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A Shrunken Arsenal: The Alarming Decline Of U.S. Munitions Authored by Joe Buccino via RealClear Wire, As fighting rages in the Middle East and Europe and China looms as a threat, America’s…

Visualizing The Global Distribution Of Wealth, By Region The distribution of wealth provides insight into a region’s stage of economic maturity. As economies grow, they are more likely to have a higher…

New California Law Requires Stores To Carry “Gender-Neutral” Toys Authored by Jonathan Turley, There are a number of new laws that will kick in in 2024, but one of the most interesting…

Russia Warns Japan Against “Hostile Actions” Of Exporting Patriot Missiles For Ukraine Russia and Japan historically were enemies but in recent decades moved to being ‘frenemies’ given improved relations but also the…

An interesting set of details amid a few reports on Ukraine, with one very interesting White House announcement under section 621 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA). First, as previously…

The Fear Factor And Winning The Independent Voter Authored by Adam Brandon via RealClear Wire, Voter trust and fear over the 2024 election are driving unprecedented interest in independent voters. The candidate…

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is discussing the impact of illegal alien arrivals in his town.  “We have reached a critical point in this mission that absent real, significant intervention immediately, our local…

A multipolar world is needed to ensure peace and stability, the Russian foreign minister says The West is sowing chaos around the world, fueling conflicts to satisfy its own needs at the…

The Worst ‘Candyflation’ Is Yet To Come As Cocoa Prices Near Record Cocoa prices Wednesday hit $4,285 per ton in New York, the highest level since 1978, as the outlook of poor…

If you followed my research on banking and the reality of the Russian sanction regime, this report takes on an entirely new dimension.  The article is from ZeroHedge, and the topline is…

China And India Account For More Than 90% Of Russian Oil And Fuel Exports By Irina Slav of OilPrice.com China took in half of all the crude oil that Russia exported this…

The White House has released the final tranche of authorized military assistance for Kiev The US will provide Ukraine with an additional $250 million in military aid, Secretary of State Antony Blinken…

The Cost Of Grain That Feeds The World Hits New 15-Year High On Wednesday, the Thai Rice Exporters Association revealed that the price of Thai white rice 5% broken, a key Asian…

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Campaign Halts ‘Idiotic’ TV Ad Spending Ahead Of Iowa Caucuses, New Hampshire Primary Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign has…

Xi Vows “Any Means” To Stop Taiwan Seceding From China, Weeks Before Major Election Taiwan is just over two weeks away from key elections, something increasingly attracting global media attention given fresh…

AI chatbots threaten ‘independent journalism’, the US paper of record has said The New York Times filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright infringement, claiming their artificial intelligence…

Leftist groups are apoplectic knowing the 2020 ballot fraud will be almost impossible to execute again in 2024. As a consequence, they have dropped to multiple vectors of defense including the filing…

The 9 Senate Races To Watch In 2024 Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Next year’s competition for control of the U.S. Senate will be a critical battle…

Why Goldman Expects The Most Flawless Fed Landing Ever: S&P 5,100 With GDP Double Consensus, Jobs, & Wage Growth … Yet 5 Rate Cuts As Inflation Tumbles Back on November 15, when…

Doug Casey On What Really Happened In 2023 And What Comes Next Authored by Doug Casey via InternationalMan.com, International Man: As we approach the end of the year, let’s take a step back,…

Serial California Shoplifter To Stand Trial After 90 Arrests Authored by Micaela Ricaforte via The Epoch Times, A serial shoplifter from the Bay Area who has been arrested 90 times will be…

WTI Extends ‘Death Cross’ Losses After API Reports Another Unexpected Crude Build Oil prices pumped and dumped today after Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebel militia’s attacks on tankers sparked supply concerns overnight which…

The current situation is “tragic” and will lead to defeat, Yulia Tymoshenko has argued Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky needs to offer the country another plan for winning the war, because the current…

Most of the world’s billionaires have seen their fortunes grow this year, a list compiled by Bloomberg shows The world’s richest people got even richer over the past year, Bloomberg’s top-500 billionaire…

Break The Cycle: In 2024, Say No To The Government’s Cruelty, Brutality, & Abuse Authored by John and Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “The greater the power, the more dangerous the…

