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31.01.26 - 22:18
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Latest Epstein Release Catches Goldman′s Top Lawyer In Massive Lie (ZeroHedge)
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Latest Epstein Release Catches Goldman's Top Lawyer In Massive Lie
Earlier this month the Wall Street Journal reported that there was an internal debate at Goldman Sachs over whether to get rid of General Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler over her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Kathryn Ruemmler, Jeffrey Epstein
Ruemmler, a former White House attorney for Obama, told Goldman execs when they hired her in April 2020 that the relationship was purely professional - yet it would later become public that she not only met with Epstein dozens of times and exchanged friendly emails for years, she was listed as an executor of Epstein's will as recently as Jan. 18, 2019 - which had been removed before he died in prison on Aug. 10 of that year.
She also denied having ever helped Epstein with PR, telling the outlet "I did not advocate on his behalf to any third party—not to a court, not to the press, not to the government."
Turns out that was a total lie.
On Friday, the DOJ released ove...
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31.01.26 - 22:18
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Seattle Mayor Directs Police To Track And Document ICE Enforcement Activities (ZeroHedge)
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Seattle Mayor Directs Police To Track And Document ICE Enforcement Activities
Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times,
Seattle Mayor Katie B. Wilson announced a series of steps on Jan. 30 in response to a potential surge in federal immigration enforcement, directing local police to track and document activities by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and barring agents from city property to conduct operations.
The moves made by Wilson, a democratic socialist, comes amid heightened Democratic pushback against federal immigration enforcement actions after the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
Wilson's measures include an executive order banning ICE from using city-owned properties for civil immigration actions, mandatory training for city employees on how to report and respond to enforcement activity, and quickly investing $4 million in funding for legal defense and community support for illegal immigrants.
The mayor noted that the city does ...
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31.01.26 - 22:18
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Next-Level Spying: How China Read The West′s Wiretaps For Years (ZeroHedge)
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Next-Level Spying: How China Read The West's Wiretaps For Years
Authored by Shanaka Anslem Perera via Substack,
The four trillion dollars in institutional capital positioned for stable UK-China relations rests on an assumption that died in a Chengdu server room sometime around 2019. The assumption is that espionage between major powers operates within understood boundaries, that telecommunications infrastructure is contested but not compromised, that the surveillance systems Western governments built to watch their citizens cannot be turned around to watch them. The assumption has been falsified. What follows is the complete mechanism of how China's Ministry of State Security achieved persistent access to the private communications of three British Prime Ministers' closest advisers, the phones of a US President-elect, and the wiretap systems that were supposed to catch them doing it. The positioning implications are immediate. The framework is permanent.
On January 26, 2026, The Telegraph d...
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31.01.26 - 22:18
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Ukraine Moves To Purge Dostoevsky & Tolstoy From Public Mention (ZeroHedge)
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Ukraine Moves To Purge Dostoevsky & Tolstoy From Public Mention
In the latest escalation of Ukraine's cultural purge and targeting of all things Russian, Ukraine's Institute of National Memory has this month formally branded the famed classic Russian authors Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy as vectors of "Russian imperial propaganda".
This has included a call from the body which operates under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for all streets, monuments, and public institutions bearing their names be wiped from the map.
Image via Union of Orthodox Journalist-Ukraine
According to Interfax, commenting on the ruling, "the assignment of their names to geographical objects, names of legal entities and objects of property rights, objects of toponymy, as well as the establishment of monuments and memorial signs in their honor in Ukraine was the embodiment of Russification - Russian imperial policy aimed at imposing the use of the Russian language, promoting Russian culture as sup...
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31.01.26 - 22:18
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Latest Epstein Emails Reveal Bill Gates Slipped Wife Antibiotics For STD He Got From Russian Hookers (ZeroHedge)
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Latest Epstein Emails Reveal Bill Gates Slipped Wife Antibiotics For STD He Got From Russian Hookers
Democrats thought that the firehose release of Epstein files would "finally" bring down Trump. Instead, not only is that not happening (one can argue the latest batch of docs further cements Trump's claim that he had distanced himself far enough from Esptein in recent decades as this admission from Epstein himself to his favorite scribe Michael Wolff reveals), but it is taking down Democratic "thought titans", each one bigger than the next: first it was Larry Summers, then Bill Clinton, now it's Bill Gates.
In what can only be described as the latest chapter in the never-ending saga of elite depravity, the DOJ coughed up over three million pages of Jeffrey Epstein's sordid files – a treasure trove of smut, scandal, and schadenfreude that puts the spotlight squarely back on billionaire vaccine-pusher and Microsoft mogul Bill Gates. Released on Friday, these documents inc...
