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Russia’s economy is growing while those of the EU are suffering, Forbes-listed billionaire Alisher Usmanov has said Western sanctions against Russia have yielded results that are the opposite of their stated goal,…

Moscow and Kiev have swapped 115 troops each in a prisoner exchange, the Russian Defense Ministry has said More than a hundred Russian troops captured by Ukraine during its incursion into Russia’s…

In between two rallies in Las Vegas and Arizona, President Trump stopped briefly to answer questions from the press pool about the endorsement from Robert F Kennedy Jr. President Trump mentioned it…

The independent presidential candidate has endorsed Republican Donald Trump over the latter’s stance on the crisis Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused US President Joe Biden of disrupting peace negotiations between Russia…

Larry Kudlow delivered a monologue outlining his pragmatic and positive perspective on the Robert F Kennedy endorsement of President Trump. Mr Kudlow sees a net positive from the RFK JR endorsement and…

Washington reportedly has no clear sense of Kiev’s goals in seizing land inside Russia President Joe Biden’s administration is uncertain regarding Ukraine’s strategy in Kursk Region and is worried about a possible…

Washington has launched so many curbs that the Kremlin simply does not care about new ones, Russia’s ambassador has said Washington’s latest round of sanctions against Moscow is aimed at underscoring US…

COVID-19: The Preventable Pandemic Authored by Jeff M. Smith via RealClearWorld, When the Heritage Foundation released its comprehensive report on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, headlines tended to focus on the cost to the…

The Top 10 Countries By Gold Reserves In 2024 (& Who’s Adding Most) Central banks hold gold reserves due to their safety, liquidity, and return characteristics. They are significant owners of gold,…

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…

An angry mob stormed an airport in the predominately Muslim region of Dagestan last year A Russian court has handed lenghty prison sentences to five men convicted of participating in the 2023…

Curcumin Is Effective In Reducing Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors: Study Authored by Zrinka Peters via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Curcumin is well known for its widespread health benefits, particularly for its antioxidant…

Government Report Links High Fluoride Exposure With Low IQ Among Children Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Exposing children to high levels of fluoride is “consistently associated” with…

Snipers Respond To Islamist-Inspired Rebellion, Hostage Crisis At Russian Prison Russian authorities have confirmed that on Friday there was a major, violent uprising at a maximum security prison in the country’s south….

These Are The Countries With The Highest Wealth Inequality How is wealth distributed across countries, and what is the scale of these disparities? This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Kayla Zhu, shows wealth…

CTH has expressed our concerns previously.  I always hope to be wrong about intelligence community connected politicians.   That said, I shall be a good team player and hope/pray to be wrong about…

US Natural Gas Is America’s Clean Energy Standard Authored by  Jason Hayes & Timothy G. Nash via RealClearEnergy, Abundant and affordable energy drives America’s powerful and productive economy. That’s been true throughout our…

B-2 Stealth Bomber “Hot Pits” At Indian Ocean Air Base, Positioned Within Striking Range Of Iran The Middle East has been on edge all week as the world awaits a retaliatory Iranian attack…

SpaceX Prepares For Historic Spacewalk Under Polaris Dawn Mission While Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin struggles to get its rocket off the ground, Elon Musk’s SpaceX continues to dominate the space race with the most rocket…

Americans Now Need $2.5 Million To Be Considered Wealthy: Charles Schwab Survey Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The amount of money required to be seen as rich has risen…

San Fran Man Robbed Thousands Of Dollars Of Equipment From FBI Truck, Traded It For $20 In Meth More signs of utopia unfolding in the liberal run wasteland of San Francisco… A…

Southern California City Bans Smoking And Vaping In Apartments, Condos Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Starting next year, smoking or vaping inside apartments, condos, or other multi-family housing in…

More Than 165,000 Pounds of Perdue Chicken Recalled For Metal Contamination Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Georgia-based Perdue Foods is recalling large quantities of chicken products after…

Hamas Executing Hostages? Autopsies Of 6 Bodies Recovered From Gaza Reveal Bullets On Tuesday the Israeli military (IDF) announced that it had recovered six deceased hostages in a hidden tunnel network under the…

President Trump will be holding a MAGA rally in Glendale, Arizona today with a “special guest.”  Many people anticipate RFK Jr will endorse President Trump at this rally.  The anticipated start time…

