The Usual Suspects
Jeffrey Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself
A new drop of Epstein docs reveals a list of “individuals likely to have discoverable information relevant to disputed facts alleged with particularity in the pleadings.”
The document was part Exhibit N of the recently released trove of documents from the case between Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre and Epstein’s right-hand Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell is currently serving time for 20 year after a conviction on sex trafficking.
She was accused of having procured teen girls for Jeffrey Epstein to essentially pimp out and sexually abuse.
Exhibit N is a 16-page list of witnesses who may have “knowledge concerning matters at issue” in the complaint from Giuffre. It includes individuals from New York, London, Palm Beach, Fla., Utah, Washington, DC, and many others whose addresses or locations are not listed.
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
Via Instapundit: The true scandal of the Claudine Gay affair is not a Harvard president and her plagiarism. The true scandal is that so many journalists and academics were willing, are still willing, to redefine plagiarism to suit their politics.
Hierarchy, Not Hypocrisy
That’ll send a message: Ex-Biden Energy Official Sam Brinton A Free Man Despite Facing Charges for Allegedly Stealing Luggage
And the message is “One law for the us, another law for you. Heed your masters.”
Y2Kyoto: Shut Up And Eat Your Bugs
The United Nations (UN) climate summit, known as COP28, featured a Tuesday discussion on sustainable yachting.
The discussion centered on finding “a variety of technical solutions developed to make the yachting experience more responsible and sustainable,” according to its official COP28 website. The event, titled “Responsible Yachting. Today & Tomorrow,” was moderated by Nico Rosberg, a yacht-owning former race car driver, and organized by Sunreef Yacht, a company that builds custom yachts and luxury vessels.
The discussion also included “a conversation about electric, hybrid and hydrogen propulsion, battery technology, plant-based composites, bottom paints, modern photovoltaics, sustainable interior finishing, water management, energy management (and) air conditioning,” according to the event’s COP28 website.
Revolutionary Slush Fund
Details are now emerging regarding Google’s decision to pay protection money to the federal government. In something that seems to have come straight out of Atlas Shrugged, only media outlets who are part of a “collective” can get a piece of the action.
Google agreed to provide newsrooms with up to $100 million each year, indexed to inflation, in exchange for an exemption from the law. The company will negotiate those payments through a single collective bargaining group, which will operate much like a media fund.
St-Onge said the law allows any eligible media to join the collective, which could include newspapers and broadcasters, as well as French-language and Indigenous news organizations.
I imagine that Rebel News won’t be eligible or otherwise will never get a dime, but they’re just counter-revolutionaries anyway.
The Libranos: YOU get a heat pump! and YOU get a heat pump!
We knew the why, now we know the who.
Martyupnorth: Watch this short documentary, and you’ll quickly understand why the Trudeau Liberals want to get a million Newfoundlanders and Maritimers hooked on power by giving them “free” heat pumps.
What Would We Do Without Economists?
Bloomberg predicts recession, complains how mainstream economists keep getting it wrong.
In fact, the “Soft Landing” line has been trotted out before every single actual recession since 1969. To the point the phrase itself is a red flag, like “our banking system is fundamentally sound.”
If Bloomberg wonders why top economists get it so wrong, the truth is pretty simple: they’re paid to get it wrong.
Video at the link above.
Via @WallStreetSilv – Nice to see Bloomberg noticing how dishonest regime economists are, but they let them off with “economics is complex” when the reality is a lot simpler: When government is paying their salary, the economists say what they’re told.
Healthy Options
For many years, I asked roomfuls of doctors and nurses how employers might help stanch Americans’ rapid increase in obesity. Their answers usually fit this cloistered stereotype:
“My office had a walkathon competition.”
“My company opened a gymnasium for employees.”
“My employer pays 50 percent of gym membership costs.”
“We have twice-weekly yoga classes in the boardroom.”
“Human Resources offers wellness classes.”
“Our cafeteria offers healthy options.”
Ask the same medical professionals what the government and other employers ought to do to fight obesity, and the answers reflexively veered toward “encourage or require employers to do all those things my employer does.”
The problem is that many of America’s most serious health problems reside in people whose lives and jobs do not remotely resemble those of healthcare professionals or policy-shapers.
Perhaps He Was Waving A Lady’s Penis
A gym changing-room drama:
In short, female customers who perceive incongruity, discomfort, and possibly danger should simply ignore those perceptions. Danger, it seems, is something one can now just pretend away.
Note: Pretending does not work.
It’s Good To Be Queen
Governor General Mary Simon logged thousands of kilometres by government jet to live in Nova Scotia rather than the 175-room Rideau Hall mansion in Ottawa. Simon yesterday disclosed she decided to make Nova Scotia her home “during the pandemic.”
