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Biden to Detail Economic Recovery Plan for Working Families
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is set to unveil Tuesday a series of economic proposals focusing on working families as he campaigns with just more than 100 days remaining before voters decide between him and President Donald Trump. Biden’s campaign said he “will outline how his plan will build a robust 21st century caregiving and education workforce” as part of his “Build Back Better” plan for the U.S. economy. Recent polls indicate Biden leading Trump, including a Reuters/Ipsos poll of registered voters conducted last week that put Biden 10 percentage points ahead. The Democratic candidate has detailed several other parts of his economic recovery plan while criticizing Trump’s coronavirus response and his handling of the economy. Trump has countered by positioning himself as the candidate best capable of boosting the economy, calling Biden “totally ill-equipped.”President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, July 20, 2020, in Washington.Earlier this month, Biden proposed a $700 billion manufacturing plan that he said would add 5 million new jobs to help cope with the spike in unemployment during the pandemic. Biden said his plan includes $300 billion for research and development projects in clean energy, telecommunications, artificial intelligence and other fields. It also includes $400 billion for the government purchase of U.S-built goods, such as environmentally clean products and construction materials. Last week, Biden proposed spending $2 trillion to fight climate change and cut carbon emissions from power plants to zero by 2035. The Biden campaign has said another piece of the plan to be revealed in a future speech involves efforts to advance racial equity in the aftermath of national protests against police brutality.
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By Polityk | 07/21/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
«Умови були складними» – ДСНС Луганщини відповіла на закиди щодо проблем евакуації людей з пожежі
Як мінімум чотири підрозділи було спрямовано на порятунок людей в садівництві «Вовче озеро», але дістатися змогла лише одна машина. Про це йдеться у відповіді Головного управління Державної служби з надвичайних ситуацій України в Луганській області на запит Радіо Свобода.
За даними рятувальників, до 13-ї години 17 липня з садівництва сигналів про загоряння до Служби порятунку «101» не надходило, тільки про сильне задимлення.
Читайте також: Наявна система гасіння пожежа нездатна впоратися з такими масштабами – Олег Листопад про пожежі на Луганщині (рос.)
«Отримавши о 13:25 повідомлення від диспетчера, туди попрямувало відділення Державної пожежно-рятувальної частини №12 з пожежі біля села Метьолкине. Але на трасі Сєвєродонецьк-Новоайдар бійці під керуванням Віталія Кищенка на пожежній автоцистерні потрапили у вогняну пастку: верхова пожежа відрізала їм шлях назад. Але вони продовжили рух до місця виклику і побачили на геть задимленому автошляху страшну ДТП: лобове зіткнення двох легковиків з двома постраждалими. Загалом на цьому відрізку дороги виявилося п’ятеро людей, які потребували допомоги. Всіх їх рятувальники вивезли на своєму автомобілі до медичного закладу міста Сєвєродонецьк», – йдеться у відповіді.
Крім цього, до садівництва було спрямовано ще три підрозділи з різних напрямків. Частина з них дістатися «Вовчого озера» не змогла. Їм довелося зайнятися роботою в іншому місці – вогонь на той момент дістався села Смолянинове.
Одному ж підрозділу вдалося дістатися садівництва. За даними ГУ ДСНС України в Луганській області, трьома розвідгрупами рятувальники провели обстеження кооперативу, сформували автоколону з п’яти легкових автомобілів та евакуювали 16 людей.
Нагадаємо, 17 липня члени садівництва «Вовче озеро», де вогнем було пошкоджено близько 80 будинків, розповідали, що рятувальники не приїхали їм на допомогу, і люди евакуйовувалися хто як міг. У вогні тоді загинули троє членів садівництва.
6 липня в Луганській області спалахнула пожежа. 7 липня вогонь перекинувся на село Смолянинове, а також дачний коператив «Вовче озеро». 13 липня ДСНС повідомила про ліквідацію пожежі.
Жертвами пожежі стали п’ятеро людей, 34 госпіталізували, повністю зруйновані або частково пошкоджені десятки будинків. Також Луганської ОДА повідомляла, що вигоріло близько п’яти тисяч гектарів лісу.
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By Gromada | 07/21/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Trump to Resume White House Coronavirus Briefings
U.S. President Donald Trump says he will resume White House coronavirus briefings as cases spike nationwide. The president’s decision to again hold a daily briefing on the virus comes as his poll numbers have dropped and advisers have encouraged him to communicate more about his administration’s response to the pandemic. “I think it’s a great way to get information out to the public,” Trump told reporters Monday in the Oval Office. He said the briefings would likely begin Tuesday and that he hoped to talk about medical progress to fight the pandemic, including vaccines and therapeutics. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the briefings will “give reassurance to the American people that we are in a place, where we see these cases rising as we increase testing, notably – but we are in a place where we are treating people in a better fashion because of the therapeutics developed under this president.” It is not clear whether Trump will field questions at the briefings as he has in the past or if he will share the stage with others, including Vice President Mike Pence and health experts Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx. Trump has recently criticized Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert, saying in a Fox News interview that aired Sunday that Fauci is “a little bit of an alarmist.” However, he added, “I have a great relationship with him.” Trump’s once near-daily briefings largely ended in late April. In one of the last appearances he made, Trump speculated about whether injecting disinfectants could help stop the virus, a comment that sparked strong criticism from public health experts. Last week, senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway publicly urged the president to again hold the briefings. “His approval rating on the pandemic was higher when he was at the podium,” Conway said Friday. Trump’s approval ratings went up in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States but began to fall in April. The decision to resume the White House briefings comes less than a week after Trump announced a campaign shakeup in which he replaced his campaign manager.
