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Lenders are wary of secondary Western sanctions for dealing with Moscow, sources told the news outlet Vedomosti Several large banks in the United Arab Emirates have begun limiting transactions with Russia and…

A bipartisan delegation had sought to discuss Sweden’s NATO bid with senior officials in Budapest Senior Hungarian officials have refused to meet four US senators who arrived in Budapest on Sunday, Washington’s…

Kiev’s worsening prospects on the battlefield and uncertainty over new funding have dominated the Munich Security Conference The Ukrainian military’s worsening prospects on the battlefield have prompted Western officials to call for…

Westerners Pessimistic About Security Residents of a number of major economies are feeling pessimistic about national security in the future. You will find more infographics at Statista This survey was carried out…

FDA Approves First Medication To Treat Severe Frostbite The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first injectable medication to treat frostbite. Actelion Pharmaceutical’s Aurlumyn uses main ingredient iloprost to dilate…

Ammunition and training were mistakenly believed to be enough for Kiev to win, Admiral Rob Bauer has said The West grossly overestimated Ukraine’s chances of battlefield progress against Russia last year, a…

Zimbabwe’s government has warned that any such “un-African and unchristian” offers will be regarded as unlawful and criminal Zimbabwe will not tolerate attempts by foreign agents to entice and recruit students into…

The outlet says the authorities are probing if submarine operational areas were disclosed during Nord Stream 2 construction Sensitive defense information could have been leaked to Russia during the construction of the…

The African bloc is looking for a partnership to enhance the organization, Omar Alieu Touray has said The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is ready for a mutually beneficial partnership…

200 (Clueless) Economists Demand The EU Incorporate Climate In Economic Models Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, 200 clueless and very biased economists demand more of the policies that had led to…

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has admitted the lawfare deployed against the Trump organization and President Donald Trump himself was a specific plan for his targeting and any other business interests or…

Kiev recruited the suspect to assassinate a Russian official using a home-made device, the agency has claimed The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has foiled an assassination attempt against an official in…

A mop-up operation is underway in the fortified city, and Ukrainian troops are in “disorderly retreat,” Russia’s Defense Ministry has said Russian troops have captured the Avdeevka Coke and Chemical plant which…

The pastor claims that the service was requested for a “catholic” The pastor of St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York has been left outraged after the attendees of a funeral service for…

Western specialists operate Kiev’s air defenses and rocket systems, Colonel General Sergey Rudskoy claims NATO soldiers are fighting against the Russian Army in the Ukraine conflict disguised as mercenaries, a senior Russian…

Companies across the UK are cutting back on hiring amid the prevailing economic uncertainty, a report says UK workers may face lower wage increases this year as employers are mulling cutting pay…

Local businesses expect the EU’s largest economy to shrink by 0.5% this year, according to a DIHK chambers of industry and commerce poll German businesses expect the country’s economy to contract by…

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…

US Officials Concede No Active Surveillance On Long-Term Effects Of COVID-19 Vaccines Authored by Megan Redshaw via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In a Feb. 15 hearing by the Select Subcommittee on…

Senator Lindsey Graham has agreed with former president Donald Trump’s recent statements US Senator Lindsey Graham has proposed the expulsion of countries from the US-led military bloc if their defense budget does…

Black Activist Lawyer’s Idea To Stop Law-Breaking: Just Legalize Crime Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, During a recent appearance on MSNBC, a black activist lawyer suggested that crime in the…

The Yemeni rebels have reportedly expanded their arsenal after promising to mirror Western “escalation with escalation” Yemen’s Houthi rebels have attempted to use a submersible drone for the first time, but it…

“Enough Is Enough”: ‘Squad’ Member Tlaib Comes Out Against Biden Democratic Socialist Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) encouraged Democrats to “vote uncommitted” in the Feb. 27 presidential primary due to the Biden administration’s handling…

WHCA Vs WHCO: White House Correspondents Blast The White House Over Heavy-Handed Media Memo Authored by Jonathan Turley, We have previously discussed the increasingly aggressive role of the White House Counsel’s Office…

