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The US-led bloc is struggling to meet Ukraine’s demand for 155mm artillery shells NATO has signed contracts worth $1.2 billion to purchase hundreds of thousands of artillery shells to replace those sent…

Posting ads for Russians on X, which is blocked in the country, is not likely to benefit the US, Dmitry Peskov has said Efforts to recruit Russians on X (formerly known as…

Putin and el-Sisi met via videoconference for a concrete pouring ceremony at El-Dabaa NPP On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi gave permission, by videoconference, to begin…

All-Time Highs For Stocks As Bitter Economic Headlines Persist Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, As the stock market hit all-time highs this past week, there remains an interesting disconnect from the…

The world’s richest man has questioned the absence of its most populous country from its key governing body Billionaire Elon Musk on Monday opined that it is “absurd” that India, now the…

Moscow’s military does not target civilian infrastructure and residential areas, unlike Ukrainian forces, Dmitry Peskov has said Russian missile strikes on Kiev and Kharkov on Tuesday morning were not retaliation for the…

President Joe Biden, by contrast, is “grossly incompetent,” the Republican candidate has said Former US President Donald Trump has described Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping as “very intelligent…

The warning follows comments by IDF commanders regarding a potential conflict between the two countries Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib has warned West Jerusalem against engaging in a war with his…

Futures Flat After Back-To-Back Records After China Unveils Massive Market Bailout S&P futures are flat after back-to-back record closing highs for the S&P 500 index, with Europe mixed and Asia higher after…

RTX’s Missile Production Hit By Snarled Supply Chains Whether it begins in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, or the South China Sea, World War III threats are mounting with each passing week….

Peter Schiff: The Dark Ages For US Housing And Manufacturing Via SchiffGold.com, The president touted a manufacturing renaissance. However, economic indices show US manufacturing entering a Dark Age. Home sales are not looking bright,…

The new bill specifically targets Ukrainians who voluntarily sought the citizenship of the neighboring country President Vladimir Zelensky has submitted a bill to parliament that would allow depriving Ukrainians of their citizenship…

Gold-Backed Cryptos: The Next Level For Protection From Capital Controls Authored by Mark Jeftovic via DollarCollapse.com, One of the things I frequently point at in the incessantly tiresome debate between the precious metals…

New Delhi is reportedly seeking to shield its producers from the bloc’s carbon tax India wants to protect domestic exporters from a planned EU carbon tax by asking the bloc for concessions…

Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky has proposed limiting the movement of the embassy workers within Europe’s visa-free area Prague has suggested an addition to EU’s upcoming 13th round of sanctions against Moscow…

Disruptions in the Red Sea have reportedly caused container prices to double in just a month The average cost of a container has more than doubled globally in the past month, according…

Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Says Prepare For “Very Ugly” Two Years Of CRE Turmoil Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick spoke with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on the sidelines at the World Economic…

Moscow could reportedly retaliate with similar measures The confiscation of Russia’s frozen assets could lead to massive financial losses on part of the US and its allies, the news agency RIA Novosti…

The US tech giant was found to have violated local antitrust legislation through its App Store Apple has paid the Russian government a 1.2 billion ruble ($13.5 million) antitrust fine following a…

Any peace settlement will have to accommodate Russia’s core security interests, the foreign minister has said Moscow has never closed the door to dialogue to end the Ukraine conflict, Foreign Minister Sergey…

Swiss Franc’s Declines Have Just Begun After SNB Changes Tack Authored by Ven Ram,. Bloomberg cross-asset strategist, The franc recoiled the most in well more than a year against the dollar last…

Ukraine’s Spy Chief: “Not Even Conceivable” That We Can Win Without Massive Mobilization  “The shortage [of manpower] is palpable,” Ukraine’s military top spy chief, Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov, told Financial Times in…

New Delhi has expressed concern over Beijing’s increased presence in the region New Delhi is tracking a Chinese research vessel that has entered the Indian Ocean region and is heading for the…

Through South-South cooperation, harmony can be found, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has told RT The majority of the five permanent members of the UN are from the Global North, and it has created “a…

Antonio Guterres has described the continent’s lack of representation as a “flagrant injustice” The fact that Africa lacks a permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is an injustice, Secretary-General…

Radical UK Trans Lobbyists Demand Schools Stop Calling Pupils ‘Boys And Girls’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, An extreme trans lobbyist group is pressuring schools in the UK to stop calling…

The NAM Summit ran from January 15 to 20 in Uganda’s capital, Kampala More than 3,000 delegates from more than 120 countries took part in the 19th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement…

Moscow has previously dismissed claims that it plans to strike NATO as “complete nonsense” Germany should be ready to respond to a possible Russian attack, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has warned. He…

UK Has Joined US In Expanding Its Spy Drone Flights Over Gaza  Previously we featured analysis pointing out that the West risks falling into an ‘escalation trap’ in Gaza and the region….

