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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…

China’s Xi & India’s Modi Cement Border Peace Deal After Years Of Friction The India-China troop clash of 2020 along the largely unmarked frontier of Ladakh in a disputed border area in…

‘Silent Phase’ Of Alzheimer’s Begins Decades Before Symptoms, NIH Study Suggests Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Recent advancements in Alzheimer’s disease research show a promising shift in…

These Are All The US States Paying More Than The Federal Minimum-Wage The real value of the federal minimum wage ($7.25/hour) has declined steadily since it was last raised 15 years ago. As discussions…

FEMA’s Real Purpose: Suppressing Americans And Preventing Civilian Organization Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was founded on April 1st, 1979 under the Jimmy Carter Administration…

The Belarusian leader has described the American election as a “terrible and stupid” show Neither Democrat Kamala Harris nor Republican Donald Trump could possibly get elected in Belarus or Russia with their empty rhetoric…

Hey Pilots, FAA Issues Final Rule For “Powered-Lift” Rating, Paves Way For Air Taxis Over US Cities  The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) introduced a new rule establishing a “powered-lift” aircraft category for pilot…

How Schools Across America Are Struggling With AI Deepfakes Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Gone are the days where the biggest concern is students drawing alien ears…

Open Border Backlash As NYC ‘Deports’ Thousands Of Migrants To Texas, Illinois, And Florida After Texas bussed over 45,000 migrants to New York City amid an influx of more than 200,000, the…

Stock Up For Survival: Essential Food Storage Tips For Emergencies Authored by Emma Suttie, D. Ac, AP via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Imagine this scenario: You have just arrived home from…

“Once You Know, You Cannot Unknow”: Whistleblower Reveals Fed-Funded Industrial-Sized Staffing Firm Shipping Migrant Kids Around US A contract specialist from the General Services Administration (GSA) spoke with investigative reporter James O’Keefe about the federal…

20% Of Households Making Over $150,000 Live Paycheck-To-Paycheck Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Bank of America has an interesting report on who’s living paycheck to paycheck (PTP). It’s not just the…

The document outlines the group’s vision for global governance, economic development, and international cooperation The BRICS nations approved a joint communique on Wednesday during the group’s three-day summit in the Russian city of…

Chisinau has effectively deprived the Moldovan diaspora in Russia of their right to vote, Maria Zakharova has said Moldova’s government narrowly secured this week’s referendum on joining the European Union by cheating…

Speaking from Duluth, Georgia, Tucker Carlson delivers a resounding speech at Turning Point USA in advance of President Trump arrival. . Posted in Big Government, Cultural Marxism, Donald Trump, Election 2024, Kamala…

Robert F Kennedy Jr delivers a speech supporting President Donald Trump for President during remarks at Turning Point USA.  Video Below: . Posted in Big Government, Donald Trump, Election 2024, Kamala Harris,…

Tonight, President Trump will be delivering a MAGA speech at Turning Point PAC and Turning Point Action rally in Duluth, Georgia.  The anticipated start time for President Trump is 7:00pm EDT.  Livestream…

Apple “Might Wind Down” Vision Pro Production Next Month Due To “Weak Demand”  A new report from The Information suggests Apple might suspend production of its Vision Pro mixed-reality headset as early as…

NASA Finally Comes To Grips With Telework Tumbleweeds Authored by Pete McGinnis via RealClearPolicy, Two years on from COVID, the agency noticed sparse HQ attendance.  Someday, it may end up being one…

Denny’s Plots 150 Closings As Part Of Its Growth Strategy By Peter Romeo of Restaurant Business Online Denny’s needs to close about a tenth of its stores before it can fully harness…

Gucci Crisis Drags Kering Shares To Largest Annual Drop Since 2008 Gucci owner Kering SA’s problems in mainland China are worsening by the month. After issuing a profit warning earlier this year, the…

DOJ Warns Musk Over $1M Voter Giveaway: Report While the Biden-Harris DOJ has been silent over allegations that Democrat fundraising platform ActBlue is using illegal straw donors, they sure seem to have…

The UK’s deputy head of mission Tom Dodd got violent when faced with a crowd of reporters at a Moscow airport Dodd was in the company of several other UK Foreign Office…

