Archiv: cowards


06.02.2022 - 07:04 [ CBC.ca ]

GoFundMe ends payments to convoy protest, citing reports of violence and harassment

The crowdfunding platform GoFundMe says it will stop payments to the organizers of Freedom Convoy 2022 and refund donors directly because the protest violates its rules on violence and harassment.

29.01.2022 - 17:23 [ DailyMail.co.uk ]

Rishi Sunak ‚thinks Boris Johnson WON’T survive Partygate and has ALEADY built a dummy campaign website as he prepares leadership bid‘

– Rishi Sunak ‚thinks Boris Johnson won’t survive Partygate and has built a dummy campaign website‘
– The Chancellor is said to be preparing a leadership campaign in the event the Prime Minister is deposed
– Mr Johnson is fighting for his political life as he awaits results of inquiry into ‚Partygate‘ drama
– His wife Carrie Johnson is accused of organising a cake for Mr Johnson’s 56th birthday party in June 2020
– Miss Gray is said to be furious that Scotland Yard has asked for a redacted version of her report
– The Met Police asked for only ‚minimal references‘ to ‚parties‘ at centre of the row to be in document

09.01.2021 - 19:09 [ Glenn Greenwald / Twitter ]

That the ACLU can’t issue a clear, definitive statement about Silicon Valley oligarchical monopolies radically expanding their control over political speech – see if you can figure out what this even means — speaks volumes not only about ACLU but how repressive this moment is:

10.06.2020 - 07:18 [ Kyle Griffin, MSNBC / Twitter ]

Asked about Trump’s false Buffalo tweet, Sen. Lisa Murkowski responded: „Oh lord.“ „It just makes no sense that we’re fanning the flames right at this time, this is not good.“

10.06.2020 - 07:12 [ Forbes / Twitter ]

Even after several reporters printed out a copy of President Trump’s tweet claiming that the 75-year-old protester, whose skull was cracked by Buffalo police officers, is an “ANTIFA provocateur,” GOP Senators refused to denounce it

10.06.2020 - 07:03 [ Manu Raju, senior congressional correspondent, @CNN / Twitter ]

Sen. Ron Johnson told me he hadn’t seen the Trump Buffalo tweet but he also didn’t want me to read it to him when I tried to show him a print out. “I would rather not hear it,” he said as he walked onto an elevator

31.01.2020 - 14:59 [ NPR.org ]

Why Many Progressives Say They’ve Come Back To Bernie Sanders

„I wasn’t sure it was a good idea, to be perfectly honest,“ the former New Hampshire state senator-turned-podcast host said recently. „What held me back a little bit was as Bernie says, ‚It’s not me, it’s us,‘ and that so many other candidates were picking up what he was talking about.“

Many progressives said similar things at the beginning of this campaign cycle. They felt that issues that Sanders has championed, such as Medicare for All, were now part of the party’s mainstream debate.

But as the campaign dragged on …

17.12.2019 - 22:04 [ Haaretz ]

Israel’s Left Has Forgotten What It Means to Be Leftist

Belonging to the left means holding a wide-ranging worldview, based on the belief that all humans are born equal, worthy of equal and fair treatment. This is why the left fights for weaker segments of society, for laborers and for migrants. This is why a true left must fight for people who are living under an occupation that deprives them of the most fundamental rights while preventing them from fulfilling their national aspirations of living in a state of their own, alongside Israel.

21.10.2019 - 17:22 [ Daily Wire ]

WATCH: Buttigieg Pivots When Asked About Hillary Clinton’s ‘Russian Asset’ Remark

TAPPER: So when Donald Trump smears people, Democrats all stand up and say, you’re smearing someone. Stop it. Why don’t Democrats do that, to say that about Tulsi Gabbard? It seems like an obvious smear. I don’t see any evidence she’s a Russian asset. It seems like a wild accusation.

BUTTIGIEG: Yes, I think statements like that ought to be backed by evidence.

06.09.2019 - 14:47 [ BBC ]

Brexit: Opposition parties to reject PM election move

Labour, the Lib Dems, the SNP and Plaid Cymru say they will vote against the government or abstain in Monday’s vote on whether to hold a snap poll.

05.09.2019 - 14:22 [ Guido Fawkes ]

Labour MP’s 80-Minute U-Turn

As Labour MPs chickened out of voting for an election, some of their ranks were less subtle in their u-turning, from having called for an election for years.

Marr Rodda – MP for Reading East – embarrassingly called for Boris to hold a general election, only to vote against an election 80 minutes later.

05.09.2019 - 14:18 [ Express.co.uk ]

Tory Brexiteers mock Corbyn’s embarrassing election U-turn – Commons erupts in laughter

Bernard Jenkins said: “Is there some way of tabling a motion that this house has no confidence in Her Majesty’s Opposition?”

This prompted the Commons to erupt in laughter, even making Commons Speaker John Bercow smile.

Boris Johnson added: “It’s the first time in history the Opposition has shown confidence in the Government.“

05.09.2019 - 14:03 [ theGuardian.com ]

Senior Labour MPs urge Corbyn to resist PM’s snap election call

Thornberry said she would prefer a later date than 15 October. “I personally think that we need to have a general election when we’re going to win it. I’ll wait a couple of weeks. If we can give them a little bit of extra rope … just let them be in power for a few more weeks then people can really see how bad they are,” she told Sky News.

17.07.2019 - 11:49 [ CNN ]

Mitch McConnell sidesteps question about his wife, who’s an immigrant

Asked if he would consider it a racist attack if someone told his wife Elaine Chao — who is the US Secretary of Transportation and an immigrant and naturalized US citizen — to go back to her own country, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sidestepped the question and talked about his support for legal immigration.

31.03.2019 - 16:32 [ ITV.com ]

Letter orchestrated by unnamed minister urges no-deal Brexit as Theresa May plots fourth vote

The Prime Minister is consulting senior ministers over the weekend on the way ahead after MPs voted on Friday to reject the Withdrawal Agreement by a majority of 58.

ITV Political Correspondent Paul Brand said the letter was not being widely circulated over fears it could reveal who first authored the piece.

19.02.2019 - 16:15 [ Max Blumenthal ‏/ Twitter ]

I asked members of Congress if they thought the US was meddling in Venezuela. Their dismaying responses demonstrated why it’s so easy for the permanent war state to get its way on Capitol Hill.

(1.2.2019)

15.02.2019 - 06:29 [ CNSNews.com ]

IAEA Chief Complains of ‘Pressure’ Over Iran Nuclear Inspections

(1.2.2019) Insisting once again that Iran is complying with the 2015 nuclear deal, the head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog complained this week that attempts – he didn’t say by whom – to pressure the agency on inspections were “counter-productive and extremely harmful.”

25.11.2018 - 21:42 [ Spectator.co.uk ]

Sunday Shows Round-up: Brexit deal under fire

The Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt was interviewed by Andrew Marr, who asked about the difficulties ahead:

AM: How many Tory MPs do you think will vote against this?

JH: Well that’s a very difficult question and the arithmetic at the moment is looking challenging, but a lot can change over the next two weeks.

24.11.2018 - 19:35 [ Nadine Dorries, Member of Parliament (MP) ‏/ Twitter ]

May has capitulated to every single EU demand. She’s abandoned NI, and now Gibraltar. At no time does she push back. As Barnier said, they have given May the deal she asked for and she has given them everything they have asked for. It’s almost beyond words how bad this is.