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Former Ukrainian president Pyotr Poroshenko has reportedly faced restrictions linked to “treason” charges Kiev has allegedly imposed sanctions on former president Pyotr Poroshenko, according to multiple local media outlets, as Vladimir Zelensky…

Final Tally For Biden-Era Improper Payments? $925 Billion… Via OpenTheBooks substack, The House Committee on Oversight and Reform spent today investigating how to address the crisis of improper payments made by the…

Polar Vortex Forces EIA To Hike 2025 US NatGas Price Forecast By 20% The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) published its Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) for February, which boosted its outlook for natural…

Restoring America With Common Sense Authored by Robert Curry via RealClearPolicy, Because common sense is the key to understanding America’s original design at every level, America was long known as “The Common…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has personally delivered the US president’s demands to Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky US President Donald Trump expects Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who visited Ukraine on Wednesday, to secure a…

Fired Inspectors General Sue Trump To Get Jobs Back A group of eight federal inspectors general has sued the Trump administration after they were ousted from their jobs last month. The IGs…

Age Of Transparency: We Need Mass Surveillance Of Governments Instead Of Citizens Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us In the wake of Donald Trump’s return to the White House there has been…

Many Top Universities Have Yet To Comply With Trump’s Order On DEI Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump recently put the wealthiest U.S. colleges and…

Liberal Hangout Reddit Craters After Google Algo Change Cripples User Growth For much of the past few months we had watched in stunned amazement as the world’s most overvalued and censored website,…

Ayatollah Responds To Trump’s Big Stick Threats: ‘Go Forward’ With Military Growth President Trump kicked off the week saying in a Fox interview that “Iran is very concerned. Iran is very frightened, to…

SpaceX To Switch Capsules To Bring 2 Stranded Astronauts Back To Earth Sooner Authored by Rudy Blalock via The Epoch Times, NASA said Tuesday they have revised their strategy in order to…

US Budget Deficit Hits A Record $840 Billion In First 4 Months Of 2025; Interest On Debt Hits Record $1.2 Trillion First the good news: Elon Musk’s DOGE is going through government…

The two leaders had a lengthy and “highly productive” phone conversation on Wednesday US President Donald Trump has named Saudi Arabia as a potential host for his first meeting with Russian President…

Judge Temporarily Blocks DOGE From Accessing Federal Student Aid Data Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, A federal judge has temporarily barred Elon Musk’s government efficiency team from accessing federal…

The US president made the comment after speaking on the phone with both the Ukrainian and Russian leaders on Wednesday Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky is eager to put an end to the…

Ita Buttrose, former ABC Chair, gave evidence under oath on the witness box on Tuesday (11/2/25) in Antoinette Lattouf’s unlawful termination case against the ABC and Ms Buttrose did not hesitate to…

Washington should confront rising threats while securing its own borders, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth believes The US intends to refocus its military priorities to confronting China’s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific…

President Donald Trump posts a brief outline of a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin to his Truth Social Account. President Trump: “I just had a lengthy and highly productive phone call…

Biden’s Parting Legacy: The Most Expensive Breakfast Ever… Breakfast in America has never been more expensive… Worse still, to cap off Bidenomic’s spectacular failure, we just witnessed the largest monthly jump in the price…

The full senate vote was 52-48. Senator Mitch McConnell (U-DC) was the lone republican who voted against confirming Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence (DNI).  Tulsi Gabbard is now DNI. Additionally,…

Hegseth Drops Bombshell Of Realism On Europe, Rules Out NATO Membership For Ukraine Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has definitively poured cold water on Ukraine’s hopes of gaining Washington backing to join NATO, at…

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a press briefing from the Brady Room in the White House. Anticipated start time 1:00 pm EST. Livestream Links Below: . . Posted in President…

Growth And Value Are Not Mutually Exclusive Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Might Nvidia and Tesla, with price-to-earnings ratios (P/E) nearly double and quadruple that of the S&P 500, respectively, be…

The release of American citizen Marc Fogel could contribute to a gradual rebuilding of trust, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov The release of US citizen Mark Fogel, who was jailed in…

