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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 Enormous Scale Of Global Food Waste As more than one trillion U.S. dollars worth of food is thrown away each year, up to 783 million people are affected by hunger. At…

Escobar: Will A BRICS Bretton Woods Take Place In Kazan? Authored by Pepe Escobar, With less than a month before the crucial BRICS annual summit in Kazan under the Russian presidency, serious…

Visualizing The Expected Growth In Working Age Populations Around The World Over The Next 10 Years Today, the working age population in almost half of U.S. metropolitan areas has declined due to demographic shifts,…

West Point Responds To Viral “Need For Reset” Post Authored by Tony Lentini via RealClearDefense, Earlier this month, Real Clear Defense published my commentary, “West Point Needs a Reset,” detailing why I…

RFK Jr. Asks Supreme Court To Reinstate On NY Ballot For ‘Contingent Election’ Scenario Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has asked the US Supreme Court to reinstate his name on New York’s presidential…

The Degradation Of America’s Liberal Education Is Anything But A Niche Public-Policy Concern Authored by Peter Berkowitz via RealClearPolitics, The degradation of liberal education in America is anything but a niche public-policy…

US Navy Oiler Runs Aground Off Oman Coast, Forcing Carrier Strike Group To Scramble For Fuel Authored by John Konrad of gCaptain, gCaptain has received multiple reports that the US Navy oiler USNS Big Horn ran aground…

The US risks getting stuck in another forever war, the former president has argued The United States needs a clear exit strategy for the conflict in Ukraine, former President Donald Trump told…

A Republic, If You Can Keep It Authored by Carl M. Cannon via RealClearPolitics, It’s Friday, Sept. 20. Interestingly, Election “Day,” which is now a profound misnomer, begins today: In Virginia, Minnesota,…

Moscow has criticized the West for turning the UN Security Council into a concert stage for the former Ukrainian actor The conflict in Ukraine cannot be resolved through negotiations, and decisive action…

We are the non-pretending audience that doesn’t need to have the points of continual similarity pointed out.  However, there is something rather remarkable about those in Washington DC who never seem to…

The Democrats’ War On America, Part Two: An Economy That Serves Nobody Except Those In Charge Authored by Richard Truesdell and Keith Lehmann via American Greatness, As we outlined in Part One, here in…

Key Ukrainian Stronghold About To Fall To Russia As Zelensky Touts ‘Victory Plan’ In D.C. Having been in the United States since Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is about to present his…

Sometimes divine serendipity just makes you smile. FLORIDA – The federal judge who presided over — and threw out — the criminal classified documents case the Justice Department brought against Donald Trump…

Your Guide To Voting In The 2024 Election Authored by Samantha Flom via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), With just weeks to go until the general election, election offices across the country…

The Turkish leader has called out the Israeli PM over the Gaza conflict Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged the international community to take action against Benjamin Netanyahu’s “murder network,” once…

Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has called for UN reform With every country facing some sort of crisis, the world is in need of solutions, Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has told the UN…

America Tried Third-World Immigration In The 1980s And The Results Were Horrifying Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, The American Founding Fathers built our nation on a core premise that has been…

Trump Dominating Sunbelt States Key To Harris Win: NYT Poll Donald Trump is riding a wave of momentum across the Sun Belt, according to a new poll, which shows the former president…

Something seriously corrupt has been happening inside New York City politics ever since the FBI seized the phones and personal communication networks of City Mayor Eric Adams. In the past several months,…

Any Iron Ore Rally Is “To Be Faded”; Goldman Warns China’s PBOC rolled out the monetary cannons to prop up the world’s second-largest economy, unveiled in an exceptionally rare overnight briefing by the central bank…

The Pentagon and the State Department reportedly disagree on the issue Vladimir Zelensky is expected to bring up the issue of restrictions on long-range attacks into Russian territory when he meets with…

“This Is Potentially The End Of The West…” “This is potentially the end of the West. It’s now or never,” warns Bret Weinstein in an ominous reality check of just what’s at…

Hillary Clinton’s Sordid History Of Secrecy & Censorship Authored by Jim Bovard via The Libertarian Institute,  “You could drop Hillary into any trouble spot, come back in a month and…she will have made it…

