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Majority Of Americans Now Back Trump-Style Border Wall: Poll Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Illegal immigration has become a key concern of voters this election year, with…

These Are The Median Down-Payments For A House In Each US State Since housing costs vary across U.S. states, so too does the income required to buy a house, and the down payment…

Will New Gavin Newsom Recall Effort Backfire Again? Authored by Susan Crabtree viaRealClear Wire, Conservative activists in California hope the seventh time is a charm when it comes to recalling Gavin Newsom….

Yen Doesn’t Buy The BOJ Narrative Just Yet, But It Will By Ven Ram, Bloomberg markets live reporter and strategist There seems to be growing conviction that Japan will exit negative rates…

The House speaker faces renewed pressure from Democrats to advance $60 billion in military assistance for Kiev Congress will not pass a new aid package for Ukraine without reforms to US immigration…

The General Election Begins: Gingrich Authored by Newt Gingrich via RealClear Wire, The New York Times called President Donald Trump’s victory in South Carolina on Saturday a “crushing home state loss” for…

We’re Gonna Need Another Pandemic!! Zoom Video Communications, the company that rose to fame during the early days of the pandemic, ended fiscal 2024 on a strong note, reporting results for its…

OPEC+ Could Extend Oil Output Cuts Through Year End By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com OPEC+’s voluntary production cuts that were set to expire at the end of the first quarter could be…

Argentina Oil Provinces Rebel Against Milei’s Austerity Plan By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com Argentina’s oil-producing provinces have threatened to cut off oil supply to the rest of the country if the government…

Michigan voters had the option to cast a ballot in person ahead of the Feb. 27 election – having at least nine days of Election Day-style early voting. Between early and absentee…

The US president has slammed his rival’s “outrageous” demand for NATO allies to pay their bills US President Joe Biden has criticized his predecessor Donald Trump’s comments on NATO as “absolutely bizarre,”…

Yes, There Is A Path For A Third Party Candidate To Win The White House… But It Is Narrow Authored by Jonathan Turley, One of the most interesting dynamics in this election…

Playing With Fire: Zelensky Questions Trump’s Patriotism In CNN Interview Ukraine’s President Zelensky has grown increasingly bold in his criticisms of former US President Donald Trump – a risky move given he’s…

The Lasting Damage Of Bidenomics Authored by K.S. Bruce via American Greatness, Recently, Democratic Party-cheerleading economist Paul Krugman declared, “Inflation is over. We won.” This is like a robber shooting you and…

US Army Plans To Cut 24,000 Jobs Due To “Over-Structured” Woes The US Army faces the most challenging recruiting environment in decades, if not ever, as America’s Generation Z doesn’t want to…

Microwave Energy Could Fix The Biggest Problem Facing EVs By Alex Kimani of Oilprice.com Last month, large swathes of the United States grappled with sub-zero wind chills whereby freezing air from the…

“A Bold New Chapter”: Macy’s To Close 150 Stores, Focus On Luxury Consumer With Bloomingdale’s Macy’s announced on Tuesday that it is entering “A Bold New Chapter,” this time focusing on a more luxurious store design…

It Has All Gone So Dreadfully Wrong For The Establishment Authored by Nikolai Hubble via FortuneAndFreedom.com, When it rains, it pours for those in power Have the people suddenly woken up? How…

The interesting aspect to this report is that the former Obama aides and officials now criticizing the physical and mental acuity of Joe Biden are all named and doing so on the…

Americans have been lied to about who was winning, the journalist said Most Americans naively believe that Ukraine could defeat Russia because the media has told them so, independent journalist Tucker Carlson…

London has distanced itself from the French President’s words about sending NATO forces to aid Kiev The United Kingdom isn’t planning to put more boots on the ground in Ukraine, beyond the…

Trump Asks Judge To Block Testimony From Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald J. Trump speaks at…

The possibility mulled by the French president could be taken as a declaration of war on Moscow, Konstantin Kosachev has said The potential deployment of NATO troops to Ukraine will lead to…

Harvard “Considers” $1.65 Billon Debt Sale After Gay Resignation Fallout Billionaire investor and Harvard University alumnus Bill Ackman voiced concerns on X on Monday about the health of the woke university’s endowment….

