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An Arctic storm has reportedly affected the operations of multiple refineries from North Dakota to Texas A severe winter storm shut a US Gulf Coast refinery in Texas on Tuesday, caused a…

Piotr Wawrzyk is allegedly a key figure in a corruption scheme that reportedly facilitated tens of thousands of illegal entries The Polish Anticorruption Bureau has arrested ex-Deputy Foreign Minister Piotr Wawrzyk, who…

There’s Not Much Upside To Chasing Bunds From Here Authored by Ven Ram, Bloomberg cross-asset strategist, German’s long-dated bonds have rallied deep and hard since the start of the fourth quarter, leaving…

The conflict with Russia generates jobs and export advantages for arms manufacturers, Sebastien Lecornu has said The surge in demand for weapons amid the Ukraine conflict benefits the economy of France, Defense…

Moscow says another large shipment of free wheat has been delivered to Mali Mali has received 25,000 tons of humanitarian grain from Moscow, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced on Wednesday, adding…

Finnish FM Elina Valtonen says Helsinki doesn’t expect Moscow to attack, but still seeks to maintain a strong defensive posture Russia poses no imminent military threat to Finland, the Nordic country’s foreign…

Tesla Slashes Prices In Germany, Throwing A Wet Blanket On European Auto Stocks New year, same strategy to move metal. Tesla is reportedly slashing prices across Europe, following similar moves the company…

The raid targeted an oil terminal in the city but caused no casualties or damage, local media have reported Russian forces have intercepted a Ukrainian drone over the St. Petersburg area, the…

China’s Coal Production Hit A New Record High In 2023 By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Higher power demand and efforts to boost energy security pushed China’s coal production to a record-high level…

Pushing Kiev to hold a presidential election is intended to keep the ‘unhinged’ leader in check, the Russian foreign minister says Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is becoming increasingly unhinged as he clings…

Commenting on Tehran’s attack in Balochistan province, New Delhi called it an act of “self-defense” The Indian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday weighed in on Iran’s strikes in Pakistan’s Balochistan province a day…

The annual high-profile event comes as Moscow’s relations with the West have hit an all-time low amid the Ukraine conflict Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is holding a press conference in Moscow…

The chief of the national health watchdog says coronavirus has given way to influenza and other respiratory infections Vaccination against COVID-19 is no longer needed, but people should remain vigilant, as the…

Russia Says It Took Out French Mercenaries In Targeted Missile Strike On Ukraine Russia’s defense ministry (MoD) said Wednesday the military has conducted precision strikes against a Ukrainian position which had a…

The official was gunned down in broad daylight by assailants with suspected links to organized crime The Ecuadorian prosecutor tapped to investigate last week’s dramatic assault on a local television studio has…

The Controversial UN Agency Accused Of Aiding Hamas Authored by Dan M. Berger via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A teacher is accused of holding an Israeli hostage in an attic. The…

The White House has briefed lawmakers on the “urgency” of military aid to Kiev, and the “consequences of inaction” House Speaker Mike Johnson announced at a press briefing on Wednesday that he…

One of the core elements to the growth of modern oppressive government would be total control over a central bank digital currency (CBDC).  The government response during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the…

Growth resilience has been remarkable, according to Kristalina Georgieva Global economic growth will get a boost this year from a stronger-than-anticipated 2023, Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund…

The iPhone outsold Samsung devices globally by 10 million units in 2023, data shows Apple has overtaken Samsung as the world’s top smartphone seller, ending twelve years of dominance by the South…

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…

Many people are heralding this speech given by Javier Milei as a confrontation to the mindset of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos. Because so many people made a similar…

Islamabad accused Tehran of ignoring “serious concerns” over militants operating from its territory DETAILS TO FOLLOW

A Primer For American Patriots And Preppers Facing An Uncertain Future Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, This article contains excerpts from Alt-Market’s survival newsletter – The Wild Bunch Dispatch The average patriot…

Islamabad has struck several “terrorist” targets on its neighbor’s soil, following a similar cross-border attack by Tehran Pakistan has carried out airstrikes on a militant group operating from Iranian territory, an intelligence…

Trump Vows To “Never Allow” A Central Bank Digital Currency Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed to never allow the use of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), as it would…

