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US authorities are seeking to strengthen competition in the online search industry American tech giant Google broke the law by establishing a monopoly on online searches, a federal judge ruled on Monday….

Ukraine is preparing the “foundation” for a “just end” to the hostilities with Russia, according to its leader’s latest statement Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has claimed that his administration aims to work out a…

Saboteurs have attempted to cross the border in Kursk Region, Aleksey Smirnov has said Russian forces have prevented an attempted border incursion by a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group, the acting governor…

Bloomberg staff have reportedly been reprimanded for prematurely breaking the news of a US-Russia exchange Bloomberg News has reportedly dismissed one of its journalists and taken disciplinary action against other staff members,…

India aims for 500GW from renewables by 2030, adding 50GW annually, mostly solar and wind, boosted by the recent national budget To support its rapid economic growth, India, the world’s most populous…

Soldiers and military equipment have been removed from Air Base 201 in central Niger, according to a joint statement The US Army has finished withdrawing from its last base in Niger, the…

The WHO Is No Longer Fit For Purpose Via The Brownstone Institute, The following is an excerpt from Dr. Ramesh Thakur’s book, Our Enemy, the Government: How Covid Enabled the Expansion and Abuse…

Peripheral Neuropathy: Symptoms, Causes, Treatments, And Natural Approaches Authored by Teri Ward via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Peripheral neuropathy (PN) is a severe and complex neurological disorder affecting 20 million to…

Western-backed figures have contested President Nicolas Maduro’s election victory and have called on the country’s security forces to join protests  Venezuela has launched a criminal investigation into Western-backed opposition figures Edmundo Gonzalez…

Fumio Kishida spoke about “Russia’s nuclear threat” but refrained from condemning Washington for annihilating the city in 1945 Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has refrained from mentioning the role of the US…

Germany’s EV Sales Sink 37% As Subsidies End Authored by Michael Kern via OilPrice.com, The biggest European car market, Germany, saw the sales of electric vehicles plummet by 36.8% in July from…

At least five American service members deployed in Iraq were injured by a rocket barrage on Monday The US is expecting further attacks on its troops in the Middle East, as Hezbollah…

These Are The World’s Biggest Submarine Fleets Submarines are crucial for navies because they provide stealthy, strategic capabilities for surveillance, deterrence, and offensive operations in underwater environments. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s…

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…

How Trump Can Win (Or Lose) The Election Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, The Good News The good news for the Trump campaign is that the sure Democratic nominee…

British PM Keir Starmer has slammed the billionaire’s statement about the inevitability of civil war in the UK as unjustifiable A heated back-and-forth has broken out between British Prime Minister Keir Starmer…

“No Forgiveness”: Maduro Arrests 2,000 Venezuelan Protesters, Vows ‘Maximum Punishment’ Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Post-election demonstrations in Venezuela continue as pressure mounts against disputed President Nicolás…

DOJ Should Investigate China’s United Front Groups Over Violence In San Francisco: Report Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Two U.S.-based advocacy groups are calling on the Department…

Excessive Internet Use Disrupts Key Parts Of The Teenage Brain Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The internet drives news cycles and touches practically every aspect of our…

These Are The Richest Suburbs In America New York, California, and Texas are home to most of the wealthiest suburbs in the United States. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Marcu Lu, ranks…

Bangladesh Leader Flees Country In Helicopter As Protesters Storm Parliament Via Middle East Eye Bangladesh’s long-serving Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, resigned and fled the country on Monday, after protesters defied a military curfew and stormed…

Seattle Considers ‘Catching And Releasing’ From Des Moines Facility After King County Jail Runs Out Of Space Talk about eating your own tail… Seattle is infested with so much crime, its jails…

What Is The Relationship Between Tech Innovation And Investor Euphoria Submitted by Brent Johnson of Santiago Capital. Executive Summary This report delves into the profound investment implications of innovation eras, specifically examining…

Barron Trump likes to watch Adin Ross and the audience Ross creates with his podcast is very unique and young.  Old media is dead for the majority of young people and younger…

“Chip Wars” Will Soon Be “Data Center Wars”, As Our “Next AI Trade” Develops As we have alluded to numerous times when talking about the next “AI” trade, data centers will be the…

