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Biden Wins Wisconsin Primary
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has won last week’s Democratic primary in the state of Wisconsin. Results released Monday showed Biden capturing about twice the votes of Senator Bernie Sanders, his final opponent in a once very crowded field contending to face off against Republican President Donald Trump in the November general election. Wisconsin turned out to be the last contested state in the series of elections the party uses to allocate pledged delegates on the way to picking the nominee. The day after the voting took place, Sanders dropped out of the race, leaving Biden as the presumptive nominee. Sanders went further Monday, endorsing Biden in a show of unity aimed at rallying his supporters to help defeat Trump. Supporters of Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden cheers as he speaks at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, on March 10, 2020.Wisconsin, like in the 2016 presidential election, is expected to play a key role in the outcome in November. Trump narrowly won the state four years ago over Democrat Hillary Clinton, the first time a Republican presidential candidate had won the state since 1984. The U.S. does not conduct its presidential elections by popular vote, instead by the Electoral College, in which the outcomes in each of the 50 states help determine the national winner, with the biggest states holding the most votes. While Wisconsin held its primary election last week, the results were delayed by a legal battle that saw Democratic Governor Tony Evers try to postpone voting due to the coronavirus outbreak, only to have his decision overturned by the state’s conservative-dominated supreme court. Those who opposed going ahead with the vote said it made little public health sense to have people show up to polling places in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Hundreds of would-be Election Day workers refused to keep their promise to show up at polling stations to check in voters off registration lists. In Milwaukee, the state’s biggest city, only five of 180 polling stations were opened, with some voters forced to stand in line for up to 2 ½ hours to cast ballots. Health care workers handed out face masks to the voters, who mostly stayed at least two meters apart from others waiting in line. The Republican-led legislature advocated holding the vote because many state and local offices were on the ballot and, absent a vote, would have left the positions vacant if the vote were postponed to June as Evers wanted to do. Judges said voters could submit ballots by mail if they were postmarked by election day and received by Monday for counting.
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By Polityk | 04/14/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Московські попи в Україні розносять коронавірус та вбивають українців
Каранатнин? А УПЦ МП (РПЦ) плювали на це!
Попри смертельну загрозу вони збирають масово вірян, заражаються самі та інфікують інших.
А поліція цього знову “не бачить”.
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By Vyborec | 04/14/2020 | Повідомлення
Шабаш пукинской секты рпц в Украине грозит массовой эпидемией
Шабаш пукинской секты рпц в Украине грозит массовой эпидемией
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By Vyborec | 04/14/2020 | Повідомлення
Зеленський і турбо зе-команда планує увімкнути друкарський верстат. Це катастрофа?!
Зеленський і турбо зе-команда планує увімкнути друкарський верстат. Це катастрофа?!
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By Vyborec | 04/14/2020 | Повідомлення
Sanders Endorses Democratic Rival Biden
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday formally endorsed his erstwhile rival, former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, for U.S. president in the November national election against Republican President Donald Trump. “We’ve got to make Trump a one-term president and we need you in the White House,” Sanders told Biden in joint virtual appearance on a Biden webcast. “I will do all that I can to see that that happens, Joe,” Sanders vowed. “I want to thank you for that,” Biden responded. “It’s a big deal. Your endorsement means a great deal, a great deal to me.” Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic at an event in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., March 12, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos BarriaSanders, a self-declared democratic socialist, was Biden’s last challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, but suspended his campaign last week in the face of Biden’s seemingly insurmountable lead in pledged delegates to the party’s national presidential nominating convention in August. Sanders had pushed for several significant U.S. policy changes that Biden has resisted, such as a government takeover of medical health insurance — Medicare for All, Sanders called it — and free tuition for college students at public universities.When Sanders ended his active campaigning after the Democratic presidential primary in the Midwestern state of Wisconsin last week, Biden adopted modified stances on the Sanders health insurance and tuition positions, an effort to woo Sanders supporters to his candidacy. Biden, on his third run for the U.S. presidency over three decades, said that rather than a full government takeover of health insurance, Americans should be able to adopt government-assisted care at age 60 instead of the current 65. On tuition, Biden called for writing off student debt for low-income and middle-class families who attended public colleges and universities and some private institutions. Sanders had said since the outset of his 2020 campaign that he would do whatever he could to help the eventual Democratic nominee, if it wasn’t him, to defeat Trump. But it remains unclear whether the most ardent supporters of Sanders’ progressive policy stances will follow him to support Biden. In 2016, even though Sanders eventually endorsed the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, after losing to her in a long party nomination campaign, post-election polls showed about 12% of Sanders supporters voted for Trump over Clinton as she lost the national election.