WTI Holds Gains After API Reports Across-The-Board Inventory Draws Oil pries rallied to one-month highs today after China’s stimmy package prompted demand hope (and OPEC doubled down on forecasts that global oil…

Former AG Bill Barr Says DOJ Shouldn’t Have Released Letter Of Trump Assassination Attempt Suspect Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr said…

Gold Surges To New Record High On ‘Soft’ Data Slump; Stocks & Bonds Dump’n’Pump Despite China’s ‘heroic’ measures to save its stock market, US (and European) equities were less than impressed… Source:…

H.R. McMaster’s New Book Explains Why Trump Fired Him Authored by Fred Fleitz via American Greatness, Just in time for the 2024 presidential election, a new tell-all memoir has been published by…

Why Marx Was Wrong About Workers And Wages Authored by Allen Gindler via The Mises Institute, One of the central tenets of Marxism is the labor theory of value, which states that…

The censorship comes amid the escalating hostilities in Lebanon The video-sharing platform TikTok has deleted three Arabic-language accounts of RT, without explanation. The measure comes as the Israel-Hezbollah conflict has spurred fears…

The National Hurricane Center has provided a 5:00pm ET update. [SEE HERE] At 500 PM EDT (2100 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Helene was located near latitude 19.7 North, longitude 84.7…

The institution is a product of Western political culture and that’s its problem The annual United Nations General Assembly – which brings together world leaders and top officials – has opened in…

Every time the Ukrainian leader comes to the US he walks away with $60 billion, according to the former president Vladimir Zelensky wants Kamala Harris to win the election “so badly,” former…

Artificial Intelligence: Our Days (Probably) Aren’t Numbered Authored by Art Carden via The American Institute for Economic Research, Maybe it’s a law of history: every innovation faces opposition. The early nineteenth-century Luddites…

Gov. DeSantis Declares State Of Emergency Ahead Of Dangerous Hurricane Threat  Tropical Storm Helene formed in the northwestern Caribbean on Tuesday morning and is forecasted to strengthen rapidly over the next few…

Jury Clears Most Defendants In ‘Trump Train’ Case A federal jury in Texas on Sept. 23 rejected voter intimidation allegations against nearly all of the President Donald Trump supporters who surrounded a…

An attack on Belgorod has reportedly caused casualties and property damage At least four civilians have been wounded in a Ukrainian attack on the Russian city of Belgorod and several villages along…

Polish PM Donald Tusk has blamed the critters for a catastrophic flood Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has called for decisive action against beavers, suggesting the industrious rodents are partly responsible for…

Failed Trump Assassin Had A List Of Everywhere Trump Would Be August To October Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The deranged leftist who attempted to kill president Trump was in possession…

Red Sea Maritime Chokepoint Disruption To Persist Into 2025, Top Shipping Exec Warns  Speaking at the Marine Money conference in Singapore earlier today, Jeremy Nixon, CEO of Ocean Network Express, warned that…

Navigating The Market Post-Rate-Cut Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Last week, the Federal Reserve made a significant move by cutting its overnight lending rate by 50 basis points. This marks the…

Russia Issues Rare Blanket Condemnation Of Israeli Offensive In Lebanon Russia has taken the rare step of issuing a blanket condemnation of Israeli military actions in Lebanon. On Tuesday its foreign ministry…

The Secret Service will tighten security around the former US president following the second attempt on his life in just two months Security around former US President Donald Trump will be heightened…

Watch Live: It’s Time To TRACE The Market Last week we introduced readers to “…the best new tool in the financial space to see options flows,” enabling us to see below the…

China Fires A Monetary Bazooka… It Won’t Be Enough By Bas van Geffen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank A fresh coat of paint After widespread speculation on social media, a Chinese zoo…

Pavel Bumchik has been designated as a traitor and deserter in the infamous Mirotvorets database Ukrainian Instagram blogger Pasha Bumchik has been added to the notorious Kiev-backed Mirotvorets (Peacemaker) database after dodging…

Today, President Donald J. Trump, heads to the second interception state Kamala Harris needs when losing Pennsylvania.  If Obama (Fallon/Harris) lose Pennsylvania, they need North Carolina and Georgia.  President Trump rallied in…

