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Breaking ranks: Democrats join Republicans in voting the Clintons in contempt of Congress

Jonathan Turley
jonathanturley.org
Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:18 UTC
Hillary and Bill Clinton
Hillary and Bill Clinton
Yesterday, a curious thing happened in a House Committee. Bill and Hillary Clinton were actually held accountable for flouting the law — at least as a preliminary matter. In the House Oversight Committee, Democrats joined Republicans in approving contempt resolutions against the two political figures after they refused to appear to answer questions about their connections to Jeffrey Epstein.

The House panel voted 34-8 to advance the resolution on Bill Clinton to a floor vote. It voted 28-15 to advance a resolution on Hillary Clinton.

As previously discussed, the Clintons adopted a position that was devoid of any cognizable legal defense. It was simple hubris, telling Congress that they did not want to appear to be saying that congressional subpoenas are discretionary for them.
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Trump says 'Venezuela leaker' jailed as Polymarket accounts go quiet

Helen Partz
Coin Telegraph
Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:43 UTC
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© WSJ
US President Donald Trump said the "leaker on Venezuela" has been jailed, a remark that has renewed scrutiny of prediction markets following a series of well-timed bets earlier this month.

"The leaker on Venezuela has been found and is in jail right now," Trump said in the Oval Office on Wednesday, according to a video posted by The Washington Post.

Although Trump did not mention prediction markets, blockchain analysts such as Lookonchain have speculated that the leaker may be linked to a cluster of Polymarket accounts that placed concentrated bets on Venezuela outcomes just hours before the news became public.

"We noticed that two of the three wallets that previously profited from betting on Venezuelan President Maduro being out of office have been inactive for 11 days," Lookonchain wrote in an X post on Thursday.
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EU powerhouse Germany now almost totally dependent on American gas


RT
Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:42 UTC
Boat on river
Germany gets 96% of its liquefied natural gas from the US, according to an environmental group.

Germany's imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the US reached a near-total dependency last year, the German Environmental Aid Association (DUH) stated on Thursday. The situation "exacerbates Germany's dependence on the increasingly unpredictable US," the association said.

DUH analysis found the EU's largest economy imported approximately 101 terawatt-hours of US LNG in 2025, representing 96% of its total LNG imports - a rise of over 60% from 2024. The cost surged to $3.2 billion from $1.9 billion the previous year.

"LNG imports are no longer about managing a short-term crisis. [US President] Donald Trump is deliberately using gas deliveries to push Europe and Germany into a fatal dependence on fossil fuels," said DUH Federal Managing Director Sascha Muller-Kraenner.

Comment: So when the German Chancellor says that he will protect Denmark and Greenland from Russia, someone ought to tell him, as Trump did to Zelensky that "you don't have any cards".

The whole of Europe has become highly dependent on American 'Freedom' gas.
The EU is addicted to American economic punishment
The bloc's dependence on US natural gas is reportedly on its way to 80%


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Denmark always treated Greenland 'like a colony' - Putin


RT
Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:45 UTC
President Putin
The Russian president has said the US can afford to purchase the Arctic island from Copenhagen

Denmark has always treated Greenland like a colony, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said, commenting on US President Donald Trump's plans to purchase the self-governing Arctic island.

Trump restated his claim on the Danish overseas territory at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, and ruled out the use of force.

"Denmark has always treated Greenland like a colony, and treated it quite harshly, if not to say cruelly," Putin said at a meeting with Russia's National Security Council in the Kremlin on Wednesday.

Putin said Russia has no stake in the conflict over the island's ownership. "It definitely doesn't concern us. I think they will sort it out among themselves."

He noted that the US purchased Alaska in 1867 from Russia and the Caribbean territory known today as the US Virgin Islands in 1916 from Denmark. Putin suggested that Greenland could cost up to $1 billion and that the US can afford it.

