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Банда обиженного карлика пукина в ступоре! Весь мир говорит о Майдане в Хабаровске!
Извращенец жириновский переобулся в воздухе!
Последние новости россии и мира, экономика, бизнес, культура, технологии, спорт
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By Vyborec | 07/27/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
У МОЗ заявили про скорочення кількості хворих на COVID-19 серед лікарів
Кількість медиків серед загальної кількості хворих на COVID-19 порівняно з квітнем знизилася втричі, повідомив міністр охорони здоров’я Максим Степанов.
«Якщо подивитися на ситуацію на початку квітня, то із загальної кількості хворих – близько 20% були медпрацівники. Ми кардинально змінили цю ситуацію: в червні-липні із загальної кількості хворих цей показник становить від 6 до 7%, і він постійно знижується», – сказав Степанов.
За його словами, на позитивну динаміку вплинуло забезпечення медпрацівників засобами індивідуального захисту і налагоджені правила інфекційного контролю.
Станом на 27 липня на COVID-19 в Україні захворіли понад 65,5 тисяч людей, більше ніж 32 тисячі одужали, 1616 померли.
your ad hereBy Gromada | 07/27/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
“Это почти Украина и Майдан”: «коллективный страх» пукина перед народом растет…
Концентрированные страхи обиженного карлика пукина: «путинизм» не стал национальной идеей и приходит к своему логическому завершению, как и период правления «вечного правителя»
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By Vyborec | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Банду обиженного карлика пукина трясет: крысы устраивают привычную показуху
Обанкротившийся газпром отчаянно пытается демонстрировать бодрость духа. Ведь публике не интересно, какой там идет вал сокращений расходов и как режут не только сами расходы, но и структуру компании, но внешне надо выглядеть молодцом
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By Vyborec | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Чемодан, вокзал, Самара! Хабаровск послал подальше путинского холуя дегтярева
В Хабаровске в субботу прошла новая многотысячная акция в поддержку арестованного экс-губернатора Сергея Фургала. По некоторым оценкам, шествие и митинг стали самыми массовыми за две недели протестов: на улицы вышли от 40 до 50 тысяч человек
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By Vyborec | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Народ, просыпайся! Хабаровск просит помощи!
Протесты в Хабаровске не стоят на месте, сначала они просили освободить Фургала, потом добавилась отставка обиженного карлика пукина и прогоняют Дегтярева, а теперь же просят всю россию поддержать их. Ведь именно Хабаровский край – это символ протеста сейчас в стране, где люди должны добиться справедливости, а мы должны им помочь
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By Vyborec | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
«Зазвенел набат»: пукинское “слезание с нефтегазовой иглы” обернулось крахом промышленности путляндии…
Очередная наглядная демонстрация того как путляндия “слезает с нефтегазовой иглы”: промышленность падает второй месяц подряд…
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By Vyborec | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Зірка «Звіяних вітром» Олівія де Гевіленд померла у віці 104 роки
Дворазова володарка «Оскару» акторка Олівія де Гевіленд померла у віці 104 роки в Парижі. Вона пішла з життя від природних причин у себе вдома, повідомила публіцистка Лайза Ґолдберґ 26 липня.
У 1939 році Олівія де Гевіленд зіграла роль Мелані Вілкс у легендарному фільмі «Звіяні вітром», за яку була номінована на премію «Оскар» за найкращу жіночу роль другого плану.
Де Гевіленд також знялася у 1938 році у фільмі «Пригоди Робін Гуда», а згодом стала володаркою «Золотого глобуса» за роль у стрічці «Анастасія: Таємниця Анни» у 1986 році.
Загалом її фільмографія нараховує близько 40 стрічок, зніматися перестала у віці 70 років – у 1986-му.
Натуралізована американка Олівія де Гевіленд, народжена англійським батьками в Японії, жила в Парижі з 1953 року.
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By Gromada | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Очевидці повідомляють про пожежі в Зайцевому через обстріл
Внаслідок обстрілу з боку гібридних російських сил в селищі Зайцеве Донецької області сталося загоряння поля, вогонь перекинувся на будинки. Про це журналістам проєкту Донбас.Реалії повідомляють очевидці.
За їхніми свідченнями, горить щонайменше 10 подвір’їв. До тушіння вогню залучені підрозділи Державної служби з надзвичайних ситуації та військові Збройних сил України.
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На запит Радіо Свобода в штабі Операції Об’єднаних сил повідомили, що наразі «розбираються» з ситуацією і не можуть ані підтвердити, ані заперечити повідомлення про пожежу. ДСНС наразі публічно не коментувала подію.
