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Brussels is set to announce plans to build massive computing hubs while critics stress there is almost no domestic artificial intelligence industry to use them The EU’s plan to spend over €20…

Austria has claimed antennas on the roofs of Russian Embassy buildings may have been used for spying Austria’s decision to expel three Russian diplomats will be met with a harsh response from…

Market Correction Risk: Why Summer 2026 Looks Risky Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The S&P 500 hit a fresh record high last week. The median stock in the index is sitting 13%…

Core US Factory Orders Surged In March To Best YoY Growth Since Nov 2022 Headline Factory Orders rose 1.5% MoM in March (dramatically better than the 0.6% MoM expected) – the best…

The chancellor insists that the indefinite delay of the stationing had nothing to do with his row with the US president Chancellor Friedrich Merz has confirmed that the US will not station…

Can The GOP Oust Thune To Get The SAVE America Act Passed? In 2024, voters handed the Republican Party a trifecta in Washington – the White House, the House, the Senate –…

Congress Sets MKUltra Hearing As CIA Mind-Control Experiments Face Renewed Scrutiny Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The CIA’s MKUltra program, one of the most disturbing chapters in American intelligence history, refuses to fade…

FedEx, UPS Slide After Amazon Opens Freight Network To All Businesses Shares of transportation and logistics giants FedEx and UPS dropped in premarket trading after Amazon debuted Amazon Supply Chain Services, opening…

Jewish Green Party leader condemns Times cartoon after Israel claims he is ‘legitimizing’ violence against British Jews The Times of London has come under fire for circulating “anti-Semitic” imagery after publishing a…

From “Don’t Be Evil” To Drone King: Eric Schmidt’s Interceptors Deployed With U.S. Troops Google’s old motto, “Don’t be evil,” was retired for very good reasons eight years ago. On Friday, Google…

Real Estate Browser Extension In France Provides Immigration Data Overlay Via ReMix, A French website and real estate browser extension for Chrome is promoting an unusual data offering, which includes information on…

“Just Another Dip Investors Will Buy”: Futures Drop, Oil Rises On Renewed Iran Tension US futures whipsawed and crude oil spiked higher as tensions flared up again in the Middle East, taking…

Ukrainian Drone Hits Moscow Luxury Tower, Miles From Kremlin A Ukrainian one-way attack drone struck a high-rise apartment building in Moscow in the early hours of Monday, causing no reported casualties and…

Norwegian Cruise Cuts Outlook On Gulf Disruptions, Fuel Shock Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings shares fell in premarket trading in New York after the cruise ship operator lowered its full-year 2026 outlook, as…

Tens Of Millions Of Taxpayers May Be Owed IRS Refunds From Pandemic Era: Watchdog Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The IRS’s internal watchdog has stated that tens…

Pentagon Hails Two US Merchant Ships Safely Exiting Strait, As Iran Vows Attack On US Navy Entering Hormuz Summary CENTCOM hails two US merchant ships exiting Hormuz Strait safely in “first step”….

Trump Disapproval Rate Hits Career-High – War And Rising Costs Take Toll Though tempered by the prospect of additional GOP gerrymandering of House districts in the wake of a pivotal Supreme Court…

South Africa seeks to achieve FMD-free status by working with a country that has successfully eliminated the disease, Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen has said South Africa has signed an agreement with Brazil…

Moscow has repeatedly warned the West that weapons destined for Kiev will end up on the black market Poland is bracing for a surge of illegal weapons from Ukraine after the end…

A senior aide to US President Donald Trump has hailed worsening economic conditions in the Islamic Republic A top White House official has said Iran is on the brink of an “extreme…

Russian Orthodox Exarchate has provided clean water and shelter to villagers after a militant raid in Benue State Following a deadly attack on a Christian community in Nigeria earlier this year, two…

The move comes just days after the Gulf nation broke with OPEC and OPEC+, citing the need to gain more flexibility over oil output The United Arab Emirates has officially withdrawn from…

Marjan Yeshayayi has described the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike that damaged a Tehran synagogue Iranian rescue workers dug through debris by hand to recover religious artifacts from a Tehran synagogue damaged…

