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Beryl Churns In Gulf Of Mexico With Crosshairs On Texas  After battering Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and leaving a trail of destruction through the Caribbean that may exceed $5 billion in damages, Beryl, currently a…

Summer Feeling Hotter Than Usual? Gold Could Be Too… Via SchiffGold.com, Certain climate scientists, research economists, and precious metal investors agree: This year could be one of the hottest on record. Climate…

What Labour’s Victory Means For UK Oil & Gas Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Labour’s proposed policies aim to accelerate the UK’s energy transition while relying heavily on the taxation of…

Diplomatic and economic pragmatism, as well as mutually beneficial relations, are what keeps Moscow and Ankara talking despite their differences On July 3, ahead of the SCO summit, a meeting took place…

The morale of American troops pulling out of Niger is “mixed,” a US general has said The withdrawal of American servicemen from Air Base 101 in Niger is almost complete, US Air…

These Are The World’s Most Livable Cities Each year, The Economist publishes a ranking of the cities with the best living conditions.  In 2024, the Liveability Index saw slight improvements, despite geopolitical…

His-Tory By Stefan Koopman, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank To no one’s surprise, Labour won the UK election. Less than five years after Boris Johnson’s decisive win over Jeremy Corbyn, the Conservatives…

Frustration is growing among key backers, a week after the president’s disastrous debate with Donald Trump A group of 168 Democratic Party supporters, including major donors and academics, sent a letter to…

The indefinite postponement of ‘Noble Partner’ wargames comes a month after Georgia adopted a controversial ‘foreign agent law’ The US has suspended this year’s ‘Noble Partner’ military exercise with Georgia due to…

The Palestinian armed group has agreed to a US timetable for starting talks on the release of male Israeli hostages, the news agency has said Hamas has accepted a US proposal to…

While in Moscow next week, India’s PM will address the trade imbalance and establishing an alternative payment mechanism to sustain growing ties During Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official state visit to…

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) is the center of the silo network that supports the Intelligence Community control over U.S. political outcomes.  SSCI Chairman Mark Warner has been the leading…

ABC is calling this the “full interview,” perhaps it is, perhaps not.  The interview is edited despite the ABC presentation. Those who follow USA politics closely know why the Biden team would…

Tucker Carlson announced a potential interview with Volodymyr Zelensky only to have the spokesperson for Zelensky refute the assertion. The people for Zelenskyy later denied any agreement for an interview.  Per Politico:…

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…

A heart surgeon-turned-politician, Masoud Pezeshkian, will succeed the late Ebrahim Raisi Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian defeated his conservative opponent Saeed Jalili in the second round of the presidential election by nearly three…

The Hidden History Of Robert Mueller’s Right-Wing Terror Factory, Part 2 Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, The first article of this series chronicled the FBI’s mid-2000s program to stage neo-Nazi…

Visualizing The Growth Of (Legal) US Sports Betting The global sports betting industry has grown exponentially over the last few years, with a significant share of that growth coming from the United…

“Self-Created Hole”: Education Reforms Push Maryland Toward Financial Cliff Fitch, Moody’s Ratings, and S&P Global Ratings recently reaffirmed Maryland’s coveted triple-A credit rating. However, Moody’s downgraded the state’s outlook from stable to “negative,” citing significant concerns about looming…

Philippines Says US Will Pull Out Controversial Mid-Range Missile System Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, On Thursday, the Philippines said the US was pulling out a new missile system it deployed to the…

The US leader mocks his rival’s gaffe and immediately makes a new one US President Joe Biden once again misspoke in front of a crowd of supporters on Friday while trying to…

The US leader has insisted his disastrous debate with Donald Trump was just a “bad episode” US President Joe Biden tried to dispel concerns over his age and cognitive abilities after his…

Rivian’s Amazon Delivery Vans Keep Mysteriously Catching Fire Amazon delivery vans, manufactured by Rivian, keep catching fire. That was the topic of a new report from Quartz.com this week which highlighted that…

Sex, Lies, & Racial Hysteria: The Quiet J6 Killing Of Rosanne Boyland Authored by Jack Kashill via American Greatness, One wonders what thoughts passed through the fevered mind of Officer Lila Morris…

Disney World Stealthily Reduces July 4 Flags As Theme Park Attendance Remains Low The Walt Disney Company has become one of America’s wokest companies, injecting left-wing diversity, equity and inclusion or DEI agenda into nearly…

The Absurdity Of “Open Borders” Authored by Llewellyn Rockwell via The Mises Institute, Some libertarians argue that libertarianism requires support for “open borders,” but this is a mistake. “Open borders” is the…

These Are The 10 Highest Paid CEOs In America The median pay for S&P 500 CEOs soared to an all-time high of $15.7 million in 2023, as a strong stock market boosted executive compensation….