24 липня ДСНС повідомила, що лісову пожежу, яка виникла 22 липня в результаті обстрілу у Новоайдарському районі Луганської області, повністю загасили. Вона почалася внаслідок обстрілу поблизу села Лопаскине Новоайдарського району Луганської області і подальшого загоряння сухої трави та молодого лісу.
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By Gromada | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Агент Казбек тобто дегенерат портнов та його злочини проти України (частина 3)
Агент Казбек тобто дегенерат портнов та його злочини проти України (частина 3)
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By Vyborec | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Генпрокурор-косметолог. Хто така ірина венедіктова і кому вона віддано служить?
Як подружжя викладачки й поліцейського нажило статків на 7 мільйонів гривень?
Хто вони – друзі, соратники й заступники генпрокурорки?
Та кого торкнеться каральний турборежим, увімкнений офісом генпрокурора і Державним бюро розслідувань?
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By Vyborec | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Операция шухер: пукинский газпром внезапно по тихому сливает свои потоки
По сути, газпром отдаёт контрольный пакет акций на весь газопровод
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By Vyborec | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
“Обнулился” сам – обнули обещания: режим пукина терпит крупнейшее поражение за 20 лет…
“Обнуление” обещаний обиженного карлика пукина: «июльский указ»-2020 – не жили хорошо – нечего и начинать!
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By Vyborec | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Хотелки карлика пукина, бубочкин фарс, швейцарский счёт и санкции против СП-2
Хотелки карлика пукина, бубочкин фарс, швейцарский счёт и санкции против СП-2
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By Vyborec | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Хомчак «задоволений» підготовкою до припинення вогню
Головнокомандувач Збройних сил України Руслан Хомчак прокометував підготовку до запланованого припинення вогню уздовж лінії розмежування. Про це йдеться в його заяві, яку оприлюднив Генеральний штаб ЗСУ 26 липня.
За повідомленням, Хомчак два дні перебуває в районі проведення Операції Об’єднаних сил. Він підкреслив, що припинення вогню не забороняє військовим діяти у відповідь в разі порушення перемир’я гібридними російськими силами.
«Задоволений ходом підготовки до повного та всеосяжного припинення вогню на лінії розмежування. Ще раз наголошую на тому, що заходи повного та всеосяжного припинення вогню не позбавляють військовослужбовців, у разі порушення домовленостей противником, діяти відповідно до норм міжнародного права та національного законодавства України», – заявляє Хомчак.
Головнокомандувач також закликав «не піддаватися керованим провокаціям, гібридним проявам паніки, зберігати спокій та об’єднуватися довкола свого війська та своїх захисників».
«Сподіваюсь, що дана наймасштабніша фундаментальна спроба забезпечити глобальне перемир’я дасть можливість нашим політикам та дипломатам, зміцнюючи обороноздатність держави», – йдеться в заяві голови Генерального штабу.
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Вранці 26 липня штаб ООС повідомив, що підрозділи Об’єднаних сил почали підготовку до «повного та всеосяжного режиму припинення вогню», яке має набути чинності 27 липня 2020 року.
Припинення вогню й раніше не раз проголошувалися як «безстрокові і сталі», але порушувалися практично відразу. При цьому сторони заперечують свою вину в цих порушеннях і звинувачують противників у провокаціях.
Унаслідок російської гібридної агресії на сході України з квітня 2014 року, за останніми оприлюдненими оцінками ООН станом іще на 31 жовтня 2019 року, загинули від 13 тисяч до 13 тисяч 200 людей, із яких було щонайменше 3 тисячі 354 цивільних, приблизно 4 тисячі 100 українських бійців і приблизно 5 тисяч 650 членів російських гібридних збройних формувань.
За цими ж даними, за цей час російської агресії також були поранені від 29 тисяч до 31 тисячі людей: приблизно від 7 тисяч до 9 тисяч цивільних, від 9 тисяч 500 до 10 тисяч 500 українських бійців і від 12 тисяч 500 до 13 тисяч 500 членів російських гібридних збройних формувань.
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By Gromada | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Бойовики стріляли 15 разів за попередню добу – штаб
Зокрема обстріли здійснювалися зі стрілецької зброї, гранатометів, мінометів калібру 82 та 120 міліметрів – штаб ООС
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By Gromada | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Через зливу в Карпатах евакуювали 7 туристів – ДСНС
Рятувальникам довелося евакуювати з туристичного маршруту в Карпатських горах сімох людей, повідомляє Державна служба з надзвичайних ситуацій.
