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January Jobs Preview: Market Wants A Miss As It Raises Rate Cut Odds With the QRA, Fed and all megatech earnings now in the rearview mirror, the busiest week of the quarter…

GM Shifting From EVs To Plug-In Hybrids, Following Industry Trends Don’t tell the Biden administration, but it’s almost as if the free market is capable of arriving at the most efficient solutions…

I have continually said, “The DNC wants power. The RNC wants money. The DNC uses money to get power. The RNC uses power to get money. The ideology of the DNC drives their donor activity. The donor activity of the RNC drives their ideology. This is the difference between the two clubs, two wings of the same…

Putin Envisages Building A New Veteran-Led Russian Elite Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The Russian leader knows the “new guard” of veterans haven’t been tainted by a life’s worth of Western-leaning…

The popular farmer and trucker protests in the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Romania, France and now Belgium are continuing. Sensing the problematic nature of the uprising, watching the protests escalate to direct confrontation…

Aozora Delivers Grim Reminder Of Japan Carry-Trade Risk By Masaki Kondo, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist Aozora Bank’s shock loss projection serves as a reminder of just how little room the…

It’s Biden Vs Texas (And Texas Is Right) Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, In what can only be a surprising move, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has openly defied the White…

Kiev severely lacks airpower and yet reportedly refused to accept two squadrons of Australia’s retired F/A-18 Hornets A senior Ukrainian Air Force official had brushed off Australian fighter-bombers as rubbish Canberra wanted…

What Is Nikki Haley Doing? Authored by Sean Trende via RealClear Wire, Before we start evaluating what Nikki Haley’s plans are for the Republican primaries, let’s get one thing out of the…

‘IRGC Is Getting Out Of Dodge’: Biden Has Telegraphed Syria-Iraq Response Too Much US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in a Thursday press briefing claimed that “Our soldiers were killed by Iranian agents,”…

Trump Says He’s Interviewing Lawyers For E. Jean Carroll Appeal Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former President Donald Trump said he is interviewing attorneys to appeal a…

US lawmakers pressed the tech mogul to answer for damage inflicted on youths through his platforms Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg offered an apology to victims and relatives of people harmed by his…

Today’s Censorship Is Personal Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, The United States has the distinction the world over for being a home to the First Amendment, which guarantees free…

Double Standard: Pro-Life Activists Could Get 11 Years In Prison For Protesting Abortion Clinic One of the surest signs that a society is falling into authoritarianism is the development of double standards…

A Soft Landing Is A Fairytale Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times, The last time the phrase “soft landing” was this popular on the internet was on the eve of…

Joshua Schulte has been accused of the largest theft of classified data in the spy agency’s history A former CIA software engineer who embarrassed his employer by allegedy giving a massive trove of…

The only reason this story gained traction was because CCTV video was involved.  With tens of millions of violent illegal aliens throughout the country, just imagine how much crime is occurring without…

Apple Slides On Plunging China Sales, Service Revenue Miss, Disappointing Guidance After Amazon and Facebook reported blowout earnings, sending their stocks up double digits after hours and soothing the bitter taste left…

Ukraine Celebrates EU Approval Of $54BN Aid Package After Hungary’s Orban Caved “We have a deal,” European Council President Charles Michel announced on X Thursday, declaring that all 27 European Union countries have…

The two countries have pledged to collaborate in confronting threats posed by the Pentagon’s “biological activities” The Russian and Chinese governments have held an inter-agency meeting in Beijing to share their assessments…

California Legislature Introduces Slavery Reparations Bills Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, On Wednesday, lawmakers in the state of California introduced a series of bills aimed at providing reparations for historical…

Trump Prosecutor Avoids Tainting Fani, Gives Booty To Estranged Wife In Last-Minute Divorce Settlement Trump special prosecutor Nathan Wade will avoid testifying about his alleged relationship with Fulton County District Attorney Fani…

New Ad Agency Fights Back Against The Woke Advertising Cabal Authored by Lee Taylor of Uncommon Sense via the Daily Sceptic (emphasis ours), Are we in the final stages of mainstream media…

Amazon Soars After Beating Estimates, AWS Profit Impresses, Guides Higher With The Magnificent 7 stocks getting clubbed in recent days after disappointing earnings from TSLA and GOOGL and meh results from MSFT,…

