Reader’s Links for Sept. 1, 2024

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  4. ‘Will not stand for it’: Fury as Keir Starmer removes Margaret Thatcher portrait
    Sky News Australia – September 1, 2024

  6. LABOUR MADNESS: Keir Starmer’s Upcoming ‘Tax Raid’ and Leftist Policies Are Driving Wealthy Individuals and Entrepreneurs To Leave the UK in Droves
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/labour-madness-keir-starmers-upcoming-tax-raid-leftist/
    Sep. 1, 2024 1:00 pm

    As many predicted, the ascension of UK’s Labour party to power is likely to bring about a rush of leftist economic policies that will worsen rather than alleviate the dire economic situation that Britain is facing.

    High-net individuals and entrepreneurs in general ‘are already fleeing Britain’ as widespread fears grow over a raft of tax rises as part of Labour’s first Budget.

    Bankers, financial advisers and business chiefs warn of an ongoing exodus, as Keir Starmer’s government may ruin Britain with a ‘widely expected increase in capital gains tax (CGT)’.

    Telegraph reported:

    “Ceri Vokes, a partner at law firm Withers Worldwide, who works with entrepreneurs and private equity executives, said a number of her wealthy clients had already moved overseas this year, with the election ‘the main driver’. She added: ‘People with hundreds of millions of pounds [are leaving] because changes can be more impactful for them’.”

    Those leaving the UK are usually entrepreneurs and private equity executives in the top income bracket.

    They seek Italy, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Switzerland as destinations.

    The consensus is that Britain’s wealthiest are ‘getting out while the going is good’.

    “’Sir Keir’s warning about a ‘painful budget’ just reaffirms their concerns that major inheritance tax and capital gains hits will be coming soon. As a result, they are actively preparing their exit from the UK’.”

    Labour’s upcoming tax raid is pissing off even businesses that are pro-Labour.

    “Sir Martin Sorrell, the chairman of S4 Capital and founder of advertising giant WPP, warned that with “increased mobility in the digital age” there could be “a considerable exodus and avoidance” in the event of a capital gains crackdown.”

    Small business owners are selling their companies before CGT gets increased in the Budget on Oct 30.

    It will be very hard to win back wealth creators who abandon Britain.

    Charlie Mullins, founder of Pimlico Plumbers:

    “I don’t like the idea of the capital gains [changes], I don’t like the idea of inheritance tax. […] Any property I have in the UK under my name I will be selling. I still have a place there now in Westminster, but that will be getting sold. […] I know quite a few millionaires and billionaires who have left the UK, set up in Monaco or Dubai. Italy are offering a good deal now. […] I know a lot of people have moved their money from the UK. Not just because of tax, but because of Labour’s policies on workers’ rights, and on most things.”

    Gains made from selling a business are currently taxed at 20% but Labour will equalize these rates with income tax, which is 45%.

    “One City banker said there had been a ‘rush for exits’ from business owners hoping to finalise takeovers before Oct 30 or start a sales process before the end of the tax year to avoid the capital gains threat. They said: ‘Lots of entrepreneurs are trying to get their deals done and I can see the same thing happening as Brexit where there was so much dealmaking going on before it came in’.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/labour-madness-keir-starmers-upcoming-tax-raid-leftist/

    • Top earners and entrepreneurs already fleeing Britain over tax raids
      Chancellor risks ruining hopes of growth amid looming exodus of wealthy, experts warn

      Charlotte Gifford, Senior Money Reporter ; Michael Bow ; Lucy Burton, Employment Editor and Matthew Field 31 August 2024 • 8:00pm

      Wealthy individuals and entrepreneurs are already fleeing Britain as fears grow over a raft of tax rises in Rachel Reeves’s first Budget.
      An exodus is being reported by bankers, financial advisers and business chiefs with experts warning that the Chancellor risks ruining hopes of faster economic growth with a widely expected increase in capital gains tax (CGT).
      It comes after Sir Keir Starmer warned last week that those with the “broadest shoulders” would carry the burden of fixing Britain’s ailing public finances.
      Ceri Vokes, a partner at law firm Withers Worldwide, who works with entrepreneurs and private equity executives, said a number of her wealthy clients had already moved overseas this year, with the election “the main driver”.
      She added: “People with hundreds of millions of pounds [are leaving] because changes can be more impactful for them.”
      Those packing their bags and moving overseas are

      https://archive.is/zOhCT#selection-2807.0-2845.49

  7. WICKED: New Hampshire Supreme Court Rules Schools Can Keep Parents in the Dark About Their Children’s Gender Transitions
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/wicked-new-hampshire-supreme-court-rules-schools-can/
    Sep. 1, 2024 10:40 am

    The New Hampshire Supreme Court has upheld a Manchester school district policy that allows schools to keep parents in the dark about their children’s gender transitions.

