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North Korean Defector Says Kim Wants To Restart Nuclear Talks If Trump Wins Authored by Kyle Anzalone via The Libertarian Institute, A recent high-level North Korean defector said Pyongyang would be interested…

Warren Buffett’s BofA ‘Dump-A-Thon’ Grows By Another 19 Million Shares Billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has been offloading tens of millions of shares of Bank of America in the last several weeks. Since…

US Suspends Aid To Georgia Over Foreign Influence Law Authored by Adam Morrow via The Epoch Times, The United States is pausing more than $95 million in aid to Georgia, a small…

Exxon Reports Blowout Earnings, Record Output Thanks To Pioneer Deal Two weeks ago when Exxon previewed its upcoming earnings, there was some disappointment amid what was viewed as weakness in upstream prices…

The US vice president has become her party’s presumptive nominee without winning a single public vote US Vice President Kamala Harris has won the votes of enough Democratic delegates to become the…

The Kremlin seems to have decided it would rather deal with Biden-Harris than wait for Trump Russia is delighted with Thursdays prisoner exchange in Ankara, Western media outlets report, citing sources in…

Anna Netrebko is supposed to return to Rome for a Tosca revival The government in Kiev has called on Ukraine’s Western backers to ban soprano Anna Netrebko from performing anywhere outside Russia….

The Chinese-owned short-video platform has “unlawfully collected and retained children’s personal information,” according to the Justice Department The US Justice Department (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against TikTok and its China-based parent…

Into The Weird! Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “What we are witnessing is nothing less than the failure of the greatest propaganda apparatus in history.” – Mattias Desmet Have you…

The Treasury Department on Friday announced an extension for transactions with the platform and several subsidiaries The US Treasury Department has extended a license allowing transactions with the Moscow Stock Exchange (MOEX)…

Paris cited an increased risk of military escalation as the reason for its latest advisory The French Foreign Ministry has issued a recommendation that the nation’s citizens leave Iran and avoid traveling…

Financial Strain On American Households Hits Retailers Hard Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times, If anyone still believes that the U.S. economy is doing just fine, they should take a…

Car Repos Rise 23% YoY Authored by Martin Armstrong via ArmstrongEconomics.com, The private debt crisis is becoming apparent in America after car repossessions jumped 23% during the first half of 2024. Data…

Harris Has Enough Virtual Votes To Be Democratic Nominee To the surprise of nobody, Vice President Kamala Harris has passed the threshold required to become the Democratic presidential nominee. During a Friday…

The facility is meant to become a vital part of the International North-South Transportation Corridor for shipping goods via Iran The Indian government has approved a proposal for building a large port…

Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Gaza-based militant group’s political bureau, was assassinated in Tehran earlier this week Iranian Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib has accused the US of greenlighting Israel’s plans to…

Transgender athletes should not compete against females at the Olympics, according to Valentina Gomez Transgender athletes should not compete against female athletes, a Republican candidate for secretary of state of Missouri, Valentina…

DeFi Is “Waking Up Again” – Active Loans Return To 2022 Levels Authored by Martin Young via CoinTelegraph.com, Decentralized finance (DeFi) may be experiencing a revival, with key metrics such as active…

‘Growth Scare’ Narrative Builds As US Factory Orders Plunge Most Since COVID Lockdowns In June After this week’s ‘soft’ survey data signaled serious ugliness in the US manufacturing economy… Source: Bloomberg …this…

Dmitry Savelyev allegedly commissioned a hit on a former business partner Senator Dmitry Savelyev has been stripped of parliamentary immunity and detained in Moscow, on suspicion of commissioning a contract killing of…

The former president told Fox News that Joe Biden has been replaced with an inferior candidate The Democratic Party “staged a coup” against US President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump has…

Wall Street Begs Fed To Panic: Goldman Sees 3 Consecutive Rate Cuts, JPM Hopes Two For 50bps, Citi Even Crazier It didn’t take long after today’s dismal jobs report to spark what…