За повідомленням, подія сталася увечері 25 липня. Група туристів, у складі якої було четверо дітей, поблизу гори Говерла потрапила під зливу і не змогла спуститися самостійно в повному складі.
«Рятувальниками ДСНС доставлено сімох осіб, з них чотирьох дітей до урочища Козьмещик поблизу села Лазещина Рахівського району, шестеро осіб здійснили спуск самостійно. Від ДСНС для надання допомоги залучалося чотири чоловіка особового складу та дві одиниці техніки», – йдеться в повідомленні рятувальників.
25 липня вранці ДСНС попередила про підвищення рівня води у річках на заході України, у Львівській та Івано-Франківській областях. Укргідрометцентр прогнозував зокрема зливи в районі Карпат.
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By Gromada | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Спутники-убийцы: карлик пукин получит леща космических масштабов от США
Интерес пукинской банды к безграничным пространствам за пределами нашей планеты не случаен. Дело в том, что путляндия, в отличие от того же ссср, попросту не в состоянии навязать другим странам конкуренцию в этой сфере
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By Vyborec | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Мерзость пукина вынесла приговор исследователю гулага Юрию Дмитриеву
Приговор, вынесенный Петрозаводским городским судом историку Юрию Дмитриеву, – одна из самых отвратительных страниц в истории и так уже загаженного самыми различными юридическими экскрементами так называемого пукинского правосудия
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By Vyborec | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Для чого списки майданівців потрібні керівництву ЗСУ? Страхи зеленого карлика
Вам не почулось: списки майдановців серед діючих військовослужбовців!
За для чого складаються списки тих, кому не байдужа доля України – вирішуйте самі
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By Vyborec | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Провал пукинского проекта “рюцкий мир” в Украине
Адепты путинизма жалуются, что им не удалось построить рюцкий мир в Украине
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By Vyborec | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Ось як потрібно розмовляти з пукінськими пропагандистами в Україні – кращі відосики
Зібрав у цьому випуску для вас декілька відео з прикладами правильного спілкування із пропагандистами ображеного карлика пукіна. Прошу поширювати це відео і питати у політиків, чому вони ходять на канали медведчука.
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By Vyborec | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Experts Say Collecting Immigration Data Through US Census for Reapportionment Is Unconstitutional
President Donald Trump’s bid to exclude undocumented immigrants from a census tabulation used to determine how many U.S. representatives are apportioned to each state is unworkable and unconstitutional, according to civil rights groups and several American cities and counties suing the administration.“It can’t be done,” Sarah Brannon, managing attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Voting Rights Project, told VOA, adding that the citizenship determination Trump is mandating would be hard to ascertain and “not very reliable.”Another civil liberties group, Common Cause, filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging Trump’s directive, joined by cities in New Jersey and Georgia. Later in the day, Arlington County, Virginia, said it was joining the suit.“The Constitution requires an accurate count of our population every 10 years,” Arlington County Board Chair Libby Garvey said in a statement. “We must have an accurate count of everyone living in Arlington and refuse to allow this unlawful effort to scare people and suppress the census count of our immigrant community.”Others are applauding the executive order. Alabama’s Attorney General Steve Marshall called it a “victory” for the state.“When the states’ congressional seats and Electoral College votes are divided up, representation should be based on those people who reside in their states and this country lawfully,” Marshall said.The Supreme Court last year blocked the Trump administration from including a citizenship question on the 2020 census.In an executive order issued earlier this week, Trump directed Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the U.S. Census Bureau, to present data as to the number of undocumented people counted by the census. The administration would then exclude the undocumented from each state’s census count for the purpose of determining whether a state loses, gains or retains members in the House of Representatives, a process that occurs every 10 years.The executive order reads: “For the purpose of the reapportionment of Representatives following the 2020 census, it is the policy of the United States to exclude from the apportionment base aliens who are not in a lawful immigration status under the Immigration and Nationality Act.”The U.S. Constitution makes no mention of citizenship in relation to the census or congressional apportionment, a point underscored by law professor Ilya Somin, who teaches at George Mason University in Virginia.