Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) claims US President Donald Trump is “deficient” in certain American values and, as a result, engages in a number of unconventional practices while occupying the White House, including treating the presidency “like a business opportunity” while kissing “dictators’ butts.” During a private call with constituents this week, Sasse was asked by an unidentified individual to provide an explanation as to why he feels the need to criticize Trump “so much.” Before answering the question, Sasse noted that he and Trump did agree on the judicial appointment of more originalists regarding the Constitution, including US Supreme Court nominee […]
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Idli are steamed cakes originating in southern India, which are now popular throughout the country. It is a breakfast food, made by steaming a batter of fermented rice and black lentil beans in special moulds, and usually eaten with Sambar – a lentil-based vegetable stew. Former UN diplomat and Indian lawmaker Shashi Tharoor pounced on British professor Edward Anderson for his ‘unsavoury’ comment on idlis, a popular South Indian breakfast fare. Anderson’s comment that ‘Idli’ is boring stirred up a social media rumble and Tharoor scolded the Brit, saying that he must knows idlis aren’t boring, noting the reactions on Twitter […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107688/94/1076889494_0:181:1920:1261_1200x675_80_0_0_eb088751696eec7fdc158ad729053c20.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Pratibha Sharma. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202010071080691202-covid-positive-delhi-lawmaker-booked-for-meeting-hathras-gang-rape-victims-family/ New Delhi (Sputnik): Politicians and activists have been flocking to the Hathras district of northern Indian state Uttar Pradesh to meet the family of a 19-year-old gang rape victim who succumbed to her grievous injuries on 29 September in a Delhi hospital, triggering a nationwide uproar against the law and order situation in the state. Delhi lawmaker Kuldeep Kumar, who announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19 on 29 September, has been booked under the Epidemic Act in Uttar Pradesh for meeting the family of the deceased woman despite contracting the […]
Saturday marked the thirtieth anniversary of the German Democratic Republic’s incorporation into the Federal Republic of Germany, with the event becoming a key landmark in ending the Cold War. The West’s triumphalist attitude in the wake of German reunification was a major mistake which the world continues to pay for today, Gregor Gysi, president of the Party of the European Left, and prominent politician from the Die Linke (‘The Left’) party in the Bundestag, has suggested. “The West could not stop winning, and assumed that everything would continue as it had before. This was a serious mistake, the consequences of which […]
Pennsylvania State Representative Wendy Ullman and Governor Tom Wolf were caught joking off camera about taking their masks off just before they spoke at a press conference touting the need to defend Obamacare during Covid-19. Just as Ullman was preparing to speak behind the podium on Tuesday at a press conference north of Philadelphia, Wolf can be heard off camera to her left, saying: “So Wendy, I’m gonna take, I’m gonna take my mask off when I speak.”Ullman walks toward Wolf, off camera, and says: “I will as well, just, I’m waiting so that we can do a little political theater.” […]
Kamala Harris receives the oath of office from California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George during her inauguration on Jan. 8, 2004, as San Francisco’s district attorney. In the center is Harris’ mother, Shyamala Gopalan. George Nikitin/AP hide caption toggle caption George Nikitin/AP Kamala Harris receives the oath of office from California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George during her inauguration on Jan. 8, 2004, as San Francisco’s district attorney. In the center is Harris’ mother, Shyamala Gopalan. George Nikitin/AP Three months after becoming San Francisco’s district attorney in 2004, Kamala Harris faced a trial by fire. Harris had […]
Brazil’s crypto scene has been unbanked, unregulated and awash in legal uncertain for its entire history. Source link
Ayub Kara, a former member of Likud, once predicted that disengagement from Gaza would pave the way for Hamas’ takeover of the Strip but then-prime minister Sharon wouldn’t listen. Now, he says his party’s lawmakers are no longer naive and that means that another withdrawal is out of question. When then-prime minister Ariel Sharon decided to pull Israeli forces out of Gaza and dismantle the 22 settlements dispersed across the Strip, Ayub Kara, who at that time served as a member of the hawkish Likud party, felt concerned. For him, it was a no-brainer. True to his ideology, which sees the […]
A Nashville councilwoman wants anyone who doesn’t wear a mask to be “tried for murder or attempted murder.” “My question goes back to legislation,” Sharon Hurt, an at-large councilwoman of the Nashville Metro Council, said during a meeting last week between Public Safety, Beer & Regulated Beverages and Health, Hospitals, & Social Services committees. “But my concern is — you know I work for an organization, that if they pass a virus, then they are tried for murder or attempted murder, if they are not told … and this person who may very well pass this virus that’s out in the […]
