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US Services Survey Soars In September, Prices Paid Explode Higher After weakness in the Manufacturing surveys, this morning’s Services sector surveys were yet another hope-filled data point to support the soft-landing narrative….

According to Niger’s authorities, the matchmaking program aired by Canal Plus stigmatizes African women Niger’s media regulator has banned the French channel Canal Plus from airing a romance-themed television show that the…

Google CEO Eyes Atomic Power For AI Data Centers As Big Tech Seeks Nuclear Revival To Achieve Net Zero  Following the news of the Three Mile Island restart plans to power Microsoft’s AI…

Ugledar had been an anchor of the Ukrainian front for over two years Russian forces have completely liberated the town of Ugledar in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the Defense Ministry in…

Global prices for crude have surged 3% on concerns about disruption of supplies from the Middle East The escalating conflict between Iran and Israel could leave the global economy vulnerable to a…

The self-proclaimed NGO is allegedly working on another false-flag chemical attack in Syria The White Helmets, a self-proclaimed civil defense group formed a decade ago in Syria at the height of the…

Lott: About That New Data On Migrant Crime Authored by John R. Lott Jr. via RealClearInvestigations, The new data on all the criminal noncitizens coming into the U.S. is shocking. The U.S….

After many years of French language domination, former colonies in Africa are returning to their cultural roots In the aftermath of the Second World War, the colonial system started to collapse. Many…

The government is planning to nearly quadruple outlay for the purpose in 2025 The Russian government is planning to spend more than 1.7 billion rubles (almost $18 million) next year on promoting…

President Trump sat down with Dave Ramsey to discuss specific economic drivers that will jump start the U.S. economy in 2025. Beginning with an immediate shift in energy policy, President Trump sets…

Georgia’s dissenting president had declined to either sign the bill or veto it, passing the decision on to parliament Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili has signed into law a bill that curbs…

Iran’s High-Value Oil Assets In IDF Crosshairs As Israel Vows “Painful” Response  For months, oil traders shrugged off any threat of a supply shock in the Middle East, betting on softening demand from China…

Futures Drop As Record Hong Kong 13-Day Rally Finally Ends US stock futures are lower, but off session lows, in line with declines seen across Europe and Asia, while yields, the dollar…

Jobless Claims Remain Low Despite 50%-Plus Surge In Job Cuts On the heels of a 53.4% YoY rise in job cut announcements (released by Challenger, Gray, & Christmas), initial jobless claims remain…

The billionaire accused the US Democratic Party of trying to censor citizens under the guise of fighting hate speech American tech mogul Elon Musk has accused the US Democratic Party of trying…

New Delhi’s transactions with key partners, including Russia, have been made difficult by Washington, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has said  New Delhi is looking to secure its interest and find “workarounds” in settlements with…

‘Populist’ these days simply means listening to what the people want, yet the Austrian leaders and media are trying to make it look borderline Nazi Another right-wing anti-establishment party has just won…

Israel Cannot Fight A Multi-Front War Without Support From The US Military The recent missile barrage striking Israel from Iran showcased a security reality that has startled many people in the west…

From Controversy To Cutting-Edge: The Fountain Of Youth Authored by JP Errico via RealClearHealth, Over the past several years, I’ve watched with sadness as the reputation of medical science has taken it…

The plot targeting a Kiev intelligence officer’s Russian son was part of a foiled infiltration attempt, according to the agency An officer of Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) has tried to use his…

Trump’s Opportunity For A Knockout Authored by Tom Klingenstein via RealClearPolitics, In a very significant development — I am almost prepared to say the most significant development in the current presidential contest…

Moscow plans to open embassies in Niger, Sierra Leone, and South Sudan, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said Russia is actively working to increase its diplomatic presence in Africa, with plans to…

The two countries are marking the 75th anniversary of diplomatic ties Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, have hailed the strategic partnership between the two nations in…

Uganda has launched a national company to expand the country’s mineral reserves Uganda’s government has established a national mining company to manage its commercial holding and participating interests in mining operations, according…

Sun Burps Second-Biggest Solar Flare Of Cycle 25 As Impact Analysis Says Earthbound By Weekend NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center detected an X7.1 solar flare on Tuesday, the second strongest of Solar Cycle…

China, Iran, Pakistan, And Russia Are Increasingly Displeased With The Afghan Taliban Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The Chinese, Iranian, Pakistani, and Russian Foreign Ministers gathered for their third quadrilateral meeting…

