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These Countries Will Sell You A Passport For people unhappy with their passport and with the right amount of spare cash hanging around, acquiring a new nationality that – for example –…

New Delhi is looking to increase its economic engagement in the Middle East and Africa India is planning to boost its export presence in 50 countries in an effort to mitigate the…

Britain will reportedly spend over $47 billion, not $4.6 billion, to lease Diego Garcia under a deal returning the island territory to Mauritius The British government will end up paying ten times…

Egypt Training Palestinian Forces To Govern Post-War Gaza Via Middle East Eye Egypt has been training Palestinian forces for months to take over the security administration of the Gaza Strip, as part of…

These Are The Most Turbulent Flight Routes On Each Continent The visual below, created by Julie Peasley via Visual Capitalist, maps the single most turbulent flight route on each continent using Turbli’s 2024 rankings….

The Russian and India leaders have established a strong rapport and frequently communicate with each other, Vinay Kumar has said Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi share a…

Kirill Dmitriev responded to a White House post describing Donald Trump as “the president of peace” The policies of former US President Joe Biden must be reversed to achieve global peace, Kirill…

The White House has opted for a military base in Anchorage as the venue due to security reasons, sources have told CNN This week’s summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his…

Coffee Analyst Warns Brazil Frost Could Deliver “Death Blow” To 2026 Harvest Maja Wallengren, Danish-born independent coffee market reporter and founder of SpillingTheBean, reports that severe frost has struck key coffee-producing areas in…

The upcoming Trump-Putin summit spells the end of the “international isolation” of Russia, the Ukrainian leader has claimed The upcoming meeting between the US and Russian presidents has become a “personal victory”…

Wave Of Suicides Among Chinese Entrepreneurs Signals Deepening Crisis In Private Sector: Expert Authored by Michael Zhuang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In the span of just four months, four prominent…

A Legacy Erased: Happy Birthday, George Soros Authored by Parker Thayer via CapitalResearch.org, George Soros turns 95 today, and for his birthday present America brought him the annihilation of his legacy. Soros has…

Farmer’s Almanac Unveils Long-Range Forecast: “Widespread Wintry Weather” For U.S. The Farmer’s Almanac has issued its long-range forecast for the upcoming Western Hemispheric winter, calling for cold and snowy conditions across large…

Audience Erosion Accelerates Across Traditional TV Building on UBS’ note to clients last month, which flagged an inflection point as streaming TV recently overtook traditional TV, a new report from Goldman, citing its…

10 Years On, The Fight For Ethereum’s Soul Continues… Authored by Gareth Jenkins via CoinTelegraph.com, Ethereum went live 10 years ago, bringing programmability and composability to a technological innovation sparked by the…

Ceding territory to Russia would only lead to a new war, the Ukrainian leader claims Ukrainian troops will not leave the territories they still control in Donbass voluntarily, Ukraine’s leader Vladimir Zelensky…

Eco Loons Suggest Proliferating A Plague Of Ticks To Prevent People Eating Meat Authored by Chris Morrison via DailySceptic.org, Perhaps it’s a drinking or smoking game at Western Michigan University. Try to…

The 16 Midterm Races That Could Determine Who Controls The Next Congress Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The first 2026 midterm primaries are more than 200 days…

These Are The Best-Selling Cars In The US So Far In 2025 The first half of 2025’s best-selling cars in the U.S. confirms America’s long-standing love affair with trucks and SUVs. Pickup…

Generation Alpha’s Dream Careers, By Gender For as long as there have been teenagers, there has been curiosity about what they want to be when they grow up. Today, that question is…

How Oil Production Might Help California Meet Its Environmental Goals: Study Authored by Beige Luciano-Adams via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), LOS ANGELES—When students in Jamie Rector’s Energy and Civilization course at…

Trial Begins Over Trump’s Use Of National Guard In California A federal court began hearing testimony on Aug. 11 in a trial to determine whether President Donald Trump illegally used National Guard…

I have been asked to recap some of my research into cited formats of what I believe to be criminal conduct, with specific statutes against them. This is the third. DNI Tulsi…

FBI Director Kash Patel sends John Solomon a declassified whistleblower report, showing how a prior House Intelligence Committee staffer blew the whistle on then HPSCI ranking member Adam Schiff, who was giving…

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases the July inflation data today [RELEASE HERE].  Overall, inflation remains low and stable with a July outcome of 0.2 percent, 2.7 percent year over year….

