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Asia’s Oil Imports Hit An 8-Month High In January By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Strong buying from China and India at the end of last year pushed Asia’s crude oil imports in…

FT’s fake Hungary claims are another example of London using its media outlets to smear opponents When you read in Financial Times (or FT to its friends) that the EU wants to…

French Shipping Giant Is Latest To Suspend Red Sea Transit, As Details Emerge Of US Destroyer’s ‘Close Call’ French container shipping giant CMA CGM has announced suspension of all its Red Sea…

COVID-Era Back-Rent Now Due In Los Angeles Authored by Rudy Blalock via The Epoch Times, Starting Feb. 1, Los Angeles renters owe, in full, any unpaid rent between Oct. 1, 2021, and…

Exxon CFO Calls Biden’s LNG Export License Halt A Big “Mistake” It’s been one week since the Biden administration, under the guise of saving the planet from an alleged imminent climate disaster,…

France has determined that Ukraine used a US-made Patriot missile to kill 65 of its own POWs The French military has concluded that Ukrainian forces used an American-supplied Patriot air defense system…

The US president and his top diplomat have encountered voter anger over Washington’s support for Israel in the Hamas war Muslim-American voters have balked at the latest outreach efforts by Joe Biden’s…

Pretoria’s security minister has warned of foreign meddling to punish the country over its genocide allegations South Africa’s government has claimed that it’s facing destabilization campaigns by foreign intelligence agencies as retaliation…

Ending conscription was a mistake, Romanian army chief General Gheorghita Vlad told US state media Romanian Chief of Defense Staff General Gheorghita Vlad has called for ordinary citizens to be trained for…

CU Boulder Professor Dresses Like Butterfly To Fight “Climate Anxiety” Via The College Fix, A theatre professor at the University of Colorado Boulder fights her “climate anxiety” by dressing and performing as…

Getting Physical: Why Bullion Has Outperformed Gold Stocks Via SchiffGold.com, Gold prices have been on a tear, with bullion prices ripping upward since the outbreak of war in the Middle East late last year….

Inside The Most Ridiculous Jobs Report In Recent History On the surface, it was an blockbuster jobs report, certainly one which nobody expected. Starting at the top, the BLS reported that in…

The country’s GDP expanded above expectations last year The Russian economy keeps growing and has already become the largest in Europe and the fifth largest in the world in terms of purchasing…

In the ridiculous federal election interference case in D.C., President Trump’s attorneys argued to the DC Circuit appellate court that President Trump holds inherent constitutional immunity. In essence, because President Trump was…

At least two “humanitarian workers” were killed and three others injured, French authorities have admitted Two French nationals were killed and three others injured this week in the hostilities between Kiev and…

Retirement Savers Are Piling Into Stocks. Is That A Good Idea? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, As the financial markets grind higher, retirement savers have consciously decided to add more to…

The Solidarity trade union will launch a general strike in response to the government’s refusal to halt cheap Ukrainian imports Polish farmers will block off border crossings with Ukraine during a general…

The Delaware Judge Who Nuked Elon Musk’s $55 Billion Package Is Steeped In Bidenworld Earlier this week, a Delaware judge voided Elon Musk’s $55 billion pay package after a Tesla shareholder, who…

Earlier, Finnish media reported that a major museum in the country decided to list Ilya Repin as ‘Ukrainian’ The decision by a Finnish museum to change the nationality of 19th-century Russian artist…

Ankara has nevertheless maintained its sovereignty and continues to cooperate with Moscow, said spokesman Dmitry Peskov Türkiye remains one of the few countries that have taken a “fairly principled and independent position”…

China’s Private Refiners Struggle Amid Faltering Economy And High Oil Prices By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Many private refiners in China, often referred to as ‘teapots’, have started this year struggling, squeezed…

The sum should compensate damage sustained by the country, the Ukrainian president’s top economic adviser has said Russia’s assets frozen by the West won’t be enough to cover the damage Ukraine has…

The country’s GDP may have actually expanded by up to 4% in 2023, according to preliminary data The Russian economy appears to have performed even better than previously expected in 2023 as…

Tehran is currently awaiting Washington’s response to the killing of three American soldiers by a militia group Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered his officials to avoid provoking Washington into…

No Charges For Dem Staffer Who Filmed Gay Porn Video In Senate Hearing Room Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, The U.S. Capitol Police announced on Thursday that they have declined to press…

