Author:

The move comes days after a series of deadly terrorist attacks in Dagestan Dagestan is about to ban the niqab on religious grounds, the head mufti of the Russian republic announced on…

Steve Bannon Surrenders To Prison For Contempt Sentence Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Steve Bannon on July 1 reported to a federal prison in Connecticut to begin a four-month…

Poultry Lovers Might Be In For ‘Sticker Shock’ Ahead Of July 4th BBQ  Tens of millions of Americans will be firing up the barbecue grills this week, especially on July 4, to…

Kiev is reportedly in no shape for offensive operations and has turned to recruiting from prisons The government in Kiev can’t hope to launch offensive operations without more manpower, but even prison…

Waste Of The Day: Congressional Expenses Are On The Honor System Authored by Adam Andrzejewski via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: Under new rules passed with bipartisan support last July, federal lawmakers can charge their…

“Joe Biden Is The ‘Walking’ Embodiment Of The Exhausted American Establishment…” Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, Surprise, Surprise! “Joe Biden is the walking embodiment of the exhausted American Establishment. More…

Treasuries Trounced As Trump Triumph Looms, Crude & Cryptos Soar Politics and macro data dominated flows/technicals today as weak macro weighed on stocks but political ‘wins’ for Trump/Republicans weighed on bonds. The…

The fallout from the American president’s addled performance shows the real nature of Washington’s “democracy” and its empire There is very little to say about the content of the recent televised debate…

Lufthansa attributed the decision to the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah Germany’s Lufthansa airline has announced a suspension of night flights to Lebanon, owing to the conflict between…

The wheels on the bus go thump, thump, thump…. just ask the three debate officials who are now being blamed for the disastrous performance by Joe Biden in Atlanta last week. According…

The pilot scheme for potential “humanitarian enclaves” will soon be launched in the strip’s northern neighborhoods, according to a report Israel is preparing to test an experimental model for running postwar Gaza…

Cocoa Prices Fall To Critical Technical Support Level On Improving Ivory Coast Outlook  Commodity traders are closely watching a triangle pattern forming in New York cocoa prices. According to Bloomberg, top grower Ivory Coast’s…

OPEC: The World Cannot Run On Renewable Energy And EVs By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Proponents of critical minerals as the way to have a world running solely on renewables and electric…

Supreme Court Punts On Florida & Texas Social Media Laws, Sends Cases Back To Lower Courts Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The Supreme Court on July 1 sent legal…

NATO Mulls Imposing No-Fly Zone Over Western Ukraine Ukraine has revived its talking point and demand that NATO ‘close the skies’ over Ukraine, which was first featured heavily in the wake of the…

The tech giant’s ‘pay or consent’ ad model violates the bloc’s new digital competition law, according to the European Commission EU antitrust regulators have charged that Facebook parent company Meta’s new ad-supported…

Dmitry Gordon had called for the US to attack Russia with nuclear weapons A Russian military court has found Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon guilty of inciting terrorism and dissemination of false information,…

…“The President is not above the law. But Congress may not criminalize the President’s conduct in carrying out the responsibilities of the Executive Branch under the Constitution.”…  In a 6-3 vote, the…

An infantry fighting vehicle was taken out in the Donetsk People’s Republic, according to the Russian Defense Ministry A Russian kamikaze drone has taken out another Ukrainian US-supplied Bradley infantry fighting vehicle,…

Biden’s De Facto EV Mandate At Risk After Supreme Court “Chevron” Ruling By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com The Biden Administration’s new strict tailpipe emission standards have just become particularly vulnerable after the…

Arab League Suddenly Revokes Hezbollah’s Terrorist Designation While some Western countries have ramped up sanctions against Hezbollah amid daily missile fire on northern Israel, the Arab League has issued a surprise reversal…

France’s Problem Is Not The Elections, It Is Socialism – A Warning For All… Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Following the European elections, the French credit default swap has soared to a post-2020 record…

Ex-Moelis Banker Arrested On Assault Charges After NYC Punching Incident A senior ex-Moelis banker who punched a woman at a Brooklyn Pride event last month was arrested on Monday and charged with assault.   Jonathan Kaye,…

Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline Off To A Solid Start Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, The Trans Mountain pipeline delivered enough crude oil to load 20 tankers from Canada’s Pacific Coast in…