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By Polityk | 04/14/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
COVID: Trump Says Reopening US is His Decision
President Donald Trump said Monday he would soon decide whether to reopen the United States to commerce as health experts voiced optimism that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic in the country may soon be over.In the U.S., 42 of the 50 state governors have imposed stay-at-home edicts as the virus swept through the country. Trump recommended physical distancing between Americans through the end of April but is considering whether to reopen the country fully or partly on May 1.While news stories in the U.S. have suggested it would be up to the governors to decide when to lift their own orders for their states, Trump said on Twitter, “Let it be fully understood that this is incorrect.”For the purpose of creating conflict and confusion, some in the Fake News Media are saying that it is the Governors decision to open up the states, not that of the President of the United States & the Federal Government. Let it be fully understood that this is incorrect….— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2020Trump said, “It is the decision of the President, and for many good reasons. With that being said, the Administration and I are working closely with the Governors, and this will continue. A decision by me, in conjunction with the Governors and input from others, will be made shortly!” ….It is the decision of the President, and for many good reasons. With that being said, the Administration and I are working closely with the Governors, and this will continue. A decision by me, in conjunction with the Governors and input from others, will be made shortly!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2020Top U.S. health experts voiced cautious optimism that the ravaging coronavirus outbreak in the country is slowing.“In the midst of tragedy, there IS hope,” Surgeon General Jerome Adams said on Twitter.He said the western states of California and Washington “remain stable” in the number of new cases. Adams said New York and New Jersey in the eastern U.S. and the cities of Detroit in the Midwest and New Orleans in the South “appear to be leveling off.”“Social distancing and mitigation IS working. There is a light at the end of this dark tunnel,” Adams said, as he urged Americans to continue to keep themselves away from others by at least two meters.Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told NBC’s “Today” show, “We are nearing the peak right now. Sometime, hopefully this week. You know when you’re at the peak when the next day is actually less than the day before. We are stabilizing across the country right now in terms of the state of this outbreak.”Why It May Take Months to Reopen the US EconomyPublic health experts call for a cautious, phased approach But Redfield, like other government health officials, voiced concerns about reopening the country to commerce and a sense of normalcy on May 1, the date Trump is considering.Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the country’s director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Sunday there is “extraordinary risk” of the further spread of the coronavirus if life in the U.S. returns to normalcy too soon.Fauci: ‘Extraordinary Risk’ of Further COVID Spread If US Reopens Too SoonTop infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci’s warning comes as US coronavirus death toll has topped 20,000, the highest total of any country, with more than 534,000 confirmed casesRedfield said, “I think it’s important to look at the country as many different separate situations. We’re looking at the data county by county by county.”“Clearly the things that need to happen for the reopening is what’s happening with the numbers of new cases,” he said. “We’ve got to substantially augment our public health capacity to do early case identification, isolation and contact tracing. And obviously make sure we have the medical and hospital capacity. And really start working to build confidence” in communities across the country, so they have “confidence to reopen.”“There’s no doubt that we have to reopen correctly,” to avoid a resurgence in the coronavirus in July and August, Redfield said. “It’s going to be a step by step, gradual process. It’s got to be data driven.”Trump Challenged on His Early Bird Bid to Reopen US EconomyAt least one Republican governor warned on Tuesday against easing restrictions too soon even though the clampdown is devastating the US economyTheir assessment came as the U.S. death toll continues to increase, topping 22,000, with 558,000 confirmed cases.Redfield said that the mortality rate, “while sadly still too high, was far less than we anticipated” because of social distancing.Trump in January, February and half of March minimized the severity of the coronavirus threat after the first outbreak in China before declaring a national emergency in mid-March. On several occasions, he said there were few cases in the U.S. and that the disease would quickly dwindle to nothing. Some Trump advisers warned him of the advancing threat, but Sunday on Twitter, Trump appeared peeved at Fauci’s assessment in a CNN interview Sunday that “obviously” the country’s response could have been better.“It would have been better if we had a head start,” Fauci said. “Often the recommendation (of scientists and medical experts) is taken, sometimes it is not.”He said the country’s high death toll “may have been a little bit different” if the U.S. had moved quicker toward social distancing and stay-at-home edicts.Trump retweeted a supporter’s assessment that Fauci should be fired, although Fauci has continued to appear alongside the president at White House coronavirus news conferences.On Monday afternoon, the White House rebuffed talk that Fauci might be ousted.“This media chatter is ridiculous,” Trump spokesman Hogan Gidley said. “President Trump is not firing Dr. Fauci.”Gidley concluded, “Dr. Fauci has been and remains a trusted advisor to President Trump.”
