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The high-level meeting in Riyadh seeks to lay the groundwork for settling the Ukraine conflict Russian and US delegations have begun high-level talks in Saudi Arabia aimed at restoring diplomatic relations and…

Moscow and Washington seek to restore bilateral ties and pave the way for a settlement of the Ukraine conflict Top Russian and US diplomats are holding talks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to…

What a difference one election can make.  Secretary Kristi Noem announced a nationwide and international multimillion-dollar ad campaign warning illegal aliens to leave our country now or face deportation with the inability…

Our Birth Dearth Is Becoming Our Death Knell Authored by Timothy Geoglein via The Epoch Times, One of our current cultural mantras is “you do you” – putting your personal desires over…

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 ‘leaders’ of Europe got together in Paris, France at the request of French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss how to handle a peace agreement if Putin, Trump and eventually Zelenskyy come…

On Sunday, when CBS’s Margaret Brennan shockingly claimed that “free speech” was the cause of the German holocaust and rise in Naziism, a stunned Secretary of State Marco Rubio simply replied, “I…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will need to maintain a lot of energy to operate foreign policy advancement at the “optimal resolution” speed of President Donald Trump. Rubio departed Israel for his…

With an appeal to the Supreme Court to stop the unconstitutional Lawfare restraining orders, and with support from growing district appellate court reviews, earlier today federal District Judge Tanya Chutkan surprisingly refused…

The background here is interesting.  Late last night, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan called for an unusual hearing on a federal holiday to hear the arguments of 14 states who are seeking…

Democrats and allied media are pushing a hard narrative that Elon Musk and his DOGE review team may have access to sensitive systems at the IRS, creating what they call “privacy concerns.”…

The Ukrainian leader said Kiev will not recognize deals made behind its back Kiev will not take part in the US-Russian negotiations in Riyadh and considers them meaningless, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky…

When Elon Musk asked how Norm Eisen could be financed, I replied, “If the United States govt gave money to Qatar, knowing Qatar was going to send that money to organizations within…

Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court To Permit Firing Of Office Of Special Counsel Chief Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court…

“Time For Historic Decisions”: Europe Scrambles To Fund Its Own Defense, But Where Will The Trillions Come From European defense stocks exploded this morning, surging to an all time high and helping…

Northern Border An “Undefended” And “Easy Target” As Canadian Coyotes Smuggle Migrants From Montreal To New York Smugglers are brazenly using TikTok to advertise illegal crossings at the Canada-US border, complicating Canada’s…

Missouri Truck Company Owner Gets 9 Years For PPP Fraud, Other Felonies By John Kingston of FreighWaves Christopher Lee Carroll, the Missouri man who set up a trucking company as part of…

“This is what competent leadership looks like,” president Trump’s ally wrote on X Billionaire Elon Musk, a major ally to President Donald Trump, has praised the arrival of the Russian delegation in…

The Blob’s ‘Reality Distortion’ Is No Longer Working So Well… Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Krakatoa Blows “’Save democracy’ is code phrase for a club of delusional people who belong to a…

Switzerland’s Kurt Pelda has been charged with illegally crossing the border alongside Ukrainian troops A Russian court has issued an arrest warrant for Swiss journalist Kurt Pelda who was charged with illegally…

Berlin has reportedly ruled out participating in an EU peacekeeping mission without American boots on the ground Berlin will not send peacekeepers to Ukraine unless the US commits its own forces as…

The Genius Of The DOGE Exposures Authored by William Marshall via American Greatness, The American people have rightly been appalled at the outrageous expenditures Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has…

These Are The Top U.S. Cities For Families In 2025 A new study by Hastha Kalalu ranked the best U.S. cities for families, evaluating factors like home prices, cost of living, crime…

Former Champion Gymnast: The NCAA Is Skirting Trump’s EO Protecting Women’s Sports Via American Greatness, The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) may be only pretending to comply with an Executive Order keeping men…

“Highly Symbolic” Moment: Alibaba’s Jack Ma Reemerges, Shakes Xi’s Hand As CCP Renews Confidence In China Tech Alibaba Group’s founder, Jack Ma, vanished from public view in late 2020 after making critical…

