Top government officials will not attend the Olympic Games, with the exception of Seiko Hashimoto – a member of the House of Councilors and the former Minister of State for Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. Japanese Olympic Committee President Yasuhiro Yamashita and Japanese Paralympic Committee President Kazuyuki Mori will also …
Read More »Australia joins US diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics
Morrison said on Wednesday that it would “come as no surprise that Australia will not be sending any official representatives to the forthcoming Winter Games in China,” citing alleged “human rights abuses in Xinjiang and many other issues that Australia has consistently raised.” “We have been very pleased and very …
Read More »China responds to US boycott of Beijing Olympics
Asked about the boycott announced by the Joe Biden administration earlier on Monday, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in the US, Liu Pengyu, told Reuters that the decision contradicts the “spirit” of the Olympics, though added that it would have no negative effect on the games, set for China …
Read More »White House confirms Biden’s China boycott
The Biden administration “will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced on Monday, citing Beijing’s alleged human rights violations, including what she called “genocide and crimes against humanity.” While vowing to cheer on the competing American athletes, …
Read More »BLM’s Christmas message? ‘Boycott white businesses’
The countdown to the holidays is well underway. Christmas trees and decorations have started to appear in the streets, shops are full of ‘must-have’ gifts, and there’s even a rebooted ‘Home Alone’ movie. But the idea of goodwill to all isn’t being preached by everyone. #BlackXmas is a disheartening and …
Read More »Scottish schoolgirls ‘boycott gender-neutral toilets’
Gender-neutral bathrooms are becoming increasingly common in Scottish educational institutes. Schools in Angus, Dundee, East Renfrewshire and Edinburgh have all introduced such facilities, and all new school buildings – primary and secondary – in Edinburgh will soon have unisex toilets and communal hand-washing facilities by default. This move to gender …
Read More »UK government could boycott China’s ‘genocide Games’, MP says
US president Joe Biden is widely thought to be on the verge of announcing that his country will be conducting a diplomatic boycott of the showpiece, which takes place in February 2022. Now Johnson’s government is said to be involved in an “active discussion” about snubbing diplomatic duties in Beijing – a move backed by …
Read More »Irish literary prodigy Sally Rooney, who supports the ‘BDS’ boycott of Israel, is blasted for ‘refusing to publish book in Hebrew’
Rooney is considered one of the premiere millennial authors. She is also a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which is meant to put economic and moral pressure on Israel to change its policies toward Palestinians. A model for the BDS is the movement targeting apartheid South …
Read More »Critics call for AT&T boycott over report telecoms giant ‘helped build’ pro-Donald Trump OAN network
It was executives at AT&T, the world’s largest communications company, that first came up with the idea for OAN, according to a deposition given by Robert Herring Sr., the right-wing network’s founder. “They told us they wanted a conservative network,” he said in 2019, according to the report from Reuters. …
Read More »Woke Hollywood is trying to boycott Johnny Depp, but he’ll never be canceled in the court of public opinion
Listen, timid little Hollywood producers: we all know that you don’t actually have a Scooby Doo what films will work and what’ll flop, and that you basically hang on to your jobs by your manicured fingernails. Focus groups and test audiences with Hoboken housewives ain’t gonna save you. Neither will …
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