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By Polityk | 04/14/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Former Senate Staffer Accuses Joe Biden of Sexual Assault
A former aide to Joe Biden is accusing the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee of sexually assaulting her during the early 1990s when he was a senator. Biden’s campaign denies the charges.In two recent interviews with The Associated Press, Tara Reade alleged the assault occurred in the basement of a Capitol Hill office building in the spring of 1993. She filed a police report in Washington on Thursday saying she was the victim of a sexual assault by an unnamed person in 1993, a copy of which was obtained by the AP.It’s not the first time Reade has made an accusation against the former vice president. Last year, Reade publicly accused Biden of inappropriate touching, but did not allege sexual assault.In a statement, Biden deputy campaign manager and communications director Kate Bedingfield said the former vice president has “dedicated his public life to changing the culture and the laws around violence against women,” pointing to his work passing the Violence Against Women Act. She said “he firmly believes that women have a right to be heard — and heard respectfully,” but added: “Such claims should also be diligently reviewed by an independent press.””What is clear about this claim: it is untrue. This absolutely did not happen,” Bedingfield said.Reade’s charge comes at a pivotal time for Biden. The former vice president is seeking to unify the Democratic Party behind his campaign as the party’s presumptive presidential nominee after Sen. Bernie Sanders dropped out of the primary last week. Women are a crucial voting bloc for Democrats and any erosion of support for Biden could sink his candidacy in the fall.The November contest between Biden and President Donald Trump will be the first presidential race of the #MeToo era, a movement that spurred numerous women to come forward with allegations of sexual assault, including against several prominent men in politics, entertainment and other industries. Trump has also been accused of assault and unwanted touching by numerous women, charges he denies. He was forced to apologize during the 2016 campaign after he was heard on a recording bragging about using his fame to assault women.Earlier in the Democratic primary, Biden faced accusations of unwanted touching by several women, who said they were uncomfortable with hugs, hand holding and other actions. Reade was among the women who came forward at the time.In recent weeks, she’s given a handful of interviews saying Biden’s actions went further that she initially disclosed. In an interview with the AP, she detailed a 1993 encounter that she says occurred when she was asked by a supervisor to bring Biden his gym bag as he was on his way down to the Senate gymnasium. She says Biden pushed her against a wall in the basement of a Capitol Hill office building, groped her and penetrated her with his fingers.”He was whispering to me and trying to kiss me at the same time, and he was saying, ‘Do you want to go somewhere else?”’ she said. “I remember wanting to say stop, but I don’t know if I said it out loud or if I just thought it. I was kind of frozen up.”Reade said that she pulled away and Biden looked “shocked and surprised,” and replied, “Come on, man, I heard you liked me.”Reade, who was a staff assistant in Biden’s office at the time, said she wasn’t aware of any direct witnesses to the encounter. She told the AP she did raise accusations of sexual harassment, but not assault, against Biden in multiple meetings with her supervisors, including Marianne Baker, Biden’s executive assistant; Dennis Toner, Biden’s deputy chief of staff; and Ted Kaufman, the senator’s chief of staff.In a statement provided by the campaign, Baker said that in the nearly two decades she worked for Biden, “I never once witnessed, or heard of, or received, any reports of inappropriate conduct, period — not from Ms. Reade, not from anyone.”The AP spoke to five current or former Biden staffers on Sunday, all of whom worked for him at the time of the alleged incident. None recalled such an incident or a report, and neither Toner nor Kaufman could recall Reade. Both said what she had described was out of character for Biden.”She did not come to me. I would have remembered her if she had, and I don’t remember her at all,” Kaufman said.Reade said she filed a written report with a Senate personnel office. But she didn’t receive a copy of it and has been unable to obtain one since because, she says, Biden’s Senate files are currently at the University of Delaware, which has not yet made them public.The AP has been unable to verify whether a report was made.Reade says after complaining to supervisors, her job responsibilities were scaled back and she was eventually told by Toner that she was not a good fit for the job and encouraged to find a new one.Reade told the AP she spoke to at least four people about Biden’s conduct before she went public with her experience: two friends, her brother and her mother. Her mother passed away, and her brother did not respond to a request for comment.One friend, who knew Reade in 1993, said