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The event will take place in Pennsylvania on September 4 and will have a full audience Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has agreed to face his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in a…

Kiev says work is underway to destroy the strategic Russian link by the end of the year Kiev is working on plans to destroy Russia’s Crimean Bridge within the next few months…

The Pentagon will send additional military resources amid the escalation between West Jerusalem and Tehran Washington has ordered more destroyers, cruisers, and an additional fighter squadron to the Middle East to defend…

Trump’s China Tariffs: Extraordinarily Good For America Authored by Gordon Chang via The Gatestone Institute, “I can’t believe how many people are negative on tariffs that are actually smart people,” President Donald…

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…

“Open War” On Police: NYC DA Lets Two Migrants Who Attacked, Bit Cops Free Without Bail Two migrants who bit and attacked two New York City Police officers are…wait for it…back on…

Cattle Market Rattled By Recession Risks As Cash-Strapped Consumers Pull Back Is a meat recession coming? The dismal US jobs report has ignited recession fears, with some major Wall Street banks forecasting at…

What Type Of Society Will We Become? Authored by Ken Williams via The Epoch Times, “Each teacher shall endeavor to impress upon the minds of the pupils the principles of morality, truth,…

California Drivers Lead US In Road Rage, Study Finds Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, California drivers have the worst road rage, according to a new study by Forbes. The…

Graham Pushes Senators To Commit To War On Iran If Israel Attacked South Carolina Republican Senator and well-known hawk Lindsey Graham is salivating over the prospect of war with Iran at a…

Beijing Helicopter Taking Off: China Central Banker Calls For Direct Money Transfers To Households When the US economy crashed in a deflationary vortex during the global financial crisis (and just after the…

Certain Dark Chocolates Contain High-Level Heavy Metals, Study Finds Authroed by Sina McCullough via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Is your favorite dark chocolate bar harboring a hidden health risk? A new…

The DEI Trap Authored by Richard Porter via RealClearPolitics, Kamala Harris’s sudden ascendancy within the Democrat Party, with nary a peep from other ambitious Democrats, spotlights the uncomfortable contradictions of identity politics…

Why The Future Of Work Is Hybrid Authored by Samantha Flom via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Many aspects of everyday life were transformed during the COVID-19 pandemic and the government’s response…

Biden Pledges New Military Deployments To Defend Israel In Netanyahu Call President Biden in a Thursday phone call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged that the United States would help defend Israel in…

Judge Overturns $4.7 Billion Verdict In NFL Sunday Ticket Antitrust Lawsuit Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A California judge has thrown out the $4.7 billion verdict against…

Biden Angry Over Being Kept In The Dark On Israel’s Operation To Kill Hamas Chief Fresh reporting by Barak Ravid of Axios has revealed that President Biden held a “tough” phone call…

Cocoa Prices Slide To Five-Month Low On Demand Destruction Fears From Hershey US chocolate maker Hershey slashed its sales and earnings outlook on Thursday, citing higher cocoa prices that have resulted in demand…

‘Accidentally Posted’ Campaign Ad Suggests Harris To Pick Shapiro For VP A staffer for Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker ‘accidentally posted’ a video meant to be released next week which reveals Pennsylvania Governor…

Texas Rancher Sues Biden, DHS Over Damage To Property Allegedly Caused By Illegal Immigrants Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Texas rancher has filed a lawsuit against…

Tonight? Iran State TV Suggests Attack On Israel Is Just ‘Hours’ Away It is well after midnight in the Iranian capital of Tehran and there are two significant developments that suggest an…

British researchers based their conclusion on the NHS data of almost 46 million people New research produced by British scholars has claimed that vaccination with any of the Covid-19 shots actually lowered…

Illinois’ Stupidest Bill Of The Year Signed Into Law: the Falsely Labeled, Unconstitutional “Worker Freedom Of Speech Act” By Mark Glennon of Wirepoints Illinois progressives are all over the media congratulating themselves…