Russia has handed over 250 bodies to Ukraine in exchange for the remains of 38 servicemen, a lawmaker has said Moscow and Kiev have exchanged the remains of dozens of fallen servicemen,…

Washington has upped the ante with a proposed new missile deployment in Germany, and move from the ex-president made it possible Friday marks five years since the termination of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear…

Unburdened By Vocabulary: Kamala Harris Dishes Fresh Word Salad During Prisoner Swap Ever since Democrats coup’d Joe Biden into stepping aside, they’ve done their best to shield frontrunner Kamala Harris from opening…

The clip promotes military service while focusing on religious diversity and national unity The Russian Defense Ministry has released a promotional video designed to encourage citizens to enlist in the military, placing…

The move is aimed at combating illegal migration and smuggling into Slovakia, the authorities have said Slovakia has begun police exercises aimed at combating illegal migration and smuggling on its border with…

The negotiations carried out by the FSB and CIA and potential peace talks with Kiev are completely separate issues, according to Moscow The prisoner swap between Russia and the West carried out…

A lack of awareness of host countries’ parenting styles is one reason for the removals, Kiev’s social services chief told RFE/RL Child protection services have removed 430 Ukrainian children from their families…

The national bank expects a further population outflow in 2024-2025 The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has revised its population outflow projections upward for 2024 and 2025, and now expects some 700,000…

Lindsey Graham has introduced legislation that could drag Washington into a war with Tehran if Israel is attacked US Senator Lindsey Graham has introduced legislation that would authorize military action against Iran…

Five Takeaways From Yesterday’s Historic Prisoner Swap Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Russia and the West exchanged 24 prisoners on Thursday in the largest such swap since the Old Cold War….

Wayfair Execs Warn Home Goods Slowdown Mirrors 2008 GFC  Increasing concerns over a US economic slowdown (or just a reminder a hard landing is still possible) triggered a broad selloff in global stocks overnight…

The Sahm Rule, Employment, And Recession Indicators Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Economist Claudia Sahm developed the “Sahm Rule,” which states that the economy is in recession when the unemployment rate’s three-month average is a…

The country made history last year by landing a spacecraft near the lunar south pole Indian scientists are considering a location in the country’s hilly Ladakh region to set up a Mars…

Harris And The Bouncing Balloon Campaign Authored by Sean Trende via RealClearPolitics, We all know that this election will be different than any other election we’ve had in recent decades – how…

President Biden has vowed to back West Jerusalem amid concerns of Iranian retaliation over the killing of a Hamas political chief   US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…

Russia’s Federation Council has approved a bill that legalizes the mining of cryptocurrencies and allows the central bank to authorize selected businesses to carry out cross-border settlements and exchange trading in digital…

Chevron Abandons California For New Headquarters In Houston Bye-bye, Governor Gavin Newsom.  After more than a century of operations in California, energy giant Chevron announced that it will move its San Ramon headquarters to Houston, Texas. Bloomberg states the move…

Has Olaf Scholz gone too far with his subservience to Washington by agreeing to host American missiles? For a government, it’s one thing to have bad ideas of its own, but far…

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UK Prime Minister Calls For Crackdown On Angry Brits – Violent Migrants Get A Pass Beyond the obvious Cloward-Piven agenda in play throughout most of Europe and the US, open border policies…

After Campaigning On Free Natural Gas, Erdogan Hikes Prices By 38% Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice.com, Turkey’s state energy company BOTA? has raised natural gas prices by 38% for households and…

US Futures, Global Stocks Tumble, Japan Crashes Amid Panic Fed Is Now Behind The Curve It is a global selling carnage this morning, as risk-off extends across worldwide equity markets but nowhere…

Stocks, Crude, & Bond Yields Plunge As ‘Growth Scare’ Sparks Surge In Rate-Cut Hopes Just as we warned earlier in the week, the macro playbook has shifted to “bad is bad and…

All newly built housing must now measure more than 28 square meters The city of Moscow has banned the construction of microapartments, according to a decree published in a centralized legislation database…