The Russian plant belonged to Pyotr Poroshenko’s company Roshen, which has been under investigation for tax evasion for years Shares in a candy factory previously owned by former Ukrainian president Pyotr Poroshenko…

Relief Rally? By Bas van Geffen, CFA, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Relied Rally Already? Macron gambled and lost. That much was clear heading into France’s elections this weekend. Macron’s party attracted…

Flooding due to the arrival of monsoon season likely flushed the critter out of his nearby river home The rare sight of a crocodile strolling along a city road among vehicles has…

An increasing number of duel citizens are being prevented from leaving the war-torn country, the Israeli embassy in Kiev has said Israelis who also hold Ukrainian passports should avoid traveling to Ukraine…

The festival was part of the Russia EXPO in Moscow Riveting stories of soldiers, volunteers and war reporters covering the Ukraine conflict were shown at RT’s three-day documentary film festival in Moscow…

Zelensky Outlines Workable Model For Peace Talks With Putin Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has in a fresh interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer admitted that peace talks are possible with Russia, and that they…

Trump Says Immunity Ruling ‘Big Win For Democracy’ The Supreme Court on Monday ruled in a 6-3 vote that former presidents, including Trump, enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct involving official…

As ‘Hard’ Data Collapses, Manufacturing Surveys’ Mixed Reality Emerges With ‘hard’ data collapsing in the last month, ‘soft’ survey data from ISM and S&P Global this morning was ‘mixed’ as usual: S&P…

Key Events This Holiday-Shortened Week: Jobs, JOLTS, ISM, Fed Minutes And Powell Speaks As DB’s Jim Reid writes this morning, tongue-firmly-planted-in-cheek, the biggest shock in Europe on Sunday after a hugely anticipated…

Tucker: Obama Is Privately Lobbying To Get Rid Of Biden Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, Despite his public support for the president, Barack Obama is privately lobbying to get rid…

Third Of Nuclear-Plant Owners In Talks With Tech Firms To Power Up AI Data Centers Big tech firms like Amazon are actively speaking with utility companies to build artificial intelligence data centers powered by clean, reliable…

History Suggests Bitcoin Rebound In July As German, US Govts Move $150M In Crypto The German and United States governments have drawn significant attention after transferring millions of dollars of crypto holdings….

In the Middle Ages a single civilization boasting unparalleled riches linked the Sahara to the Arab world and Europe The pre-colonial history of African countries deserves close attention. The African continent became…

The change makes it difficult for South Korea to monitor output, the news agency reported North Korean authorities have redirected the transmission of the country’s state TV broadcasts to a Russian satellite…

Washington and its allies will do anything to conceal their crimes, the Pink Floyd frontman has said Years of “vicious persecution” of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange show that Washington will go to…

Kiev so far has failed to restructure its debt, the outlet has said Kiev could default as early as next month if it fails to negotiate a debt-restructuring deal with its creditors,…

NVDA Slides As French Regulators Reportedly Ready Anti-Trust Charges French antitrust regulators are reportedly preparing to charge Nvidia for allegedly anti-competitive practices, people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters, making…

Wait, How Much Have Groceries Gone Up? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The most startling moment in the CNN debate last week between President Joe Biden and former President…

A deputy PM has backed media claims that suspicious Facebook accounts are boosting the leading rival to the Tories Five Facebook accounts supposedly spreading “Russian narratives” are a source of grave concern…

The former president’s “official conduct” is protected from prosecution, the justices said American presidents have “absolute immunity” for their official actions, the US Supreme Court ruled on Monday, addressing a series of…

Kiev has confirmed having reinforced the frontier with Belarus, calling it a “dangerous” direction The deployment of Ukrainian troops on the Belarusian border is an alarming sign not only for Minsk but…

Negotiations with the Central African Republic are underway, according to Aleksandr Bikantov The Central African Republic (CAR) is keen on expanding cooperation with Russia in the energy sector, Aleksandr Bikantov, Moscow’s ambassador…

Supporters of both parties in the US now acknowledge their president is in mental decline, the billionaire has claimed US President Joe Biden has united Democrats and Republicans in their common recognition…

It would be ‘“unprecedented” for another candidate to build a campaign to beat Donald Trump on such short notice, experts wrote for Time The Democratic Party likely does not have enough time…

