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The former president suggested that Moscow and Kiev were similar to the northern and southern states who fought over slavery The current conflict between Moscow and Kiev is similar to the 19th…

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has issued a joint declaration following a summit in Astana The leaders of the ten countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) have signed dozens of security and…

The Indian and Chinese foreign ministers have held talks on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Astana New Delhi and Beijing have agreed to “redouble efforts through diplomatic and military channels”…

Smith: It’s Damned Hard To Be Proud Of America Authored by Justin Smith via The Burning Platform blog, Americans probably still have many good reasons to be proud of America, but as…

Fellow Democrats are reportedly pressing the US president to either prove his fitness for office or step aside US President Joe Biden and his campaign must either quickly prove his fitness to…

Already tense relations between Niger and Benin escalated in May due to a border closure dispute Niger’s military government says it has agreed to talks with Benin to help resolve a border…

New Study Reveals Ozempic, Wegovy Linked To ‘Potentially Blinding Eye Condition’  Shares of Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly extended declines after Mass Eye and Ear, a Harvard-affiliated hospital, revealed in a new study published…

The unsigned draft focused on Ukraine’s neutrality and offered the country security guarantees Moscow and Kiev could use a tentative agreement reached during talks in Istanbul early in the Ukraine conflict as…

E Pluribus Airhead Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance It was only a couple of days ago that I reminded my readers that, if it was necessary to replace Joe Biden, the DNC…

In the past several years we have all travelled deep into the political weeds, manufactured backgrounds and political corruption.  The journey for the raw and unfiltered truth has pushed us deeper than…

Ari Zev Emanuel is the owner of UFC and WWE organizations.  He’s also the brother of Obama’s former Chief of Staff and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and the brother of bioethicist Ezekiel…

Alisheri Ismatzoda was allegedly found in possession of extremist literature and had been sending money to terror suspects The coach of the Russian youth freestyle wrestling team, Alisheri Ismatzoda, has been arrested…

A Czech national has reportedly been charged with stealing gold and silver valuables during fighting on the outskirts of Kiev in 2022 A Czech national who fought for Ukraine against Russia early…

Brussels is seeking to protect the bloc’s auto industry from “unfair” competition The European Union has imposed steep new tariffs on electric vehicles imported from China following an anti-subsidy probe. Brussels is…

Use of national currencies in Russia’s settlements with fellow SCO members has exceeded 92%, the president has said Members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are ramping up settlements in national currencies,…

The Western electoral system is facing a deep crisis — but this may actually be good news for civil society One of the signs of the times is the global trend towards…

Le Pen Accuses Macron Of Preparing ‘Coup D’etat’ After Series Of Last Minute Appointments French President Emmanuel Macron’s office issued a statement Wednesday urging “cool-headedness” and “moderation” aimed at the National Rally (RN)…

Moscow and Bamako have agreed to develop ties in energy infrastructure Russian energy giant Rosatom has signed memorandums with Mali on developing cooperation on nuclear energy and other key areas, the company announced…

Threat Map Shows Hezbollah’s Drone Ranges As Conflict Area Spillover Risks Rise Hezbollah’s use of drones is a nightmare for Israel’s defenses. Difficult to track and identify, these drones can overwhelm and evade even the…

Trump’s Reported Plan For NATO Is Already Being Partially Implemented Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Politico published a piece on Tuesday about how “Trump’s Plan for NATO Is Emerging”, which cites…

Military-age men reportedly posed as social workers to accompany children who were being evacuated from Ukraine into Germany Officials working with the Ukrainian social services used a group of orphans who were…

The presumptive GOP nominee appears to denigrate his opponent following their controversial debate US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has declared that he trounced his “old, broken down” rival Joe Biden during their…

The African nation has named an economist as finance minister, as well as business executives and former bankers to other key positions Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has overhauled his cabinet in…

The private meeting with officials reportedly took place less than a week after the US president’s disastrous debate against Donald Trump US President Joe Biden has told a group of Democratic governors…

The surge is linked to higher prices for Urals crude, the outlet has said Russia’s revenues from oil exports surged by almost 50% last month compared to a year ago as prices…

A Former Prime Minister Reveals Why The UK’s Blob Must Be Destroyed Authored by Iain Murray via The American Institute for Economic Research, In 2023, the British Conservative Party decided to oust…

