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Лубянские помои и тактика Байдена
Лубянские помои и тактика Байдена
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By Vyborec | 06/28/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Кнутом и пряником: Эрдоган шокировал москву и прошелся дронами по авиабазе Джуфра
Кнутом и пряником: Эрдоган шокировал москву и прошелся дронами по авиабазе Джуфра
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By Vyborec | 06/28/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
DC Mayor Caught Between Activists, Police in Funding Battle
Muriel Bowser’s national profile had never been higher, thanks to a Twitter beef with President Donald Trump and a renewed push to turn the nation’s capital into the 51st state. Now Washington’s mayor must pull off a public juggling act as the city budget becomes a battleground for the country’s debate on overhauling law enforcement. An activist collective led by Black Lives Matter is trying to capitalize on shifting public opinion, and the demands include major cuts in funding for the Metropolitan Police Department. The District of Columbia Council had indicated it would push for up to $15 million in cuts, but Bowser is defending her 2021 budget proposal, which includes a 3.3% increase in police money. With conservatives painting her as a radical riot-supporter, Bowser must thread this needle with both Black Lives Matter and the White House watching her every move. It’s a similar dilemma to that faced by other urban mayors of protest hot spots who must balance competing pressures without alienating either the activists or the police. In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti has faced criticism for not going far enough on law enforcement changes while the police union has called him “unstable.” In Atlanta, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is dealing with mass police no-shows over her handling of police violence cases. Bowser is also finding herself one of the public faces of Washington’s quest to be a state. The House of Representatives on Friday, voting largely along party lines, approved a bill to grant statehood. It was the first time a chamber of Congress had approved such a measure. But there is insurmountable opposition in the GOP-controlled Senate, where Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., singled out Bowser out on Thursday as a reason that Washington cannot be trusted with statehood. He called her “a left wing politician… who frequently takes the side of rioters against law enforcement.” Cotton lumped Bowser in with the late Marion Barry, a former mayor who was caught on video smoking crack cocaine in a 1990 FBI sting. Barry, who died in 2014, remains a beloved figure in many parts of the district and he emerged from federal prison to serve additional terms as both a mayor and a councilman. A statue of him was erected in front of the D.C. government administration building in 2018. “Would you trust Mayor Bowser to keep Washington safe if she were given the powers of a governor? Would you trust Marion Barry,” Cotton asked. Granting the predominantly Democratic city statehood would likely increase the party’s numbers in Congress. And that’s what led Trump to tell The New York Post last month that “DC will never be a state.” “That’ll never happen unless we have some very, very stupid Republicans around that I don’t think you do,” he said. In the early days of the protests, Bowser publicly sided with the demonstrators as Trump usurped local authority and called in a massive federal security response. Bowser responded by renaming the protest epicenter, within sight of the White House, as Black Lives Matter Plaza. She also commissioned a mural with Black Lives Matter painted on 16th Street across from the White House in yellow letters large enough to be seen from space. For Trump and his supporters, Bowser may as well have declared herself a dues-paying member of the movement’s local chapter. But that chapter didn’t feel the same, immediately dismissing it as “a performative distraction” from true policy changes. “It’s a stunt. It was always a stunt,” said activist Joella Roberts. “We don’t need a street sign to tell us we matter. We’re here in the streets because we already know we matter.” April Goggans, a core organizer with Black Lives Matter DC, rejected Bowser’s moves as “taking advantage of national attention,” and added, “She would never even say the words ‘Black Lives Matter’ until recently.” Bowser acknowledged that mistrust even as she ordered the changes. “Black Lives Matter is very critical of police. They’re critical of me,” Bowser said, not long after hanging the new street sign. “That doesn’t mean that I don’t see them and support the things that will make our community safe.” The street mural in particular became the subject of a cat-and-mouse game that underscores the complexities of Bowser’s position. The original mural also bore a yellow outline of the D.C. flag — two horizontal lines topped by three stars. Within days, activists had erased the stars to create the appearance of an equal sign and added their own message, turning the mural into “Black Lives Matter=Defund The Police.” Clearly not wanting to antagonize the street activists, Bowser’s government has allowed the “Defund the Police” addition to remain. But city crews did repaint the stars on the D.C. flag image. Now that struggle moves into the district’s decision-making corridors as Bowser finds herself caught between the D.C. Council, street pressure from a resurgent activist community and her own police department. Relations between the City Council and the police are already fragile thanks to legislation that was quickly and unanimously passed on June 9. It prohibits police from using tear gas or riot gear to break up protests, bans the use of choke-holds, strengthens disciplinary procedures and speeds up the release of body camera footage and names of officers involved in fatal shootings. Both Bowser and the police chief, Peter Newsham, were critical of the move, saying lawmakers reacted rashly to public pressure and did not consider enough input before passing the measure. A local TV station obtained a recording of Newsham telling fellow officers that the department felt “completely abandoned” by the D.C. Council. A new showdown is looming over the 2021 budget. Council member Charles Allen, head of the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, said the committee received 15,000 calls, messages and video testimonials before a budget hearing this month — an exponential increase in interest from previous years. A draft report from the committee reportedly includes up to $15 million in proposed cuts to the police budget. Bowser on Thursday said that she hadn’t read the police funding proposal yet and would wait until the Council formally submitted its proposed changes to her. She insisted that her 3.3% increase — bringing the total police budget up to $533 million — was the correct assessment of what was needed to keep the city safe. “We sent them the budget that we need,” she said. Goggans, the local Black Lives Matter organizer, dismissed the budget dispute as a facade, saying that the proposed cuts amount to far less than they seem. “There’s not a compromise to made on our side. That just can’t happen,” Goggans said. “We’re going to keep putting up a massive amount of pressure and escalating our tactics and intensity.”
