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Coming To America: Syrian Islamist Leader Sharaa Will Speak At UN The Islamist group which rules Syria from Damascus, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), has long been designated as a terrorist organization by the…

Stablecoins To The Treasury’s Rescue Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Digital Money was the title of TBAC’s April 30, 2025, presentation to the U.S. Treasury Department, and an important topic worth discussing….

Los Angeles Passes New $30 Minimum Wage For Hotel And Airport Workers Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, With benefits, the effective wage is $38.35. This is inflationary… New Minimum Wage AI…

Brussels has loosened conditions for using the remaining €335 billion in the pandemic recovery fund The European Commission has allowed member states to redirect funds they have struggled to claim from the…

Canada’s Wildfire Smoke Set To Blanket New York City A plume of wildfire smoke from ongoing blazes in the Canadian prairies is tracking southeastward, already impacting the Dakotas, spreading across the Midwest…

Federal Judge Dismisses DNC ‘Election Interference’ Lawsuit Against Trump Admin Authored by Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali on June 3 dismissed a lawsuit by the Democratic…

Ship Carrying 800 EVs Abandoned In Pacific After Fire Breaks Out On Tuesday, the Morning Midas—a roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) vehicle carrier—was abandoned by its crew in the central Pacific Ocean following an onboard…

Education Department Says Columbia University Fails To Meet Accreditation Standards Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Education said on June 4 that Columbia University violated…

President Vladimir Putin has informed his US counterpart about Moscow’s imminent response to Ukrainian attacks on strategic airbases The US Embassy in Kiev has advised Americans not to ignore air-raid sirens and…

Beer Distribution Data Signals “Rough Start” To Summer Drinking Season The growing prioritization of mental health and wellness—amplified across social media platforms by prominent health influencers—appears to be accelerating a “sobriety revolution”…

Ukraine’s leadership is derailing peace process in order to cling to power, according to the Russian president Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine’s leadership of carrying out terrorist attacks on Russian…

Pie-Crust Patriotism: Michael Moore Rewrites The Pledge Of Allegiance Authored by Jonathan Turley, Filmmaker Michael Moore has decided that it is time to rewrite the Pledge of Allegiance in the name of…

US Embassy Tells Americans Be Prepared To ‘Take Cover’ As Kiev Braces For ‘Shock & Awe’ Attack The US Embassy in Kyiv has issued a new Wednesday heightened security alert due to…

Beige Book Finds US Economy Diverging By Party Lines, No Trace Of Runaway Inflation Many were stunned after the latest inflation and core PCE data confirmed that the experts were once again…

Who Really Are The Lawless & The Dictatorial? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, The left is in its usual sanctimonious but schizophrenic mood. The media claims daily that the Trump administration has…

Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his wife Therese Rein, Greatest of all time (GOATs) of Labor Party grifting, made their estimated $400 million fortune off government contracts after Wayne Goss was…

It is at moments like this when I wish General Michael Flynn had not comprehensively compromised his ability to provide advice and counsel to President Donald Trump. This is great advice shared…

Cut through all the chaff and countermeasures deployed by the professional DC system intended to convolute and keep Trump and Putin at arm’s length, and you can see the outline of what…

NATO does not consider the upcoming Russian-Belarusian exercises a cause for alarm, Lithuania’s Gintautas Paluckas has said There is no indication that the upcoming Russian-Belarusian military exercises pose a threat, Lithuanian Prime…

Kiev is seeking escalation and targeting civilian infrastructure, the Russian president told the pontiff, according to the Kremlin Ukraine is deliberately escalating the ongoing conflict by targeting civilian infrastructure within Russian territory,…

Watch Live: House DOGE Subcommittee Exposes “Public Funds, Private Agendas: NGOs Gone Wild”  Around 2 p.m. ET, the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) will hold a hearing titled “Public Funds, Private…

Moscow has insisted that Kiev recognize territorial losses and withdraw troops as a prerequisite for ending the conflict Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has refused to seriously consider Russia’s latest peace proposal, dismissing…

Professor Called ‘Racist’ For Saying ‘Mob’ Can Sue Trustees, Judge Rules Authored by Matt Lamb via The College Fix, A Michigan State University professor can sue two trustees for their role in…

Beijing’s close ties with Islamabad give it a level of influence over dealings with Delhi The recent terrorist attack in India’s Pahalgam on April 22, 2025, which originated in Pakistan and resulted…