Pumping Kiev with weapons is a “futile project” that will increase the number of civilian casualties, Ambassador Anatoly Antonov has said The US is nudging Ukraine towards committing new war crimes and…

A MiG-29 has been destroyed by an Iskander missile blast in Dnepropetrovsk Region, the Defense Ministry has reported Russia has claimed a third successful tactical missile strike on a Ukrainian airfield this…

Notably missing from the story about governors visiting Joe Biden at the White House, was any mention of Gavin Newsom.  Seems odd. According to Politico, Biden affirmed to the visiting governors and…

Belarus has become the tenth member of the bloc Belarus has officially become a full-fledged member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), an economic and security bloc covering most of Eurasia and…

  Last year I closed comments on the post because many people made it just a second daily political thread. I am asking you not to do that. I know you politics…

Gingrich: The Key ‘Lessons In Liberty’ Authored by Newt Gingrich via RealClearPolicy, Historic leaders often share something important in common. They are not born great. Their greatness is a result of a…

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…

Inside The Chinese Money-Laundering Network Fueling America’s Fentanyl Crisis It’s worth noting that 100,000 Americans die in drug-related deaths per year, the vast majority from pills cooked with fentanyl, an opioid analog 50…

Crime Trends Have Been Tough To Track. Breaking Down The 10 Biggest Cities Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Is crime rising or falling across the United States?…

Bidenomics: Man Sparks Internet Outrage After Paying $9.35 For A Diet Coke At Six Flags Just when you’ve thought you’ve seen the worst, most egregious examples of inflation rearing its head, we…

The key piece of evidence, according to Yuri Borisov, are the lunar soil samples shared with Soviet scientists The head of the Russian space agency has weighed in on the decades-long conspiracy…

From Milk-Runs To MAD To Madness Authored by George Ford Smith via The Mises Institute, There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions…

The Russian leader called Moscow’s strategic partnership with Beijing a global “stabilizing factor” Moscow and Beijing are acting in the interests of their people, and building their relations on the principles of equality…

Anti-Slavery California Ballot Measure Would Ban Forced Prison Labor Authored by Summer Lane via The Epoch Times, A measure seeking to ban forced prison labor and formally prohibit slavery in California will…

Egypt Teeters On Brink Of Economic Ruin As Public Debt Mounts, Poverty Rate Soars Via Middle East Eye Last autumn, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi gave a speech in the New Administrative Capital in Cairo, the $300bn project…

Explosion Rocks General Dynamics’ Hellfire & Javelin Missile Factory In Arkansas An early Wednesday morning explosion rocked the General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems facility in Camden, Arkansas, injuring at least two people and leaving…

Ukraine had blacklisted the American journalist for such “crimes” as interviewing Vladimir Putin Vladimir Zelensky has finally accepted the request to be interviewed by Tucker Carlson, the American journalist has revealed. A…

Gelsenkirchen is the first stop in Germany for the pop star’s Eras Tour The German city of Gelsenkirchen will honor the US pop superstar Taylor Swift by temporarily renaming itself ‘Swiftkirchen’ later…

Putin & Xi Meet Again, Plot Countering US, While White House Consumed With Crisis Of Biden’s Decline In their second face-to-face meeting in as many months, Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Chinese…

From Big Cities To Small Town Main Streets, America To Celebrate July 4 In Record Style Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times, Americans are projected to travel in record numbers,…

Houthi Attacks On Ships Soar Most This Year In June As Critical Maritime Chokepoint Ablaze In Conflict About eight months after Iran-backed Houthi rebels began seriously disrupting maritime traffic in the southern Red…

The Green New Scam Is Dying Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, It’s no secret that the vast majority of the so-called elites are advocates of climate alarmism and are taken in…

Cat 4 Hurricane Beryl Heads Towards Texas, Threatening Major Oil Refineries  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Hurricane Center (NHC) downgraded Hurricane Beryl to a Category 4 storm from a Category…

General Dynamics’ Camden facility built warheads for the Javelin missiles sent to Ukraine Two people have been injured and one is missing after an explosion at a General Dynamics weapons factory in…

Federal independent MP Helen Haines received a lot of negative feedback after she decided to promote on social media the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) celebrating its first year of operation. The problem…

