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The American firm has discriminated against Nigerian users by forcing “abusive” privacy policies on them, authorities claim Nigeria has hit US tech giant Meta with a $220 million fine for breaching local…

Kiev cannot join the bloc until the sides reach closure over atrocities perpetrated against Poles, Warsaw’s defense chief has said Ukraine should not be allowed to join the EU until Kiev and…

The Republican presidential candidate’s team is reportedly considering setting a defense spending target of 3% of GDP for bloc members Advisers for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump have suggested increasing the defense…

Doctors In Australia Say Medical Cannabis Leading To Increase In Psychosis In Patients Doctors in Australia are warning about a “significant increase” of patients developing psychosis after being prescribed medicinal cannabis, according…

In Historic Shift, British Newspapers Begin Warning Of “Perils” Of Cashless-Society After Global IT Outage Authored by Nick Corbishley via NakedCapitalism.com, The mainstream media has, until now, played a key role in…

Combustion Going Bust? Mapping The Global Govt-Driven Phase-Outs Of Gasoline Cars As of 2024, 60 countries and territories around the world had set targets, signed pledges or announced plans to phase out…

Inside The EU’s War On Free Speech Authored by Thomas Fazi via UnHerd.com, The latest salvo in the ongoing battle between between Elon Musk and the EU came courtesy of the X…

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…

Conrad Black: All US Presidential Assassinations Could Have Easily Been Avoided Authored by Conrad Black via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump reminds us of…

Shocker! Study Reveals That Giving Americans $1,000 Per Month Has Negative Consequences A new study reveals what common sense could have predicted – giving Americans $1,000 per month disincentivizes them from working,…

After High Court Ruling, San Francisco Prepares To Clear Homeless Camps Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), After last month’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gave cities a…

World War 3: The Catalyst For A New World Order Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, The F-22 Raptor is the best air dominance warplane in the world. It’s the top dog…

According to multiple reports, the Secret Service told President Trump to stop holding outdoor MAGA rallies. That part doesn’t come as a surprise, not because of any security risk, but because in…

VP Kamala Harris Had 92% Staff Turnover During Her First Three Years By Adam Andrzejewski of OpenTheBooks “People really, really do not want to work for Kamala Harris,” wrote former staffer Dan…

Taiwan Live-Fire Exercises Aimed At China Muted By Typhoon Taiwan’s military on Monday kicked off the live-fire component of its largest annual exercise, known as the Han Kuang drills. They are slated…

Federal Judge Rejects Challenge To Chicago Ban On Gun Laser-Sights Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Laser sights for guns are not protected by the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, a…

US Rejects China’s Gaza Mediation Efforts For Legitimizing Hamas This week a fresh United Nations assessment estimated that the Israeli military (IDF) has placed more than 80% of the Gaza Strip under…

Only four of the US vice president’s 47 original employees haven’t left her team, the NGO OpenTheBooks says US Vice President Kamala Harris has a staggering staff turnover rate of 91.5%, transparency…

Harris And Biden Met In Person Only Six Times This Summer Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClearPolitics, On the White House South Lawn, Vice President Kamala Harris praised the man she is…

At today’s House Homeland Security Committee hearing, Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) questioned the Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police, Christopher Paris, about a video he took of the Butler Township location of…

This episode of “Break 50” with President Trump was filmed during the first week of July, before Bryson DeChambeau traveled overseas and prior to the assassination attempt in Butler, PA.  The full…

Sugar: A Potential Culprit In Pancreatic Cancer, The ‘King Of Cancer’ Authored by Shan Lam and JoJo Novaes via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Pancreatic cancer, sometimes dubbed the “king of cancer“…

How Does The Economy Really Work? Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog, The world economy is an amazingly complex, physics-based, self-organizing system. The three major elements are extracted resources including…

Watch: Russia Mounts Ballistic Missile Strike On Western Arms Depot In Ukraine Russia’s military has released new video as part of ongoing warnings to the West as it pours weapons and ammo…

Sixteen years ago, the term “manufactured enthusiasm” took on an entire new meaning with the introduction of Teh One, Chicago Jesus, the bringer of all progressive enlightenment, Barack Obama.  The intersection of…

