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MI6 has said it has drawn inspiration from a CIA campaign previously ridiculed by Moscow The UK Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6, has launched a portal on the dark web…

Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was chairman of the International Peace Institute (IPI) which received over $650,000, between 2011 and 2019, in donations from Jeffery Epstein who ran a global paedophile…

The US president has announced his intent to renew an American military presence in the country China and the Taliban have slammed US President Donald Trump’s recent statements about retaking control of…

Great Leaders Don’t Ignore Red Flags Authored by Glennys Hyland via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Great leaders are quick to recognize signs and warnings that indicate a potential toxic dynamic. They…

Federal Communications Commission head Brendan Carr’s threats against the network are “dangerous as hell,” Ted Cruz has said Prominent Republican Senator Ted Cruz has broken ranks with his colleagues and slammed “mafioso”…

Fear, Dread And How America Got To This Point Authored by J. Peder Zane via RealClearWire, A week before Charlie Kirk’s murder, some friends and I were trying to identify the seminal…

Top Biden Aide Releases Kraken On Autopen, Hunter’s Role In Pardongate, And Joe’s Malfunctioning Brain One of former President Joe Biden’s top aides – Jeff Zients, told the House Oversight Committee on…

Founder Of NYC Pro-Democracy Group Pleads Guilty To Spying For China Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Chinese man living in New York City has pleaded guilty…

Touted as an alternative to Eurovision, the event unites dozens of participants from Latin America, Africa, and Asia Singers from 23 nations have gathered in Moscow for the Intervision international music festival….

No countries will be safe as long as Russia is led by Vladimir Putin, Viktor Yushchenko has claimed Ukraine should keep fighting Russia until it takes Moscow, former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko…

Defense Minister Dovile Sakaliene has called for shooting down Russian jets Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovile Sakaliene should return to her professional field of legal psychology due to her phobia of Russia, Russian…

Putin Might Attend 2026 FIFA World Cup On US Soil, Kremlin Says After this summer’s unprecedented Alaska summit between Presidents Trump and Putin, the Kremlin is signaling that the Russian leader could…

Kirk’s Funeral Tests Secret Service Yet Again Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, Amid a fiery national debate over political violence and free speech, the Secret Service faces one of its biggest…

Data Centers And The Power Grid: A Path To Debt Relief? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Could data centers and the power grid be America’s next “renaissance?” With the U.S. national debt exceeding…

The move comes amid broader Latvian government policies targeting the Russian-speaking minority Latvia is planning to increase the value-added tax (VAT) for books, textbooks, press, and other publications printed in Russian, among…

The Yermak outlasted czars, commissars, and world wars. Its final enemy wasn’t ice – it was bureaucracy Few ships in history lived as long and saw as much as the icebreaker Yermak….

Kiev’s UAVs targeted fuel and energy facilities in Samara Region, Vyacheslav Fedorischev has said Four people were killed and one more injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on Samara Region in south-western…

Members of the bloc should target Russian military aircraft as Türkiye did in 2015, Lithuanian MOD chief Dovile Sakaliene has said NATO should shoot down Russian warplanes, Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovile Sakaliene…

Moscow has long said that it’s ready to work towards a diplomatic solution, provided its security concerns are addressed Vladimir Zelensky has rejected the idea of ending the Ukraine conflict with 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…

Mapping Housing (Un)Affordability Across North America Many cities are seeing a widening gap between wages and home prices, making them “impossibly unaffordable.” Not only that, U.S. home prices are more unaffordable than…

Shop Owner In Germany Goes Full 1930s With Sign Banning Jews From Entering Authored by Liz Heflin via Remix News, A shop owner in the city of Flensburg, Germany, near the Danish…

Kiev’s heavy-handed mobilization tactics have driven a large-scale exodus of potential conscripts Authorities in Poland have detained two Ukrainian train drivers and the two passengers they had tried to smuggle into the…

Indians Need To Work For 967 Hours To Buy An iPhone 17, Americans Just 21 Hours The price people will be paying for the new iPhone 17 model varies widely as Apple’s pricing as…

Strikes And Protests Threaten France’s New Prime Minister Already Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Macron has had 3 prime ministers this year. How long with this one last? Background The crisis…

