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With ‘Friends’ Like Mexico’s Obrador, Who Needs Enemies Like Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un, & The Ayatollahs? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, In a recent 60 Minutes interview, Mexican President Andrés…

US, Japan & Philippines To Launch Joint Patrols In South China Sea Amid Beijing Tensions The US, Japan, and the Philippines have inked an agreement to launch joint naval patrols in the…

Idaho Bans Medicaid For Transgender Procedures Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Idaho Governor Brad Little signed a bill Wednesday that prevents individuals enrolled in the state Medicaid…

Gavin Newsom Applauds Rollout Of AI Surveillance Network In California If you’re not a criminal then you have nothing to hide, right?  This is the perpetual argument used in favor of state…

The US president seemed to disavow the highly controversial move just a day after making it US President Joe Biden has rejected criticism over his annual proclamation of March 31 as Transgender…

Biden Budget Shells Out $320 Million On Border Walls… For Oman, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, And Tunisia Authored by Monica Showalter via American Thinker, Is there anything Joe Biden can’t do? Get a…

Netanyahu Vows To Close Al Jazeera ‘Immediately’ After Knesset Passes Controversial Law Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday announced he has renewed and intensified efforts to shut down Qatar-based Al Jazeera’s…

“They Will Surely Try To Run The ‘Disease X’ Ruse” Ahead Of 2024 Elections Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, This Is Not An April Fool’s Gag “I’m sorry for the…

Gold Hits New Record Highs, Bonds Battered As Inflation Fears Reignite The macro picture was not great for the doves today… On a day dominated by the illiquidity of absent European markets…

A ‘rally around the flag’ effect could disarm the populist surge, Charles Sapin has suggested With polls showing ‘nationalist’ parties surging in popularity ahead of the upcoming European Parliament election, Kiev’s worsening…

The former prime minister of Pakistan had been sentenced to a 14-year term for illegally selling state gifts A Pakistani court on Monday granted the country’s former prime minister Imran Khan leave…

Harvard Applications Decline Following Anti-Semitism Controversy Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, The prestigious Harvard University has seen a noticeable decrease in the number of applications to the school, after many…

Police have reportedly found proof that 57-year-old Zebah Abdel Salem Haniyeh had links to ‘serious security offenses’ Israeli security forces on Monday arrested the sister of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on incitement-of-terrorism…

Experts Warn Of ‘Digital Enslavement’ As Amazon Pushes Palm-Scan Payment Service Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), E-commerce giant Amazon has just launched new tech that makes it…

Bullish Bets On Gasoline Futs Soar As Pump-Prices Risk Rising To “Politically Sensitive” $4/Gallon Level The latest surge in gasoline prices at the pump, something we detailed last week (read: here), could begin to impact…

Despite his deep and long-standing ties with American politics, the Israeli PM seems to have fallen out of favor in Washington Since the attack by militarized groups affiliated with the Palestinian movement…

When Rogue States Embrace Crypto Submitted by Omid Malekan I want to talk about North Korea, but first we need to revisit El Salvador. The Central American country’s decision to buy Bitcoin…

First Case Of Bird-Cow-Human Transmission Of Bird Flu Reported In Texas The bird flu—also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI—is back, and this time, it’s infecting dairy herds across several…

IRGC Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi was among the dead in a Damascus airstrike Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been killed in an Israeli…

This is a little funny.  The Washington Post has an article about Democrat data scientist Aaron Strauss, who helps direct progressive spending at the firm OpenLabs, warning his peers that registering young…

Margarita Simonyan says Ukrainian secret police has made up lies she called for “deaths of children” to justify аctual plots to assassinate her The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has come up…

Republicans Score Win In Court Battle Over Pennsylvania Ballot Requirements Authored by Zachary Steiber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Pennsylvania rules that require mail-in ballots to be dated are legal, a…

Utah Formally Empowers State Treasurer To Protect State Funds With Gold And Silver Authored by Jp Cortez via The Mises Institute, Utah Governor Spencer Cox has signed legislation explicitly empowering the state…

I strongly doubt that Chairman Xi, President Putin or Chairman Kim think about Joe Biden for a single moment. Everyone knows Biden is a propped optic for the people behind the administration…

