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Surprising Surge: Trucking Spot Market Rates Climb Overnight By Craig Fuller, CEO of FreightWaves There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear There’s a man with a gun over there…

The Russian president has detailed the chain of events that caused a deadly 2024 incident involving an Azerbaijan Airlines flight An incursion of Ukrainian drones was the root cause of a deadly…

Analysts have expressed skepticism over the US president’s chances of winning the award, the newspaper has reported US President Donald Trump is pressuring the Norwegian government and the Nobel Committee in an…

Bank Of England Warns AI Valuations “Stretched” As Potential Data Center “Bottlenecks” Could Spark “Sharp Corrections”  By now, readers have grasped, through several notes, how the AI bubble is inflating, primarily driven by the…

Ferrari Shares Crash Most On Record After 2030 Outlook Disappoints Shares of Ferrari NV crashed 16% in Milan trading, marking the biggest intraday decline since 2016, after the exotic carmaker delivered a…

The Ukrainian leader claims attacking Belgorod and Kursk is a “fair” response to strikes on Kiev Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has threatened Russia’s Belgorod and Kursk regions with blackouts if large-scale power outages…

I’m at a loss for words.  There is a very destabilizing aspect to everything that is happening throughout the world as viewed through the domestic prism.  Things are visibly becoming quite different…

Macron Will Name New Prime Minister, Averting Snap Election & Further Political Turmoil  What a wild week it’s been for French politics. Let’s dive right into the latest development: overnight news that…

UK’s Green Party Demands Abolition Of Private Landlords Authored by Jonathan Turley, On Sunday, the Green Party in the United Kingdom voted to “abolish” private landlords in a move that reaffirms the party…

15 Years Of Instagram It’s been 15 years since the launch of Instagram, one of the world’s biggest social media platforms. The social networking giant has come a long way since October 6,…

In a remarkable moment of transparent diplomacy, President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were simultaneously working on a Gaza peace agreement while conducting a domestic security roundtable event at…

Member states are considering easing the air engagement rules and deploying drones on the country’s borders, the paper’s sources claim NATO is considering easing restrictions on pilots to allow them to fire…

Keir Starmer is banking on deals signed with the South Asian nation in Mumbai to create jobs back home Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said that a set of major deals signed…

Reporters from both organizations are teaching how to influence news coverage of the Jewish state A CNN commentator and New York Times reporters are mentoring in a journalism fellowship launched to help…

Kiev is providing instructors and drones to support “terrorist operations” in Niger and Sudan, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has said New evidence has emerged of Ukrainian support for militant groups operating…

Over 90% Of Icelanders Are Trade Union Members; Less Than 10% In The US The World Day of Decent Work was observed on October 7. It is an annual event where trade…

Stabbed German Mayor Knew Her Attacker, Remained Silent; Adopted Kids In Custody Via Remix News, The newly elected Social Democrat (SPD) mayor of the German city of Herdecke, Iris Stalzer, was stabbed…

HarperCollins UK has recalled a title repeating a claim that the US president’s wife has said is defamatory Publishing house HarperCollins UK has apologized to Melania Trump and withdrawn a book that…

Dmitry Medvedev has held meetings with top officials in Pyongyang and paid homage to former North Korean leaders and fallen Soviet soldiers Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has visited North Korea this…

Bases could be transformed into humanitarian hubs to facilitate the delivery of goods to African nations The mission of the Russian forces in Syria needs to be revised, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov…

Bern has tightened asylum seeker rules in response to demands from parliament Switzerland has announced it will now only extend asylum status to Ukrainian migrants from regions in close proximity to the…

The IDF would reportedly withdraw from most of Gaza, with prisoner exchanges expected within several days According to a ceasefire plan announced by US President Donald Trump, Israeli forces would withdraw from…

Donald Tusk has recently justified the Nord Stream sabotage, arguing the project should never have been built Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Wednesday accused Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk of “defending…

Public debt levels could outgrow the world economy within five years, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva has said Global public debt will exceed the size of the world economy within five years, IMF…

Ukraine Pulls Training Centers Much Deeper From Frontlines As Airstrikes Intensify In another sign that the war is intensifying, and as Trump-backed peace talks have essentially collapsed, Ukraine is moving its military…