An attempt to eliminate the influence of former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko could be Zelensky’s last mistake In the latest dramatic twist of Ukraine’s political wars, former President Pyotr Poroshenko now faces…

Mid-Atlantic States Brace For Another Winter Blast Another midweek winter storm is expected to bring heavy snow and ice from Kansas through the Ohio Valley and into the Mid-Atlantic. This wintry system…

Argentine Lawyers Hit Milei With Fraud Charges, Class-Action Over Libra Coin Rug-Pull Authored by Stephen Katte via CoinTelegraph.com, Argentine lawyers have reportedly filed charges against Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, in a criminal…

Multiple people have sustained injuries, local media has said A plane flipped upside-down on landing at Toronto Pearson International airport on Monday. At least eight people are injured, according to paramedics. All…

Kiev’s forces have targeted a major oil pumping station in Russia linked to American companies A Ukrainian drone strike on a major oil pumping station in southern Russia could be a sign…

The Trump administration is reportedly asking for the return of the influencer’s passport as his legal saga continues The administration of US President Donald Trump has intensified efforts to persuade Romanian authorities…

How will the situation develop if the US president’s efforts to end the war fail? ‘Deal’ – it’s the key word in Donald Trump’s vocabulary and he’s built his career on striking…

Both are obsessed with seeing Russia lose on the battlefield, and cannot take part in peace talks, Vassily Nebenzia has said The UK and EU cannot be part of the Ukraine peace…

Everything You Need To Know About The Upcoming German Election Why is Germany having elections? Germany is set to hold a federal election on February 23, 2025, following the collapse of Chancellor…

The Pattern Beneath: USAID And The Architecture Of Perception Authored by Joshua Stylman via Substack, The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has long portrayed itself as America’s humanitarian aid organization,…

Oops: Trump Administration Un-Fires Hundreds Of Nuclear Weapon Workers The new Trump administration has worked to reduce the federal employee headcount with jaw-dropping speed, but the well-intended haste has started to produce some…

Returning To The Law Of The Jungle By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management “We are trying to understand America, Americans,” said the soft-spoken Scandinavians, financial market pillagers.  “America has…

It is time for Ukraine to choose: stand with its Western sponsors in pursuit of peace or continue to recklessly jeopardize its own lifelines The recent Ukrainian drone strike on Russia’s Kropotkinskaya…

The countries answering the French president’s call want the conflict to continue, Hungary’s Peter Szijjarto has claimed The European leaders that answered French President Emmanuel Macon’s call for an ‘emergency summit’ to…

The Ukrainian leader has also insisted on immediate EU membership, a “strong package of missiles” and an army to equal Russia’s Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has outlined a wish list of security…

Kiev and the EU will be excluded from the initial negotiations with Washington, Yury Ushakov has said High-level Russian and US delegations will hold talks in Riyadh without the participation of third…

The US and the EU should reject the “lunacy” of those who “criminalize speech”, the American vice president has said The criminalization of free speech in the EU could put a “strain”…

Lesser-Known Critical Metal Spikes To Decade High As Sino-US Trade Tensions Soar Earlier this month, China imposed restrictions on the export of five critical metals essential to defense, clean technology, and other…

Education Department Issues Warning To Schools: Ditch DEI Or Lose Federal Funding Authored by Eric Lendrum via American Greatness, At the end of last week, the Department of Education (ED) issued a…

The Ministry of Defense in Moscow has reported that more than 20 Ukrainian UAVs have been intercepted or destroyed in the southern Krasnodar Region Seven drones have attacked a major oil pumping…

The C-17 military aircraft carried 112 Indian nationals expelled amid Trump’s crackdown on immigration A US aircraft carrying a third batch of Indian nationals deported from the US landed in Amritsar, Punjab…

The bloc imported nearly $2 billion worth of the fuel in December, according to data Russian gas purchases by EU member states jumped to nearly €2 billion in the final month of…

The Ukrainian leader rejected Trump’s proposal to exchange critical minerals for military aid The US gave Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky just “an hour” to agree to a proposal granting Washington access to the…