Pfizer Infringed On Moderna Patent With COVID-19 Vaccine: Court Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine infringed on a patent held by rival Moderna, the High…

Texas Beach Terrorized By Shark: 4 People Attacked Within Two-Hour Span It’s a nightmarish scenario which seems straight out of Jaws and which has never happened before at a Texas beach: four people…

Netanyahu, Biden ‘Likely’ To Meet As Progressives Plan Boycott Of Congressional Speech The White House has announced that President Joe Biden will ‘likely’ meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later this month, when he’ll…

The Slovak PM regrets not being able to join his Hungarian counterpart’s Ukraine peace mission Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico made his first public appearance weeks after miraculously surviving an assassination attempt,…

World’s Largest Fusion Reactor Is Finally Completed, But… Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Scientists have done some amazing things but not all of them have practical application, at least yet. Fusion…

New York Beats California In List Of 50 Most Affluent U.S. Suburbs A new study from GoBankingRates.com revealed the most affluent suburbs in the United States for June 2024. The key finding…

The Paradigm Shift Of The New Populism Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The Supreme Court last week reversed a decision from 1984 that was responsible for a dramatic turn…

Who Turned Off The Gaslight? Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “Things were bad, and they knew things were bad, and they knew others must also know things were bad, and…

Bullion & Big-Tech Soar, Treasury Yields Tumble Amid US Macro-Meltdown A wild (holiday-shortened and illiquid) week of dismal macro data and dramatic market divergences. It was 100% – a bad news week…’hard…

Kiev now has 14 underequipped brigades, lacking weaponry due to the slow delivery of Western hardware, Vladimir Zelensky says Ukraine has the “desire” to launch a new counteroffensive push against Russia but…

Hungarian PM clearly decided it was worth offending many of his allies in order to focus minds on possibility of peace The sudden appearance of Viktor Orban in Moscow this week shows…

The recent decision on presidential immunity by the SCOTUS is more than just a victory for Donald Trump The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has handed down a decision in…

Nashville Trans Shooter Left Over 100 GB Of Evidence, All To Be Kept Secret Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, Nashville Judge I’Ashea Myles has decided that none of Nashville school…

US Bank Deposits Fell Ahead Of Stress Tests; Fed Bailout Facility Stuck At Massive $107BN Heading into the bank stress tests, money-market fund total assets rose by a de minimus $5BN while…

The Conservative Party has suffered a historic wipeout in Wales, losing every one of its seats The UK Labour Party has won all but five of Wales’ 32 seats in the House…

The right-wing party National Rally will also prohibit Kiev from using French weaponry on Russian soil France’s right-wing National Rally (RN) party will block potential troop deployments to Ukraine and bar Kiev…

Was Tesla’s Cybertruck The Best-Selling US EV Pickup In Q2?  Tesla surprised investors last week with better-than-expected deliveries for the second quarter despite a global electric vehicle market downturn. New estimates from Fed…

McDonald’s Sues Homeless Man For Alleged Customer Attack In Los Angeles Via City News Service, McDonald’s Corp. has filed a cross-complaint against an unidentified homeless man who allegedly attacked a customer at…

Head Of Chase Bank Warns Customers: Era Of Free Checking Is Likely Over The ‘problem-solving’ elites in Washington, DC, who advocate interventionist policies and overregulate the economy into oblivion, often cause unintended…

The Hungarian prime minister unexpectedly traveled to Russia, just days after he visited Ukraine in the same unannounced manner Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban unexpectedly visited Russia on Friday and met with…

Phoenix Police Pull-Over Driverless Waymo For ‘Freaking Out’ & Driving Into Oncoming Traffic Phoenix Police bodycam footage, published online by AZCentral, captures the moment when an officer pulls over a Waymo autonomous Jaguar I-Pace…

Multiple leaders have concluded that Joe Biden “can’t win” in November, sources told the newspaper US President Joe Biden has been displaying worrying signs of “accelerated aging” in recent months and these…

