…

Humza Yousaf’s relatives were reportedly given passage out of the besieged enclave a day after Edinburgh paid money to UNRWA The Scottish government is set to investigate the country’s former first minister,…

Will The Left Respect Democracy If Trump Wins? Authored by Thaddeus McCotter via AmericanGreatness.com, The left and its mocking bird media are fond of asking whether the GOP and MAGA movement will…

Whistleblowers Asked SEC To Probe OpenAI Over Alleged Illegal NDAs Authored by Tristan Greene via CoinTelegraph.com, The complainants called the matter “urgent,” but it remains unclear if the SEC will open an…

Censors Everywhere We Look Authored by Lori Weintz via The Brownstone Institute, “It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it…

A zoo in Central Russia welcomed two litters of endangered big-cat species in a single day A zoo in Central Russia welcomed two litters of rare tigers in one day earlier this…

Three-day naval maneuvers have kicked off in Southern China, the Defense Ministry in Beijing says Russian and Chinese naval forces have started joint exercises in the Pacific, the Defense Ministry in Beijing…

The shooter appeared in a commercial for the investment behemoth Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspect in Saturday’s attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump, featured in a 2022 ad for BlackRock,…

Dozens were also injured in the incident, a police spokesperson has said Twenty-two people were killed and 132 injured when a two-story school building collapsed in central Nigeria’s Plateau state, local authorities…

The Indian prime minister is the most-followed serving world leader on the platform Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has exceeded 100 million followers on Elon Musk’s X platform, making him the most-followed…

5 Reasons For A New Gold Playbook Authored by Ronni Stoeferle via VonGreyerz.gold, The rise in the gold price this spring was undoubtedly spectacular. In just a few weeks, the gold price…

Ukraine cannot beat Russia while sparing younger men, Ivo Daalder has said Kiev should send 18-year-olds to fight Russia to increase the likelihood of victory, former US ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder…

Visualizing The Surge In Defense Spending Of Non-US NATO Members Non-U.S. members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have increased their expenditure on defense, with a big spike after the Russian…

UK’s Labour Party Confirms Brexit Reversal Is Dead And Buried Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, I was wondering when Brexit would come up. It has already and I am pleased to…

The former US president has said he wants to unite the country after surviving an assassination attempt Donald Trump has said he is lucky to be alive after being targeted by a…

The US-led military bloc does not want to become directly involved in the Ukraine conflict, Jens Stoltenberg has claimed NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has ruled out the possibility of Poland intercepting…

International Oil Companies Caught In Kurdish Smuggling Web Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, A Reuters investigation found that over 1,000 tanker trucks are smuggling at least 200,000 barrels of Kurdish oil…

Iran’s “Moderate” President Is Just Another Hardliner-In-Disguise To Glide In Its Nuclear Weapons Program Authored by Con Coughlin via The Gatestone Institute, Before the Biden administration gets too carried away celebrating the…

The bloc’s foreign ministers reportedly plan to snub a high-profile summit in Budapest European Union leaders are planning to boycott a Hungarian-organized foreign affairs summit, due to take place on August 28-29,…

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…

China’s GDP Growth Unexpectedly Tumbles As New Home Prices Plunge Most In 9 Years China’s economic growth collapsed to just 4.7% YoY in the second quarter, missing all but one economist’s forecast,…

Escobar: The Yemen-Russia Riddle Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Cradle, Sanaa is eagerly engaging with Moscow in a bid to expand its astounding military gains into both the economic and diplomatic…

Chinese Regulators Intensify Efforts To Tighten Control Over Financial Markets By Charlie Zhu and Helen Sun, Bloomberg Markets Live reporters and strategists Three things we learned last week: 1. Chinese regulators intensified efforts…

Former CDC Director Says FDA Underreported Adverse Vax Side Effects To Prevent Vaccine Hesitancy Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of Centers for Disease Control…

The president urged to “lower the temperature” of political rhetoric in the wake of the assassination attempt of Donald Trump Toxic rhetoric and political tensions can lead to bloodshed, US President Joe…

Project 2025 & The Continued Democrat Meltdown Authored by Richard Truesdell and Keith Lehmann via American Greatness, Tying Donald Trump to Project 2025 is the latest desperation tactic from Democrats. But it’s…

Mapping High School Graduation Rates By State A high school diploma not only represents the development of essential knowledge and skills but is also a critical step toward personal and professional growth….

Property Tax & The Death Of The American Dream Via SchiffGold.com, While the primary catalyst for the original English pilgrims to venture to America was religious freedom, a strong desire for independence followed…

The Number Of Global Millionaires Keeps Rising In its latest annual report, Swiss bank UBS shows that while there has been a mixed picture in the development of global wealth inequality, the number…

Is The USD Really Too Big To Fail? Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Between politics (driven by self rather than public servants), markets (driven by debt rather than profits) and currencies (diluted by over-creation rather than chaperoned…

Journalist Salena Zito was in the stands on Saturday because she was pre-scheduled to interview President Trump on the return trip to Westminster. Obviously that interview never took place. However, today on…

Joe Biden will be reading his teleprompter from the Oval Office tonight, serious folks, not a joke.  A speech assembled to heal the nation and reset his political ambitions following a White…

Biden Halts ‘Trump Is Hitler’ Ads After Assassination Attempt Authored by Luis Carnelio via HeadlineUSA.com, The scandal-plagued Biden campaign has pulled all its ads against former President Donald Trump after he was nearly…

Spot The Odd One Out The COVID-19 pandemic erased nearly two decades of life expectancy gains in America. Meanwhile, U.S. health spending per capita is at the highest level in the world. In the…

Middle East Reacts To A ‘Destabilized’ America Via Middle East Eye The assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on Saturday has provoked an outpouring of condemnation, even from opponents of the…

