NBC News is under mounting pressure to explain its actions after suspending star reporter Miguel Almaguer over one of his Today show segments on the Paul Pelosi hammer attack.
It took the action despite a second report on the company-owned-and-operated NBC Bay Area station that repeats many of the same points in Almaguer’s report.
National correspondent Almaguer quoted sources saying the husband of House Speaker Nancy did not immediately declare an emergency when he answered the door to police at the couple’s San Francisco home following a 911 call. […]
‘According to a source familiar with the investigation who personally watched the police body camera footage from that night, officers knocked on the door of the Pelosi home and then backed away. And the video clearly shows Paul Pelosi open the door with his left hand.’
He continued: ‘Also as written in the DA docs, the source tells us the bodycam video shows officers having a brief conversation with Pelosi and David DePape, the man accused of breaking into the Pelosi home, before DePape starts beating Pelosi with a hammer.’
A Family Affair!
When you start making 20 to 1 leveraged bets on cryptocurrencies buttressed with credit arrangements that could probably be described as financial incest, it’s only a matter of time until the whole house comes crashing down. Sounds a whole lot like the current arrangements between central banks and various treasuries.
At some point, FTX started accepting FTT as collateral. In the apt words of Matt Levine, accepting your own self-issued token as collateral is “very dark magic” and is almost certain to end badly.
FTX was faced with massive client withdrawals and rapidly falling prices of the collateral sitting on their balance sheet (namely FTT) at the same time.
The CEO called it a “liquidity crunch” (euphemism). A more accurate description would be sudden death capital implosion (they were likely insolvent before they were illiquid, and likely within 24 hours).
Do you remember the Mar-a-Lago raid?
Several months ago, we heard from the usual suspects (legacy media hacks and hysterical SDA trolls) that Trump was going to prison because of the documents seized at Mar-a-Lago. Turns out that reality bites:
That review has not found any apparent business advantage to the types of classified information in Trump’s possession, these people said. FBI interviews with witnesses so far, they said, also do not point to any nefarious effort by Trump to leverage, sell or use the government secrets. Instead, the former president seemed motivated by a more basic desire not to give up what he believed was his property, these people said.
Pot O’ Gold
NEW🧵: @PrideToronto exploited Cree artist Kent Monkman’s name on yet another federal grant.
This $1million @FedDevOntario grant was not included in Pride Toronto’s apology and KPMG review earlier this year, current leadership must be held accountable for this cover up.
Since 2019, this is the third federal grant that @PrideToronto used Kent Monkman’s name without permission.
This is the fourth federal grant where Pride Toronto promised benefits for Indigenous artists and communities that were never delivered. This now totals $2,850,000.
The grant required that @PrideToronto submit authorization from the Board of Directors, this enabled staff to administer the project funds. Pride Toronto submitted to @FedDevOntario forged signatures of the Board.
Tut, Tut Little Potato
NEW – Xi to Trudeau at G20: Everything discussed yesterday "has been leaked to the paper(s), that’s not appropriate" and "that’s not the way the conversation was conducted."pic.twitter.com/h6kb9sMPfx
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) November 16, 2022
If you can’t spin it to Xi, at least spin it for the cameras.
Extended video …Trudeau can barely walk after. Plus, a Telford moment.
Related: What’s the over-under on names being freely and openly dialogued?
Temporarily Unexpected
The economy they (apparently) voted for;
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit released Tuesday shows credit card balances jumped 15% from the third quarter of 2021, representing an increase not seen in more than 20 years.
@WallStreetSilv – 🚨 Normally Amazon would be gearing up for Cyber Monday and the Christmas shopping season. The fact that these layoffs are coming BEFORE the holidays is just about the biggest recession signal you will ever see.
What the other side is thinking: no more fossil fuels, period
In the interest of publishing what the true believers of climate change think, Pipeline Online published this op-ed from two university professors, one from Concordia, the other from McGill. They want to shut down all fossil fuels – coal, oil, natural gas, now. Period. The article came from The Canadian Press.
