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Three escapees, including two men of conscription age, have been suspended from further performances Three ballet troupe members from Ukraine’s Lviv Opera have failed to return to their home country after their…

City Mayor Alexandr Beglov has said there are no casualties A powerful blast rocked the Russian city of St. Petersburg early on Saturday when a drone crashed into an apartment block, local…

Bulgaria has prematurely waived its exemption from a EU embargo which allowed it to buy crude until the end of 2024 Bulgaria stopped imports of Russian oil from March 1, prematurely discarding…

The key PMI index contracted for a 20th consecutive month in February, the latest data shows Manufacturing activity across the 20 countries that use the euro has continued to decline, largely due…

OpenAI has morphed into a subsidiary of Microsoft, the billionaire entrepreneur argued US billionaire Elon Musk has taken OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research company he once helped to found, to court over…

An improvised explosive device has been discovered, made from parts supplied to Ukraine by NATO states, a source told the agency An explosive-rigged vehicle that tried to cross into Russia’s Crimea has…

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…

‘A Rocky Road To De-Dollarization’ – Pepe Escobar Interviews Sergei Glazyev Authored by Pepe Escobar, Very few people in Russia and across the Global South are as qualified as Sergei Glazyev, the…

The State Of Global Fertility South Korea broke its own record when it announced this week that as of 2023, its fertility rate had fallen to just 0.72 births per woman. The rate at…

Details Of ‘Sabotaged’ Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal In First Months Of War Revealed The Wall Street says it has gotten its hands on a secretive document revealing the details of a failed Ukraine-Russia peace…

Third-Party Candidates Will Swing The Election Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Although my focus is on markets rather than politics, it’s impossible to forecast markets without understanding what’s going on in…

Why Are We Still Reliant On China For Our Biosecurity? Authored by Matthew Turpin via RealClear Wire, The reports out of China arrived just before Thanksgiving. A surge in respiratory infections among…

New Delhi has advocated for a two-state solution to end the decades-old Israel-Palestine conflict The Indian foreign ministry on Friday expressed “deep shock” at the loss of civilian lives in northern Gaza…

Biden Wants G7 To Give Russian Central Bank Funds To Ukraine, But France Resists President Biden wants the G7 countries to develop a plan to eventually have Russia’s frozen sovereign assets handed…

X Users Didn’t Like A Paper’s Tone And Findings, So They Got It Rejected Authored by Ross Pomeroy via RealClear Wire, At Frontiers in Psychology, it seems that users on X are…

Teamsters, Anheuser-Busch Reach New 5-Year Contract By John Kingston of Freightwaves The contract agreement reached this week between the Teamsters union and Anheuser-Busch, averting a strike that could have begun Friday, calls…

As China Builds Yugos, EVs May Be The New Edsels Authored by Duggan Flanakin via RealClear Wire, The year 1957 is memorable for at least two historic launches. The launch by the…

Great News Gen-Zers: “Silver Tsunami” Will Trigger Housing Supply As Baby Boomers Die Millennials and Generation Z have been battered by a persistent housing shortage, with the US market currently short 7.2 million…

The US president has confused Gaza with Ukraine twice The oldest president in American history, Joe Biden, made his latest mental gaffe while announcing Washington’s plans to carry out a first military…

Colorado Democrats Block Legislation Punishing Child Sex Traffickers – Suggest Criminals Are Also Victims While conservative states like Florida have passed legislation to institute the death penalty for criminals guilty of child…

Iran’s Jewish Population Belies Claims Of Tehran’s Genocidal Intent By Brian McGlinchey via Stark Realities For decades, Israeli government officials — chief among them, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — have accused Iran…

These Are America’s Favorite Sneaker Brands With estimated sales of more than $22 billion last year, the United States is by far the largest sneaker market in the world. According to estimates…

If you ever needed a good point to highlight the nature of political Lawfare, this is a great example. Julie Kelly essentially notes that Special Prosecutor Jack Smith is asking DC Judge…

Berlin launched a counterintelligence probe into how the conversation between senior Luftwaffe officers got out Berlin has yet to officially admit the authenticity of discussions between German officers about helping Ukraine attack…

California Seized Enough Fentanyl In 2023 To Kill Global Population ‘Twice Over’ Authored by Lorenz Duchamps via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Authorities in California seized enough lethal doses of fentanyl last…

