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Big-Tech & Bitcoin Bounce, Regionals Red As Flotilla Of FedSpeak Hints ‘Higher For Longer’ The buyers are back in banks and big-tech today despite an avalanche of hawkish talk from Fed speakers….

Stunning Collapse In Credit Card Debt Change As Average APR Hits New All-Time High After several months of wild swings in US consumer debt, culminating with last month’s explosion in credit card…

A massive explosion of interest in the pop sensation’s love life has triggered a surge in conspiracy theories. Do any have merit? Psyop: a military operation usually aimed at influencing the enemy’s state…

Ben Roberts-Smith’s barrister Bret Walker SC is arguing in the Federal Court of Australia that the 3 judges hearing the appeal should ignore Roberts-Smith’s perjury, witness collusion, intimidation of witnesses, destruction of…

The Facebook founder has teased a full-contact bout against fellow billionaire Elon Musk Mark Zuckerberg’s interest in cage fighting could have a “material adverse impact” on Meta’s business should the Facebook founder…

Blistering Saudi Statement Slams Door On Normalization With Israel A hoped-for ‘deal of the century’ involving a permanent Saudi Arabia-Israel detente diplomatic recognition based on Trump’s Abraham Accords looks to be effectively…

Jim ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis advised the UAE government after retiring from the Marines Retired US Marine General James Mattis was hired in 2015 to advise the United Arab Emirates about the Saudi-led…

The Israeli leader has rejected a ceasefire proposal put forward by Hamas Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has shot down a Hamas-proposed plan to end the conflict in Gaza, telling reporters that…

The Future Of American Energy Production Must Include Nuclear Authored by Tommy Tuberville via RealClear Wire, It’s the coldest time of the year, and the demand for energy is significantly higher as people try to…

Inflation-Adjusted Super Bowl Spending Still In A Rut As close to a national holiday as it gets (even if it’s on a Sunday), Super Bowl Sunday has become a sacred event in the American…

New York’s Illegal Alien Compounds Exposed: Stabbings, Drugs, Deaths… Submitted by Muckraker, Muckraker.com has obtained never-before-seen undercover footage from inside three of New York’s secret illegal alien compounds, at The ROW NYC,…

The intergovernmental organization is more divided at present than it was during the Cold War, its leader has said United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that the world is moving…

ESG Bubble Further Deflates As CEOs Ditch Green Lingo On Earnings Calls Investors are pulling funds from sustainable investments as the ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) bubble deflates, triggered by high interest…

Big Banks Well Placed To Prosper From Smaller Rivals’ CRE Distress Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Large banks in the US are positioned to take market share in commercial real…

Record Large 10Y Auction Sees Stellar Demand, First Stop-Through In 12 Months Today’s 10Y auction was set to make history: the February refunding auction would sell $42BN in debt maturing on Feb…

“Go F*ck Themselves”: Rank-And-File Border Patrol Agents Livid Over Senate Funding Deal Rank-and-file Border Patrol agents have slammed the Senate’s $118B Senate funding bill that would guarantee 1.5 million illegal migrants entry…

How Has The US Economy Remained So Resilient In The Face Of Much Higher Rates? Here Is The Answer By Dhaval Joshi of BCA Research Summary: The markets have been celebrating the…

One of the suspects could face up to six years behind bars for stealing the rainbow banner Two US soldiers have been arrested and charged with larceny and “bias” for repeatedly stealing…

President Vladimir Zelensky’s decree on Russian lands “historically inhabited by Ukrainians” opens a hornet’s nest At the end of January, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree on “Russian Territories Historically Inhabited…

Any ‘reset’ in Kiev should start from the top, Pyotr Poroshenko has said Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky should leave General Valery Zaluzhny alone, his predecessor Pyotr Poroshenko said during a fiery speech…

Hamas Responds To Ceasefire Offer With 135-Day ‘Truce Plan’, But Israel Pessimistic US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Tel Aviv for hostage negotiation talks following widespread reports that Hamas has…

Alisher Usmanov is among dozens of individuals who filed a lawsuit to challenge their inclusion on the blacklist Russian metals tycoon Alisher Usmanov will remain on the EU sanctions list, the European…

Homeland Security Cited Inaccurate Allegation To Censor New York Times Journalist Authored by Lee Fang via RealClear Wire, As the 2020 Election Day count dragged on into the next morning in the…