    This ruling, which flies in the face of fundamental parenting rights, sends a dangerous message: that schools can prioritize the so-called “rights” of students over the rights of parents to know and participate in their children’s lives.

    The court’s decision comes as part of the case Jane Doe v. Manchester School District, where the justices concluded that the policy does not infringe on parental rights.

    The Doe v. Manchester School District involves a challenge to a policy implemented by the Manchester School District regarding the rights of transgender and gender-nonconforming students.

    The plaintiff, known only as Jane Doe, who is the parent of a minor child (M.C.) enrolled in the district, argued that the district’s policy violated her constitutional rights as a parent by potentially allowing the school to withhold information about her child’s gender identity from her.

    The policy in question allows students to keep their transgender status or gender nonconforming presentation private and requires school personnel to avoid disclosing this information to others, including parents, unless the student consents or it is legally required.

    The plaintiff discovered that her child was being addressed by a name and pronouns different from those assigned at birth, which the school had not disclosed to her due to the policy.

    The plaintiff’s lawsuit sought a declaratory judgment that the policy violated her constitutional rights, was beyond the school’s legal authority (ultra vires), and violated federal laws like the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Protection of Pupil Rights Act (PPRA).
    Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald

    The court dismissed the parent’s claims in a closely scrutinized 3-1 decision under the leadership of Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald, concluding that the policy did not violate a fundamental right and did not require strict scrutiny because it had survived a rational basis review.

    According to the ruling reviewed by The Gateway Pundit, “While parents may have a fundamental right to decide whether to send their child to a public school, they do not have a fundamental right generally to direct how a public school teaches their child. Whether it is the school curriculum, the hours of the school day, school discipline, the timing and content of examinations, the individuals hired to teach at the school, the extracurricular activities offered at the school or, as here, a dress code, these issues of public education are generally “committed to the control of state and local authorities.”

    The justices stated that the policy does not prevent parents from observing their children’s behavior or engaging in conversations with them.

    The court wrote, “[The Policy does not prevent parents from observing their children’s behavior, moods, and activities; talking to their children; providing religious or other education to their children; choosing where their children live and go to school; obtaining medical care and counseling for their children; monitoring their children’s communications on social media; choosing with whom their children may socialize; and deciding what their children may do in their free time. In short, the Policy places no limits on the plaintiff’s ability to parent her child as she sees fit.”

    However, this argument is fundamentally flawed. Observing behavior is not a substitute for being informed about critical aspects of a child’s life, such as their gender identity. Parents should not have to play detective to understand what their children are going through; they deserve transparency and trust from educators.

    A dissenting opinion from Justice Countway argued that strict scrutiny should have been applied, as the policy interferes with the fundamental right of parents to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of their children.

    Justice Countway believed that the policy’s requirement for non-disclosure, even in response to a parent’s direct inquiry, constitutes a significant burden on parental rights and that the trial court erred in dismissing the plaintiff’s claims without applying strict scrutiny.

    The Court’s decision sends a clear message: parents no longer have the right to know what is happening in their children’s lives if the state deems it “inappropriate.” This kind of government overreach is not just an affront to parental rights; it is a direct attack on the family unit itself.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/wicked-new-hampshire-supreme-court-rules-schools-can/

  8. Petition Seeks Court Order Protecting Kids from State-Promoted Pornography in Schools
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/petition-seeks-court-order-protecting-kids-state-promoted/
    Sep. 1, 2024 11:20 am

    A pornographic video may have been filmed in the library of Eisenhower International School in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

    This article originally appeared on WND.com

    Guest by post by Bob Unruh

    ‘At no time has the U.S. Supreme Court held that the First Amendment protects the inclusion of this type of sexually explicit material’ in libraries.

    The American Center for Law and Justice is stepping up its fight to protect kids in New York schools from pornography that leftist librarians are insisting on adding to their collections.

    The organization has filed a petition in New York state court asking to overturn a decision from state education officials providing those books to children.

    “As we explain in our petition, both federal and state laws emphasize the important role and compelling interest of public schools in protecting children from exposure to lewd and obscene content. Public schools and boards of education owe a duty of care to both parents and students to ensure that the curriculum and other materials provided to students are free of pornography and are age appropriate,” the ACLJ reported.