Waste Of The Day: States Are $811 Billion In Debt Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: America’s 50 state governments will need an extra $811 billion to pay off their current…

Tesla Soars After Unexpected Jump In Profit Margin Suggests Price War Is Over Ahead of today’s Tesla earnings report, UBS analyst Joe Spak asked whether Tesla numbers even matter this quarter after…

Traders Sell Everything As Dollar & Yields Soar To 3-Month Highs Stocks dropped for the third day in a row today (longest streak since early Sept) with the S&P’s worst loss in…

A few years ago, I called her the most dangerous woman in the DC Pentagon silo. Example #102, why: [Source] It’s right there, plain as day, if you are inoculated against cognitive…

It has been reasonably stated before.  It is the one constant in an ever-changing universe when the political desperation reaches a certain point in the debate, leftists always use the “Hitler” card. …

Federal opposition leader Peter Dutton could have his fate decided on Saturday (26/10/24) if anti-nuclear LNP leader David Crisafulli wins the Queensland state election as the polls are currently predicting. It is…

Such measures have a disruptive effect on the world economy and international trade, the group’s joint declaration reads BRICS countries strongly oppose and condemn the practice of unlawful politically motivated sanctions that…

‘Thousand Times More Intense’: Marc Andreessen Reveals The Most Important Fight For Next 30 Years Marc Andreessen, the billionaire investor who runs the influential Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, warned…

Washington believes that 3,000 North Korean soldiers have traveled to Russia for training, spokesman John Kirby has said If North Korean soldiers enter the Ukraine conflict on Russia’s side, they will become…

Ugly, Dovish Beige Book Warns Of Manufacturing Decline In “Most Districts”, Greenlights Further Rate Cuts Back in September, the otherwise sleepy and mostly boring report that is the Fed’s Beige Book report…

Bill Ackman Reveals The Moment He Became Redpilled On the Triggernometry podcast, billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman reflected on a pivotal moment that reshaped his perception of media trustworthiness, explaining how…

Massive Lithium Deposits Found In Southwestern Arkansas Authored by Rudy Blalock via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A groundbreaking study led by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) revealed a potentially massive lithium…

There is no reason to doubt claims made by the country’s former PM, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said Moscow sees no reason to doubt claims made by businessman and former…

This afternoon, President Donald Trump will hold a Believers and Ballots Faith Town Hall with Georgia Lt. Governor Burt Jones in Zebulon, Georgia. His remarks are scheduled to begin at 3:00 pm…

A spate of Quarter Pounder poisonings has left one person dead and ten hospitalized One person in the US has died and at least 49 have become sick after eating McDonald’s Quarter…

Polymarket Cracks Down On US Users As Election Odds Soar In Favor Of Trump Authored by Brayden Lindrea via CoinTelegraph.com, Crypto predictions platform Polymarket is reportedly checking to ensure whales placing big…

20Y Auction Tails Badly Despite Solid Internals In a day when stocks are dumping, having finally noticed the surge in yields, one would have expected today’s 20Y reopening auction (of 19Y, 10M…

Pentagon Now Says North Korean Troops Are Mustering In Russia For the first time of the war, the Pentagon has assessed that North Korean troops appear to be in Russia. “We are seeing evidence…

Zelensky For First Time Offers Russia A Realistic Step To Negotiating Table In a huge and surprise development, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has specified and verbalized what could be a first concrete…

Judge Denies Steve Bannon Bid For Early Release Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Steve Bannon will serve the rest of his prison sentence, a federal judge ordered on Oct….

Another Catastrophic Quarter From Boeing In a time when literally nothing can go right for Boeing, and even its satellites are now randomly exploding in space… A Boeing satellite just exploded. Dozens…

AAPL Slides After Analyst Warns iPhone 16 Orders Cut By 10 Million Units While countless Wall Street banks try to one-up each other with ridiculous guesstimates on how many more new iPhones…

In one of the most prime examples of professional political gaslighting, the perpetually “divisive” Barack Obama takes to his pontificating high horse to wonder why American politics became so toxic.  WATCH: Barack…

The suspects killed four people and injured more than a dozen during an assault on a defense company’s headquarters near Ankara Two of the “terrorists” who attacked a defense company near Ankara…