China Is Waiting For The Fed To Start Easing Before Launching Its Own Stimulus By Michael Every of Rabobank Whatever “it” takes The market take at the start of the year was…

EU Lawmakers Want To Sanction Tucker Carlson Over Putin Interview In 1941, American journalist Pierre Huss interviewed German dictator Adolph Hitler in German-occupied Russia as part of a reporting staff orchestrated by…

The Russia-Ukraine conflict sent global wheat prices soaring, but the continent has been unable to increase its self-sufficiency, an article in The Guardian Nigeria claims Africa’s dependency on imports for food has…

A think tank claims Rowan Atkinson’s criticism of EVs is disrupting the phase-out of petrol and diesel vehicles in the UK The UK-based environmental charity Green Alliance has accused actor and comedian…

The move to postpone a presidential vote by ten months has heightened tensions in the country Senegalese authorities must reverse their decision to delay the country’s presidential election by ten months, the…

Brussels has admitted that the scope for further restrictions is narrowing The sanctions imposed by the EU on Russia are “weak,” Agiya Zagrebelskaya, the head of the sanctions department at Ukraine’s National…

Sweden Halts Nord Stream Investigation, Hands Off To Germany, As Hersh Fills In More Blanks Prosecutors in Stockholm announced Wednesday they have shut down the investigation into who was behind the 2022…

Biden Brags About Defying Supreme Court On Student Debt Cancellation, Claims No Cost To Taxpayers Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), During a speech in Las Vegas on…

The kingdom wants an independent Palestinian state and an end to “aggression” against Gaza Saudi Arabia will not establish formal ties with Israel until it recognizes an independent Palestinian state and ceases…

Several MEPs have called for a travel ban to be imposed on the X host for daring to go to Moscow American journalist Tucker Carlson could be banned from visiting the European…

Sky News Journalist Admits Biden’s Garbled Speech Shows Why Americans Are Concerned About His Cognitive Health Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, A Sky News journalist flagged up the latest example…

The legislation proposed by Speaker Mike Johnson has failed to garner the required two thirds of the vote The US House of Representatives on Tuesday torpedoed a bill aimed at providing $17.6…

WTI Extends Gains After Surprisingly Large Product Draws Oil prices extended yesterday’s gains (helped by EIA’s short-term outlook) after a mixed bag from API with a much smaller than expected crude build….

The WikiLeaks founder faces up to 175 years in prison if his extradition to the United States is approved The United Nations’ special rapporteur on torture has called upon authorities in the…

A bloc-wide wide wave of discontent over high costs, external competition, and red tape in the agriculture sector has reached Spain The Spanish government announced on Tuesday that it will pay compensation…

De Beers CEO Declares “2024 Year Of Recovery” As Diamond Prices Stuck At 2004 Low Al Cook, CEO of De Beers, the world’s largest diamond company, appeared on Bloomberg TV Wednesday morning to…

The president’s choice of apparel shows the “sick psychology” of the links between Washington and Kiev, Vivek Ramaswamy says US President Joe Biden’s decision to wear a tie with the colors of…

Russian ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia pointed out that Washington gives target clearances for all of Kiev’s attacks that use HIMARS missiles Washington is partially responsible for Ukraine’s missile strike on…

“Not A Woke Company”: Trump Says Bud Light’s Owner Should Be Given Second Chance Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times, Former President Donald Trump said Bud Light’s parent company is…

Cold weather has reportedly caused a surge in energy consumption in the bloc Russian pipeline gas supply to the EU jumped by 41% last month on an annual basis, amounting to 2.52…

Budapest must ratify Sweden’s NATO application “very quickly,” an official has said, according to the news outlet Germany is pressing the Hungarian government to ratify Sweden’s bid for NATO membership, with a…

The proposed legislation enhances Kiev’s draft-program rules and may come into force within weeks Ukrainian MPs on Wednesday approved on first reading a bill that seeks to radically change military mobilization procedures…

Consumption has grown by over 3,000% in two decades, thanks to more Indians traveling to Europe and their discovery of homegrown vintages during the Covid lockdown The minerality of a terroir may…

“Whatever It Takes” – NYCB Shares Drop After Chairman Reassures “Virtually” No Deposit Outflow From Branches NYCB shares puked down to $3.50 overnight after Moody’s downgraded them to junk. This morning, the…

