Posts Tagged ‘nominated’

Far Right Holds House Hostage; Pro-MAGA, Anti-Freedom Mike Johnson Nominated For Speaker

The House Republican caucus voted to make Rep. Tom Emmer its choice for Speaker Tuesday afternoon, but Emmer faced ferocious opposition from the party’s far-right flank and from former President Donald Trump, leading Emmer to pull out of the race just hours after rising to the top of the candidate pool. The caucus then turned to Rep. Mike Johnson, a hard-right Trump […]

McCarthy Won’t Seek Speaker Position In Re-Vote; Trump Nominated By Nehls

Update (1920T): Newly ousted former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will not seek reelection to the post when the chamber convenes to select a new candidate. According to Just the News, “McCarthy was removing his name from consideration when the House convenes to select a new speaker.” Following McCarthy’s ouster, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) called the former Speaker a “feature […]

Bahabad geopark nominated for national heritage list

TEHRAN – A vast geopark in the city of Bahabad, the central province of Yazd, is planned to be inscribed on the national heritage list, the provincial tourism chief has said. Source

Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas Nominated For NCAA’s Woman Of The Year Award

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has been nominated by the University of Pennsylvania for the NCAA’s 2022 “Woman of the Year” award. Thomas, a biological male, was one of the 577 athletes nominated for the award […] The post Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas Nominated For NCAA’s Woman Of The Year Award appeared first on News Punch. […]

Khalkhal nominated for national city of Jajim weaving  

TEHRAN – The ancient Iranian town of Khalkhal has been nominated for recognition as the national city of Jajim-weaving, a local official said on Monday.  

Khalkhal nominated for national city of Jajim weaving  

TEHRAN – The ancient Iranian town of Khalkhal has been nominated for recognition as the national city of Jajim-weaving, a local official said on Monday.  

A Palestinian refugee has been nominated as the most influential student in the world

A Palestinian student born and raised in a refugee camp in Lebanon has been selected as one of the top 50 finalists for the 2021 Chegg Global Student Prize. More than 3,500 candidates from 94 countries around the world were nominated for having a real impact on learning, the lives of their peers and society […]

Designs by Iranian architects nominated for ADEX Awards

TEHRAN – Projects named Pardis Khaneh and Kabootar Khaneh designed and set up by Iranian architect Nima and Sina Keivani at Keivani Architects have received nominations at the Award for Design Excellence – ADEX Awards in the United States. ADEX stands for Awards for Design Excellence and is the largest and most prestigious awards program […]

Revisionist Historian Who Glorifies Nazi Collaborators Is Nominated as Head of State-Sponsored Genocide Center in Lithuania

A performance of the orchestra of the Jewish ghetto in Kovno, Lithuania, duing the Nazi occupation. Photo: Yad Vashem Archive. A historian lionized by far right groups in Lithuania for glorifying collaborators with the occupying Nazis during World War II is set become the new director of the country’s state-sponsored Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research […]

Nominated as Book Critic! March 2021: Niver’s News

Lisa Ellen Niver, M.A. Education, is a science teacher and an award-winning travel expert who has explored 101 countries and six continents. She sailed the seven seas by cruise ship for seven years and backpacked for three years in Asia. Find her talking travel at KTLA TV and in her We Said Go Travel videos with […]

Ali Moradi nominated for IWF presidency

TEHRAN – Head of Iran Weightlifting Federation Ali Moradi has been nominated for the presidency of the International Weightlifting Federation. There are 11 candidates vying for the presidency of the troubled federation, including current interim president Michael Irani. There are 10 other candidates running alongside Moradi: Jinqiang Zhou (China), Pyrros Dimas (Greece), Michael Irani (Britain), […]

Israeli Actress Shira Haas Nominated For Golden Globe For ‘Unorthodox’ Role

Israeli actress Shira Haas has been nominated for a Golden Globe award for her role in Netflix’s series “Unorthodox.” Haas was nominated for best actress in a limited series, anthology series, or motion picture made for television, the Golden Globes announced on Wednesday. She is reportedly the first Israeli actress ever to be nominated for […]

Corrupt Stacy Abrams Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for Her Work on Elections

Corrupt Democrat Stacy Abrams was voted for a Nobel Peace Prize on Monday for her work on election integrity. Yes, really. Abrams had assistance from her sister, Judge Leslie A. Gardner, who blocked the Muscogee County Board of Elections and Registrations from keeping more than 4,000 “targeted voters” from casting ballots in the U.S. Senate […]

Kushner and Berkowitz nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for Abraham Accords

Browse > Home / News / Kushner and Berkowitz nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for Abraham Accords February 2, 2021 by JNS Read on for article Jared Kushner, senior adviser to former U.S. President Donald Trump, and his deputy Avi Berkowitz were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday for their role in the […]

Trump Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize Over Israel-UAE Peace Deal

Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former President Donald Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday morning by an Estonian member of the European Parliament, Jaak Madison. In a post on social media, Madison said: “In the last 30 years, Donald Trump is the first president of the United States, who during his […]