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan has seen rising calls to boycott Western companies over the Gaza conflict A crowd chanting anti-Israel slogans set fire to a KFC fast food restaurant in the…

Arvind Kejriwal, a major Indian opposition figure, has vowed to govern the capital from prison An Indian court on Monday remanded Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister of Delhi and the leader of the…

Investigators are reportedly looking into private text messages between the European Commission president and the CEO of Pfizer The EU’s top prosecutors have taken over an ongoing corruption investigation into European Commission President…

Republicans in the lower chamber are looking for ways to sell the bill to their base The US House of Representatives is likely to vote on the $61 billion Ukraine aid bill,…

Iranian Embassy In Syria Targeted By Large Israeli Airstrikes In Major Escalation There are emerging reports and accompanying video confirmation that an Israeli airstrike destroyed part of the complex of the Iranian…

Drone Launched From Iraq Slams Into Israeli Base For First Time Of War In a significant first of the Gaza war marking a very serious escalation, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have…

Kiev has launched a major artillery and drone attack on Belgorod At least nine people were wounded on Monday by the latest Ukrainian attack on Russia’s border region of Belgorod, the local…

Key Events This Week: Payrolls, Powell, ISM And Fed Speakers Galore With the first quarter officially in the books, and just days until we start getting Q1 earnings (it sure does feel…

How The Federal Reserve Created An American Caste System Authored by E.J.Antoni via The Epoch Times, In 1913, Woodrow Wilson and his progressives promised that the Federal Reserve would avert both depressions and inflation,…

The Tajikistani national is accused of transferring funds to the gunmen believed to be responsible for the massacre A tenth suspect has been placed under arrest in relation to the March 23…

Roscongress Foundation will be “a strategic partner” of the event in South Africa later this year Roscongress Foundation will participate in organizing African Energy Week (AEW-2024), which will be held later this…

Estonia’s ruling party and its coalition partners have said their goal is to reduce Moscow’s influence in the capital, Tallinn Estonia’s ruling Reform Party has announced it will introduce a draft law…

An expansion of a formal investigation against Margarita Simonyan has been announced by the Ukrainian secret police The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has expanded its investigation against RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan….

Puntland says it will not recognize national authority until a dispute over changes to the constitution is resolved The authorities of Puntland, a semi-autonomous state in Somalia, have withdrawn from the East…

British Army continues training in the country after burning down 10,000 acres of nature reserve, according to Kelvin Kubai The UK government is detached from reality and has repeatedly made empty promises…

JK Rowling Could Be Imprisoned For “Misgendering” Trans People Under New Law Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, Author JK Rowling could be prosecuted for “misgendering” trans people under Scotland’s odious…

Manufacturing PMIs Mixed On Growth But Both See Prices Soaring ‘Hard’ data has been soaring since the start of the year – as ‘soft’ data collapses – so all eyes are on…

Tehran reportedly shared intelligence relating to terrorists’ plan with Moscow days before the massacre Iran alerted Russia of a looming major “terrorist operation” in the country days before the deadly Crocus City…

Supreme Court Case ‘Threatens Chaos’ To Immigration System Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A complex upcoming Supreme Court case could weaken a key tool the government uses…

Western advisers and instructors are actively supporting Kiev’s forces against Russia, the defense minister has said Every NATO member already has military personnel in Ukraine, Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur claimed on…

Left Livid Over Trump Ally Efforts To Eliminate Anti-White Policies With Donald Trump’s popularity growing among black and latino voters, it’s only natural to assume that a revived effort to paint him…

Afghanistan is expected to participate in the annual event, devoted to economic cooperation between Moscow and the Islamic world The Taliban has been invited to participate in an upcoming economic forum in…

PM has claimed the revocation by the Supreme Court of the donation scheme won’t impact his party in impending national election Recent disclosures about a now-defunct scheme, through which political parties in…

Minorities Don’t Need DEI If They’re Actually Qualified For The Job Woke progressives have spent a considerable amount of time and energy over the past several years trying to hide and deny…

Gross Domestic Income Shows America Is In Stagnation Authored by Daniel Lacalle, In a recent CNN poll, 48% of respondents stated that they believe the economy remains in a downturn, and only…