Federal Court Orders California College To Drop Censorship Policy Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, A federal judge ordered a California community college on Aug. 2 not to enforce a…

Plot Twist: RFK Jr Says He Put A Dead Bear In Central Park, Staged Accident Scene With wild plot twists and high intrigue, the 2024 election has been playing out like a…

Is Kamala Harris Going To Make The Entire Country As Lawless As Her Hometown? Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, Kamala Harris is being touted as…

Two Chinese Nationals In U.S. Illegally Stopped With $250,000 In Gold Bars On Them In Texas Just a normal everyday traffic stop: pulling over a couple of Chinese nationals, driving through Texas,…

The Upside Of Adversity Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, A steady diet of adversity prepares one for both the low-level adversities of daily life but also for the metaphorical…

Report Finds Biden-Harris Released 99 Illegal Aliens On FBI Terror Watchlist Into American Communities  A new interim staff report from the House Judiciary Committee and Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement,…

This is a good video to put context to his familiar linguistic jingle that we keep hearing from Democrats, “our democracy.” [Citation] pic.twitter.com/PMJ2FZwgke — Devout American (@AmericanDevout) August 5, 2024 . The…

The rocket strike comes as US and Israel brace for an Iranian reprisal Several American soldiers have sustained injuries in a rocket attack on Ayn Al-Asad Airbase in western Iraq, Reuters has…

Turkish mediation made last week’s prisoner exchange possible, Hakan Fidan has said Ankara’s mediation in the prisoner exchange between Moscow and Washington shows that Türkiye is trusted by both powers, Turkish Foreign…

Putting some context data together before a video that should concern everyone. Representative Jamie Raskin’s (U-MD) son, Tommy Raskin killed himself right after the 2020 election at the age of 25.  Congressman…

The region will unfortunately always be a source of bad news, but the great powers aren’t going to risk a broader conflict over it The elaborate assassination of a Hamas leader in…

Monday Massacre Brought To You By Kazuo’s Carry-Chaos, Kamalanomics, & Jump’s Crypto Dump Well it started with a Japanic… but really Asian markets were just playing catch down to Friday’s moves. Yen…

CrowdStrike Lawyer Blasts Delta For “Misleading Narrative” Surrounding Global IT Outage  CrowdStrike lawyer Michael Carlinsky, who is a co-managing partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, penned a letter on Sunday to Delta Air…

UN Fires Nine Gaza Staff Members Likely Involved In Oct.7 Attacks This looks like an admission of guilt after months of denial: “The UN said on Monday that nine staff working for…

And Suddenly Things Change… Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “The global economy is becoming unburdened by what has been.” – Jordan Schachtel on “X” That two-by-four upside our country’s head…

Tehran has reportedly warned pilots and aviation authorities to avoid its airspace as it threatens to retaliate against Israel Iran has issued a notice to pilots and aviation authorities to avoid its…

Former Secret Service Chief Wanted To Destroy Cocaine Evidence Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and others in top agency leadership positions wanted to destroy the…

Investigators have alleged that corruption at Patriot Park involved the deputy head of R&D One of Russia’s top generals has been caught up in the alleged embezzlement of state funds at Patriot…

Alphabet Shares Tumble After Losing DoJ Antitrust Suit Over Search In what could be a ground-breaking victory for the Justice Departments, a federal judge ruled Monday that Google’s payments to make its…

US Power Producers Binge On Ultra-Cheap Gas By John Kemp, Senior Energy Analyst U.S. electricity generators consumed a record amount of gas in the first four months of the year as prices…

The American economy is too financialized to withstand any sustained drop in asset prices It’s carnage out there in the markets, and things have been moving with the force of a tsunami….