Aldebaran, renowned for its androids capable of recognizing human emotions, has accumulated debt exceeding €60 million Aldebaran, a French company that blazed the trail in the field of ‘empathetic’ humanoid robots in…

Ayatollah Rejects US Nuclear Proposal, Vows Iran To Keep Enriching Uranium Iran has finally reacted to the US proposal for a fresh nuclear deal which was submitted Saturday via Omani mediators, and…

Marc Andreessen Predicts ‘Biggest Industry In The History Of The Planet’ Billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen predicts that humanoid robotics will become the most lucrative market in history, surpassing the internet’s economic…

Trump Breaks Silence On Brazen Ukraine Drone Op In Lengthy Putin Call After two days of deafening silence from the White House on Ukraine’s Sunday massive drone assault, dubbed ‘Operation Spider’s Web’…

CBO Finds Big Beautiful Bill Raises US Deficit By $2.4 Trillion, Saddles Next President With Fiscal Drag The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is out with its official scoring of the Big Beautiful…

US Army Hits Annual Recruitment Goals 4 Months Early Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Army has reached its fiscal year 2025 recruitment goal of 61,000 active-duty enlistments—four…

Fink-ing About A New Globalization By Michael Every of Rabobank Fink-ing about a new globalisation In a daily markets update there are many times when all that matters are the economic data….

Rubio Condemns CCP’s Tiananmen Square Massacre, Marking 36th Anniversary Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “brutal crackdown” of…

Bitcoin Becomes Safe Collateral: JPMorgan To Offer Loans Financed With Crypto Assets Less than 8 years ago, when bitcoin was trading at $4,000 (compared to $104,000 today), Jamie Dimon demonstrated once again…

The man now in charge of the republic used to style himself after Bernie Sanders but changed his tune – and has won On June 3, 2025, a snap presidential election was…

The US president has described the phone call as “a good conversation” DETAILS TO FOLLOW

More than 8,000 incidents were recorded in 2024, up 77% from the previous year, according to watchdog RIAS The number of anti-Semitic incidents recorded in Germany surged by around 77% in 2024…

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…

New research has indicated a 33% higher incidence of kidney cancer among Ozempic users compared to non-users Ozempic and similar weight loss medications may increase the risk of kidney cancer, according to…

Bloc members are reportedly reviewing support for Ukrainians amid rising costs and increasing social tensions EU member states will consider what to do with the millions of Ukrainian immigrants currently in the…

Steve Bannon has accused Lindsey Graham of “stirring up” the Ukraine conflict by falsely promising US support to Kiev US Senator Lindsey Graham should be thrown in jail or have his passport…

US Futures Flat As Global Stocks Hit New All Time High US equity futures are higher, following European and Asian markets, while the MSCI All-country world index surpassed the February record high:…

“Too Late!” – Trump Blasts Powell After Weakest ADP Jobs Report In Over 2 Years Following April’s weak ADP print (lowest job additions since July 2024), analysts expected a rebound in May from…

Zelensky Says More Russia Talks ‘Pointless’ With Current Delegations Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday that to continue peace talks in Istanbul between Ukraine and Russia with the current delegations is senseless,…

Bank of Canada Keeps Rates At 2.75% As Expected, As It Waits To See Impact Of Trump Tariffs The Bank of Canada held interest rates steady at 2.75% for a second straight…

US Embassy Officials Warn Americans Not To Use Dating Apps To Meet People In Mexico Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, U.S. embassy officials in Mexico this week confirmed reports…

Baffle ‘Em With Bullshit: Services Surveys Signal Soaring & Plunging Economy After the mixed picture from Manufacturing surveys (ISM ugly, PMI solid); both Services surveys – due this morning – were expected…

The latest terrorist acts carried out by Ukraine in Russia are the outcome of decisions made by the political leadership, the president has said Facing heavy battlefield losses, the “illegitimate Kiev regime”…

WTI Extends Gains As Crude Stocks See Biggest Draw Since December Crude prices are higher this morning on signs of progress in trade talks between the US and EU and the API report…

Ukrainian intelligence planned the explosions which led to the deaths of seven civilians, the chair of Russia’s investigative committee has said Explosives used to blow up two railway bridges in Russia over…

