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President William Ruto has visited Haiti to assess the progress and future of an “anti-gang” operation Kenya’s mission to combat criminal gangs and militant groups in Haiti could be turned into a…

Chad’s government says it maintains control over decisions regarding security cooperation with foreign partners Chad has not authorized the redeployment of American troops on its territory, the Central African nation’s foreign ministry…

Why App-Based Jobs Don’t Pay Like They Used To Authored by Austin Alonzo via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), More Americans than ever are turning to the so-called gig economy—providing services ranging…

Some 15 people have been detained for disseminating radical ideology and committing violent acts motivated by religious hatred Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has announced the arrest of over a dozen people…

The challenges of the Ukraine crisis are likely to become “deeper and harsher” in the coming years, David Lammy has warned The fighting between Russia and Ukraine is likely to rage on…

FIDE, however, has backed a move to consider easing sanctions for some players  The World Chess Federation’s (FIDE) general assembly has voted to maintain a ban on Russian and Belarusian players, while…

Brussels slapped duties on Chinese-made electric vehicles in July The EU market for new cars saw its biggest drop in over two years in August, according to data from the European Automobile…

Europe cannot be limited by the EU and NATO if the continent is to be peaceful, the French president has said French President Emmanuel Macron has called for reform of the current…

The US streaming giant has recently come under scrutiny in the country due to a controversial new show New Delhi is investigating Netflix, Reuters reported on Sunday, citing an e-mail sent by…

Everyone is just waiting to vote now; that’s the rub of it.  That’s the core and basic message that keeps repeating from inside the signal.  Everyone has made up their mind, there…

An Iskander missile was used to destroy a HIMARS system in Ukraine’s Sumy Region, the report said Russian forces have obliterated a US-made HIMARS launcher as well as its crew in Ukraine’s…

Kiev is seeking commitments from the US that the Republican would not be able to reverse if elected, the newspaper has said Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky will request NATO-type security guarantees for…

Global Coal Consumption Is Still Soaring… Despite efforts to decarbonize the economy, global coal consumption surpassed 164 exajoules for the first time in 2023. The fossil fuel still accounts for 26% of the world’s…

Has The EU Suddenly Realized How Much It Has Screwed Itself Over? Via Kitco News, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes,” is a popular quote attributed to Mark Twain, and…

VW Could Cut Up To 30,000 Employees In Germany The German giant is simply no longer selling enough cars… German car manufacturer Volkswagen (VW) could cut up to 30,000 jobs of its…

Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk Region was the best reply to those who thought Kiev wanted peace, Russia’s deputy UN envoy has said Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky chose the path of escalation when…

Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty has blamed Israel’s “provocative” actions for spiking tensions in the region The escalation between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah could trigger a full-blown regional war, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr…

The foreign secretary has argued that NATO countries need to step up aid for Ukraine UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has called on NATO members to demonstrate “nerve and guts” in their…

Lavrov Explained What Russia Hopes To Achieve By Talking About Its Red Lines Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Lavrov gave an insightful interview to Sky News Arabia in which he explained what Russia…

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…

An American Coup? Authored by Thomas Neuberger via Substack, “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy” – Constitution of the United States, Article 2, Section 2 I…

Owning A Car Is Less Important To Younger Generations 54 percent of Gen Z participants polled for Statista’s Consumer Insights survey in the U.S. between July 2023 and June 2024 claim that owning…

When Could Billionaires Become Trillionaires? Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire by 2027, according to a recent report by Informa Connect Academy. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, shows the…

The US Republican vice presidential candidate’s peace plan is “awful,” Ukraine’s leader said Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has slammed former President Donald Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance, as “too radical” in his…

India Reports Record Gold Imports In August By Mike Maharrey of MoneyMatals.com India reported record gold imports in August after the country slashed its import duty the month before. India ranks as…

Charting 150 Years Of Corn, Wheat, & Soy Yields In America America can grow three-times as much corn from a single acre of land as it can wheat and soy. This is…

The Republican candidate ruled out running for the White House for the third time US Republican candidate Donald Trump has said that he would not seek another re-election bid if he loses…