Comment: One example of Denmark's treatment of the native Inuit population was the forced sterilisation program:
The spiral case (also known as the coil campaign, coil case or IUD case; Danish: spiralsagen or spiralkampagnen) is an ongoing investigation into Danish physicians forcing birth control onto Greenlandic Inuit women and girls from the 1960s through the 1990s by placing intrauterine devices in thousands of Greenlandic Inuit women and girls as young as 12, often without consent and under the direction of government officials.[1] The program was created to prevent unplanned or unwanted pregnancies, lower costs, and control Greenland's birth rate. Some cases also occurred after the responsibility of the health care system was transferred to the Greenland government in 1991.[2] Allegations continued into the 2000s, with the most recent reported cases in 2018.[3]


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Here lies the Liberal World Order: 1945-2025

Benjamin Bartee
Armageddon Prose
Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:47 UTC
liberals world order circus
© Ehsan Ganji
Back in 1989, renowned political scientist Francis Fukuyama got a little bit over his skis, as they say, when he enthusiastically welcomed in a new (and emphatically final) geopolitical epoch, audaciously dubbed the "End of History."

From The End of History?, 1989:
"The twentieth century saw the developed world descend into a paroxysm of ideological violence, as liberalism contended first with the remnants of absolutism, then bolshevism and fascism, and finally an updated Marxism that threatened to lead to the ultimate apocalypse of nuclear war. But the century that began full of self-confidence in the ultimate triumph of Western liberal democracy seems at its close to be returning full circle to where it started: not to an "end of ideology" or a convergence between capitalism and socialism, as earlier predicted, but to an unabashed victory of economic and political liberalism.

The triumph of the West, of the Western idea, is evident first of all in the total exhaustion of viable systematic alternatives to Western liberalism. In the past decade, there have been unmistakable changes in the intellectual climate of the world's two largest communist countries, and the beginnings of significant reform movements in both. But this phenomenon extends beyond high politics and it can be seen also in the ineluctable spread of consumerist Western culture in such diverse contexts as the peasants' markets and color television sets now omnipresent throughout China, the cooperative restaurants and clothing stores opened in the past year in Moscow, the Beethoven piped into Japanese department stores, and the rock music enjoyed alike in Prague, Rangoon, and Tehran.

What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government."
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NATO without America: Europe's trial run ends in a reality check

Andrei Medvedev
RT
Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:35 UTC
NATO troops/flag
© Omar Marques/Getty ImagesNATO troops
Steadfast Dart 2026 exposes how fragile European security looks once the US steps aside.

NATO has launched major military exercises - Steadfast Dart 2026. The drills involve over 10,000 troops from 11 countries: Germany, Italy, France, the UK, Spain, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Greece, and Türkiye. The primary goal is to assess the bloc's readiness for the rapid deployment of substantial forces. The exercises will continue until mid-March.

At first glance, it might seem like just another NATO exercise. But here's the catch: The US is not taking part. Firstly, it seeks to demonstrate that Europe is strong, unafraid of American influence, and capable of protecting its interests - not only by producing AI animations about heroic Vikings defending Greenland, but through real military strength.

The second goal is to find out whether Europe can operate independently, without US support. The answer is probably not. It's no secret that 70% of NATO's budget comes from US contributions. But beyond finances, NATO intelligence is primarily reliant on the US. Satellite communication, coordination, and command structures are also all built around a model in which the US acts as the 'big brother' to its European partners.

Comment: It's all there is: Lessons

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Lavrov on Greenland crisis and Ukraine conflict: Key statements from annual press conference


RT
Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:17 UTC
Lavrov press conf
© Yuri Kochetkov/RIA NovostiRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov holds press conference.
The Russian foreign minister has spoken on relations with the West, NATO's preparations for war with Russia, and other global issues.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a three-hour-long press conference on Tuesday to discuss the results of Moscow's diplomatic activities in 2025.

