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The African nation’s president is outraged by Berlin’s move to ban the import of hunting trophies Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany in a diplomatic spat…

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…

Trump Declares November 5th “Christian Visibility Day” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, During a fiery speech in Wisconsin Tuesday, Donald Trump declared that November 5th, election day, is going to be…

ADP Employment Report Shows Wage-Growth Explode Higher In March Expectations were for a small increase in jobs added MoM in today’s ADP Employment Report, but instead we saw a sizable jump from…

Futures Drop As Rates Continue Rising With Brent Back To $90 US futures are down small with Tech underperforming and small-caps flat, as rates held at 4 month highs, and Brent is…

Army’s weakness prompted Kiev’s strikes on Russian infrastructure, senior officers tell The Guardian Kiev has no other option but to launch attacks inside Russia, including on oil infrastructure, as its army faces…

The airstrike was a mistake, officials have admitted, following global outrage and accusations of intentional targeting Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi has described as a “grave mistake” the…

TSMC Shutters Some Chipmaking Plants As Quake Rocks Island Nation Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the leading contract chipmaker for Apple Inc. and Nvidia Corp., shuttered some of its chipmaking capacity and evacuated…

Rickards: Ukraine’s Starting To Get Dangerous Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, A lot of people seem to have forgotten about the war in Ukraine. That’s a mistake. Russia is slowly but…

The turn away from expansion, production and trade toward lending and speculation has precipitated decline for centuries One of the curious features of the American landscape is the fact that these days…

The Supreme Court earlier asked Baba Ramdev’s company Patanjali to stop dismissing modern medicine in its ads A company co-founded by a popular yoga guru has been found by India’s top court…

“Backlash Is Real”: DEI Exodus Gains Steam Across Corporate America Have we reached peak DEI stupidity?  Yes, we are well past the peak. As we explained in early March, “Both the DEI and ESG…

Is Hungary A Model For The American Right? Authored by Tamás Klein via The Mises Institute, In recent years, my homeland, Hungary, a small country in central-eastern Europe, has captured the attention of the…

Washington Post’s report about the alert is “hoax,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova says Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has rejected the Washington Post’s claim that the US alerted Russia…

House speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is accused of taking bribes of $135,000 when she was Minister of Defence South African parliamentary speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, is on the verge of being arrested on suspicion…

The military bloc is reportedly debating ways to institutionalize the arming of Ukraine against Russia NATO leaders are devising ways to limit Donald Trump’s potential leverage over Ukraine by ensuring the continued…

These Are The Countries With The Lowest Corporate Tax Rates The lowest corporate tax rates are known to be found in smaller countries to attract investment from multinational corporations and foreign firms….

Venezuelan farmer Juan Vicente Perez Mora has passed away two months before his 115th birthday The world’s oldest man, Juan Vicente Perez Mora, died at the age of 114 on Tuesday in…

A private university is under investigation for suspected organized criminal activity A private university in Poland and a number of its high-profile graduates have become embroiled in a corruption scandal involving bribery…

Many people want to avenge the massacre at the Crocus City concert hall, the Defense Ministry has said The Russian Defense Ministry has registered an influx of volunteers willing to sign up…

Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who was released from prison just days before last month’s election in Senegal, was sworn in as the country’s new leader on Tuesday Senegalese opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye,…

Anti-government demonstrators marched towards the prime minister’s residence, demanding immediate elections   Protesters clashed with Israeli police outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in Jerusalem on Tuesday night as they called for…

Russian prosecutors are demanding that the US, Germany, France and Cyprus fulfill their obligations under international conventions The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has sent official requests and appeals from a group of…

US President Joe Biden ordered a pause on approvals of the sale of gas from new projects in January US officials are in talks about unfreezing approvals of new liquefied natural gas…

Evidence suggests that the Ukrainian government was behind last month’s concert hall massacre in Russia, a senior official has claimed The US refuses to consider potential Ukrainian involvement in last month’s terrorist…

Russian officials have confirmed that six minors died as a result of the Crocus City Hall massacre The deaths of six children have been confirmed in last month’s terrorist attack at a…

Officials in Moscow have said information about an impending attack was “too general” The US alerted Russia that the Crocus City concert hall outside Moscow could be the target of a terrorist…

