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Ford To “Re-Time” New EV Production, Expand Hybrid Production Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Today Ford announces a two-year delay, “retiming” until 2027, on new EV models scheduled for 2025. In…

Israel is bracing for an Iranian counterattack after striking Tehran’s embassy in Damascus Iran has warned the US to “stay away” from any potential clash between itself and Israel, while Washington has…

The company is not abandoning production of low-cost electric vehicles, the billionaire claims Tesla CEO Elon Musk has dismissed a report by Reuters claiming the US carmaker has canceled a project for…

Hundreds Of 99 Cents Only Stores Liquidated, Failed Bidenomics & Retail Theft Blamed  A combination of failed ‘Bidenomics,’ i.e., elevated inflation, disastrous progressive social justice reforms that ignited a tsunami of retail theft nationwide,…

West Jerusalem has dismissed two commanders and reprimanded others over their “grave mistake” in targeting an aid convoy in Gaza The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has issued a rare admission of guilt,…

McDonald’s Buys Up All Israeli Franchise Restaurants After Boycott Hits Sales Via Middle East Eye McDonald’s has bought out all the franchise restaurants in Israel after seeing a sales hit due to boycotts. The…

It’s Official: No Labels 2024 White House Quest Has Imploded There’s one fewer wild card in the 2024 presidential election deck, as the centrist group No Labels has bailed on its long-running…

Solana Struggles: Record 75% Of User TXs Are Failing… Or Are They? Authored by Tom Mitchelhill via CoinTelegraph.com, The Solana network appears to be struggling to keep up with a ravenous demand…

Some residents in the city of Orsk in Orenburg Region are being evacuated Around 4,000 households are at risk of flooding after a dam holding back the Ural River suffered a breach…

Trump Says Truth Social Has Zero Debt, $200 Million Cash Despite Media Fixation On 2023 Loss Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former President Donald Trump said Thursday…

Fears of American withdrawal, over reliance on the Russian bogeyman, and Washington’s tilt to Asia make for shaky foundations The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is celebrating its 75th anniversary – the founding documents…

Crude, Food Prices Jump As Looming Israel-Iran Conflict Spark 1970s Oil Shock Fears Larry MacDonald of The Bear Traps Report penned a very informative note last month that outlined, “2023-2024 look a lot like 1973-1974.” He said,…

Bizarre Reuters Article Warns Climate Change Is Hurting “Indonesian Trans Sex Workers” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Reuters has published perhaps the most bizarre article ever, warning that climate change is having…

A court has ruled that retail chain Tegut must comply with centuries-old legislation despite not having human employees A court in the central German state of Hesse has banned local vending machine…

Israel Sacks Top Officers Over Aid Convoy Attack As Biden Gives ‘Ultimatum’ To Netanyahu On Thursday President Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the Israeli military’s killing of seven aid…

RFK Jr. Is Right About Joe Biden Authored by David Harsanyi via PJMedia.com, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can be an unhinged leftist and crackpot, but he also happens to be correct about…

Behind Today’s Stellar Jobs Print: It Was Literally ALL Part-Time Jobs (And Illegals) First things first: unlike the last two months when both the January and February jobs prints were beyond ridiculously…

Musk Says Reuters Is “Lying” About Tesla’s Plans To Scrap Model 2     Before reading the Reuters report on Tesla Motors. Consider what Elon Musk has just said: Reuters is lying (again)…

“Oh Man, This Is Huge”: Video Revealed By Jan. 6 Defendant Raises Questions About Undercover Agents Authored by Joseph M. Hanneman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Recently released Jan. 6 U.S….

The fast food chain has reported decreased sales amid boycotts in Muslim countries over the Gaza conflict McDonald’s has announced that it will be buying back all of its restaurants in Israel…

The French president has claimed Moscow was spreading misinformation to sabotage the games French President Emmanuel Macron’s claims that Moscow may somehow seek to undermine the Paris Olympics are entirely baseless, Kremlin…

A number of crucial structures lack sufficient protection against being struck by ships, engineers told the outlet Several major American bridges could collapse like the Francis Scott Key Bridge if hit by…

The parent company of Facebook and Instagram will sniff out and label robot-created videos, photos, and audio Meta will start labeling AI-generated content on Facebook and Instagram from May onwards, the tech…

Ambassador Yacov Livne has reportedly “changed tone” after initially claiming the bombing of the humanitarian convoy was not a war crime Poland said on Friday that Israel’s envoy in Warsaw has apologized…