Judge Dismisses Machine Gun Charges Against Kansas Woman, Citing Supreme Court Decision Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A U.S. judge has dismissed charges against a woman who…

Money-Market Funds & Bank Deposits See Huge Inflows As Stocks Rebounded Money market funds saw significant inflows for the third straight week (+$24.9BN) pushing total assets under management to a new record…

Ten Years After Prop 47, California Goes Full Circle And Starts Fighting Retail Crime It’s called blowback: several years after California passed Proposition 47, which reclassified felony theft offenses as misdemeanors and…

Powell Pivot Sparks Buying Panic In Bonds, Bitcoin, & Bullion As Dollar Dumps To 2024 Lows With seven little words, Fed Chair Powell unleashed some chaos today as he confirmed “time has…

Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr has suspended his campaign for president and endorsed President Donald Trump. RFK Jr filed Friday to officially have his name withdrawn from the Pennsylvania ballot “as…

Defense Minister Belousov’s son was among the blacklisted persons and entities The US government has sanctioned almost 400 individuals and companies in Russia and around the world, including Russian Defense Minister Andrey…

DOJ IG Finds FBI Systematically Mishandled Classified Info Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, Talk about irony: The FBI, which was willing to use deadly force over Donald Trump allegedly mishandling…

Hungary has reportedly urged Kiev to endorse a new plan that would allow restoring flow of crude via Ukrainian territory Hungary has called on Ukraine to endorse a proposed solution for the…

The former Democrat cited Ukraine, free speech and “war on children” as his reasons Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced he would back Republican candidate Donald Trump and end his independent run…

How did the media make a national hero out of the current vice president, even though she never gave a single interview as a candidate? The US media has once and for…

Russian crude accounted for 44% of New Delhi’s overall imports last month India has surpassed China as the world’s biggest importer of Russian oil in July, a comparison of import data has…

America’s Power Grid Adds Most Generating Capacity In 21 Years As AI Data Center Demand Surges  The Energy Information Administration’s Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory report released earlier this week revealed that developers and power…

Watch Live: RFK Jr Addresses The Nation The 2024 presidential election race is about to take its next unexpected turn. In minutes, Robert Kennedy Jr. is expected to suspend his presidential race,…

Kirby Yet Again Cites ‘Progress’ On Gaza Talks With CIA’s Burns In Cairo Two weeks ago, White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby told a press briefing that a deal on…

Reiterating The Red Flags In The Latest Retail Sales Report Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The latest retail sales report seems to have given Wall Street something to cheer about. Headlines…

Powell Vows To Cut Rates With Stocks, Home Prices, Rents And Food At All Time Highs Well, it’s official: Powell came, saw, and unlike two years ago when, with with CPI rising…

The agency is under fire for failing protect the Republican presidential candidate The US Secret Service has reportedly suspended a regional director and several agents as it probes the “operational failure” that…

The event will welcome women leaders from 120 countries in St Petersburg next month Russia will welcome women leaders from around the globe at the fourth Eurasian Women’s Forum 2024 (EAWF), taking…

Uranium Stocks Rise After World’s Largest Producer Cuts 2025 Output Forecast Uranium stocks in New York are moving higher in premarket trading after Kazatomprom, the world’s largest uranium producer, announced a cut in…

President Donald J. Trump will deliver remarks on the policy proposal for “No Tax on Tips” in Las Vegas, Nevada at 3:00 pm ET.  Livestream links below. RSBN YouTube Livestream – RSBN…

Kiev has lost up to 400 servicemen over the past 24 hours amid its ongoing incursion, according to Moscow Russia continues to repel Kiev’s ongoing attacks on settlements in Kursk Region as…

End Of Hoaxes: Trump, RFK Jr, & The Democrats’ “Lurking Terror” Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “Kamala, you are supposed to drink AFTER the speech.” – Charlie Kirk, Turning Point…

“A Flawed Idea”: CNBC’s Joe Kernen Destroys Elizabeth Warren On Live TV Over Price-Gouging Policy Senator Elizabeth Warren and Joe Kernen had a heated spat on “Squawk Box” Friday morning, as the…

The Republican presidential nominee claims Washington’s stocks have been “emptied of all of our ammunition” to arm Kiev The US military is running out of ammunition as President Joe Biden’s administration has…