50 Million Americans At-Risk Of Severe Weather As April Begins  An Easter weekend storm that dumped heavy rain across Los Angeles and snow in the mountains is set to cause adverse weather…

How Inflation Buzzwords Manipulate Via SchiffGold.com, Welcome to the world of modern economics where the term “inflation” no longer signifies the increase in the quantity of money, but has evolved into a…

Futures Rise In First Day Of New Quarter As Gold Explodes To Record Highs US futures extend their record-breaking meltup following the long weekend (which was to be expected with hedge funds…

Baltimore Bridge Collapse Has East Coast Ports On Alert For Cargo Diversions US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday that there is no timeline on when salvage crews in…

Spending, Income, And Inflation Data Do Not Support Fed Interest Rate Cuts Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk.com, The BEA reports real income is down, but personal spending jumped anyway. Inflation data…

The country’s public finances are in a “catastrophic” state, a source from the organization has told TASS Ukraine could go bankrupt as early as next year unless Western countries agree to write…

A complaint filed by lawmakers last week was deemed credible enough for a formal inquiry The Russian Investigative Committee has launched a probe into allegations that Ukraine and its Western backers are…

The institution allegedly failed to disclose key details about Ethiopian Orthodox altar tablets looted in the 1860s The British Museum is under investigation for allegedly hiding a collection of sacred Ethiopian artefacts…

The Russian military is ready for the possible deployment of the US-led bloc’s troops to Ukraine, a top diplomat has said The current state of relations between Russia and NATO can be…

Washington is trying to clear Kiev of involvement in concert-hall massacre, according to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service The US State Department and special services have reportedly been ordered by the Biden administration…

The former PayPal chief says US politicians such as Nancy Pelosi should be held accountable for encouraging the doomed operation The failure of Ukraine’s 2023 summer counteroffensive against Russia was “easily predictable,”…

The Marder armored vehicle was found to be too heavy and poorly designed to operate in a muddy environment The Russian Defense Ministry has criticized the design of the German Marder infantry…

Alleged members of a cell busted in Dagestan were involved in logistics of concert-hall massacre, the security service is claiming A group of four militants captured on Sunday morning in Russia’s Dagestan…

No Fooling: Gov. Newsom’s $20 Minimum Wage Hits April 1 Authored by John Seiler via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A sign is posted on the exterior of a Round Table pizza…

Adults are now allowed to carry up to 25 grams of cannabis and cultivate up to three marijuana plants at home   Smoking cannabis is now legal for adults over age 18…

If conflict occurs, Washington will focus on Asia, and European NATO members will be “totally alone,” Rheinmetall’s CEO has warned Washington has sent a clear message to European NATO members that they…

More Inflation, More Copper Theft Via Schiffgold.com, When unemployment and inflation cause skyrocketing incentives for thieves to steal industrial metals like copper, criminals rush for some of the biggest sources: critical infrastructure….

Co-developed with Russia, the weapon was launched from the strategically important Andaman and Nicobar islands The Indian Army has test-fired a long-range BrahMos cruise missile, co-developed with Russia, from the islands of…

These Are The Top 20 Countries Where Older People Are The Happiest The newest global happiness index doesn’t have any massive surprises from the ongoing trends of the last decade: Europe generally does the…

The setback in municipal elections on Sunday will be a turning point for the AKP, the president has vowed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has acknowledged an electoral defeat for his Justice…

Arms maker MBDA cannot produce more munitions without an order from Berlin, Thomas Gottschild has said Production of Taurus missiles, which Kiev has been pressuring Berlin to supply for use against Russia, is currently…

Did The US First Catch Wind Of The Crocus Terrorist Attack By Spying On Kiev? Authored by Andrew Korybko via eestieest.com, The New York Times (NYT) cited unnamed sources on Thursday to…

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said he could attend the group’s gathering planned for Russia in October Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said he will consider attending the BRICS Summit scheduled for…

27.6 Million People Are Currently In Forced Labor 27.6 million people were living under the conditions of forced labor around the world on any given day in 2021, according to data published in a…

Why Is NATO And The Kiev Regime Terrified Of Russia’s ‘Zircon’ Hypersonic Missile? Authored by Drago Bosnic via infobrics.org, Even before the horrendous Crocus City Hall terrorist attack, the Russian military’s long-range…