UMich Inflation Exp Slows, Sentiment Hits Highest Since 2021 After soaring in October and November, and crashing back to earth in December, consensus estimates for UMich inflation expectations in January data were basically unchanged…

Jim Jordan Whips Out Subpoena, Devastates Fani House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has slapped a subpoena on Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis for failing to comply with document…

After Fresh Israeli Strikes On Damascus, Whole Region Braces For US Attack, Possibly ‘Hours’ Away Sky News Arabia is reporting Friday morning that major US strikes against Iran-aligned targets may begin within…

“The Fed Has To Pay Attention” To This ‘Simply Stunning’ Payrolls Report Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, A simply stunning jobs report! The highest estimate for the Establishment number was…

Even Soviet-era arms are not necessarily inferior to those used by NATO, the Russian president has said Russia’s modern weapons are more effective than the arms used by NATO countries, which have…

The unelected European Commission head made her priorities crystal clear by praising another cash dump on Ukraine “Agreement! The European Council delivered on our priorities. Supporting Ukraine…. A good day for Europe,” tweeted unelected…

Narendra Modi’s government has introduced a series of reforms to transform the country into a ‘developed nation’ The most populous country in the world will constitute a high-powered committee to consider the challenges…

Gold & Bonds Dump, Dollar Jumps As Payrolls Spark Plunge In Rate-Cut Hopes The massive beat for payrolls, and resurgence in average hourly earnings, prompted a sharp response from markets with the…

Around 1,000 national guardsmen will help Texas fortify the US-Mexico border Governor Ron DeSantis has announced that he will deploy members of the Florida National Guard to assist Texas in repelling an…

Kiev lost 23,000 troops and 3,000 pieces of military equipment last month, Moscow’s defense minister has said Ukraine lost more than 23,000 troops in January, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said,…

OPEC+ Members Will Review Extending Production Cuts In Early March  Last November, OPEC+ agreed to voluntary oil production cuts totaling about 2.2 million barrels per day. These cuts begin in the first quarter of…

Elizabeth Rosenberg is reportedly leaving the US Treasury Department for the private sector One of the main architects of the US sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukraine conflict is leaving her…

Treasuries May Look Past Non-Farm Payrolls To Powell’s Interview Authored by Ven Ram, Bloomberg cross-asset strategist, The non-farm payrolls data for January is unlikely to move the needle much for the rates…

The incident in Kenya’s capital has killed at least three people and left hundreds more injured At least three people are dead and nearly 300 others have been left injured in Kenya’s…

Futures Soar After Tech Earnings Blowout, Putting S&P On Track For Gains In 13 Of Past 14 Weeks US futures and global markets rallied on Friday after tech megacaps Meta and Amazon.com posted…

Cocoa Prices Hit 46-Year High As Drought Concerns Threaten West African Crops Cocoa prices climbed to a 46-year high this week in New York as concerns mount that seasonal Harmattan winds across…

January Jobs Shocker: Payrolls Explode By 353K, Double The Expected And Higher Than All Estimate As Wages Surge Well, we did warn readers that anyone hoping for a negative print in an…

The Russian president condemned Kiev’s forces for firing at ambulances in Donetsk The Armed Forces of Ukraine have turned into a terrorist organization that intentionally attacks ambulances, Russian President Vladimir Putin has…

A secret plan has been hatched in Washington to bring about the downfall of the Ukrainian leader, a veteran journalist claims Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky wants to fire his top general, Valery…

The Hungarian leader personally met with demonstrators in Brussels ahead of an EU summit on Ukraine aid Close associates of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban are reportedly responsible for organizing the farmers’…

Fugitive Wanted For London Acid Attack That Injured 12 Is Afghan Asylum-Seeker & Convicted Sex Offender Authored by Thomas Brooke via ReMix News, The prime suspect being sought by police in connection…

Las Vegas Super Bowl Tickets Topped A Record $9,800 A Seat Average ticket prices for this year’s Super Bowl matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers topped as much…

Iraqi Parliament Is Calling To Ditch US Dollar For Oil Trade Via The Cradle The Finance Committee in the Iraqi parliament made a statement on Wednesday calling for the sale of oil in currencies…

Migrants Who Beat NYPD Cops Released With No Bail, Given Free Tickets To California Under Fake Names Four out of five illegal migrants who were caught on camera attacking two NYPD cops…

