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German President Compares AfD Supporters To “Rats” Authored by Robert Kogon via DailySceptic.org, Barely two weeks after a leading member of a party in Germany’s governing coalition compared supporters of the opposition…

Top Ukrainian General’s Conflict With Zelensky On Display In CNN Op-Ed Amid persistent more-than-rumors that Ukraine’s President Zelensky is trying to fire his defense chief, Gen. Valerii Zaluzhny, CNN has given the embattled…

Relations between the two countries hit a rough patch after Male demanded that New Delhi pull out India and the Maldives released conflicting statements on Friday on the island nation’s demand to…

21-year-old Magomedrasul Mutaev has been fatally shot in Dagestan’s capital, local authorities have reported Russian MMA fighter Magomedrasul Mutaev has been fatally shot in Dagestan’s capital Makhachkala. Local authorities say they have…

The Lebanese Shiite group has a long and bloody history with the Jewish state, and now, both sides’ restraint is at an end Since the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the…

Net purchases in 2023 almost matched the previous year’s record, the World Gold Council has said Total gold demand hit the highest level on record last year of 4,899 tons amid global…

Is ‘World War 3’ Really On The Horizon? Via Off-Guardian.org, There’s a lot of “World War Three” in the news right now… Grant Shapps, the UK’s defence minister has claimed we have “moved…

12% of UK manufacturers have been affected by shipping disruptions in the Red Sea, according to a survey by S&P Global The UK economy has been hit hardest among its European peers…

A major Russian company insists that it only buys spare parts without violating the island’s export controls Companies based in Taiwan have sold Russia more than $20 million in advanced equipment that…

Methods that will limit cash withdrawals are being rolled out as Berlin attempts to rein in the migrant influx with tougher laws Asylum seekers in Germany will cease receiving cash payments during…

The first school shooting in Russia occurred exactly 10 years ago Almost 25 years ago, on April 20, 1999, Columbine High School students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold attacked their school. They…

Seven facilities in Iraq and Syria allegedly used by Iranian-backed forces have been attacked The US has unleashed a series of airstrikes on militia groups across Iraq and Syria in response to…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urged Washington to get “unwelcome” US troops out of Middle East to avoid further escalation of the conflict The US should withdraw its ground troops from Middle Eastern…

Milos Bikovic says a “targeted campaign” deprived him of a role in ‘The White Lotus’ Serbian-born actor Milos Bikovic has announced that he has left the cast of HBO’s award-winning series ‘The…

New digital solutions and mechanisms have added roughly one trillion rubles to GDP, Mikhail Mishustin has said The Russian economy outpaced its European peers in terms of growth last year, expanding by…

A rift between the Ukrainian president and Valery Zaluzhny has grown since last summer’s failed counteroffensive against Russia Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s administration has informed the White House that the decision has…

The share of national currencies in the EAEU’s trade currently amounts to 90%, according to Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin The share of national currencies in mutual settlements among the countries of…

Gazprom supplied all of the agreed-upon volumes to Austria under a long-term contract, the outlet says Austria has become a net energy exporter for the first time in twenty years as stable…

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…

Equity Is Justice, Redefined Authored by Richard Porter via RealClear Wire, Diversity and inclusion are not what’s wrong with DEI.  “Diversity” and “Inclusion” are apple-pie American concepts that echo our national motto:…

Apparently the Lawfare crew have been working and coaching overtime to give Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold a framework to explain to the Supreme Court how Colorado’s very specific election laws…

The Sprawling Radio Network That China’s Firewall Can’t Stop Authored by Eva Fu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Locked inside the crowded Chinese prison, blind lawyer Chen Guancheng hid his most…

Who Are The Israeli Settlers Sanctioned By The US Government? Via Middle East Eye While pressure has continued to mount on US President Joe Biden to take action in response to Israel’s…

Food Inflation Is Not Yet Dead Food inflation may not be dead.  Cocoa prices climbed to a 46-year high this week in New York as concerns about dry conditions across West Africa could reduce…

World Watch-List Sheds Light On Global Christian Persecution Authored by Callista L. Gingrich via RealClear Wire, Open Doors International, a nonprofit organization which supports persecuted Christians in more than 70 countries, recently…

Scientific Alarmism Drives DoD Climate Policy Authored by Scott Sturman and Doug Goodman via The Epoch Times, Executive Order 14057 justifies the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions as…