Shocking footage shows a giant vehicle that apparently lost control, reportedly killing three people and injuring 38 At least three people have died and another 38 have been injured in Colombia after…

Of the six affected individuals, three have died and one is currently in intensive care in South Africa, the WHO has said A suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard an Atlantic Ocean cruise ship…

Kiev is on hook for a range of killer apps while big tech hoovers up the data and casts a shadow over the country’s future When Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky offered his…

Bratislava earlier opted out of the €90 billion joint debt loan package for Ukraine approved by the bloc last month Slovakia won’t participate in any EU loans for Ukraine, including the €90…

Europe Will Lose Billions In Revenue If US Military Bases Shut Down Europe is in far greater economic trouble that most people realize.  In an April 2026 report by the Institute of Economic…

The death toll has reached 18 while rescue teams respond to widespread damage At least 18 people have died due to flooding and landslides following heavy rains in Kenya, while extreme weather…

Tehran previously warned Washington to stay out of the Strait of Hormuz A US Navy patrol boat has been hit by two Iranian missiles not far from the Strait of Hormuz after…

Kiev conducted rocket and drone strikes on an agricultural facility in Bryansk Region, Aleksandr Bogomaz has said Seven workers from an agricultural facility in Bryansk Region, Russia were wounded after Ukrainian forces…

All-Time High 55% Of Americans Say That Their Financial Situations Are Getting Worse Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse, Americans were not even this stressed about their financial situations during…

Iran Outraged After Assassination Of Top Shia Cleric In Damascus Via The Cradle Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei on Sunday strongly condemned the assassination of a Syrian Shia religious cleric, describing it as…

The US president says Tehran’s proposed path to de-escalation is not acceptable US President Donald Trump has rejected an Iranian counterproposal to a peace plan previously conveyed via Pakistani intermediaries. The back-and-forth…

Chinese Hackers Spied On Cuban Embassy As Trump Ramped Up Blockade Threats In a story which hearkens back to bygone Cold War years, fresh reports say that Chinese hackers breached and spied…

Search and rescue operations are underway for the two personnel after they disappeared near Tan-Tan in Morocco, officials have said Two US Army service members participating in the annual African Lion multinational…

Russia’s Oil Revenues Surge As The World Scrambles For Supply Authored by Felicity Bradstock via oilprice.com, Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, several major world powers introduced strict sanctions on…

Some vessels have reportedly paid for safe passage through the chokepoint The US has threatened to sanction shipping companies that pay Iran tolls to transit the Strait of Hormuz. The strategic waterway…

NATO and the EU are dismantling centuries of ties with Moscow and turning regional bodies into tools of anti-Russia policy, ambassador-at-large Artyom Bulatov has said The West is erecting a new Cold…

Iraqi Father Arrested In Sweden For Beating, Imprisoning Daughter In Italy Over Forced Marriage Plot Authored by Thomas Brooke via ReMix, An Iraqi father accused of beating, imprisoning, and threatening to kill…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appears on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo to discuss current geopolitical events and the ramifications for the U.S. economy.  It is a rather lengthy interview and discussion that…

Vehicle and commercial buildings were targeted by kamikaze drones in Belgorod Region Two civilians were killed and four injured in Ukrainian drone strikes in Russia’s Belgorod Region on Sunday, its governor, Vyacheslav…

Blue Cities Across The US Are Spiraling Into Financial Collapse Many people are familiar with the “blue state exodus” over the past several years, but are they aware of the blue city…

In “Watershed Moment” China Orders Companies To Defy US Sanctions China ordered companies in the country not to comply with US sanctions on five domestic refiners linked to the Iranian oil trade,…

A bulk carrier was attacked by small craft and a tanker hit by projectiles hours apart, UKMTO says Two cargo ships were attacked near the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, according to…

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…

The Permanent Distortion Theory Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance “This time it’s different” is supposed to be the dumbest phrase in investing. It’s the phrase people use right before they get obliterated….

