July 12, 2026

x02a3 People Advance

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ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil announced a merger worth $22.5 billion. “This acquisition of Marathon Oil further deepens our portfolio and fits within our financial framework, adding high-quality, low cost of supply inventory adjacent to our leading US unconventional position,” ConocoPhillips chairman and chief executive Ryan Lance said.

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Excerpt from www.leighjournal.co.uk

The deal is valued at 22.5 billion dollars (£17.6 billion) when including 5.4 billion dollars (£4.2 billion) in debt.

Crude prices have jumped more than 12% this year and the cost for a barrel rose above 80 dollars this week.

After failing to make an impact on Disney during the recent shareholders’ meeting, activist investor Nelson Peltz is washing his hands of the mouse. Peltz was seeking to get a seat on the board but lost his bid to current CEO Bob Iger’s handpicked board members.

Peltz sold his stake at $120 a share for a total of $1 billion. The move by Peltz is a possible signal to many that he has little to no faith that Disney will turn things around, which would first require the company to reject its woke ideological activism.

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Excerpt from www.hollywoodreporter.com

CNBC reported Wednesday that Peltz, the founding partner of hedge fund Trian Partners, had disposed of his entire stake in Disney for $120 a share, worth $1 billion.

In January, Peltz, who through Trian and various other partners, such as former Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter, controlled $3.5 billion of Disney stock, officially launched a proxy fight with Disney to win a seat on the company’s board. The investor was sharply critical of the management of the company, particularly the high costs associated with the streaming business, as well as the direction Disney was taking under CEO Bob Iger.

Peltz ultimately failed in his attempts to be selected for the company’s slate of board nominees in April. Peltz’s exit will therefore be seen as a victory for Iger after the proxy fight became a battle for the soul of the company and cost both Disney and Trian tens of millions.

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The first major hurdle to a merger between two energy giants, Hess and Chevron, has been overcome despite early reports suggesting the vote by the Hess shareholders could be delayed. The delay never happened so the vote went forward successfully for those supporting the merger.

Hess Corp. CEO John Hess (left) and Chevron CEO Mike Wirth said, “We are very pleased that the majority of our stockholders recognize the compelling value of this strategic transaction.”

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Excerpt from www.ttnews.com

Hess Corp. CEO John Hess (left) and Chevron CEO Mike Wirth. “We are very pleased that the majority of our stockholders recognize the compelling value of this strategic transaction,” Hess said. 

Hess Corp. shareholders approved Chevron Corp.’s $53 billion takeover despite reservations among several prominent investors about a dispute with Exxon Mobil Corp. over a key asset.

Hess shareholders approved the deal during a meeting May 28, the company said in a statement. The company’s shares initially fell on the news but then recovered, climbing as much as 1%.

“We are very pleased that the majority of our stockholders recognize the compelling value of this strategic transaction,” CEO John Hess said.

The affirmation is a major win for Chevron and CEO Mike Wirth, who sought to secure a stake in the biggest oil discovery of the past decade by acquiring Hess and its 30% interest in a Guyanese field. In the final days leading up to the vote, John Hess, the longest-serving major oil boss, personally lobbied shareholders to back the deal.

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Governor Ron DeSantis’ efforts to allow parents greater choice in where their children go to school has led to the proliferation of independent private schools and homeschooling, leaving public schools without students to justify staying open. The DNC-MSM have been lamenting the results, but DeSantis had a different take.

He said, “Now, as to that statement about ‘…some of Florida’s largest school districts are facing staggering enrollment declines,’ I can only reply, ‘Yes, and?’ To those school districts, and to the public school absolutists who are clutching their pearls and complaining about the likely closures, I would say: If the public schools were doing a better job, parents wouldn’t be choosing to enroll their kids elsewhere… If they can’t compete, they should be closed, as their customers, namely, parents, seem to have lost faith in those schools.”

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Excerpt from redstate.com

 

Down in Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis just keeps showing us how it’s done. In the latest, we see the success of Florida’s school choice programs, which represent a step towards a great goal — getting government, at all levels, out of education.

This is the Way.

Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Republicans have spent years aggressively turning the state into a haven for school choice. They have been wildly successful, with tens of thousands more children enrolling in private or charter schools or homeschooling.

Now as those programs balloon, some of Florida’s largest school districts are facing staggering enrollment declines — and grappling with the possibility of campus closures — as dollars follow the increasing number of parents opting out of traditional public schools.

Three European nations, Ireland, Norway, and Spain, have chosen to recognize the “state of Palestine,” a move that has led to Israel recalling all of its ambassadors from these nations and accusing the nations of attempting to undermine Israeli sovereignty.

Other moves from Israel include an expected total boycott of the three nations, in addition to any ambassadors still in Israel from these countries being compelled to watch video from the October 7 Massacre Israel claims this move by these three nations is giving legitimacy to.

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Excerpt from www.irishtimes.com

Key Points

  • Taoiseach announces Ireland will formally recognise the state of Palestine
  • Recognition is “the right thing to do”, says Simon Harris
  • Norway says it will recognise a Palestinian state, with Spain set to follow
  • Israel recalls ambassadors to Ireland and Norway after move
  • Israeli embassy in Ireland says decision undermines Israel’s sovereignty
  • Recognition by all three will formally take effect from May 28th
  • Move comes amid Gaza conflict and ICC seeking Netanyahu arrest warrant
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For the first time since April, Donald Trump has beat Joe Biden in the fundraising war, raising $76 million to Biden’s $52 million. The news comes as Biden learns his approval rating has fallen to 36 percent, an all-time low first reached in July of 2022, according to a Washington Post-ABC News Poll.

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Excerpt from dailycaller.com

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign passed President Joe Biden’s campaign in monthly fundraising for the first time in April, according to Reuters.

Trump, alongside the Republican National Committee (RNC), which his camp has partnered with, raised $76 million in the month of April, Reuters reported Tuesday. Biden and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) raised about $25 million less than their competitors, bringing in $51 million in April.

In March, the Biden campaign and the DNC brought in $90 million, while Trump and the RNC brought in $65.6 million. The former president’s team had $93.1 million cash on hand while Biden’s team had $192 million.

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Janet Yellen, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, has let the world know the United States will not be participating in the global billionaire tax scheme cooked up by nations like Brazil and France. The global tax would be intended to redistribute wealth to poor countries, though the methodology through which that wealth would be distributed was not made clear.

Yellen said of the imitative, “We’re not supportive of a process to try to achieve that. That’s something we can’t sign on to.”

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Excerpt from www.benzinga.com

The U.S. has taken a firm stance against a proposed global wealth tax on billionaires, as announced Monday by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

This idea, championed by Brazil, France and other nations, aims to reduce economic inequality by targeting the global billionaires.

Yellen emphasized that while the U.S. supports progressive taxation, it cannot back a worldwide initiative of this nature, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.

“We’re not supportive of a process to try to achieve that. That’s something we can’t sign on to,” she said.

As the leader of the Group of 20 major economies, Brazil has urged the group to develop a unified approach to taxing extremely wealthy individuals who often relocate their funds to low-tax jurisdictions.

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The American Seaford restaurant icon, Red Lobster, has announced plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in an effort to overcome over $1 billion in debt. It is expected that the majority of restaurants will close over the coming weeks, but no clear closure plan has been yet released.

Red Lobster CEO Jonathan Tibus said of the decision, “This restructuring is the best path forward for Red Lobster. It allows us to address several financial and operational challenges and emerge stronger and re-focused on our growth. The support we’ve received from our lenders and vendors will help ensure that we can complete the sale process quickly and efficiently while remaining focused on our employees and guests.”

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Excerpt from thepostmillennial.com

On Sunday, Red Lobster announced that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and secured $100 million in debtor-in-possession financing commitments from existing lenders. The company was over $1 billion in debt.

The seafood chain noted that while remaining restaurants will continue operating during the proceedings, the number of locations is set to be drastically reduced in the coming weeks.