During the event, he touched upon a wide range of topics including the ongoing Ukraine conflict and efforts to end the hostilities, the breakdown of international law, the Greenland crisis, and what he described as NATO plans for a war with Russia.

Here are some of his key statements:

On relations with the West and European leaders

Lavrov stated that the current European leaders have driven themselves "too deep into hatred for Russia," concluding that it is "unlikely that it will be possible to agree on anything with them."

He said that European politicians, including NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, and the leaders of Germany, France, and Britain, have been openly and seriously preparing for a war with Russia while continuing to fantasize about inflicting a "strategic defeat" on Moscow in Ukraine.

At the same time, he noted that "healthy forces," that prioritize their national interests and realize the benefits of having friendly relations with Russia, have "finally awakened" in Europe and that their voices are already being heard in Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, as well as in Germany and France.
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There's one way the EU could resist Trump's US. But it won't

Rachel Marsden
RT
Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:25 UTC
4 peep
© Suzanne Plunkett/Pool/Getty ImagesItalian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and US President Donald Trump • G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada • June 16, 2025
To escape an abusive relationship, you have to fight crazy with crazy, but the Europeans are too meek and gaslighted for that.

Watching Trump toy with the EU over his vows to seize Greenland is infuriating in the same way that a friend keeps calling you nonstop to describe her nutcase live-in partner, without actually doing anything about it. Know what unnerves a bully? Unpredictability.

Bullies love predictable victims. Ask any woman who has suddenly gone off-script and ended up labeled 'crazy' by some deserving man. A woman who doesn't flinch is terrifying to a bully. Hence the diagnosis.

So why is the EU still playing defense? And so poorly, at that. Sending Danish and Greenlandic leaders on a trip across the Atlantic to negotiate with their blackmailers on the abuser's own turf and hoping for the best? The minute someone starts manipulating, strong-arming, and intimidating you, you go no-contact. Block them. Then sit back and let them fill in the blanks with every possible worst-case scenario.
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President Trump: Peace is popular

Ron Paul
Mises Institute
Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00 UTC
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© Brandon Bell/Getty Images/AdobeStock/KJNUS President Donald Trump • Dove of Peace
Over the weekend, as a US carrier strike group made its way toward Iran, President Trump told Politico, "It's time to look for new leadership in Iran." This pro "regime change" statement came just days after the US and Israel-led covert operation to overthrow the Iranian government was finally defeated by Iranian authorities.

The US President is making it clear he is not giving up on "regime change" for Iran. Late last week the world held its breath expecting a US missile strike on Iran after Trump promised "help is on the way" to the US-backed insurrectionists. President Trump claimed that he called off the strikes at the last minute when he was told that Iran would hold off on executing the ringleaders of the revolt.

Ironically, Trump himself has ordered the execution of more than 100 individuals on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean without charges, trials, or convictions.

Comment: 'We the People' shouldn't need polarity counts to sway perception nor indicate the obvious. Polls only serve 'The Politicians'.

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No kidding: German Chancellor Merz Admits Shutting Down Nuclear Energy Production Was a "Severe Strategic Mistake"

Sundance
The Last Refuge
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:03 UTC
Friederich merz
© Sean Gallup / Gettyimages.ruEl canciller alemán, Friedrich Merz
Germany has a severe electricity shortage and cost problem, and it's getting worse.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz recently made the admission that shutting down the German nuclear power reactors was a "severe strategic mistake."

"To have acceptable market prices for energy production again, we would have to permanently subsidize energy prices from the federal budget," Merz said, adding: "We can't do this in the long run."

"So, we are now undertaking the most expensive energy transition in the entire world," Merz said with pronounced frustration. "I know of no other country that makes things so expensive and difficult as Germany."

Comment: Anyone with two firing neurons could have predicted this outcome by shutting down nuclear power plants. Better late than stubbornly never. Will Merz stop spending money on Ukraine so as to fund this "energy transition"? Probably not, it makes too much sense.

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