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a press conference from the Brady room of the White House. . Posted in Press Secretary – Trump The post Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Holds…

Jailed American Hit With New Charges By Russian Court, As 9 Total US Citizens Remain Imprisoned Russian prosecutors have brought new charges against Robert Gilman, an American citizen and former Marine who…

The only question now is when the Western backers of Kiev will admit the defeat, the Hungarian PM has said  Russia has already won the Ukraine conflict, and it’s now up to…

Syria Eyes Pipeline Lifeline As Post-Assad Power Struggle Escalates By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com Syria’s caretaker government is moving to restore the Kirkuk-Baniyas oil pipeline with Iraq, a strategic corridor that had…

Macrons Secretly Hired Investigator To Dig Up Dirt On Candace Owens French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron have been revealed to have hired a private investigation firm to research…

Appeals Court Rules DOGE Can Access Sensitive Federal Data Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An appeals court has removed a block imposed on the Department of Government…

“Expect Violence” – Larry Klayman Says Trump Must Take Out Deep State Now Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Renowned attorney Larry Klayman says the coming indictments of the Deep State traitors who tried to…

Yikes: DEI D.C. Police Chief Doesn’t Know What The Term “Chain Of Command” Means Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, Washington D.C. Police Chief Pamela A. Smith was humiliated earlier today after…

OpenAI Brings GPT-4o Back After Users Revolt Over GPT-5 OpenAI has brought back GPT-4o following the rollout of their latest GPT-5 model, after users complained that the new model was lame in…

Newsflash: Governments Lie Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, Bureau of Labor Statistics head Dr. Erika McEntarfer is one of the latest persons President Trump…

Power Bill Crisis Sends Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s Approval Plummeting The Democratic Party is in trouble over their beloved Maryland Governor Westley Watende Omari Moore, who is being positioned for the party’s…

As Ukraine’s defeat becomes undeniable, Zelensky resorts to desperate provocations — risking wider conflict to block peace talks between Russia and the US. The war in Ukraine is no longer balanced on…

US Ignores Horrific Syrian Govt Massacres Caught On Video As Sharaa Embraced In Amman Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com, The number of people killed in the massacres in Syria’s Suwayda Governorate…

Kiev had been barring all men aged between 18 and 60 from travelling abroad as part of its martial law and mobilization campaign Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has ordered the authorities to allow…

Alternative for Germany has taken the lead in national polling as support for Chancellor Merz’s ruling coalition hits a record low The right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has overtaken Chancellor Friedrich…

US, Colombian, and Danish nationals were reportedly among those who died in an attack on a training camp in central Ukraine A Russian strike in late July dealt a major blow to…

Democrat Whistleblower Says “Unethical” Schiff Leaked Classified Info In “Treasonous” Russiagate Plot Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com, A veteran career intelligence officer who spent more than a decade working for Democrats…

Democrats Go Into Meltdown Mode As Trump Launches Washington DC Takeover The 68-square-mile federal district of Washington DC is often excluded from lists of various US cities and their crime rates due…

Trump’s “Deadly Serious” Russia Squeeze Shown In Big Tariffs On Ally India By Simon Watkins of OilPrice.com Trump has doubled tariffs on Indian imports to 50% over New Delhi’s continued purchases of…

Zelensky Reiterates It’s ‘Impossible’ To Recognize Any Decisions From Alaska Summit For about the third day in a row Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has let it be known that his government will not…

Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are set to meet in Alaska on Friday Ukraine is preparing a new provocation to disrupt negotiations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart…

DoT Makes DEI Revisions In EV Charging Infrastructure Funding Rules Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy unveiled revised guidance for an electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure federal funding program, removing several diversity, equity, and…

Russia’s Defense Ministry says Kiev is preparing a provocation in Kharkov Region to frame Russian forces and disrupt the August 15 negotiations Russia’s Ministry of Defense has alleged that the Ukrainian government…

