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Biden Promises US Return to World Cooperation
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has promised a return to U.S. cooperation in its international relations, while accusing President Donald Trump of leaving the country’s reputation and influence “in tatters” with his “America First” policy.Biden’s draft platform, released this week, said that under Trump, “America stands alone. Our country is less safe, our economy more fragile, and our democracy, values and unity endangered.”Biden, in the draft platform likely to be adopted next month by the Democratic National Convention as he is officially nominated as the party’s presidential nominee, accused Trump of having “retreated” from the world stage.Biden said Trump’s actions have allowed U.S. adversaries “to fill the void,” while the U.S. leader has “hollowed out American diplomacy, shredded international commitments, weakened our alliances and tarnished our credibility.”Democrats believe four more years of Donald Trump will damage our influence beyond repair,” Biden wrote.”But closing the chapter on ‘America First’ is just the beginning of the work ahead. We must meet the world as it is today, not as it was before President Trump’s destruction. That’s why we cannot simply aspire to restore American leadership. We must reinvent it for a new era.”FILE – President Donald Trump points to a reporter for a question during a news briefing at the White House in Washington, July 21, 2020.Trump: Biden ‘not competent’Trump has often disparaged Biden’s mental acuity to be president, telling Fox News last Sunday that Biden was “not competent to be president. To be president, you have to be sharp and tough and so many other things.”As the Democratic draft platform was released, Trump’s re-election campaign said, “Joe Biden’s failed track record of political appeasement has already proven to be catastrophic for American national security.”President Trump has kept his promise to rebuild the military, eliminate two most-wanted terrorists, destroy the ISIS caliphate, and implement robust political and economic pressure on foreign adversaries who wish harm to the homeland.”Biden said in the draft platform that “rather than defend democracy and human rights,” Trump has “fawned over autocrats, sent love letters to despots, sided with dictators over peaceful protesters and invited foreign interference in our elections.”The president has been widely criticized for his claims of friendship with leaders such as Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, while at times attacking traditional allies in Europe.“Rather than end our forever wars, he’s brought us to the brink of new conflicts, and further militarized our foreign policy,” Biden said of Trump. “Rather than reduce nuclear dangers, he’s amplified them, and brought the world closer to catastrophe.”FILE – A U.S. military convoy drives near the town of Qamishli, Syria, Oct. 26. 2019. Two successful raids by the U.S.-led coalition in the oil-rich Deir el-Zour area were highlighted with the capture of a mid-level Islamic State leader.Difference on military spendingTrump has sharply increased military spending during his 3½ years in the White House. Biden says he plans to cut it, arguing, “We can maintain a strong defense and protect our safety and security for less.”The draft said Biden would re-engage with the world. He wants to extend nuclear arms control measures with Russia that Trump has sought to end; reinforce U.S. involvement in the West’s NATO military alliance that Trump has accused allies of not paying enough money to support; and seek to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal to restrain Tehran’s nuclear weapons development that Trump dropped out of.On the home front, the draft Democratic platform called for more robust health care insurance coverage for senior citizens to cover dental, vision and hearing aid needs. But the document stopped short of a call for Medicare for All coverage that centrist Biden’s more progressive Democratic presidential opponents called for during the race for the party’s presidential nomination.“We are proud our party welcomes advocates who want to build on and strengthen the Affordable Care Act [adopted when Biden was vice president under former President Barack Obama] and those who support a Medicare for All approach; all are critical to ensuring that health care is a human right,” the document said.
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By Polityk | 07/24/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
WHO Director-General Criticizes Pompeo Over Comments
Warning against the “politicization” of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Thursday rejected comments, by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, alleging Tedros had been “bought” by China.The Times of London reported Wednesday Pompeo met behind closed doors with members of British parliament during a visit to London earlier this week. The report said Pompeo told the lawmakers he had intelligence suggesting Tedros had been “bought” by China’s government and that his election as WHO chief in 2017 had led to the death of British nationals.Speaking at the WHO’s Thursday COVID briefing, Tedros said the comments were “untrue and unacceptable and without any foundation.” He said one of the greatest threats “we face is the politicization of the pandemic.” Tedros said the sole focus of the entire WHO organization was saving lives, and it will not be distracted by the comments. COVID-19 is the disease caused by the coronavirus.WHO COVID-19 Technical Lead Maria Van Kerkhove also reacted to the comments, saying it was her honor and privilege to have worked with Tedros since the beginning of this pandemic. Van Kerkhove, an American, said she has worked for the WHO for more than 10 years and has never been prouder of the work it has done.Pompeo, who was in Denmark earlier Thursday, was not asked about the comments when he spoke with reporters.The Trump administration has repeatedly criticized the WHO for its alleged deference to Beijing during the early stage of the pandemic.President Donald Trump has ordered the United States to withdraw next year from the agency it has supported financially and politically for decades.