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By Polityk | 06/28/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
«Добивай суку бл*дь!» – так работает украинский SWAT кабана авакова
Как работает полиция крадуна авакова реформированая на деньги граждан США
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By Vyborec | 06/28/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Обещал Марс, а подарил бункер. Как опущенный карлик пукин развалил космонавтику путляндии
Не батут Илона Маска сбросил роскосмос в небытие, а именно опущенный карлик пукин стал первым лидером государства в мире, который уничтожил целую, когда-то передовую отрасль своей страны
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By Vyborec | 06/28/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Сатанинское отродье: засевший в бункере опущенный карлик пукин будет разбит при очередной Отумбе
Империя зла не исчезла. Она лишь сменила географические координаты
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By Vyborec | 06/28/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Такого позорища на голосовании мир ещё не видел! Путляндские холопы достойны такого вождя!
Последние новости путляндии и мира, экономика, бизнес, культура, технологии, спорт
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By Vyborec | 06/28/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Їжа майбутнього — Європейський Союз представив нову продовольчу стратегію
До 2030-го року продукти в Європейському Союзі мають стати не тільки безпечними, але й екологічними. Країни ЄС протягом десяти років наполовину знизять використання пестицидів і розвиватимуть способи виробництва, що не забруднюють навколишнє середовище та піклуються про добробут тварин. Еко-фармінг – реальність чи нездійсненна мрія європейців про екологічно чисте майбутнє?
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By Vyborec | 06/28/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Biden Slams Trump Over Reported Bounties Placed on US Troops
Joe Biden attacked President Donald Trump on Saturday over a report that he said, if true, contains a “truly shocking revelation” about the commander in chief and his failure to protect U.S. troops in Afghanistan and stand up to Russia.The New York Times reported Friday that American intelligence officials concluded months ago that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The report said the Russians offered rewards for successful attacks last year, when the U.S. and the Taliban were holding talks to end the long-running war.“The truly shocking revelation that if the Times report is true, and I emphasize that again, is that President Trump, the commander in chief of American troops serving in a dangerous theater of war, has known about this for months, according to the Times, and done worse than nothing,” Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, said during a virtual town hall.The White House said neither Trump nor Vice President Mike Pence was briefed on such intelligence. “This does not speak to the merit of the alleged intelligence but to the inaccuracy of the New York Times story erroneously suggesting that President Trump was briefed on this matter,” press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement.’Propagandists’ slammedRussia called the report “nonsense.”“This unsophisticated plant clearly illustrates the low intellectual abilities of the propagandists of American intelligence, who instead of inventing something more plausible have to make up this nonsense,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said.The Times quoted a Taliban spokesman denying that its militants have such a deal with the Russian intelligence agency.The newspaper, citing unnamed officials familiar with the intelligence, said the findings were presented to Trump and discussed by his National Security Council in late March. Officials developed potential responses, starting with a diplomatic complaint to Russia, but the White House has yet to authorize any step, the report said.Biden slammed Trump over his reported failure to act.“Not only has he failed to sanction and impose any kind of consequences on Russia for this egregious violation of international law, Donald Trump has continued his embarrassing campaign of deference and debasing himself before Vladimir Putin,” the former vice president said.’Betrayal’Biden called it a “betrayal of the most sacred duty we bear as a nation — to protect and equip our troops when we send them into harm’s way.”He said Americans who serve in the military put their lives on the line. “But they should never, never, never ever face a threat like this with their commander in chief turning a blind eye to a foreign power putting a bounty on their heads,” he said.“I’m quite frankly outraged by the report,” Biden said. He promised that if he is elected, “Putin will be confronted and we’ll impose serious costs on Russia.”
