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The world is now facing the most critical moment since the end of World War II, the Polish prime minister has said Europe has entered a “pre-war era” in which any scenario…

What Will The Fed Do Next? Authored by Louis-Vincent Gave via Evergreen Gavekal blog, So far this year, we have seen US inflation repeatedly beat expectations, US gasoline prices creep higher, gold…

The European rights body is discrediting itself by ignoring last week’s massacre, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said The Council of Europe has disgraced itself by failing to condemn the recent…

10 Easter Traditions Around The World It’s Easter this weekend and while many around the world will be celebrating by eating chocolate easter eggs and setting out on easter egg hunts, some communities will…

Moscow has expressed no interest in the conference, saying it will revolve around Kiev’s ‘peace formula’ that it has long rejected Ukraine could engage in diplomacy with Russia after a peace summit in Switzerland…

Air Tanzania plans to launch direct flights to the UAE four times a week Air Tanzania has confirmed plans to commence direct flights to Dubai from its hub in Dar es Salaam…

Why Morgan Stanley Says To Buy Energy Stocks Right Now By Alex Kimani of OilPrice.com The AI boom and Big Tech might be hogging all the media limelight right now, but the…

America’s Sports Betting Boom Five years after the Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), sports betting continues to boom in the United States. As Statista’s Felix Richter reports,…

Heart-Scarring Detected Over 1 Year After COVID-19 Vaccination: Studies Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Heart scarring was detected more than one year after COVID-19 vaccination in some…

Last week’s terrorist attack in Russia has reportedly raised concerns over the event becoming a target French intelligence services have recommended scrapping plans for a grand opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris…

Israel is reportedly standing in the way of discussions for post-war planning in the Palestinian enclave The US has offered funding to partners in the Middle East for a peacekeeping force in…

The PM spoke with the US billionaire in New Delhi about benefits and dangers of AI, technological inclusion, and climate change Indians are not only adapting to new technology but also leading…

Moscow is ready for “serious” talks to end the conflict, the Russian president has said Russia remains committed to engaging in substantive discussions about a political and diplomatic resolution to the Ukraine…

A White House official called Russian claims that the Crocus City attack may have been directed by Kiev “nonsense and propaganda” Russia has hit back after a senior White House official accused…

Property investment has reportedly slowed due to rising rents and daily expenses Russians are scaling back their property investments in Dubai due to a rise in local prices and tighter US sanctions…

Watch: Russian Su-35 Jet Reportedly Shot Down Over Crimea A Russian military fighter jet has crashed into the Black Sea near Sevastopol, Crimea on Thursday, the region’s Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev has confirmed. The…

Fresh measures have become even more vital after the recent Moscow terror attack, officials have said  Russia is calling on the UN to target the use of cyberspace for extremist purposes as…

India Won’t Let Germany, The US, Nor Anyone Else Meddle In Its Internal Affairs Via Andrew Korybko’s Substack, The emerging information warfare narrative being pushed by the West via Germany and the…

The conflict is just one facet of the West’s campaign to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia, the Foreign Minister has said The Ukraine conflict is only one part of a wider…

The combined wealth of the richest people in the US has grown to $44.6 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve The wealthiest Americans got even richer last year and now possess $44.6…

In Historic Reversal, US To Restart A Shut Down Nuclear Power Plant For The First Time Ever Is the long awaited – and overdue – restart of the American nuclear age finally…

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…

What’s Wrong With America’s ‘Elites’? Authored by Laura Hollis via The Epoch Times, It is becoming increasingly clear that some of America’s most serious problems can be traced back to our colleges…

Israel May Cut Off Palestinian Banks From Global Banking System Next Week Via Middle East Eye Palestinian banks could be cut off from the Israeli banking system starting next week following a decision by Israel’s…

CEO Pavel Durov claims to have banned thousands of users for inciting violence after the Crocus City Hall attack Telegram has clamped down on users involved in spreading calls for terrorist acts,…

US Breaks Oil Price Ceiling Of $79 In Latest SPR Purchase By Irina Slav of OilPrice.com The latest crude oil purchase that the Department of Energy made as part of refill plans…

If Americans Just Ate Healthy & Exercised, Then Politicians Wouldn’t Be Clamoring About $1,000 Weight Loss Drugs “Bankrupting” Medicare If the food-industrial complex had not flooded the nation’s food supply with junk, if…