US East/Gulf Coast Port Strikes Loom As Goldman Provides Congestion Update Ahead Of D-Day A supply chain storm is brewing for major US East and Gulf Coast ports, with the International Longshoremen’s Association threatening…

Nebraska State Senator Just Killed The Idea Of An Electoral College Tie Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Mike McDonnell deflates the GOP hope for a Nebraska electoral college winner-take-all scenario. This…

Why is the country’s energy system on the brink of collapse, and what lies in store? Ukraine could be on the verge of a point of no return. Various estimates suggest that…

Watch Live: Biden To Defend His Foreign Policy In Final UN Address World leaders will gather in New York City on Tuesday for the U.N. General Assembly, where President Joe Biden is…

White House Urges All Americans To Flee Lebanon As 3rd Israeli Strike Rocks Beirut On Tuesday White House national security spokesman John Kirby urged that all Americans should leave Lebanon immediately while…

“Seems Like Magic” – Sam Altman Says ChatGPT Will Bring Unimaginable Prosperity, Fix Climate Authored by Tristan Greene via CoinTelegraph.com, Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, published a…

US Home Prices Hit New Record High, But YoY Appreciation Slows Significantly For the fourth month in a row, US home price annual appreciation slowed in July (according to the latest data…

There will be peace when Russia achieves the goals of its military operation in Ukraine, Dmitry Peskov has said The conflict between Russia and Ukraine will end when Moscow fulfills all the…

Bulgaria says the influx of cheap produce has destabilized the domestic market Bulgaria has called on the European Commission to ban chicken eggs from Ukraine, claiming domestic producers are suffering from unfair…

The system has reportedly failed to address the country’s persistent inequality, which is considered the worst in the world The director of South Africa’s flagship black economic empowerment program has announced plans…

Up to 40 Ukrainian troops and five vehicles have been destroyed in the strike, the Russian military estimates The Russian Defense Ministry on Tuesday released video footage showcasing an airstrike with an…

The clade 1 variety of the virus has been detected in a resident from the southern state of Kerala who recently returned from Dubai India has reported its first case of the…

Ohio Sheriff Removed From Election Security After Comments On Harris Yard Signs Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Portage County Board of Elections in Ohio has voted…

US Consumer Confidence Plunges Most In 3 Years As Labor Market Weakens Significantly Thanks to a plunge in ‘Present Situation’, The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence index tumbled back near the lows of…

A Word To Undecided Voters Authored by Jenna McCarthy vua Jennaside.rocks, As unfathomable as it may be for folks on the farthest sides of the aisle to believe, there are American citizens…

Ukrainians served in Waffen SS units and were complicit in the Holocaust during WWII, Andrzej Duda has said in an interview Ukraine has “problems” with its history, Polish President Andrzej Duda has…

Futures Rise As Beijing Panics: Stimulus Avalanche Sends Chinese Stocks Soaring Most Since Covid US equity futures are higher, led by tech with small-caps underperforming, as European stocks jump near record high…

The latest talks on Sudan have reached a deadlock, yet Washington continues its misguided mediation The war in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by the de-facto head of state,…

Boeing’s ‘Best & Final Offer’ Rejected By Union As Strike Drags On   Boeing made a “best and final offer” to tens of thousands of striking International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers…

DoJ Reportedly Preparing To Hit Visa With Antitrust Suit Over Debit Card Monopoly  Visa shares are lower in premarket trading in New York after a Bloomberg report revealed that the US Justice Department is preparing…

The Palestinian Football Association has called for the country to be barred from sporting events over the war in Gaza The world football governing body, FIFA, reportedly has no intention of suspending…

Negotiating with Russia is not necessary to stop the fighting, the Ukrainian leader has claimed The end of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev could be closer than one might think, Ukrainian…

So The Economy Now Depends On Stocks Which Depend On Front-Running The Fed… And This Is Fine? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, So the entire economy depends on the…

Moscow reportedly plans to ratify an agreement on military cooperation with an island nation in the Gulf of Guinea Russia is poised to gain access to a naval port in the Atlantic…

Home Minister Amit Shah referred to Bangladeshis as “infiltrators” and called for illegal immigrants to be driven out  Dhaka has lodged a “strong protest” with New Delhi following comments by India’s home…

