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The victory brings the former president closer to becoming the Republican nominee to challenge Joe Biden in November’s election Donald Trump defeated Nikki Haley – his last remaining rival for this year’s…

Hungarian PM Viktor Orban also said that countries striving to remain sovereign are facing growing pressure to join various blocs The era of Western domination has ended and a new world order…

The funds belonging to Moscow’s central bank have accrued nearly €4.4 billion in interest over the past year The EU is discussing the option of using profits generated by frozen Russian assets…

US Services Surveys Signal Stagflation In Feb: Higher Prices, Slower Growth After the mixed Manufacturing survey picture (ISM puked, PMI spiked), who knows what we’ll get from the Services surveys today. S&P…

The returning politician’s recent electoral win on the back of the Gaza-Israel debate is rightfully alarming for both Labour and Tories Last week’s exchange of insults between newly elected MP George Galloway…

Nearly $7 billion worth of aid could be jeopardized if the legislation is signed into law Ghana could lose $3.8 billion of World Bank funding if its anti-LGBTQ legislation is signed into…

US Gov’t Reportedly Blocks AMD From Selling AI Chip To China The United States continues to restrict China’s capabilities in obtaining and manufacturing advanced semiconductor technologies, presenting significant challenges for Chinese firms…

She will be out from the US State Department within several weeks, Antony Blinken has said US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland is poised to leave her post soon, Secretary of…

The measure has been proposed in a funding bill unveiled by lawmakers in Washington China could be banned from buying oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) under new provisions in…

‘We Have Liftoff!’ – Spot Gold Takes Out Record High Extending their run of the last few days, spot gold prices just exceeded their all-time highs, topping $2140 for the first time…

Valuation Metrics And Volatility Suggest Investor Caution Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Valuation metrics have little to do with what the market will do over the next few days or months….

Super Tuesday Kicks Off Super Tuesday, the biggest primary day of the political year, is here.  Trailing her Republican rival by hundreds of delegates, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has ignored…

Bubbly Parts Of The Market Might Get Bubblier Still Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The tech sector continues to drive returns in US stocks. Multiples are high, but still not quite…

Futures Fall As Apple China Sales Tumble, China Congress Forecast Disappoints And just like that the momentum-driven buying frenzy is over: S&P 500 futures are down 0.3%, and Nasdaq 100 futures slide…

Now The Robots Are Coming For Your Opinions Authored by Will Johnson via RealClear Wire, We’ve long been warned about robots taking our jobs, but now they’re coming for our opinions as well. Caller…

Estonian PM Kaja Kallas has shared a veiled rebuke after claims that she is too hawkish to lead NATO Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has disputed claims that she is too hawkish…

The 2024 GDP target has been set at around 5%, despite economic challenges at home and worldwide Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Tuesday unveiled the country’s economic development program for 2024, promising…

Participating in a youth forum in Sochi is paving the way for other entrepreneurs from the country, Tumelo Ramaphosa told RT Organizers of an ongoing international youth festival in Russia have created…

The Hague-based institution, which is not recognized by Moscow, has targeted the two men over alleged war crimes The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for Lieutenant-General Sergey…

Defense Minister Boris Pistorius put the incident down to an oversight on the part of one Air Force officer A lapse by a senior German Air Force officer led to the recent…

Plunging Tesla stock has seen the EV maker’s CEO dethroned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Elon Musk has lost his title as the world’s richest person, being replaced by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos,…

Gloom, Doom: Apple’s iPhone Sales In China Plunge 24% Just days after Goldman removed Apple from its “Conviction List” and Evercore ISI dropped Apple from its “Tactical Outperform” list, which both banks cited mounting concerns about…

Rome fell after its legions became dominated by non-citizens, the journalist said, likening it to the migrant crisis in America Allowing illegal migrants into the US military as a means of granting…

NATO officials are reportedly concerned about Berlin’s carelessness and incompetence Several of Germany’s allies have urged Berlin to drastically improve security measures after audio of Bundeswehr military officials discussing an attack on…

Air National guardsman Jack Teixeira has struck a plea deal with prosecutors Jack Teixeira, a former member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, has agreed to accept a 16-year prison term after…

