U.S. Court Upholds Striking Down of Florida’s “Stop WOKE” Act

Paul Collier March 8, 2024

A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. District Court upheld a lower court’s ruling that struck down Florida’s “Stop WOKE” Act, which made it illegal for companies to racially discriminate against Americans in training that suggests white people invented evil, or words to that effect.

Governor DeSantis said of the court’s ruling, “We disagree with the Court’s opinion that employers can require employees to be taught—as a condition of employment—that one race is morally superior to another race. The First Amendment protects no such thing, and the State of Florida should have every right to protect Floridians from racially hostile workplaces.”

Excerpt from afn.net:

… “By limiting its restrictions to a list of ideas designated as offensive, the Act targets speech based on its content. And by barring only speech that endorses any of those ideas, it penalizes certain viewpoints — the greatest First Amendment sin,” Circuit Judge Britt C. Grant wrote for the court. Britt was appointed by former President Donald Trump.

The law prohibits teaching or business practices that it says contend members of one ethnic group are inherently racist and should feel guilt for past actions committed by others. It also bars the notion that a person’s status as privileged or oppressed is necessarily determined by their race or gender, or that discrimination is acceptable to achieve diversity.

Army Man Arrested for Selling Secrets to CCP

Paul Collier March 8, 2024

U.S. Army Intelligence analyst, Sergeant Korbein Schultz, was arrested March 7, 2024 and charged with providing national defense information to China. Schultz has been allegedly sending U.S. Defense secrets to a Hong Kong contact since 2022. He allegedly made $42,000 total from the deals.

Excerpt from lebanondemocrat.com:

The Justice Department said it included information about potential US plans in the event that Taiwan came under military attack.

It also included documents related to fighter aircraft and helicopters, hypersonic equipment, the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and studies about the US and Chinese military.

U.S. Court Halts Compelled Transgender Surgery on Religious Healthcare Providers

Paul Collier March 8, 2024

The North Dakota U.S. District Court struck down mandates from the Biden administration that would compel people and institutions to provide “gender affirming” surgery to patients even if it goes against their moral and/or religious convictions.

The court stated, “Performing or providing health care coverage for gender transition services under the EEOC and HHS coverage mandates impinges upon CEA’s beliefs,” the court wrote in its recent ruling. “CEA must either comply with the EEOC and HHS mandates by violating their sincerely held religious beliefs or else face harsh consequences like paying fines and facing civil liability… (but) religious freedom cannot be encumbered on a case-by-case basis.”

Biden Asking for Sharp Increases in Taxes

Paul Collier March 8, 2024

President Joe Biden plans on asking congress for $1 billion in new taxes by raising the corporate tax rate from 15 percent to 21 percent, making it over a 20 percent increase in the tax rate. He also hopes to get more revenue by creating a new 25 percent tax on Americans worth at least $100 million. He made this appeal in his SOTU Speech, claiming the tax changes are intended to force the wealthy to “pay their fair share.”

Will Congress Ban TikTok?

Paul Collier March 8, 2024

More congressmembers across the aisle have been talking about introducing legislation that would essentially force CCP-owned ByteDance to sell TikTok to non-CCP-affiliated partners or else be banned from the United States altogether. One bill might be voted on in the House as early as next week. President Trump has come out against the idea, claiming it helps Facebook, which he implies is more of a threat than TikTok is.

Canada Looks to Make Offensive Comments a Criminal Offense

Paul Collier March 8, 2024

The Canadian government, under the far-left extremist government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is looking to pass legislation called the Online Harms Act, which will make “harmful content” a criminal offense. Harmful content includes content that “foments hatred.”

Excerpt from www.fasken.com:

The Act targets seven types of online harms that it deems to be “harmful content”:

intimate content communicated without consent;

content that sexually victimizes a child or revictimizes a survivor;

content that induces a child to harm themselves;

content used to bully a child;

content that foments hatred

content that incites violence; and

content that incites violent extremism or terrorism.

“Intimate content communicated without consent” means a visual recording where a person is nude, exposes sexual organs or particular regions, or is engaged in explicit sexual activity, where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, and the person does not consent to the recording being communicated. Such content also includes a visual recording that falsely presents a person in the above manners, including deepfakes, if it is reasonable to suspect that the person does not consent to the recording being communicated.

Notably, the Act does not define hate, but does clarify that content does not incite hatred solely because it “expresses disdain or dislike or it discredits, humiliates, hurts or offends”.

Sweden Becomes a NATO Member

Paul Collier March 8, 2024

At long last, after holdouts Turkey and Hungary finally acquiesced and removed their opposition, Sweden is officially a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, which recently experienced a revival after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, perhaps characterized the nature of Sweden’s radical switch from neutrality to joining NATO, stating “one more country in Europe has become more protected from Russian evil.”

