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U Of Tampa RA Training Includes Scenario Of Student Feeling “Threatened” By Conservative Roommate With MAGA Flag By Brendan McDonald of CampusReform The University of Tampa’s resident advisor (RA) training featured a…

The Social Recession Is Accelerating Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Did wages rise 10-fold to match the 10-fold rise in the cost of a modest house? No. That is…

Lithuania’s prime minister publicly wished for a future “without Rusnya” while flanked by Zelensky During a speech marking Ukraine’s independence day, Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte used the term “Rusnya” – an…

Dems Scramble To Walk Back Harris’ Price Control Scheme Democrats are in damage control mode after Kamala Harris’ communist price control scheme received a harsh rebuke – including from the Washington Post,…

Heads I’m Smart, Tails I’m Stupid By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities That is how this week felt on many levels. Maybe it was because I was travelling, so I wasn’t staring…

Kiev must not stop people from praying in whatever church they want, the pontiff has said Pope Francis has said that he “fears for the freedom of those who pray,” after Ukraine’s …

Authorities in Ivory Coast have reportedly been investigating Kiev’s alleged training of Tuareg insurgents Kiev has been using its embassy in the West African country of Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire) for its…

Visualizing How The G20 Generates Electricity This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, shows how much electricity is generated from renewable sources among G20 countries. The data is based on Ember’s yearly and monthly…

Why State Enforcement Of “Fairness” Is Wrong Authored by Wanjiru Njoya via The Mises Institute, There is a popular perception that the role of the state is to uphold and enforce “fairness”…

Large numbers of faithful made symbolic march for days to reach Pochaevskaya Lavra monastery in the west of the country Hundreds of Ukrainian Orthodox faithful have arrived at a major monastery in…

These Are The Fattest States In America Global adult obesity rates have steadily increased in the past few decades, more than tripling from 5% to 16% from 1990 to 2022. With a much higher…

How Democrats Make Republicans: RFK Should Be A Wake Up Call For The Party Authored by Jonathan Turley, The withdrawal of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the presidential race and his endorsement of…

NSA whistleblower has called the arrest in France of Telegram founder Pavel Durov an “assault” on basic human rights The detention of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov jeopardizes the basic human…

Demonstrators have placed hundreds of paper airplanes in front of the diplomatic mission in support of Telegram’s detained founder Hundreds of paper planes symbolizing the logo of Telegram have been brought by…

Before Pavel Durov’s arrest, the messaging app’s “Russian origins” placed it in the bloc’s crosshairs The arrest in France of Telegram founder Pavel Durov is the latest escalation in an EU-wide campaign…

Taylor Swift Could Derail The Global Battle Against Inflation; UBS Via SchiffGold.com, Just when you thought the headlines couldn’t seem more absurd, Swiss banking giant UBS has issued a warning that in…

European Commission’s inaction on halted supplies of crude proves that Brussels is behind the flow stoppage, Hungary claims The European Commission (EC) is behind the stoppage of flows of Russian crude oil…

Death Of Woke: Queer Activist Video Game Funded By The EU Can’t Find Players If the new punk rock is to be politically correct, then it’s not punk rock.  The woke activist…

Britain, Which Birthed American Ideas About Liberty, Has Embraced Despotism Authored by Vince Coyner via AmericanThinker.com, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction”  – Ronald Reagan When I grew…

RFK JR delivered a short speech in Arizona, highlighting why it was both challenging and important for him to drop out of the race and support President Donald Trump.   The people closest…

Rutgers Prof Who Said She Hoped Trump Shooting Would “Inspire Others” Will Teach This Fall By Adam Sabes of Campus Reform The Rutgers University professor who was under an internal review after…

The latest barrage came in retaliation for the killing of the group’s commander Fouad Shukr last month The Islamic paramilitary group Hezbollah has fired hundreds of rockets at Israel to avenge the…

Why’d Bangladesh Lie About India Being Responsible For The Latest Floods? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, It serves as the cover for once again hosting anti-Indian separatists, which could in turn…

The “brutal terrorist attack” has also resulted in the injury of 13 people, including three children, Vyacheslav Gladkov said Five civilians have been killed and 13 more suffered injuries as a result…