Creating “Good” AGI That Won’t Kill Us All: Crypto’s Artificial Superintelligence Alliance Authored by Andrew Fenton via CoinTelegraph.com, SingularityNET and the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance aim to wrest control of AGI away from…

Chinese Ex-Trade Minister Who Backed Trump Warns US That ‘Dismantling’ Global Trade Is Blowing Back On Ordinary Americans President Joe Biden in late February said “unprecedented action” is being taken in response to an…

On The Brink Of A Dramatic Change: The Digitalization Of Money Authored by Efrat Fenigson via Bitcoin Magazine, The current state of Central Bank Digital Currency Projects globally summarized by Efrat Enigson,…

A military agreement with Washington comes at a cost, Helsinki has said The military cooperation agreement with Washington limits Helsinki’s sovereignty, the Finnish foreign ministry said on Thursday, advising that its ratification…

Putin Threatens To Attack Western Air Bases Hosting Ukrainian F-16s This week Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Torzhok air base in Tver Region which hosts the 344th Training Center for Russian combat…

The Road To A New McCarthyism Authored by Bert Olivier via The Brownstone Institute, I wonder how many people have recoiled with horror at what happened in the House of Representatives recently….

Flip-Flopping Trump Impeachment Witness Registers As Ukraine Foreign Agent, Claims Allegiance “Still 100% To The United States” Former US Ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, who testified for the Democrats against Donald…

Beijing has complained about Washington’s “discriminatory” subsidies Chinese companies are producing too many batteries, solar panels and electric cars, harming American workers, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said. She intends to…

Earlier today, President Donald Trump joined grieving family and hundreds of uniformed officers at the wake for slain NYPD cop Jonathan Diller.  President Trump continues to emphasize escalating crime as he campaigns for…

The Human Tragedy In Haiti Authored by Callista L. Gingrich via RealClear Politics, Since late February, gang violence in Haiti has surged, overwhelming government and security forces and plunging the nation into…

Moody’s Warns Bridge Collapse Is “Credit Negative” For Baltimore As Economic Shock Emerges  Instead of the woke Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott utilizing his precious time by going on corporate media’s leftists Joy…

The intensity of their insistence on Ukraine’s innocence is unusual, the Russian foreign minister has said The US and the EU are downright obsessive in insisting on Ukraine’s innocence in the Crocus…

Bahrain Opposition Activist Arrested For Criticizing McLaren Ownership Via Middle East Eye A leading opposition activist has been arrested and detained in Bahrain for criticizing on social media the island kingdom’s ownership of the…

Russia Announces ‘Substantiated Evidence’ Of Ukraine Link To Crocus Hall Terrorists Russian authorities say they have found a firm link between the suspects in last week’s terror attack on the Crocus City…

DeSantis Signs Property Rights Bill In Florida That Ends “Squatting Scam” Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation into law Wednesday that ends squatters’ rights in the Sunshine…

NYC Delinquent Property Taxes Approach $1 Billion After Expiration of Tax-Lien Punishment While New York City embarks on a program to hand out some $53 million in prepaid debit cards to illegals,…

Tradition says that Jesus prayed this prayer the night he spent, imprisoned in the custody of Caiaphas the high priest, abandoned by his followers, alone. As we prepare for the suffering of…

The Turkish ruling party’s spokesman pointed to “lobbies” interested in the Ukraine conflict Acts of terrorism such as the Crocus City Hall massacre tend to have state sponsors, Omer Celik, a spokesman…

With famine spreading, the Jewish state must immediately open more border crossing points, the ICJ’s judges have ruled The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Israel to allow uninterrupted shipments of…

Piketty’s Inequality Con Via SchiffGold.com, If you ask a liberal politician who their favorite economist is, there are three likely responses. One response is a panicked change of topic. From the slightly…

Trump Overtakes Soros’ Net Worth Former President Donald Trump’s net worth topped $6.4 billion on Monday following the completion of a 29-month-long SPAC deal for his social media company, Trump Media &…

Stocks, Gold, & Crypto Soar In Q1 Despite Rout In Rate-Cut Expectations Q1 macro was characterized by a vast divergence between ‘soft’ surveys crashing as ‘hard’ data drifting higher… Source: Bloomberg The…

