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“The US Economy Is Inverted”: How The Flood Of Illegal Immigration Is Delaying The Official US Recession By Dhaval Joshi, Chief Strategist at BCA Research Summary The US economy is highly unusually…

The operation in the southern Gaza city is needed to “defeat” the Hamas militant group for good, the Israeli PM insists Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday reiterated his resolve to…

Musk Warns Ukraine May Lose Odessa & Black Sea Access If It Doesn’t Negotiate Elon Musk has once again urged negotiated settlement to end the Ukraine war while warning Ukraine that seeking…

Once the US has its claws in a country, it won’t let go easily – and friend or foe, you’ll be left drained and broken ‘March Madness’ is such a NATO thing….

Pandemic Whiskey Boom Turns To Hangover Authored by Douglas French via The Mises Institute, Yeah, the other night I laid sleeping  And I woke from a terrible dream  So I caught up…

White House Approves Transfer To Israel Of More Bombs & Jets Worth Billions The Biden White House has approved of sending billions of dollars worth of new military equipment and ammo to…

British authorities, however, have apparently opted to keep the findings out of the public domain Lawyers for the UK government have established Israel has been breaking humanitarian law amid its ongoing conflict…

How Much Do Food Stamps, Social Security, And Medicare Support The Economy? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Inquiring minds might be interested in a discussion of government transfer payments as a…

Fire, Then Ice: Our Deflationary Future Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTWoMinds blog, Lest you weep for those whose phantom wealth will be drained away, recall that few win when a…

Criminal White House Press Corps Has Been Looting Air Force One In case you needed one more reason to despise legacy-media journalists, Politico reports that White House correspondents have been routinely looting…

Rotations By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities “Rotations” We will use the term “rotation” a bit more broadly today. Yes, it will incorporate what we typically think of as rotations, but will…

Is Baseball For Boomers? While baseball is often referred to as “America’s favorite pastime”, American football has long surpassed baseball as the nation’s favorite sport to watch. For several reasons, including first…

The item seen as sacrilegious has caused outrage among Muslims in Malaysia A Molotov Cocktail was thrown at a KK Super Mart, one of Malaysia’s major convenience-store chains, in a city in…

Russia has insisted that Ukraine hand over those it believes were involved in last week’s deadly attack near Moscow, including its spy chief Moscow has demanded that Ukraine surrender everyone in the…

Everything will be done to make sure that those “rascals” are punished, Aleksandr Bortnikov has vowed The identities of those who are organizing terrorist attacks against Russia are known to the country’s…

Happy Easter Amid The Squatters And Lunatics Authored by Donald Jeffries via ‘I Protest’ Substack, Spring is in the air, to quote a time honored expression. The atheists must really struggle at…

I bit my tongue, preferring to focus my energy on the celebration of Easter as it represents the purest exhibition of Christian faith, the resurrection. The sun rose today as it deemed…

The French president was right in his attempt to be “strategically ambiguous” on the issue, Finland’s foreign minister says French President Emmanuel Macron has done the right thing with his efforts to…

“Capitalism Has Failed” Authored by Jeff Thomas via International Man, Today, more than at any time previously, Westerners are justifying a move toward collectivist thinking with the phrase, “Capitalism has failed.” In…

The elderly tourist was apprehended by police following a false alarm and has now been released, according to reports Police have released an elderly Italian citizen who was apprehended at a railway…

From Enlightenment To Ignorance: Society’s Dangerous Embrace Of Stupidity Authored by Anthony Esolen via American Greatness, What would be the state of a society in which a will to stupidity were united with a will…

RAND Sees “Internet Of Brains” By 2050  Elon Musk-led Neuralink Corp. implanted a brain chip into the head of a 29-year-old man with quadriplegia. The paralyzed millennial was recently seen using what he…

Globalists Claim Mass Immigration Helps The US Economy – Here’s Why That’s A Lie Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, I have said it many times in the past but I think…

Some French products could be declared ‘not welcome’ in Russia, the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has warned Moscow could potentially boycott certain French goods, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman warned on Sunday, after Paris…

