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Beijing has said it has no intention of using force, unless provoked by the leaders of the self-administered island The Chinese military is on track to meet a supposed 2027 deadline for…

The US, India, and Brazil accounted for 60% of Moscow’s entire exports of the product in 2023, according to RIA Novosti The US was among the three biggest importers of Russian fertilizers…

US Submits Draft Resolution Calling for “Immediate Ceasefire” In Gaza: Blinken Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, The United States had submitted a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council…

Several Kiev-affiliated armed groups have attempted to cross the frontier recently, with Moscow repelling all assaults Russian forces have destroyed several temporary bases near the Ukrainian border used by sabotage units, the…

As America braces for a potential war with China, a laser-armed gunship for use against militants seems useless, The War Zone says The US Air Force has suspended its attempts to put…

The former US president is reportedly concerned about developing dementia, as his father suffered from Alzheimer’s disease Former US President Donald Trump has a fear of developing dementia due to his father’s…

London’s Kings Cross Station Removes Islamic Messages From Display Boards After Backlash Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The company that operates trains at Kings Cross station in London has removed Islamic…

Unauthorized spies may have been involved in the attempt to kill Khalistan activist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a report claims An Indian investigation into a plot to kill a Sikh activist on US…

Swissy Tumbles After SNB Surprises With Rate-Cut The Swiss National Bank (SNB) announced a surprise cut to interest rates on Thursday in a sign of policymakers’ confidence over falling inflation. The SNB…

Kiev wants to know under what conditions it could avoid paying off the potential debt, the paper’s source claims Ukraine finds a proposal first floated by Republican Party frontrunner Donald Trump to…

Reddit IPO Prices At Top Of Range, But Big Haircut To 2021 Valuation Reddit, the community-focused message board site with tens of millions of daily users, priced its initial public offering on…

Warren Tells Powell To Slash Interest Rates To Save Green Bubble Following two years of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, and just one day before the central bank’s meeting on…

Illinois Moves To Cut Thousands Of Non-Citizens From Taxpayer-Subsidized Health Care Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Illinois officials are moving to stop providing taxpayer-subsidized health care to…

The Israel Defense Forces claims to have killed 90 Hamas militants but the group says all of the victims were patients The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has raided Gaza’s largest medical facility,…

The National Rally politician says France must give Kiev “the means to enter negotiations” with Moscow The only way France can help Ukraine is to give it the means to negotiate with…

Aleksey Danilov made an obscene play on words with Li Hui’s name during a live interview Aleksey Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, insulted a senior Chinese diplomat…

The bloc is considering a proposal to spend 90% of income from Moscow’s frozen funds to procure arms for Kiev The EU’s plan to seize revenues generated by frozen Russian assets and…

Medical services across the East African nation have been paralyzed A nationwide strike by Kenyan doctors has entered its second week, as medical services across the country continue to be affected. Unions…

Customers who withdrew more than they own during a weekend system flaw will face prosecution, Ethiopia’s commercial bank has warned A banking system glitch in Ethiopia over the weekend allowed customers to…

Goldman: Office Mortgages Are Living On Borrowed Time At the start of the week, a lawyer specializing in advisory services for lenders and servicers of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) in the United…

The incumbent has received over 87% of the vote, securing a fifth term in power, according to the country’s election authority Vladimir Putin has won a landslide victory in the presidential election,…

Up to 20 additional vehicles are to be refurbished and transferred by Spain, according to local reports Spain will donate up to 20 mothballed Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks to Ukraine, adding…

The prime minister held separate calls with Moscow and Kiev on Wednesday, reiterating New Delhi’s stand on the need for a peace settlement Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said he stressed…

Netanyahu Suggests ‘New US-Built Port Could Help Deport Palestinians’ Via Middle East Eye Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly suggested that the new US-built makeshift port off Gaza, which was installed to…

The first batch of the fighter jets will arrive from Denmark this summer, Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren says The West will deliver the first batch of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine…

France Blasts Russian Spy Chief’s Remarks As ‘Irresponsible’ Provocation France’s defense ministry has angrily denounced remarks made by chief of Russia’s foreign intelligence service (SVR). SVR chief Sergey Naryshkin claimed Tuesday that France’s…

