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Latvian lawmaker Aleksey Roslikov has accused authorities of using psychological pressure by intimidating his family A Latvian MP has claimed his parents’ home was raided in what he called an effort to…

I’m becoming increasingly convinced that people on the ConInc side of the conversation also need to pretend not to know things. There is an increased sentiment of frustration toward President Donald Trump…

Berlin is preparing for potential Iranian attacks, Friedrich Merz has said Germany is preparing for potential Iranian attacks targeting the local Jewish community, Chancellor Friedrich Merz has told journalists before departing for…

Israel has confirmed hitting an Iranian state broadcaster among other targets The shared offices of RT’s Tehran bureau and a Ruptly video agency branch have been evacuated due to intensifying IDF strikes…

Three More States Diverge From CDC On COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendations Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Officials from three states said on June 12 that pregnant women should still be…

Chopper pressers are the best pressers.  President Trump departs the White House to attend the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Canada (aka the “Canadian Rockies”).  As he departs, President trump takes a few…

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…

The man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another crawled to SWAT police officers in surrender Sunday after they located him in the woods near his home.  Vance Boelter was arrested…

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…

All Eyes On Trump As G7 Summit Begins Amid Middle East Tensions Authored by Emel Akan via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump arrived in Alberta, Canada, on Sunday for the Group…

I’ll break out a different analytical discussion on other foreign interest matters in a separate post; however, as the G7 kicks off it is very interesting to notice who shows up on…

Key Events This Holiday-Shortened Week: FOMC, Retail Sales, G7, Middle East War Just one week ago, it was all about US/China but that seems a long time ago now as 2025 continues…

The 57-year-old reportedly had a manifesto listing 70 public figures including abortion supporters The primary suspect in the murder of senior Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband has been…

The Russian president told his Turkish counterpart that Moscow has strictly adhered to the agreements reached in Istanbul Russian President Vladimir Putin has thanked his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan for helping…

Market Rapidly Evolving Towards Positive Outcome In The Middle East Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, While the fighting continues between Iran and Israel, the market is pricing in a positive…

The high-end German automaker was among the first to announce plans to exit the country but claims it faced challenges selling local assets Luxury German carmaker Porsche has not exited Russia due…

BRICS talks go on as missiles fall – a Russian analyst shares what he saw and heard in the Iranian capital “No panic. Everyone is just getting on with their work.” That’s…

New Delhi is planning to relocate some Indian students in Iran to “safer places” within the country, and is also exploring “other feasible options” for their safety, the Indian foreign ministry said…

The criticism was sparked after police knocked a priest to the ground during an anti-LGBTQ rally in the Moldovan capital The Moldovan authorities have sacrificed the country’s centuries-old heritage in exchange for…

Futures Surge As Dip-Buyers Ignore Escalating Middle-East War US equity futures are higher, oil is lower and multiple asset classes are displaying a risk on tone as markets shrug off the situation in…

A joint refinery project in Mali aims to quadruple local output and meet global standards Mali’s government will partner with the Russian Yadran Group to establish a state-owned gold refinery aimed at…

Chokepoint Watch: GPS Jamming Impacts Tankers Across Strait Of Hormuz Despite Israel and Iran volleying missiles and bombs at one another over the weekend, Brent crude futures showed a surprisingly muted reaction Monday morning,…

Shockwaves from nearby explosions shattered windows in several embassy residences, according to Ambassador Anatoly Viktorov. Russian nationals in Israel, including diplomatic staff, are facing significant danger due to the country’s ongoing hostilities…

The reported deployment has driven speculation that the US is directly involved in the Israel-Iran war The US has reportedly deployed more than 30 aerial refueling tankers across the Atlantic toward the…

The offensive raises serious concerns under international law, including violations of sovereignty and territorial integrity, Pretoria has said Government has expressed “profound” concern regarding the attacks conducted by Israel on targets within…

Tech Giants’ Energy Hunger Shown In Charts A new report reveals that just six hyperscalers—Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle, and Apple—now account for a significant share of U.S. load growth, with electricity demand…

America’s Cities Are Sinking… Across the U.S., major urban centers are experiencing significant land subsidence, a.k.a the sinking of land. This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Kayla Zhu, visualizes the average vertical land…