The Ukrainian president has signed a law reducing the minimum age of military draft eligibility to 25 years Twenty-five-year-old Ukrainian men are now eligible for the draft; on Tuesday, President Vladimir Zelensky…

Every NATO Country Already Has Troops In Ukraine, Estonia Says Estonia has long been no friend of Russia, and a leading anti-Moscow hawkish voice within the Baltics, and that’s why a fresh…

Escobar: The Sahel’s ‘Axis Of Resistance’ Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Cradle, The African Sahel is revolting against western neocolonialism – ejecting foreign troops and bases, devising alternative currencies, and challenging…

Leaked Files From Transgender Association ‘Shocking’ And ‘Horrific’ Admission, Critics Say Authored by Brad Jones via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A leaked video and documents exposing the inner workings of the…

China Is The World Leader In Battery Recycling As many countries around the world scramble towards a green transition, a new era of electric cars is being ushered in and with it…

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…

Mark Zuckerberg’s company believed to have agreed to set up at Reliance’ campus, owned by India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani The IT giant Meta, whose range of products and services includes Facebook, Instagram…

Compassionately Communicating Life: Kristi Noem Commentary by South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem via RealClear Wire, In 2022, the pro-life movement experienced a massive victory: For the first time in 50 years, the…

The Increasing Prevalence Of Autism According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the prevalence of autism among U.S. children has risen significantly in recent years. As Statista’s Felix Richter reports, while…

White House Does Not Mention ‘Transgender Day Of Visibility’ on Spanish-Language Accounts Authored by Eric Lendrum via American Greatness, In yet another display of selective pandering and political hypocrisy, the Biden Administration…

Squatters’ Rights By State The debate about squatters’ rights in the United States has been heating up to the point where it elicited a response from the Biden Administration this week. In…

White Gold: Mapping US Lithium Mines The U.S. doubled imports of lithium-ion batteries for the third consecutive year in 2022, and with EV demand growing yearly, U.S. lithium mines must ramp up production or…

Multiple Buildings Collapse After Taiwan Shaken By Pair Of Powerful Earthquakes, Tsunami Warning Issued A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 followed by a smaller quake with a magnitude of 6.5…

The Weaponization Of The Secret Service Has Put Bobby Kennedy’s Life At Risk Authored by Blake Fleetwood via ScheerPost.com, Fifty years ago last summer, I met Robert F. Kennedy Jr. We were…

Bring Back Gold! Authored by Llewellyn Rockwell via LewRockwell.com, In these days of rampant inflation, it’s imperative that we return to the gold standard – and the real thing too. By this…

Chinese Illegal Immigrant Arrested After Sneaking Onto Marine Corps Base, Refusing To Leave A Chinese national illegally in the United States was arrested last week after sneaking onto a Marine Corps base…

Another Outlandish Overreach By The CDC Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Easter weekend was lovely in every way. And yet I could not stop thinking about…

Kiev’s foreign backers are coordinating the flight paths of kamikaze drones, a report says Western countries are helping Ukraine to fly kamikaze drones deep inside Russian territory, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing…

Attempted Suicide Rates More Than Double After Gender-Reassignment Surgery: Study Rates of attempted suicide who identified as transgender more than doubled after receiving a vaginoplasty (surgically turning one’s dick into a vagina),…

Biden Administration Acknowledges “Challenge” With New Truck Emissions Rule By John Gallagher of FreightWaves, The Biden administration acknowledged that its aggressive push to decarbonize trucking will be costly — but that the…

Tennessee Lawmakers Pass Bill Targeting mRNA Vaccines In Food Following concerns over research to embed vaccines in produce, the Tennessee Senate has passed a bill which would require any food containing vaccines…

Can America’s Middle Class Still Afford Homeownership In 2024 Submitted by Sam Bourgi of CreditNews The middle class today isn’t what it was even as recently as just a few years ago….

Russia Probes ‘Ukraine, US Ties’ To Terror Attack As Putin Says Gunmen Did It “For Money” Russia is continuing to make arrests of alleged conspirators involved in the March 22 terror attack…

Cold weather and sleet hasn’t deterred Wisconsin Trump supporters from lining up this afternoon outside the KI Convention Center. The rally comes on a busy day in northeastern Wisconsin. It’s Election Day,…

Eating The Rich Won’t Feed The Beast Authored by Joakim Book via The American Institute for Economic Research, Wealth in a free society is a rough tallying score of how much economic…

Hundreds of millions of dollars is being funneled to religious NGOs to entice and support illegal immigrants across the southern border At a time when millions of Americans are homeless and in…

US President Joe Biden is “weaponizing the federal agencies” against his political opponents, Robert F Kennedy Jr has said President Joe Biden could be a bigger danger to US democracy than former…

Chicago Public Schools’ Sexual Abuse And Misconduct Cases Everyone Should Know About By Ted Dabrowski and John Klinger of Wirepoints Sexual abuse. Sexual misconduct. Grooming.  The allegations happen year after year at…

WTI Extends Gains After API Reports Inventory Draws Across The Board US crude futures pierced $85 for the first time since October, the latest milestone in a rally driven by OPEC+ production cuts, strong…

‘Sato’ may end up the only surname by year 2531 if married couples aren’t allowed to use separate last names, research concludes Japanese citizens will all have the same family name in…

Climate Alarmists Battle To Censor Film Exposing ‘Climate Crisis Scam’ Authored by Katie Spence via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It’s been a little over a week since “Climate: The Movie,” a…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier described deaths of seven humanitarian workers as “tragic” and “unintentional” Israel fired missiles on three separate occasions at an aid convoy in Gaza on Monday, killing…

Gold Hits Another New Record High But Bonds, Stocks, & Bitcoin Battered On ‘Good’ News Mixed (well good) data this morning – in-line JOLTS (labor market shows no signs of cracking), stronger…

Iran’s Khamenei Promises Revenge Against Israel Over Strike On Embassy For those wondering whether or not the war in Gaza would expand into multiple fronts, it looks like that question has now…

The Hidden Cost Of The Border Crisis Nobody Tells You About Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Mass illegal immigration is pushing rescue crews in this small Texas…

The US-led bloc has pushed the country to develop a new awareness of itself and its place in the world When President Vladimir Putin, back in February 2022, launched Russia’s military operation…

The US Secretary of State has criticized Kiev’s cross-border drone attacks, while France’s foreign minister has tacitly endorsed them The US and France, two key NATO members, have failed to see eye…

30 Year Old Man Stabbed To Death On North Philadelphia Subway Platform It’s the latest in what can only be described as a disturbing string of violent attacks on and around Philadelphia-area…

RFK Jr. Says He Will Pardon Whistleblower Edward Snowden If Elected President Authored by Stephen Katte via The Epoch Times, Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., claims he would pardon whistleblower…

Personal fortune of the former head of energy giant Lukoil, Vagit Alekperov, reportedly soared in 2023 The collective net worth of Russia’s richest persons has soared by $72 billion over the past…

Kim Jong-un had previously declared he is ending policy of seeking reconciliation with the South North Korea on Tuesday test-fired what is presumed to be a new solid-fuel rocket, officials in Seoul…

Hey NASA! ISS Space Junk May Have Ripped Through South Florida Home In early March, Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics posted on social media platform X that space junk…

Two Weeks To Flatten Became Eight Months To Change The Election Via The Brownstone Institute, In 1845, Congress established Election Day as the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. The Act…

Xiaomi SU7 EV Sells Out Of 2024 Inventory Within 24 Hours Of Launching The Xiaomi SU7 EV launch was such a resounding success that the vehicle sold out of all of its…

The foreign ministry emphasized “national security interests” as being behind India’s investigation of the US-based assassination attempt India is investigating an alleged attempt to assassinate the Sikh activist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in…

How Can Robinhood Afford 3% Cash Back On Its New Credit Card By Fintech Blueprint Robinhood, the Menlo Park based company best known for popularizing commission-free trading — and the meme stock…

What resources will Tehran be able to use in response to the attack on its consulate in Syria? On Monday, the Israeli Air Force struck a building near the Iranian embassy in…

New legislation under the AUKUS pact would reportedly allow for naval facilities which would store or dispose of radioactive material from submarines Australia is in danger of becoming a “poison portal” for…

TradFi Vs DeFi: De-Polarizing The Bitcoin ‘To The Moon’ Or ‘Worthless’ Battle Authored by Omid Malekan, Co-Authored with Ulrich Bindseil, Director General of the European Central Bank Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have always…

‘Hero of Russia’ Admiral Aleksandr Moiseev has taken over as commander-in-chief of the Navy, the Defense Ministry has said The Russian Navy is undergoing major command-personnel changes, with a new commander-in-chief and…

Digital Transformation Minister Mikhail Fedorov has boasted that some domestically produced UAVs can reach targets over 1,000km away Ukraine has significantly boosted domestic drone production amid President Vladimir Zelensky’s call to build…

Group Of Foreign Aid Workers Killed By Israeli Strike On Convoy, Netanyahu Expresses Regret A Monday an Israeli airstrike on the central Gaza town of of Deir al-Balah killed seven international aid…

Several tankers have reportedly been spotted anchored near the Asian country’s ports Three tankers loaded with Russian Sokol-grade oil have arrived at Indian ports, despite being targeted by Western sanctions, Bloomberg reported…

State Of Emergency Declared In Niagara Falls Over Total Solar Eclipse Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, A state of emergency has been declared near Niagara Falls to prepare for…

US Assures Iran It “Had No Involvement” In Embassy Strike As IDF Claims Only A ‘Military Building’ Hit The Biden administration was notified just minutes before the major Israeli airstrikes on the…

The US-led bloc seeks to keep Ukraine as an “anti-Russian” bridgehead, the Russian Security Council secretary has said NATO is aiming to retain control over Ukraine and turn it into an “anti-Russian”…

“Not Evidence”: Federal Judge Denies Hunter Biden Motions To Dismiss Tax Charges In Stinging Rebuke Authored by Jonathan Turley, Despite hours of argument by the counsel for Hunter Biden, U.S. District Court…

Market Now More Hawkish Than The Fed As June Rate-Cut Odds Fade The official narrative is breaking bad. ‘Soft’ survey data is literally collapsing as ‘hard’ data improves gradually… Source: Bloomberg …and…

Google Settles ‘Incognito’ Suit, Commits To Wiping User Browsing Data Authored by Stephen Katte via The Epoch Times, Tech giant Google has agreed to settle with plaintiffs who alleged that the company…

JOLTed Snoozer: Job Openings Unchanged As Hiring And Quits Unexpectedly Rise After steep declines in US job openings accelerated in the last few months of 2023, prompting economists to pat themselves on…

The leader of the North African nation won 89.6% of the vote in the December election Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has been sworn into office for a third term following his…

FDA’s Anti-Ivermectin “You Are Not A Horse” Post Remains Up As Court Order Deadline Looms Authored by Matthew Lysak via The Epoch Times, Eleven days after a court-ordered settlement required the U.S….

GDP Growth Doubts Rise As Goods Shipments Disappoint In Feb; Orders Revised Lower… Again Having plunged by the most since COVID lockdowns in January, analysts expected a small rebound in February data…

During this interview with Dan Ball, Representative Matt Gaetz explains why he cannot support the effort by Marjorie Taylor Greene to vacate the chair and remove Speaker Mike Johnson. Direct Rumble Link…

Gripes about Western restrictions only serve as an excuse to avoid work, Alexander Lukashenko has claimed Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said he prohibited the government and officials in the country from…

The Russian president has linked undocumented foreigners to extremism and criminality Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the country’s law enforcement agencies to crack down on illegal immigration and organized crime. He…

The Asian country is trying to “delay or prevent” the embargo imposed by the EU and G7 last month, according to Subrahmanyam Jaishankar India’s diamond industry will feel the impact of new…

Ukrainian Drones Hit Russia’s Third-Largest Oil Refinery, Prompting White House Anger As discussed in our morning wrap, US equity futures are dipping lower as bond yields in the US continue to move…

The head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service called the strike an “ugly and criminal step” by Israel The head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkin, has described Monday’s airstrike on…

Tesla Shares Plunge After Suffering First Q1 Delivery Decline Since 2020 Tesla shares are plunging heading into the cash open after the automaker reported Q1 deliveries and production that fell far below…