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By Polityk | 07/24/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Обиженного карлика пукина порвало! Всё оказалось ложью…
Рукописи не горят! А в эру интернета – и подавно …
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By Vyborec | 07/23/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Луцький захоплювач автобусів, як інструмент для підняття падаючого рейтингу зе-влади
Для кого знімали кіно в Луцьку, і кого наступного врятує зелений карлик? І головне – чому ж на справжньому фронті він не врятував пораненого українського Героя?
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By Vyborec | 07/23/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Обиженный карлик пукин паникует: Турция начала добывать нефть и газ в Чёрном море
Недаром Турция дает дрозда путляндии по всем направлениям. Вот и новая затея Турции снова бьет по амбициям мордора лишая его дополнительных квот на продажу энергоресурсов в мире
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By Vyborec | 07/23/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Цікаві деталі історії з заручниками в Луцьку. Кого відбілювали та про що забув зе-карлик
По історії із захопленням заручників в Луцьку дуже важливо зробити правильні висновки та не забувати що вся наша країна вже понад 6 років є заручником пукінських окупантів.
Блог про українську політику та актуальні події в нашій країні
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By Vyborec | 07/23/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Копай окопы карлик-пу: Турция применит в Ливии новейшие ударные дроны Songar
Ударный дрон Songar может быть поднят в воздух в течение нескольких минут. Для этого понадобится лишь пара солдат
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By Vyborec | 07/23/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Ткаченко анонсував «відновлення цифрової спроможності» міністерства культури
Міністр культури та інформаційної політики України Олександр Ткаченко в ексклюзивному інтерв’ю Радіо Свобода повідомив, що мінкульт збирається «оновити цифрову спроможність міністерства».
За словами міністра, у відомстві планують створити єдину онлайн платформу, де розмістять усі українські культурні продукти, як то українські вистави чи фільми, для загального доступу.
«Не існує сайту, на якому можна зайти і подивитися ті прекрасні відео, які я вже бачив, які існують в наших ансамблів, записи театрів тощо. Ми хочемо це створити (онлайн платформу – ред.), щоб тицьнувши одну кнопочку, можна було побачити все те, що має бути надбанням для громадськості. Крім технічного питання, потрібно вирішити ще питання авторських прав, і я сподіваюся, що в недалекому майбутньому такий ресурс буде створений», – сказав Ткаченко.
За словами Олександра Ткаченка, на такій платформі також можуть бути розміщені українські фільми, котрі виготовлялися за державні гроші.
Читати по темі: Український фільм «Мої думки тихі» вийде на HBO Europe – Держкіно
your ad hereBy Gromada | 07/23/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
White House Drops Payroll Tax Cut After GOP Allies Object
The White House reluctantly dropped its bid to cut Social Security payroll taxes Thursday as Republicans unveil a $1 trillion COVID-19 rescue package, yielding to opposition to the idea among top Senate allies.”It won’t be in the base bill,” said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, speaking on CNBC about the payroll tax cut, killing the idea for now. The cut in the tax that finances Social Security and Medicare has been a major demand of President Donald Trump.”The president is very focused on getting money quickly to workers right now, and the payroll tax takes time,” Mnuchin said at the Capitol. Only Sunday, Trump said in a Fox News interview that “I would consider not signing it if we don’t have a payroll tax cut.”The long-delayed legislation comes amid alarming developments on the virus crisis. It was originally to be released Thursday morning by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, but the Kentucky Republican instead hosted an unscheduled meeting with Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.Afterward, Mnuchin declared the administration had reached a “fundamental agreement” with Senate Republicans.Given the hold-up, however, Mnuchin and Meadows floated the idea of passing a bill next week that would be limited to maintaining jobless benefits that would otherwise expire and speeding aid to schools. It wasn’t clear whether the measure would still be introduced Thursday, they said.McConnell’s $1 trillion package is an opening GOP bid in talks with top Capitol Hill Democrats — who back a $3.5 trillion House bill that passed two months ago — in a negotiation that could be rockier than talks in March that produced a $2 trillion rescue package. GOP senators and Trump are at odds over priorities, and Democrats say the Republican plans are not nearly enough to stem the health crisis, reopen schools and extend aid to jobless Americans.”Our Republican colleagues have been so divided, so disorganized, and so unprepared that they have to struggle to draft even a partisan proposal within their own conference,” said Democratic leader Chuck Schumer. The must-have centerpiece for McConnell is a liability shield to protect businesses, schools and others from coronavirus-related lawsuits. The package is not expected to provide any new money for cash-strapped states and cities, which are clamoring for funds, but Republicans propose giving $105 billion to help schools reopen and $15 billion for child care centers to create safe environments for youngsters during the pandemic.The GOP measure does forge an immediate agreement with Democrats on another round of $1,200 checks to most American adults.The $600 weekly unemployment benefit boost that is expiring Friday would be cut back, and Mnuchin said it would ultimately be redesigned to provide a typical worker 70% of his or her income. Republicans say continuing the $600 benefit as Democrats is a disincentive to work, but some Republicans are pressing for a temporary extension of the current benefit if the talks drag.”We cannot allow there to be a cliff in unemployment insurance given we’re still at about 11% unemployment,” said Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio. The bill is likely to be silent on the potential housing crisis as a federal eviction moratorium on millions of rental units expires in days.One key holdup in the talks was Trump’s push for a payroll tax cut, according to a Republican granted anonymity to discuss the private talks. Hardly any GOP senators support the idea. Instead, McConnell and some other Republicans prefer the direct $1,200 cash payments to Americans.Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said there will be another boost for small business lending in the Paycheck Protection Program. “It’s going to be big,” he said.The bills will also include tax breaks for businesses to hire and retain workers and to help shops and workplaces retool with new safety protocols. A document circulating among lobbyists claims the package would increase the deduction for business meals to 100%, offering help to the restaurant industry.The breakthrough on testing money was key after days of debate between Republicans and the White House. Republicans wanted $25 billion, but the Trump administration said the $9 billion in unspent funds from a previous aid deal was sufficient. The two sides settled on adding $16 billion to the unspent funds to reach $25 billion, senators said. There will also be fresh funds for vaccines.Of the $105 billion for education, Republicans want $70 billion to help K-12 schools reopen, $30 billion for colleges and $5 billion for governors to allocate. The Trump administration wanted school money linked to reopenings, but in McConnell’s package the money for K-12 would likely be split between those that have in-person learning and those that don’t.Democrats, who already approved House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s more sweeping $3 trillion package two months ago, said the GOP infighting with Trump was delaying needed relief to Americans during the crisis.”We are just days away from a housing crisis that could be prevented,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. In their package, Democrats are calling for $430 billion to reopen schools, bigger unemployment benefits and direct aid checks and a sweeping $1 trillion for state and local governments. They also want a fresh round of mortgage and rental assistance and new federal health and safety requirements for workers.McConnell calls his proposal a “starting point” in negotiations with Democrats. Congress in March approved the massive $2.2 trillion CARES package, the biggest of its kind in U.S. history.The severity of the prolonged virus outbreak is upending American life. Schools are delaying fall openings, states are clamping down with new stay-home orders and the fallout is rippling through an economy teetering with high unemployment and business uncertainty. A new AP-NORC poll shows very few Americans want full school sessions without restrictions in the fall.Still, some Republicans said they are unlikely to approve any new aid.”I just don’t see the need for it,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told reporters on Wednesday.
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By Polityk | 07/23/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
“Газовый сюрприз” от Эрдогана: Турция дожимает “газпром”…
Турки уменьшат возможности российского транзита через зону своего контроля до сопоставимых значений со всеми остальными проектами – то есть, примерно до 10 млрд кубометров в год…
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By Vyborec | 07/23/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Обиженный карлик пукин в ауте: коматозный газпром давят по всем фронтам
Эпопея с газопроводом «Северный Поток – 2» зашла на какой-то такой уровень, когда глядя на все, что вокруг него происходит, с трудом вспоминаешь то, с чего и для чего все началось
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By Vyborec | 07/23/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Агент карлика пукіна “казбек”, або початок дегенерата портнова. Це дуже важливо знати!
Розслідування Миротворця щодо дегенерата портнова в тисячу разів важливіше і сенсаційніше, аніж відомий «антисвинарчуківський» матеріал Бігуса
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By Vyborec | 07/23/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Армия Турции победила путляндию в Африке и Ближнем Востоке и опустила карлика пукина
Армия Турции победила путляндию в Африке и Ближнем Востоке и опустила карлика пукина.
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By Vyborec | 07/23/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Статистика захворюваності на COVID-19 в Україні поповнилась 856 новими випадками – РНБО
Число людей, які в Україні захворіли на COVID-19 за минулу добу, збільшилось на 856, свідчать дані РНБО.
За минулу добу, 22 липня, 828 людей одужали, 17 померли.
Від початку епідемії коронавірус виявили у 61 851 людини, 34 тисячі пацієнтів одужали, 1551 людей померли.
За даними Університету Джонса Гопкінса, у світі станом на 23 липня зафіксовано понад 15 мільйонів випадків інфікування коронавірусом, померли понад 623 тисячі людей, одужали більш ніж 8,6 мільйона.
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By Gromada | 07/23/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Агентство розвитку туризму відправили на карантин після підтвердження COVID-19 у керівниці – Ткаченко
Голова Державного агентства розвитку туризму України Мар’яна Олеськів отримала позитивні результати тесту на коронавірус. Як повідомив очільник Міністерства культури та інформаційної політики Олександр Ткаченко у фейсбуці, у зв’язку з цим колектив відомства перевели на карантин.