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31.01.26 - 22:18
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Federal Judge Refuses To Block Trump′s ICE Surge In Minnesota (ZeroHedge)
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Federal Judge Refuses To Block Trump's ICE Surge In Minnesota
Authored by Jacob Burg and Troy Mayers via The Epoch Times,
A federal judge on Jan. 31 denied Minnesota's emergency request to block the Trump administration's deployment of thousands of federal agents to the Twin Cities in a large-scale immigration enforcement operation.
In her ruling Saturday morning, U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez wrote that the “Court must view Plaintiffs' claims through the lens of the specific legal framework they invoke, and, having done so, finds that Plaintiffs have not met their burden... the motion is denied.”
She heard arguments from both the Department of Justice and attorneys representing Minnesota and its Twin Cities earlier this week, appearing somewhat skeptical of the district court's authority over the separation of powers arguments the plaintiffs were advancing.
However, Menendez also probed the Justice Department's intentions with Operation Metro Surge, the federal government...
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31.01.26 - 22:18
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Bitcoin Crashes To Nov 2024 Lows Amid $1.5 Billion In Levered Liquidations (ZeroHedge)
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Bitcoin Crashes To Nov 2024 Lows Amid $1.5 Billion In Levered Liquidations
In an otherwise quiet session - as one would expect for a Saturday, certainly the algos would - starting early this morning there has been concerted pressure to sell into the bitcoin spot price following yesterday's Warsh-inspired rout which repriced bitcoin from 88K to 84K, pressure which grew into a liquidation firehose just after 9am ET and especially at noon, when we saw massive algo-driven volumes hitting the bid.
The selling has pushed Bitcoin as low as $74,000 (it was almost at $100K last week), and is at the lowest price since Trump became president (the April 2025 liberation day low of $74k was just taken out).
The selloff has liquidated over $110 billion from the crypto market's total value in the past 24 hours.
While algos were the initial spark that prompted the selling, the target - as usual - were heavily levered longs: in the past 4 hours more than $1.5 billion in levered positions, mostly longs, wer...
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31.01.26 - 22:18
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Putin Envoy Dmitriev Back In Miami For Talks, Which Seem To Be Going Nowhere (ZeroHedge)
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Putin Envoy Dmitriev Back In Miami For Talks, Which Seem To Be Going Nowhere
President Putin's special envoy Kirill Dmitriev has arrived in Miami this weekend where he held another round of talks with an American delegation. The discussions started early Saturday morning, after Dmitriev confirmed his arrival, writing on social media simply, "Back in Miami".
The talks follow a round of meetings held on January 23-24 in Abu Dhabi involving the United States, Ukraine, and Russia. Media reports said those discussions produced "progress" on military-related issues, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky describing them as constructive. But were they really?
via Reuters
Apart from such expressions of limited optimism, there's been no serious advancement of peace in any tangible or measurable way, and on issues which matter as 'red lines' to either side.
For example, territorial concessions are still a sticking point for Moscow, but Ukraine and its Western backers have n...
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31.01.26 - 22:18
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Connecticut School Cancels Event With Education Secretary Over Political Pressure (ZeroHedge)
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Connecticut School Cancels Event With Education Secretary Over Political Pressure
Authored by Jonathan Turley,
We have long discussed how educators are instilling viewpoint intolerance in students from the earliest grades. The latest example is the cancellation of a visit to McKinley Elementary School in Fairfield, Connecticut, by Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.
The students had the opportunity to speak and interact with a cabinet member, but the school cancelled the event due to political opposition from parents.
Reports indicated that the visit, part of McMahon's “History Rocks” tour in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, was cancelled due to a campaign by parents.
The parents rose up after McKinley Principal Christine Booth wrote them saying that the school was
“proud to offer this unique opportunity and… unforgettable experience for our McKinley students. Students will enjoy a dynamic, interactive assembly that brings American history a...
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31.01.26 - 22:18
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Over 185,000 Americans In The South Remain Without Power After Ice Storm (ZeroHedge)
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Over 185,000 Americans In The South Remain Without Power After Ice Storm
Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times,
Over 185,000 Americans were without power nearly one week after a deadly winter storm swept through two-thirds of the country.
States that faced ongoing power outages included Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Texas.
The northern part of Mississippi had the most outages with nearly 80,000 utility customers in the dark as of 5 p.m. ET.
Officials at the North East Mississippi Electric Power Association said they weren't sure when the lights would be back.
“I'm not quite prepared to give a real good estimate of when you might get power,” General Manager Keith Hayward said in a Jan. 29 video posted on X.
Tennessee experienced the second largest number of outages in the United States. The majority of affected customers resided in the heart of Nashville.
Davidson County, which covers a section of Nashville, had over 60,000 people without power as of 5 p.m ET, which is 85...