New details about the assassination attempt on President Trump are coming fast. Earlier this morning former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino gave his opinion about the Secret Service almost unfathomable drop in…

These Are The 10 US States With The Highest Cost Of Living Ever wondered where your dollar stretches the least in the U.S.? States vary significantly when it comes to cost of…

Marine Le Pen has condemned the attack on Donald Trump, warning France is not safe from such violence either The French right-wing politician and longtime leader of the National Rally (RN) party,…

America Was Less Than An Inch Away From Socio-Political Disaster Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Former President and impending Republican Nominee Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at an outdoor rally…

‘A Mistake’: Zelensky Says He Can ‘Forget’ Biden Calling Him Putin (After Billions Donated) Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky had a brief look of shock and confusion the moment when on Thursday President…

Posted without commentary. The flight time of the bullet was 0.34 of a second. God is in the details..   Posted in Christian Values, Deep State, Donald Trump, Election 2024 The post…

Democratic Socialists Of America Withdraws Endorsement Of AOC Via HeadlineUSA.com, The Democratic Socialists of America withdrew its endorsement of “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez, D-N.Y., for not being far left enough on Israel’s military strike in Gaza….

Many of us have attended MAGA rallies to hear President Trump and experience the patriotic unity of our assembly.  The tragedy that unfolded yesterday lends a person to say, “there but for…

Surge In “Donate To Trump” Searches After Assassination Attempt Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee could be set to receive another influx of donations from Americans, including many mom-and-pop voters…

The Fed, Breadth, And Liquidity By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Breadth and liquidity go hand in hand. In this report, we revisit Thursday, what led up to it, and what it…

Imagine if the would-be murderer succeeded in taking out the Republican candidate. What sort of chaos would that have triggered? If you say “Fort Sumter,” most Americans would recognize the place where…

Former first lady has condemned Saturday’s violent act at a campaign rally as a “heinous crime” Former first lady Melania Trump on Sunday condemned the attack on her husband as he addressed…

Joe Biden delivers remarks to a startled nation after a failed assassination attempt against President Donald J Trump.  There are mounting questions about the breakdown in security protocol around Biden’s opponent and…

Before he was shot at a campaign rally, former US President Donald Trump faced a barrage of threats from the Left While the attempted assassination of Donald Trump has been roundly condemned…

“Joe Biden” Offers Hope For All Americans Now Suffering With Stage 4 Incredulity Authored by Marc Crispin Miller via ‘News From The Underground’ Substack, Having long kept all its eyes wide shut…

First Lady Melania Trump releases a statement following the assassination attempt against the life of her husband, U.S. President Donald Trump. “A monster who recognized my husband as an inhuman political machine…

Russian forces seized control of Urozhaynoe, a settlement captured last year by Kiev in its ultimately failed counteroffensive The Russian Defense Ministry on Sunday announced the liberation of Urozhaynoye, a large village…

Sacramento Threatens To Fine Target For Reporting Retail Thefts Via HeadlineUSA.com, Sacramento officials threatened to sue Target this week if the corporation continues to report retail theft crimes to local law enforcement. The Sacramento City…

The billionaire made the claim shortly after Republican hopeful Donald Trump was shot and wounded during a campaign rally SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has opened up about two alleged assassination…

Israeli Newspaper Says IDF Employed ‘Hannibal Directive’ On October 7 Authored by Jake Johson via Common Dreams, The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported days ago that Israel’s military repeatedly employed a protocol known as the “Hannibal Directive”…

Bitcoin Bottom Signal: German Government Runs Out Of BTC To Sell Bitcoin’s price may have seen its drawdown bottom as the German government has now run out of Bitcoin to sell, and technical…

He has become tougher and less tolerant of mistakes during the conflict with Russia, the agency has said Vladimir Zelensky is getting more and more concerned for his life as the conflict…

While the US-led group enforces rigid bloc discipline, the world’s emerging powers extol flexibility Two events – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pomp-filled visit to Moscow and the 75th anniversary NATO summit…

In a post on Truth Social, the Republican presidential hopeful urged Americans to stand united following Saturday’s attempt on his life Donald Trump has vowed not to swerve from his course and…

Jeffrey Sachs: The NATO Declaration & The Deadly Strategy Of Neoconservatism Authored by Jeffrey D. Sachs In 1992, U.S. foreign-policy exceptionalism went into overdrive. The U.S. has always viewed itself as an exceptional nation destined…

The Republican presidential hopeful was shot during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday The New York Times has published a photo appearing to show a bullet flying past Donald Trump’s head,…

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov says the Russian leader does not plan to call the Republican presidential hopeful in the wake of the shooting Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russian President Vladimir Putin…

The head of the Belarusian security service says Kiev has pulled back the forces it had amassed on the border in mid-June The situation on the Belarus-Ukraine border has been defused after…

The decision comes after Russian judo and wrestling competitors refused to take part in the games Russian television channels and streaming services will not air this year’s Olympic Games, taking place from…

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…

According to the New York Post, the assassin who tried to kill President Donald J Trump was Thomas Matthew Crooks, age 20 from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. The FBI Pittsburg field office is…

The Roots Of World War III Authored by Francis P. Sempa via RealClearWire.com, The American diplomat and historian George F. Kennan called the First World War the “seminal catastrophe” of the 20th…

Army Base Taught Soldiers That Pro-Life Groups Are Terrorists; Watchdog Via The College Fix, A U.S. Army base training presentation described two pro-life organizations as “terrorist groups,” according to a watchdog report…

In the immediate aftermath of being shot in the ear, ultimately not knowing his physical disposition at the time, and from deep the core instinctive nature of President Donald John Trump, his…