Eye-Catching Jump In Inflation Expectations Threatens Bonds By Wes Goodman, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist The US two-year breakeven rate is showing an eye-popping increase and will put upward pressure on…

Study Finds Majority Of Patients With Long COVID Were Vaccinated Authored by Megan Redshaw via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A recent study found that the majority of patients who suffered from…

Sergey Pashinsky has slammed his trial as interfering with arming the military President Vladimir Zelensky’s government has arrested former MP Sergey Pashinsky and charged him with defrauding the state, the New York…

Fed-Up San Fran Voters Set To Expand Police Power, Drug-Screen Welfare Recipients Fed up with a city ravaged by crime and drug addiction and shedding theft-plagued businesses weekly, voters in ultra-liberal San…

Taibbi: MSNBC, Paul Krugman Panic Over “White Rural Rage” Authored by Matt Taibbi via Racket News, This week in undisguised class hatred: the New York Times and MSNBC slobber over a new…

US Bank Crisis Looms As Deposit Outflows Accelerated Last Week, Loan Volumes Stagnate With the imminent expiration of The Fed’s bank bailout facility (reminder they were 12-month collateralized term loans), and with…

Brussels unblocked €2 billion after Budapest approved Sweden’s NATO membership The European Union has unlocked another batch of previously blocked funding for Hungary, citing Budapest’s alleged progress on gender equality. The decision…

The Defense Ministry fears that Russia may have spied on Luftwaffe generals Berlin’s first reaction to Friday’s revelations that several German generals discussed helping Ukraine attack Russia was to launch an investigation…

Washington desperately needs to modernize its own nuclear forces, the head of the US Strategic Command has said Russia poses a serious challenge to America’s military dominance, Air Force General Anthony Cotton,…

Is Biden’s ‘Party Of Chaos’ Heading For An “Extinction-Level Event” In November? Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, The Blob Quivers “Russian meddling will eventually outstrip ‘Saw X’ as America’s most…

‘Everything’ Rallies On First Day Of March After Fed Hints At Next ‘QE’ And ugly data day was brightened up when Fed Governor Waller wrecked the wall of worry. ISM Manufacturing was…

Health Officials Concerned Over Possible RSV Vaccine Link To Rare Neurological Condition “Trust the science,” they told us…  At a time when the largest mRNA Covid vaccine peer-reviewed study recently revealed increases in neurological,…

Blaze Journalist Arrested On 4 Charges Over Jan. 6 Presence At Capitol Update (1530ET): Steve Baker of The Blaze was arrested on Friday and charged with four misdemeanors related to his Jan….

Trump Will Remain On Illinois Ballot Pending Appeal, Virtue-Signaling Judge Clarifies In New Order Update (1400ET): Less than 24 hours after she ordered Donald Trump removed from Illinois’ primary ballot (because ‘meh,…

Today Is A Good Day To DEI: In Huge Win For DeSantis, University Of Florida Fires All ‘Diversity, Equity & Inclusion’ Staff Following a mandate by the Florida Board of Governors, the…

Apollo: 10 Reasons Why The Fed Won’t Cut Rates In 2024 Two weeks ago, with inflation reversing higher, oil surging, home price gains just unstoppable, oh and of course stonks trading at…

Trudeau Govt. Virologists Who Transferred Ebola To Wuhan Had “Clandestine Relationship” With Chinese Agents, Bombshell Intel Reveals A cache of documents from Canada’s top intelligence services reveals that Trudeau government virologists had…

Luftwaffe generals have allegedly talked about secretly helping Ukraine bomb the Crimean Bridge Moscow will demand an explanation from Berlin about alleged plans to provide Taurus missiles to Ukraine and help the…

Macron Doubles-Down On NATO Sending Troops To Ukraine Remarks Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday stood behind his comments about NATO not ruling out sending troops to Ukraine despite the…

Navalny’s Funeral Draws Thousands, But Ends Peacefully & Without Incident The funeral and burial of Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny has been completed without incident Friday at a neighborhood church in a…

“This Judge Should Be Impeached”: Journalist Catherine Herridge Fined $800 Per Day Until She Gives Up Confidential Source In a case with chilling implications for 1st Amendment press protections, a DC Judge…

“This Is A Good As It Gets For Biden”: One Bank Says A Trump Victory Is Now A Base Case By Elwin de Groot, Head of Macro Strategy at Rabobank Gramscical world…

