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Illegal migration rose by 67% in 2023 compared to the year prior, data has shown Europe remains exposed to the ongoing flow of migrants at its borders despite measures designed to mitigate…

The majority of the world is no longer willing to accept Western diktat. That heralds a revolution. The main events of international politics in 2023 have shown that the origin of the…

Amid ‘Dueling Debates’, Vivek Warns ‘The System’ Will Force Haley-DeSantis Ticket To Bring Down Trump Given Donald Trump’s absolute dominance over the current 2024 GOP field, Vivek Ramaswamy has a prediction: Nikki…

Former Stanford President Retracts “Ground-Breaking” Alzheimer’s Paper Authored by Maggie Kelly via The College Fix, Former Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who resigned in July of last year after an investigation found…

Israel Calls South Africa The “Legal Arm Of Hamas” After 1st Day Of Hague Genocide Case After the opening day of hearings at The Hague for South African’s genocide case against Israel,…

The Chinese Connection: Here’s Why Inflation Won’t Fall To 2% And Stay There Indefinitely Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Where is the global deflator expansive enough to replace China’s…

The single-currency bloc suffered an economic contraction in the third quarter of 2023, according to the central bank The Eurozone probably failed to grow at the end of last year early indicators…

Krugman Ignores Inconvenient Data Authored by Jonathan Newman via The Mises Institute, About a month ago, I called out Paul Krugman for blaming economic pessimism on Republicans. He compared the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index…

Tesla Shares Tumble After Company Tells All US Workers They Are Getting A Pay-Raise Tesla shares are lower by almost 2% early in the session on Thursday after the company – which…

The former president stated that such action could triggered by attacks against Russian missile launch sites Moscow could use nuclear weapons even if it is attacked by conventional arms, former Russian President…

The defence secretary tells reporters he will not “allow” the situation in the Red Sea to continue Britain is poised to start bombing in response to attacks on Red Sea shipping by…

The region’s trade with the South Asian nation grew by 40% in 2023 Companies from India are exploring opportunities in the pharmaceutical, diamond and hydrocarbons sectors in Russia’s Far East, Deputy Minister…

Nearly 40,000 pieces of highly sensitive military equipment sent to Ukraine were poorly tracked, a new report concludes More than $1 billion worth of sophisticated weaponry sent to Ukraine by the US…

The country has outperformed its regional peers in terms of purchasing power parity, according to the president The Russian economy is growing at a rapid pace, and its gross domestic product (GDP)…

America is trying to seize the slightest opportunity to shake up the situation in Russia ahead of election, Sergey Naryshkin said Washington is planning to use Russian graduates from student-exchange programs in…

The Biden administration is believed to be forming a group of ex-senior officials to meet with the next president The US is planning to send a delegation to Taiwan after this weekend’s…

Cubans Prepare For 500% Fuel Price Hike Amid Economic Crisis Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, The government of Cuba has announced a 500% increase in fuel prices beginning on February 1….

“Progress Is Still Slow”: Wall Street Reacts To Today’s Hotter Than Expected Inflation Print Just as we predicted in our CPI preview, where we said that “a hawkish print is more likely…

SEC Democrats Dissent, ‘Crypto Mom’ Commissioner Exposes “Arbitrary & Capricious” Slow-Walking Of Spot Bitcoin ETF Approval As the dust settles on the SEC’s begrudging approval of spot bitcoin ETFs – and trading…

Ukraine has said it found no evidence of being attacked with such weapons, despite Washington’s assertion The US is peddling false information when claiming that Russia used North Korean missiles to attack…

This Stock’s Grounded! Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, What happened to Boeing, the former gold standard of American industry? Nothing good, as I’ll show you today. Simply put, Boeing isn’t the…

Headline CPI Hotter Than Expected In December, Food Costs Hit Record High Headline Consumer Price Inflation printed hotter than expected in December, +0.3% MoM vs +0.2% exp and +0.1% prior, pushing the…

The US fast-food giant has provoked Kiev’s ire for continuing operations in Russia   The US-based multinational fast-food franchise Subway has been added to Kiev’s list of “international sponsors of war” for…

The state of Alabama may now put a convicted murderer to death using nitrogen gas, despite concerns voiced by UN experts A federal judge in the US has given the green light…

