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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…

Outlining the framework for the move and passing the legislation are two different things, according to Eric Mamer The European Commission does not yet have a clear timeframe for talks on Ukraine’s…

Dispersion, Correlation, Volatility And The Stock Bubble Submitted by SpotGamma; Join the SpotGamma Volatility Challenge and get ready for 4 days of in-depth exploration into volatility, where traders of stocks, options, and…

Abbas Gallyamov is alleged to have defamed the Russian military A Moscow court on Monday issued a warrant for the arrest of Abbas Gallyamov, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s former speechwriter, whom Russia…

The End Of “Extend And Pretend” Authored by Daouglas French via The Mises Institute, The number of U.S. commercial foreclosures spiked to 635 in January 2024 from a low of 141 in…

The US tech giant has been accused of abusing its dominant position in the market for the distribution of music streaming apps The EU announced on Monday it has fined tech giant…

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…

Biden’s Disapproval Rating Soars To 59%, Trump’s Lead Biggest Yet Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, In the latest New York Times/Siena Poll Trump has his biggest lead over Biden ever. And…

The bloc promised to supply Ukraine with artillery rounds but never said they would be given away, EU Commissioner Thierry Breton has said Ukraine should not expect the EU to supply it…

Washington has started talks with regional allies on inviting Tokyo to collaborate on defense tech, Nikkei Asia has reported The US is reportedly in discussions with the UK and Australia about inviting…

Peace negotiations are the only solution to the Ukraine conflict, the Hungarian leader has said The West will not defeat Russia in the proxy war it has unleashed in Ukraine, Hungarian Prime…

Ukraine now self-identifies as a weapons maker and wants help transitioning What do you do to boost GDP when your country is neck-deep in military conflict and your allies’ main interest is…

Hunter Biden Held Previously Undisclosed Meeting With The “F**king Spy Chief Of China” First brother Jim Biden told Congress last week that Hunter Biden held a previously undisclosed meeting with Patrick Ho,…

The judges unanimously rejected a bid to prevent the former president from contesting this year’s election in Colorado The US Supreme Court has shot down an effort by Democrat activists to stop…

Key Events This Busy Week: Payrolls, Powell, China People’s Congress And Much More As DB’s Jim Reid writes this morning, we’re currently on a run that you may not see again in…

Hitler’s ghost still haunts the EU country, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has said Germany could face “dire consequences” if something is not done about the mindset that produced the conversation between…

Kiev has said that it has no intention of prolonging its current agreement with Gazprom, which expires at the end of this year Ukraine would continue the transit of Russian natural gas through…

In Unanimous Decision, Supreme Court Rules Trump To Remain On Presidential Ballots The US Supreme Court has ruled in a unanimous decision that former President Donald Trump will be allowed to remain…

Bitcoin, Bullion, & Breakevens Soar As Markets Lose Faith In ‘Inflation-Fighting’ Fed Unpossible… For months, the talking heads have espoused soft-landings and disinflationary trends and rate-cut-paloozas (but hell no recession at all)….

A growing number believe the president isn’t doing enough to help the Palestinian people, the survey found Some 60% of US voters are unhappy with President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas…

Kiev has also lost three Bradley infantry fighting vehicles in the area, the Defense Ministry has said Russian forces have destroyed a second US-supplied Ukrainian M1 Abrams tank in Donbass, the Defense…

Central Bank Gold Buying Expected To Remain Hot Over Next Several Years Authored by Mike Maharrey via Money Metals, Net central bank gold buying exceeded 1,000 tons two straight years, and commodity…

Globalization has created international issues, Isaaс Pomboloka told RT Global problems should be solved collectively to build a shared future, Zambian digital healthcare specialist, Isaaс Pomboloka, has told RT in an exclusive…

Medicine, economics, and energy are the most popular fields among applicants, the federal educational exchange agency has reported Russian universities welcome approximately 30,000 students from Africa every year, Pavel Shevtsov, deputy director…

Biden Trots Out Harris To Issue Biting Criticism Of Israel & ‘Inhumane’ Conditions In Gaza President Biden has sent Vice President Kamala Harris out before the world to do his dirty work…

The country’s rights bodies have demanded swift justice amid national outrage Indian authorities have arrested three men over the alleged rape of a Brazilian social media influencer who recounted the purported attack in a video…

Nothing Left To SAVE: Spirit Plummets After JetBlue Terminates Acquisition As Bankruptcy Looms Several weeks ago, when retail momentum chasers were hot in pursuit of the latest hot tip from Dave Portnoy……

Why They Are Creating $1 Trillion Of Debt Every 100 Days Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “There has been abundant evidence of great evil at work in the…

Estonia’s Kaja Kallas is reportedly viewed by some leaders as too aggressive toward Moscow to become foreign policy chief Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is unlikely to succeed Spain’s Josep Borrell as…

Apple Hit With $2 Billion EU Antitrust Fine; Concerns Rise Over iPhone Demand Apple shares dipped in premarket trading in New York after the European Union imposed a fine of €1.84 billion…