The move is expected to help reduce inflation, the governor of the southern African nation’s central bank has said Zimbabwe has introduced a new national currency aimed at stabilizing the economy and…

The production of the vessels had been delayed due to Ukraine-related supply chain issues The Indian Navy is set to receive two Russian-built warships following long delays linked to Ukraine sanctions that…

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ Former Bodyguard Claims Music Mogul Had Tapes Of “Politicians” And “Princes” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, The former bodyguard of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ claims the music mogul…

Global ‘Game Of Chicken’ Continues – MOAB >> NFP Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, Today we will hit two topics, NPF and MOAB. Let’s Start with NFP About as good…

Samsung To Double Chip Factory Investments In Texas As Chips Act Supercharges Reshoring Efforts  The Biden administration’s fast approach to industrial policy and re-shoring of semiconductor production has been through the Chips…

The 4.8-magnitude quake interrupted a session of the UN Security Council A UN Security Council session was interrupted on Friday after the world body’s headquarters in New York began to shake. The…

The former president cannot use free speech to dodge racketeering charges, a Georgia judge has ruled Judges in Florida and Georgia have shot down attempts by former US President Donald Trump to…

An Su-34 fighter-bomber has attacked Kiev’s fortifications in Donetsk Region, according to the Defense Ministry Russian warplanes have conducted a strike on Ukrainian positions in the southern sector of the front using…

Mainstream Media Reluctantly Admits Elon Musk’s Ukraine Takes Are Proving Correct “So, Musk may not be too wide of the mark after all”: Politico. Something which could hardly be imagined a year ago…

Proposal To Move Bank Regulation Goalposts Signals Underlying Problems In Financial System Authored by Mike Maharrey via Money Metals, If a formula spits out a number you don’t like, just change the…

March Jobs Come In Red-Hot At 303K, Above Highest Estimate, As Unemployment Rate Drops As we wrote in our preview, while big data hinted at a weaker than expected March jobs print,…

Something Broke In Markets On Thursday Authored by Mark Cudmore via Bloomberg, This Friday is going to be a session for active short-term traders, and it will likely be unpleasant for investors. Something…

Federal Reserve Refuses To Provide Records Of Foreign Gold Holdings Authored by Ken Silva via Money Metals, Weeks after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell evaded a sitting congressman’s questions about the central…

Muktar Mohamed Ware has been ordered to leave Mogadishu within 72 hours Somalia has expelled Ethiopian Ambassador Muktar Mohamed Ware as tensions between the two East African neighbors escalate over a Red…

The country will not necessarily make the bloc stronger and may cause a global war, Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo has said NATO has significantly benefited from the Ukraine conflict, but allowing the country to…

The former US president claims that his rival may have used cocaine and has demanded a drug test before a potential debate Former US President Donald Trump has accused his Democratic rival,…

Washington provided information about a potential assault, but Moscow claims it was too general Former US President Donald Trump has said he would have personally alerted Russian President Vladimir Putin about a…

Kiev has fired more than 22,000 shells at non-military Russian facilities this year, a senior diplomat has said Indiscriminate Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory have killed more than 200 civilians, including almost…

Yields Are Correct To Assume Jobs Market Has Not Yet Cracked Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The widening gap between household employment and payrolls is causing concern the weaker message…

Futures Rebound As Oil Remains Above $90; All Eyes On Payrolls US futures rebounded from yesterday’s late day rout even as European stocks slumped the most in almost two months and Asian markets tumbled…

Baltimore Bridge Collapse: US Army Corps Of Engineers Says Channel Fully Reopen By End Of May Ten days after the catastrophic collapse of the 1.6-mile-long Francis Scott Key Bridge, blocking the critical shipping channel in…

Bitcoin Vs Gold: The Debate Continues Authored by Douglas French via The Mises Institute, In a few short weeks since SEC approval Inflows into Bitcoin ETF funds had reached just over $59…

Biden DOE Slaps Energy Efficiency Regulations On Key Power Grid Components The Bide administration has finalized energy efficiency regulations for distribution transformers, a key component of managing the flow of electricity between…

Washington expects Moscow to vote in favor of a document that the latter earlier dismissed as “detached from reality” Washington expects Moscow to vote in favor of a US-backed resolution about non-deployment…

Tehran’s threat to West Jerusalem is very real and public, adviser John Kirby has claimed Washington is worried about the escalating tensions between Iran and Israel, White House National Security Communications Adviser…