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By Polityk | 07/21/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
House Lawmakers Hold Moment of Silence for Civil Rights Icon John Lewis
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives held a moment of silence Monday in honor of Georgia congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis, who died last week at age 80.The veteran lawmaker and son of sharecroppers was heavily involved in the 1960s civil rights movement, from speaking at the monumental 1963 March on Washington, to marching in his native Alabama in 1965. During a Selma-to-Montgomery march that year, Lewis was beaten badly as he and other protesters attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge to get to the state capital. Lewis suffered a fractured skull during the confrontation with state troopers. The violence came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”According to a bio about Mourners of the late Rep. John Lewis, a pioneer of the civil rights movement and long-time member of the U.S. House of Representatives, hold a vigil in his memory in Atlanta, Georgia, July 19, 2020.Lewis served as the congressman for Georgia’s 5th District from his first election in 1987 until the day he died. Lewis passed away on Friday, about seven months after he was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer also gave a tribute to Lewis Monday.Hoyer said that Lewis was “a veteran legislator and person of wisdom and experience” who “still carried in his heart the same energy, optimism, and determined spirit that he bore in his youth. John never stopped being the young man who dreamed of change and knew it could be achieved.”Hoyer concluded by stating, “He was our inspiration, he was our guide, he was our friend, he was our colleague. As I said on Saturday morning, there is a hole in the heart of America.”House Speaker Nancy Pelosi walks towards the House Chamber at the Capitol, July 20, 2020, in Washington. Pelosi, who presided over a moment of silence for Georgia Rep. John Lewis, choked up recalling their last conversation the day before he died.Earlier, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in an interview on the CBS television network, noted she served with Lewis for 33 years in Congress. Pelosi told CBS’s Gayle King that Lewis “challenged our conscience in so many ways in terms of equality and justice. And it was justice for all.” Pelosi also described Lewis as “a patriot.”Separately, photos posted on Twitter showed workers putting a dark-colored drape over the door to Lewis’ Capitol Hill office, where handwritten notes had been left.State law requires that the Georgia Democratic Party appoint a nominee to replace Lewis one business day after his death. The committee in charge of appointing a nominee has announced five finalists to replace him on the ballot in November.
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By Polityk | 07/21/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
In Fractious Washington, Debate Starts on New Coronavirus Relief Plan
U.S. Lawmakers returned to Washington on Monday, facing crucial negotiations with President Donald Trump over the scope of a new funding package to combat the vast health and economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. The number of newly confirmed infections has soared past 70,000 a day in the U.S. in the past week, and $600-a-week federal payments to millions of unemployed workers are expiring at the end of July. But Trump and his Republican cohorts in Congress and opposition Democrats have yet to reach a consensus on what new aid to approve and how much money to spend. Months ago, the White House and Congress approved a package of bills totaling more than $3 trillion, and there was unusual bipartisan agreement. But now, in what is likely to be the last coronavirus spending deal before the presidential and congressional elections on November 3, Trump, Republican lawmakers and Democrats are voicing an array of coronavirus priorities they need to tackle before Congress leaves Washington in three weeks for its annual August recess. It won’t return until September. White House meetingTrump met Monday with two top Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, along with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, before they begin what are expected to be contentious negotiations with Democratic leaders. U.S. Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin, left, and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows attend a meeting to discuss legislation for additional coronavirus aid in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, July 20, 2020.Mnuchin said the new spending plan would focus on “kids (returning to school) and jobs and vaccines. “We want to make sure that people who can go to work safely can do so,” Mnuchin told reporters at the White House. “We’ll have tax credits that incentivize businesses to bring people back to work.” McConnell, in an effort to boost the economic recovery, wants provisions that curb the legal liability for businesses and workers from claims that they have infected customers with the coronavirus. Trump has called for a temporary end to the 7.65% payroll tax on workers’ salaries, which would benefit those who are working but not the more than 17 million unemployed U.S. workers because they currently have no paychecks to tax. Unemployment benefitsMeanwhile, Democratic lawmakers want to extend the $600-a-week federal boost to less generous state unemployment benefits through the end of 2020 and provide more aid for state and local governments to weather the coronavirus crisis. Some Republicans want to end the extra federal unemployment payments, saying they are a disincentive to push employees back to their jobs because some employees have made more money while being unemployed than they did from their salaries while working. Some lawmakers have suggested a compromise, extending the jobless benefits but cutting them to between $200 and $400 a week or limiting them to the workers who were paid the least before being laid off. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks about legislation for additional coronavirus aid during a meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, July 20, 2020.McConnell has said a new coronavirus spending deal could total about $1 trillion, but Democrats want a much bigger plan, more in line with the $3 trillion measure the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives approved in mid-May. That package, however, has languished in the Republican-controlled Senate even as Democrats have called for its passage. In an interview on the “Fox News Sunday” show, Trump advocated for the liability protection for businesses. “Businesses are going to get sued just because somebody walked in,” Trump said. “You don’t know where this virus comes from. They’ll sit down at a restaurant. They’ll sue the restaurant, the guy’s out of business.” He also said police need immunity from coronavirus lawsuits.Trump also said he “would consider” not signing the measure if it does not include cutting the payroll tax. U.S. news outlets have reported that some White House officials want to cut new funding for more coronavirus testing, but Democrats and some Republicans want the opposite: more money for testing and tracing the contacts of those infected. Negotiations Even as Trump and Republican and Democratic lawmakers have laid out their coronavirus spending priorities, there have been no negotiations over a collective package. But with the unemployment aid ending and the number of new coronavirus cases surging, there is general agreement on the need to agree on a plan before Congress departs for its summer recess. Getting to that point in politically fractious Washington could be difficult, especially with the elections in just over three months. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said late last week he had yet to hear from McConnell or Mnuchin. “Senator McConnell is trying to draft a bill in his office,” Schumer said. “But he knows that a bill just drafted by Republicans won’t become law. … McConnell knows from the previous COVID bills that to pass a bill in the Senate he’s got to work across the aisle.”
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By Polityk | 07/21/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Трамп воює із книгами, а Байден набирає оберти! Вибори у США!
Трамп воює із книгами, а Байден набирає оберти! Вибори у США!
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By Vyborec | 07/20/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Остров свободы. Хабаровск держится больше недели! соловьев извиняется, пукин отмалчивается
Более недели держится Хабаровск, показывая, что российский народ не безмолвное покорное быдло, а нормальные граждане, способные защищать и отстаивать свои права и свободы
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By Vyborec | 07/20/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Чёкнутый карлик пукин вырубит леса Байкала для экспорта…угля
Дело в том, что экспорт угля в Европу, куда путляндия традиционно засылала эшелоны падает и с года в год с неуклонной тенденцией. В целом, это закономерно, учитывая что Европа, как и весь цивилизованный мир отказывается от ресурсов с вредными выбросами и проводит декарбонизацию энергетики.
И вот теряя рынок сбыта, пукин хочет уничтожить первозданную природу одного из самых крупных и значительных заповедников, чтобы тарить свой уголь в Китай. При этом Китай также декларирует курс на снижение вредных выбросов, поэтому потенциальный экспорт угля будет рассчитан на весьма ограниченный период. То есть ОПГ вырубит под корень тысячи гектар, чтобы впоследствии пару лет поторговать углем. Полный абсурд, с экономической и политической стороны, и полная катастрофа с экологической
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By Vyborec | 07/20/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
На дне пукиномика – Фургал в тюрьме! Хабаровск кипит – доходы холопов рухнули рекордно с 1990х
На дне пукиномика – Фургал в тюрьме! Хабаровск кипит – доходы холопов рухнули рекордно с 1990х
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By Vyborec | 07/20/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Какие могут быть варианты развития событий Хабаровского Майдана
К Хабаровску сейчас приковано огромное внимание, поскольку город стал центром протестных настроений на путляндии и всех прямо таки интересует вопрос, а что же будет дальше?
