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NATO To Launch Initiatives On Ukraine, AI, Disinformation, And Cyber Authored by Daniel Teng via The Epoch Times, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has revealed NATO, along with four partner nations,…

WTI Rebounds Off One-Week Lows On Large Crude Draw As Oil Volatility Plummets Crude prices remain lower this morning ahead of the official inventory data – though continuing yesterday’s somewhat chaotic intraday…

The EU should play a leading role in organizing negotiations between Moscow and Kiev, the Hungarian prime minister has said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has told EU officials that Russian President…

After five years of Keir Starmer’s Labour government, the way will be clear for Nigel Farage’s populists Many political commentators in the UK have failed to grasp the true import of the…

Several online ads touted the proposal as “a unique opportunity to avoid mobilization,” the outlet TSN has reported Ukrainians seeking to avoid being mobilized for the fight against Russia can now have…

New Delhi has sought Moscow’s help in repatriating its nationals lured to fight alongside the Russian army New Delhi and Moscow are “on the same side” with regard to repatriating “as quickly…

Peter Schiff: More Doom In The Data Via SchiffGold.com, In this episode, Peter recaps the latest batch of economic data, in which revisions to job numbers and a declining manufacturing sector bode…

EV Boosters Cannot Do Math Authored by Duggan Flanakin via RealClearEnergy, According to Electrly, the electric vehicle charging manufacturer, it takes an average of 90 kilowatt-hours of electricity to fully charge a…

In ‘Brutal’ CNN Interview, Dem Senator Says Trump Could Beat Biden In “Landslide”; Stephanopoulos Doubts Another Term Sen. Michael Bennett (D-CO) on Tuesday became the first Democratic senator to publicly cast doubt…

Egypt has been selling state assets to the Persian Gulf states in an effort to mitigate its economic crisis In order to resolve its economic crisis, which is aggravated by a shortage…

During the meeting of the US-led military bloc in Washington, Norway promised to provide six fighter jets to Kiev    Norway has pledged to donate six F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine as…

Russia’s growing ties with North Korea and China pose a threat to the West and its allies, Fumio Kishida has claimed Japan needs to deepen ties with NATO in the face of…

London is committed to increasing its outlay on defense to 2.5% of GDP, Keir Starmer has said The UK is set to boost its military capabilities and plans to gradually increase defense…

Satellite-guided shells are particularly vulnerable to Russian jamming technology, commanders in Kiev have told the newspaper Russia’s electronic warfare capabilities have rendered precision-guided Western munitions “useless” in the Ukraine conflict, the Wall…

Keir Starmer has said Ukraine can use UK-donated weapons as it sees fit, according to Bloomberg Remarks by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer about Ukraine having a free hand in using donated…

A declassified document shows Yeltsin thought he had to sign the NATO-Russia Founding Act to soften the fallout from the bloc’s expansion Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin told his US counterpart Bill…

The former president has called for a debate and golf game so that his rival can prove he’s capable of leading the country Former US President Donald Trump has challenged Joe Biden…

Meanwhile, falling freight rates show that penalties have failed to affect Russia’s oil shipment costs, the outlet has noted Dozens of oil tankers that previously shipped Russian crude currently remain empty and…

Another Day, Another Record High, Another Tech Meltup Stop us when this starts sounding familiar: futures are – once again – higher, led by tech with small-caps also outperforming following another all-time…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s peace mission is a showcase of what Kiev сould have done with its peculiar geopolitical position When your enfant terrible is also (almost) the only adult in…

Police have reportedly shut the location after its employees defied the country’s Islamic headscarf law Iranian police have shut down the office of Turkish Airlines in Tehran after local female employees refused…

Microsoft & Apple Abruptly Drop OpenAI Board Observer Seats As Antitrust Investigations Mount There’s definitely more to this story than meets the eye. Let’s begin with new details from the Financial Times, which reveal…

The Great Monetary Pivot Of 2024 Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the Fed brought interest rates to roughly 0% and held them there…

Western defense spending will remain high for years to come to counter Russia and China, a US official has told weapons makers The US and its allies are planning to continue ramping…

Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed and General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan have discussed the ongoing conflict and potential paths to peace Sudanese army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan hosted Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed…

