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16 January 2026 |
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Latest Commentary: Machado Donates Nobel Medal to Trump -- The United States of America has has some lousy presidents: Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Warren Harding and George Bush the Younger. None, however, have had the massive needy ego of Donald John Trump. He is desperate for attention and praise. He has been so weak that he has create fake covers of Time Magazine Featuring himself. The whole world knows that he wants a Nobel Peace Prize, mostly because Barack Obama has one. His antics as president mean he will never get such an award. His vanity is his greatest weakness, and Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado played on this when she handed him her Nobel medal yesterday. [16 January] Trump Could End NATO With Greenland Annexation -- President Trump is in the midst of one of the biggest geopolitical blunders of all time, bigger than the US going into Iraq in 2003 and worse that Russian attacking Ukraine. For the sake of Greenland, he is prepared to destroy the NATO alliance that has kept America out of a lot of conflict over the last 75 years. Greenland is not important. NATO is. But like a casino-owner who cannot figure out how to make a profit (which is what Mr. Trump once was), he is convinced that he is getting the better deal. He says if the US does not get Greenland, Russia or China will. The man is genuinely an idiot. [15 January] DoJ Investigation Threatens Fed Independence -- The Department of Justice (an Orwellian name these days) has decided to start a criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell over the renovations to the headquarters of the Fed. This is obviously nonsense. Mr. Trump has been after Mr. Powell for a couple of years now, and this is just the latest in a series of actions designed to make the latter lower interest rates for the benefit of the former. The truth is that if Mr. Trump succeeds in putting his own minion in the chair, the halcyon days of the dollar are over. The independence of the Fed is that important. [14 January] ICE Kills US Citizen -- As each year ends and a new one begins, this journal engages in a little prognostication regarding the coming 12 months. On the last day of 2024, the journal made 11 predictions, each empirically verifiable and not hidden by obscure language or uselessly opaque quatrains that are open to interpretation. Of the 11 predictions made, 8 were correct, while 3 were wrong. Here is the scorecard: [8 January] US Seizes Russian-Flagged Tanker -- The US continues to harass the Venezuelan regime over oil. The latest was the seizure a short time ago of a tanker that may be sailing under the Russian flag, and it was certainly in the North Atlantic. Not long ago, someone painted a Russian flag on the ship. It appears on the Russian registry of ships as the Marinera. The White House does not appear to recognize that and is treating the ship as stateless. The discussion over the fate of the ship and its cargo should be an interesting one between Washington and Moscow. [7 January] © Copyright 2026 by The Kensington Review, Jeff Myhre, PhD, Editor. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written consent. Produced using Ubuntu Linux.
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