The statement comes as the US and Russian leaders prepare to meet in Alaska this week US President Donald Trump could visit Russia in the future, the White House has said. Trump is…

Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are set to meet in the US state on Friday Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has held a phone conversation with his American counterpart, Marco Rubio,…

The US president announced last week that the summit would be held in Alaska, but the exact location has been unknown until now The city of Anchorage, Alaska will host Friday’s summit…

The Russian president has praised his North Korean counterpart during a phone call between the two leaders Russian President Vladimir Putin has thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for backing Moscow…

Western military plants are expanding three times faster than before the escalation of the Ukraine conflict, the outlet has reported European arms factories have been expanding three times faster than they did…

Evading diplomacy is a Western folly that Russia has no reason to imitate The problem with the future is that it is both unpredictable and inescapable. You can never know with certainty…

Ether ETFs See Record $1 Billion Inflows As ETH Flashes Bull Signals Spot Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded their biggest day of net inflows ever on Monday, with flows across all funds…

Texas Warns Wastewater Injection Threatens Permian Oil Reserves By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com The Texas General Land Office (GLO) has formally objected to a plan by Pilot Water Solutions LLC to drill…

Brussels civil servants are reportedly in a standoff with the EC over their right to protest the bloc’s stance on Israel European Union staff are in a standoff with the European Commission…

$18 Billion Perplexity Offers To Buy $35 Billion Google Chrome Browser In a stark reminder that AI chatbots are really just glorified search engines, and whoever controls the queries controls the narrative,…

Pretoria says the measure is a response to the 30% tariff the Trump administration imposed on the country’s exports South Africa’s Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) and the Department of…

China Urges Tech Giants To Avoid Nvidia H20 Chips After Trump Lifts Sales Ban Beijing is quietly discouraging Chinese firms, particularly those tied to state and/or national security interests, from using Nvidia’s H20 AI…

US Mortgage Rates Tumble To Lowest Level Since April Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to 6.63 percent for the week ending Aug. 7,…

Top U.S. Broadcaster Sinclair Sees Shares Soar After Initiating Strategic Review  Shares of Sinclair, one of the largest U.S. broadcast station owners, jumped the most in over a year in premarket trading…

Tibetan antelope are hard to survey due to their sensitive nature and high-altitude habitats, a zoologist has said Chinese researchers have used a robotic dog in disguise to take a closer look…

Yields Spike After Trump Hints At Powell Lawsuit, Attention Turns To Coming Hot PCE Print The yield curve is steepening, with 10-year yields spiking from the CPI aftermath (where focus has turned…

Samvel Karapetyan’s relatives are demanding that the government provide compensation for losses linked to the nationalization of his company The family of a jailed Russian-Armenian tycoon has reportedly launched a $500 million…

The alleged corruption scheme involves monthly transfers of $50 million to UAE-based companies linked to a former Ukrainian state official The entourage of Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky transfers $50 million every month to…

Several people brought a banner of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators to a rap concert, triggering public outrage Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has accused “local idiots” and “foreign agents” of stoking tensions between…

An announcement is likely during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin this month, the news agency has said India and China are preparing to resume direct passenger flights as soon as…

Israel’s PM has denied seeking to starve the Palestinian enclave despite heavy UN criticism Israel could have wiped out Gaza’s population within hours if it had intended to commit genocide, Prime Minister…

Zimbabwean officials say the skulls of fighters who resisted colonial rule were taken to Britain as trophies and kept in museums The UK has agreed to repatriate the skeletal remains of Zimbabwean…

The intellectually honest political watcher knows that overall Ukraine represents the largest international money laundering operation to shift wealth from taxpayers to the politically connected institutions, since COVID-19.  The money is the…

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…

I think many of us really like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. He’s not generally a man who pretends things amid the EU coalition. Orban says things clearly, just like Trump. [SOURCE]…

Central Banks Do Not Prevent Financial Crises Or Control Inflation Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Central banks have become the dominating force in financial markets. Easing and tightening decisions move all assets from…