If we don’t end the use of fossil fuels, all of the rest adds up to little more than branches piled on the tracks in front of a runaway train. They might slow the train temporarily, but until we get inside the engine and shut off the throttle, the train will keep accelerating.
– Eric Galbraith, H. Damon Matthews
And, in a related note: the assault on art continues, this time in Vienna, in the name of saving the planet from fossil fuels.
The Global Warming Scam
Biden and Trudeau must have the same policy advisors. Because they both say and do the exact same things. I wonder who those policy advisors could be?
While Americans Can’t Afford Heat, Biden Pays Muslim Country Billions to Dump Coal
Wednesday On Turtle Island
China Virus News: Pfizer/Moderna conduct trials on possible harmful effects.
Trudeau’s Canada: Rex Murphy applauds western premiers. Trudeau pledges cash for third world countries. Too many white girls in Girl Guides. Indians want B.C. returned to them. Everyone is going to die, because Doug Ford was unmasked in parliament. Maybe the Star can write something now, about Justin barhopping in Indonesia unmasked. Justin’s private security guards cost 43 million dollars. The Liberal Party’s old submarines cost 3 billion in repairs. Maybe they can give them to Ukraine.
Biden’s America: And so it begins. Some Republicans backtracking on investigations. RINOS want cooperation with Democrats on choosing House Speaker. Where was all the right wing violence during the election? Why don’t these people ever go away? The death of trust. Your morning meme.
Pride News: These people really are mentally ill.
Woke Britain: Please don’t call Islamist terrorism Islamist. Universities must teach that white people are evil. I thought they already did that. They certainly do in Canada.
Down The Primrose Path
GET IN THE TRUNK
Hah.
November 16, 2022: Reader Tips
This evening we return to the world of model railroading to watch Modelleisenbahnhalle Wallhausen.
Your most interesting tips are much appreciated.
Trump Live
And here we go…
Open thread.
Related: Funny how right before Trump announces for 2024 Regime stenographers announce that the Mar-a-Lago raid was a nothingburger.
Mask Formation Psychosis
The absolute best way to persuade someone over to your side in an argument, checks notes, is to call them a “sociopath”.
Globe and Mail- It’s that time of year – time to get the masks out
Suppose someone told you that a terrible thing was happening: something that was having a devastating impact on sick children – as well as the elderly, medically vulnerable people and medical staff, and could, really, have a severe effect on any of us. But that you could make a little shift in your life, the tiniest change in your behaviour, that could alleviate the suffering and a looming catastrophe. Would you do it?
Of course you would, because you are not a sociopath.
The Canadian Military’s Top Priority
Rex Murphy Is Not On The List
The Woke short list of diverse people being considered for the five dollar bill. My name is not on it.
Here’s the shortlist for who will be the next face of the $5 bill
Diversity Is Our Strength
Yuesheng Wang, 35, of Candiac, Quebec, allegedly obtained trade secrets “to benefit the People’s Republic of China, to the detriment of Canada’s economic interests,” an RCMP spokesperson said in a press conference on Nov. 14.
“Mr. Wang was charged with espionage for obtaining trade secrets in the course of his duties with Hydro-Québec,” said Insp. David Beaudoin. “This is the first time this charge has been laid in Canada.”
Wang is facing four espionage-related charges, including: obtaining trade secrets, unauthorized use of computer, fraud for obtaining trade secrets, and breach of trust by public officer.
Evacuate The Room, Lock The Doors, Turn Off The Security Cameras
Then beat them to within an inch of their lives. It will stop.
I Want A New Country
Economic Freedom of North America 2022 is the eighteenth edition of the Fraser Institute’s annual report. This year it measures the extent to which—in 2020, the year with the most recent available comprehensive data—the policies of individual provinces and states were supportive of economic freedom, the ability of individuals to act in the economic sphere free of undue restrictions. There are two indices: one that examines provincial/state and municipal/local governments only and another that includes federal governments as well. The former, our subnational index, is for comparison of individual jurisdictions within the same country. The latter, our all-government index, is for comparison of jurisdictions in different countries.
Full report is here. (pdf)
Related: Move Alberta to the red zone.