in an interview Sunday that Reade told them about the alleged assault when it happened. The person, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, didn’t mention the assault allegation during an initial interview with the AP last year, but confirmed those details after Reade went forward with them. The person said they had initially advised Reade against sharing details of the assault because of the negative response to her less serious accusations of harassment.The second friend met Reade more than a decade after the alleged incident and confirmed that Reade had a conversation with them in 2007 or 2008 about experiencing sexual harassment from Biden while working in his Senate office. But the friend, who requested anonymity to protect the privacy of their family, made no mention of assault. In the course of reporting on Reade’s allegations, the AP also contacted 21 former Biden staffers from the time and spoke to several of them. While some remembered Reade, none recalled any instances of inappropriate touching or behavior on Biden’s behalf, or any complaints made by Reade.Melissa Lefko, who worked as a staff assistant for Biden at the same time as Reade, said Biden had very little interaction with staff at their level, and that Reade’s recollection of Biden’s conduct didn’t match her own.”When you work on the Hill, you know who the good guys are who the bad guys are and who you should avoid and Biden was a good guy, he was never, ever on that list of the bad guys,” she said in an interview.Biden’s conduct towards women first came under scrutiny just before he announced his presidential campaign last spring. Eight women, including Reade, came forward with allegations that the former vice president made them feel uncomfortable with inappropriate physical displays of affection. Biden acknowledged the complaints and promised to “be more mindful about respecting personal space in the future.”The AP spoke with Reade about those complaints in April 2019. During that interview, Reade alleged that Biden rubbed her shoulders and neck, played with her hair, and that she was asked by another aide in Biden’s Senate office to dress more conservatively and told “don’t be so sexy.” The AP declined to publish details of the interview at the time because reporters were unable to corroborate her allegations, and aspects of her story contradicted other reporting.In recent months, Reade came forward with the additional allegation of assault, speaking first to progressive podcast host Katie Halper, before The New York Times published an extensive review of her claims Sunday.Reade’s story of sexual harassment had circulated for weeks in both conservative and progressive media outlets. While Reade said she supported Sanders or Elizabeth Warren in the Democratic primary, she said that her decision to come forward with new details was not politically motivated.In her Sunday interview with the AP, Reade said that she was reluctant to share details of the assault during her initial conversations with reporters over a year ago because she was scared of backlash, and was still coming to terms with what happened to her.”Already I was being threatened and kind of smeared, and I just I wasn’t ready,” she said. “So I talked about the sexual harassment and what I was comfortable talking about, but I wasn’t ready to talk about sexual assault.”
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By Polityk | 04/13/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
ДСНС повідомляє про ліквідацію пожежі в Котовському лісництві
Пожежу на території Котовського лісництва в зоні відчуження ліквідували, повідомляє Державна служба з надзвичайних ситуацій 13 квітня.
«Пожежу на території Котовського лісництва ліквідовано. Спостерігається горіння трав’яного настилу та лісової підстилки окремими осередками», – йдеться в повідомленні.
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Водночас у Корогодському та Денисовицькому лісництвах ліквідація вогню триває. За даними служби, у Корогодському лісництві працюють 140 людей, з них 90 – співробітники ДСНС.
«Основні зусилля зосереджено в Денисовицькому лісництві поблизу населеного пункту Новий Мир, де відмічається поширення горіння трав’яного настилу та лісової підстилки. На даній ділянці залучено понад 250 осіб та близько 60 одиниць техніки, з них від ДСНС понад 200 осіб та 40 одиниць техніки», – зазначають у службі.
ДСНС стверджує, що радіаційний фонд у Київській області лишається в межа норми, а потужність еквівалентної дози гамма-випромінювання в зоні відчуження не перевищує допустимий рівень.
Читайте також: У Житомирській області затримали двох чоловіків, які спричинили лісову пожежу
8 квітня у поліції Київщини повідомили про вручення підозри чоловікові у справі про вигорілі 5 гектарів лісу в зоні ЧАЕС. У поліції кажуть, що раніше судимий підозрюваний чоловік зізнався, що підпалив дикорослу траву у кількох місцях задля забави.
11 квітня голова Державної служби з надзвичайних ситуацій Микола Чечоткін повідомив, що ДСНС виявляє по 700-800 пожеж в екосистемах.
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By Gromada | 04/13/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Подкуп и враньё – союзники пукинской россии. ЧМ по футболу 2018 тоже куплен!!!