The “reconstitution” of Moscow’s forces during the Ukraine conflict has surprised Washington, Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell has said Washington is highly concerned about the rapid “reconstitution” of the Russian military…

Healthier McDonald’s Options Available In Europe, But Not In The US Authored by Cara Michelle Miller via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), People can get healthier McDonalds in Europe, food activist Vani Hari…

Another 24 civilians have been injured in Belgorod Region, Vyacheslav Gladkov has said Four people were killed and 24 others wounded in Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s Belgorod Region on Wednesday, local governor…

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…

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…

Hezbollah’s Role As A “Liberator” Authored by Carlo J.V. Caro via RealClearDefense, Unlike many movements that adopt the mantle of liberation for political gain, Hezbollah’s portrayal as a liberating force is tied…

Student Wearing Black Paint On Face Isn’t Protected By First Amendment: Judge Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A middle school student who wore black paint on his face during…

8 Israeli Troops Killed In Hezbollah Ambush As Close-Quarter Fighting Intensifies On Wednesday Israel has disclosed that its military suffered the loss of eight soldiers killed in combat thus far. The slain troops were…

Prosecutors Seek Indefinite Delay In Trial Of Alleged Trump Assassin Over “Complex” Evidence Federal prosecutors on Wednesday requested an indefinite delay in the upcoming trial of Ryan Routh, the man accused of…

Anyone who has ever worked in long-term disaster recovery and response well knows what Day #6 and Day #7 bring to the psyche.  As the crisis in Eastern Tennessee and Western North…

The White House is reportedly realizing that it may be unable to prevent a “regional war” In the Middle East US President Joe Biden is increasingly admitting that he is unable to…

Israel Bans UN Chief From The Country After Statement Failing To Condemn Iran The Israeli government is fuming at UN chief Antonio Guterres’ response to the Tuesday night massive Iranian ballistic missile attack…

US Closes $1.5 Billion Loan To Resurrect Shuttered Michigan Nuclear Power Plant The world was abuzz two weeks ago when we learned that the notorious Three Mile Island nuclear power plant –…

Georgia Judge Says State Election Certification Rule “Vague” In Hearing Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times, A Georgia judge seemed skeptical on Oct. 1 of policies passed by the state’s…

Media Uses Hurricane Helene To Promote “Global Warming” Agenda Authored by Eric Lendrum via American Greatness, Even as the death toll from Hurricane Helene continues to rise, pundits in the mainstream media…

Warren Buffett, Dave Ramsey, & John Maynard Keynes Are Wrong! Authored by Mark Thornton via The Mises Institute, This week, we explain how Warren Buffett, Dave Ramsey, and John Maynard Keynes are…

Five men allegedly conspired to cover up their “star-gazing” trip, the FBI has said Five Chinese nationals have been charged with lying to the FBI and destroying evidence of possible wrongdoing, after…

Unsurprisingly, The Bitcoin Price Follows Global Liquidity Authored by Vivek Sun via BitcoinMagazine.com, I have been intrigued by the significant increase in global liquidity during 2024, driven by extensive money printing and…

Wings Clipped: Red Bull Owners Get Lowest Payout In Four Years As Sales Stumble, Competition Grows Red Bull’s owners have seen their ‘wings’ clipped a bit, as the energy drink maker distributed…

America’s Dwindling National Wealth Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times, What is a rich country? In relative financial terms, it is a country whose net investment position is positive. The…

Bonds Drop, Dollar Pops As Traders Brace For Jobs US markets chopped around today after yesterday’s risk off tape as Geopolitics remain the focus, and while Chinese stocks rallied,  Goldman Sachs trading…

Bank Of America Customers Report Widespread Outage, Zero Balances Bank of America customers on Wednesday reported having problems accessing their bank accounts or that their account balances currently show $0. The outage…

Nearly $1 billion held by the two US financial institutions in the country have been arrested The Moscow Region arbitration court on Wednesday ordered a freeze on funds belonging to two US…

Secretary-General Guterres was criticized for failing to denounce Tehran’s missile attack UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has denounced the Iranian missile attack on Israel, after West Jerusalem slammed him for failing to…

Australia’s politicians and old media all talk about Australia’s cost of living and housing crisis but they are just symptoms of the real problem which is Australia’s corruption crisis. If the Labor…