Concern Over Food & Water Supply Grows Among Europeans Spain’s northeast Catalonia region is currently suffering its worst drought on record. And, as Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, it’s not just Spain afflicted with…

Destruction Of American-Made M1 Abrams Tanks Is A Sign Of Ukrainian Desperation Authored by Mike Fredenburg via The Epoch Times, Thirty-one M1 Abrams tanks were delivered to Ukraine in September/October of 2023…

The attack at the Crocus City Hall is just the latest episode in the country’s more than 30-year struggle against violent extremism Last week, terrorists opened fire on concert goers before a…

The Russian armed forces say they targeted three Su-25s in Nikolaev The Russian Defense Ministry reported on Sunday that it has destroyed three Ukrainian Su-25 close air support warplanes. The military jets…

Firearms and an explosive device were discovered during the raids, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) has said Three terrorist suspects have been detained by security forces in Russia’s Republic of Dagestan, the…

Neighbors should have friendly relations, a woman from Kharkov told journalists earlier Police in Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkov, have said that criminal proceedings have been launched against a local woman who…

The CEO of a Moscow-based drug maker said Indian companies are making forays into the local market as Western majors leave Indian pharmaceutical companies have increased their presence in Russia after Western…

Acts 10:34a, 37-43 Peter proceeded to speak and said: “You know what has happened all over Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth…

The Era Of Informed Consent Is Over Authored by Victor Dalziel via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In a significant blow to patient autonomy, informed consent has been quietly revoked just 77…

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…

Wow, talk about a strange convergence of conversations.  As we discuss the global financial cleaving, Cardinal Gerhard Müller talks about how the West is diminishing God and faith, but faith is growing…

Indian astronomers will play a critical role in the 16-nation Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO), whose dish array antennas began being set up this month and which will start scanning the far…

Rivian Drivers Are The Most ‘Brand-Loyal’ Vehicle-Owners In The World This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu, visualizes the best and worst car brands in terms of brand loyalty. This is measured…

The White House has also banned religious-themed eggs from the annual Easter Egg Roll event US President Joe Biden is facing an angry backlash from conservative and religious critics after he traditionally…

A cargo ship impacted the supports of a bridge over the Arkansas River less than a week after a deadly incident in Baltimore The Oklahoma State Patrol has completely closed off traffic…

Behind Massive Mail-In Ballot Push Is A Little-Noticed Executive Order Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal effort to register voters using the government’s vast reach, including…

Black Mayors Hold National Meeting On Crime – Discussion Closed To The Public The “Black Mayors’ Coalition on Crime” gathered this week in Memphis, Tennessee to discuss the dangers of crime across…

In 2024, Digital Is Everything In Politics Authored by Scott Farmer via RealClear Politics, As the 2024 election heats up, now is the time for campaigns to invest wisely. Questions abound: Do…

The Dutch air defense unit will hold NATO “readiness” drills in Lithuania The Netherlands will deploy a Patriot air defense unit to NATO ally Lithuania as part of a summer joint air…

Exult, let them exult, the hosts of heaven, exult, let Angel ministers of God exult, let the trumpet of salvation sound aloud our mighty King’s triumph! Be glad, let earth be glad,…

Deadly Lung Disease Cases Surge To 10-Year High, Children Most Affected: CDC Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. cases of tuberculosis, a deadly infectious disease that typically…

Payment Processor Stripe Backs Off Dr. Malone After Legal Threat Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Stripe, the only payment processor Substack writers can use, has backed off…

Kiev should pursue a “negotiated settlement” with Moscow before it loses all access to the Black Sea, the billionaire has argued Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has reiterated his belief that Ukraine’s…

$935 Diabetes Jab Can Be Made For Less Than $5, Study Suggests Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It costs Novo Nordisk less than $5 per month to…

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An Ask Me Anything thread is soon to follow.  Here’s the context: I never expected to travel the world of a dollar-based central bank digital currency implementation.  Two years ago, I was…

The US-led bloc used tons of depleted uranium ordnance during its aggression, with the impact not fully explored even a quarter century later Serbia is marking the anniversary of the NATO attack…