The ‘Beauty of Russia-2024’ will be held at the VDNKh exhibition center in Moscow this week The grand opening of the ‘Beauty of Russia-2024’ beauty and talent festival took place on Wednesday…

Asking Kiev to surrender is unacceptable to Berlin, the German chancellor has said Berlin must not back any call for a truce that would see Kiev admit defeat, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz…

How Much Are State And Local Government Workers Overpaid? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Let’s discuss the latest BLS report on employer costs with a special focus on teachers. Employer costs…

The president’s allies in Congress reportedly fear that association with him could drag down their own campaigns Dozens of Democrats in the US Congress are considering signing a letter demanding that President…

Israel Takes Out 2nd Senior Hezbollah Commander In Less Than Two Weeks Another senior Hezbollah commander has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon on Wednesday. He was killed in…

Fact-Checking The ‘Fact-Checking’ New York Times Authored by Daniel Oliver via American Greatness, “They” just can’t let Donald Trump go. For them, Donald Trump is Evil personified. But not for the rest…

Once you see the strings on the marionettes you can never watch the performance and not see them.  The same thing happens when you know the details of how ballots are different…

FOMC Minutes Show “Vast Majority” Expect Economy To Cool, See Deflationary Effects Of AI Since the last FOMC statement on June 12, oil, gold, stocks, the dollar, and even some of the…

“I Almost Fell Asleep Onstage” – Biden Blames Debate-Debacle On Jet-Lag, But… Desperately trying to outrace a growing wave of pleas to abandon his reelection campaign, President Biden on Tuesday dubiously blamed…

West Jerusalem claims it’s close to defeating Gaza’s militants but the facts show otherwise Through April, the IDF had targeted more than 32,000 military sites belonging to Hamas and its allies. In June,…

The SCO has been strengthening its role on the global stage, according to the Russian president The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is expanding to become a power center in a world that…

Americans Are More Likely To Go To War With The Government Than Submit To The Draft Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, In a national poll last month Americans were asked if they believed…

Stocks, Bonds, & Bullion Soar Amid Political Panic & Macro Meltdown On Holiday-Shortened Day Well that was a shitshow of a day… politically chaotic and macro-economically depressing on a holiday-shortened (super low…

Chicago’s Worst-In-Nation Pension Crisis Strikes Again Authored by Nick Binotti and Ted Dabrowski via Wirepoints.org, Wirepoints recently warned in a Chicago Sun-Times oped that Chicago’s pension mess was going to get worse. As Chicago’s…

After Being Wrong For Three Years, Marko Kolanovic Is Leaving JPMorgan In retrospect, it was the best call of this market cycle. After he was bullish – and dead wrong – all…

The White House has told the outlet that the claim is “absolutely false” US President Joe Biden is seriously considering whether he can recover from his “disastrous” debate performance, the New York…

Petrodollar Panic: Separating Fact From Fiction Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Recently, a few media outlets have warned of the imminent demise of the petrodollar agreement, commonly called the petrodollar. With…

Oh, they’re good… the Pelosi clan are really good. I once saw an interview with Nancy Pelosi’s daughter where she was asked about her mom and Alexandra Pelosi said something very matter-of-factly…

Zelensky Challenges Trump: ‘Tell Us Today How To Finish The War’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday has issued an open challenge to former President Donald Trump, telling him that if the…

Jack Smith Is Willing To Try Trump Up To Inauguration Day; WaPo Reports Authored by Jonathan Turley, The Washington Post is reporting that Special Counsel Jack Smith may try to convict former president Donald…

He wants the former US president to explain his plan to resolve the conflict between Moscow and Kiev Former US President Donald Trump should set out his plan to resolve the Ukraine…

Ukraine will not give up its territorial integrity and sovereignty to end the conflict, Andrey Yermak has said Ukraine does not intend to cave in to Russian demands and consider formally ceding…

The worker perished on the job at a height of 200 meters, reportedly from a drug overdose A crane operator perished on the job at a height of some 200 meters above…

The German chancellor has told supporters that he wants to prevent “a populist government” gaining power in France German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said that he texts French President Emmanuel Macron every…

