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.”
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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.
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”.
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.
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.
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… 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
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
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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.
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.
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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.
The U.S. House voted 339 to 85 to pass 6 spending bills that will keep the government open until the end of Fiscal Year 2024. 207 Democrats voted for the bill, with 132 Republicans joining them. The package contained 1,050 pages and includes $450 billion of funding for the government.
The legislation is expected to pass the Senate before the Friday government shutdown deadline. U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-AR) claimed the move nudges congress in the right direction towards passing full omnibus deals, saying “In a way we’re sort of victimized by the tradition that’s been developed in Congress and we’re working really hard to bend that backwards, right. And so you can’t turn an aircraft carrier overnight. So what we did was we broke the omnibus fever, we put it into the laddered CR approach.”
House approves spending package to avert shutdown – thehill.com
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The House on Wednesday approved a package of six spending bills, sending the legislation to the Senate days ahead of Friday’s partial government shutdown deadline.
The “minibus” — which funds a slew of programs and agencies through the end of fiscal 2024 — cleared the House in an 339-85 vote, with 207 Democrats and 132 Republicans throwing their support behind the measure.
The 1,050-page package calls for more than $450 billion in funding for the departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Interior, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, Commerce and Energy.
The legislation now heads to the Senate, where Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said the chamber will hold a vote this week so Congress can fund the relevant departments “with time to spare before Friday’s deadline.” That timeline, however, is up in the air.
The successful vote means the House is halfway done with the appropriations process for fiscal 2024, an undertaking that has fractured the GOP conference, thrown Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) into hot water with his right flank, and required four short-term extensions to arrive at the current juncture.
Doritos chose to hire transgender activist Samantha Hudson, a man presenting as a woman, to represent their products, only to fire him two days later when it emerged that the trans activist advocated for violence, sexual assault of children.
The trans activist tweeted “The little ones too … they deserve pleasure.” He also tweeted, “I hate women who are victims of r*pe and who turn to self-help centers to overcome their trauma. What—heavy wh*res… If a minor came to ask me for help because she is being a victim of s*xual harassment, I would spit [in] her face.”
Excerpt:
… The global brand, owned by PepsiCo, has fired “transgender” pedophile Samantha Hudson from promoting the popular chips.
The reason: The tranny’s inflammatory pro-pedo and other repellent tweets that he now says he regrets.
Doritos says it didn’t fire Hudson because he masquerades as a woman and is indirectly grooming kids to pretend likewise.
The company didn’t like the heat from the tweets. And Rolling Stone, which published a statement from the company, claimed crazy, “transphobic” conservatives are to blame for a perfectly reasonable person losing his job.
California has introduced legislation called the “California Dream for All Shared Appreciation Loans” that seems to give illegal aliens home loans they don’t actually have to pay back. The loans require no down payment and can be repaid if the “homeowner” resells to home. It is only open to “first-generation” homebuyers and is open to non-citizens, including illegal aliens.
State Senator Briah Dahle (R-Bieber) stated, “Assembly Bill 1840 is an insult to California citizens who are being left behind and priced out of homeownership. I’m all for helping first-time homebuyers, but give priority to those who are here in our state legally.”
California Democrats Want to Give Illegal Aliens Zero Down, No Payment Home ‘Loans’ – lidblog.com
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… Democrats in the left-wing state are mulling a plan to give illegals a no money down mortgage “loan” that they also, coincidentally, don’t even have to make payments on…