America’s Ongoing Death-By-A-Thousand-Cuts Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, Oh Say Can You See? “A modern nuc can fit in the trunk of a compact car. When millions of people can…

The CIA head’s vision for the future of America’s ongoing confrontation with Russia is surprisingly shortsighted William J. Burns has published a long piece in Foreign Affairs under the title ‘Spycraft and…

“Long Troubled” CarePoint New Jersey Hospitals To Undergo Financial Restructuring It looks like high interest rate market shocks and the commercial real estate dumpster fire have only just begun. The latest example…

David McBride and his lawyers have accused the ABC’s Four Corners program of broadcasting a biased story attacking McBride before he is sentenced for leaking government documents to the ABC. McBride’s lawyers…

A new video has surfaced online showing a Lancet-family loitering munition striking a Ukrainian M1 Abrams A Russian Lancet-family kamikaze drone has scored a hit on a US-supplied Ukrainian M1 Abrams tank,…

The Ukrainian president has dismissed a long-time aide, Sergey Shefir, as well as several senior advisers Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky fired his long-time associate and aide Sergey Sherif on Saturday. He has…

Victoria White Files $2 Million Suit For Police Using ‘Excessive’ Force In Jan. 6 Beating Authored by Joseph M. Hanneman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Minnesota woman beaten by police…

Israel Believes Only 60-70 Out Of 134 Hostages Are Still Alive Israel’s official count for the number of people still being held hostage in the Gaza Strip remains at 134 mostly Israeli…

Republicans Score Win in Court Battle Over Pennsylvania Mail-In Ballot Requirements By Zach Stieber of The Epoch Times Pennsylvania rules that require mail-in ballots to be dated are legal, a federal appeals…

“Your Life Is In Danger”: Suge Knight Warns Diddy Over ‘That Secret Little Room’ Imprisoned rap mogul Suge Knight opined on recent happenings involving hip-hop rival Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, whose houses in…

US Withheld From Russia Intel On Terror Plot Due To ‘Adversarial Relationship’ Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The US did not share all the information it had about a terrorist plot…

The art director and business executive were recently arrested on charges of promoting LGBT Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service have added the managers of a queer nightclub in the central part of…

Watch: New York Governor Kathy Hochul Confronted At Slain NYPD Officer’s Wake New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) was confronted by a mourner during the wake for slain NYPD officer Jonathan Diller…

How did crown jewels from Ghana end up in London, and is there any way to bring them back home? At the end of January, the British Museum and Victoria & Albert…

Biden Claims Saudi Arabia, Qatar ‘Ready To Normalize’ With Israel Via The Cradle US President Joe Biden said at a campaign event on Thursday that Arab states, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are ready…

“Anti-Hunger Games”: Zepbound Supplies At Pharmacies Dwindle As Obese Patients Rage Obese Americans have flocked to weight loss drugs, such as Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and Eli Lilly’s Zepbound. Surging demand for both drugs has…

Deep State Good, Total Surveillance State Even Better Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, So the Deep State is good, but the Total Surveillance State is even better. The Deep…

The Ukrainian president has suggested that a return to 1991 borders is no longer a precondition for negotiations Ukraine must take into account the fact that its borders have changed drastically since…

The decision came after the Finnish transport authority claimed that Türkiye’s Southwind Airlines is partly owned by Russian investors The European Union has closed its airspace to Türkiye’s Southwind Airlines over its…

Baltimore Bridge Collapse: Container Ship “Potentially Atop High-Pressure Underwater Gas Line” The federal government authorized $60 million for salvage efforts for the 1.6-mile-long Francis Scott Key Bridge at the Port of Baltimore,…

Biden’s New Math: 25% = 100% So Free-Lunch For Everybody Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk.com, The Biden administration just issued a new directive. If 25 percent of a school is low…

Judge Rebukes DOJ Arguments Against Release Of Jan. 6 Defendant Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Kevin Seefried holds a Confederate flag outside the Senate Chamber during a…