The ex-US president has brushed off Nikki Haley’s win, saying he purposely avoided campaigning in Washington DC Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley defeated former US President Donald Trump in her party’s Washington…

There is no future for the country outside of the sphere of Russian strategic interests, the senior official has said Ukraine lies within the sphere of Russian strategic interests and has no…

S&P Futures Flat As MegaTech Bubble Gets Bigger Around The Globe US equity futures were flat after closing Friday at a new record high above 5,100 for the first time ever, and…

The recording shows that the West is directly involved in the Ukraine conflict, Dmitry Peskov has said The leaked recording of German military officials discussing a possible strike on the Crimean Bridge…

Airbus Pulls Further Ahead Of Boeing With 50 Delivery Orders In February European aerospace giant Airbus SE delivered around 49 aircraft in February, bringing the total for the year to 79, industry…

There Are Always The Exact Same Number Of Buyers And Sellers: What Matters Is Which Side Is More Motivated By Eric Peters, CIO of One River asset management My first trade ever…

Moscow’s actions are a response to the West’s encroachment, the former president has said Russia is not seeking to expand its borders through occupation, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday….

The country’s army chief of staff reportedly approached his coalition peers with the idea weeks ago France suggested deploying NATO troops to Ukraine in order to assist Kiev’s forces with crucial tasks,…

Officials allegedly spent $3.5 million on a surveillance system to snoop on the government’s rivals Poland’s National Prosecutor’s Office used Hermes spyware to snoop on political opponents under the previous government, the…

A Russian cosmonaut and three NASA astronauts successfully reached orbit on board Elon Musk’s spacecraft A SpaceX rocket carrying a Russian-US crew to the International Space Station (ISS) successfully launched from the…

Issuance Window Opening? Reddit Targets $6.5 Billion Valuation In IPO As spring approaches, there could be an uptick in capital market activity, hinting at the thawing of the prolonged stagnation in the…

Fed Chair Tight-Lipped On Foreign Nations’ Evacuation Of Gold From U.S. Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, Concerned about a weaponized financial system, many countries have signaled plans to remove their…

The European Commission has said the platform potentially qualifies as a ‘gatekeeper’ under the bloc’s digital antitrust rules Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) could be forced to follow a set of strict…

Iran Executes ‘Terrorist’ Over Alleged Mossad-Linked Drone Operation Iran has continued to publicize that it is executing alleged saboteurs linked to Israel. On Sunday state TV announced the judiciary had put to…

The discussion involving top German officers on an unencrypted platform has elicited the censure of allies Revelations made by German military officials in a leaked recording of a conversation involving top officers…

Innocent Kagbara made the comment in an exclusive interview with RT on the sidelines of the World Youth Festival People cannot build a multipolar world without Russia, a member of the National…

The Catalyst That Could ‘Standardize’ Bitcoin Authored by ‘Quoth The Raven’ via BictoinMagazine.,com, The Bitcoin network teaches us that there’s safety in numbers. Now, what could bring people together in numbers to…

The Weaponization Of Crude Could Trigger The Next Financial Shock Since Hamas launched a brutal terrorist attack on Israel on October 7 – and the resulting invasion of Gaza by the Israel…

Drastic And Irreversible Climate Geoengineering Worries Scientists Authored by Katie Spence via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Earth is too hot and only getting hotter, according to governments and global bodies…

The Democratic Socialists of America has urged people to show their opposition to US support for Israel in its war with Hamas The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the largest socialist organization…

People in Almaty fled outdoors to safety as a magnitude-5 quake struck Almaty, the biggest city in Kazakhstan, was shaken by an earthquake on Monday, local media reports, prompting mass evacuations and…

Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno has ruled Chad since 2021, when his father was killed fighting rebels Chad’s transitional leader, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, also known as Mahamat Kaka, announced over the weekend…

Olive oil costs across the bloc have been on the rise since mid-2023, according to Eurostat Olive oil prices have skyrocketed across the EU over the past year amid unfavorable weather conditions,…

Officials convicted for corruption should be sent to the frontlines as should many others, justice minister has argued Ukraine should not hesitate to draft convicted criminals into military service, Justice Minister Denis…

German officers allegedly discussed sending Taurus missiles to Ukraine in a way that would avoid accusations of direct involvement German military officials allegedly discussed how they could secretly help Ukraine to damage…

New Footage Shows Thousands Of Gazans Clamoring To Access US Aid Dropped From C-130s As we reported earlier, the US made its first successful aid airdrops over Gaza on Saturday, at a…

More Western air defenses are needed to protect the company property of DTEK, according to the CEO Ukraine may lose the “energy war” against Russia due to a shortage of air defenses,…

Agricultural producers in Poland are outraged that their Ukrainian competitors can sell grain in the EU without paying tariffs The protests at the border by Polish farmers against Ukrainian agricultural imports have…

World Unprepared For Fight Against Chinese Disinformation Around Elections, Warns Analyst Authored by Eva Fu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The world at large isn’t prepared for the pervasive disinformation operations…

