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

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    • 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/ 

     

    https://www.wionews.com/trending/new-epstein-files-foreign-girls-strangulated-rough-fetish-sex-buried-at-epstein-zorro-ranch-1770353524251 

     

    Wikipedia 

     

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    Saturday, February 14, 2026

    When Danish Women Were Punished for Being Women

     

    Sprogø is a small island in Denmark which has become closed to the public so that one may only be able to visit it on separate and very special trips. Those who go there will most likely want to see "Pigehjemmet" - i.e. "The Home For Girls" - but that will only be possible to see from the outside as it has attained a "super-private-private character". The reason for this is that it has become a sort of monument of a sad part of Danish history in the time period 1923-1961. At that time c. 500 girls and women were interred on Sprogø for being "immoral" and thus, according to society, in grave need of some kind of "treatment". They were called names which were seen as medical descriptions of what was "wrong" with them, and one of these names was "Morally Retard". The idea that many of the interred women may have been totally sane, although they wanted to live sexually and socially free lives, didn't seem to occur to the stern authorities who had them deported to Sprogø. That meant that these women lost their rights for instance to see their children, who were not allowed to stay with them. 

    And why was that? Well, it was because they, being considered "Morally Retarded", were seen as contagious: Their children might become like them, and that was exactly what the authorities couldn't accept. All of this "re-education" of the women who lived by other rules than society wanted them to live by was to root out unwanted female wishes and instincts in order not to pass their ideologies on to the next generation. Society saw the women as "degenerate individuals", i.e. as people who suffered from some kind of an inherent illness, especially of a mental character. As their free breeding also was considered a danger to society because of the possibility of the children inheriting the so-called immorality, illnesses and other unwanted characteristics from their mothers. That led to the use of  involuntary hysterectomies. To have to endure such surgery to get away from Sprogø was a very grave situation for vulnerable women, who can't fight the authorities.


    That means that these women were discarded as totally unwanted in a society that was run by people who didn't see anything wrong in doing what they did. To them it was their obligation to protect the Danish society against "bad genes", but I don't think they used that term which, by the way, is biological. Instead they used moral terms: These women are considered to be "immoral" and thus "retards". That's a strange mixture of terms, but somehow it made sense to society for almost 40 years.


    However, after the place was closed and abandoned in 1961, the authorities apologized for what they had done, At that time much had changed, and they began to see that what they had subjected the women to was an abuse of the worst order. There have been raised a stone in the commemoration of the infamous "Pigehjem" and the women who lived there for many years.     


     

    https://youtu.be/uj2EYNpdCLY?si=IL_UJ22qW34vJhxw 

     

    https://www.visitnyborg.dk/nyborg/planlaeg-din-tur/pigehjemmet-paa-sprogoe-gdk935700 

     

    https://www.visitnyborg.dk/nyborg/planlaeg-din-tur/ pigehjemmet-paa-sprogoe-gdk935700 

     

    Wikipedia 


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    Wednesday, February 11, 2026

    "Airborne", Poem By Else Cederborg


     

     "Airborne" poem by Else Cederborg

     

    Bending to receive the music
    almost kneeling like in a prayer
    music revigoring exhausted souls
    so please, fill my ears with Mozart
    let the notes pass all secret barriers
    don't let anything stop them, not even me
    wherever I tread let them come forth
    a carpet of notes rolled out in front of me
    this is the magic carpet that lets me float
    wing-less, but still, air born and soaring
    ALL rights reserved© Else Cederborg


     

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    Sunday, February 8, 2026

    Portrait in Feces

      

    Not the portrait, Donald tRump would love to see going down in history of himself. Nonetheless, it's what many people - and not only Americans - want to see - or maybe even something worse:

    To be feces or to clean up feces, in his case that's the question, and in some nameless jokes the context tell the same implicit story: This is just another tRump-feces-situation.  
    It doesn't say so, but everybody who has some insight in his legal battles know that this "subhuman pile of shit" is tRump. Not only has the world at large experienced how his bowels let go of what should have been kept within, so to speak, but they gave a strong impression of the disgust of those who witnessed this (and kindred incidents):

    As to tRump himself then he seems to have accepted a form of affinity with the feces images, because his reply to the Americans who didn't like his hopes of acquiring a greater grandeur was to make an AI-video of himself showering them in that substance from an airoplane. The very idea is such as to make one feel assured that he really, really hates the people whom he has sworn to represent and to protect. We know that he always does what he can to further the interests of his fellow oligarchs over the needs of the non-billionaires who, after all, are those who keep the American society running. The TrickleDown-scam robbed them of life earnings that should have paid for their old age and more and so does his "tariffs". It's these people that he decided to shower in feces in his video, and it is a message that should not be forgotten.


     

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-posts-ai-video-dumping-no-kings-protesters-rcna238521 

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    Friday, February 6, 2026

    The Whistleblower: Karen Mulder

     

    Karen Mulder was stunning, and maybe she still is, even now that she is in her late fifties. However, after withdrawing from the world of fashion she has become very private, so not many really knows much about her life or looks. In the 1990s she was an outstanding model, famous for her looks and for working with Victoria's Secret and several other big fashion houses. She often was compared to the popular Barbie doll, which many felt might have been made in her image, such was her perfection in looks. 