“The Left Wants Us Dead” – Larry Klayman Warns Of “Violent Revolution In Short Order” Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Renowned Attorney Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch and later Freedom Watch USA, predicted…

White House Bars AP Reporter For Failing To Use ‘Gulf Of America’ Designation On Tuesday this week, AP spent its time writing about how the White House barred one of its press…

Poor 10Y Auction Tails Despite Surging Yields After yesterday’s stellar 3Y auction, many were expecting today’s sale of benchmark 10Y paper to also be very solid too, especially after the massive post-CPI…

Deep weeds walkers can infer quite a bit from the Zelenskyy pablum, including the necessary photograph that accompanies the text written for him by the CIA.  And without a scintilla of doubt,…

Steve Witkoff has highlighted the “great friendship” between the US and Russian presidents Relations between the US and Russia could improve, Steve Witkoff, a senior adviser to US President Donald Trump, has…

Brussels is unable to defend the bloc’s interests in economic disputes with the US, the Hungarian prime minister has claimed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has criticized EU leaders for their passive…

Computer programmer Aleksandr Vinnik is set to return home in exchange for Marc Fogel, the Russian national’s lawyer has told RT Russian crypto businessman and computer programmer Aleksandr Vinnik is set to…

El Mundo’s Alberto Rojas has been accused of illegally crossing into Kursk Region The Russian authorities have launched a criminal case against Spanish journalist Alberto Rojas for allegedly illegally crossing the border…

At Least 70,000 Federal Workers Have Accepted Buyout Offer: White House Official Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, At least 70,000 federal workers have opted into the Trump administration’s buyout…

Putin Invites Trump To Visit Moscow In ‘Highly Productive’ Call, Ready For Peace US President Trump and Russian President Putin held a nearly hour-and-a-half call this morning which the US president described…

Why They Really Hate Elon Musk Authored by Connor O’Keefe via The Mises Institute, As Elon Musk continues to take over and wind down parts of the federal bureaucracy, establishment figures from…

Mark Rutte has said the US-led military bloc would crush Russia if the country attacks member states NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that the US-led military…

Tulsi Confirmed As DNI, With Glitchin’ Mitch As Lone Republican ‘No’ Vote In what is hands-down the most surprising, and welcome, development concerning a Trump pick for a national security top post, Tulsi Gabbard…

Membership in the US-led bloc is not a “realistic outcome” of a peace deal, according to US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Ukraine will not be admitted to NATO as part of any…

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Ukraine is “annihilating” its youth with a new draft campaign, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said Ukraine’s new voluntary military recruitment campaign for men aged 18 to 24 is a…

Taxpayer-Subsidized College Tuition For Illegal Aliens… But Not For US Citizens Authored by Hans von Spakovsky and Cully Stimson via The Epoch Times, Did you know that 25 states offer in-state college tuition to illegal…

Vasily Malyuk has claimed that his agency is successfully purging traitors within its ranks Vasily Malyuk, the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), claimed on Wednesday that he had personally…

“These Numbers Are Uncomfortable For The Fed”: Wall Street Reacts To Today’s Red Hot CPI Ahead of today’s shockingly hot CPI report we warned that today’s CPI report would be, well, shockingly…

WTI Extends Losses After 3rd Straight Weekly Crude Build After a strong run in the last week, oil prices are lower this morning following API’s report last night indicated a large increase…

Foreign outlets do not provide balanced coverage of alleged atrocities by Ukraine in the occupied Russian territory, the Kremlin spokesman has said Western media outlets have been deliberately ignoring reported atrocities by…

Only 10 Of 195 Countries Meet UN Deadline To Submit Emissions-Reduction Plans Authored by Steven Kovac via The Epoch Times, A Feb. 10 deadline for the 195 signatories of the Paris (climate)…

“Biden Inflation Up!” – Stocks Slump With Rate-Cut Hopes As CPI Soars In January Tl;dr: Headline CPI accelerated for the 7th straight month as the Biden admin BLS is gone but the…

The rapper’s online store has been removed by Shopify for violating the e-commerce platform’s rules E-commerce platform Shopify has taken down the online store of US rapper and fashion designer Kanye West…

