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Judge Rules Illinois Public Transit Firearms Carry Ban Unconstitutional Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal judge recently ruled that Illinois’s ban on carrying guns in public…

Transmashholding, Russia’s largest locomotive manufacturer, has won a $6.5 billion tender to produce train coaches for Indian Railways A Russian-Indian joint venture that secured a $6.5 billion deal to manufacture 120 electric…

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Steps Down Amid Biggest Cabinet ‘Reboot’ Of War And now Ukraine’s top diplomat is out, amid an ongoing major Zelensky shake-up of his cabinet – the biggest of the…

The bid will be considered by the group’s member states, an aide to the Russian president has said Türkiye has officially applied to join BRICS, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said on…

The climate activist was among a group of students attempting to occupy a university building in Copenhagen Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained at a pro-Palestinian rally in the Danish capital…

US Steel CEO Warns Collapse Of Nippon Deal Would Spark Plant Closings  Just days after Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris publicly opposed Nippon Steel’s $14.9 billion bid for US Steel, the CEO…

Catastrophic JOLT: Job Openings Crater To Lowest Since 2021 As Data Manipulation Fails Last month, after the latest JOLTS report came in fractionally stronger than expected as the Kamala Department of Labor…

A Few More Things To Watch By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities As discussed in the Fog of War, we are starting to get some economic data. The market did not like…

The US president is expected to claim, yet again, that the Russian network is interfering in an American election The administration of US President Joe Biden is planning to accuse Russia of…

How Reuters Manipulates The Oil Market, In Two Headlines 100% of the time, Reuters’ oil market manipulation – on behalf of various unnamed deep tate interests – works 100% of the time….

Mariana Bezuglaya will remain deputy chair of a parliamentary defense committee despite an ongoing conflict with army commanders Ukrainian lawmakers declined to support a motion to remove MP Mariana Bezuglaya from her…

A Malakhit-M vehicle was taken out by a Lancet drone in Sumy Region, according to the Defense Ministry Russian forces have destroyed a Ukrainian mobile radar station, the Defense Ministry in Moscow…

Kiev’s ill-advised incursion into Russia was meant to embarrass Putin, but has cost Zelensky tremendous losses instead Almost a month ago, on August 6, Ukraine launched a major incursion into the Russian…

First Dollar General, Now Dollar Tree Shares Plunge As Both Discount Retailers Warn Of Core Customer Under Pressure  Shares of Dollar Tree plunged nearly 12% in premarket trading in New York after the discount retailer, which operates…

Bank of Canada Cuts Rates For Third Consecutive Month, Says “Expect Further Cuts” While Hungary may have already ended its rate cuts as prices surge and the currency tumbles, becoming the first…

The Russian president has also promised to discuss gas supplies to Serbia as he welcomes the country’s deputy PM at the Eastern Economic Forum The volume of bilateral trade between Russia and…

The factions will work together to appoint a central bank governor within 30 days, according to a joint statement Libya’s two rival governments have agreed to jointly appoint a central bank governor…

Starlink Agrees To Comply With Brazil’s Orders To Block X Elon Musk’s internet service, Starlink, has announced that it will comply with a Brazil Supreme Court order to shut down X while…

FBI Warns Of North Korean ‘Social Engineering’ Schemes To Steal Crypto Authored by Turner Wright via CoinTelegraph.com, The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning to employees at…

Moscow takes the supply of long-range missiles to Ukraine very seriously, the foreign minister has said The US is well aware that any decision to supply Ukraine with long-range missiles crosses Moscow’s…

The former US president has blamed the conflict on the Biden administration and renewed his pledge to bring peace if reelected US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has accused Ukraine of intentionally…

A prisoner was tied to a desk and apparently electrocuted, according to the footage Ukrainian troops can be seen filming themselves brutally torturing a defiant Russian prisoner of war (POW) who refused…

Further aggression by Kiev will be met with an immediate and extremely painful response from Moscow, Russia’s Foreign Ministry cautioned Russia will give an immediate and painful response to further acts of…

California Scuttles Reparations Bills As Supporters Denounce A Political Bait-And-Switch Authored by Jonathan Turley, We have previously discussed (here and here and here and here) the push for reparations in California that has been touted by California Gov….