Patriot air defense systems and some other weapons are in short supply, unnamed officials have told the outlet The US has ‘quietly’ paused sales of certain weapons to its European allies, The…

Inducted in 1964, the legendary fighter jet served in wars, airstrikes, and historic dogfights – cementing its place in India’s military legacy The Indian Air Force (IAF) is finally set to retire…

Germany’s Moment Of Fiscal Failure – Record €503BN Budget Passed Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The Bundestag on Thursday passed the 2025 budget with the votes of the CDU, CSU, and SPD. The…

Kneecap has vowed court action over the politician’s statements following a ban on the group entering Canada Irish rap trio Kneecap is planning legal action against a Canadian MP after Ottawa banned…

Israel’s actions in Gaza are “criminally insane,” the Pink Floyd co-founder has told RT The US, UK and other Western nations that continue to supply weapons to West Jerusalem are equally responsible…

The meeting in Washington was held ahead of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly South African Trade, Industry, and Competition Minister Parks Tau has described his visit to Washington…

How The West Screwed Itself In Energy Geopolitics Authored by Tilak Doshi via Substack, The recent Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin, China, offered vivid optics of a shifting global order. Images of Indian…

President Donald Trump said that the Bagram air base should not have been abandoned to the Taliban US President Donald Trump has said he wants to regain control of the former Bagram…

“Planning War Against Fascists” – Socialist Rifle Association Boasts 10,000 Members Before the political assassination of Charlie Kirk, Marxist-aligned groups operating across America to subvert the nation and collapse capitalism were already on our…

Trump Nixed $400 Million Aid Package For Taiwan, In Hopes Of China Trade Agreement Authored by Kyle Anzalone via AntiWar.com, President Donald Trump refused to approve a proposed arms package to Taiwan….

These Are The Worst Places For Air Quality In Every US State Voronoiapp.com collaborated with HouseFresh to identify the cities and towns in America with the worst air quality. To do this,…

The US president has reportedly refused to sign off on a defense package worth more than $400 million US President Donald Trump has refused to approve a weapons package for Taiwan, the…

America’s Turning Point Authored by Leslie Corbly via American Greatness, Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk’s assassination forces Americans to confront the dark side of progressive values. This confrontation is fundamentally reshaping society by…

Watch: Cybertruck Robot Arm Demonstrates Next-Gen Drone Launch Skydio CEO Adam Bry spoke Thursday at the drone company’s “Ascend 2025” event at Seascape Beach Resort in Aptos, California, unveiling a new launch system…

Taliban Rejects US Efforts To Return Pentagon Counterterror Troops To Bagram Air Base President Trump wants Afghanistan’s Bagram “back” – as he said while in the United Kingdom alongside British Prime Minister Keir…

27 State AGs Urge SCOTUS To Safeguard Citizens’ Access To Large Capacity Firearm Magazines Via American Greatness, A coalition of 27 state Attorneys General have filed a multi-state brief urging the U.S….

‘Human Composting’ Now Legal In New Jersey Authored by Jon Fleetwood via substack, In New Jersey, even the dead are being drafted into the climate agenda. Governor Phil Murphy (D) signed a bill into law on…

From Vision To Reality: McDonald’s, Regenerative Agriculture, & A Cultural Shift Authored by Ryland Engelhart via The Epoch Times, Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of…

Watch: Rare “Naked” ‘Doomsday Plane’ Spotted Flying Over Texas A U.S. Air Force E-4B Nightwatch, ominously dubbed the “Doomsday Plane,” was spotted soaring over Fort Worth, Texas, on a mysterious mission that…

The hostilities are being entirely “funded” by NATO, the American president said President Donald Trump has said that the US is profiting from the Ukraine conflict, contrasting his approach with the unconditional…

Alleged Kirk Assassin’s Gamer-Pseudonym Was Reportedly ‘Donald Trump’ Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson used the pseudonym “Donald Trump” while playing on the gaming platform Steam, according to a Thursday report from…

“At This Point, Nothing Will Save The Democratic Party From Itself…” Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “You have no idea the fire you have ignited.” – Erika Kirk He was about as…

Baltimore’s Decay Accelerates As Kevin Plank’s Billion-Dollar Microcity Turns Into “Ghost Town” Under Armour founder Kevin Plank and his brother Scott Plank sold their ownership interest in a luxury hotel tucked into…

