2026-08-12 16:27:03
It's called Newspeak: war is peace, hate is love.
'Reform UK has received a £36m donation from a British cryptocurrency billionaire - a record for a UK political party.
Ben Delo wrote in the Daily Telegraph, external that he was making the move because he wanted a "fair fight and a level playing field".'
Ben Delo: Reform receives record £36m donation from cryptocurrency billionaire - BBC News
How crypto billionaires Christopher Harborne, who owns ~12% of Tether, and Ben Delo donated ~$100M to Nigel Farage's Reform, the largest donations in UK history (David Segal/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com…
Farage's UK far-right party receives record €42 million donation from crypto billionaire. The role of crypto in the tech billionaire push to topple democracy is described in Gil Duran's recent book The Nerd Reich.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v4zvyde15o
Bitter. Auch der #DLF übernimmt die Darstellung von Warken, das #Geheimdienste 'nur' „in bestimmten Fällen eingreifen, in denen die Polizei oder andere Behörden nicht tätig werden könnten“
Welche sind das? Warum nicht? Die Frage wird nicht gestellt.
Dabei gibt es doch gerade la…
🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Es ist Zeit für eine Reform der #Dienstwagenbesteuerung in Deutschland 🚗🌍
Die aktuelle Regelung begünstigt große, verbrauchsintensive #Fahrzeuge und fördert CO₂-Emissionen. Wie könnte eine umweltfreundlichere Besteuerung aussehen? Sollten steu…
Statt Reform - „Manipulativ oder unfähig“: Kniefall vor dem ORF #News #Nachrichten
Lawyers for UK Reform Party's deputy leader say they will seek documents that could reveal Guardian journalists' sources; critics call the move a legal threat (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/a
Another turn of the screw from the UK's main fascist party.
Reform pledges to suspend asylum system for up to five years and deport claimants - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwnv0zmjld51o
@… When it comes to reform, I would do *plenty*. But if I did nothing else, it would be to remove all of the bogus "emergency" powers from the hands of the president. The framers were right to include separation of powers and checks and balances into the system, and those should be restored... no matter who is in the White House.
A record-low vote share for Quebec's incoming government has reignited a long-standing debate over how the province elects its leaders.
The Parti Québécois secured enough seats to form a minority government despite getting only 28 per cent of the popular vote — the lowest vote share for a governing party in Quebec history.
Hang on, I'll get the popcorn!
#BBCNews - Police launch criminal investigation into #Reform UK donations
https://www.bbc…
Farage's Reform Raises Record £72 Million in Less Than 24 Hours (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-12/farage-s-reform-raises-record-72-million-in-less-than-24-hours
http://www.memeorandum.com/260912/p17#a260912p17
Sie versucht es auf allen Ebenen. Menschen wissen nicht mehr, wo sie wohnen sollen, aber den Mietendeckel für Windkraftanlagen, den braucht es! #erneuerbare
https://taz.de/Reform-der-Energiegeset
"Reform-led Wakefield Council scraps 2030 net-zero target"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NetZero
I am delighted to hear that James Orr has stepped down from his position with #ReformUKLtd. I wonder whether he will also step down from his position with the University of Cambridge?
#Farage
#FarageSleaze
This article is utter nonsense. The planning system does not prevent building.
1) The NPPF has a presumption for sustainable development, where 'sustainable' is nothing of the sort.
2) Sure councils can refuse planning applications but a) if they are the sponsors, why would they, and b) if they do then the planning inspectorate / Secretary of State will overturn the decision.
/contd.
🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Es ist Zeit für eine Reform der #Dienstwagenbesteuerung in Deutschland 🚗🌍
Die aktuelle Regelung begünstigt große, verbrauchsintensive #Fahrzeuge und fördert CO₂-Emissionen. Wie könnte eine umweltfreundlichere Besteuerung aussehen? Sollten steu…
The convicted fraudster George Cottrell transferred a total of more than $2m to his mother, Fiona Cottrell,
in the days before her 2024 donations to Reform UK, the Guardian understands.
