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The shooter, 17-year-old Dylan Butler, was a student at Perry High School in Iowa A 17-year-old student at Perry High School in Iowa shot six people at the school before turning the…

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Magnificent Seven’s January Start Gives Clues To Market’s Year Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The first week of the year’s performance in the seven largest S&P 500 stocks has some…

Watch: Triple-Felon Flies Across Vegas Courtroom, Attacks Lady Judge A Wednesday sentencing hearing in Las Vegas suddenly looked like football practice, as the defendant leapt over the judge’s bench and tackled her…

‘Make-Believe’ Crisis Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, The ease with which any critical thinking individual can obliterate the climate change narrative makes you realize it has nothing to…

Western hostility doesn’t mean Russia should behave like Ukraine, the foreign minister has said English is a useful language and Russians should not give it up just to spite the West like…

“The Public Should Be Made Aware Of This” “The public should be made aware of this,” Elon Musk commented on X, referencing a post by former Texas Representative Mayra Flores, which showed…

AI Can’t Paper Over Semiconductor Weakness By Heather Burke, BLoomberg Markets Live analyst and reporter A semiconductor company profit warning serves as a reminder that pockets of weakness remain in the tech…

“In Defense Of Democracy”, Desperate Dems Drop ‘Trump Paid Off By Princes & Premiers’ Report (But Suggest No Charges) You know it’s bad when… you bring back the ‘c’-word. House Democrats appear…

The West will continue to lose influence this year, but it won’t go quietly into that good night Predicting the future is the most thankless task when it comes to international politics….

Employees critical of Elon Musk’s “sexually charged” rhetoric were fired from the aerospace company, a legal filing says US federal labor regulators have accused the American aerospace manufacturer SpaceX of illegally firing…

With its new government, Poland now has a “real problem with democracy,” opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski has said The leader of Poland’s Law and Justice (PiS) party Jaroslaw Kaczynski has called on…

How To Make An Economy Better In Election Year Authored by Law Ka-chung via The Epoch Times, In 2024, presidential and congressional elections will take place in many countries. There has been…

Washington is adapting its strategy to counter Islamist threats in Africa, the newspaper has reported The United States is seeking to install military drone infrastructure in airfields along the West African coast,…

Government, Social Assistance, & Health Is Over 100% Of Job Creation In These 3 ‘Progressive’ States Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The welfare state is booming, especially in the sanctuary states….

ISIS Claims Responsibility For Mass Casualty Suicide Bombings In Iran Most international reports yesterday said that over 100 were killed, with still others like Fox News citing a high figure of 200…

Dmitry Kuleba has hedged Kiev’s bets on the 2024 US presidential election Seeing Donald Trump become the US president again would not be a disaster for Kiev, which would find a way…

The document dump also exposed details about the pedophile’s friendships with boldface names like Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton Nearly 1,000 pages of court documents from a 2015 defamation case against now-deceased…

Naturalization rules will also be eased for family members President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree granting the right to obtain Russian passports to foreigners who sign up for service in the…

Clinton-Appointed Judge Dismisses Trump Ballot Disqualification Case ‘With Prejudice’ Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal judge in California dismissed a lawsuit that sought to keep former…

Strike Two: Apple Hit With Another Downgrade On iPhone Demand Worries Wall Street analysts have downgraded Apple for the second time this week, citing a deteriorating outlook for iPhone sales and macro…

As a humanitarian catastrophe unfolds in Palestine that no international organization can cope with, locals tell their stories of survival Since October 7, 2023, an estimated 22,000 Palestinians have lost their lives…

Over 9,000 criminal cases have been launched, with some 2,600 having already made it to court, Ukraine’s interior minister says Ukraine has more than 9,000 active criminal proceedings being brought against alleged…

“Heavy Symbolism”: Hamas-Israel Conflict Risks Engulfing More Of The Region By Stefan Koopman, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Heavy Symbolism European stocks fell further on Wednesday, taking a cue from the negative…

WTI Extends Losses After Massive Product Inventory Builds, Large SPR Add Oil prices are sliding back again this morning, after surging yesterday to erase Tuesday’s losses, following a bigger than expected crude…

Claims Data Confirm Receding Recession Risk Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Claims data just released imply an economy with few signs of an imminent recession. The rise in yields is…