Chewy Shares Spike Again. Roaring Kitty Reveals $245 Million Position Chewy Inc. spiked again after pumping and dumping last Thursday when ‘meme’ stock trader Keith Gill, known as Roaring Kitty, posted an image of…

Number Of Criminals Caught Entering US Illegally Each Month Sets Record: CBP Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The number of people with criminal convictions caught entering the…

SEC Receives Record Number Of Whistleblower Tips The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) received more than 18,000 tips from whistleblowers reporting violations of securities laws last year. As Statista’s Florian Zandt shows in the…

Legislation replacing British-era statutes has taken effect in a move to modernize the justice system A street vendor has been arrested in the Indian capital for “obstructing a footbridge” at a railway…

The former Russian UFC lightweight champion owes nearly $1 million to the country’s tax authorities Russia’s Federal Tax Service has frozen bank accounts belonging to former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov after…

Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has commented on the first round of voting in the EU nation’s parliamentary elections French voters on Sunday “confirmed the trend” seen across the EU in recent…

Futures Rise, European Markets Relief Rally After No Surprises From French Election US equity futures are higher boosted by a relief rally in French stocks and European bonds, where the result of…

General Upendra Dwivedi has called for equipping soldiers with the most up-to-date defensive systems India must equip its soldiers with the latest armaments while continuously revising its strategic planning to stay ahead…

The former US president’s public backing of the incumbent was “disingenuous,” according to the journalist Former US President Barack Obama is telling Democrats that incumbent Joe Biden has no chance of being…

The 81-year-old US president was trying to rebuke Donald Trump over a comment about veterans US President Joe Biden confused Italy and France at a campaign event in New York on Saturday,…

A group of “provocateurs” planned to seize the parliament building in Kiev, the SBU has alleged The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) claims to have detained a group of suspects who were allegedly…

The overconfident president got what was coming when his party suffered a massive defeat in the first round of the national election French President Emmanuel Macron figured that he would toss a…

Consumption of the national delicacy has grown by almost 10% in the first half of this year, sales figures show Russian domestic consumption of sturgeon caviar has surged by almost 10% in…

A deputy PM has backed media claims that suspicious Facebook accounts are boosting the leading rival to the Tories Five Facebook accounts supposedly spreading “Russian narratives” are a source of grave concern…

The settlement of Novopokrovskoye has been liberated from the Ukrainian military, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said The settlement of Novopokrovskoye in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) has been “liberated,” the…

Jill Biden says her husband did not feel good while on stage, but insists that his poor performance should not affect his legacy The wife of US President Joe Biden has said…

Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has been re-elected in Mauritania, getting over 56% of the vote Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has emerged victorious from Saturday’s presidential election, the National Independent Electoral Commission announced…

The appointments have come after weeks of intense negotiations among the eleven parties in the governing coalition South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a new cabinet late Sunday night, appointing his main…

Suspicious Beyond Belief We’re all supposed to sit here and believe, days before the election, that this boomer-actor, using a fake voice to say mean words on behalf of UK’s Reform Party,…

‘War-Cycle’ Turns Up As ‘Economic-Cycle’ Plunges: Charles Nenner Warns “Very Hard Times Are Coming” Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Renowned geopolitical and financial cycle expert Charles Nenner has been warning of a huge war…

Tour de France: Too Fast To Be Clean? On the way to his second Tour de France victory last year, Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard was facing tough questions regarding his pace before he even arrived…

Two accidents involving the company’s top-selling 737 MAX jet killed 346 people  The US Department of Justice will allow Boeing to avoid a criminal trial if the aerospace giant agrees to plead…

Anders Fogh Rasmussen has called Olaf Scholz the “chancellor of eternal war” over his reluctance to send long-range missiles to Kiev German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been too conservative in his efforts…

The US president’s closest relatives have blamed his top aides for his failure in the debate against Donald Trump, according to the broadcaster The family of US President Joe Biden has urged…

The right-wing National Rally secured the lead in the first round of a snap vote on Sunday The French right-wing National Rally (RN) party and its allies have secured the lead in…

Too much emphasis was placed on the Democrat’s performance at the debate, the presumptive GOP nominee has said Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has vented his frustration that the US public was…