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…

Kiev will get used but “still functional” VAB vehicles, French Defense Minister has said Paris will supply Kiev with additional surface-to-air missiles and hundreds of armored vehicles, previously utilized by the French…

Did The COVID Psyop Fail? Authored by Todd Hayen via Off-Guardian.org, As you all know, I have not been one to believe that the tides are turning. But lots of people think…

In Easter Ruling, Judge Orders Release Of ‘Border Riot’ Migrants Who Overwhelmed National Guard A group of migrants involved in a riot at the southern US border have been ordered to be…

PBOC’s Yuan Flip-Flop Sows Confusion Among Traders By John Liu and Zheng Wu, Bloomberg Markets Live reporters and analysts 1. The use of a familiar tool to stabilize the yuan sowed confusion and…

Watch: Denver Official Caught On Tape Begging Illegals To Leave The City A top Denver official was caught on tape in a local migrant shelter begging illegals to go to other cities,…

“Turkish People Demanded Change”: Erdogan Suffers Shocking Defeat In Country’s Municipal Elections In a historic upset, Turks dealt President Tayyip Erdogan and his party their biggest electoral blow yet in Saturday’s nationwide…

This is the third arrest associated with promoting LGBTQ in Orenburg’s nightclub Pose A Russian court has ordered the owner of the gay club Pose in the city of Orenburg to be…

Minnesota Law School Drops Exclusion Of Whites And Males From Diversity Scholarship Authored by Jonathan Turley, There is a curious resolution of a civil right complaint against University of Minnesota Law School…

Rep. Tim Walberg insists his “metaphor” was distorted and taken out of context Michigan congressman Tim Walberg believes that Washington should not waste money on humanitarian aid for civilians in Gaza or…

AT&T Reveals Easter Weekend Surprise For Customers: 73 Million Accounts Leaked On Dark Web Millions of AT&T Inc. users received bad news from the third-largest US retail wireless carrier this Easter holiday weekend:…

Have We Reached Peak ESG? Corporate America Fools Around And Finds Out Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times, “Go woke, go broke.” This catchphrase has become more than a clever…

Rogan: NY Times Writers Are “Ultra Hard Left Activists Masquerading As Journalists” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, During an episode of his podcast, Joe Rogan slammed New York Times writers, calling…

Justice Minister Yariv Levin will step in while the Israeli Prime Minister is incapacitated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he hopes to “return to action very quickly” after he was…

“The US Economy Is Inverted”: How The Flood Of Illegal Immigration Is Delaying The Official US Recession By Dhaval Joshi, Chief Strategist at BCA Research Summary The US economy is highly unusually…

The operation in the southern Gaza city is needed to “defeat” the Hamas militant group for good, the Israeli PM insists Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday reiterated his resolve to…

Musk Warns Ukraine May Lose Odessa & Black Sea Access If It Doesn’t Negotiate Elon Musk has once again urged negotiated settlement to end the Ukraine war while warning Ukraine that seeking…

Once the US has its claws in a country, it won’t let go easily – and friend or foe, you’ll be left drained and broken ‘March Madness’ is such a NATO thing….

Pandemic Whiskey Boom Turns To Hangover Authored by Douglas French via The Mises Institute, Yeah, the other night I laid sleeping  And I woke from a terrible dream  So I caught up…

White House Approves Transfer To Israel Of More Bombs & Jets Worth Billions The Biden White House has approved of sending billions of dollars worth of new military equipment and ammo to…

British authorities, however, have apparently opted to keep the findings out of the public domain Lawyers for the UK government have established Israel has been breaking humanitarian law amid its ongoing conflict…

How Much Do Food Stamps, Social Security, And Medicare Support The Economy? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Inquiring minds might be interested in a discussion of government transfer payments as a…

Fire, Then Ice: Our Deflationary Future Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTWoMinds blog, Lest you weep for those whose phantom wealth will be drained away, recall that few win when a…

Criminal White House Press Corps Has Been Looting Air Force One In case you needed one more reason to despise legacy-media journalists, Politico reports that White House correspondents have been routinely looting…

Rotations By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities “Rotations” We will use the term “rotation” a bit more broadly today. Yes, it will incorporate what we typically think of as rotations, but will…