Philadelphia Fed Admits US Payrolls Overstated By At Least 800,000 The first red flags emerged in the summer of 2022: that’s when the Biden Labor Department started well and truly rigging the…

Disney Faces Accusations Of Misleading Shareholders With Left-Wing Agenda Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, The Walt Disney Company is facing backlash after critics say it has misled its shareholders by…

Canadians Are F**ked: Secret RCMP Report A previously secret (and still heavily redacted) RCMP report warns the Canadian government to expect civil unrest once citizens realize how totally screwed the economic situation…

Roma and people of African descent face “systemic discrimination” at the hands of the UK justice system, a new report has said The level of racial discrimination in Great Britain is concerning,…

You Can’t Fool All Of The People All Of The Time About Immigration Authored by Simon Hankinson via The Epoch Times, There’s an old saying attributed to Abraham Lincoln: “You can fool all…

The marine mammals should be given inherent human rights, the king of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori people has urged The king of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori people has signed a ‘Declaration for…

Baltimore Union Warns Of Job Loss Tsunami After Bridge Collapse Paralyzes Port The lengthy disruption at the Port of Baltimore, one of the busiest ports on the US East Coasts, will unleash…

Over 20% Of The World’s Oil Refining Capacity Is At Risk Of Closure Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, Weakening refining margins and carbon taxes put a fifth of global refining capacity…

Demand For BlackRock’s BUIDL Means Over $1BN In US Treasuries Have Now Been Tokenized On-Chain More than $1 billion worth of United States Treasuries now exist across Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, and other…

The disgraced crypto mogul “orchestrated one of the largest financial frauds in history,” government prosecutors argued FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in a US federal prison for…

India and China have continued negotiations on a complete disengagement after the 2020 incident in Galwan Valley India and China on Wednesday held a fresh round of talks over border tensions that…

Appeals Court Extends Block On Texas Arrests Of Illegal Immigrants Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A divided appeals court has upheld a preliminary injunction against the State…

Russian Warships Enter Red Sea As Rival US-Led Coalition Patrols The Russian navy’s Pacific Fleet has confirmed that it sent several of its warships through the Bab al-Mandab Strait and into the…

Dollar Rally Is On Borrowed Time As US Disinflation Lags World Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The current rally in the dollar is soon likely to face resistance from rising real-yield…

Green Energy Beaten Black And Blue: Video Shows Massive Hail Damage To Texas Solar Farm In the latest of countless cautionary tales about green energy, a large-scale Texas solar farm has been…

Gold: The Everything Hedge Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Gold is trading at $2,211 per ounce this afternoon. Since its interim low of $1,832 per ounce on Oct. 5, 2023, gold…

Renting Now Cheaper Than Owning In All Of America’s Largest Metros A combination of higher mortgage rates and sky-high housing prices has made it cheaper to rent than to own a home…

Giorgia Meloni has suggested that leaders “pay attention to the tones we use” in discussions of direct military involvement Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said that she told French President Emmanuel…

They have no intention of serving in the IDF, and the patience of seculars is about to run out The Ultra-Orthodox community of Israel is generally exempt from compulsory military service. Over…

More missiles and bomb shelters might motivate Ukrainians to have babies, the president has claimed Kiev needs more air defense systems to help Ukrainians have more children, President Vladimir Zelensky said on…

“We Don’t Want Your Nice, Cheap Stuff, Thanks” By Michael Every of Rabobank Thinking you can successfully forecast what markets will do is a fool’s game. However, some recent financial market headlines…

90% of soldiers spend their earnings on online casinos and sports betting platforms, Aleksey Goncharenko says The Ukrainian army has a huge gambling problem, Aleksey Goncharenko, a senior Ukrainian MP, wrote on…

The US wants a reformed Palestinian Authority to govern Gaza, but Israel has ruled out the plan Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced the formation of a new government on Thursday, with…

The hostilities between Kiev and Moscow cannot be resolved on the battlefield, Gerhard Schroeder believes Talking to Moscow is the only way to end the hostilities between Russia and Ukraine, former German…

Baltimore Leader Says Conservatives “Should Be Afraid” For Calling Him The “DEI Mayor” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, Baltimore leader Brandon Scott appeared on Joy Reid’s MSNBC show to assert…

The former US president’s net worth has jumped $4 billion this year, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index Former US President Donald Trump is now richer than billionaire financier George Soros, after…