Watch: Ukraine Unveils Terrifying Flamethrower Drone Which Spits Thermite Ukraine appears to have in its possession a new drone which spits fire. A viral battlefield video posted to the internet early this…

Risks Facing Bullish Investors As September Begins Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Since the end of the “Yen Carry Trade” correction in August, bullish positioning has returned with a vengeance, yet two key…

Nomcebo Zuma’s betrothal to King Mswati III was confirmed at a traditional dance ceremony Nomcebo Zuma, daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma, confirmed her engagement to King Mswati III of…

The former US president has been accused of attempting to overturn his 2020 election defeat Former US President Donald Trump will enter a not guilty plea to criminal charges in a revised…

The HIMARS and MLRS systems taken out had reportedly been concealed in Sumy Region, from which Kiev launched its incursion into Russia A Russian missile has hit a concealed Ukrainian position where…

US Futures Slide, As Global Market Rout Extends For Second Day US stock-index futures fell, pointing toward a continued selloff on Wall Street after a slump Tuesday, when dire manufacturing PMI and ISM data…

Kiev’s support for rebels in Africa cements its status as a terrorist state in the eyes of the Global South Currently, many nations are vying to enhance their influence in Africa, drawn…

Moscow has repeatedly stated that it has no plans to attack the countries of the bloc The European Parliament is set to hold closed-door, high-level discussions on Wednesday in relation to a…

Budapest has not eased the entry procedure for Russian and Belarusian nationals, Peter Szijjarto insists Several fellow EU member states are spreading falsehoods about Hungary allegedly easing visa rules for Russian and…

Ethiopian Airlines says its bank account has been blocked by Eritrea’s aviation authority, making transactions impossible Ethiopian Airlines (EA) has suspended flights to and from Eritrea due to its bank account being…

At least three fatalities were reported in an artillery attack on a city market A Ukrainian artillery strike has killed at least three people at a market in the city of Donetsk,…

There can be no justification for curtailing religious practices, Orthodox officials have stressed The Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, one of the oldest Christian churches in the world, has called on the…

Finland Unveils World’s First Deep-Earth Repository To Bury Nuclear Waste By Alex Kimani of OilPrice.com Summary Currently, there are thousands of metric tons of used solid fuel from nuclear power plants worldwide…

The province is among many parts of the UK facing a spike in attacks on ethnic minorities, after a knife assault by a teen of Rwandan descent in July Hate crimes against…

Foreign instructors were providing instruction in electronic warfare and the use of drones in Poltava, the MOD says Moscow’s forces have carried out a high-precision strike on a Ukrainian training center in…

Poland Says It Has ‘Duty’ To Shoot Down Russian Missiles, NATO Leadership Warns Against Poland’s foreign minister has sparked fresh controversy and intense discussion within the NATO military alliance by saying that…

X accounts belonging to Donald Trump’s relatives were compromised to tout a token tied to a family cryptocurrency venture Social media accounts belonging to family members of Donald Trump were compromised on…

The US Secretary of State will not be able to testify to lawmakers on the day he was called, his office has said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will not appear…

MOSCOW, SEPTEMBER 4, 2024 — RT Academy, the international educational project of the RT global TV news network, is launching its first media course for journalists from Africa, available in both English…

Germany Resumes Deportations To Afghanistan Germany deported 28 Afghan nationals charged with criminal acts to Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday morning, marking the first time it has happened since the Taliban came into…

Control over part of Kursk Region is crucial for Kiev’s “victory plan,” the Ukrainian leader has said Ukraine intends to occupy part of Russia’s Kursk Region indefinitely, Vladimir Zelensky has said. Officials…

India has cleared ten proposals to purchase military assets, including combat vehicles, aircraft, and patrol vessels India has approved several proposals to procure technology and weapons worth $17.2 billion, the Defense Ministry has…

The armed group’s political chief Yahya Sinwar has been charged with planning and carrying out terrorist attacks on Israelis and Americans The US Justice Department has unsealed terrorism charges against the leaders…

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…

Globalism Is Economic Slavery Authored by J.B.Shurk via AmericanThinker.com, Imagine life in the near future. .. A man resides alone in a tiny apartment.  He would prefer to be married, but the State…

The Big Lie Of “Skilled” Migrant Workers Saving Western Economies There are a great many tall tales circulating these days in association with illegal immigration.  Possibly one of the most prevalent claims…