The Biden administration has designated Alejandro Eduardo Giammattei Falla, former president of Guatemala, as generally ineligible for entry into the United States.  The justification surrounds accusations of “corruption“; however, Giammattei Falla previously opposed…

A Technicality Could Sink South Africa’s Genocide Case vs. Israel At The Hague Via Consortium News In its defense last Friday before the World Court against allegations by South Africa that it…

2024: Too Many Things Going Wrong Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog, It will be an interesting year. We know that the age of peak performance for humans varies,…

New Jersey Adds MTA As Defendant In Lawsuit Over Planned NYC “Congestion Fee” New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has added New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority to an amended lawsuit complaint that the state…

Gun Rights Face Whirlwind Of Federal Action In 2024 Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours) (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock) Eighteen months after it was enacted, President…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is so committed to the retention of war in Ukraine he seemingly implies if President Trump negotiates with Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop fighting, then Zelenskyy will…

President Javier Milei has issued a warning at Davos, saying “collectivist experiments” will lead to poverty One month on from taking office as Argentina’s new president, self-described “anarcho-capitalist” Javier Milei has urged…

OPEC Sees Strong Oil Demand Growth In 2025 Higher global economic growth and solid Chinese activity will lead to a strong rebound in global oil demand, which will grow by 1.8 million…

Biden Is Fast-Tracking His Student-Loan-Forgiveness Plan Via CreditNews.com, Last week, the Biden-Harris Administration announced a plan to accelerate the forgiveness timeline for the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan. Starting next…

Iran, Pakistan On Brink Of Military Conflict Following Missile Strike – China Urges Calm Iran’s Tuesday missile and drone strikes targeting Sunni jihadists in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province have as expected unleashed…

Parents Are Winning The Battle For School Choice Authored by Jackson Elliott via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Florida mother of five Nicole Andrews puts it bluntly when asked why she sends…

Western backing had previously bolstered Kiev’s position Ukraine has dropped to the 18th place on the Global Firepower (GFP) index, down from the 15th place last summer, before the start of its…

Cold Blast Takes Half Of North Dakota’s Oil Production Offline Bone-chilling temperatures in the US Midwest have forced oil and gas producers in North Dakota to curb output because of operational disruptions…

DNA Contaminants In COVID Vaccines Are ‘Beyond The Pale’: Florida Surgeon General Authored by Marina Zhang and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), On Jan. 3, the office of Florida…

The US-owned bulk carrier was sailing to India from the Suez when it was hit Yemen’s Houthi rebels have taken responsibility for the attack on the US-owned cargo vessel Genco Picardy, a…

The Pentagon has unleashed a fourth round of airstrikes against Houthi rebels in less than a week The United States reportedly launched a fresh wave of attacks against alleged militant targets across…

Jim Jordan Demands Answers After Biden Admin Caught Flagging “MAGA” And “Trump” To Track Political Opponents’ Financial Transactions Jim Jordan, Chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal…

Tonight, President Donald Trump will be holding a campaign event and rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  The anticipated start time is 7:30pm ET.  Livestream Links Below: Donald J Trump Campaign Livestream –…

Yet Another Recession Red Flag: Net Saving Is Negative Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, Net saving as a percentage of gross national income has been negative since the first quarter…

“The Western World Is In Danger”: Milei Warns Of DEI Doom, As Dimon Touts Trump On ‘Critical Issues’ Argentina’s President Javier Milei had a warning for those attending the annual WEF meeting…

The Bundestag has a rejected a resolution calling for providing long-range rockets to Kiev Germany’s parliament has overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to give Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine, marking the latest setback…

Aleksey Arestovich has warned against repeating the mistakes from Ukraine’s past Ukrainians have repeatedly joined the losing side at key points in their history and are likely acting against their own interests…

Yes, indeed the sixty-year-long era of the extended Marshal Plan might actually come to an end if President Trump wins the 2024 election, and Europe can no longer benefit from one-way tariffs…

OpenAI Attempts To Dispel Fears Of AI-Meddling In Elections Authored by Savannah Fortis via CoinTelegraph.com, As 2024 anticipates a global election cycle, OpenAI says it wants to prevent AI misuse, bring transparency,…

Houthis Strike Red Sea Ship With Drone On Day US Terror Designation Takes Effect On Wednesday, just as the Biden administration has redesignated Yemen’s Houthis (or Ansar Allah movement) a global terrorist…