Beijing has criticized the State Department after it altered a fact sheet on relations with the island China has urged the US to “correct its mistakes” after the State Department removed previous…

US Futures Rise As Europe Hits All Time High, Boosted By Defense Stocks Even though US cash markets are closed today for the President’s Day holiday, US equity futures are open and…

While a notable percentage favors men as leaders, most still value competence over gender One-third of Russians prefer male bosses, while just 3% favor female managers, according to a nationwide poll released…

The release of US citizen Kalob Byers from custody reflects improving relations with Washington, according to spokesman Dmitry Peskov The recent improvement in US-Russian relations was a factor in the rapid release…

The CPI Is Deeply Flawed & The Fed Feeds Those Flaws Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The Fed makes horrendous policy decisions because it does not understand inflation. CPI and wage…

Top officials from both countries are to discuss ways to end the Ukraine conflict in Riyadh High-level Russian and US delegations will hold talks in Saudi Arabia to restore diplomatic relations and…

New Delhi’s growing overtures towards the US come at a time when Washington itself is recalibrating its global alliances Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s working visit to the White House in Washington on…

The payment card companies “lost a major market” when they exited in 2022 due to the Ukraine conflict, Anatoly Aksakov has said US payment giants Visa and Mastercard may soon resume operations…

Jobs Trashed: Waste Management To Fire 5,000 Whose Jobs Will Be “Automated” Houston-based Waste Management will continue to shed jobs in 2025 by reducing dependency on roles that require physical labor and…

The African nation’s government says it is doing “everything possible” to restore order and territorial integrity in Bukavu M23 militants in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) have taken control…

The French president has talked to Mohammed bin Salman before the upcoming US-Russian meeting in Riyadh French President Emmanuel Macron has revealed that he has spoken on the phone with Saudi Arabian…

Defense Stocks Soar As EU Leaders Plan To “Substantially Increase” Weapon Spending European defense stocks surged on Monday following last week’s Munich Security Conference, where global leaders, ministers, and top policymakers discussed…

The Stability-Instability Paradox Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Market Shakes Off Inflation Data I am back from traveling, and we have a good bit to catch up on since our last report. If…

UK’s Starmer: I’m Ready To Put British Troops In Ukraine Europe is growing more hawkish in its rhetoric, seeing the need for a counterbalance against Trump efforts to secure lasting peace in…

Negotiations on resolving the Ukraine conflict are expected to be a prelude to a meeting between Putin and Trump Saudi Arabia will mediate talks between Russia and the US on resolving the…

The ruling BJP party has raised concerns about election interference and sought details on who benefited from the covert funding India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has flagged concerns over “external interference”…

US allies in Europe now have clearer insight into President Donald Trump’s intentions, Christoph Heusgen has said Christoph Heusgen, chairman of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), has described the results of last…

The Trump administration is treating Kiev like an African colony, several unnamed officials have reportedly said The US is trying to steamroll Kiev into a lopsided resource deal that evokes memories of…

Kiev will treat any negotiations without its involvement as “null and void,” the Ukrainian leader has said Kiev will not recognize any agreements that could be reached between Russia and the US…

DOGE Is Right To Defang The CFPB Authored by Yael Ossowski via RealClearPolitics, With a big tech-powered magnifying glass on federal websites, spending contracts, and government payment systems, Elon Musk’s band of…

Western Media Scrambles To Dismiss White Genocide Concerns In South Africa The western public has been hearing a lot about “genocide” in recent years, from the genocide of indigenous peoples, to the…

It’s Not Just DeepSeek China Is After Authored by Steve Carmel via RealClearDefense, Every day, we are reminded of the challenges the U.S. faces in maintaining global leadership in critical industries and…

Active hostilities have been continuing between Moscow and Kiev throughout the winter with the conflict nearing its three-year anniversary The latest winter season in the Russia-Ukraine conflict has seen active combat continuing…

Christoph Heusgen because too emotional and cut short his closing remarks at the event Christoph Heusgen, the chairman of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), couldn’t conclude his closing speech during this year’s…