French authorities have so far avoided engaging over the Telegram founder’s detention, the Russian embassy in Paris has said The Russian embassy in Paris swiftly demanded that French authorities explain the reasons…

Washington specifically used France to bypass its First Amendment in cracking down on Telegram’s founder, the American investor has suggested The US has violated its own constitutional freedoms by forcing its NATO…

Florian Philippot has asked if Elon Musk would be detained if he landed in the country Florian Philippot, the leader of France’s Patriots (Les Patriotes) party, has slammed the government of French…

The founder and CEO of Telegram was reportedly detained upon arriving at Paris-Le Bourget airport on Saturday US tech mogul Elon Musk has called for the release of Telegram founder and CEO…

When the messaging app had legal issues in Russia, Pavel Durov remained free, the foreign ministry’s spokeswoman noted Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova is asking if international human rights groups will…

American security agencies have been trying to get more control over Telegram for a long time, the tech entrepreneur believes Telegram CEO and founder Pavel Durov told American conservative journalist Tucker Carlson…

The 26-year-old Syrian national has turned himself in German authorities have arrested the suspected knifeman responsible for killing three people and injuring eight in the city of Solingen on Friday at the Festival…

The detainment of Telegram’s founder in France is the direct result of Washington’s sanctions, Ekaterina Mizulina has said The US has essentially ordered the French authorities to arrest Telegram founder Pavel Durov…

While no major Western leader made a concrete effort to engage with both Kiev and Moscow, Indian PM has showcased true willingness to find a long-term, mutually acceptable resolution to the conflict…

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 Telegram owner has reportedly been detained upon arriving in France on Saturday The arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov in France is a warning to platforms that stand up to censorship,…

Fascism 2.0 – Globalism & The Subjects Of Interest Authored by Paul Lancefield via Off-Guardian.org, This is Part 2 of Paul’s “Fascism 2.0” series, part one can be read HERE. In this second…

Net Migration: Which Regions Are Gaining Or Losing People? This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu, shows the flow of people globally by visualizing net migration by region, from 1950 to 2023…

America Divided On The Legacy Of Slavery Divides persist between many Black and white Americans’ views on the ongoing impacts of slavery in the United States. As Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, according…

Karim Khan has asked the court to decide on issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas leader Sinwar The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has called on the judges…

US Strike Eliminates Senior Al-Qaeda-Linked Terrorist Leader In Syria Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, A U.S. military drone strike has killed a senior leader of Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned…

Pavel Durov and his brother Nikolai are genuinely brilliant tech programmers, mathematicians and entrepreneurs.  The Durov brothers founded the Telegram communication app in 2013.  Telegram now has 950 million active users who…

Giga-Vaxxed Fauci Somehow Contracts Ultra-Rare West Nile Virus On Heels Of COVID-19 Infection Talk about bad luck! Former NAIAD Director Anthony Fauci – who outsourced risky COVID gain-of-function research to a shoddy…

Media Claims Elon Musk Is A Threat To Democracy… But Is “Democracy” Even Worth Saving? Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us There is perhaps nothing more tiresome and embarrassing as the theatrical…

Billionaire Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested In France Pavel Durov, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram was arrested at the Bourget airport outside of Paris Saturday evening, according to…

The Permanent Temptation Of All Governments Authored by Alex Pollock via The American Institute for Economic Research, In We Need to Talk About Inflation, his thoughtful, accessible tour of the history, theories, politics and…

The Russian-French tech entrepreneur has reportedly been detained on Saturday Russia must demand the immediate release of Telegram founder Pavel Durov who has been reportedly detained in France, Deputy Speaker of the…

Beheaded During BLM Riots, Washington Monument At GWU Vandalized By Pro-Palestinian Protesters Authored by Jennifer Kabbany via The College Fix, One bust of President George Washington inside the nation’s capitol just can’t…

Visualizing $5 Trillion In Global Commodity Exports, By Sector This chart, via Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao, categorizes over $5 trillion in global commodity exports by sector and the value of material exported….

