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Jose Andres has dismissed the IDF’s claim that the deadly attack on the World Central Kitchen aid workers was a ‘mistake’ The Israeli attack that killed seven aid workers from the World…

The animal was encountered during a safari in Zambia An 80-year-old tourist from the US has lost her life following an encounter with a bull elephant, when the animal charged at a…

Nine individuals with dual citizenship mobilized into the IDF have been killed in the Gaza war, diplomats told TASS Thousands of Russian nationals living in Israel and having dual citizenship have been…

Three new suspects in the massacre have been arrested in Russia, according to the security services Three individuals suspected of having links with the terrorist attack at a Moscow concert hall last…

Futures Rebound After Powell Reassures On Rate Cuts US equity futures are higher with both Tech and small-caps outperforming, while the dollar is lower even as yields are higher from Wednesday’s close….

Washington is aiming to prolong the Ukraine conflict instead of supporting a peaceful resolution, the former Democratic congresswoman has said The administration of US President Joe Biden has actively thwarted peace efforts…

Statewide Emergency Declared In Indiana Ahead Of Solar Eclipse Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb issued a statewide emergency due to a large influx…

Gold’s Defiance Of Real Yields Can’t Last Unless Trouble Brewing By Garfield Reynolds, Bloomberg markets live reporter and strategist Gold’s surge to record highs is extraordinary — coming as it does in…

A firm from the South Asian nation has signed a deal to manufacture medical supplies in Sakhalin Region An Indian pharmaceutical company is set to launch production in Russia’s Far East, the…

Congo Becomes Latest Female-Led Nation The appointment of Judith Suminwa Tuluka as prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was announced Monday. The former minister is the first woman who was…

YOLO Spending, Inflation, & The Wisdom/Madness Of Crowds Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The harder the authorities and pundits push the “inflation is under control” narrative, the faster they…

The Crocus City Hall shooting targeted the country’s unity, the Russian president has said The main aim of the Crocus City Hall massacre was to undermine the unity of the country, Russian…

Elon Musk’s EV giant is planning to set up $3 billion manufacturing unit in the country after the government relaxed import tariffs Tesla has moved closer to setting up a long-awaited manufacturing…

Russia’s military has already been testing countermeasures against the fighter jets, the outlet reported There may be little value in Ukraine deploying Western-provided F-16 fighter jets because Russia has already taken measures…

Several European countries are reportedly worried that an effort to extend aid for Kiev will give the bloc even more power NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg’s idea to create a long-term €100 billion…

NATO members who fail to meet the 2% defense spending threshold are playing “Russian roulette,” Grant Shapps has said NATO members not spending 2% of their GDP on defense are playing “Russian…

The share of the fuel in the bloc’s overall imports amounted to 15% in 2023, calculations show The EU increased natural gas purchases from Russia in 2023, despite pledging to phase out…

Rakesh Sharma flew aboard the USSR’s Soyuz T-11 in April 1984 April 3, 1984 marked a pivotal moment for Indian-Russian relations. Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian astronaut in space aboard the…

Amazon Scrapping ‘Just Walk Out’ Technology At Fresh Stores Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Amazon is ditching its “Just Walk Out” technology that allows customers to shop…

A former IDF soldier engaged “terrorist organizations” for possible membership, security officials have claimed An Israeli national who allegedly offered his services to pro-Ukrainian armed groups has been deported from Russia, the…

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro sees Washington’s actions close to his country’s borders as “aggression” The United States has installed “secret military bases” in the disputed region of Essequibo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro…

Petitioners demanded the nullification of the Anti-Homosexuality Act, which subjected the East African nation to Western sanctions Uganda’s Constitutional Court has rejected an appeal to annul an anti-LGBTQ law that imposes the…

The US aerospace giant is grappling with the fallout from a major safety crisis Production of Boeing’s 737 MAX jetliner has declined sharply in recent weeks due to a series of regulatory…

Financial Flim-Flam Backs Imran Ahmed’s Center For Countering Digital Hate Authored by Paul Thacker via The Disinformation Chronicle (subscribe here) The dark money that apparently birthed the censorship industry’s most critical “anti-disinformation”…

Some senior Ukrainian officers reportedly share the concern and say Russia should not be underestimated There are growing concerns both in Ukraine and among its Western backers that an expected Russian offensive…

