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Don’t Rule Out The Return Of US Troops To Bagram Airbase Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The convergence of interests between the US, Pakistan, and the Taliban means that a compromise…

The European Commission has proposed using the frozen funds to guarantee loans to Kiev Any EU move to use frozen Russian state assets to support Ukraine must comply with international law, European…

US President’s Quantico speech signals the most radical military shift in a century Kick out “men in dresses.” Fire “fat generals.” Shave off the beards. Scrap the stealth ships – “ugly” as…

The European Commission president is facing two no-confidence votes amid mounting challenges to her leadership European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has claimed that she is being targeted by a Russian-backed…

Leaders in Poland and the Baltic states are fuming after the ex-German chancellor suggested they derailed 2021 negotiations with Russia Senior officials in Poland and the Baltic states have blasted former German…

The UAV hit a cooling tower at the Novovoronezh NPP after being diverted by electronic warfare means, Rosenergoatom has said A Ukrainian drone has targeted a nuclear power station in Russia’s Voronezh…

The officer and the soldiers have been charged over the alleged fraud scheme A Ukrainian military officer has been charged with abuse of power after allegedly diverting two of his subordinates from…

The country’s president has replaced the government, as protests over blackouts and water shortages enter the third week Madagascar’s president, Andry Rajoelina, has appointed Army General Ruphin Fortunat Zafisambo as prime minister,…

Sébastien Le Cornu was prime minister for 27 days and had a cabinet for all of 14 hours Another day, another French prime minister comes out to wave the white flag. “The…

“For God’s Sake, Stop The Rhetoric!”: Border Czar Tom Homan Pleads With Anti-ICE Dems Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Border Czar Tom Homan said Thursday that ICE will not be…

The report follows a series of American attacks on boats claimed to have been carrying narcotics off the Venezuelan coast The administration of US President Donald Trump has produced a top-secret legal…

Minister Dion George has said that the collapse of scavenger species could have ‘devastating’ consequences South Africa’s government has sounded the alarm over a sharp decline in vulture populations, saying continued losses…

Signs of an imminent vote include criminal cases against Ukrainian generals and pressure on anti-corruption agencies, the outlet has said Kiev is conducting a “stealthy albeit rough” campaign to prepare for a…

Skepticism has grown following Vice President Kamala Harris’ election loss Americans remain wary of electing a female president, a new nationwide survey on voter attitudes toward women in politics has suggested. Confidence…

Goaded By Tariffs, European Pharmaceutical Industry Pivots To The US Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times, The U.S. tariff policy and its unmatched pharmaceutical market are pulling European drugmakers to…

An internal audit has uncovered possible waste and graft in Kiev’s Defense Ministry, the newspaper has reported A Ukrainian government agency established to root out corruption in military procurement amid the conflict…

Politicians with no public support are focused on destabilizing the country, Irakli Kobakhidze claims Georgia’s foreign-backed radical opposition has repeatedly failed to win elections and has instead turned to attempts to overthrow…

China’s Soybean Boycott – Key Questions Before Trump-Xi Meeting At the end of last week, new details emerged via a Wall Street Journal report outlining the Trump administration’s potential farm bailout, estimated to…

People in Washington DC are starting to realize the full scale of the Obama surveillance system. All of the evidence and datapoints, those released and those yet to surface, flow in one…

Germany’s “Debt Boom”: Merz’s €500 Billion Gamble Is Keynesian Madness On Steroids Submitted by Thomas Kolbe  In Berlin’s government circles, anticipation is rising: the massive debt program is ready for launch. Soon,…

Republican senators react to finding out the Biden administration FBI was conducting political surveillance using operational Arctic Frost as the predicate. Senator Haggerty puts the “Arctic Frost” program into context by noting…

Hungary has no obligation to support Ukraine’s EU membership bid, the prime minister has said Ukraine is using its conflict with Russia as “moral blackmail” in an attempt to force its way…

Demand in the South Asian nation is projected to rise to 9.1 million barrels per day within 25 years, BP’s chief economist has said India is expected to become the world’s largest…

Spanish Cops Uncover Fraud Network Of Fake Residencies & Sham Marriages Used By Illegals Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, The Spanish National Police has announced the arrest of 12 people…