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By Polityk | 06/28/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Поліцейську в Рівному обіцяють звільнити за наїзд на пішоходів у нетверезому стані
Поліція Рівненської області звільнить співробітницю, яка спричинила дорожньо-транспортну пригоду напередодні, повідомляє пресслужба місцевого управління Національної поліції.
За повідомленням, подія сталася напередодні увечері.
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«До поліції надійшло повідомлення, що на вулиці 16 липня обласного центру водійка автомобіля «Nissan», яка, ймовірно, перебуває в стані алкогольного сп’яніння, допустила наїзд на двох пішоходів. Патрульні поліцейські встановили, що за кермом авто перебуває працівниця поліції. Відтак на місце події прибули слідчі, працівники інспекції з особового складу та керівництво поліції», – йдеться в повідомленні.
Йдеться про 31-річну старшу слідчу слідчого управління, яка, за даними правоохоронців, здійснила наїзд на двох перехожих рівнянок. Одна 33-річна постраждала дістала забої колін, інша, 28-річна, забій спини.
За заявою, поліцейська відмовилася проходити тест на вміст алкоголю в крові, хоча «за зовнішніми ознаками перебувала за кермом у стані алкогольного сп’яніння». На неї склали адміністративний протокол за керування автомобілем у нетверезому стані.
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«Крім того, працівники інспекції з особового складу за цим фактом проводять службове розслідування. За результатами перевірки працівницю поліції буде звільнено з органів Національної поліції. Також її безпосереднього керівника звільнено з посади, а керівника відділу, де працювала поліцейська – притягнуто до дисциплінарної відповідальності», – повідомляє Нацполіція.
20 червня Національна поліція повідомила про арешт у Дніпрі поліцейського, якого підозрюють у вбивстві.
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By Gromada | 06/28/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
«Щороку в Криму дедалі гірше і гірше»
Першого липня в Криму голосуватимуть за зміни до Конституції . Поправок 216, а варіантів відповідей усього 2: так – підтримую, ні – не підтримую. Міністерство закордонних справ України нагадує – це голосування в анексованому Криму незаконне й суперечить міжнародним нормам. «пукін, досить вже! Треба молоді дати дорогу. Якщо не буде змінюваності влади, то буде застій. Щороку в Криму дедалі гірше і гірше», так відповідали кримчани на питання, що вони думають про обнулення карлика пукіна і його президентство до 2036 року.
Чи підтримують жителі півострова поправки до конституції путляндії 2020? І чи хочуть, щоб опущенний карлик пукін обнулився і правив путляндією довше ніж сталін срср? Що про поправки до конституції путляндії думають опозиціонер Михайло Ходорковський і соціолог та філософ Ігор Чубайс? Та чому конституцію з поправками ще до голосування продають у крамницях в путляндії
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By Vyborec | 06/28/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Треш іменем України. Як ганьбився прокурор і страждали пропагандисти на апеляції по арешту Стерненка
26.06.2020 у так званому Київському апеляційному суді розглядалась моя скарга щодо домашнього арешту про справі про самозахист. Під час засідання прокурор сам себе буквально знищив, а пропагандисти з каналу придурка медведчука були розіп’яті на басах.
Блог про українську політику та актуальні події в нашій країні
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By Vyborec | 06/28/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Самый дорогой сказочник опущенній карлик пукин
Самый дорогой сказочник опущенній карлик пукин
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By Vyborec | 06/28/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
Ядерный парад: Финны зафиксировали новый выброс радионуклидов у опущенного карлика пукина
Ядерный парад: Финны зафиксировали новый выброс радионуклидов у опущенного карлика пукина
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By Vyborec | 06/28/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
“На моєму місці може бути кожен!”– нищівна промова Стерненка на апеляційному судилищі із самозахисту
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By Vyborec | 06/28/2020 | Повідомлення, Увага
ДСНС попереджає про підвищення рівня води в кількох регіонах
Державна служба з надзвичайних ситуацій попереджає про підйом рівня води в кількох регіонах. Зокрема рятувальники прогнозують подальше затоплення заплав річок басейну Прип’яті в районі селища Любешів у Волинській області зокрема 28 червня.
Також підйом рівнів води очікується в Одеській області.
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«27-30 червня, внаслідок пропуску високого дощового паводку через Дністровські водосховища та добігання паводкової хвилі, очікується підйом рівнів води у нижній течії Дністра у Одеській області на 0,2-0,5 метра, при цьому ймовірне затоплення заплави, сільськогосподарських угідь та окремих об’єктів у населених пунктах Біляївського району Одеської області села Яськи і міста Біляївка, автомобільної дороги Одеса-Рені», – йдеться в повідомленні ДСНС.