In a press release, Red Lobster explained that it had entered into a “stalking horse purchase agreement,” meaning the company “will sell its business to an entity formed and controlled by its existing term lenders.”

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Kansas City Chiefs’ Kicker Harrison Butker went viral after delivering a graduation speech to a private Catholic University that calls out anti-family, anti-heteronormative woke culture and calls on women to choose Motherhood over a corporate career. While the NFL condemned the speech, others have rallied in support of the kicker, including making his jersey the number one selling jersey in the NFL.

The MSM has been busy mischaracterizing his speech and pretending that it is the social norm to be outraged that some believe a woman’s best future might be, on average, being a Mom, not a CEO. One response from a tone-deaf anti-Americanist leftist, Gayle King, was to insist a man should lose his millionaire job for daring to say women should be mothers. She screeched, “I think everybody has the right to be wrong or hold opinions that others feel are wrong, but he has a right to say what he believes. But it is — it is — was very antiquated thinking, I think, in 2024. But a lot of people — a lot of people feel the way he does. The fact that he got a standing ovation, I think, says a lot.”

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Excerpt from www.sportskeeda.com

Why is Harrison Butker getting ‘canceled’? Exploring reasons for backlash on Chiefs kicker after viral commencement …  Sportskeeda

 

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Excerpt from www.newsbusters.org

On Friday, CBS finally joined the virulently anti-family liberal media’s rhetorical lynch mob fighting to convict Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker in the court of public opinion with a discussion during CBS Mornings and, while ABC moved on, NBC’s Today upped the intensity of its disgusting and hypocritical venom toward a speech about the importance of the family.

In other words, Butker stood up for something the three co-hosts on Today have personally and repeatedly discussed is paramount to their lives. Instead of scorning him, they could have mentioned the numerous charities Butker has supported, include Foster’s Outriders charity (which our Craig Bannister explained here).

CBS roped Butker into their “Talk of the Table” segment with fill-in featured co-host Nancy Chen claiming Butker “seemed to dismiss women with career goals.”

Oof. We’re already off to a bad start. Butker said, in fact, nothing of the sort of instead argued many of the female graduates would come to see motherhood and marriage as their greatest accomplishment.

Co-host and Democratic donor Gayle King and co-host Nate Burleson went first, opining Butker shouldn’t lose his job.

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Excerpt from amgreatness.com

The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City–Saint Joseph has issued a statement voicing support for Kansas City Chief’s kicker Harrison Butker and his “right to share his faith and express his opinions.”

Since his commencement speech, Butker has seen his words get distorted in the media and has faced enraged calls for his dismissal from the team.  The NFL put out a statement distancing itself from player, and espousing a “commitment to inclusion.”

The official X account of the city of Kansas City even went so far as to partially doxx Butker, prompting Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to launch an investigation into the Mayor’s office.

In a statement to the Catholic News Agency (CNA) Thursday, Bishop James V. Johnston defended the devout KC kicker.

“Harrison Butker’s passion for his Catholic faith and his family are beautiful and well known,” Johnston said.  “And like most people, he also has strong opinions on where we are as a Church and as a nation.”

Johnston continued:  “The Catholic Church believes that God calls everyone to pursue holiness no matter what path they take. As St. Paul notes, that diversity of callings and vocations is essential to the life and mission of the Church.”

Under cross examination by Donald Trump’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, the star witness in the Kangaroo Court case against Trump, Michael Cohen, admitted he stole $60K from the Trump organization.

In the cross-examination, he also admitted he would lie under oath to save his own skin, he wants revenge against Trump for disrespecting him, and he has a vested economic interest in seeing Donald Trump get convicted. At one point Blanche plainly asked Cohen, “Would you be willing to lie if it affects you personally?” He answered, “Yes.”

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Excerpt from www.thegatewaypundit.com

President Trump was back in a Manhattan court on Monday in Alvin Bragg’s Soviet-style ‘hush money’ lawfare trial.

The prosecutors once again rolled out their ‘star witness’ Michael Cohen, a convicted perjurer, to take the witness stand.

Cohen shocked the public when he admitted he stole tens of thousands of dollars from Trump and lied to Trump Org. CFO Allen Weisselberg.