This is a little awkward. Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker appears to have accidentally posted a video on her X-account celebrating Kamala choosing Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as her Vice-Presidential nominee. [Source Link]…

Fed Finagles $173 Billion In (Positive) US Bank Deposit ‘Adjustments’ In The Last 3 Weeks For the third straight week, US bank total deposits rose last week (+$16.7BN) on a seasonally-adjusted basis……

Market Ka-Mauling This was the week when – like Biden’s dementia – economic weakness became too much for the mainstream to ignore and while Powell hinted at cuts to come, the market…

North Korean Defector Says Kim Wants To Restart Nuclear Talks If Trump Wins Authored by Kyle Anzalone via The Libertarian Institute, A recent high-level North Korean defector said Pyongyang would be interested…

US Suspends Aid To Georgia Over Foreign Influence Law Authored by Adam Morrow via The Epoch Times, The United States is pausing more than $95 million in aid to Georgia, a small…

Warren Buffett’s BofA ‘Dump-A-Thon’ Grows By Another 19 Million Shares Billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has been offloading tens of millions of shares of Bank of America in the last several weeks. Since…

Exxon Reports Blowout Earnings, Record Output Thanks To Pioneer Deal Two weeks ago when Exxon previewed its upcoming earnings, there was some disappointment amid what was viewed as weakness in upstream prices…

The US vice president has become her party’s presumptive nominee without winning a single public vote US Vice President Kamala Harris has won the votes of enough Democratic delegates to become the…

Anna Netrebko is supposed to return to Rome for a Tosca revival The government in Kiev has called on Ukraine’s Western backers to ban soprano Anna Netrebko from performing anywhere outside Russia….

The Kremlin seems to have decided it would rather deal with Biden-Harris than wait for Trump Russia is delighted with Thursdays prisoner exchange in Ankara, Western media outlets report, citing sources in…

Into The Weird! Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “What we are witnessing is nothing less than the failure of the greatest propaganda apparatus in history.” – Mattias Desmet Have you…

The Chinese-owned short-video platform has “unlawfully collected and retained children’s personal information,” according to the Justice Department The US Justice Department (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against TikTok and its China-based parent…

The Treasury Department on Friday announced an extension for transactions with the platform and several subsidiaries The US Treasury Department has extended a license allowing transactions with the Moscow Stock Exchange (MOEX)…

Paris cited an increased risk of military escalation as the reason for its latest advisory The French Foreign Ministry has issued a recommendation that the nation’s citizens leave Iran and avoid traveling…

Car Repos Rise 23% YoY Authored by Martin Armstrong via ArmstrongEconomics.com, The private debt crisis is becoming apparent in America after car repossessions jumped 23% during the first half of 2024. Data…

Financial Strain On American Households Hits Retailers Hard Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times, If anyone still believes that the U.S. economy is doing just fine, they should take a…

The facility is meant to become a vital part of the International North-South Transportation Corridor for shipping goods via Iran The Indian government has approved a proposal for building a large port…

Harris Has Enough Virtual Votes To Be Democratic Nominee To the surprise of nobody, Vice President Kamala Harris has passed the threshold required to become the Democratic presidential nominee. During a Friday…

Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Gaza-based militant group’s political bureau, was assassinated in Tehran earlier this week Iranian Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib has accused the US of greenlighting Israel’s plans to…

Transgender athletes should not compete against females at the Olympics, according to Valentina Gomez Transgender athletes should not compete against female athletes, a Republican candidate for secretary of state of Missouri, Valentina…

‘Growth Scare’ Narrative Builds As US Factory Orders Plunge Most Since COVID Lockdowns In June After this week’s ‘soft’ survey data signaled serious ugliness in the US manufacturing economy… Source: Bloomberg …this…

DeFi Is “Waking Up Again” – Active Loans Return To 2022 Levels Authored by Martin Young via CoinTelegraph.com, Decentralized finance (DeFi) may be experiencing a revival, with key metrics such as active…

Dmitry Savelyev allegedly commissioned a hit on a former business partner Senator Dmitry Savelyev has been stripped of parliamentary immunity and detained in Moscow, on suspicion of commissioning a contract killing of…