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By Vyborec | 07/20/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
AP Fact Check: Trump’s Alternate Reality on COVID-19 Threat
President Donald Trump appears to be living in an alternate reality when it comes to the COVID-19 threat. Over the weekend, he clung to the misguided notion that the virus will just “disappear” even as his top science experts and GOP allies bluntly say otherwise. Trump also continued to wrongly insist that anyone who wants a coronavirus test is getting one, made the head-scratching suggestion that the virus is under control when infections are surging to fresh daily highs and lodged false accusations against the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci. The statements came in a week of distorted truth. Trump referred repeatedly to his “ban” on travel from China that wasn’t so and issued a scattered indictment of Democratic presidential rival Joe Biden. A look at his rhetoric and how they compare with the facts: Trump vs. Fauci TRUMP: “Dr. Fauci at the beginning said, ‘This will pass. Don’t worry about it. This will pass.’ He was wrong.” — interview aired on “Fox News Sunday.” THE FACTS: Trump is overstating it. While Fauci said in January and February that Americans need not panic about a virus threat at the time, he also said the situation was “evolving” and that public health officials were taking the threat seriously. FILE – Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 30, 2020.”Right now the risk is still low, but this could change, I’ve said that many times,” Fauci told NBC on Feb. 29. He allowed that if there are growing cases of community spread, it could become a “major outbreak.” “When you start to see community spread, this could change and force you to become much more attentive to doing things that would protect you from spread,” Fauci said. Fauci never claimed the virus would just “pass” or disappear. TRUMP: “Dr. Fauci told me not to ban China, it would be a big mistake. I did it over and above his recommendation.” — Fox interview. THE FACTS: That’s incorrect. While Fauci expressed some initial reservations about travel restrictions on China, he supported the decision by the time it was made. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, who was coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force at the time and announced the travel restrictions, said Trump made the decision in late January after accepting the “uniform recommendation of the career public health officials here at HHS.” FILE – A health alert for people traveling to China is shown at a TSA security checkpoint at the Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado, March 2, 2020.While the World Health Organization did advise against the overuse of travel restrictions, Azar told reporters in February that his department’s career health officials had made a “considered recommendation, which I and the president adopted” in a bid to slow spread of the virus. TRUMP: “I will be right eventually. You know I said, ‘It’s going to disappear.’ I’ll say it again. It’s going to disappear, and I’ll be right.” — Fox interview. TRUMP: “We’ll put out the flames. … It’s going to be under control.” — Fox interview. THE FACTS: “The virus is not going to disappear,” according to Fauci. The number of confirmed cases in the U.S. per day has risen over the past month, hitting over 70,000 this past week, according to a count kept by Johns Hopkins University. That is higher even than what the country experienced from mid-April through early May, when deaths sharply rose. FILE – Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) arrive with a patient while a funeral car begins to depart at North Shore Medical Center where the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients are treated, in Miami, Florida, July 14, 2020.Fauci has warned that the increase across the South and West “puts the entire country at risk” and that new infections could reach 100,000 a day if people don’t start listening to guidance from public health authorities to wear a mask and practice social distancing. Arizona, California, Florida and Texas have recently been forced to shut down bars and businesses as virus cases surge. The U.S. currently has more than 3.7 million known cases and many more undetected. In February, Trump asserted coronavirus cases were going “very substantially down, not up,” and told Fox Business it will be fine because “in April, supposedly, it dies with the hotter weather.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, visiting a hospital Wednesday in Kentucky, acknowledged that some of those early predictions were too rosy. “The straight talk here that everyone needs to understand: This is not going away,” he said. Fauci says there “certainly” will be coronavirus infections in the fall and winter. PETER NAVARRO, White House trade adviser: “When Fauci was telling the White House Coronavirus Task Force that there was only anecdotal evidence in support of hydroxychloroquine to fight the virus, I confronted him with scientific studies providing evidence of safety and efficacy. A recent Detroit hospital study showed a 50% reduction in the mortality rate when the medicine is used in early treatment.” — op-ed published Wednesday in USA Today. THE FACTS: Navarro cherry-picks a study widely criticized as flawed and ignores multiple studies finding hydroxychloroquine doesn’t help. FILE – A pharmacy tech pours out pills of hydroxychloroquine at Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, May 20, 2020.Numerous rigorous tests of hydroxychloroquine, including a large one from Britain and one led by the National Institutes of Health, concluded that the anti-malaria drug was ineffective for treating hospitalized coronavirus patients. Fauci leads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH. The Food and Drug Administration also has warned the drug should only be used for the coronavirus in hospitals and research settings because of the risk of serious heart rhythm problems and other safety issues. The Henry Ford Health System study that Navarro refers to was an observational look back at how various patients fared. It was not a rigorous test where similar patients are randomly assigned to get the drug or not and where each group is compared later on how they did. In the study, some people with heart or certain other conditions were not given the drugs, which can cause heart rhythm problems, so those patients were fundamentally different from the group they were compared with. Researchers said they adjusted statistically for some differences, but the many variables make it tough to reach firm conclusions. Some patients also received other treatments such as steroids and the antiviral drug remdesivir, further clouding any ability to tell whether hydroxychloroquine helped. The White House said Navarro was not authorized to challenge Fauci with the op-ed and should not have done it. But his points largely reflect ones Trump and others in the White House have made themselves. More on virus threat TRUMP, on what happened after he restricted travel from China: “Nancy Pelosi was dancing on the streets of Chinatown in San Francisco a month later, and even later than that, and others, too.” — Rose Garden remarks Tuesday. THE FACTS: No she wasn’t. This is Trump’s frequent and fanciful account of the House speaker’s visit to San Francisco’s Chinatown on Feb. 24. That day, she visited shops and strolled the streets to counter the hostility some people in the district were encountering over a virus that emanated from China. FILE – Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., looks over items at The Wok Shop during a tour of Chinatown, Feb. 24, 2020, in San Francisco.On that day, Pelosi said the public should be vigilant about the virus but the city took precautions and “we should come to Chinatown.” Local TV news tracked her visit;. She wasn’t seen dancing and did not call for a “street fair,” as Trump at times has put it. Community spread of the coronavirus had not yet been reported. As FactCheck.org pointed out, the same day Pelosi went to Chinatown, Trump tweeted: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health (Organization) have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” The CDC is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Two days later, Trump asserted that only 15 people in the U.S. were infected and that number would go down “close to zero.” Instead the numbers exploded. More than 3.6 million Americans have had COVID-19. Trump has accused Pelosi of being “responsible for many deaths” because of the Chinatown visit. He has