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Monday, February 23, 2026
Forty Year Old Mystery Solved, And Then Not ....
Sunday, February 22, 2026
Thoughts About "Toxic Friendships"
I've often thought about the institutions of what one might call "an ordinary friendship", and I don't quite agree with the one who wrote the above list because I think it's much more intricate than it's made out to be. For instance, I find the "clouded friendship" to be almost lethal to the very idea of friendship, but it's not on the list. Most of these listed negative characteristics would turn me off way before seeing such a relationship as a (potential) friendship.
If you're drowning, symbolically as well as or in the real world, then a helping hand may be what you need, but it's not very friendly to remind you eternally about that kind of help: "Look what I did for you September 3, 1965, at 11.07", may be the right pinpointing of the time, but it's turning the help into something else than what it should be to qualify as a friendly help. Help should be of a nature to be remembered by the one who received it as something non-biased or "fake". The fake helper might blow the trumpets or beat the drums of his/her "help", hoping that it will gain him/her the reputation of also being a good and rightful person in other contexts. Something that may not be the case as the one who helps the son or daughter of a powerful boss, may at the same time be the one who kicks his subordinates.
It may be fun for the one swinging the club and the dentist or doctor of the one on the lawn, but it's not friendly or even something to laugh at. To put somebody in dangerous situations for "the fun of it" is a warning: This individual is not a friend, and not even a good playmate.
Well, that pinpoints one aspect of friendship: One sees somebody as a true friend, although other people don't even recognize this individual as part of one's realities. Both Timmy and his mother feel assured that the one they talk to is real and a friend whom they may trust with their secrets, hopes and whatever they are thinking of. If the invisible friend doesn't deliver what they ask him for, they are prone to find excuses as they may blame someone else for his shortcomings:
As to what I call "the clouded friendship" then it's worse than "fake", it's something that is assailed by the friend's many own masses of (mostly unfulfilled) wishes, wants and claims upon fate. I suppose the main core of it is envy, but there is an aspect that resemble the "hunger of leeches": The so-called "friend" doesn't even allow one the happiness of some kind of everyday fulfillment. For instance, you may have made a pretty dress, and you feel proud of it. That's why you expect the true friend of praising your new outfit, but instead of doing that he/she says something like "the blue one from Walmart was much more becoming". A comment like that assails both one's feeling successful as a dressmaker as well as feeling pretty. The true friend wouldn't say something like that which serves him/her as a way to stab his/her friend in the back in a manner that's set out to be "a piece of good advice for your own sake".
That's what should be remembered, but which is very often forgotten ....
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
The Canadian "Epstein"
While being shocked by what the Epstein-files have revealed about the depravity and extreme misogyny of the many rich and famous men visiting the former American financier, child sex offender, rapist and trafficker we shouldn't forget Peter J. Nygard (born 1941). This Finnish-Canadian businessman and fashion executive made headlines both before and after being convicted as a sex offender, sex trafficker and rapist. Reading about him, and at the same time remembering Epstein and his crimes, it's obvious that a pattern in the "gender war of modern times" now has been made known and proven: These wealthy and narcissistic men may seem to be creeps out of a horror movie, but, unfortunately, they are real, and their names should neither be forgotten or they themselves should be forgiven as their crimes are sent into oblivion. What they have felt free to do is a lesson to the world about what should never be accepted in a civilized society.
Having watched documentaries about Nygard what I remember the most about him is the allegations by some of his mistresses who have said that he believes that parts of a fetus are invigorating. Him, being in his eighties - and also being very vain as well as convinced of his masculine "charm" - obviously feels in the need of something invigorating to keep up his lifestyle as some kind of "Don Juan". That being said, I suppose one shouldn't be surprised that he allegedly swears in to this special "fetus-cult" which means that elderly people - maybe also women - consume parts of an aborted fetus. To me that looks, and is, something absolutely non-allowable in a civilized country as it is some kind of cannibalism. The knowledge that Peter Nygard was accused of doing something like that makes me think of the Epstein-flock of old or middle aged-men: There were allegations of cannibalism by a woman who, lo and behold, was disappeared. Cannibalism: https://www.wionews.com/world/was-jeffrey-epstein-really-involved-in-cannibalism-here-s-what-doj-files-reveal-1770370197051 - True/False? Who knows for real???????
Nygard was investigated and sentenced some years before Epstein came into focus, and there has been made documentaries about his case which is where I got the most of my information from.
