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The US billionaire has claimed to be under “relentless attacks” for allowing free speech on his social media platform Tesla CEO Elon Musk has claimed that his foray into social media –…

Maryland Proposes Raising Registration Fee For Pickup Trucks As if the Federal government wasn’t doing enough to try and incentivize buying EVs by subsidizing purchases and shaming people who drive ICE vehicles,…

Study Finds 80% Of Americans Exposed To Fertility-Lowering Chemicals In Cheerios, Quaker Oats Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, According to a recent study, four in five Americans tested positive…

Russian Media Thrilled By Biden’s LNG “Gift” To Putin This week, President Vladimir Putin praised President Joe Biden as a more experienced and predictable president than Donald Trump, hoping the 81yo president “with…

California Counties Could Be Forced To Pay $300 Million To Cover COVID-Era Program Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times, With the state and some local governments facing significant budget shortfalls…

Israel Spying On US Inquiries Into West Bank Settler Violence – With Goal Of Thwarting Sanctions Israeli intelligence has been spying on information shared with the US government by the Palestinian Authority…

The #1 Warning Sign Capital Controls Are Coming Soon & 4 Ways To Beat Them Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, Weekends and holidays are the perfect time to catch people off…

General Aleksandr Syrsky has ordered the move from Avdeevka to “more favorable lines” Ukrainian troops have been ordered to leave the city of Avdeevka, Kiev’s newly-appointed commander-in-chief has said, claiming the decision was…

The former US president has been barred from operating his companies in New York and ordered to pay $354 million in penalties A New York judge has temporarily barred former US President…

US Farmland Value Hits Record High Amid Tighter Credit Conditions  According to a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, farmland values across the Midwest crop belt hit a record high…

Biden Ignored Advice, Pushed Afghanistan “Unconditional Withdrawal”: Former Ambassador Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times, President Joe Biden discarded advice to maintain a military presence in Afghanistan unless the Taliban…

Only 30% Of Renters Who Moved In The Last Two Years Became Homeowners, New Study Shows A new study has revealed why Americans are moving – and where they’re moving to. The…

Slave Descendants Want $74,000,000,000 From Saint Louis University Authored by Matt Lamb via The College Fix, Saint Louis University should hand over $74 billion in reparations to the descendants of slaves who…

A letter signed by 84 House Republicans has called for the president to prove his mental fitness following a damning report A former White House physician and 83 other US House Republicans…

The dire situation in Avdeevka means Congress must approve aid to Kiev, the US military has said The Ukrainian government desperately needs billions more in aid from the US, a senior Pentagon…

Statements blaming Moscow came within mere minutes and seemed to follow a template The US and its European allies seem to have used prepared talking points to immediately blame Russia for the…

“Civil War, Nuclear War, Economic Collapse… Maybe All Three?” Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, Speed… and… Action “It’s like every other two-minute clip I watch of this Fani Willis interview…

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has said the agreement proves “Ukraine will be in NATO” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky have signed a security pact under which Berlin will…

Bitcoin & Black Gold Bid As Stagflation Fears Wreck 52-Year-Old Equity Win-Streak The S&P 500 was on course for its 15th positive week of the last 16, but a late-day sell-off spoiled…

Watch Live: Matt Taibbi Refutes Lesley Stahl’s Infamous Trump Surveillance ‘Eye-Roll’ Authored by Matt Taibbi via Racket News, The flagship CBS news show still hasn’t corrected its infamous eye-roll over surveillance of…

Not Sure Which Way To Bet? What About Both… By Jan-Patrick Barnert, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist At this stage of the market’s narrative you basically have three options: Go with…

US Banks Saw $65BN Deposit Flight Last Week, Loan Volumes Shrank Having seen The Fed’s QT appear to stall in February, as Reverse Repo liquidity withdrawal accelerates, all eyes are once again…

Harvard Slapped With Congressional Subpoena Over “Failure To Satisfy” Antisemitism Probe On Friday morning, the House Education and the Workforce Committee revealed on social media platform X that it is serving subpoenas…

The World Is Bracing For An Apocalyptic Future Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, When you imagine our collective future, what do you see?  Today, most people do not envision a positive…

Satellite imagery has shown construction work next to the Palestinian enclave as Israel prepares to launch a ground offensive The Egyptian government has reportedly started work on a wall near the country’s…