The current standoff with Moscow was the exclusive choice of the West, which has trampled on diplomacy, Ambassador Anatoly Antonov has claimed  The US mantra that Russia must change its behavior to…

Police Scotland Deluged With Nearly 4,000 Complaints As New Hate Crime Law Is Weaponized Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, As predicted, Police Scotland was deluged with nearly 4,000 complaints in…

Spain To Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Calls On Western Allies To Follow Suit Spain has been foremost among European countries which have repeatedly condemned Israel’s ongoing military operation in Gaza and the resultant…

Reuters Has Ulterior Motives For Reporting That Iran Tipped Russia Off Before The Crocus Attack Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, This narrative is being pushed to deflect from the evidence tying…

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…

The Great Escape From Government Schools Authored by Jim Bovard via The Libertarian Institute, After enduring bullshit school shutdowns during the COVID pandemic, many students concluded that school itself must be bullshit…

Haiti & The Dominican Republic: Contrasting Fortunes Haiti is currently engulfed in the chaos caused by violent gang warfare, triggering a major wave of internal displacement. Almost 200,000 people are thought to have…

4 More Christians Found Guilty Over Prayer Gathering At Nashville Abortion Clinic Authored by Beth Brelje via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It is likely that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will…

The former head of the Reserve Bank of India Raghuram Rajan is not wrong about the economy being a “work in progress.” But he overlooks PM Modi’s strategy of growing it to…

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…

Navy Reveals Major Shipbuilding Delays As Global War Risk Elevated  The US Navy released a rare assessment of its “shipbuilding challenges,” indicating that the first Columbia-class submarine, classified as the future cornerstone…

Wife Of Judge In Trump ‘Hush Money’ Trial Worked For AG Letitia James Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Lara Merchan, the wife of the judge presiding over…

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From The Recycling Bin To The Landfill: The Major Flaw In Plastic Recycling Authored by Cara Michelle Miller via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), People may be putting plastic into recycling bins,…

CDC Releases Hidden Trove Of COVID-19 Vaccine Injury Reports Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released previously hidden…

How GPUs Are Disrupting High-Performance Computing Graphics Processing Units, or GPUs, have moved beyond their original role of rendering video game graphics and are now used in a variety of high-performance computing…

Deep State Goes After Trump And Musk’s Financial Assets… Who’s Next? Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times, Is America as we know it over? Are we in the middle –…

Before getting into the weeds, here’s the big picture baseline.  All documents and records created within the executive branch are created for the benefit of the head of the Executive Branch, the…

The move would cause “problems” for Paris, Russia’s defense chief has said The deployment of soldiers to Ukraine would be disastrous for France, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu told his French counterpart,…

Trump Lawyers Reveal He Kept Classified Documents In Trump Tower Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Lawyers for former President Donald Trump revealed in new court filings that…

Washington and London are claiming Beijing sponsored a cybercrime campaign against them three years ago. Why did they wait until now? In March, the UK, in conjunction with the US and other…

Buzz-Free Drinking? The Rise Of Non-Alcoholic Beer As the brewing industry is still recovering from the aftershock of the Covid-19 pandemic, alcohol-free beer has become one of the bright spots in a…

Chicago Police Called To Illegal Immigrant Shelter Hundreds Of Times In 2023, Records Show Authored by Samantha Flom via The Epoch Times, Chicago police were called to an illegal immigrant shelter hundreds…

These Are The World’s Most-Populated Islands? The word “island” tends to bring up images of remote paradise – a brisk sea breeze, waving palms, and inviting beaches, all ingredients for an idyllic…

“Insane”: US Physicians Received Billions From Pharmaceutical And Medical Device Industry, New Research Finds Authored by Megan Redshaw via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. physicians received more than $12 billion in…

Pro-Palestine Group Attacks UK Defense Factory Producing F-35 Stealth Parts  The sudden influx of unvetted migrants from around the world into Western nations poses a significant national security threat. Leftist-corporate media outlets are ignoring…

The journalist wanted the Ukrainian leader to explain why the US should continue to fund his war efforts American journalist and political commentator Tucker Carlson has said that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky…