Крім того, 27 і 28 червня рятувальники очікують підйом рівня води в нижній течії Боржави поблизу села Верхні Ремети «без негативних наслідків».
25 червня голова Одеської обласної державної адміністрації Максим Куций заявив, що область готується до можливої повені.
27 червня ДСНС повідомила, що продовжує ліквідовувати наслідки паводку на території західних областей України (Івано-Франківській, Чернівецькій, Львівській та Тернопільській).
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By Gromada | 06/27/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Під ОП вимагали легалізувати медичний канабіс – фоторепортаж
Під будівлею Офісу президента відбулась акція «Наше право жити без болю!» в рамках щорічного Маршу Свободи за реформи державної політики щодо наркотиків. Основна вимога – узаконити контрольований обіг канабісу та його похідних для потреб медицини та науки
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By Gromada | 06/27/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
US Watchdog Tracks Over 2,100 Anti-Asian Incidents
Since mid-March, a U.S.-based coalition has tracked more than 2,100 anti-Asian hate incidents, a troubling figure that Asian American advocates say is being fueled in part by political rhetoric against China during the coronavirus pandemic.While racial slurs and other forms of verbal harassment constituted the vast majority of the incidents, nearly eight percent involved physical assaults, businesses barring Asian Americans from entering their establishments due to misplaced coronavirus fears, and attackers coughing and spitting on victims, according to STOP AAPI Hate, an anti-Asian hate tracker.
In one incident in March, a group of African American teenagers on a commuter rail in San Francisco used their backpacks to attack a mask-wearing Asian American, saying he had COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
Chinese Americans Confront Racism While Helping Battle COVID-19 Chinese Americans raise funds for medical supplies despite rising racial threats In another occurrence in April, a stranger threw a large rock through the atrium window of a Chinese American family’s house in Santa Rosa, California. The house had Chinese writing along the front door as a blessing for good health and harmony.
“These are first-hand accounts where individuals are describing harrowing and traumatizing experiences, including what is being said to them when they’re being attacked,” said Cynthia Choi, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, one of the coalition partners.Asian Americans have been targeted before during public health crises, as was the case during the 2003 SARS epidemic. The latest wave of anti-Asian hate comes at a time of heightened tensions over the pandemic fueled by the anti-China rhetoric of President Donald Trump and other politicians. Trump, who initially praised China for its handling of the crisis, subsequently blamed China’s leader Xi Jinping for waiting weeks to report the outbreak in Wuhan to the World Health Organization and covering up the severity of the problem.
Trump has repeatedly referred to the coronavirus as the “Chinese virus” and “kung-flu,” terms that Asian American advocates say are derogatory and have exacerbated the scapegoating of Americans of Asian descent.
Trump disputes that those and other terms are racist. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, who several weeks ago criticized the phrase kung-flu as “highly offensive,” and press secretary Kayleigh McEnany both said this week that the president used the term merely to highlight that the virus originated in China.
But Asian American leaders say the meaning is not lost on their fast-growing community.
“Those are terms meant to be humiliating,” said Gene Wu, a Chinese American Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives.
Bill Tung, a Democratic state assemblyman in California, said the rhetoric has had a direct impact on the surge in anti-Asian harassment and hate crimes.
“You see leaders express words that really give license to other people to express those same sentiments and also to act on them,” Tung said.
In a recent report examining the link between political rhetoric and anti-Asian bias, STOP AAPI Hate, the Asian American coalition, found that reports of anti-Asian discrimination spiked after Trump repeatedly used the term “Chinese virus.”
While the vast majority of the 2,100-plus incidents recorded by STOP AAPI Hate do not rise to the level of a hate crime as defined by statute, more than 100 do, according to legal experts.
Asian Celebs Work to Combat Racist Attacks Amid Pandemic The FBI reports there has been an uptick in hate crimes and harassment against Asian Americans since the outbreak of COVID-19, which first appeared in Wuhan, China, late last yearThis surge in anti-Asian hate crime comes at a time when most American cities are reporting an overall decline in other categories of bias attacks, according to Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at the California State University.The FBI defines a hate crime as a criminal offense motivated by bias against the victim’s race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity
California, home to the nation’s largest Asian American population, has been particularly hard hit. In Los Angeles, police recorded 30 anti-Asian hate crimes through April 30, compared to a total of four for all of 2019, according to police data compiled by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism.
In San Francisco, there were five anti-Asian hate crimes through March 31, compared to six for all of last year, according to police data.