Grammy-nominated Scottish artist, Sophie, dies after fall from Athens balcony

Sophie, the Grammy-nominated Scottish DJ, producer and recording artist who had worked with the likes of Madonna and Charli XCX, has died following an accident in the Greek capital, Athens. She was 34. In a statement, UK label Transgressive said the musician, whose full name was Sophie Xeon, died in the early hours of Saturday […]

Israeli Actress Shira Haas and Netflix Mini-Series ‘Unorthodox’ Nominated for Critics Choice Awards

Israeli actress Shira Haas in 2018. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Netflix mini-series “Unorthodox” and its Israeli star Shira Haas both garnered nominations for the Critics Choice Awards, it was announced on Monday. In the category of Best Limited Series, the show, about an ultra-Orthodox woman named Esty who breaks away from Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jewish community, is […]

Sarah Fuller Nominated for Courage Award After Making One, 30-Yard Kickoff

Sarah Fuller, who was celebrated over the weekend as the first woman to play in a Power Five college football game, is now in the running for the Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award, according to reports. Fuller, a senior goalkeeper for Vanderbilt’s women’s soccer team, delivered a squib kick during Vanderbilt’s blowout 41-0 loss […]

Politician noted for antisemitic comments nominated to Austrian Senate

Johannes Hübner, who was the foreign affairs spokesman for the Austrian Freedom Party (AFP) until 2017, has just been appointed to the Bundesrat, the equivalent to the Austrian Senate, the European Jewish Congress (EJC) reported on Wednesday.  In 2017, Hübner had initiated a run for the Austrian parliament.  He stopped when he was recorded at […]

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Nominated for Time ‘Person of the Year’

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) has been nominated to be Time magazine’s “Person of the Year.” The magazine published the list on Wednesday. Perhaps the most notable person listed is President Donald Trump, who was previously named “Person of the Year” in 2016 after winning the presidency. Whitmer is in the running with: Netflix Co-CEO […]

Trump-Nominated Justice Kavanaugh Signals Obamacare May Be Safe: Sever Mandate, Leave Rest in Place

(Yahoo News) — During the Supreme Court’s highly anticipated arguments over the Affordable Care Act on Tuesday, the signal from the high court was that President Obama’s healthcare law may largely be safe. Both Justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh — one of whom would almost surely be needed to strike down the entirety of […]

Atlas of Hate: Activists nominated for award for tracking ‘LGBT-free zones’ in Poland

Activists in Poland have been nominated for a prestigious human rights award for tracking the growth of “LGBT-free zones” in the country. Dozens of towns and municipalities in conservative parts of the country have been signing declarations over the last two years, declaring they are “free from LGBT ideology” or expressing support for “traditional marriage” […]

Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for brokering Israel-UAE deal

US President Donald Trump has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the landmark normalization deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, a Norwegian lawmaker who nominated him said Wednesday. “For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees,” […]

Just Like Obama, Trump’s Warmongering Just Got Him Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

May 4, 2018 By Matt Agorist In the Orwellian police state that is America, truth is easily stranger than fiction and Donald Trump’s nomination for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize proves it. After a year of saber rattling, provoking nuclear war, and dropping countless bombs in multiple countries—killing innocent women and […]

President Trump Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize Over Historic North Korea Deal

President Trump has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for bringing peace and stability to North and South Korea.  Congressman Luke Messer (R-IN) says he intends to nominate POTUS for the prestigious award, following the historic agreement to end the 65-year-old war in the Korean peninsula. Thegatewaypundit.com reports: On Thursday, Kim Jong Un crossed […]

Three Suicides In One Night — Guantanamo Prison Commander Nominated As US Ambassador To South Korea

Three Suicides In One Night — Guantanamo Prison Commander Nominated As US Ambassador To South Korea Above Photo: By YouTube, Channel: America the Beautiful Why nominate to be the US Ambassador to South Korea a military general officer who was in charge of notorious Guantanamo prison when on June 9, 2006 at a secret facility on […]

#1917LIVE nominated for Webby Awards: Vote and help RT win an ‘Oscar of the Internet’

#1917LIVE is an interactive history re-enactment on Twitter, dedicated to Russia’s Revolution of 1917. The project was open for all to participate. Vote for #1917LIVE HERE. The Webby Awards are the most established internet awards, annually presented by the The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. In 2016, RT won by a landslide in the […]

BDS movement nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

Norwegian parliamentarian Bjørnar Moxnes officially nominated the BDS movement for Palestinian rights for a Nobel Peace Prize. He did so with the support of his party, the progressive Rødt (Red) Party, explaining why BDS “should be supported without reservation by all democratically-minded people and states.” Statement by Norwegian Parliamentarian Bjørnar Moxnes on Nominating the BDS Movement for […]

BDS has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2018

Bjørnar Moxnes, a member of the Norwegian Parliament, has nominated the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for this year’s Nobel Prize. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)-movement for Palestinian rights was yesterday formally nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize by the Norwegian MP Bjørnar Moxness (Rødt). A press relase about the nomination […]

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement for Palestinian Rights (BDS) has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2018

Bjørnar Moxnes, member of the Norwegian Parliament, Oct. 20, 2017 Bjørnar Moxnes, a member of the Norwegian Parliament, has nominated the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for this year’s Nobel Prize. Press release The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)-movement for Palestinian rights was yesterday formally nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize by […]

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