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Major European Banks At Center Of Complex Iran Sanctions Evasion Scandal Ever since Obama’s very short-lived nuclear deal with Iran was scrapped by the subsequent Trump administration, Tehran has ramped up its…

The Netherlands has concerns about data security on Meta’s social media platform The Dutch government may ban public servants from using Facebook due to concerns over data security on the platform, De…

Waste Of The Day: Over $1 Billion In Weapons Missing In Ukraine Authored by Adam Andrzejewski via RealClear Wire, Topline: The Department of Defense has failed to properly track $1 billion worth…

Italian Deputy PM Calls For Chemical Castration After Seven Egyptian Migrants Gang Rape Girl Aged 13 Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has called for people…

Hungary is the last remaining holdout in approving Stockholm’s bid to join the US-led military bloc Legislators with Hungary’s ruling party have refused to attend an emergency vote on Sweden’s application to…

Karolina Shiino, whose win caused controversy over her heritage, apologized after her relationship with a married man was revealed Karolina Shiino, a Ukrainian-born model with Japanese citizenship who won the 2024 Miss…

Ukraine Shells Bakery With US Weapons, Kills 28 Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Russia said on Sunday that at least 28 people were killed in the Ukrainian shelling of a bakery in Lysychansk,…

Exports of all types of fuels slumped by a third last month, the outlet says Gasoline production in Russia saw a year-on-year decrease of nearly 2% last month due to an accident…

The US company has prioritized financial performance over engineering excellence, according to Tim Clark US aerospace giant Boeing is in the “last chance saloon” in light of the long decline in the…

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…

Why All of America Could See a San Francisco-Style Homeless Crisis Authored by Michael Washburn via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The homeless crisis in America is set to come to a…

The Most Popular Shotguns In America  Self-defense is the top reason Americans have been panic-buying firearms in the last several years. The deterioration of cities under Democratic leadership, plagued by violent crime…

Concern Lingers About Biden Losing Black Voters After South Carolina Primary Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) adamantly insisted that President Joe Biden’s support…

Standard Chartered Sees Ether HItting $4,000 By May, When Ethereum ETF Is Approved One month ago, Standard Chartered predicted that with ETF approval in the rearview mirror, bitcoin would eventually rise up…

Federal Judge Rejects Challenge To Mail-in Ballots In North Dakota Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a legal foundation…

The Scale Of California’s Pineapple Express Phenomenon A second atmospheric river rainstorm in a week is moving across California and has been causing landslides, downpours and high winds of hurricane strengths that toppled trees in some…

IRS To Boost Enforcement Workforce By 40% By Year-End 2024 Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to raise its enforcement personnel by…

Hong Kong Set To Pass Article 23, Further Tightening Beijing’s Control Authored by Julia Ye and Angela Bright via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The prospect of Basic Law Article 23, which…

New Jersey Illegal Migrant Gang Charging Other Migrants $6,000 To Illegally Migrate A migrant gang based in New Jersey is helping a flood of future Democrats pour into the United States through…

More than a dozen countries have cut off funding to UNRWA over alleged ties to Hamas terrorism The United Nations has said it will investigate its own agency for Palestinian refugees to…

Exactly how bad is the “bipartisan” legislation, which should be called called, ‘the border insecurity in exchange for Ukraine money act’? The bill is so bad, and makes things so much worse,…

US Diesel Supply Tightens As Manufacturing Comes Roaring Back By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com U.S. manufacturers are recovering from an extended slump in activity and their energy consumption is about to start…

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has won the the popular vote by a landslide, official tally shows El Salvador’s Bitcoin-friendly and tough-on-crime Nayib Bukele has been reelected as president in a landslide on…

Doctor Who Helped A Wounded Ashli Babbitt On Jan. 6 Sentenced To Probation Authored by Joseph M. Hanneman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Dr. Austin Brendlen Harris was forced away from…

US Presidents’ Approval Ratings In Their Third Year Since WWII President Biden’s approval rating is the second lowest in modern history for a first-term president. Today, under 40% of Americans approve of his job…

“Take Our Border Back” Convoy Ends With Rallies In 3 States By Noi Mahoney of FreightWaves Several hundred people gathered in three border states Saturday to call for stricter immigration security, ending…