Israel’s Strike On South Pars: Is Europe Facing A New Energy Crisis? Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Israel’s recent military strike on Iran’s nuclear capabilities and the main artery of its energy sector…

Kiev could receive an additional 2,239 bodies, the Russian defense ministry has said Russia is ready to hand over more remains of fallen troops to Ukraine, in addition to making good on…

The victims were on a pilgrimage to one of Hinduism’s holiest sites A helicopter crash in India’s northern state of Uttarakhand on Sunday morning resulted in the death of all seven people…

LA Mayor Bass Says If ICE Raids Persist, There’ll Be ‘Nobody’ Left To Nanny The Kids Or Mow The Lawns Authored by Olivia Murray via AmericanThinker.com, Everyone probably remembers during Donald Trump’s…

The alleged bomber tried to kill a local official in Russia’s Kherson Region, FSB security agency has said A Russian citizen residing in the country’s Kherson Region has been charged with terrorism…

The bodies of over 6,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been handed over to Kiev as agreed, Vladimir Medinsky has announced Russia has returned the bodies of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers, Moscow’s chief negotiator…

For months, the British PM has faced criticism for refusing to launch a probe into the abuse of young girls across the country UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has ordered a nationwide…

Can Africa Power Europe’s Green Hydrogen Ambitions? Authored by Felicity Bradstock via OilPrice.com, The EU has committed $27.4 million to the Italian H2 Backbone project, part of a 3,300 km pipeline to…

The former president has lost the Legion of Honor over a corruption conviction Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been excluded from the prestigious National Order of the Legion of Honor, according…

Authorities have pointed to climate change as a key driver of increasingly devastating weather incidents The death toll from last week’s deadly flooding in South Africa has climbed to 88, as emergency…

German Commissioner Calls For Purge Of AfD Members From Police Ranks Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, The police commissioner of the German Bundestag, Uli Grötsch, has demanded that all members…

Sudan says Israel’s “unjust aggression” against Tehran poses a “serious threat” to international peace and security Sudan’s transitional government has ordered the immediate evacuation of its nationals from Iran, where Israeli airstrikes…

Ukraine’s Infrastructure Damage Exceeds $175 Billion More than three years into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war has already inflicted over $175 billion in direct damage to the country’s buildings and infrastructure, according to…

The discovery could help investigators identify the likely cause of the accident that claimed 290 lives Officials investigating the crash of Air India flight AI171, recovered the plane’s second cockpit voice recorder…

An industrial building reportedly used by Kiev’s military officer corps were targeted with Iskander ballistic weapons Russian forces have targeted a Ukrainian military headquarters with Iskander ballistic missiles, the Defense Ministry reported…

Moscow has only shielded traditional values from Western propaganda, the president said Russia has banned propaganda promoting same-sex relations but has never sought to outlaw homosexuality itself, according to President Vladimir Putin….

Zelensky’s Latest Tweetstorm Is Full Of Panic Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Zelensky fired off over a dozen paragraphs in his latest tweetstorm on Saturday afternoon that can be read in…

With China Rapidly Scaling Up Nuclear Energy, US Faces ‘A Sputnik Moment’ Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The United States has nearly twice as many nuclear reactors…

California Retail Theft Rose 11% From 2014 To 2023: Report California’s soft-on-crime approach, along with pandemic-era actions, may have contributed to a rise in retail theft from 2014 to 2023, according to…

The US president has urged ICE agents to focus on Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and other Democratic strongholds US President Donald Trump has instructed federal agents to dramatically ramp up deportations…

As the G7 leaders gather in Canada for their annual meeting, President Trump delivers a message to Iran from his Truth Social account. President Trump continues pushing Iran to make a deal…

Vance Luther Boelter, 57, continues to evade authorities as the manhunt for him widens. The manhunt followed Boelter, disguised as a police officer, fatally shot former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows he needs the support of the United States government if he is going to succeed in his war against Iran; intended to forever eliminate the potential…

Senator Tom Cotton is the current chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and one of the strongest voices in full support of military strikes against Iran. Good morning, and Happy Father’s Day…

California City Makes Homeless Eligible For Arrest If They Refuse 3 Offers Of Shelter Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, The San Jose City Council in Northern California voted June…