New Zealand In The Crosshairs Of US Intelligence Leak Investigation Authored by Rex Widerstrom via The Epoch Times, New Zealand has been implicated in the leak of classified documents which outline the…

Harris ‘High School Friend’ Who Said Kamala Worked At McDonald’s Revealed As Campaign Surrogate, White House Guest On Sunday, the NY Times attempted to defend Kamala Harris’s claim that she worked at…

Wisconsin Election Agency Confirms System ‘Outages’ On First Day Of Early Voting Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), High turnout on Wisconsin’s first in-person absentee voting caused the…

The Russian president’s speech in Kazan focused on the group’s financial integration and new development prospects Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed a meeting of leaders at the BRICS Summit in Kazan on…

It’s been a good little while since we featured a Bill Whittle segment; however, considering that Whittle accurately described what the next successful Republican president would look like in 2012, describing Donald…

Tulsi Gabbard Announces Switch To GOP Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times, Former presidential candidate and congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who left the Democratic Party two years ago, announced Tuesday that…

The West cannot control this bloc, and that is hard for Western leaders to accept International politics seems to be losing its ability to develop in a linear fashion. From a layman’s…

Tehran has an inherent right to self-defense and will continue to exercise it, Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei has said Tehran has the right to self-defense, and its recent strikes on Israel have demonstrated its…

Ankara’s cooperation with the economic group does not contradict its membership in the US-led military bloc, Mark Rutte has said Türkiye has the right to cooperate with the BRICS economic group without…

This USA collaborative pearl-clutching between the Defense Department and their media stenographers is laughable, at best. Before getting to the crux of their story also remember the U.S conducts joint military training…

Until now, the California newspaper has backed every Democratic presidential candidate since Barack Obama The owner of the Los Angeles Times has forbidden the paper’s editorial board from backing Kamala Harris in…

The Chinese president says Beijing and Moscow should further deepen economic ties while defending the UN-centered global system Beijing and Moscow should further deepen their already strong economic cooperation while defending global…

The first bilateral meeting in five years between the Chinese and Indian leaders comes as they seek to resolve a border standoff Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi…

Musk Derangement Syndrome: European Censors Warn They May Level Fines Based On All Of Elon’s Businesses Authored by Jonathan Turley, I have previously written about the European Union’s (EU) effort to use its infamous…

Media Trots Out Disgraced Black Figures To Shame Black Men Into Voting For Harris When Democrats start losing the black vote they used to roll out Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to…

US Futures Slide For A Third Day As Dollar, Yield Storm Higher On Trumpflation Trade US equity futures are lower for the third day in a row on a busy earnings day…

“Destructive” Russian language, literature, music, and cinema need to be rooted out, the manifesto declares A Ukrainian manifesto calling for the total eradication of Russian culture in the country has collected over…

US Existing Home Sales Slump To Lowest Since 2010 Existing home sales disappointed (yet again) in September, declining 1.0% MoM (vs expectations of a 0.5% MoM rise). August’s 2.5% MoM drop was…

Bank of Canada Slashes Rates For 4th Straight Month In Biggest Rate Cut Since Covid In keeping up with the global easing frenzy, and also in keeping with its promises from last…

Memory Inflation Warps Bond Yields Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The Mayo Clinic defines Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, as “a mental health condition that’s caused by an extremely stressful or…

Citron Research Employee Settles Fraud Charges With SEC Over “Two Tweets” Citron Research employee Ryan Choi settled charges with the SEC, paying more than $1.8 million, for putting out two tweets and…

WTI Dips After Largest Crude Inventory Jump Since April After two days of gains, oil prices roller coastered overnight with WTI testing down to $70 before bouncing back up to $71.50 ahead…

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has defended the decision not to allow Kiev to make long-range strikes on Russia using US weapons The US should stick to its long-standing policy of not allowing…

The assailants targeted a key defense firm near Ankara, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya has said Several people have been killed and wounded in an attack on the headquarters of a defense and…

The bourse would protect members of the group from outside interference and excessive volatility in the market, the Russian leader has said Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed setting up a BRICS-based…

Saylor’s Comments On Bitcoin Custody Are “Batshit Insane” – Buterin Authored by Martin Young via CoinTelegraph.com, MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor’s suggestion that crypto users should use big banks to custody Bitcoin is…

