Month: July 2022

Violent Protesters Target Massachussets Referendum Against Drivers Licenses for Illegals

Volunteers promoting a citizen-initiated referendum in Massachusetts have faced violence and harassment, according to a pair of lawsuits and state Republican leaders. The referendum seeks to undo a new law giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. The state Republican party has responded with federal and state civil rights lawsuits against state attorney general Maura Healey, a state…


Burma’s Junta Says Activists’ Executions Were ‘Justice for the People’

The ruling military of Burma, also known as Myanmar, defended its executions of four activists as lawful and carried out in the name of justice for the people. State media reported that “the punishment has been conducted,” but did not say when, or by what means. Junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun said the military authorities had…


Labor Government Loads up Tax Sweeteners for Aussies to Buy EVs

Australian federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers hopes to introduce a swathe of tax incentives—similar to some state governments—to help spur electric vehicle (EVs) sales in the country. It comes as the Labor Party puts forward legislation on the first day of Parliament, July 27, to enshrine a hard emissions reduction target of 43 percent by 2030….


Treasurer to Reveal Hit to Economic Growth

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is expected to tell people Australia’s inflation rate to exceed seven percent by year’s end as he prepares to deliver an economic update. Chalmers will make a ministerial statement to the federal parliament on Thursday and present Treasury revisions to the outlook for growth. “The headwinds our economy is facing – higher…


GOME Retail Suspends Share Trading Pending Release of Information

GOME Retail Holdings (HKEX 00493), a Hong Kong-based holding company involved in online sales of electrical and domestic products and audio equipment and with retail outlets in China, announced before the market opened on July 21 a temporary suspension of shares trading pending the publication of the company’s information announcement. GOME Retail was trading at…


Thursday, July 28, 2022: Epoch Crossword


Quiz: Chapter 17 — How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World

Quiz: Chapter 17 — How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World https://www.theepochtimes.com/chapter-seventeen-globalization-communism-at-its-core_2795606.html Communist globalization has a goal to bring all nations together into a single world system of __________. ___________ refers to the integration of chains of global capital, production, and trade that began in the 1940s and 1950s, matured in the 1970s…


Manchin Says Deal Reached With Schumer on New BBB Bill Over Energy, Taxes, Health Care

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced on July 27 that he has reached a deal with Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on energy, taxes, and health care to advance what appears to be a revised, alternate version to the Build Back Better (BBB) bill. The new spending package, now dubbed the “Inflation Reduction Act of…


Manchin Says Deal Reached With Schumer on New Version of BBB Bill Over Energy, Taxes, Health Care

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced on July 27 that he has reached a deal with Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on energy, taxes, and health care, to advance a revised, alternate version to the Build Back Better (BBB) bill. The new spending package, now dubbed the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022,” will “address record inflation…


Manchin Says Deal Reached With Democrats on New Version of BBB Bill Over Energy, Taxes, Health Care

Sen. Joe Manchin (R-W.Va.) announced on July 27 that he has reached a deal with Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on energy, taxes, and health care, to advance a revised, alternate version to the Build Back Better (BBB) bill. The new spending package, now dubbed the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022,” will “address record inflation…