«Мар’яна Олеськів, очільниця Державного агентства розвитку туризму України, отримала позитивні результати тесту на ПЛР. Співробітники та всі, хто був у контакті з пані Олеськів, проходять тестування. Команда ДАРТ переведена на карантинний режим», – йдеться в повідомленні Ткаченка.
Сам Ткаченко заявив, що за останній тиждень не був у прямому контакті з Олеськів, але здав тест та очікує на результати.
Повідомляється, що сама Олеськів почувається добре.
Станом на ранок 23 липня в Україні зареєстровано 61 851 випадків COVID-19. Від початку епідемії 1551 людей померли і 34 тисячі – одужали.
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By Gromada | 07/23/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Обиженный карлик пукин панически боится даже упоминаний о Крыме
В путляндии законодательно надевают на холопов “намордники”, чтобы все, кто не согласен с их экспансионистской политикой просто прикусили языки
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By Vyborec | 07/23/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Congress Passes Sprawling Plan to Boost Conservation, Parks
A bipartisan bill that would spend nearly $3 billion on conservation projects, outdoor recreation and maintenance of national parks and other public lands is on its way to the president’s desk after winning final legislative approval.Supporters say the measure, known as the Great American Outdoors Act, would be the most significant conservation legislation enacted in nearly half a century.The House approved the bill 310-107 Wednesday, weeks after it won overwhelming approval in the Senate. The bill now goes to President Donald Trump, who is expected to sign it.Trump’s daughter Ivanka urged passage of the bill in a tweet. The younger Trump, a senior adviser to her father, is expected to celebrate the bill’s passage at events in Colorado this week with Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and Sen. Cory Gardner, one of the bill’s sponsors.The bill would spend about $900 million a year — double current spending — on the popular Land and Water Conservation Fund, and another $1.9 billion per year on improvements at national parks, forests, wildlife refuges and rangelands.Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, called the bill “one of the biggest wins for conservation in decades.”‘America’s crown jewels’”We have a generational opportunity to ensure America’s crown jewels are protected,” he said, adding that the bill would ensure all tools available are used to help the nation respond to the climate crisis and protect landscapes, clean water and clean air.At a time of intense partisan disagreements, “it is perhaps more necessary that ever to demonstrate we can still bridge the divide … and work together to find common ground,” said Grijalva, a Democrat. “This bill goes beyond politics. It’s about ensuring that we pass along a legacy of public lands.”Supporters say the bill will create at least 100,000 jobs, while restoring national parks and repairing trails and forest systems.”At a time when our country needs to create jobs and rebuild local economies while also protecting nature and places where everyone can recreate outdoors, the Great American Outdoors Act answers the call on all fronts,” said Jennifer Morris, CEO of The Nature Conservancy, an advocacy group.”There couldn’t be a more important time than now to improve parks, protect birds and wildlife, and create jobs in every state across the country,” added Sarah Greenberger, senior vice president for conservation policy of the National Audubon Society.‘HISTORIC for our beautiful public lands’While bipartisan, the bill was led in the Senate by Gardner and fellow GOP Sen. Steve Daines of Montana. Gardner and Daines are among the Senate’s most vulnerable incumbents, and each represents a state where the outdoor economy and tourism at sites such as Rocky Mountain and Yellowstone national parks play an outsize role.Daines and Gardner persuaded the president to support the bill at a White House meeting this year, even though Trump has repeatedly tried to slash spending for the Land and Water Conservation Fund in his budget proposals. Trump soon tweeted his support for the bill, saying it “will be HISTORIC for our beautiful public lands.”Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., said permanently and fully funding the conservation program “will be a monumental victory for conservation and the places where we all get outside.” He cited studies showing that each dollar spent by the fund creates an additional four dollars in economic value.Visitors cannot enjoy national parks such as Yellowstone and Yosemite “if the bathrooms don’t work, if the trails and campgrounds aren’t open, or if the roads are in disrepair,” Heinrich said. “These places that we all cherish deserve better.”‘Political games’The bill’s opponents, mostly Republicans, complained that it would not eliminate an estimated $20 billion maintenance backlog on 640 million acres of federally owned lands. The bill authorizes $9.5 billion for maintenance over five years.”The Great American Outdoors Act is a perfect example of Washington playing political games,” said Utah Rep. Rob Bishop, the top Republican on the natural resources panel.He accused the bill’s supporters of taking “a bipartisan and popular idea to fix our parks and spur job creation” and combining it with “a divisive measure” on land and water conservation “that will increase our debt” and do little for economic recovery.”At a time when America is putting a record amount of debt on the backs of future generations to cope with COVID-19, now is not the time for reckless spending or new mandatory programs that have nothing to do with the pandemic or stimulating growth,” Bishop said.But Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., said the bill would strengthen the recreation economy, a key driver of jobs across the country. It also will address environmental justice by creating green spaces near low-income communities and communities of color across the country, Beyer said.”It is a win for outdoor recreation, for the economy, for wildlife and for the country,” he said.