“Section 2 of the 14th amendment specifically says that representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state,” Somin, a self-described libertarian, told VOA. “I think the overwhelming likelihood is the courts will rule against [Trump’s directive] because it is blatantly unconstitutional.”Population subset not countedOn Tuesday, the Trump administration argued the Constitution “does not specifically define which persons must be included for the purposes of apportionment and requires only that representatives be apportioned according to what has long been understood to mean the ‘inhabitants’ of each state.”But Howard University Constitutional Law Professor Steven Jamar told VOA the argument the administration is using deals with a subset of people – such as tourists and business travelers – who, though they might be counted in the census, are not counted for apportionment purposes.“There are some people who are not within the state on the date of the census. They are traveling or they’re out of the country. … There are some people who are just tourists visiting the state from somewhere else. And those people have historically not been counted for apportionment purposes. … they’re generally not even counted in the census because they aren’t resident in the state. But an immigrant, whether they’re documented or not, is residing in the state,” Jamar said.Trump, however, vowed to “collect all of the information we need to conduct an accurate census and to make responsible decisions about public policy, voting rights, and representation in Congress.”Last year the Supreme Court blocked an attempt by the Trump administration to add a citizenship question for the first time in 60 years.“It’s not about who can vote. It’s not about citizenship. It’s about whole persons residing in the state. So, the question is really just ‘Who’s living there?’” Jamar said.Conservatives agree with administrationThe Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Washington, agrees with the administration’s directive, adding that Trump acted “firmly within his statutory authority to determine who are the ‘inhabitants’ of a state for purposes of apportionment.”“The administration must now work diligently to collect and make available the data necessary to support and implement this substantial change, and hopefully this change can be implemented swiftly,” according to a statement.In 2018, the state of Alabama filed litigation against the U.S. Census Bureau and argued the current system of apportioning congressional seats gives an unfair electoral advantage to states with more undocumented immigrants and that Alabamians would likely lose a congressional seat and an Electoral College vote if undocumented immigrants were counted. The lawsuit is currently pending before a federal court.The Pew Research Center in its latest report showed that if unauthorized immigrants were excluded from the apportionment count, California would lose two seats instead of one, Florida would gain one instead of two, and Texas would gain two instead of three. Alabama, Minnesota and Ohio would keep a seat that they would have lost if apportionment were based only on total population change.The report, released Friday, is based on projections of Census Bureau 2019 population estimates.“In addition to these states, 11 more would gain or lose seats based on population change alone, no matter whether unauthorized immigrants are included or excluded,” according to the analysis.Gathering immigration dataThe administration has not disclosed how it would identify undocumented immigrants. The questions in the census questionnaire does not include or require respondents to disclose their immigration status or citizenship status.Terri Ann Lowenthal, a census consultant who once served as the staff director of the former House oversight subcommittee for the census, said all the data available on the undocumented immigrant population are estimates.“We have some sense, right, we do have states that provide benefits to undocumented persons and so they have some administrative data, which give us some sense of the size of the population. But again, having said that, the apportionment formula for seats in Congress is an extraordinarily complex mathematical formula, I always say, that about five mathematicians in the country can explain,” Lowenthal said.She is more concerned about the heightened fear the directive creates in immigrant communities.“I’m concerned that this fear will affect participation in the rest of the census. The census still has to count more than 35 percent of households in this country, in the remaining field operation,” Lowenthal said.This week, the Census Bureau started to visit households that have yet to respond. The bureau has also reported that so far 62 percent of U.S. households had completed their census forms.The first results were due December 31 but because of the coronavirus outbreak, the Census Bureau has delayed fieldwork, and some of these dates have changed. The agency has also asked Congress to extend the legal deadline to publish data.Stacey Abrams, a Georgia Democratic politician and voting rights activist, told VOA that people on both sides of the aisle need to worry about this directive because when the population is not accurately counted, everyone suffers. In 2019, Abrams launched a nonprofit to ensure that “hard-to-count” populations are recorded during the 2020 census.Abrams emphasized the lack of legality to gather immigration status data.“The census cannot inquire about the citizenship of any person. It’s not on the form. They can’t ask it out loud. And if you get that question, close the door and call the Census Bureau,” she said.
