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A MiG-29 has been destroyed by an Iskander missile blast in Dnepropetrovsk Region, the Defense Ministry has reported Russia has claimed a third successful tactical missile strike on a Ukrainian airfield this…

Notably missing from the story about governors visiting Joe Biden at the White House, was any mention of Gavin Newsom.  Seems odd. According to Politico, Biden affirmed to the visiting governors and…

Belarus has become the tenth member of the bloc Belarus has officially become a full-fledged member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), an economic and security bloc covering most of Eurasia and…

  Last year I closed comments on the post because many people made it just a second daily political thread. I am asking you not to do that. I know you politics…

Gingrich: The Key ‘Lessons In Liberty’ Authored by Newt Gingrich via RealClearPolicy, Historic leaders often share something important in common. They are not born great. Their greatness is a result of a…

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…

Inside The Chinese Money-Laundering Network Fueling America’s Fentanyl Crisis It’s worth noting that 100,000 Americans die in drug-related deaths per year, the vast majority from pills cooked with fentanyl, an opioid analog 50…

Crime Trends Have Been Tough To Track. Breaking Down The 10 Biggest Cities Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Is crime rising or falling across the United States?…

Bidenomics: Man Sparks Internet Outrage After Paying $9.35 For A Diet Coke At Six Flags Just when you’ve thought you’ve seen the worst, most egregious examples of inflation rearing its head, we…

The key piece of evidence, according to Yuri Borisov, are the lunar soil samples shared with Soviet scientists The head of the Russian space agency has weighed in on the decades-long conspiracy…

From Milk-Runs To MAD To Madness Authored by George Ford Smith via The Mises Institute, There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions…

The Russian leader called Moscow’s strategic partnership with Beijing a global “stabilizing factor” Moscow and Beijing are acting in the interests of their people, and building their relations on the principles of equality…

Anti-Slavery California Ballot Measure Would Ban Forced Prison Labor Authored by Summer Lane via The Epoch Times, A measure seeking to ban forced prison labor and formally prohibit slavery in California will…

Egypt Teeters On Brink Of Economic Ruin As Public Debt Mounts, Poverty Rate Soars Via Middle East Eye Last autumn, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi gave a speech in the New Administrative Capital in Cairo, the $300bn project…

Explosion Rocks General Dynamics’ Hellfire & Javelin Missile Factory In Arkansas An early Wednesday morning explosion rocked the General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems facility in Camden, Arkansas, injuring at least two people and leaving…

Ukraine had blacklisted the American journalist for such “crimes” as interviewing Vladimir Putin Vladimir Zelensky has finally accepted the request to be interviewed by Tucker Carlson, the American journalist has revealed. A…

Gelsenkirchen is the first stop in Germany for the pop star’s Eras Tour The German city of Gelsenkirchen will honor the US pop superstar Taylor Swift by temporarily renaming itself ‘Swiftkirchen’ later…

Putin & Xi Meet Again, Plot Countering US, While White House Consumed With Crisis Of Biden’s Decline In their second face-to-face meeting in as many months, Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Chinese…

From Big Cities To Small Town Main Streets, America To Celebrate July 4 In Record Style Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times, Americans are projected to travel in record numbers,…

Houthi Attacks On Ships Soar Most This Year In June As Critical Maritime Chokepoint Ablaze In Conflict About eight months after Iran-backed Houthi rebels began seriously disrupting maritime traffic in the southern Red…

The Green New Scam Is Dying Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, It’s no secret that the vast majority of the so-called elites are advocates of climate alarmism and are taken in…

Cat 4 Hurricane Beryl Heads Towards Texas, Threatening Major Oil Refineries  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Hurricane Center (NHC) downgraded Hurricane Beryl to a Category 4 storm from a Category…

General Dynamics’ Camden facility built warheads for the Javelin missiles sent to Ukraine Two people have been injured and one is missing after an explosion at a General Dynamics weapons factory in…

Federal independent MP Helen Haines received a lot of negative feedback after she decided to promote on social media the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) celebrating its first year of operation. The problem…

The ‘Beauty of Russia-2024’ will be held at the VDNKh exhibition center in Moscow this week The grand opening of the ‘Beauty of Russia-2024’ beauty and talent festival took place on Wednesday…