The US president should know better what constitutes genocide, the former South African leader has said Former president Jacob Zuma has affirmed that there is no genocide in South Africa, describing US…

Teams of politicians and diplomats were sent from New Delhi and Islamabad to present their views on the recent conflict between the nations Delegations of both Indian and Pakistani diplomats and politicians…

The strategic Russian transport link has withstood numerous Ukrainian attacks, including another one earlier this week A woman has been arrested in Russia for allegedly collecting intelligence on air defense systems near…

The penalties are part of a proposed bill targeting individuals and entities pressuring women into terminating pregnancies Lawmakers in the Russian city of St. Petersburg have advanced a bill that would impose…

The bloc’s members are concerned that the topic could lead to a public rift between the EU and US, the agency’s sources have said NATO leaders convening for a key summit this…

Russia’s lead negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, has said the exchange with Ukraine will take place between June 7 and 9 Russia and Ukraine will conduct their next mass prisoner exchange at the end…

Libya is no longer just a post-Arab Spring tragedy, but a credibility test for multilateral diplomacy Libya has endured a collapse unmatched in modern North Africa since the United Nations Security Council…

Latvia has barred media outlets linked to Moscow from reaching audiences since the Ukraine conflict escalated in 2022, citing alleged propaganda   Latvian police have arrested a man accused of providing access…

Kiev could not have remotely piloted drones deep inside Russia without American satellite data, according to Guillaume Ancel Ukraine would not have been able to remotely attack strategic Russian aircraft parked deep…

Kiev jeopardized a key pillar of Moscow’s nuclear security, and the response could be unpredictable, Keith Kellogg has warned The recent Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian airfields reportedly hosting nuclear-capable bombers sharply…

Western officials have called the Ukraine conflict a proxy war against Russia NATO members could formally include weapons supplies to Ukraine as part of increased defense budgets, according to a proposal cited…

The move comes amid a new British militarization campaign, citing a potential conflict with Russia The UK has pledged to supply 100,000 new drones to Ukraine by April 2026, in addition to…

The personnel were delivering critical food aid to a famine-stricken city in war-torn Sudan, according to the organization At least five UN aid workers were killed and several others injured when an…

Number Of Zombie Properties Increase In 30 US States The number of zombie homes – vacant properties abandoned by owners during the foreclosure process – rose in 30 U.S. states and the…

US Sanctions Threaten Europe’s Russian Gas Lifeline Authored by Cyril Widdershoven via OilPrice.com, Despite public rhetoric, Europe’s reliance on Russian energy remains substantial. A proposed bipartisan U.S. Senate bill could reshape global…

EU Tech Laws Erect Digital Iron Curtain Authored by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes via TheDailyEconomy.org, Over the past decades, Europe has created little of real relevance in terms of technological platforms, social networks,…

Moscow has said peace in the African state must come without “destructive external interference” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin has met with the UN secretary-general’s personal envoy for Sudan, Ramtane Lamamra,…

Nvidia’s Revenue Pipeline Tops $1 Trillion, UBS Tells Clients Following Nvidia’s better-than-expected earnings report last Wednesday, UBS analysts were inundated with investor inquiries, primarily focused on the chipmaker’s near-term growth visibility and the…

Liberia and the DR Congo will serve a two-year term as non-permanent representatives amid mounting calls for reform of the institution The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) and Liberia have…

Brussels is pushing Kiev’s bid despite the costs, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has warned Ukraine would be a huge drain on EU resources if it became a member of the bloc, Hungarian…

Pete Hegseth’s absence from the gathering in Brussels will be unprecedented for Washington’s top defense official US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will not attend Wednesday’s Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting in Brussels,…

‘Forced Mixing’ Housing Plan To Integrate Migrants Pushed By Sweden’s Social Democrats Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, The Swedish Social Democratic Party has approved a new integration strategy that aims…

Dutch Parliament Says ‘Nyet’ To NATO Defense Spending Plan Amid Chaos Of Geert Wilders Pullout NATO aims for its members to spend at least 3.5% of their GDP on defense, but those…

Will Human Error Hand AI The Key To Our Destruction? Authored by Julio Rivera via American Greatness, By now, the apocalyptic whispers that once belonged solely to science fiction are starting to…

55 Tons Of Meth Ingredient From China Bound For Mexican Drug Cartel Seized In California By Noi Mahoney of FreightWaves Authorities at the Port of Long Beach on Friday seized 55 tons…

