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The temporary measure will help save money as Africa’s most populous nation grapples with an economic downturn Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has suspended all publicly-funded international travel for government officials as part…

Moscow and Addis Ababa have signed a memorandum of advisory assistance on medical personnel training Russia has launched a pilot social project in Ethiopia involving the construction of approximately 2,000 health posts,…

These Are The World’s Largest Corporate Holders Of Bitcoin Who holds the most bitcoins across publicly traded companies? While Tesla is the most familiar name across the world’s largest corporate buyers, several…

The White House is reportedly concerned that a possible hike in gas prices could threaten Joe Biden’s re-election bid US officials have repeatedly warned Ukrainian military commanders that their attacks on Russian…

Kiev’s name-and-shame campaign aims to force foreign businesses to cut ties with Moscow Ukraine could do away with its list of ‘international sponsors of war’ this week following pressure to end the…

What started as a military operation has escalated after the West became a participant, Dmitry Peskov has said Russia’s military operation in Ukraine has turned into full-fledged war after the West became…

One attack severely damaged the Dnepr Hydro Power Plant in the Kiev-controlled part of Zaporozhye Region, local officials say The Russian military has launched one of its most powerful waves of air…

The bloc will continue to look at options for using proceeds from frozen assets, leaders have said in a summit declaration  The EU will continue to “explore options” for the seizure of…

‘There’s Been No Increase’: Scientists Debunk Climate Change Claims About Hurricanes Authored by Katie Spence via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), This year’s hurricane season, which officially starts June 1, is being…

Censorship And The Digital Public Square Authored by Adeline Von Drehle via RealClear Wire, “We don’t want no censorship, we don’t need no censorship!” Kevin Nathaniel’s voice boomed from the podium in…

The bill abolishes the ‘fit for limited military service’ category as Kiev struggles to find troops for the front line Ukrainian recruits deemed ‘fit for limited military service’ could soon be thrown…

Officials are looking for a way to bypass the bloc’s founding treaty to pay for weapons for Kiev, the newspaper has been told EU officials are seeking legal advice on how to…

Illegal Immigration Soars 541% On West African Route Into EU Authored by John Cody via ReMix News, Europe’s illegal immigration crisis shows no signs of slowing, with the first two months of…

Opposition parties claim a “conspiracy” and plan nationwide protests, weeks before the general election Indian police have arrested Arvind Kejriwal, leader of opposition Aam Aadmi Party – which governs the Indian capital…

“Restricting Freedoms” May Be Necessary To Fight Climate Change: German Ethics Council Via The European Conservative, The government may be forced to limit the available choices for citizens in order to battle…

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…

Terrorist Caught Illegally Crossing Border Says He Was ‘Here To Make A Bomb’ Authored by Alice Giordano via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A member of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah was…

Where People Are (Un)Happiest With Their Lives In 2012, the United Nations proclaimed March 20 as the International Day of Happiness or World Happiness Day, which has been held on this date every year…

Planned Parenthood Faces New Allegations Of Selling Aborted Fetal Tissue To UCSD Authored by Brad Jones via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Newly-released documents reveal an alleged alliance between Planned Parenthood and…

New Gene Therapy To Cost $4.25 Million, The Highest Drug Price In The US The most expensive drug in the U.S. is now Lenmeldy, a $4.25 million gene therapy the FDA approved…

After 625 Days, The Longest Yield Curve Inversion In History Today is a historic day, as last night – DB’s Jim Reid reminds us – we quietly passed the longest continuous US…

Is Reform Possible? Authored by Theodore Dalrymple via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Javier Milei of Argentina has had a certain degree of success already with his radical economic policies: That…

Victims Will “Never” Be Whole Thanks To SBF’s “Dumpster Fire” – FTX Caretaker CEO Rages Authored by Martin Young via CoinTelegraph.com, FTX restructuring officer and CEO John Ray III has slammed an…

Some of the existing sculptures represent “Bolshevik propaganda,” officials said Ukraine’s leading World War II history museum will remove Soviet-era monuments as part of the ongoing push to erase centuries-old ties to…

Chuck Schumer’s Tired Vanity Act Needs A Rest Authored by Richard Benedetto via RealClear Wire, The time has come for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to pack his bags and shuffle back…