Chinese Stocks Set To Soar After the 10-day Lunar new Year holiday, Chinese markets are all set to reopen with China with a positive lead from the Hong Kong and ADR rally…

A two-state solution will jeopardize Israel’s security, according to PM Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has categorically rejected the idea of “unilateral recognition” of a Palestinian state, arguing that it…

“Everything Is Going Wrong For The Deep State” – Martin Armstrong Warns That’s What “Makes Them So Dangerous” Now Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong is predicting…

Kiev must reclaim its nuclear status to confront Moscow, a Ukrainian lawmaker has argued Unless Ukraine obtains a full NATO membership, it will have no other choice but to develop or somehow else…

In Trading, “The Narrower Your Focus, The Tighter Your Timing, The More Likely You’ll Lose” By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management Top Down Ten percent of endowments are run…

San Francisco Appoints First Non-Citizen To Election Commission Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times, San Francisco’s Elections Commission has, for what is believed to be a first time in history,…

Lawless America: Truck Hauling Corvettes Hijacked In ‘Grand Theft Auto’-Like Robbery Fox 10 Phoenix reports that a 23-year-old man, freshly out of jail, hijacked a tractor-trailer loaded with exotic sports cars, telling law enforcement…

Taxing Billionaires Won’t Reduce Taxes For The Middle Class Authored by Daniel Lacalle, In a world of populist policies, the notion of taxing billionaires to alleviate the financial burdens of the middle class…

Republican hawk claims that Russian activist Alexey Navalny was “murdered” and the country must be punished for that US Senator Lindsey Graham has claimed that the passing of the opposition figure Alexey…

Here’s Where People Are Living Longer With improvements in medical care and living standards in many countries around the world, the 20th century saw a dramatic increase in life expectancy at birth. While…

Israel “categorically” rejected all efforts to end the war that involved recognizing a Palestinian state The US will veto a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza,…

Groups of Kiev’s soldiers fled the town before the order to do so was given, under fire from Russian strikes, drone footage allegedly shows Ukrainian forces began fleeing the key Donbass town…

Deliberate neglect, followed by a blockade and now war have failed to break the resolve of the peninsula’s inhabitants As the Russian military operation against Ukraine approaches its third year, the focus…

Harvard Professor Says “All Hell Broke Loose” When His Study Revealed No Racial Bias In Police Shootings Bari Weiss of The Free Press sat down with Harvard Economics Professor Roland Fryer at the University of Austin last…

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only option.” I think it was Bob Marley who said that… lol.  But it’s true. I’m so far outside the…

The billionaire has repeatedly argued that protracted warfare will end in disaster for Ukraine The longer the conflict in Ukraine drags on, “the better Russia will do,” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk believes….

British officials hope the autonomous craft will help Kiev compensate for its artillery shortage, the news site reported Ukraine will soon receive thousands of AI-enabled drones capable of autonomously “swarming” Russian targets,…

Assange’s Final UK Court ‘Moment Of Truth’ Arrives As Wife Warns He ‘Will Die’ If Extradited To US Tuesday, February 21 is the big day and ‘moment of truth’ for WikiLeaks founder…

The makers of a drug used off-label to induce lactation in men warn it could adversely affect a baby’s heart The drug-induced nipple secretions of trans women are as good as mothers’…

I’m not sure exactly what the motive is behind this, nor do I fully understand how it ties into the FISA-702 renewal effort by the insufferable HPSCI Chairman Mike Turner, but everything…

Biden Says Ukraine May Lose More Cities After Avdeyevka Due To US Aid Delay Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu over the weekend confirmed in a statement to President Vladimir Putin that the…

The Great Reset Didn’t Work: The Case Of EVs Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, We are living through one of history’s longest and most excruciating versions of “We told…

Idaho House Approves Death Penalty For Certain Sex Crimes Against Children Pedophiles in Idaho have more to worry about than getting shanked in prison… A new bill which just passed the House…

“License To Play God”: Physician Group Files Brief Against Biden In COVID Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine that received emergency authorization await…