The ECB’s Throuple… Or Trouble? By Bas Van Geffen, senior macro strategist of Rabobank The accounts of the July ECB meeting noted that September “was widely seen as a good time to…

Beer has accounted just over 50% of the nation’s total alcohol sales since the start of 2024, according to a report Beer is the most popular alcoholic beverage among Russians, accounting for…

Hungary Again Breaks With West: Ukrainian Attack On Kursk Is ‘Wrong’ Hungary has broken with its NATO and EU allies in condemning Ukraine’s Kursk incursion, calling it out as not purely ‘defensive’…

Study Exposes The Myth Of Federal Reserve Independence Authored by Mike Maharrey via MoneyMetals.com, According to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, “The Federal Reserve’s monetary policy independence is an important and broadly…

New Home Sales Suddenly Soared In July… Prices Jumped As Mortgage Rates Tumbled US new home sales soared by 10.6% MoM in July (the most since Aug 2022), five standard deviations above…

New Boeing Whistleblower Docs Reveal Confusion And Chaos At Factory That Built Two Doomed 737 MAX Planes New documents released Thursday reveal that ‘confusion and chaos’ reigned in the company’s Renton factory…

Gold, Stocks, Bitcoin, & Bonds Surge As Fed Chair Powell Says “Time Has Come For Policy To Adjust” Watch Live (due to start at 10amET): Tl;dr: Powell confirmed what was in The…

All of the terrorists have been ‘neutralized’ during the storming of the correctional facility in Volgograd Security forces were successful in storming the Volgograd prison, where several inmates had attacked guards and…

On a visit to Kiev, the prime minister said his country is willing to contribute “in all ways possible” to the peace efforts Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Kiev on Friday,…

The vice president said she will remain committed to NATO as she formally accepted the Democratic presidential nomination US Vice President Kamala Harris has said she will make sure that the US…

Asylum seekers could be redirected to Western Europe, Budapest has said Hungary could pay asylum seekers to travel to Western Europe rather than remain in the country, a senior government official warned…

Event organizers say they are aiming to raise funds to “help cover costs and support the defendants and their families” Former US President Donald Trump has been linked to a gala event…

Kiev’s leadership isn’t acting in the interests of its own people; instead, it serves Washington’s agenda and those of its closest allies Ukraine is not a sovereign state. Russia is dealing with…

Canadian Labor Minister Puts End To National Railroad Strike, Orders Arbitration Authored by David Lassen via Trains.com, The Canadian government has moved to end Canada’s freight rail work stoppage – the first…

Futures Jump Ahead Of Powell’s J-Hole Speech As Dovish Expectations Fly Futures are solidly in the green on the last day of the week ahead of Powell’s Jackson Hole speech, with Tech…

The move will help to address Pretoria’s trade turnover shortfall with Moscow, a South African diplomat has said South Africa is working with partners to increase exports of wine and fruits to…

President Vladimir Putin had previously signed a law that creates an open registry for people behind on their alimony payments Russian citizens who are failing to make payments of alimony should be…

Specialists are also providing training on the prevention and diagnosis of infectious diseases in the Republic of the Congo Russian human welfare watchdog Rospotrebnadzor will provide African countries with tests to diagnose…

Former Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal has stressed that the prime minister’s arrival in Kiev does not signal a departure from a ‘neutral’ strategy  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Kiev does…

A number of people have reportedly been killed and injured during a riot at a penitentiary facility in Volgograd Region Inmates at a Russian prison have taken several hostages, the national prison…

Tangled Comparisons: Renewables Versus Fossil Fuels Authored by Norman Rogers via RealClearEnergy, We are often told that wind and solar, if not cheaper, are at least cost competitive with fossil fuels. Dead…

Authorities say several women scattered insects on a breakfast table at the gathering in Chicago Chicago police and the FBI are investigating a stunt in which several women scattered maggots on a…

Mediators will reportedly try to find a compromise on the conditions for ending hostilities in Gaza Egypt is hosting US and Israeli delegations for talks on a Gaza ceasefire proposal, Reuters reported…

Donald Trump “encouraged” Russia’s actions against Ukraine, the Democratic presidential nominee has claimed US Vice President Kamala Harris has vowed that Washington will “stand strong with Ukraine and our NATO allies,” should…