It remains a debated point as to the veracity of such claims, but, nonetheless, Europe’s perception of that “truthfulness” is largely the reason Sweden is now a member of NATO.

Covid Vaccine Mandate Extremist Dead at 33

Paul Collier March 7, 2024

Canadian business journalist Ian Vandaelle died suddenly at the age of 33, which might not be newsworthy in and of itself if he wasn’t a Covid-19 vaccine mandate advocate who called for people who refused to get the vaccine to be arrested and imprisoned in what amounts to anti-vax concentration camps. While the cause of his death was not given, many assume he may have died from all the vaccine and booster shots he received.

Journalist Who Wanted Unvaccinated People Put in Concentration Camps Dies Suddenly at 33 – PJ Media – pjmedia.com

Excerpt:

… One ultra-left extremist was so sure what he believed was the gospel that he wanted unvaccinated people arrested and put away in concentration camps. Ian Vandaelle was a Canadian business journalist who worked as a reporter and editor at the Financial Post. Before that, he was a producer at BNN Bloomberg for over a decade.

However, during the “plandemic,” he called for vaccine passports and mandates in posts on social media. He even called for the firing of anyone who refused the injections. In one social media post he stated:

I, for one, advocate we bring the carrot and the stick. Incentivize getting the vaccine however we like, ice cream, lotteries, literally whatever, I don’t care, and require vaccination to do non-essential things.

Wanna go to a bar to watch the game? Passport.

I, for one, advocate we bring the carrot *and* the stick. Incentivize getting the vaccine however we like – ice cream, lotteries, literally whatever, I don’t care – and require vaccination to do, uh, non-essential things. Wanna go to a bar to watch the game? Passport. https://t.co/0vav22CaPk

— Ian Vandaelle (@IanVandaelle) July 9, 2021

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Federal Judge Strikes Down Biden’s DEI Orders

Paul Collier March 7, 2024

U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman of the Northern District of Texas ordered the Biden administration’s Minority Business Development Agency cease all operations as it has long been engaging in unconstitutional, discriminatory actions.

The judge stated, “The MBDA advertises services exclusively for some races but not others. While the Agency’s work may help alleviate opportunity gaps faced by MBEs [minority business enterprises], two wrongs do not make a right. And the MBDA’s racial presumption is a wrong.”

Judge Nukes Biden’s Discriminatory DEI Business Program – thefederalist.com

Excerpt:

In a huge victory against the racist diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda, a federal judge has ruled the Biden administration’s Minority Business Development Agency has long violated the Constitution’s equal protection guarantees by punishing “disfavored” groups — in this case white small business owners.

In his ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Mark Pittman for the Northern District of Texas likened the agency’s use of race-based criteria in awarding taxpayer-funded assistance to the discriminatory actions of 19th-century American businesses that hung “Irish Need Not Apply” signs or “Blacks Need Not Apply” placards during the Jim Crow era.

“The MBDA advertises services exclusively for some races but not others,” the judge wrote in his decision. “While the Agency’s work may help alleviate opportunity gaps faced by MBEs [minority business enterprises], two wrongs do not make a right. And the MBDA’s racial presumption is a wrong.”…

The lawsuit was filed last year by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty on behalf of three entrepreneurs from Florida, Texas, and Wisconsin who sought assistance from the Minority Business Development Agency.

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Zelensky Dodges Russian Missiles, Along with Greek PM

Paul Collier March 7, 2024

Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, survived an assassination attempt by Russia that saw his convoy struck by a Russian missile. In that convoy was the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The missile struck outside of Odessa less than 800 meters from the two world leaders.

Zelensky survives ASSASSINATION attempt after deadly Russian airstrike while touring Odessa with Greek PM – Irish Sun

Excerpt:

UKRAINE’S President Volodymyr Zelensky has survived an alleged attempt on his life while touring the Black Sea port of Odessa.

He claimed other people died and were injured when a Russian missile struck near his motorcade.

The attack was launched at his line of cars while he was with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Both delegates were a mere 500 to 800 metres from the strike which killed five people, according to a Ukrainian navy spokesperson.

Zelensky told reporters soon afterwards: “Do you see who we are dealing with? It doesn’t matter where you hit.

“I know that there were victims today. I don’t know what other details, but I know there were victims.

“I know there are dead and wounded. This is a blow. My condolences.”

The delegation heard sirens and a big explosion as they headed towards their cars, Mitsotakis said.

Zelensky continued: “It doesn’t matter whether they are military or civilians.

“Whoever they are, there are international guests [the Greek premier]. These people [the Russians] don’t care.

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