Margarita Simonyan has accused the US of engaging in the “hidden propaganda of Nazism” RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan has acknowledged that she learned from the West when it comes to information warfare,…

Membership presents an opportunity to challenge the dominance of the dollar and euro, the Burkinabe prime minister says Prime Minister of Burkina Faso Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela has expressed an interest…

US-led Western export controls on Russian diamonds have hit the world’s largest cutting and polishing hub, which had already been left reeling from the Covid-19 slowdown It was a routine morning at…

Shell Abandons Norway’s Hydrogen Projects Due To Lack Of Demand Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice.com, Shell Plc has ditched plans to build a low-carbon hydrogen plant on Norway’s west coast due to a…

A recipient of US aid is in no position to weigh in on a presidential candidate, the Republican nominee’s son has argued Donald Trump’s eldest son has lashed out at Vladimir Zelensky,…

Somalia has won Cairo’s support against Ethiopia, which both accuse of threatening regional security An Egyptian ship has delivered a major consignment of military equipment to Somalia, officials from the two African…

Mapping The (Declining) State Of Global Freedom According to the Global Freedom Index by Democratic watchdog organization Freedom House, Iran scored just 11 points out of 100 in 2024, which is one point worse off than…

The move comes as the result of mounting debts linked to the pandemic and the Ukraine conflict, Yle has reported  A Finnish zoo is preparing to return two giant pandas to China…

Canada And Europe Dominate US Foreign Land Ownership In the run-up to the U.S. presidential elections, both candidates have outlined their visions for agricultural policy – which do differ significantly. After the…

Those calling for diplomatic solutions are being stigmatized, attacked and criticized, Peter Szijjarto has said It is wrong that “peace” has become a curse word in international politics, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter…

Why The EU Is Falling Behind In The Global AI Race Via OilPrice.com, The EU’s stringent regulations on data and technology are stifling AI innovation within the bloc. The UK, with a…

EVs Are “Up To Twice As Expensive” To Run As Regular Gas Cars In The UK, New Data Finds As if the EV boom needed another nail its in coffin, the UK…

Reforming global institutions is key to keeping them relevant, the Indian PM has told the UN General Assembly Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi advocated reforms to global institutions while stressing the need…

France’s Macron Calls For End Of “Incomplete & Unjust” World Order Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com, French President Emmanuel Macron has called for reform of the current “unjust” world order so that humans…

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…

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 Madness Of Antony Blinken Authored by Joe Lauria via Consortium News, On March 7, 2022, two weeks after Moscow entered the civil war in Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told…

Your Tax Dollars At Work: San Fran Cops Dress Up As Inflatable Chicken To Catch Speeding Drivers Today in “your tax dollars at work” news, San Francisco police are donning inflatable chicken suits…

China Panics: Cuts Multiple Rates And Reserve Ratio Requirements, Goes All-In To Prop Up Stocks This morning, when we reported that a sudden – and extremely overdue – urgency appeared to grip…

Japanese F-15s Fire Warning Flares After Russian Spy Plane Violates Airspace 3 Times US ally Japan just had a close call with a Russian military airplane. The country’s defense ministry has condemned…

US Border Agents Find RPGs & IEDs Near Southern Border Amid “Internal Alert” Of “Drastic Escalation” In Weaponry Used By Cartels An alarming battle between rival factions of the Sinaloa drug cartel…

Young America Is Right To Reject Traditional News Authored by Frank Miele via RealClearPolitics, It’s become a truism in the past few years that younger people get their news predominantly, if not…

Nuclear Is Back: PA Governor Shapiro Pushes For “Fast Track” Re-Open For Three Mile Island The plan to power AI and data centers using nuclear power just caught another tailwind, just days…

Those in the area of Sarasota, Clearwater/St Pete to the Florida Panhandle and Big Bend area need to pay particular attention to the path of this storm throughout the day today and…

Meanwhile, the IDF is preparing for the “next phases” of its military operation against Hezbollah The US is deploying a “small number” of additional troops to the Middle East after Israel launched a…

In a heavily coordinated and strategic political visit to Pennsylvania, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was essentially campaigning for Kamala Harris and a continuation of the Biden foreign policy which provides billions of…