January 30, 2023
January 26, 2023
Meghan Markle: How Wealthy?
I've previously made calculations on where the actress Meghan Markle was at financially when she married Prince Harry. I notice recent claims saying she has no money now and was practically penniless when she met Harry. I believe this is nonsense and below I explain my calculations. Some of the information is found in the Tom Bower book, Revenge while the rest is taken from other sources that appear at least somewhat reliable and which are not setting out to be negative for the sake of criticism alone.
To get an idea of the money she had, we need to do the classic accounting exercise, income, less expenses, then tax off that to find the Net sum which should remain in her various accounts. We use US dollars and I'm calculating this over the seven years leading up to Harry.
Income:
1. She appeared in 108 episodes of the cable TV legal drama Suits, while earning the estimated per episode fee of $45k, then for her final season she was on $175k for 16 episodes.
45k x 92 = 4,140,000
175k x 16 = 2,800,000
Total from Suits (TV Show): $6,940,000
2. Her deal with Canadian women's apparel store Reitmans, over two seasons, she was retained for $162k followed by $202,628 in the second year, together with 7% of the sale price of all items carrying her brand.
162k + 202k = 364,000
7% of sales. Estimate one package/batch sold in each of the 270 stores every week for two years, average value $200 per sale.
200 x 270 x 104 x 7% = 393,120
Total from Reitmans: $757,120
3. The Tig website is reported to have earned Ms Markle $80k a year. For seven years, that comes to $560,000
4. UN and other gigs such as magazine cover photo shoots and inside spreads. The going rate for a cover is $50k plus she had expenses covered when doing UN work. I read in Revenge that when she left Cory Vitiello, the celebrity chef she lived with in Toronto, that she received one week for free in a 5 star hotel in return for her image on the cover of a magazine (I don't remember if that was a hotel gig itself or if the cover was for another project and the client paid for the hotel). This itself is a form of income of course, and I hope she declared its value. That said, for seven years active before shacking up with Harry, I'm estimating she received one paid cover a year (say), plus a few other complimentary deals. That means $50k x 7 = $350,000
No doubt there are other sources of income, but let's not get too technical, it'd be beer money and no more than that. Her total income for the seven years before meeting Harry comes to...
Total Income: $8,607,120
Expenses:
Ms Markle was always in a relationship and so shared expenses with her partner. Bear in mind she is very skinny and so can't be consuming monstrous calories, and there are only so many places you can be that cost a lot 365 days a year. Add to that, many of the deals she received likely came with free clothing and cosmetics. I'm figuring her personal out of pocket expenses are minimal, something like $50k a year.
1. Personal living costs of the deductible kind such as home office: $350,000
2. She needs a manager and the industry rate in the North American market is 16%. On top of that she must pay Sunshine Sachs and others to promote her, plus any agent fees and general staff, accountant, and so on. I'm estimating she ends up paying about 30% of her total income in these fees:
$2,582,136
Total Expenses: $2,932,136
Tax
I'm assuming there is a tax treaty between Canada and the US preventing the double payment of tax. That said, I'm rounding her tax burden to 40% of the net proceeds, income less expenses:
8,607,120 - 2,932,136 = $5,674,984 x 40% - = $3,404,990
The answer to the question then, is that Meghan Markle when she met Prince Harry would have had between 3 to 3.5 million US dollars in cash and securities or assets of equivalent value held in entities which she controlled.
After meeting Harry and becoming engaged, then married, she has gone on to make even more money. These earnings become more speculative so I won't try to add them up, but highlights include the gift from a Saudi prince of a valuable chandelier diamond earring set worth a reported $600k.
I hope that helps and please, will people stop saying she's got no money. She hadn't yet reached 40 and was worth several million when she met Harry.
Such a Scam
And don't forget, the jabber dabber was fatal in churches and on buses, but safe when sitting down eating at a restaurant.
January 24, 2023
January 22, 2023
January 21, 2023
Jacinda Ardern: Kind?
I found this personal account quite moving. So many in New Zealand are now injured, possibly infertile, and excess deaths are running at 15%. What a nightmare.
