🇬🇧 There was a reported rape every 54 minutes in London in 2025.

Metropolitan Police data shows 9,744 reported rapes last year.

Highest totals by borough include Croydon (474), Southwark (467), Newham (465), Tower Hamlets (460) and Westminster (437).

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🇺🇸 the Guardian: We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start

⬛️ Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, which I direct

🔶️ Governor Walz has placed the Minnesota national guard on standby to support local law enforcement, while Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act – an extraordinary move that would grant him sweeping domestic military powers and potentially sidestep recent supreme court limits on the use of federal troops in law enforcement. One thousand additional ICE agents have been sent to Minnesota, suggesting that Trump is essentially using ICE as a specialized paramilitary force to target protesters and suppress dissent. And the Pentagon has readied the army’s 11th Airborne Division – roughly 1,500 active-duty soldiers – to back up the president’s threat.

🔶️ This scenario closely mirrors one explored in an October 2024 tabletop exercise conducted by the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL), which I direct, at the University of Pennsylvania. In that exercise, a president carried out a highly unpopular law-enforcement operation in Philadelphia and attempted to federalize the Pennsylvania’s national guard. When the governor resisted and the guard remained loyal to the state, the president deployed active-duty troops, resulting in an armed conflict between state and federal forces. The core danger we identified is now emerging: a violent confrontation between state and federal military forces in a major American city.

🔶️ While our hypothetical scenario picked a different city and a slightly different sequence of events, the conclusions we reached about the possibility of green-on-green violence are directly applicable to the current situation. First, none of the participants – many of them senior former military and government officials – considered the scenario unrealistic, especially after the supreme court’s decision in Trump v United States, which granted the president criminal immunity for official acts.

🔶️ Second, we concluded that in a fast-moving emergency of this magnitude, courts would probably be unable or unwilling to intervene in time, leaving state officials without meaningful judicial relief. State officials might file emergency motions to enjoin the use of federal troops, but judges would either fail to respond quickly enough or decline to rule on what they view as a “political question”, leaving the conflict unresolved. This is why Judge Menendez’s ruling is so critical: it may be the last opportunity a federal judge has to intervene before matters spiral completely out of control.

🔶️ Third, we warned that senior military leaders could face orders to use force not only against state national guard units, but against unarmed civilians – and that they must be prepared to assess the legality of such orders. Any domestic deployment of federal troops must comply with the Department of Defense’s Rules for the Use of Force and with the constitution, including the Bill of Rights. Even under the Insurrection Act, federal troops may not lawfully shoot protesters unless they are literally defending their lives against an imminent threat – yet such conduct is already happening in Minneapolis at the hands of federal agents.

🔶️ For members of the 11th Airborne Division, this may soon cease to be a theoretical question. Minnesota may be the first test of whether constitutional limits on domestic military force still hold – or whether the United States is about to cross a line from which it cannot easily return.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/21/ice-minnesota-trump

🇪🇺 🇷🇺 EU Council approves a ban on imports of Russian gas starting in 2027

EU ministers approved the legislation at a meeting in Brussels.

The ban was designed to pass by a qualified majority, bypassing resistance from countries that still depend on Russian energy supplies.

As expected, Slovakia and Hungary voted against it. Budapest has already said it will challenge the decision in the European Court.

Under the approved rules, the EU will stop importing Russian liquefied natural gas by the end of 2026, and pipeline gas by September 30, 2027.

In exceptional cases, the deadline may be postponed — but no later than November 1, 2027 — if a country faces problems filling gas storage facilities ahead of winter.

Before the full-scale war, Russia supplied more than 40% of the EU’s gas imports. By 2025, that share had fallen to around 13%.

The decision by the Council of the European Union marks the end of an era of Europe’s dependence on Russian gas.

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⚡️ 🇪🇺 🔋 Ten European nations agree to Hamburg Declaration. A North Sea offshore wind grid with 100GW capacity will be jointly constructed. Signing Monday. Will power 143 million homes.

Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK will today (26 January) sign the Hamburg Declaration – a landmark commitment to deliver 100GW of joint offshore wind projects across shared North Sea waters by 2050. This is enough electricity to power around 143 million homes.

The €9.5 billion pact aims to turn the North Sea into the world’s “largest clean energy reservoir” and mobilise €1 trillion of capital in Europe. It is also expected to create more than 90,000 jobs and reduce power production costs by 30 per cent in the next 15 years.

Three years ago, North Sea nations pledged to build 300GW of offshore wind in the North Sea by 2050 in response to Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine and “weaponisation” of Europe’s energy supplies.

A third of that is now slated to come from joint clean-energy projects. These will include new offshore wind “hybrid assets” – wind farms at sea that are directly connected to more than one country through multi-purpose interconnectors (MPIs).

There is already a network of undersea cables that connect the electricity grids of European countries, but the Hamburg Declaration marks the first time that wind farms will be directly linked to multiple nations.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2026/01/26/off-the-fossil-fuel-rollercoaster-10-european-countries-pledge-95bn-for-north-sea-wind-pro

NOW - Ursula von der Leyen, António Costa, and the Indian President arrive in a horse-drawn carriage to attend India's Republic Day Parade.

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NOW - NATO Chief Rutte: "As we speak, billions of dollars' worth of essential American military hardware is flowing into Ukraine, paid for by allies and partners, it is absolutely vital... For 2026, Ukraine has forecast military requirements from donors totaling just over $60B"

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NEW - YE takes out an advert in the WSJ to apologize for his antisemtic comments blaming a medical oversight from a car accident that delayed his biopolar diagnosis and says that he has now found comfort in Reddit forums.

"I lost touch with reality... I said and did things I deeply regret... In that fractured state, I gravitated toward the most destructive symbol I could find, the swastika, and even sold t-shirts bearing it... I regret and am deeply mortified by my actions... I am not a Nazi or an antisemite. I love Jewish people."

Read here: https://www.disclose.tv/id/moi1tux7gc/

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NOW - NATO Chief Rutte: "If anyone thinks here, again, that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the U.S., keep on dreaming."

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🇬🇧🇮🇷🇸🇦🇰🇼 - The UK is calling on its citizens not to travel within 5 kilometers of the borders with Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait.

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