NY Judge Hits Trump With $364 Million Penalty For Alleged Fraud New York Judge Arthur Engoron has ordered former President Donald Trump to pay $364 million for allegedly defrauding banks in order…

House Refuses To Pass Another Shutdown Stopgap As Centrists Craft Pared-Down Ukraine Package The #3 Republican in the House on Thursday said that the chamber will not pass another temporary spending bill…

Life-Long Charity Volunteer Fired For Not Understanding Pronouns Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A woman who has volunteered at a charity organisation for 60 years of her life was told she…

‘Sora’ can generate complex scenes, but will be restricted before its eventual release OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has announced a new tool that turns text prompts into computer-generated videos. The program…

The politically minded blogger wore many hats over a career that spanned two decades Alexey Navalny collapsed and died on Friday, in a prison colony north of the Arctic circle where he…

A newly released study has found that General Aleksandr Syrsky enjoys far less public confidence than his predecessor A newly released Ukrainian poll has revealed declining public confidence in the country’s civilian…

Cracks Form In Another Corner Of The CRE Market The banking sector is facing renewed turmoil following significant credit losses and write-downs on US commercial real estate loans, primarily in office and…

California Dems Push Bill Paving Way To Free College Tuition For Black Students Authored by Jennifer Kabbany via The College Fix, A bill making its way through the California legislature could, if…

UK Retail Store Sends Gender Identity Magazine With Tips For Chest-Binding Children To 70,000 Employees Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A British retail store is facing a massive boycott after it…

Netanyahu Defiant After Biden Phone Call, Rejects Push For Palestinian State Following a Thursday phone call with US President Joe Biden, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is again pushing back against the intensifying…

Despite bans and extensive sanctions, the bloc has continued to import oil, petroleum products and natural gas from Moscow Russia supplied just over €29 billion ($31.2 billion) worth of energy to the…

White House representative John Kirby did not appreciate the Russian president’s praise Russia should stay away from US elections altogether, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters at the White House…

The country’s citizens are constantly hammered by news of ‘Russian orcs,’ but they still want peace, Nikolay Azarov says Ukrainian propaganda seeks to dehumanize and instill hatred toward Russians, but it has…

Fed Chair Powell Just Said The Quiet Part Out Loud Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Regarding the surprisingly strong employment data, Fed Chair Powell said the quiet part out loud. The…

With an investigation ongoing, Dmitry Peskov cautioned Western leaders against making “rabid statements” Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) is taking all the necessary steps to investigate the death of Alexey Navalny, and…

Moscow has described the decision by Latvia as “inhumane” Russian citizens holding permanent residence status in Latvia may be legally deported if they fail to pass a language exam, Riga’s Constitutional Court…

EU Markets Not Immune From New World Disorder Of ‘No Article V’ Trump Office By Teeuwe Mevissen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank This week shocked European leaders from Helsinki to Brussels and…

Moscow is currently “trapped” in the Ukraine conflict, John Kirby has claimed The US does not believe Russia poses a direct threat to NATO’s eastern flank in the near future, White House…

The bank accounts of the Congress and its youth wing were temporarily frozen on Friday The Congress, the largest opposition party in India, claimed on Friday that its bank account had been…

The US’ allies need to “pay up” to keep the aid flowing to Kiev, the Republican frontrunner has said NATO countries “laugh at the stupidity of the United States” for spending so…

The North African nation has announced plans to use national currencies in trade within BRICS Egypt plans to negotiate a shift away from the US dollar toward national currencies for settling trade…

The explosive story is not a ploy to ram Ukraine aid through Congress, a senior spokesman has said The US intelligence community believes that Russia is developing a space-based anti-satellite weapon but…

GoFundMe Shuts Down Tornado Cash Legal Defense Crowdfunding Authored by Arijit Sarkar via Cointelegraph.com, American crowdfunding platform GoFundMe canceled a fundraiser dedicated to collecting legal fees for the co-founder of controversial cryptocurrency…

Super Micro Meltdown As 3rd Leg Of Market Melt-Up Stool Breaks After its 250% rally over the past 21 trading days, Super Micro (SMCI) is… umm… red! It’s been up 18 of…

London is more aggressive than Washington with its actions in the Ukraine conflict, the Russian foreign minister has claimed  Britain is behaving even more aggressively than the US with its actions in…