Citi Says Oil Buying Opportunity May Have Finally Arrived By Julianne Geiger of Oilprice.com Oil prices have dipped, with Brent crude hovering around $77 per barrel, leading some market analysts to spot…

“Severe punishment” awaits those behind the attack, Russia’s ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov also said President Vladimir Putin has decided on how to respond to Kiev’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region…

Hungary opposes any action standing in the way of peace between Moscow and Kiev, a top official has said Hungary does not approve of Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region as the…

New Taliban Vice Laws Forbid Women From Looking At Men, Singing In Public, Solo Travel Just over three years after taking power in the wake of the disastrously-executed US military withdrawal from…

Russia’s Military Says It Destroyed US M1 Abrams Tank In Kursk For the first time since the August 6th Kursk incursion, Russian forces claim they have destroyed a US-made Abrams tank used…

New Delhi has been accused by its neighbor of opening the dam on a shared river, leading to devastating floods  The Indian government has denied allegations that it was responsible for devastating…

It would raise the total value of US military assistance to Kiev to more than $55.7 billion since February 2022 The US government is set to provide Ukraine with $125 million in…

Vladimir Zelensky and his Western backers are responsible for the suppression, the former Russian president has said Kiev’s Western backers are supporting its “satanic” crackdown on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), former…

A kamikaze drone was brought down near a spent fuel storage facility at the Kursk power plant, a source told TASS A small Ukrainian drone carrying an anti-tank grenade attempted to reach…

Prepare For “An Era Of Shock Events”; WEF’s Klaus Schwab Warns Authored by Martin Armstrong via ArmstrongEconomics.com, The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a well-funded organization many consider terrorists that is permitted…

Ukraine Should Join NATO Even If Russia Occupies Its Land, Czech President Says Czech President Petr Pavel has issued a new statement which seeks to pressure NATO to speed up Ukraine’s admission into…

The Monkeypox Epidemic… In Africa On August 14, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an international public health emergency in response to a surge in cases of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox,…

Washington cannot be trusted over claims that Ukraine is prohibited from using certain weapons, Russian envoy Anatoly Antonov has said Claims by Washington that it has banned Ukraine from using US-supplied long-range…

“It’s Not OK Any More”: UK Free Speech Crack-Down Targets “Extremist Ideologies” Authored by Jonathan Turley, The crackdown on free speech continues in the United Kingdom as officials use recent rioting to…

Kiev’s Plan To Ban The Ukrainian Orthodox Church Shows How Insecure It Is About National Identity Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Kiev hates that a significant share of the population refuses…

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…

Defense Budget Talks Reignite Debate Over Military Draft For Women Authored by Michael Washburn via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Provisions in the fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that…

America’s Energy Divide: How Democrats And Republicans Feel Energy and climate issues have long been a point of division in American politics, with Democrats generally believing in investing in renewable energy sources while Republicans are…

Vo-Tech Education Is Taking Off, And It’s Not Your Dad’s Shop Class Anymore Authored by Vince Bielski via RealClearInvestigations, Jon Graft is on a mission to reignite the passion for learning by…

Are Co-Ops Two Blocks From Central Park Really Selling For $174,000 That does, in fact seem to be the case. The city of New York is selling apartments on the Upper West Side,…

The Tale Of Two Conventions: Gingrich Authored by Newt Gingrich via RealClearPolicy, Historians will look at the 2024 Democratic and Republican national conventions as harbingers of profound changes in American politics and…

US Democrats have been accused of “silencing” pro-Palestinian speech at the DNC The campaigning group Muslim Women for Harris has withdrawn its support of US Vice President Kamala Harris following reports that…

This Is The Chart That Keeps Japanese Policymakers Up At Night Japan has a demographic crisis that started in 2017 and picked up steam in 2020 and will accelerate from there into…

The Perpetual Struggle Of Libertarian Candidates: Why They Face An Uphill Battle Authored by Conor Sanderson via The Mises Institute, The Libertarian Party was assembled in 1971 and has proven throughout its…

Nick Paton Walsh had traveled to the Russian city of Sudzha with Ukrainian troops The Russian authorities have charged CNN chief international security correspondent Nick Paton Walsh with illegally crossing the state…