Pyongyang claims an invasion is being planned, while Seoul says the exercises are purely defensive The Defense Ministry of North Korea has strongly condemned what it described as “reckless” military drills that…

Global Markets Are Not Partying Like It’s 1999 Yet Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Global equity markets are not yet as overbought as they were through much of the 1990s…

EU nations are pledging more lethal weapons to Ukraine while refusing to accept Moscow’s insistence that it harbors no intention to attack NATO into their comfortable war narrative. This could be a…

The US-led bloc believes it’s infallible and that increases the chances of a calamitous mistake In peacetime, when Russian experts regularly took part in pan-European events, this author’s favorite place was the…

Over 100 Inuit claim they were forcibly fitted with contraceptive devices, local media have reported A group of indigenous women in Greenland have sued Denmark over an involuntary contraception campaign aimed at…

The Bharatiya Janata Party has launched a viral campaign in response to an opposition leader’s jibe Officials from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India’s largest political group, have started identifying as members…

The French president has said his suggestion that he did not rule out such a deployment merely aimed to “open a debate” Paris does not intend to send military personnel to Ukraine…

Peter Schiff: Bitcoin Lives And Dies By ETFs Via SchiffGold.com, On this year’s Leap Day, Peter analyzed another round of inflation data and the economic factors at play in the quickly approaching…

The sport risks losing its Olympic status due to the leadership’s manipulation, the RWF has said The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) is going through a deep crisis caused by the corruption and…

US Includes Nuclear-Capable Assets In Large Military Drills Aimed At North Korea It’s very likely that the government Kim Jong Un will soon ramp up its provocative missile tests once again, given…

Houthi Missile Hits Swiss-Owned Container Ship Near Aden The Red Sea has transformed from one of the world’s most important maritime trade routes into a warzone. Iran-backed Houthi rebels have withstood dozens…

The measure would be in line with the group’s plans to cut reliance on Western currencies and financial mechanisms The BRICS group of emerging economies plans to create a payment system based…

March 3 marks the end of the 1877-78 Russo-Turkish War, which paved the way for the Balkan country’s independence Russian diplomats and citizens have joined Bulgarians in celebrating the Balkan nation’s Liberation…

Swiss Voters Give Themselves Extra Month Of Pension, Reject Raising Retirement Age Dear lazy Americans: this is how the Swiss do it… Over the weekend, Swiss voters gave themselves an extra month’s…

The US has always used corruption as a key issue to assert its control, Richard Mahomva has told RT The US and its Western allies are using allegations of corruption and human…

A government directive has been issued days after Google’s Gemini landed in hot water over controversial remarks about Modi Big Tech companies will now have to receive the Indian government’s permission to…

Russia’s security service claims to have arrested a man who was planning an attack in Zaporozhye Region The West is secretly supplying Ukraine with prohibited chemical warfare agents, Russian Deputy Minister of…

The African Union, which suspended the member state in 2021 after a coup, is seeking to bring an end to the ongoing war in the country Sudan’s army chief, General Abdel Fattah…

Disparity persists in many areas but gender-equality could be fast-tracked through reforms, a report says Closing the gender gap could boost global GDP by over 20%, doubling the world’s growth rate over…

Ingrida Simonyte had to change her presidential campaign slogan, which resembled the one used by the Russian leader in 2018 A presidential candidate in Lithuania has had to change her campaign slogan,…

Resveratrol: A Powerful Polyphenol That Slows Cellular Aging Authored by Allison DeMajistre via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Resveratrol is one of the most studied natural polyphenol compounds and is found in…

UAVs have reportedly been intercepted in several parts of the country Ukrainian drones targeted several Russian regions overnight, officials have said. One attack resulted in a fire in Belgorod Region, local media…

Moscow has fulfilled its first large-scale humanitarian aid initiative, Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev has said Moscow has successfully completed delivery of 200,000 tons of food aid to six African nations under a…

Berlin should go ahead and donate Taurus missiles to Kiev despite the intercepted call involving top military brass, London believes The UK has urged Germany and other Western nations to donate long-range…

Poll: Nearly Half Of Young People Won’t Spend $10 Monthly On Climate Action Radical climate change warriors in the White House have made it their mission to destroy the fossil fuel industry…

The Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are similarly antagonistic, Sergey Ivanov has claimed The UK is the most hostile Western state in terms of its policy toward Moscow, former Russian Defense…

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Singapore’s defense chief earlier claimed that Washington had used the jets to spy on Russian surface-to-air missile sites The US has denied flying F-35s over Ukraine after Singapore’s Defense Minister Ng Eng…

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…

Fed Bubble Ignites “Great Retirement” Wave As Baby Boomers Party Like It 1999 As the Magnificent 7 tech stocks and home prices grind higher, there has been a massive surge in the number…

Last year’s accident in which 14 people died was caused by human error, the government has revealed The driver of a train and his assistant were busy watching cricket on their mobile…

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…

US Profits Outshine Europe By The Most Since 2020 By Sagarika Jaisinghani, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist Europe Inc. just reported its worst earnings season relative to the US in three…

China Sets Economic Growth Target At Around 5% This Year, Will Boost Defense Spending By 7.2% China will target economic growth of “around 5%” this year as it works to transform its…

These Four Themes Will Define The Next Decade Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via Substack, Morgan Stanley recently came out with their 3 Themes that will impact markets for many years: longevity, AI tech…

Amid Debate Over Rail Safety Concerns, Another Norfolk Southern Train Derails By John Kingston of FreightWaves With a Norfolk Southern derailment in Pennsylvania on Saturday that sent diesel fuel into a Lehigh…

The Nuclear Boom Is Here: Uranium Projects Jump Back On Line As Price Soars It’s been a long time coming, but the bulls are finally back in uranium. And with them comes…

Former Twitter CEO, Three Other Fired Officials, Sue Musk For $128 Million In Severance Instead of giving him a medal for demonstrating that their censoring, woke, CIA-controlled bloated media platform can operate…

How The Government Used ‘Track F’ To Fund Censorship Tools: Report Authored by Mark Tapscott via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Officials from the National Science Foundation tried to conceal the spending…

Argentina’s President Javier Milei Suspends State-Run Leftist News Agency For ‘Propaganda” The chainsaw-wielding Argentine president Javier Milei has consolidated eighteen government ministries into nine, fired 5,000 government workers, devalued the peso near market…

VDH: American Paralysis & Decline Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, “We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies.” So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C.- A.D. 17) of the long…

Wall Street Scrambles To Abandon DEI As “Legal Assaults” Mount We’ve been stating for months that both the DEI and ESG gravy trains on Wall Street are finally coming to an unceremonious…

The diplomats must be punished for refusing to meet with Russia’s foreign minister, Dmitry Medvedev said Ambassadors from the European Union member states should be expelled from Russia, former President Dmitry Medvedev…

Replacing Ukraine’s commander-in-chief was “a mistake,” Vitaly Klitschko said President Vladimir Zelensky was wrong to fire the popular commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko has said.  Zelensky dismissed General…

“Nothing Will Make Sense To You Unless You Accept That The 2020 Election Was Stolen…” Original by Drew Allen: During the debut of his new Saturday show on the General Michael Flynn-backed Patriot…

More Than $11 Million In Fentanyl Pills Seized In Massive Bust At U.S./Mexico Border U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers (CBP) at the San Ysidro Port of Entry made a massive bust…

The country’s foreign minister has accused the global body of trying to “keep quiet” a report on acts of sexual violence Israel has recalled its ambassador to the UN after Secretary General…

US New-Home Listings Jump Most In Three Years The 30-year fixed mortgage rate is edging closer to 7%, having stayed below 6.6% since May 2023. With mortgage rates remaining high, we ask…

One Bank Asks “Could A Central Bank Somewhere Be Buying Crypto Assets?” By Benjamin Picton of Rabobank We’re going to build a (tariff) wall… Crude oil prices spiked on Friday evening following…

Netanyahu Fuming Over Rival Cabinet Minister’s Rogue Trip To White House, Capitol Hill In a episode that underscores the tensions straining Israel’s wartime unity government, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly…

The Complete Graphic History Of “Bitcoin Is A Bubble” Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, Courtesy of Establishment Shills, Central Banksters… and goldbugs It’s that time again, when Bitcoin is about to…