Master And Commander: The Biden Dogs Accused Of Dozens Of Additional Attacks At White House Authored by Jonathan Turley, We have been writing about the alarming record of the Biden dogs attacking…

WTI Dips From Range-Highs After API Reports Bigger Than Expected Crude Build Oil pries rallied for the second straight day near the highs of their range since early November on a combination…

The journalist claims the US spied on him as he tried to interview Edward Snowden Tucker Carlson said on Tuesday that US spies had monitored him while he was in Russia earlier…

Sen. Kennedy: Biden Is “A Cancer On The American Dream” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy slammed Joe Biden’s economic policies Monday, declaring that inflation under Biden…

‘Big Shorts’, Bitcoin, & Black Gold Bid As Yield Curve Bear-Steepens For the second day in a row, the biggest shorts, crypto, and oil prices ripped while the rest of the market…

Supreme Court Struggles With Regulation Of Social Media Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Florida and Texas should be allowed to regulate how social media platforms moderate content,…

FAA Finds 17 Corrective Actions For SpaceX After Second Starship Explosion The US Federal Aviation Administration has completed its investigation into the second flight of SpaceX’s Starship rocket, which ended in an…

Talk about sending troops to Ukraine is dangerous, the Italian government has said, responding to remarks by the president of France Italy is “not at war with Russia” and has no plans…

The US leader has made another gaffe on a late night talk show US President Joe Biden took his campaign message to a TV audience on Monday evening, but mistakenly dated his…

US spies have raised alarms about “inexperienced loyalists” threatening their jobs Former US President Donald Trump is “likely” to launch sweeping reforms of the US intelligence community if he is re-elected in…

The beloved children’s film is now rated PG due to featuring a Dutch word used to describe an African tribe Classic children’s film Mary Poppins has had its rating changed from the…

What Happens When The VIX Spikes, But Traders Aren’t “Actually” Worried? SpotGamma invites readers to please join them tonight at 8pm EST for a free webinar on the VIX and the coming…

“I’m Done With Google”: Wholesale Loss Of Trust After “Unbelievably Irresponsible” Racist AI Goes Mask-Off The fact that Google’s Gemini AI is a complete woke mess comes as no surprise to anyone…

Stock Bull Market Might Just Be Getting Started, But… Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The rally in equities might have much further to go, based on the positive outlook for…

What To Know About Today’s Michigan Presidential Primaries Authored by Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Michigan is holding its Republican and Democratic presidential primaries today. (L) Former President Donald…

Yields Slide After Solid 7Y Auction, First Stop Through Since October After two lousy, record large coupon auctions in Monday’s two-for-one special, moments ago the Treasury issued a non-record $42BN in 7…

Online footage shows the destruction of multiple military vehicles Kiev received from its foreign backers The Russian military has destroyed several rare examples of Ukraine’s Western-supplied military hardware, including a Norwegian-made NASAMS…

Biden’s Half-Hearted Border-Control Pitch Authored by Christopher Roach via American Greatness, There are rumors – likely trial balloons – that Joe Biden is about to get serious about controlling the border. Along with…

Wendy’s To Test ‘Surge Pricing’ Using ‘High-Tech Menu Boards’ That Change In Real Time Wendy’s is about to test a surge pricing model similar to Uber, in which the cost of menu…

Investigators reportedly believe Maxim Kuzminov blew his cover while preparing for his mother’s arrival in Spain, according to El Mundo Spanish investigators have a new theory about how murdered Russian defector pilot…

Exxon Has Entered The Chat: US Supermajor Threatens To Derail Chevron’s $53 Billion Hess Merger Exxon has entered the chat… That was the gist of the message Chevron gave to the world…

Russian football star, Lokomotiv striker Artyom Dzyuba, has commented on the recent news that Russian developers are making a counterpart to EA Sports’ FIFA series of football simulators. “I honestly doubt that…

Fed And Treasury Ensure Dollar Downside Is Ahead Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The Fed’s pivot in December and the Treasury’s willingness to run persistently large fiscal deficits will lead…

Biden Meets With ‘Big Four’ Congressional Leaders Over Ukraine Aid, Shutdown As lawmakers have days to strike an agreement to avert a partial government shutdown on Friday, President Biden has called a…

The continent has the world’s lowest levels of connectivity due to a lack of infrastructure Less than 40% of people living in Africa have internet access, a report by the International Telecommunication…