Massive ‘Safe-Haven’ Panic Bid In Bonds, Gold, & Swissy Sparks Dollar Exodus Somebody knows something… Dollar pukefest, Swiss Franc panic-bid, bond yields plunge-gasm, gold surge-plosion… and stocks UNCH. Looking at stocks today…

The Dangerous Side Of ‘Phantom Debt’ Authored by Sam Bourgi via CreditNews.com, Recent Fed data showed that Americans racked up an extra $48 billion in credit card debt last quarter – but…

Jack Smith Wants To Stop Trump From Introducing Jan. 6 Security Failures Into Evidence Special Counsel Jack Smith has asked a federal judge to stop former President Trump from introducing evidence of…

Russian president discussed bilateral relations, Ukraine with Indian foreign minister S Jaishankar at the Kremlin Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday evening held talks with the External Affairs Minister of India Subrahmanyam…

2024: The Year Of ‘Fiat Alternatives’? Via ‘Charts and Parts’ Substack, INTRO It’s that time of year when market junkies start to build their list of top trade ideas for 2024. The…

Erdogan On The Attack Again, Says Netanyahu ‘No Different Than Hitler’ Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has continued to heap denunciations and insults on Israel in relation to its military operation in Gaza…

DEI: Degradation, Exclusion, And Intolerance Authored by M.B.Mathews via AmericanThinker.com, By now, everyone, including its proponents, knows that DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) means nothing of the sort.  It isn’t diverse, it isn’t…

ICE Arrests 26 Illegal Immigrants In California For Removal Over Crimes Of Sexual Abuse Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It’s been a busy period for arrests by…

Yields Plunge, Stocks Soar After 5Y Auction Stops Through Most Since May With yields tumbling for reasons not exactly known all morning, and pushing the 10Y from 3.90% to 3.82% ahead of…

What If There Are No Analogs For 2024? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via Substack, One of the favorite parlor games of financial analysts and seers is to make predictions about what…

The only difference between the Nazi fuhrer and Israeli’s PM is the Western support the latter enjoys, the Turkish leader says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is no different from Adolf Hitler,…

Kiev’s troops should have everything they need from the state, Sergey Marchenko has said It is unclear why Kiev’s troops may lack some necessary equipment and have to rely on paying out…

Conflict is bad for Biden’s reelection bid, the White House reportedly fears The US and the EU have abandoned their objective of “total victory” of Ukraine over Russia in favor of a…

Comparing Gaza to the Jewish ghettos created by Nazi Germany has cost Masha Gessen a moment at the Hannah Arendt Award ceremony The well-known Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen – author of bestselling…

Apple Secures Temporary Reversal On Smartwatch Sales Ban By Appeals Court Apple was (temporarily) victorious on Wednesday in its bid to reverse a ruling that had barred the US import of certain…

NY Times Sues Microsoft, Open AI For Alleged Copyright Infringement In a case which could have significant implications for AI, the New York Times has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI – the…

Ethereum Nears $2400 As Solana Stalls, DApp Activity Accelerates After a remarkable recovery from the depths of the FTX collapse crisis, with Solana soaring above $100 over the weekend for the first…

Tokyo’s decision to export the munitions to the US has negative consequences for global security, Russia’s foreign ministry said Russia has slammed Japan’s decision to send Patriot PAC-3 anti-aircraft missiles to the…

Trump Jr. Says He’d Go To “Great Lengths” To Stop Haley As VP Pick Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Donald Trump Jr. has expressed strong opposition to…

Many of these trends will continue to shape interactions between Moscow and African partners next year and beyond The year 2023 seems to have been another ‘Year of Africa’, with significant media…

Hapag-Lloyd Warns Red Sea ‘Still Dangerous’ Amid Maersk’s Resumption Plans In recent days, Denmark’s shipping giant Maersk announced it would resume sending container ships through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden…

Nasdaq Will Find Reprisal Of 2023 A Hard Act Despite Fed Stance Authored by Ven Ram, Bloomberg cross-asset strategist, The Nasdaq has been the gift that’s kept giving this year, but stiff…

Peter Dutton is shooting of his mouth playing the victim and considering filing for defamation again but this time suing a federal Labor MP. Dutton must have a short memory because when…

Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case has crumbled after he was forced to confess in the witness box to lying to the Australian Federal Police and confessing that he instructed his barrister Steve Whybrow…

David McBride pleaded guilty to 3 of his 5 charges after cutting a deal with the prosecutors to end his trial. David McBride didn’t have much choice but to plead guilty given…

