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David Sirota
@davidsirota
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🚨NEWS: Trump just quietly deployed his regulators to try to block states from reducing credit card interest rates, according to documents reviewed by @LeverNews
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Trump's intervention comes at the same moment he is telling voters he supports capping credit card interest rates.

Thomas Massie
@RepThomasMassie
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4 h
As the dollar’s reserve currency status diminishes, so does our ability to tax the world by creating more money.

When reserve status is lost, maintaining current spending levels and servicing the debt will be even more painful for Americans who will bear the full inflation tax.
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Peter Schiff
@PeterSchiff
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17 h
Trump has it backwards. The U.S. doesn’t subsidize the world; the world subsidizes the U.S. The dollar’s reserve-currency status allows us to live beyond our means. Soaring debt, tariffs, and military threats jeopardize that status. When it’s lost, economic collapse will follow.

Clash Report
@clashreport
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BIG: Leaked Danish defense documents reveal that the United States quietly sought sensitive information on military installations, ports, and airbases in Greenland without informing Copenhagen.

Danish authorities viewed the move as alarming, fearing it could relate to U.S. contingency planning for pressure—or even military action—over Greenland.

The Danish government and military leadership were immediately alerted.

Source: Berlingske

Kristen Welker
@kwelkernbc
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3 h
NEW: President Donald Trump is privately ramping up his focus on another target in the Western Hemisphere, increasingly complaining to aides in recent weeks about Canada’s vulnerability to U.S. adversaries in the Arctic, according to two U.S. officials, a senior administration official and three former senior U.S. officials familiar with the discussions.

Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
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3 h
JUST IN - European leaders release a joint statement after Trump threatened tariffs, reiterating their "solidarity" with Denmark and Greenland, adding that "Tariff threats undermine transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral."

Financial Times
@FT
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3 h
France’s Emmanuel Macron has called for the EU to activate its most potent trade weapon against the US after Donald Trump threatened to hit several European countries with extra tariffs in response to the dispute over Greenland. https://ft.trib.al/i8JPoaz

itamilradar
@ItaMilRadar
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6 h
US Congress map showing US bases across Europe.
Many of these installations are not meant solely to “protect” Europe; rather, they are primarily designed to enable US power projection toward the Middle East and Africa.
For US security, Europe matters far more than Greenland

Morgan Cameron Ross
@Morgan_C_Ross
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16 h
-74% of all insulin used in America comes from Denmark.
-100% of all Ozempic used in America comes from Denmark
-15% of all shipping containers arriving in America come from a Danish company

All 3 are being discussed within Denmark to halt.

*Walter Bloomberg
@DeItaone
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1 h
BESSENT: EUROPE TOO WEAK, US MUST TAKE GREENLAND

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said President Donald Trump will not back down from acquiring Greenland, arguing Europe is too weak to ensure its own security.

In an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, Bessent dismissed EU threats over tariffs and said Trump is using emergency powers as strategic leverage. Trump has announced 10% tariffs on eight European countries starting February 1, rising to 25% in June unless a deal to purchase Greenland is reached.

Bessent said Trump’s push is driven by Arctic competition, missile defense plans, and Europe’s past dependence on Russian energy. He rejected claims this would harm NATO, saying European leaders will ultimately accept U.S. security leadership.

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January 16, 2026
TG 2052: Trump Holds Off From Attacking Iran--For Now

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss President Trump's decision to hold off--for the time being--an armed attack on Iran, and wonder if, or maybe when, he will decide to revive the plan.

00:40:48
January 16, 2026
TG 2051: U.K. Plans To Seize Russian Ships In The High Seas

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss the U.K.'s latest illegal ploy to continue the hybrid war against Russia: seize tankers in the high seas, sell the oil aboard them and transfer the sales revenues to Ukraine.

01:04:47
January 14, 2026
TG 2050: Denmark, Greenland Make Desperate Pitch To Trump

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss today's visit to Washington, DC, by the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland to make one last desperate plea to stop President Trump from taking Greenland off Denmark's hands.

00:52:29
January 16, 2026

I want to thank George for his insightful interview with Paul Craig Roberts. I also want Gagglers to understand just how unusual Roberts is. I don't agree with Roberts 100 percent because at times he clings to the notion that the Republican Party still exists. This was the party of Abraham Lincoln, and it lost its way as did the Democrats. Even so, Roberts is a Baby Boomer with insight, a rare creature indeed.

All Boomers I know hate, even despise, Russia because they were taught to do so in our schools where we learned fake history. They are not critical thinkers because they grew up on propaganda re the USSR, which Russia still is in their eyes. For example, Boomers are unable to consider how we acquired Alaska and how Russia, even though neutral (technically) during our Civil War, helped the Union by engaging in a brilliant psyop to fool the British (primarily) and the French. I studied this incredible phenomenon and wrote an essay about it, but a typical Boomer knows nothing about it ...

40 minutes ago

Andreas Steno Larsen
@AndreasSteno
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21 h
The biggest issue for the EU in these incredibly cynical times in geopolitics is that you don’t have a seat at the table as long as you are not energy self-sufficient.

If Trump adds an LNG export ban to the mix, the EU will fold like a lawn chair.

January 21, 2023
More Leftie Than Thou
"Jacobin" Magazine Celebrates A Strike Against Ol' Blue Eyes

Here at "The Gaggle" we have very little time for the "more Leftie than thou" school of thought--that's the approach to life according to which the only thing that matters is whether you take the right position on every issue under the sun from Abortion to Zelensky. No one in the world meets the exacting standards of this school of thought; any Leftie leader anywhere is always selling out to the bankers and the capitalists. The perfect exemplar of this is the unreadable Jacobin magazine. 

The other day I came across this article from 2021. It's a celebration of trade union power. And not simply trade union power, but the use of trade union power to secure political goals. Of course (and this is always the case with the "more Leftie than thou" crowd), this glorious, never-to-be-forgotten moment on the history of organized labor took place many years ago--in the summer of 1974 to be exact. Yes, almost half a century has gone by since that thrilling moment when the working-class movement of Australia mobilized and prepared to seize the means of production, distribution and exchange. 

Well, not quite. Organized labor went into action against...Ol' Blue Eyes, the Chairman of the Board, the Voice; yes, Frank Sinatra. Why? What had Sinatra done? Sinatra was certainly very rich, and he owned a variety of properties and businesses. But if the Australian trade union movement were, understandably, searching for the bright, incandescent spark that would finally awaken the working class from its slumber there were surely richer, greedier, more dishonest, more decadent, above all more Australian individuals it could have discovered. Australia was never short of them. Rupert Murdoch immediately springs to mind. Why Sinatra?

 

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