Saturday, May 1, 2021

LOOMING CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA? - 20 MILLION JOBLESS AND OVER A MILLION HOMELESS - THESE PEOPLE HOWL FOR BIDEN'S STEALTH AMNESTY

 

Watch Live: Activists Rally in D.C. to Demand Amnesty for Millions of Illegal Aliens

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Open borders activists are participating in a National Day of Action in Washington, DC, on Saturday, demanding immigration reform, specifically amnesty, for the 11 to 22 million illegal aliens residing in the United States.

According to the release of the event, attendees are specifically demanding citizenship for illegal aliens and “citizenship for the immigrants who have toiled as essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic, citizenship for DACA and TPS holders, and the use of reconciliation to pass immigration reform.”

May Day, or May 1, is celebrated around the world as International Workers’ Day, a day that immigrant communities around the United States rise up to call for an end to racism and xenophobia, demand needed change, and show their power. On this day, a coalition of immigration justice organizations will hold a large-scale march and rally in the nation’s capital, Washington, DC. Community members and allies from the Greater Washington DC area and East Coast will march in DC beginning at Black Lives Matter (BLM) Plaza and ending just outside the US Capitol on the National Mall.

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On Friday, in an event that served as a precursor to Saturday’s protest, a group of open borders advocates and illegal aliens met outside the White House to protest what they described as “crumbs” from President Biden and Democrats in terms of immigration reform. Several of them were arrested by U.S. Secret Service after hours of chanting, singing, and blocking roads.

The activists participating in Friday’s protest demanded “total freedom” from borders and law enforcement and at one point chanted, “Cops and borders we don’t need them. All we want is total freedom!”

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Saturday’s event is slated to begin at 11 a.m. Eastern.

WILL POISON PUTIN POISON ALEXEI NAVALNY AGAIN OR JUST GO OFF AND LIVE IN SYRIA WITH HIS LOOTED $160 BILLION???

 

Russian Dissident Alexei Navalny in Court Hearing: ‘Your King Is Naked’

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny sits in court in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 30, 2017. Many Western countries have condemned the arrests and called for the release of those sentenced to jail, including opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Putin's most prominent foe. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
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Russian dissident Alexei Navalny appeared by video in a Moscow court on Thursday to appeal a libel case against him.

Navalny was difficult to recognize, shaven-headed and skeletal after losing 50 pounds in a hunger strike, but he gave a fiery speech to the court in an unsuccessful effort to get the charges dismissed.

Shortly after he returned to Moscow from Germany and was arrested on dubious parole violation charges, Navalny was fined roughly $11,500 for allegedly “defaming” a 95-year-old World War II veteran named Igor Artemenko who appeared in a state television commercial last June, promoting a package of constitutional amendments that allowed Russian President Vladimir Putin to effectively remain in office until 2036, at which point he would be 84 years old and would have ruled Russia for 34 years of his life.

Navalny used Twitter to call the people who appeared in the TV advertisement “traitors,” the “shame of the country,” and “corrupt stooges” of the Putin regime. Prosecutors charged him with “denigrating the honor and dignity” of a World War II veteran. 

When the elderly Artemenko became ill during the libel trial in February, Navalny suggested he was mentally incapable of following the trial. The prosecution blamed Navalny’s criticism for making Artemenko sick.

“This trial was conceived as some kind of PR trial, because the Kremlin needs headlines, ‘Navalny slandered a veteran,’” Navalny told the court in February.

“I find it really disgusting and unbearable. You’ve been using him as a puppet,” he said of how the prosecution was handling Artemenko. “You’re making a mockery of a 95-year-old man.”

Navalny complained he was unable to properly question Artemenko during the proceedings and accused the prosecutors of manipulating his testimony. He denounced Artemenko’s family for essentially selling the old man to the Putin regime so a spurious libel case could be concocted.

In his first public appearance since declaring a hunger strike on March 31, addressing the Moscow court by video from the penal colony where he is imprisoned, Navalny looked like a shadow of his former self but was no less sarcastic and defiant.

“I want to say, my dear court, that your king is naked, and more than one little boy is screaming about it, already millions of people are screaming about it,” Navalny said, evoking the Emperor’s New Clothes parable to describe Putin.

“Twenty years of incompetent governing have led to the following result. There is a crown slipping from his ears. There are lies on TV. We have spent trillions of rubles and our country continues to slide into poverty. Your naked king wants to rule until the end, he doesn’t care about the country, he is clung to power and wants to rule indefinitely,” Navalny declared.

“You are all traitors,” he told the court. “You and the naked king are implementing a plan to seize Russia, and the Russians should be turned into slaves. Their wealth will be taken away from them, they will be deprived of any prospects. You have implemented that plan.”