Gold & Bonds Soar As Fed’s Waller Hints At QE Reverse-Twist Shortly after a disappointing ISM Manufacturing report (which started yields falling), Fed Governor Christopher Waller (quietly) dropped quite a bombshell on markets…

Paris is contemplating sending a small force into Ukrainian territory to pose a “strategic dilemma” for Moscow, the French outlet has claimed The French government is mulling sending a small military force…

Georgia Judge To Hear New Evidence, Final Statements In Fani Willis Disqualification Case Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Witness testimony has concluded, but attorneys still have much…

The new restrictions are in line with those of G7 allies, Tokyo says Japan has approved a new round of sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine conflict, Tokyo’s foreign ministry announced on…

Having too many entry points for Russians compromises national security, Vilnius has claimed Train passengers transiting between Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad can no longer embark or disembark in Lithuania,…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said Lloyd Austin made a “Freudian slip” The US clearly has plans for NATO to become directly involved in a conflict with Russia, as evidenced by…

The file was provided by Russian security officials to RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan A source audio file containing what is claimed to be a discussion of a potential German operation to bomb…

Two Wrongs Make A Flight? Troubled Boeing In Talks To Buy Troubled Supplier Spirit Aero Just because Boeing doesn’t have other things to worry about – like airplanes that don’t turn into…

Western allies are looking for “viable” options to expropriate the funds, US Treasury Secretary Yellen has said The US and its allies will keep seeking a “firm” legal rationale to underpin plans…

“Best Hunker Down”: Blizzard Pounding Sierra Nevada To Dump 10-Plus Feet Of Snow A powerful Pacific storm will dump up to 10 feet of snow across the highest elevations of Sierra Nevada…

Trump And Jack Smith Request Competing Trial Dates In Classified Documents Case Authored by Caden Pearsen via The Epoch Times, Former President Donald Trump and Special Counsel Jack Smith filed motions on…

Defeating Russia is essential and everything possible must be done to achieve that goal, Manuel Valls has said The possibility of the Ukraine conflict escalating into World War III cannot be ruled…

Democrats Lost Faith In February As UMich Inflation Indicator Ticked Up Democrats’ consumer confidence tumbled in February, falling 7.1 pts (from 101.7 to 94.6) – the most since June 2022. At the…

WTF Is Going On With US Manufacturing PMI Data… After yesterday’s ugly data, S&P Global’s US Manufacturing PMI offered a ray of ‘soft’ hope with an acceleration intra-month – from 50.7 in…

Columbia University Hospital DEI Chief Accused Of Plagiarizing Wikipedia, 27 Others In Dissertation In the continuation of a trend rocking “elite” institutions, Columbia University Medical Center’s chief diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)…

Paris will do “everything” to avoid a direct conflict with Moscow while continuing to aid Kiev, Stephane Sejourne has said No combat troops will be sent to Ukraine, French Foreign Minister Stephane…

Haley: Nominating Trump Means “Suicide For Our Country” Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClearPolitics.com, As Nikki Haley stubbornly clings to life ahead of Super Tuesday, warning that nominating Donald Trump for president…

US Blocks Security Council Motion Blaming Israel For Deadly Gaza Aid Delivery Incident There was an overnight push among Arab nations to get the UN Security Council (UNSC) to pass a motion…

Dumb Money Almost Back To Even, Making The Same Mistakes Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, After over two years, retail investors, also known as the “dumb money,” are almost back to breakeven. A…

Futures Flat As Rally Fades, CRE Stress Returns US stock futures briefly fell to a session low – then quickly recovered – as Apple slumped in premarket trading after Goldman removed the…

ECB Rate-Cuts In Jeopardy As Disinflation Grinds To Halt Authored by Simon Black, Bloomberg macro strategist, Eurozone inflation data for January just came in higher than expected, as hinted by the readings…

Washington is trying to justify spending more taxpayer money on aggressive foreign policy, Havana has claimed The US falsely accuses other countries of spying while itself engaging in widespread espionage, Cuban Foreign…

The late opposition figure – who died last month at a prison in northern Russia – has been laid to rest in his home city Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny has been buried…

The move is part of the MONUSCO peacekeeping mission’s withdrawal from the DR Congo The UN stabilization mission (MONUSCO) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) has withdrawn troops from…

On March 1, 1896, Ethiopian troops defeated the Italian army in the legendary Battle of Adwa, and defended their country’s independence “I know the tactics of European governments when they wish to…

Elon Musk Hits OpenAI With “Breach Of Contract” Lawsuit For Abandoning Foundational Mission Elon Musk claims in a lawsuit filed Thursday evening in the San Francisco Superior Court that ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and its chief…

Low Volatility In Gold Is Calm Before Inflation Storm Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Inflation is back on the radar this week after yesterday’s release of PCE in the US….

