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Tensions between South Africa and the US have revealed deep and fundamental contradictions At the start of 2025, tensions between South Africa and the US sharply escalated. It all started when the…

The African nation’s president says the affected public servants will not be paid until they have declared their wealth Liberian President Joseph Nyumah Boakai has suspended more than 450 top officials in…

Walmart Is Gaining Market Share Among Affluent Shoppers Walmart has secured its position as America’s “price discount juggernaut” retailer as the Biden-Harris inflation storm sparked a scramble by big box retailers, supermarket retail…

Elliott Wants Big Asset Sales at BP After Building $4.75-Billion Stake By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Elliott Management is pushing for major asset sales at BP to address the undervalued shares of…

The US vice president has argued censorship disguised as a fight against disinfo is not a solution for shifting public sentiment US Vice President J.D. Vance has blasted mainstream politicians in the…

Senior political figures have convened to discuss the Ukraine crisis and other issues at the annual meeting The 61st Munich Security Conference (MSC) has officially begun at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in…

The Ukrainian leader said it was “not pleasant” that the US President spoke with his Russian counterpart before speaking with him and has warned against talks without Kiev Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has…

Diplomatic missions across the globe directed to trim workforce by 10% amid restructuring efforts The US State Department has directed embassies worldwide to prepare for staff reductions, ABC News and Reuters reported…

The US leader has claimed Washington will substantially increase its military sales to New Delhi during talks with PM Narendra Modi  US President Donald Trump has said his country will offer F-35…

Today, President Donald J Trump signed an executive order triggering the first ever system of “reciprocal trade tariffs,” a seismic change in U.S. trade policy that will also consider the respective nation’s…

President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hold a joint press conference after their bilateral meeting in Washington. Modi has heaped praise on Trump and is hoping to avoid tariffs…

Earlier today the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Robert F Kennedy Jr 52-48, with Senator Mitch McConnell (U-DC) the lone Republican joining all 47 Democrats to vote against him. Kennedy made pledges…

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…

With a party-line 12-10 vote from the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI Director nominee Kash Patel is now set for the next phase of two votes in the full Senate. Majority Leader John…

If you read the Zelenskyy statement yesterday following the phone call with President Trump, you would notice the seemingly detached nature of his comments.  Almost as if Zelenskyy was a bystander awaiting…

Nigeria’s national security adviser has denounced the visa refusal as “disrespectful” Nigeria’s defense chief, General Christopher Musa, has said the Canadian Embassy in the West African country has denied him and other…

Retired Russian Colonel Claims Trump “Has Dirt” On Zelensky That Will Force Him To Compromise Authored by Liz Heflin via Remix News, Retired Russian Armed Forces Intelligence Colonel Anatoly Matviychuk has come…

Less Than Half Of Americans Use A Credit Card In Brazil, it is common for shoppers to use a card that works both as a debit card and a credit card, with…

Renewed contacts between Moscow and Washington have left the Ukrainian government “hysterical,” Rodion Miroshnik has claimed The Ukrainian government may resort to extreme actions, including terrorist attacks, in an effort to sabotage…

The alleged drone incident at the facility could have been a Ukrainian provocation, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said The Russian military does not target any elements of nuclear infrastructure, including what…

The French president has called US diplomacy a “strategic wake-up” and urged the bloc to stop being so dependent French President Emmanuel Macron has compared Donald Trump’s return to the White House…

Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has confirmed extra funding to combat an outbreak in Uganda World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has announced the allocation of an additional $2 million to strengthen…

Russia has said that liquified gas supplies to the South Asian country could increase despite sanctions Russia is increasing liquefied natural gas production and exports despite sanctions and could expand shipments to…

The exchange itself is not a breakthrough in relations but may help gradually rebuild trust, Moscow has stated Russian media have published footage showing the departure of American citizen Marc Fogel from…

Shipping Rates Of Russian Crude To India Surge 20% Amid Sanctions By Alex Kimani of OilPrice.com Freight rates to ship Russian urals from Baltic ports to India jumped 20% in February to…

Here’s What Comes Next After Putin & Trump Just Agreed To Start Peace Talks Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, 12 February 2025 will go down in history as the day when…