New applications have been submitted to establish facilities on the continent, according to Moscow’s Rossotrudnichestvo agency More than ten new Russian language and culture centers, or ‘Russian Houses’, are set to be…

Pretoria’s foreign minister says hundreds of civilians have been killed in the besieged Gaza since last week’s ruling South Africa has accused Israel of disregarding a ruling by the International Court of…

Is This The World’s Most-Expensive And Most-Delayed Power-Project? Authored by Leonard Hyman and William Tilles via OilPrice.com, Yes, they are still building the Hinckley Point C nuclear power station in the United…

British Zennials Panic Over Talk Of Potential Military Conscription For War With Russia Just as American Zennials took to social media a few months ago to express their outrage after rumors swirled…

The EU’s industrial powerhouse is plagued by falling orders and growing production costs Germany’s automobile industry is in decline and the country needs assistance to salvage it, Russian President Vladimir Putin said…

Ukrainian leaders feel a “negative aftertaste” after the failed counteroffensive last year, Mikhail Podoliak has said Ukraine’s much-hyped summer counteroffensive ended in disappointment, Mikhail Podoliak, a senior adviser to President Zelensky, has…

Ukraine’s top military commander reportedly warned the president on Monday that Kiev could expect heavy losses to continue in 2024 Kiev should brace itself for another year of extensive casualties, Ukraine’s top…

Nearly $5 billion in interest was generated last year, the company has revealed Major EU clearinghouse Euroclear has revealed that it accrued almost $5 billion in profit from frozen Russian assets last…

Food security is key to the continent’s self-reliance and more imports are not the solution Today’s world is going through major transformations. Among the most sensitive issues remains the availability of food…

Ecuador must understand that sending Russian-made arms to the US violates existing agreements, the Foreign Ministry has warned Ecuador has made a “rash decision” by caving in to US demands for its…

Beijing has warned of ‘negative impacts’ as Kiev continues to target businesses that deal with Russia Beijing has demanded that Ukraine immediately remove all 14 Chinese companies from a list of businesses…

The $4 billion deal was reportedly stalled in Congress over an alleged Indian murder plot on American soil The US has cleared the sale of 31 drones and related equipment to India, worth almost $4…

Swiss City Of Lugano Embraces Diverse Digital Currency Future Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com, A future where Bitcoin, stablecoins and central bank digital currencies can coexist in the Swiss city of Lugano…

World’s Largest Uranium Producer Warns Of Production Woes The world’s largest producer of uranium issued a warning about production delays and escalating shortages of essential chemicals needed for extracting the heavy metal,…

Lloyd Austin has acknowledged that he did not handle his cancer diagnosis properly US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has apologized for attempting to hide his bout with cancer from the American people…

Majority Of Germans Reject Left-Liberal Government’s Radical Immigration Law Via Remix News, A majority of Germans oppose the government’s radical immigration law, which will allow up to 2.5 million foreigners to obtain…

The sector recorded a 1.7% drop during the Christmas season alone, official statistics show German retail sales saw a sharp drop in 2023, according to preliminary data released on Wednesday by Germany’s…

The moves reportedly follow warnings of secondary sanctions by Washington Turkish banks have started closing Russian corporate accounts and tightening policies for individuals following threats of secondary sanctions from the US, business…

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…

Escobar: Will The Hegemon Ever Accept A New Westphalian World Order? Authored by Pepe Escobar, A new book by scholar Glenn Diesen, The Ukraine War & The Eurasian World Order,  out in mid-February, asks…

Obama and Biden like Iran.  Obama and Biden are facilitating a pro-Iran policy.  Obama and Biden don’t want to do anything against the interests of their pro-Iran position.  That’s the simple baseline….