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By Polityk | 07/23/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Trump, Barr to Expand Anti-crime Surge to Several US Cities
President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr are expected to announce Wednesday that federal agents will surge into several American cities including Chicago to help combat rising crime, expanding the administration’s intervention in local enforcement as Trump runs for reelection under a “law-and-order” mantle.Hundreds of federal agents already have been sent to Kansas City, Missouri, to help quell a record rise in violence after the shooting death of a young boy there. Sending federal agents to help localities is not uncommon. Barr announced a similar surge effort in December for seven cities that had seen spiking violence.Usually, the Justice Department sends agents under its own umbrella, like agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives or the Drug Enforcement Agency. But this surge effort will include Department of Homeland Security Investigations officers, who generally conduct drug trafficking and child exploitation investigations.Trump and Barr are expected to be joined at the White House announcement Wednesday by Chicago-based U.S. Attorney John Lausch, according to his office, along with the U.S. attorney and the sheriff of New Mexico’s most populous county that includes Albuquerque.FILE – Federal agents disperse Black Lives Matter protesters near the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse in Portland, Oregon, July 20, 2020.DHS officers have already been dispatched to Portland, Oregon, and other localities to protect federal property and monuments as Trump has lambasted efforts by protesters to knock down Confederate statutes. Trump has linked the growing violence in the streets with protests over racial injustice, though criminal justice experts say the spike defies easy explanation, pointing to the unprecedented moment the country is living through — with a pandemic that has killed more than 140,000 Americans, historic unemployment, stay-at-home orders, a mass reckoning over race and police brutality, intense stress and even the weather.Local authorities have also complained the surges in federal agents have only exacerbated tensions on the streets.Tense momentThe decision to dispatch federal agents to American cities is playing out at a hyperpoliticized moment when Trump is trying to show he is a “law-and-order” president and painting Democratic-led cities as out of control. With less than four months to go before Election Day, Trump has been serving up dire warnings that the violence would worsen if his Democratic rival Joe Biden is elected in November, as he tries to win over voters who could be swayed by that message.But civil unrest in Portland only escalated after federal agents there were accused of whisking people away in unmarked cars without probable cause.The spike in crime has hit hard in some cities with resources already stretched thin from the pandemic. But the move to send in federal forces was initially rejected by leaders in Chicago and New York, another city with a surge in violence. FILE – Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks during a news conference in Hall A at the COVID-19 alternate site at McCormick Place in Chicago, April 10, 2020.Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot later said she and other local officials had spoken with federal authorities and come to an understanding. “I’ve been very clear that we welcome actual partnership,” the Democratic mayor said Tuesday after speaking with federal officials. “But we do not welcome dictatorship. We do not welcome authoritarianism, and we do not welcome unconstitutional arrest and detainment of our residents. That is something I will not tolerate.”‘Storm troopers’In New Mexico, meanwhile, Democratic elected officials were cautioning Trump against any possible plans to send federal agents to the state, with U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich calling on Bernalillo County Sheriff Manny Gonzales, who will be at the White House on Wednesday, to resign.”Instead of collaborating with the Albuquerque Police Department, the sheriff is inviting the president’s storm troopers into Albuquerque,” the Democratic senator said in a statement.In Kansas City, the top federal prosecutor said any agents involved in an operation to reduce violent crime in the area would be clearly identifiable when making arrests, unlike what has been seen in Portland.”These agents won’t be patrolling the streets,” U.S. Attorney Timothy Garrison said. “They won’t replace or usurp the authority of local officers.”FILE – Protesters block a downtown Kansas City, Mo. intersection, July 17, 2020. Demonstrators were demanding police reforms and an end to Operation Legend, a federal initiative that will deploy 225 federal agents to fight crime in the city.Operation Legend — named after 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was fatally shot while sleeping in a Kansas City apartment late last month — was announced on July 8.”When they are making arrests or executing warrants, these federal agents will be clearly identified by their agency’s visible badges or insignia,” Garrison said. “The only people federal agents will be removing from the street are those they arrest in the course of their investigations of violent crimes.”Garrison has said that the additional 225 federal agents from the FBI, DEA, ATF and the U.S. Marshals Service join 400 agents already working and living in the Kansas City area.The Trump administration is facing growing pushback in Portland. Multiple lawsuits have been filed questioning the federal government’s authority to use broad policing powers in cities. One suit filed Tuesday says federal agents are violating protesters’ 10th Amendment rights by engaging in police activities designated to local and state governments. Oregon lawsuitOregon’s attorney general sued last week, asking a judge to block federal agents’ actions. The state argued that masked agents had arrested people on the streets without probable cause and far from the U.S. courthouse that’s become a target of vandalism.Federal authorities, however, said state and local officials had been unwilling to work with them to stop the vandalism and violence against federal officers and the U.S. courthouse.The use of federal agents against the will of local officials also has set up the potential for a constitutional crisis, legal experts say. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said federal agents were repressing the American right to protest and he would not welcome federal agents there. “I still believe in the rule of law in this country, and we would go to court immediately. I believe what the president is doing is unconstitutional,” the Democratic mayor said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show on Wednesday.