Dutch Queen Promotes Global Digital ID At Davos Authored by Martin Armstrong via ArmstrongEconomics.com, Queen Maxima of the Netherlands took to the Davos stage to declare that digital IDs are necessary for…

Purchases of electric vehicles have surged tenfold over the past two years, according to the outlet   Ukraine is experiencing a “surprising boom” in electric vehicles that has seen purchases surge almost…

Mari Vanna announced it will shut its doors at the end of January after eleven years in business Mari Vanna, a restaurant that has been operating in Washington DC since 2013, has…

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 most common refrain from frustrated Ron DeSantis supporters has been, ‘why didn’t he just wait until 2028’?  With the exception of a small group of political followers in the State of…

The Globalists’ New Weapon Authored by Robert Malone via The Brownstone Institute, On the heels of Davos (World Economic Forum) week, the MSM hysterical propaganda push from the globalists regarding “Disease X”…

Visualizing Racial Diversity Across All US States As of 2020, there was a 61.1% likelihood that two people chosen at random will be from different ethnicities in America. This number comes from the Census…

Iran Mobilizes To Drive US Troops Out Of Iraq Via Middle East Eye, When Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani arrived in New York City in September for the UN General Assembly, a…

The European Union’s top diplomat said the humanitarian crisis in Gaza “could not be worse” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip would fuel hatred…

6 Attorneys Allege DOJ Seeking Retribution Against Journalist For Recent Jan. 6 Coverage Authored by Joseph Hanneman via The Epoch Times, Attorneys for a journalist threatened with prosecution for being at the…

As China Stocks Crash, Beijing Proposes Multi-Trillion Market Rescue Package Earlier today, we lamented the latest implosion in Chinese markets, which we discussed in “China Stocks Crash Through ‘Snowball Derivatives’ Trigger Levels…

Watch: Relatives Of Israeli Hostages Storm Parliament Demanding More Be Done Update: Israel has made a substantial proposal for a new ceasefire deal that includes multiple phases at the end of which…

The Real Story Of The Two Americas Authored by Stephen Moore, op-ed via The Daily Caller, For the past thirty years or so the left has invented a narrative that there are…

Lawmakers Push Funding To Replace The Ultra-Expensive Weapons Used In Yemen Via The Libertarian Institute, As the White House has started an open-ended and unauthorized war in Yemen, some members of Congress…

The call told US citizens to sit out the Democratic Party presidential primary in New Hampshire, officials said New Hampshire residents have received fake automated phone calls using a voice impersonating President…

Actress Helene Darras has accused the French superstar of groping her on a film set The sexual assault complaint against French actor Gerard Depardieu has been dismissed because it was past the…

Harvard Teaching Hospital To Retract Papers As Falsified Data Scandal Unfolds Weeks after Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned amid a plagiarism scandal, the university’s teaching hospital is set to retract or correct…

White Americans Are Quiet-Quitting Our Leading Institutions Authored by Jeremy Carl via American Greatness, As the work-from-home trend took off during the COVID-19 pandemic, the term “quiet quitting” entered the contemporary lexicon….