Any Colombians who are fighting for Kiev are doing so based on their own “personal decisions,” Bogota has claimed The Colombian government does not “encourage or facilitate” the flow of mercenaries from…

The European Commission president has already spelled out her priorities should she remain in office Ursula von der Leyen will formally announce her candidacy for a second term as president of the…

The president says industrial heavyweights are moving their plants abroad where energy is cheaper, including the US   The German government’s decision to switch from Russian gas to more expensive energy sources is…

The tech mogul has apparently concurred with entrepreneur David Sacks that people are being told Kiev “is winning when in fact it is losing” Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has seemingly…

Gaza Truce Talks ‘Unpromising’, Qatar PM Admits Via The Cradle, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said Saturday that his country will continue to mediate for truce deal between Hamas and…

Ukraine is borrowing from the future just to hang on for dear life. 2024 will be pivotal in deciding the outcome The forthcoming second anniversary of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine is…

The EU’s need to boost defense spending does not depend on whether the ex-US president is re-elected, the Dutch PM has said Europe should be spending more on defense and ramping up…

NATO’s New Mission: Peace Through Censorship Authored by Thaddeus G. McCotter via American Greatness, When pondering the ranks of institutions captured by leftist elitists, one of the most ominous is the American…

Other members of the bloc should follow suit, Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen has said Denmark will transfer all of its artillery to Ukraine, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said during a panel debate at…

Grilled over relations with Russia once again, S. Jaishankar has reiterated New Delhi’s stand on expanding ties with Moscow India should be admired, and not criticized, for conducting a “smart” foreign policy that…

Rand Paul says the move would make peace in Ukraine less likely while undermining America’s global standing US Senator Rand Paul has warned against seizing frozen Russian assets, saying it would have…

The US president has said that he is “going to fight” to give another $60 billion to Kiev US President Joe Biden made a renewed appeal to Congress to approve $60 billion…

Thousands of farmers are ready to march on the capital, raising an old demand, a guaranteed minimum price for crops At 8am at the Shambhu border, a crossing between the northern Indian…

State Department Threatens Congress Over Censorship Programs Authored by Matt Taibbi via Racket News, A year after its censorship programs were exposed, the Global Engagement Center still insists the public has no…

These Are The World’s Least Powerful Passports In 2024 Freedom to travel is correlated to a country’s economic progress. For highly unstable countries, mobility is limited due to diplomatic tensions abroad. In…

How The CIA Destabilizes The World Authored by Jeffrey Sachs via CommonDreams.org, There are three basic problems with the CIA: its objectives, methods, and unaccountability. Its operational objectives are whatever the CIA…

Journalist Dmitry Kiselyov wants to sit down with the US President to get his take on how to stabilize ties between the two nations Prominent Russian journalist Dmitry Kiselyov has said that…

NATO states, most notably the US under Donald Trump, have repeatedly criticized Berlin for failing to pull its weight Germany’s multi-billion military budget increase could bring the country’s spending  on its army to as…

War funding receives votes in Congress because politicians are paid off by the military-industrial complex, the analyst says The American public considers wars, and the Ukraine conflict in particular, a bad investment,…

Maersk suspended vessel transits via the key trade route in January due to attacks by Houthi rebels Danish shipping major AP Moller-Maersk is advising customers to prepare for a prolonged Red Sea…

The conflict is a “tactical” issue for the West, but an existential one for Moscow, the Russian president has argued The Ukraine crisis is of existential importance for Russia, President Vladimir Putin…

Gospel Mk 1:12-15 The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert, and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan. He was among wild beasts, and the angels ministered…

Israel’s Ynet media outlet quoted an unnamed senior member of the prime minister’s Likud party as making the assessment Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be able to retain power after…

The Russian economy expanded beyond expectations last year, and is on course for further growth in 2024 Western sanctions on Moscow have failed to destabilize the Russian economy, according to Lithuanian President…

Once extremely prosperous states face a new reality, which could see old dark forces re-emerge A side effect of the tragic Ukrainian problem for Russian foreign policy is that it helps us…