Only 13 EVs Now Eligible For $7,500 Tax Credit Due To New Biden Admin Rules Just as EV demand appeared to be nearing super-saturation, incentives for buying electric vehicles are starting to…

Washington had earlier rejected an Israeli proposal to resettle Palestinians outside of Gaza as “inflammatory” Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has rejected US criticism of proposals to resettle Palestinians in territories…

The Times They Are A-Changin’: How To Trade The Next Algo Shift By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities The Times They Are A-Changin’ – Impacting Market Signals & Correlations We, the market,…

‘Soft’ Services Survey Soars To 5-Month-Highs As ‘Hard’ Data Hits 2023 Lows Following US Manufacturing PMI’s disappointing decline in December, US Services PMI was expected to rise in December and it did,…

Moscow “plays a very important role in world politics,” the Kazakh PM says Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has characterized Russia as his country’s “main partner and ally,” adding that bilateral relations are…

A series of hoax email threats have forced some states to clear their administrative buildings A mass-emailed bomb threat received by officials in several US states on Wednesday prompted the evacuation of…

“The System Is Not Going To Let Trump Win” – Dems’ Real Puppet Isn’t Gavin, It’s Nikki: Tucker And Vivek With establishment favorite Nikki Haley overtaking long-time runner-up Ron DeSantis in the…

Asia-to-Europe shipping prices have doubled as logistics giants are forced to reroute cargos around the southern tip of Africa Container freight rates are surging as attacks by Yemen-based Houthi rebels on cargo…

Why Are So Many Californians Dying? Authored by Thomas Buckley via The Brownstone Institute, Covid has claimed about 105,000 lives in the state since 2020. In that same time period, 82,000 more…

Peter Schiff: 2024 Could Be Horrible For The Dollar Authored by Joel Bauman via SchiffGold.com, Peter Schiff left a stark warning in his recent podcast: “2024 could be a horrible year for the dollar.” …

Initial Jobless Claims End 2023 At Year Lows The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time fell to just 202k last week (week-ending Dec 30th) from +220k the…

RFK Jr. Announces He Will Appear On Ballot In Utah Authored by Jeff Louderback via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a campaign rally…

Manufacturing Jobs Decline In Latest ADP Report, Services Soar After four straight months of disappointments, ADP Employment Report printed +164k jobs in December, better than the +125k expected, up from a revised…

Futures Halt Slide As Oil Extends Rally After the worst start start to the year in almost two decades – it was just the third time in history that the Nasdaq started…

Spot Container Rates Surge By 173% Due To Red Sea Disruptions Drone and missile attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants on commercial vessels in one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes have…

Pyongyang has described the military exercises as “reckless war maneuvers” Troops from South Korea and the United States have held week-long combat exercises involving heavy weaponry and live-firing drills close to the…

Daily El Pais claims Kiev’s troops are having to make do with weapons that are often ill-tailored to battlefield realities Ukrainian troops are facing serious ammunition shortages, newspaper El Pais has reported….

Ties with Moscow serve New Delhi’s interests as much as relations with Washington do, the top diplomat says  India’s close relationship with Russia is as important for New Delhi as ties with…

The 10 Most Positive Things That Might Happen In 2024 Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, A close friend told me that my articles are generally too gloomy. He asked me to…

The character of the Indian community in Moscow and elsewhere in the country has changed from what it used to be in the Soviet times – and their most urgent task is…

Massive ‘Whales’ Dominated Crypto-Buying In December, ETH Demand Trumps BTC Bitcoin may have made upward of 100,000 U.S. dollar millionaires as it enters its sixteenth year. As CoinTelegraph’s William Suberg reports, data shows…

2024: Here’s What Happens (According To Jim Rickards) Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, In 2023, we saw the outbreak of a banking crisis (that isn’t over), a new Middle East war…

Concerns surrounding the world’s most valuable company have sent shockwaves through the industry In the wake of Barclays downgrading Apple’s stock and trimming its price target, the tech giant experienced a 4%…

Carrefour said to be stopping sales of soft drinks and potato chips after a fresh price hike French supermarket Carrefour is telling shoppers that it will no longer sell PepsiCo products such…