This Is A New World Where The Most Powerful Players Are No Longer The Bankers, But Politicians, Their Deficits And Debts By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management “Today, unemployment…

The Start Of A “New” Cycle By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities The Fed finally cut rates on Wednesday and 2-year yields finished the week higher, 10s didn’t have the decency to…

Johnson Shrinks Again As Congress Reaches Shutdown Deal Without ‘Proof Of Citizenship’ SAVE Act House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Sunday unveiled a 90-day band-aid to avoid yet another government shutdown which…

Apple A16 Chips Are Now Made In America  Taiwan-based independent journalist Tim Culpan revealed that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s plant in Arizona has produced the first batch of Apple A16 chips using the…

Tropic Trouble Brewing In Gulf Of Mexico Could “Slingshot” Towards Offshore Oil Rigs  The latest Tropical Outlook from the National Hurricane Center indicates a 70% probability of tropical cyclone formation in the…

Did The Biden-Harris Campaign Collude With Iran? Authored by Jeff Carlson and Hans Mahncke via Truth Over News, In a joint statement issued on September 18, 2024, the Office of the Director…

The event commemorating Russia’s Royal Martyrs took place at the Romanov family estate A major cross procession took place on Sunday outside Moscow during which pilgrims walked from the village of Ilyinskoye…

Mike Rowe brought Victor Davis Hanson onto his podcast for an interview to discuss Class Warfare as contrast against the 2024 election stakes. The impetus for the interview was an article written…

Is Concord’s extremely short lifespan evidence of a lack of ‘modern audience’ that studios are pandering to? In video games, as in any line of business, there are trends that come and…

Hollywood Horror: Abandoned ‘Graffiti Mansion’ Becomes Squatters’ Paradise What was once a star-studded mansion in the Hollywood Hills has now become a nightmare for neighbors, as graffiti, garbage, and trespassers have taken…

Ukraine’s de facto leader says he’s been working to elevate the status of the schismatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine Kiev is working to obtain a patriarchate status for the Orthodox Church of…

Government sources have said the move would be intended to address national security concerns over data collection The US Commerce Department may impose restrictions on the use of Chinese and Russian software…

Secret Service Agents To Be Disciplined Over July 13 Trump Shooting, Director Says Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe said Friday that…

Israeli Army Raids, Shuts Down Al Jazeera’s West Bank News Room Back in May, Israel’s Knesset voted unanimously to ban the Al Jazeera broadcast network. The Israeli order effectively shut down all Al Jazeera broadcasts…

Over 700 Deep Staters Join And Dick Cheney, Iran, And IRS Union In Endorsing Harris In a surprise to no one, 741 ‘high-ranking national security officials’ have endorsed Kamala Harris’ bid for…

SEC To Seek Sanctions Against Musk For Not Appearing For Testimony Over Twitter Acquisition Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said…

Erdogan Says Israel Is Dragging Whole Region Into All-Out War The United Nations is warning of ‘catastrophe’ in Lebanon while Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is accusing Israel of dragging the whole…

Lebanon-based Hezbollah has “many enemies,” while Israel is only “defending itself,” President Isaac Herzog has said Israeli President Isaac Herzog has provided ambiguous comments on the alleged involvement of West Jerusalem in…

The Reason For The Electoral College Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), We’ve all experienced something like the following. The topic of politics comes up at a…

If there is one economic dynamic we have talked about on these pages more than the rest, its inflation.  {Background} The root causes of inflation are two-fold, monetary policy and energy policy. …

A video showing officers detaining a small boy during a protest in Berlin has sparked outrage online A video showing German police chasing and detaining a child at a pro-Palestine protest in…

Caterpillar Pulls Back On DEI, Joining John Deere, Ford, and Others Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Caterpillar Inc. has introduced new guidelines that refocus the company’s various…

An escort vehicle carrying Albert Khorev’s delegation has struck a landmine in Pakistan, resulting in injuries to police A motorcade carrying Russian Ambassador Albert Khorev and other diplomats has been hit by…

Which Countries Are Meeting Their Paris Agreement Goals? When it comes to emission reductions, some countries aim high but miss the mark by a long shot while others reject big commitments on…

How The Revolution Of Money Will Reshape Our Future Authored by Kane McGukin via BombThrower.com, As human civilization has evolved, one thing has remained constant; change… During major shifts, the root desire…

Charities claim the real figure is far higher, with some crimes not brought to the police There is one rape report every hour in London, according to police data published on Friday….

