The federal investigator, who requested anonymity, said 44,053 emails and 17,761 attachments between Democratic National Committee leaders, spanning from January 2015 through late May 2016, were transferred from Rich to MacFadyen before May 21.
On July 22, just 12 days after Rich was killed, WikiLeaks published internal DNC emails that appeared to show top party officials conspired to stop Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont from becoming the party’s presidential nominee. That controversy resulted in Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigning as DNC chairperson. A number of Sanders supporters refused to back party nominee Hillary Clinton, and some subsequently formed groups to work against Clinton and the party.
What’s The Opposite of Diversity?
Blowback: The normals don’t turn out and protest. They just quietly take their business, and money, and respect, elsewhere.
Renegade Regulator
“Nice energy company you’ve got, and a winner of a project too, you’ve invested a lot of money here.” And so, it begins. “The regulations you need to comply with are our property now, we own them, but we want to help you succeed, we’re in your corner. We’ll grant you access to our laws, we’ll allow government regulatory, we’ll even certify your compliance, and all for a small charge taken off your revenues.” Of course, a “small charge” is relative. But, you’re assured, you’ll get used to tighter margins and bigger charges, you’ll “think of it as a vig, or a royalty.”
Does that seem absurd? It should, but it’s also happening. The reality of private law is already here and it’s gaining ground.
Dead Rose Country
The Alberta Investment Management Corp. (AIMCo), which manages $90 billion in provincial funds, including the $19-billion Heritage Savings Trust Fund, is about to get a bunch of new directors under a new process rejigged by the NDP government. Four board seats are now occupied by directors whose terms have expired; three of them have term extensions that end next month, the fourth ends in October.
The NDP recently stripped out of the act regulating AIMCo any requirement that the agency’s directors have relevant financial, legal or board experience to qualify for overseeing the management of Albertans’ savings funds. It also granted Premier Rachel Notley’s cabinet the power to install its own handpicked people…
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Rod Wheeler, a private investigator hired by the Rich family, suggests there is tangible evidence on [Seth] Rich’s laptop that confirms he was communicating with WikiLeaks prior to his death.
“While B.C. counts ballots…”
U.S. signs a big LNG deal with China;
For Canada’s nascent West Coast LNG sector, which has been struggling to take off because of slow government decision-making and environmental activism, and which was initially supported by many Chinese companies, it’s another sign energy consumers are moving on to more competitive jurisdictions that actually get stuff done.
It also shows that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who’s been courting China to increase trade to diversify the economy away from the U.S., got outplayed on energy by U.S. President Donald Trump, who had little good to say about China during his campaign but managed to quickly cozy up to its leader and squeeze benefits to reduce America’s massive trade deficit with China.
They’ll have their cannabis cafés and safe injection sites to keep them warm.
Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?
For more than a year, a United Nations agency in Geneva has been helping North Korea prepare an international patent application for production of sodium cyanide — a chemical used to make the nerve gas Tabun — which has been on a list of materials banned from shipment to that country by the U.N. Security Council since 2006.
The World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO, has made no mention of the application to the Security Council committee monitoring North Korea sanctions, nor to the U.N. Panel of Experts that reports sanctions violations to the committee, even while concerns about North Korean weapons of mass destruction, and the willingness to use them, have been on a steep upward spiral.
Feminist Barbie
Oh So Pious And Titillated By Violence
They are, in the final analysis, simply claiming that people who think like them should be exempt from the law’s constraints, and that people who do not think like them should not receive the law’s protections.
Ian Tuttle on leftism and thuggery. One of these.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
@markbspiegel – You know what’s most astounding about these $TSLA safety claims? … 10,000 EMPLOYEES TO MAKE 100,000 CARS/YEAR! LOL!!!
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Find them, fix them and then destroy them.
On the imports front, [Trump] needed to lay down a marker to foreign exporters to America that the old days of dumping subsidised goods until domestic manufacturers went under, and then being able to hike their prices in the face of no local price opposition were over. There was no point in taking on all the transgressors at once and potentially kicking off a trade war with the whole world when all he had to do was pick someone out to make a very public example of. Harking back to Machiavelli, one he was sure to beat and one he could completely crush should that become necessary.
Enter Trudeau. (Read the comments for reader corrections).
h/t Another Ian
So Much Winning!
That OPEC is now complaining. (h/t Maz2)
We don’t need no stinking giant fans
3,295,492 stinking giant fans won’t save us
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Fear, Complexity, & Environmental Management in the 21st Century
Via Wretchard, whose piece you should also read.