LaShawn Ford, a Democrat in the Illinois General Assembly, has called for an immediate halt of history classes that he claims “lead to white privilege and a racist society,” sparking concerns over an Orwellian revision of history. “I’m calling on the state board of education to end the teaching of history and the local school districts to take immediate action by removing the current history books and curriculum practices that unfairly communicate our history,” Ford said Sunday at an event in Evanston, Illinois. His vague plan calls for temporarily replacing history classes by devoting greater attention to civics and ensuring that […]
A $60 million kickback on a $2 billion payoff to a corrupt Ohio utility that runs the most dangerous nuclear plant in the world has led a trail of corruption to a series of rigged elections including one that put Shitstain in the White House. Daily Beast: Ohio’s top state lawmaker conspired to funnel tens of millions of dollars from the state’s electric utility to his political allies in order to consolidate power over the state legislature and shepherd through a $1.5 billion bailout for the utility’s nuclear power plants, federal prosecutors alleged on Tuesday. The FBI arrested Ohio speaker Larry […]
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) is calling for Rep. Ted Yoho (R-NY) to issue an apology to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) after he allegedly hurled a number of expletives and a sexist slur toward his Democratic colleague during a brief exchange. Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter on Tuesday to express that while she usually gets along fine with her GOP colleagues, that was not the case when she was allegedly accosted by Yoho on July 20. I never spoke to Rep. Yoho before he decided to accost me on the steps of the nation’s Capitol yesterday. Believe it or not, I […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/10/1079905383_0:0:2986:1680_1200x675_80_0_0_5657ea129dd5f7d339c4340c25db4cc4.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202007161079905419-uk-lawmaker-calls-on-moscow-london-to-get-beyond-mutual-recrimination/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The United Kingdom and Russia need to shift the focus from mutual accusations onto trying to see each other’s reason, Lord Richard Balfe, a Conservative member of the UK Parliament, said on Thursday after the UK concurrently unveiled two fresh portions of anti-Russia claims. First, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told the parliament earlier in the day that Russian actors “almost certainly” tried to interfere in the country’s 2019 elections through leaking documents on US-UK trade talks. In parallel, the UK National Cyber Security Centre accused Russia-linked cyber actors of attempting to […]
CNN anchor Brianna Keilar on Wednesday clashed with a Republican state lawmaker who is suing over mask mandates, eventually pointing out that he is not a “public health expert” while noting he’s already had one case tossed out. With coronavirus cases and hospitalizations spiking in Florida as the nation deals with a prolonged surge, Florida State Rep. Anthony Sabatini has attempted to challenge county ordinances in the state requiring face masks in businesses, claiming the mandates are constitutional violations. Appearing on CNN Newsroom, Sabatini immediately justified his lawsuits, claiming the ordinances are “unconstitutional” and that mask mandates violate the privacy of citizens. […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): In the wake of COVID-19 outbreak, India’s Gross Domestic Product growth fell to a 12-year-low of 3.1 percent in January- March. Observers have projected negative growth for the Indian economy during the financial year 2020-21. The country entered a national lockdown on 24 March at the direction of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A lawmaker from the Indian state of West Bengal on Sunday equated federal Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with a “venomous snake” for her handling of the economy. Kalyan Banerjee is a lawmaker from Trinamool Congress (TMC), the rival party of Sitharaman’s Bharatiya Janata Party, the main […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): Ever since the global crude oil prices crashed in March, when the Oil Producing and Exporting Countries Plus (OPEC+) failed to agree on production cuts in the wake of the COVID-19 spread, India’s principal opposition party Congress has been demanding that the Modi government cut retail prices. Congress lawmaker Rahul Gandhi has kicked off an online campaign called “Speak Up Against Fuel Hike”. The retail prices of petrol and diesel have hit the roof ever since the country entered the first phase of its unlock on 8 June. Diesel and petrol prices have been revised upwards almost every […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107969/30/1079693069_0:171:3124:1929_1200x675_80_0_0_702317a8a652c63b45766f81b9e52528.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Tim Korso. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202006241079710048-all-statues-toppled-now-its-senators-turn-wisconsin-protesters-beat-up-dem-lawmaker-over-photo/ The demonstrations against the arrest of a black man by police in Madison come in the wake of the so-called George Floyd protests, which have been rocking the US for over three weeks now. The rallies have on many occasions turned violent, with participants often vandalising businesses and statues. Democratic State Senator Tim Carpenter of Milwaukee was taken to hospital after he was assaulted and hit several times in Madison, Wisconsin, which he visited in order to be present for local protests. The demonstrators condemned the arrest of African-American man Devonere Johnson […]