Financial industry sources told the Guardian that Fiona received one deposit of $1.4m and two tranches of more than $300,000 each
– money she attributed to having come from her son, George, when bankers asked about the deposits.
On each occasion, the Guardian understands transfers were…
RE: https://flipboard.com/@globeandmail/world-qs57rganz/-/a-laEP1YL4Q5SR_vSOMB4rrg:a:729020400-/0
Reform fundraising campaign based on this in 3… 2…
> "Die Grünen wollen im Bundestag die Reform eines Gesetzes verhindern, das Bürgern Auskunftsrechte einräumt."
Ihr habt da was missverstanden, @….
Die @… will existierende Auskunftsrechte de facto a…
We read about, and are shocked, by book bans in the MAGA US, but they are happening here too:
"The truth about book bans in the UK today
In the last year alone, hundreds of books in the UK have been pulled off shelves in censorship attempts. These include Becoming by Michelle Obama, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and Soul Music by Terry Pratchett."
Wir haben kein Ost/Westproblem!
Wir haben ein Steuergerechtigkeitsproblem!
Grunderwerbssteuer zahlt der Normalbürger, Firmenkonglomerate nicht.
Den kleinen Handwerker trietzt man, die großen Unternehmen müssen keine Steuerprüfungen fürchten.
Die Erbschaftssteuer und Vermögenssteuer bedürfen einer gerechten Reform und konsequenter Anwendung.
Dann dreht sich die Stimmung im Land und rechte Empörungsparteien haben keine Chance.
Wirtschaft fordert radikale Datenschutz-Reform
Viele Betriebe fühlen sich von Bürokratie und Rechtsunsicherheit ausgebremst. Welche Änderungen die Wirtschaft bei der Datenschutzaufsicht konkret fordert.
https://www.
Yen Town Band will reform again to celebrate the 30th years of Swallowtail Butterfly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3KHL60juD4
Die "EEG-Reform und das Netzpaket würden die Investitionsbedingungen für Erneuerbare Energien verschlechtern und damit die Energiewende verteuern. Zudem vergibt die Regierung die Chance, Kosten durch eine bessere Marktintegration von Erneuerbaren zu sparen und lässt zentrale Probleme beim Netzausbau ungelöst. Dabei führt die anhaltende Blockade der Straße von Hormus wieder vor Augen, wie wichtig der Ausbau von E E ist, um D unabhängiger von fossilen Importen zu machen."
Abdul El-Sayed had campaigned on a boldly progressive agenda of universal healthcare, halting military aid to Israel and sweeping campaign finance reform.
The moderate Stevens had received $60m from outside groups,
including $30m from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) and its affiliates.
It was the latest and possibly biggest tremor in a political earthquake consuming the Democratic party.
Its leftwing insurgency was no longer confined to deep blu…
Protester violently assaulted at Reform conference speaks out | The National
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26525360.protester-violently-assaulted-reform-conference-speaks/?ref=rss
Anhörung zur Reform der #Notfallversorgung in Deutschland.
https://www.bundestag.de/presse/hib/kurzmeldungen-1211108
Die Kritik ist – angesichts der jahrelan…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Der Bürger muss begründen, der Staat darf schweigen: IFG-Reform droht
Machen statt meckern - #Engagement in der Pflege-WG Adlergarten in Eichstetten am Kaiserstuhln
#Pflege
DPolG Niedersachsen: Anschlag im Umfeld des Berliner CSD: Sicherheitsbehörden wirksam ausstatten Hannover (ots) - DPolG Niedersachsen fordert moderne Datenanalyse, elektronische Fußfessel für Gefährder und eine Reform des Jugendstrafrechts Nach dem Anschlag im Umfeld des Christopher Street Days in Berlin fordert die Deutsche ... https://www.
"Reform says we need to choose between climate and economy. It’s wrong - Larry Elliott"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate
Like practically all far-right parties, Reform UK want to stop climate action. Perfectly aligned with fossil fuel interests, and could well be related to their murky financing.
Reform’s Tice accused of misinformation after urging people to enjoy heatwaves
https://www.