How To Ensure A Big, Ugly War With Iran; VDH Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Iranian-backed militias have attacked American installations and forces in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan some…

Aidan Maese-Czeropski, an aide to Democrat Senator Ben Cardin, filmed himself having anal sex in the Hart Senate Office Building hearing room.  The video was shared on a platform where gay men…

‘Blood On Your Hands’: Mark Zuckerberg Obliterated As Tech CEOs Grilled Over Child Sexual Exploitation Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other social media executives were grilled over the issue of child sexual…

The US commander-in-chief has issued an executive order aiming to crack down on violence in the West Bank US President Joe Biden – facing anger from pro-Palestinian voters over his support for…

A ‘Well-Funded Cabal’ Influenced The 2020 Election—What Lies Ahead In 2024? Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Shutterstock) News Analysis While…

American forces are already gearing up to respond to the attack, according to multiple media reports Washington believes that Iran manufactured the drone which was used to kill three American soldiers in…

Health and education workers will no longer have to take regular shots against the virus The Russian Health Ministry has significantly relaxed its requirements for compulsory vaccination against Covid-19, declaring most people…

Stocks Soar Amid Hopes Regional Bank Crisis Will Lead To Early Rate Cut, More Fed Easing Another rollercoaster day for stocks. Following on the biggest drop for the S&P since September thanks…

Elon Musk Says Shareholders Will Vote On Reincorporating Tesla In Texas Elon Musk is picking up and moving to Texas…again. Having already moved Tesla’s manufacturing to the Lone Star state and in…

Biden’s Clueless Energy Policies May Cost Him Reelection Authored by Louis Navellier via The Epoch Times, The recent Arctic blast was great for natural gas demand, but last Friday it shocked me…

Qatari negotiators are awaiting a final response from Hamas officials, who have seemingly welcomed the plan Israel has agreed to a ceasefire proposal that would halt its war with Hamas, Al Jazeera…

Institutions Sold Stocks At Record Pace As S&P Hit All Time High After a near record stretch of euphoria, in which the S&P rose in 12 of the past 13 weeks during…

The Best And Worst Performing Assets Of January 2024 Despite the S&P hitting multiple all-time highs toward the end of the month, January was a mixed month as far as markets were…

An investigation of the ex-staffer who shared a video of himself performing lewd acts in a Senate hearing room has been closed US Capitol Police have declined to make any arrests after…

Both potential replacements for Valery Zaluzhny have declined to take his place, the German paper has claimed Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has been unable to fire the nation’s top general, Valery Zaluzhny,…

Rep Massie Hints At Impeachment If Biden Starts A War With Iran Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on Wednesday appeared to threaten to pursue the impeachment of…

Mass Media Die-Off Continues As Ambitious ‘Non-Partisan’ Start-Up Suddenly Goes Dark A news website launched just 8 months ago with $50 million and tall ambitions to rival the likes of the Los…

Premature Reports Of ‘Positive’ Breakthrough On Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal Update(1335ET): Oil has reversed, and is now surging, with Bloomberg providing the following limited details of what appears to be positive momentum, but…

Princeton ‘State Of The University’-Letter Claims Critics Use Anti-Semitism Concerns “As A Stalking Horse For Other Agendas” Authored by Daniel Idfresne via Campus Reform, Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber said certain critics…

Jimmy Kimmel Suggests Joe Biden Having Dementia Is A “Crazy Conspiracy Theory” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, During a monologue about the Taylor Swift psyop, late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel…

The bombing campaign may last for several weeks, American officials have said The US will carry out a series of strikes on “Iranian personnel and facilities” in Iraq and Syria in response…

Regional Bank Stocks Are Crashing Again… Yesterday it was NYCB that grabbed the headlines and spoiled Powell’s day. As we detailed here (and here), the banking crisis never went away and it…

COVID Inquiry Finds Lockdowns Were Terrible, While Reporters Call Bull**it On Government’s Lead Academic Advisor Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The Disinformation Chronicle, While America has chosen to ignore most COVID…

US To Launch Multi-Day Strikes Against ‘Iranian Targets’ Across Syria, Iraq The Biden administration is planning to launch a days-long or even potentially weeks-long bombing campaign on Iranian assets across the Middle…