36 Rural Hospitals Have Closed Since 2020 By Alan Condon of Becker Hosptial Review Tennessee’s Jellico Regional Hospital, a 25-bed critical access facility, closed March 9, making it the 36th rural hospital…

The New York Times reported that the lack of trust between the two countries prevented the latter from disclosing information on a possible attack in Russia The Russian authorities know nothing about…

Carnival Cruise Warns Of Profit Hit From Frozen Baltimore Port After Bridge Collapse The fallout from the bridge collapse in the Port of Baltimore is hitting a wide range of companies, from…

Experts Warn Mass Migration Threatens US Food Security Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Mass migration exposes the United States’ food supply to diseases and parasites that…

Bidenomics Blowback – Survey-Based Sentiment Collapses As ‘Hope’ Evaporates ‘Soft’ survey data has been a bloodbath this week with regional Fed surveys all slumping and this morning’s Chicago PMI uglier than all…

Stars Are Aligning For An Energy Sector Catch-Up By Michael Msika, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist For investors worried about frothy stock valuations, recently out-of-favor European energy stocks might be the…

UMich Inflation Expectations Slide To 3 Year Lows, Republicans Lift Sentiment In March Final March UMich Inflation expectations dropped notably. 1-year inflation exp fell from 3.0% in Feb and from 3.1% in…

Pending Home Sales Hover Near Record Lows In February After puking in January, pending home sales were expected to rebound modestly (+1.5% MoM) in February and it did (+1.6% MoM) with a…

BlackRock CEO “Very Bullish” On Bitcoin As Its ETF Crosses $17 Billion By Brayden Lindrea of CoinTelegraph BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has been “pleasantly surprised” by the performance of his firm’s spot…

Fisker Slashes Price Of Its Only Model By 39% In Last-Ditch Bid To Stay Solvent Electric carmaker Fisker is doing everything it can to try and not wind up roadkill on the…

The frigate ‘Marshal Shaposhnikov’ has arrived for a nine-day stay in Eritrea Russia has sent a military ship to participate in joint drills with Eritrea for the first time in the 30…

A leading member of the Palestinian organization’s politburo shares his thoughts on the planned US port in Gaza, internal conflicts, and more Dr Basem Naim, a leading member of Hamas’ politburo, has…

There are no good options for Kiev, a retired French general has said Moscow has forced Kiev to choose between losing men or territory, according to retired French General Jerome Pellistrandi, the…

Large sums of money were transferred to the Crocus City Hall attackers from Ukraine, the Russian Investigative Committee has said DETAILS TO FOLLOW

The ruling party’s candidate has conceded defeat, joining several other contenders in congratulating Bassirou Diomaye Faye Senegal’s opposition leader, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, has been elected president in the West African nation’s delayed…

Security advisers from several countries are looking at ways to kick-start the process of ending the conflict, the German chancellor has said Senior officials from several countries are holding non-public talks to…

Global warming is throwing the Earth off balance and making the days longer, a California physicist has warned The melting of the polar ice caps is shifting the Earth’s weight towards the…

The plotters also scouted the site at least three times in the weeks leading up to the strike, news outlet Baza claims Traces of a drug that suppresses fear have reportedly been…

Delhi chief minister Arvind KejriwaI was arrested last week over corruption charges in an alleged liquor scam  An Indian district court on Thursday extended the custody of Arvind Kejriwal, acting chief minister…

Drone footage released by a Russian official reportedly shows the destruction of more military hardware sent to Kiev by Washington The Russian military has hit another US-supplied M1 Abrams tank operated by…

A 26-year-old citizen of the former Soviet republic has been charged with justifying terrorism The Investigative Committee of the city of St. Petersburg has detained a citizen of Tajikistan for posting online…

FInal Q4 2023 GDP Revision Comes In Red Hot 3.4%, Beating Estimates It’s ancient history by now, but moments ago the Biden Bureau of Economic Goalseeking Analysis reported that in its third…

Facebook Secretly Wiretapped Competitors: Documents Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Facebook secretly obtained proprietary data from competitors, including Snapchat, according to newly unsealed court documents. At the…

Jobless Claims Continue To Hover (Miraculously) Near Record Lows Layoff announcements continue day after day and WARNs are on the rise, but initial jobless claims continues to trend along in very smooth…