Author:

The move will help to address Pretoria’s trade turnover shortfall with Moscow, a South African diplomat has said South Africa is working with partners to increase exports of wine and fruits to…

President Vladimir Putin had previously signed a law that creates an open registry for people behind on their alimony payments Russian citizens who are failing to make payments of alimony should be…

Former Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal has stressed that the prime minister’s arrival in Kiev does not signal a departure from a ‘neutral’ strategy  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Kiev does…

Tangled Comparisons: Renewables Versus Fossil Fuels Authored by Norman Rogers via RealClearEnergy, We are often told that wind and solar, if not cheaper, are at least cost competitive with fossil fuels. Dead…

Specialists are also providing training on the prevention and diagnosis of infectious diseases in the Republic of the Congo Russian human welfare watchdog Rospotrebnadzor will provide African countries with tests to diagnose…

Authorities say several women scattered insects on a breakfast table at the gathering in Chicago Chicago police and the FBI are investigating a stunt in which several women scattered maggots on a…

Mediators will reportedly try to find a compromise on the conditions for ending hostilities in Gaza Egypt is hosting US and Israeli delegations for talks on a Gaza ceasefire proposal, Reuters reported…

A number of people have reportedly been killed and injured during a riot at a penitentiary facility in Volgograd Region Inmates at a Russian prison have taken several hostages, the national prison…

Donald Trump “encouraged” Russia’s actions against Ukraine, the Democratic presidential nominee has claimed US Vice President Kamala Harris has vowed that Washington will “stand strong with Ukraine and our NATO allies,” should…

Citi Says Oil Buying Opportunity May Have Finally Arrived By Julianne Geiger of Oilprice.com Oil prices have dipped, with Brent crude hovering around $77 per barrel, leading some market analysts to spot…

Hungary opposes any action standing in the way of peace between Moscow and Kiev, a top official has said Hungary does not approve of Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region as the…

New Taliban Vice Laws Forbid Women From Looking At Men, Singing In Public, Solo Travel Just over three years after taking power in the wake of the disastrously-executed US military withdrawal from…

“Severe punishment” awaits those behind the attack, Russia’s ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov also said President Vladimir Putin has decided on how to respond to Kiev’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region…

Russia’s Military Says It Destroyed US M1 Abrams Tank In Kursk For the first time since the August 6th Kursk incursion, Russian forces claim they have destroyed a US-made Abrams tank used…

It would raise the total value of US military assistance to Kiev to more than $55.7 billion since February 2022 The US government is set to provide Ukraine with $125 million in…

New Delhi has been accused by its neighbor of opening the dam on a shared river, leading to devastating floods  The Indian government has denied allegations that it was responsible for devastating…

Prepare For “An Era Of Shock Events”; WEF’s Klaus Schwab Warns Authored by Martin Armstrong via ArmstrongEconomics.com, The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a well-funded organization many consider terrorists that is permitted…

A kamikaze drone was brought down near a spent fuel storage facility at the Kursk power plant, a source told TASS A small Ukrainian drone carrying an anti-tank grenade attempted to reach…

Vladimir Zelensky and his Western backers are responsible for the suppression, the former Russian president has said Kiev’s Western backers are supporting its “satanic” crackdown on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), former…

Ukraine Should Join NATO Even If Russia Occupies Its Land, Czech President Says Czech President Petr Pavel has issued a new statement which seeks to pressure NATO to speed up Ukraine’s admission into…

The Monkeypox Epidemic… In Africa On August 14, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an international public health emergency in response to a surge in cases of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox,…

Washington cannot be trusted over claims that Ukraine is prohibited from using certain weapons, Russian envoy Anatoly Antonov has said Claims by Washington that it has banned Ukraine from using US-supplied long-range…

“It’s Not OK Any More”: UK Free Speech Crack-Down Targets “Extremist Ideologies” Authored by Jonathan Turley, The crackdown on free speech continues in the United Kingdom as officials use recent rioting to…

Kiev’s Plan To Ban The Ukrainian Orthodox Church Shows How Insecure It Is About National Identity Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Kiev hates that a significant share of the population refuses…