The US leader said military operations would continue “at times and places of our choosing” President Joe Biden has defended the US response to a recent drone strike that left three American…

China Poised To Take Further Control Of Iraq’s Key Southern Oil Assets Authored by Simon Watkins via OilPrice.com, China is over the halfway mark in completing its strategically vital oil project in…

East Palestine, Ohio Water Still Contaminated As Biden Prepares Victory Lap  President Biden’s planned trip to East Palestine, Ohio, is pure politics as the election cycle begins. The White House plans to do a…

War Delirium Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “This will not stand, ya know, this aggression will not stand, man.” – Jeffrey (“the Dude”) Lebowski Pity the poor president. “Joe Biden”…

Israeli Defense Minister: Two-Thirds Of Hamas Have Been Taken Out Now on the brink of reaching 120 days of war (which will happen this weekend), Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has claimed…

Jan. 6 Defendant Sentenced To 24 Months’ Probation With 30 Days Home Detention Authored by Patricia Tolson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Jan. 6 protester who spent 18 seconds inside…

Democrat Governor Sounds Like Republicans: Close The Southern Border Mr. President Democrats are beginning to sound like Republicans about the need to restore common sense southern border security, recognizing that the large-scale…

Alberta To Restrict Medical Transition For Children Authored by Chandra Philip via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Alberta is banning gender-altering surgery for children and won’t allow puberty blockers for those under…

The Enhanced Games, backed by a coterie of Silicon Valley VIPs, bills itself as the “Olympics of the future” PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel is among a handful of tech billionaires bankrolling the…

The US comedian has signed a new multiyear deal with streaming service Spotify that is reportedly worth up to $250 million US podcast king Joe Rogan has signed a contract renewal with…

Bezos Files To Sell About $8.6 Billion In Amazon Stock Before January 2025 Though the market is raging higher to end the week, following excellent earnings reports from the likes of Amazon…

More Than 500 Arrested In California Human Trafficking Operation Authored by Marc Olsen via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A statewide human trafficking crackdown this month netted more than 500 arrests and…

They did horrible things to local civilians after Russia’s withdrawal from Kharkov Region, the president has said Russian President Vladimir Putin has branded Ukrainian neo-Nazis “scum,” recalling the crimes they committed against…

Washington has launched a new bombing campaign against Iranian-backed fighters in Iraq and Syria The Pentagon has commenced its retaliation for a drone attack that killed three US troops at a secretive…

Biden Administration Wants To Force Foster Parents To Sign LGBTQ Pledge Authored by Alice Giordano via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Republican lawmakers and Christian organizations are reacting with outrage to a…

Bolton Goes On CNN To Rip Trump For Having ‘No Inclination’ To Support Ukraine John Bolton went on CNN to raise the alarm over President Trump potentially taking office again and what…

The New Gold Rush – The American Border Authored by Larry Elder via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), I recently traveled to give a speech. I stayed in a hotel where a…

CENTCOM Statement on U.S. Strikes in Iraq and Syria At 4:00 p.m. (EST) Feb. 02, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps…

US Banks See Massive Deposit Flight (Biggest Since SVB) As Fed Ends BTFP ‘Arb’ After two weeks of outflows, money market funds saw $42BN of inflows last week, sending the total assets…

A series of attacks allegedly targeted pro-Iranian groups in Syria and Iraq US forces have reportedly commenced airstrikes targeting Iranian-backed militants in Syria and Iraq in response to a series of assaults…

They Don’t Want A Nation Of Critical Thinkers Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, When you read quotes from H.L. Mencken and John D. Rockefeller from over a century…

The country’s forces now “hold the strategic initiative along the entire line of contact,” Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said The Russian military is making advances at multiple locations along the frontline…

Mega-Cap Tech Melts-Up Moar Despite Powell Punch-In-The-Face & Regional Bank Rout First things first, economic ‘animal spirits’ are back baby… and we know why (as we noted for months, the lagged effect…

Unknown culprits faked President Joe Biden’s voice in a bid to disrupt the New Hampshire primary election The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has said that it will ban AI-generated scam “robocalls”…

Trump Election Case Now On Hold For 50 Days Amid Immunity Appeal Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former President Donald Trump’s federal election case has been on…

Forget AI Bubble. A New One Emerges As Space Firms Prepare For IPO Launchpad The world’s first commercial spaceplane entered the final testing phase ahead of its first flight in 2024 in…

VIX – The Calm Before The Storm Via SchiffGold.com, The VIX, often referred to as ‘Wall Street’s fear gauge,‘ is currently portraying a sense of calm among investors, registering well below the 20…

Democrats were almost twice as likely as Republicans to find Israel’s bombardment of the Palestinian enclave excessive Half of Americans think Israel’s military response to the October 7 Hamas raid has “gone…

Exxon, Chevron Beat Estimates, Report Second-Biggest Annual Profits In Past Decade One wouldn’t know it from their stock price today, which has been slammed by tech bros shorting anything that does not…

Asia’s Oil Imports Hit An 8-Month High In January By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Strong buying from China and India at the end of last year pushed Asia’s crude oil imports in…

FT’s fake Hungary claims are another example of London using its media outlets to smear opponents When you read in Financial Times (or FT to its friends) that the EU wants to…

French Shipping Giant Is Latest To Suspend Red Sea Transit, As Details Emerge Of US Destroyer’s ‘Close Call’ French container shipping giant CMA CGM has announced suspension of all its Red Sea…

COVID-Era Back-Rent Now Due In Los Angeles Authored by Rudy Blalock via The Epoch Times, Starting Feb. 1, Los Angeles renters owe, in full, any unpaid rent between Oct. 1, 2021, and…

Exxon CFO Calls Biden’s LNG Export License Halt A Big “Mistake” It’s been one week since the Biden administration, under the guise of saving the planet from an alleged imminent climate disaster,…

France has determined that Ukraine used a US-made Patriot missile to kill 65 of its own POWs The French military has concluded that Ukrainian forces used an American-supplied Patriot air defense system…

The US president and his top diplomat have encountered voter anger over Washington’s support for Israel in the Hamas war Muslim-American voters have balked at the latest outreach efforts by Joe Biden’s…

Pretoria’s security minister has warned of foreign meddling to punish the country over its genocide allegations South Africa’s government has claimed that it’s facing destabilization campaigns by foreign intelligence agencies as retaliation…

Ending conscription was a mistake, Romanian army chief General Gheorghita Vlad told US state media Romanian Chief of Defense Staff General Gheorghita Vlad has called for ordinary citizens to be trained for…

CU Boulder Professor Dresses Like Butterfly To Fight “Climate Anxiety” Via The College Fix, A theatre professor at the University of Colorado Boulder fights her “climate anxiety” by dressing and performing as…

Getting Physical: Why Bullion Has Outperformed Gold Stocks Via SchiffGold.com, Gold prices have been on a tear, with bullion prices ripping upward since the outbreak of war in the Middle East late last year….

Inside The Most Ridiculous Jobs Report In Recent History On the surface, it was an blockbuster jobs report, certainly one which nobody expected. Starting at the top, the BLS reported that in…

The country’s GDP expanded above expectations last year The Russian economy keeps growing and has already become the largest in Europe and the fifth largest in the world in terms of purchasing…

In the ridiculous federal election interference case in D.C., President Trump’s attorneys argued to the DC Circuit appellate court that President Trump holds inherent constitutional immunity. In essence, because President Trump was…

At least two “humanitarian workers” were killed and three others injured, French authorities have admitted Two French nationals were killed and three others injured this week in the hostilities between Kiev and…

Retirement Savers Are Piling Into Stocks. Is That A Good Idea? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, As the financial markets grind higher, retirement savers have consciously decided to add more to…

The Solidarity trade union will launch a general strike in response to the government’s refusal to halt cheap Ukrainian imports Polish farmers will block off border crossings with Ukraine during a general…

The Delaware Judge Who Nuked Elon Musk’s $55 Billion Package Is Steeped In Bidenworld Earlier this week, a Delaware judge voided Elon Musk’s $55 billion pay package after a Tesla shareholder, who…

Earlier, Finnish media reported that a major museum in the country decided to list Ilya Repin as ‘Ukrainian’ The decision by a Finnish museum to change the nationality of 19th-century Russian artist…

Ankara has nevertheless maintained its sovereignty and continues to cooperate with Moscow, said spokesman Dmitry Peskov Türkiye remains one of the few countries that have taken a “fairly principled and independent position”…

China’s Private Refiners Struggle Amid Faltering Economy And High Oil Prices By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Many private refiners in China, often referred to as ‘teapots’, have started this year struggling, squeezed…

The sum should compensate damage sustained by the country, the Ukrainian president’s top economic adviser has said Russia’s assets frozen by the West won’t be enough to cover the damage Ukraine has…

The country’s GDP may have actually expanded by up to 4% in 2023, according to preliminary data The Russian economy appears to have performed even better than previously expected in 2023 as…

Tehran is currently awaiting Washington’s response to the killing of three American soldiers by a militia group Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered his officials to avoid provoking Washington into…

No Charges For Dem Staffer Who Filmed Gay Porn Video In Senate Hearing Room Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, The U.S. Capitol Police announced on Thursday that they have declined to press…

UMich Inflation Exp Slows, Sentiment Hits Highest Since 2021 After soaring in October and November, and crashing back to earth in December, consensus estimates for UMich inflation expectations in January data were basically unchanged…

Jim Jordan Whips Out Subpoena, Devastates Fani House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has slapped a subpoena on Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis for failing to comply with document…

After Fresh Israeli Strikes On Damascus, Whole Region Braces For US Attack, Possibly ‘Hours’ Away Sky News Arabia is reporting Friday morning that major US strikes against Iran-aligned targets may begin within…

“The Fed Has To Pay Attention” To This ‘Simply Stunning’ Payrolls Report Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, A simply stunning jobs report! The highest estimate for the Establishment number was…

Even Soviet-era arms are not necessarily inferior to those used by NATO, the Russian president has said Russia’s modern weapons are more effective than the arms used by NATO countries, which have…

The unelected European Commission head made her priorities crystal clear by praising another cash dump on Ukraine “Agreement! The European Council delivered on our priorities. Supporting Ukraine…. A good day for Europe,” tweeted unelected…

Narendra Modi’s government has introduced a series of reforms to transform the country into a ‘developed nation’ The most populous country in the world will constitute a high-powered committee to consider the challenges…

Gold & Bonds Dump, Dollar Jumps As Payrolls Spark Plunge In Rate-Cut Hopes The massive beat for payrolls, and resurgence in average hourly earnings, prompted a sharp response from markets with the…

Around 1,000 national guardsmen will help Texas fortify the US-Mexico border Governor Ron DeSantis has announced that he will deploy members of the Florida National Guard to assist Texas in repelling an…

Kiev lost 23,000 troops and 3,000 pieces of military equipment last month, Moscow’s defense minister has said Ukraine lost more than 23,000 troops in January, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said,…

OPEC+ Members Will Review Extending Production Cuts In Early March  Last November, OPEC+ agreed to voluntary oil production cuts totaling about 2.2 million barrels per day. These cuts begin in the first quarter of…

Elizabeth Rosenberg is reportedly leaving the US Treasury Department for the private sector One of the main architects of the US sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukraine conflict is leaving her…

Treasuries May Look Past Non-Farm Payrolls To Powell’s Interview Authored by Ven Ram, Bloomberg cross-asset strategist, The non-farm payrolls data for January is unlikely to move the needle much for the rates…

The incident in Kenya’s capital has killed at least three people and left hundreds more injured At least three people are dead and nearly 300 others have been left injured in Kenya’s…

Futures Soar After Tech Earnings Blowout, Putting S&P On Track For Gains In 13 Of Past 14 Weeks US futures and global markets rallied on Friday after tech megacaps Meta and Amazon.com posted…

Cocoa Prices Hit 46-Year High As Drought Concerns Threaten West African Crops Cocoa prices climbed to a 46-year high this week in New York as concerns mount that seasonal Harmattan winds across…

January Jobs Shocker: Payrolls Explode By 353K, Double The Expected And Higher Than All Estimate As Wages Surge Well, we did warn readers that anyone hoping for a negative print in an…

The Russian president condemned Kiev’s forces for firing at ambulances in Donetsk The Armed Forces of Ukraine have turned into a terrorist organization that intentionally attacks ambulances, Russian President Vladimir Putin has…

Las Vegas Super Bowl Tickets Topped A Record $9,800 A Seat Average ticket prices for this year’s Super Bowl matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers topped as much…