He also said he would lie to the jury if it affected his personal life.

Unbelievable!

Here is the exchange between Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche and Michael Cohen courtesy of TGP contributor Paul Ingrassia who is inside of the NYC courtroom live reporting:

Blanche: Did you mean it when you said revenge is a dish best served cold?

Cohen: Yes, sir.

Blanche: You were willing to lie under oath if it affects your personal life, correct?

Cohen: I don’t understand your question.

Blanche: You testified under oath months ago that you were willing to lie if it affects your personal life, correct?

Cohen: Yes, sir.

Blanche: So I’m asking the same question to you now: would you still be willing to lie if it affects your personal life?

Bragg prosecutor: Objection!

Merchan: Objection sustained.

Blanche: Would you be willing to lie if it affects you personally?

Cohen: Yes, sir.

The growing list of Pro-Life activists behind bars under the direct action of President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) now includes 30-year-old Lauren Handy, who was arrested after peacefully protesting in front of an unborn child murder center. She is a member of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising.

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Excerpt from thefederalist.com

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced a pro-life activist on Tuesday to 57 months in prison and three years supervision for her participation in a peaceful pro-life protest at one the capital city’s most controversial abortion facilities.

Lauren Handy, 30, was one of several members of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU), a primarily leftist organization with a pro-life streak, who initiated a “rescue and protest” at late-term abortionist Cesare Santangelo’s Washington, D.C., facility in October 2020.

“Some simply kneeled and prayed at Santangelo’s facility, some passed out pro-life literature and counseled abortion-minded women, and others roped and chained themselves together inside the facility,” Handy’s lawyers at the Thomas More Society noted.

Handy, PAAU’s director of Activism and Mutual Aid, decided to protest at Santangelo’s facility in particular after she heard him admit on an undercover video that he “would not help” a baby born alive after a botched abortion.

“My belief that was formed after watching the video was if the fetus survived the abortion attempt, they were left to die,” Handy told the court during witness testimony.

According to the American Medical Association (AMA), almost 90 percent of American adults suffer from a newly defined heart disease called Cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic (CKM) syndrome. An explanation for why the new definition was issued and how 90 percent of Americans suffer from it was not forthcoming.

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Excerpt from www.blacklistednews.com

Health experts are redefining cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, prevention and management, according to a new American Heart Association presidential advisory published today in the Association’s flagship journal Circulation…

The risks are greatest among older adults, men, and Black individuals, the report, which was published in JAMA Wednesday, found.

The American Heart Association (AHA) introduced a new staging system in 2023 — called CKM syndrome — to better treat and manage cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic diseases, since they are deeply connected and often require a multidisciplinary approach.

Via Journal of the American Medical Association (emphasis added):

Almost 90% of US adults met criteria for CKM syndrome (stage 1 or higher) and 15% met criteria for advanced stages, neither of which improved between 2011 and 2020. The lack of progress, in part, may reflect concomitant improvement and worsening of different risk factors over time. Substantial between-subgroup differences in advanced stages were observed, with older age, men, and Black adults at increased risk.”

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President Joe Biden has announced plans to implement new tariffs targeting Chinese imports. These targets will mainly affect the EV industry, Solar industry, and medical supplies industry.

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Excerpt from www.reuters.com

New Biden tariffs on China’s EVs, solar, medical supplies due Tuesday – sources – Reuters

U.S. President Joe Biden is set to announce new China tariffs as soon as next week targeting strategic sectors, including a major hike in levies on electric vehicles (EVs), according to three people familiar with the matter.
The full announcement, expected Tuesday, will maintain existing tariffs on many Chinese goods set by former President Donald Trump, according to one of the people.
But it will also add new tariffs to semiconductors and solar equipment, according to one of the people, as well as hiking EV tariffs. Chinese-made medical supplies like syringes and personal protective equipment also face additional tariffs, sources told Reuters.
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The EU’s new rules, called the Digital Identity Regulation (eIADAS 2.0) are set to start to take effect on May 20. The rules are intended to create an infrastructure that would support digital IDs that will be offered for citizens in the EU to access the internet. Internet companies are expected to be fully compliant by 2026. It is not, as of now, required of citizens, but some rights group argue it sets the stage to do so at a later date.

