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offsite link North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

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Human Rights in Ireland
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offsite link Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 22:01 | imc

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:40 | Mark

offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

offsite link The Golden Haro Fri Oct 31, 2025 12:39 | Paul Ryan

offsite link Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 21:31 | imc

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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link In Praise of BBC Four ? TV From When it Was Good Wed Nov 26, 2025 19:03 | Ben Finlay
The BBC may be engulfed in a bias scandal, but at least we have BBC Four, says Ben Finlay. It's a window to the old world when TV was worth watching: a quiet treasure trove of glories, even if they are just former ones.
The post In Praise of BBC Four ? TV From When it Was Good appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Pay-Per-Mile Tax for Electric Cars from 2028 Confirmed in Budget Wed Nov 26, 2025 17:23 | Will Jones
Electric vehicles will be subject to a pay-per-mile charge from April 2028, Rachel Reeves confirmed in the Budget today, in a?move that the OBR says will lead to 440,000 fewer EV sales in the next five years.
The post Pay-Per-Mile Tax for Electric Cars from 2028 Confirmed in Budget appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Bovaer Bovine Stupidity Wed Nov 26, 2025 15:26 | David Turver
Bovaer, the Net Zero drug being given to cows to reduce methane emissions, is "poisoning them", Danish farmers have said ? reducing fertility and milk yield and causing death. It also doesn't work, says David Turver.
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offsite link Reeves Breaks Manifesto Pledge as She Raises Taxes by ?30 Billion Wed Nov 26, 2025 13:02 | Will Jones
Rachel Reeves is to breach Labour's election manifesto pledge as she raises taxes by ?30 billion in her Budget, according to official forecasts accidentally published before her speech in the Commons.
The post Reeves Breaks Manifesto Pledge as She Raises Taxes by ?30 Billion appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Farmers Storm Westminster in Budget Protest Wed Nov 26, 2025 11:21 | Will Jones
Furious farmers have brought rush hour traffic to a standstill in defiance of a tractor ban by driving to Westminster to protest against?Rachel Reeves's Budget and the 'family farm tax' that will force many to sell up.
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Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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Trump Voids Dodd-Frank 1504 Transparency Rule

category international | politics / elections | press release author Wednesday February 15, 2017 14:42author by Greg Williams Report this post to the editors

President Trump signed into law Congressional action to void requirements that the oil, gas and mining industries report financial activity in countries where they operate.

President Trump signed into law Congressional action to void requirements that the oil, gas and mining industries report financial activity in countries where they operate. The bipartisan 1504 "Cardin-Lugar amendment" to the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act instructed the Securities and Exchange Commission to create this disclosure rule.

"In the short term, we lost a tool that can help track the billions of dollars lost to corruption and tax evasion in the developing world,” noted Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA, a religious development organization. “Resource rich countries are particularly vulnerable to the kind of corruption that the Cardin-Lugar amendment threatened to expose.” 

The House of Representatives and Senate passed this resolution in a quick series of votes in early February under the Congressional Review Act. The Securities and Exchange Commission, which initially wrote the rule, now has a legislative mandate to write a new rule. According to the Congressional resolution, the new rule cannot be 'substantially similar' to the old one.

"Now we need to be sure that the new rule that the Securities and Exchange Commission writes will be a rule that can still stop corruption,” commented LeCompte, who serves on United Nation expert groups that focus on finance. ‎"Improving financial transparency and ending global poverty are two sides of the same coin.”

Jubilee USA Network is an alliance of more than 75 US organizations and 650 faith communities working with 50 Jubilee global partners. Jubilee USA builds an economy that serves, protects and promotes the participation of the most vulnerable. Jubilee USA wins critical global financial reforms and won more than $130 billion in debt relief to benefit the world's poorest people. www.jubileeusa.org

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