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By Polityk | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Women Reflect on Sexist Slur That Often Goes Unpunished
Ask a woman if she’s been called the B-word by a man — perhaps modified by the F-adjective — and chances are she’ll say, “You mean ever, or how many times?”Because most women will tell you it’s a pretty universal experience, especially if they’ve held a position of power in the workplace. “I’d say, maybe 25 times?” estimates Ellen Gerstein, who spent years in technology publishing, a fairly male-dominated field, before becoming a pharmaceutical executive. “And that’s just to my face.”In fact, Gerstein says, use of the word as a slur against women has come to feel so unfortunately routine that her own memories of it tend to blur together — unlike, say, the time 20 years ago when a male colleague asked her who she’d “lap danced” to push a project ahead. But she says she was filled with admiration when she heard Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez take to the floor of the House and call out a male colleague for vulgar words.”I thought, listening to her, ‘Wow, you’re 100% right,'” says Gerstein, now 52. “Why didn’t I apply those same standards to myself?”Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks on Thursday, widely shared online, amounted to a stunning indictment not only of the words of Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Florida, who she said called her a “f—————g bitch” in front of reporters, but a culture of abusive language against women that can lead to violence. Her speech resonated with many women — in politics and out, supportive of her politics or not — who said the language had been tacitly accepted for far too long.The moment was extraordinary, says Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, not because the language was new — as Ocasio-Cortez herself said, it was nothing she hadn’t heard waiting tables or riding the subway — but because of where it took place, and especially because the freshman congresswoman had the confidence and the support of her colleagues to call it out in such a public way.”This is all part of a shift,” Walsh says, attributing the change to the #MeToo movement, in large part. “Women are feeling empowered to speak up and believe they will be heard.” More than a dozen Democratic colleagues — but no Republicans — joined Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, in speaking out against sexist behavior, including from President Donald Trump.The moment led Gloria Steinem, the nation’s most visible feminist advocate, to reflect on her own struggles with the word Barbara Bush once famously said “rhymes with rich.””It took me years to learn what to do when someone calls you a bitch,” Steinem told The Associated Press in an email. “Just smile in a calm triumphant way, and say, ‘Thank you!'”Steinem, 86, said she hadn’t realized the strategy could be helpful to other women until it made it into the script of a recent off-Broadway play about her life, “and every night, women in the audience burst out in big relieved laughter.”Still, Steinem noted, “Refusing to be hurt may not really change the people who are trying to hurt you.” She called for both “cultural and workplace penalties for such behavior,” and, more profoundly, “raising our children to empathize and treat others as we want to be treated.”Gerstein, too, says she found it helpful to repurpose what was intended as a slur into a compliment. “I didn’t want to feel like a victim, so my theory was to own it,” she says. “As if to say, ‘What you’re really saying is I’m tough, I’m bossy, I’m determined and I’m damned good at what I’m doing.'”Ocasio-Cortez “owned” the word as well when she tweeted, in response to Yoho’s alleged remarks: “Bitches get stuff done.” That itself was a throwback to a 2008 sketch on “Saturday Night Live,” in which Tina Fey and Amy Poehler discussed the slur as often applied to Hillary Clinton. “Yeah, she is. And so am I,” notes Fey on the “Weekend Update” segment. “You know what? Bitches get stuff done.”Feminist author Andi Zeisler, co-founder of the nonprofit Bitch Media, notes that the sketch marked the beginning of a long and evolving process of women “reclaiming” the word, much like the word “queer.””We don’t get to control who uses it and how,” explains Zeisler. “We can only control the way we conceive of it.”Of course, context is everything. When used as Yoho allegedly did, the word is intentionally gender-specific and heavy with implied power dynamics, says Walsh, of Rutgers.It “otherizes women, it dehumanizes them and tells women they don’t belong in these institutions and positions,” Walsh says. “It is about silencing women and keeping them out.”Jen Singer, a freelance writer in New Jersey, says that “when men call you a bitch, it’s a warning shot across your bow — a reminder that they have power and you had better not overstep your bounds.”It’s the feeling that Jennifer Bogar-Richardson, an educator also in New Jersey, felt when she learned that a superior had referred to her as a “ho” in a meeting with colleagues years ago, using words from a Chris Brown song to indicate she’d been disloyal.”I felt naked,” says Bogar-Richardson, 44, “because it obviously didn’t matter how smart I was, how intelligent or how well I did my job. I’m nothing more than that name.”Mila Stieglitz, a 22-year-old New Yorker who graduated college in May, found herself feeling conflicting emotions as she watched Ocasio-Cortez’s speech. On the one hand, she was disheartened to learn of the sexist language experienced by the congresswoman — at 30, only eight years her senior — something she’d hoped was more an issue for an earlier generation. On the other, she said she was inspired by her outspokenness, and the support she received from colleagues.”As I enter the workforce, I recognize there’s been so much progress since my mother’s generation, for which I’m grateful,” Stieglitz said. “But these instances also highlight to me how much more needs to be done.”