Peter Schiff: Inflation And Biden’s Blame Game Via SchiffGold.com, During this week’s Super Bowl ads, Biden slammed greedy corporations for inflation. In his most recent podcast, Peter explains exactly what’s happening with inflation, and why Biden’s…

Brussels is aiming to supply Kiev with longer-range weapons as it can’t defeat Moscow using its current methods, the foreign minister said The EU is a direct participant in the Ukraine conflict…

Fast-Moving Clipper System To Blast Mid-Atlantic With Snow A fast-moving clipper system will dump snow across the Upper Midwest, North Central Appalachia, Mid-Atlantic, and parts of the Northeast on Friday into Presidents’…

Russia perceives the West as “swindlers” and does not trust it to act in good faith, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said Moscow is no longer willing to make any concessions in…

Many East Palestine Residents Question Intentions Of Biden’s Visit A Year After Toxic Train Derailment Authored by Jeff Louderback via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), On the day of President Joe Biden’s…

Federal prosecutors argue that the US president and his son did not receive $5 million from a Ukrainian energy company An FBI informant has been charged with falsely claiming to his handlers…

Housing Starts Collapsed In January – Biggest MoM Decline Since COVID Lockdowns After single-family home starts plunged in December, analysts did not expect much of a bounce back in January as rates…

Producer Prices Surged In January As Services Costs Soared After the hotter-than-expected CPI (which has been shrugged off entirely by the stock market), Producer Prices were expected to rebound very modestly MoM…

The central bank had previously hiked rates at five successive meetings over a six-month period Russia’s central bank left its key interest rate unaltered at 16% at its scheduled meeting on Friday,…

The September Surprise Authored by Heather Higgins via RealClear Wire, What’s a Democrat to do? President Biden’s poll numbers seem set in quicksand. Now the special counsel’s justification for not recommending charges…

Stocks Set To Make It A Record 15 Weeks Higher Out Of 16 As Tech Surge Goes On After stocks successfully recovered from a mid-week rout following the much hotter than expected…

How Long Can This Last? 15 Months Ago, ChatGPT Kicked Off The AI Bubble On Thursday, we polled our followers on X, asking them: “Have you used Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini or any other…

Kiev’s local commander has said the situation in Avdeevka is “critical,” with one brigade partially encircled Ukrainian troops are “maneuvering” in the key Donbass stronghold of Avdeevka and the surrounding areas, Brigadier…

The Gold/Silver Ratio Says Silver’s Still Cheap Via SchiffGold.com, The silver price has dipped since December, from almost $26 per ounce to around $22 today. We reported on silver being a relative bargain at…

US neocolonialist policies are hurting the world as the majority strives for a more just future, the ex-Russian president says The “rules-based order” touted by the US is an illusion that Washington…

Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Dies In Jail  Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in a maximum-security prison in the country’s far north, the Interfax news service reported Friday, citing the Federal…

The authority that rules on voting appeals has deemed the West African nation’s decision “unconstitutional” Senegal’s Constitutional Council has canceled a law that pushed back the West African nation’s presidential elections and…

Pyotr Poroshenko has been blocked from leaving the country to attend the Munich Security Conference this week Former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko has slammed the government’s decision to block him from attending…

The violin-shaped Hofner 500/1 bass guitar, potentially worth $12 million, was stolen from the Beatles’ van over 50 years ago An iconic violin-shaped bass guitar purchased by Beatles legend Paul McCartney in…

You Will Live In Tiny Homes & Drive EVs And Be Happy: This Is The Future They Have Planned For Us Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, In recent years, “van life’,…

The jailed blogger lost consciousness after going for a walk, and resuscitation efforts failed, authorities have said Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny has died in jail in central Russia after falling ill…

The operation aimed to degrade the vessel’s ability to share intelligence with the Houthis, US officials told the broadcaster The US carried out a cyberattack on an Iranian warship in the Red…

The leader of the CAR is in Moscow to take part in the ‘For Freedom of Nations’ forum against neo-colonialism The president of the Central African Republic (CAR), Faustin-Archange Touadera, has been…

Corn Drops To 3-Year Low As Supplies Expected To Surge To 1987 Levels Corn futures hit a three-year low as traders waited for the US Department of Agriculture’s annual outlook forum on…