Only Trump Can Pull Off Immigration Reform (Mike DeWine/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/opinion/trump-dewine-immigration-reform.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260810/p72#a260810p72
Tories and Fascists want a free lunch.
Tories and Reform UK tell Burnham they will fight any plan to reform adult social care involving tax rises – UK politics live
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/
Neue Schockzahlen - Kinder warten bis zu sieben Monate auf Operation #News #Nachrichten
IFG-Reform: Bundesregierung in Erklärungsnot
Bedrohungen von Staatsbediensteten sollen ein Grund für die umstrittene Reform des Informationsfreiheitsgesetzes sein. Fälle gibt es wohl keine.
https://www.
Another one?
#Reform's Dan Thomas resigns as #Wales leader after arrest
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqde0x
Wie dumm, engstirnig, korrupt, gierig, blind etc. etc. kann man sein? Beweis 259.367: https://troet.cafe/@ndaktuell/117363888576548049
Britain's Conservative Party leader
Kemi Badenoch has called defectors who left for Reform
“some of the most dishonest people” she has ever met,
as she ruled out allowing
“drama queens” to return to the party
https://www.
“any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system,” and therefore rejected.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-banning-ads-virginia-woolf-facebook-i…
Lots of bad-faith arguments in the SF Chronicle's endorsement of Prop D, but this takes the cake.
Mayor Lurie unilaterally put Prop D on the ballot! He didn't have to negotiate with supervisors or anyone, because he got his billionaire backers to pay $8 million for paid signatures.
He could do it again! He's not giving up power at all, because he's ultra-rich and backed by the ultra-rich. The rest of us will be blocked from the ballot. Vote No on D.
Well at least these evil people are putting their cards on the table.
Thinktank linked to Reform UK calls for abolition of state pension | Reform UK | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/23/thinktank-reform-uk-abolition…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Brüsseler Vorstoß: Reform soll Informationsfreiheit bei der Kommission schwächen
Bis zum 29.9.26 könnt ihr euch noch anmelden um digital mit abzustimmen. Macht das mal. Vier Themen, die uns angehen!
#Abstimmung21
"Swinney said Burnham's stated desire to devolve further powers around the UK was something he welcomed."
A major failing of the Scottish Government has been its failure to devolve more powers to local authorities. There could have been massive reform of local taxation if Holyrood hadn't refused to devolve that power.
Hopefully there will be more subsidiarity arising from Burnham's devolution agenda and engagement with the Scottish Government.
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
IFG-Reform: Bundesregierung in Erklärungsnot
https://www.
hells yeah #NYCPol
Remember that 80s slogan, "The National Front is a Nazi Front".
I say,
"Reform UK is becoming a Nazi Front, or at least a new 'British Union of Fascists' (Blackshirts)"
Reform pledges to prioritise British-born young workers for social housing but plans slammed as 'blatant distraction' - Manchester Evening News
Police have contested Nigel Farage’s claims that he was told by officers not to attend the Clacton -by-election count due to a “credible threat” against him.
The Reform UK leader pre-empted the result by telling supporters he had won “fairly convincingly”, adding that he would not attend the official declaration at Clacton Leisure Centre because Essex Police had told him about an “organised campaign to disrupt and degrade the result”.
A Reform UK spokesperson later said: “Essex P…
I donated again to ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/about/
"Mission: To expose abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust by government, business, and other institutions, using the moral force of investigative journalism to spur reform through the sustained spotlighting …
RE: https://flipboard.com/@npr/u.s.-news-aspd61boz/-/a-nNNO2tYCSzuyhDD4BWByvQ:a:3195441-/0
Yes, this is the type of SCOTUS reform that is badly needed.