The former president told Fox News that Joe Biden has been replaced with an inferior candidate The Democratic Party “staged a coup” against US President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump has…

Wall Street Begs Fed To Panic: Goldman Sees 3 Consecutive Rate Cuts, JPM Hopes Two For 50bps, Citi Even Crazier It didn’t take long after today’s dismal jobs report to spark what…

Russia has handed over 250 bodies to Ukraine in exchange for the remains of 38 servicemen, a lawmaker has said Moscow and Kiev have exchanged the remains of dozens of fallen servicemen,…

Unburdened By Vocabulary: Kamala Harris Dishes Fresh Word Salad During Prisoner Swap Ever since Democrats coup’d Joe Biden into stepping aside, they’ve done their best to shield frontrunner Kamala Harris from opening…

Washington has upped the ante with a proposed new missile deployment in Germany, and move from the ex-president made it possible Friday marks five years since the termination of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear…

The move is aimed at combating illegal migration and smuggling into Slovakia, the authorities have said Slovakia has begun police exercises aimed at combating illegal migration and smuggling on its border with…

The clip promotes military service while focusing on religious diversity and national unity The Russian Defense Ministry has released a promotional video designed to encourage citizens to enlist in the military, placing…

The national bank expects a further population outflow in 2024-2025 The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has revised its population outflow projections upward for 2024 and 2025, and now expects some 700,000…

The negotiations carried out by the FSB and CIA and potential peace talks with Kiev are completely separate issues, according to Moscow The prisoner swap between Russia and the West carried out…

A lack of awareness of host countries’ parenting styles is one reason for the removals, Kiev’s social services chief told RFE/RL Child protection services have removed 430 Ukrainian children from their families…

Lindsey Graham has introduced legislation that could drag Washington into a war with Tehran if Israel is attacked US Senator Lindsey Graham has introduced legislation that would authorize military action against Iran…

Wayfair Execs Warn Home Goods Slowdown Mirrors 2008 GFC  Increasing concerns over a US economic slowdown (or just a reminder a hard landing is still possible) triggered a broad selloff in global stocks overnight…

Five Takeaways From Yesterday’s Historic Prisoner Swap Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Russia and the West exchanged 24 prisoners on Thursday in the largest such swap since the Old Cold War….

The Sahm Rule, Employment, And Recession Indicators Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Economist Claudia Sahm developed the “Sahm Rule,” which states that the economy is in recession when the unemployment rate’s three-month average is a…

The country made history last year by landing a spacecraft near the lunar south pole Indian scientists are considering a location in the country’s hilly Ladakh region to set up a Mars…

Chevron Abandons California For New Headquarters In Houston Bye-bye, Governor Gavin Newsom.  After more than a century of operations in California, energy giant Chevron announced that it will move its San Ramon headquarters to Houston, Texas. Bloomberg states the move…

Harris And The Bouncing Balloon Campaign Authored by Sean Trende via RealClearPolitics, We all know that this election will be different than any other election we’ve had in recent decades – how…

President Biden has vowed to back West Jerusalem amid concerns of Iranian retaliation over the killing of a Hamas political chief   US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…

Russia’s Federation Council has approved a bill that legalizes the mining of cryptocurrencies and allows the central bank to authorize selected businesses to carry out cross-border settlements and exchange trading in digital…

Has Olaf Scholz gone too far with his subservience to Washington by agreeing to host American missiles? For a government, it’s one thing to have bad ideas of its own, but far…

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US Futures, Global Stocks Tumble, Japan Crashes Amid Panic Fed Is Now Behind The Curve It is a global selling carnage this morning, as risk-off extends across worldwide equity markets but nowhere…

After Campaigning On Free Natural Gas, Erdogan Hikes Prices By 38% Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice.com, Turkey’s state energy company BOTA? has raised natural gas prices by 38% for households and…