Man Inside Capitol On Jan. 6 For 3 Minutes Convicted By Jury Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Virginia man who went inside the U.S. Capitol on…

Ben Shapiro And DeSantis Former Finance Chairs To Fundraise For Trump Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClear Wire, Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro announced last week to the more than 15 million monthly…

Another Bite At The Fani: Judge Grants Trump’s Request to Appeal DA Disqualification Decision Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee has…

A large crowd has breached the concertina-wire fencing and scuffled with Texas National Guard troops A crowd of migrants has torn down a concertina-wire barrier and broken through a line of Texas…

Watch: Biden Judicial Nominee Who Wanted To Ban ‘Assault Weapons’ Can’t Define What They Are Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Biden-nominated candidate for a judicial seat…

Give Me An Engaged Electorate Authored by John A. Ragosta via RealClear Wire, On March 23rd in 1775, Patrick Henry rose at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, to urge his countrymen…

Republicans Call For Raising Retirement Age As Social Security Nears Insolvency While at this point pretending that one can somehow stop or deflect the civilization-ending meteor that is the US debt load,…

Voter Apathy And Four Key Takeaways From Illinois’ 2024 Primary Elections By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner of Wirepoints Don’t get too excited about the results of Tuesday’s primary elections, particularly in…

CCP-Linked Virologist Fired After Transferring Ebola From Winnipeg To Wuhan Resurfaces In China – And Is Collaborating With Military Scientists A virologist who had a “clandestine relationship” with Chinese agents and was…

Bretton Woods Revisited Submitted By Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Executive Chairman of DMCC in Dubai It’s been a busy few weeks for both Bitcoin (BTC) fans and gold hawks, with both assets reaching…

The bloc’s leaders have called for an “immediate” humanitarian pause in Israel’s military operation UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged EU leaders to show the same concern for civilians in Gaza as…

Texas Pulls $8.5 Billion From BlackRock In “Massive Blow” To “The Scam Of ESG” The examples of the ESG fraud imploding over the last 6 months simply aren’t stopping. The latest has…

Wikipedia Entry On The ‘History Of The Chair’ Becomes Culture War Battleground Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, A simple Wikipedia entry about the history of the chair reveals how the…

US rulers decry the lack of choices for Russian voters, even as they try to take down America’s most popular 2024 candidate America’s legacy media and political ruling class have thrown a…

The US Department of Justice has accused the tech giant of monopolistic practices in its iPhone business US technology giant Apple has been sued by President Joe Biden’s administration for allegedly building…

There is no getting around the manpower shortage, Admiral Rob Bauer has said Kiev needs to mobilize more people to make up for battlefield losses, Admiral Rob Bauer, the chair of the…

Stocks & The Dollar Gain On ‘Good’ News; Bitcoin, Bullion, & Black Gold Sink Philly Fed beat, jobless claims beat, PMIs beat… but with soaring prices, Leading Indicators beat, and existing home…

Anatomy Of The Tech-Industrial Complex Authored by Josh Stylman via the Brownstone Institute, In the news this week, there is a lot of controversy over the US House of Representatives voting on…

Houthis Reassure Russia, China On Red Sea Transit In Exchange For Political Support Via The Cradle The Yemeni Houthi government has reassured Russian and Chinese officials that their ships can safely cross the Red…

“Invasion”: Riot Erupts After Migrant Swarm Breaches US Southern Border, National Guard Left Helpless Shocking scenes were caught on tape in El Paso – which technically is in Texas but may as…

Viktor Orban said that he will keep talking to Moscow because Hungary is “committed to peace” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on winning a fifth term…

The French president reportedly voiced the sentiment at an Elysee Palace dinner French President Emmanuel Macron believes Ukraine might be defeated on the battlefield in short order, the French edition of Politico…

John Stossel: “Our World Needs Fewer Elizabeth Warrens And More Elon Musks”  To advance human civilization, the world benefits from the contributions of engineers and intelligent capital allocators like Elon Musk, rather…

The bloc’s top diplomat has argued that members shouldn’t scare people by exaggerating the threat of direct conflict with Russia EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has insisted that Ukraine’s Western backers…

Sidelining the country’s supplies could harm global energy markets, Rafael Grossi has warned There’s no quick way to shift away from Russian nuclear fuel, while severing ties too soon would harm global…