With nothing to lose and limited time to achieve certain geopolitical goals, Kim Jong-un might opt for conflict as his only option A few days ago an analysis piece appeared on the…

Mother Of Daughter Raped And Murdered By Illegal MS-13 Gang Member Sues Biden DHS For $100 Million The mother of a 20-year-old autistic woman who was raped and murdered by an illegal…

American citizen Tawfiq Ajaq was fatally shot in the West Bank The US State Department on Monday urged Israel to investigate the death of a 17-year-old American citizen in the West Bank…

Tonight, President Trump will be giving his closing statements to the voters of New Hampshire from The Margate Resort in Laconia.  President Trump holds a strong 20-point lead over corporate-backed Nikki Haley…

As Delinquencies Spike, Banks Are “Granting Fewer Credit Lines”, Fed Analysts Warn Authored by Sam Bourgi via CreditNews.com, With credit card delinquency rates at their highest levels in more than a decade,…

San Fran Police Recruitment Drops 72% From 2019 Despite $112,000 Rookie Salary San Francisco is (believe it or not) having trouble recruiting new police officers. After all, who wants to try and…

The British military has joined the bombing of Yemen for the second time American bombers struck Houthi installations in Yemen again on Monday, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) has said. It is…

2024 – America’s Year Of Living Dangerously Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Lame-duck presidencies, especially in the last six months of their final term, in general can offer opportunities…

The Sinister Links Between Jeffrey Epstein, CBDCs, & Bitcoin Authored by Aaron Day via The Brownstone Institute, he purpose of this article is to create awareness of the urgent threat of Central…

When polling is driven by media contract it is generally useless; however, when three non-media polls are conducted on the same dates and deliver almost identical results, we can be more confident…

The militants were reportedly offered to gradually release the captives in exchange for a two-month ceasefire The Israeli government has offered Hamas a “pause” in the fighting of up to 60 days…

Airbus A330 Flight Cancelled After Passenger Spots 4 Missing Fasteners On Wing “Well, at least it’s not a Boeing.” That was likely the thoughts of everyone in the Boeing C-suite, exhaling a…

Bienvenidos! Supremes Roberts, Barrett Join Libs In Allowing Biden To Remove Texas Border Wire Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Supreme Court voted 5–4 vote to allow…

SEC Idiots Deliberately Turned Off Multi-Factor Authentication Ahead Of Most Humiliating Hack In Agency’s History While we already knew the reason behind the most humiliating hack in SEC history – when one…

“You Will Own Nothing… Because They Will Steal Everything” Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, David Rogers Webb (DRW) is a financial expert and former global money manager who lives in Sweden.  Recently, DRW revealed…

In a 5-4 ruling today [pdf Available Here], Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined with the radical leftists on the court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan and Sonia…

The naming suggests a longer-term campaign against the Houthis, the outlet has said  The Pentagon has dubbed its campaign of air and missile strikes against the Houthis of Yemen ‘Operation Poseidon Archer’,…

The two Navy SEALS lost during operations near the coast of Yemen have not been found.  Centcom announces their status changed to deceased. CENTCOM – TAMPA, Fla. – We regret to announce that after…

Haley Plays Race Card, Claims Segregated Beauty Pageant Discrimination In 1980s Nikki Haley isn’t just a pro-war neocon who wants to track everyone on the internet. She’s actually a victim, you see….

The tech billionaire traveled to the Nazi death camp after weathering allegations of anti-Semitism X owner Elon Musk has toured the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland, a trip that came after a…

Small Caps Rip As Recession Risk Grows; Bonds Bid, Bitcoin Barfed With central bankers into their blackout windows ahead of the meetings, today was quiet on the macro side with US Leading…

Are Meta And Google America’s Next Big Landlords? Authored by Sam Bourgi via CreditNews.com, After conquering the digital realm, America’s Big Tech is plotting colossal real estate projects that could house thousands…

Politicians Perpetuating Power Is The Path To The West’s Destruction Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Milei Exposes The Path of Destruction For The West Big corporations and global leaders adhere to and assume…

Behind The Tech Meltup: A One-Time Chinese Chip Buying Frenzy To Frontrun Export Curbs It’s not the first time the market has been fooled by a burst of Chinese chip buying (to…

Exxon Sues Activist Investors To Block Climate Petitions At Shareholder Meeting By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com ExxonMobil is suing two activist investor groups in a Texas district court, aiming to block their…

Italy, France, and Germany reportedly want to send warships to the Red Sea Foreign ministers of the European Union have reached a tentative agreement to start a naval mission in the Red…

A simple blood test could detect biological markers of the disease 15 years before symptoms develop, researchers say Scientists have hailed a potentially ‘revolutionary’ breakthrough in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, after…

St. Petersburg needs to be renamed, a Russian presidential candidate has said Nikolay Kharitonov, the Communist candidate for president of Russia, has endorsed a referendum to make St. Petersburg Leningrad again and…