Parties attributing electoral defeats to Moscow are disconnected from their constituents, the US vice president has said Western mainstream political parties blaming Russian meddling for electoral failures are increasingly out of touch…

Washington has punished the Hague-based court’s Karim Khan for issuing charges against Israeli political leaders The United States has imposed sanctions on International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan over arrest warrants for…

Two Alarming Truths: Family Farms Vanishing & Centralized Beef Industry For RFK Jr. To Fix On Thursday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as Director of Health and Human Services, taking control…

How To Forge The Spectator Class Authored by Josh Stylman via The Brownstone Institute, My father could disassemble and rebuild a car engine in our garage. I, like many of my generation,…

USS Harry S. Truman’s nuclear propulsion systems are “safe and stable,” according to the US Navy The USS Harry S. Truman, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, collided with the merchant vessel Besiktas-M in…

14 States Sue To Block DOGE From Uncovering Government Abuses, Slashing Waste We are now firmly in the lawfare stage of the second Trump presidency, with Democrats filing a flurry of lawsuits…

FDA Misled The Judiciary About Pfizer’s Vaccine Documents Authored by Maryanne Demasi via The Brownstone Institute, On December 6, 2024, a federal judge ordered the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to release documents…

Broken Beyond Repair? Barely Anyone Trusts Politicians Arguably the biggest driver behind Donald Trump‘s political rise in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election and his recent return to power is the…

China’s Coal Power Construction Is At A Decade-High Despite Renewables Boom Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Despite soaring solar and wind power installations, China launched construction of as many as 94.5…

The US Secretary of State was en route to the Munich Security Conference when his plane abruptly turned back US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was en route to Germany on Thursday…

The US president has shared more details and thoughts about a phone call with his Russian counterpart US President Donald Trump spoke to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday evening, a…

Musk Says DOGE Providing Tech Support To White House, Improving Outdated Technology Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, Elon Musk said on Feb. 12 that he is providing tech support…

Anthony Fauci Museum Exhibit Canned As Part Of Latest Round Of Government Cuts A better question would be: what was the need for this exhibit to exist in the first place?  It…

US Aircraft Carrier Damaged After Colliding With Huge Merchant Ship Off Egypt In a highly unusual and embarrassing incident, a US Navy aircraft carrier has collided with a merchant ship off the…

7 Examples That Show Why There Is Such A Conspiracy To Stop Elon Musk Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Politicians are screeching at the top of their lungs, there have been…

The US President announced plans to impose reciprocal tariffs on trade partners just hours before his meeting with the Indian leader Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Donald Trump on Thursday for the…

The Pentagon chief’s assessment of Kiev’s position is “pretty accurate,” according to the US president US President Donald Trump has backed his Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s comments that Kiev must accept the…

‘The Deep State’ Dies In Daylight: A Public Role In Ending Systemic Government Abuses Authored by Thaddeus McCotter via American Greatness, In a January 30 appearance with Elizabeth MacDonald on Fox Business’s The Evening…

Three Top Federal Prosecutors Rage-Quit After DOJ Drops Case Against NY Mayor New York’s top federal prosecutor and two senior federal prosecutors in Washington DC have resigned after refusing to follow a…

Victor Davis Hanson: Myth-Busting About Musk Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, Here are some of the untruths told about Elon Musk and DOGE… “Musk has no right to cut USAID.”  Elon Musk…

The high-profile prisoner exchange was secured just ahead of a phone conversation between the US and Russian leaders this week Russian crypto businessman and computer programmer Aleksandr Vinnik has returned to Moscow…

US Warships Transit Taiwan Strait For First Time Under New Trump Admin Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Two US Navy ships transited the Taiwan Strait this week, marking the first US naval…

Trump Tells Xi, Putin ‘Let’s Cut Military Budget In Half’ – Says Russia Should Be Back In G7 On Thursday President Donald Trump continued to signal positive feelings about a future relationship…

Musk Says Canceled DOGE Employee Will Be Rehired Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Government efficiency chief Elon Musk announced Friday that he will rehire one of his DOGE workers after…

Ukrainian representatives are “also invited,” the US leader added President Donald Trump has announced that “high-level” US representatives will meet their Russian counterparts at the Munich Security Conference on Friday to discuss…

Democrats Jump The Shark: Exposing The Latest Absurd Claims Of A ‘Constitutional Crisis’ Authored by Jonathan Turley, Forty years ago, a radio personality coined the phrase “jump the shark” in reference to…

Reverse flows are being supplied to Ukraine despite its recent transit cut to the bloc, according to Slovakia Ukraine has been purchasing Russian gas via EU energy companies, Slovakia’s minister of foreign…

Safe From “Global Thermonuclear Warfare” – Musk Unveils Deal To Build Underground High-Speed Transportation System In Dubai Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, Elon Musk is partnering with the Dubai…

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov says the presidents spoke for nearly 1.5 hours and have agreed to meet soon on neutral territory Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, spoke for…

US President Donald Trump has blamed the conflict on his predecessor Joe Biden’s support for Ukraine’s bid to join the bloc US President Donald Trump has blamed the Russia-Ukraine conflict on his…

The US cutting loose both Kiev and Brussels is the way to end the war and that’s a good thing The only thing more dangerous than being America’s enemy is to be…

Schiff Warns Stagflation Is Monetary Kryptonite Via SchiffGold.com, Earlier this week, Peter Schiff went live on X Spaces to discuss both Bitcoin and gold’s recent price action and interact with his followers in a…

In its recent forecasts, US intelligence allegedly predicted such an attack could take place within the first six months of the year Israel is mulling attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities in the coming…

Benz And Rogan Expose How USAID Pushed ‘Blacklists’ Of Independent Media While Operating Global Propaganda Network Former State Department official-turned-truthsayer Mike Benz sat down with Joe Rogan for three hours this week,…

The US president’s spending cut reportedly leaves the organization unable to pay staff and grantees US President Donald Trump’s administration has frozen all funding to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), several…

US President Donald Trump has said Russia should be reinstated in the club of economic powerhouses from which it was suspended in 2014. “I’d love to have them back. I think it…

The head of the conglomerate Reliance and kin led Bloomberg’s ranking of the region’s 20 wealthiest dynasties  Mukesh Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Industries, one of India’s largest conglomerates, has made it…

Accession was never promised as part of any potential peace deal, bloc chief Mark Rutte has said Ukraine was never promised NATO membership as part of any peace agreement with Russia, the…

Assisting Kiev’s war effort without US support will be a blow to the bloc’s budget, Bloomberg economists have warned The EU is facing extra costs of $3.1 trillion over the next decade…

The previous US administration’s actions were “a grave mistake,” former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said The recent phone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, was…

UAE Ambassador Says Arab World Has ‘No Alternative’ To Trump’s Gaza Plan In an extraordinarily surprising development, the United Arab Emirates (UAE has signaled the possibility of removing all Palestinians from Gaza,…

The Senate confirmation comes despite objections from US Democrats over his anti-vaccine views The US Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services on Thursday. The confirmation…

Georgia has accused Estonia of undermining its sovereignty by calling the government in Tbilisi illegitimate Georgia has accused Estonia of interfering in its internal affairs after the latter’s foreign minister recently claimed…

Poor 30Y Auction Tails, Dealers Awarded Most In 6 Months A stellar 3Y auction, followed by a mediocre 10Y, we conclude the refunding week’s coupon offerings with an even more disappointing 30Y…

Goldman Sachs Boosts Ethereum ETF holdings By 2,000%; Bitcoin ETFs To $1.5 Billion Authored by Brayden Lindrea via CoinTelegraph.com, Investment bank Goldman Sachs increased its spot Ether exchange-traded fund (ETF) holdings by…

MAHA: RFK Jr. Confirmed To Lead HHS Despite ‘Traitor’ McConnell Siding With Democrats Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as the Director of Health and Human Services on Thursday, despite Sen. Mitch…

VIX Roundtable: Volatility Traders Reveal Secrets To Profiting From The Devilish Index Ever tried to time market crashes with UVXY and lost your shirt? Three seasoned vol traders will join Kevin ”Macro…

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Reportedly Plans 10% Cut Of Workforce As SpaceX Dominates Space Race About a month after Blue Origin successfully launched its long-delayed flagship rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Jeff…

Red-Hot Inflation And Ice-Cold Realpolitik By Michael Every of Rabobank The US CPI print for January was red hot at 0.5% m-o-m headline and 0.4% core, with the former rising to 3.0%…

Leftover Surprise? Biden’s State Department Budgeted $400 Million For “Armored Teslas” Under the Biden-Harris administration, a December version of the US State Department’s procurement forecast for the 2025 budget included a line…

Russian politicians, journalists, and experts reacted to the news about the first contact between the presidents of Russia and the US The phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President…

Ukraine’s ‘anti-disinformation’ center has admitted to spreading disinformation about the new US director of national intelligence The Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) has publicly recognized that it previously disseminated unverified information…

European Leaders Freaking Out Over Trump-Putin Summit: ‘Dirty Deal’ For Ukraine European leaders are freaking out at the speed at which Presidents Trump and Putin are headed toward a summit to talk…

EU Considers Temporary Cap On Natural Gas Prices By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com European Union officials are considering the potential introduction of a cap on natural gas prices as part of discussions…

The billionaire claimed that the agency was running a “total scam” in plain sight A subsidiary of Reuters has received millions in US government funding for “large scale social deception” projects, Elon…

The US president’s phone call with Vladimir Putin is “recognition” that Washington wants a “negotiated peace,” Pete Hegseth has said US President Donald Trump is not “betraying” Ukraine and is instead pursuing…

Annalena Baerbock has complained that US President Donald Trump sidelined the bloc in his recent phone talks with Moscow and Kiev  The EU and Kiev must be involved in any peace talks…

Kremlin Confirms Putin-Trump Summit On The Way, As Zelensky Warns Against Cutting Ukrainians Out The Kremlin side has confirmed that a Putin-Trump summit is on the way, following yesterday’s phone call, revealed…

Producer Prices Surge At Fastest Pace In 2 Years As Energy ‘Deflation’ Ends Following yesterday’s hotter than expected surge in consumer prices, all eyes are on producer prices this morning as headline…

Is This Time Different? Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “We will not have any more crashes in our time.” – John Maynard Keynes, leading British economist, in 1927 “Stock prices…

Futures Flat Ahead Of PPI, Reciprocal Tariffs Futures are flat, Europe’s Stoxx 600 slipped from session highs and the euro gave up an earlier advance against the dollar sparked by hopes for…

The Ukrainian leader has implemented asset freezes and media gags against his potential rivals Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has imposed personal sanctions on five prominent individuals, including potential political rivals former President…

The two presidents have opened the door to dialogue, and the ‘Investors in War’ are nervous The defining geopolitical rivalry of the 21st century may be between the United States and China,…

The new US administration will stop promoting diversity, equality and inclusion programs across the world, the billionaire has said US President Donald Trump and his administration will work to end the promotion…

Kiev has lost over 60,000 troops since the start of its incursion into Russian territory in August 2024, the Defense Ministry has claimed Ukraine has lost more than 60,000 service members and…

Resuming US-Russia dialogue is “a major step” toward a peaceful resolution of the conflict, retired Lieutenant Colonel Earl Rasmussen has told RT Russia and the US are “starting to make headway” in…

The conglomerate has said it will “bow out” of a renewable wind farm project after the new government in Colombo sought to renegotiate terms The conglomerate led by billionaire Indian tycoon Gautam…

12 Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America That Will Blow Your Mind Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, The United States is rapidly becoming a “post-industrial” nation.  All great…

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly floated the idea of absorbing Canada as the 51st state Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said US President Donald Trump’s remarks about Canada becoming…

Citi Warns Arabica Coffee Rally May Have Peaked As Demand Destruction Looms Arabica coffee futures have recorded a parabolic rally this year due to tightening supplies from top grower Brazil. However, demand may diminish…

Chevron Planning Layoffs Of Up To 20% Of Its Staff Chevron Corp. will cut 15% to 20% of its global workforce by next year to trim costs and boost profits. With 46,500…

US-Russian relations will now return to their ‘factory settings’, but the key here is the end of Western overreach The long-anticipated phone call between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump has finally taken…

Lawmakers have blocked the Rada podium in protest of sanctions imposed by Kiev on former President Pyotr Poroshenko Lawmakers blocked the podium of the Ukrainian parliament on Thursday in protest of Vladimir…