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By Polityk | 07/23/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
House Votes on Statues of Confederates, Racist Chief Justice
The House moved toward a vote Wednesday on removing from the U.S. Capitol statues of Confederate heroes, including Robert E. Lee, and a bust of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, the author of the 1857 Dred Scott decision that declared African Americans couldn’t be citizens. Besides Taney, the bill would direct the Architect of the Capitol to identify and eventually remove from Statuary Hall at least 10 statues honoring Confederate leaders, including Lee, Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens. Three statues honoring white supremacists — including former U.S. Vice President John C. Calhoun of South Carolina — would be immediately removed. FILE – A statue of Robert E. Lee is on display on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 24, 2015.”Defenders and purveyors of sedition, slavery, segregation and white supremacy have no place in this temple of liberty,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said at a Capitol news conference ahead of the House vote. Hoyer, D-Md., co-sponsored the bill and noted with irony that Taney was born in the southern Maryland district Hoyer represents. Hoyer said it was appropriate that the bill would replace Taney’s bust with another Maryland native, the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the high court’s first Black justice. The House vote comes as communities nationwide reexamine the people they’re memorializing with statues. Bills to remove the Taney bust and the statues of Confederate leaders have been introduced in the Republican-controlled Senate, where prospects for passage are uncertain. Even if legislation passes both chambers, it would need the president’s signature, and President Donald Trump has opposed the removal of historic statues elsewhere. Trump has strongly condemned those who toppled statues during protests over racial injustice and police brutality following the May death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Chief Justice TaneyThe 2-foot-high marble bust of Taney is outside a room in the Capitol where the Supreme Court met for half a century, from 1810 to 1860. It was in that room that Taney, the nation’s fifth chief justice, announced the Dred Scott decision, sometimes called the worst decision in the court’s history. FILE – A marble bust of Chief Justice Roger Taney is displayed in the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, March 9, 2020.”What Dred Scott said was, Black lives did not matter,” Hoyer said. “So when we assert that yes they do matter, it is out conviction … that in America, the land of the free includes all of us.” There’s at least one potentially surprising voice for Taney to stay. Lynne M. Jackson, Scott’s great-great-granddaughter, says if it were up to her, she’d leave Taney’s bust where it is. But she said she’d add something too: a bust of Dred Scott. “I’m not really a fan of wiping things out,” Jackson said in a telephone interview this week from her home in Missouri. The president and founder of The Dred Scott Heritage Foundation, Jackson has seen other Taney sculptures removed in recent years, particularly in Maryland, where he was the state’s attorney general before becoming U.S. attorney general and then chief justice. ‘Attempts to rewrite history’Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., said the statues honoring Lee and other Confederate leaders are “deliberate attempts to rewrite history and dehumanize African Americans.” The statues “are not symbols of Southern heritage, as some claim, but are symbols of white supremacy and defiance of federal authority,” Lee said. “It’s past time we end the glorification of men who committed treason against the United States in a concerted effort to keep African Americans in chains.” Calhoun, who served as vice president from 1825-1832, also was a U.S. senator, House member and secretary of state and war. He died a decade before the Civil War, but was known as a strong defender of slavery, segregation and white supremacy. His statue would be removed within 30 days of the bill’s passage, along with former North Carolina Gov. Charles Aycock and James Clarke, a former Arkansas governor and senator. Plea for contextIn the summer of 2017, shortly after white nationalists gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest the removal of a statue of Lee, Baltimore’s mayor removed statues of Lee, Taney and others. A statue of Taney was removed from the grounds of the State House in Annapolis around the same time. And a bust of Taney was removed that year from outside city hall in Frederick, Maryland. Another Taney bust sits alongside all other former chief justices in the Supreme Court’s Great Hall, a soaring, marble-columned corridor that leads to the courtroom. A portrait of Taney hangs in one of the court’s conference rooms. FILE – A statue of Alexander Stephens of Georgia is on display in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 11, 2020.Jackson said she believes that what memorials honoring figures like Taney need is context. At the Capitol, the Taney statue sits in the “place where the Dred Scott case was decided,” but the fact he is “there by himself is lopsided,” Jackson said in suggesting a bust of Scott be added. She had proposed a similar fix for the Taney statue in Annapolis. In Congress, Taney’s bust was controversial from the start. When Illinois Sen. Lyman Trumbull proposed its creation in 1865, shortly after Taney’s death, he got into a heated debate with Massachusetts Sen. Charles Sumner, a fierce opponent of slavery. “Let me tell that senator that the name of Taney is to be hooted down the page of history. Judgment is beginning now,” Sumner said. “And an emancipated country will fasten upon him the stigma which he deserves.” Funding for a Taney bust wasn’t approved until almost a decade later. Today, near the Taney bust, inside the old Supreme Court chamber, there are also busts of the nation’s first four chief justices. The first, John Marshall, is the only person to serve as chief justice longer than Taney and a revered figure in the law. But John Marshall too was a deeply flawed man, as were other justices, said Paul Finkelman, the president of Gratz College in Pennsylvania and the author of “Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court.” Marshall bought slaves most of his life, a fact his biographers largely ignored, and was hostile to the idea of Blacks gaining their freedom, Finkelman said. Before the Civil War, probably the majority of justices owned slaves, he said. “It’s not pretty. It’s who they were,” Finkelman said.