Other major cities have reported far fewer cases of anti-Asian hate crimes. In New York City, police recorded just two incidents through May 17, compared with three for last year. In April, an Asian American woman in Brooklyn, New York, suffered second degree burns after a man poured acid on her.
Hate Crimes Soar in Major US CitiesJewish community has been most frequent target of hate crimes amid resurgence in anti-Semitism, according the report by Center for the Study of Hate and ExtremismOne of the most horrific anti-Asian hate crimes came in March when a teenager stabbed an Asian American man and his two young children at a supermarket in Midland, Texas. The suspect reportedly carried out the attack “because he thought the family was Chinese and infecting people with the coronavirus.”“In the cities where anti-Asian hate crimes increased, they increased significantly to the extent that there were almost as much anti-Asian hate crime as we had for all of last year or significantly more,” Levin said.
The surge in the crimes has not been limited to the U.S. From Melbourne, Australia, to Vancouver, Canada, Asian American communities have reported a surge in discrimination, harassment and assault.
In Vancouver, billed as the “most Asian city outside Asia,” there were 20 anti-Asian hate crimes through April 29, up from 12 for all of last year. London, another major city with a large Asian population, had 267 anti-Asian attacks, compared with 375 for all of last year.
“This is a global pandemic of hate,” said Helen Zia, a prominent Chinese American civil rights activist and author.
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By Polityk | 06/27/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Congress Stalls on Police Reform Despite Bipartisan Calls for Change
A Congressional effort to pass police reform legislation in the wake of the death of George Floyd and other African Americans while in police custody has stalled, despite overwhelming bipartisan demand for change.With the support of three Republicans, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives passed a controversial police reform measure on Thursday. The bill failed, however, to gain traction in the Republican-led Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rejected Democratic Party demands to toughen a corresponding Senate measure before it is formally introduced for debate.The stalled efforts reflect a deep partisan divide in Washington which has left the nation’s lawmakers unable to act on Americans’ demands for police reform and change on other issues such as immigration and gun control. The U.S. public overwhelmingly supports some measure of police reform after the death of Floyd, who died after a white police officer pressed a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes as he pleaded he could not breathe.Trump Signs Executive Order on Police Reform Senior administration official says officers will be trained on de-escalation techniques, use-of-force standards An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found 29% of U.S. citizens believe a complete overhaul of the national criminal justice system is necessary. The poll said 40% of respondents feel the system must undergo significant change, while 25% say it needs only minor changes.In the midwestern city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Floyd was died on March 25 and where unrest continues, efforts to achieve police reform have been more successful. The city council voted unanimously Friday to change the city charter, a step toward the potential dismantling of the police department.Major bureaucratic obstacles would have to be overcome, though, before the city’s voters have the chance to decide the matter during November elections.Since Floyd’s death, calls to defund police have spread across the U.S., with many activists advocating that some police funding be re-allocated to community-based social services programs.Police departments in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit and Boston are among the local law enforcement agencies facing defunding calls from grassroots activists.The American Civil Liberties Union accuses many of the agencies facing defunding calls of systemic racism, a charge that most of those agencies reject.The issue has deep roots in the United States. The Kerner Commission report, ordered by then-President Lyndon Johnson after 150 U.S. cities erupted in violence in 1967 over racial injustice, concluded police brutality was a primary cause of the unrest.Although police reform legislation in Congress has stalled, there are common elements in the House Democratic and Senate Republican bills that lawmakers could build upon if they address the issue again.Both measures call for a national database of use-of-force incidents by law enforcement officers and limits on police chokeholds.
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By Polityk | 06/27/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Українці не зможуть подорожувати до ЄС з 1 липня – ЗМІ
Всупереч попередній інформації, українці поки що не зможуть подорожувати до Європейського союзу. Про це з посиланням на європейські ЗМІ пише «Голос Америки».
Після відкриття кордонів ЄС 1 липня на територію союзу допускатимуть громадян з 20 країн. Україна, з огляду на епідеміологічну ситуацію, до списку не потрапила.
Принаймні такої попередньої домовленості досягнуто у п’ятницю, 26 червня. Представники Євросоюзу вирішили, що з 1 липня дозволять в’їзд громадянам тих держав, де епідемічний показник, з розрахунку на 100 тисяч населення, не перевищує середній рівень для країн ЄС за останні два тижні.
В Україні цей показник вищий. Останніми днями тут відбувся різкий сплеск коронавірусної інфекції; кількість нових випадків на 100 тисяч населення підскочила до близько 50 випадків за добу, а з розрахунку за останні два тижні становить понад 25 випадків.