Министерство юстиции США назвало чиновников Международной федерации футбола (ФИФА), получивших взятки от россии и катара за проведение чемпионатов мира по футболу 2018 и 2022 годов
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By Vyborec | 04/13/2020 | Повідомлення
Настоящий факир
Настоящий факир
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By Vyborec | 04/13/2020 | Повідомлення
Обиженный карлик пукин перебрасывает своих военных на Донбасс во время эпидемии коронавируса
Мокшандия отправляет своих военных на Донбасс. Война на востоке Украины продолжается. Что происходит на передовой во время пандемии коронавируса и как COVID-19 уже повлиял на боевые действия?
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By Vyborec | 04/13/2020 | Повідомлення
Wisconsin to Announce Primary Results
Election officials in the Midwestern U.S. state of Wisconsin are set to release results Monday from last week’s Democratic primary vote. The figures were delayed by a legal battle that saw the governor try to postpone voting due to the coronavirus outbreak, only to have his decision overturned by the state’s supreme court. Those who opposed going ahead with the vote said it made little public health sense to have people show up to polling places, while many volunteers signaled they would no longer participate. The Republican-led legislature advocated holding the vote because many state offices were on the ballot and would otherwise be left vacant. Judges said voters could submit ballots by mail if they were postmarked by election day and received by Monday for counting. The announcement of the presidential primary winner will be anticlimactic. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination the day after Wisconsin voted, leaving former Vice President Joe Biden as the presumptive choice to oppose President Donald Trump in November.
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By Polityk | 04/13/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Синоптики попереджають про пориви вітру і заморозки
По всій Укаїні 13 квітня очікуються пориви вітру, на сході – заморозки, попереджає Державна служба з надзвичайних ситуацій з посиланням на дані Укргідрометцентру.
«13 квітня на всій території України очікуються пориви вітру 15-20 метрів на секунду, 13 квітня на Лівобережжі сильні заморозки (на поверхні ґрунту та в повітрі) 0-5 градусів (ІI рівень небезпечності); вночі 14 квітня у східних областях заморозки на поверхні ґрунту 0-5 градусів (І рівень небезпечності)», – йдеться в повідомленні ДСНС.
Крім того, вночі 13 квітня заморозків від 0 до 2 градусів варто очікувати в Києві та від 0 до 5 градусів у Київській області – за оцінкою ДСНС, погодні умови сягатимуть 1 рівня небезпеки.
За даними Укргідрометцентру, вдень 13 квітня в західних областях очікується дощ, у решті регіонів – без опадів.
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By Gromada | 04/13/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Протягом доби бойовики тричі обстріляли позиції ООС – штаб
Російські гібридні війська тричі обстрілювали позиції Операції об’єднаних сил протягом доби 12 квітня, повідомляє штаб ООС. Внаслідок цього український військовий загинув, ще один був поранений.
Зафіксовані обстріли велися поблизу сіл Тарамчук, Водяне та Кримське з ручних протитнакових гранатометів і кулеметів великого калібру.
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«Військовослужбовці зі складу Об’єднаних сил вжили вичерпних заходів для припинення ворожого вогню та дали рішучу відповідь на усі злочинні дії противника. Після активного застосування нашими підрозділами штатного озброєння ворог відмовився від подальших провокацій українських підрозділів», – йдеться в зведенні.
З початку доби обстрілів з боку незаконних збройних угруповань не зафіксовано.
Бойовики незаконних збройних угруповань наразі не заявляли про обстріли протягом доби 12 квітня.
Збройний конфлікт на Донбасі триває від 2014 року після російської окупації Криму. Україна і Захід звинувачують Росію у збройній підтримці бойовиків. Кремль відкидає ці звинувачення і заявляє, що на Донбасі можуть перебувати хіба що російські «добровольці».
За даними ООН, від березня 2014-го до 31 жовтня 2019 року внаслідок збройного конфлікту на Донбасі загинули 13 000 – 13 200 людей.