“It’s A Disaster” – Japanese Stocks Suffer Biggest Point Drop Since Black Monday We warned yesterday that the BoJ has boxed itself into a corner – forced to decide between a crashing…

Recession Triggered: Payrolls Miss Huge, Up Just 114K As Soaring Unemployment Rate Activates “Sahm Rule” Recession In our payrolls preview last night we asked “just how bad will it get“, and we…

The Berlin Conference at the end of the 19th century finalized the colonial division of the continent that European countries had been engineering for four centuries The colonial division of Africa was…

“Seek first to understand, then to be understood” 1.) First, please READ THIS ENTIRELY – and the full text of any discussion you wish to participate in. 2.) PLEASE STAY ON TOPIC…

Officials in Washington believe the Islamic Republic will avenge the assassination of Hamas leader Haniyeh in Tehran Iran and its allies are expected to launch a large-scale attack on Israel within the…

New York City Shutters Hundreds Of Illegal Marijuana Shops Authored by Jana J. Pruet via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Thousands of unlicensed marijuana shops opened in New York City after the…

In reading the responses about “the emissary” post, I am reminded why our nation is in this mess, and the scale of trying to get people to fathom the depth of our…

Microsoft’s Electricity Use Has Doubled Between 2020–2023 Big Tech’s AI arms race has a significant energy cost. For example, a study found that training OpenAI’s GPT-4 used up to 62,000 megawatt-hours, equal to the…

Now For Another Failed UK Policy: Conscription Authored by Terence Greene via The Mises Institute, On the 11th of June, Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party stunned the United Kingdom by officially declaring in their 2024 election…

Shipments from the sanctioned country almost matched American supplies last month, the outlet has reported Shipments of liquified natural gas (LNG) from Russia to the EU in July almost matched those from…

The bloc is “deeply concerned” about possible US policy changes after the November election The EU has set up a dedicated team of officials to prepare for the potential return of Donald…

The incumbent president, Nicolas Maduro, condemned an attempted “coup” following protests Washington has recognized Western-backed opposition figure Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as the winner of Venezuela’s presidential election, despite the official results showing…

Aleksandar Vucic’s remarks come after a controversial Olympic boxing match between a female and a transgender athlete Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said “madness rules the world” in response to a transgender…

Rescue crews are at the scene of a household gas explosion which caused a building to partially collapse in Nizhny Tagil Four people, including two children, have died after a gas explosion…

A debate is scheduled to take place on August 12, Sierra Leone’s UN representative has announced The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is set to discuss Africa’s representation on the international body…

Officials have accused the platform of preventing users from posting condolences over the death of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh Turkish authorities have blocked Instagram after officials in Ankara accused the platform of…

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Malian counterpart have discussed ways of strengthening “traditionally friendly” ties Moscow will continue to provide crucial support to Mali, including training its national army to combat…

How Fast Are Countries Burning Through Natural Resources? Earth Overshoot Day landed yesterday, August 1, in 2024. This means that after only seven months, we have already used up all of the…

The IDF insists that Ismail al-Ghoul was a Hamas operative involved in the October 7 attack The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has admitted to killing an Al Jazeera journalist that it says…

US, UK Accelerate Quantum Computing Programs After China Breakthrough Authored by Tristan Greene via CoinTelegraph.com, Scientists and lawmakers in the United States, United Kingdom and European Union are ramping up efforts to…

Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov has criticized Washington’s threat to expand its nuclear arsenal The US is attempting “to lecture” Russia and China on nuclear weapons while itself pursuing a “deeply hostile” policy,…

These Countries Are Using The Most Energy Per Capita Global energy consumption has significant regional variations due to differences in industrialization levels, climate conditions, population density, and access to natural resources, as…

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 bomb that took out the Hamas chief was planted in the Tehran some two months in advance, sources told The New York Times The assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh…

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 Propaganda Model Has Limits Authored by Mattias Desmet via The Brownstone Institute, Normally, I let my pen rest during the summer months, but for some things, you set aside your habits….