“This Is A Power Grab”: Our Perilous, Magnificent, Perilous Future Authored by Edward Ring via American Greatness, The establishment narrative in the United States is pathologically negative, with its centerpiece being the…

During a discussion about Latino/Hispanic views on immigration, the polling stunned the CNN narrative engineers.  Host Anderson Cooper sits jaw agape as the CNN pollster shows the results.  WATCH: . Posted in…

This is a good opportunity to emphasize a key point that is often missed.   In the research and discussion outline yesterday about Joe Biden’s EPA publishing new regulations for the auto industry,…

“Freedom Bonds”: US Wants $50BN Bond For Ukraine Backed By Frozen Russian Assets Leery of outright seizing all of the some $280 billion in Russian central bank assets mostly held in Europe,…

Giorgia Meloni has sued two men accused of pasting her head onto a porn star’s body Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is seeking €100,000 ($108,650) in damages from two men accused of…

Israel To Invade Rafah ‘No Matter What US Says’: Top Official On Thursday Israel issued its most defiant response yet to Washington pressre that it abandon its plans for a ground invasion…

The Path To Victory For Trump Authored by Josh Hammer via American Greatness, Following this week’s primaries, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have both attained enough delegates to be…

24 States Oppose Proposed Labor Department DEI Rule For Apprenticeships Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times, A coalition of 24 states led by Tennessee is opposing a new rule proposed…

Medical charity workers have cautioned that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza could become “apocalyptic” The humanitarian crisis in Gaza will turn “inestimably worse” if Israel launches its planned ground offensive against Hamas…

“Seek first to understand, then to be understood” 1.) First, please READ THIS ENTIRELY – and the full text of any discussion you wish to participate in. 2.) PLEASE STAY ON TOPIC…

“What Are We Doing?” Ana Kasparian Flips Out After Suspects In Murder, Dismemberment Case Released In New York ‘You know it’s bad when…’ A shocking, under-reported story about the absolute state of…

Has America Run Out Of Time? Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, For those that love America, these are very trying times.  We have watched our beloved country go steadily downhill for…

The would-be fashionista reportedly tried to illegally bring 30kg of footwear by the luxury brand into Russia A woman in Russia has been slapped with a fine for attempting to illegally import…

The Israeli military has failed to intercept a cruise missile fired by the militants at the port of Eilat Yemen’s Houthi militants have struck Israel with a cruise missile, marking the first…

Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse Owner Darden Warns Lower Income Customers Are Pulling Back  Darden Restaurants, a top full-service US restaurant group with 1,914 locations across 50 states under its eight brands—Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse,…

The Virality Project’s Censorship Agenda Authored by Andrew Lowenthal via the Brownstone Institute, In November 2023 Alex Gutentag and I reported on the Virality Project’s internal content-flagging system, as released by the US House Committee…

The crewed flight is the first to be aborted at short notice in Russia’s space program The launch of a Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket, which was supposed to bring a Soyuz MS-25 manned…

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has flagged populism and recession as risks to public order Canada’s economic prospects are “beyond bleak” and may cause civil unrest in the next five years, the…

Green Wave In Reverse, Biden Rolls Back EV Mandates, But Not Enough Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Under EPA rules, EVs will need to be 30-40% of the market by 2030,…

Elizabeth Warren Urges SEC To Investigate Tesla’s Board, Potential Conflicts Between Musk-Led Companies Sen. Elizabeth Warren is adding Tesla’s Board of Directors to her very, very, very long list of corporations, mergers, acquisitions,…

The “Perversity” Of Michael Cohen: Federal Judge Denounces Former Trump ‘Fixer’ As A Serial Perjurer Authored by Jonathan Turley, Michael Cohen was back in court this week and it did not go…

Drone Video Reveals Massive NYC Migrant Tent City, Kept Under Wraps By Democrats & Media Democrats in New York City and their allies in leftist corporate media are keeping a massive migrant…

The profits generated from Moscow’s frozen assets can be used to support the Ukrainian military, the chancellor has argued German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has claimed that the money generated from Russia’s frozen…

Most of the remaining obstacles appear to be regulatory in nature, according to Vasily Lazarev With adequate funding and support from lawmakers, Russian medical researchers might be able to roll out oncological…

Nearly 50% of Polish people disapprove of the country’s policies amid rallies against the EU green agenda and Ukrainian imports Almost 50% of Polish people think their government has failed in its…