List of links, most of them from Wikipedia, but not a full list
Documentaries
On 17 December 2020, two days after Nygård's arrest, it was reported that Discovery+ was releasing a series about Peter Nygård's life entitled Unseamly: The Investigation of Peter Nygård. The documentary aired in February 2021, and included interviews with family members and former Nygård employees.[77][78]
On 25 January 2021, CBC Podcasts released the first episode of their podcast, Evil by Design, about the allegations against Nygård.[76] The podcast includes interviews with alleged victims. It was later adapted into a documentary series, Evil by Design: Surviving Nygård, that aired on CBC Television in 2022.[79] An episode of Dateline about the Nygård case also aired in December 2021.[80]
Personal life
Nygård has ten children with eight women.[17][81][82] Nygård has been a longtime sponsor of amateur sports in The Bahamas. In June 2010, he was the main sponsor of the Amateur Boxing Federation of the Bahamas team for Continental Elite Boxing Championships, an invitation-only event in Quito, Ecuador.[83]
Honours
In 2012, Nygård was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.[84]
In 2002, Deloraine, Manitoba, where Nygård grew up, unveiled a commemorative plaque and named a park in his honour.[85] In May 2020, the park's name was changed to Prairie Sentinels Park, after Nygård was arrested and charged with sexual assault and sex trafficking.[8
- Thorpe, Ryan (16 October 2020). "Manitoba community strips Nygard name from park". Winnipeg Free Press. Archived from the original on 22 October 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- Peter Nygård
- 1941 births
- Living people
- Canadian businesspeople
- Canadian expatriates in the Bahamas
- Canadian fashion designers
- Canadian people of Finnish descent
- Finnish emigrants to Canada
- Naturalized citizens of Canada
- People from Deloraine, Manitoba
- Businesspeople from Helsinki
- Businesspeople from Winnipeg
- University of North Dakota alumni
- Life extensionists
- Corruption in the Bahamas
- People charged with sex trafficking
- People charged with racketeering
- Canadian prisoners and detainees
- Finnish prisoners and detainees
- People named in the Paradise Papers
- People convicted of sexual assault
- Prisoners and detainees of Canada
- Johnson, Kevin (15 December 2020). "Canadian fashion magnate Peter Nygard charged in sex trafficking scheme, including minors". USA Today. Archived from the original on 22 October 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
- "SDNY sealed indictment, redacted (pdf)". www.justice.gov. Archived from the original on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
- "Canadian Fashion Executive Peter J. Nygard Charged With Sex Trafficking And Racketeering Offenses". www.justice.gov. 15 December 2020. Archived from the original on 8 August 2021. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
- Dunham, Jackie (14 February 2020). "Fashion mogul Peter Nygard accused of rape, sex trafficking by 10 women in class-action lawsuit". CTV News. Archived from the original on 14 February 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
- Sheena Jones; Madeline Holcombe (19 February 2020). "Class-action lawsuit alleges Canadian businessman Peter Nygard sexually assaulted at least 10 women". CNN. Archived from the original on 24 February 2020. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
- Sawa, Timothy (14 February 2020). "Peter Nygard, Canadian clothing manufacturer, accused of raping 10 women and girls in class-action lawsuit". CBC News. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020.
- Dacey, Elisha (18 February 2020). "More than 100 witnesses, dozens of victims come forward in Nygard class-action lawsuit, lawyers say". Global News. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
- Dacey, Elisha (14 February 2020). "Dozens more women come forward to accuse Peter Nygard of sexual assault, says lawyer". Global News. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
- "FBI raid Nygard fashion house in New York City". CTV News. 25 February 2020. Archived from the original on 25 February 2020. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
- "FBI raids fashion mogul Peter Nygard's NY office after he was accused of sex assault and sex trafficking". CNN. 25 February 2020. Archived from the original on 25 February 2020. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
- "F.B.I. Raids Headquarters of Company Run by Fashion Executive Peter Nygard". The New York Times. 25 February 2020. Archived from the original on 25 February 2020. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
- Hunter, Brad (22 April 2020). "Canadians among 36 new women joining Peter Nygard sex assault suit". Toronto Sun. Archived from the original on 4 May 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- Sawa, Timothy (21 April 2020). "18 Canadians among new accusers in Peter Nygard rape lawsuit". CBC News. Archived from the original on 22 April 2020.
- Dacey, Elisha; McGuckin, Amber (22 April 2020). "More women join lawsuit against former Winnipeg fashion mogul Peter Nygard". Global News. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
To me it's intriguing that this pattern of extreme misogyny and abuse seems to be an international "trend" in certain male groups of exceedingly rich individuals. As I not only see their alleged behavior and crimes as a downward step into something that's evil beyond words, but also as some sort of defiling of life and the life forces themselves I deem it absolutely non-acceptable. Nygaard and those who partook in the Epstein-"parties" may have started out as fun-seeking, but in a way innocent individuals, but by now they seem to have turned into something inhuman.
https://askllp.com/practice-areas/sexual-abuse/peter-nygard-abuse-case/
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