As Tucker Carlson talks about feeling “radicalized against western leadership,” I find myself rolling my eyes and saying, “welcome to the party pal.” But seriously, it’s good to see him awakening more…

Membership for Kiev can only come after the conflict with Moscow ends, a State Department official has said Ukraine should not expect to become a NATO member at the bloc’s key summit…

Authorities in the US capital say an investigation is underway to determine the cause of Walter Nyamato’s death A Kenyan police officer who was part of a team in Washington DC for…

Modi held talks with the Qatari emir days after the country released eight navy veterans who had been sentenced to death India is looking to scale up cooperation with energy-rich Qatar in…

Western nations are fostering chaos to protect their hegemony, Nikolay Patrushev has said The US-led strikes against targets in Yemen are illegitimate and have no justification under the UN Charter, Russian Security…

UK Met Office Says It Can’t Back Up Senior Meteorologist’s Claim That Storms Are “More Intense” Due To Climate-Change Authored by Chris Morrison via DailySceptic.org, The Met Office has been unable to…

The Israeli leader has said he will not be pressured into accepting a separate nation for Palestinians Israel will continue to oppose international recognition of a Palestinian state, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…

Daleep Singh played a key role in freezing Moscow’s assets early in the Ukraine conflict, according to reports Daleep Singh, a former senior US national security adviser who helped orchestrate Washington’s sanctions…

The move could undermine the European financial system, chief executive Lieve Mostrey has claimed A plan by the G7 to use Russia’s frozen assets as a backstop to issue loans for the…

Visualizing Global Uranium Reserves By Country There can be a tendency to believe that uranium deposits are scarce from the critical role it plays in generating nuclear energy, along with all the…

EU Demands Hungary, Poland, & Slovakia Open Their Borders To Cheap, Poor-Quality Ukrainian Grain Authored by Denes Albert via ReMix News, The European Commission insists on extending the duty-free and quota-free access of Ukrainian…

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…

Joblessness accelerated in January, jumping above 4%, official statistics show Australia’s unemployment rate has risen to its highest level since early 2022, hitting 4.1% in January, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)…

GDP is now expected to grow by just 0.2% this year, according to Robert Habeck The German government will revise down its forecast for economic growth in 2024 to 0.2% from an…

Gears Of The Refugee Machine Authored by Spike Hampson via the Brownstone Institute, A solid majority of American citizens now recognize that Biden’s many millions of alleged refugees are anything but the…

President Joe Biden said failure to back Kiev at such a “critical time” would “never be forgotten” The US House of Representatives was unable to pass legislation that would devote some $95…

US Digital Video Spend Beats TV Ads The market for moving image advertisement formats is developing away from linear television and towards digital video formats such as streaming, apps and social media. As Katharina…

Biden: Candidate Of The Elites Authored by Steve Cortes via RealClear Wire, Remember when Democrats advocated for working-class Americans? My maternal relatives were all Irish Catholic Democrats in decades past. They were…

Newsom Sued Over Transgender Policy, Teachers Claim They Are Forced To Lie To Parents Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Teachers are suing California Gov. Gavin Newsom and…

WSJ Tells Readers: “To Save Money, Maybe You Should Skip Breakfast” President Biden’s attempt to sell Americans on ‘Bidenomics’ could be one of the most significant marketing failures by an administration in…

New Delhi has sealed state borders to prevent crowds from entering the capital as tension rises Farmers in India, who have been protesting on the outskirts of New Delhi for the past…

Seattle English Students Told It’s “White Supremacy” To Love Reading, Writing Authored by Jason Rantz via KTTH (emphasis ours), Students in a Seattle English class were told that their love of reading…

Egypt Erects 8-Square-Mile Walled Enclosure In Sinai Desert For Rafah Refugee Spillover  In a press briefing earlier this week IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi said, “We know that it is more…

The Curse Of Ultra-Pasteurization Authored by Sally Fallon Morell via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In the summer of 1983, an outbreak of listeriosis occurred in Massachusetts. Forty-nine people became sick and 14…

Insensitive Racial Prejudice? Classic Tomb Raider Games Re-Released With “Trigger Warnings” Was the world more racist 28 years ago compared to today?  Or, are people today simply more inclined to see “cultural…