“Free DC!”: Screamfest During House Hearing As Tlaib Accuses Trump Admin Of ‘Fascist Takeover’ Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) described the Trump administration’s crackdown on crime…

Pakistan Extends Nuclear Umbrella Over Saudi Arabia In Defense Pact Earlier this week Islamic countries Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a mutual defense pact, greatly deepening and formalizing decades-long security partnership amid heightened…

Inside The CIA Unit Nobody Dares Talk About In an eye-opening interview, former CIA officer turned whistleblower John Kiriakou pulled back the curtain on the agency’s most elite fighting units, revealing how…

ABC’s ‘The View’ In Spotlight After Jimmy Kimmel Suspended, Says FCC Chairman Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr said in an interview that…

A dark tradition of left-wing extremism is resurfacing – with deadly consequences for right-wing leaders and activists On September 10, 2025, the shocking murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley…

The US president will try to bring both sides together to negotiate a settlement to the conflict, US ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker has said US President Donald Trump will not force…

Moscow denies its fighter jets crossed the NATO state’s border The Russian Defense Ministry has denied that its fighter jets entered Estonian airspace on Friday. DETAILS TO FOLLOW

Several Russian Jets Breach Airspace Of NATO-Member Estonia NATO member Estonia (since 2004) has fiercely condemned what it says is a “brazen” incident where Russian warplanes violated its airspace over the Gulf…

Trump To Slap H1-B Visas With $100,000 Fee; Infosys, Cognizant Plunge Bad news for alien worker visa farms such as Infosys and Cognizant. President Trump is expected to sign an order as soon…

ETF Just Happened By Bas van Geffen, Senior Macro Strategist At Raboank In a surprise decision, the Bank of Japan announced it would start to gradually sell its ETF holdings. The central…

President Trump is expected to hold an oval office press event today where he will sign executive orders related to immigration and visa entries.  The anticipated start time is 4:30pm ET with…

The US president has been quite “emotional” about the status of Ukraine talks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said The “emotional” attitude of US President Donald Trump to the Ukraine peace process…

Only vetted individual Russian and Belarusian athletes under a neutral flag will be allowed to participate, the committee has said Russian and Belarusian teams will remain barred from the 2026 Winter Games…

Israel’s ground offensive is pushing Hamas to the wall, but also isolating the country abroad and tearing its society apart Israel has moved into a new phase of the war. Just as…

Traditionally, it’s called “the people’s house” because the House of Representatives is supposed to represent and reflect the people to whom the congressional members represent. Republicans in the House threatened to withhold…

A House resolution [HR.719 – HERE] was offered today recognizing the tragic murder of Charlie Kirk and honoring his legacy. Forty-two members of the Congressional Black Caucus voted against the resolution [Roll…

The Russian Foreign Ministry has asked why the Washington Post never alleged Biden exploited George Floyd’s death for political gain Moscow has dismissed claims by the Washington Post that it has exploited…

US Vetoes UN Resolution Urging Immediate Cease-Fire, Hostage Release In Gaza Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times, The United States on Sept. 18 vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution calling…

The southern state of Kerala has issued a health alert as cases and deaths from a rare infection more than double from last year The southern Indian state of Kerala is battling…

Stopgap Passes House, But Senate Dems Block Path Senate Democrats blocked the Republican stopgap measure to keep the government funded until late November, after the House narrowly passed the measure earlier in the day….

Brussels has unveiled its 19th package of restrictions, which must be approved unanimously by all 27 member states The European Commission is preparing to release more than half a billion euros in…

Trump Admin Restores Tougher Citizenship Test Scrapped By Biden Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration is reviving a tougher version of the civics test that all prospective…

CDC Advisers Recommend Against MMRV Combo Vaccine For Young Kids, Table Vote On Hep B Shot Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should…

Goldman Raises Tesla Delivery Estimates, Notes Improving Brand Sentiment Wall Street analysts are chasing Tesla stock as it trades above $400 a share, following news that Elon Musk purchased $1 billion worth…