Six incapacitated Ukrainian soldiers in the city were promised evacuation that never came, according to one of them The Ukrainian military abandoned a number of severely injured soldiers on the battlefield in…

Accession to the US-led bloc is a “sensitive process” that may require intermediate steps, Dutch caretaker PM Mark Rutte has said  The Netherlands’ caretaker prime minister, Mark Rutte, has said that admitting…

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 volume of investable assets held by individuals in the group will skyrocket over the next decade, according to Henley & Partners The number of new millionaires in the BRICS countries will…

The coal-to-gas pivot by industrial consumers across Asia is gathering pace, according to the energy giant Global demand for liquefied natural gas will increase more than 50% in less than two decades,…

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…

US Air Force Needs Robotic Wingmen In Fight Against Communist China: Report Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Air Force needs to pair its manned combat…

Fentanyl Lollipops? Top Border Patrol Doctor Asked Staff For Narcotics Before UN Meeting In New York: Whistleblowers Several whistleblowers allege that the chief medical officer for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) pressured…

An official retreat order allegedly came too late for an organized fallback Ukraine’s top general Aleksandr Syrsky only gave the order for troops to leave Avdeevka a day after the beginning of…

The activist’s passing is Russia’s “internal affair,” Beijing has said The Chinese Foreign Ministry has declined to comment on the fate of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny before medical examiners even determined the…

Iran Transported $2.8BN Worth Of Oil In 2023 Under Washington’s Nose Via The Cradle Iran was able to transport $2.8 billion in oil to customers in 2023 using insurance from a US-based…

CDC Confirms Spread Of ‘Unknown’ Outbreak Aboard Cruise Ship The CDC has confirmed that an “unknown” outbreak aboard a cruise ship is spreading, and has infected at least 154 people. In an…

Incest Is Best? The Economist Says Copulating-Cousins Cool “In Most Cases” With America facing population collapse thanks to a pandemic which compounded already-shrinking birth rates, petrified young men who don’t want to…

The US-led military bloc needs to be “prudent” about Kiev, the Italian FM believes Granting Ukraine a NATO membership while the country is locked in a conflict with Russia is “dangerous for…

Turley: Obscene Award Against Trump Is Testing New York’s Legal Integrity Authored by Jonathan Turley, op-ed via The Hill, In laying the foundation for his sweeping decision against former President Donald Trump, Judge Arthur…

Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most-populous country, is treading carefully between China and the US as it gathers strength It is tempting to frame global geopolitics as a binary struggle between China and the…

The Ukrainian leader wants “decision-makers” to come and witness the fighting Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has offered to give Donald Trump a tour of Kiev’s battlefront with Russian forces, saying America’s leading…

President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will deliver remarks at a “Get Out the Vote Rally” in Waterford Township, Michigan, on Saturday, February 17, 2024, at…

Conditions Not Right For Ukraine-Russia Peace Talks, China Says After Appeal From Kiev Starting last month the Zelensky government began calling for China to get more involved in the international effort to…

Middle America Is Dying, And D.C. Doesn’t Care Authored by Salena Zito via The Washington Examiner, WEIRTON, West Virginia – Most people in this town will tell you they’d rather have taken…

Hundreds of Eritrean rioters set cars ablaze in the Dutch city Police in riot gear have been deployed on the streets of the Hague in an attempt to quell violent clashes that…

The US president has claimed lawmakers caused the loss of a Ukrainian stronghold to Russia by failing to approve more aid to Kiev US President Joe Biden has identified the alleged culprits…

US Prepares New Weapons Transfer To Israel, Ironically While Pushing For Ceasefire Just days ago President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the military operation in refugee-packed Rafah “should not…

An online campaign wants to cover a $354 million court judgment against the former US president Fans of Donald Trump have started a crowdfunding campaign seeking donations to cover the $354 million…

Cultural Marxism & The Corruption Of Common Law Authored by William Brooks via The Epoch Times, Peaceful and productive human societies depend on the maintenance of judicial principles that are consistent and…

10 Reasons Why The World Can’t Run Without Fossil Fuels Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World, Banks, governments, and businesses would face failure due to the essential role of fossil fuels…