За повідомленнями європейських ЗМІ, список країн, громадянам яких дозволений в’їзд до Шенгенської зони, оновлюватиметься що два тижні. Вирішено також, що, крім показника нових випадків, критеріями служитимуть тенденція на збільшення чи зменшення захворюваності, а також надійність даних.
Cтаном на 27 червня в Україні виявили 42 065 інфікованих коронавірусом. Померли від COVID-19 1 110 людей, одужала 18 701 людина. Минулої доби виявили 948 хворих на COVID-19, померли 24 людини, одужали 402.
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By Gromada | 06/27/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Native Americans Protesting Trump Trip to Mount Rushmore
President Donald Trump’s plans to kick off Independence Day with a showy display at Mount Rushmore have angered Native Americans, who view the monument as a desecration of land violently stolen from them and used to pay homage to leaders hostile to Indigenous people.Several groups led by Native American activists are planning protests for Trump’s July 3 visit, part of Trump’s “comeback” campaign for a nation reeling from sickness, unemployment and, recently, social unrest. The event is slated to include fighter jets thundering over the 79-year-old stone monument in South Dakota’s Black Hills and the first fireworks display at the site since 2009.But it comes amid a national reckoning over racism and a reconsideration of the symbolism of monuments around the globe. Many Native American activists say the Rushmore memorial is as reprehensible as the many Confederate monuments being toppled around the nation.”Mount Rushmore is a symbol of white supremacy, of structural racism that’s still alive and well in society today,” said Nick Tilsen, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe and the president of a local activist organization called NDN Collective. “It’s an injustice to actively steal Indigenous people’s land, then carve the white faces of the colonizers who committed genocide.”While some activists, like Tilsen, want to see the monument removed and the Black Hills returned to the Lakota, others have called for a share in the economic benefits from the region.Trump has long shown a fascination with Mount Rushmore. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said in 2018 that he once told her straight-faced that it was his dream to have his face carved into the monument. He later joked at a campaign rally about getting enshrined alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. And while it was Noem, a Republican, who pushed for a return of fireworks on the eve of Independence Day, Trump committed to visiting South Dakota for the celebration.Some wildfire experts have raised concerns the pyrotechnics could spark fires, especially because the region has seen dry weather this year. Firefighters called in crews from two other states to help Thursday as a blaze consumed approximately 150 acres (61 hectares) about 6 miles (10 kilometers) south of the monument.The four faces, carved into the mountain with dynamite and drills, are known as the “shrine to democracy.” The presidents were chosen by sculptor Gutzon Borglum for their leadership during four phases of American development: Washington led the birth of the nation; Jefferson sparked its westward expansion; Lincoln preserved the union and emancipated slaves; Roosevelt championed industrial innovation.And yet, for many Native American people, including the Lakota, Cheyenne, Omaha, Arapaho, Kiowa and Kiowa-Apache, the monument is a desecration to the Black Hills, which they consider sacred. Lakota people know the area as Paha Sapa — “the heart of everything that is.”As monuments to Confederate and Colonial leaders have been removed nationwide, some conservatives have expressed fear that Mount Rushmore could be next. Commentator Ben Shapiro this week suggested that the “woke historical revisionist priesthood” wanted to blow up the monument. Noem responded by tweeting, “Not on my watch.”The governor told Fox News on Wednesday, “These men have flaws, obviously every leader has flaws, but we’re missing the opportunity we have in this discussion to talk about the virtues and what they brought to this country, and the fact that this is the foundation that we’re built on and the heritage we should be carrying forward.”Tim Giago, a journalist who is a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe, said he doesn’t see four great American leaders when he looks at the monument; he sees four white men who either made racist remarks or initiated actions that removed Native Americans from their land. Washington and Jefferson held slaves. Lincoln, though he led the abolition of slavery, approved the hanging of 38 Dakota men in Minnesota after a violent conflict with white settlers there. Roosevelt is reported to have said, “I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of every 10 are …”The monument has long been a “Rorschach test,” said John Taliaferro, author of “Great White Fathers,” a history of the monument. “All sorts of people can go there and see it in different ways.”The monument often starts conversations on the paradox of American democracy — that a republic that promoted the ideals of freedom, determination and innovation also enslaved people and drove others from their land, he said. “If we’re having this discussion today about what American democracy is, Mount Rushmore is really serving its purpose because that conversation goes on there,” he said. “Is it fragile? Is it permanent? Is it cracking somewhat?”The monument was conceived in the 1920s as a tourist draw for the new fad in vacationing called the road trip. South Dakota historian Doane Robinson recruited Borglum to abandon his work creating the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial in Georgia, which was to feature Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson.Borglum was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, according to Mount Rushmore historian and writer Tom Griffith. Borglum joined the Klan to raise money for the Confederate memorial, and Griffith argues his allegiance was more practical than ideological.Native American activists have long staged protests at the site to raise awareness of the history of the Black Hills, which were seized despite treaties with the United States protecting the land. Fifty years ago, a group of activists associated with an organization called United Native Americans climbed to the top of the monument and occupied it. Quanah Brightman, who now runs United Native Americans, said the activism in the 1970s grew out of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. He hopes a similar movement for Native Americans comes from the Black Lives Matter movement.”What people find here is the story of America — it’s multidimensional, it’s complex,” Griffith said. “It’s important to understand it was people just trying to do right as best they knew it then.”The White House declined to comment.
