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“Like Carlo In The Car In The Godfather” – Epstein’s Brother Tells Tucker, Pathologists Said “Doesn’t Look Like Suicide” Earlier in the week, we saw Jeffrey Epstein’s brother Mark explain to Tucker…

The fast-food giant blamed the yet-undisclosed financial impact on “misinformation” McDonald’s franchises in the Middle East have experienced a “meaningful business impact” in 2023 from boycotts associated with the Gaza conflict, the…

Has America’s Empire Of Money Reached The Endgame? Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, We did it Joe!  It took a tremendous push down the stretch, but the U.S….

Large Bank Loan Volumes Continue To Shrink Despite Soaring Deposit Inflows After losing more than a trillion dollars in deposits in 2023 – and seeing usage of The Fed’s emergency funding facility…

President Donald J. Trump will deliver remarks to a Team Trump Iowa Commit to Caucus Rally in Sioux Center, Iowa, tonight at 5:00 pm and then Mason City, Iowa, at 8:30 p.m …

Letting the country’s products into the bloc might lead to an “oversupply” crisis, the EU commissioner for agriculture has warned The European Union’s agriculture sector might face another “oversupply” crisis this year…

Trump Accuses Liz Cheney Of Destroying Jan. 6 Evidence Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former President Donald Trump accused former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) of destroying evidence…

Global Markets Suffer Worst Start In Over 20 Years As ‘Soft’ Data Stalls, Financial Conditions Tighten In terms of total wealth destroyed, 2024 has started with the worst record ever as global…

B-1 Bomber Crashes In South Dakota A Rockwell B-1 Lancer bomber crashed while attempting to land at Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota on Thursday evening.  “An Air Force B-1B Lancer assigned to…

Blue States Saw Highest Rates Of Homelessness In 2023 Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, In the year 2023, the highest recorded rates of homelessness on average were found in states…

Hassan Nasrallah said he had to look up the tiny African island nation Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has derided the US effort to make its Red Sea intervention appear more powerful and…

Watch Live: President Biden Marks Jan-6 Anniversary (By Calling Trump A Threat To Democracy & Freedom) President Biden’s first major campaign event of 2024 is set to take place in the key…

US Bankruptcies Jump 18% In 2023 Amid High Interest Rates Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Overall bankruptcies in the United States jumped by almost a fifth in 2023 as…

Up to 20 Ukrainian soldiers could be freed in exchange for the removal of restrictions against his family, Ramzan Kadyrov says The head of Russia’s Chechnya Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has proposed releasing…

North Korea Fires Hundreds Of Artillery Rounds Toward South’s Border Islands Tensions are once again ratcheting on the Korean peninsula, after North Korea fired over 200 artillery rounds off its West coast…

The Florida governor believes that Biden’s foreign policy moves have encouraged rivals to ‘act out’ US President Joe Biden can’t articulate his administration’s “endgame” in Ukraine amid Washington’s ongoing support for Kiev,…

Amendments to the criminal code would let Moscow go after foreign officials and governments Foreign officials discriminating against Russians could face prosecution under a bill currently making its way through the parliament…

In the bipolar worldview of the collective US-led world, two Russias exist: one is backward and crumbling, the other is a sinister dark empire Here’s a little experiment that you can replicate…

Judge Shuts Down New Attempt To Remove Trump From Ballot Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, A federal judge in Wyoming rejected a motion that called for former President Donald…

The Free Money Has Run Out And It Shows In The Polls Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The third and largest round of fiscal stimulus was in March of 2021. That’s…

Renters Rejoice? US Apartment Supply Hits Highest Level In Four Decades There is some encouraging news for the millions of Americans forced onto the sidelines by the worst housing affordability crisis in a generation…

“The Narrative Is Insane” – Trump Org Refutes House Democrat Report On Trump’s Finances Authored by Samantha Flom and Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times, The Trump Organization denied on Jan. 4…

China’s Shadow-Banking Giant Files For Bankruptcy One of China’s “secretive” shadow-banking giants filed for bankruptcy on Friday due to its inability to repay tens of billions of dollars in debt, a warning…

PM Benjamin Netanyahu told a US envoy that his country is more ‘determined’ and ‘daring’ than ever before Israel is committed to seeking a “fundamental change” to the security situation on its…

AP Frames LGBTQ School Shooter As A Victim Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Associated Press published an article Thursday claiming that the latest school shooter was a victim of bullying….