Germany Has Shifted China Strategy Amid Beijing’s Changing Behavior: German Diplomat Authored by Aaron Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Chinese regime’s changing behavior toward the international community has forced…

New German Citizens Must Now Affirm Israel’s ‘Right To Exist’ As the war in Gaza continues, Western governments are pursuing increasingly disturbing avenues of eradicating ideas and speech that challenge pro-Israel narratives. In…

Keep An Eye On Ukraine’s Military Buildup Along The Belarusian Border Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Belarusian and Russian media have been flooded with reports over the past few days about…

The Hidden History Of Robert Mueller’s Right-Wing Terror Factory, Part 1 Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, In 2007, Orlando residents were furious to discover that an FBI informant had organized…

The sites that have reportedly increased their security include the US European Command headquarters in Germany All American military bases in Europe have been placed on high alert due to a potential…

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…

DOJ To Offer Boeing “Sweetheart Plea Deal” For Criminal Fraud As Boeing Agrees To Buy Spirit Aero For $4.7BN Boeing has finally hit rock bottom. The US Department of Justice will charge Boeing with…

Confidence In U.S. Universities Plunges To New Lows, As Young People, Women And Democrats Sour On Academia Who could have guessed that after multiple Ivy League university presidents publicly humiliated themselves during…

Autism Reversal In Twin Girls Through Lifestyle And Environmental Changes: New Study Authored by Emma Suttie, D.Ac, AP (emphasis ours), Findings from a recent case study show that personalized lifestyle and environmental…

California To Help 1,700 First-Generation Homebuyers With Down Payments Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, California will help 1,700 first-generation homebuyers with down payments in the second round of its…

The right-wing party is projected to win the first round of the snap parliamentary election The right-wing National Rally (RN) party is set to win the first round of the French snap…

“Outrage”: Philadelphia Airport Adds Hidden 3% Surcharge To All Vendor Items With the idea of an unrealized gains tax being tossed around at the Federal level, and just when you thought we…

Price Action Indicates Lack Of Any True Conviction Or Depth Of Liquidity By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Assume I think it was in the Bad News Bears, where I first saw…

Retiring Wealthy Now Means More Than $3 Million In Many U.S. States The cost of living in American cities has skyrocketed so much that retirees now need more than $3 million to…

Intermediaries could help reach a lasting settlement with Moscow, the Ukrainian leader said Kiev does not rule out future peace talks with Moscow but they can only be held through intermediaries, Ukrainian…

California Has Seized Nearly 7 Million Fentanyl Pills Since January Authored by Rudy Blalock via The Epoch Times, A California task force has seized nearly 7 million fentanyl pills since January thanks…

‘BI-DONE!’ – Plane Trolls Biden’s ‘Joyless’ Dud Of A Hamptons Mega-Donor Event In the wake of his historically disastrous presidential debate performance, President Biden set out to ease the worries of Democratic…

Iowa Utility Board Approves Eminent Domain For Controversial CO2 Pipeline Authored by Beth Brelje via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In a major project milestone, the Iowa Utility Board (IUB) this week…

French President Emmanuel Macron has not outlasted every other EU leader without having a Pelosian cunning streak.  Macron knows exactly what he is doing and undoubtedly USAID/CIA operative Samantha Power is there…

United States military bases in Italy, Germany, Bulgaria and Romania have been put on high alert with a potential terrorist related threat even eminent.  Given the nature of domestic USA politics in…

Watch: Chinese Rocket Static-Fire Test Goes Horribly Wrong  Beijing Tianbing Technology Co., also known as Space Pioneer, suffered a catastrophic failure on Sunday during a static-fire test of the first stage of…

Le Pen Is Mightier: Conservative National Rally Crushes Macron, Socialists In 1st Round Of French Election As expected, Le Pen’s conservative (or in the world’s of the liberal media, “Far Right”) National…

IRS, Treasury Announce New Crypto Tax Reporting Rule For Brokers Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)…

Replace Biden With Gavin Newsom? Polls Show Democrats Would Still Lose Remember when it was “conspiracy theory” to question Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities? After Joe Biden’s dismal debate performance in Atlanta this…

A group of NGOs has accused the government of forcibly removing the homeless from Paris ahead of the 2024 Summer Games The number of forcible eviction operations launched against squatters and people…