Creating an investment platform would boost the growth of member countries, the Russian president has said Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a BRICS investment platform to assist the economic growth of…

The group’s chief negotiator is reportedly a frontrunner to succeed Yahya Sinwar Hamas will choose a new leader in March but will keep his identity a secret for security reasons, a spokesman…

FM Radoslaw Sikorski says Berlin should instead come up with a “creative” gesture to convince Warsaw it is sorry for the Nazis’ crimes Poland will not demand that Germany pay reparations for…

Tunisia’s Kais Saied won 90.7% in elections held earlier this month despite accusations of political oppression Tunisian President Kais Saied has begun his second term after a landslide victory in the North…

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has landed in Kazan, accompanied by a large delegation of Turkish officials, including several ministers Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in the Russian city of Kazan on Wednesday…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the group is not aiming to replace global institutions Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday highlighted the progress achieved by the BRICS group over the…

An Estonian woman has been accused of parroting the Kremlin in a research paper critical of Ukrainian society The Estonian Foreign Ministry has sacked an employee of its embassy in Türkiye for…

Moscow says the designation is meant to protect the country from outside interference The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Russia to pay out hundreds of thousands of euros in…

Pyongyang previously rejected the accusation, while the Kremlin called reports on the matter “contradictory” North Korean service members have arrived in Russia, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has claimed, adding, however, that…

Seasonality: Buy Signal And Investing Outcomes Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Seasonality has long influenced stock market trends, offering insights into predictable cycles of strength and weakness throughout the year. Yale…

Restaurant Bankruptcies Piling Up, TGI Fridays May Be Next Restaurant bankruptcy filings have been ticking higher this year as budget-conscious consumers cut back on eating out, and many eateries struggle with high…

The Point Of No Return(s) Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Should the U.S. national debt be considered an actual crisis? Does it have the destructive power of a hurricane, tornado, earthquake…

China Holds New Live Fire Drills Near Taiwan, 2 Days After US Warship Passed Through Strait One week after China’s military launched massive encircling drills around Taiwan, widely dubbed in international press…

Brussels should focus on tackling illegal migration, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has criticized the EU’s policy priorities, questioning why the bloc should fund Ukraine…

The electronic warfare system was “no match” for the robotic aircraft, the military has said Russian forces have used an armed drone to destroy a Ukrainian electronic warfare (EW) station designed to…

Arm Nukes Qualcomm Chip Design License In 60 Days Ahead Of Court Trial  UK-based chip architecture giant Arm Holdings is nuking its architectural license agreement with US-based Qualcomm, which certainly escalates an ongoing legal dispute between the…

The North Korean leader has said his country must continue bolstering its strategic deterrent North Korea must continue to build up its strategic missile arsenal due to the threat posed by US…

The BRICS Summit in Kazan has further exposed the failed attempts to isolate Russia, Margarita Simonyan has said  The BRICS Summit in the Russian city of Kazan signals that the world is…

The facility in Rostock confirms Berlin’s course towards revision of World War II results and remilitarization, the foreign ministry says The Russian Foreign Ministry has summoned the German ambassador to Moscow to…

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Vladimir Putin discussed nuclear projects, trade, and Middle East tensions during their meeting at the BRICS Summit Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi described Egypt’s partnership with Russia as…

Cyril Ramaphosa’s comments come despite his government facing external pressure to distance itself from Moscow over the Ukraine conflict South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has hailed Russia as a “valued” ally and…

If Russia stops striking Ukrainian infrastructure, Kiev will take it as an invitation to peace, the Financial Times reports Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has floated the idea of mutually suspending long-range strikes…

Former Abercrombie & Fitch chief Mike Jeffries and his partner are suspected of coercing men into erotic parties Mike Jefferies, the former CEO of American fashion giant Abercrombie & Fitch, has been…

From High Inflation To Hyperinflation: How Close Are We? Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, The Federal Reserve is now entering a monetary easing and rate cutting cycle in an environment of elevated inflation. The last time this happened…

The Global Clout Of The New BRICS Leaders of China, Russia, India and other BRICS nations gathered in Kazan, Russia on Tuesday for the bloc’s first annual summit since its major expansion…

The last time the two leaders had a formal meeting was back in 2022 at the G20 summit Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are set to hold…