What The Fed Accomplished: Distorted The Economy, Enriched The Elites, & Crushed The Middle Class Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The mainstream holds the Fed is busy planning a…

Doing so is “essential” for Israel’s security, Lindsey Graham argued during his visit to Tel Aviv Washington will continue to actively support Israel and seek to realize a “nightmare” scenario for the…

Inside The Catastrophic Jobs Report: Record 1.5 Million Crash In Full-Time Jobs, Multiple Jobholders Soar To Record, Native Born Workers Plunge And Much More While the prevailing post-payrolls narrative has focused on…

‘Sanctuary’ City New York Sues Texas Charter Bus Companies For $700 Million Over Migrant Dropoffs New York City is suing more than a dozen charter bus and transportation companies involved in busing…

Portfolio Return Expectations By Investors Are Too High Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, A stunning post from VisualCapitalist showed a poll of 8550 investors and 2700 advisors and the gap between the two…

US Factory Orders Surged In November – Biggest Jump Since Jan 2021, But… After plunging in October, US Manufacturers New Orders were expected to rebound significantly in November as the noisiest time…

ISM Services Plunged In November, Employment Crashed Despite yesterday’s Services PMI acceleration (as opposed to Manufacturing PMI’s declines), analysts expected this morning’s ISM Services survey print for December to slide lower (trending…

Ballot Cleansing: Democrats Are Moving To Bar Republicans From Ballots Nationwide Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in the New York Post on the expansion of the 14th Amendment theory…

Chinese brands keep filling the void left by Western automakers Sales of new motor vehicles in Russia amounted to more than 1.3 million units in 2023, a 60% surge compared to the…

The disgraced South African athlete has served more than half of his sentence for murdering former girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp Oscar Pistorius, the former Olympic athlete known as ‘Blade Runner’ for using his…

The country should ‘recognize reality’ and start developing in its own direction, Aleksey Arestovich has argued Kiev should “stop humiliating itself” and end the “illusion” that it will soon join the EU…

Trying to take over the world’s largest country is “never a good idea,” the SpaceX and Tesla CEO said Opposing forces should never invade Russia, tech billionaire Elon Musk has insisted during…

Treasuries Face Further Downside Barring A Jobs Report Shock By Ven Ram, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist Unless we get a huge downside surprise from today’s jobs data, Treasuries will extend…

Apple’s Ugly 2024 Start Plagued With Downgrades And Muted Foxconn Demand Apple shares are lower in premarket trading, marking a potential fifth consecutive session of declines. This selling pressure follows two downgrades…

Biden Hasn’t Done Anything For Two Weeks Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, White House correspondents have started to ask questions about why there has been nothing on Joe Biden’s schedule for…

Stocks, Bonds, & Bullion Dump As Rate-Cut Hopes Plunge Post-Payrolls A hotter than expected payrolls print and re-acceleration in wage growth are not the recipe for a dovish Fed that so many…

New court papers have been released in the sex trafficking saga – but the people named in them are likely to escape unscathed An American court this week released over 900 documents…

December Payrolls Unexpectedly Surge As Wages Jump, Unemployment Remains Low So much for a March rate cut. In our preview of today’s jobs report we quoted Goldman trader John Flood who said…

The 10Y Yield Levels To Watch For After Payrolls Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Despite leading data pointing to a positive skew for today’s jobs numbers, yields are back towards…

Futures Slide, Yields Jump Above 4% As Jobs Report Looms What was already the worst start to a new year for stocks since 2008… … was set to turn even uglier with…

ECB Rate-Cut Odds Tumble As EU Inflation Re-Accelerates In December Eurozone inflation re-accelerated in December, breaking seven months of declines, leaving analysts questioning whether The ECB will be able to cut rates…

Budget cutbacks to the EU state’s agricultural sector have sparked fury in the country’s farming community A group of farmers angered by cost-saving plans impacting Germany’s agricultural sector prevented the EU state’s…