Cross-border sales of the fuel will be halted for six months, the outlet has said Russia will suspend gasoline exports for six months starting in March to ensure sufficient supply for the…

Moscow Reacts To Macron Proposing European Boots On The Ground In Ukraine French President Emmanuel Macron is now openly discussing the possibility of sending European troops to Ukraine to fight the Russians,…

A Great Variety Of Moron Symptoms Appear By Michael Every of Rabobank A great variety of moron symptoms appear Like Gramsci, look around and see the old is dying and the new…

There are no plans for Western boots on the ground, multiple leaders have insisted The UK, Poland, Czech Republic, Finland, and Sweden all spoke up on Tuesday against French President Emmanuel Macron’s…

Regime Change Karen has said the quiet part out loud, complaining that Putin’s Russia is “not the Russia we wanted” US State Department fixture and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs,…

Biden Talks Up Gaza Ceasefire By “End Of The Weekend” Even As Israeli Officials Downplay At a moment the Israelis are downplaying the possibility of a new hostage deal with Hamas, President…

WTF Is Going On With The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Data? After rebounding strongly from November to January, US Consumer Confidence tumbled in February, according to the latest survey from The Conference…

The German chancellor has commented after French President Emmanuel Macron said the deployment of soldiers cannot be ruled out   Western troops will not be deployed to Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has…

Tax discounts and opportunities to boost exports have reportedly been behind the move to open new branches Russian businesses have opened nearly 12,000 branches in Serbia, the United Arab Emirates, Armenia, and…

Kaliningrad will be the first to suffer consequences if Moscow “dares to challenge NATO,” Lithuania’s envoy to Sweden says Western countries will “neutralize” Russia’s westernmost exclave of Kaliningrad if Moscow seriously endangers…

The postponement of the presidential vote had sparked concerns that Macky Sall intends to extend his rule by force Senegalese leader Macky Sall has vowed to leave office at the end of…

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has defended New Delhi’s policy approach, criticizing “attempts to restrict choices” Indian foreign policy imperatives are not influenced by “imported ideologies,” Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar declared in a speech at…

The first US-made armored vehicle supplied to Kiev was destroyed near the recently liberated Donbass town of Avdeevka The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed that the first-ever Ukrainian M1 Abrams tank supplied…

Record Global Debt: A Ticking Time Bomb For The World Economy Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The relentless increase in global debt is an enormous problem for the economy. Public deficits are neither reserves…

US Home Prices Rose For 11th Straight Month In December, But… Home prices in America’s 20 largest cities rose for the 11th straight month in December (the latest data released by S&P…

Denmark Drops Probe Into Nord Stream Gas Pipeline Sabotage By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Denmark is dropping the investigation over what it described as a “deliberate sabotage” of the Nord Stream gas…

US Durable Goods Orders Collapsed In January – Biggest Drop Since COVID Lockdowns The last few months have been volatile – to say the least – for US durable goods orders, with…

Intuitive Machines’ Moon Mission Nears End, Shares Crash Harder Than Lunar Lander Shares of Intuitive Machines plummeted once again in premarket trading following the announcement by the space exploration company that its…

“A House Of Cards, Supported & Backed By Blind Faith…” Submitted by Claudio Grass, Private property rights under siege People invest in gold for many different reasons. Many do so out of…

Major HatTip to FoiaFan for staying on top of this.  I n August of 2020 I sent this tweet to the general public after a lengthy discussion with John Durham’s lead investigator:…

Gabriel Attal has also argued that the deployment of Western soldiers to support Kiev cannot be ruled out French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has echoed suggestions that Western military personnel could be…

A direct war with the US-led bloc seems inevitable once it has boots on the ground, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said A direct conflict between Russia and NATO will likely become inevitable…

‘Kremlin-friendly’ nations have been re-exporting ‘high priority items’ to the country, according to Euractiv The EU’s sanctions on Russia are being “massively circumvented” via third countries, Euractiv reported on Monday, citing a…

Futures Flat Ahead Of Flood Of Economic Data US equity futures pointed to modest gains, led by tech stocks – following Monday’s 38bps drop which was the worst Monday since early December and…

This Is Nuts – An Entire Market Chasing One Stock Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, “When you sit down with your portfolio management team, and the first comment made is ‘this is…

Ukraine has suffered over 444,000 casualties in two years, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has claimed Kiev has lost over 444,000 troops in two years of hostilities against Moscow, Russian Defense Minister Sergey…