denied responsibility for any of the deaths sweeping the country as he has persistently minimized the threat, pushed for reopening and refused to take mask-wearing seriously. Testing TRUMP: “We go out into parking lots and everything, everybody gets a test.” — Fox interview. THE FACTS: He’s repeating the false notion that anybody who wants a COVID-19 test can get one. Americans are being confronted with long lines at testing sites. People often are disqualified if they are not showing symptoms and, if they are tested, they sometimes are forced to wait many days for results. FILE – People, in their cars, wait in line for coronavirus testing at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California, July 14, 2020.Julie Khani, president of the American Clinical Laboratory Association, which represents LabCorp, Quest Diagnostics and other labs, has made clear that “the anticipated demand for COVID-19 testing over the coming weeks will likely exceed members’ testing capacities.” This past week the group encouraged members to give priority to “those most in need, especially hospitalized and symptomatic patients.” Many governors and local officials say they cannot meet the demand. “Testing has been a challenge everywhere,” says Utah Republican Gov. Gary Herbert. Around Seattle, for instance, a new wave of patients is showing up at emergency departments, said nurse Mike Hastings. “What’s really frustrating from my side of it is when a patient comes into the emergency department, and is not really having symptoms of COVID, but they feel like they need that testing,” said Hastings, who is president of the Emergency Nurses Association. “Sometimes we’re not able to test them because we don’t have enough test supplies, so we’re only testing a certain set of patients.” TRUMP: “Cases are up, because we have the best testing in the world and we have the most testing.” — Fox interview. THE FACTS: It’s not true that infections are high only because the U.S. diagnostic testing has increased. Trump’s own top public health officials have shot down this line of thinking. Infections are rising because people are infecting each other more than they were when most everyone was hunkered down. Health care workers work at a walk-up COVID-19 testing site during the coronavirus pandemic, July 17, 2020, in Miami Beach, Florida.Increased testing does contribute to the higher numbers, but there’s more to it. Testing in fact has uncovered a worrisome trend: The percentage of tests coming back positive for the virus is on the rise across nearly the entire country. That’s a clear demonstration that sickness is spreading and that the U.S. testing system is falling short. “A high rate of positive tests indicates a government is only testing the sickest patients who seek out medical attention and is not casting a wide enough net,” says the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center, a primary source of updated information on the pandemic. TRUMP: “No country has ever done what we’ve done in terms of testing. We are the envy of the world. They call and they say the most incredible job anybody’s done is our job on testing, because we’re going to very shortly be up to 50 million tests. You look at other countries; they don’t even do tests. … They don’t go around have massive areas of testing, and we do.” — Fox interview. THE FACTS: U.S. testing is not the envy of the world, nor is the U.S. the only country that does mass testing. U.S. testing on a per capita basis lags other countries that have done a far better job of controlling their outbreaks. State, local and federal officials are warning of the consequences of testing bottlenecks, including tests rendered useless because results come too late. China has used batch testing, mixing samples and testing them together, as part of a recent campaign to test all 11 million residents of Wuhan. It’s an approach that top U.S. health officials believe could be used to boost U.S. screening, though it’s not clear when pooled testing could become available for wide-scale screenings at U.S. schools and businesses. “We are nowhere near being able to rein in this virus with the amount of testing we have available at the moment,” said Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University who previously served as Baltimore’s health commissioner. Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said test results in parts of the U.S. take as long as a week, which is “too long.” “You do the testing to find out who’s carrying the virus and then quickly get them isolated so they don’t spread it around,” he said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And it’s very hard to make that work when there’s a long delay built in.” Death ratesTRUMP: “I think we have one of the lowest mortality rates in the world.” — Fox interview. CHRIS WALLACE, host of “Fox News Sunday”: “That’s not true, sir.” TRUMP: “Number one, low mortality rate.” — Fox interview. THE FACTS: Trump’s claim is wholly unsupported. An accurate death rate is impossible to know. Every country tests and counts people differently, and some are unreliable in reporting cases. Without knowing the true number of people who become infected, it cannot be determined what portion of them die. FILE – Pat Marmo, owner of Daniel J. Schaefer Funeral Home, walks through his body holding facility that is struggling to handle overflow of clients stemming from COVID-19 deaths, April 2, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.Using a count kept by Johns Hopkins University, you can compare the number of recorded deaths with the number of reported cases. That count shows the U.S. experiencing more deaths as a percentage of cases than most other countries now being hit hard with the pandemic. The statistics look better for the U.S. when the list is expanded to include European countries that were slammed early on by the virus but now appear to have it under control. Even then, the U.S. is not shown to be among the best in avoiding death. Such calculations, though, do not provide a reliable measurement of actual death rates because of the variations in testing and reporting, and the Johns Hopkins tally is not meant to be such a measure. The only way to tell how many cases have gone uncounted, and therefore what percentage of infected people have died from the disease, is to do another kind of test comprehensively, of people’s blood, to find how many people bear immune system antibodies to the virus. Globally, that is only being done in select places. Travel restrictions TRUMP: “If you remember, I was the one that did the European Union very early.” — Fox interview. THE FACTS: U.S. health officials actually believe Trump was late in restricting travel from parts of Europe. While Trump imposed travel restrictions on China in late January, he didn’t follow up with many European countries until mid-March. Those delayed travel alerts as well as limited testing contributed to the jump in U.S. cases starting in late February, according to Dr. Anne Schuchat, the No. 2 official at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We clearly didn’t recognize the full importations that were happening,” Schuchat told The Associated Press in May. TRUMP: “We would’ve had thousands of people additionally die if we let people come in from heavily infected China. But we stopped it. We did a travel ban in January. … By closing up, we saved millions, potentially millions of lives.” — Rose Garden remarks 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. Few doubt that the heavy death toll from COVID-19 would be even heavier if world travel had not been constricted globally. But Trump has no scientific basis to claim that his action alone saved “millions” or even “hundreds of thousands” of lives, as he has put it. TRUMP, on Biden: “He opposed my very strict travel ban on Chinese nationals to stop the spread of the China virus. He was totally against it. ‘Xenophobic,’ he called me. ‘Xenophobic.’ A month later, he admitted I was right.” — Rose Garden. THE FACTS: No, Biden did not come out against the travel restrictions on China. He said little about them at the time. In April, his campaign said he supported travel restrictions if “guided by medical experts.” Biden did say Trump has a record of xenophobia, a comment made during an Iowa campaign event when the restrictions were announced. Biden said Trump was “fear-mongering” against foreigners and the Democrat took issue with Trump’s references to the “China virus” as an example. He did not address the travel steps. Trump has claimed that Biden realized he was right after all about restricting travel from China and wrote him a “letter of apology.” This didn’t happen, either. Police TRUMP: “Biden wants to defund the police.” — Fox interview. THE FACTS: To be clear, Biden has not joined the call of protesters who demanded “defund the police” after George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis. He’s proposed more money for police, conditioned to improvements in their practices. “I don’t support defunding the police,” Biden said last month in a CBS interview. But he said he would support tying federal aid to police based on whether “they meet certain basic standards of decency, honorableness and, in fact, are able to demonstrate they can protect the community, everybody in the community.” FILE – Protesters rally, June 3, 2020, in Phoenix, demanding that the Phoenix City Council defund the Phoenix Police Department.Biden’s criminal justice agenda, released long before he became the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee, proposes more federal money for “training that is needed to avert tragic, unjustifiable deaths” and hiring more officers to ensure that departments are racially and ethnically reflective of the populations they serve. Specifically, he calls for a $300 million infusion into existing federal community policing grant programs. That adds up to more money for police, not defunding law enforcement. Biden also wants the federal government to spend more on education, social services and struggling areas of cities and rural America, to address root causes of crime. Economy TRUMP: “I built the greatest economy ever built anywhere in the world; not only of this country, anywhere in the world, until we got hit with the China virus.” — Fox interview. THE FACTS: Not true. The economy was healthy back then but not the best in U.S. history, much less world history. Economic gains largely followed along the lines of an expansion that started more than a decade ago under President Barack Obama. And while posting great job and stock market numbers, Trump never managed to achieve the rates of economic growth he promised in the 2016 campaign. The U.S. economy was not the world’s best in history when this started. Military TRUMP: “I got soldiers the biggest pay raises in the history of our military.” — Fox interview. THE FACTS: Trump often boasts about the size of the military pay raises under his administration, but there’s nothing extraordinary about them. Several raises in the past decade have been larger than service members are getting under Trump — 3.1% this year, 2.6% last year, 2.4% in 2018 and 2.1% in 2017. Raises in 2008, 2009 and 2010, for example, were all 3.4% or more. Pay increases shrank after that because of congressionally mandated budget caps. Trump and Congress did break a trend that began in 2011 of pay raises that hovered between 1% and 2%.
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By Polityk | 07/20/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
GOP Leaders Head to White House as Virus Crisis Deepens
Top Republicans in Congress are expected to meet Monday with President Donald Trump at the White House on the next COVID-19 aid package as the crisis many hoped would have improved has dramatically worsened, just as emergency relief is expiring.
New divisions between the Senate GOP majority and the White House posed fresh challenges. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was prepared to roll out the $1 trillion package in a matter of days. But the administration panned more virus testing money and interjected other priorities that could complicate quick passage.
“We have to end this virus,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Monday on MSNBC.
Pelosi said any attempt by the White House to block testing money “goes beyond ignorance.”
Lawmakers were returning to a Capitol still off-limits to tourists, another sign of the nation’s difficulty containing the coronavirus. Rather than easing, the pandemic’s devastating cycle was happening all over again, leaving Congress little choice but to engineer another costly rescue.
Businesses were shutting down again, schools could not fully reopen and jobs were disappearing, all while federal aid expired.
Without a successful federal strategy, lawmakers are trying to draft one.
Trump insisted again Sunday that the virus would “disappear,” but the president’s view did not at all match projections from the leading health professionals straining to halt the alarming U.S. caseload and death toll.”It’s not going to magically disappear,” said a somber McConnell, R-Ky., last week during a visit to a hospital in his home state to thank front-line workers.
McConnell and House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy were set to meet with Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin “to fine-tune” the legislation, acting chief of staff Mark Meadows said on Fox News.
The political stakes were high for all sides before the November election, but even more so for the nation, which now registered more coronavirus infections and a higher death count of 140,500 than any other country.
The House already approved Pelosi’s sweeping $3 trillion effort, giving Democrats momentum heading into negotiations.
The package from McConnell had been quietly crafted behind closed doors for weeks and was expected to include $75 billion to help schools reopen, reduced unemployment benefits alongside a fresh round of direct $1,200 cash payments to Americans, and a sweeping five-year liability shield against coronavirus lawsuits.
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But as the White House weighed in, it has put the administration at odds with GOP allies in Congress. The administration was panning some $25 billion in proposed new funds for testing and tracing, said one Republican familiar with the discussions. Trump was also reviving his push for a payroll tax break, which was being seriously considered, said another Republican. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private talks.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer warned Monday his side will block any effort from McConnell that falls short.
“We will stand together again if we must,” Schumer said.
The New York Democrat is reviving his strategy from the last virus aid bill that forced Republicans to the negotiating table after McConnell’s original bill was opposed by Democrats.
Schumer said Trump’s effort to block testing funds in “unacceptable.”
Trump raised alarms on Capitol Hill when he suggested last month at a rally in Oklahoma that he wanted to slow virus testing. Some of Trump’s GOP allies wanted new money to help test and track the virus to contain its spread. Senate Democrats were investigating why the Trump administration had not yet spent some of $25 billion previously allocated for testing in an earlier aid bill.
The payroll tax Trump wanted also divided his party. Senate Republicans in particular opposed the payroll tax break as an insufficient response to millions of out-of-work Americans, especially as they tried to keep the total price tag of the aid package at no more than $1 trillion.
Trump said Sunday in the Fox News interview that he would consider not signing any bill unless it included the payroll tax break, which many GOP senators opposed.
“I want to see it,” he said.
As McConnell prepared to roll out his $1 trillion-plus proposal, he acknowledged it would not have full support. This would be the fifth virus aid package, after the $2.2 trillion bill passed in March, the largest U.S. intervention of its kind.
The first round of virus aid is running out.
A federal $600-a-week boost to regular unemployment benefits would expire at the end of the month. So, too, would the federal ban on evictions on millions of rental units.
With 17 straight weeks of unemployment claims topping 1 million — usually about 200,000 — many households were facing a cash crunch and losing employer-backed health insurance coverage.
Despite flickers of an economic upswing as states eased stay-at-home orders in May and June, the jobless rate remained at double digits, higher than it ever was in the last decade’s Great Recession.
Pelosi’s bill, approved in May, included $75 billion for testing and tracing to try to get a handle on the virus spread, funneled $100 billion to schools to safely reopen and called for $1 trillion to be sent to cash-strapped states to pay essential workers and prevent layoffs. The measure would give cash stipends to Americans, and bolster rental and mortgage and other safety net protections.
In the two months since Pelosi’s bill passed, the U.S. had 50,000 more deaths and 2 million more infections.
“If we don’t invest the money now, it will be much worse,” Pelosi said.