Sorry President Biden, But Nobody Wants A Glorified Golf Cart Authored by Duggan Flanakin via RealClear Wire, President Biden in 2021 drove a Ford F-150 Lightning and expressed his desire to electrify…

The incident took place in California, less than two weeks after a nearby place of worship was sprayed with offensive slogans A Hindu temple in California has been daubed with pro-Khalistan graffiti,…

Dollar Off To Best Start To A Year Since 2005 The U.S. Dollar Index peaked in fall 2022, the highest it had been in nearly two decades, rising in response to aggressive interest rate…

The embargo will come into force in 2025, Finnish Climate Minister Kai Mykkanen says Finland will ban imports of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) from next year, Environment and Climate Minister Kai…

Gold Set To Make History In 2024 Authored by Stefan Gleason via Money Metals, The gold market is poised to make history in 2024. It enters the New Year within striking distance…

The anti-dumping investigation follows Brussels’ own probe into a “flood” of cheap Chinese electric vehicles China has begun an anti-dumping investigation into the import of competitively priced brandy from the European Union,…

Kiev claims Lithuania’s Viciunai Group had promised to leave the Russian market but continues to operate there Lithuanian seafood giant Viciunai Group has been added to Kiev’s list of “international sponsors of…

Largest French Supermarket Chain Boycotts PepsiCo Due To “Unacceptable Price Increases” The global consumer is so tapped out, it’s becoming virtually impossible to pass on constant price increases. France’s largest supermarket chain,…

Washington is discussing scenarios that could potentially draw the US into a war in the Middle East, officials told the outlet The White House is worried that the conflict in Gaza could…

“Disturbing”: Doctors Call For Withdrawal Of Psychiatry Textbook Promoting ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Nearly 170 health professionals have signed an open letter to…

Aurus will offer premium and business class sedans as soon as next year Russian high-end carmaker Aurus, best known for producing limos for the Russian president, is expected to broaden its range…

Russia’s envoy to Eritrea has welcomed a ship loaded with humanitarian food in the port of Massawa A bulk carrier named Lugano – delivering 25,000 tons of free grain to Eritrea –…

The country has deployed a warship to the Arabian Sea after armed men seized a vessel carrying Indian crew India’s navy said on Friday it had responded to a maritime incident in…

The Trilateral Threat: India, Russia, And China Authored by Andres Corr via The Epoch Times, India, a country the United States and allies had hoped would be a bulwark of democracy against…

Russia, Ukraine Conduct Biggest Prisoner Swap Of The War In a rare bright spot of positive news out of Ukraine, the Russian and Ukrainian governments announced a major prisoner exchange late Wednesdsay,…

The End Of Western Europe? Authored by Jan Jekielek and Jeff Minick via The Epoch Times, In a recent episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek sits down with Christine Anderson,…

The reduction caused by the industrial slump is not sustainable, a think tank has warned A slump in industrial production and an economic downturn in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, have caused carbon…

India is expected to progress on free trade agreement negotiations with several countries, including Russia, in 2024 New Delhi is poised to sign free trade agreements (FTAs) with various countries in 2024,…

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…

When you understand how the UniParty operates, and then you hear something like this from David Plouffe, immediately you begin to wonder if the DNC decision to forego a New Hampshire Democrat…

Only Citizens Should Vote In America: Gingrich Authored by Newt Gingrich via RealClear Wire, The next step in radically changing America is now underway. City officials in our national capital plan to…

More Than A 3rd Of US Adults Say Biden’s Election Was Illegitimate: Poll Authored by Samantha Flom via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), More than one-third of U.S. adults now believe that…

Congress must approve additional funds to maintain the flow of arms to Kiev, a top US general said The US government has exhausted its funds for military assistance to Ukraine, Pentagon spokesman…

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This Is The Most Dangerous Time To Drive In Each US State Thousands of commuters around the world lose their lives in vehicular accidents each year, and in the U.S., the most…

US Strike Kills Iran-Backed Leader In Baghdad Believed Behind Attacks On US Bases Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, A US drone strike in Baghdad killed a senior militia leader on Thursday, marking another significant…