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By Polityk | 07/23/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Правозахисники: низка норм карантину суперечать законам України та порушують права людини
Низка норм постанови Кабміну про запобігання поширення епідемії коронавірусу, ухваленої 10 березня і декілька разів доповненої, суперечать українському законодавству та непропорційно обмежують права людини. Про це повідомляє Центр прав людини «Зміна» з посиланням на Асоціацію українських моніторів дотримання прав людини в діяльності правоохоронних органів (УМДПЛ).
Автори зазначають, що деякі обмеження були непослідовними або не мали сенсу. Як приклад наводять заборону відвідування парків та лісопаркових зон.
«Ці обмеження спричиняють особливе занепокоєння з огляду на те, що вони могли порушувати право на недоторканність житла (вимога про перевірку режиму самоізоляції особи поліцейськими), право на мирні зібрання (обмеження в кількості осіб, які можуть брати участь у мирній акції), право на свободу віросповідання (заборона відвідувати богослужіння на кладовищах), а також порушували принцип правової визначеності», – мовиться у повідомленні.
Правозахисники також вбачають обмеження прав людини у постановах про обов’язкову обсервацію або самоізоляцію через відсутність механізму проведення медичних перевірок у першому випадку, та обмеження права на пересування у другому.
Крім цього, на думку правозахисників, під час карантинних заходів були запроваджені надмірні обмеження в реалізації права на свободу літніх людей, адже, на їхню думку, заборона залишати помешкання людям, старшим за 60 років, має «очевидні ознаки цілодобового домашнього арешту без відповідного судового рішення».
Через загрозу COVID-19 в Україні Кабінет міністрів запровадив карантин з 12 березня. У травні його почали поступово послаблювати, перейшовши до так званого адаптивного карантину, встановленого з 22 травня до 22 червня. Згодом його продовжили до 31 липня.
22 липня Кабінет міністрів на своєму засіданні продовжив адаптивний карантин до 31 серпня.
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By Gromada | 07/22/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Heavily Armed US Agents on City Streets: Can Trump Do That?
The Trump administration has deployed agents with tactical gear to confront protesters in downtown Portland, Oregon. That has sparked debate over the use of federal power as local and state officials, and many in the community, condemn their tactics and demand they leave.
Far from backing down, the administration plans to send agents to Chicago to respond to gun violence. And President Donald Trump says federal agents could be deployed elsewhere as he makes law and order a central element in his struggling reelection campaign.
Here are some of the issues behind this unconventional, if not unprecedented, use of federal forces: What’s been going on in Portland?
Protests over the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis have taken place in downtown Portland for more than 50 consecutive days, drawing at times more than 10,000 mostly peaceful demonstrators. A relatively small number of activists has vandalized downtown buildings, including the federal courthouse, and attacked police and federal agents.
Trump issued an executive order June 26 to protect monuments and federal property after protesters tried to remove or destroy statues of people considered racist, including a failed attempt to pull down one of Andrew Jackson near the White House. The Department of Homeland Security dispatched agents to Portland as well as Seattle and Washington, D.C., starting around the Fourth of July weekend.Why the Department of Homeland Security?
DHS, which was formed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to improve the nation’s response to the threat of international terrorism, oversees some of the largest U.S. law enforcement agencies.
That includes the Border Patrol as well as Immigration Customs and Enforcement, which are seeing less of their usual activity because of COVID-19. DHS also oversees the Federal Protective Service, which guards federal buildings along with the U.S. Marshals Service. DHS sent members of the Border Patrol, along with Secret Service officers, Air Marshals and others, to Portland to protect the downtown courthouse complex.What Happened After Federal Forces Arrived?
Federal officers and protesters clashed in the streets outside the federal courthouse. Demonstrators broke windows and did other damage, hurled rocks at the officers and shined lasers in their eyes. Agents have fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators and arrested about 43 people since July 4, mostly for minor offenses. Tensions escalated after an officer with the Marshals Service fired a less-lethal round at a protester’s head on July 11, critically injuring him. They ratcheted up further when agents in unmarked vehicles with generic “police” patches on their camouflage uniforms arrested people at night without identifying themselves.