Beijing Appoints Capital Markets Veteran As Regulatory Chief Amid Stock Meltdown China has appointed capital markets veteran Wu Qing to head the nation’s securities regulator just one day after the country’s sovereign…

Nikki Haley Just Lost A GOP Primary To ‘None Of These Candidates’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Nikki Haley has failed to win the Nevada primary despite there being no other…

Futures Rebound To Session High After NY Community Bank Reverses Overnight Rout; Record 10Y Auction Looms US equity futures and global markets were mixed, while bond yields rose as the Treasury prepared…

LA Times Tells Angelenos They’re Wrong About Crime, Everything Is Fine Authored by James Breslo via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), My family moved to Los Angeles during the 1984 Olympics. “I…

Enjoy Warmth While It Lasts. Meteorologist Warns Of Winter’s Return Next Week Punxsutawney Phil – the famous groundhog weather oracle – called for early spring last Friday, having not seen his shadow….

The True Costs Of Net-Zero Are Becoming Impossible To Hide Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk.com, Our net zero lesson of the day is from the U.K. but it applies universally. It’s…

A spate of similar assaults on citizens from the Asian nation has occurred in American cities in the past month Footage of an Indian student being chased and attacked in Chicago has…

More Dominoes: US CRE Downturn Sends German Lenders Into Turmoil A severe downturn in the US commercial real estate property sector has already sent some banks in New York and Japan into…

Israel is likely to reject the proposal to end the war in Gaza, reports say Hamas has responded to a US- and Israeli-backed ceasefire proposal issued last week by mediators from Egypt…

Metropolitan Eugene has been branded a security threat and denied a residence permit in Estonia Metropolitan Eugene, the head of the self-governed Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, has been denied…

The West should tell its citizens the “bitter truth” about what would happen if the bloc clashes with Moscow, Dmitry Medvedev says A full-scale war between Russia and NATO would leave Moscow…

India to probe fintech giant over money-laundering concerns – reports The Indian government may initiate a formal probe into the operations of one of India’s largest digital payment firms, Paytm, The Economic…

The Yemeni militant group targeted two commercial vessels, causing minor damage and no injuries, according to the Pentagon Houthi forces fired several ballistic missiles at cargo ships off the Yemeni coast on…

JPMorgan Chase Plans Massive Branch Network Expansion While Small Banks Implode Mega bank JPMorgan Chase is plotting a massive expansion of bank branches nationwide. It plans to open as many as 500…

At least 31 captives have perished in the Palestinian enclave, officials have estimated Nearly 25% of hostages still being held by the Palestinian armed group Hamas have been declared dead, according to…

Paul Mackenzie is accused of ordering hundreds of his followers to starve themselves to death Kenyan cult leader Paul Mackenzie has been charged with murdering 191 children, whose bodies were found buried…

The footage is being prepared for broadcast, spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists Russian President Vladimir Putin met with US journalist Tucker Carlson on Tuesday for an interview, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told…

Ethiopia is only interested in peace with Somalia, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said, addressing fears about a fight over the agreement Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has dismissed widespread concerns about a…

mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Caused More Deaths Than Saved: Peer-Reviewed Study Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), With considerably lower efficacy rates, mRNA COVID-19 vaccines cause more deaths than…

Helsinki refuses to discuss alleged threats coming from the Russian side of the border, the Foreign Ministry has said Finland’s refusal to reopen its borders with Russia is exclusively political in nature;…

Oil and gas are still reaching the bloc via third countries, a top Russian senator has said EU countries continue to purchase Russian oil and gas despite bold statements about abandoning supplies,…

It will become apparent in the long term that China was the real winner In 2023, the volume of trade between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait was $268 billion. This…

Enterprises producing naval drones and various types of missiles were hit, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said Russia has carried out major missile and drone strikes against Ukrainian military-industrial facilities, the…

The former Fox host alleges that the Biden administration wanted to derail his plans to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin Allegations that the administration of US President Joe Biden tried to stop…

The probe has not established any likely suspects, according to prosecutors Swedish prosecutors say they will drop their investigation into the explosions that damaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines…

Japanese Shipping Giant Warns “Historic” Red Sea Crisis Could Last “Six Months Or One Year” President Biden’s Operation Prosperity Guardian to shield commercial vessels in the Red Sea, along with US and…