President Andrzej Duda has urged bloc members to invest at least 3% of their GDP in collective defense to counter Russia Polish President Andrzej Duda has sent a formal letter to the…

Dominique Martin Saatenang, a Cameroonian martial arts expert, calls Russian athletes “amazing” Securing cooperation with Russia will be a significant achievement for the African Martial Arts Festival (FADAM), Dominique Martin Saatenang, founding…

Ukraine joining the bloc is like the start of a movie about end of the world, the billionaire has said A pledge by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Ukraine will…

The bloc wants to find a “middle ground” in helping Kiev as it “is in danger of losing the war,” the paper reports The US and Germany are reluctant to accept Ukraine…

Mandatory financial disclosures by public servants show new cars, homes, and cash, according to journalists Senior Ukrainian officials have significantly increased their personal wealth over the past two years despite the conflict…

Pricing power in a market long dominated by Western institutional money is moving East and the implications are profound The gold price has risen to a series of new all-time highs of…

The Reserve Bank of India has kept the key interest rate unchanged at 6.5% amidst a stable economy In line with experts’ projections, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das affirmed…

Tesla Is Once Again The World’s Best-Selling EV Company China’s BYD made waves for outselling Tesla in Q4 2023, prompting many to believe that the once dominant EV king would fall further behind in 2024. However,…

Bavarian cops have released a video mocking a shortage of uniforms The Bavarian chapter of the German Police Union (DPolG) has released a video showing officers without pants to express frustration over…

Denmark Sacks Defense Chief As Red Sea Failures Pile Up For NATO Via The Cradle The Danish government fired Chief of Defense Flemming Lentfer on Wednesday after it was revealed that the…

State subsidies for China’s industrial sector pose a risk to the global economy, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has claimed that China’s industrial sector produces much…

More than 50 Ukrainian UAVs were intercepted overnight, the Defense Ministry said The Russian military intercepted more than 50 drones overnight, including 44 over Rostov Region, the Defense Ministry reported on Friday…

Russia Is Struggling To Repair Refineries Due To Sanctions By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Due to the sanctions, Russia cannot access spare parts from Western engineering companies that have provided refinery equipment…

“You Try Living With Them” – Botswana Offers 20,000 Elephants To Germany Authored by Thomas Brooke via ReMix News, Botswana has offered to send 20,000 elephants to Berlin, telling Germany’s left-wing government…

Princeton Scientists Unveil Breakthrough In Fusion Reactor Technology Authored by Brian Westenhaus via OilPrice.com, Researchers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) utilize liquid lithium coating in fusion reactor vessels to optimize fueling…

The governor of Murmansk was stabbed as he was leaving a meeting with residents of the town of Apatity Murmansk Region Governor Andrey Chibis was attacked by a person who said he…

Before turning to politics, Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of India’s Aam Aadmi Party, ruling the national capital and Punjab, was a tax department officer An Indian court earlier this week remanded Arvind…

Paris had earlier said it had no intelligence linking the Crocus City Hall shooting spree to Kiev French President Emmanuel Macron has dismissed claims that Paris may have been involved in the…

NATO Head Denies Alliance Is Party To Ukraine War Despite Military Aid Via ReMix News, NATO member states have not yet decided on the structure of future assistance to Ukraine, but they…

The Agni Prime can hit targets at a range of 1,000 to 2,000km India has successfully test-fired a new generation of nuclear-capable ballistic missile – Agni Prime – off the coast of…

Pro-Kiev images were found on the terrorists’ phones, Russian officials have said Images extracted from the cell phones of the terrorists who killed more than 140 people at a concert hall outside…

The Government Wants To Play God. What Does That Mean For Our Freedoms? Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, The government wants to play god. It wants the…

Pfizer’s Own Study Confirms Paxlovid Sucks A Pfizer-funded, peer-reviewed paper authored by Pfizer scientists reveals that the company’s antiviral COVID medication Paxlovid completely sucks, confirming what everyone’s known since it came out….