Reagan The Movie: How The Mainstream Media Can’t Help Itself Authored by Richard Truesdell via American Greatness, On Friday, I did something I hadn’t done since before COVID-19, I went and saw…

The Surprising History Of The President’s ‘Resolute’ Desk Authored by Walker Larson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The president’s desk bears a remarkable pedigree. Its story ties together several disparate historical…

‘Over Ruled’: Who Guards The Guardians? Authored by John Maxwell Hamilton via RealClearPolitics, “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” – Who guards the guardians? – is an old question that began as amusing repartee…

Kiev has launched an investigation of Roman Gladky, Chief of Staff of the Unmanned Systems Forces Ukraine has suspended the chief of staff of its drone forces following reports that his family…

Officials Can’t Reject Mail-In Ballots With Incorrect Dates: Pennsylvania Court A Pennsylvania court has ruled that election officials cannot reject mail-in ballots with incorrect dates or no dates as long as they…

FDA Authorizes New COVID-19 Vaccine Without Clinical Data Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized a new COVID-19 vaccine from…

Turley: Brazil’s $9,000 Fine For Accessing X Puts “Wall Of Censorship” Between Citizens And Unregulated Information Authored by Jonathan Turley, Brazil has not just banned X (formerly Twitter) from the entire country,…

So Much For Sanctions: Russia Surpasses US For Gas Exports To EU By Liz Heflin of Rmxnews.com From April to June, the European Union bought more than 12.7 billion cubic meters from…

Harris’ So-Called ‘Surge’ Is Thanks To Oversampling: Pollsters As we’ve been highlighting since 2016, polls are not to be trusted thanks to various ‘tricks of the trade’ – most commonly, oversampling. Last…

President Trump sat down for another podcast interview, this time with Lex Fridman. Chapters: 0:00 – Introduction 1:09 – Psychology of winning and losing 3:51 – Politics is a dirty game 5:28…

Energy supplies from neighbors are “critical” to its survival, the Asian country has said Mongolia is dependent on its neighbors for energy and maintains a policy of neutrality, a government spokesperson has…

Semis Slaughtered As September Starts Off With Carnage Everywhere Yesterday, when we observed that the Labor Day holiday had spared US markets from a selloff that spread across the rest of the…

Dmitry Kuleba could join four cabinet ministers already sacked by Vladimir Zelensky Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba may soon be joining four of his cabinet colleagues who were ousted by Vladimir Zelensky,…

Adding Insult To Margin Calls, Nvidia Receives DOJ Subpoena Making Record Price Drop Even Worse In what may be described as an attempt to sabotage her own election odds, moments after the…

Kiev’s financial adviser arranged face-to-face meetings with bondholders in July 2022 after initial talks failed, according to a report Ukraine reached its recent agreement with bondholders on a debt restructuring as a…

Yale Divinity Students Forced To Read From Witch’s “Spell” At Orientation By Raleigh Adams of The College Fix Yale’s Divinity School coerced students to read from a “spell” written by a “witch”…

Media Giant CMG Bragged About Eavesdropping On Phone, Laptop Or ‘Smart Home’ Microphones For years people have suspected that their smartphones, laptops, and home assistants were secretly eavesdropping on their private conversations….

Biden-Harris DOJ Threatens To Sue Two Small Wisconsin Towns Over Refusal To Use Electronic Voting Machines Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, The Biden-Harris Department of Justice has threatened to sue…

Hopes that Harris will bring about positive change to Black lives or make a real effort to end Palestinian suffering are fantasy A lot is being said about US Vice President Kamala…

The Ukrainian leader’s top diplomat is reportedly on the chopping block after a wave of firings and resignations Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has initiated an apparent purge of senior officials, sacking the deputy…

The Republican candidate for US president dropped a hint in a podcast interview Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has suggested that the “black book” with deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s client list…

Is Kamala Very, Very Afraid? Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “On many subjects important to public life today, vast numbers of people know the truth, and yet the official channels…

Homebuyer’s Down Payment Hits ‘Record High,’ Surging Nearly 15 Percent In A Year Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The median down payment for buying a home in…

How the successes of the far right and far left will affect politics in the EU’s most powerful state The elephant in the room has gotten bigger. There’s yet more anxiety in…

Acronyms, Acrimony, And Anagrams By Michael Every of Rabobank Due to the US Labor Day holiday yesterday, markets were quieter than usual. The world wasn’t. Germany reeled from the far-right AfD and…

