William A. Jacobson: “This looks like an attempt to take down a political party”.
Related: Why am I so certain that this witch-hunt won’t stop if we simply “move on” from Trump? Because I’m living proof.
Wednesday On Turtle Island
Biden’s America: The Left and J6. Native Americans reject woke name change. The Republicans need to act now. Democrat manipulation. The Trump show trial. Please clap for Kamala Harris. Old drunk laughs at Trump. Your morning meme. Bonus meme.
Global Warming Scam News: Climate leftists upset in Florida. Women that men should avoid dating.
Trudeau’s Canada: Dundas St. to be renamed George Floyd Street? Segregation at the Ottawa Catholic School Board. A drug consumption site worker arrested. Justin’s Mexican investments. Free ventilators for Ukraine. The Liberal homeless plan.
It’s Probably Nothing
China trust giant’s missed payments alarm investors
One of China’s largest private wealth managers is triggering fresh anxiety about the health of the country’s shadow banking industry after missing payments on multiple high-yield products.
Three firms said late on Friday that they failed to receive payments on products issued by companies linked to Zhongzhi Enterprise Group, which has about 1 trillion yuan ($213 billion) in assets under management.
Investors are already on edge over concerns about the health of China’s economy and financial markets. One of the nation’s largest developers, Country Garden Holdings, is on the brink of default, while loans extended by Chinese banks fell to the lowest level since 2009 last month.
Chinese stocks slumped, with the CSI 300 Index extending its biggest loss since October, while the yuan weakened.
The missed payments are likely to add to concern over the health of China’s $US2.9 trillion ($4.5 trillion) trust industry, which combines characteristics of commercial and investment banking, private equity and wealth
Pay no attention to that moron behind the curtain.
Har.
August 16, 2023: Reader Tips
This evening we look at ghost towns in southwest Saskatchewan.
Your best recent tips are much appreciated!
Mischief Is Important
Good Stuff
Spoiler Alert!
The left is upset Poilievre stole their WEF conspiracy theories.
I’m High on Life
Here's the US Secretary of the Treasury describing her hallucinogenic trip on shrooms in China.
On national TV.
By the way — the US Treasury plans to borrow $1.1 trillion before 2024, pushing total US debt above $33.5 trillion.
Our enemies are laughing.pic.twitter.com/HZ2uQISOXx
— Joe Consorti ⚡ (@JoeConsorti) August 15, 2023
Dead Babies?
Donald Best- Shocking Audio Recording Played At Ottawa Police Detective’s Trial – Day 1
During the almost three-hour recording Detective Grus related how she had informed her superiors including then Chief of Police Sloly of the growing medical and scientific reports concerning Covid vaccine injuries and deaths – including to babies in the womb and newborns.
Grus can be heard in the recording explaining revelations contained in Pfizer Documents, including that only one newborn baby survived of the 33 reported in the initial trial.
Read the whole thing.
Saving “Democracy”
By banning it.
The Telegraph- Germany considers ban on far-Right AfD
Germany is debating whether to ban the far-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as the party surges to 21 per cent in the polls, amid warnings from intelligence officials that its members are becoming increasingly extreme.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
I was not going to write about Oliver Anthony’s brilliant song, Rich Men North of Richmond, because I have nothing worthy to add. The video puts all other commentary to shame. North of Richmond refers to the federal government, which is too large, too powerful and too uncaring.
But Mark Antonio Wright, executive editor of the Never Trump National Review, butted in with a Learn-to-Code column attacking Anthony for daring to complain about DC’s treatment of the working class. It lectured Anthony to be more like Woody Guthrie, the Nazi apologist and communist.
Anthony’s song says:
I’ve been sellin’ my soul, workin’ all day
Overtime hours for bullshit pay
So I can sit out here and waste my life away
Drag back home and drown my troubles awayWright responded, “My brother in Christ, you live in the United States of America in 2023 — if you’re a fit, able-bodied man, and you’re working ‘overtime hours for bullshit pay,’ you need to find a new job.”
Get a job?
Temporarily Unexpected
Canada’s annual Inflation rate crept upward to 3.3% in July, an increase from 2.8% in June, and once again outside the Bank of Canada’s target rate of 2% with a range of 1% to 3%.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 3.3% year over year in July. On a year-over-year basis, energy prices fell less in July (-8.2%) compared with June (-14.6%). That’s because oil hit an all-time high 12 months ago, so now inflation will resume its rise
Prices for gasoline fell 12.9% year over year in July, compared to a 21.6% decline in June. This was the result of a base-year effect, with prices remaining nearly unchanged on a month-over-month basis in July 2023.