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Excerpt from www.blacklistednews.com

EU’s Controversial Digital ID Regulations Set for 2024, Mandating Big Tech Compliance by 2026

The EU’s new digital ID rules, the Digital Identity Regulation (eIDAS 2.0), are about to come into force on May 20, mandating compliance from Big Tech and member countries in supporting the EU Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet.

However, work is not complete on the EUDI Wallet, as several pilots are planned for 2025 to consolidate the process of the implementation of the rules.

According to the framework, the European Council passed recently, which has now been officially published, the deadline for the digital ID wallet to be recognized and made available is 2026. For now, it will be used in several scenarios, including accessing government services and age verification, reports note.

As things stand now, that deadline means that while the wallet scheme must become fully functional by that time, it will not be obligatory for citizens of the EU’s 27 members, and protection against discrimination is promised to those choosing not to opt in.

 

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A new Axios poll reveals American college students don’t support the cause that’s causing them to lose class time and even miss major events, including graduation ceremonies; That cause is the Palestinian cause in its war against Israel, the Gaza war.

The poll reveals only 13 percent of college students support the Palestinian cause, and only 11 percent rate it as a top issue in this year’s national, state, and local elections.

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Excerpt from lidblog.com

The Nazi Hamas students are not winning the battle for hearts and minds among their fellow students as a recent poll finds that the vast majority of college kids support Israel.

According to Axios, the vast majority of students have little interest in the conflict in the Mid East.

The poll finds that the conflict in the Mid East is in last place of issues college kids care about.

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Two students, Holden Hughes and Aaron Hartley, have won $500K each from St. Francis High School, California. The two students were expelled after being accused of doing “blackface” when a social media post of the two men wearing acne crème went viral.

Krista Boughman, one of the students’ lawyers, said of the victory, “This case is significant not only for our clients but for its groundbreaking effect on all private high schools in California, which are now legally required to provide fair procedure to students before punishing or expelling them. The jury rightly confirmed that St. Francis High School’s procedures were unfair to our clients and that the school is not above the law.”

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Excerpt from slaynews.com

Two wrongly expelled high school students have won $1 million in compensation after they were falsely accused of wearing “blackface” and publicly smeared as “racist.”

The students filed a lawsuit after they were expelled from St. Francis High School in California.

The legal team leading the case has just announced that the court handed them a $1 million verdict in the fight over the wrongful expulsion.

The students, Holden Hughes and Aaron Hartley, will get $500,000 each from St. Francis High School.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-AR) easily rebuffed a challenge to his speakership set forth by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-LA), who submitted a motion to remove the current speaker from his office to a chorus of boos from the House chamber.

The vote was 359-43, with 7 votes abstaining. The majority of Democrats, 163, voted down the measure, joining 196 Republicans, who did the same. Donald Trump praised the vote, saying “[I]f we show DISUNITY, which will be portrayed as CHAOS, it will negatively affect everything! Mike Johnson is a good man who is trying very hard.”

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Excerpt from thehill.com

The House voted overwhelmingly to protect Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from a conservative coup Wednesday, torpedoing an effort by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to oust the GOP leader from the top job for his willingness to cut deals with Democrats on weighty legislation.

The chamber voted 359-43-7 on a motion to table, or dismiss, Greene’s motion-to-vacate resolution, preventing the removal proposal from being considered.

In an extraordinary move in the deeply divided House, 163 Democrats — more than three-quarters of their caucus — voted to keep Johnson in power. And in a demonstration of the GOP’s support for Johnson, only 11 conservative Republicans voted to send Greene’s motion to the floor. The chamber erupted in boos on both sides of the aisle when Greene began reading her resolution.