     
    However, becoming a supermodel for e.g. Valentino, Mugler, Versace, Christian Lacroix and Victoria’s Secret didn't only bring fulfillment and a sense of succes, as it might have done for many of her colleagues. At one point she did what took bravery: She started to tell about less pleasant aspects of the world of fashion, rapes and all kinds of abuse, thus becoming one of the very first whistleblowers. As a very young child back in Holland, where she was born, she had been sexually abused by someone in her family, and I wonder whether that experience was what made her keen on seeking justice against the powerful men who were exploiting young girls, models and even supermodels like herself. Suffice it to say, that she, unlike others in her position, didn't keep quiet about her bad experiences, and that it was a shock to everybody in the fashion industry. Yes, even such a shock that it was taken for given that she was mentally unstable and only out to tell "tall tales" about the men she targeted, one of them being Prince Albert of Monaco.
     

    What she told about the "mafia" of fashion was against all the implicit rules for models. For instance she said that her agency, Elite Model Management, pressured her into relationships with much older, but powerful men as part of her necessary career strategies. Gradually she lost her prestige and her credibility: She was considered very "unstable" as nobody listened to her accusations against these powerful men. In the early 2000s she accused several men of prestige, and that cost her everything. For several years she, who after all had been one of the most famous and best paid models didn't have many offers, but in 2008 John Galliano from Dior brought her back for a job, which seems to be the last one of her major assignments on the catwalk.
     

    When one is thinking of Jeffery Epstein and his detestable network of exploitation it's obvious that there ought to have been a reliable whistleblower to put a stop to his criminal activities. However, those who told upon him, like e.g. the rape victim Katie Johnson, didn't get far with their accusations. Just like Karen Mulder they were brushed off as unreliable. "The Old Boys' Network" was too strong, just as it was in the Karen Mulder case, and as we see from the proceedings in America now it will take a long time until something is being done.      

     

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/karen-mulder-the-tragic-life-of-a-supermodel/ss-AA1IIOox#image=17 

     

    https://thecoldmagazine.co.uk/karen-mulder/?v=0ecbf9426bcf 

     

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUUMm-3kWCf/ 

     

    https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/mulder-repeats-rape-allegations 

     

    Wikipedia

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    Tuesday, February 3, 2026

    Birthing Rabbits

     

    Mary Toft was a peasant woman from Surrey in England. One day, after seeing a rabbit in the field and having chased it in vain, she, 5-6 weeks pregnant, started to dream of rabbits and to crave rabbits meat all the time. However, being poor, she couldn't afford such a luxury meal. Some time later she had a miscarriage and then, after a couple of weeks, everything grew weirder than weird: She "gave birth" to what resembled parts of a pig. That was just the forerunner of her "birthing" strange, animal parts, and all of this worried her mother-in-law so much that she sent for the local midwife who was a man by the name of John Howard.

    This midwife must either have been a very naive man or an accomplice because seemingly he believed in the story of the "rabbit-mother", Mary Toft. He got her moved to a nearby inn and started to summon his colleagues in London to come and see his patient. Many doctors became interested in this strange occurrence of a human rabbit-Mom, but so did the King, George I, and he had her moved to London where his doctors were to see her and attend to her. His personal doctor, Nathaniel St Andre, came to see her, and he was convinced that she had in fact given birth to rabbits. However, some doctors dismissed Mary Toft as a total fraud and would have nothing to do with her, and, of course, they were right: She was indeed a fraud, and at one point she couldn't keep it up anymore.


    After some time, she got depressed and maybe even suicidal. Anyway, she ended up confessing when one of the doctors said she had to undergo a very painful examination. At first, she told a very tall story of a non-existing woman who had induced her to pretend to be a "rabbit-Mom", but soon she accused her husband and her mother-in-law of making her do what she had done. Then, after some time, she confessed that she, and she alone, had cooked up the story of her birthing rabbits. 

    All of this must have seemed very strange indeed to everybody, from the common Englishman to the legal authorities who were to judge her. How is one to sentence a lying rabbit-(non-)birthing woman? Well, she did get a prison-sentence in April 1727, but was released a couple of months later after becoming very ill. It seems she returned to her husband and that she maybe did have a human baby by him. She is supposed to have died in obscurity in, or around, 1763, but she and her "rabbit-kids" have not been forgotten, even today. 


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    Sunday, February 1, 2026

    Poem By Else Cederborg: "The Man Who Hated Himself"

      


    Born he was

    and loved 

    Everyone adored him

    except one: He hated himself

     

    "A knife in his heart

    make it red-hot and turn it around 

    let the blood run ...." he hizzed

    The man in the mirror listened and smiled

     

    This hatred come from nowhere

    (or so it seemed)

    and what's more, it ran its own course

    as the blood never was his

    but spilled it was

     

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