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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…

American Theocracy: Politics Has Become Our National Religion Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “You shall have no other gods before me.” – The Ten Commandments “Christians, get…

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…

Israel Vows To Eliminate New Hamas Chief Sinwar, Seen As Even Closer To Tehran Israel has vowed to “eliminate” new Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, who just yesterday was announced as the new…

A Tale Of Two Diagrams Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, Are Local Police Deflecting Blame for Assassination Attempt? Ahead of Tuesday’s Senate grilling of acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe, local…

USA Has More Millionaires Than The Entire Population Of Ireland The world’s total millionaire count comes in at 15 million, more than all of Rwanda, the 28th most populous African country. In…

Whack-A-Fallacy: A Game For The Election Season Authored by Jeff Minick via The Epoch Times, In Whack-a-Mole, an arcade game invented by the Japanese nearly 50 years ago, moles or other figures…

Words, Words, Words Authored by John Maxwell Hamilton via RealClearPolitics, Words everywhere. Words in laws passed by Congress, words in instructions for the devices that make our lives easier, words in novels…

FBI Raids NY Home Of Ex-UN Weapons Inspector & Anti-War Pundit Scott Ritter On Wednesday the upstate New York home of Scott Ritter was raided by the FBI and state police. The…

Coming Clean On Clean Energy: It’s A Dirty Business Authored by Kristen Walker via RealClearEnergy, Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you are probably aware of the massive push to transition…

Copper Slumps As China Dumps Base Metal Into Asian Warehouses Copper inventories in Asian warehouses are swelling at an incredibly fast pace as the base metal that led the ‘Next AI Trade’ is…

National Security In A Second Trump Administration Authored by Dan Greenwood via RealClearPolitics, After a tumultuous and nearly life-ending July, Donald Trump narrowly retains his lead in the polls. Business leaders would…

Kentucky Governor Plans To Collect Sales Tax On Gold And Silver Despite New Law Authored by Mike Maharrey via Money Metals, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has decided he’s going to continue collecting…

This article was originally published in 2023 and has recently been requested to provide context for why Governor Tim Walz was selected by Barack Obama and Eric Holder as their Brat’s vice-president….

NASA Head Considers Elon Musk’s SpaceX To Save Stranded Boeing Starliner Crew At ISS  On Wednesday, Steve Stich, NASA’s commercial crew program manager, informed reporters that mission control still needs to confirm…

I succeeded in Wisconsin. I transmitted the exact travel pattern, location and sequencing for Clyburn’s network visit.  We are seeing the outcome detail in the pattern of campaign visits by Brat and…

Kansas Police Chief Who Led Raid Of Newspaper Violated Law: Prosecutors Marion, Kansas – A recent investigation into a contentious raid on the Marion County Record newspaper has taken a surprising turn,…

Global Government Is No Conspiracy Theory Authored by Dr. David McGrogan via DailySceptic.org, We live in an age that is gesturing towards global government. This is not a conspiracy theory; it is…

Three events in Vienna, Austria were called off after two terrorism-related arrests US pop mega-star Taylor Swift has canceled three upcoming concerts in Vienna, Austria after two suspects were arrested for allegedly…

President Trump calls-in to Fox and Friends for an interview discussing Kamala Harris VP selection in Tim Walz. WATCH: . President Trump also answered questions from the audience attending the Sturgis Motorcycle…

Throughout the Minsk process, Ukrainian officials became masters at stalling for time. Talk of a new referendum is most likely preparation for repeating the strategy. The head of the Kiev regime Vladimir…

The Republican VP candidate would not take Kiev’s calls about F-16s, according to texts Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, whom Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump picked as his running mate, refused to…

The Russian military has released drone footage of a ballistic missile strike on Kiev’s forces advancing on Kursk Region The Russian Defense Ministry on Wednesday released a new video of a missile…

‘Do Not Fly’ Alert Over Iran Issued For Airlines During Oddly Specific Night Hours Egypt has just issued a rare and oddly specific NOTAM, or Notice to Air Missions alert, instructing all of…

Journalist Evgeny Poddubny has reportedly been seriously injured in Russia’s Kursk Region Evgeny Poddubny, a war correspondent for the state-run TV channel Russia-1, has been wounded in Kursk Region, the broadcaster confirmed…