China Joins Russia In Condemning US Strikes In Middle East After the Friday large-scale US strikes on Iranian proxy positions in Iraq and Syria, and following the Saturday and Sunday Western coalition…

These Are The US States Losing (& Gaining) Population As pandemic patterns of U.S. population growth are normalizing, three states have remained among the U.S. jurisdictions which are shrinking. Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports that,…

Open Borders & Closed Courts: How The Supreme Court Laid The Seeds For The Immigration Crisis Authored by Jonathan Turley, The upcoming impeachment vote on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has caused a deep…

Trump Says AI Might Be ‘Most Dangerous Thing Out There’ Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former President Donald Trump said that artificial intelligence, or AI, has “no…

Pentagon’s strikes in Syria and Iraq are illegal under international law, Moscow’s envoy has told the UN Washington is fanning the flames of conflicts in the Middle East by conducting unlawful strikes…

Massachusetts Cuts College Degree Requirements For 90% Of State Jobs By Austin Browne of Campus Reform Massachusetts will no longer require a college degree for a large majority of government jobs due…

An interview with Israeli envoy Simona Halperin has received an ill reception, prompting a response from the Foreign Ministry The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday released a large statement condemning fresh remarks…

50 Lawmakers Demand AG Garland Explain Illegal CCP-Linked Marijuana Farms A bipartisan group of 50 US lawmakers have requested that Attorney General Merrick Garland provide information on illegal marijuana grow operations in…

It has long been on the minds of doomsday preppers and fiction media creators alike – but how likely is it, really? Let’s sketch a big country in three broad strokes: First,…

VDH: Is Biden Malicious, Incompetent, Or Conniving? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, What Excites Biden? Things are becoming so strange, so surreal, so nihilistic in contemporary America that the…

Bonds, Bullion, Banks, & Bitcoin Battered As “Good News Is Bad News” Again After Powell Hotter than expected Services surveys – with a big jump in prices – was just the good…

Border Crisis: Democrats Are Trying To Run A Protection Racket On The American Public It’s important for Americans to understand that the Democrat Party of today has abandoned all pretenses of traditional…

Maine Kid-Smuggling Transgender Bill Killed In Committee Authored by Jackson Elliott via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A bill that would have allowed people to take children from parents to get transgender…

PA Court System Websites Go Offline After Denial Of Service Cyberattack Parts of Pennsyvania’s Courts’ website went down on Sunday due to a denial of service cyberattack, according to 6ABC. PA Systems…

West Point Can Continue Race-Based Admissions For Now, Supreme Court Rules Authored by Sam Dorman and Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Supreme Court allowed the U.S. Military Academy…

Banks Report Tighter Standards, Weaker Loan Demand But Some Improvement As Financial Conditions Ease The last time we looked at the senior loan officer survey in November, we found “tighter standards and…

Vitaly Klitschko has urged the Ukrainian president to exercise caution with his plan to dismiss top general Valery Zaluzhny The mayor of Kiev, heavyweight boxing star-turned-politician Vitaly Klitschko, has argued against Ukrainian…

‘Markets Are Now Anchoring On Potential Trump Victory’ – Ex-Soros CIO Says “All Pullbacks Should Be Bought” “We are expecting an upward trajectory in the US equity markets,” wrote Scott Bessent, a…

Zelensky Confirms He’s Poised To Fire Military Chief, Amid Reports General Held ‘Secret Talks’ On Achieving Peace Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has finally given public confirmation that he is currently considering firing this…

King Charles Diagnosed With Cancer King Charles has been diagnosed with a form of cancer, says Buckingham Palace. It is not prostate cancer, but was discovered during his recent treatment for an…

Federal Agency Issues Security Warning For Apple Devices, Gives Three Weeks To Comply Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), This week, a federal agency sent a warning about…

The disease was discovered as the monarch was examined for benign prostate enlargement, Buckingham Palace has revealed King Charles has been diagnosed with a form of cancer, Buckingham Palace announced on Monday….

