влада, вибори, народ
Шкарлет назвав причину падіння якості освіти в Україні
Від березня 2020 року у зв’язку з пов’язаними з пандемією карантинними обмеженнями значна частина навчального процесу в українських школах була переведена в режим онлайн
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By Gromada | 06/12/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Шкарлет розповів, скільки шкіл в Україні не мають доступу до інтернету
За словами міністра освіти і науки, найбільше таких шкіл на Закарпатті
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By Gromada | 06/12/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
US Attorney General Vows to Combat Efforts to Curb Voting Rights
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland warned Friday that the Justice Department would vigorously oppose state efforts to impose new curbs on voting rights for many Americans, particularly Blacks and other minorities.“We’re scrutinizing new laws that seek to curb access, and where we see violations, we will not hesitate to act,” Garland said in a speech at the Justice Department in which he announced his agency would double its voting rights enforcement staff over the next 30 days.“We’re also scrutinizing current laws and practices in order to determine whether they discriminate against Black voters and other voters of color,” Garland said, adding that of particular concern is research showing that nonwhite voters wait “substantially longer” than their white counterparts to cast their ballots.U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks about voting rights at the Justice Department in Washington, June 11, 2021.Garland blasted recent Republican audits of repeatedly counted and certified votes cast in the November 2020 election, saying they jeopardize the integrity of the voting process and undermine public confidence in elections.The Justice Department recently sent a letter to a top Republican lawmaker in Arizona expressing concern about the legality of a post-election audit in the state’s largest county, Garland said. In response, Republicans put on hold plans to canvass voters as part of the audit.The attorney general also expressed concern about a “dramatic increase in violent threats” against election administrators and workers, vowing that the Justice Department would investigate and prosecute any violations of federal law.Republican election officials and members of their families in Georgia, for example, have been targeted with threatening messages from supporters of former President Donald Trump months after Trump lost the state and the election.“Such threats undermine our electoral process and violate a myriad of federal laws,” Garland said.Garland’s speech signals the degree to which the Justice Department under President Joe Biden has elevated the importance of civil rights and voting rights after Trump for years denounced the election system as fraudulent and insisted the only way he could lose the election was if he were cheated out of it.Garland told lawmakers this week that the department’s budget request for fiscal year 2022 included the largest increase ever in funds for civil rights efforts: $177.2 million over the 2021 spending level, according to DOJ figures.The speech came as Republican legislators across the country have introduced hundreds of bills this year that critics say make it harder for many voters to cast ballots — especially minority voters and the elderly — and could adversely impact the Democrats’ prospects for retaining control of the House and Senate in 2022.Many of these provisions — designed to restrict voting by mail, early voting and other innovations that resulted in record turnouts during the coronavirus pandemic — were pushed by Republican lawmakers who echo Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen through widespread fraud.As of late May, lawmakers have introduced at least 389 restrictive bills in 48 states in the 2021 legislative sessions, with 14 states passing 22 new laws this year, according to the left-leaning Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.Activists rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court ahead of arguments in a key voting rights case involving a challenge to Ohio’s policy of purging infrequent voters from voter registration rolls, in Washington, Jan. 10, 2018.With 61 bills making their way through state legislatures, the 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.That provision required states with a history of discrimination against African Americans to get preapproval from the Justice Department or the federal court in Washington before changing their voting procedures. But the Supreme Court struck down the provision in 2013, leading to what Garland called a “dramatic rise in legislative efforts” that make it harder for millions of Americans to vote.Garland, a former federal judge whose 2016 nomination to the Supreme Court was blocked by Senate Republicans, said the 2013 high court decision eliminated “the department’s most effective tool to protect voting rights over the past half century.”He urged Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, saying it would give the department the tools it needs to enforce voting rights laws.The bill, named after Representative John Lewis, the late civil rights icon, would establish new criteria for determining which states must get approval from the Justice Department before changing their voting laws.But the legislation, like the For the People Act, remains stalled in the evenly split Senate, with only one Republican so far supporting the measure. To pass, the bill requires the support of at least 10 Republicans to end a filibuster.Last week, Biden, marking the 100th anniversary of a race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, called on Congress to pass the voting rights measures, saying the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act would provide “new legal tools to combat the new assault on the right to vote.”But this week Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell came out against the John Lewis bill, all but quashing hopes of its immediate passage.“There’s no threat to the Voting Rights Act. It’s against the law to discriminate in voting on the basis of race already, and so I think it’s unnecessary,” McConnell said Tuesday.
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By Polityk | 06/12/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
US Department of Justice Probes Secret Seizure of House Democrats’ Data
The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspector General says it is beginning a review of the department’s use of subpoenas to obtain communication records of U.S. lawmakers and members of the media.House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 3, 2020.The review comes after Democratic Representatives Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell were informed that the Justice Department had taken their metadata from Apple in 2018 as part of a crackdown on leaks linked to the Russia probe and other national security issues, according to The Associated Press. The news agency attributed the information to three sources with knowledge of the seizures.“The review will examine the department’s compliance with applicable DOJ policies and procedures, and whether any such uses, or the investigations, were based upon improper considerations,” said DOJ Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz, in a Friday statement.“If circumstances warrant, the OIG will consider other issues that may arise during the review. The review will not substitute the OIG’s judgment for the legal and investigative judgments made in the matters under OIG review.”FILE – Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., pauses to speak with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 16, 2018.Senate Democratic leaders insisted Friday that the two attorneys general who served in the Trump administration testify about the covert seizure of data from House Democrats in 2018.In a statement, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin said former Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr “must testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.” The Senate leaders described the seizures as “a gross abuse of power and an assault on the separation of powers.”The Democratic senators threatened to issue subpoenas if Sessions and Barr refused to testify.Swalwell and Schiff, the current chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, were members of the committee at the time of the seizures. The actions by the Trump-era Justice Department indicate that the executive branch was using its investigative prosecutorial powers to spy on the legislative branch, the AP said.