Earlier today Democrat lawmaker Cedric Richmond (D-LA) hurled racist insults at Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and his son during a House Judiciary Committee hearing. During the hearing Democrat Richmond attacked Republican lawmakers in the room who “have never lived in my shoes.” Rep. Gaetz then countered the Democrat for assuming no Republican member do not have different race family members. Channel News 8 reported: Richmond acknowledged that he knows Republicans on the committee who “have black grandchildren,” but he added, “It is about black males, black people in the streets that are getting killed, and if one of them happens to […]
A senator in Ohio has landed himself in hot water after asking an expert witness whether the ‘colored population’ suffered more than others from the deadly coronavirus, owing to inadequate hygiene skills. On Tuesday, during a meeting of the Senate Health Committee, Sen. Steve Huffman (R-Tipp City), who is white, asked the witness why the impact of Covid-19 has been worse on people of color than on white people. But he phrased his question in a way that can only be described as cringeworthy. “Could it just be that African Americans or the colored population do not wash their hands as […]
An Iranian lawmaker wants his country’s central bank to take bitcoin seriously. Representative Mohammad Hossein Farhangi (Tabriz), speaking Tuesday before the nation’s parliament, called on the Governor of the Central Bank of Iran, Abdolnaser Hemmati, to handle oversight of bitcoin, according to the Tasnim news agency. Calling proper management of bitcoin a “good opportunity for the country,” Farhangi warned against ceding its potential to financial institutions. “Take the issue of bitcoin seriously,” he said. “We do not understand that the government has entrusted the monitoring of bitcoins to the Ministry of Industry and Mines,” he said, “because the central bank must […]
This is really good news!Attorney Todd McMurtry, who represented the Covington Catholic boys in their lawsuits against the perpetrators in the mainstream media, is running for US Congress in Kentucky’s 4th Congressional district. WLWT5 reported: Todd McMurtry represented Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann after the student sued CNN for defamation for a video taken at a national Right to Life march. The video shows Sandmann with a group of other students who had been approached by a Native American protester… …McMurtry filed to challenge Thomas Massie in the May GOP primary in the 4th District, a conservative bastion that spans the […]
An Italian lawmaker has managed to bring the conspiracy blame-game to an entirely new level, exercising her parliamentary chamber free speech to blast Bill Gates as a “vaccine criminal” and globalist tool. Bill Gates and his latest anti-coronavirus efforts have been at the center of the wildest theories that explore possible sinister motives behind the billionaire’s activities. In arguably the most high-profile outcry last week, an Italian MP for Rome Sara Cunial delivered a speech rarely (if ever at all) heard at any parliament. In her passionate address, Cunial called upon fellow lawmakers to defy any plans of compulsory vaccination against Covid-19. […]
US 08:46 GMT 17.05.2020(updated 08:47 GMT 17.05.2020) Get short URL Causing “disgust” from his colleagues, a representative for Alaska, Ben Carpenter, brought up a scenario of COVID-19 patients “being rounded up and taken somewhere”. An Alaska lawmaker has ignited a storm of reactions by drawing parallels between health screening stickers and the Star of David badges that Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust, going on to argue that Adolf Hitler was not a white supremacist, a report by The Washington Post has it. “If my sticker falls off, do I get a new one or do I get public shaming too?”, […]
Uber Eats is in talks with Grubhub about a possible acquisition. Analysts say such a merger would make the combined company the dominant player in food delivery. Lynne Sladky/AP hide caption toggle caption Lynne Sladky/AP Uber Eats is in talks with Grubhub about a possible acquisition. Analysts say such a merger would make the combined company the dominant player in food delivery. Lynne Sladky/AP With its ride-hailing business devastated by the coronavirus pandemic, Uber is in talks to acquire online food delivery company Grubhub. If the two sides can reach a deal, the combined company would emerge as the dominant food-delivery […]