Asking Kiev to surrender is unacceptable to Berlin, the German chancellor has said Berlin must not back any call for a truce that would see Kiev admit defeat, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz…

How Much Are State And Local Government Workers Overpaid? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Let’s discuss the latest BLS report on employer costs with a special focus on teachers. Employer costs…

The president’s allies in Congress reportedly fear that association with him could drag down their own campaigns Dozens of Democrats in the US Congress are considering signing a letter demanding that President…

Israel Takes Out 2nd Senior Hezbollah Commander In Less Than Two Weeks Another senior Hezbollah commander has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon on Wednesday. He was killed in…

Fact-Checking The ‘Fact-Checking’ New York Times Authored by Daniel Oliver via American Greatness, “They” just can’t let Donald Trump go. For them, Donald Trump is Evil personified. But not for the rest…

Once you see the strings on the marionettes you can never watch the performance and not see them.  The same thing happens when you know the details of how ballots are different…

FOMC Minutes Show “Vast Majority” Expect Economy To Cool, See Deflationary Effects Of AI Since the last FOMC statement on June 12, oil, gold, stocks, the dollar, and even some of the…

“I Almost Fell Asleep Onstage” – Biden Blames Debate-Debacle On Jet-Lag, But… Desperately trying to outrace a growing wave of pleas to abandon his reelection campaign, President Biden on Tuesday dubiously blamed…

West Jerusalem claims it’s close to defeating Gaza’s militants but the facts show otherwise Through April, the IDF had targeted more than 32,000 military sites belonging to Hamas and its allies. In June,…

The SCO has been strengthening its role on the global stage, according to the Russian president The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is expanding to become a power center in a world that…

Americans Are More Likely To Go To War With The Government Than Submit To The Draft Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, In a national poll last month Americans were asked if they believed…

Stocks, Bonds, & Bullion Soar Amid Political Panic & Macro Meltdown On Holiday-Shortened Day Well that was a shitshow of a day… politically chaotic and macro-economically depressing on a holiday-shortened (super low…

Chicago’s Worst-In-Nation Pension Crisis Strikes Again Authored by Nick Binotti and Ted Dabrowski via Wirepoints.org, Wirepoints recently warned in a Chicago Sun-Times oped that Chicago’s pension mess was going to get worse. As Chicago’s…

After Being Wrong For Three Years, Marko Kolanovic Is Leaving JPMorgan In retrospect, it was the best call of this market cycle. After he was bullish – and dead wrong – all…

The White House has told the outlet that the claim is “absolutely false” US President Joe Biden is seriously considering whether he can recover from his “disastrous” debate performance, the New York…

Petrodollar Panic: Separating Fact From Fiction Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Recently, a few media outlets have warned of the imminent demise of the petrodollar agreement, commonly called the petrodollar. With…

Oh, they’re good… the Pelosi clan are really good. I once saw an interview with Nancy Pelosi’s daughter where she was asked about her mom and Alexandra Pelosi said something very matter-of-factly…

Zelensky Challenges Trump: ‘Tell Us Today How To Finish The War’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday has issued an open challenge to former President Donald Trump, telling him that if the…

Jack Smith Is Willing To Try Trump Up To Inauguration Day; WaPo Reports Authored by Jonathan Turley, The Washington Post is reporting that Special Counsel Jack Smith may try to convict former president Donald…

He wants the former US president to explain his plan to resolve the conflict between Moscow and Kiev Former US President Donald Trump should set out his plan to resolve the Ukraine…

Ukraine will not give up its territorial integrity and sovereignty to end the conflict, Andrey Yermak has said Ukraine does not intend to cave in to Russian demands and consider formally ceding…

The worker perished on the job at a height of 200 meters, reportedly from a drug overdose A crane operator perished on the job at a height of some 200 meters above…

The German chancellor has told supporters that he wants to prevent “a populist government” gaining power in France German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said that he texts French President Emmanuel Macron every…

US Factory Orders Unexpectedly Tumbled In May And to cap a day of serially ugly US macro data, factory orders unexpectedly plunged (-0.5% MoM) in May (against expectations of a 0.2% rise…