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By Gromada | 04/13/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Униженный кремль обеспокоен молчанием Финляндии
В кремле предчувствуют приближение дня расплаты и суетятся. Особо кремлёвских беспокоит молчание Финляндии
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By Vyborec | 04/13/2020 | Повідомлення
Продажный аваков снова в политическом шпагате
Продажный аваков снова в политическом шпагате
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By Vyborec | 04/13/2020 | Повідомлення
В обиженном кремле краснеют и пыжатся: провал антисланцевого блицкрига
В обиженном кремле краснеют и пыжатся: провал антисланцевого блицкрига
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By Vyborec | 04/13/2020 | Повідомлення
Signs Missed and Steps Slowed in Trump’s Pandemic Response
By the time President Donald Trump first spoke publicly about the coronavirus, it may already have been too late.Interviewed at Davos, a gathering of global elites in the Swiss Alps, the president on Jan. 22 played down the threat posed by the respiratory virus from China, which had just reached American shores in the form of a solitary patient in Washington state. “We have it totally under control,” Trump said on CNBC. “It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”In the 11 weeks since that interview, the coronavirus has reached every corner of the globe. It has infected more than 500,000 Americans and killed at least 20,000. It has rewritten the rules of society, isolated people in their homes, closed schools, devastated the economy and put millions out of work.President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, Friday, April 10, 2020, in Washington.When Trump spoke in Switzerland, weeks’ worth of warning signs already had been raised. In the ensuing month, before the president first addressed the crisis from the White House, key steps to prepare the nation for the coming pandemic were not taken.Life-saving medical equipment was not stockpiled. Travel largely continued unabated. Vital public health data from China was not provided or was deemed untrustworthy. A White House riven by rivalries and turnover was slow to act. Urgent warnings were ignored by a president consumed by his impeachment trial and intent on protecting a robust economy that he viewed as central to his reelection chances.Twenty current and former administration officials and Republicans close to the White House were interviewed for this account about the critical weeks lost before the president spoke to the nation on Feb. 26. Most spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about private discussions.Trump Optimistic on COVID-19 RecoveryThe White House lowers projected US death toll from coronavirus’MYSTERIOUS PNEUMONIA’On New Year’s Eve, China informed the World Health Organization of a “mysterious pneumonia outbreak” spreading through Wuhan, an industrial city of 11 million.The government closed a seafood market at the center of the outbreak, moved all patients with the virus to a specially designated hospital and collected test samples to send to government laboratories. Doctors were told to stay quiet; one who issued a warning online was punished. He later died of the virus. The Pentagon first learned about the new coronavirus in December from open source reports emanating from China. By early January, warnings about the virus had made their way into intelligence reports circulating around the government. On Jan. 3, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Robert Redfield, received a call from his Chinese counterpart with an official warning. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, was alerted to the virus around the same time — and within two weeks was fearful it could bring global catastrophe.Quickly, U.S. intelligence and public health officials began doubting China’s reported rates of infection and death toll. They pressed China to allow in U.S. epidemiologists — both to assist the country in confronting the spread and to gain valuable insights that could help buy time for the U.S. response. U.S. officials also pressed China to send samples of the virus to U.S. labs for study and for vaccine and test development. On Jan. 11, China shared the virus’ genetic sequence. That same day, the National Institutes of Health started working on a vaccine.Trump Sees His Handling of COVID-19 as Path to Reelection President’s campaign is seeking to capitalize on the image of the commander in chief holding forth during coronavirus briefingsUltimately, the U.S. was able to get China’s consent to send two people on the WHO team that traveled to China later in the month. But by then precious weeks had been lost and the virus had raced across Asia and had begun to escape the continent.BALANCING ACTFor much of January, administration officials were doing a delicate balancing act.Internally, they were raising alarms about the need to get Americans on the ground in China. Publicly, they were sending words of encouragement and praise in hopes Beijing would grant the Americans access. Matthew Pottinger, Trump’s deputy national security adviser, persistently urged more aggressive action in calling out China and sending teams there.But while word of the virus was included in several of the president’s intelligence briefings, Trump wasn’t fully briefed on the threat until Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar called with an update on Jan. 18 while the president was at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. Trump spent much of the conversation wanting to talk about vaping; he was considering a new policy restricting its use. White House officials now believe Trump didn’t fully grasp the magnitude of the threat to the U.S. in part because Azar, who was feuding with several members of Trump’s inner circle, did a poor job communicating it. Azar was trying to walk a fine line between Trump’s upbeat statements and preparing the government for what might lie ahead. “America’s risk is low at the moment,” he later told House lawmakers. “That could change quickly.” Moreover, the president was in the middle of his Senate impeachment trial and focused on little