US Factory Orders Unexpectedly Tumbled In May And to cap a day of serially ugly US macro data, factory orders unexpectedly plunged (-0.5% MoM) in May (against expectations of a 0.2% rise…

WTF Are S&P Global Services PMI Respondents Drinking? Following the mixed picture on Manufacturing (despite the collapse in ‘hard’ data), the Servcies dats could not be more mixed: S&P Global US Services…

What Exactly Are Biden’s Achievements In His First Three-And-A-Half Years? Authored by Jack Hellner via AmericanThinker.com, In the wake of the catastrophic debate last week, Bill Clinton, most of the media, and…

WTI Spikes After Biggest Crude Draw In A Year Oil prices briefly spiked after last night’s API-reported big crude draw, but that reverted back lower fast. Overnight has seen a small roller-coaster…

Hurricane Beryl has been churning her way through the Caribbean for the past few days.  She is now a dangerous CAT-4/CAT-5 storm nearing the island of Jamaica. Beryl is a very dangerous…

Moscow has accused the organization of double standards and Russophobia Russian lawmakers on Wednesday voted to suspend Moscow’s participation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe…

The two countries have been deepening economic cooperation following Western sanctions on Moscow Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Ankara and Moscow would continue strengthening economic ties with the…

“To The Left, To The Right” By Rabobank Yesterday the Dutch national team sealed a 3-0 victory against Romania which resulted in festivities amongst enthusiastic fans. Earlier, Dutch football supporters went viral…

Politico earlier reported that the Republican frontrunner wants NATO to ditch its expansion plans Russian President Vladimir Putin and Republican frontrunner in the US presidential race Donald Trump have not held any…

25 years before the Serbian president’s statement, Washington was bombing Belgrade Serbia and the US have fought together at “crucial historic moments,” and Belgrade wants to continue to improve relations with Washington,…

Member states have reportedly rejected Jens Stoltenberg’s proposal to spend €40 billion a year on aid for Kiev NATO member states have rejected a proposal by Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to spend…

CDK Global Says “Substantially All” Dealerships Back Online After Ransomware Attack  The cyber incident that affected about 15,000 auto dealerships across North America is over. CDK Global said “substantially all” dealers in its network…

Eight people were reportedly wounded while repairing a substation used by the Zaporozhye NPP A Ukrainian attack on a substation used by the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant has injured eight employees of…

Novo, Lilly Fall After Biden & Sanders Slam Big Pharma For ‘Unconscionably High’ Anti-Obesity Drug Prices In what seems to be a last-ditch effort by the Biden administration to regain voter support as…

US Interior Department Greenlights Major Offshore Wind Project In New Jersey Authored by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times The Department of Interior announced its approval of a large-scale offshore wind turbine…

Congressman Wesley Hunt tells a story about President Trump and a key meeting he had about Afghanistan. This is good. WATCH: In a tense meeting with Taliban leaders, Trump declared, “I want…

Sierra Leone’s government has passed a law introducing a 15-year minimum prison sentence for offenders Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio has signed legislation banning child marriage in the West African country,…

James Clyburn left Wisconsin last weekend after attending ballot counting workshops in three cities, more on that next.  However, his latest move is perhaps the most important in the short term. Clyburn…

The president of the Republic of the Congo paid a state visit to Moscow Denis Sassou Nguesso, the President of the Republic of the Congo and one of Africa’s political heavyweights, has…

Ethereum ETFs In ‘Window-Dressing’ Stage, Approval Within Weeks; Galaxy Authored by Felix Ng via CoinTelegraph.com, Galaxy Digital’s head of asset management believes spot Ether exchange-traded funds will be approved in “weeks” rather…

Some 45% of respondents are not satisfied with the current cabinet’s performance   Almost half of Finns are unhappy with the government led by 53-year-old Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, a recent survey…

The close-call was filmed by a camera mounted on the turret of a T-72 A video released by the Russian Defense Ministry shows the dramatic moment when a presumed Ukrainian kamikaze drone…

The Ukrainian leader said he had a “negative experience” with truce talks in the past, according to the Hungarian PM Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky was not receptive to Budapest’s proposal to establish a…

Futures Trade At Record High Ahead Of Data Flood US futures traded at new record highs amid rising optimism a Fed rate cut is coming, perhaps as soon as the end of the…