A group including Vietnamese, Filipino, and Cambodian nationals has arrived in Eswatini Ten more migrants expelled from the US landed in Eswatini on Monday under Washington’s controversial deportation program, the government of…

AppLovin Craters 15% After Bloomberg Reports SEC Investigating Company Over Its Data Collection Practices Shares of controversial short seller target AppLovin were leveled in late trading Monday, falling more than 15% one…

The move could pave the way for an attempt to force President Nicolas Maduro out of power, the report says US President Donald Trump has ordered his diplomats to stop making overtures…

The DPRK’s leader wished Vladimir Putin a happy birthday, praising his persistence in defending national interests North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has hailed his country’s exceptionally close ties with Russia, calling their…

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…

Back To Square One? Hamas, Israelis Meet In Egypt To Hash Out Trump Peace Plan After President Trump issued weekend threats telling Hamas to move quickly on implementing his 20-point Gaza peace…

Sen. Kennedy Just Exposed More Absurd Things Democrats Shut Down The Government For Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com, The Schumer Shutdown dragged through the weekend, with neither side budging. Republicans pushed…

South Carolina Judge’s Beachfront Home Burns Down, Hospitalizing Three People A fire destroyed the Edisto Beach home of South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Diana Goodstein and her husband, former state Sen. Arnold…

Ukrainian Intelligence Says China Helping Russia Target Western-Funded Facilities In Ukraine Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Agency official Oleh Alexandrov has told the state news agency Ukrinform that China has been directly assisting Russia with…

The Parents of Charlie Kirk’s Prodigal Assassin Authored by David DesRosiers, President, RealClearFoundation, Charlie Kirk’s murderer came from somewhere. We all do. Since the “In the beginning …” times, our species has…

Most Of The World’s Largest Trash Heaps Are In The US Most of the world’s largest trash heaps are in the United States. As Statista’s Anna Fleck details below, according to crowdsourced data verified…

How To Mayweather Counterpunch The Democrats Authored by Steve Cortes via RealClearPolitics, The Democrats have shut down the government because they’re putting illegal immigrants ahead of American citizens. Do not listen to…

Is Silver About To Tumble Like in 1980 & 2011 Submitted by Jesse Colombo of The Bubble Bubble Report With silver rallying strongly and rising more than 50% since the start of…

New Syrian Parliament ‘Overwhelmingly Sunni, Male’ Following Controlled Vote Via The Cradle Syrian religious minorities and women will be underrepresented in Syria’s new parliament following an election that was tightly controlled by…

Clarifying Putin’s Comments About Poland’s Pre-World War II Policy Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Putin commented on Poland’s pre-World War II policy during the Q&A session that followed his speech at…

Milken And Friends Build A $500 Million Monument To Their Version Of The American Dream Authored by Eric Salzman via Racket News, I almost fell off my chair a couple of weeks…

The Influence Of Influencers Most people trust the opinion of their social circle when making purchasing decisions. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz details below, data from Statista Consumer Insights shows, many also trust the friendly…

US Takes 10% Stake In Alaska Miner Trilogy Metals Trump’s Industrial Policy juggernaut continues. Moments after the close when we saw some abnormal moves in the stock of yet another North American small…

Mapping Extreme Poverty Across All American States In 2024, 6% of the U.S. population lived in extreme poverty, equal to 20.4 million people. While there are different definitions of extreme poverty, this…

The Progressive Flight From Reality Authored by J. Peder Zane via RealClearPolitics, Progressivism isn’t just an ideology; it’s also becoming a mental health condition. Spiraling past the tendentious spin and lies that…

The US President has made comments amid activist’s attempt to reach Gaza aboard an aid flotilla and deportation afterwards US President Donald Trump has mocked activist Greta Thunberg over attempt to reach…

This is exactly as expected.  Larry Ellison now controls TikTok while his son David Ellison now controls Paramount/Skydance which is CBS.  To solidify the objective of TikTok, new algorithms will be implemented,…

The Hungarian prime minister has said he does not want to abandon the national currency in favor of that used by the “disintegrating” bloc Hungary will not adopt the euro as its…

$17,000 per Month: How Sky-High Prescription Prices Take Toll On Patients Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), “If I were 10 percent less mean or 10 percent less…