A close ally of the Slovak prime minister talks about the unrest in the country, attempts to oust the current government, and shifts in European politics For over a month, protests have…

Massive Overnight Russian Strike On Kiev Used Ballistic Missiles, Over 120 Drones Russia has confirmed its forces launched major overnight missile strikes on Ukrainian military plants as well as energy infrastructure. Kiev…

Rustem Umerov made the statement amid Ukraine’s calls for more weapons from its Western backers Kiev is ready for negotiations with Moscow to end the conflict, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said…

Moscow recently released former US Embassy employee Marc Fogel, who had been sentenced to 14 years in prison on drug trafficking charges Washington will release an unnamed Russian citizen in the coming…

The Ukrainian Blood Unity shared a picture of its members giving a Nazi salute during a drill A Ukrainian neo-Nazi organization has bragged about conducting urban combat drills in Kiev Region to…

Nation’s Largest Grid To Fast-Track NatGas Power Plants To Fuel Next AI Trade Common sense has returned, and the adults are back in the White House. This time, they are not wearing…

Kiev’s troops will inevitably be removed from all Russian territory, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russia will never consider giving up any of its territory, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said in…

America has lost billions of taxpayer dollars to “waste, fraud, and abuse,” the president has said US President Donald Trump has sounded the alarm over what he described as rampant corruption in…

Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia recently disconnected from a Moscow-run transmission network Electricity prices in the Baltic region have nearly doubled since Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania disconnected from Russia’s electricity transmission grid last…

Futures, Rates Flat Ahead Of High-Stakes CPI Report US equity futures are flat, with yields and the dollar modestly higher ahead of this morning’s US CPI reports (full preview here). As of…

Foreign Minister Ali Youssef Ahmed Al-Sharif has announced the completion of discussions with Moscow on the deal Khartoum and Moscow have agreed on the establishment of a Russian naval base in Sudan,…

The Trump-appointed US government efficiency tsar earlier called for the closure of state-funded cold-war-era propaganda outlets NATO should be thoroughly revamped, tech billionaire and US government efficiency tsar Elon Musk, has argued….

Speaking at a summit co-hosted with France, the Indian prime minister urged global leaders to develop open-source models to increase “trust and transparency” Data sets that are free from biases are crucial…

The resources of the Donetsk People’s Republic will benefit its people and the rest of the country, Denis Pushilin has said A large portion of the mineral wealth that Ukrainian leader Vladimir…

A senior EU official has told the outlet that the bloc lacks the troops to fulfill the Ukrainian leader’s request The EU is unable to fulfill Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s request for…

Younger men have been offered hefty incentives along with conscription exemptions for one-year contracts with the military Ukraine has launched a new program offering voluntary military contracts to men under 25, amid…

The findings suggest a continuing decline in the popularity of February 14, as traditional domestic holidays take precedence Only a quarter of Russians consider Valentine’s Day a real holiday, according to a…

How Many More Ridiculous Green Energy Projects Will Fail? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The answer is all of them, in due time. Here are the latest spectacular failures. Birds Fry…

Barrick Gold and the African state’s military-led government have been at odds over a new extraction contract Mali and Canadian miner Barrick Gold have suspended talks to resolve a long-running dispute over…

How The US Dollar Has Performed, By President Since Trump’s inauguration, the U.S. dollar has been highly sensitive to tariff announcements given its role in global trade and economic confidence. The dollar…

Which Left-Wing NGOs Does Brussels Fund In Hungary (With Taxpayer Money) To Go After Orbán? Authored by Liz Heflin via Remix News, The European Commission is essentially manipulating NGOs to achieve its…

The bloc has shunned Russian pipeline gas in favor of pricier liquefied natural gas imports from Western suppliers EU leaders are deliberating instituting a cap on natural gas prices, which have been…

Several kilograms of metal shavings have been found in the engine system of the new corvette, media outlets have reported Germany has launched an investigation into potential sabotage involving a newly commissioned…

The attack targeted drone assembly enterprises, the Russian Defense Ministry has said Russia has launched a major missile strike on Ukrainian military drone production plants, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said….