Aleksander Somryakov admitted in court last summer to making a post about the armed forces that he knew to be false A man convicted last summer of knowingly spreading disinformation about the…

Sowing The Wind: The New ‘Newspeak’ Authored by Lani Kass via RealClear Wire, The presidential election is eight months away. Yet the campaign to preclude a second Trump administration is already in…

Nurseries could be forced to alter their signs amid a ‘de-Russification’ campaign by Kiev Pre-schools in Ukraine that have Russian names must be brought in line with national language standards, government official…

Northrop Grumman Releases New Image Of B-21 Stealth Bomber Northrop Grumman announced on Tuesday that it received the Aviation Week Grand Laureate Award for its role as the prime contractor in delivering the B-21 Raider to the…

“It’s Not About Trump”: American CJ Hopkins, Charged Again In Germany, Describes Global Censorship Effort By Matt Taibbi of the Racket News substack The German people are famous for putting everything in…

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 If The President Ignores The Supreme Court? Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Who or what enforces the edicts of the court? Mostly it is the…

Biden, Lenin, And Immigration Language: Gingrich Authored by Newt Gingrich via RealClear Wire, As an historian, it has been fascinating to watch the left try to impose new language to describe people…

For Real Estate, Rate Cuts Can’t Come Soon Enough By Michael Msika and Macarena Munoz, Bloomberg Markets Live reporters and strategists Real estate stocks just can’t seem to catch a break. Among this year’s worst…

Kiev has admitted that the blacklist had a “negative impact” on its fight against Russia Ukraine has decided to abandon its list of “international sponsors of war” following complaints from foreign countries….

New York Doomed To Be Migrant Central – Other Cities Take Note Authored by Betsy McCaughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Mayor Eric Adams’ agreement, announced Friday, to limit the time…

RFK Jr. Destroys His Candidacy With VP Pick Authored by Roger L. Simon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), I interviewed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Epoch TV’s “Roller Coaster” series and…

Study Says “Interpersonal Racism” Linked To Heart Problems In Black Women By Caleb Nunes of The College Fix “Interpersonal racism” might lead to higher rates of coronary heart disease, according to a…

Ukraine Drones Again Target Strategic Bomber Base Deep Inside Russia On Wednesday a wave of Ukrainian drones targeted a well-known airbase deep inside Russia which is home to strategic bombers. The air…

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has argued that Russia is making a mistake if it’s betting Berlin will eventually quit supporting Kiev Germany will not let Russian President Vladimir Putin forcibly alter Ukraine’s borders…

Dan Goldman is a Lawfare trust fund millionaire who was installed in Congress specifically to construct Lawfare arguments during testimony and defend Obama/Biden’s interests.  Before taking office, Goldman was the outside government…

Boeing Has Been Prioritizing Production Over Safety, FAA Chief Says Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) chief Michael Whitaker said on March 19 that…

US Military Desperately Seeking To Stay In Niger Despite Order To Leave The Pentagon is desperately seeking to stay in Niger despite the military-led government telling US troops to leave in the…

They were accused of spreading “LGBT propaganda” among the patrons, the court said A Russian court has ordered the arrest of an administrator and an art director of a gay bar in the city of Orenburg…

State police have been blocked from arresting illegal migrants, hours after the US Supreme Court gave them a green light Implementation of a new Texas law enabling the state to arrest and…

How The Democrats Plan To Steal The Election Authored by Llewellyn Rockwell via LewRockwell.com, Biden and Trump have clinched the nominations of their parties for President. Everybody is gearing up for a…

Badass ‘Vigilantes’ Show Up Evict Squatters At NY House Where Homeowner Arrested A pair of vigilantes showed up to a house in Queens, New York where the homeowner was recently arrested for…

Biden Campaign Distances Itself From Mysterious Big Dem Donor ‘Chairman G’ Authored by Soobin Kim and Bradley Hope via whalehunting.projectbrazen.com, Last fall, we reported on a man named Gaurav Srivastava who pretended…

Watch: Biden Bizarrely Wanders Off Stage Mid Event To Pull Faces At A Baby Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Joe Biden wandered off stage during an event in Phoenix, Arizona so that…

Britain has ruled out a “full-blown military deployment,” the PM’s spokesman said London has no plans of sending its troops to fight Russia alongside Ukrainian soldiers, a UK government spokesman told Russia’s…