Russia does not want an atomic war and never has, the foreign minister emphasized Russia has no wish to start a nuclear war and considers it “inappropriate” that its warnings of an…

US Elections: From The Outside Looking In… Via Evergreen Gavekal blog, US presidential elections are terrific entertainment. Given their cost (a couple of billion US dollars for either side), this is just…

Ties between New Delhi and Washington have been strained over an alleged murder plot against Gurpatwant Singh Pannun A day before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in the US for the…

Ukraine Scores More Large Hits On Russian Ammo Storage Depots  On Saturday Ukraine’s military claimed several more successful strikes on Russian ammo depots. They happened in southern Krasnodar and western Tver regions, resulting…

Boeing’s Head Of Space & Defense Ted Colbert Exits Company The head of Boeing’s space and defense business is leaving the company after years of losses from fixed-price contracts and a high-profile…

Harsh weather has left hundreds stranded on the highway, with one woman dying from hypothermia, local officials have said One woman has died and numerous motorists have been left stranded after a…

Washington has not provided “a single piece of evidence” to back their accusations, Tatyana Moskalkova has said The actions taken by US authorities against RT can be qualified as terrorism and a…

US Navy Directed To Prepare For War With China By 2027 Authored by Andrew Thornebrooke via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Navy on Sept. 19 released a new strategic document centered on…

The outlet has ample experience in evading Western restrictions, the paper has reported The latest US crackdown on RT will ultimately not prevent it from bringing alternative viewpoints to audiences in the…

The appointment of a right-leaning cabinet has elicited the ire of many, particularly on the left Large protests took place across France on Saturday over the appointment earlier in the day of…

Countries should not compete through space programs, as this will only hurt humanity, astronaut Rakesh Sharma believes April 3, 1982 was a red letter day in the history of Indo-Russian joint space…

The loss of Russian tourists has hit Finland and Cyprus especially hard, a European Travel Commission study suggests The conflict between Moscow and Kiev has severely affected EU tourism in a market…

The event will promote Vladimir Zelensky’s “unviable” formula for ending the conflict, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said Russia does not plan to attend the second Ukrainian-promoted “peace summit” later this…

It will be difficult for both sides to abandon the fighting now, sources told the outlet US officials expect the fighting between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah to intensify significantly in…

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…

Walk/Don’t-Walk – In Which States Do Citizens Stroll The Most? Data from transportation analytics company StreetLight shows that residents of the District of Columbia and the states of New York and New Jersey…

Sheriff Arrested In Shooting Death Of Kentucky District Judge Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A district judge in Kentucky was fatally shot in the Letcher County Courthouse…

West Jerusalem should be isolated by Islamic states for targeting civilians in Gaza, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said Islamic states around the world should cut economic relations with Israel to demonstrate their…

Valery Zaluzhny has confirmed the death of his close associate in the Donbass A former aide and close associate of Ukraine’s ex-top general Valery Zaluzhny has been killed during a Russian strike…

Just Weeks Before Election, AG Garland Says (Un-Sarcastically): He ‘Won’t Allow DoJ To Be Used As Political Weapon’ Authored by Julie Kelly via RealClearinvestigations, To Many, the Justice Dept. Is Honoring Political…

Najib Mikati has called on the international community to condemn “horrific Israeli massacres” Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has canceled his plans to attend the UN General Assembly session in New York…

Heavily armed Israeli soldiers have barged into the pan-Arab TV channel’s studio in the West Bank on Sunday Israeli soldiers in full combat gear entered Al Jazeera’s office in Ramallah in the…

NYPD Faces Uncertain Future Amid New York’s Growing Political Crisis Authored by Michael Watson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), With the resignation of New York City Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Edward…