This is a much bigger scandal than the media can wrap their arms around, and it is a little frustrating. As we have repeatedly outlined, FBI spying operations in 2015/2016 shifted into…

The US President has refused to reveal what the decision is, adding he would have to ask “where are they sending them” The US President Donald Trump has said he had already…

Unaccountable: The FBI’s Strange Refusal To Fix Key Crime Stat Authored by John R. Lott Jr. via RealClearInvestigations, Three years ago, RealClearInvestigations reported that the FBI was undercounting the number of armed civilians who…

Berlin should act to ensure the “security of Europe,” Economy Minister Katherina Reiche has claimed Germany should dedicate all its resources to becoming Europe’s leading drone power, Economy Minister Katherina Reiche has…

Bezos Sees Data Centers in Space – Predicts AI ‘Bubble’ To Pay Off Like Dot-Coms In a jaw-dropping vision of the future, Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos predicted Friday that…

No single power rules the world anymore – and that may be a good thing With the deterrent of guaranteed mutual destruction between Russia and the United States still intact, global politics…

Standoff Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation, Welcome to the first Monday in October. Know what that means? It means, by federal statute (28 U.S.C. § 2), that the Supreme…

Trump Threatens To Bomb Iran Again, Says He’s ‘Not Going To Wait So Long’ Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, President Trump on Sunday said that he would bomb Iran again if…

“We Are Not Messing Around”: More Than 8,600 People Arrested In FBI Campaign Targeting Violent Crimes Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)…

Details Leak On OpenAI’s Secretive Wearable Device, Plagued By Major Issues A Financial Times investigation reveals that OpenAI’s ambitious wearable AI project, created in partnership with renowned designer Jony Ive, whose work…

Publicly vowing to maintain criminality where possible, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Monday signed an executive order limiting where federal law enforcement can assemble, prohibiting any/all crime fighting efforts from using city-owned…

“Civil War Rematch”!? Chicago Mayor Establishes “ICE-Free Zones” After Abandoning Border Agents Under Attack Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order Monday blocking federal immigration agents from using city-owned property for immigration…

The convicted pedophile’s girlfriend argued that she was shielded from prosecution by an earlier plea deal The US Supreme Court has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to overturn her conviction for helping Jeffrey…

Israeli Official Who Fled US After Pedo Sting Indicted; Trump DHS Appointee Is His Lawyer A senior official in Israel’s cybersecurity agency who was arrested in a child sex sting in August has…

The deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza has prompted calls for Israel’s exclusion from the song contest Germany could withdraw from Eurovision 2026 if Israel is excluded, Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated on Monday….

Israel Rejects As ‘Brazen Lies’ Reports That Greta Thunberg Abused In Detention Via The Libertarian Institute  National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir touted Israel’s mistreatment of activists who were members of a flotilla…

A Third Of Countries Plagued by “Abnormally High” Food Prices – Brings Risks Of Social Unrest The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) highlights in a new report that high food prices…

The Great Barrington Declaration At Five Years Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Commentary It was 8:45 a.m. and the date was Aug. 23, 2020. We were…

Technology must be an “extension of a person’s will, never a replacement,” the president of the Chilean Robotics Association has told RT The future of technology depends not on the field itself…

Chapter 7 Individual Bankruptcy Filings Jump 15 Percent In First 9 Months Of 2025 Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A total of 249,152 individual Chapter 7 bankruptcy…

First Tricolor Subprime Meltdown, Now UBS Warns: Consumer Weakness Spreading From Low-Income To Middle-Class Restaurant spending has historically been among the first discretionary categories to decline when consumers experience economic hardship. The picture now…

Hollywood Actors Bring Back Soviet Era “Committee For The First Amendment” A group of 550 Hollywood celebrities led by Jane Fonda (Hanoi Jane) have announced – after a decade canceling conservatives within…

The Swedish activist and hundreds of others were arrested last week as their aid flotilla approached Gaza The Israeli authorities have confirmed deporting activist Greta Thunberg. She and hundreds of others were…

On day #6 of the government shutdown, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a press conference.  The anticipated start time is 1:00pm EDT with livestream links below. . . Posted in…

“Freedom” Shirts Reportedly Banned In Kansas Elementary Public School Authored by Jonathan Turley, An elementary school in Kansas has raised a novel question under the First Amendment: whether the freedom of speech…