else, punctuating nearly every White House meeting with complaints about the Democrats out to get him, grievances he would continue late into the night on the phone from his private quarters.Trump also had little desire to pressure Beijing or criticize its president, Xi Jinping, with whom he wanted to secure cooperation on ending a yearlong trade war before the reelection campaign kicked into high gear. When Trump fielded his first question about the virus in Davos, he enthusiastically praised Xi’s response, going well beyond the calibrated risk-reward messaging his aides were encouraging.INFIGHTINGThe West Wing was adrift.By late January, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney held the post in name only as rumors swirled of his impending, post-impeachment departure. He was on the initial coronavirus task force, which was plagued with infighting. At the same time, the White House Office of Management and Budget was clashing with Azar’s HHS over money to combat the virus.The Capitol Hill building is pictured in Washington, DC. (Photo: Diaa Bekheet)HHS wanted to send a special coronavirus funding request to Congress but the White House budget office resisted for weeks, insisting that HHS should instead repurpose $250 million of its existing budget to bolster the national stockpile by buying protective equipment. HHS, however, claimed that without congressional authorization it could not buy the needed quantities of masks, gowns and ventilators to rapidly bolster the national stockpileEventually, an initial request went to Congress for $2.5 billion in virus aid, an amount that lawmakers of both parties dismissed as too low. The bill that Congress quickly passed and Trump signed — the first of three so far — was for $8 billion.Even as the two agencies fought, there was no influential voice in Trump’s orbit pushing him to act swiftly on the pandemic. Trump had surrounded himself with loyalists and few in the administration, including national security adviser Robert O’Brien, were able to redirect the president’s attention. In mid-January, meetings were being held at the White House, but the focus was on getting U.S. government employees back from China, which was still playing down how contagious the virus was.A Jan. 29 memo from senior White House aide Peter Navarro accurately predicted some of the challenges faced by the U.S. from what would become a pandemic, though he was hardly the first to sound the alarm. But he, like Pottinger, was viewed by others in the White House as a “China hawk” and their concerns were rejected by others in the administration who did not bring them to the president.Trump Hits Back at WHO Chief Who Urged COVID-19 UnityU.S. President Donald Trump lashed out at the head of the World Health Organization, who called for unity and global solidarity after Trump accused the U.N. agency of being “China-centric” and threatened to suspend funding. White House Correspondent Patsy Widakuswara has the story. On Jan. 30, the WHO declared the virus a global health emergency while Trump held a packed campaign rally in Iowa. The next day, the Trump administration banned admittance to the United States by foreign nationals who had traveled to China in the past 14 days, excluding the immediate family members of American citizens or permanent residents.Trump styled it as bold action, but continued to talk down the severity of the threat. Despite the ban, nearly 40,000 people have arrived in the United States on direct flights from China since that date, according to an analysis by The New York Times.’VERY, VERY READY’On Feb. 10, Trump stood before thousands of supporters packed into a New Hampshire rally and declared: “By April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.”The crowd roared its approval at Trump’s unproven assertion. The Senate had acquitted Trump on the impeachment charges and the president shifted his focus toward reelection even as others in the administration keyed in on the virus.Federal officials put the CDC solely in charge of developing a test for the virus and left out private interests, a choice that cost precious time when the resulting CDC test proved faulty.Trump spent many weeks shuffling responsibility for leading his administration’s response to the crisis. He put Azar in charge of the administration’s virus task force before replacing him with Vice President Mike Pence toward the end of February. Even as the virus spread across the globe, prevailing voices in the White House, including senior adviser Jared Kushner and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, urged the president to avoid big steps that could roil financial markets. The president had firmly linked his fate to Wall Street, and it took a tumble by the markets for Trump to ratchet up his response. In late February, while Trump was on a trip to India, the Dow Jones plummeted 1,000 points amid rising fears about the coronavirus.Trump stewed about the collapse on his Feb. 26 flight back to Washington and lashed out at aides over comments made by a top CDC official, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, during a briefing the prior day, when she warned Americans that they would have to prepare for fairly severe social distancing. “It’s not so much of a question of if this will happen anymore but rather more of a question of exactly when this will happen,” she said.The White House announced that Pence would brief the media about the response that night. But Trump took the podium instead and has not relinquished the stage much since, belatedly making himself the face of the battle against the virus.When Trump first took the lectern in the White House briefing room to speak about the virus, the U.S. had 15 coronavirus patients.”We’re at that very low level, and we want to keep it that way,” Trump said. “We’re very, very ready for this.”
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By Polityk | 04/13/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Окупаційна адміністрація Криму розігнала відпочивальників
Окупований Крим-2020 на карантині через коронавірус. Відпочинок у Криму заборонили до червня. Усіх приїжджих на Кримській півострів чекає самоізоляція або обсервація.