The defense minister has approved conscripting members of the community starting next month, according to reports Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has approved a plan to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jews into the…

Kiev’s attempts to organize PR operations “on blood” are dishonest and “jesuitical,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Kiev is deliberately using tragedies for publicity ahead of important international events, such as this…

Agents tried to recruit a naval officer to plant an incendiary device on the Admiral Kuznetsov, officials have said Russian operatives have foiled a Ukrainian plot to sabotage the country’s only aircraft…

Harvard Leftist Summer Reading List Recommends Book On How To Indoctrinate Students With CRT By Emma Arns of CampusReform Harvard University’s summer reading list includes various books covering topics like transgenderism, feminism,…

The pullout has been postponed due to the deteriorating security situation in the eastern part of the DR Congo The UN stabilization mission (MONUSCO) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR…

Washington has said it will continue to press India to support its efforts for a “just peace” in Ukraine Washington has been in contact with New Delhi to express concern over its…

Moscow has already dismissed similar allegations that it is masterminding a “sabotage” campaign in Europe A recent terror alert at US military bases in Europe was triggered by claims that Russia was…

Kiev has called on foreign backers to support its mobilization efforts by sending military-age men back to their homeland Warsaw has agreed to help Kiev’s mobilization efforts by calling on any military-age…

Housing Market Cracks: Record Number Of Listed Homes Have Price Drops For the past two years it seemed that the Fed’s rate hiking cycle has been flipped on its head and that…

The former German chancellor had the ability to isolate crises which posed a threat to Europe, the Hungarian PM has argued The Ukraine conflict would not have escalated into an “international war”…

A Russian victory in Ukraine would change the global security system, Jens Stoltenberg has said Outgoing NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has called a Russian victory in the Ukraine conflict the biggest…

New NATO Command Will Assist Ukraine With Training, Equipment Donations By John Grady of USNI News NATO’s leaders are set to approve a separate command at Wiesbaden, Germany, to coordinate training and…

Ukraine needs over 100 F-16s for parity with Russia, its leader has told a gathering in Washington Virtually no quantity of weapons that the US and its allies supply to Kiev for…

A Short Overview Of Places With Zero Corporate Taxes In a globalized world, setting corporate tax rates has often been described as a race to the bottom. By having a lower rate than…

Some Western diplomats believe the president’s speech failed to make up for his disastrous debate with Donald Trump, according to Reuters US President Joe Biden has delivered a forceful speech to NATO…

Russia Rules Out All Nuclear Talks With US Until It Adopts A ‘Sane’ Approach Authored by Kyle Anzalone via The Libertarian Institute, A top Russian diplomat stressed that the Kremlin is unwilling…

Visualizing The Gulf In Paris 2024 Ticket Prices The 2024 Paris Olympics promise to be a spectacular event set against the backdrop of the city’s iconic landmarks. Whether it’s the Equestrian events held at…

The Japanese-Philippine Military Logistics Pact Raises The Risk Of War With China Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, It’s no secret that the US is preparing to “Pivot (back) to Asia” in…

Moscow will work on breaking through the “hysteria” of some of the foreign media, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russia will continue to “speak the truth” to the world, despite Western…

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…

Give Me Liberty Or Give Me America 2.0 Authored by Donald Jeffries via ‘I Protest” Substack, As I’ve noted before, I was fascinated by history as a very young boy. And no…

These Are The 10 Highest-Paid World Leaders In 2024 Although their salaries are far from those of CEOs of big companies, presidents, prime ministers, and other world leaders can be paid high salaries in…

Universities Should Promote Rigorous Discourse, Not Stifle It Authored by Jay Bhattacharya & Wesley J. Smith via RealClearPolitics, The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an advocacy article that attacks academic…

This entire interview is really bizarre from the perspective of Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) talking about the transparently visible issues of Joe Biden, yet he needs to stay firmly in the herd…

Newsom’s California: Flash Mob Robs, Ransacks Bay Area Mini-Mart, Causing $100,000 In Damage A flash mob ransacked a mini-mart near the San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport in Oakland, California this week, robbing…

Actor Kevin Costner Says America Needs To Be Protected Authored by Elma Aksalic via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), “Yellowstone” star Kevin Costner is one of many celebrities expressing their patriotism this…