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…

The government will allow the deliveries through the Erez checkpoint after months of closure Israel has agreed to allow humanitarian aid deliveries into northern Gaza through the Erez crossing, which was shut…

Tuberculosis Cases Reported In Chicago’s Immigrant Shelters Authored by Stephen Katte via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Illegal immigrants board a bus as they arrived on a plane from San Antonio at…

‘Cocoa Could Double From Here’ – Oil-Bull Andurand Gets Greedy On Chocolate Oil trader Pierre Andurand suffered record losses last year in the commodities world, though the money manager has so far…

California Bill Mandating “Pregnancy Dignity” For “Birthing Persons” Passes Health Committee Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times, Some advocates for women’s rights are speaking out against a bill passed April…

“Nuclear Should Be Part Of The Future,” PG&E CEO Says On Wednesday, Patti Poppe, the chief executive officer of Pacific Gas & Electric, told a Stanford University forum that nuclear power should…

Maybe The Academic Bubble Is Finally Popping Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Emily Karakis/Unsplash.com) Commentary Academia has fallen on hard times, most signified by the disgrace…

Warsaw was outraged by the killing of its national by the IDF Warsaw has summoned Ambassador Yakov Livne after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killed a Polish aid worker in Gaza. The…

The Single Wisest Thing You Can Do With Your Money Authored by Doug Casey via InternationalMan.com, There’s a great deal more to becoming rich than buying the right investments and hoping for…

The gang-ridden Caribbean country has descended into “unprecedented” levels of violence and cruelty, a top human rights observer has claimed A top UN human rights expert has likened humanitarian conditions in Haiti…

Great, Now Band-Aids Pose Cancer Risk Thanks To ‘Forever Chemicals’ Major medical bandages, including from brands Band-Aid and Curad, were found to contain dangerous levels of ‘forever chemicals’ linked to cancer, according…

Federal Judge Rules Millions Of NRA Members Exempt From ATF Pistol Brace Rule Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (Emphasis ours), A federal judge has blocked the ATF from enforcing…

New England Hospitals Stop Reporting Newborns With Drugs In System Because It “Disproportionately Affects Black Individuals” A New England hospital system has stopped automatically filing state welfare reports when a baby is…

Finland has decided to keep land crossings closed indefinitely and to ban boats from entering several ports The Finnish government has indefinitely extended a shutdown of its land border with Russia and…

FedEx, UPS Adding Delivery Fees In Parts Of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago By Max Garland of Supply Chain Dive FedEx and UPS will add surcharges for deliveries in 82 ZIP codes…

Dear Mr. President: A Vanilla Bean Shortage Could Be Nearing   Dear Mr. President, the leading global supplier of vanilla has been battered by a cyclone, potentially leading to a shortage of vanilla…

Ethereum Layer 2s To Hit $1 Trillion Market Cap By 2023; VanEck Authored by Jesse Coghlan via CoinTelegraph.com, Ethereum’s layer 2 scaling networks will hit a $1 trillion market capitalization in six…

All Western troops in Ukraine will be treated as enemies, Russia’s former leader said  Bounties should be offered for the killing of NATO soldiers if they are deployed in Ukraine to fight…

China Weaponizes Gallium Flows To West As US Miner Reveals New Discovery In Montana China dominates the global production of the rare earth metal gallium, a critical component in semiconductor manufacturing and advanced weapon…

America’s Favorite Beer Brand Is… Mexican As Americans celebrate National Beer Day on April 7 – the anniversary of the Cullen-Harrison Act, which marked the end of Prohibition in the United States…

What Orwell And Huxley Got Wrong And Kafka Got Right Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, What Kafka got right is how societies can become busily dysfunctional. For self-evident reasons,…

New York Judge ‘Mistakenly’ Describes Trump Jan. 6 Case As “Federal Insurrection Matter” Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times, On April 3, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan denied…

MSM Trots Out ‘Bird Flu-Pocalypse’ After Texas Dairy Worker Falls Ill Bird flu is back in the news after a Texas dairy worker tested positive for the virus in the first documented…

Denmark has suspended navigation in the Great Belt over a technical problem with a warship A malfunctioning missile launcher on board a Royal Danish Navy frigate caused a six-hour closure of the…

House Freedom Caucus Members Earmarked Nearly $1 Billion From Taxpayers By Adam Andrzejeski of OpenTheBooks The House Freedom Caucus was founded in 2015. Self-styled fiscal conservatives promoted themselves as a bulwark against…

A new survey has revealed that many US voters believe they won’t be able to get their country back on track peacefully Many Americans believe that voting won’t be sufficient to turn…

Tehran has vowed vengeance for the deadly strike on its consulate in Damascus The Israeli military canceled all leave and began to spoof satellite signals on Thursday, in what has been widely…