WTF Are S&P Global Services PMI Respondents Drinking? Following the mixed picture on Manufacturing (despite the collapse in ‘hard’ data), the Servcies dats could not be more mixed: S&P Global US Services…

What Exactly Are Biden’s Achievements In His First Three-And-A-Half Years? Authored by Jack Hellner via AmericanThinker.com, In the wake of the catastrophic debate last week, Bill Clinton, most of the media, and…

WTI Spikes After Biggest Crude Draw In A Year Oil prices briefly spiked after last night’s API-reported big crude draw, but that reverted back lower fast. Overnight has seen a small roller-coaster…

Hurricane Beryl has been churning her way through the Caribbean for the past few days.  She is now a dangerous CAT-4/CAT-5 storm nearing the island of Jamaica. Beryl is a very dangerous…

Moscow has accused the organization of double standards and Russophobia Russian lawmakers on Wednesday voted to suspend Moscow’s participation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe…

The two countries have been deepening economic cooperation following Western sanctions on Moscow Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Ankara and Moscow would continue strengthening economic ties with the…

“To The Left, To The Right” By Rabobank Yesterday the Dutch national team sealed a 3-0 victory against Romania which resulted in festivities amongst enthusiastic fans. Earlier, Dutch football supporters went viral…

Politico earlier reported that the Republican frontrunner wants NATO to ditch its expansion plans Russian President Vladimir Putin and Republican frontrunner in the US presidential race Donald Trump have not held any…

25 years before the Serbian president’s statement, Washington was bombing Belgrade Serbia and the US have fought together at “crucial historic moments,” and Belgrade wants to continue to improve relations with Washington,…

Member states have reportedly rejected Jens Stoltenberg’s proposal to spend €40 billion a year on aid for Kiev NATO member states have rejected a proposal by Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to spend…

CDK Global Says “Substantially All” Dealerships Back Online After Ransomware Attack  The cyber incident that affected about 15,000 auto dealerships across North America is over. CDK Global said “substantially all” dealers in its network…

Eight people were reportedly wounded while repairing a substation used by the Zaporozhye NPP A Ukrainian attack on a substation used by the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant has injured eight employees of…

Novo, Lilly Fall After Biden & Sanders Slam Big Pharma For ‘Unconscionably High’ Anti-Obesity Drug Prices In what seems to be a last-ditch effort by the Biden administration to regain voter support as…

US Interior Department Greenlights Major Offshore Wind Project In New Jersey Authored by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times The Department of Interior announced its approval of a large-scale offshore wind turbine…

Congressman Wesley Hunt tells a story about President Trump and a key meeting he had about Afghanistan. This is good. WATCH: In a tense meeting with Taliban leaders, Trump declared, “I want…

Sierra Leone’s government has passed a law introducing a 15-year minimum prison sentence for offenders Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio has signed legislation banning child marriage in the West African country,…

James Clyburn left Wisconsin last weekend after attending ballot counting workshops in three cities, more on that next.  However, his latest move is perhaps the most important in the short term. Clyburn…

The president of the Republic of the Congo paid a state visit to Moscow Denis Sassou Nguesso, the President of the Republic of the Congo and one of Africa’s political heavyweights, has…

Ethereum ETFs In ‘Window-Dressing’ Stage, Approval Within Weeks; Galaxy Authored by Felix Ng via CoinTelegraph.com, Galaxy Digital’s head of asset management believes spot Ether exchange-traded funds will be approved in “weeks” rather…

Some 45% of respondents are not satisfied with the current cabinet’s performance   Almost half of Finns are unhappy with the government led by 53-year-old Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, a recent survey…

The close-call was filmed by a camera mounted on the turret of a T-72 A video released by the Russian Defense Ministry shows the dramatic moment when a presumed Ukrainian kamikaze drone…

The Ukrainian leader said he had a “negative experience” with truce talks in the past, according to the Hungarian PM Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky was not receptive to Budapest’s proposal to establish a…

The US president claims he was tired after traveling extensively ahead of the showdown with Donald Trump Joe Biden has claimed that too much international travel was the reason for his disastrous…