Life In Kamala’s California Authored by Edward Ring via American Greatness, It’s election season, and because California is a one-party state, we don’t see very many campaign ads for Kamala Harris. But…

OPEC+ Leaves Current Output Cut Policy Unchanged at JMMC The OPEC+ joint ministerial monitoring committee meeting (JMMC) concluded on Wednesday, with the ministers refraining from making any changes to production policy, maintaining…

Biden Scolds Ocean Carriers For Not Paying Dockworkers “Fair” Wages By John Gallagher of FreightWaves President Joe Biden broke his silence on the labor dispute between the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and…

Unlike Gold, Bitcoin Is Not A Safe-Haven Authored by Jesse Colombo via Substack, Today was yet another day marked by geopolitical turmoil, much like many others over the past year. This time,…

Second “Gentleman” Doug Emhoff ‘Forcefully Slapped’ His Ex-Girlfriend So Hard ‘She Spun Around’, New Report Alleges Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff reportedly assaulted his ex-girlfriend by hitting her in the face so…

Rabobank: Iran Just Made A Huge Strategic Error By Michael Every of Rabobank As I mused yesterday, the Iranian foreign minister was bluffing when he implied Iran was not going to act…

World On Fire: Houthi Rebels Targeted Two Ships In Red Sea While Iran Launched Missiles At Israel As the news cycle on Tuesday centered on Iran’s launch of 180 ballistic missiles, including new hypersonic…

‘Get Out Of Stocks…Buy Gold’ – Charles Nenner Warns Of Imminent ‘End Of American Empire’ Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Renowned geopolitical and financial cycle expert Charles Nenner has been warning of a huge…

The platform has been cooperating with authorities in criminal cases since 2018, its co-founder and chief has revealed Telegram CEO Pavel Durov revealed on Wednesday that the messenger service has been complying…

Defendants now have a choice to enlist in the military and avoid trial Russians facing felony charges who voluntarily enlist in the military under certain circumstances will be able to avoid trial…

WWII-era ordnance buried deep under the taxiway went off at Miyazaki Airport on the island nation’s coast An unexploded US bomb went off at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan on Wednesday, leaving…

Panic-Buying Already Spreading As Dockworker Strike Gets Underway By Noi Mahoney of FreightWaves As union dockworkers began striking against employers at East and Gulf Coast ports early Tuesday morning, reports of panic-buying…

Walsh’s “Am I Racist” Outgrosses Coppola’s Anti-Trump Vanity Project, Cost 40x Less Authored by Victoria Cook via Headline USA, Daily Wire commentator Matt Walsh released his bitingly comedic documentary, Am I Racist?, in early September to…

WTI Holds Gains Despite Surprise Crude Build (Biggest Since June) Oil prices continues to rise (amid geopolitical tensions), supported by an API-reported crude draw overnight and OPEC+ headlines denying any apparent rift…

Yen Craters As Japan Gives Up On Further Rate Hikes, Carry Trade Is Back With A Bang In the past two months, reports of the yen carry trade have been greatly exaggerated,…

The Russian Defense Ministry has said the vehicle was taken out by an explosives-laden drone The Defense Ministry in Moscow has released footage purportedly showing the moment a Russian kamikaze drone blew…

The South Asian country has been ramping up its space exploration programs lately, having landed on the Moon last year India’s space agency has announced plans to send a satellite to Venus…

Gold Is Just Getting Started Via SchiffGold.com, Last week Peter joined Oliver Renick on his show, “Market on Close,” on the Schwab Network. They discuss gold’s stellar year in 2024 and where the metal…

Post-Debate: Vance Vanquishes ‘Knucklehead’ Walz & Muting Moderators Cordiality amidst clashes marked the first and only vice-presidential debate of 2024 as Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz squared off on Tuesday…

A Crystal Ball Isn’t Enough: The Importance Of Context Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, On September 18, 2024, the headlines read the Fed cut the Fed Funds rate by 50 basis…

ADP Employment Report Shows Strong Rebound In Jobs In the first major labor market indication since The Fed slashed rates by 50bps (because the economy is doing so well?), ADP’s Employment report…

I have outlined my general opinion about labor unions [HERE].  Now we are going to focus on the realities, politics and economic outcomes from an International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) strike. I mostly…

African Stream says it has faced censorship on several platforms since US officials labeled it a Kremlin propaganda channel Pan-African digital media organization African Stream has accused Google of censorship after the…

Aleksandr Balanutsa has chided Kiev’s backers for not letting his country use their missiles to attack targets deep inside Russia Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Defense for European Integration Aleksandr Balanutsa has called…

All the major players are poking each other, but there is no desire to cross the Rubicon One year after Hamas’ infamous attack on Israel, the Middle East seems to have returned…

Tesla Shares Dip After Reporting 462,890 Q3 Deliveries, Missing Analyst Estimates Tesla shares are dipping heading into the cash open on Wednesday after the company reported 462,890 total deliveries during the third quarter….