Milena Melnichuk accused the Russian and Belarusian finalists of the Miss Europe contest of paying off the judges The Winner of the Miss Europe 2024 beauty pageant, Russian national Roza Gadieva, has…

Today’s Western leaders exhibit a strange mix of self-assuredness and anxiety that’s characteristic of those defending the status quo during times of sweeping change US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has become the…

The terms allowed Kiev to seek membership of the EU, but not NATO, according to the outlet The Wall Street Journal has published what it says are details of a draft peace…

The country’s GDP surged 8.4% between October and December 2023, data has shown  India is the world’s fastest-growing economy and its expansion in the final quarter of last year exceeded expectations, according…

The text in Russian was published by RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan, hours after she reported receiving the recording The full text of what is claimed to be a discussion by senior German…

New Delhi has approved acquisition of $4.7 billion-worth of weaponry, including missiles and MiG29 engines co-developed with Russia The Indian Ministry of Defence has approved five arms-acquisition contracts worth $4.7 billion (391…

Inflation’s Impact: The Penny’s Plunge Into Irrelevance Via SchiffGold.com, It’s no surprise to readers of this site that metals are often worth more than fiat currency. Gold, silver, and other precious metals…

Watch: First Cybertruck Sells At Manheim For $244,000 Customers who purchase Tesla’s long-awaited Cybertruck are bound by a buyer’s agreement that they cannot sell the futuristic vehicle in the first year –…

The American espionage network is even larger than what the US press describes, Moscow believes The CIA has “many” bases in Ukraine, the head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Aleksandr…

The Latin American country already owes the fund some $44 billion Argentina is in talks with the IMF over a new aid program designed to accelerate the process of exiting from capital…

Berlin Walks Back Plan For Daycare ‘Sex Rooms’ For Toddlers To Masturbate In Privacy Authored by Thomas Brooke via ReMix News, The controversial plans were recommended by educational experts and included in…

The Sahel nation’s military government had accused Yaya Dillo of leading a deadly attack on a state security agency Chadian opposition figure Yaya Dillo, who was also the cousin of the Sahel…

Cocoa Panic? World’s Largest Chocolatier Plans 19% Workforce Cut As Prices Hit Record Highs The world’s largest maker of bulk chocolate is planning to cut about 19% of its workforce, totaling 2,500…

After simulated zero-gravity training in Russia and theoretical studies in Bengaluru, the astronauts will lift off in a module atop a three-stage rocket It was the best-kept secret at the Indian Institute…

Kiev has long sought to destroy the critical Russian infrastructure, with two bombings damaging the bridge in the past two years German military leaders allegedly discussed an operation to bomb the Crimean…

COVID-19 And Its Vaccines Linked To Sudden Hearing Loss, Considered An ‘Emergency’: Doctor Authored by Marina Zhang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Dr. Clarice Saba, an otorhinolaryngologist in Brazil, developed sudden…

The statement by US defense chief Lloyd Austin shows who the real aggressor is, the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said A claim by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that NATO and Russia could…

EU leaders are reluctant to seize the frozen billions, fearing retaliation and damage to the euro  President Joe Biden is pushing his fellow Group of Seven (G7) leaders to make progress on…

China Tops Global Diplomacy Index China has the most diplomatic posts abroad out of any country in the world, according to the Lowy Institute’s 2024 Global Diplomacy Index, published Sunday. Close on its…

Escobar: Two Years After The Start Of The SMO, The West Is Totally Paralyzed Authored by Pepe Escobar, February 24, 2022 was the day that changed 21st century geopolitics forever… Exactly two years…

The French leader has said he would not rule out a NATO military deployment to assist Ukrainian forces More than two-thirds of the French public believe President Emmanuel Macron was wrong to…

Baltic ports in Latvia and Lithuania have become a gateway for wine and whisky imports to the sanctioned country There is no need for Russia to impose an embargo on wine and…

Nearly 30% of total income went to 10% of the population last year, according to Rosstat Income disparity among the Russian population increased in 2023, according to the latest report on the…

Paris will use the river for the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics, and as a site for swimming competitions French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to take a swim in the…

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…