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offsite link The Mass Psychosis of Black Lives Matter Sat Jun 07, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
What was the most demented moment of the BLM summer of 2020? For Dan Hannan it was when 1,200?public health?officials declared that, although meeting other people was a health risk, demonstrating for BLM was fine.
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offsite link Exposed: The Left-Wing Plot to Torpedo Germany?s Strict New Border Policy Sat Jun 07, 2025 13:00 | Eugyppius
The German Government's strict new border policy has suffered its first setback after a judge with a Marxist background backed a plot by pro-asylum activists and declared the basis of the new policy to be invalid.
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offsite link NHS Chiefs Forced to Rip Up Trans Guidance Sat Jun 07, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
NHS chiefs have been forced to rip up their?pro-trans guidance?after it was rendered illegal by the Supreme Court ruling, as Health Secretary Wes Streeting says he wants new guidance in place by the summer.
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offsite link Unmasking the Greenhalgh Mask Study Sat Jun 07, 2025 09:00 | Dr Roger Watson
When the Cochrane review found no evidence face masks were effective, mask zealots couldn't let it stand. They produced their own 'scientific' review. But it's little more than cherry-picking, says Prof Roger Watson.
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offsite link How the Left Tried to Massage Matt Goodwin?s Figures Predicting White Brits? Looming Minority Status Sat Jun 07, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
When Matt Goodwin released figures predicting white Brits' looming minority status, the Left went into overdrive to massage the numbers and make everything seem fine. Steven Tucker digs down and exposes the lies.
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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

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Archbishop and Evangelical Leader Tell Congress to Protect Puerto Rico in Tax Plans

category international | worker & community struggles and protests | press release author Friday December 08, 2017 17:54author by Lydia Andrews Report this post to the editors

As the Senate and House tax plans head to conference committee to reconcile tax plan differences, major religious leaders from Puerto Rico are asking Congress to protect the island from new proposed ‎taxes.

As the Senate and House tax plans head to conference committee to reconcile tax plan differences, major religious leaders from Puerto Rico are asking Congress to protect the island from new proposed ‎taxes. Metropolitan Archbishop Roberto O. González Nieves, OFM of the Catholic Archdiocese San Juan de Puerto Rico and Puerto Rico Bible Society Secretary, Reverend Heriberto Martínez-Rivera wrote to Congress with their concerns.

"If Congress treats American citizens living in Puerto Rico differently than American citizens living in the 50 States by treating our island as a foreign jurisdiction, we believe recovery for our island home will be nearly impossible," wrote González and Martínez-Rivera in their letter to Congress. "We respectfully request that all Members of Congress ensure that a final tax reform plan does not impose new excise taxes on Puerto Rico."

Working with Jubilee USA and US religious groups, the Archbishop and Evangelical leader have engaged Congress for nearly two years to move policies that promote economic growth and reduce the island's crippling debt load and high child poverty rate. In the recent letter they wrote to Congress, they ‎noted that tens of thousands of American jobs could be lost in Puerto Rico if the Senate and House conference committee did not strip the excise tax from final legislation.

"If Congress fails to remove this excise tax in their final tax package, it is just like hitting Puerto Rico with another hurricane," said Jubilee USA Director Eric LeCompte who advises Puerto Rico's religious leaders and serves on United Nation expert groups. "Before the hurricanes, we were dealing with a severe financial crisis and almost half of all Puerto Rican kids were living in poverty. We are now dealing with a full blown humanitarian crisis that Congress can make better or even worse."‎

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