Traders have reportedly requested that state-owned companies in India pay for crude in the Chinese currency State-owned Indian Oil Corp, the country’s largest refiner, has made payments in yuan for a few…

Madrid Hospitals Overwhelmed By Illegals As Spaniards Endure Longer Healthcare Waits Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Spain’s public healthcare system is treating a growing number of undocumented migrants and displaced…

Moscow and Abuja have signed a deal to advance crop breeding and seed production Russia and Nigeria have signed an agreement to cooperate on seed production and crop breeding, the two sides…

A regional conscription center has urged citizens not to film or criticize the use of force by enlistment officers Ukraine’s conscription authorities have called on citizens to refrain from documenting cases of…

Indian Traders Begin Switching To Chinese Yuan For Russian Oil Purchases: Report Via The Cradle India’s state oil firm has begun making payments for Russian energy in Chinese currency, the yuan, according…

Creditors Of Bankrupt First Brands Say Billions “Simply Vanished” Amid Debt Rehypothecation Nightmare Hot on the heels of the spectacular implosion of subprime auto lender Tricolor (whose name is a not too…

Over 10,000 personnel will have to be sent home across nine missions globally, according to Reuters and AP The United Nations will have to cut roughly a quarter of its peacekeeping personnel…

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…

Inflection Point: US Government Shutdown And Strange Economic Signals Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, The US economy has been experiencing what I would call a form of “stasis” for the last…

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 country’s refiners are reportedly being offered significant discounts from Moscow India is likely to increase its oil purchases from Russia in the coming months, with refiners in the South Asian nation…

US Stock Ownership Is High But Unequally Distributed The stock market is the most popular option for long-term investment among U.S. adults, according to a new survey by the financial data company Bankrate. A…

Struggling Central Valley Residents Line Up For Groceries Amid California’s Cost-of-Living Crisis Authored by Beige Luciano-Adams via The Epoch Times, FRESNO, Calif.—Vicente, a man in his early 70s, arrives at the Fresno…

Chinese-Mexican Syndicate’s Supply Chain Exposed, Vancouver Emerges As Global Meth Hub Submitted by The Bureau’s Sam Cooper,  The case of Fatima Qurban-Ali, a 30-year-old Canadian sentenced recently in New Zealand for attempting…

“I Don’t Want This On Camera”: Leading Candidate For California Governor Throws Tantrum Over Simple Question The leading candidate to replace Gavin Newsom in California’s upcoming gubernatorial election threw a complete tantrum during…

Victor Hanson Exposes Reactionary, Neo-Confederate Portland Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, In blue cities across America – Portland, Oregon, especially – often violent protesters now seek to surround ICE facilities to stop…

Parliamentary leaders struck down the vote at its earliest stage French Parliamentary leaders have rejected a bid to impeach President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, as a spiraling political crisis in the country…

Goldman’s Conversation With Top Execs Reveals What’s Ahead For Single-Family Rentals The Single-Family Rental (SFR) space has become the de facto middle-class housing market across America. With elevated 30-year mortgage rates and…

Gut Changes Persist Years After Stopping Certain Medications Authored by Rachel Ann T. Melegrito via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The body clears medicines within hours to weeks. However, a recent study…

Andrej Babis has reiterated his campaign promise that Prague will stop financing military supplies to Kiev The Czech Republic will not use state funds to provide arms to Ukraine, Andrej Babis has…

Zelda Williams has called computer-generated recreations of her deceased father “disgusting” Filmmaker Zelda Williams has condemned the continued circulation of AI-generated videos of her father, the late actor and comedian Robin Williams,…

The US president has said that both West Jerusalem and the militant group have agreed on the first steps of his Gaza peace plan DETAILS TO FOLLOW

Only 48% Of US Adults Under The Age Of 30 Have A Full-Time Job Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, I am so glad that I am not a…

78% Of Americans Favor Deportation Of Criminal Illegal Immigrants; New Poll Finds Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Nearly 80 percent of Americans favor the deportation of immigrants who are in…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already starting to take people’s jobs in many industries and in the media one of the key questions is whether AI will take journalist’s jobs. So, I decided…

Washington Burns Through $34BN Backing Israel In Post-Oct.7 Wars: Brown University A new study has tried to assess the total amount the United States has spent on military aid to Israel since…

Pam Bondi got into a heated argument with Senator Adam Schiff during her Senate testimony US Attorney General Pam Bondi has demanded that Democratic Senator Adam Schiff apologize for attempting to impeach…

Consumer Sentiment Cracking Amid Gov’t Shutdown; 17% Of Americans Delay Major Purchases, Survey The government shutdown has entered its eighth day, with Republicans and Democrats still at an impasse over a resolution….