"Reform’s Tice accused of misinformation after urging people to enjoy heatwaves"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Heatwave
"Heating up the headlines: How tabloid framing reshaped Germany's Buildings Energy Act"
In diesem Paper wird untersucht, wie die „BILD“ (Deutschlands größte Boulevardzeitung) die Reform des Gebäudeenergiegesetzes (GEG)
2023 zu einer der polarisierendsten politischen Kontroversen der jüngeren deutschen Geschichte gemacht hat:
Ein "netter" und zutreffender Titel in der #FR
Die Rechte und ihre reichen Freunde.
https://www.fr.de/meinung/kommentare/72-mi
Nach Reform-Sager - Meinl-Reisinger holt sich die Kasperl-Dividende #News #Nachrichten
Factcheck: Reform UK’s 45 false or misleading claims about climate and energy - Carbon Brief https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-reform-uks-45-false-or-misleading-claims-about-climate-and-energy
GM Mayoral election results
Round 2
Bev Craig Labour
309,525 66%
Sian Astley Reform UK 157,178 34%
Round 1
Bev Craig
Labour
251,449 47%
Sian Astley
Reform
111,928 21%
Geraldine Coggins
Green
64,968 12%
Marlon West
Restore
46,289 9%
Phil Eckersley Conservative
41,021 8%
Richard Kilpatrick
Lib Dems
14,702 3%
M…
Wie die CDU nun in den Markt eingreift, um den dringend benötigten Netzausbau auszubremsen und es normalen Leuten schwerer zu machen, die Energiewende zu unterstützen und dabei unabhängiger von Öl und Gas zu werden...
„Die geplante Reform zur Förderung der Erneuerbaren soll mehr Markt und mehr Flexibilität bringen. Doch Wirtschaftsministerin Reiche hat in ihr Konzept Klauseln eingebaut, die genau das Gegenteil bewirken würden.“
“At the end of the day, I didn’t even recognize my own child,” said Izora Clark,
whose daughter Krystal has become a focal point of demands for reform at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility, Michigan’s only women’s prison.
Clark, along with Krystal’s daughter and grandchildren, joined advocates and family members of other women incarcerated at Women’s Huron Valley outside the Michigan State Capitol and Michigan Department of Corrections headquarters on Friday afternoon to …
Längerer Wehrdienst - Kunasek empfiehlt Start der Reform erst ab 2028 #News #Nachrichten
Labour Leads Reform in New UK Poll in Sign of Burnham Boost (Joe Mayes/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-04/labour-leads-reform-in-uk-poll-in-latest-sign-of-burnham-boost
http://www.memeorandum.com/260804/p55#a260804p55
'A spokesperson from Downing Street said on Monday morning: “We condemn the thuggish behaviour. It was completely unacceptable. We support the right to peaceful protest but not when it crosses the line into disorder.”'
Well, I do not support the right to protest against desperate people who've been rescued at see in their attempt to secure a better life. Nor do I support governments that do not stand up for migrants.
When John Sayles, then a student at Williams College taking time off from his summer factory job,
was hitchhiking during the summer of 1970 in West Virginia,
it was often coalminers who picked him off the main interstate highways.
At the time, miners were amid the wake of a contentious union election within the United Mine Workers of America.
Fierce tensions had led to the murder of the union reform candidate Joseph Yablonskiand his wife in December 1969.
Miner…
AFR Commends Senators’ Rejection of CLARITY, the Billionaire-Backed Giveaway to the Crypto Industry
Following today’s failure to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act in the Senate, Americans for Financial Reform and Demand Progress Action’s Mark Hays, Associate Director of Cryptocurrency and Financial Technology, issued the following statement:
Today all voting Democrats and several Republicans stood up for the public interest and rejected the deeply flawed crypto bill th…
Social care reform:
"It should be rooted in the principle that care is a right and not a commodity, and the ideology of self-directed support should be dumped. It must herald the end of commissioning, procurement and out-sourcing. The shareholder dividend, the profit motive should be vanquished from the care sector once and for all."
Burnham's care service plan needs radical planning and bold implementation | Morning Star
Meanwhile, the likes of Reform UK bleat that benefit scroungers are costing a huge amount of money, but a large share of that money is the subsidy to corporate profits I mentioned in my last post. Many people getting Government top-ups are hard-working, not sitting about doing nothing all day.
Sozialhilfe-Reform - Kindergrundsicherung: SPÖ bricht Wahlversprechen #News #Nachrichten
"If the proposed national commission does its work briskly, there is no reason why a new system could be ratified democratically and in place before 2029."