On Verge Of Credit Shock: Credit Card Debt Posts Biggest Drop Since Covid Crash As Rates Hit Record High On a day when an early attempt by the BOJ to kickstart the…

Stocks Puke Back Overnight Dovish BoJ Gains; Bond Yields & Black Gold Rise For a few brief hours overnight, everything was awesome again after the BoJ folded like a broken lawnchair, dovishly…

Jurisdiction-Stripping Or Court-Killing? The “No Kings Act” Is A Decapitation Of The Constitution Authored by Jonathan Turley, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) has introduced the “No Kings Act” with great fanfare and…

No Debate Required With Natural Gas Authored by David Callahan via RealClearEnergy, It often feels like common ground is a rare commodity in today’s highly charged political climate, where heated debate emphasizes…

Naval and aerial drills were reportedly a response to joint exercise involving Philippines, US, Canadian and Australian forces China has conducted a combat patrol near disputed territory in the South China Sea,…

The former congresswoman has reportedly been placed on the TSA ‘Quiet Skies’ watchlist The US government has put former Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard on a special air traffic surveillance list, according to…

‘Stolen Valor’: Walz Under Fire For Bailing On Iraq Tour, Then Lying About Combat Deployment Kamala Harris’ VP pick Tim Walz has come under fire over his extreme left-wing policies, from joking…

I Thought Gold Was A Safe Haven! Why Did It Tank With Stocks? Authored by Mike Maharrey via Money Metals, And in the blink of an eye, the expectation of a “soft”…

Stocks Plunge After Ugly 10Y Auction Tails Bigly Amid all the chaos in markets over the past few days, it is perhaps no surprise that ‘demand’ for bonds would be somewhat weaker….

Combatting China’s Legacy Chip Threat: Time To Revive Section 421 Authroed by Jonathan Harman & Lillian Ellis via RealClearDefense, The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has long sought to make geopolitical competitors…

Student protests against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina led to 440 lives lost, ending not just her 16-year reign but also her political career A student-led movement against a quota system which secured government…

Confidence Is The Underappreciated Economic Engine Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Ask economists how they forecast economic activity. It’s likely they will mention productivity, demographics, debt, the Fed, interest rates, and…

Washington intends to ask Kiev about what’s going on, a spokesman has said The US intends to get more information from Kiev about the Ukrainian attack on Russia’s Kursk Region, the White…

Diamond Hands: Mt.Gox Creditors HODL Bitcoin Despite 10-Year Wait Authored by Francisco Rodrigues via CoinTelegraph.com, Mt. Gox was once a dominant cryptocurrency exchange, but a devastating security breach caused it to collapse…

Comparisons To 1987 Are Multiplying By Benjamin Picton, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Political Pickers Equity markets closed broadly higher yesterday and bond yields rose to retrace some of the falls over…

WTI Extends Bounce Off 6-Mo Lows After Sixth Straight Weekly Crude Draw Oil prices have rebounded strongly overnight on the heels of the BoJ’s big dovish ‘fold’, which trumped the across-the-board inventory…

White House Believes Iran Backing Down From Israel Strike After Diplomatic ‘Blitz’ The Washington Post has said that intensive international diplomatic efforts to get Iran to step back from launching a new…

Disney CFO Admits Lower-Income Consumers Are “Stressed & Shaving Time Off At Parks”  Shares of Walt Disney Co. are lower in premarket trading following mixed third-quarter results on Wednesday. Disney’s streaming and movie businesses reported…

EU NatGas Soars As 1,000-Soldier Ukraine Raid Into Russia Captures Key Gas Facility The Kremlin has announced that its forces thwarted a major ground assault from Ukraine forces into Russia’s southwestern Kursk…

An invading force of some 1,000 servicemen and dozens of armored vehicles has entered Russia’s Kursk Region What happened? Early on Tuesday, the Ukrainian military launched a major raid on Russia’s Kursk…

Hugo Boss stores will reportedly reopen in autumn and Christian Dior has applied to register new trademarks in the country Stores of German fashion brand Hugo Boss will reopen in Russia this…