 

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After TikTok’s CEO told the American congress he was no communist asset, nor was his company, a court filing by the CCP-owned company proves TikTok is, in fact, nothing but a CCP asset that operates only through CCP approval. In a court filing protesting the passage of a law that would ban the CCP-controlled app, TikTok admitted that due to the Chinese government’s direct control of its company, it couldn’t even legally sell the asset to a non-CCP entity even if they wanted to.

Michael Sobolik, a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, said of the filing, “For years, TikTok has asserted its legal and operational independence from the Chinese Communist Party. TikTok admitted as much in its federal petition against the law and said what every serious person has known for years: the Chinese Communist Party will not permit a divestment,” he continued. “That’s not a problem for the American people. That’s a problem for TikTok.”

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Excerpt from townhall.com

TikTok and its parent company ByteDance filed a lawsuit against the United States on Tuesday claiming it is “unconstitutional” for the government to force the app to be sold by its Chinese owner or be outright banned in the U.S.

In addition to the expected — yet inadequate — arguments as to why TikTok should remain under Chinese ownership and available to American users on First Amendment grounds, the complaint makes a significant admission about how valuable TikTok is to the Chinese Communist Party.

On pages 18 and 19 of the complaint, TikTok’s attorneys argue that the app’s foundational algorithm can’t be passed off to another entity to remain available in the United States…because the Chinese Communist Party won’t allow it (emphasis added):

Third, the Chinese government has made clear that it would not permit a divestment of the recommendation engine that is a key to the success of TikTok in the United States. Like the United States, China regulates the export of certain technologies originating there. China’s export control rules cover “information processing technologies” such as “personal interactive data algorithms.” China’s official news agency has reported that under these rules, any sale of recommendation algorithms developed by engineers employed by ByteDance subsidiaries, including TikTok, would require a government license. China also enacted an additional export control law that “gives the Chinese government new policy tools and justifications to deny and impose terms on foreign commercial transactions.” China adopted these enhanced export control restrictions between August and October 2020, shortly after President Trump’s August 6, 2020 and August 14, 2020 executive orders targeting TikTok. By doing so, the Chinese government clearly signaled that it would assert its export control powers with respect to any attempt to sever TikTok’s operations from ByteDance, and that any severance would leave TikTok without access to the recommendation engine that has created a unique style and community that cannot be replicated on any other platform today.

The American Action Forum (AAF) has calculated that President Joe Biden’s regulation changes and executive orders have cost the American economy an additional $1 Trillion, an investment that, the report claims, fails to deliver results that justify the cost increase. Dan Goldbeck, AAF’s director of regulatory policy, stated, “This past week, the final rule cost total for just 2024 can now be measured in 13 digits. While no rule matched the singular impact of the prior week’s EPA rule – because, really, what could? – this was also one of the more prolific weeks in recent memory.”

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Excerpt from lidblog.com

Joe Biden has been the worst president in history where it comes to adding new regulations to burden Americans and has slammed us all with a massive $1 TRILLION in new regulations and rules… yes, just as the economy is already doing so badly, he is trying to hurt it even more with oppressive rules.

Per American Action News:

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final emissions regulations for light- and medium-duty vehicles, which some have characterized as an electric vehicle (EV) mandate, pushed the costs of the Biden administration’s regulatory agenda over the $1 trillion threshold for 2024, alone, according to AAF’s analysis. Across all agencies and regulatory actions last week, the federal government published regulations imposing $103 billion worth of total costs and 11.6 million annual paperwork hours.

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The Boy Scouts of America are officially no more as the vestige that was the Boy Scouts of America let the world know of its official death by announcing the organization is now known as Scouting America. The President of the non-binary organization optimistically stated, “In the next 100 years we want any youth in America to feel very, very welcome to come into our programs.”

Excerpt from timesofindia.indiatimes.com

IRVING: The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history and will become Scouting America. It’s a significant shift as the organization emerges from bankruptcy following a flood of sexual abuse claims and seeks to focus on inclusion.
The organization steeped in tradition has made seismic changes after decades of turmoil, from finally allowing gay youth to welcoming girls throughout its ranks.With an eye on increasing flagging membership numbers, the Irving, Texas-based organization announced the name change Tuesday at its annual meeting in Florida.