    “Parents should be able to trust that the books selected by their children’s librarians do not contain pornography or sexually explicit material, excessive profanity, and other lewd or vulgar content.”

    This case is based on a dispute involving the Clyde-Savannah Central District school board, which first decided to take the sexually explicit books out, but then summarily restored them.

    The ACLJ reported the school librarian and others had argued, “erroneously,” that children are entitled to the sexually explicit content as a matter of law.

    The legal team previously wrote to the district explaining the right thing to do would be to protect children from “these grossly inappropriate books – books containing extremely graphic accounts of sexual encounters between minors, as well as the rape of a minor child by an adult, and excessive profanity (one book contained more than 100 profanities).”

    The organization also had petitioned the state education commissioner, explaining the local board was wrong to interpret the First Amendment to give students a right to explicit books.

    “In fact, the United States Supreme Court has made abundantly clear that schools have a compelling interest in protecting children from inappropriate and lewd content,” the ACLJ reported. “Once more, the court has unanimously held that a school board maintains the right and the power to remove such content from its schools.”

    However, both state and local education officials took another course, claiming that schools have no duty to protect students, and the fight actually is over the “freedom” for students and teachers.

    State officials claimed schools can put books in their library, “no matter how obscene or inappropriate they may be so that they can expose children to diverse views.”

    The issue has become such a problem that multiple states now are ending porn in library programs, and multiple groups have disaffiliated from the American Library Association for its promotion of offensive publications.

    The report pointed out, “A 12-year-old can’t just walk into a movie theater and watch an R-rated movie without parental permission, so why should it be controversial to apply the same standard in a school library?”

    The report continued, “The First Amendment is crucially important in protecting free speech and the free exercise of religion, but it in no way protects a librarian’s desire to expose children to sexually explicit content in school libraries, nor does it protect a student’s right to access adult content. At no time has the U.S. Supreme Court held that the First Amendment protects the inclusion of this type of sexually explicit material in school libraries.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/petition-seeks-court-order-protecting-kids-state-promoted/

  9. “I Was Astonished at the Lack of Numbers Protecting President Trump” – Devin Nunes Insinuates Democrats Were Purposely Trying to Get Trump Killed (VIDEO)
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/i-was-astonished-lack-numbers-protecting-president-trump/
    Sep. 1, 2024 7:45 am
    Devin Nunes implies that Democrats were purposely trying to get Trump killed.

    Former Congressman and CEO of TRUTH Social, Devin Nunes, spoke to the X22 Report this week. Nunes discussed the 2024 election, the rigged elections, and the attempted assassination of President Trump.

    Nunes told X22 Report that he had noticed for months that he was “astonished” that there was not enough Secret Service agents assigned to President Trump’s rallies. The campaign had requested more manpower for months. But Joe Biden refused the requests for some reason.

    Nunes implies that Democrats (and deep state officials) were purposely attempting to get Trump killed.

    It sure looks that way.

    X22 Report: Do you think we’re going to see some October surprises? Do you think they’re either on the side of the Democrats or with Trump and his party? Do you think there are any surprises that are going to come out in October? Normally, we get that.

    Devin Nunes: Look, we know now there’s nothing that they won’t do. I mean, look, we watched an attempted assassination attempt. I knew from just my time with the President and speaking to the Secret Service, many who I’ve known for a long time, and they know my background in intelligence, I was just astonished by the lack of numbers that were protecting President Trump.

    And I think many of the Secret Service guys that I spoke to knew that also. And this wasn’t a couple of months ago. This goes back a year ago to when I was having these discussions. And I told President Trump numerous times that he’s got be very careful here because a lot of bad actors out there that don’t want to see him in office.

    And as you know, just to take that shot to the side of the head, just by, I don’t know, quarter inch, and this is a changed world.

    Look, there’s nothing they won’t try. I guess, Dave, is nothing they won’t do, but they are hampered right now because they have two candidates in Kamala, Kumala, however the hell you say her name, and Walz.

    Via Midnight Rider and PatriotsAreInControl:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/i-was-astonished-lack-numbers-protecting-president-trump/

    click through to see the video

  10. RFK Jr. Calls for ‘Reckoning’ for ‘Immoral, Homicidal, Criminal Behavior’ During COVID-19 Pandemic
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/rfk-jr-calls-reckoning-homicidal-criminal-behavior-during/
    Sep. 1, 2024 1:40 pm
    Credit: Limitless Expo

    At the Limitless Expo, a gathering focused on financial freedom and strategic empowerment, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a powerful speech that reignited the debate over the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Kennedy didn’t mince words as he called for a reckoning for those responsible for what he described as “homicidal criminal behavior” during the pandemic.

