(09.06.2022)
Robinson v UK
Archiv: congratulations
Freedom at last
At the stroke of midnight, England became the freest country in Europe. From today, there’s no more mandatory masks, no more Covid passports and no more government guidance to work from home. The ‘Plan B’ restrictions have been allowed to expire.
That’s worth savouring for a moment.
Yesterday, I sued the Biden Admin over its unlawful OSHA vax mandate. WE WON. Just this morning, citing “grave statutory and constitutional issues,” the 5th Circuit stayed the mandate. The fight is not over and I will never stop resisting this Admin’s unconstitutional overreach!
Blinken congratulates Peru’s president-elect
“We look forward to the successful transfer of power to the new administration on July 28, 2021 – Peru’s Bicentennial – a fitting occasion to celebrate Peru’s independence. Together we can ensure that democracy delivers greater opportunities to our countries’ citizens,” he concluded.
Judge tosses frivolous lawsuit by heiress Sulome Anderson seeking to destroy The Grayzone
The District of Columbia Superior Court has rejected a frivolous, million-dollar lawsuit claiming libel, defamation, and tortious conspiracy filed by writer Sulome Anderson against The Grayzone’s editor Max Blumenthal and assistant editor Ben Norton.
Judge William M. Jackson’s June 16, 2021 decision put an end to the entitled heiress’ three-year-long campaign to smear and bankrupt The Grayzone with the help of a powerful DC lawyer closely linked to the Israel lobby.
Vaccine passports: It’s all over! Cabinet agrees it’s time to ‚live with Covid’… and you WON’T have to show proof of vaccination to attend mass gatherings
– Ministers are set to shelve plans for the mandatory use of ‚Covid certification‘
– Plans for pubs and restaurants had already been put on the backburner
– The Mail can now reveal that ministers have also dropped the idea of imposing them on mass events
BREAKING: My bill to repeal the 2002 Iraq AUMF passed the House. After nearly 20 years of fighting for this, we’re finally one step closer to ending forever wars.
Liberman equates Israeli upheaval to French revolution
„Capturing the Prime Minister’s Residence on Balfour Street was for us like capturing the Bastille“ prison in France, Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman told his Yisrael Beytenu faction in the Knesset on Monday.
Statement by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on the New Government of the State of Israel
On behalf of the American people, I congratulate Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Alternate Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, and all the members of the new Israeli cabinet. I look forward to working with Prime Minister Bennett to strengthen all aspects of the close and enduring relationship between our two nations.
Israeli Knesset voted 60:59 for the Bennett-Lapid government
Moments of announcement #Israel36gov
Yesh Atid’s Mickey Levy is elected Speaker of the Knesset, replacing Yair Levin, with immediate effect.
Lapid Announces: I Have Succeeded in Forming a Government
Yesh Atid’s leader Yair Lapid announced Wednesday night that he has managed to form a coalition after a series of back-to-back meetings with the leaders of the anti-Netanyahu camp in the Knesset.
Travel news latest: Spain to allow British holidaymakers with no PCR test from Monday
Spain will allow British travellers to enter the country without a negative PCR test from May 24, it has been announced today.
This will mean restriction-free entry from Monday even for unvaccinated Britons; though with Spain on the UK’s amber list, travellers will have to self-isolate upon their return.
Así está ahora mismo la Puerta del Sol. Gente saltando, abrazándose, unos haciendo la conga… No tengo palabras.
Outdoor parties erupt across Spain as state of alarm ends
The first night without the state of alarm saw an atmosphere of partying in many parts of Spain on Saturday night, as revelers took to the street from midnight onward when the emergency measures that had been in place for six months in a bid to control the spread of the coronavirus expired. The festivities took place on the streets of the country despite the fact that the epidemiological data is far from good.
The House has passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, the expansive policing reform bill, on a 220-212 vote.
@RepGolden and @RepRonKind voted against the bill, and GOP Rep. Lance Gooden, R-TX, voted w/ Dems for it.
Boris Johnson hails Oxford vaccine as a ‚triumph for British science‘ and says he is ‚confident this is the year we will defeat coronavirus‘
The initial supplies of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine have been produced by a company called Halix in the Netherlands.
Once produced in bulk, the vaccine goes to a plant in Wrexham, run by an Indian company called Wockhardt, where it is decanted into vials in a process known as ‚fill and finish‘. The plant can bottle at least 150,000 doses a day.
First Oxford Covid vaccine doses arrive at UK hospitals with 530,000 jabs to be rolled out from Monday
While the Oxford vaccine uses a harmless, weakened version of a common virus in chimpanzees, the Pfizer jab is known as a messenger vaccine (MRNA), using a genetic code rather than a weakened form of the virus.
And experts have urged patients not to mix and match the two.
Brexit is finally DONE: After four years of wrangling MPs vote 521 to 73 and seal Britain’s historic divorce from the EU – as frontbench Labour rebels RESIGN and Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn defy Keir Starmer’s order to back the accord
Boris Johnson has hailed new chapter in Britain’s history as deal is rushed through the Houses of Parliament
After CODEPINK Campaign & pressure from others, Torture Defender Mike Morell Bows Out for CIA. Now, we must ask the tough questions of #AvrilHaines, challenge her nomination & put the #drone program on trial!