Tucker Carlson interviews Bret Weinstein who traveled to the Darien Gap to understand who’s behind the invasion of our country. His conclusion: “it’s not a friendly migration.” He sits down with Tucker…

Ukraine Publishes Video Showing Major Sea Drone Attack Of Russian Ship Off Crimea Even as the frontlines are stalled and look bleak, Ukrainian forces have continued to strike both deep into Russian…

Terror By Night: Who Pays The Price For Botched SWAT Team Raids? We Do… Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “We’re all potential victims.” – Peter Christ, retired…

January Jobs Preview: Market Wants A Miss As It Raises Rate Cut Odds With the QRA, Fed and all megatech earnings now in the rearview mirror, the busiest week of the quarter…

GM Shifting From EVs To Plug-In Hybrids, Following Industry Trends Don’t tell the Biden administration, but it’s almost as if the free market is capable of arriving at the most efficient solutions…

I have continually said, “The DNC wants power. The RNC wants money. The DNC uses money to get power. The RNC uses power to get money. The ideology of the DNC drives their donor activity. The donor activity of the RNC drives their ideology. This is the difference between the two clubs, two wings of the same…

Putin Envisages Building A New Veteran-Led Russian Elite Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The Russian leader knows the “new guard” of veterans haven’t been tainted by a life’s worth of Western-leaning…

The popular farmer and trucker protests in the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Romania, France and now Belgium are continuing. Sensing the problematic nature of the uprising, watching the protests escalate to direct confrontation…

Aozora Delivers Grim Reminder Of Japan Carry-Trade Risk By Masaki Kondo, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist Aozora Bank’s shock loss projection serves as a reminder of just how little room the…

It’s Biden Vs Texas (And Texas Is Right) Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, In what can only be a surprising move, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has openly defied the White…

Kiev severely lacks airpower and yet reportedly refused to accept two squadrons of Australia’s retired F/A-18 Hornets A senior Ukrainian Air Force official had brushed off Australian fighter-bombers as rubbish Canberra wanted…

What Is Nikki Haley Doing? Authored by Sean Trende via RealClear Wire, Before we start evaluating what Nikki Haley’s plans are for the Republican primaries, let’s get one thing out of the…

‘IRGC Is Getting Out Of Dodge’: Biden Has Telegraphed Syria-Iraq Response Too Much US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in a Thursday press briefing claimed that “Our soldiers were killed by Iranian agents,”…

Trump Says He’s Interviewing Lawyers For E. Jean Carroll Appeal Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former President Donald Trump said he is interviewing attorneys to appeal a…

US lawmakers pressed the tech mogul to answer for damage inflicted on youths through his platforms Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg offered an apology to victims and relatives of people harmed by his…

Today’s Censorship Is Personal Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, The United States has the distinction the world over for being a home to the First Amendment, which guarantees free…

Double Standard: Pro-Life Activists Could Get 11 Years In Prison For Protesting Abortion Clinic One of the surest signs that a society is falling into authoritarianism is the development of double standards…

A Soft Landing Is A Fairytale Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times, The last time the phrase “soft landing” was this popular on the internet was on the eve of…

Joshua Schulte has been accused of the largest theft of classified data in the spy agency’s history A former CIA software engineer who embarrassed his employer by allegedy giving a massive trove of…

The only reason this story gained traction was because CCTV video was involved.  With tens of millions of violent illegal aliens throughout the country, just imagine how much crime is occurring without…

Apple Slides On Plunging China Sales, Service Revenue Miss, Disappointing Guidance After Amazon and Facebook reported blowout earnings, sending their stocks up double digits after hours and soothing the bitter taste left…

Ukraine Celebrates EU Approval Of $54BN Aid Package After Hungary’s Orban Caved “We have a deal,” European Council President Charles Michel announced on X Thursday, declaring that all 27 European Union countries have…

The two countries have pledged to collaborate in confronting threats posed by the Pentagon’s “biological activities” The Russian and Chinese governments have held an inter-agency meeting in Beijing to share their assessments…

California Legislature Introduces Slavery Reparations Bills Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, On Wednesday, lawmakers in the state of California introduced a series of bills aimed at providing reparations for historical…

Trump Prosecutor Avoids Tainting Fani, Gives Booty To Estranged Wife In Last-Minute Divorce Settlement Trump special prosecutor Nathan Wade will avoid testifying about his alleged relationship with Fulton County District Attorney Fani…

New Ad Agency Fights Back Against The Woke Advertising Cabal Authored by Lee Taylor of Uncommon Sense via the Daily Sceptic (emphasis ours), Are we in the final stages of mainstream media…

Amazon Soars After Beating Estimates, AWS Profit Impresses, Guides Higher With The Magnificent 7 stocks getting clubbed in recent days after disappointing earnings from TSLA and GOOGL and meh results from MSFT,…

How To Ensure A Big, Ugly War With Iran; VDH Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Iranian-backed militias have attacked American installations and forces in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan some…

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…