South Africa has alleged that the retaliatory response to the Hamas attacks on October 7 violated the 1948 Genocide Convention The UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague is hearing…

Just two of 33 blazes at Canadian churches since May 2021 have been ruled as accidental A spate of fires at Christian churches in Canada could be linked to the discovery of…

The UAVs, manufactured in collaboration with Israel, will be deployed along the western coast The Indian Navy received its initial batch of four domestically produced Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) drones on…

The American Embassy in Manila has confirmed a shipment from a naval base in Hawaii to a commercial site in the Philippines The US has confirmed that it has transferred large amounts…

Somali officials say al-Shabaab extremists have killed one person and abducted five others from an aircraft Members of the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab have seized a United Nations helicopter in central Somalia,…

Inflation Overestimation Sets Up Treasuries For Knee-Jerk Gains Authored by Ven Ram, Bloomberg cross-asset strategist, Warning: Treasury traders are primed for inflation to come in weaker than forecast, with economists overestimating headline…

Iran Hijacks Oil Tanker In Gulf Of Oman Update: Iranian naval forces, acting under a court order, seized Marshall Islands-flagged tanker “St Nikolas,” Bloomberg reports, citing Iran’s semi-official Tasnim agency reports. The…

The Establishment Is Unmasking Itself Authored by Connor O’Keefe via The Mises Institute, Two weeks ago, I wrote an article laying out the political class’s struggle to preserve its legitimacy by fighting to regain…

In November alone, Washington reportedly purchased nearly 10,000 barrels of sanctioned crude The US has continued to buy Russian oil despite being a staunch proponent of anti-Russia sanctions and its own ban…

The development of Russia’s various regions, especially the Far East, requires case-by-case treatment, the Russian president has said Russia is too vast to expect equal progress from all regions if they are…

The Biden administration sees the move as a way of making Moscow pay for damage done to Ukraine The White House supports the idea of confiscating Russian assets that have been frozen…

ESG Is Now Being Labeled As Corporate America’s “Dirty Word” “ESG” has gone from the buzzword that every investment advisor, company and government official had to be familiar with and append to every single…

Your Vehicle Is Spying On You, And Now They’re Going To Start Installing ChatGPT In New VW Models Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, Be careful…

Austrian politician Herbert Kickl said his country should not have allowed the Ukrainian president to speak last year without offering Russia the same chance Austrian lawmakers violated the principle of neutrality by…

Jamie Dimon has a long history of criticizing digital currencies Cryptocurrencies facilitate illegal activities such as money laundering, according to JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who has insisted that digital assets should be banned. Dimon…

Energy Costs In UK Still Double The Historic Average Authored by Rhodri Morgan via City A.M., Electricity bills are set to remain double the historic average despite expected reductions in the coming…

Morocco is chosen ahead of South Africa to assume the presidency of the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council Morocco was elected to lead the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in a…

Empty Streets In Russian City After Repeat Ukraine Attacks Force Evacuations The last several days have witnessed eerily empty streets in the Russian border city of Belgorod, after local authorities initiated limited…

Beijing became the world’s top car exporter in 2023, according to industry data China is estimated to have overtaken Japan as the world’s largest car exporter for the first time in 2023,…

The Impact Of Saudi Arabia’s 30-Year Tax Relief Plan On National And Regional Development Submitted by guest authors If a lesson was ever learned about the UAE’s demonstrable success, then Saudi Arabia’s…

Paul Mackenzie is facing accusations of ordering hundreds of his followers to starve to death On Tuesday, Kenyan authorities were given 14 days to prosecute a suspected cult leader, Paul Mackenzie, before…

Ottawa had transferred hundreds of millions of dollars to the US for the production of a NASAMS battery A Canadian-funded, US-Norwegian air-defense system intended for Ukraine has yet to materialize – one…

Polish Police Arrest Pro-Duda MPs Inside Presidential Palace As Constitutional Crisis Unfolds There’s a bizarre but potentially serious constitutional crisis unfolding in Poland currently, after former Polish interior minister Mariusz Kaminski and…

Germany’s ‘Krisenmodus’ Has No End In Sight Authored by Conor Gallagher via NakedCapitalism.com, The Association for the German Language chose the term Krisenmodus as the ‘Word of the Year’ for 2023. I’m not sure they’ve ever…