Ялта-2020 без туристів: готелі та пансіонати порожні. Севастополь опинився в центрі скандалу, причина – Сovid-19 в готелі «Аквамарин».
Окупаційна адміністрація Криму та фсб заборонили вихід прогулянкових яхт у море. Такими є останні новини Криму
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By Vyborec | 04/12/2020 | Повідомлення
В мокшандии разгорается очередной международный скандал, на этот раз с Монголией
Последние новости россии и мира, экономика, бизнес, культура, технологии, спорт
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By Vyborec | 04/12/2020 | Повідомлення
У обиженного карлика пукина полный провал “спецоперации по снятию санкций”: кремль пытается запускать новую волну…
На кремлевскую пропаганду продолжают тратить миллионы из карманов обедневших налогоплательщиков…
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By Vyborec | 04/12/2020 | Повідомлення
Униженный кремль в ауте: США перекрыли венесуэльский коксопровод
Униженный кремль в ауте: США перекрыли венесуэльский коксопровод
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By Vyborec | 04/11/2020 | Повідомлення
Зе-ленский окончательно скатился в русский мир пукина
Зе-ленский окончательно скатился в русский мир пукина
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By Vyborec | 04/11/2020 | Повідомлення
Обиженный карлик пукин пытается блефовать и не собирается сокращать добычу нефти
В мокшандии уже вовсю курсируют слухи о том, что добыча формально будет снижена только на бумаге, поскольку проконтролировать реальное снижение добычи нефти никто не сможет. Под угрозой в первую очередь старые советские месторождения, которые точно нельзя будет перезапустить
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By Vyborec | 04/11/2020 | Повідомлення
ДБР завершило досудове розслідування щодо двох експосадовців МВС у справі про розгін Майдану
Слідчі Державного бюро розслідувань завершили досудове розслідування кримінальних проваджень щодо ексзаступника начальника управління громадської безпеки Головного управління МВС та начальника відділу забезпечення масових заходів цього управління в Києві, повідомляє бюро 11 квітня.
Слідчі Управління ДБР з розслідування злочинів, вчинених у зв’язку з масовими протестами 2013-2014 років, підозрюють колишніх посадовців столичного управління МВС у незаконному перешкоджанні мирним зборам громадян під час Революції гідності.
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«Слідством встановлено, що 30 листопада 2013 року підозрювані, з метою виконання злочинного наказу, організували та забезпечили незаконне перешкоджання проведенню зборів громадян. Унаслідок їх дій співробітники полку міліції особливого призначення «Беркут» та військовослужбовці внутрішніх військ МВС України витіснили близько 300 учасників мітингу від Монументу Незалежності та пам’ятника засновникам Києва у напрямках вулиць Інститутська, Архітектора Городецького та Хрещатик», – йдеться в повідомленні.
Як додають у ДБР, зараз адвокати підозрюваних ознайомлюються з матеріалами справ. Потім обвинувальний акт передадуть до суду.
В разі доведення провини фігуранти справ можуть бути засуджені до виправних робіт, арешту, умовного або реального ув’язнення на термін до п’яти років.
20 березня слідчі Державного бюро розслідувань повідомили про підозру колишньому заступнику начальника Головного управління Міністерства внутрішніх справ у Києві у незаконному перешкоджанні мирному зібранню 30 листопада 2013 року.
21 листопада 2013 року в Україні почався Євромайдан. Він став відповіддю на рішення влади зупинити підготовку до підписання Угоди про асоціацію з ЄС. Протести набули більших масштабів після розгону 30 листопада і тривали до лютого 2014 року. Силовики кілька разів намагалися розігнати учасників протестів.
За даними Генпрокуратури, всього під час Євромайдану постраждали 2,5 тисячі людей, 104 із них загинули – більшість у лютому 2014 року. Згодом загиблих учасників акцій протесту почали називати Небесною сотнею. За даними Міністерства внутрішніх справ, від 18 лютого по 2 березня 2014 року під час виконання службових обов’язків у центрі Києва загинули також 17 силовиків.
«Беркут» був розформований у лютому 2014 року, через кілька днів після розстрілів протестувальників у центрі Києва.
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By Gromada | 04/11/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Печенегов победили, а саудитов не смогли. Нефтянка мокшандии сворачивается навсегда
Обиженного карлика пукина заставили извиниться, а россию вытеснят с мирового нефтяного рынка.
Для того, чтобы вывести из эксплуатации 23% добычи, как обещают, нужно закрыть примерно 14 тысяч скважин
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By Vyborec | 04/11/2020 | Повідомлення