I was explaining how Joe Biden is now facing two formidable forces against his 2024 election candidacy, (1) Barack Obama, and (2) the Intelligence Community. A question was raised: “I thought the…

How El Niño And La Niña Are Affecting Weather Patterns Hurricane Beryl is likely to be one among a series of extreme Atlantic weather events this coming season, according to forecasters. This prediction…

I did not see this one coming.  Former Clinton Chief of Staff, current DNC influence operative and ABC host, George Stephanopoulos, has said in public he no longer supports the candidacy of…

Olympics Draw Millions, But Rarely Sell Out With the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics less than three weeks away, the French capital is bracing for an onslaught of visitors from all around…

“Linguistic White Supremacy’”: The Left’s New Crusade Against The English Language By Wenyuan Wu of MindingTheCampus The fringe lens of critical pedagogy has swallowed today’s academia. Facts are deconstructed, logical reasoning is…

Rachel Reeves has blamed the Tories for wrecking the economy during their 14 years in power The UK’s new Labour government has inherited the worst economy since the Second World War, the…

The US-led alliance will provide four new Patriot systems and “dozens” of other interceptors NATO countries said they will provide five additional strategic air defense systems to Ukraine in response to Kiev’s…

Roots Of And Remedies To America’s Illiberal Education Authored by Peter Berkowitz via RealClearPolitics, In mid-June, Lawrence D. Bobo – Harvard University dean of the social sciences, professor of social sciences, and…

It Didn’t Begin With LBJ: How The US Became A Transfer Society Authored by Eduard Bucher via The Mises Institute, Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill’s fascinating account traces the decline of the…

Biden’s Costliest Publicity Stunt To Be Dismantled Permanently The Pentagon’s Gaza humanitarian pier project, which has been troubled from day one and spent more time out of commission than it’s actually been…

Moscow said the facility was apparently used to make the highly toxic hydrogen cyanide The Russian Defense Ministry has released footage of military personnel inspecting what it says is a Ukrainian makeshift laboratory…

How Out-Of-Body Experiences May Enhance Empathy By Altering Our Sense Of Self Authored by Cara Michelle Miller via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), How does floating outside your body, seeing yourself from…

Bodyguard For Anti-Gun Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor Shoots At Would-Be Carjacker Bodyguards for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor fired shots at an attempted carjacker on Friday outside her northwest DC home, according…

Tonight, President Trump is holding a MAGA rally in Doral, Florida.  The start time for President Trump remarks is 7:00pm EST with pre-speech remarks ongoing.  Livestream Links Below: RSBN YouTube Livestream Link…

By now everyone knows the national role of James Clyburn.  The South Carolina representative is in charge of regional, key-state, ballot counting in 2024 as he was in 2020. GO DEEP This…

Haley Releases Delegates, Urges Them To Back Trump Ahead Of RNC Convention Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley announced on July 9…

Some Democrats want the sitting US president to step aside for someone younger US President Joe Biden is determined to stay in office for a full second term if reelected, according to…

​​​​​​​Restaurant Stocks Slide As Wall Street Sours On Consumer The middle class is struggling under the burden of elevated inflation and high interest rates, and Wall Street analysts are increasingly worried about a…

Illinois Is A Drag On US Economy, Continues To Be A ‘Taker’ From Federal Govt; New Report Shows Authored by Mark Glennon via Wirepoints.org, If you think Illinois’ problems only amount to…

WTI Lifts Off One-Week Lows After API Reports Bigger Than Expected Crude Draw Oil prices dropped today as traders hung on every word from Fed Chair Powell prompting some wild intraday swings….

Health Officials Confirm Human Case Of Plague In Colorado Authored by Lorenz Duchamps via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Health officials in Colorado are investigating a human case of the plague in…

The US and UK had wanted to confiscate the frozen sovereign funds The Group of Seven “likely” abandoned the US plan to expropriate Russia’s frozen central bank assets due to a “veiled…

This is so typically DC; the irony is a little grimacing on many levels.  Apparently a not very smart carjacker pulled a gun and tried to steal a car belonging to a…

Bidenomics? Business Bankruptcies Jump 34% In First Half Of 2024 Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Bankruptcy filings by commercial entities grew by more than a third this year as…