Beijing Furious After Europe Uses “International Procurement Instrument” For First Time In Escalating Trade War With China When it comes to its trade war with the US, Brussels is quick to parade…

FDA Launches New AI Tool Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Food and Drug Administration on June 2 launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool. FDA officials said Elsa,…

US Still Prosecuting Former ISIS Members After Officially Embracing One In Damascus This week a 49-year-old naturalized American citizen has been sentenced to a decade in federal prison, after confessing to traveling…

America’s 21st Century Fighter Gap Authored by Peter Mitchell via RealClearDefense (emphasis ours), Golden Dome has captured headlines as America’s next-generation missile defense shield in the debates around the FY 2026 defense budget’s trillion-dollar price tag….

The sense that this is not good expands when you consider the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the current conflict between the United States and China.  Two Chinese researchers in Michigan…

On World Bike Day, Cars Still Dominate The American Commute June 3 marks World Bicycle Day, an official UN observance celebrated to draw attention to the benefits of using a bike, a healthy,…

Senators Richard Blumenthal (U-DC) and Lindsey Graham (U-DC) have scheduled a delegation of Ukraine officials to come to the Senate tomorrow and help organize the pro-Ukraine narrative. The Senate is debating the…

Everyone Was Just Doing Their Job: How Specialization Enables Systemic Evil Authored by Josh Stylman via Substack, The world’s a screaming match—doctors, economists, influencers, all clawing for their slice of truth. Nobody’s…

That puts that to rest. During a White House press briefing today, Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt was asked if Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy notified President Trump in advance of the attack on Russian…

Many articles are being written and much typeset is being exhausted by people talking about the recent revelations that the FBI has a designated information silo called “prohibited access” within its record…

I said when the alignment first took place, there would come a point when Elon Musk turned on President Trump and attempted to split MAGA into oppositional teams so that Musk could…

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced today, the wife and five children of Mohamed Sabry Soliman have been taken into custody by ICE agents for questioning and may face deportation. Soliman, 45, is…

The adult content platform has accused Paris of compromising user privacy Pornhub, one of the world’s largest adult content platforms, has threatened to cease operations in France in protest against stringent age…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly ordered the USNS Harvey Milk to be renamed The US Navy has been directed to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a replenishment oiler named after the…

OECD Cuts Global Growth Forecast In Light Of Tariff Threat The global economy is projected to grow slower than previously expected this year, as the trade war started by the Trump administration…

More Than 100 Illegal Immigrants Arrested By ICE At Florida Construction Sites Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A day after a top White House aide said…

Palantir Co-Founder Joe Lonsdale & Former Exec Refute NYT Report Warning Over Surveillance ‘Master List’ Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale and former executive Wendy Anderson have hit back against a NY Times report warning that…

South Florida Emerges As Epicenter Of Housing Weakness Rising inventory and softening demand — key indicators of a broader housing slowdown — suggest that South Florida’s pandemic-fueled real estate boom continues to…

A total of 142 military targets were hit in a major strike, the Russian Defense Ministry has said Russian forces have launched a combined strike targeting Ukrainian drone and radar manufacturing facilities,…

US OKs Syrian Military Integrating Foreign Islamist Fighters Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com, The position of the United States on the Islamist Syrian government has been complex since the Hayat Tahrir…

Freedom, Decentralization, & Unity: Stay True To These Principles & The Future Is Ours, Says Ross Ulbricht Authored by Oscar Zarrage Perez via BitcoinMagazine.com, Last week, Ross William Ulbricht, at the 2025 Bitcoin…

Remaking K–12 Classes For A Healthier America Authored by David Mansdoerfer via The Epoch Times, America’s kids are navigating a health crisis, and our outdated K–12 health classes aren’t helping. With childhood…

Rockets Fired On Israel From Syria For First Time In A Year, IDF Hits Back Rockets were fired from Syria at Israel on Tuesday, for the first time in a year, according…

Wasting Away In Wind-And-Solarville By James Varney and RealClearInvestigations.com, While green advocates commonly use the terms renewable, sustainable, and net zero to describe their efforts, the dirty little secret is that much of…

Moscow considers the Ukraine conflict a Western proxy war – a notion recently acknowledged by top US officials Former US President Joe Biden wanted to see Russia “destroyed” during his time in…