DHS officials defended the arrests Tuesday, saying they were carried out lawfully and intended to protect officers from violent crowds. They also noted it is routine to use unmarked vehicles. But it seemed to many like the U.S. had created a secret police force, and it drew lawsuits as well as more protesters into the streets.Is It Legal for Federal Forces To Be Used Like This?
Yes, to a certain extent. Federal authorities can enforce federal laws on federal property, like the courthouse in downtown Portland. But state and local officials say the federal agents have operated beyond their jurisdiction, and that has raised constitutional issues now being challenged in court. As Michael Dorf, a professional of constitutional law at Cornell University, told The Associated Press, “The idea that there’s a threat to a federal courthouse and the federal authorities are going to swoop in and do whatever they want to do without any cooperation and coordination with state and local authorities is extraordinary outside the context of a civil war.” Even If It’s Legal, Is It A Good Idea?
DHS has assisted with local enforcement before, but not without consent. It sent agents to Puerto Rico to help confront a spike in crime linked to drug trafficking in 2013 and dispatched the Border Patrol’s tactical team to track two escaped convicts in rural upstate New York in 2015. But as John Cohen, a former senior DHS official under Obama and President George W. Bush, noted, those were conducted in close cooperation with state and local authorities. Employing DHS on its own, in a mission that seems to be suspiciously aligned with the president’s reelection campaign, appears to be unprecedented. “If the public begins to perceive that they are being partisan in how they operate they lose credibility, and if they lose credibility, they lose public trust,” said Cohen, who now teaches at Georgetown University.What Can Be Expected To Happen Next?
The Oregon attorney general filed a lawsuit Friday arguing that the federal government had violated the rights of citizens of the state by detaining people without probable cause. The American Civil Liberties Union has also sued, seeking to stop the federal government’s use of rubber bullets, tear gas and acoustic weapons against journalists and other legal observers. These and other legal actions could force the federal agents to change tactics or perhaps downsize their mission in the city.
Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf at a news conference Tuesday urged state and local authorities in Portland to work with the federal government to stop the violence directed at federal personnel and property. He also sought to draw a sharp distinction between people demonstrating against police brutality and those attacking the courthouse. “If you’re looking to peacefully protest in Portland, the department respects your right to do so,” he said.
Trump has praised the DHS response and criticized local officials for letting a situation get “out of control.” An official told the AP that Homeland Security was planning to deploy about 150 agents to Chicago for at least two months in a mission expected to focus on gun crime, not the protection of federal property. Trump, who sees the use of federal officers as a way to embarrass Democratic local officials, wants them used in other cities. “We’re going to have more federal law enforcement, that I can tell you,” Trump said Monday.
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By Polityk | 07/22/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Українці оцінюють діяльність крадуна авакова: йому час у відставку!
Зеленський називав арсена авакова «потужним міністром». Міністр внутрішніх справ аваков працює на посаді уже понад шість років. Низка депутатів закидають міністру провал у реформуванні поліції та проблеми із розслідуванням резонансних справ. Журналісти зібрали реакції українців та їхні оцінки діяльності чинного голови МВС України. Чи повинен арсен аваков піти у відставку? Що українці думають про реформи поліції? Дивіться в опитуванні
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By Vyborec | 07/22/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Как пукинская пропаганда врала про Хабаровск
Так как протесты в Хабаровске не утихали всю неделю, а на выходных вышло еще больше, чем выходило ранее, то разумеется в ход пошла пропаганда, которая как и всегда все перевернула, нашла след Америки, митингующие – это приезжие, в общем давно известные штампы, хотя бы заморочились и придумали что-нибудь новое, но видимо их аудитория и так все это вранье принимает и верит
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By Vyborec | 07/22/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Народна помста під Радою. Чому позеленів холоп пукіна-медведчука кретин волошин?
Так званого нардепа від опзж облили зеленкою прямо біля Верховної Ради.
Насильство, звісно, це погано. Але влада не залишає українцям вибору, бо закон у нас не працює, а придурок волошин і його соратники сидять не у в’язниці, а в Раді.
Блог про українську політику та актуальні події в нашій країні
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By Vyborec | 07/22/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Мы в шоке, или чем прославился новый губернатор Хабаровского края дегенерат дехтярёв
Последние новости путляндии и мира, экономика, бизнес, культура, технологии, спорт
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By Vyborec | 07/22/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Кремлевский конфуз: запуск российской ракеты в Ливии закончился тотальным позором
В качестве эффектной демонстрации безграничных возможностей военного хлама из путляндии послужил недавний запуск противокорабельной ракеты П-15 термит. Карлик володя-бункер передал вундервафли, убедительно заявив, будто подобный мусор послужит надежной защитой от Военно-морских сил Турции. Как и ожидалось, показательный пуск «аналоговнет» закончился сплошным фиаско. Ракета пролетела от силы метров двести, прежде чем подлая гравитация заставила ее капитулировать и зарыться носом в прибрежные волны
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By Vyborec | 07/22/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