Russia didn’t collapse under Western pressure and has strengthened relations with China, an adviser to PM Viktor Orban said Europe has been brought to its knees due to the stance taken by…

Turkey Earthquake One Year On: Survivors Still Living In Tent & Container Cities Amid Gov’t Infighting Via Middle East Eye When Turkish soldier Muslum Ozdemir died during a military operation in Iraq last month, a troubling…

Anyone demanding that the journalist be detained for interviewing Vladimir Putin should themselves be arrested, the billionaire has argued Anyone calling for the arrest of US journalist Tucker Carlson over his plan…

Was Zelensky’s Top General Just Whisked Off To Become Ambassador To UK? The near future fate of Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny continues to be subject of rampant speculation, after President Zelensky belatedly…

Polish Farmers Set To Join European Revolt With Mass Blockade Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, Polish farmers are set to join the continent-wide revolt against the EU by launching a…

Nine ambassadors in the Indo-Pacific region urge Congress to approve funding for Ukraine and Israel Several US ambassadors have signed a letter urging lawmakers to approve a $118 billion bill with funds…

With Trump not being on the ballot, his GOP challenger lost by double digits to “none of these candidates” in a national first US presidential candidate Nikki Haley has received the support…

Exports had previously dropped due to storms and maintenance works Maritime exports or Russian crude oil saw a strong recovery in the week to February 4 after two weeks of disruptions, Bloomberg…

FX purchases had been suspended last August due to volatility in the ruble Russia’s Finance Ministry has announced the volume of the first purchases of foreign currency under the country’s budget rule…

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…

On The Rising Danger Of Democratic ‘Lawfare’ Authored by Alex Berenson via ‘Unreported Truths’ substack, The New York state fraud case against Donald Trump is absurd; and the White House now openly…

The 5 Global Powers That Vie To Crush Each Other And Their Subjects Authored by Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In the 1930s, the world had…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has unveiled his government’s vision for transforming the country’s energy landscape New Delhi will invest $67 billion in India’s energy sector over the next 5-6 years to meet…

Russia Releases $9M In Frozen N.Korean Assets, Alleged To Be Helping Kim Skirt UN Sanctions Russia-North Korea ties have continued to deepen amid the backdrop of the Ukraine war and corresponding US-led…

Judge Nawaf Salam has previously urged Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian land A Lebanese judge known for past criticisms of Israel has been elected as the new president of the…

Controlled Instability Authored by Robert Gore via StraightLineLogic.com, Would-be rulers embrace a moronic oxymoron… The Houthis stymie 12 percent of the world’s shipping. Israel has bitten off more than it can chew…

Biden Admin Classifies Martha’s Vineyard And Other Elite Enclaves ‘Low-Income’ To Push EV Charger Subsidies Some of the wealthiest liberal enclaves in the country are being classified by the Biden administration as…

Moderna Scientists Warn mRNA Vaccines Carry Toxicity Risks Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The technology used in Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine carries toxicity risks, scientists with the company…

The US Justice Department has long warned that the controversial restraint method leads to deaths of suspects in custody The Washington state Senate has unanimously approved a bill that would prohibit law…

Biden Barely Loses To Trump, Beats Haley, In Hypothetical Matchup A new survey from YouGov reveals that President Joe Biden would lose in a hypothetical matchup against former President Donald Trump, but…

Seattle Restaurant Has Been Broken Into 5 Times In Past 6 Months Even before Biden took over the White House thanks to millions of mailed-in harvested ballots dropping in at 3am in…

House Fails To Impeach Mayorkas After Four Republicans Join Democrats House lawmakers on Tuesday failed to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, under whose tenure more than 10 million illegal immigrants have…

The House Republicans have failed to remove Alejandro Mayorkas from office by a razor-thin margin The US House of Representatives has voted against impeaching Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday….

New York Community Bancorp Cut To ‘Junk’ By Moody’s: 33% Of Deposits Uninsured Having seen the share price collapse to its lowest since 1997, following the regional lender’s reporting of a surprising…

Kristi Noem: “Somebody’s Running The White House. I Don’t Believe It’s Joe Biden” Authored by Aaron Pan via The Epoch Times, South Dakota governor Kristi Noem said President Joe Biden is not…

WTI Holds Gains After API Reports Crude/Cushing Builds, Distillates Draw Oil prices managed gains today as MidEast risks trumped hawkish sentiment (and may even have been helped by a rise in rate-cut…