Trump Admin Pursuing ‘Grand Bargain’ With Belarus In Tandem With Ukraine Peace Efforts In an unexpected behind-the-scenes move, a US senior diplomat has held a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, the New…

Moscow wants to hear what Washington has to say on settling the Ukraine crisis, Sergey Lavrov has said A Russian team will hold talks with the US in Saudi Arabia primarily in…

Pravind Jugnauth, who lost his reelection bid last November, stands accused of financial crimes by the new government Former Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth has been arrested on charges of money laundering,…

Admission to the tax service’s database would reportedly provide Musk’s team with personal financial details on millions of Americans Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is seeking access to a highly…

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The European Commission is reportedly planning to block imports of certain foodstuff from the US US President Donald Trump has warned that Brussels’ potential move to block imports of American soybeans and…

Latvia is set to phase out Russian from all educational institutions by September Teachers in Daugavpils, Latvia’s second-largest city and home to the country’s largest Russian-speaking population, are resigning due to mandatory…

The American president does not believe “even a little bit” Zelensky’s claims that Russia plans to attack NATO US allies in Europe can buy American-made weapons and supply them to Ukraine, President…

Kiev’s forces are treating expensive high-precision Western arms as highly expendable, the paper’s sources have said British defense officials have accused Ukrainian forces of “wasting” expensive Western weapons and equipment, The Telegraph…

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…

Pope Francis’ Great Blunder Authored by Stephen Soukup via American Greatness, One of the great tragedies of the Enlightenment and its aftermath was that Christianity in general and the Catholic Church in…

The state regulator “strongly advised” users to avoid the Chinese AI service pending “improvements” under local laws South Korea’s national data protection watchdog has announced a “temporary” suspension of the widely popular…

The (Geo)Politics Of Precious Metals Michael Hudson, a renowned economist, discusses the rising price of gold and its geopolitical implications.  Since 2018, gold prices have nearly tripled, driven by central banks’ increasing…

The Trump administration is experiencing an unprecedented move by federal judges who are overstepping their constitutional limits and ordering Temporary Restraining Orders (TROs) against President Trump.  The judicial activism is in support…

New Jersey Bans Safe, Effective Ammunition Authored by Mike McDaniel via American Thinker, Among the things at once hilarious and alarming to those who understand and support the Bill of Rights—all of…

Missouri Bounty-Hunter Bill For Illegal Immigrants Would Create State Version Of ICE Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Missouri bounty-hunter bill targeting violent illegal immigrants would…

Netanyahu To Rubio: Let’s ‘Finish the Job’ Against Iran Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in Israel where he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, after which they gave…

Judge Declines To Halt Trump’s Firing Of Inspectors General Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal judge on Feb. 14 rejected an emergency bid by eight inspectors…

Eggstortion! How US Food Prices Have Surged Since Biden Was Elected While Americans have gotten used to sticker shock over the past couple of years under President Biden as prices for food,…

Earlier today, President Donald Trump held an impromptu press conference after departing Air Force 1 returning from Daytona International Speedway.  President Trump took several questions about ongoing discussions with Ukraine, Europe, Saudi…

The Ukrainian leader has accused Moscow of seeking a ceasefire only to attack the US-led military bloc US President Donald Trump has dismissed Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s claim that Russian President Vladimir…

For the past two weeks, the Snow Mexicans have been booing the USA national anthem when played in Canada during sporting events.  While we hold no animosity toward Canadians, last night the…

“Peace is not a noun, it’s a verb. Peace takes action, not words.” That is a message carried by Secretary of State Marco Rubio today during his interview with CBS Margaret Brennan…

Earlier today, President Donald Trump attended the Daytona International Speedway for the start of the NASCAR year, the Daytona 500 race. The crowd was roaring approval as President Trump’s Air Force-1 did…

I enjoy Kevin ‘Sid‘ Hassett very much.  He was awesome in Trump’s first term as an economic advisor, and he’s even better in term two as the Director of the National Economic…

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appears on Meet the Press to discuss his position toward ending the conflict with Russia.  Within the conversation [04:11], Zelenskyy said, “I will never accept any decisions between the…