The real proof that inflation is still climbing, will come in a few weeks when the Bank of Canada announces another interest rate increase. Don’t expect the Liberals to brag about their “measures working”, the way they did last month.
Tuesday On Turtle Island
Biden’s America: Five years for crowd control. A circus of a court case. The cover-up. No comment from Biden. Transgender activists weaponize kindness. Your morning meme.
Today In Islam: Don’t upset the Muslims. Islam and slavery. And diversity is our strength in France (JW).
Trudeau’s Canada: Justin celebrates a nation that murders and persecutes Christians. Trudeau’s CBC reports that racism is running rampant in New Brunswick. Poilievre responds to the legacy media. Liberals are upset about Roman Baber. Poverty stricken teachers need more money. Have Canadians lost their freedom? Rule bending for Pow Wows.
Global Warming Scam News: Tree euthanasia.
Pass The Bananas
The 98-page, 41-count indictment handed down by a Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury on Monday evening charges former President Donald Trump, his lawyers, and his campaign aides with multiple crimes for a nationwide challenge to the 2020 vote.
The indictment was released close to midnight on Monday after a rushed grand jury process that took just one day to consider a complicated set of allegations involving 19 defendants, including the president, across a wide array of states and jurisdictions.
The indictment does not fundamentally concern actions taken in Georgia, but describes words spoken and actions taken by the Trump campaign in a variety of other states in their efforts to cast doubt on the controversial 2020 presidential election.
The indictment charges several defendants with crimes merely for making statements that argued the 2020 election was stolen. It claims that actions such as holding public hearings in Pennsylvania amounted to acts in furtherance of an illegal conspiracy.
Margo Cleveland starts to peel.
@willchamberlain – Fani Willis just indicted a bunch of lawyers for doing legal work
First you affirm the action, then you weaponize it.
Whatever you think of the Trump indictments, one thing is for certain: the glass has now been broken over and over again. Political opponents can be targeted by legal enemies. Running for office now carries the legal risk of going to jail — on all sides.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 15, 2023
No, not on all sides, Ben.
I Was Promised The Trains Would Run On Time
But all I got was a shitty little dictator.
Half trains running slower…supported by buses…and this has no end date #ottnews #ottawa #lrt https://t.co/fOonrBdTxE
— Graham Richardson (@grahamctv) August 14, 2023
August 15, 2023: Reader Tips
Tonight, I’d like to share the joke I most commonly tell these days: Why are so many tech companies insisting on tech workers returning to the office? So their mid-level managers can justify their existence.
If that doesn’t resonate with you, then hopefully this golden oldie will.
Tips, TIps, Tips – that’s what we want!
Transgender Is A Stalking Horse For The Normalization Of Pedophilia
The California teacher, William “Willy” Villalpando, has said the idea of “childhood innocence” is a “myth,” and claimed topics deemed “inappropriate” – such as “queerness” – can be suitable for the pre-K age group. The district has repeatedly ignored Fox News’ requests for comment.
The Rialto Unified School District was asked months ago whether Villalpando was currently employed there and working with its schoolchildren. They did not respond. However, after receiving a tip from a concerned source – it can now be confirmed the teacher works at Trapp Preschool.
Y2Kyoto: Screw The Whales
The poster fish of the environmental movement have outlived their usefulness.
Wind energy companies and their foundations have donated nearly $4.7 million to at least three dozen donations to major environmental organizations. Linowes has made public a report and a database documenting the conflicts-of-interest she discovered. — The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, a granting organization, took up to $1 million from wind energy companies Avangrid and Shell, and then distributed it to other environmental groups. In August 2020, the National Audubon Society received a $200,000 grant from the New England Forest and Rivers Fund. — The same year, the Nature Conservancy received a $165,218 grant from the New England Forest and Rivers Fund. The Nature Conservancy has supported offshore wind since at least 2021. — NJ Audubon has partnered with wind farm developer Atlantic Shores, a joint venture between Shell Oil and EDF Renewables. Ocean Wind, another wind energy developer, has sponsored NJ Audubon’s World Series of Birding event multiple times. The wind industry has also made hefty donations to scientific organizations.
Trucking blues
Buried in the stories about the collapse of Yellow Trucking is an even bigger, but unfortunately commonplace story, about how taxpayers poured billions into an organization and received a 100% loss for their efforts.
If you are a taxpayer, you know all this, your government being a 29.6 percent shareholder of Yellow and all. The Trump administration’s Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act dished out $500 billion to businesses, states and municipalities as a result of the coronavirus. Yellow Corporation received $700 million of the $735.9 million set aside for national security loans.
Once the loan was funded, Yellow executive officers and directors received stock options and Yellow stock went up ten times in price from the bailout to the end of 2021.