Washington wants Kiev to “sharpen” its plan for fighting Russia, sources told the agency The US is worried that the rift between Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and the commander-in-chief of the country’s…

Additional funding of Ukraine’s military will only lead to more deaths, Lt. Colonel David Davis says Further military aid to Ukraine will prolong the conflict with Russia without yielding a positive result,…

Timber exports to China will not lead to deforestation in Siberia, the forestry agency has assured Russia will not lose its Siberian taiga due to timber exports to China, as more trees…

The company says the technology will provide a more personalized driving experience US chipmaker Intel is getting ready to roll out an AI-focused chip for the automotive sector, the company announced at…

The prime minister says his government will soon submit legislation, despite resistance from lawmakers and the Orthodox Church Greece’s center-right government is planning to submit a draft law allowing same-sex marriage, despite…

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…

Nice to see Tucker Carlson bringing attention to the biggest protests in modern German history.  Eva Vlaardingerbroek left the Netherlands to provide support for the farmers in Germany.   WATCH: [ BIG STORY…

The leader reiterates Israel’s intentions in Gaza following repeated criticism from rights groups Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted his country has no plans for a long-term occupation of Gaza and…

How Much Of The World Is Covered By Croplands? Over the last 50 years, the world’s human population worldwide has grown exponentially. And, as Visual Capitalist’s Adam Symington details below, this population…

In this video [see below], presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is essentially describing the “splitter strategy” CTH has discussed and outlined in granular detail for years.  Essentially, a process where the billionaire donors,…

The CEOs of leading Indian companies promised more investments in the prime minister’s home state, praising his economic policies  India’s top business leaders on Wednesday showered praises on Narendra Modi, who will…

Hospital Diagnostic Errors Send Nearly 1-In-4 Patients To ICU, Study Finds Authored by Amie Dahnke via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Diagnostic errors in U.S. hospitals are sending nearly one in four…

Chinese FDI Inflows Hit Multi-Year Lows The Chinese economy has thrown up several red flags in 2023 and now foreign investors are losing confidence in the world’s second-largest economy. In the following graphic, Visual…

America’s Fiat Money Gestapo: The Untold History Of The Secret Service Authored by Joshua Glawson via The Mises Institute, There is an untold story in American monetary history. Some are reluctant even to…

The Latvian authorities have reportedly alerted schools about a popular show depicting teenage gangs Latvian police have been warning schools in the country’s capital Riga that smash hit Russian crime mini-series ‘The…

Trump Says Georgia Case “Totally Compromised” After Allegations Of DA Fani Willis’ “Improper” Romantic Relationship Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday called…

Chris Christie’s exit came amid lagging poll numbers in early battleground states Ex-New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has announced his departure from the 2024 presidential race, acknowledging he lacks a path to…

The Chechen Republic has vowed to do all it can to accommodate the Palestinians Russia’s Muslim-majority region will build apartments to house the Palestinians fleeing the Gaza Strip, Ramzan Kadyrov, the head…

ISIS Kills At Least 14 Syrian Soldiers In Palmyra Bus Attack Via The Cradle, ISIS militants attacked a military bus in the Syrian desert on Tuesday, killing at least 14 Syrian army…

Speaker Johnson Pledges To Stand ‘Shoulder To Shoulder’ For ‘Defense Of Taiwan’ House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) met with Taiwan’s US envoy at the US Capitol on Tuesday, after which he vowed…

Congress Takes Step To Hold Hunter Biden In Contempt By Zachary Stieber of Epoch Times Members of Congress on Jan. 10 approved a report and resolution that recommends holding President Joe Biden’s…

There are several layers around this story that are interesting and funny. The obvious story is how Chris Christie is talking to Wayne MacDonald, a former chair of the New Hampshire Republican…

US Beef Output Slides As Blizzard Disrupts Midwest Meat Plants A powerful winter storm swept across the country’s midsection on Monday, dumping more than a foot of snow in some areas and…

Canadian Police Arrest Conservative Journalist On Trumped-Up Charge Of Assault Authored by Jonathan Turley, We have been discussing the rapid decline of free speech protections in Canada under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. A vivid…

White House Backs Legislation To Seize Frozen Russian Assets For Ukraine Reconstruction It seems this is how President Joe Biden hopes to circumvent the Congressional hold-up and get badly needed funds to…