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…

Defense Budget Talks Reignite Debate Over Military Draft For Women Authored by Michael Washburn via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Provisions in the fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that…

America’s Energy Divide: How Democrats And Republicans Feel Energy and climate issues have long been a point of division in American politics, with Democrats generally believing in investing in renewable energy sources while Republicans are…

Vo-Tech Education Is Taking Off, And It’s Not Your Dad’s Shop Class Anymore Authored by Vince Bielski via RealClearInvestigations, Jon Graft is on a mission to reignite the passion for learning by…

Are Co-Ops Two Blocks From Central Park Really Selling For $174,000 That does, in fact seem to be the case. The city of New York is selling apartments on the Upper West Side,…

The Tale Of Two Conventions: Gingrich Authored by Newt Gingrich via RealClearPolicy, Historians will look at the 2024 Democratic and Republican national conventions as harbingers of profound changes in American politics and…

US Democrats have been accused of “silencing” pro-Palestinian speech at the DNC The campaigning group Muslim Women for Harris has withdrawn its support of US Vice President Kamala Harris following reports that…

The Perpetual Struggle Of Libertarian Candidates: Why They Face An Uphill Battle Authored by Conor Sanderson via The Mises Institute, The Libertarian Party was assembled in 1971 and has proven throughout its…

This Is The Chart That Keeps Japanese Policymakers Up At Night Japan has a demographic crisis that started in 2017 and picked up steam in 2020 and will accelerate from there into…

Nick Paton Walsh had traveled to the Russian city of Sudzha with Ukrainian troops The Russian authorities have charged CNN chief international security correspondent Nick Paton Walsh with illegally crossing the state…

China Steel Mill Profits Collapse, Goldman Issues: “Bleak Outlook” For Iron Ore  The global commodities market peaked in early 2022 and stumbled ever since. China’s property sector remains in a multi-year slump, resulting in…

FBI Chief Warns Of Unprecedented Rise In Security Threats Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, The United States is facing an unprecedented confluence of security threats, according to FBI Director…

According to the Trump campaign, there will now be a special guest attending the Glendale, Arizona MAGA rally tomorrow (7:00pm ET).  A lot of speculation has centered around Robert F Kennedy Jr,…

This is the moment the previous three nights of effort have built toward, the acceptance speech by Kamala Harris at the DNC Convention. Kamala has never given a major speech with this…

Thanks, Biden-Harris: Map Shows Worst Housing Affordability In America Buying the average American home today involves a much larger slice of people’s income—mainly realized under the Biden-Harris administration. Shortly after the Biden-Harris team took office in…

Judge Dismisses Lawsuit From Disabled Workers Against Elon Musk’s X Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin on Aug. 21 dismissed a lawsuit against social media…

An attack might be “highly likely,” the AWACS facility in Geilenkirchen has said The facility in Geilenkirchen, Germany that hosts special NATO radar planes has raised its security level due to an…

Taxpayer-Funded Oregon Group Offers $30,000 To Home Buyers… As Long As They’re Not American Citizens Only days after it was announced that California will be pushing a bill to give illegal aliens…

Earlier today, President Trump discussed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in Cochise County, Arizona. President Trump was asked if RFK Jr was going to endorse him,…

Fast-Food Restaurants Fight To Keep Customers As Food And Wage Costs Spike Authored by Kevin Stocklin and Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Fast-food restaurants survive by providing affordable, quick,…

A wanted sex offender in Arizona allegedly made the threat on social media Authorities in the US are looking for a man who made threats on social media about killing Republican presidential…

Supreme Court Allows Arizona To Require Proof Of Citizenship For State Votes, But Not For Congressional Or Presidential Today the Supreme Court cleared the way for a provision of Arizona law that…

Quinn: They’ve Selected Kamala & This Is Their Plan Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the…

Spot The Odd One Out: EV Adoption By State In 2023, sales of electric vehicles (EVs) passed the 1.6 million mark. To visualize where EVs are the most popular, Visual Capitalist’s Bruno…