The latest Abrams M1 tank has been destroyed by Russian forces in the country’s Kursk Region, Military Watch Magazine has reported Ukraine has lost two thirds of its US-supplied Abrams M1 main…

The knifeman who killed three people and wounded eight others in the city of Solingen on Friday night remains at large, police say Terrorism could be the motive behind the deadly stabbing…

Pavel Durov has been detained at Paris-Le Bourget Airport, according to local broadcaster LCI The founder of the messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, has been detained after he arrived in Paris on…

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party were hit with 2 major union scandals on Friday (23/8/24) with Bill Shorten’s crime gang, at the Heath Workers Union (HWU) headed up by…

Illegal Immigration Lull At Southwest Border Likely Temporary; Experts Say Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times, The number of immigrants illegally entering the United States is down at least…

New York To Pay $155 Per Megawatt Hour For Wind-Power, Current Rate Is $36 Per MWH Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, It currently costs NY about $36 per MWH for energy….

Gat Summer: 22 Shot, 6 Dead In Chicago During First 3 Days Of DNC While Democrats prance around the DNC in Chicago with manufactured enthusiasm for Kamala Harris, a deadly week unfolded…

It Hasn’t Worked Once, So Why Would A Politician Go All-In On Price Controls Now? Authored by Mark Jeftovic via TheNationalTelegraph.com, August 15th was the anniversary of the infamous “Nixon Shock”, when…

Elon’s SpaceX To Rescue Stranded Astronauts After NASA Dumps Boeing NASA said it has selected Elon Musk’s SpaceX to bring home the US astronauts who were forced to extend their stay at the International Space…

The upcoming cold months will be more challenging than they were last year, holder of the country’s energy portfolio has warned Ukrainian citizens must prepare for a winter that will be more…

Newest US Aid Package For Ukraine Includes More HIMARS Munitions To Attack Russia The United States has introduced another new package of military aid to Ukraine, reported to be worth around $125…

“It’s Socialism!”: Peter Schiff Destroys Kamala Harris’ Economic Policy Agenda Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance In a recent hourlong audio interview with Fringe Finance, renowned economist Peter Schiff shared his perspective on the…

Red Sea Crisis: Footage Captures Suezmax Tanker Explosion After Houthi Missile Strike As West Fails To Secure Chokepoint Western nations, led by the US and ones across Europe, with the most modern warship…

The former US President has promised RFK Jr. he’ll release all JFK assassination files if reelected to the White House Former US President Donald Trump has accepted the endorsement of Robert F….

A Lancet performed a precision strike on the invading forces in Kursk Region, according to Russian Defense Ministry footage Moscow has released video footage of a Lancet drone destroying a Ukrainian tank…

New Delhi has also been a long-time defense partner of Moscow India and the United States have signed an agreement to supply each other with resources critical for national security, the US…

Target CEO Says Retailers Can’t Price Gouge In Competitive Industry Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In a highly competitive environment, retailers cannot engage in the practice of…

US Fertility Rate Drops To Record Low: CDC Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The U.S. fertility rate dropped to its lowest level in U.S. history, according to new data…

80 years ago Marshal Carl Gustaf Mannerheim became President of Finland. An extraordinary person, he was a military commander and statesman in both Russia and Finland, and left behind a controversial legacy…

If you are a man, I’m sure you’ve reflected on the men who influenced your life. We automatically think of dads, of course, who have such profound and critical importance in not…

Mike Lynch and six others died after their at-anchor vessel sank in the Mediterranean Sea on Monday Authorities in Italy have opened a manslaughter investigation into the sinking of a yacht off…

Ottawa is well aware of Yaroslav Hunka’s “dark past” but still refuses to hand him over, Russia’s ambassador has said Moscow will continue its efforts to make sure Canada hands over 99-year-old…

Woman Arrested For Silently Praying Outside Abortion Clinic Wins $17,000 From Police A pro-life activist who was arrested for quietly praying outside of an abortion clinic has been paid approximately $17,000 USD from the…

Argentinian Gold Reserves Arrive In London By Jan Nieuwenhuijs of Gainesville Coins In June the UK received a gold shipment worth $150 million dollars from Argentina. Most likely, the gold was sent…

‘Festival Of Diversity’ Horror: Manhunt For ‘Arab-Looking’ Man After 3 Killed, 8 Wounded In Mass Stabbing In Germany A major manhunt is underway after a Friday night mass stabbing attack killed three…