The CEO had already scrapped a plan to visit New Delhi and meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi Elon Musk’s Tesla has put on hold its expansion plans in India, the world’s most…

Elderly Tourist Hit With Car, Killed After Being Robbed In Affluent Newport Beach Crime continues to escalate in California and, in turn, so does the collateral damage that comes with it. And…

Mexico Asks US Supreme Court To Allow Its $10 Billion Lawsuit Against US Gun Makers Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, Mexico urged the U.S. Supreme Court this week to…

“It’s Just My Brain”: Biden Defends Health As Dem. Governors Call For Resignation Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, The New York Times published a bombshell scoop Thursday, signaling the end…

The US-led bloc wants Ukraine to “prevail” in the conflict with Russia and fend it off in the future, its secretary general says The US-led NATO bloc is seeking a lasting resolution…

Suspected Chinese Spy Bases In Cuba Have Undergone Expansion By Frank Fang of Epoch Times Cuba has upgraded and expanded four electronic surveillance facilities, including one near the Guantanamo Bay naval base,…

Wisconsin Supreme Court Reinstates Unstaffed Drop Boxes Ahead Of 2024 Election Well, well, well – the Wisconsin Supreme Court, with its liberal majority, issued a ruling on Friday that reinstates the use…

The Net Zero Cure Is Far Worse Than The Disease Authored by David Turver via DailySceptic.org, We hear a lot about how we are supposedly in a climate crisis and how The…

Russia Holds Mobile Nuclear Missile Launcher Drills Days Before NATO Summit In DC Russia’s Defense Ministry (MoD) announced Friday that its forces are in the midst of nuclear drills utilizing Yars mobile…

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Government: Rep. Goldman Insists That The Country Is Safe In The Hands Of Others Authored by Jonathan Turley, Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, wrote…

State corporation Rostec has said Russia will start manufacturing ‘Mango’ missiles for Indian army’s T-72 and T-90 tanks locally Rosoboronexport, Russia’s defense-export agency and part of state-owned Rostec defense corporation, has arranged…

Participants in the legendary off-road race will have to cover more than 3,000 miles of extremely challenging terrain The international Silk Way Rally kicked off in Russia on Friday, with participants from…

The Indian PM is set to embark on his first trip to Moscow since the Ukraine conflict began New Delhi on Friday disclosed key details of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming…

BYD Expands To Thailand, Cuts Prices, In Midst Of Ongoing EV War EV competition in Europe is going from fierce to cutthroat.  BYD, the leading Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer, is set to…

Kiev’s leadership understands that the country cannot join the bloc while it is at war, Tomasz Siemoniak has said Ukrainian leaders are aware that they cannot hope to join NATO until the…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan commended Russia for proposing a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine conflict Certain Western powers appear hell-bent on turning the Ukraine conflict into an all-out world war, Turkish…

Disney Heiress Halts Donations To Democrats Until Biden Is Replaced Disney heiress Abigail Disney told CNBC on Thursday, July 4, that she plans to stop making political donations to the Democratic Party…

Payrolls: Goldilocks Or Not? By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities On the surface the NFP data had a “goldilocks” type of character. Establishment jobs at 206k, good, but not too good. The…

Crypto Crashes As Mt. Gox Begins Repayments, Long Liquidations Soar As BTC Breaks Key Technical Support Just over a week after initial rumors – and wallet movements – sent bitcoin prices lower,…

Ukrainian and Russian positions, however, remain far apart, the visiting Hungarian PM has admitted Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday hosted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who surprised many with his visit…

Moscow wants to resolve the crisis for good and not simply establish a ceasefire, the Russian president has said Russia wants to fully resolve the Ukraine conflict, rather than just agreeing a…

Hundreds of officers from the East African nation arrived in the island nation last week to help fight armed gangs Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille has hailed the first deployment of Kenyan…

The global majority is increasingly showing its dissatisfaction with West’s rules-based order, but will the Kremlin take advantage of this? The so-called Ukraine “peace summit” held in Switzerland last month, the June…

The Ukrainian authorities have complained that the Hungarian prime minister did not coordinate his trip with them Kiev has expressed outrage over Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s surprise trip to Russia, complaining…

June Jobless Rate Triggers Sahm Rule: Recession Imminent? Via The American Institute for Economic Research, In this morning’s US Bureau of Labor Statistics data release, the U-3 unemployment rate increased 4.1 percent…

