Jeffrey Epstein employee may testify against Prince Andrew in Virginia Giuffre’s suit

Virginia Roberts Giuffre may have a former employee of Jeffery Epstein on her side in her bombshell sexual assault lawsuit against Prince Andrew.

A man who once worked for the late financier — and claims to have spotted Andrew groping a young, blonde Giuffre near the pool on Epstein’s private island — wants to testify on her behalf, according to a report.

Steve Scully, who spent six years fixing Epstein’s telecommunications, is ready and willing to take the stand in Giuffre’s sensational Manhattan Federal Court case, The Sun reported.

I think this is a Royal “Oh Fuck” moment.

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Maher: Taking Private Jets Is the Most Environmentally ‘Selfish‘ Thing You Can Do, But I and ‘All These Environmentalists Do It‘

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher admitted that, from an environmental perspective, “there’s nothing probably more selfish you can do than take a private jet.” And the excuses people make for doing so are “all bullshit.” But admitted he does the same thing and said on the climate, “We’re all driving off the Grand Canyon holding hands, it’s the decision we make.”

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Baghdad Blinken Blames Trump Admin For Afghanistan Withdrawal, Claims Exit Is ‘Orderly’: ‘This Is Manifestly Not Saigon’

Amid images of helicopters evacuating key United States personnel from Afghanistan’s capital city, Kabul, and news that the Taliban is moving into the city following Afghan president Ashraf Ghani swift evacuation Sunday, Biden administration Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” and ABC’s “This Week” to defend President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan in such a swift and seemingly unorganized manner.

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Taliban Boasts of Seizing Black Hawk Helicopters, US Jets After Capturing Kandahar Airport – Video

Earlier, a video emerged on social media allegedly showing Taliban* militants flying in a helicopter that the group had seized from retreating government forces. The insurgent group’s fighters also repeatedly reported capturing small arms and armoured vehicles supplied by the US to Afghanistan.

Some of the military vehicles previously operated by the Afghan Air Force stationed at Kandahar Airport have apparently ended up in the hands of the Taliban* after the terrorist group seized an airbase earlier this week.

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Justin Trudeau is his own worst enemy, but that may not matter in this election

There is a theory, recently expounded by Reuters Ottawa correspondent David Ljunggren, that the weakness of Justin Trudeau’s political opponents might actually work against him.

Trudeau won his initial majority in 2015 partly because of his own charisma, but also largely because of animus against Stephen Harper at the end of his long time in government.

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UK: ‘Force gun owners to face online hate trawl’

Police must trawl through the social media accounts of people applying for firearms licences to prevent those with extremist views from having access to deadly weapons, a former Metropolitan Police chief has said.

The call comes as ministers were urged to classify men who espouse hatred towards women online as potential terrorist threats because they embrace a radical and dangerous ideology.

On Saturday night, Jake Davison, the misogynist gunman who went on a killing spree in Plymouth, was hailed on websites used by incels – involuntary celibates – as a “saint”.  Others called for copycat killings on forums feared to be radicalising young boys as young as 13.

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BBC: Leading the World Against Israel

More than any other media organization, the BBC is responsible for inciting hatred against Israel — not just in Britain but globally. Its agenda helps to ensure continued aggression against the Jewish State; fuels violence by Hamas and other terrorist groups; feeds the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement; encourages distorted condemnation of Israel by human rights groups and international bodies; and provides material to be exploited by activist university professors and students.

All of this not only seriously harms the reputation of the State of Israel and stimulates antisemitism around the world, it also worsens the suffering of Palestinians by uncritical coverage of the leadership that is responsible for their plight.

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Neo-Colonial Twitter – Jack is keeping The Black Man Down

Why Twitter got it wrong in Nigeria

Jack is keeping the Black man down.

… At the time, Twitter said the post was in violation of its rules.

The company has the right to enforce its regulations, but Mr Buhari’s post was an official communication from the Nigerian president to his people, tweeted from a government account.

The same message was also broadcast on other media platforms across the country.

Is it right that a private American firm has the power to edit, without permission, the official communication of a democratically elected president of an African country? It doesn’t get any more neo-colonial than that.

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Costs of the Afghanistan war, in lives and dollars

At just short of 20 years, the now-ending U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan was America’s longest war. Ordinary Americans tended to forget about it, and it received measurably less oversight from Congress than the Vietnam War did. But its death toll is in the many tens of thousands. And because the U.S. borrowed most of the money to pay for it, generations of Americans will be burdened by the cost of paying it off.

As the Taliban in a lightning offensive recapture much of the country before the United States’ Aug. 31 deadline for ending its combat role, and the U.S. speeds up American and Afghan evacuations, here’s a look at the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, by the numbers.

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Taliban admits to possible return of amputations, stonings and executions: ‘It is up to Islamic laws’

Happy Days Are Here Again!

Amputations, stonings and executions of criminals could return in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, the organisation has admitted.

As its fighters prepared to assume power in Kabul, the militant Islamist group insisted it would protect the rights of women, the media and diplomats.

But, asked about violent punishment of offenders – a hallmark of brutal Taliban rule in the 1990s – a spokesman said: “That is up to the religious followers and the courts. They will decide about the punishment.”

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Shocka! Justin Calls Vanity Vote For Sept 20th!

Justin Trudeau calls a federal election for Sept. 20

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plunged Canada into a federal election campaign on Sunday after Gov. Gen. Mary Simon agreed to dissolve Parliament and set voting day for Sept. 20.

The official start of the 36-day summertime campaign ends weeks of speculation about whether Trudeau would pull the plug on the 43rd parliament he called “dysfunctional” while claiming he did not want an election until Canada got through the COVID-19 pandemic that is now seeing a fourth wave of infections.

Blah blah blah blah….

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Ads depicting women ‘painted over’ after Taliban enter Kabul

Adverts of women wearing wedding dresses appear to have been painted over in Kabul after Taliban fighters entered the Afghanistan capital.

A man can be seen using a roller and white paint to cover up the large images outside a building in a photograph posted on Twitter by an Afghan journalist on Sunday.

The adverts appear to be outside Taj Beauty Salon, which describes itself as “the best bridal beauty salon in Afghanistan”.

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Ontario reports 511 new Covid cases … and passport questions

Ontario reports 511 new Covid cases … and passport questions

Ont. reports more than 500 new COVID-19 cases for 4th consecutive day, no new deaths

Ontario is reporting more than 500 new COVID-19 cases for the fourth consecutive day, driving the rolling seven-day average of new cases to 440 today.

Ontario is reporting 511 new COVID-19 cases today, down from 578 on Saturday but up from 423 last week.


FUREY: Here are two big unanswered vax passport questions

If public opinion polls in Canada are to be believed, a majority of people currently support the implementation of some sort of domestic vaccine passport. But one thing that the pollsters haven’t fully teased out – and something that’s woefully absent from most of the public discussion on this increasingly toxic issue – is what people think they’re supporting when they say they support these passports.

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