Animal Farm Film A Hollywood Perversion Of Orwell’s Anti-Communist Classic George Orwell’s prognostications about the future of authoritarianism have proven consistently accurate.  They have only been limited by his inability to foresee…

Tesla Made $573 Million Selling To Musk’s Other Companies Last Year Elon Musk’s business empire is becoming increasingly intertwined — and if SpaceX eventually goes public, Wall Street will likely take a…

Initiative dubbed Project Freedom aims to rescue neutral vessels stranded since the start of the war with Iran The US will guide third-party ships through the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump…

Six days ago, in Marsberg, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz criticized the U.S. approach to Iran, saying Washington was being “humiliated by the Iranian leadership” and demanding the conflict end “as quickly as possible.”…

At least 175 people, mostly students, were killed in an attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school on February 28 Iranian media have released previously unseen footage showing the immediate aftermath…

China Tries To Assert Dominance Over Canada After Carney Trade Deal Historically speaking, crawling to communists for help has never been a good idea; there’s always a catch.  By extension, making trade…

In order to deal with a UniParty congress that is always seeking to disrupt his policies and frame processes against his office, President Trump recently notified the House and Senate the hostilities…

Jane Street Paid Employees $9.4 Billion, Twice What It Paid Last Year, After Record 2025 Results Jane Street Group has evolved from a niche trading shop into one of Wall Street’s most…

The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman accuses the State Department of pressuring diplomats’ children The US State Department has quietly revived Biden-era tactics of imposing American birthright citizenship on the children of Russian…

Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner Hospitalized In Critical Condition Narges Mohammadi, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and prominent Iranian human rights activist, remains in critical condition in a hospital in…

Democrats Melt Down After Supreme Court Restricts Race Based Gerrymandering The response from Democrats to the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down race-based gerrymandering has been predictable – running high in emotion…

The UAV struck a 52-story building not far from the Russian capital’s business district A Ukrainian drone has struck a residential skyscraper not far from Moscow’s business district, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said….

Rudy Giuliani Hospitalized In Critical Condition Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been hospitalized and is in critical condition, according to The New York Times, citing his spokesman, Ted Goodman….

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appears on NBC News to discuss the legal framework for the Iran conflict and push back against the media’s defense of James Comey. [Transcript] – KRISTEN WELKER:…

CNN ‘Expert’ Says Iranian Suicide Dolphins Going After US Ships Americans have been subject to a variety of creative wartime propaganda claims by their government stretching back many decades. From the ‘incubator…

Washington is violating both its own laws and international norms, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman says The US State Department is flouting both US federal law and diplomatic immunity in forcing American…

Congrats, Elizabeth Warren, On The Death Of Spirit Airlines Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Elizabeth Warren has built an entire political career on presenting herself as the righteous defender of ordinary Americans…

Bessent On Iran: “We Are Suffocating The Regime” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo to discuss how the Trump administration is “suffocating” Iran with economic…

Israel has encouraged the US president to attack the Islamic Republic during both of his terms, John Bolton has said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has encouraged President Donald Trump to carry…

Jim Hoft and Joe Hoft are twin brothers.  Jim Hoft is the founder of Gateway Pundit and preparing for heart surgery in Florida on Tuesday. Then, last night, Joe Hoft suffered a…

White House National Economic Council Director, Kevin Hassett, appears on CBS news to dispatch the narrative engineering of Margaret Brennan. I completely understand why the White House appears to have finally had…

Contempt Of Court: Hakeem Jeffries Denounces the Supreme Court As “Illegitimate” Authored by Jonathan Turley, The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais took 36 pages to explain why Section 2 of the Voting…

Large Cargo Ship Near Hormuz Reports Being Attacked, In First Escalation Since April 22 A large cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz has reported being attacked by multiple small craft, the…

‘Bluesky Goes Full Panic’ After Fired Trump Official’s Anti-ICE Website Doxxes Almost 18,000 Leftists Nearly 18,000 left-wing activists on BlueSky are in panic mode this weekend after an anti-ICE activist website launched…

The US president has vowed to reduce the American military footprint on the continent after feuding with European leaders over the Iran war The Pentagon has ordered the withdrawal of approximately 5,000…