The attack was set for June 1945, according to transcripts of interrogations of a senior Nazi official, declassified by the FSB Adolf Hitler planned to use nuclear weapons against the USSR in…

Only essential personnel will stay to assist citizens remaining in the country amid political turmoil New Delhi has evacuated all non-essential staff and their families from its embassy and consulates in Bangladesh,…

Kiev has managed to offend a whole lot of countries by openly supporting terrorists in a weird act of anti-diplomacy The government of Mali has officially severed diplomatic ties with Ukraine. Ukraine…

Airbnb Shares Plunge On Slowing US Demand As Consumer Downturn Worsens Shares of Airbnb plummeted in premarket trading in New York after the company reported disappointing second-quarter earnings, falling short of Wall Street’s…

Sheikh Hasina had fled Dhaka amid violent protests Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has had her US visa revoked and is now exploring asylum options in the UAE and European countries,…

Kiev has suffered an estimated 315 casualties during the attempted incursion, the Russian military has reported Ukraine’s attempted incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region has been halted, the chief of the Russian General…

How Progressive Is Tim Walz? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Yesterday, a friend told me that Walz was not as much a Liberal Progressive as I thought. Let’s investigate. What the…

Washington is preparing to help its key ally fend off an imminent retaliatory strike by Iran, the secretary of state says All parties in the Middle East, including Israel, should refrain from…

The Japanese city has angered Western diplomats by failing to invite Israel’s envoy to the commemoration event Senior diplomats representing Washington and London in Japan will not attend a ceremony in Nagasaki…

Engineers from the Russian firm are on a four-day visit to Burkina Faso to discuss the project Representatives of the Russian state nuclear power firm Rosatom are on a working visit to…

Israel Lobby Takes Out Second ‘Squad’ Member As Cori Bush Loses Primary Tuesday’s Missouri primary delivered the latest demonstration of the Israel lobby’s formidable power, as progressive Democratic “Squad” Rep. Cori Bush…

Futures Soar, Yields And Oil Jump After BOJ Capitulation Nukes Yen, Restarts Carry Trade And just like that, the great carry trade freak out – which started exactly one week ago when…

Knives For Netflix? The Unusual Proposal By German Police Union Chief To Reduce Crime Authored by Thomas Brooke via ReMix News, A German police union chief has urged the government to consider…

The prosecution of a journalist in Estonia shows that the West is becoming a “neoliberal dictatorship,” the Foreign Ministry has claimed The West is turning into an “neoliberal dictatorship” that is intolerant…

Novo Shares Drop Most In Two Years On “Disappointing Ozempic & Wegovy Misses” Novo Nordisk shares in Copenhagen fell 7.7%, marking the steepest intraday plunge in two years. The Danish pharmaceutical giant…

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has been appointed after mass student protests forced the nation’s prime minister to resign Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus, known as the “banker to the poor,” will…

Türkiye must quickly curb the flow of American military-linked hardware to Moscow, Washington has reportedly demanded Türkiye will face “consequences” if it continues to allow the sale to Russia of American civilian…

Weathering The Storm: Experts Weigh In On Recession Preparation Authored by Russ Jones via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Monday saw a sharp decline in stocks as investors worldwide felt the impacts…

Xi Jinping Turns China Into ‘Fortress Economy’ To Withstand External Shocks: Report In a strategic pivot designed to safeguard China’s economic stability amid escalating global uncertainties, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi…

Zelensky Taunts The West As Too “Concerned” About Escalation Of War Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com, Ukraine’s ruler, Volodymyr Zelensky, is continuing to taunt the West in an attempt to expand…

The Turkish foreign minister has stressed that the Middle East can no longer tolerate the Jewish state’s “provocations” Türkiye intends to formally join a genocide case against Israel at the International Court…

Kiev has been indiscriminately attacking civilians, the Russian president has said Ukraine has conducted its latest large-scale provocation against Russia by launching an attempted incursion into Kursk Region, President Vladimir Putin said…

WHO Director Considers Declaring Public Health Emergency Over Mpox Virus Outbreak Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The World Health Organization’s director-general said the United Nations health body is considering…