“An Amazing Story”: Trump Praises Intel CEO After Previously Calling For His Resignation President Donald Trump struck a notably warmer tone toward Intel Corp. CEO Lip-Bu Tan on Monday, just days after…

US Futures Flat Ahead Of CPI US equity futures are flat into today’s CPI print, which is expects to show a modest increase in YoY prints (full preview here) with bond yields…

Australia Is Next US Ally Pledging To Recognize Palestinian Statehood At UN Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Monday that Australia will officially recognize a Palestinian state in September at the 80th…

Rate-Cut Odds Soar As US Consumer Prices Once Again Reject Trump Tariff Terror With a new boss looming at The BLS, one wonders what the ‘old boss’ has in hand for today’s…

Putin Preparing New Offensive After Trump Meeting, Zelensky Says, As Ukraine Softens Stance On Giving Up Territory During his Monday night address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that there are no signs on…

New Delhi will no longer allow select jute and rope products from Bangladesh through land routes India has imposed a ban on the import of select jute products and ropes from Bangladesh…

Age-Restricted Taxi Tracking? The Absurd Consequences Of Britain’s Online Safety Act Authored by Philip Leith via DailySceptic.org, I was recently travelling in the UK and, after a lot of sightseeing on foot,…

Some of those freed have committed new crimes just hours after being released, the Daily Mail has reported Over 26,000 prisoners, some serving lengthy terms, have been freed in the UK as…

Washington’s next geopolitical plays in the post-Soviet space – from the Caucasus to Transnistria – threaten to widen the East-West divide All eyes may be on the scheduled meeting between US President…

The recovered artifacts include a mummy skull, amulets, and a funerary stela, officials have said Egypt has recovered 13 ancient artifacts from the UK and Germany as part of efforts to return…

The Alaska meeting could boost efforts to restore ties with the US, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has said Russia sees the upcoming Alaska summit between President Vladimir Putin and US President…

Security services have detained a Russia-Ukraine dual citizen accused of planning to detonate 60kg of explosives in a car bomb attack A dual citizen of Russia and Ukraine has been detained for…

Baltic Power is reportedly installing radars and sensors on its new turbine towers in response to alleged Russian threats Poland is converting a major offshore wind farm into a strategic surveillance asset…

Why France’s Boomers Will Delay Deficit Reduction Indefinitely By Jean Dalbard, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist France continues to fall short on fiscal consolidation. Recent data from Insee suggest that the…

Ukrainian Population’s Support For War Effort Collapses, Poll Shows There’s some interesting and vital data which was released last week, just ahead of this coming Friday’s historic Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, which…

Jim Risch has proposed the move against M23 and the RSF in amendments to Washington’s 2026 National Defense Authorization Act A senior Republican lawmaker is pushing for the US to designate the…

Push To Cut Livestock For Climate Goals (Due To Burping & Farting) Worries UK Farmers, Ecologists Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), UK government advisers have urged deep…

Germany’s Federal Employment Agency Is Promoting Welfare Benefits To Young Migrants Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Germany’s Federal Employment Agency is actively promoting the country’s “citizen’s benefit” (Bürgergeld) to young…

Cracks Appear In NATO Unity Ahead Of Alaska Summit On Ukraine Territorial Concessions Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk, as head of NATO’s largest and most well-armed ‘eastern flank’ country, expressed both concern…

The US president said Moscow has been heavily impacted by levies imposed on New Delhi for buying its oil US President Donald Trump has claimed that American tariffs imposed on India for…

Ukraine could agree to give up territory already controlled by Russia in exchange for a path to NATO, the report claims Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky could agree to concede land to Russia…

The diplomat has claimed the bloc is working on “more military support for Ukraine” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has called for more pressure on Moscow ahead of a summit between…

Western Europe Wants War In Ukraine To Continue, Even Without The Americans Via Remix News, A Polish political scientist and journalist, Prof. Adam Wielomski, has taken to social media to claim Western…

EU foreign policy chief says no “concessions” to Russia until a “full and unconditional” ceasefire with Ukraine is in place The EU is set to begin working on a new, 19th package…

VDH: Disinformation & The Dropping Of The Atomic Bombs Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Legitimate disagreement about the wisdom of dropping two bombs on Japan to end World War…