Ho and Branch: Law Schools have Become laboratories of Divisiveness, not Leadership

March 15, 2023

Federal judges James C. Ho and Elizabeth L. Branch writing in National Review Online (NRO) condemn the recent silencing of discourse on various campuses of invited speakers including Federal judges by not only students but University leadership as well.

Global Developments in ESG Disclosures and the Impact on U.S. Companies

March 15, 2023

Risk and financial advisor group Kroll reports that environmental, social and governance (ESG) regulatory initiatives from the European Union (EU), International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may have significant ramifications on U.S. companies.

Turkey’s anti-Erdogan opposition vows a reset on EU and NATO

March 15, 2023

In the upcoming elections, Turkey’s opposition, led by Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, is campaigning that should he take office, he can unfreeze European Union accession talks and will end Ankara’s veto on NATO membership for Sweden and Finland, as well as implement the European Court of Human Rights decisions calling for the release of two of Erdoğan’s best-known opponents.

Muslim Brotherhood Networks Use Turkey’s Earthquake Relief Funds to Promote Islamism

March 15, 2023

Muslim Brotherhood (MB) networks through the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) are active to gain access to Turkey’s multi-billion-dollar earthquake relief funds, aiming to use reconstruction as an opportunity to promote the MB’s Islamist message through mosque- and school-building projects.

 

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  • DeSantis Forms Alliance with 18 Governors Against ESG Initiatives

    March 18, 2023

    Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has formed an alliance with 18 Republican governors to reject the environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) agenda being pushed by President Joe Biden that especially affects American retirement funds through « woke » investments.

     
  • WSJ: How DEI is Bringing Tyranny on Campus

    March 18, 2023

    The Editorial Board of the the Wall Street Journal highlights the recent incident at Stanford Law School where a Federal Judge was not only interrupted by students but lectured by the assistant dean for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) who had already sent out an email stating her disapproval of the Judge, demonstrating that DEI officers are more interested in promoting ideological conformity than diversity.

     
  • Ho and Branch: Law Schools have Become laboratories of Divisiveness, not Leadership

    March 15, 2023

    Federal judges James C. Ho and Elizabeth L. Branch writing in National Review Online (NRO) discuss the recent silencing of discourse on various campuses of invited speakers including Federal judges by not only students but University leadership as well, making the point that « Administrators who promote intolerance don’t belong in legal education. And students who practice intolerance don’t belong in the legal profession. »

     
 
  • Global Developments in ESG Disclosures May Have a Significant Impact on U.S. Companies

    March 15, 2023

    Risk and financial advisor group Kroll reports that environmental, social and governance (ESG) regulatory initiatives from the European Union (EU), International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may have significant ramifications on U.S. companies.

     
  • « Woke » Programs Pushed as Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed

    March 15, 2023

    As Silicon Valley Bank was failing, bank leadership, including a head of risk management continued to invest in « woke » initiatives such as LGBTQ+ programs encompassing a “safe space” for coming-out stories.

     
  • U.S. Congress Votes to Block Biden ESG Initiative

    March 08, 2023

    A resolution to overturn the Labor Department rule that enables fund managers to consider environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues for investments and shareholder rights decisions passed both houses of Congress and will be sent to President Biden, who is expected to veto the measure.

     
 
  • France to Regulate Social Media Influencers in the name of Protecting Consumers

    March 16, 2023

    The French government has taken notice of the power and market value of social media influencers whose global worth was over €15 billion in 2022, setting a plan to regulate their commercial work, placing them under the same rules as traditional media.

     
  • Turkey’s anti-Erdogan opposition vows a reset on EU and NATO

    March 15, 2023

    In the upcoming elections, Turkey’s opposition, led by Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, is campaigning that should he take office, he can unfreeze European Union accession talks and will end Ankara’s veto on NATO membership for Sweden and Finland, as well as implement the European Court of Human Rights decisions calling for the release of two of Erdoğan’s best-known opponents.

     
  • Significant Expansion of Corporate Sustainability Reporting for Companies Active in the EU

    March 15, 2023

    Since coming into full force in January 2023, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) has significantly expanded the existing EU regime for non-financial disclosure requirements currently governed by the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD), requiring large public and private companies with activities in the EU (including U.S. entities) to report on how their business model affects their sustainability, and on how external sustainability factors influence their activities.

     
 
  • Latest Global Terrorism Index Report Highlights Durability and Complexity of Islamist Threat

    March 18, 2023

    The Global Terrorism Index 2023 underscores both the durability and complexity of political Islamism as a specific type of global terrorism, with data pointing to a shift in the regional epicenter of Islamist violence from the Mideast and North Africa (MENA) to Africa’s Sahel region and to the growth of Islamist extremist operations in South Asia, as well as an increase in the lethality of violent Islamist attacks and a change in the technologies used to perpetrate attacks, according to the newly-released 10th annual report from the Australia-based think tank, Institute for Economics and Peace.

     
  • Islamist Debates in Saudi Arabia Reflect Continuing Strength of Religious Hardliners & State Autocrats

    March 18, 2023

    A recently televised debate between two high-profile Sunni clerics in Saudi Arabia over the issue of the death penalty for apostates from Islam revealed the internal tensions and contradictions in global debates about the permissibility and scope of sharia jurisprudential reform in Islam, with one of the clerics supporting the reformist movement currently spearheaded by Indonesia’s colossal Islamic civil society movement Nahdlatul Ulama, and the other cleric walking in lockstep with the Saudi regime’s policies (also adopted by the Islamic monarchy in the United Arab Emirates) of social liberalizations that stop short of any legal changes in the sharia-based laws that perpetuate systemic discrimination against women and violations of religious freedom. 

     
  • OIC Leadership Lauds China-Brokered Diplomatic Rapprochement Between Iran and Saudi Arabia

    March 15, 2023

    The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Secretary General issued an official statement lauding the China-brokered diplomatic rapprochement between the two Islamist regimes of Iran and Saudi Arabia, heralding the far-ranging cooperation agreement as an opportunity for more general, stronger cooperation among the 57 member-states of the global Islamic entity.