Israel’s Manpower Crisis Worsens As Wave Of Resignations Hits Army Via The Cradle The Israeli Army Spokesperson’s Unit, led by Lt Col Daniel Hagari, has witnessed a large wave of resignations.  Among…

The plaintiffs are claiming that they are owned a combined $128 million in severance Former Twitter executives who lost their jobs after Elon Musk bought the social media platform have sued the…

Why “They” Are Still Running Nikki Haley Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “She’s so transparently weak and sort of ridiculous and doesn’t know anything, and just thinks that…

Canadian Leftists Furious Over Alberta Town That Voted To Ban Pride Flags On Public Property The woke movement is not a civil rights movement fighting for equality, it’s a political/cult movement fighting…

The Five FUBARs Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “How many of these places where polite society turns out to be provably insane do we have to see before we stop…

Gold & Bitcoin Close At Record Highs As Bonds & Stocks Dip A quiet macro day let the grown-ups play… and today saw gold and bitcoin roar up to record closing highs…

Julian Roepcke has shared a video showing Ukrainian troops shooting wounded Russians in the head German reporter Julian Roepcke on Monday voiced objections to a video he said showed Ukrainian soldiers executing…

Lawmakers in Paris have voted overwhelmingly to enshrine the right to terminate a pregnancy France has responded to the rollback of abortion rights in the US by becoming the first nation in…

Powell To Face Pressure On Rates From Democrats, Bank Rules From Republicans Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Fed Chair Jerome Powell meets with Congress this week. He will face pressure on…

Warsaw has agreed to buy thousands of anti-tank grenade launchers from Saab, continuing its ramp-up in military spending Poland has continued its military buildup in response to the Russia-Ukraine conflict by agreeing…

The puzzling security choice comes after a major leak revealed a top-level discussion on attacking Russia’s Crimean Bridge The German Defense Ministry has protected a press statement on leaked military communications behind…

FAA Finds Non-Compliance Issues In Boeing’s 737 Max Manufacturing Program The Federal Aviation Administration’s six-week audit of the clowns running Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems has revealed “multiple instances where the companies allegedly…

A street in Nikopol will bear the name of an SS officer and recipient of the Iron Cross Nikopol has renamed one of its streets after Pyotr Dyachenko, an officer of the…

Thousands of inmates have been freed from the Caribbean nation’s two largest prisons by an armed gang attack Haiti’s government has declared a three-day state of emergency and a night-time curfew after…

Good Story Versus Bad Valuations Authored by Will Denyer via Evergreen Gavekal blog, In the run-up to Nvidia’s earnings release late Wednesday, there was a palpable concern in the market that the…

“We Remain Frustrated”: Investors Raise Buyout Bid For Macy’s After Board’s “Delay Tactics” On Sunday, Arkhouse Management Co. and Brigade Capital Management raised their all-cash bid to purchase Macy’s at $24 per…

The German government has warned the West against playing Moscow’s game following the ‘Crimean Bridge attack’ audio leak The German government has brushed aside claims that it is preparing for a military…

Tirana has reopened its former “Stalin City” air base to serve the Western military bloc’s aircraft Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has reopened a Soviet-era airfield, saying his country needs to provide…

Time To ‘Deep-Six’ The Democrats’ Brand Of Democracy Authored by Albin Sadar via American Greatness, The Democrats warn us almost daily that re-electing Donald Trump in 2024 will spell the end of…

Generals Discussed Secrets Of Ukraine War Using Off-The-Shelf Video Phone Tech, One Dialed In From Hotel Room Germany has been in continued damaged control in the wake of the audio leak of…

Today, the Supreme Court gave a unanimous 9-0 rejection of Colorado’s state-level attempt to keep President trump off the ballot via Section 3 of the 14th amendment.  Congress, not the States, is…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that the former US president offers “the only chance” for a peace deal in Ukraine Hungary is “betting on the return of Donald Trump” to…

China Panics As Bitcoin Nears Record High, Tops Meta’s Market-Cap; ETH ETF “Potential Isn’t Priced In” Bitcoin has reached a new record high in over 30 currencies this week, including India and…

Gangs Overrun Haiti’s Two Largest Prisons, Freeing Nearly 4,000 Criminals As US Urges All Americans Exit Haiti’s problems just went from bad to worse, as the UN and embattled Haitian government of…