    Kennedy, who authored a controversial book about Anthony Fauci, used his platform at the expo to reiterate his claims against the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director.

    “I wrote a book about Fauci. It’s a great book. There are 2,200 footnotes in the book… I invited people to find problems with the book… And nobody ever told us any factual error in that book,” Kennedy said.

    He went on to accuse Fauci and other officials of using their positions to enforce “totalitarian controls that were not science-based,” arguing that their actions led to unnecessary deaths worldwide.

    “It’s a story, really, of people involved in really terrible, immoral, homicidal criminal behavior,” he said.

    One of the most explosive claims Kennedy made was about the suppression of COVID-19 treatments like Ivermectin.

    He said that the FDA’s discouragement of such treatments was not based on science but on a desire to push the vaccine agenda.

    “By depriving people of Ivermectin, many, many people, millions of people around the globe, died, and they didn’t need to,” Kennedy said.

    Kennedy also touched on the rise in myocarditis cases among young people, particularly athletes, since the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines.

    He cited alarming statistics, stating, “On average, it was, I think, 29 a month globally, athletes who died on the field. We’re getting down to hundreds a month now.”

    In his conclusion, Kennedy warned that while the mainstream media has yet to fully acknowledge these issues, “the science is out there now, and it’s devastating.”

    He called for accountability, stating, “There still has to be a reckoning.”

    WATCH:

    RFK Jr: “There still has to be a reckoning” for Covid

    “The mainstream media hasn’t caught up with the science, but the science is out there now and it’s devastating.”

    “Yesterday, the chief attorney for FDA admitted, because he lost a case in court against a doctor, that there… pic.twitter.com/dvLRD6tvAx

    — Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) August 31, 2024

    Here’s the partial transcript of his speech:

    “I wrote a book about Fauci. It’s a great book. There are 2,200 footnotes in the book, and I invited people at the beginning of the book. All my sources in the book are… I did something that had never been done before, which is I put them on a barcode next to them. So you can actually, as you read, look up the sourcing. I invited people to find problems with the book.

    I said, “Tell me what they are, and we will correct them.” We had 27 editions. We had the capacity to correct anything. And nobody ever told us any factual error in that book. If you read that book, it’s hard to… I don’t look into Anthony Fauci’s head.

    I don’t look into Bill Gates’ head. I don’t say he did this because he was greedy or because he was manipulative. I just lay out what they did, and the story speaks for itself. It’s a story, really, of people involved in really terrible, immoral, homicidal, criminal behavior.

    Using a position in government that he had for 50 years without any election to clamp down on these totalitarian controls that were not science-based and that everybody now admits there was no science.

    Trending: Hiker Stranded on Mountain After 14 of His Co-Workers Leave Him and Remove Path Markers

    In fact, yesterday, the chief attorney for the FDA admitted that there was no reason. He admitted because he lost the case in court against a doctor, but there was no reason to discourage people from taking Ivermectin.

    Ivermectin was a very, very devastating cure for COVID. It literally obliterated COVID. And by depriving people of Ivermectin, many, many people, millions of people around the globe, died, and they didn’t need to.

    There were cures for COVID from day one, very effective cures. But they didn’t want that. They wanted the vaccine only.

    There’s a rule, a little-known federal rule, that they were all aware of, which said that you cannot issue an emergency use authorization for a vaccine if there is an existing remedy that has already been approved for any use.

    So if they admitted that hydroxychloroquine or famotidine or ivermectin or any of the 25 existing therapeutic drugs that were very effective against COVID, if they admitted that any of them were effective, the whole vaccine project would have fallen apart.

    They couldn’t have done it. And so they decided that they were going to pretend that there was no cure except for the vaccine.

    And they gave people a product that was not properly tested. And now, you have a whole generation of kids that has now got myocarditis, these terrible heart problems, and young athletic boys.

    You’re seeing so many kids now drop dead on playing fields, and we never saw anything like this before. On average, it was, I think, 29 a month globally, athletes who died on the field. We’re getting down to hundreds a month now.

    There still has to be a reckoning. The mainstream media hasn’t caught up with the science. But the science is out there now, and it’s devastating.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/rfk-jr-calls-reckoning-homicidal-criminal-behavior-during/