Russians must start having more children so that their cities don’t become like Marseille, said the head of the city of Nevinnomyssk Men must till the soil and women must give birth,…

The incumbent president has opened up a lead over challenger Donald Trump in the 2024 US election race Female voters have propelled US President Joe Biden into the lead over Republican candidate…

The Most Litigious Place On Earth: Disney Loses Major Challenge To Florida Authored by Jonathan Turley, Last year, I criticized the lawsuit of Disney against Florida after losing its special status in the former…

Dmitry Rybolovlev had sued the auction house Sotheby’s for allegedly helping an art dealer defraud him A New York jury has ruled against Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev in a high-profile court case…

Beware The Subsides Of March By Michael Every of Rabobank Central bankers are no soothsayers: and what Fed Chair Powell said didn’t soothe. He didn’t cut rates, as the pink, dayglo-frosted end…

New Delhi is experimenting with radioisotopes to charge its robotic missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond Indians are ecstatic over their space program’s string of successes in recent months. The Indian…

New Delhi shipped engineering goods worth over $1 billion to Moscow last year, according to an Indian trade council  India’s exports of engineering goods to Russia more than doubled to over $1…

Manufacturing Surveys Show Rebound In January, But Prices Are Soaring Against a backdrop of strengthening ‘hard’ data, manufacturing surveys signaled a strong rebound in January. S&P Global’s Manufacturing PMI spiked from 47.9…

The remains of over 200 people thought to have been victims of ethnic cleansing in 1994 have been unearthed in recent days The remains of dozens of victims of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide…

The countries do not want to “stumble upon themselves” as a result of an international investigation, Dmitry Peskov has said The US and its allies have shown little interest in launching an…

New Delhi has announced an interim budget for the next fiscal year ahead of a general election in May The Indian government on Thursday presented the country’s interim budget for the 2024-25…

$78 Billion Tax Package Passed By House Now Faces Roadblocks In The Senate On Wednesday, the House passed a $78 billion bipartisan tax package which revives various business tax breaks relat4ed to…

Bank-Stress Is Wake-Up Call For Goldilocks Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Banking sector problems are a prescient reminder that elevated rates are cumulatively inflicting mounting damage across the economy. Ironically,…

“Natural Evolution”: Volvo Shares Soar On Plans To Stop Funding Cash-Burning Polestar Shares of electric-vehicle companies have been battered since the mid-point of 2022. The price war Tesla started about one year ago has…

Initial & Continuing Jobless Claims Surge As Layoffs Accelerate The number of Americans filing for jobless claims for the first time in the last week was 224k (12k above expectations and 9k…

Hans-Georg Maassen has denied accusations of right-wing extremism, suggesting he is being persecuted for political reasons The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, has placed…

Russia’s Investigative Committee previously concluded that the Il-76 aircraft was destroyed with a US-made Patriot missile system American specialists may have been part of the crew that operated the US-made Patriot air…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has lifted his veto amid a pressure campaign from Brussels EU leaders have signed off on a €50 billion ($54 billion) package of economic aid to Ukraine,…

Stocks Rebound After Powell Hawkamania Sparks Worst Market Rout In Months US equity futures rebounded after the worst day for stocks since September, as investors prepared for the next wave of megacap tech earnings…

Dominoes: After NYCB, Shares Of Japanese Bank Implode On Massive US CRE Writedown Following a profit warning from New York Community Bancorp on Wednesday, partially attributed to turmoil in the commercial real estate sector,…

Baring Vostok founder Michael Calvey was found guilty in 2021 of embezzling several million dollars in Russia The suspended sentence of US private-equity investor and Baring Vostok founder Michael Calvey has been…

Cable Rallies After ‘Hawkish’ Pivot By Bank Of England The Bank of England held rates unchanged – as expected – today and while it signaled a ‘pivot’ to possible rate-cuts in the…

Peter Schiff: The Economy May Already Be In Recession Via SchiffGold.com, Recent data have many cheerful about the economy. But according to Peter in his latest podcast, the economy may already be…

There has been prolonged acrimony between the Ukrainian president and Valery Zaluzhny, who has led Kiev’s forces since 2021 Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky intends to fire his top general, Valery Zaluzhny, before…