A total of 54 countries have been helping Ukraine amid the conflict, Moscow has claimed Russia’s Defense Ministry has published statistics detailing the aid supplied to Kiev from abroad during the conflict…

The Purchasing Managers’ Index has been in decline for seven consecutive months Business activity in Europe’s 20-nation single currency bloc continued to contract at the end of 2023, as a downturn in…

The ruling against the former US president by judges in the western state “defies common sense,” his legal team argues The Republican Party’s presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has asked the US Supreme…

US Crowned World’s Top LNG Exporter The United States has become the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas, surpassing Qatar and Australia for the first time. This development is at odds…

Washington sees it as a sign that West Jerusalem is shifting from large-scale bombing to lower-intensity actions, the outlet said Israel’s withdrawal of troops from Gaza indicates that it is “listening” to…

The Day The Dollar Dies? Authored by J.G.Collins via The Epoch Times, Since roughly the last year of World War II, the U.S. dollar has enjoyed what one-time French finance minister Valéry…

After A Hard Year, The World Is Hopeful For Better In 2024 Despite ongoing conflicts, threats from AI and the imminent climate catastrophe, global optimism is seeing an uptick for 2024. As…

Crude prices had previously surged nearly 3% due to ongoing tensions in the Middle East and an outage in Libya Global prices for crude oil increased on Thursday, stretching gains scored during…

A government spokesperson clarifies that Berlin does not currently intend to provide Kiev with Taurus cruise missiles Germany still has no plans to provide long-range Taurus cruise missiles for Ukraine, government spokesperson…

Ukraine’s Leopard 2 Tanks Are Nearly All Destroyed Or Broken Authored by Denes Albert via ReMix News, Of the 18 German-made Leopard 2AG main battle tanks sent to Ukraine, only a few…

Here Are All Global Shipping’s Chokepoints With more and more shipping companies extending full or partial closures of Red Sea shipping routes due to attacks by Yemeni rebels, global trade could be…

Kiev’s forces will inevitably lose some of their Abrams M1s once they’re deployed on the battlefield, the outlet acknowledged It’s “not clear” what Ukraine is doing with US-made Abrams M1 main battle…

Every 15 people per 100,000 are estimated to be living rough across the country, researchers say   The number of homeless in rural England has surged by 40% in five years amid…

G7 Versus ‘BRI-Plus’ Authored by Anders Corr via The Epoch Times, China’s international organizations are getting bigger and more roguish while claiming to champion a “fair” and “multilateral” international system. Autocracies and…

The White House has said it has no funds to offer Kiev following its latest aid package ahead of the new year Ukraine has no alternative to US aid in its conflict…

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…

The Juggling Act: Is 2024 A Pivotal Year For The Globalists Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, If you want to know if a society is on the verge of great and…

The SBU security service said four Kiev residents could face 12 years in prison for sharing “illegal” footage Four Ukrainian citizens have been arrested after posting videos of Russian airstrikes on the…

“Switched Off”: Streaming Service Cancellations Rise As ‘Streamflation’ Bites How consumers feel about their favorite streaming services jacking up prices.  The point behind ‘cord-cutting’ was to enjoy premium content and movies through…

I don’t write much about the myriad of sick and twisted stories that surround Jeffrey Epstein, because everything in that rabbit hole is a matrix of perversion and manipulation by sick people,…

An Increasing Number Of Americans See Foreign Policy As A Top Issue Via The Libertarian Institute, According to a new poll, the number of voters who view foreign policy as a top issue has…

The gist of the Tucker Carlson outlook is: You thought Democrats were going to dump Biden for Gavin Newsom, but they’re not. They’re backing Nikki Haley instead. In this discussion segment Tucker…

Average US Household Can Afford Only Cheapest 16% Of Listed Homes Submitted by Sam Bourgi of CreditNews For the average American, 2023 was the worst year ever for housing affordability—and now there’s…

More Than 140 Drug Brands Will Have Their Prices Hiked Heading Into 2024 More than 140 brands of drugs are going to see their prices hiked heading into the new year. And…

The US-style measure came up as Kiev has struggled to mobilize troops One of the members of the Ukrainian defense industry’s new governing board has floated the idea of using the American-style…