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By Polityk | 07/26/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
AP FACT CHECK: A More Measured Trump Doesn’t Mean Accurate
President Donald Trump in recent days suddenly acknowledged the gravity of the coronavirus pandemic and edged away from some of his most audacious falsehoods about it. That’s not to say he gave the public an honest accounting.Trump minimized the potential risk to children and those around them as he advocated reopening schools. He again marveled at the number of COVID-19 tests being performed in the U.S. even as the overwhelmed testing system crucially fails to deliver sufficient access and timely results.And he cited a low U.S. death rate from COVID-19 compared with other countries, when the global statistics appear to contradict him.All this while Trump canceled Republican National Convention events in Jacksonville, Florida, bowing to the reality that many Republicans were reluctant to go a state where the virus has been out of control. Meantime his press secretary peddled false internet rumors that the “cancel culture” led to the cancellation of a cartoon about puppies.A review of some statements from the past week:TESTSTRUMP, on the U.S. approaching 50 million tests: “This allows us to isolate those who are infected, even those without symptoms. So we know exactly where it’s going and when it’s going to be there.” — briefing Tuesday.THE FACTS: This is by no means true.In many if not most parts of the country, people who manage to get a test can wait for many days for the results because labs are overwhelmed. In the meantime, those people could be and in some cases surely are spreading infection. And many people who want a test but report no symptoms can’t get one.Some labs are taking weeks to return COVID-19 results because of the crushing workload from the surge of new cases.”There’s been this obsession with, ‘How many tests are we doing per day?'” said Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The question is, how many tests are being done with results coming back within a day, where the individual tested is promptly isolated and their contacts are promptly warned?”KIDS and COVID-19TRUMP on young people and the virus: “Now, they don’t catch it easily; they don’t bring it home easily. And if they do catch it, they get better fast. We’re looking at that fact.” — briefing Wednesday.THE FACTS: That isn’t a fact. He doesn’t have the science to reach this broad conclusion. His coronavirus task force coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx, and other public health officials have said repeatedly that while children appear to get less sick from the virus than adults, the threat to young people and their ability to spread the virus are not understood because not enough research has been done on kids and COVID-19.Birx underscored the point Friday on NBC’s “Today” show. Whether children under 10 spread the virus the same as older children “is still an open question” she said.”We know that children under 18 are less sick, but there are some that suffer terrible consequences if they have underlying conditions,” she added. “Children under 10 do get infected. It’s just unclear how rapidly they spread the virus.”Trump has been pushing for schools to reopen and at one point threatened to withhold federal money if they don’t. While his assurances about children were unsupported, they were a step back from his earlier rhetoric that portrayed kids as practically immune to infection. “It’s very unique how the children aren’t affected,” he said in early May. “Incredible.”U.S. DEATHSTRUMP on the U.S. and other countries in the pandemic: “We’ve done much better than most. And with the fatality rate at a lower rate than most, it’s something that we can talk about, but we’re working, again, with them because we’re helping a lot of countries that people don’t even know about.” — briefing Tuesday.THE FACTS: No, the U.S. does not shine in comparison with other countries. The U.S. has experienced far more recorded infections and deaths from COVID-19 than any other country, including those with larger populations, and it lags a number of other nations in testing and containment.Trump seems to have edged away from claiming that the U.S. mortality rate is the world’s best, after being confronted on that point in his Fox News interview a week ago with Chris Wallace. His more modest boasts since, though, also are not correct.Understanding deaths as a percentage of the population or as a percentage of known infections is problematic because countries track and report COVID-19 deaths and cases differently. No one can reliably rank countries in this regard.The statistics that do exist fail to support his assertion.In an analysis of the 20 countries currently most affected by the pandemic, the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center finds the U.S. with the fourth worst rate of deaths per 100,000 people — only Britain, Peru and Chile