Navalny also joked about his own appearance – “I looked in the mirror. Of course, I’m just a dreadful skeleton” – and at one point asked his wife Yulia to face the camera so he could see her again.

The court on Thursday rejected Navalny’s motion to dismiss the libel judgment against him. His lawyer Olga Mikhailova said she would file an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights over the “number of violations” committed by the prosecution.

The rejection of Navalny’s appeal was one of a string of court decisions and official actions that were apparently intended to demolish Navalny’s anti-corruption organization. 

Another court in northern Russia on Thursday sentenced Navalny ally Andrei Brorovikov to two and a half years in prison on “pornography” charges for posting a music video from German metal band Rammstein on social media. 

Borovikov shared the video in 2014, but he was not charged with an offense until last year, so critics believe the charges were cooked up to punish him for working as Navalny’s campaign manager. The Rammstein video is for a song called “Pussy,” not about cats.

On Friday, Russia’s state financial watchdog added Navalny’s network of regional headquarters to its terrorism watch list, which could be a prelude to seizing the organization’s financial assets and formally outlawing it.

“Russia’s crackdown on the opposition has picked up speed since Navalny’s arrest in January, with the Kremlin targeting his supporters, journalists covering protests in his support, and even lawyers who are involved in the case. Fearing arrest, many of Navalny’s top aides have fled the country,” the UK Guardian noted, pointing to the case of Ivan Pavlov, a Navalny lawyer who was arrested on Friday for “allegedly divulging information about a preliminary investigation.”

THE INVASION OF TEXAS THAT GEORGE W BUSH HAD LONG PRAYED FOR - Over 90 people found in possible human smuggling case, some with COVID-19 symptoms: Police


Mexican Charter Flight Carrying COVID Vaccine Tourists Crashes en Route to Texas

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A charter plane carrying five passengers to Texas with hopes of getting a Coronavirus vaccine crashed, killing all on board.

The crash took place this week just northwest of the Monterrey metropolitan area when Armando Gonzalez Abella was piloting his Piper airplane with tail number N15349 from the Aeropuerto Del Norte to Laredo, Texas. The pilot was returning to the airport after experiencing an unknown “technical difficulty” but crashed before being able to land, authorities revealed to Breitbart Texas.

Many residents in Nuevo Leon and other parts of Mexico are flying into the U.S. to circumvent the current travel restrictions which prohibit land travel through international ports of entry.

The flight was chartered by César Taméz García, Sol Alanís Compeán, Esaú Olmedo Peña, Rosa Peña Olmedo, and Brenda Guajardo Leal. Federal investigators in Mexico are looking into the crash.

While vaccines are readily available in the U.S., Mexico’s government has fallen behind in distribution, leaving the majority of the population unprotected. Currently, Mexico is one of the countries with the highest number of cases and fatalities.

Gerald “Tony” Aranda is an international journalist with more than 20 years of experience working in high-risk areas for print and broadcast news outlets investigating organized crime, corruption, and drug trafficking in the U.S. and Mexico.  In 2016, Gerald took up the pseudonym of  “Tony” when he joined Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project Since then he has come out of the shadows and become a contributing writer for Breitbart Texas.

Over 90 people found in possible human smuggling case, some with COVID-19 symptoms: Police

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More than 90 people were found "huddled together" in a home in Houston in a possible case of human smuggling, the Houston Police Department said Friday.

No one was seriously injured, but Houston Police Assistant Chief Daryn Edwards said, "We are concerned that there may be some positive COVID cases inside the house."

Some people have fevers and some have lost their sense of smell and taste, Edwards said at a news conference.

The Houston police confirmed to ABC station KTRK late Friday that at least five people had tested positive for COVID-19.

PHOTO: Police officials cordon off the street near 12200 Chessington Drive in southwest Houston, April 30, 2021. (Adrees Latif/Reuters)
PHOTO: Police officials cordon off the street near 12200 Chessington Drive in southwest Houston, April 30, 2021. (Adrees Latif/Reuters)
PHOTO: Medical practitioners wear personal protective equipment before entering 12200 Chessington Drive in southwest Houston, April 30, 2021. (Adrees Latif/Reuters)
PHOTO: Medical practitioners wear personal protective equipment before entering 12200 Chessington Drive in southwest Houston, April 30, 2021. (Adrees Latif/Reuters)

The health department had sent workers to the scene to conduct rapid testing, Edwards said.

No children were inside. About five women were in the house and the rest were men, he said.

They told police they hadn't eaten in awhile, Edwards said, and they were brought food and water.