The authorities say the relocations are not related to the Games, claiming emergency accommodation centers have reached saturation At least 500 migrants and rough-sleepers have been moved from the capital to rural…

Why The Department Of Justice Wants To Take Down Apple Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, On May 5, 2021, White House press secretary Jen Psaki issued a mob-like warning to…

The troops would reportedly take charge of maintaining law and order in the region and escorting humanitarian aid convoys Israel is considering establishing a multi-national military force in Gaza to take charge…

Admiral Rob Bauer has suggested the bloc should get better prepared, while Moscow has dismissed attack speculation as “utter nonsense” There are no signs that Russia is gearing up for an attack…

‘Microsoft’ Remains (By Far) The Most Impersonated Brand In Email Scams We all know the emails: “Dear user, please click the following link to update your credentials. Otherwise your Office 365 account…

Chris Hedges: The Crucifixion Of Julian Assange Authored by Chris Hedges via ScheerPost, The Crucifixion of Julian Assange – by Mr. Fish Prosecutors representing the United States, whether by design or incompetence,…

From an ancient homily for Holy Saturday. What is happening? Today there is a great silence over the earth, a great silence, and stillness, a great silence because the King sleeps; the…

Mapped coordinates show the routes people took to the location from July 2016 until the financier’s arrest in July 2019, according to Wired Nearly 200 people made multiple trips to disgraced financier…

New Delhi attributed the incident, which took place in March 2022, to a ‘technical malfunction’ during maintenance The Indian Air Force (IAF) has for the first time disclosed the details behind an…

The US Navy “did not have adequate internal controls to prevent overexecution” of allocated funds, the department’s watchdog has said The US Navy has overspent hundreds of millions of dollars in aid…

The Congress Party has blamed the ruling BJP of denying it a level playing field after being served a $218mn tax notice The Indian National Congress, the country’s largest opposition party, has…

The Hungarian PM has said he is making efforts towards reaching a diplomatic solution to the conflict between Kiev and Moscow Ukraine’s path to peace and security could lie in establishing a…

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…

Guyana President Dr Irfaan Ali sat down with BBC narrative engineer Stephen Sackur, host of BBC’s HardTALK, to talk about Guyana’s vast offshore oil and gas reserves and how it is transforming…

The quoted banker does not specifically talk about the Central Bank Digital Currency that lays at the end of the promoted rainbow; the author does. However, the banker does outline a familiar…

The Optimism-Fatalism Historical Cycle Authored by Gregory Copley via The Epoch Times, No fundamental form of human behavior, for better or worse, disappears forever. Cycles of wealth, fear, or frustration force changes,…

The Ukrainian leader has claimed that restoration of 2022 status quo would be enough to kick off negotiations with Moscow President Vladimir Zelensky has indicated that a return to Ukraine’s 1991 borders…

Washington fuels the war in Gaza with fresh arm supplies despite a rift with West Jerusalem The US has signed off on the transfer of billions of dollars worth of bombs and…

New Yorkers Silently Worrying Over Ramifications Of Trump Ruling Authored by Janice Hisle and Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images) Monday’s dramatic bond…

An oft familiar set of questions circles around a variation of ‘does President Trump know this’, or ‘can President Trump eliminate this’, or ‘is President Trump the solution’. The most brutally honest…

As Easter Looms, Church Attendance In The US Declines Christianity is on the decline in the United States. As Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, new data from Gallup shows that church attendance has dropped across all…

Stress Creates A 4-Fold Increase In Spread Of Cancer: Study Authored by Cara Michelle Miller via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A breakthrough discovery links stress hormones with a fourfold surge in the…

Buffett Is Still The Richest Person In Finance The combined net worth of the 10 richest people in finance reached $446.9 billion in 2024. Here, Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte ranks them based…

Ahead Of 2024 Election, Abortion Battles Heat Up Across Nation Authored by Beth Brelje via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Shutterstock) Parents could be charged…

ESG Frustration And Backlash In The Banking Sector Continues “Facts that don’t align with ill-informed prejudice are often infuriating. That doesn’t make them wrong. Someone needs to tell the truth about what…