Seven federal politicians, which could include the Prime Minister, had complaints of sexual assault made against them in the period from the 24th of February 2021 until the 30th of June 2022…

Rugby League players Latrell Mitchell and Jack Wighton were saved from criminal convictions because the nightclub they were at in Canberra had CCTV otherwise the perjured evidence of 9 police officers would…

War crimes whistleblower David McBride has written a book to tell his story and help shine a light on government corruption and Amazon are playing politics and undermining the sales of the…

First reports reaching DEBKAfile’s military sources say that a US submarine intercepted a Russian nuclear sub in American waters opposite Alaska. The Russian sub escorting the nuclear submarine responded with a Balkan…

  Trump: ‘Iran made a big mistake’ The United States is likely to take military action against Iran in the coming days for Tehran’s downing a U.S. drone in international airspace on…

  State-controlled media urges fight ’til end,’ calls for sanctions on U.S. companies China’s Communist Party-controlled media stepped up a war of words with the United States recently urging an escalation of…

As previously documented several times and warned about in the past, the threat of China’s rare earth monopol is being weaponized. This wasn’t suddenly an issue that popped up under Trump because…

  Fisherman raised alarm after white whale sporting unusual strapping began harassing their boats Marine experts in Norway believe they have stumbled upon a white whale that was trained by the Russian…

WTF Just Happened? The markets just shit the bed… Gold and Swissy are soaring (ultimate safe-havens) along with USTs as the dollar dives. This looks like some massive capital re-allocation trade away…

Personal details of Colorado judges who deemed Trump unfit for office were posted online in the days after the state’s verdict The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is working with law enforcement…

The Defense Ministry has said a Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the device blasted off from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia The Russian Aerospace Forces (RAF) has deployed a military satellite into orbit, the…

Mounting concerns over energy supply shortages keep shaking markets Natural gas prices in Western Europe rose more than 8% on Wednesday, according to data from the London Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). The cost…

Trump Stays On Michigan Ballot After State Supreme Court Ruling The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Donald Trump can remain on the state’s primary ballot, rejecting an attempt to remove…

Richmond Fed Manufacturing Survey Slumps, Shouts Stagflation For the second month in a row, the Richmond Fed Manufacturing survey tumbled more than expected, sliding from -5 to -11 (considerably worse than the…

Netanyahu Working To Find Countries To ‘Absorb’ Palestinians Who Want To Flee Gaza Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told members of his political party on Monday that he’s working to identify countries that…

A Moscow court has found Hilmi Forks guilty of illegally distributing pornographic material Russian transgender blogger Hilmi Forks has been sentenced to three years in prison for illegally producing and distributing pornography…

Why Oil Traders Shouldn’t Discard Israel-Hamas War Risk Authored by Simon Watkins via OilPrice.com, Iran, has been looking to catalyse an expansion of the direct conflict between Israel and Hamas into a…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov lauds New Delhi for reflecting the “balance of interests” between member states India’s presidency of the Group of 20, comprising world’s largest economies – which concluded last…

US 30Y Yield Tumbles Back Below 4.00%, Financial Conditions Loosest Since May 2022 Despite resilience in US data, 30Y Yields have plunged back below the 4.00% Maginot Line this morning… Source: Bloomberg…

Kiev is looking to place everyone who is the appropriate age under arms, Nikolay Azarov says Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is looking to mobilize another half a million men so that he…

Wolfgang Schaeuble, the former parliament president who also served as finance minister during the euro debt crisis, has died Wolfgang Schaeuble, the former president of the German parliament, has passed away at…

The EV Graveyard Reckoning, Hardly Anyone Wants To Buy A Used One Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The market for used EVs is plummeting. What will car rental companies do with…

S&P Futures Recharge For Last Santa Rally Push, Less Than 1% Away From All Time High US futures were flat in muted trading following yesterday’s gain which pushed the S&P to within…

Denver Police Investigating ‘Hoax’ Threat To Colorado Justices After Trump Ruling; FBI ‘Aware’ Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Local and federal law enforcement are investigating a “hoax…

The move comes after a Turkish parliamentary committee approved Sweden’s application to join NATO Sweden has lifted an embargo on the export of defensive military gear to Türkiye following a Turkish parliamentary…