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31.01.26 - 22:18
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Activist Judge Blocks Key Parts Of Trump EO On Verifying Citizenship To Vote (ZeroHedge)
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Activist Judge Blocks Key Parts Of Trump EO On Verifying Citizenship To Vote
A federal judge on Friday blocked key provisions of President Trump's executive order that requires proof of US citizenship for voter registration.
Signed on March 25, Executive Order 14248 directs the Election Assistance Commission to require in its national mail voter registration form that voters provide documentary proof of US citizenship, such as a passport. The order also directs federal officials to take measures to prevent illegal immigrants and other noncitizens from voting in federal elections.
The commission, established by Congress in 2002, helps local officials administer elections.
On Friday, 82-year-old US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (Clinton) - who was previously presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court - ruled that provisions requiring citizenship verification "are inconsistent with the constitutional separation of powers and cannot lawfully be implement...
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31.01.26 - 22:18
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The US Economy In A Nutshell: A Few Winners, Everyone Else Loses Ground (ZeroHedge)
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The US Economy In A Nutshell: A Few Winners, Everyone Else Loses Ground
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
Maybe this arrangement isn't as stable and sustainable as the winners imagine.
Here's the US economy in a nutshell: corporate/state concentrations of financial, market and political power are the winners, and everyone outside these fortresses is losing ground. The Wall Street Journal is generally viewed as pro-business, and so it's particularly striking when the WSJ published this:
The Economic Divide Between Big and Small Companies Is Growing: Economic fortunes of low- and high-income Americans are diverging--same pattern happening with companies. (WSJ.com)
--The growing divide between the fortunes of small and large businesses mirrors the divide that has emerged over the past year between low-income Americans and their high-income counterparts.
--Large, publicly traded companies in the S&P 500 saw net income increase by 12.9% in the third quarter, contrasting wit...
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31.01.26 - 22:18
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Neil Young Encounters The Most Boomer Leftist Problem Imaginable (ZeroHedge)
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Neil Young Encounters The Most Boomer Leftist Problem Imaginable
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.News,
Aging rocker Neil Young has encountered perhaps the most boomer of leftist boomer issues, and of course it's all President Trump's fault.
He can no longer use his ancient flip phone because orange man bad.
In a rambling post on his website, Young details his epic struggle to ditch Verizon service, convinced that every dollar he spends fuels a “Trump Fascist regime.”
Neil Young seeks to boycott all Trump-supporting companies, calls out Apple and Verizonhttps://t.co/0AMWGjKZcp
— Stereogum (@stereogum) January 28, 2026
It's peak boomer leftist TDS paranoia, where everyday consumer choices somehow morph into grand acts of resistance.
Young kicks off his diatribe with the revelation that his flip phone bears the Verizon logo. “Mornin' folks….It's a new day….a big day for my Flip phone. I noticed it says VERIZON on it. Of course I can't use a Verizon phone. Verizon is a sup...
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31.01.26 - 22:18
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Iran Hits Back At EU: Designates European Armies As ′Terrorist Entities′ (ZeroHedge)
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Iran Hits Back At EU: Designates European Armies As 'Terrorist Entities'
Iran is saying two can play at the West's game: on Friday the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council blasted the EU's decision to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a "terrorist organization," warning that Europe's own militaries would now be viewed through the same lens.
"The European Union certainly knows that… the armies of countries that have participated in the European Union's recent resolution against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are considered terrorist entities," Ali Larijani wrote in a post on X. He added bluntly: "Therefore, the consequences of that shall be borne by the European countries that undertook such an action."
NurPhoto
However, there's probably nothing in the way of European military assets for the Islamic Republic to sanction, so this 'action' by Tehran will remain largely symbolic. Iran does have assets held i...
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31.01.26 - 22:18
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Muslim Leaders In Italian City Demand Removal Of Plastic Pig From Deli Shop Window (ZeroHedge)
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Muslim Leaders In Italian City Demand Removal Of Plastic Pig From Deli Shop Window
Via Remix News,
A plastic pig displayed in the window of a newly opened delicatessen on the Piazza dei Signori in the Italian city of Padua has triggered a local controversy after a senior representative of the city's Muslim community called for its removal, arguing that it is offensive and inappropriate.
The pig, placed in the window of the deli Mortadella… e Non Solo, is used to advertise the shop's sandwiches and cured meats, which are primarily made from pork.
According to Il Giornale, Salim El Mauoed, the regional vice president of Padua's Muslim community, urged both the shop's owners and local authorities to intervene, describing the display as “in bad taste” and offensive to Muslims who pass through the area.
There is no legal basis requiring the business to remove the display.
The pig imagery is a central part of the shop's branding and appears not only in the window but also in its logo, p...
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