PHOTO: Police and first responders gather outside a home in Houston where officials say more than 90 people were found 'huddled together' in a possible case of human smuggling, April 30, 2021. (Godofredo A. Vasquez/Houston Chronicle)
PHOTO: Assistant Chief Edwards Daryn speaks to the press in Houston about a potential smuggling case after dozens of people were found inside a residence on Chessington Drive in Houston, April 30, 2021.  (Houston Police )

Houston police said they were made aware of a kidnapping call Thursday night, and authorities worked through the night to try to find the kidnapping victim's location. Authorities executed a search warrant at a two-story Houston house and determined this was a "human smuggling investigation," Edwards said.

PHOTO: Police and first responders gather outside a home in Houston where officials say more than 90 people were found 'huddled together' in a possible case of human smuggling, April 30, 2021. (Godofredo A. Vasquez/Houston Chronicle)

SURVEY - LESS THAN HALF OF DEMOCRATS SAY CAPITALISM IS BETTER THAN SOCIALISM - BUT WHICH HANDS OUT HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS TO CRIMINAL CRONY BANKSTERS

 

Survey: Less than Half of Democrats Say Capitalism Is Better than Socialism

 By Craig Bannister | April 30, 2021 | 4:05pm EDT

 

Self-described "Democratic Socialist" Sen. Bernie Sanders (Getty Images/Andrew Burton)

Less than half of Democrat voters believe that Capitalism “is a better system” than Socialism, a new Rasmussen survey finds.

In a national poll of 1,000 U.S. likely voters, conducted April 27-28, 2021, Rasmussen found that more than three times as many Americans prefer Capitalism (65%) over Socialism (18%). Another 17% say they’re not sure which system is better.

But, among Democrats, just 46% favor Capitalism, compared to 84% of Republicans and 66% of other political affiliations. Only 2% of all U.S. voters who “strongly disapprove” of Democrat President Joe Biden say Socialism’s a better system, while 26% of those who strongly approve of Biden prefer Socialism.

Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to think that the current U.S. economy is a “free market economy,” rather than a “Socialist economy.” Fully 75% of Democrats consider the U.S. economy to be either “generally” (41%) or “partially” (34%) free market.

Conversely, barely half (51%) of Republicans say today’s economy is either generally (18%) or partially (33%) free market. Among all voters, 28% say the economy is generally free and 33% consider it partially so, while 30% see it as being either somewhat (23%) or mostly (7%) driven by socialism.

By age, the youngest U.S. voters are the most likely to believe Socialism is superior to Capitalism. Thirty-one percent (31%) of voters 18-39 years old pick Socialism, compared to 13% of those 40-64 and just 9% of those 65 years and older.

Less than half of those 18-39 (48%) favor Capitalism, compared to more than seventy percent of older Americans.


Land Grab: Mark Zuckerberg Almost Doubles His Hawaii Real Estate Holdings

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have nearly doubled the size of their real estate empire in Hawaii, buying another 595.4 acres on Kauai from Waioli Corporation, a nonprofit established by a local family with roots going back to the era of the Hawaiian kingdom.

Zuckerberg and Chan are now the owners of 1,300 acres of land in Hawaii after closing on a $53 million purchase of three parcels of nearly 600 acres on March 19, according to a report by Pacific Business News.

The purchase, which includes land fronting Larsen’s Beach, does not include the beach access road, which is owned by the county, and remains open to the public.

The Facebook CEO bought the land through an LLC registered in Delaware whose member is San Francisco-based Square Seven Management LLC. Square Seven is managed by wealth manager Iconiq Capital LLC, of which Zuckerberg is a client.

The report added that Zuckerberg began amassing the Kauai estate in 2014 when he bought the 357-acre Kahuaina Plantation from California investment firm Falko Partners. After that, the Facebook CEO bought another 384 acres from the late Hawaii auto dealer James Pflueger, and then added more in 2018 for a total of nearly 750 acres.

Zuckerberg’s entities also acquired titles to dozens of smaller lots within the larger parcels that were known as kuleana lands, the report adds.

The couple has reportedly been building residential and agricultural structures on the properties, which are being used for ranching.

Building permits — which total to more than $83 million — show that the largest permit was the 2018 application for a 57,059-square-foot single-family home, which includes a connected accessory building or dwelling with a total of eight bedrooms, nine full baths, and 16 half baths.

“The decision provides Waioli with the financial ability to be able to continue our critical conservation and historical work and ensure that Kauai’s cultural history continues to be shared in the community for years to come,” said Waioli Corp. president Sam Pratt.

Waioli is a nonprofit organization established by members of Kauai’s kamaaina Wilcox family, who are descended from missionary schoolteachers Abner and Lucy Wilcox, from the Kingdom of Hawaii era.

Pratt added that Waioli chose Zuckerberg and Chan after seeing their “dedication over the years to land conservation, protecting native species and working to preserve the natural beauty of Kauai.”

“We know that this land will remain in their trusted hands and that Mark and Priscilla will act as responsible stewards of Lepeuli today and in the future,” he said.