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By Polityk | 07/20/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Українському активісту в Празі підпалили авто, висновків через 10 днів немає
Українські дипломати в Чехії відстежують історію з підпалом автомобіля українського активіста. Про це 20 липня повідомила Радіо Свобода перша секретарка посольства Тетяна Окопна.
«Посольство перебуває в контакті з паном Ярославом Чепою. За нашою інформацією, цією справою займаються правоохоронні органи Чеської Республіки, проте робити якісь висновки наразі зарано», – зазначила Окопна.
Ярослав Чепа належить до організації «Іноземець не раб», що захищає права українських заробітчан у Чехії.
Невідомі підпалили його автівку в Празі 10 липня. Палаюче авто закарпатця зняла на відео сусідка близько 6 години ранку.
За словами очевидців, машину перед підпалом облили бензином. Рештки пляшки із займистою сумішшю начебто бачили і біля самої автівки.
Активіст пов’язує інцидент із авто зі своєю діяльністю в громадській організації «Іноземець не раб».
«Думаю, що комусь заважає моя діяльність… Скоріш за все… Частково так», – сказав Радіо Свобода Ярослав Чепа.
Радіо Свобода також звернулося до чеської поліції, але там відмовилися від коментарів, пославшись на закон про поліцію Чеської Республіки.
У червні активіст Ярослав Чепа заявив, що тримав близько тижня голодування через невиплату коштів українським співгромадянам, які приїхали до Чехії на роботу. Фірма-посередник, яка мала виплачувати кошти своїм підлеглим, тоді заборгувала близько 200 тисяч чеських крон (орієнтовно 236 тисяч гривень).
Після того, як історію із українцем почали висвітлювати ЗМІ, включно з Радіо Свобода, фірма почала виплачувати кошти.
У Чехії легально працюють 120 тисяч громадян України.
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By Gromada | 07/20/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Georgia Democratic Leaders to Pick Ballot Replacement for Late Congressman Lewis
Democratic Party leaders in the U.S. state of Georgia are gathering Monday to select a candidate to replace the late Congressman John Lewis in the November general election. A spokeswoman said 131 people applied by the Sunday evening deadline to be considered. A nominating committee will select between three and five finalists, and then a committee of 44 party figures will vote on the final candidate. The Democrat chosen will go up against Republican Angela Stanton-King in November. Lewis served 17 terms in Congress, and in 2016, the last time he faced a Republican challenger in his district, he won with 84% of the vote.FILE – This Jan. 3, 2019 file photo shows Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., during a swearing-in ceremony of Congressional Black Caucus members of the 116th Congress in Washington.Georgia’s governor has the power to call a special election to fill out the remaining months of Lewis’ current term. Lewis, a prominent champion of civil rights for African Americans, died Friday at the age of 80 after a yearlong battle with advanced stage pancreatic cancer. He rose to fame as a leader in the modern-day American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s. At age 23, he worked closely with the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was the last surviving keynote speaker from the August 1963 March on Washington, where King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
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By Polityk | 07/20/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Trump, Republican Leaders to Discuss Virus Aid as Crisis Deepens
Top Republicans in Congress were expecting to meet Monday with President Donald Trump on the next COVID-19 aid package as the administration panned more virus testing money and interjected other priorities that could complicate quick passage.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was prepared to roll out the $1 trillion package in a matter of days. But divisions between the Senate GOP majority and the White House posed fresh challenges. Congress was returning to session this week as the coronavirus crisis many had hoped would have improved by now only worsened — and just as earlier federal emergency relief was expiring.Trump insisted again Sunday that the virus would “disappear,” but the president’s view did not at all match projections from the leading health professionals straining to halt the U.S.’s alarming caseloads and death toll.McConnell and House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy were set to meet with Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin “to fine-tune” the legislation, acting chief of staff Mark Meadows said on Fox News.The package from McConnell had been quietly crafted behind closed doors for weeks and was expected to include $75 billion to help schools reopen, reduced unemployment benefits alongside a fresh round of direct $1,200 cash payments to Americans, and a sweeping five-year liability shield against coronavirus lawsuits.But as the White House weighed in, the administration was panning some $25 billion in proposed new funds for testing and tracing, said one Republican familiar with the discussions. The administration’s objections were first reported by The Washington Post.Trump was also reviving his push for a payroll tax break, which was being seriously considered, said another Republican. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private talks.The new push from the White House put the administration at odds with GOP allies in Congress, a disconnect that threatened to upend an already difficult legislative process. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi already passed Democrats’ vast $3 trillion proposal and virus cases and deaths had only increased since.FILE – Health care workers take information from people in line at a walk-up COVID-19 testing site during the coronavirus pandemic, in Miami Beach, Florida, July 17, 2020.Trump raised alarms on Capitol Hill when he suggested last month at a rally in Oklahoma that he wanted to slow virus testing. Some of Trump’s GOP allies wanted new money to help test and track the virus to contain its spread. Senate Democrats were investigating why the Trump administration had not yet spent some of $25 billion previously allocated for testing in an earlier aid bill.The payroll tax Trump wanted also divided his party. Senate Republicans in particular opposed the payroll tax break as an insufficient response to millions of out-of-work Americans, especially as they tried to keep the total price tag of the aid package at no more than $1 trillion.Trump said Sunday in the Fox News interview that he would consider not signing any bill unless it included the payroll tax break, which many GOP senators opposed.”I want to see it,” he said.Lawmakers were returning to a partially closed Capitol still off-limits to tourists to consider what will be a fifth COVID-19 aid package. After passing the $2.2 trillion relief bill in March, Republicans hoped the virus would ease and economy rebound so more aid would not be needed.But with COVID-19 cases hitting alarming new highs and the death roll rising, the pandemic’s devastating cycle was happening all over again, leaving Congress little choice but to engineer another costly rescue. Businesses were shutting down again, schools could not fully reopen and jobs were disappearing, all while federal emergency aid expired.”It’s not going to magically disappear,” said a somber McConnell, R-Ky., last week during a visit to a hospital in his home state to thank front-line workers.As McConnell prepared to roll out his $1 trillion-plus proposal, he acknowledged it would not have full support.The political stakes were high for all sides before the November election, but even more so for the nation, which now registered more coronavirus infections and a higher death count than any other country.Just as the pandemic’s ferocious cycle was starting again, the first round of aid was running out.A federal $600-a-week boost to regular unemployment benefits would expire at the end of the month. So, too, would the federal ban on evictions on millions of rental units.With 17 straight weeks of unemployment claims topping 1 million — usually about 200,000 — many households were facing a cash crunch and losing employer-backed health insurance coverage.Despite flickers of an economic upswing as states eased stay-at-home orders in May and June, the jobless rate remained at double digits, higher than it ever was in the last decade’s Great Recession.Pelosi’s bill, approved in May, included $75 billion for testing and tracing to try to get a handle on the virus spread, funneled $100 billion to schools to safely reopen and called for $1 trillion to be sent to cash-strapped states to pay essential workers and prevent layoffs. The measure would give cash stipends to Americans, and bolster rental and mortgage and other safety net protections.In the two months since Pelosi’s bill passed, the U.S. had 50,000 more deaths and 2 million more infections.”If we don’t invest the money now, it will be much worse,” Pelosi said.