Wealth disparity in the world’s fastest-growing large economy is at its highest in decades, economists argue in a new research paper India’s richest 1% of the population earned 22% of the country’s…

Vessels from the two countries will not be targeted in the Red Sea or Gulf of Aden, the Yemen-based militant group has reportedly assured The Yemen-based Houthi militants have told Russia and…

Residents of India’s northernmost territory were jubilant when Ladakh was separated from Jammu and Kashmir in 2019. Jubilation has been replaced by fear of potential devastation brought by outsiders For 16 days…

The village of Tonenkoye, located to the northwest of Avdeevka, has been liberated according to the Defense Ministry Moscow’s forces have liberated the village of Tonenkoye in Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the…

Pyotr Tolstoy has accused Paris of provoking World War III France should think twice before sending troops to Ukraine, Russian State Duma Deputy Chairman Pyotr Tolstoy has said. Speaking to French BFMTV…

NY Prepares To Seize Trump Assets In Westchester County The state of New York has positioned itself to seize Donald Trump’s assets in Westchester County following a $454 million civil fraud judgement…

Biden’s Hail Mary Budget Is Just Another Anchor Baby Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, Last week I was contacted by Sputnik News to give some comments on “President”…

Germany has given Kiev twice as much military aid as the UK, and Berlin has reportedly joined calls for London to do more UK defense sources have called on their government to…

Lawyers for fishing business magnate Oleg Kan are requesting that criminal cases against him be closed Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office believes that the death of Oleg Kan – a businessman dubbed the…

Here’s How Much The White House Hates Elon Musk On Wednesday afternoon, the Biden administration released its “final national pollution standards” for passenger cars, light-duty trucks, and medium-duty vehicles for 2027-32. These are some…

The Gaza war and a series of Quran burnings have led to a heightened risk, Denmark’s security and intelligence agency says The terrorism threat in Denmark has “intensified” over the past year…

A nearly 7% decline has been recorded since the beginning of the year in annual terms, customs data shows Russian imports have slowed in the first 2.5 months of the year, decreasing…

Fly Me To The Moon, Jay… Let Me Trade Among The Stars… Let Me See What Stonks Are Like On Jupiter And Mars By Michael Every of Rabobank Frank analysis, tunes, and…

Existing Home Sales Unexpectedly Exploded Higher In February… And So Did Prices Existing home sales soared a stunning 9.5% MoM in February, smashing the expectation of a 1.3% decline and building on…

The Russian president has vowed to meet citizens’ expectations after receiving over 87% of the vote The presidential election in Russia has shown that the country remains one big family, Russian President…

DOJ To Sue Apple For Antitrust Violations The Biden DOJ is preparing to announce a lawsuit against Apple on Thursday, according to Bloomberg, citing two insiders. According to the report, Apple will…

US PMIs Signal “Unwelcome Upward Pressure On Consumer Prices In The Coming Months” S&P Global’s US Manufacturing PMI surged to its highest in 22 months (52.5 vs 51.8 exp) while Services PMI…

Over 30 Missiles Used In First Russian Attack On Kiev In 44 Days The Ukrainian capital of Kiev had not been targeted by airstrikes since February, but that changed when overnight and…

Continuing Jobless Claims Revised Down For 20th Straight Week… As a reminder, in the real world labor market, 2024 has been a shitshow of layoffs… 1. Everybuddy: 100% of workforce 2. Wisense:…

Did You Spot The Gorilla In The Fed’s Meeting Room? Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Monetary policy remains exceptionally loose given one of the fastest rate-hiking cycles seen. Pressure is…

Futures, Global Stocks Soar After Dovish Powell Greenlights Meltup Futures and global stocks are soaring and building on Wednesday’s powerful gains after the Fed signaled expectations for three rate cuts this year…

BoE Holds Rates At 5.25%, But Says Things “Moving In Right Direction” As expected, The Bank of England (BoE) kept interest rates on hold at 5.25% for the fifth successive meeting, as…

Trade, energy, security and more – Russia and African countries have multiple avenues for cooperation and a long journey ahead In June 2023, a delegation of seven African leaders traveled to St….

Moscow is nevertheless not in competition with other top oil-producing and exporting nations, the foreign minister says Moscow has increased exports of petroleum products to African countries in recent years, despite Western…