Ukraine has lost some 260 troops in the first 24 hours of its attempted incursion in Kursk Region, the Defense Ministry has said Ukraine has lost around 260 troops and 50 pieces…

Euro StableCoin Market Surges Under MiCA Authored by Savannah Fortis via CoinTelegraph.com, The European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) framework is gradually coming into effect in line with its planned implementation timeline. The…

Wife of UK councillor has been indicted after calling on rioters to “set fire” to migrant hotels The wife of a Conservative councillor in the UK has been arrested on charges of…

Russia’s Arctic Energy Expansion: A Geopolitical And Economic Gambit Authored by Simon Watkins via OilPrice.com, Russia’s Arctic Northern Sea Route allows the country to continue exporting oil to China despite sanctions, highlighting…

Niger says the move is in solidarity with Mali, which has accused Kiev of backing rebels involved in deadly attacks Niger has severed diplomatic relations with Ukraine in response to Kiev’s alleged…

Manufacturers are hesitant to plough cash into a corrupt nation at war despite pressure from the Pentagon, according to Defense One American arms manufacturers are reluctant to open workshops in Ukraine despite…

The White House responded with “surprise and outrage” to the news of the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, sources have told the paper Israel informed the US that it was responsible for the…

Kiev is doing the bidding of the deep state in Western nations, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has claimed The Ukrainian government has become a terrorist organization acting on behalf of…

Latin America And Southern Europe Are Global Beer Hotspots While many countries have their own special days to celebrate beer, one of the oldest alcoholic beverages known to humankind, International Beer Day is aimed at…

Bipartisan House Legislation Aims To Counter China’s Investment In Africa Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times, A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has introduced a new bill that aims to…

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…

Yahya Sinwar’s appointment follows the assassination of his predecessor, Ismail Haniyeh Hamas has named Yahya Sinwar as the new leader of its political wing, replacing Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran…

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…

Democrats ran an unusually early poll on Monday, solidifying Kamala Harris as candidate for the 2024 US election Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz have officially accepted the Democratic…

The Day After A Nuke Goes Off In Space Authored by Luke Widenhouse via RealClearDefense, In February, it was revealed that Russia has been developing a nuclear-armed anti-satellite weapon. The Biden administration’s…

The Trump Assassination Attempt & The Kennedy Connection Authored by Richard Truesdell and Keith Lehmann via American Greatness, It’s amazing. The attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump happened a little more than three…

The Post-Coup Political Violence In Bangladesh Bodes Ill For Its Future Direction Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, The resignation of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday and her government’s replacement…

These Are The Most Dangerous Jobs In The US Some jobs inherently carry significant risks due to factors such as hazardous working conditions, exposure to harmful substances, and the physical demands of…

Why Your Job Is More At Risk If You’re Working Remote Authored by Mark Gilman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), No longer just a by-product of the pandemic, remote work has…

Capitulation: Yen Plunges, Nikkei Soars After BOJ’s Uchida Says “Will Not Raise Rates When Markets Are Unstable” It hasn’t been even a full week since the BOJ’s catastrophic decision to hike rates…

Uninsured Americans Now More Than 27 Million: CDC Report Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The percentage of uninsured Americans rose to 8.2 percent in the first quarter of this…

US semiconductor company could reportedly face the closure or sale of its UK site after being ditched by Apple as a supplier British military projects could face disruption, after one of the…

Undeterred, CCP To Ignore Risks Of AI Weapons, Experts Say Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Cutting-edge weapons powered by artificial intelligence are emerging as a global security…

Homeowners Increasingly Tap Home Equity Lines As Savings Rate Plummets With home values at or near record highs nationwide, and savings rates plunging, Americans are increasingly tapping into home equity. While some…

President Trump has announced via Truth Social that Elon Musk will be hosting a conversation between himself and President Trump. pic.twitter.com/PfJzR8rye4 — Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) August…

Harvard To Offer Class Examining Medieval Texts Through Lens Of ‘Queer Theory’ Via Campus Reform, Harvard University will be offering a course examining medieval texts by using “queer theory.” Harvard’s English department…

Elon Musk Revives Lawsuit Against OpenAI And Co-Founders Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, X, and SpaceX, has reignited a legal battle against OpenAI…