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said he remains cautious on the U.S. economy over the next two years, and then starts to position himself for a President Trump election victory.  The remarks…

How Moderna Came Up With A Vaccine Against Vaccine Dissent: Lee Fang Authored by Lee Fang via RealClear Wire, Finances at the vaccine manufacturer Moderna began to fall almost as quickly as…

Mariusz Kaminski has been on a hunger strike in protest over “political” persecution Poland’s former Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski will be force-fed in prison because his health is in danger, President Andrzej…

I Can’t Believe This Is A Real Science Class At A Real University Authored by Stephen Green via PJMedia.com, Did you know that chemistry changes with skin color? I don’t mean the…

WTI Maintains Gains After API Reports Unexpected Crude Build Oil prices closed higher today, back inside their YTD range, following OPEC’s forecast that global oil demand will continue to increase strongly next…

The ‘Arms Race’ For Fake AI Election Content Is On Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Artificial intelligence is now reaching a point where broadly accessible tools allow…

European Commission transparency chief Vera Jourova insisted the bloc was watching Warsaw “very closely” The European Commission is “very closely” watching the political crisis unfolding in Poland and is ready to intervene…

The former Hollywood star has reportedly been fined for failing to declare a luxury watch while traveling to his native Austria Former Hollywood star and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has been detained…

Li Qiang is not a high enough official to be worth meeting, the Ukrainian president has suggested Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky claimed on Wednesday that he had not actually sought to meet…

‘Good News Is Bad News’ As Goldilocks Reality-Check Wrecks Dovish Dreams Retail sales – strong; Housing – homebuilder optimism jumped; Industrial Production – better than expected. ‘Real’ economic data is rising once…

The officials promoted the vaccines even after drafting a memo about the deadly associated heart condition The US Centers for Disease Control never sent an urgent health alert it had drafted in…

While Washington maintains that the strikes on Houthi installations are defensive and fully legal, neither is the case “The strikes in Yemen were necessary, proportionate, and consistent with international law.” With this…

Alan Jones is hiding in the UK because he won’t back up the legal threats he made against the SMH who recently exposed more of Jones’ alleged sexual assaults of young men….

Container Lines Scramble To Rent More Ships Amid Red Sea Crisis By Greg Miller of FreightWaves Red Sea diversions mean container lines need more ships to carry the same amount of cargo….

The US secretary of state has been forced to take a smaller plane back from Davos because of a “critical failure” on his 737 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has briefly…

The Ukrainian president sought Chinese support for his stalled ‘peace plan’, his head of office has said Chinese Premier Li Qiang shot down Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s request for a meeting at…

Even the most “avid Russophobes” understand the futility of these efforts, the country’s ambassador to the US has said The ease with which Washington opted to abandon its own “fundamental principles” amid…

Shut The Border Or Shut The Government Authored by Frank Miele via RealClear Politics, When House Speaker Mike Johnson and 60 GOP members of Congress went to Eagle Pass, Texas, recently for…

Beige Book Finds “LIttle Or No Change” In Economic Activity But Optimism Rises On Hopes Of Lower Rates One month after the downbeat November Beige Book found economic activity was “slowing“, moments…

German authorities have removed a memorial to civilians killed by the 1945 US-UK bombing Dresden’s removal of the Altmarkt memorial is an “act of historical vandalism,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova…

Davos Rattled Over Trump; Zelensky Warns Europe Will ‘Lose Ukraine’ As the World Economic Forum (WEF) kicks off in Davos, Switzerland, two people are the talk of the town – Donald Trump…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has claimed that other nations desire America’s “engagement” more than ever Geopolitical turmoil and conflict around the globe have made the world’s nations hungrier than ever for…

Berlin is trying to “go solo” and bypass the EU’s weapons program, Thierry Breton has alleged EU Commissioner Thierry Breton has lashed out at Germany for announcing a plan to arm Ukraine…

Firesale: Blackstone’s Defaulted Manhattan Office Tower Loan Marketed At 50% Discount Continued turmoil in the office market is causing concern as the third week of the new year nears.  Sources close with Bloomberg said…