“Caviar, Champagne And Lobster”: MAGA’s Exclusive $500K Private Club Launches – With Bessent, Bondi & RFK Jr. Partying With Tech Billionaires On Friday night, DC’s conservative elite celebrated the opening of ‘The…

Diplomacy On His Deathbed – From Peace-President To Warmonger Authored by Peter Hanseler via voicefromrussia.org, The US’s involvement in the attacks on Russia and Iran makes a negotiated solution to these conflicts…

Oil And Gold Jump As Israel Targets Iranian Energy Infrastructure Oil jumped in late Sunday trading with investors focused on escalating geopolitical tensions as Israel and Iran continue to bombard each other…

Defense Minister Khawaja Asif urges Muslim countries to cut ties with Tel Aviv over strikes on Iran Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif has called on Muslim nations to unite against Israel following…

Spy Satellite Uncovers Massive Stealth Flying Wing At Secretive Chinese Base China is well aware that Western spy satellites, including those operated by the U.S., maintain constant overhead surveillance of high-value military assets, such…

DHS Respond After ‘Violent Rioters’ Storm ICE Facility, Assault Law Enforcement Officers The Department of Homeland Security has responded after anti-ICE protesters in Portland, Oregon stormed an ICE facility and assaulted federal law…

Col. MacGregor: Dear President Trump, Keep America First – Not Israel first, Not Ukraine First Authored by Col. Douglas Macgregor (ret.) In the last 72 hours, Israel launched a preemptive strike against Iran…

Tehran announced the deaths of three senior officers on Sunday The intelligence chief of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been killed in an Israeli strike. Brigadier General Mohammad Kazemi,…

Trump Vetoed Israeli Plan To Assassinate Ayatollah Khamenei: Report And just like that, Washington is very close to involvement in yet another half-baked regime change war in the Middle East, as Israel has…

Scenes of police violence erupted at an anti-LGBTQ gathering in the post-Soviet country’s capital A senior Moldovan opposition lawmaker has expressed shock over violent clashes between police and Orthodox Christian protestors at…

Leftist Protesters Attempting “Global March To Gaza” Get Beaten And Arrested In Egypt There is perhaps no group more tiresome and naive than western progressives; constantly seeking to socially engineer not just…

Two Hot Wars And Counting… And The Fed On Wednesday By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities On Shaky Ground Let’s start by wishing everyone a happy Father’s Day, or more broadly, let’s…

An Orthodox Christian procession was stopped by police while an unauthorized Pride march was left undisturbed Moldovan capital city of Chisinau on Sunday endured a Pride march, as well as several separate…

The military bloc has tried to subvert traditional values in multiple Eastern European nations before, Stevan Gajic has told RT The LGBTQ “ideology” is “being force-fed to Moldovans” by NATO, which has…

Tehran has been preparing for a long war, a senior Iranian security official has said Tehran is gearing up to decisively counter Israel’s military operations, and intends to “shut down the regime’s…

Tipping The Scales: Why So Many Cases Against Trump Are Heard By Democrat-Appointed Judges Authored by Benjamin Weingarten via RealClearInvestigations, As the Trump administration faces substantial pushback in the courts, including an…

The US and Russian presidents previously discussed Middle East tensions in an hour-long phone conversation US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he is open to Russian President Vladimir Putin serving as…

The ‘No Kings’ demos coincided with Trump’s birthday and a military parade in Washington marking the US Army’s 250th anniversary More than five million people took part in anti-Trump marches across the…

The Utility Of A Father In A Financialized World Authored by Jeffrey Degner via The Mises Institute, Homer Simpson, Ray Romano, Randy Marsh, and Hal Wilkerson—all idiots. Good natured, bumbling, and well-intentioned,…

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit China to attend events marking the 80th anniversary of its victory over Imperial Japan in World War II Russian President Vladimir Putin has extended birthday greetings…

Such women must “bury their heart” with their deceased husbands, Russian archpriest Andrey Tkachev believes Widowed women should never remarry and should stay faithful to their late husbands until the end of…

Zelensky Says Iran Poses ‘Serious Threat’ To Ukraine, Amid Israel War Once again another major Middle East conflict is taking much of the West’s attention away from the long war in Ukraine,…