The downturn could have started sometime around last October, a former Federal Reserve advisor has said The United States may already be in a “plain vanilla recession,” a former advisor to the…

North Korea’s Kim Oversees Transfer Of 250 Ballistic Missile Launchers To Border North Korea has moved some 250 new tactical ballistic missile launchers to its heavily militarized border with South Korea in…

Putin’s Top Defense Officials Are In Tehran Amid Countdown To Zero Hour On Monday as the Middle East approaches zero hour of Iran’s expected major retaliation attack on Israel, there is a…

From Biden To Bonds: Unmasking A Template Of Lies Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Political opinions are almost as vast as financial opinions—from bull to bear, or left to right. But…

The government has undertaken several initiatives seeking to tap into the lucrative market India’s Tata Electronics has begun the construction of a new $3.2 billion semiconductor plant, which is expected to generate…

Iran Says It Must ‘Punish’ Israel, Begins Clearing Airspace; Biden To Hold Situation Room Meeting President Joe Biden will convene his national security team in the situation room on Monday afternoon as…

The Met Police’s Mark Rowley was asked about the “two-tier policing” of recent riots Britain’s top law enforcement official ripped out a reporter’s microphone after being asked a question about double standards…

The End Of The Beginning By Michael Every of Rabobank The end of the beginning “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it…

Governors In 3 States Declare Emergencies As Hurricane Debby Pounds Florida And Threatens East Coast Hurricane Debby made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on Florida’s Big Bend today, missing ‘Wall Street of the South’—otherwise known…

The police have the means to deal with the raging violence, according to Defense Secretary John Healey The British Army will not be involved in dealing with widespread rioting across the UK,…

Japan’s Nikkei had its worst day since 1987 on Monday, with other Asian markets plunging and European stocks nearing six-month lows Stock markets around the world plunged on Monday, with shares tumbling…

ALDE’s Kira Rudik expressed disappointment that recently released Kremlin critic Ilya Yashin has called on Moscow and Kiev to negotiate A Ukrainian MP and vice president of the pan-European party ALDE has…

New Delhi is concerned about a possible spillover of the violence that has toppled the government in the neighboring country India is bracing for possible fallout from Bangladesh, where mass student protests…

Sheikh Hasina reportedly intends to travel to London, after being forced to flee the country amid deadly riots Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina traveled to India on Monday, RT sources in…

ISM Services Survey Surged In July… After the shitshow of Soft Survey data on the Manufacturing sector last week, analysts are hoping for some heroics from the Services sector. Amid the collapse…

‘Be Careful’: Neil Gorsuch Issues Dire Warning Over Biden’s Reforms Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch issued a stern warning about President Joe Biden’s proposals to…

Black Monday: Futures Plummet As VIX Hits 62, Japan Suffers Worst Point Drop In History Good morning and welcome to a global market meltdown, sparked by last week’s catastrophic BOJ decision to…

Jim Grant On Gold: A Constructively Inhibiting Institution Authored by James Grant via CoolidgeReview.com, I stand with anachronism. I like the low hum of cultured voices, great books, and the dead authors…

The Chinese Foreign Ministry says the China-Brazil proposal has received a “positive response” from over 110 countries South Africa has endorsed a China-Brazil proposed roadmap for resolving the conflict between Russia and…

US Prepares To Ban Chinese EV Software With Level 3 Automation On All Roadways, Citing National Security Risks If levying more than 100% tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles wasn’t enough, the Biden administration is…

Drivers of vehicles modified to create excessive noise may lose their license, the city police have warned Traffic police in the Russian city of St. Petersburg have launched a crackdown on vehicles…

Kiev is working to erode the concerns of its foreign backers, the Ukrainian leader has said Ukraine is pushing NATO nations to create a coalition that would attempt to intercept Russian missiles,…

Recently released American Paul Whelan was accused of gathering data on FSB operatives RT has obtained an exclusive video of the arrest of ex-US Marine Paul Whelan in a sting operation several…

Nvidia Reportedly Delays Next AI Chip As Shares Tank On Global Selloff  Nvidia shares plunged in early premarket trading in New York. The world’s most valuable chip maker is being battered by a global…

Password removed from this post (only) to permit larger dissemination. There are many very important positions related to the expectations we hold for President Trump.  Having spent years deep inside the actual…

New IRS Rules Create Headaches For Post-2019 IRA Inheritors It took them four-and-a-half years, but the IRS has issued final rules governing mandatory distributions from traditional 401k’s, IRAs, and other retirement plans…

The BITCOIN Act Of 2024 Explained Authored by Colin Crossman via Bitcoin Magazine, Following the announcement on July 27th at the Bitcoin conference in Nashville, the “Boosting Innovation, Technology, and Competitiveness through…