Almost a third of people in Ukraine believe that Kiev could surrender some territory to Russia in exchange for peace, a new survey says The number of Ukrainians willing to make territorial…

A short background detail.  Almost no one knows this, but Chuck Grassley has the best research and legislative staff in all of Washington, DC.  Grassley’s guys are quick into the silos and…

Was Donald Trump The Victim Of White Privilege? A Democratic Member Wants To Know Authored by Jonathan Turley, For most of us, this election could not become more confusing. However, Rep. Jasmine Crockett…

WTI Rebounds Off Technical Support After API Reports Across-The-Board Inventory Draws Oil futures settled at their lowest level in over six weeks on Tuesday, with U.S. prices extending losses into a fourth…

Truth Is The Casualty Of Our Political Wars Authored by J.Peder Zane via RealClearPolitics.com, These times are different because nowadays political lies are often in plain sight. A healthy majority of Americans…

Tesla Slides As Profit, Margins Disappoint; Production Of “More Affordable Models” To Begin In First Half Of 2025 As previewed earlier, today’s TSLA print is likely to be ugly: the company was…

Schumer Endorses Kamala During ‘Cringefest’ DC Presser; Asks For Applause, Doesn’t Get Any Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries…

Fox News waited until today to put forth the segments of the President Trump interview with host Jesse Watters.  The interview is presented below in three segments. In the first segment, President…

Google Reversing Third-Party Cookie Phaseout In Favor Of New Strategy Authored by Stephen Katte via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Google logo in Las Vegas on Jan. 10, 2024. (Steve Marcus/Reuters)…

Three bills in the Knesset aim to ban the UNRWA as an accomplice of Hamas The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) may be declared a terrorist organization, its staff stripped…

Kelly Surges Ahead Of Shapiro As Top Contender For Harris’ Veep Pick With Vice President Kamala Harris now expected to secure the Democratic Party’s nomination for the 2024 presidential race, the next…

The White-Collar Job Squeeze Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The other day, I was tooling around at the grocery store and, in line to check out, I noticed a…

Lloyd Austin, Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan could lose their jobs come January Kamala Harris is unlikely to keep the current crop of national security officials, should she win the US presidential…

Public University Sued Over Alleged Use Of Student Fees To Support Leftists Political Groups Authored by Patrick McDonald via Campus Reform, A recent graduate of St. Cloud State University in Minnesota is…

America’s likely next president has reshaped the Republican Party in his own image to a point where it seems inconceivable without him The extraordinary events of the past week in America –…

Alphabet Shares Unimpressed Despite Top- & Bottom-Line Beat Alphabet reported better than expected top- and bottom-lines for the second quarter after the bell tonight. Revenue $84.74 billion, estimate $84.37 billion Revenue ex-TAC…

Ukraine would like the conflict with Russia to stop by the end of the year, Vladimir Zelensky has suggested Ukraine would like the fighting with Russia to end as quickly as possible…

Over 270,000 tickets reportedly remain unsold ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris The number of unwanted Paris Olympics tickets available for resale has hit more than a quarter of a…

Small Caps Surge On Short-Squeeze, Sloppy-Surveys; ETH Outperforms BTC As ETFs Launch An ugly day for macro with hard data (US home sales) and soft data (regional Fed surveys) all puking… Source:…

‘Worst Since COVID Lockdowns’ – Regional Fed Surveys Plunged In July It was ugly in macro-land today with existing home sales crashing (as home prices hit record highs). But a couple of…

Reuters ‘Shock Poll’ Finds Kamala Leading Trump, There’s Just One Catch… With the Democrat corporate media machine in full swing behind Kamala Harris following President Joe Biden’s shock announcement on Sunday that…

Trump Asks Appeals Court To Overturn $454 Million Civil Fraud Judgment Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on July 22 asked a New York…

Tesla Earnings Preview: Financials, Robotaxis, Cybertruck, Musk’s Pay Plan In Focus Tesla is set to report earnings after the bell today, with the street expecting a hefty EPS drop and 2% revenue…

Signs Of Severe Credit-Card And Auto-Loan Stress In Generation Z Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The economy is slowing and that will hit the zoomers first and the hardest, especially renters……

Blowout 2Y Auction Sees Record Foreign Buyers, Yields Slide Ahead of next week’s FOMC meeting, when consensus expects no surprises from Powell ahead of a September rate cut, the same can not…

The right-wing of the DC UniPParty played their role very well.  With mission accomplished, U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has resigned her position, following the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump….