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By Polityk | 07/20/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
US Congress Confronts New Virus Crisis Rescue as Pandemic Grows
It stands as the biggest economic rescue in U.S. history, the $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill swiftly approved by Congress in the spring. And it’s painfully clear now, as the pandemic worsens, it was only the start. With COVID-19 cases hitting alarming new highs and the death roll rising, the pandemic’s devastating cycle is happening all over again, leaving Congress little choice but to engineer another costly rescue. Businesses are shutting down, schools cannot fully reopen and jobs are disappearing, all while federal emergency aid expires. Without a successful federal plan to control the outbreak, Congress heads back to work with no endgame to the crisis in sight. FILE – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill, in Washington, June 16, 2020.“It’s not going to magically disappear,” said a somber Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., during a visit to a hospital in his home state to thank front-line workers. Lawmakers return Monday to Washington to try to pull the country back from the looming COVID-19 cliff. While the White House prefers to outsource much of the decision-making on virus testing and prevention to the states, the absence of a federal intervention has forced the House and Senate to try to draft another assistance package. It’s a massive undertaking, hardly politically popular, but the alternative is worse. Experts predict an even more dire public health outlook for winter. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease official, says the U.S. needs to “regroup.” As McConnell prepares to roll out his $1 trillion-plus proposal, he acknowledges it will not have full support. Already the White House is suggesting changes, Republicans are divided and broader disagreements with Democrats could derail the whole effort. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) addresses her weekly news conference with Capitol Hill reporters at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, June 18, 2020.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., already pushed through a more sweeping $3 trillion relief bill to bolster virus testing, keep aid flowing and set new health and workplace standards for reopening schools, shops and workplaces. She said recently she finds herself yearning for an earlier era of Republicans in the White House, saying tha despite differences, even with President Richard Nixon, who resigned facing impeachment, “At least we had a shared commitment to the governance of our country.” The political stakes are high for all sides before the November election, but even more so for the nation, which now has more coronavirus infections and a higher death count than any other country. On Friday, two former Federal Reserve Board leaders urged Congress to do more. “Time is running out,” Pelosi said. There were just a few hundred coronavirus cases when Congress first started focusing on emergency spending in early March. By the end of that month, as Congress passed a $2.2 trillion bill, cases soared past 100,000 and deaths climbed past 2,000. Today, the death toll stands at more than 139,000 in the U.S., with 3.6 million-plus confirmed cases. Lines of cars wait at a drive-through coronavirus testing site, Sunday, July 5, 2020, outside Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla.The virus that first tore into New York, California and America’s big cities is now plaguing places large and small, urban and rural, burning through the South, West and beyond without restraint. Freezer cases that stored bodies outside New York hospitals are now on order in Arizona. The mobilization of military medical units to help overworked health care providers has shifted now to Texas. Lawmakers hardly wore facial masks when they voted in March as the Capitol was shutting down and sending them to the ranks of work-from-home Americans. Trump and his allies still rarely wear them. But at least 25 governors from states as diverse as Alabama to Oregon now have mask requirements. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this past week that if everyone wore a mask, iit could help “drive this epidemic to the ground.” Just as the pandemic’s ferocious cycle is starting again, the first round of aid is running out. FILE – People line up outside a Kentucky Career Center hoping to find assistance with their unemployment claim in Frankfort, Kentucky, June 18, 2020.A federal $600-a-week boost to regular unemployment benefits expires at the end of the month. So, too, does the federal ban on evictions on millions of rental units. With 17 straight weeks of unemployment claims topping 1 million — usually its about 200,000 — many households are facing a cash crunch and losing employer-backed health insurance coverage. Despite flickers of an economic upswing as states eased stay-home orders in May and June, the jobless rate remains at double digits, higher than it ever was in the last decade’s Great Recession. Pelosi’s bill, approved in May, includes $75 billion for testing and tracing to try to get a handle on the virus spread, funnels $100 billion to schools to safely reopen and sends $1 trillion to cash-strapped states that are pleading for federal dollars to pay essential workers and prevent layoffs. The measure would give cash stipends to Americans, and bolster rental and mortgage and other safety net protections. McConnell hit “pause” after passage of the last aid package as Republicans hoped the economy would rebound and stem the need for more assistance. He now acknowledges additional intervention is needed. His bill centers on a five-year liability shield to prevent what he calls an “epidemic of lawsuits” against businesses, schools and health care providers. The bill is expected to provide up to $75 billion for schools, another round of $1,200 direct payments to Americans and grants to child care providers. There is likely to be tax credits to help companies shoulder the cost of safely reopening shops, offices and other businesses. Unlike the other virus aid pacakges that passed almost unanimously, McConnell says this one will be more difficult to approve. In the two months since Pelosi’s bill passed, the U.S. had 50,000 more deaths and 2 million more infections.
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By Polityk | 07/20/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Trump Questions Biden’s Mental Sharpness
U.S. President Donald Trump is questioning the mental sharpness of his November election opponent, former vice president Joe Biden, contending he is “not competent to be president.”