The Sardinian property of Italy’s late ex-prime minister is famous for hosting many prominent politicians, including Russian President Vladimir Putin The family of Italy’s late former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has put…

The Russian Foreign Ministry has responded after investigators concluded that a plane carrying Kiev’s troops was downed by a Patriot missile system The US and its citizens are complicit in the deaths…

Steadfast Defender 2024, the bloc’s largest exercise in decades, is not only about military cohesion – it’s about selling war to the people NATO has launched its largest exercise since the Cold…

A large-scale embezzlement scheme has been revealed amid Kiev’s struggle to secure more aid in its conflict with Russia Republicans in the US Congress have slammed Ukraine after the country’s Security Service…

DNA testing and a review of documents have confirmed the death of 74 people, the Investigative Committee has said Russian investigators say they have identified the remains of all those who were…

Is ESG Investing In Decline? These days, ESG investments have lost their luster given high interest rates, political backlash, and greenwashing scrutiny. In 2021 during the pandemic boom, U.S. sustainable funds hit…

The US Is Living On Borrowed Time Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, In late December, I published a final report on the themes of 2023 while looking ahead at their implications for the…

Are Politicians Trustworthy? According to this year’s edition of the Corruption Perceptions Index by Transparency International, Nordic countries like Denmark, Sweden and Norway are among those thought to exhibit the least corruption in the…

China’s Real Estate Crisis Explained In Two Charts Evergrande – once China’s largest real estate developer – was forced to liquidate on January 28th. It was yet another strike against the country’s…

The continent will reject any attempts to impose “apostasy” over same-sex marriage, Martin Ssempa believes Pope Francis is attempting to force homosexuality on the Catholic Church in Africa, which could lead to…

Uniper was nationalized after facing €40 billion in losses due to the halt in Russian gas supplies The German government is preparing to sell part of its 99% stake in the country’s…

Moscow’s presence in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso is creating a new geopolitical configuration in the region, Josep Borrell says European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has blamed Russia for the…

Kiev used two foreign-made missiles to destroy the Il-76 last week, authorities have said A Russian cargo plane carrying dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) for exchange was downed last week…

The Globalists Want CBDCs In 2024… What Really Comes Next Will Surprise Them Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, There’s an excellent chance governments worldwide will soon force their citizens to use…

Washington has stored hundreds of vehicles in Australia to boost logistics in the region, the news agency has reported The US used last year’s largest-ever joint drills with Australia to create new…

Charity Says Egypt Intelligence-Linked Firm Charging $5,000 Per Truck To Get Aid Into Gaza Via Middle East Eye An international charity with extensive experience in providing emergency aid in wars, famines and…

New Delhi’s $3 billion UAV order could be held up over Sikh activist murder plot, media claimed The US State Department stated on Wednesday that the Biden administration has yet to notify…

A Russian software developer trained ChatGPT to flirt with girls online Finding the ideal companion is no simple task, but a Russian software developer found a wife on a popular dating app,…

Russia’s envoy to Washington has condemned the planned delivery of long-range GLSDB munitions to Kiev The US is essentially encouraging Ukraine to commit more atrocities by providing Kiev with a new shipment…

Ukraine Set To Receive Bomb So New It Hasn’t Reached US Arsenal Yet The Pentagon is poised to begin equipping Ukraine with a long-range precision bomb that’s so new it hasn’t even…

US To Deploy Nukes In Britain For First Time In 15 Years Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The US will deploy nuclear weapons to the UK for the first time in…

Diesel prices have jumped amid fears of disruptions in supply to the bloc, according to the outlet The surge in global diesel prices to an almost three-month high amid shipping disruptions is…

Shipments of the fuel to the South American nation soared by 6,000% last year as Moscow seeks new outlets for its petroleum products Russia has unseated the US as the largest exporter…

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 Elite 1 Percent Behind The Cultural Civil War Authored by Newt Gingrich via RealClear Wire, Scott Rasmussen has done America an enormous service. He and his team have identified the driving…

Where Corruption Is Rampant Transparency International has released its 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index which gauges levels of perceived public sector corruption in 180 countries and territories around the world. The index scores them on a scale…

US Patriot Missile Downed Russian Transport Plane Which Killed 74: Putin President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that a Russian investigation into the shoot down of an Il-76 military transport plane which crashed close to the…