Somali-born Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar had previously called Republicans “full of sh*t” for lionizing the late Charlie Kirk US President Donald Trump has slammed Democratic lawmaker Ilhan Omar as “scum” after she…

The UAVs could have been disabled and were falling “all over the place,” the US president has said The drones that violated Poland’s airspace could have been “disabled” and lost control, US…

Teaching The Three Rs: Clinton & Weingarten Return To Republicans, Rage, & Recrimination As Schools Continue To Decline Authored by Jonathan Turley, Many people are calling out former Secretary of State Hillary…

Trump Hails ‘Very Good’ Call With Xi: ‘I Appreciate The TikTok Approval’ Chinese President Xi Jinping has remarked on his ‘positive and pragmatic’ call with President Trump on Friday mid-morning (US local), saying also…

If nothing is done, we all deserve to live in a world where genocide is the norm Those with eyes to see and ears to hear – including this author, as it…

The production of certain weapons systems has increased nearly 30-fold, according to the president Russia’s military industry has enjoyed remarkable growth over the past two years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said….

Eight countries in the bloc continue to receive piped gas and LNG, according to the European Commission Eight EU countries continue to import Russian gas, media cited European Commission energy spokesperson Anna-Kaisa…

Is This The Last Bubble? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The consensus holds there will be another bubble after the Everything Bubble pops, but this might be misplaced confidence…

House Republicans Introduce Bill To Change Federal Reserve’s Dual Mandate Authored by Andrew Moran and Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times, Reforms may be on the horizon for the Federal Reserve System,…

BOJ Shocks Market With Start Of ETF Selling As It Keeps Rates Unchanged With nobody expecting a rate hike by the BOJ today (although many were looking for hints of an October…

The Real Story Behind Jimmy Kimmel’s Firing After Wednesday’s decision by Disney / ABC to fire late-night host Jimmy Kimmel for lying about the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the left (the architects…

Nuclear Stocks Surge With Trump’s Uranium Enrichment Plan Due Today For those wondering why uranium stocks and the entire nuclear complex is exploding higher today, this may have something to do with…

Member states continue to buy energy resources from Russia despite EU sanctions, Bild has reported EU member states imported €8.7 billion ($10.2 billion) worth of Russian goods in the first three months…

The Gaza offensive shows how far West Jerusalem will go without restraint “Israel relies on its ability to use force against all opponents at once.” This could serve as a motto for…

The US president has claimed that the television networks only give him “bad publicity” US President Donald Trump has floated the idea of “maybe” revoking the broadcast licenses of American television networks…

One of the world’s richest men and a friend of President Trump is extending his influence over Hollywood and big media, the outlet has claimed Billionaire Larry Ellison, 81, is set to…

Elected Officials Arrested At Manhattan Immigration Facility Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times, Federal agents arrested at least a dozen New York State elected officials inside a federal facility in…

Intel Reminds Me Of Apple In 1997 Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Maybe this is just because I watched Pirates of Silicon Valley too many times as a kid. This was before Apple was “cool” and…

Tesla Eases Full Self-Driving Rules, Slashes ‘FSD Jail’ Time In Half Tesla is making its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) system a lot more forgiving. Repeat offenders who receive five “strikes” and…

“Lost Control” – Surprise UK Budget Deficit Blowout Batters Sterling & Gilts The fiscal farce in the UK went from bad to worse this morning as government borrowing came in significantly higher than…

Futures Flat Ahead Of Massive $5.3 Trillion Option Expiration US stocks are set for a quiet finish to a busy week in which the Fed’s first step in what will be a…

Senate Passes ‘National Day Of Remembrance For Charlie Kirk’ Resolution Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Senate passed a resolution on Sept. 18 expressing support for Oct. 14,…

Michigan lawmakers have proposed a bill that would outlaw online pornography and restrict circumvention tools Republican lawmakers in the US state of Michigan have introduced a bill that would ban online pornography…

The move followed the arrest of a French embassy staffer in Mali France has ordered two Malian diplomats to leave the country and suspended its counterterrorism cooperation with Bamako, following the arrest…

The bloc’s 19th package targets third-country buyers of Russian oil, according to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has proposed a fresh package of…

Poland’s refusal to cooperate with an investigation proves it is not interested in the truth, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said Accusations of Russian drone violations of Polish airspace have…