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This Is The Most Dangerous Time To Drive In Each US State Thousands of commuters around the world lose their lives in vehicular accidents each year, and in the U.S., the most…

US Strike Kills Iran-Backed Leader In Baghdad Believed Behind Attacks On US Bases Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, A US drone strike in Baghdad killed a senior militia leader on Thursday, marking another significant…

“Early Signs Of Rebound”: Manhattan Home Prices Rise For First Time In Year For the first time in a year, Manhattan home prices in the fourth quarter rose as homebuyers came off…

Photos circulating online appeared to show a fire not far from Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota A long-range US B-1B Lancer bomber has crashed outside Ellsworth Air Force Base in South…

I have long been saying the Jack Smith special counsel team is the reassembly of the Robert Mueller team.  Today, inside an article {SEE HERE} outlining other ancillary matters about the 2020…

Florida Surgeon General Warns Against Using mRNA COVID Vaccines Over Possible Cancer Risk Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Florida’s Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, is warning against…

Potential Running Mates For Trump, Including 2 Wildcards Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As former President Donald Trump’s polling lead over his Republican rivals has come to…

White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, John Kirby, previously pledged that Iran would be limited on how they could use the $6 billion in funds we gave them through…

White House Says Russia Used North Korean Ballistic Missiles In Ukraine Throughout much of the Ukraine conflict, the US and UK have alleged secret North Korean artillery shell transfers to Russia, via…

These 11 States Are Leading America’s Oil Production Boom Authored by Robert Rapier via OilPrice.com, Texas dominates U.S. oil production, contributing 42.6% of the total output, mainly due to the Permian Basin….

Philly Police Fired Their “Diversity, Equity And Inclusion Officer” This Week Thanks to help from Harvard’s Claudine Gay, who was unable to condemn harassment on her campus against Jewish students and was…

A veteran State Department staffer also left his post in October over Washington’s support of war in Gaza A senior official at the US Department of Education has resigned in protest of…

This latest action by Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams is remarkable.  Even the leftist media are stunned at the action being taken by Mayor Adams in order to stop illegal…

The Houthi Butterfly Flaps Its Wings Earlier, we reported that on Wednesday, the White House warned that this ongoing Red Sea turmoil could hit the US economy in a briefing: The White House…

Milei’s Labor Reforms Hit Roadblock In Argentinian Labor Appeals Court As it turns out, overhauling an entire country can be somewhat of a daunting task, as is being put on display in…

For Miners’ Seasonal Rally, China Is The Wild Card By Michael Msika, Bloomberg markets live reporter and strategist January and February are usually pretty good months for Europe’s mining stocks, as factories…

Justice Department Sues Texas Over New Law Cracking Down On Illegal Immigrants Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against Texas over…

Protests By Angry Chinese Workers Surge To Most In 7 Years, Posing A Threat To Beijing’s Rule Chinese workers staged twice as many protests to defend their rights in 2023 compared to…

2024: The Year To Cancel ‘Wokeness’ In America Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times, When it comes to spending their money and supporting their values, many Americans are now wide…

US Admits “No Signs Of Abating” As Houthis Escalate Red Sea Attacks, Deploy Suicide Drone Boat The Houthis have decided to respond to fresh warnings and threats from the US and Western…

Harvard – Out Of The Frying Pan Into The Fire Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Harvard may assume the forced resignation of its president, Claudine Gay, has finally ended…

A wave of UAVs has followed a failed ‘Storm Shadow’ strike Three dozen Ukrainian drones were shot down while attempting to strike Crimea in the early hours of Friday, according to the…

Kennedy Condemns Efforts To Remove Trump From Ballots Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr said Donald Trump and American voters were being treated unfairly by efforts across the country to block…

The army has to get replacements somehow, Valery Zaluzhny told lawmakers If members of parliament can’t agree on a new mobilization law, they are welcome to volunteer for the front themselves, commander…

There is zero doubt, none, that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is positioning herself on the short list for President Trump’s Vice-President or a very senior level role in the next Trump…

James Woods hits the bullseye with this short quote which cuts through all the pretending: “Why in God’s name are we having to negotiate with our own government to obey the law?” …

Conservative commentator Mike Cernovich claimed the FBI was hiding the deceased pedophile’s blackmail stash A much-hyped trove of nearly 1,000 newly-unsealed pages of court documents from a 2015 defamation case filed by…

Save The Date: Media Titans Clash In Our Live, No Holds Barred “January 6” Debate Depending on whom you ask, it was either “the darkest day in American history” or “a guided…

Bank Bailout Fund Usage Just Keeps Soaring, Money-Market Funds Biggest Inflow Since SVB Crisis Money-market funds saw massive inflows in the week-ending Jan 3rd, jumping $79BN to a new record high just…

Apocalypse Now: The Government’s Use Of Controlled-Chaos To Maintain Power Authored by John and Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, Figure One: Just stop a few of their machines and radios and…

‘Goldilocks’ Gored By Growth Gains; Bitcoin Bounces As Rate-Cut Hopes Hammered Strong jobs data (ADP jobs added more than expected, slowing wage growth, and initial jobless claims at 2023 lows) and strong…

Washington will prop up Kiev for “as long as it takes,” but Kiev must ultimately become able to defend itself on its own The level of Washington’s military funding for Ukraine may…

Temperatures could drop to -54C in some parts of the country Unusually cold temperatures have triggered frost emergencies in half a dozen regions of Russia, including Moscow and St. Petersburg. Record-breaking winter…

Belgorod has been targeted by Ukrainian artillery for the 7th day in a row Ukrainian rocket artillery has launched another “indiscriminate” attack on Belgorod, local authorities confirmed shortly after midnight on Friday….

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…