Attention Gen-Zers: Baltimore City Wants To Sell $1 Homes  The failed leftist mayor of Baltimore City, Brandon Scott, wants to practically give away vacant row homes to attract new residents and expand the…

Pace Of EV Adoption Must Quadruple To Reach Illinois’ Goal Authored by Mark Glennon and John Klingner via Wirepoints.org, It will take a mighty big change of fortune for the electric vehicle…

$500 Per Hour Tutors Are Back In Vogue Now That Colleges Have Decided SATs Are, In Fact, A Necessity It was just about a month ago we noted that SATs were once…

If the negotiations are successful, the WikiLeaks founder could reportedly walk free having already served time in a British prison The US Justice Department is considering whether to allow WikiLeaks founder Julian…

Atlanta Judge Scott McAfee ruled today that President Trump and eight other co-defendants in the Georgia election fraud case can proceed with an emergency appeal of his decision last week. That decision…

‘Dovish’ Powell Destroys ‘Hawkish’ Dots; Sends Stocks, Gold, & Crypto Soaring The FOMC dropped its dot-plot and it was unequivocally more hawkish than the Dec dots with 2024 flat at 3 cuts…

DOJ Mulling Plea Deal For Assange: WikiLeaks Founder Could Finally Walk Free The Biden administration might be looking for a way to bring the 14-year long legal drama centered on WikiLeaks founder…

Post-FOMC Thoughts: Stocks Seem To Be Behaving Like “Stonks” Again By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities In the Old Days…   Today would have been easy, in the old days, where we got…

The US environmental regulator has finalized rules that could force a ninefold increase in the market share of electric vehicles US President Joe Biden’s administration has followed through on its pledge to…

The backstory is so transparently corrupt it requires an explanation, so we’ll go down the full rabbit hole and explain how China knew – to a demonstrable certainty – their multi-billion dollar…

A former Kiev official floated the idea in response to Washington’s “loan” proposal If Kiev wins, Washington and its allies will be rewarded for their military aid with Russian natural resources, Ukraine’s…

Speaker Johnson Mulls Inviting Netanyahu To Address Congress After Schumer’s Blistering Words In what would be a huge opposing shot across the bow following last week’s Chuck Schumer speech denouncing Benjamin Netanyahu,…

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is set to be wedged in, by independents for the next federal election, on political donations and lies in political advertising. Everyone knows that billionaires and dodgy media…

VDH: Guilty! …But Not Really Guilty? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via victorhanson.com, In 2011, then Homeland Security Advisor to President Obama, John Brennan, swore before Congress that drone-targeted assassination missions near…

The move could help unlock funds for domestic development of the fuel for next-generation nuclear reactors, the energy secretary has reportedly said US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has called on Congress to…

Only 30% Of New Yorkers Are Happy With City’s Quality Of Life, 50% Plan On Leaving Within Five Years Believe it or not, high prices combined with massive taxation and out of…

The sinking of a South Korean vessel has left at least eight crewmen dead and two missing At least eight crewmen have been killed and two left missing after a South Korean…

Several member states have balked at the provisional agreement and have asked for more time, according to a report EU ambassadors have failed to endorse a decision to extend preferential trade rules…

An hour of computer use is enough to make a man soft, Chinese scientists have claimed A new study has found that extended computer use more than triples a man’s risk of…

QE By A Different Name Is Still QE Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The Fed added Quantitative Easing (QE) to its monetary policy toolbox in 2008. At the time, the financial…

The president has reduced the national legislature to a tool for rubber-stamping his decisions, a major outlet has said Ukraine is now essentially under the personal rule of President Vladimir Zelensky, online site…

Watch Live: Fed Chair Powell Explains Why The Dots ‘Are Not A Forecast’, But… Having jawboned the market down from over 6 rate-cuts to only 3 rate-cuts (and confirmed in today’s dot-plot),…

Eylon Levy allegedly offended David Cameron with Gaza aid comments The Israeli government has reportedly suspended its English-language spokesman, Eylon Levy, following British complaints about comments he made, allegedly in response to…

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has decided to step down after failing to sell voters on revising the country’s constitution Ireland’s Leo Varadkar has resigned as Taoiseach (prime minister) amid political backlash…