UK Prime Minister Calls For Crackdown On Angry Brits – Violent Migrants Get A Pass Beyond the obvious Cloward-Piven agenda in play throughout most of Europe and the US, open border policies…

Recession Triggered: Payrolls Miss Huge, Up Just 114K As Soaring Unemployment Rate Activates “Sahm Rule” Recession In our payrolls preview last night we asked “just how bad will it get“, and we…

Stocks, Crude, & Bond Yields Plunge As ‘Growth Scare’ Sparks Surge In Rate-Cut Hopes Just as we warned earlier in the week, the macro playbook has shifted to “bad is bad and…

All newly built housing must now measure more than 28 square meters The city of Moscow has banned the construction of microapartments, according to a decree published in a centralized legislation database…

“It’s A Disaster” – Japanese Stocks Suffer Biggest Point Drop Since Black Monday We warned yesterday that the BoJ has boxed itself into a corner – forced to decide between a crashing…

The Berlin Conference at the end of the 19th century finalized the colonial division of the continent that European countries had been engineering for four centuries The colonial division of Africa was…

“Seek first to understand, then to be understood” 1.) First, please READ THIS ENTIRELY – and the full text of any discussion you wish to participate in. 2.) PLEASE STAY ON TOPIC…

Officials in Washington believe the Islamic Republic will avenge the assassination of Hamas leader Haniyeh in Tehran Iran and its allies are expected to launch a large-scale attack on Israel within the…

New York City Shutters Hundreds Of Illegal Marijuana Shops Authored by Jana J. Pruet via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Thousands of unlicensed marijuana shops opened in New York City after the…

Microsoft’s Electricity Use Has Doubled Between 2020–2023 Big Tech’s AI arms race has a significant energy cost. For example, a study found that training OpenAI’s GPT-4 used up to 62,000 megawatt-hours, equal to the…

In reading the responses about “the emissary” post, I am reminded why our nation is in this mess, and the scale of trying to get people to fathom the depth of our…

Now For Another Failed UK Policy: Conscription Authored by Terence Greene via The Mises Institute, On the 11th of June, Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party stunned the United Kingdom by officially declaring in their 2024 election…

The incumbent president, Nicolas Maduro, condemned an attempted “coup” following protests Washington has recognized Western-backed opposition figure Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as the winner of Venezuela’s presidential election, despite the official results showing…

Shipments from the sanctioned country almost matched American supplies last month, the outlet has reported Shipments of liquified natural gas (LNG) from Russia to the EU in July almost matched those from…

The bloc is “deeply concerned” about possible US policy changes after the November election The EU has set up a dedicated team of officials to prepare for the potential return of Donald…

Officials have accused the platform of preventing users from posting condolences over the death of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh Turkish authorities have blocked Instagram after officials in Ankara accused the platform of…

Aleksandar Vucic’s remarks come after a controversial Olympic boxing match between a female and a transgender athlete Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said “madness rules the world” in response to a transgender…

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Malian counterpart have discussed ways of strengthening “traditionally friendly” ties Moscow will continue to provide crucial support to Mali, including training its national army to combat…

A debate is scheduled to take place on August 12, Sierra Leone’s UN representative has announced The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is set to discuss Africa’s representation on the international body…

Rescue crews are at the scene of a household gas explosion which caused a building to partially collapse in Nizhny Tagil Four people, including two children, have died after a gas explosion…

How Fast Are Countries Burning Through Natural Resources? Earth Overshoot Day landed yesterday, August 1, in 2024. This means that after only seven months, we have already used up all of the…

The IDF insists that Ismail al-Ghoul was a Hamas operative involved in the October 7 attack The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has admitted to killing an Al Jazeera journalist that it says…

Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov has criticized Washington’s threat to expand its nuclear arsenal The US is attempting “to lecture” Russia and China on nuclear weapons while itself pursuing a “deeply hostile” policy,…

US, UK Accelerate Quantum Computing Programs After China Breakthrough Authored by Tristan Greene via CoinTelegraph.com, Scientists and lawmakers in the United States, United Kingdom and European Union are ramping up efforts to…