Big Tech Is Funding Space Solar And Fusion While Running On Gas Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com, Meta signed a deal with startup Overview Energy to develop up to 1 gigawatt…

GameStop CEO Prepares Takeover Bid For eBay Three months ago, billionaire Ryan Cohen, the CEO of GameStop, told The Wall Street Journal he was eyeing a major acquisition. Fast forward to late…

Creatives reportedly fear that the US-led military bloc is moving to influence TV and film industry professionals NATO is holding closed-door consultations with TV and film industry professionals across Europe and the…

Will Black Voters Rescue The GOP In 2026? The Republican Party is bracing for a brutal midterm election this year. Polls show Democrats ahead in the generic congressional ballot, and prediction markets…

Visualizing Europe’s Birth-Rate Collapse Europe’s population is no longer replacing itself. Across the continent, fertility rates have fallen below the 2.1 births per woman needed to maintain stable population levels, with no country meeting…

The low-cost US carrier announced it was shutting down immediately following a failed Washington bailout bid and a surge in oil prices Spirit Airlines, a US-based low-cost carrier, has succumbed to the…

Trump Must Choose ‘Impossible’ War Or ‘Bad Deal’ With Iran: IRGC Message To US Iran is telling Washington that the ball is in its court as President Trump has affirmed over the…

The participants of the procession through the US capital carried photos of relatives who fought Nazi Germany in WWII Several hundred people have taken part in an ‘Immortal Regiment’ march in Washington,…

The Left’s Reaction To Arrest Of The Latest UK Stabbing Is As Predictable As It Is Disgraceful Authored by Paul Birch via DailySceptic.org, These people have never been in a life-or-death situation…

A UAV has hit a radiation control laboratory at Russia’s Zaporozhye facility, its press service has said The Ukrainian military has targeted an external radiation control laboratory at Russia’s Zaporozhye Nuclear Power…

UK Schools Pushing Books On Kids Telling Them “There’s Plenty Of Room” For Small Boat Migrants Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, British kids as young as five are now being read…

Trump says Tehran has not yet ‘paid a big enough price’ as he reviews the 14-point plan Iran is seeking a decisive and permanent end to the conflict with the US, rather…

The private security contractor in question, MVM, is being sued over the separation of two young Guatemalans from their fathers in 2017 US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has signed a contract…

Ukraine Flexes With Much Deeper Drone Reach Targeting Russia’s Refineries  Ukraine has been demonstrating deeper targeting reach inside Russia, as several key oil sites have come under direct drone attack this week,…

Ben Gvir has championed legislation which would introduce the death penalty against Palestinians in military courts Israel’s ultranationalist National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir celebrated his 50th birthday this weekend, treating guests…

60% Of Voters Believe France Is Witnessing ‘A Replacement Of The Population By Non-Europeans’ Via Remix News, A new poll from the presitigous ifop polling firm shows that a large majority of…

Seven major exporters of crude reportedly agreed to add 188,000 barrels a day in June Seven OPEC+ countries have agreed to raise oil output targets by about 188,000 barrels per day (bpd)…

Social media is to blame for making anti-Semitism “more and more mainstreamed,” Mark Rowley has said The Jewish community in the UK is facing its greatest threat, Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Mark Rowley…

The halt is due to a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the country’s only export route, with crude accounting for roughly 50% of GDP Kuwait exported zero barrels of crude oil…

The rebuke came after Lai Ching-te made a secret visit to Eswatini, the only African state which still recognizes the island as sovereign China has compared Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te to a…

Alliance Fracture Is Now Global Authored by Gregory Copley via The Epoch Times, Western focus was, in 2026, on whether U.S. President Donald Trump would fulfill his threat to withdraw the United…

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…

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 US has previously warned banks against dealing with firms allegedly involved in Iran’s oil trade China’s Ministry of Commerce has instructed domestic companies not to comply with US sanctions targeting refiners…

DOJ Releases Report Alleging Anti-Christian Bias Under Biden Authored by Savannah Halsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice (DOJ) on April 30 released a 500-page report detailing alleged anti-Christian…

Alaska Governor Vetoes Election Reform Bill Due To ‘Significant Operational Burdens’ Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a major election reform bill on…