Trump, in a barrage of attacks aired in an interview on the “Fox News Sunday” TV show, said, “Biden can’t put two sentences together.” “They wheel him out. He goes up — he repeats — they ask him questions. He reads a teleprompter and then he goes back into his basement,” Trump contended. “You tell me the American people want to have that in an age where we’re in trouble with other nations that are looking to do numbers on us?” Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Alexis Dupont High School in Wilmington, Del., on June 30, 2020.The Trump campaign has aired ads that question whether the mental acuity of the 77-year-old Biden, who would be the oldest U.S. president ever if he wins the Nov. 3 election and is inaugurated next January, has diminished as he ages. At 74, Trump is now the oldest. Fox newsman Chris Wallace, in the interview conducted Friday at the White House, asked the U.S. leader whether he thought Biden was senile. “I don’t want to say that. I’d say he’s not competent to be president,” Trump responded. “To be president, you have to be sharp and tough and so many other things. … Joe doesn’t know he’s alive, OK? He doesn’t know he’s alive.” The Republican president claimed that if his Democratic opponent submitted to the same contentious questioning from Wallace as he was, Biden would end up sitting on the ground saying, “Mommy, mommy, please take me home.” Trump declared that he would defeat Biden, even as Wallace unveiled a new Fox national poll showing Biden ahead of Trump by a 49-to-41% margin, a finding similar to that of other recent university and news organization polls. A compilation of polls by the Real Clear Politics website shows Biden ahead by an average of 8.6 percentage points. One poll of registered voters showed that, contrary to Trump’s contention, many think it is Trump who lacks key characteristics to be president, with fewer than half thinking he exhibits the mental soundness (43%), intelligence (42%), and judgment (40%) to serve effectively. Biden tops Trump on each measure, with 47% expressing confidence in his mental soundness, 51% believing he is intelligent and 52% agreeing that he has the right degree of judgment. But Trump dismissed the polling as “fake” and said he will win the election “because the country, in the end, they’re not going to have a man who — who’s shot. He’s shot, he’s mentally shot.” Trump declined to say whether he would accept the results if he loses the election.”You don’t know until you see. It depends,” he said. He claimed, as he has in recent weeks, that mail-in voting, which Democrats and some Republicans have supported as a response to the coronavirus pandemic, “is going to rig the election.” “I’m not a good loser. I don’t like to lose,” he said. “I don’t lose too often. I don’t like to lose.” Only two U.S. presidents in the last four decades — Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H.W. Bush in 1992 have lost re-election bids after a single term in the White House.
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By Polityk | 07/20/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
COVID-19 у ЗСУ: за минулу добу виявили 13 хворих
За минулу добу у Збройних силах України зафіксували 13 випадків захворювання на COVID-19, повідомило командування Медичних сил.
«У Збройних силах України хворіє 140 осіб на гостру респіраторну хворобу COVID-19, спричинену коронавірусом SARS-CoV-2. Всього за час пандемії одужало – 516 осіб, летальних випадків – 5. На ізоляції (в тому числі самоізоляція) перебуває 296 осіб. Кількість військовослужбовців, у яких закінчується ізоляція найближчих три доби – 43 особи», – йдеться в повідомленні.
За даними командування, стан здоров’я пацієнтів, у яких хворобу виявили минулої доби, задовільний, у них легкий перебіг захворювання.
Станом на ранок 19 липня, від початку епідемії в Україні зафіксовано 58 842 випадків COVID-19, одужали 30 879 людей, 1485 – померли.
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By Gromada | 07/19/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У 10 співробітників Бердянської швидкої виявили COVID-19, у 5 із них немає симптомів
У десяти співробітників Бердянської підстанції швидкої медичної допомоги у Запорізькій області підтвердили діагноз COVID-19, у п`ятьох із них відсутні клінічні прояви хвороби, повідомила пресслужба КП «Обласний центр екстреної медичної допомоги».
«П’ятеро співробітників мають незначні клінічні прояви у вигляді нежитю й субфебрильної температури до 38°. У решти п’яти співробітників клінічних проявів немає. Всі почуваються добре і перебувають під наглядом сімейних лікарів», – йдеться в повідомленні центру у фейсбуці.
Повідомляється, що на підстанції вдалися до додаткових заходів профілактики, а всіх співробітників підстанції повторно обстежать методом ПЛР.
18 липня з’явилися перші повідомлення, що за результатами планового ПЛР-тестування всіх співробітників Бердянської підстанції швидкої допомоги COVID-19 виявили у восьми медпрацівників. За повідомленнями, першим захворів один медпрацівник, пізніше ще семеро його колег.
Станом на ранок 19 липня, від початку епідемії в Україні зафіксовано 58 842 випадків COVID-19, одужали 30 879 людей, 1485 – померли.
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By Gromada | 07/19/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
White House Seeks to Block Funding for CDC, Coronavirus Testing and Contact Tracing
The Trump administration is seeking to block congressional plans to provide additional billions of dollars to states for coronavirus testing and tracing, and for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health agencies.Senate Republicans are attempting to craft another coronavirus relief bill to fight the increasing number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the United States, aid individual citizens whose unemployment funds may be running out, and reverse some of the most damaging impacts on the nation’s economy.The Trump administration’s stance “has angered some GOP senators,” according to a report in The Washington Post, as the politicians continue to work on ensuring the money remains in the bill.Preliminary plans for the measure include not only $25 billion for individual states for testing and tracing and another $25 billion for the CDC and the National Institutes of Health, but also more billions for the Pentagon and State Department to combat the pandemic at home and around the world.Negotiations between Republicans and Democrats are continuing on what will likely be the last coronavirus relief bill before the November presidential election.Coronavirus relief measures that have already been enacted, including expanded unemployment benefits, are due to expire in the coming weeks.President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that the U.S. infection rate is high because of widespread testing, but health officials say there has not been enough testing in the United States.Anonymous sources said the White House would like to see funding in the bill for projects that have nothing to do with the pandemic, including funding for a new FBI building.
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By Polityk | 07/19/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
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By Vyborec | 07/19/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Диктатура обиженного карлика пукина перед катастрофой: враньё о надоях и нефтяное фиаско
Речи от имени обиженного карлика пукина это – одно, а реальность – совсем другое
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By Vyborec | 07/19/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
“Фуфломицин” путляндии: обиженный карлик пукин попался на горячем…
Мокшандскую орду с весны этого года обвиняют в хакерских атаках на научные учреждения, занятые поиском вакцины
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By Vyborec | 07/19/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Принижений карлик пукін перекручує історію. У ЄС не хочуть цього терпіти
Литва винесла на саміт ЄС питання про переписування та приховування путляндією історичних фактів. Президент Литви Гітанас Науседа вважає, що Євросоюз має діяти активно і пояснити пукіну, що не буде терпіти такої поведінки. Останнім часом ображений карлик пукін намагається відбілити агресивну зовнішню політику сталінізму, нагадує політичний оглядач Віталій Портников і пояснює, чому події минулого так важливі для сьогодення
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By Vyborec | 07/19/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
“Хабаровский бунт” напугал карлика пукина: он стягивает бандюков росгвардии, фсб и готовит провокации…
Ситуация в Хабаровске очень опасна для обиженного карлика пукина. В город идет внешняя злая сила…
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By Vyborec | 07/19/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
В Україні кількість хворих на COVID-19 за добу збільшилась на 731
В Україні за добу 18 липня зафіксовано 731 новий випадок коронавірусної інфекції, 8 людей померли, 354 – одужали, свідчать дані РНБО.
Згідно з повідомленням, від початку епідемії в Україні зафіксовано 58 842 випадків COVID-19, одужали 30 879 людей, 1485 – померли.
За даними Університету Джонса Гопкінса, у світі станом на 19 липня зафіксовано 14 290 546 випадки інфікування коронавірусом, померли понад 602 тисячі людей, одужали більш ніж 8 мільйонів.
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