China’s ‘National Team’ Gets To Work At Key Psychological Level For Stocks  The Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite recently dropped below a key psychological level, reflecting the uninspiring economic recovery and muted credit impulse data. With…

Liberty & Inflation For All: Even Fireworks Shows Scaled Down This Year Via SchiffGold.com, While the cost of fireworks is down compared to last year, prices of just about everything else are way…

Airfields, energy infrastructure, and missile depots used by Kiev’s forces have been hit during the past week, Moscow has said Russian forces have carried out 23 combined strikes on Ukrainian targets in…

Payrolls Rise 206K After Huge Downward Revisions As Unemployment Rate Jumps To Three Year High It appears that Biden’s apparatchiks refuse to give up on the myth of a “strong labor market”…

The leaders have met at the G7 summit and ahead of Swiss ‘peace’ talks aimed at wooing the Global South The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi on Friday said he has…

Watch: Prominent Democrat Donor Unleashes On Biden; “We’re In F**k City” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A major donor to the Democratic Party has torched Joe Biden, declaring that “we are…

US Futures Flat Ahead Of June Job Report; Bitcoin Plunges US equity futures are unchanged for two days in a row – having gone nowhere during the July 4th holiday – erasing…

Beijing will probe brandy imports from the bloc in response to duties on electric vehicles imposed by Brussels  Beijing has announced the next stage in its investigation into EU brandy imports, in…

Tokyo has admitted that it failed to inform local authorities about crimes perpetrated by American troops The Japanese government has pledged to stop withholding information from regional authorities on sex crimes committed…

The 75-year-old independent candidate has beaten his Labour rival in the vote for London’s Islington North constituency Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has retained his seat in the UK parliament after…

The statements by the US presidential candidate are taken seriously in Moscow, the Russian leader has said Donald Trump’s claims that he wants to end the Ukraine conflict deserve Moscow’s attention, Russian…

Incoherence Day: Biden’s Fourth Filled With Flubs Ahead Of Primetime Interview Tonight Seemingly crumbling under immense pressure to undo the damage from a debate performance that showcased his plummeting mental acuity, President…

Labour leader Keir Starmer has formally become the country’s head of government after meeting with King Charles III Keir Starmer has officially become the UK prime minister after his party’s landslide victory…

10 Signs That Global War Is Rapidly Approaching Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantnews.com, Are we on the verge of an apocalyptic global war in which billions of people could die?  Very…

Polestar Says Implementing “Mitigating Measures” To Offset Import Tariff Chaos EV manufacturer Polestar, one of several struggling names at the bottom of the EV barrel, says that new hefty EU and US…

A new offensive by the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan has sparked an exodus from the state of Sennar More than 136,000 people have fled the state of Sennar in southwest Sudan,…

The Hungarian prime minister is in Russia, days after he visited Ukraine Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has begun a surprise visit to Russia, his office has confirmed. His trip comes days…

Botswana hopes the Trans-Kalahari project will help bypass South Africa’s crumbling logistics network Botswana’s president has called for expedited work to build a 1,500-km (930-mile) rail line to Namibia, aimed at boosting…

U.S. Government Awards Moderna $176 Million Bird Flu Vaccine Contract Despite what can only be described as a host of looming unanswered questions about its mRNA technology and its Covid vaccines, the…

The Hungarian prime minister has landed in Moscow where he plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the Ukraine conflict Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has arrived in Moscow…

People who recovered from the disease are at high risk of developing lung fibrosis, pulmonologists say A significant number of Russians who recovered from Covid-19 are suffering from further devastating effects of…

Religious authorities in Karachaevo-Cherkessia have joined those in Dagestan in cracking down on the face-covering Muslim garment Islamic authorities in Karachaevo-Cherkessia, a Muslim-majority region in southern Russia, have banned the wearing of…

The West, Indubitably, Has Lost Russia, And Is Losing Eurasia Too… Submitted by Alastair Crooke, Is not President Putin’s purpose in visiting North Korea and Vietnam now clear in the context of…

The move by the British prime minister comes after the Tories suffered a crushing defeat to Labour in the general election British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced that he will be…

Former UK prime minister Liz Truss along with 11 cabinet ministers have been ousted in a historic defeat A slew of UK Conservative big names, including 11 cabinet ministers, have lost their…