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Efforts to address the issue have failed to improve outcomes for victims of abuse, the National Audit Office has reported Attempts by the UK authorities to address the issue of violence against…

The military’s medical commission is a mere “formality” in many cases, a recruitment officer has told an investigative outlet The Ukrainian military is enlisting men diagnosed with schizophrenia amid the struggling mobilization…

Some Hospitals Stop Transgender Surgeries On Children After Trump’s Order Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Hospitals in Colorado, Virginia, and the nation’s capital said on Jan. 30 they have…

Five Takeaways From Trump’s Plans To Build An Iron Dome For America Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Trump signed an Executive Order to build an Iron Dome for America, which aims to defend…

Opponents of the new US leader’s political trajectory within the bloc will soon be brought to heel, the Russian president believes The EU has always taken its political cues from Washington and…

Lawsuit Alleges FAA Denied 1,000 People Air Traffic Controller Jobs To Meet Diversity Hiring Targets Just as multiple air travel related tragedies have taken place, it’s been reported that the FAA is…

Poland did not invite a delegation from the country to this week’s ceremony commemorating the liberation of the Nazi death camp Russian President Vladimir Putin has slammed Poland for excluding Russia from…

Trump Orders First Airstrikes On Foreign Soil Since Taking Office In apparent continuity with the GWOT era of the prior two decades, the Trump White House has announced the president ordered a wave…

Biden Must Explain What The Ukraine War Was For Authored by Ted Snider via TheAmericanConservative.com, It is no longer easy to tell what the Ukraine War was for. Very early on, U.S….

Alice Weidel has said she hopes that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will be able to stop the fighting swiftly Alice Weidel, the co-leader of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party,…

Farmers across the region are struggling with soaring production costs, cuts in government funding, and increasing regulatory hurdles  EU fertilizer producers have called for steeper tariffs on imports from Russia than what…

London earlier pledged to contribute $2.8 billion for Ukraine aid as part of G7 loans to be repaid by profits from Moscow’s frozen funds Kiev has received final approval to tap a…

Colonel Rostislav Karpusha ordered a missile strike on a boarding school in Sudzha, according to investigators in Moscow The Russian authorities have charged in absentia a high-ranking Ukrainian officer with terrorism for…

US President Donald Trump has accused the network of tipping the scales in favor of his Democratic rival ahead of last year’s election CBS News has agreed to provide the US Federal…

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be settled through a two-state solution, they have said in a statement A group of Arab nations has spoken out against the suggestion by US President Donald Trump…

The US president has placed restrictions on Chinese goods in what he said was retaliation for failing to stem the flow of migrants and drugs into America China will file a lawsuit…

The SpaceX and Tesla CEO emerged as the largest political donor of the 2024 US election cycle, Federal Election Commission filings show SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk was “the biggest political…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said Canada must stand up for itself and protect its national interests amid US trade restrictions Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced retaliatory 25% tariffs on…

Escobar: The Chihuahua Energy Policy – It’s A Gas, Gas, Gas Authored by Pepe Escobar, Let’s start with the tale of an Empire bragging to the wind. Mr. Disco Inferno orders OPEC and…

Former Federal Reserve Adviser Arrested For Allegedly Passing US Trade Secrets To China Authored by Eva Fu via The Epoch Times, Prosecutors on Jan. 31 arrested a former senior Federal Reserve advisor,…

Widely Used Chinese-Made Health Monitor Using ‘Backdoor’ To Send Patient Data To Chinese IP Address They’ve hacked everything else in the U.S., so why would we be surprised to find out that…

The White House is reportedly considering merging the agency into the State Department The US Agency for International Development (USAID) website has gone offline following an executive order by President Donald Trump…

President Claudia Sheinbaum enacts ‘Plan B’ to protect national interests Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has accused the United States of fueling cartel violence by allowing powerful firearms to flow south, pushing back…

Trump’s Big-Stick Strategy Will Make America Respected Again Authored by Connor Vasile via RealClearPolitics.com, Despite his best efforts at saber-rattling, Colombia’s socialist president Gustavo Petro bent the knee and agreed to take in American…

Mexico’s President Claims She Has ‘Plan A, Plan B, Plan C’ In Response To Trump Tariffs Only a few days ago the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, was questioning with some skepticism…

John Brennan’s Protests To President Trump Lifting His Security Clearances Are Absurd Authored by Fred Fleitz via American Greatness, Former CIA Director John Brennan is angry that President Trump signed an executive…

One 21-Year-Old Who Worked A “Mass Scamming Call Center” In Dubai Blows The Whistle Ever wonder who the sociopaths are you see in Netflix documentaries, catfishing people from the internet using dating…

The billionaire expects his audit to face “extreme opposition from the grifters” Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been granted full access to the US Treasury Department’s payment system, according…

Military Strikes On Cartels Inside Mexico “On The Table”: Hegseth Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Announced Friday that all options, including military strikes against cartels on Mexican…

Trade Wars Begin: Trump Slaps 25% Tariffs On Canada And Mexico, 10% On China And just like that, the Trump trade wars have officially (re)started. As was widely previewed yesterday, President Trump unleashed the…

The US leader has ordered airstrikes in Somalia as a “message” to Islamic State terrorists and other adversaries President Donald Trump has ordered precision airstrikes in Somalia targeting an unnamed senior Islamic State (IS)…

Australian Spy Agency Collected “Signals Intelligence” On China COVID Origins: Former State Department Investigator David Asher, a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and the lead investigator of the State Department’s Covid-19…

The base is filled with anti-ship missiles equipped with anti-jamming systems, according to Tehran Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has unveiled a new underground base, reportedly located somewhere on the country’s…

The Ukrainian forces deliberately targeted a boarding school in Sudzha, according to the Russian Defense Ministry The Ukrainian forces have launched a targeted missile attack on a boarding school in the city…

‘Trantifa’ Insurrectionist Who Went To D.C. To Kill GOP Leaders Was Inspired By Luigi Mangione Via Headline USA, A Massachusetts resident went to the U.S. Capitol to kill members of President Donald…

Drone Horizons Authored by G.B. Rango via Pirate Wires (emphasis ours), The stadium is aroar with eighty thousand raucous attendees and casts a short shadow in the midday sun. In the distance,…

“It’s Like A Switch Was Flipped”: Border Encounters Plummet 94% Under Trump Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, illegal alien encounters at the southern US border have plummeted an average…

Officials in Washington have reportedly discussed pushing Kiev to hold a vote as part of an initial truce with Moscow Washington wants Kiev to have presidential and parliamentary elections, potentially by this…

Peter Dutton is receiving free legal advice from law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler but Dutton won’t say why which is a massive scandal given we are only a few months away from…

The Russian Ministry of Defense has reported the destruction of an unmanned craft approaching the peninsula The Russian Defense Ministry has released a video showing the destruction of a Ukrainian unmanned boat…

The finance minister has described it as an effort to boost spending and support rapid growth  In an effort to fuel the economy, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced on Saturday that…

Syria’s Al-Qaeda Branch Dissolves, Says Goals Completed By Regime Change Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The Salafi jihadist group Hurras al-Din, Syria’s official al-Qaeda affiliate, announced this week that it was dissolving, saying…

Trump’s Overhaul Of The Federal Bureaucracy Backed By Recent Survey Research Authored by Elizabeth Sheld via RealClearPolicy, Since returning to office for a second term, President Trump has taken aggressive action to…

A spat between Ukraine’s defense minister and the arms procurement agency head reportedly risks “paralyzing” the country’s weapons purchases A dispute between Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and the military procurement agency…

Moscow has criticized Antonio Guterres for omitting the Red Army’s role in liberating Auschwitz during his speech Moscow has condemned remarks by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres which omitted mention of the Red…

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: “Identity Months Dead At DoD” After multiple US federal government agencies required employees to remove gender-identifying pronouns from email signatures on Friday evening, the Defense Department issued…

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…

NYT, NBC, NPR, Politico Evicted From Pentagon Press Offices In Favor Of Trump-Friendly Outlets The innumerable consequences of the 2024 election keep gushing forth at a pace that’s hard to keep up…

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…

300 priests are not enough: — Russian Orthodox Church calls for reinforcements for army’s clergy Moscow’s army is facing a spiritual shortfall and the Russian Orthodox Church has highlighted an urgent need…

A Finnish student was barred from the Olkiluoto NPP due to its “corporate security policy,” Yle reported A Finnish student was excluded from a field trip to the country’s largest nuclear power…

Stablecoin Volumes Surpassed Visa & Mastercard Combined In 2024 Stablecoins, which play a major role in the global cryptocurrency ecosystem, saw massive adoption in 2024, with their transfer volumes beating those of…

The Hidden Dangers Of AI In Finance Authored by Adam Sharp via DailyReckoning.com, Jim Rickards recently published a compelling article on AI risk for Insider Intel subscribers. In it, Jim discusses a different way in which…

Berlin will not spend almost half of its federal budget on defense, Boris Pistorius has said German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has said that Berlin simply cannot afford to spend 5% of…

West Jerusalem has freed 183 Palestinians as three captives have come back to Israel, according to the Red Cross Hamas has released three Gaza hostages as part of a ceasefire deal with…

There are no casualties, the government of the Lipetsk Region has said Part of a missile has fallen in Lipetsk Region, central Russia, regional authorities said on Saturday. There are no casualties,…

Russia May Lift Restrictions On Nukes If US Goes Through With Trump Missile Defense Order Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Russia may expand its arsenal of nuclear weapons if the US…

Trump’s envoy for special missions claimed the release was agreed upon with President Maduro during his official visit to Caracas Six Americans who were released from prison in Venezuela have departed for…

Sweden Lets 5 Suspects Held In Killing Of Quran-Burning Activist Go Free Iraqi refugee and anti-Islam activist Salwan Momika was shot dead overnight on Wednesday, shockingly as he was in the middle of a live-stream…

A Sevastopol resident has been penalized for social media posts advocating voluntary childlessness, marking the first enforcement of Russia’s new law A 29-year-old woman in Sevastopol has been fined 50,000 rubles (about…

The Net-Zero Gap: Global Green Spending Is Falling Short Of Targets Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, Global green energy investment hit a record $2.1 trillion in 2024, up 11% from 2023,…

US Transfers 90 Patriot Missiles From Israel To Ukraine In Pivot This week defense officials told Axios that the United States has begun transferring Patriot air defense interceptors from storage in Israel for eventual…

Norway has released the Silver Dania after finding no evidence linking it to recent undersea cable damage in the Baltic Sea Norwegian police have released a Russian-crewed vessel after finding no evidence…

France Won’t Fight The US Over Greenland Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, It’s not going to risk breaking up NATO, let alone over a war that it’ll certainly lose, no matter…

The New Delhi World Book Fair spotlights its literature in a big boost to cultural ties between the two nations Moscow is showcasing over 1,500 books from more than 100 Russian publishers…

The order comes as part of the US president’s push to put an end to DEI initiatives and transgender protections Employees at US federal agencies have been ordered to remove pronouns from…

The proposed agreement will enable the flow of skilled Indian workers to Russia, Indian Ambassador Vinay Kumar has said  New Delhi and Moscow are actively discussing a memorandum of understanding to establish…

A Ukrainian posing as a Russian blogger has been making derogatory statements about Uzbeks, Moscow’s Federal Security Service has said Ukrainian intelligence services and their Western handlers are creating fake online content…

The targeted facilities supported Kiev’s defense industrial complex, the Defense Ministry has said The Russian military has launched a wave of strikes on Ukraine’s gas energy infrastructure, the Defense Ministry in Moscow…

A total of 104 contracts were ended across 30 federal bodies, the government efficiency watchdog has reported The US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), created by President Donald Trump and led by…

No investments, no balance, broken promises – Algeria is done with the “partnership” trap Brussels has laid In October 2024, shortly after being re-elected for a second term, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune…

The Ukrainian leader puts his own interests ahead of those of his country, Calin Georgescu has said Calin Georgescu, a Romanian politician whose first-round victory in the presidential vote was overturned by…

While Washington pushes for anti-China alliances, New Delhi treads cautiously, knowing its neighbor is here to stay The Galwan is one of the many Himalayan rivers. A narrow mountain stream, in some…

Escobar: Dancing To Trump’s Disco Inferno Authored by Pepe Escobar, In the late 1970s Donald Trump, in his early thirties, cocky as ever and recently married to Ivana in 1977, could be…

The Demoralizing Downward Spiral Of Algorithmic Culture Authored by Thomas Harrington via the Brownstone Institute, In need of a letter certifying that I do not suffer from a disease of international concern,…

Japan’s Aging Problem In One Chart Japan’s population aged 65 and over has reached an all-time high of 36 million, accounting for 29.3% of the total population. With such a large portion…

Fifth Circuit Declares Federal Age Limits On Adult Gun Ownership Unconstitutional Authored by Jonathan Turley, The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has issued a major ruling on the…

Prediction Consensus: What The Experts See Coming In 2025 As we look ahead to 2025, there is no shortage of expert forecasts and predictions for what will happen to the world’s economy,…

Eh, the funny thing about concentric circles is the downward spiral based on your perspective. NBC pundit Chuck “sleepy eyes” Todd was one of the obvious voices helping to destroy the remaining…

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt delivers a press briefing from the White House, confirming the 25% tariffs for Canada and Mexico that begin on Saturday (tomorrow) until such a time as…

Brussels has treated Washington “so terribly,” the US president has complained US President Donald Trump has announced his intention to impose tariffs on the European Union, citing unfair treatment in trade practices….

The bloc is reportedly skeptical about the viability of the idea promoted by London and Paris The European Union remains divided over the prospect of deploying a Western-led peacekeeping force to Ukraine…

President Trump signs a batch of Executive Orders and takes questions from the assembled press pool in the oval office. . Posted in Donald Trump, Economy, energy, Environmentalism, President Trump, Uncategorized The…

Gay Dragons And Black Samurai: Woke Game Companies In Crisis As Consumers Walk Away The entertainment sector has been at the core of the woke movement over the course of the last…

Top DOJ Official Resigns After Attempted Reassignment Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The man who led the U.S. Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section has resigned, according…

The Biodefense Oligarchy And Its Demographic Defeats Authored by Joe Murphy via The Brownstone Institute, Some years back, in calmer times before the storm, we officers at sea held the wardroom mess…

Better Than Ozempic? How To Engage The Vagus Nerve For Weight Loss Authored by Zena le Roux via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), We often hear about the brain-gut connection and how…

China’s Boldest Oil Hunt Yet By Irina Slav of OilPrice.com In October last year, China’s CNOOC reported record oil and gas production from a field called Deep Sea #1. The field was…

Replace The Income Tax With Tariffs? Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Commentary There was a time, before 1913, when you could keep every penny you earned….

NYPD Searching For 6 Suspects Who Stole An MTA Train From Brooklyn And Took It For A “Joyride” The monetary black hole that is the MTA apparently hasn’t figured out a way…

December FAA Report Cites “Urgent Need To Modernize Air Traffic Systems” Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Over 60 people died in a preventable plane crash… Urgent FAA Actions Are Needed to…

US ‘In Contact’ With Russia, Trump Confirms President Donald Trump has acknowledged that the United States and Russia are “in contact” related to the tragic events of the American Airlines passenger plane…

The bloc reportedly is working on a proposal to address Washington’s security concerns NATO agrees with US President Donald Trump’s concerns about Greenland and is discussing increasing its military presence in the…

With her deep understanding of Russia, Massie played a crucial role in shaping US-Soviet relations Suzanne Massie, an American writer and informal adviser to US president Ronald Reagan on Soviet affairs, passed…

“Six Ways From Sunday…” Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “A man’s assertion that he is a woman, and his requirement that others honor this falsehood, is not consistent with the humility and…

US Cattle Herd Shrinks To 1951 Lows As Beef Crisis Deepens Update: USDA figures are in: the nation’s cattle herd has plunged to a 74-year low, totaling 86.7 million head. *   *   * …

The US leader has refused to say whether he has already spoken directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin US President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House on Friday that he…

Treasury Dept’s Highest-Ranking Career Official Rage-Quits After Musk’s DOGE Team Probes Payment System The Treasury Department’s highest-ranking career official quit after a clash with aides of Elon Musk over access to sensitive…

Long Awaited JFK Files Could Be Released Soon Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Director of National Intelligence and the U.S. Attorney General have until Feb. 7…

At 5 PM EST, Fed Workers’ Pronoun Use On Emails Will Be ‘Was/Were’ The Trump administration is following through with a mandate the American people gave him to rid the federal government of cultural…