Jesse Watters ran a devastating segment last night on radical Judge Juan Merchan who silenced President Donald Trump from talking about his family’s financial ties to the current junk case he is…

Judge Rejects Trump’s Request To Delay ‘Hush Money’ Case Based On Presidential Immunity Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan on April 3 denied…

Top US Egg Supplier “Temporarily Ceases” Operations At Texas Plant After Bird Flu Outbreak  The largest egg producer in the US has temporarily halted production at one of its facilities after bird…

New Report Details Horrifying Cost Of Fauci’s Failures Authored by Ian Miller via The Brownstone Institute, In the post-pandemic period of Covid, there’s now a concerted effort to comprehend and explain the…

China’s Plunge Protection Team Bought $6.8 Billion In Stocks In The Second Half Of 2023 By John Liu and April Ma, Bloomberg Markets Live reporters and strategists A new dataset is giving China investors…

“I Cannot Call Evacuation A Success”: New Details Emerge Of Afghanistan-Exit Chaos Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClear Wire, New testimony from those who witnessed firsthand the confusion and chaos of the…

Russian lawmakers have called on international bodies and foreign parliaments to condemn attempts to disrupt March’s vote Washington led a coordinated effort aimed at interfering with the Russian presidential elections held in…

The Palestinian Authority has relaunched its bid to join the UN after a failed attempt in 2011 The Palestinian Authority (PA) has formally requested that it be admitted as a full-fledged member…

Kerry Stokes’ Channel 7 deleted evidence of their crimes, illegally publishing evidence from Bruce Lehrmann’s rape trial, claims Channel 7 whistleblower Taylor Auerbach in an affidavit as per below.  From what I…

Jeff Bezos Buys His Third Mansion On Florida’s Exclusive ‘Billionaire’ Bunker Island Amazon founder Jeff Bezos just bought this third massive home on Florida’s exclusive Bunker Island, according to a new report from The…

New York’s Election Year Anti-Crime Strategy Too-Little, Too-Late, Critics Say Authored by Michael Washburn via The Epoch Times, Facing a critical election year and constant evidence of the progressive rollback of tough-on-crime…

Gold Closes At Record High For 5th Straight Day, Dollar Dumps As Bond Bloodbath Stalls Another mixed bag of data today – something for everyone – ADP showed better job gains than…

Apple Developing Robot As “Next Big Thing” After Dumping Electric Car Project After shocking its fans – and everyone else – with the recent decision to give up on developing an electric…

Saturdays Only For “People Of Color” At UC Berkeley Farm; Report Authored by Micaiah Bilger via The College Fix, Federal complaint accuses university of racial discrimination… A community farm run by the…

Biden Halts Attempts To Refill SPR As Oil Price Soars More than a year ago, we laughed at the thought that the Biden admin would actually follow through with its promise to…

Peter Schiff: Gold Is Telling Us The Fed Is Wrong Via SchiffGold.com, This week Peter returned from vacation, and he was just in time for a surge in the price of gold….

The killing of foreign aid workers in Gaza has reignited calls for a halt to supply of British weaponry The UK is facing renewed calls to stop exporting arms to Israel, following…

The organization reportedly warned that an invasion of Rafah would destroy any chance of a peaceful resolution to the Israel-Hamas war An Israeli attack on the Palestinian city of Rafah, located in…

The national economy has seen growth in industrial output, record employment and investments, Mikhail Mishustin has said The Russian economy is growing while becoming less and less reliant on oil and gas…

US Needs Ukraine As Anti-Russian Buffer Territory: Kremlin A top Kremlin official has accused the United States and its NATO partners of seeking to turn Ukraine into essentially a huge DMZ buffer…

Watch: Chaos As Anti-Netanyahu Protesters Storm Israel’s Knesset Chaos broke out at Israel’s parliament the Knesset amid an ongoing multi-day protest led by hostage victims’ families which is being staged just outside….

Trump Leads Biden In 6 Of 7 Swings States, Pennsylvania Is Key Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Polls have narrowed but Trump is still in the sweet spot. An electoral map…

The countries are looking to boost their strategic partnership, as previously outlined by their respective presidents Moscow and Tehran are working on the final version of a comprehensive new treaty, which they…

The Ukrainian president claimed that Moscow was planning to recruit 300,000 new soldiers by June Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s claim that Russia plans to mobilize 300,000 additional soldiers by the summer is…

Millions in Zimbabwe will face food shortages this year as a result of a severe drought, according to the government Zimbabwe declared a national state of disaster on Wednesday, as a severe…

Watch: Fed Chair Powell Says “Too Soon” To Claim Victory Over Inflation; Highlight’s Fed ‘Independence’ Fed Chair Powell is likely to hammer home the message that rate-cuts are coming but not just…

A Ukrainian drone strike near the Russian city of Elabuga has reportedly wounded a number of students from abroad A Ukrainian military drone strike near the Russian city of Elabuga on Tuesday…

Gold Vs. Bitcoin: The Winner Is… Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, The ultimate competition to become the world’s dominant money will have only one winner. Anything else would amount to an…

The EU and US are strangling the Balkan country because they believe it’s too similar to Russia Modern international politics, as practiced by Western countries, sometimes take on a completely absurd character….

What Will The Fed Do When Trump Wins And Slams China With 60% Tariffs By Michael Every of Rabobank Have you got the energy? Yesterday, Bloomberg noted ‘Fears of 5% Yields Are…

A preteen boy who shot a classmate dead and injured two others was bullied, officers say Bullying drove a 12-year-old boy to shoot up his school near Helsinki, Finnish police said on…

Risk of US secondary sanctions forces banks in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan to suspend financial ties and stop honoring Mir transfers The use of the Mir payment card, which operates through a Russian…

Moscow has demanded that Western countries investigate the organization and financing of terrorist activities targeting the nation Russia has sent official inquiries to the judiciaries of the US, Germany, France and Cyprus,…

Billionaire Steve Cohen Sees “Four-Day Work-Week” Coming… & More Golf (& QE) In one of his rare public appearances, billionaire hedge fund manager (and New York Mets owner) Steve Cohen told CNBC’s…

Pyotr Poroshenko hopes to win his country’s next presidential election, according to an interview Former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko has said that he plans to run in the country’s next presidential election,…

Inflation-Risk Latecomers Pile Into Silver Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, As gold makes new highs, speculators’ net longs in silver are jumping higher. Inflation and global growth risks – as well as demand…

WTI Dips After Surprise Crude Inventory Build Oil prices are extending gains to new cycle highs (WTI $86) ahead of the official inventory data (after API reported across the board draws). The…

Police in the West African nation say the incident is being investigated Ghanaian authorities announced on Tuesday that they are offering protection to a young girl who was married off to a…

The chief of the US-led bloc has reportedly suggested a five-year, $107 billion plan to provide Kiev with weapons Ukraine should be able to enjoy a stable stream of Western arms supplies…

A neo-Nazi-linked activist wants the town councilor fired for observing Russia’s presidential election The Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations has demanded that a small-town councilor be fired for traveling to Russia to…

Disney Reportedly Has Votes To Defeat Peltz’s Trian In Proxy Fight; Musk Throws Support Behind Activist Investor  Walt Disney Co. and Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger are set to defeat Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund…

WTF Is Going On With Services PMI Prices-Paid? Following the mixed picture on Manufacturing PMIs (ISM up, S&P Global down), but strong impulse in prices in both surveys; today’s Services PMIs offered…

Kiev is “leveraging” the recent Moscow terrorist attack in an attempt to sow discord, an official has told the newspaper Ukrainian information warfare specialists are using last month’s terrorist attack near Moscow…

Japan’s Lost Decades: Are We On The Same Path Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Back in 1989, Japan was taking over the world. The country’s economy had grown 6.7% in 1988….

Office Tower Vacancy Rate Hits Record High As Zombie Buildings Litter Skylines of Cities There are more dormant office towers in the United States than at any point since 1979, according to…

The retailer is reportedly planning to ditch its self-service checkout systems that were designed to work without humans US retail giant Amazon has hired human workers in India to help its grab-and-go…

Bond Longs Throw In Towel As Upturn Becomes Undeniable Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Positioning in US Treasuries is becoming less long as the risk of persistently higher yields increases…

Anthony Blinken’s Jet Suffers “Mechanical Issue” At Paris Airport US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s aircraft experienced a “mechanical issue” at an airport in Paris on Wednesday, forcing the US delegation to…