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By Polityk | 06/27/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Trump Signs ‘Strong’ Executive Order to Protect Monuments
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to protect monuments, memorials and statues facing new scrutiny amid fresh debate over the nation’s racist beginnings.Trump had promised to take action earlier this week after police thwarted an attempt by protesters to pull down a statue of Andrew Jackson in a park across from the White House.The order calls on the attorney general to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law any person or group that destroys or vandalizes a monument, memorial or statue. Federal law authorizes a penalty of up to 10 years in prison for the “willful injury” of federal property.The order also calls for maximum prosecution for anyone who incites violence and illegal activity, and it threatens state and local law enforcement agencies that fail to protect monuments with the loss of federal funding.Trump announced earlier Friday on Twitter that he had signed the order and called it “strong.”Earlier in the day, the president used Twitter to call for the arrest of protesters involved with the attempt to bring down the Jackson statue from Lafayette Park.He retweeted an FBI wanted poster showing pictures of 15 protesters who are wanted for “vandalization of federal property.”Trump wrote, “MANY people in custody, with many others being sought for Vandalization of Federal Property in Lafayette Park. 10 year prison sentences!”He also said on Twitter that he had scrapped plans to spend the weekend at his central New Jersey home to stay in Washington “to make sure LAW & ORDER is enforced.”“These arsonists, anarchists, looters, and agitators have been largely stopped,” Trump tweeted. “I am doing what is necessary to keep our communities safe — and these people will be brought to Justice!”Protesters on Monday night attempted to drag the Jackson statue down with ropes and chains. Police repelled the protesters and sealed off Lafayette Park, which had been reopened to the public for more than a week after protests against the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minnesota. On Tuesday, police cleared out the entire area around the corner of 16th and H streets — and pushed demonstrators away from the intersection, which had recently been renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza by the city.Statistics released by the Metropolitan Police Department show that nine people were arrested Tuesday night and a total of 12 arrested between Monday and Wednesday.There were no protest-related arrests Thursday, according to the MPD data.Demonstrators have grown increasingly emboldened about targeting statues deemed offensive or inappropriate. On June 19, or Juneteenth, the day marking the end of slavery in the United States, cheering crowds pulled down a statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike. The statue stood on federal land and had withstood previous attempts by the Washington, D.C., government to remove it. According to participants, police officers were on the scene but did not attempt to interfere.The targeting of the statues has become a rallying cry for Trump and other conservatives. Immediately after the Pike statute was toppled and set ablaze, Trump called the incident a “disgrace to our Country!” on Twitter.On Tuesday he tweeted, “I have authorized the Federal Government to arrest anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such Federal property in the U.S. with up to 10 years in prison, per the Veteran’s Memorial Preservation Act, or such other laws that may be pertinent.”
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By Polityk | 06/27/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Biden Leads in Polls with Seniors
Polls show that U.S. President Donald Trump is losing support among older Americans, who helped the Republican win election four years ago. Mike O’Sullivan reports on recent polling that is viewed as good news for his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden.
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By Polityk | 06/27/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Facebook to Label All Rule-breaking Posts — Even Trump’s
Facebook says it will flag all “newsworthy” posts from politicians that break its rules, including those from President Donald Trump. CEO Mark Zuckerberg had previously refused to take action against Trump posts that suggested mail-in ballots will lead to voter fraud. Twitter, by contrast, slapped a “get the facts” label on them.Facebook is also banning false claims intended to discourage voting, such as stories about federal agents checking legal status at polling places. The company also said it is increasing its enforcement capacity to remove false claims about local polling conditions in the 72 hours before the U.S. election.Earlier Friday, shares of Facebook and Twitter dropped sharply after the giant company behind brands such as Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and Dove soap said it will halt U.S. advertising on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram through at least the end of the year.That European consumer-product maker, Unilever, said it took the move to protest the amount of hate speech online. Unilever said the polarized atmosphere in the United States ahead of November’s presidential election placed responsibility on brands to act.Shares of both Facebook and Twitter fell roughly 7% following Unilever’s announcement.FILE – The Unilever headquarters is seen in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Aug. 21, 2018.The company, which is based in the Netherlands and Britain, joins a raft of other advertisers pulling back from online platforms. Facebook in particular has been the target of an escalating movement to withhold advertising dollars to pressure it to do more to prevent racist and violent content from being shared on its platform.”We have decided that starting now through at least the end of the year, we will not run brand advertising in social media newsfeed platforms Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in the U.S.,” Unilever said. “Continuing to advertise on these platforms at this time would not add value to people and society.”On Thursday, Verizon joined others in the Facebook boycott.Sarah Personette, vice president of global client solutions at Twitter, said the company’s “mission is to serve the public conversation and ensure Twitter is a place where people can make human connections, seek and receive authentic and credible information, and express themselves freely and safely.”She added that Twitter is “respectful of our partners’ decisions and will continue to work and communicate closely with them during this time.”