are seeing more reported deaths as a proportion of their populations.On another measure, looking at what percentage of reported cases lead to death, the U.S. is in the middle of that pack, with a case-fatality ratio of 3.6%Looking at deaths among all countries, not just the ones most suffering at this stage of the pandemic, the U.S. fares somewhat better but still not among the best. Its recorded 44 deaths per 100,000 compares favorably with Britain (68.6 per 100,000) as well as Spain (60.8), Italy (58) and Sweden (55.7), for example, but poorly with Canada (24), Brazil (40), Mexico (33) and dozens more countries.Disparities in reporting are only one reason not to take these numbers conclusively. Many factors are in play in shaping a death toll besides how well a country responded to the pandemic, such as the overall health or youth of national populations.’CANCEL CULTURE’KAYLEIGH McENANY, White House press secretary, on Trump: “He’s also appalled by cancel culture, and cancel culture specifically as it pertains to cops. We saw a few weeks ago, ‘Paw Patrol,’ a cartoon show about cops was canceled.” — briefing Friday.THE FACTS: No, ‘Paw Patrol’ was not canceled. Fake rumors online said it was. And it’s not about cops. It’s a cartoon about puppies. The lead puppy is a cop. There’s a firefighter puppy, too.MASKSMcENANY, when asked about Trump’s change in tone this past week in urging people to wear masks: “There has been no change. …The president has been consistent on this.” — news briefing Friday.THE FACTS: Trump’s messaging has been inconsistent, to say the least.Trump from the beginning has made clear that wearing masks is voluntary and shunned wearing one in public. He frequently ridiculed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for wearing a mask in public. In May, when a reporter declined to pull down his mask to ask a question at a news briefing so Trump could hear better, the president mocked by saying, “OK, because you want to be politically correct.”And Trump told The Wall Street Journal last month that some people may wear them as a political statement against him.”People touch them,” he said. “And they grab them and I see it all the time. They come in, they take the mask. Now they’re holding it now in their fingers. And they drop it on the desk and then they touch their eye and they touch their nose. No, I think a mask is a — it’s a double-edged sword.”This past week, as his poll ratings on the handling of the coronavirus have fallen, Trump on Monday tweeted a photo of himself wearing a mask and called it an act of patriotism. That evening, he was seen maskless at the Trump International Hotel in apparent defiance of D.C. coronavirus regulations, according to video footage of the event.”We’re asking everybody that when you are not able to socially distance, wear a mask, get a mask,” Trump said Tuesday at his first appearance at a coronavirus briefing since April. “Whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact.”TRAVEL RESTRICTIONSTRUMP: “You know, one day, we had a virus come in, and I closed the borders, did a lot of things that were very good. … And nobody wanted to do it. I wanted to do it. We closed the border to China. We put on the ban. We didn’t want people coming in from heavily infected China.” — briefing Tuesday.THE FACTS: He didn’t ban travel from China. He restricted it. Dozens of countries took similar steps to control travel from hot spots before or around the same time the U.S. did. The U.S. restrictions that took effect Feb. 2 continued to allow travel to the U.S. from China’s Hong Kong and Macao territories over the past five months. The Associated Press reported that more than 8,000 Chinese and foreign nationals based in those territories entered the U.S. in the first three months after the travel restrictions were imposed.Additionally, more than 27,000 Americans returned from mainland China in the first month after the restrictions took effect. U.S. officials lost track of more than 1,600 of them who were supposed to be monitored for virus exposure. VETERANSTRUMP: “On the VA, we got Veterans Choice. Nobody thought that would be possible. That’s been many decades. They’ve been trying to get Veterans Choice. It’s called ‘Choice,’ where they can go get a doctor if they have to wait on line for two weeks or five weeks or two days.” — briefing Tuesday.THE FACTS: It’s false that he achieved Veterans Choice when other presidents couldn’t. President Barack Obama achieved it. Trump expanded it. It has not eliminated delays for care, including for those with waits of “two weeks” or “two days.”The program allows veterans to see a private doctor for primary or mental health care at public expense if their VA wait is 20 days (28 for specialty care) or their drive to a VA facility is 30 minutes or more. After the coronavirus outbreak, the VA took the step of restricting veterans’ access to private doctors, citing the added risks of infection and limited capacity at private hospitals.