WATCH LIVE: My update on our future partnership with the European Union.
The United Kingdom has agreed a Free Trade Agreement with the European Union. See what this deal means for you
‚I’m so thrilled that you’ve cracked it!‘: Prince William congratulates Oxford scientists via Zoom as their Covid vaccine is proved to be 90 per cent effective
– The Duke of Cambridge hailed the team’s ‚amazing achievement‘ this morning
– Three Oxford professors told how the vaccine is based on decades of research
– It emerged this month that William caught coronavirus in April but didn’t reveal it
Oxford University breakthrough on global COVID-19 vaccine
he University of Oxford, in collaboration with AstraZeneca plc, today announces interim trial data from its Phase III trials that show its candidate coronavirus vaccine, ChAdOx1 nCoV-2019, is effective at preventing COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) and offers a high level of protection.
Israel gets top marks for combating international bribery
For the second successive year, Transparency International ranks Israel in its highest category for enforcement against bribery of foreign officials.
Pompeo Sends Well Wishes for Liberation Day
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday issued a message celebrating Liberation Day on August 15, which marks the day Korea was liberated from Japan’s colonial rule.
THIS JUST IN: @IlhanMN joins @AOC and @RashidaTlaib in winning her primary election despite horrible attacks and tremendous amounts of money spent to defeat her. All that energy and all those dollars wasted, ‘cause these ladies aren’t going anywhere.
Here’s Cori Bush’s full victory speech tonight over Lacy Clay in MO-01 (finally found it!):
Good splashdown of Dragon confirmed! Welcome back to Earth, @AstroBehnken and @Astro_Doug !
2.8.2020
„Poverty is by political design, and it’s rooted in a system that has been fractured, and corrupt, and rotten from it’s from core from the inception of America.“ @JamaalBowman #NY16
Indigenous Ecuadorean Organization Wins UN 2020 Equator Prize
The organization has been accompanying significant legal victories against extractivist companies and for the survival of original nations in Ecuador, including the triumph last year of the Waorani in a historical trial against oil firms.
“Amazon means life for our world. For us, as Indigenous peoples, it is our home,” the organization said.
2.Mai Anselm Lenz ist frei!
Wir gratulieren ihm zu seinem Geburtstag
We just won the Nevada caucus. This grassroots movement is unstoppable. Together, let’s win the Democratic nomination, defeat Trump and transform the country! Join us live in San Antonio:
This is a strong bipartisan message from the Senate that we will uphold our constitutional duty to deliberate and vote before sending our troops into harm’s way.
(deep breath) am I going to have to clear my entire late February schedule? (my birthday is a few days after Nevada so they better not Iowa this)
Leave Means Leave Brexit Party at Parliament Square
A Brexit Party in Parliament Square as the UK officially leaves the EU.
Brexit Day – The UK leaves the European Union
Forty-seven years and 30 days after we joined. Three decades since the rot set in with the drive towards a United States of Europe. Seven years after David Cameron promised a referendum and 3½ traumatic years since Leave won it. It is hard to exaggerate the magnitude of this moment.
Happy brexit day
Britain, the first country to leave the European Union. May there by many more.
Today is a historic day. Today the UK breaks the TINA (there is no alternative) spell that has been the main driving force behind the neoliberal anti-democratic monster that is the EU. Today the wheels of history are set in motion again. There is always an alternative. #BrexitDay
Boris Johnson signs Withdrawal Agreement in historic moment for UK and EU
Boris Johnson has signed the Withdrawal Agreement Bill that will bring the UK out of the EU on January 31.
The bill has taken two Conservative governments under two different prime ministers and more than a year to pass in Parliament.
Mr Johnson said it was a „fantastic moment“ that „delivers the result of the 2016 referendum and brings to an end far too many years of argument and division“.
Independent candidate Melhem Khalaf wins Beirut Bar Association elections
BEIRUT: Melhem Khalaf, a law professor at Saint Joseph university, has become the new head of the Beirut Bar Association after beating out the political ruling class‘ candidate.
Khalaf, an independent candidate, ran against Nader Gaspard, who was backed by the Free Patriotic Movement, Lebanese Forces, Future Movement and Progressive Socialist Party.
Protest Movement-Backed Candidate Elected Head of Bar Association
A candidate backed by the protest movement that is sweeping the country was on Sunday elected as head of the Beirut Bar Association, scoring a precious win for the nascent movement over the country’s established political parties.
Lawyers who backed Melhem Khalaf erupted in joy and chanted “revolution, revolution” as the results were announced.
Before and after: the #DemDebate candidates in search.
Tulsi Gabbard breaks through in fiery debate performance
Gabbard ended the night as Google’s most searched candidate in a presidential primary debate that was otherwise dominated by former Vice President Joe Biden’s defense of his record against attacks from other candidates.