Elon Musk Begins Launching Satellite Cellphone Towers Into Space Elon Musk’s SpaceX started the new year with a Falcon 9 rocket launch of the firm’s first-ever direct-to-cell satellites.  The six @Starlink satellites…

For those who walk the deep weeds, this little story in Politico will make a lot of sense. POLITICO – President Joe Biden is headed to Charleston, South Carolina, next week to…

The FBI-Tainted Whitmer ‘Kidnap Plot’ You’ve Heard Next To Nothing About Authored by Julie Kelly via RealClear Investigations, In a fiery exchange last month, CNN anchorwoman Abby Phillip told GOP presidential candidate…

CPI Reality Check: Chick-Fil-A Has Hiked Prices 21% In Just Two Years While we keep letting the government tell us that inflation is at 3%, back out in the real world price…

India Denies Sanctions Hold Back Imports Of Russian Crude Oil By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com India’s lower imports of Russian crude oil in recent weeks were the result of unattractive discounts, not…

Washington has denied any involvement in the bombing and said there is no indication that Israel played a role The US State Department has insisted that Washington played no role in the…

The list includes names of the convicted sex trafficker’s associates, as well as witnesses and victims The names of nearly 200 people cited in a 2015 civil suit brought by Jeffrey Epstein…

Feds Want To Jail Ray Epps For Just 6 Months Over Role In Jan. 6 Riot While several key figures in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot were sentenced to 12 – 22…

Entry-Level Jobs Pay Six Figures In This Gritty Part Of America Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Josef McConnell, a tennis coach from Southern California, had been unemployed…

“You Asked A Stupid Question”: Vivek Destroys WaPo Reporter Who Demanded Woke Purity Test Vivek Ramaswamy took no shit from a Washington Post reporter this week, whose demand for a ‘woke’ fealty…

District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus was denying probation to a defendant in a battery case, when things in the courtroom became alarmingly violent. Just as Judge Holthus said she was denying…

Russia is committed to “uncompromising fight” against terrorism, the president has said Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a message of condolence to the Iranian leadership on Wednesday, condemning the killing of people…

Washington’s desperate attempts to curb Beijing’s high-tech development are hurting American allies more than the Chinese For years now, the US has been strongarming the Netherlands into accepting technology restrictions on the…

Trump, Endorsed By All House GOP Leaders, Urges SCOTUS To Overturn Colorado Ballot Ban As Deadline Looms Former President Trump on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to overturn a Colorado court’s landmark…

Chicago Led Nation In Homicides For 12th Year In A Row, Murder-Rate Still 5x NYC’s Authored by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner via Wirepoints.org, Count on hearing repeatedly this year from Chicago’s…

Dodge-y? These Are The Five Slowest-Selling New Vehicles Zach Shefska from online automotive marketplace CarEdge revealed a list of the five slowest-selling vehicles currently on the market.  Notably, four of these vehicles are from…

The US State Department has dismissed allegations over Israel’s deadly military campaign in the Palestinian enclave US President Joe Biden’s administration has rejected genocide allegations against Israel by multiple nations, including a…

The ex-president responded to Paris describing the Belgorod carnage as Ukrainian “self-defense” The French Foreign Ministry has justified Russia’s historic dislike of France by declaring the Ukrainian massacre of civilians in Belgorod…

The US has managed to fuel conflict in Europe, but states further east aren’t as willing to play Washington’s game The formation of a new international order is inevitably accompanied by a…

US Slams Hardline Israeli Ministers For Plan To Expel Palestinians From Gaza The Biden administration continues to clash with Israel over Gaza war policy, especially the question of the “day after” Hamas…

The current administration has claimed that the opposition party is standing in the way of securing the border US President Joe Biden’s administration has responded to the political fallout over a record…

Review Shows COVID-19 Vaccines “Significantly” More Deadly Than Flu Shots: Sen. Ron Johnson Authored by Samantha Flom via The Epoch Times, An analysis of Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data indicates…

There will be no limits to the fighting if Lebanon is attacked, Hassan Nasrallah has said Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Shia militia Hezbollah, said on Wednesday that his group did…

WTI Holds Day’s Gains After API Reports Big Crude Draw Crude prices soared today, round-tripping yesterday’s losses, after traders apparently woke up to the tensions in the MidEast. Traders have largely looked…