There is a strange dynamic with professionally political punditry and political media where they project claims that are the exact opposite of the reality. Often this is done simply to try and…

An increasing number of women are bypassing Meta’s nudity display restriction policy to promote their adult content Instagram users have started to complain about the platform’s algorithm showing an increasing number of…

The aim is to enable Kiev to “carry out deep strikes” amid flagging US support, President Emmanuel Macron has said France is leading a new coalition that aims to provide Ukraine with…

Threat Of Strike Looms Large Over East, Gulf Coast Ports By Michael Rudolph of FreightWaves, There’s an increasing abundance of skittishness surrounding the future of East and Gulf Coast ports. The labor…

The influx of cheap produce has destabilized markets in the bloc The EU’s agricultural sector lost €19 billion ($20.6 billion) in 2022 and 2023 as a result of a liberalization of trade…

A manual meant to prepare the American military for fighting Russia has been released The US Army has branded Moscow the “enemy” while promoting a newly-published manual on the Russian military on…

The “naive” West should realize that security comes at a price, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says EU nations must prioritize defense spending by carving out money from social programs to deter…

A multipolar world “opens a new door for peace,” Abdi Nur Siad has told RT The multipolar ideology represents a path to escape the neocolonial system, imperialism and the world’s destruction, secretary…

Moscow’s agents have seized an analog of the incapacitating chemical BZ in Russia’s Zaporozhye region Russian operatives have prevented Kiev from staging a terrorist attack using chemical weapons in the southern part…

The Countries Committing The Most Aid To Ukraine As Statista’s Martin Armstrong shows in the chart below, thanks chiefly to the €77.2 billion in pledged financial aid, European Union institutions are the…

Only the holy sites of Mecca and Medina are believed to be bigger than the Great Mosque of Algiers in Algeria Algeria has inaugurated a massive mosque, known locally as Djamaa El-Djazair,…

Novel sporting formats that merge real-world disciplines with gaming are underway in Russia’s Kazan, with a billion online views already The Games of the Future, which kicked off in the Russian city…

Slovakia will under no circumstances send troops to help Kiev fight Russia, Robert Fico has insisted Pro-Ukrainian leaders of EU states seem intent on continuing hostilities with Russia “at all costs,” Slovak…

US Officials ‘Surprised’ By Houthi Military Capabilities Via AntiWar.com Joe Biden administration officials admitted that six weeks into the undeclared war in Yemen, the US and UK strikes have failed to erode the Houthis…

The leading cryptocurrency surged above the $57,000 mark on Tuesday The price of Bitcoin, the world’s highest-valued cryptocurrency, hit a two-year high on Tuesday. The token rose as far as $57,036 in…

Female Genital Mutilation Is Also A European Issue At least 200 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation worldwide, with some 600,000 survivors estimated to be living in Europe alone,…

Study Finds Increasing Time Between COVID Vaccine Doses Reduces Risk Of Myocarditis, Yet Cardiologists Raise Concerns Authored by Megan Redshaw via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), New research suggests increasing the interval…

The ‘phygital’ tournament, combining esports and physical competitions, will be held annually, according to the head of the event The Games of the Future will take place again in 2025 and will…

The missile was jointly developed by New Delhi and Moscow and will become the “mainstay” surface-to-surface system Indian Navy Chief Admiral Radhakrishnan Hari Kumar said on Monday that the BrahMos supersonic cruise…

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has said he is ready to meet with President Vladimir Putin “if it helps” Russia must be present at talks aimed at resolving the Ukraine conflict, Austrian Chancellor…

President Miguel Diaz-Canel has praised Moscow’s perseverance amid “the conflict with NATO” Russia and Cuba are continuing to deepen bilateral ties, the press service of the Russian Security Council reported on Tuesday,…

The raid follows the downing of an Israeli drone early Monday morning Israel’s military has said it launched airstrikes deep into Lebanese territory, stating it targeted Hezbollah positions north of Beirut amid…

A number of regions have threatened to withhold supplies in what has turned into a standoff with the president Argentina’s key oil-producing provinces have threatened to cut supplies to the rest of…

Attacks on ships by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have caused a surge in costs and lengthy delays Over half of British exporters and manufacturers have faced problems due to shipping disruptions in the…

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