Some House Republicans Willing To Force Government Shutdown After Eagle Pass Border Visit Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Following a visit to the southern border last week,…

Is Honda’s New EV A Copy Of The 1980s Lamborghini Countach? It could be just us, but Honda’s new electric vehicle, called “Saloon,” unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas…

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (U-DC) is quitting on cue having played his part.  Christie ended his 2024 bid for the White House moments ago.   It’s clear to me tonight that…

The White House’s Infrastructure Goals Risk Disruption… By The White House Authored by Michael Ireland & Michael Johnson, Michael Philipps via RealClear Wire, For Americans to start seeing evidence of the Biden…

Keep watching this story as much as possible folks. It might be difficult to find the details because western corporate media do not want to cover the specifics, but the pushback deep…

The leading economies of Europe are experiencing “difficult times,” Russia’s president says Russia has shown true resilience by not bowing to foreign pressure, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. He stated that…

“Politics Is So Confusing Right Now” – Dems & Reps Have Switched Sides & Now Half Of Voters Identify ‘Independent’ Authored by Peter Savodnik via The Free Press, The Great Scramble Democrats…

Nearly 2,000 people previously housed in a Brooklyn tent city were moved into a high school gym due to an approaching storm Thousands of New York City public school students were ordered…

Blinken Slams South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel As ‘Meritless’ & ‘Galling’ A key aspect of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit and press conference in Israel on Tuesday was to make a…

The First Amendment, Brought To You By Pfizer Via The Brownstone Institute, Pfizer now claims the right of a corporate sovereign, arguing that states have “no legitimate interest in regulating” the company’s…

Will The Texas Power Grid Survive Next Week’s Polar Vortex? The National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center forecasts extreme cold weather “across the heart of the country this weekend and is expected…

‘This Year In The New Normal’ – 2024 Edition Via Off-Guardian.org, If our readers are anything like us then you spent the majority of the weekend taking down Christmas decorations and carefully…

The Final Countdown To CBDC Authored by Aaron Day via The Brownstone Institute, Though a work of fiction, “The Final Countdown: Crypto, Gold, Silver, and the People’s Last Stand Against Tyranny by…

What Is Going To Happen To Our Society As AI And Robots Take Most Of Our Jobs? Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, If you haven’t lost your job…

Bonds & Black Gold Dip, Big-Tech Rips As Event Risk Looms A nothing-burger of a day from a macro (and micro) perspective left stocks and bond yields to drift higher ahead of…

The defendant, who denied any wrongdoing, was found guilty of high treason and collaborating with Russia A court in the southwestern Ukrainian city of Zhitomyr on Tuesday sentenced 82-year-old Yuri Chernishov to…

Mariusz Kaminski insists that his sentence for abuse of power is politically motivated Former Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski has announced that he is on hunger strike to protest his imprisonment for…

Hunter Biden surprised Congress by showing up at a hearing about possible contempt charges, then left a few minutes later US presidential scion Hunter Biden stormed out of a congressional hearing debating…

Boeing CEO Admits “Mistake” After 737 Max Door Blowout Incident Boeing Co. Chief Executive Officer Dave Calhoun admitted the planemaker made a “mistake” after a door plug on Alaska Airlines 737 Max…

Texas GOP Moves To Support Gold Via SchiffGold.com, This March, Republican primary voters in Texas won’t just be choosing which candidates to represent their party in November – they will also be…

The new year will offer plenty of surprises As we enter 2024, a convergence of robust economic activity and waning inflationary pressures has shifted the prevailing market narrative towards the likelihood of…

First 10Y Auction Of 2024 Prices To Tepid Demand, 4th Tail In A Row One day after a stellar 3Y auction launched the coupon Treasury issuance for 2024, moments ago we got…

Appeals Court Strikes Down Biden Admin’s Washing Machine Regulations Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals earlier in the week blocked the Biden administration’s…

The ‘Hotel California’ Wealth Tax Advances, You Cannot Leave To Escape It Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The California legislature takes up the wealth tax idea this week. It’s a Hotel…

Scottish Parents Who Refuse To Let Their Kids Go Trans Could Face 7 Years In Prison Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, Parents who refuse to accept their children identifying as…

A Supreme Court Win Is In The Cards For Jan. 6 Defendants, Lawyers Predict Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Supreme Court will strike down the use…