How Dare You Notice Things
A tale of a schoolgirls’ tennis team, a locker room, and a cross-dressing coach:
The reprimand mentioned above – or rather, reprimands, because, well, what’s behaviour without a pattern? – did not seem to deter Mr Yates. Nor did the provision of private changing facilities, typically used by sports officials, including coaches. Direct appeals from the girls also failed to discourage him from parading around their locker room in a bra-and-panties ensemble and various states of undress. Such that the girls were left in little doubt that their cross-dressing coach was, as one board member put it, “still fully a man.” And all while seeking out details of the girls’ menstruation cycles and their preferences in underwear.
I think you’re supposed to pretend it isn’t happening.
Socialisme pour les Quebecois
Central planning is like a washing machine cycle that never ends:
Step 1: Subsidize production.
Step 2: When production exceeds consumer demand, subsidize the losses.
Step 3: When the losses become terminal, pay producers to exit the industry.
Step 4: When prices rise, go back to Step 1.
The first stage of the production-cut program is voluntary. Those that agree to participate must leave the industry for a minimum of five years. Two-thirds of the cost will be covered by Farm Income Stabilization Insurance, a taxpayer-funded provincial program that, when market prices are low, covers the costs of production. One-third will be paid by Les Éleveurs de porcs du Québec.
This will mean that every producer who remains in the sector must pay $2.86 to the union for every hog they sell, to cover producers’ share of the expense, according to reporting by La Presse. The pool of cash will be used to pay producers who leave.
“We understand we need the taxpayer helping us‚ but at the same time we bring lots of money, too,” Mr. Roy said.
He Cut His Finger Smashing A Glass
You can take the boy out of Chicago…
Barack Obama’s private chef, Tafari Campbell, vanished on Sunday evening while paddleboarding in Edgartown Great Pond. He turned up drowned Monday morning in a pond off the former president’s Martha’s Vineyard estate.
Ban All The Things!
This is intentional: part of the “nudge” to make commercial flight so painful and expensive that the average deplorable begins turning away and the industry shrinks to accommodate only the worthy elites.
Politically cleaner than banning commercial air travel, (as they did plastic straws) There’s more than one way to skin a carbon footprint. They’re doing it to oil and gas, they’re doing it to agriculture.
Try seeing it all from 10,000 ft (while you still can).
76 minutes. This doesn’t happen in proper airports. This is not normal. pic.twitter.com/8zlbRsRDRO
— Chris Selley (@cselley) July 14, 2023
You Will Live In Pods, Eat Bugs, Own Nothing And You Will Like It
This is so surreal. The socialist Spanish minister uses a private jet to attend a climate conference. 100 metres before the venue she gets out off the limo and takes a bicycle. The security cars follow her. pic.twitter.com/NkSF3hJrOH
— David Vance (@DVATW) July 11, 2023
Elephant On The Riverbank
The Arts: A system in which taxpayers help rich people hang pictures for their friends
The revelation this spring that [Remai Modern] final cost tops $111 million, more than twice the original estimate from when it was first proposed, will resonate for most taxpayers, as will the $6 million a year in city funding.
But the art gallery’s worth should be measured beyond its price tag — its value to Saskatoon is more relevant.
Five years ago the gallery earned Saskatoon a spot in the New York Times’ top tourist destinations in the world. USA Today followed suit the following year by recommending its readers visit the Paris of the Prairies chiefly because of the gallery.
So you can argue all day that the money spent on building the art gallery will never be worth it, but you cannot reasonably claim that no value was derived from it in terms of recognition for the city.
The “cannot reasonably claim” value: two American travel writer mentions at the low, low entry price of $55,500,000.00 apiece.
And then, there’s the nepotism. And the fact that it’s ugly. And the millions to maintain it ain’t ever going away…
Get the hell out of Saskatoon while you still can, my friends.
From the comments: I guess nothing quite “says” Saskatoon like a good stack of double-wides.
The Libranos: Tax Cheats
It’s not a bureaucracy, it’s a crime family;
Revenue Commissioner Bob Hamilton misled MPs in under-reporting the number of Canada Revenue Agency employees implicated in fraudulent claims for pandemic benefits. Hamilton claimed there were “not very many, obviously,” though the Agency now confirms hundreds are under investigation: “I’m afraid ‘not very many’ is not a sufficient answer.’”
The Biden Crime Family
Sweetheart deal for Hunter. The Justice Dept. tracks down and throws in prison people who wandered about the Capital Building on J6. Now Old Joe’s Justice Dept. works out a deal that will prevent evidence being disclosed in a Hunter trial. He will end up paying a fine and the gun charge will be treated as a minor offence.