The proposal is the “best” option currently on the table, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said The plan for peace in Gaza proposed by US President Donald Trump is currently the “best”…

The Debasement ‘Trade’: “Blue Horseshoe Loves Gold & Bitcoin” Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, “Blue Horseshoe Loves Gold and Bitcoin” Suddenly the likes of Goldman and  JP Morgan are talking about…

Recession And Bonds: Navigating The Next Slowdown Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, It’s odd to consider, but a recession could flip our bullish outlook on bonds to bearish. It’s unusual because…

James Comey faces two felony charges over his 2020 Senate testimony about the probe that triggered the Trump-Russia collusion hoax Former FBI Director James Comey has pleaded not guilty to the charges…

Florida Man Charged In Deadly Pacific Palisades Inferno A former Los Angeles resident turned Florida man has been arrested and charged with starting one of the most devastating wildfires in city history…

White House Will Use Tariffs To Fund Low-Income Food Aid Program During Shutdown How’s your shutdown going so far?  Illustration via Politico So far, no mass firings. The sky is intact. Cats…

DHS Highlights Slew Of September Immigration Arrests In Portland Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested several “worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens”…

Yields Jump After Ugly 10Y Auction Tails, Foreign Demand Tumbles After yesterday’s ugly 3Y auction, moments ago the Treasury sold $39 billion in 10Y paper (technically a 9 Year, 10 Month reopening…

FOMC Minutes Signal Dovish Policy Tilt, But ‘Majority’ Fear Inflation Upside Risks Since the last FOMC meeting (when The fed cut rates by 25bps with one dissent for 50bps on Sept 17th),…

Today at 3:00pm ET, President Trump will hold a roundtable on Antifa as a domestic terror group operating inside the United States.  Livestream Links Below: . . Posted in 1st Amendment, Antifa,…

The leaks published by Candace Owens suggest that Kirk fell out with a Jewish donor just days before his assassination Leaked text messages in which late conservative activist Charlie Kirk admits to…

WTI Holds Gains After US Crude Production Hits Record High Oil prices are higher this morning as investors brushed off oversupply fears, having digested a decision earlier by OPEC+ to restrain production…

Momentum From Trump-Putin Talks In Alaska Has Run Out: Kremlin The Kremlin has expressed its view Wednesday that the positive momentum created in the wake of the August 15 meeting in Alaska…

Could AI’s Growing Thirst For Water Usher In Localized Resource Wars  In the era of artificial intelligence, water availability is poised to become a top concern for developers, just as low-cost, reliable electricity…

50’s Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used To Be By Michael Every of Rabobank The RBNZ cut the OCR 50bps to 2.50% vs. 25bps expectations but in-line with our forecast. Notably, the RBNZ…

‘Progress’ Reported In Gaza Talks, As Trump Denies Telling Israeli PM To Not Be ‘F*cking Negative’ Axios last week reported that President Trump recently told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop being so “f*cking…

Waste Of The Day: Illinois Corrections Employees Exploit Vacation-Overtime Loophole Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: Overtime pay is meant for employees working more than eight hours per day, but the…

The powers of currently serving officials have been extended until after martial law is lifted Ukrainian lawmakers have voted to delay all local elections and extend the powers of regional councils and…

The South African president has announced a new ten-point list aimed at boosting economic growth and creating jobs Partners in South Africa’s Government of National Unity (GNU) have rejected President Cyril Ramaphosa’s…

The technology is being developed not for public benefit, but to increase corporate profits, Senator Benie Sanders has claimed Artificial intelligence and automation technologies pose a threat to nearly 100 million jobs…

New Delhi plans to tap a pool of more than 650 companies under the Innovation for Defense Excellence initiative India is keen to have a defense “unicorn” from its startup pool, a…

Foreign interests must not shape Poland’s future, Slawomir Mentzen has warned Poland must prevent Ukrainian migrants from gaining political sway in the country, MP Slawomir Mentzen has warned, after Ukrainian media discussed…