A record number of Indians won Recording Academy Awards this year as the South Asian nation strives to make its mark in the West Indian musicians swooped up three awards at the…

The former US president’s trial over classified documents is set to begin on May 20 Former US President Donald Trump could be sent to prison “for a long time” when a verdict…

Cost Of Running A McDonalds Jumps $250,000 In CA Due To Minimum Wage Hikes By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk Prices at fast food restaurants in California are set to jump in April…

I thought seriously about just trashing the recipe post when the first comment, and three of the first eight, were gripes and snark. Especially after I made a point of letting people…

Like a lot of people, I quit watching the Super Bowl some time ago. My oldest son is the only real pro football fan in the family, the rest of us only…

US And Iranian Attacks In The Middle East Threaten Major Oil Price Rises By Simon Watkins of OilPrice.com The ability of either the U.S. or China – or even both working together…

As mediation efforts fail to bear fruit, war between Israel and Lebanon seems to be matter of when, not if Israel’s Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz met his French counterpart on Monday, warning…

Together with General Valery Zaluzhny, the Ukrainian leader allegedly plans to let go of Chief of the General Staff Sergey Shaptala Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is reportedly considering letting go not only…

Speaker Johnson Defends Standalone Israel Bill Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) defended a recent proposal to provide funding for Israel with no…

The Russian security service has detained three suspects allegedly tasked with blowing up motorcade of a senior Crimean official Russia’s security service (FSB) has apprehended three suspects on suspicion of working for…

Houthis Vow ‘Escalation’ Despite US Strikes, Could Sabotage Western Internet Cables In Red Sea Despite more weekend rounds of US heavy strikes on Houthi positions in Yemen, the militant group aligned with…

“This Is Fascism”: Machete-Wielding Professor Fired Again Authored by Jonathan Turley, Shellyne Rodriguez, the machete-wielding former Hunter College professor, has now been fired by the Cooper Union college. The school previously stood…

“Don’t Be STUPID!!!”: Trump Slams Senate Border Bill, Demands ‘Separate’ Package ‘Not Tied To Foreign Aid’ The Senate’s $118 billion spending package, of which more than $60 billion would go to Ukraine,…

The EU country has been providing generous aid package to those fleeing the conflict The German government’s drive to get more Ukrainian refugees into the workforce has been failing in light of…

Petr Andryuschenko called the strike “heavenly punishment,” insisting it was legitimate because it claimed the life of Lugansk’s emergencies minister The emergencies minister of Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), Aleksey Poteleschenko, was…

Key Events This Week: CPI Revisions, ISM, And SLOOS After last week’s epic central bank/payrolls/QRA/earnings juggernaut, there’s not a lot of US data this week, as is usually the case immediately post…

Seven US-Trained Fighters Killed In Drone Attack On Occupied Syrian Oil Field  A key and very evident theme out of the Red Sea is that the US has lost ‘deterrence’ and perhaps…

ISM Services Accelerates, But Prices Surge Most In 11 Years Following Manufacturing surveys’ surge in January (both S&P Global and PMI), Services surveys were both expected to rise also in January, tracking…

How Will The Fed React To The Supply-Driven Inflation Shock In Goods By Benjamin Picton, Rabobank senior market strategist Double or Nothing? US non-farm payrolls put the final nail in the coffin…

Washington paused approvals for new gas export terminals for what it called climate-change reasons The temporary halt of approvals for new LNG export terminals by the administration of US President Joe Biden…

So-called dark fleets have reportedly been sailing under Gabonese flags The number of oil tankers that have switched to sailing under the flag of Gabon saw a fivefold surge in January versus…

Any such move would have decades-long consequences, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Anyone who seizes Russian assets will face long-lasting consequences, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned on Monday. His comments came after…

Killer Mike has been booked on a charge of misdemeanor battery for an alleged backstage incident at the showpiece event US rapper Killer Mike was arrested and booked on a charge of…

US-born Sarah Ashton-Cirillo has repeatedly made thinly-veiled death threats to Russian journalists Russia’s financial watchdog Rosfinmonitoring has placed a former spokesperson for Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces, Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, on a list of…

Biden’s Fundraising Catches Up With Trump’s Joe Biden‘s campaign raised more than $33 million in Q4 of 2023, bringing the president’s fundraising in the 2024 election cycle to the same level as…

Kazakhstan’s president has sacked the cabinet in a surprise move Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev accepted the resignation of his government on Monday, signing a decree that was published by his office. The…

Treasuries Reckon If Fed March-Cut Isn’t Likely, Neither Is May Authored by Ven Ram, Bloomberg cross-asset strategist, Interest-rate traders have managed to shake off the extreme conviction they had before the start…

Futures Drop As Yields, Dollar Jump After Powell Repeats Rate Cuts To Come Later US equity futures and bonds fell while the dollar rose after Fed Chair Jerome Powell again pushed back…

Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov has announced a billion-dollar investment for research and development in the field Russia expects to see a major increase in drones supplied to its military this year,…

The Federal Security Service has opened criminal cases against Ilya Ponomarev, claiming he has switched to the enemy’s side Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Sunday that it has officially opened…

Berlin reportedly wants to slash its contributions to the European Peace Facility, citing its generous unilateral aid to Kiev Bickering among European Union member states over the way the European Peace Facility…

The five-year scholarship scheme will see around 600 Ghanaians studying at People’s Friendship University in Moscow A new educational initiative has been launched at the Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia,…

Nangolo Mbumba was sworn in after Hage Geingob died at age 82 Nangolo Mbumba was sworn in as Namibia’s fourth president on Sunday. He has assumed this position temporarily and has no…

Securing peace should take precedence over Kiev’s bid to join the EU, Giuseppe Conte has argued A settlement of the Ukraine crisis can only be achieved if Kiev and its foreign backers…

President Mohamed Muizzu has ordered the removal of dozens of New Delhi’s troops stationed in the islands Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu has said he will not allow his country’s sovereignty to be…

Boeing Discovers “Mis-drilled” Holes On 50 Undelivered 737 Max Jets Boeing’s reputation continues to slide as a new fuselage problem was discovered on 50 undelivered 737 MAX jets, Reuters first reported.  Stan Deal, the…

“When Markets Move To Extreme Overvaluations, Wild Moves In Price Can Happen” By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management Price US money market fund assets hit a record high of…

Police in the UK are searching for a man suspected of carrying out an acid attack on a mother and her two young children A chemical substance attack on a woman and…

Trump Drops Names In VP Tease Former President Donald Trump dropped the names of several contenders for his running mate and future cabinet members during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday…

Federal Appeals Court Halts Florida Ban On Property Buying By Chinese Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal appeals court has issued a limited temporary block on…

Netherlands-registered Yandex NV has agreed to sell its Russian operations to a consortium of local investors and spin off its main international projects The Kremlin welcomes the agreement to sell tech giant…

I will be providing and update later tonight. The principal elements guiding the organization, which have further possibilities beyond the EU, are similar to the Solidarity movement. “You never know how strong…

Yandex will be sold to a consortium of private investors, the company has announced Yandex NV, the Dutch-registered parent company of the Yandex group, has reached an agreement to sell its Russian…

The Senate immigration bill, aka border security bill, is only designed as the cover for the Senate to send $60 billion more to Ukraine.  The Ukraine money is the priority (corps/lobbyists) the…

The new restrictions will reportedly target 200 entities and individuals but will not include import bans The 13th package of EU sanctions on Russia being prepared to coincide with the second anniversary…

Violent protests have erupted in Senegal after incumbent leader Macky Sall postponed the February 25 vote to an unknown date The African Union (AU) has called on Senegalese authorities to hold a…

The conservative US journalist declines to say whether a one-on-one with the Russian president is in the works US political commentator Tucker Carlson, who is currently in Moscow, has refused to confirm…

The naval vessel arrived in Colombo over the weekend amid concerns about Beijing’s activities in the Indian Ocean  The Indian Navy’s INS Karanj, a diesel attack submarine, docked in Sri Lanka over…

The point of departure of the illegal cargo was the city of Odessa, Georgian authorities said Georgia’s State Security Service has said that its operatives have seized a batch of explosives that…

The Republican frontrunner has repeatedly questioned the bloc’s usefulness, accusing its members of freeloading off the US There is growing concern among the German leadership that NATO will not survive if Republican…

US Establishes New Stockpile In Australia To Prepare For War Over Taiwan Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The US created a new stockpile of military equipment during drills in Australia last…