And please read this lengthier look at what kind of legacy Jacinda Ardern leaves behind: https://expose-news.com/2023/01/20/jacinda-arderns-legacy-of-national-division/
January 19, 2023
Jacinda Ardern Steps Down
The big question comes now that New Zealand's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern has announced her resignation.
Was she pushed or did she go willingly?
Right now is an odd time to step aside. With the General Election due in 2023, she's dropped her caucus team in it. They'll struggle to obtain any traction over the months leading into the campaign season.
Make no mistake, Ardern will go down as New Zealand's worst ever Prime Minister. Worse even than Bill Rowling. What, did you think I'd mention Robert Muldoon? No way, he loved his country and always did what he thought was best. He wanted to see New Zealand fully develop.
Jacinda Ardern leaves the country in tatters. The people are downtrodden and the economy a mess. Things are so bad, there may be no coming back from this.
What the new PM could do is immediately scrap the state of emergency that the government uses to beat the people with. We want our basic human rights back, something Ardern took from us. She's a World Economic Forum puppet and prefers Big Tech censorship, Big Pharma poison, and creepy weirdo let it all hang loose cancel culture (it's as if I'm starting to wake up from a nightmare knowing that she is going).
She won't be missed. No doubt she'll move on to work for the WEF or the UN or she'll perhaps take up some Big Tech leadership role. She'll have to leave the country, that's how hated she is. And as they say in the movies, don't let the door hit you on the way out.
January 18, 2023
US Senator Ron Johnson on Nuremberg Trials 2.0
US Senator Ron Johnson discusses the urgent call for Nuremberg Trials 2.0, as well as the medical mafia currently in charge of scientific "truth"...
“One of the reasons the Nuremberg trials were made possible is because Eisenhower made sure the camps were exposed…and those horrors were revealed to the world. That’s why the first step here is exposure.” -Senator Ron Johnson
Dana Point - Novel
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Two Shots for Summer
We are beginning to find out just how up to their necks in lies and deceit the New Zealand government were, and still they keep going with their 'safe and effective' narrative:
https://cranmer.substack.com/p/covid-and-our-kiwi-kids-part-2
By early October 2021 the media started to run stories that promoted the New Zealand government’s new Covid line - ‘Two Shots for Summer’ - meant to encourage all young people to get their two doses of Pfizer vaccine in order to be able to enjoy their summer with some freedoms after months of lockdown.
One such article in RNZ began: “That’s the edgy, and somewhat boozey, tag line the government’s relying on to encourage better vaccination rates in our younger population”.
The only problem was that that was not what the government’s technical experts were recommending.
January 15, 2023
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Real Leadership
Newly-elected Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) on Friday signed an executive order terminating all five existing orders on Covid.
“In Arkansas, we will not have mask or vaccine mandates. We will not shut down churches or schools. And we will move beyond COVID.” Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.
“I stand for freedom and it’s time to get back to normal.” she added.
January 14, 2023
Joe Biden in Trouble?
Is this when Joe Biden is placed to one side so that Kamala Harris can become America's first female President? This move against him seems prompted by his indicating he was going to run again in 2024. Err, that hasn't gone down well...
January 13, 2023
The De-Population Bomb
An intelligent interview on what happens when the population declines. Give this time to digest, it contains a lot of information that must be addressed at some point:
January 12, 2023
Andrew Bridgen Sacked
UK Conservative MP, Andrew Bridgen has had the Conservative whip removed after he questioned the jab. He's factually correct, but that counts for nothing in this reversi world we find ourselves living in:
Side note: maybe he could jump ship to the fast rising Reform UK, giving them a presence in Westminster.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-tory-mp-andrew-bridgen-28926820
Tory MP Andrew Bridgen has lost the whip after he "crossed the line" in his criticism of the Covid-19 vaccine.
On Wednesday morning, the MP tweeted of the Covid vaccine: "As one consultant cardiologist said to me this is the biggest crime against humanity since the holocaust."
Hours later, Conservative Chief Whip Simon Hart said: "Andrew Bridgen has crossed a line, causing great offence in the process. As a nation we should be very proud of what has been achieved through the vaccine programme.