Ugly, Tailing 20Y Auction Whimpers Out Amid Bond Market Rout With traders transfixed by today’s bond rout (as a reminder tumbling yields was the most consensus trade of 2024, one which we…

“End Of This Merger”: Analyst Warns Of Potential Spirit Airlines Bankruptcy After a federal judge in Boston blocked JetBlue’s $3.8 billion merger with Spirit Airlines on Tuesday, the question on everyone’s mind: What comes next?…

CDC Drafted Alert For Myocarditis And COVID-19 Vaccines, But Never Sent It Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) prepared to alert…

The Google subsidiary blamed users’ AdBlock extensions for compromising their laptops’ performance YouTube users who try to dodge the video platform’s advertisements using the AdBlock browser extension say the video-sharing platform is…

Scores of French mercenaries were killed in Kharkov, the Russian Defense Ministry has said Over 60 foreign fighters in Ukrainian service, most of them French, have been eliminated in a precision strike…

For many, the gathering represents everything that is wrong with the world and has become the object of all manner of disaffection In Thomas Mann’s seminal novel ‘The Magic Mountain’, a tuberculosis…

The country is now in a “particularly” difficult situation, Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck has warned The German economy has lost its competitive advantage after abandoning Russian gas supplies, Vice-Chancellor and Economy Minister Robert…

Red Sea Conflict “Getting Worse, Not Better”, Forcing More Ship Detours Around Africa By Greg Miller of Freightwaves U.S. and U.K. airstrikes on Houthi positions in Yemen have not made the Red…

The Franco-British-made Storm Shadows were reportedly targeting a school and medical institution, according to Vladimir Saldo Russian air defenses have reportedly intercepted two NATO-supplied Storm Shadow missiles that were apparently heading towards…

Anthony Blinken Stranded In Davos After His Boeing 737 Breaks Down It’s just not Boeing’s year After the recent fiasco involving the Boeing 737 Max, aka the “convertible” model, and the subsequent…

Fed Pressing Higher-For-Now Against Market’s Lower-And-Sooner Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Retail sales data today further chiseled away at the odds of a March rate-cut, but the chance of reductions…

“Markets Are Overlooking How Much Worse This Can Get, How Inflationary It Could Prove” By Michael Every of Rabobank Waller Way to Behave Points of order today. First, we need to underline…

The existence of “any Ukraine” on historical Russian lands will lead to a “perpetual war,” the former president believes Ukrainian statehood poses a “mortal danger” for its people, since its very existence…

Robert Habeck has accused the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AFD) of trying to turn the country into an autocratic state   The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AFD) party is seeking to emulate the…

A helicopter was launched in an “ambulance role” upon receipt of an alert message from a French vessel The Indian Navy on Tuesday evacuated a patient aboard a French-flagged vessel 65 nautical…

War, elections, and the prospect of Donald Trump in the White House could all drive more immigrants to the continent, the report claimed Migration to Europe will increase this year beyond its…

OpenAI has dropped its prohibition on providing its technology to military entities, according to an executive ChatGPT creator OpenAI is working with the US military on several artificial intelligence projects after dropping…

Presidential candidates will be allowed to air ads on state outlets from mid-February – a month before the vote Campaign season in the Russian media ahead of the presidential election in March…

“Aren’t They Fools?”: Putin Says Ukrainian Statehood Risks ‘Irreparable Blow’ If War Continues Russian President Vladimir Putin gave statements on Tuesday which assessed the overall status of the nearly two-year conflict with Ukraine…

ECB Pricing Gets A Dose Of Reality Check All The Way From Davos By Ven Ram, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist Market pricing of a rate cut from the European Central…

Capacity Utilization Hits 2-Year-Low As Downard-Revisions Flatter December Industrial Production US Industrial Production was expected to decline modestly (-0.1% MoM) in December but instead surprised to the upside with a small 0.1%…

More Grid Trouble: Tennessee Valley Authority Asks Customers To Conserve Power Amid Cold Blast The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has asked ten million customers to reduce power consumption for Wednesday morning as…

Democrats (And Their MSM Lackeys) “Forgot To Get The Facts” Over Texas Illegal Immigrant Drownings, Abbott Says Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) said…

Retail Sales Surged In 2023 Led By Autos & Food Services, Gas Station Sales Slumped If BofA is right – and they usually have been – this morning’s Retail Sales print would…