Initial Jobless Claims Disappoint (Again), Continuing Claims Worst Since Dec 2021 Following a weaker than expected AP print, jobless claims data is worse than expected too. Initial claims rose to 238k last…

Watch: Press Hammers KJP, Repeatedly Demand To Know If Biden Has Dementia During Briefing Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre, holding her first proper press…

ADP Payrolls Disappoint In June – 3rd Straight Monthly Decline In Additions ADP reported 150k job additions in June (well below the 165k expected) – the third straight monthly decline in job…

Futures Trade At Record High Ahead Of Data Flood US futures traded at new record highs amid rising optimism a Fed rate cut is coming, perhaps as soon as the end of the…

Identification With Democrats Plummets In The US Identification with the Democratic Party has plummeted in the U.S. to the lowest recorded levels, according to a Gallup database. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, even…

Two kamikaze watercraft were stopped overnight while trying to reach the port of Novorossiysk, the Defense Ministry has reported The Russian Navy has intercepted two Ukrainian naval unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) deployed…

3 In 4 Americans Say They’re Not Financially Secure, New Report Shows Authored by Jen Krausz via The Epoch Times, According to a new Bankrate report, three in four Americans say they…

Obama Privately ‘Concerned’ About Biden As White House Staff Freak Over Hunter While Former President Barack Obama has publicly supported sockpuppet president Joe Biden following last Thursday’s unprecedented debate, he has privately…

A single Krasnopol artillery munition was enough to obliterate the vehicle, according to Moscow’s military Russian forces have destroyed another US-supplied Ukrainian-operated Abrams main battle tank in Donbass, the Defense Ministry in…

More than 250,000 took part in a religious rally that resulted in mass deaths, according to police India is investigating the circumstances in which a religious event in Uttar Pradesh state turned…

An Iskander attack on an airfield in Poltava region has destroyed a parked Mil Mi-24, according to the Defense Ministry in Moscow A Russian missile strike on an airfield in central Ukraine…

Many Democrats believe US President Joe Biden should drop out of the race after his poor debate performance Michelle Obama, the wife of former US President Barack Obama, is the only potential…

The former US Secretary of State says Kiev is right to be concerned if the Republican prevails over Biden Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has signaled her support if Ukraine…

The East African nation experienced widespread unrest once again on Tuesday as demonstrators called for the president’s resignation Kenyan authorities have vowed to crack down on violent protests after the East African…

Energy giant Gazprom has ramped up pipeline supplies to Western, Central, Southern and Southeastern Europe by nearly a quarter, the outlet has said Russian natural gas exports to Western, Central, Southern, and…

Debate over the Muslim garment that covers all but a woman’s eyes has intensified following last month’s terrorist attack in the republic Islamic authorities in Russia’s Dagestan Republic have decreed a temporary…

Crypto Hacks, Scams Totaled Over Half-A-Billion Dollars For Q2, 2024: Report Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Over half a billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency was stolen in…

A Russian soldier tossed a 10kg munition inside a building during an assault, a video from the battlefield shows A video circulating on social media purportedly shows a daredevil Russian soldier using…

Saudi Producer Sentenced To 13 Years In Prison Over Animated Netflix Series Via Middle East Eye Saudi writer and producer Abdul Aziz al-Muzaini has been sentenced to 13 years in prison and 13 years of…

The US is willing to sacrifice its allies in order to defeat Russia, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has argued Any Western talk of peace in the Ukraine conflict is merely a…

Many of the bloc’s members want “additional steps” from Kiev as they consider the issue a “priority,” a source has told the paper NATO wants Ukraine to make more effort to crack…

Nine Ukrainian Jets Destroyed In 24 Hours, Russia’s Military Says The Kremlin has continued to signal to the West that the dozens of US F-16 fighter jets currently being prepped to transfer…

Macron’s Loss Isn’t An End, It’s A Beginning Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, To say that I’ve been waiting on pins and needles for the past year…

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…

How Financial Surveillance Threatens Our Democracies: Part 1 Authored by Alexandre Stachtchenko via Bitcoin Magazine, When they descended into coal mines, miners would take a caged canary with them. The toxic gasses,…

Black Americans Still Feel Systematically Held Back On July 2, 1964, Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. To this day, the landmark bill is considered one of the most significant legislative…