Democrats Download New Talking Point: Padilla Is “A Very Mild Mannered Man” Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, Following California Democrat Senator Alex Padilla’s unhinged meltdown where he aggressively confronted DHS Secretary…

Nobody can deny Tehran the right to have a peaceful nuclear program, according to Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi Israel is trying to prevent Tehran from reaching a nuclear deal with the US,…

Last year, Moscow sold 18% more goods to its top 20 trade partners compared to 2021, the German Economic Institute has estimated Russia’s exports have grown considerably, compared to figures recorded prior…

Europe’s Populist Parties Keeps Gaining Ground, But Cannot Get Into Power Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Across the European continent, despite gaining considerable proportions of the vote,…

No Climate, No Gender: Canada’s G7 Summit Agenda Shows Shift In Priorities Authored by Emel Akan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), WASHINGTON—When President Donald Trump joins world leaders at the Group…

The escalating conflict in the Middle East could send the commodity skyrocketing – Foreign Minister Escalating tensions in the Middle East and a potential closure of the Strait of Hormuz could drive…

Violent scenes have been caught on camera during an anti-LGBTQ rally in the post-Soviet country’s capital Police officers have used force against the participants of an anti-LGBTQ rally in Moldova’s capital Chisinau,…

The UAV strike on Tatarstan also left 13 wounded, according to Rustam Minnikhanov Ukrainian drone attack in the Republic of Tatarstan in central Russia has resulted in one fatality and multiple injuries,…

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…

The Heart Behind The US Army’s 250 Years Of Service Authored by Dustin Bass via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), “For God’s sake, fire!” A return volley of musket and rifle fire…

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…

The transfer happened in line with the agreements reached in Istanbul earlier this month Moscow has handed over the bodies of another 1,200 fallen Ukrainian troops to Kiev, RT has learned. There…

Tehran will face “the full strength and might of the US Armed Forces” if it targets American assets, the president has warned US President Donald Trump has warned Tehran of retaliation “at…

West Jerusalem has requested assistance targeting the Fordow nuclear site, according to the outlet West Jerusalem has asked the White House to take part in its military campaign against Iran in order to…

The Kiev drag artist’s show faces an inquiry over its alleged breach of cultural legislation Ukraine’s language ombudsman has called for a police probe into singer Verka Serduchka’s recent Kiev concert, where…

Sanctuary State Governors Double Down On Illegal Immigration In Tense Capitol Hearing The conflict surrounding the Trump Administration’s deportation of illegal aliens is driven by a complex web of NGOs and astroturf…

Clouds Over Bluesky: The Left’s Social Media Safe Space Under Fire For Intolerant And Hateful Postings Authored by Jonathan Turley via jonathanturley.org, Bluesky has become a safe space for liberals seeking to…

the incident occurred during the No Kings demonstration in Salt Lake City One person was critically injured after a gunman opened fire during a protest march against the policies of US President…

5 Ways To Build Extraordinary Resilience, According To An Ex-Navy SEAL And Paralympic Champion Authored by Walker Larson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), When Dan Cnossen opened his eyes, he saw…

These Are The Best College Degrees For Finding A Job In The US Which college degrees are the best for finding a job? This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, uses recent…

Tehran accuses IAEA of failing to condemn Israeli strikes Iran will limit its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over what it calls the agency’s “silence” on Israeli strikes, Iranian…

Large Numbers In Congress Back Israel’s Attack On Iran Via The Libertarian Institute Following the opening salvo in Israel’s bombardment of Iran, many members of Congress rushed to declare their support for…

Making The Power Grid Great Again Authored by Diana Furchtgott-Roth via RealClearEnergy, Last week, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the proposed repeal of the Biden-era’s Clean Power Plan 2.0, which ruled that…

California Retail Theft Rose 11 Percent From 2014 To 2023: Report Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), California’s soft-on-crime approach, along with pandemic-era actions, may have contributed to…

Lithuania’s Gitanas Nauseda says Moscow stands to benefit from rising oil prices The outbreak of open hostilities between Israel and Iran could benefit Russia by pushing up global oil prices and drawing…

Taiwan Imposes Export Controls On China’s Huawei, SMIC In what Beijing may view as a sharp escalation in the tech trade war, Taiwan blacklisted Chinese tech giants, Huawei and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp….