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Cyber Weekend Sales Rise 9% As Cyber Monday Fades Into Oblivion Cyber Weekend e-commerce sales grew 9% in the US this year, up from 6% in 2023, according to data from Salesforce….

The country’s constitutional judges have thrown out lawsuits filed by the president and opposition parties The Constitutional Court of Georgia on Tuesday dismissed lawsuits filed by President Salome Zourabichvili and opposition parties,…

Trump Team Refutes Reports Claiming He Will Immediately Discharge Transgender Military Troops Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President-elect Donald Trump’s team refuted anonymously sourced reports claiming that…

Job Opening Unexpectedly Surge With Biggest Increase in 14 Months; Quits Also Soar After last month’s catastrophic JOLTS report, which was a disaster across the board, and which was meant to give…

WallerISMs By Benjamin Picton, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank WallerISMs Political instability in France again takes center stage today as markets continue to price in the seemingly inevitable collapse of Michel Barnier’s…

NVDA Doubles AAPL, Trump Blows Up The Dollar, & The End Of OPEC: Saxo’s Outrageous Predictions For 2025 It’s that time of year again… Saxo’s Outrageous Predictions are not exactly news and…

Hungary has reportedly worked out most of the payment issues caused by US sanctions on Gazprombank Budapest and Moscow have already worked out solutions to most of the problems created by US…

The outgoing US administration has a comprehensive toolbox to hinder the president-elect’s plans US policy towards Russia and Ukraine has always been one of the most significant and controversial aspects of American…

Kiev could sign a truce with Russia if membership of the US-led military bloc is guaranteed, the Ukrainian leader has said Kiev could agree to a ceasefire with Moscow if NATO membership…

Beijing has responded to Washington-imposed curbs by restricting exports of key rare metals and some dual-use items China has announced a ban on shipments to the US of several dual-use items and…

A one-meter-long asteroid is expected to enter Earth’s atmosphere over Yakutia and create a bright flash that will be visible for up to 700km A one-meter-long asteroid is expected to enter Earth’s…

The OCCRP’s hidden relationship with Washington casts new doubts on the integrity of prominent Western media outlets An investigation published on Monday by France’s Mediapart and its partners, including Drop Site News…

Despite the drop, the bloc’s overall population has been rising due to immigration, data shows The number of babies born in the EU fell to a record low last year, according to…

The man was trying to avoid conscription in the city of Odessa, new footage shows A prospective Ukrainian recruit pepper-sprayed a conscription officer in the port city of Odessa in a bid…

President Yoon Suk Yeol has accused the opposition of plotting to overthrow the government South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol imposed emergency martial law on Tuesday, accusing the opposition, which he claims…

Futures Gain, S&P On Pace For 55th Record Closing High Of 2024 US equity futures are flat as the yield curve sees slight steepening; for once, the US is not benefiting from…

National Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz says that desertion among Kiev’s troops training in Poland is small but growing Ukrainian soldiers training in Poland are beginning to experience war fatigue and desertion is…

Yoon Suk Yeol has accused the opposition of engaging in “anti-state activities” and “plotting a rebellion” South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has imposed emergency martial law, claiming that the opposition, presumably…

BBC Includes Male ‘Trans Woman’ On Top 100 Women List Via dailysceptic.org, The BBC has included a male ‘trans woman’ Colombian scientist in its annual list of 100 inspiring women, just days after…

South Korea Declares Emergency Martial Law Moments ago, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law, accusing the opposition party of engaging in anti-state activities. This is not a headline…

The End Of Fake News? MSNBC Hits New Low In Ratings Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, The leftist “news” channel MSNBC is facing a ratings crisis, with some of its advertiser-coveted viewership…

The outgoing president apparently can do nothing to fix flaws in the American legal system… other than help his own family One of the big bonuses of being US president is that…

A special parliamentary committee is investigating the Law and Justice party for spying on their political opponents The former head of Poland’s Internal Security Agency (AWB), Piotr Pogonowski, was detained by police…

Telecoms Cable Between Sweden & Finland Damaged In Two Separate Places  A land-based fiber-optics cable running across the border between Sweden and Finland was damaged in two separate locations on Monday. This incident…

Western donors must send at least 20 more air-defense systems to protect Ukrainian infrastructure, the foreign minister has said Ukraine needs at least 20 additional air-defense systems from the West to protect…

A request for South Africa’s endorsement was made at a summit between the two countries Nigeria has asked South Africa to support its bid to join the G20 and the BRICS group…

NATO membership will not be sufficient protection, Aleksey Goncharenko has argued Ukraine must become a nuclear power to protect itself no matter the consequences, an opposition MP said on Tuesday. Becoming a…

Kiev’s membership in the US-led military bloc is unacceptable to Moscow, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has warned Russia views Ukraine’s potential full membership in NATO as unacceptable because it would pose a security…

Kiev has renewed its push for an invitation to the US-led bloc ahead of a foreign ministers’ meeting this week Ukraine will not accept any kind of security guarantees as a substitute…

Russia has published a list of over 600 captured Ukrainian soldiers that Kiev has refused to exchange Kiev is stonewalling prisoner swaps with Moscow and has “abandoned” several hundred Ukrainian soldiers, refusing…

The OCCRP’s funding and its ties to Washington raise serious questions about the ethics of using investigative journalism as a tool of foreign policy A joint investigation by Mediapart, Drop Site News,…

Beijing will deepen cooperation with fellow members of the economic bloc, the Foreign Ministry has said China will continue to expand cooperation with fellow members of the BRICS economic bloc despite the…

A Swedish minister was quick to cry sabotage but at least one of the ruptures has proven to be an accident A Swedish minister has suggested that his country’s telecommunications infrastructure may…

As Many As 200,000 Ukrainian Soldiers Have Deserted: Lawmaker Authored by Kyle Anzalone via The Libertarian Institute, Ukrainian soldiers refusing to report for duty or walking away from their front-line positions are becoming an…

Engagements were reported this week on both sides of Ukraine’s northern border Ukrainian fortifications and ground troops are being targeted by bombs dropped from small Russian drones, according to videos published by…

Peter Szijjarto has sat down with RT to discuss EU policy on the Ukraine conflict and other international topics Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto gave an exclusive interview to RT on Monday….

These Are The Fastest-Growing European Economies In 2024 European countries have faced significant challenges recently, including shrinking business activity and the euro hitting its lowest level against the dollar since 2022. Additionally, the threat…

The investment agreement sparked mass protests in Abkhazia and resulted in a collapse of the government last month Lawmakers in the South Caucasus nation of Abkhazia have overwhelmingly voted down a bilateral…

“Already Pretty Far Down The Line”: The Container Store Could File For Bankruptcy As Soon As Next Year As the retail apocalypse that started with Amazon and e-commerce continues, the latest victim…

The trip comes amid uncertainty about Washington’s relations with countries on the continent before Donald Trump takes office US President Joe Biden has arrived in Angola for a long-awaited trip to sub-Saharan…

He reportedly made the offer after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau complained his country wouldn’t survive the tariff hike the president-elect has threatened US President-elect Donald Trump has suggested that Canada should…

Panama Delists 6 Flagged Ships Over UK Russia Sanctions By Alex Kimani of OilPrice.com Panama said it will cancel the registration of six ships sailing under its flag after they were sanctioned…

The US president-elect has demanded global allegiance to the US dollar, threatening to punish all who want an alternative currency US President-elect Donald Trump has fired a warning shot at the BRICS…

Opting to blindly follow US policies was a “big mistake” for the bloc, Peter Szijjarto has told RT The EU approach to the Ukraine conflict has ultimately weakened the bloc “a lot,”…

The restrictions only expose “double standards and hypocrisy” and harm the bloc itself, Peter Szijjarto believes The sanctions imposed by the EU on Russia, particularly the restrictions on state-affiliated media, including RT,…

The latest package worth $725 million includes artillery shells as well as missiles for air-defense and multiple launch rocket systems The US has announced a new $725 million military aid package for…

Germany Is Run By “A Government Of Idiots”: RyanAir CEO Slams Greens’ “Stupid Solutions” Authored by Liz Heflin via Remix News, In an interview for the industry magazine “Airliners,” Ryanair CEO Michael…

The mechanism is in place to prevent ‘miscalculations’ amid a surprise terrorist offensive, spokesman Pat Ryder has said The US and its allies operating in the Middle East have used a de-escalation…

Deploying military monitors for a possible ceasefire will give European NATO members leverage, a source in the bloc has claimed France and Britain are considering whether to deploy troops to the front…

The outgoing administration has pledged to introduce more restrictions before Donald Trump takes office in January   The US is planning to impose new sanctions on Russia in the final days of…

The president’s pardon for his son covers any and all crimes that he may have committed in the last decade The extraordinary legal breadth of the pardon granted to Hunter Biden by…

Erdogan Backstabs His Way Into Center Of Middle East Conflict Authored by Conor Gallagher via NakedCapitalism.com, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan just had a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Nov….

Scholz In Surprise Ukraine Visit Inspects Kamikaze Drones, Unveils $680M New Arms Package German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made a surprise visit to Kiev on Monday, which marked his first trip to Ukraine in…

Kiev’s battlefield death toll is much lower than the 80,000 reported by the Wall Street Journal, the country’s leader has said Ukrainian losses in the conflict with Russia are far below the…

Lawmakers have concluded that the virus emerged from a research center in China, while accusing officials of spreading misinformation Covid-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, the US Congressional…

NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is demanding the immediate release of Israeli hostages still being held in Gaza, saying that if they are not freed before he is sworn into office for…

Laying the groundwork for uncomfortable discussions is never easy. However, sometimes the best approach is to cite examples and then expand. Here’s two factual examples. ♦ EXAMPLE FACT #1 – In December…

New Delhi claims that Islamabad is growing its capabilities at sea at the cost of peoples’ welfare Indian Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh K. Tripathi has acknowledged Pakistan’s “surprising” naval expansion in cooperation…

“This was no small thing, to restore a republic after it had fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may have been…

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…

Macron is such a transparent weasel.  He knows he cannot openly travel to Mar-a-Lago to talk about Ukraine, so he invites Mar-a-Lago for a pre-inauguration state visit to come to him under…

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley had a meeting with incoming Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi earlier today.  Mrs. Bondi promises to make everyone proud.  WATCH: . Posted in Dept Of Justice,…

Stephane Dujarric has commented on Kaja Kallas’ refusal to rule out Western troops being deployed to the country The United Nations discourages all sides involved in the Ukraine conflict from escalation, the…

Escobar: Trump May Be ‘Oreshniked’ On Ukraine Even Before He Gets To China Authored by Pepe Escobar, With Oreshnik now entering the picture, everywhere the Hegemon will try to harass China they…

Mexico Stops 2 Migrant Caravans After Trump Tariff Threat Days after Donald Trump announced that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum had “agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States,” or…

Japanese ‘Human Washing Machine’ Uses AI For When You’re Too Lazy To Wash Your Own Ass As if obese redundant piles of American protoplasm, to borrow George Carlin’s phrase, weren’t already stagnant…

US Market Valuation: One For The History Books By Damien Cleusix of the Quantastic World substack Executive Summary This analysis presents a sobering outlook for the S&P 500, arguing that it is…

The Failure Of COP29: Does The “Green Agenda” Have A Future? Authored by Raphael Machado, Following the conclusion of the multilateral climate conference COP29, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, the atmosphere is one…

Education: The Global Challenges Facing Schools A new report by Ipsos on global attitudes towards education and schools has highlighted the breadth of issues that affect different systems around the world. More than 1,000…

Biden-Linked Delaware Judge Rejects (Again) Musk’s ‘70%-Shareholder-Approved’ $56 Billion Pay-Package Delaware Judge Kathaleen McCormick has once again sided against Elon Musk… After ruling against the billionaire in July 2022 when he tried…

Pakistan: Slow Motion Train Wreck Authored by Eric Margolis via EricMargolis.com, Pakistan is the world’s most important Muslim nation. It has 251 million people, nuclear weapons, the world’s sixth largest armed forces,…

NATO Chief Warned Trump ‘Bad’ Ukraine Peace Deal Is A ‘Dire Threat’ To US, Europe NATO’s new secretary-general is trying to talk tough ahead of Donald Trump taking office. Surely he knows…

De Beers Pulls “Last Resort” Price Cut As Diamond Price-Floor Crumbles  A new report says the collapse in rough diamond prices has prompted the world’s largest producer to implement broad price cuts. …

What Is The Administrative State? Authored by Roger Kimball via American Greatness, Last week in this virtual space, I wrote that Donald Trump would make a renewed effort during his second term to dismantle…

Enron Is Not “Back” There was a lot of chatter on Monday morning about defunct Enron rising from the ashes after an X account named “Enron” posted, “We’re back. Can we talk?” We’re…

Nearly One In Five US Teens Experienced Depression Last Year One of the reasons governments are moving to restrict teenagers’ access to social media is the fear of its harm to mental health. As…

The armistice took effect last Wednesday, following 14 months of hostilities Lebanon’s Hezbollah has reported it struck back against alleged Israeli ceasefire violations for the first time since the fragile truce took…

Cartels Demand Higher Border Crossing Fees After Trump Victory Authored by Eric Lendrum via American Greatness, Drug cartels and other human trafficking groups have begun demanding higher fees for illegals seeking to…

Debanked: The Financial Suppression Of Bitcoin Businesses Must End Authored by Colin Crossman via BitcoinMagazine.com, “We can’t live in a world where somebody starts a company that’s a completely legal thing, and…

Iran-Backed Iraqi Militias Pour Across Border Into Syria To Bolster Assad Widespread reports, including observers on the ground, have indicated that Iran-backed Iraqi militias have been pouring across the border into eastern…

Yes, Mexico Knows Exactly What It Is Doing Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, President-elect Donald Trump recently had a “talk” with newly elected Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum about the…

Georgia’s partially on fire, but this is not 2003 and the US and EU may find things rather more difficult this time A ‘color revolution’, as we define it, is a mass…

Kiev has redefined the objective of its incursion into Russian territory Ukrainian troops fighting in Russia’s Kursk Region have been given orders to hold out until the new US president is sworn…

Special Counsel Rejects Hunter Biden’s Pardon, Files Scathing Rebuke In Court Case Last night Hunter Biden’s lawyers filed a motion to dismiss his California tax fraud case after Joe Biden issued a…

“They Must Be Eating Xanax Like Tic-Tacs…” – The Blob Has A Migraine Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “It’s a beautiful thing to watch the Biden family destroy the Democrat Party.” –…

“Cold Weather Fails To Persist” Across Lower 48 Could Stall NatGas Rally Goldman’s Thomas Evans distributed a note to clients this morning highlighting that the latest weather models show the Arctic cold blast, in…

The prohibition would supposedly improve the living conditions in cities and protect youth against tobacco Russian MP and head of the State Duma Sports Committee, Amir Khamitov, has suggested banning people from…

Kiev has resorted to crude slogans to reject any idea of peace talks Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has ruled out any negotiations with Russia, sending a crude message to Moscow during a joint…

The Democratic Diaspora: Liberals Seek Safe Spaces After Democracy Prevailed In 2024 Authored by Jonathan Turley, Democrats who campaigned on the need for “joy” and “saving democracy” are strikingly unjoyful about the results of…

Trump Warns Hamas Of “Hell To Pay” If Hostages Aren’t Freed Before Inauguration It’s no secret that President-elect Donald Trump is firmly in support of Israel, despite that after a year of…

If Cash Is King, Is The King Dying? Authored by Gregory Copley via The Epoch Times, Much of the world is at a pivotal stage in the future of money. If the…

The incoming US president has demanded that the Palestinian militants free all of their hostages before his inauguration US President-elect Donald Trump has warned that there will be “all hell to pay…

The outgoing president believes there is one law for others and another for himself, according to his one-time aide US President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter was not a…

Salome Zourabichvili has already praised universities for mobilizing students against the government Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili has called on the country’s schools to back pro-EU protests, after hundreds of university lecturers expressed…

Washington has restricted the export of a broad range of chipmaking tools and software to China China’s Ministry of Commerce has vowed to take “necessary measures” to safeguard its interests after the…

US Bitcoin Reserve Is Possible, But Not Without Downsides Authored by Stephen Katte via CoinTelegraph.com, During his 2024 election campaign, United States President-elect Donald Trump made many crypto-related promises, including establishing a…

Ankara has said it backs Damascus but thinks “legitimate opposition” needs to be heard Ankara is committed to the territorial integrity of Syria and wants the conflict there to be resolved in…

Sullivan Touts ‘Massive Surge’ In Arms To Ukraine With 50 Days Left In Biden’s Term National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan took to the Sunday news shows where he boasted that the White…

Oil Producers Block Binding UN Treaty To Curb Plastics Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, A small group of major oil-producing countries, including the leaders of the OPEC+ alliance – Saudi Arabia…

What can we expect from the ‘bromance’ of the two billionaires? It’s often said that a king is shaped by his entourage. This saying may be as old as time itself, but…