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Pandemic Prize: Amazon’s Q1 Sales Soar 44%

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos during the JFK Space Summit at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, Wednesday, June 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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E-commerce giant Amazon released its first-quarter results on Thursday, reporting a 44  percent sales increase. The results blew analysts’ expectations out of the water. The Masters of the Universe say they expect their sales to continue to climb in the second quarter.

CNBC reports that Amazon shares climbed more than three percent in extended trading on Thursday and are up on Friday morning after the company released its first-quarter earnings, beating Wall Street expectations for both earnings and revenue.

Amazon reported earnings of $15.79 per share vs $9.54 per share expected. Amazon also enjoyed a revenue surge of 44 percent to $108.52 billion vs $104.47 billion expected. Amazon has seen a major surge in its online shopping business partly due to the coronavirus pandemic leading to many choosing to shop online rather than in-person.

Amazon’s guidance for the second quarter implies that it expects this success to continue, expecting to post revenue between $110 billion and $116 billion, which surpasses Wall Street’s projection of $108.6 billion.

Amazon has confirmed that its popular “Prime Day” sale will start in June of this year, which is likely to help year-over-year comparisons for revenue in the second quarter. Amazon’s annual two-day discount sale usually takes place in July but the company postponed the event to October last year due to pandemic-related uncertainty.

Discussing Prime Day timing, Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky stated on a call with investors: “In many areas, July is vacation month, so it might be better for customers, sellers and vendors to experiment with a different time period. We believe that it might be better timing later in [the second quarter], so that’s what we’re testing this year.”

Amazon’s cloud-computing and advertising businesses also saw major success this year with Amazon Web Services seeing nets ales of $13.5 billion during the quarter, an increase of 32 percent year over year. Amazon does not directly release advertising sales but its “Other” revenue category grew by 77 percent year over year to $6.9 billion.

Read more at CNBC here.

Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or contact via secure email at the address lucasnolan@protonmail.com


Joe Biden’s ‘Tax System Will Punish’ Small Business Employees and Hurt Startups

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks at an event marking Amtrak's 50th Anniversary at the William H. Gray III 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 30, 2021. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)
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Prominent Silicon Valley billionaire and investor David Stewart tweeted President Joe Biden’s capital gains tax, proposed to be raised about 20 percent, would make it harder for startups to recruit because “the tax system will punish their employees.”

“If Biden increases the long-term capital gains tax rate from the current 23.8% up to a new cap of 43.4%, it could neuter America’s entrepreneurial ecosystem,” Stewart explained. Capital gains rates apply when an asset is for gain after being held a year.

Stewart said he “ran the numbers” and determined an employee working at Google earning $400,000 per year in California “pays 38 percent of income over 10 years in taxes.”

By contrast, Stewart believes a startup founder pays 36 percent of her $3.9 million 10-year income. But under “Biden’s plan,” Stewart continued, “the Googler’s taxes don’t change but the founder’s rate shoots to 46%!”

Stewart further explained raising taxes on businesses dis-incentivizes businesses to take risks:

Founders and early employees shoulder pay cuts and increased risk when they leave an established company for a startup. They do this in part because there is the potential for a big payday at the end, at an advantageous capital gains tax rate.

It will be harder for startups to recruit bc the tax system will punish their employees. A Googler making $400k/yr for 10 years will pay less tax vs a startup employee making $100k/year for 9 yrs, plus a $3m payday at year 10, despite the Googler earning more total income.

Today’s tax code effectively incentivizes people to take pay cuts and risks associated with building the next generation of companies. If entrepreneurs start to take home less of their total income vs salaried workers at mature companies, the startup ecosystem will suffer.

This is compounded by highly graduated income tax rates in states like CA, which make no distinction between cap gains and ordinary income. Founders with lumpy income (“exit” years interspersed with lean years) have long paid higher state tax rates vs salaried employees.

But big tech disagrees with the venture capital investor.

Adam Kovacevich, founder and CEO of Chamber of Progress, said in an interview with CNBC on Wednesday, “The [tax] plan speaks to a lot of goals that I think many people in the tech industry have wanted to see for a long time.”

Companies who are associated with the Chamber of Progress are Automattic, Doordash, Getaround, Grubhub, Instacart, Lime, Twitter, Uber, Waymo, Wing, and Zillow.

“From my experience in the tech industry, this is a deal that most tech companies can live with,” he continued regarding Biden’s tax hike.

It is worth noting if Biden succeeds in raising taxes on income and capital gains, the disparity of Biden’s tax plan would be diminished.

“The current capital gains tax rates are 0 percent for a married couple earning less than $80,000, 15 percent for couples earning more than $80,000 and less than $496,000, or 20 percent for wealthier households,” Breitbart News’ John Carney reported.