The M23 group has already seized the capital of North Kivu province in the latest escalation of a decades-long conflict The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) rebel group M23 has…

UK To Make Building Nuclear Easier Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, The Starmer government, which has the most ambitious plan for decarbonizing the country in Europe, is going to make it…

Where Corruption Is Rampant Transparency International has released its 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index which gauges levels of perceived public sector corruption in 180 countries and territories around the world. The index scores countries on a scale…

Jim Farley has warned that 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada could devastate domestic automakers, leading to industry upheaval Ford CEO Jim Farley has criticized US President Donald Trump’s tariffs, claiming they…

Ukrainian troops in Russia’s Kursk Region can be buried without any exchange, according to the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has dismissed the possibility of a land swap…

The studio has reportedly amended some of its diversity policies to focus on business and talent instead of inclusion Disney has made changes to some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)…

The US president earlier signaled that he expects the release of another detainee later this week US President Donald Trump is determined to secure the release of all American citizens detained in…

Trump’s Pressure Campaign Against South Africa Is About More Than Just The Boers Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Trump signed an Executive Order late last week “Addressing Egregious Actions Of The…

On the eve of DNI nominee Tulsi Gabbard’s full senate confirmation vote, President Trump announces his Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB), which will be chaired by the former head of the House Permanent…

New Delhi could offer the US reductions in import duties as the Indian leader travels to Washington India hopes that a series of import duty cuts announced in its recent annual budget,…

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…

Pennsylvania schoolteacher Marc Fogel traveled to Russia with marijuana.  The magic lettuce is considered a narcotic in Russia.  Marc Fogel found out you cannot take medicinal marijuana to Russia.  Marc Fogel was…

FDA Lab Uncovers Excess DNA Contamination In COVID-19 Vaccines Authored by Maryanne Demasi via The Brownstone Institute, An explosive new study conducted within the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) own laboratory…

President Donald Trump and King Abdullah II of Jordan are having bilateral meetings today on the Israel v Hamas war and the subsequent issue with displaced Palestinians. During the first press availability…

It’s good that Fogel is returning, and the gesture of his release is an act of good faith between the Russian government of Vladimir Putin and the U.S. government of Donald Trump….

If you have followed the arc of Tech, Peter Thiel recruiting JD Vance, the creation of Palantir, the funding of Vance’s senatorial run, and eventually the roadmap to connect Vance to Trump,…

Senator Lindsey Graham (U-DC) was asked for his thoughts and perspectives about USAID today during a press conference. Senator Lindsey Graham is senior senator in charge of the upper chamber oversight of…

Earlier today President Trump and Elon Musk, head of the Dept of Government Efficiency, held a press conference in the oval office to answer questions about the ongoing DOGE review of government….

China A Leading Perpetrator Of Transnational Repression In 2024: Freedom House Authored by Alex Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Chinese communist regime remained a major perpetrator of transnational repression…

Freed Jan. 6 Prisoners Speak Out As They Begin To Rebuild Their Lives Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Prosecutors acted with “unrelenting integrity,” Attorney General Merrick Garland…

Suggested Trump Admin Reform – End The Illegal ENDS Epidemic Authored by Roderick Law via RealClearHealth, As President Trump and border czar Tom Homan set about getting control of our southern border,…

David Tepper Boosted China Holdings Before Latest Rally By Yiqin Shen, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist Billionaire investor David Tepper ramped up his stake in China-related stocks and ETFs last quarter, just before…

The billionaire has blasted bureaucracy as an “unelected, unconstitutional fourth branch of government” President Donald Trump has signed an executive order mandating US federal agencies to implement workforce reductions and efficiency measures…

Egypt’s Sisi Cancels Planned White House Visit After Awkward Trump-King Abdullah Meeting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has canceled a planned February 18 visit to Washington to meet with President Donald Trump….

Microbiologist, Residents Say China Conceals Extent Of Respiratory Virus Outbreak Authored by Dorothy Li via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Chinese health authorities have said this winter’s flu season is less severe…

Unidentified Drone, Aerial Sightings Continue After Spike In Nationwide Reports Authored by Allan Stein via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), SEDONA, Ariz.—Mike O’Sedona stood out as a dark silhouette in a snap-brim…