Two UAVs worth $500 each helped to destroy a multimillion-dollar heavy tank New footage has revealed how two Russian kamikaze drones destroyed a US-supplied Ukrainian M1 Abrams tank. According to RIA Novosti,…

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…

For Socialists, It Doesn’t Matter if Socialism “Works” – What Matters Is Power Authored by Jason Montgomery via The Mises Institute, A recent rash of libertarian-leaning right-wing podcasters’ rehashing of a shopworn takedown…

Russian Strike Rocks Ukraine’s Odesa After Rare Drone Attack On St. Petersburg  Russia’s military may have its sights set on Ukraine’s key southern port city of Odesa next. On Saturday a wave…

US Supreme Court Ruling On Trump Ballot-Ban Case Could Come On March 4 Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Supreme Court could issue a ruling as early as…

Russian Oil No Longer Sells At A Discount As Nobody Complies With Western Sanctions Remember when, in the immediate aftermath of the Ukraine war, Russian oil immediately traded down to a discount…

Appeals Court Overturns Jan. 6 Defendant’s Sentence, Potentially Impacting Dozens Of Cases Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An appeals court in Washington unanimously ruled that a Jan….

Trudeau Scraps Event With Italy’s Meloni After Pro-Palestinian Protesters Block Venue Entrance The Canadian government and the Trudeau administration apparently cowered in the face of a sizable group of protesters angry at…

‘Atlas Shrugged’ Comes To Life In California Authored by Daniel Kowalski via FEE.org, The plot of Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged can be briefly summed up as follows: the productive leaders and innovators…

Most of the Americans who will again vote for the elderly Democrat have conceded that he cannot be an effective president US President Joe Biden has apparently failed to convince his supporters…

Ombudswoman Tatyana Moskalkova has stated that all the necessary procedures are already in place from previous prisoner swaps Russia is willing to hand over the remains of the Ukrainian prisoners of war…

The incredible spectacle was seen in various Russian regions as far south as Moscow Stunning images of the aurora borealis, commonly known as the northern lights, have been captured in the sky…

West Jerusalem will ramp up its Ukraine aid to retaliate for Moscow’s alleged backing of Hamas, Amir Weitmann has claimed An Israeli lawmaker has suggested that his government will take a harder…

Why Is Congress Nuking Northeast Gasoline Reserve As Part Of Bill To Avert Shutdown? On Sunday night, Congressional negotiators revealed a bill which will fund key parts of the government through the…

Israel Opts Out Of Gaza Talks In Cairo, Contradicting Prior White House Optimism It was only on Saturday that the White House issued optimistic statements saying Israel has already “basically accepted” a…

No, The Court Is Not “Slow Walking” The Trump Immunity Case Authored by Jonathan Turley, The decision of the Supreme Court to review the immunity question in the Trump prosecution has brought…

The IDF has claimed that its troops only opened fire to protect themselves from the hungry crowd Most of the Palestinians killed when troops opened fire at a crowd massed near an…

Washington has given too few tanks to Kiev, prompting Moscow’s forces to hunt them down to get bonus payments, the serviceman has said The Russian troops have seemingly recorded a video, where…

Team Biden Braces For More ‘Uncommitted’ Protest Votes On Super Tuesday President Biden’s path to the Democratic nomination could become one of serial humiliation. As Super Tuesday looms, Team Biden is hoping…

The Ministry Of AI Truth Authored by CJ Hopkins via The Consent Factory, Remember HAL, the homicidal Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey? Well, if you haven’t had…

Photos and videos of the damaged US-made equipment have surfaced online and have been shared by Russian journalists The Russian forces have allegedly knocked out another one of the US-made Abrams tanks…

Letters Warn “You Cannot Keep Your Doctor” – Thousands Freaking Out By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk Does anyone recall the Obamacare promise “you can keep your doctor”. Up to 100,000 people might…

These Are The Best And Worst Performing Assets Of February And YTD 2024 As DB’s Henry Allen writes, February was another very strong month for risk assets, with many major world equity…

Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s age and mental fitness are being questioned, and some transparency is long overdue With American voters increasingly of the opinion that neither President Joe Biden nor…

Lawyers Who Voided Musk’s “Excessive” $56 Billion Pay-Plan Seek $6 Billion Worth Of Legal Fees In case you were wondering whether or not the lawyers challenging Elon Musk’s pay plan were doing pro…

“Not a single truck” is able to pass the blockade, Kiev’s border guards have said Protesting Polish farmers blockaded all six border crossings to Ukraine on Sunday, according to Kiev’s border security…

Defense chief Boris Pistorius has called the exposure of comments by his own officers “disinformation” German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has tried to sidestep controversy over an audio recording of senior Bundeswehr…

Sergey Brin has acknowledged that the tech giant “messed up” in developing its Gemini artificial intelligence system Google’s Russian-born co-founder has responded to public backlash over the company’s “woke” artificial intelligence product…