The proposed law would prohibit the sale of cigarettes and vapes to teens in a bid to curb new addictions The Russian government is set to consider prohibiting the sale of tobacco…

Suspected Hezbollah arms depots, observation posts and manpower have been hit, the Israel Defense Forces have said The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has published a video purporting to show its warplanes striking…

Foreign Minister Israel Katz has banned Antonio Guterres from entering the country for his failure to condemn Iran Israel has declared UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres persona non grata after he called for…

France’s president has reportedly expressed hope that India can play a “positive role” in ending the ongoing conflict India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval briefed French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday on…

Germany has not requested a phone call with the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov has said Berlin has not requested a telephone conversation between Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kremlin…

Futures Slide, Oil Jumps As Middle East Tensions Soar US equity futures are weaker with small caps underperforming while Treasuries erased some of the previous day’s gains as escalating tensions in the Middle…

The defense minister claims Kiev has forgotten that Warsaw was the first to provide it with military aid Ukraine is displaying a lack of appreciation for Warsaw’s military assistance during the conflict…

Nike Shares Slide On Biggest Sales Drop In Years, Guidance Withdraw, Investor Day Postponed Nike shares fell in premarket trading in New York after the sportswear company withdrew its full-year sales guidance and postponed its…

The intense combat action unfolded during a battle for the town of Ugledar, according to media reports The Russian crew of a BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle had several brushes with death during…

Americans’ Stunning And Growing Dependence On Government Aid In Pictures Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The number of counties dependent on government aid has surged over time. The lead chart shows…

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is the perfect example of the greed that has corrupted parties that are supposed to represent the common voter The scandal that has recently engulfed UK Labour…

During the Vice-Presidential debate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was asked about his repeated false statements where he claims to have been in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests in the spring…

The Ukrainian task force in Ugledar has said its soldiers have been exhausted by Russian attacks on the town and have order to get out A Ukrainian army grouping in the town of…

Russia-China ties are at an “unprecedented” level 75 years since their establishment, the president has said The relationship between China and Russia is at an all-time high, 75 years after diplomatic ties…

Natalya Pipa says a lot of schoolchildren stop using the country’s official language during recess An MP in Ukraine has proposed a new law preventing schoolchildren from speaking to each other in…

US veteran Bohdan Olinares served in the Azov Battalion before joining the ‘Love is Blind’ cast A retired US Marine who served in Ukraine’s notorious nationalist Azov Battalion has been revealed as…

The country’s prime minister spoke to his Israeli counterpart hours before the IDF launched a ground operation in Lebanon New Delhi has expressed concern over the escalation of the conflict in the…

Is The UK The ‘Biggest Enabler’ Of Corporate Tax-Dodging? New analysis by the Tax Justice Network has revealed the United Kingdom to be the biggest enabler of corporate tax dodging in the world. As Statista’s Anna…

“Guilty”: CJ Hopkins Is Officially A “Hate-Speech” Criminal In Germany Authoired by Cj Hopkins via The Consent Factory, Guilty So, the Berlin Appellate Court overturned my acquittal today. I am now, officially,…

Allies of the Kenyan head of state, William Ruto, accuse Rigathi Gachagua of corruption and undermining the government Kenyan lawmakers have filed an impeachment petition against Vice President Rigathi Gachagua on charges…

How Wealth Inequality Has Changed Across The Globe Since 2008 This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu, tracks wealth inequality changes in various countries as measured by their Gini index values in 2008 to…

Iran fired scores of ballistic missiles at Israel overnight in retaliation for the killings of senior Hezbollah and Hamas leaders Iran “made a big mistake” by launching a salvo of ballistic missiles…

New York Tops London As The World’s Worst City For Rush-Hour Traffic Traffic congestion costs drivers around the world hours of lost time and economic productivity. Traffic can serve as an economic…