Russia’s Capture Of Pokrovsk Could Reshape The Conflict’s Dynamics Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Ukrainian officials have urged locals in and around the town of Pokrovsk to evacuate within the next…

The country’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the incident was “clearly criminal” A police officer was injured when a car exploded outside the Beth Yaacov synagogue in the French town of La…

The US Treasury Department has claimed that Moscow’s financial institutions evade sanctions by opening subsidiaries in third countries Nations which maintain economic ties with Russia risk secondary sanctions if they allow Russian…

Melanie Muller has been ordered to hand over €80,000 ($89,000) for the unlawful gesture A German court has slapped pop star and former reality TV personality Melanie Muller with a hefty fine…

Hungary May Send Migrants To Brussels To Avenge Asylum Fine Several years ago, Texas had a brilliant idea: take the millions of illegal immigrant that were flooding its territory as a result…

The low level of interpersonal confidence could be determined by social and economic factors, VCIOM has suggested Nearly 73% of Russians said that people need to be careful while interacting with their…

The Republican nominee’s campaign has blasted the Vice President for trying to appease “far-left” voters during her DNC acceptance speech Former US President Donald Trump’s campaign has hit out at Democratic presidential…

The bill outlaws any religious organizations considered to have ties to Moscow Vladimir Zelensky has signed a law that allows the banning of any religious group suspected of having ties to Russia….

Russia’s economy is growing while those of the EU are suffering, Forbes-listed billionaire Alisher Usmanov has said Western sanctions against Russia have yielded results that are the opposite of their stated goal,…

Moscow and Kiev have swapped 115 troops each in a prisoner exchange, the Russian Defense Ministry has said More than a hundred Russian troops captured by Ukraine during its incursion into Russia’s…

In between two rallies in Las Vegas and Arizona, President Trump stopped briefly to answer questions from the press pool about the endorsement from Robert F Kennedy Jr. President Trump mentioned it…

The independent presidential candidate has endorsed Republican Donald Trump over the latter’s stance on the crisis Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused US President Joe Biden of disrupting peace negotiations between Russia…

Larry Kudlow delivered a monologue outlining his pragmatic and positive perspective on the Robert F Kennedy endorsement of President Trump. Mr Kudlow sees a net positive from the RFK JR endorsement and…

Washington reportedly has no clear sense of Kiev’s goals in seizing land inside Russia President Joe Biden’s administration is uncertain regarding Ukraine’s strategy in Kursk Region and is worried about a possible…

Washington has launched so many curbs that the Kremlin simply does not care about new ones, Russia’s ambassador has said Washington’s latest round of sanctions against Moscow is aimed at underscoring US…

COVID-19: The Preventable Pandemic Authored by Jeff M. Smith via RealClearWorld, When the Heritage Foundation released its comprehensive report on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, headlines tended to focus on the cost to the…

The Top 10 Countries By Gold Reserves In 2024 (& Who’s Adding Most) Central banks hold gold reserves due to their safety, liquidity, and return characteristics. They are significant owners of gold,…

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…

An angry mob stormed an airport in the predominately Muslim region of Dagestan last year A Russian court has handed lenghty prison sentences to five men convicted of participating in the 2023…

Curcumin Is Effective In Reducing Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors: Study Authored by Zrinka Peters via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Curcumin is well known for its widespread health benefits, particularly for its antioxidant…

Government Report Links High Fluoride Exposure With Low IQ Among Children Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Exposing children to high levels of fluoride is “consistently associated” with…

Snipers Respond To Islamist-Inspired Rebellion, Hostage Crisis At Russian Prison Russian authorities have confirmed that on Friday there was a major, violent uprising at a maximum security prison in the country’s south….

These Are The Countries With The Highest Wealth Inequality How is wealth distributed across countries, and what is the scale of these disparities? This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Kayla Zhu, shows wealth…

CTH has expressed our concerns previously.  I always hope to be wrong about intelligence community connected politicians.   That said, I shall be a good team player and hope/pray to be wrong about…

US Natural Gas Is America’s Clean Energy Standard Authored by  Jason Hayes & Timothy G. Nash via RealClearEnergy, Abundant and affordable energy drives America’s powerful and productive economy. That’s been true throughout our…