“Diverse But Incompetent”: Comedian Rob Schneider Pens Open Letter Calling Out ‘Drag Queen’ CEO Of United Airlines DEI started to (finally) make its way into the public’s crosshairs following the embarrassing testimony…

Sunoco To Buy NuStar Energy In $7.3 Billion Deal By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Gas station owner Sunoco LP will buy pipeline and liquids terminal operator NuStar Energy in an all-equity transaction…

Russia Tops List Of China’s Oil Suppliers In 2023 By Irina Slav of OilPrice.com Russia became China’s largest oil supplier last year, selling it a record 107.02 million tons of crude, according…

The unspecified loan amount comes on top of $3.27 billion in military aid Poland will give Ukraine a loan to make “larger-scale arms purchases,” Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said after meeting Polish…

Kiev is really trying to draw public attention away from its frontline setbacks, the former Russian president said The latest decree by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky essentially amounts to “territorial claims” on…

The president has listed six regions in a decree demanding that Ukrainian “national identity” be preserved inside the neighboring country Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky declared six Russian regions to be “historically inhabited…

Alternative for Germany (AfD) leader Alice Weidel has said that she would “let the people decide” whether to remain in the EU Britain was “dead right” to leave the European Union and…

The state-of-the-art weapons delivery system transports warheads at seven times the speed of sound Chinese naval scientists claim to have created a so-called ‘smart shell’ that is capable of delivering a precision…

US Plans Open-Ended War Against Houthis, But Biden Officials Assure It Won’t Take “Years” It’s no secret that ongoing Houthi attacks against international shipping in the Red Sea is a massive headache…

From A US President To A Local School Trustee: No One Is Safe In An Era Of Kafkaesque Absurdity Authored by William Brooks via The Epoch Times, “Someone must have been telling…

Israel plans to recapture the Philadelphi Corridor, but experts warn that might be a bad idea The 14km border that separates Gaza from Egypt has been used for years by militants in…

Average Price Of A Used Tesla Tumbles For 18 Straight Months Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Hertz is dumping EVs but the decline in the price of used Teslas started long…

US Pork Belly Spot Prices Soar As Supplies Tighten Chilled US stockpiles of pork bellies, the cut of meat from the underside of a pig that makes delicious bacon, have trended below…

Treasuries & Stocks Delivering Policy-Loosening Obviate Fed-Cuts Authored by Ven Ram, Bloomberg cross-asset strategist, Even though market pricing centered on an interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve as early as March…

Washington is using the conflict between Moscow and Kiev to generate profit for US companies, the Russian foreign minister has said Statements made by Washington suggest that the US regards Ukraine as…

The regulator’s previous chief, Mario Draghi, enjoyed a 64% approval rating at the end of his term A majority of European Central Bank (ECB) staff participating in a survey gave a negative…

German efforts to boost the Bundeswehr have been hampered by sluggish recruitment rates German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius is willing to consider enlisting non-nationals into the country’s armed forces in a bid…

Alexander Shpak is being accused of discrediting the national armed forces A Moscow court has ordered the arrest of flamboyant blogger and bodybuilder Alexander Shpak, widely known for his outlandish appearance. He…

The Federal Aviation Administration has advised carriers to check an older version of the 737 that employs similar door plugs to the grounded MAX 9 Boeing shares dipped slightly in early trading…

US Navy Gives Major Update On Missing Seals After Searching 21,000 Square Miles Of Ocean After ten days of a search and rescue mission over waters in the Arabian Sea, the US…

The Chinese tech giant expects its in-house Harmony operating system to become available this year Huawei has unveiled its new in-house-developed operating system, HarmonyOS NEXT, which the Chinese tech giant expects to…

The joint declaration calls for continued arms deliveries until Kiev retakes its lost territory Poland has signed a pledge by G7 and EU leaders to supply Ukraine with weapons until it achieves…

“Wall Street Never Changes, Because Human Nature Never Changes” By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management “The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But…

US Leading Indicators Slump Continues – Longest Losing Streak Since ‘Lehman’ The Conference Board’s Leading Economic Indicators (LEI) continued its decline in December, dropping 0.1% MoM (slightly better than the -0.3% MoM…