These Are The Top-Selling Albums Of The 21st Century The music industry is a rapidly changing space, with new formats like digital streaming surpassing physical formats like CDs. Regardless, album sales – both physical…

The Ukrainian leader has objected to Wall Street Journal’s estimate that 80,000 of Kiev’s soldiers were killed Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has dismissed a Wall Street Journal report on Ukrainian war casualties…

Zelenskyy Says Ukraine “Victory Plan” Includes Deep Strikes Into Russia With Western Missiles Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters in Kyiv on Sept. 20 that the “victory plan” he intends to present…

“Who’s Running The Country…” – Why Is Jill Biden Chairing A Cabinet Meeting? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Biden White House held its first cabinet meeting in a year, and…

US House Passes Bill To Label Products From Jewish Settlements In West Bank As ‘Made In Israel’ Via Middle East Eye The US House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that designates products…

Civil defense sirens have been heard in dozens of cities in northern Israel in the early hours of Sunday Interceptors have been activated in northern Israel as Hezbollah launched a barrage of…

The Sins Of The Gray Lady (Or Why The Press Hates You) Authored by J. Peder Zane via RealClearPolitics, The following is a chapter from the recently released book, “Against the Corporate Media:…

Avoiding the press is reportedly a key strategy of the vice president’s campaign US Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t given many media interviews because “she’s a very busy person,” one of her…

The event at the Romanov family estate outside of Moscow marked the bicentennial anniversary of Maria Alexandrovna’s birth A monument to Russian Empress Maria Alexandrovna was unveiled on Saturday in the village…

USAF Provides Update On B-21 Stealth Raider: “We Are The Free World’s Only Bomber Force” Nothing says ‘Merica more than Air Force officials providing an update on the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider program. The…

A very simple ballot counting rule was affirmed by the Georgia election board on Friday in a 3-2 vote. The “hand count” ballot rule (183-1:12) is very basic and simple.  Essentially it…

Justice Kelly Rees issued an arrest warrant, 3 years ago, for journalist Shane Dowling (me) to serve 10 months jail for contempt of court on the instructions of Kerry Strokes’ Channel Seven…

The “deep state” is the real source of power in Washington, the Russian foreign minister has said Russian President Vladimir Putin was joking when he endorsed US Vice President Kamala Harris’ election…

The Pittsburgh Paradox Could Hand PA To Trump Authored by Oliver Bateman via RealClearPolitics, Pittsburgh’s transformation from Rust Belt phoenix to progressive tech stronghold was supposed to be the Democrats’ long-term ace…

“No Americans”: Insider Of Alleged Trafficking Network Reveals How Migrants Ended Up At Charleroi, PA Factory The story in Springfield, Ohio, and Charleroi, Pennsylvania, should not be about goat sacrifices and migrants eating cats and…

The Odds Of An Electoral College Tie Are About To Soar, Who Would Win? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, In case of a tie, the House of Representatives would decide. This…

Boris Johnson has argued that Russia must be forced to accept defeat, even if doing so costs a trillion dollars Russia must understand that “it’s over,” and that Ukraine will not concede…

State and federal resources are “almost exhausted,” according to the country’s interior minister The number of refugees living in Germany reached a new high this year, the newspaper Neue Osnabrucker Zeitung reported…

Among the continent’s top-50 lenders, every fifth card came from Sber as of last year Russian state-run lender Sber (formerly Sberbank) is the largest issuer of bank cards among European financial institutions,…

Microsoft-Owned LinkedIn Using People’s Data To Train Artificial Intelligence Models Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Professional networking platform LinkedIn has confirmed that it automatically uses personal user…

Pyongyang has been launching garbage-laden inflatables in response to ones carrying propaganda from the South A trash-carrying balloon landed in the parking lot of the Seoul government complex on Friday, South Korean…

IDF Says 180 Targets Eliminated In Southern Lebanon; US Lauds ‘Good Outcome’ Of Beirut Strike Since Thursday and the deadly chaos of the two-day pager explosion attack, southern Lebanon has seen the…