Urgent reform is needed to fix our broken electoral system | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/a…
Emanuel urges Democrats to prioritize ethics reform over potential third Trump impeachment (Tara Suter/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6128366-emanuel-pushes-democrats-ethics-reform/
http://www.memeorandum.com/261004/p39#a261004p39
'Dangerous power grab':
top Democrats decry USPS system that could thwart mail-in voting
Representative Robert Garcia,
ranking member of the committee on oversight and government reform,
is speaking out following disclosure of a whistleblower report
alleging the US Postal Service is poised to launch a computer system that could derail mail-in voting.
Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal disclosed this whistleblower statement,
which warned o…
Burnham’s quick wins don’t indicate a plan for real reform | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/burnhams-quick-wins-dont-indicate-plan-real-reform
"Factcheck: Reform UK’s 45 false or misleading claims about climate and energy"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange
Green Party deputy leader Rachel Millward: 'revelations “opened a window on how the super-rich corrupt our political parties”
'Ms Millward said we have a “real opportunity” to “clean up our politics,” referring to an amendment put forward by the Greens to the Representation of the People Bill, which would ban political donations from corporations.'
Unions crash Reform Party conference as Farage’s inner circle suspended in fresh donations scandal
Defense secretary Pete Hegseth
is considering inviting senior military personnel back for an address at Marine Corps Base Quantico this year,
according to the Wall Street Journal (paywall).
Last September, Hegseth summoned military commanders to Quantico,
where he delivered an astonishing keynote speech addressing a department-wide initiative to reform its so-called “woke” narrative.
“We became ‘the woke department’,” Hegseth said last year.
“Not any more.…
Burnham’s planning reform empowers developers, not people — and will do nothing for housing supply | Morning Star
Really important to understand this. And oppose it.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/articl
Wehr- und Zivildienst - Tanner: „Natürlich kommt es auf die Länge an!“ #News #Nachrichten
UK's Labour Party catches Reform in polls after Burnham becomes PM (Alistair Smout/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-labour-party-catches-reform-polls-after-burnham-becomes-pm-2026-07-28/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260728/p12#a260728p12
„Höhere Belastung“ - Landeschef Stelzer will die Polizeireform stoppen #News #Nachrichten
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Angriff aufs Grundgesetz? Dobrindt will Inlandsgeheimdienst Razzien erlauben
Polizeireform regt auf - FPÖ kritisiert scharf, fordert Karners Rücktritt #News #Nachrichten
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Sunday he wants to see
“dramatic reform” to the Supreme Court,
heeding a growing clamor within the Democratic Party for changes.
Speaking on “Meet the Press,” Jeffries said an overhaul could start with the creation of an ethical code of conduct for justices,
but he stopped short of backing a proposal popular with some Democrats to expand the number of justices on the court.
Jeffries said that Rep. Jamie Raskin (Maryland…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Angriff aufs Grundgesetz? Dobrindt will Inlandsgeheimdienst Razzien erlauben
A comfortable Labour win is my reading too.
It is incredibly quiet here. About the same number of poster boards for Green (we have one) and Labour, around here, but nothing like the density in the Gorton-Denton by-election. I suspect Greens, with a lot of resources going in to the campaign and a strong candidate, will do well, but most 2nd pref votes will go to Labour.
Polls open in Greater Manchester mayoral byelection overshadowed by new PM and Farage’s antics.
Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji presided over an era that now seems almost unimaginable
—an era in which the ruling party repeatedly retreated from old economic boundaries,
allowed market and social forces to expand rapidly,
and believed that as long as China continued to open up and reform,
most of its developmental problems could eventually be solved, writes Deng Yuwen.
Soon after becoming China’s prime minister in 1998 Zhu Rongji famously declared that he had orde…
The Democratic National Committee on Saturday approved a resolution calling on liberal lawmakers to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement
— a move which further intensifies the party’s opposition to Donald Trump and his crack down on illegal immigration.
Newsweek was the first outlet to report the resolution, which aims to not only abolish ICE but completely dismantle the immigration enforcement system currently in place.
The resolution “goes beyond calls for reform” …