January 11, 2023
Prince Harry Denies Racism Claims
My latest theory: the Prince Harry memoir 'Spare' is being talked about across all media platforms to avoid having to lead with the start of the Russian winter offensive in Ukraine. The fall of Soledar must not be mentioned - at any cost.
That said, it appears we have something of a stand-off between the California based prince and Buckingham Palace. This is what I think is going on; the Palace are quietly saying they have all the gossip on their wayward number 5 so better not go there, while number 5 in reply is saying you've got nothing on us compared to what we've got on you lot, so neener neener.
If the latter claim is true, then the British Royal Family will be forced to pay them off, and I'm talking a jaw dropping sum of money. If not true and the British Royal Family go nuclear, number 5 and his descendants may be removed from the line of succession and the King's son may end up driving a truck down the I5 for a living.
I'm embedding the below video on the subject to give this YouTuber a bit of a boost. She supplies a summary of what is in the news without her subscribers having to wade through the dross just to find one interesting tidbit.
January 10, 2023
Brazil: Insurrection?
After all that has gone on these last few years, I'm not buying into what the mainstream media are reporting about the events taking place in Brazil. This scepticism is fueled by worldwide coverage (see link below) describing the events in extreme terms. The term 'far right' is also used often.
It all has the look of orchestration, possibly with genuine protesters mixed in. My guess is there were a lot of agent provocateurs in Brasilia, just as on January 6 2021 in Washington DC. There is a consistent theme whereby the MSM label any opposition to left-wing government as 'far right'. It doesn't matter one jot that many of these opponents and protesters are probably left-wing themselves.
January 08, 2023
Questions for Prince Harry
Here are some pretty searching questions that the media should put to Prince Harry:
January 06, 2023
Prince Harry Claims 25
Will someone lock this moron away in an institution. Prince Harry claims to have killed 25 Taliban fighters during his tours of duty in Afghanistan. He's just put a target on his back. What a fool.
Oh, and I don't believe him either.
Heh, people are relentlessly taking the piss out of the Prince of Montecito:
January 05, 2023
Madonna in Africa
It's good to see popstar Madonna doing something with her money. Keep supporting Malawi, Ms Ciccone.
January 03, 2023
Steven Adams takes down 13 offensive Rebounds
Holy hell, NBA Memphis Grizzlies centre, Steven Adams is becoming a monster on the offensive boards. In his latest game against the Sacramento Kings, he took 13 offensive rebounds, and 23 rebounds in total. Adams now leads the offensive rebounders for the 20222-23 season, averaging 5.1 per game. The nearest competitor averages 4.3 (Clint Capela and Mitchell Robinson).
https://www.espn.com/nba/recap/_/gameId/401468702
“That's where he is at, down in the trenches,” Morant said. “I don't think anybody else is going to go down there and battle with him. He's a man among boys.”
Adams didn't quite get Morant's references to battling in the trenches. “I don't know what that means, but yeah, in the trenches. In the bloody trenches.”
January 02, 2023
Snob's Guide to New Zealand
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Dana Point - Novel - Free Promotion
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January 01, 2023
2023 - Ken's New Conspiracy Theory
Purely speculative this: we are aware of the wave of illegal migrants crossing the border from Mexico into the US. El Paso is awash with these people. Most of the migrants originate in central America and come from very poor countries.
Here's the idea; the US government is allowing this almost unrestrained invasion as it knows it's going to war with China and the result of that war will mean the supply of cheap goods will be cut off. These migrants will be used to work the newly established factories in the US, to replace the lost goods from China.
In 2023 I wouldn't be surprised to see two things happen; the arrest of Donald J Trump and the regularisation of the migrant arrival. The arrest will be to shut down those voices calling for a border wall or quick deportations. It has the added bonus of potentially removing Trump from running in 2024 - assuming a conviction is obtained. The regularisation of migration will be a fast-track route to legal status for those arriving and who stay clear of crime. The added bonus is these voters, at least in the immediate sense, will vote Democrat.
Anyway, we'll see if this pans out in 2023.