Where To Get The Best Return On An MBA Degree, According To A New “ROI Calculator” Bloomberg Businessweek has published an ROI calculator that is supposed to help students assess if pursuing an advanced…

Footage from Russia’s security service shows US and German nationals boarding a plane before the exchange The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has released a fresh video showing the moments before the…

Wildfire Smoke May Be Linked To Higher Risk Of Dementia, New Study Finds Authored by Summer Lane via The Epoch Times, Exposure to wildfire smoke may be linked to a higher risk…

Crowdstrike Says Delta Rejected “Repeated Efforts To Assist” During IT Meltdown Earlier this week, Delta Air Lines’ CEO criticized cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike and software provider Microsoft for triggering the ‘blue screen of death‘ across…

Senators Introduce Bill To Blacklist Chinese Drones In The US Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Two senators have introduced bipartisan legislation to prevent Chinese drone technologies from…

Uranium Mining Stocks Sink After World’s Largest Producer Boosts Production Guidance Uranium mining stocks plunged on Thursday after the world’s largest uranium producer raised its full-year 2024 uranium production guidance. Kazakhstan’s state-owned miner Kazatomprom…

Google Slammed Over “Soul Crushing” AI Olympics Ad Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Google has been blasted for a commercial touting its Gemini AI tool, with viewers describing the ad as…

Muscle Over Medicine: Why Ozempic Alone Won’t Cut It For Weight Loss Authored by Sheramy Tsai via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Numbers indicate that America has an obesity problem. According to…

Haniyeh Killed By Bomb Placed In Tehran Guesthouse 2 Months Ago In Astounding Mossad Penetration Of IRGC Security New details have emerged in the Israeli covert assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh while he…

Why U.S. Arms Control Efforts Are Failing Authored by Matthew Mai via RealClearWire, Prospects for arms control among the world’s nuclear-armed great powers are growing worse by the day. Last week, China…

Colorado HOA Calls The Police On Children’s Lemonade Stand While the southern border remains wide open and crime sweeps through U.S. cities, one Colorado HOA is doing their part to protect the…

The introduction is here [CATCH UP], I am not going to slow down, re-review and/or rewrite anything. We have a limited amount of time, and the focus of these outlines is easy…

Hackers Attack US Blood Bank, More Than 250 Hospitals Asked To Activate Blood Shortage Protocols Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Nonprofit blood bank OneBlood, which serves hundreds of American…

Obama’s Fourth Term: Bidenomics & Neofascism On Steroids Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Americans have just passed through the most eventful and tumultuous four weeks in memory. The only comparisons are…

Debate Erupts About Banning G-String Bikinis From Australian Waterparks In what can only be described as a pronounced step away from unifying an already divided world, thousands of people in Australia are…

Israeli Strike Kills Al Jazeera Journalists Near Slain Hamas Leader’s Home In Gaza Via Middle East Eye An Israeli air strike near Ismail Haniyeh’s home in Gaza killed two Al Jazeera journalists who were reporting…

The Right To Not Be Lied To: Making The Case For Truth In Politics Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, Q: “How can you tell if a politician…

Amazon Slides After Missing On Revenue, Guiding Below Estimates Despite Solid AWS Results Heading into Amazon’s Q1 earnings, we said earlier that the investment thesis will be driven by i) e-commerce share,…

VDH: Harris Is Recycling The 2020 Democrat Campaign Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election through a successful tripartite subterfuge. One, Biden never really…

Tech CEO Amjad Masad talks to Tucker Carlson about the cults of Silicon Valley.  Indeed, I think we can all see a modern Technocratic shift taking place. Chapters: 00:00 Artificial Intelligence 10:01…

More than two dozen high-profile inmates have been exchanged via Türkiye Moscow and Washington have exchanged a total of 26 prisoners that had been held in several countries, in the biggest such…

Apple Pumps And Dumps As iPad Sales Help Topline Beat, But China Revenues Tumble With most of the megatechs having already released earnings – with most disappointing and seeing their shares slide…