Who Is “Destroying Democracy In Darkness?” Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, The 2023-2024 campaign season is not just the strangest on record, it’s also arguably the most anti-democratic. Ostensibly,…

Stocks & Bonds Slammed Ahead Of J-Hole As FedSpeak Slows Rate-Cut Euphoria As the world and his pet-rabbit awaits tomorrow’s words from Jay Powell (which is largely moot now given the FOMC…

Life In A Sound-Money World Authored by John Rubino via Substack, Pretend, for a moment, that it’s 1971 and you’re President Richard Nixon (admittedly disturbing fantasies, but bear with me). You face…

The Supreme Court in Caracas has ruled in favor of President Nicolas Maduro The Supreme Court of Venezuela has ruled that last month’s presidential election was won by President Nicolas Maduro. US-backed…

Regular meetings between Washington and Taipei have reportedly been kept under wraps to avoid Beijing’s criticism Taiwan’s top foreign policy officials visited the US this week for secret meetings known as ‘special…

With Merit Back At The Fore, MIT’s Black Enrollment Plummets, Asian Share Leaps The composition of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s incoming freshman class is vividly reflecting the effect of the Supreme Court’s…

Trump Shooter Had Encrypted Accounts In Multiple Countries: Congressman Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The man who fired shots at former President Donald Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania…

Ukraine’s parliament has passed a bill that would allow authorities to ban any religious community deemed to have ties to Moscow Ukraine’s latest legislation, which aims to grant the government the right…

Home Secretary has promised a raft of “strong and clear steps” to boost border security and curb influx of undocumented migrants London is set to introduce a series of new measures aimed…

New York AG Asks Appeals Court To Uphold Trump $454 Million Civil Fraud Judgment Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office asked…

Surrounded By Ivy League Grads, Walz Attacks Vance Over Yale Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClearPolitics, CHICAGO — The third night of the Democratic National Convention felt less like a political assembly…

President Trump told the Daily Mail during an interview that he now declines intelligence briefings by the U.S Intelligence Community.  This is the most exceptional news in a long time.  WATCH: I…

Lancet makes precision strike on enemy artillery vehicle in Kursk Region The Russian Defense Ministry has released a video of a Lancet drone destroying a Ukrainian truck-mounted mortar somewhere in Russia’s Kursk…

Iran’s former first lady has given her first interview since Ebrahim Raisi’s death in a helicopter crash The late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi managed to achieve exceptional things through honesty and empathy,…

Oil Giant Halliburton Reportedly Hit By Cyberattack, Disrupting Houston Operations Halliburton Company, the world’s second-largest oil service provider and a major player in global fracking, has reportedly fallen victim to a cyberattack,…

“Must Have Been Tipped Off”: Jack Daniel’s Cuts Woke Training Ahead Of Robby Starbuck’s Next Exposé Hiding behind the veil of “progressivism,” the toxic woke mind virus has infected corporate America, transforming companies into left-wing…

Maybe, just maybe, political reality is starting to permeate Chris Cuomo. Or it could be that Chris Cuomo is attempting to shape-shift by dropping pretenses. Whatever it is, this encapsulated segment by…

Secret Service Agents (Finally) Placed On Leave After Trump Assassination Attempt Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, Three weeks ago, Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe angrily pushed back on senators’ calls…

India’s PM has reiterated his country’s commitment to a “diplomatic resolution” of the Ukraine conflict ahead of his trip A senior US official has expressed “delight” at Narendra Modi’s upcoming visit to…

Who Wins And Who Loses When The Housing Bubble Pops? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, This time around, the Fed may not be able to “save” the bubble from…

Up to 5,000 troops will be stationed in Finland about 90 miles from the countries’ border, according to newspaper Iltalehti NATO is planning to deploy an armored brigade in Finland to serve…

Ukraine Confirms Use Of US-Provided HIMARS Inside Russia Ukraine’s military has for the first time openly acknowledged it is using US-provided HIMARS rocket systems to attack Russia and destroy its major infrastructure, especially…