Ukraine’s former military commander-in-chief, Valery Zaluzhny, was fired by Vladimir Zelensky in February and made an envoy in May The Western nations should “wake up” to the threat of a potential major…

Reports of a corporate raid on e-commerce giant Wildberries are false, CEO Tatyana Bakalchuk has insisted Reports of a corporate raid on e-commerce giant Wildberries are not true, the founder and chief…

3 Supreme Court Justices Recuse 2nd Time In Case Accusing Them Of Wrongly Rejecting 2020 Election Lawsuit Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Supreme Court refused on…

Department Of Defense To Give Troops ‘Economic Hardship’ Bonus Of $20 Per Month Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, The Biden Administration’s Department of Defense (DOD) has announced that it will…

An international school contest has wrapped up on the Black Sea coast Russia has held an international contest for schoolchildren at Artek, its most famous summer camp on the Black Sea in…

Hungary is moving to punish Kiev for its blockade of oil deliveries from Russia Budapest will block funds the European Union has earmarked for Ukraine until Kiev resumes the transit of Russian…

The Party Of ‘Democracy” Will Now Choose Your Candidate For You Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, On Sunday, July 21, President Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential campaign…

The strike destroyed a temporary deployment point housing Western instructors and mercenaries, the Russian Defense Ministry has reported A missile strike has destroyed a temporary deployment point housing Western instructors and mercenaries,…

‘I Lost My Son’: Musk Says He Was Tricked Into Approving Puberty Blockers Elon Musk has condemned so-called “gender-affirming care” practitioners for effectively “killing” his son — by tricking the billionaire into…

Israeli attacks have likely killed many more than the nearly 40,000 people reported, and even more will yet perish Earlier this month, the Lancet published an article estimating that the total number…

Hundreds of vacancies in Berlin’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) remain unfilled, Bild has reported Germany’s foreign intelligence service is allegedly struggling to monitor threats supposedly posed by Russia, China, North Korea and…

DOJ Magically Finds 117 Pages Of Biden Transcripts The Department of Justice admitted to a federal judge on Monday that it has located 117 pages of transcripts it previously denied having, related…

The continent takes a decisive step towards energy sovereignty, but real struggle lies ahead At an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers of the African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO) in early…

San Francisco Invokes Supreme Court’s Bureaucracy-Weakening Ruling In Lawsuit Against EPA Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, San Francisco will invoke the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling from last month that…

Modi-led government has made a host of changes in corporate taxation for global companies and has slashed some customs tariffs  The government of India tabled its budget for the current financial year…

Several states had directed restaurants to display their owners’ names in a move that was perceived as discriminating against Muslims India’s Supreme Court has suspended directives by several state governments requiring eateries…

What Can Be, Unburdened By What Has-Beens? By Michael Every of Rabobank Global IT systems crashed on Friday. Two days later, a week after the attempted assassination of former President Trump, President…

John Healey has said the army faces “very serious challenges,” according to national media British Defense Secretary John Healey has issued a grim assessment of the state of the UK military, warning…

US Existing Home Sales Puked (Again) In July… US existing home sales slumped for the fourth straight month in June, plunging a worse than expected 5.4% MoM (the worst MoM drop since…

Watch: Kamala Harris Talks To Biden As If He’s Dying Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, While speculation of Joe Biden’s condition and whereabouts continues to mount, things were not made any clearer as…

Gas exports via the Power of Siberia pipeline are expected to hit 38 billion cubic meters in 2025, according to Aleksandr Novak Russian gas exports to China are increasing and could reach…

“Increasingly Cautious Consumer”: Polaris Shares Crash As High Interest Rates Crush Demand For ATVs & Jetskis A toxic trifecta of high interest rates, elevated inflation, and increasingly cautious dealers and consumers led Polaris…