The Portuguese star’s wealth rose sharply after he signed a new $400 million deal in Saudi Arabia, the agency has said Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo has become the first footballer to join…

Homeland Security: Arrests At Southern Border Hit 55-Year Low Authored by T.J.Muscaro via The Epoch Times, The 2025 fiscal year had the lowest number of arrests of illegal immigrants made on the…

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

Javier Milei has led Argentine to ruin by utterly subjugating it to the US Argentina is on the brink of bankruptcy. Because that’s the name for where you are when you desperately…

The German luxury carmaker has been hit by US import duties and growing competition in China Elon Musk’s Tesla overtook Mercedes-Benz in global sales in the third quarter of 2025, according to…

The motion to suggest the US president for the award failed to gather enough support among lawmakers, according to reports The Ukrainian parliament has failed to pass a motion to nominate US…

Burkina Faso’s government has detained the leaders of an NGO over claims of illicit intelligence gathering Burkina Faso’s government has arrested eight workers for a Netherlands-based NGO on charges of spying. The…

BMW Shares Post Sharpest Drop In Year After Profit Warning; Citi Flags China Troubles As Potentially “Irreversible” BMW shares in Germany plunged the most in a year after the company issued a…

Futures Rise As Global Debasement Trade Sends Gold Over $4000 Futures are higher again, reversing Tuesday’s modest Oracle-led decline, and are led by small caps despite additional multi billion tech investment headlines….

People fear wearing Jewish symbols and are forced to order pizza under fake names, the anti-Semitism commissioner has said The living conditions of the Jewish population in Germany have sharply deteriorated over…

Prime Minister Bart De Wever has insisted any liability for the proposed Ukraine “reparations loan” be shared among bloc members Patience among EU members is “running thin” over Belgium’s refusal to approve…

Vienna is seeking a sanctions waiver to unfreeze Oleg Deripaska-linked shares to compensate Raiffeisen Bank for losses in Russia Austria’s bid to unfreeze €2 billion ($2.1 billion) in assets linked to sanctioned…

The accounting giant has agreed to partially refund Australia’s Labor Department for “hallucinations” in its product The Australian arm of UK ‘big four’ accounting firm Deloitte has agreed to partially refund the…

From the moment your daughter is taught to read and write – you, her family, her teachers, peers and all of society tell her she must keep a diary of everything she…

Greece Still Has The Highest Debt-To-GDP In Europe; Bulgaria The Lowest As European countries pour billions into defense spending, their debt piles are expanding—raising questions of national fiscal stability. In France, a…

Chip Equipment Makers Slide After U.S. House Panel’s Explosive Report Reveals Allied Firms Bolstered China’s Chip Industry ASML Holding NV shares tumbled in Europe after a months-long bipartisan investigation by the U.S….

Surveillance Money: The European Central Bank Accelerates The Digital Euro Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Many market participants have built long positions on euro-denominated assets, expecting a positive outcome from the German stimulus plan…

The impulse to resolve the Ukraine conflict has been extinguished by European supporters of prolonged war, the deputy foreign minister said The momentum generated during the Alaska summit between Russian President Vladimir…

Lai Ching-te is “propagating separatist fallacies” while selling out to foreign powers, officials have said Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te is selling himself out to foreign powers to advance separatism in the self-ruled…

The Defense Ministry in Moscow has also reported downing over 50 drones throughout the night across multiple regions Six civilians have been killed in overnight Ukrainian attacks on the Russian regions of…

US Bitcoin Reserve Funding “Can Start Anytime” – Senator Lummis Authored by Brian Quarmby via CoinTelegraph.com, Crypto-friendly US Senator Cynthia Lummis has confirmed that acquiring funds for the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve…

Two of Georgia Meloni’s ministers and the CEO of a major weapons manufacturer have also been reported to the court, the prime minister herself has revealed  Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni revealed…

“We have unleashed a monster,” Danish PM Mette Frederiksen has said, as she proposed new restrictions for those under 15 The Danish government intends to ban minors under the age of 15…

Appearing on Fox News with Sean Hannity (but of course) FBI Director Kash Patel states he has begun to focus his efforts on clearing out the DC-based FBI officials and agents who…