Linda Sun allegedly used her position to push pro-Beijing messaging from Kathy Hochul’s office New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s former deputy chief of staff has been charged with acting as an undisclosed…

Busted Spy In NY Gov. Hochul’s Office Received Millions From China, Bought Posh Homes & Ferrari A former top aide to New York’s Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul has been arrested Tuesday on…

Faced With Stagnant Domestic Growth, China Starts A New Global Trade War By Mish Shedlock China is going all in on exports to revive growth led by EVs. Trump vows to strike…

David Sacks: The West’s Real Enemy Is Itself Politically active venture capitalist David Sacks penned an excellent read on the ‘global struggle against authoritarianism,’ in which he points out the hypocrisy displayed…

The annual event is expected to attract participants from more than 70 countries The 9th annual Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) opened on Tuesday in Vladivostok, welcoming participants from around the world. The…

The missile attack has resulted in nearly 300 casualties, according to Ukrainian officials Russian Iskander ballistic missiles have struck a training center in the Ukrainian city of Poltava, according to the government…

The British government earlier froze some export licenses, citing the risk of rights violations in Gaza Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lashed out at the UK over its decision to suspend…

The two countries have no territorial disputes, the Russian Foreign Ministry has told Taipei Instead of suggesting that China “take back” land from Russia, Taiwan should focus on Beijing’s offer of a…

“Copper Rally Delayed”: Goldman Slashes Forecast By $5,000 For Base Metal Amid China Woes  Just four months after Goldman analysts warned clients that copper markets were “moving into extreme tightness,” the bank has…

At least 13 people have died while dozens more were rescued from the water, French authorities have said A boat carrying migrants across the English Channel capsized and sank off Cap Gris-Nez…

Newspaper Releases Full Copy Of Nashville Trans Shooter’s ‘Manifesto’ Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, The Tennessee Star released on Tuesday the purported manifesto of Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale, who…

Ulaanbaatar “did not comply with its obligations,” Brussels has stated The European Union has “taken note” of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Mongolia and expressed regret that the government in Ulaanbaatar…

Houthis Hit Two Tankers in the Red Sea By Irina Slav of OilPrice The Yemeni Houthis reportedly hit two tankers in the Red Sea on Monday, one of them Saudi-flagged. According to a…

Hamas Hints 6 Hostages Killed Because IDF Forces Got ‘Too Close’ Based On New Protocol A Hamas official on Monday suggested the group has adopted a new protocol that orders the execution…

These Are The 50 Most Valuable Companies In The World Market capitalization, or market cap, is a widely used metric to determine a company’s value as determined by the stock market. It…

Oil Tumbles Below $75, Erasing All 2024 Gains On Hopes Of Libya Production Restart Brent crude has extended its recent losses (sparked last week by the Reuters trial balloon that OPEC+ would…

Turley: Robert Reich’s Call To Arrest Musk Is “Siren’s Call Of Every Authoritarian” Authored by Jonathan Turley, We have previously discussed the anti-free speech views of Clinton’s former Labor Secretary, Robert Reich, who has…

“How I Got Fired From The CIA”: Career Ops Officer Tells All Americans are by now familiar with a handful of whistleblowers who after spending years employed by the US intelligence community (IC)…

The inclusion of JASSM missiles in a new weapons package for Ukraine could reportedly be announced this fall The US is “close” to approving the shipment of long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine…

New Delhi is concerned by atrocities against Hindus taking place in the neighboring Bangladesh following the recent regime change  India is “deeply disturbed” by attacks on Hindus in Muslim-majority Bangladesh after the…

The Western-supplied rocket system was discovered in Sumy Region and was taken out using a high-precision projectile, the ministry said Russia’s Defense Ministry shared a video on Tuesday purporting to show the…

Can They Really Reinvent Kamala Harris In 70 Days? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, An Opportunistic Mediocrity In theory, it should be hard for Kamala Harris to win the…

US Manufacturing ISM Signals Accelerating Stagflation As PMI Turns Downright Apocalyptic Ahead of Friday’s payrolls report, there were rising expectations that the economic rebound observed in the past two weeks – and…

The Turkish president will travel to the meeting after Ankara reportedly applied for membership in the economic bloc Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accepted the Kremlin’s invitation to attend the BRICS…