“Early Signs Of Rebound”: Manhattan Home Prices Rise For First Time In Year For the first time in a year, Manhattan home prices in the fourth quarter rose as homebuyers came off…

Photos circulating online appeared to show a fire not far from Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota A long-range US B-1B Lancer bomber has crashed outside Ellsworth Air Force Base in South…

I have long been saying the Jack Smith special counsel team is the reassembly of the Robert Mueller team.  Today, inside an article {SEE HERE} outlining other ancillary matters about the 2020…

Florida Surgeon General Warns Against Using mRNA COVID Vaccines Over Possible Cancer Risk Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Florida’s Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, is warning against…

Potential Running Mates For Trump, Including 2 Wildcards Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As former President Donald Trump’s polling lead over his Republican rivals has come to…

White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, John Kirby, previously pledged that Iran would be limited on how they could use the $6 billion in funds we gave them through…

White House Says Russia Used North Korean Ballistic Missiles In Ukraine Throughout much of the Ukraine conflict, the US and UK have alleged secret North Korean artillery shell transfers to Russia, via…

These 11 States Are Leading America’s Oil Production Boom Authored by Robert Rapier via OilPrice.com, Texas dominates U.S. oil production, contributing 42.6% of the total output, mainly due to the Permian Basin….

Philly Police Fired Their “Diversity, Equity And Inclusion Officer” This Week Thanks to help from Harvard’s Claudine Gay, who was unable to condemn harassment on her campus against Jewish students and was…

A veteran State Department staffer also left his post in October over Washington’s support of war in Gaza A senior official at the US Department of Education has resigned in protest of…

This latest action by Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams is remarkable.  Even the leftist media are stunned at the action being taken by Mayor Adams in order to stop illegal…

The Houthi Butterfly Flaps Its Wings Earlier, we reported that on Wednesday, the White House warned that this ongoing Red Sea turmoil could hit the US economy in a briefing: The White House…

Milei’s Labor Reforms Hit Roadblock In Argentinian Labor Appeals Court As it turns out, overhauling an entire country can be somewhat of a daunting task, as is being put on display in…

For Miners’ Seasonal Rally, China Is The Wild Card By Michael Msika, Bloomberg markets live reporter and strategist January and February are usually pretty good months for Europe’s mining stocks, as factories…

Justice Department Sues Texas Over New Law Cracking Down On Illegal Immigrants Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against Texas over…

Protests By Angry Chinese Workers Surge To Most In 7 Years, Posing A Threat To Beijing’s Rule Chinese workers staged twice as many protests to defend their rights in 2023 compared to…

2024: The Year To Cancel ‘Wokeness’ In America Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times, When it comes to spending their money and supporting their values, many Americans are now wide…

US Admits “No Signs Of Abating” As Houthis Escalate Red Sea Attacks, Deploy Suicide Drone Boat The Houthis have decided to respond to fresh warnings and threats from the US and Western…

Harvard – Out Of The Frying Pan Into The Fire Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Harvard may assume the forced resignation of its president, Claudine Gay, has finally ended…

A wave of UAVs has followed a failed ‘Storm Shadow’ strike Three dozen Ukrainian drones were shot down while attempting to strike Crimea in the early hours of Friday, according to the…

Kennedy Condemns Efforts To Remove Trump From Ballots Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr said Donald Trump and American voters were being treated unfairly by efforts across the country to block…

The army has to get replacements somehow, Valery Zaluzhny told lawmakers If members of parliament can’t agree on a new mobilization law, they are welcome to volunteer for the front themselves, commander…

There is zero doubt, none, that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is positioning herself on the short list for President Trump’s Vice-President or a very senior level role in the next Trump…

James Woods hits the bullseye with this short quote which cuts through all the pretending: “Why in God’s name are we having to negotiate with our own government to obey the law?” …

Conservative commentator Mike Cernovich claimed the FBI was hiding the deceased pedophile’s blackmail stash A much-hyped trove of nearly 1,000 newly-unsealed pages of court documents from a 2015 defamation case filed by…

Save The Date: Media Titans Clash In Our Live, No Holds Barred “January 6” Debate Depending on whom you ask, it was either “the darkest day in American history” or “a guided…