Zelensky Shows Off Newly Arrived US F-16 Jets From Secret Location Ukraine’s President Zelensky has continued poking the Russian bear, this time by showing off $60+ million (a pop) new toys given…

The crash comes amid wider turmoil in the global financial markets Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has shed more than 10% of its value in one day, amid a…

The South Asian country has been engulfed in violence as student activists have demanded a fairer recruitment system for government jobs Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country via military helicopter…

Moscow previously said that the now-released WSJ journalist had attempted to gain intel on the national defense industry RT has obtained an exclusive video showing the moment Russian law enforcement detained Wall…

The Western-supplied armor was eliminated using a Lancet loitering munition and a Msta-S howitzer, the Defense Ministry has said Russian forces have destroyed two more Western-supplied Leopard tanks in Ukraine, the Defense…

Two preachers allegedly funneled at least 19 fighters to jihadists in Syria Two Russian religious figures allegedly involved in recruiting fighters for Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) have been taken into custody,…

Bola Tinubu has warned that his government will not stand idly by while people with a “political agenda” tear the country apart Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has called for the suspension of…

The “inept US leadership” of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris has caused the turmoil, the former president has claimed As stock markets in the US and worldwide are taking a tumble, former…

High-profile “exposés” will target sports historically dominated by Russians, Moscow’s Foreign Intelligence Service has said The US is preparing a series of high-profile “exposés” about alleged doping abuses in Russian sport, Moscow’s…

Scientists Develop New Compound That Kills Flesh-Eating And Other Drug-Resistant Bacteria Authored by Marina Zhang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Twenty years ago, professor Fredrik Almqvist, an organic chemistry professor at…

Visualizing Big Tech’s Reliance On Conflict Minerals According to its conflict minerals report (CMR) for 2023, Amazon cannot rule out having sourced minerals from nine of ten African countries where human rights-violating militias…

Stocks on the Tokyo exchange have plummeted over recession fears in the US economy   Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index suffered its biggest ever one-day loss on Monday as a global…

Leader Kim Jong-un has overseen a parade of 250 of the tactical systems that will bolster the country’s border defenses North Korea has bolstered its military capabilities with 250 new tactical ballistic…

Officials in Kiev claim they have prevented dozens of sportsmen and women from receiving clearance for the Paris Olympics The Ukrainian government actively backed a journalist who made it his mission to…

Following staggering drops in Japan’s Nikkei and Bitcoin, European banks are tumbling to March lows Stock markets went into a meltdown on Monday amid fears that the US could be heading for…

US Intelligence Claims Russian Military Is Advising Houthis Inside Yemen Via Middle East Eye Russian military intelligence officers are believed to have been deployed to Yemen to assist the Iran-backed Houthis with targeting commercial vessels in…

China Is The World’s Biggest Beer-Producer China is the world’s leading producer of beer, according to the BarthHaas Report released today. In 2023, the country’s output stood at 360 million hectoliters of beer. A hectoliter…

Mali has accused Kiev of violating its sovereignty and supporting international terrorism Mali’s interim government has announced that it is breaking off diplomatic relations with Ukraine. The measure was taken in response…

The Taiwanese athlete was disqualified from the World Championships last year after failing “eligibility criteria” Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting, who has been at the center of a gender controversy at the Paris…

UK Riots: The Agenda Becomes Clear… Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, Those outside the UK might not have heard, but it’s been a violent week in the UK. Here’s a quick…

Top officials reportedly believe the move could be justified if there is conclusive intelligence that Tehran is about to attack Israel could launch a “preemptive strike” on Iran if it receives intelligence…

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…

PBoC’s Gold Conduit Revealed: Chinese Central Bank Did Not Stop Buying Gold In May By Jan Nieuwenhuijs of Gainesville Coins This article is an analysis of how the Chinese central bank (PBoC)…

YouTuber WhistlinDiesel ‘Full Sends’ Cybertruck Through Durability Test, Including ‘C-4’ Denotation  YouTuber Cody Detwiler, known as WhistlinDiesel, released a video on Friday in which he stress-tested a Tesla Cybertruck and a Ford F-150. Although…

Nearly Half Of Dementia Cases Could Be Prevented Or Delayed: Lancet Commission Authored by A.C. Daahnke via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An estimated 57 million people around the world are living…