There is significant enthusiasm for a new transport link between Russia and India, Moscow’s top diplomat has said A decline in Western economic clout means it is natural for emerging economic powers…

Police were called to search for South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun after a ‘suicide-like note’ was found at his home South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun, star of Oscar-winning movie ‘Parasite’, was found…

Washington and other parties must refrain from competing over the area in order to better protect the ocean, Rick Steiner has said The US should stop trying to unilaterally expand its continental…

Ethiopia had until December 25 to make a $33 million coupon payment to bondholders, but failed to do so Ethiopia has become the latest African nation to default in recent years, failing…

The sanctions-hit nation earned nearly $100 billion through sales of oil and gas, Alexander Novak says The proceeds from Russia’s export of oil and gas contributed about $100 billion (nine trillion rubles)…

“Another Masterclass In Can-Kicking”: Europe Reaches Farcical “Debt-Reduction Deal” Which Does Nothing To Reduce Debt One month ago, we reported that Europe, already sliding into a stagflationary recession, was about to unleash…

West Jerusalem has issued a travel advisory recommending increased vigilance Israel has warned its citizens in India to be on “heightened alert in public places” after an explosion near its embassy in…

GOP Legislators In 3 States Seek To Keep Biden Off 2024 Ballot Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Pennsylvania State Rep. Aaron Bernstine, Georgia State Rep. Charlice…

Tallinn is eager to hand over fighting-age men back to Kiev to cut on benefits costs, the Russian Foreign Ministry claimed Estonia will cut spending on Ukrainian refugees by hauling them back…

The child, who traveled alone, ended up some 160 miles from his intended US destination, Spirit Airlines said A six-year-old boy, who was traveling alone to visit his grandmother for the Christmas…

Banks Terminate 60,000 Workers In One Of The Bleakest Years For The Industry Since 2008 The collapse of three US regional banks – First Republic Bank, Silicon Valley Bank, and Signature Bank…

Britain’s Net Zero Disaster & The Wind Power Scam Authored by Rupert Darwall via The Epoch Times, “This is not about complicated issues of cryptocurrency,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicolas Roos declared in…

Moscow-funded cultural events have been held in the North African country’s two largest cities, Casablanca and Rabat The famous Pyatnitsky Russian Folk Chorus has made its first appearance in Morocco, with a…

Russia is expected to exceed contracted amounts by delivering up to 23.2 billion cubic meters of gas Russia’s exports of natural gas to China are expected to see a year-on-year increase of…

Authorities have said several communities in central Nigeria were targeted by gunmen over the Christmas holiday weekend More than 150 people were killed over the weekend in Plateau State in central Nigeria;…

The bloc is allegedly considering a debt structure that doesn’t require the unanimous consent of all member states The European Union is reportedly exploring a way to bypass Hungary’s opposition to continued…

RT campaign challenges mainstream Western media in the Global South and beyond Stepping over sanction lines, RT has already fulfilled prophetic Western fears. New campaigns – from Africa to Asia and Latin…

Iron Ore Futs Hit Ten-Month High On Chinese Stimulus Efforts Iron ore futures hit a ten-month high on Monday, riding a wave of optimism from Chinese policymakers who rolled out new a…

A plebiscite could put pressure on any Argentine lawmakers who oppose changes, President Javier Milei has said Newly inaugurated Argentine President Javier Milei is “on the warpath” against the National Congress and…

Africa Doesn’t Need More Government Aid; It Needs Free Markets Authored by Lipton Matthews via The Mises Institute, With a large regional market and youthful population, Africa should be on the cusp…

Nine Israeli troops were wounded as they tried to evacuate an injured civilian from the religious site, according to Israeli media The IDF has blamed Hezbollah for deliberately targeting an Orthodox church…

A New Solar Powered Desalinization Method Might Have Just Helped Solve Water Scarcity It looks like a step forward has been taken in the longstanding task of figuring out energy and cost…

The operation in Gaza is an act of genocide, according to President Miguel Diaz-Canel Israel is a terrorist state committing genocide in Gaza, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on social media on…

The Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs commission has consented to Sweden’s bid to join NATO The foreign affairs commission of Türkiye’s unicameral Grand National Assembly, the nation’s parliament, approved Sweden’s NATO membership bid…

How UNRWA Grooms Terrorists Authored by Bassam Tawil via The Gatestone Institute, The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was originally a small agency mandated to provide basic humanitarian relief for…