Fed Remains On Hold, But ‘Dots’ Reveal Hawkish Bias Tl;dr: No change for rates, barely any change in the statement, upgraded economic growth, but big ‘signals’ from the Dot-Plot with 2024 remaining…

Top diplomat has said that the bloc may have to become “more creative” about finding money for Kiev The EU would have to be “more creative” about providing additional funding to Ukraine…

Ketanji Brown Jackson Defenestrates The First Amendment Via The Brownstone Institute, At her confirmation hearings, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson claimed she lacked the expertise to define “woman.” Just two years later, she…

Troops may be sent to the regions bordering Belarus in order to free up Kiev’s units to be sent to the front France is preparing to send troops to Ukraine, Aleksey Goncharenko,…

Ethereum Dumps’n’Pumps After ‘Leak’ About ‘SEC Campaign To Classify As A Security’ Still angry about the approval of spot BTC ETFs, it appears Liz Warren and her cronies are dead set on…

Liz Warren And Socialist Pals Want To Normalize Confiscation Of Assets With ‘Ultrarich’ Tax Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Tuesday reintroduced her ‘Ultra-Millionaire’ Tax Act, by which the government would confiscate 2%…

Treasuries Unlikely To Sell Off Even On Hawkish Fed By Ven Ram, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist The intensity of the selloff in Treasuries may have peaked before this week’s meeting…

The self-deception practiced by journalists writing about the country is leading to dire consequences Western media coverage of every Russian election is bad. But this time it was even worse than usual. Instead…

Heavily Armed Militants Storm Pakistan’s China-Operated Gwadar Port, 7 Dead A rare terror attack has unfolded at Pakistan’s strategic port city of Gwadar on Wednesday, which is crucial to the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor…

The Fed’s “Dot Plot” Will Look Like A Meaningless, Infinite Polka-Dot Installation By Michael Every of Rabobank As expected, the RBA left rates on hold at 4.35%, but provided succor in replacing…

Washington reportedly wants to bring new members into the AUKUS pact before Donald Trump’s potential return to power Canada and Japan could join the US, UK, and Australia in the AUKUS security…

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has warned the bloc against diverting the earnings from Russia’s frozen assets to Ukraine A proposal by the EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, to use the profits from Russia’s…

WTI Extends Losses Despite Crude, Gasoline Draws After a strong run in the past few days, oil prices were sliding ahead of this morning’s official DOE inventory and production data (following last…

The committee recently revealed quotas for Russian athletes for the Paris 2024 Olympics  Restrictions against Russian athletes announced by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) earlier this week are discriminatory, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry…

“This Is An Attack On America”: Kevin O’Leary Blasts Letitia James For Possible Seizure of Trump Assets O’Leary Ventures chairman and “Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary blasted New York Attorney General Letitia…

The protesters oppose what they see as excessive EU environmental requirements and unfairly cheap imports from Ukraine Polish farmers intensified nationwide protests on Wednesday, decrying EU agricultural policies and the flood of…

The Republican presidential contender has been condemned for saying he would let Russia attack “delinquent” NATO members Former US president Donald Trump has said that he would defend America’s NATO allies, provided…

A House Of Cards On Stilts Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, What’s driving the current stock market frenzy? Is it a new bubble pure and simple? Is it driven by fundamentals?…

French outlet Intelligence Online has said the pontiff is in talks about a potential trip to Moscow Pope Francis has not received an invitation to visit Russia and is not planning any…

The presence of a certain number of NATO-member forces has been implicitly confirmed, according to Warsaw’s top diplomat The fact that Western forces are present in Ukraine is now an ‘open secret’,…

The arrangement is designed to protect Turkish firms against facing secondary penalties for working with Russia, Hürriyet reports The US and Türkiye have reportedly agreed on a plan allowing Turkish firms to…

Moscow has condemned the International Olympic Committee’s calls to boycott the Friendship Games The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) call for athletes to boycott the upcoming Friendship Games in Russia amounts to racial…

Struggling Intel Awarded $20 Billion In Chip Incentives For US Plants Over the past decade, Nvidia has surpassed Intel to become the most valuable semiconductor company in the United States. Intel has…

Speculators’ Zeal For Sterling At Risk From Inflation Skewering Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, A rise in UK real rates relative to those in the US is potentially behind the…