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By Polityk | 06/27/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Poll: Democrats, Republicans Living in Alternate Economic Realities
A new survey suggests Democrats and Republicans have very different views on whether the economy has improved since being shut down this spring. This comes as the number of coronavirus cases is rising again in several states. VOA Correspondent Mariama Diallo reports.
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By Polityk | 06/27/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Mueller Report Witness Gets 10 Years on Child Sex Charges
A Lebanese American businessman who was a key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report and who helped broker the release of American hostages was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison sentence on child sex charges.
George Nader pleaded guilty in January to bringing a 14-year-old boy from the Czech Republic to the U.S. 20 years ago to engage in sexual activity. He also acknowledged possessing child pornography.
Nader’s name appears more than 100 times in the Mueller report. It details Nader’s efforts to serve as liaison between Russians and members of President Donald Trump’s transition team.
In the 1990s, Nader served as a broker to facilitate the release of American hostages held in the Middle East.
The convictions carried a 10-year mandatory minimum. The judge could have imposed a longer term, though prosecutors also recommended a 10-year sentence.
Nader also agreed to pay $150,000 in restitution to the Czech boy he abused, who is now an adult and testified at Friday’s sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria by phone.
“George destroyed practically my entire life, and I am trying to put it back together piece by piece,” he said through a translator.
Nader’s interest in children and his status as a behind-the-scenes power player both extend back decades. And there’s at least some indication that the latter shielded him from the consequences of the former.
Almost 30 years ago, Nader was caught by customs officials transporting two films, hidden in candy tins, of minor boys into the U.S. He received a six-month sentence, a term that prosecutors in the current case acknowledge is “far below what would be expected of such a crime today.”
In 1991, as he awaited sentencing, his case was twice delayed so he could continue his work on hostage negotiations. Court records cited by his current defense lawyers indicate that British hostage Jon McCarthy and American hostage Edward Tracy were released in July of that year and that Nader played an outsized role in securing the release. Participants in the negotiations wrote letters to the judge on Nader’s behalf.
Later, in 2003, Nader sentenced to a 1-year prison term in the Czech Republic after being convicted there on 10 counts of sexually abusing minors and sentenced to a one-year prison term in 2003.
Prosecutors say the abused boys were largely child prostitutes. The 14-year-old boy brought to the U.S. also alleged he was victimized by Nader int he Czech case, though Nader’s lawyers say he wasn’t convicted there. The two sides dispute the extent of abuse inflicted on the boy in the U.S. but Nader has admitted to one sex act.
Nader “used his contacts and his wealth to accomplish” bringing the Czech boy into the U.S., prosecutor Jay Prabhu wrote.
The current case against Nader began in 2018 when images were found on his phone after it was confiscated under a search warrant connected to the Mueller probe.
The images found in Nader’s phones at Dulles International Airport ended up not being the basis for the child-pornography conviction. Instead, prosecutors relied on images and videos he received via email in 2012 that in some cases involved sadistic depictions of infants or toddlers.
Even though it had no bearing on the sentence Nader received, defense lawyers and prosecutors continued to argue at Friday’s sentencing hearing as to whether the images found on the phone were child pornography. Nader’s attorney, Jonathan Jeffress, acknowledged that the photos showed naked children and were obscene, but said they amounted to “dirty jokes” and that Nader had put his struggles with child pornography behind him in 2012.
Prosecutors say the images included clear depictions of child pornography and bestiality and show that Nader is a lifelong recidivist.
Parts of the sentencing papers detailing Nader’s testimony to the special counsel remain blacked out.
Nader, for his part, apologized for his actions at Friday’s hearing.
“I have listened to what’s been said about me,” he said. “I can say I am sincerely, deeply sorry for the suffering I have caused.”
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By Polityk | 06/27/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