Wall Street Slaughtered On Its Consensus Yen Long As Traders Position for Much More Losses Versus Dollar After this weekend’s victory of Japan’s first soon-to-be-female Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi – which came…

British streets have been turned into “theaters of intimidation” by anti-Israel demonstrators, Kemi Badenoch has claimed The leader of the British Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has lashed out at activists protesting against…

Supreme Court Rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s Appeal For Sex Trafficking Minors The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal to overturn her 2022 conviction for sex trafficking minors with Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell,…

Illinois Sues Trump Admin to Halt National Guard Deployment; FBI Arrests Border Patrol Ramming Suspects By Matthew Vadum of Epoch Times The state of Illinois filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration…

Latvia and Lithuania are reportedly considering remote participation in the Climate Change Conference in Brazil due to high hotel prices Latvia and Lithuania may skip this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference…

Jens Stoltenberg said the bloc was on the verge of dissolving during the American president’s first term US President Donald Trump threatened to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which would…

Investigators have found no signs of a struggle or traces of medication or narcotics in the room of the late ambassador to France The family of the late South African Ambassador to…

The Cold, Hard Airport-Floor Truth By Michael Every of Rabobank There is some irony that this Global Daily author, who has written about geopolitical events such as drone incursions into Europe regularly,…

Pete Hegseth has said he may order take-out at random to foil speculation that delivery spikes occur during military operations US War Secretary Pete Hegseth has said he may start having large…

WaPo Admits Internal DC Police Scandal Over Manipulated Crime Stats Five weeks ago, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller announced that there was an ongoing DOJ investigation into whether Washington D.C. officials manipulated crime…

At Valdai, Moscow laid out not a challenge to the West, but a blueprint for a world of equals – where balance replaces control Every year, Vladimir Putin’s address at the Valdai…

Futures Jump On Latest Burst Of AI Euphoria Amid Global Political Turmoil Stock futures are higher again as traders stay positive on the upcoming US earnings season, ignore the government shutdown (though federal unions…

Top Supreme Court Cases To Watch As Justices Reconvene Authored by Sam Dorman and Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times, The Supreme Court is set to return on Oct. 6 for its…

Warsaw annulled the visas of Russian experts right before an OSCE conference in the Polish capital Poland decision to prevent Moscow’s delegation from attending a conference by the Organization for Security and…

All seven attackers from the militant group Al-Shabaab are dead after a six-hour standoff in Mogadishu Somali government forces have successfully repelled a six-hour siege by Al-Shabaab militants at the high-security Godka…

CDC Says 98 People Sickened In Norovirus Outbreak On Royal Caribbean Ship Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An outbreak of norovirus sickened 98 people on a Royal…

French Prime Minister Abruptly Resigns After Just Three Weeks As Local Politics Enters “Very Dangerous Territory” French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu abruptly resigned on Monday morning, just three weeks after his appointment, preempting what…

AMD Soars After Striking Multi-Billion Chip Deal With Nvidia The epic “circle jerk” continues (read how this works at the end of the note )… Shares of Advanced Micro Devices surged in…

Samsung’s Smart Fridge Turns Your Kitchen Into An Ad Billboard Samsung Family Hub refrigerators are being transformed into a digital ad billboard right in your own kitchen with a new software update, according to a…

Serbia is facing a fuel crisis as a new last-minute waiver on Russian ownership of the NIS company is unlikely, Aleksandar Vucic has said Serbia is unlikely to receive another US waiver…

Britain has neither defeated nor isolated the country and is planning a new provocation, Moscow’s intelligence service has said Britain is “furious” over its failure to achieve Russia’s “strategic defeat” and is…

Senior Vice President John Ternus is reportedly seen as a potential chief as the tech giant prepares for “a broad changing of the guard” Apple is set to undergo a “broad changing…

Cairo has linked recent flooding in Sudan to “illegal” GERD operations Egypt has accused Ethiopia of “reckless management” of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Nile River, alleging that its…

Many Western European politicians tend to blame Russia for everything without any grounds or justification, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Western European officials should “broaden their horizons” when it comes to drone…

The Uncertain Future Of UK Oil And Gas Authored by Felicity Bradstock via OilPrice.com, Labour is raising taxes and environmental standards on North Sea oil and gas while refusing to issue new…