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By Polityk | 07/25/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
For Racial Justice Protests, US Taps Tactical Border Squads
They are the most highly trained members of the Border Patrol, agents who confront drug traffickers along the U.S.-Mexico border and track down dangerous fugitives in rugged terrain.One day this past week, they were in a far difference setting — a city park in Portland, Oregon, looking for two people suspected of throwing rocks and bottles at officers guarding the downtown federal courthouse.Federal Agents Use Tear Gas to Clear Portland ProtestEarlier Friday night, the protest had drawn various organized groups, including Healthcare Workers Protest, Teachers against Tyrants, Lawyers for Black Lives and the ‘Wall of Moms’Beyond the debate over whether the federal response to the Portland protests encroaches on local authority, another question arises: whether the Department of Homeland Security, with its specialized national security focus, is the right agency for the job.It’s not just the Border Patrol Tactical Unit that has been called to duty in Portland. DHS has dispatched Air Marshals as well as the Customs and Border Protection Special Response Team and even members of the Coast Guard.”The Department of Homeland Security was never intended as a national police force let alone a presidential militia,” said Peter Vincent, a former general counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is also an agency within DHS.The deployment of DHS agents and officers is legal, both under existing law and an executive order President Donald Trump signed June 26 to protect federal property and monuments. But it has made the agency, created to improve the nation’s response to terrorism, a target of widespread criticism.Congress plans to delve into the issue Friday, when the House Homeland Security Committee holds a hearing on the federal response to the protests in Portland and Trump’s announcement that he plans to send federal agents to Chicago and Albuquerque, New Mexico, to help combat rising crime while making “law and order” a central theme of his reelection campaign.”Americans across the country are watching what the administration is doing in Portland with horror and revulsion and are wondering if their cities could be President Trump’s next targets,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat who is chairman of the committee.As of Monday, there were 114 federal agents and officers deployed to downtown Portland, according to an affidavit from Gabriel Russell, the regional director of the Federal Protective Service, the DHS component that provides security for federal buildings.UN Slams US Security Forces for Violent Crackdown on Anti-Racism Protesters in PortlandUN official says people have a right to protest peacefully and should not be subjected to unnecessary, disproportionate and discriminatory use of force Protests have been taking place in Portland since May 26 but the federal agents kept a “defensive posture” by staying inside federal buildings until July 3, Russell said in the affidavit, filed in response to a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union seeking protections for journalists and other legal observers covering the demonstrations.That night, according to Russell, protesters attempted to set fire to the federal courthouse and DHS deployed a Rapid Deployment Force as part of “Operation Diligent Valor.” That same night, Trump stood before Mount Rushmore and accused protesters around the country who have pushed for racial justice of engaging in a “merciless campaign to wipe out our history.” He later criticized officials in Portland for allowing demonstration to get “totally out of control.” The officers deploying to Portland are “highly trained,” and many wear camouflage because that’s their duty uniform on the southwest border, according to acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf, responding to charges of a militarized response to the protests.In addition to their previous training, they took a 90-minute online course on the mission and jurisdiction of the Federal Protective Service, police powers and criminal regulations, according to a course description provided to The Associated Press.Richard Cline, principal deputy director of the protective services, told reporters that DHS officers are given additional training to ensure they act within guidelines established by the Justice Department as they assist an organization that was “quickly overwhelmed” by violent demonstrators.Wolf also defended tactics such as tear gas, rubber bullets and having officers sweep people off the street into unmarked vehicles, evoking images of a secret police force.”We are only targeting and arresting those who have been identified as committing criminal acts, like any other law enforcement agency does across the country every single day of the week,” he said.On Wednesday, agents from the Border Patrol Tactical Unit, known as BORTAC, set out from the federal courthouse just after midnight in pursuit of two people in dark clothing and carrying makeshift shields suspected of throwing rocks and bottles at officers, according to court records. The agents struggled with the two, eventually restraining them and turning them over to the Federal Protective Service. One, a 19-year-old man, was charged with felony assault of an officer.In addition to rocks and bottles, agents and officers at the courthouse have been struck with ball bearings, improvised explosives, fireworks, and balloons filled with paint and feces, Russell said. Some have also had lasers shined at their eyes. At least 28 officers have been injured and officers have made at least 43 arrests, mostly for misdemeanors.While the use of BORTAC officers in this environment is unusual, it’s not unprecedented, said Michael Fisher, a former senior official with the agency and member of the unit. BORTAC officers have been used to serve warrants on suspects considered dangerous, protected emergency personnel during natural disasters and were sent to Los Angeles during the 1992 riots, Fisher said. “What was happening in Portland is the police were not enforcing a lot the laws and it just escalated and that’s the reason it’s gone on well over 50 days now,” said Fisher, who now runs a security company. Local officials have in turn accused DHS of inflaming the situation, an argument bolstered by the fact that protests grew larger as controversy intensified over the tactics of the federal agents. Former DHS officials concede the agency has worked with state and local law enforcement before, with the consent and cooperation of local authorities. But in Oregon, officials have accused the federal government of inflaming the situation and asked it to withdraw.Vincent, who left ICE in 2014 and now works as a consultant, said some current officials are “extraordinarily uncomfortable” with what they have been asked to do in Portland.”I am deeply concerned as someone who believes in the mission of the agency and knows and respects its officers and agents that these activities will irreparably damage the agency’s reputation,” he said.
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By Polityk | 07/25/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