A firefighting train has been dispatched to the port of Kavkaz in Krasnodar Region to extinguish the burning tanks following Kiev’s missile strike, local officials report Kiev’s forces attacked a railway ferry…

Existing Home Sales “Still Sluggish” – Weakest July Since 2010, Record Low Affordability US Existing Home Sales rose (+1.3%MoM) for the first time in five months in July, but remain down 2.5%…

Gullible CNN ‘Journalist’ Dragged For Fact Checking JD Vance Joke About Tim Walz Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, Earlier this week, JD Vance cracked a joke about Democrats holding their convention…

The former US leader has denied claims made in a new biography of the late monarch that she found Trump “very rude” Former US President Donald Trump has insisted that he was…

‘Soft Landing Scenario Less Convincing’: US Manufacturing PMI Plunges To 8-Mo Lows S&P Global’s Flash PMI data for August signals the continued divergence between US manufacturing (slump) and Services (survive). Flash US…

The Greek-flagged vessel was on its way from Iraq to Athens when it was allegedly targeted by Yemen’s Houthis A Greek-flagged oil tanker traveling through the Red Sea caught fire on Wednesday…

“If Trump Wins, The Fed Will Stop Cutting At 4.50%” By Michael Every of Rabobank We need it like a Jackson Hole in the head Unlike the key BLS revisions to April…

Global Stocks Hit All Time High With J-Hole Expected To Preannounce Rate Cuts Just over two weeks after the VIX almost touched 70, the market’s freakout is completely forgotten as futures continue…

Russians could face deportation from Latvia following Riga’s extraordinary amendments to legislation Moscow has condemned as “lawlessness” the recent toughening of residency-permit application procedures for Russian citizens in Latvia, and has warned…

Mogadishu’s aviation authority has accused Ethiopian Airlines of failing to address sovereignty concerns Somalia’s Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA) has threatened to ban Ethiopian Airlines from its territory, claiming that Africa’s biggest flight…

The South Asian country recorded $2.63bn in international military sales during the last financial year India sends half of its arms exports to the US, The Print reported on Wednesday, citing sources….

Continuing Jobless Claims Hover Near 33-Month Highs Initial jobless claims continues to drift along in the same range it has been in for three years (with NSA claims literally near record lows)……

Ukraine Tried To Attack Kursk Nuclear Plant To Stage Provocation: Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused Ukraine of attempting to attack the Kursk nuclear power station, which is one of…

Reinforcements don’t want to fight and cannot follow orders, the news agency was told Newly conscripted Ukrainian soldiers providing reinforcements on the eastern front often lack training and the will to fight…

The IAEA has been notified of the attempted strike on the facility in the Kursk Region, the president has said Ukrainian forces have attempted to strike the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)…

Canadian company Lucara Diamond has announced the discovery of a 2,492-carat gemstone, one of the largest ever mined on Earth Canadian mining company Lucara Diamond says it has uncovered the second-largest diamond…

25% Of Brits Consider Turning Off The Heat In Winter As Power-Bills Soar Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, About a quarter of British households are so worried about their electricity bills…

Goldman’s Key Takeaway From Call With Foxconn Mgmt: “AI Servers Continue To Ramp Up” The management team of Foxconn Technology Group, formerly known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer, responsible…

The agreement is among numerous others sealed during a meeting between the two countries’ prime ministers in Moscow Russia and China have agreed to step up cooperation in the video game industry…

The founder of Ola, a ride-hailing startup turned EV maker, has vowed to introduce affordable electric cars for the Global South   Indian billionaire Bhavish Aggarwal, the founder and CEO of Ola,…

More and more young people are being radicalized, the head of the Swiss Intelligence Service has warned The threat of Islamic terrorism in Switzerland is on the rise and minors are increasingly…

The footage was reportedly filmed in Kursk Region amid the Ukrainian incursion A video circulating online shows a Russian soldier cheering up two elderly women as he evacuated them to safety from…

Canadian Freight Rail Shuts Down As Labor Talks Collapse: Strike Declared, “Members Head To Picket Lines” An unprecedented rail stoppage is underway after Canada’s largest railroads, Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas…