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These Are The Countries Committing The Most Aid To Ukraine As Statista’s Martin Armstrong shows in this infographic, based on the Ukraine Support Tracker from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Ukraine currently…

Kiev has vowed to exact a price from Moscow with continued infrastructure attacks A large-scale, long-range Russian air assault has reportedly been launched targeting industrial sites across Ukraine. Kiev has vowed to…

Luxembourg & Finland Offer Their Workers The Most ‘Paid Time Off’, US & China Not So Much… This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao, ranks the countries with the highest number of…

Labour’s North Sea Windfall Tax Sparks Industry Backlash Via OilPrice.com, Over 40 energy sector companies have voiced their concerns over Labour’s proposed windfall tax increase, warning it could lead to significant job…

Chris Pavlovski’s video hosting platform has been embroiled in a long-running legal battle with the French authorities France has crossed all boundaries by arresting Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov, Chris Pavlovski,…

10 Reflections On Ukraine After Its Latest Independence Day Celebrations Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Ukraine celebrated its 33rd Independence Day on Saturday, during which time Zelensky made a hyper-aggressive speech boasting about his…

The regulation says that tech companies are responsible for policing content on their platform The arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France is in line with the EU’s Digital Services Act…

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…

Fascism 2.0, Part 3: Feudalism 2.0 Authored by Paul Lancefield via Off-Guardian.org, Read parts 1 and 2 HERE and HERE Now in this third article in the series, I want to link this back to…

CBP’s Migrant App Faces Tech Glitches, Security Flaws: Report Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, The official app which allows illegal immigrants to schedule appointments with the agency at U.S….

The attack took place in the Saratov Region on Monday Ukrainian kamikaze drones have hit high-rise residential buildings in Russia’s Saratov Region, Governor Roman Busargin said in the early hours of Monday….

University Of Nebraska-Lincoln Shuts Down DEI Office, Eliminates $320k Vice Chancellor Position By Adam Sabes of Campus Reform The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has closed its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion office and eliminated…

Are We Headed For Another Great Depression? Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World, Today’s economy is like that of the late 1920s… Today, there is great wage and wealth disparity,…

Tatyana Moskalkova has blasted the arrest of Pavel Durov as the violation of free speech The French authorities have arrested Telegram founder Pavel Durov because they want to shut down the censorship-free…

Five Ways That Ukraine’s Invasion Of Kursk Actually Harms American Interests Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Nobody should get their hopes up about the US forcing Ukraine to withdraw though. The…

Vice Presidential nominee Senator JD Vance, appears on Meet the Press for an argumentative debate on Trump policy.  On the issue of tariffs, this might have been JD Vance’s first opportunity to…

Pennsylvania Judge Rules Cornel West Can’t Appear On Ballot In Key Swing State Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A court in Pennsylvania on Aug. 23 ruled that…

Pope Francis Condemns Ukraine’s Ban On Country’s Largest Orthodox Church Pope Francis has condemned the Ukrainian government’s move to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) which maintains communion with the Moscow Patriarchate….

Kiev urged Minsk to “cease unfriendly actions” and warned that it reserve the right to defend its territory Belarus has amassed a large number of troops at the border, the Ukrainian Foreign…

Robert F Kennedy appears on Fox News Sunday to talk about his endorsement of President Donald Trump.  RFK Jr said President Trump reached out to him several times before the independent candidate…

The Telegram CEO wouldn’t have landed in Paris if he thought he was in danger, Georgy Loboushkin has told RT Telegram founder Pavel Durov wouldn’t have “disregarded his own safety” and landed…

Netanyahu Vows More ‘Surprising Blows’ After Preemptive Hezbollah Attack: “Not The End” “What happened today is not the end of the story,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement posted on…

Judge Clears Former Police Officers Of Key Felony Charges In Breonna Taylor’s Death Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, A federal judge has dismissed the most serious charges against two…

Rare Mosquito-Borne Disease Triggers Voluntary Curfew In Massachusetts Towns Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, Four towns in central Massachusetts are advising residents to stay indoors at night to avoid…

Some believe the St Petersburg-born tycoon has paid for his naivety, others want his homeland to intervene On Saturday night, Telegram’s founder and frontman Pavel Durov was arrested by French police. The…

Does It Matter To The Market Who Wins The White House? During election years, the focus is on the political horse race. However, after the final poll closes, how have the market and…

Company CEO Pavel Durov is not responsible for any misuse of his platform, Telegram said in a statement on Sunday Telegram abides by EU laws and its founder, Pavel Durov, “has nothing…

“Musk Should Be Nervous” – Deep State Lackey Admits Real Target Following Telegram Founder’s Arrest Russia is demanding answers following the arrest Pavel Durov, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of messaging app…

U Of Tampa RA Training Includes Scenario Of Student Feeling “Threatened” By Conservative Roommate With MAGA Flag By Brendan McDonald of CampusReform The University of Tampa’s resident advisor (RA) training featured a…

The Social Recession Is Accelerating Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Did wages rise 10-fold to match the 10-fold rise in the cost of a modest house? No. That is…

Lithuania’s prime minister publicly wished for a future “without Rusnya” while flanked by Zelensky During a speech marking Ukraine’s independence day, Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte used the term “Rusnya” – an…

Heads I’m Smart, Tails I’m Stupid By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities That is how this week felt on many levels. Maybe it was because I was travelling, so I wasn’t staring…

Dems Scramble To Walk Back Harris’ Price Control Scheme Democrats are in damage control mode after Kamala Harris’ communist price control scheme received a harsh rebuke – including from the Washington Post,…

Visualizing How The G20 Generates Electricity This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, shows how much electricity is generated from renewable sources among G20 countries. The data is based on Ember’s yearly and monthly…

Authorities in Ivory Coast have reportedly been investigating Kiev’s alleged training of Tuareg insurgents Kiev has been using its embassy in the West African country of Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire) for its…

Kiev must not stop people from praying in whatever church they want, the pontiff has said Pope Francis has said that he “fears for the freedom of those who pray,” after Ukraine’s …

Why State Enforcement Of “Fairness” Is Wrong Authored by Wanjiru Njoya via The Mises Institute, There is a popular perception that the role of the state is to uphold and enforce “fairness”…

These Are The Fattest States In America Global adult obesity rates have steadily increased in the past few decades, more than tripling from 5% to 16% from 1990 to 2022. With a much higher…

Large numbers of faithful made symbolic march for days to reach Pochaevskaya Lavra monastery in the west of the country Hundreds of Ukrainian Orthodox faithful have arrived at a major monastery in…

How Democrats Make Republicans: RFK Should Be A Wake Up Call For The Party Authored by Jonathan Turley, The withdrawal of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the presidential race and his endorsement of…

NSA whistleblower has called the arrest in France of Telegram founder Pavel Durov an “assault” on basic human rights The detention of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov jeopardizes the basic human…

Demonstrators have placed hundreds of paper airplanes in front of the diplomatic mission in support of Telegram’s detained founder Hundreds of paper planes symbolizing the logo of Telegram have been brought by…

Before Pavel Durov’s arrest, the messaging app’s “Russian origins” placed it in the bloc’s crosshairs The arrest in France of Telegram founder Pavel Durov is the latest escalation in an EU-wide campaign…

Death Of Woke: Queer Activist Video Game Funded By The EU Can’t Find Players If the new punk rock is to be politically correct, then it’s not punk rock.  The woke activist…

Taylor Swift Could Derail The Global Battle Against Inflation; UBS Via SchiffGold.com, Just when you thought the headlines couldn’t seem more absurd, Swiss banking giant UBS has issued a warning that in…

Britain, Which Birthed American Ideas About Liberty, Has Embraced Despotism Authored by Vince Coyner via AmericanThinker.com, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction”  – Ronald Reagan When I grew…

European Commission’s inaction on halted supplies of crude proves that Brussels is behind the flow stoppage, Hungary claims The European Commission (EC) is behind the stoppage of flows of Russian crude oil…

RFK JR delivered a short speech in Arizona, highlighting why it was both challenging and important for him to drop out of the race and support President Donald Trump.   The people closest…

Rutgers Prof Who Said She Hoped Trump Shooting Would “Inspire Others” Will Teach This Fall By Adam Sabes of Campus Reform The Rutgers University professor who was under an internal review after…

The latest barrage came in retaliation for the killing of the group’s commander Fouad Shukr last month The Islamic paramilitary group Hezbollah has fired hundreds of rockets at Israel to avenge the…

The “brutal terrorist attack” has also resulted in the injury of 13 people, including three children, Vyacheslav Gladkov said Five civilians have been killed and 13 more suffered injuries as a result…

Washington specifically used France to bypass its First Amendment in cracking down on Telegram’s founder, the American investor has suggested The US has violated its own constitutional freedoms by forcing its NATO…

French authorities have so far avoided engaging over the Telegram founder’s detention, the Russian embassy in Paris has said The Russian embassy in Paris swiftly demanded that French authorities explain the reasons…

Why’d Bangladesh Lie About India Being Responsible For The Latest Floods? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, It serves as the cover for once again hosting anti-Indian separatists, which could in turn…

Florian Philippot has asked if Elon Musk would be detained if he landed in the country Florian Philippot, the leader of France’s Patriots (Les Patriotes) party, has slammed the government of French…

The founder and CEO of Telegram was reportedly detained upon arriving at Paris-Le Bourget airport on Saturday US tech mogul Elon Musk has called for the release of Telegram founder and CEO…

When the messaging app had legal issues in Russia, Pavel Durov remained free, the foreign ministry’s spokeswoman noted Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova is asking if international human rights groups will…

American security agencies have been trying to get more control over Telegram for a long time, the tech entrepreneur believes Telegram CEO and founder Pavel Durov told American conservative journalist Tucker Carlson…

The 26-year-old Syrian national has turned himself in German authorities have arrested the suspected knifeman responsible for killing three people and injuring eight in the city of Solingen on Friday at the Festival…

The detainment of Telegram’s founder in France is the direct result of Washington’s sanctions, Ekaterina Mizulina has said The US has essentially ordered the French authorities to arrest Telegram founder Pavel Durov…

While no major Western leader made a concrete effort to engage with both Kiev and Moscow, Indian PM has showcased true willingness to find a long-term, mutually acceptable resolution to the conflict…

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…

Net Migration: Which Regions Are Gaining Or Losing People? This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu, shows the flow of people globally by visualizing net migration by region, from 1950 to 2023…

The Telegram owner has reportedly been detained upon arriving in France on Saturday The arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov in France is a warning to platforms that stand up to censorship,…

Fascism 2.0 – Globalism & The Subjects Of Interest Authored by Paul Lancefield via Off-Guardian.org, This is Part 2 of Paul’s “Fascism 2.0” series, part one can be read HERE. In this second…

America Divided On The Legacy Of Slavery Divides persist between many Black and white Americans’ views on the ongoing impacts of slavery in the United States. As Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, according…

Karim Khan has asked the court to decide on issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas leader Sinwar The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has called on the judges…

Pavel Durov and his brother Nikolai are genuinely brilliant tech programmers, mathematicians and entrepreneurs.  The Durov brothers founded the Telegram communication app in 2013.  Telegram now has 950 million active users who…

US Strike Eliminates Senior Al-Qaeda-Linked Terrorist Leader In Syria Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, A U.S. military drone strike has killed a senior leader of Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned…

Media Claims Elon Musk Is A Threat To Democracy… But Is “Democracy” Even Worth Saving? Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us There is perhaps nothing more tiresome and embarrassing as the theatrical…

Giga-Vaxxed Fauci Somehow Contracts Ultra-Rare West Nile Virus On Heels Of COVID-19 Infection Talk about bad luck! Former NAIAD Director Anthony Fauci – who outsourced risky COVID gain-of-function research to a shoddy…

The Permanent Temptation Of All Governments Authored by Alex Pollock via The American Institute for Economic Research, In We Need to Talk About Inflation, his thoughtful, accessible tour of the history, theories, politics and…

Billionaire Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested In France Pavel Durov, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram was arrested at the Bourget airport outside of Paris Saturday evening, according to…

The Russian-French tech entrepreneur has reportedly been detained on Saturday Russia must demand the immediate release of Telegram founder Pavel Durov who has been reportedly detained in France, Deputy Speaker of the…

Beheaded During BLM Riots, Washington Monument At GWU Vandalized By Pro-Palestinian Protesters Authored by Jennifer Kabbany via The College Fix, One bust of President George Washington inside the nation’s capitol just can’t…

Visualizing $5 Trillion In Global Commodity Exports, By Sector This chart, via Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao, categorizes over $5 trillion in global commodity exports by sector and the value of material exported….

The knifeman who killed three people and wounded eight others in the city of Solingen on Friday night remains at large, police say Terrorism could be the motive behind the deadly stabbing…

The latest Abrams M1 tank has been destroyed by Russian forces in the country’s Kursk Region, Military Watch Magazine has reported Ukraine has lost two thirds of its US-supplied Abrams M1 main…

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party were hit with 2 major union scandals on Friday (23/8/24) with Bill Shorten’s crime gang, at the Heath Workers Union (HWU) headed up by…

Illegal Immigration Lull At Southwest Border Likely Temporary; Experts Say Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times, The number of immigrants illegally entering the United States is down at least…

Pavel Durov has been detained at Paris-Le Bourget Airport, according to local broadcaster LCI The founder of the messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, has been detained after he arrived in Paris on…

New York To Pay $155 Per Megawatt Hour For Wind-Power, Current Rate Is $36 Per MWH Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, It currently costs NY about $36 per MWH for energy….

Gat Summer: 22 Shot, 6 Dead In Chicago During First 3 Days Of DNC While Democrats prance around the DNC in Chicago with manufactured enthusiasm for Kamala Harris, a deadly week unfolded…

Elon’s SpaceX To Rescue Stranded Astronauts After NASA Dumps Boeing NASA said it has selected Elon Musk’s SpaceX to bring home the US astronauts who were forced to extend their stay at the International Space…

It Hasn’t Worked Once, So Why Would A Politician Go All-In On Price Controls Now? Authored by Mark Jeftovic via TheNationalTelegraph.com, August 15th was the anniversary of the infamous “Nixon Shock”, when…

The upcoming cold months will be more challenging than they were last year, holder of the country’s energy portfolio has warned Ukrainian citizens must prepare for a winter that will be more…

Red Sea Crisis: Footage Captures Suezmax Tanker Explosion After Houthi Missile Strike As West Fails To Secure Chokepoint Western nations, led by the US and ones across Europe, with the most modern warship…

“It’s Socialism!”: Peter Schiff Destroys Kamala Harris’ Economic Policy Agenda Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance In a recent hourlong audio interview with Fringe Finance, renowned economist Peter Schiff shared his perspective on the…

Newest US Aid Package For Ukraine Includes More HIMARS Munitions To Attack Russia The United States has introduced another new package of military aid to Ukraine, reported to be worth around $125…

Target CEO Says Retailers Can’t Price Gouge In Competitive Industry Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In a highly competitive environment, retailers cannot engage in the practice of…

New Delhi has also been a long-time defense partner of Moscow India and the United States have signed an agreement to supply each other with resources critical for national security, the US…

The former US President has promised RFK Jr. he’ll release all JFK assassination files if reelected to the White House Former US President Donald Trump has accepted the endorsement of Robert F….

US Fertility Rate Drops To Record Low: CDC Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The U.S. fertility rate dropped to its lowest level in U.S. history, according to new data…

A Lancet performed a precision strike on the invading forces in Kursk Region, according to Russian Defense Ministry footage Moscow has released video footage of a Lancet drone destroying a Ukrainian tank…

80 years ago Marshal Carl Gustaf Mannerheim became President of Finland. An extraordinary person, he was a military commander and statesman in both Russia and Finland, and left behind a controversial legacy…

Mike Lynch and six others died after their at-anchor vessel sank in the Mediterranean Sea on Monday Authorities in Italy have opened a manslaughter investigation into the sinking of a yacht off…