Crypto Bid, Crude Skids, Stocks & Bonds Sluggish As CPI Looms Somehow, Small Business Optimism rose in June (for the third straight month) to its highest since Dec 2023 despite aggregate economic…

Speaker Johnson Presses NATO To Meet Spending Goals As DC Summit Kicks Off The annual NATO summit 2024 began Tuesday in Washington D.C., and House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson used the opportunity to…

Worst Of All Worlds… For Democrats Authored by Christopher Roach via American Greatness, The time for a political party to deal with a decrepit, elderly figurehead is not after the primaries, in…

Yulia Navalnaya has been charged with being a member of an extremist organization, according to a press release issued by the city’s judiciary Moscow’s Basmanny Court has issued an arrest warrant for…

AriZona Iced Tea CEO ‘Fights Hard’ To Keep Prices At 99 Cents AriZona Beverages first debuted its 99-cent cans at retail brick-and-mortar shops in 1992. Thirty-two years later, the price has yet to…

Supreme Court Won’t Hear Online Commentator’s Censorship Suit Against California Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Supreme Court denied commentator Rogan O’Handley’s bid last week to appeal…

Zelensky & Biden Blast Modi’s Visit To Moscow, Warm Embrace Of Putin On Monday Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Russian President Vladimir Putin at his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo near Moscow. Modi declared that…

Four Unbelievable Narratives Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Everyday Americans and investors in particular are confronted with “narratives” daily. Many include hidden agendas that are politically, ideologically or financially driven. The…

Human rights experts have alleged a “targeted campaign” of starving the Palestinians Israel has rejected the allegations by a group of independent UN human rights experts that it has targeted the Palestinians…

If a Russian missile actually struck the clinic, there would be nothing but rubble left, Vasily Nebenzia has told the UN Security Council Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia, has…

A controversial protocol reportedly allows the Israeli military to prevent kidnapping by any means necessary The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) authorized strikes on Israeli soldiers – and possibly civilians – to prevent…

Authorities Are Literally Losing Control Of The Streets As America’s Societal Collapse Accelerates Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, In a civilized society, authorities are able to maintain at…

Stellar 3Y Auction Stops Through With Highest BId-To-Cover Since January With Powell giving off strongly dovish hints today and Thursday’s CPI expected to come in soft for the 3rd month in a…

Joe Rogan Explains The Border Crisis It’s a simple 5-step plan that is becoming more and more obvious (to all but the blinkered – who also didn’t see Biden’s senility for three…

What Is Happening To Incomes? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, Yesterday I paid a visit to my favorite local grocery, a family-owned boutique with wonderful products from around the…

The people behind Joe Biden that used illegal voter registration, subsequent ballot harvesting, and ultimately corrupt ballot counting to install Biden into office, have threatened to veto any legislation that would impede…

‘Veiled Threat’ – Saudis Warned G-7 Against Russian Asset Seizure Plan In a fascinating geopolitical shift, Bloomberg reports that, according to people familiar with the matter, that Saudi Arabia privately hinted earlier…

Nearly three dozen people have been detained over ties to a supposed criminal group operating out of neighboring Florida Cuban authorities have foiled a suspected terror plot involving weapons smuggled from the…

Viktor Orban’s visit to Russia has reportedly ruffled too many feathers in Brussels The European Union could revoke Hungary’s presidency of the bloc over Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s trip to Moscow, Politico…

Robusta Rockets To 16-Year High After Major Grower Vietnam Records Export Plunge The global robusta coffee shortage continues unabated, with prices reaching new highs in London trading on Tuesday. The surge, according to…

US officials privately believe it will be impossible for Kiev to win back its lost territories, according to the outlet Kiev’s forces are stretched thin and its foreign backers believe that Ukraine…

Scene Of Misery By Michael Every of Rabobank Today’s market action is obviously going to be Fed Chair Powell’s first round of semi-annual Congressional testimony. The expectation is that recent US data…

2024 Hurricane Season Predicted To Be Particularly Active Hurricane Beryl made landfall in Texas on Monday, moving inland after having torn across the eastern Caribbean last week, killing 11 people. According to…

‘Not Allowed Off The Hook’: Purdue Creditors Ask Court To Sue Sackler Family Members Nearly two weeks after the US Supreme Court tossed out a $6 billion bankruptcy settlement agreed upon by the…