Kimberly Cheatle had been facing calls to step down since the assassination attempt on the former president earlier this month Kimberly Cheatle has resigned as director of the US Secret Service, after…

In January, Cairo vowed to defend Somali territorial sovereignty following a conflict with Ethiopia over a Red Sea access deal Somalia has approved a defense agreement with Egypt that aims to strengthen…

Ukraine Might Actually Be Semi-Serious About Resuming Peace Talks With Russia Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The conventional thinking is that Ukraine isn’t interested in resuming peace talks with Russia unless the latter…

Stumbling Out Of The Gate: Harris Starts Race Down 9 Points, Even Worse Than Biden Democrats’ enjoyment of the Kamala Harris campaign’s “new car smell” may prove short-lived, as a brand new…

The Bull Market – Could It Just Be Getting Started? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, We noted last Friday that over the previous few years, a handful of “Mega-Capitalization” (mega-market capitalization) stocks have dominated…

​​​​​​​Porsche Slides On Profit Warning As Snarled Supply Chain Risks “Production Shutdowns” Shares of the German sportscar maker Porsche slid on Tuesday after the company slashed its full-year revenue forecast. The automaker warned…

The EU has announced plans to send the first tranche of interest earned on frozen Russian funds to Kiev in August Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has warned that Russia would inevitably retaliate…

The Israeli prime minister is in Washington to meet with President Joe Biden and deliver a speech to Congress Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has requested a meeting with Republican presidential nominee…

Netanyahu To Have Separate Meetings With Biden, Harris, & Likely Trump Too It has been about a week since President Joe Biden has been seen in public or on camera, and six…

Futures Flat Ahead Of First Mag7 Reports: Alphabet, Tesla Earnings On Deck US equity futures reversed earlier losses and were modestly in the green with small-caps leading and Tech lagging, following the…

Two Tidbits Of Timeless Political Wisdom From Machiavelli Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, “Generosity” funded by debt or currency devaluation is the opposite of generosity: it is the ultimate…

The Censorship Boomerang Authored by Bret Swanson via The Brownstone Institute, “Madness is rare in individuals; but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.” – Friedrich Nietzsche They fooled…

The Republican VP nominee made the tongue-in-cheek remark after US President Joe Biden endorsed her candidacy Republican vice-presidential nominee Senator J.D. Vance has quipped that he’s frustrated he will not get to…

The bloc has canceled a high-level summit in Budapest to “send a symbolic signal” to the prime minister A high-level EU foreign affairs summit scheduled for August will be moved from Hungary…

UK Likely To Miss Its 2030 Clean Power Goals Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, The UK is poised to miss its ambitious target to decarbonize its power sector by 2030 even…

US Image Deteriorates In Parts Of Asia Large groups of people in Asian countries believe that the U.S. democracy used to be a good example for others to follow, but isn’t anymore. Some also…

The US president has not been seen in person since going into quarantine after contracting Covid-19 last week Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert has demanded a “proof of life appearance” by US President…

Kiev will receive €1.4 billion, the interest accrued on frozen funds, early next month, the bloc’s top diplomat has said The EU has revealed when it will begin sending Russian money to…

State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin has met with the African state’s president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune Trade turnover between Russia and Algeria more than doubled last year, State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin has said…

The Sudanese army accused Abu Dhabi of arming paramilitary fighters in the deadly ongoing conflict United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has committed to supporting Sudan in ending…

The instant-messaging app has gained tens of millions of customers in just a few months, according to Pavel Durov Encrypted messaging platform Telegram has reached 950 million monthly active users and continues…

Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen has said Budapest’s views do not correspond with the bloc’s official line The EU may not be the “right reference group” for Hungary considering the apparent divergence…

CJ Hopkins: The People’s Court Of New Normal Germany Authored by CJ Hopkins via The Consent Factory, Just when I thought things could not possibly get more shockingly totalitarian in New Normal…

True Purpose Of NATO Remains USA Hegemony Authored by Yves Engler via Counterpunch.org, NATO’s new focus on China harkens back to the belligerent alliance’s early days. At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s…

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…