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By Polityk | 06/12/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
У прокуратурі розповіли, навіщо співробітниця інституту біотехнологій забрала додому штами вірусів
У зв’язку із викраденням цих флаконів, за офіційними даними, завдано збитків на 111 тисяч гривень
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By Gromada | 06/11/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
АРК передала до суду матеріали справи щодо Поклонської, Аксьонова та Константинова
Колишнім кримським чиновникам інкримінують дії, вчинені для насильницької зміни чи повалення конституційного ладу
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By Gromada | 06/11/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Oregon State Legislature Removes Republican Lawmaker for Helping Protesters Breach Capitol
The legislature in the western U.S. state of Oregon Thursday voted 59-1 to remove a Republican lawmaker from office for his role in allowing right-wing protesters to breach the capitol during a demonstration against COVID-19 lockdowns in December.On the floor of the state House of Representatives late Thursday, Republicans voted with the majority Democrats to remove Representative Mike Nearman, with the unapologetic Nearman the only dissenting vote. He is the first legislator expelled from office in the state’s 162-year history.A special bipartisan committee appointed by Democratic House Speaker Tina Kotek to consider the expulsion had also voted earlier in the day for Nearman’s removal and sent the measure the full House for consideration. Oregon State Police investigating the breach of the state capitol identified Nearman from a security video in which he can be seen leaving the capitol through a locked door near where protesters had gathered, allowing them to enter. The capitol was among the public buildings closed by the COVID-19 pandemic.Calls for Nearman’s resignation – many from his own party – began about a week ago after a second video surfaced showing Nearman advising potential protesters on how to get into the capitol and giving them his phone number. In comments to Oregon media after the vote, Speaker Kotek said expelling Nearman “was the only reasonable path forward.” She said, “The facts are clear that Mr. Nearman unapologetically coordinated and planned a breach of the Oregon State Capitol. His actions were blatant and deliberate, and he has shown no remorse for jeopardizing the safety of every person in the capitol that day.”Nearman, who argued he was only letting the public into a public building that should not have been closed, also faces two misdemeanor criminal charges and has said he will seek a trial by jury.
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By Polityk | 06/11/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Свідок у справі Стерненка: ані я, ані «швидка» не надавали допомогу пораненому нападнику
«Одна лікарка підійшла до Кузнецова, подивилась і сказала щось на кшталт: «З цим все», розповів свідок Мамалиженко
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By Gromada | 06/11/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
ДСНС попереджає про підйом рівня води в карпатських річках
Укргідрометцентр прогнозує дощі та грози по всій Україні 13 і 14 червня
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By Gromada | 06/11/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Trump Officials Seized Apple Data of 2 Democratic Lawmakers, NY Times Says
Prosecutors in the U.S. Justice Department under former president Donald Trump seized data from Apple from two Democratic lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee, as well as that of their staff and family members, The New York Times reported Thursday.Subpoenas for the communications metadata targeted congressman Adam Schiff of California, a Trump foe who was then the panel’s top Democrat and now its chairman, the paper said.Congressman Eric Swalwell told CNN on Thursday he was the second Democratic lawmaker on the committee who was targeted.”I was notified… by Apple that they did seize my records. It’s wrong,” he said.According to the Times, prosecutors working under attorney general Jeff Sessions made unusual efforts in 2017 and early 2018 to find the source of leaks of classified information regarding contacts between Trump associates and Russia.The Justice Department officials targeted electronic data not only of the lawmakers, but that of their staff and families, including one minor, possibly because investigators thought the lawmakers were using their associates’ or children’s devices to hide contacts with journalists.Ultimately, none of the data or other evidence tied the lawmakers or the House Intelligence Committee to the leaks, the Times said.Schiff, while not confirming he was a target of the investigation, called for a probe by the Justice Department’s inspector general into “this and other cases that suggest the weaponization of law enforcement by a corrupt president.”Trump “tried to use the Department as a cudgel against his political opponents and members of the media. It is increasingly apparent that those demands did not fall on deaf ears,” Schiff said in a statement.Top Democrat Nancy Pelosi also called for an investigation, describing the New York Times report as “harrowing.””These actions appear to be yet another egregious assault on our democracy waged by the former president,” she said in a statement.
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By Polityk | 06/11/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
IRS Data Leak Reveals How Little America’s Wealthiest Pay in Taxes
An unprecedented leak of the personal federal tax data of thousands of Americans has turbocharged a debate over wealth inequality in the United States and has tax reform advocates hopeful that a deeper public understanding of how the wealthy avoid taxes will lead to a restructuring of the U.S. tax code.The data, leaked to the nonprofit journalism organization ProPublica, includes detailed information on the tax filings of thousands of the wealthiest individuals in the country and extends over more than 15 years.This week, ProPublica used the data to give the nation its first detailed look at the extent to which the wealthiest in the United States are able to live lives of extraordinary privilege and luxury while simultaneously paying low rates of income tax or no income tax at all.FILE – Amazon founder Jeff Bezos speaks during the JFK Space Summit at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, June 19, 2019.Among the findings is that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the wealthiest person in the world, according to Forbes magazine, paid no federal income taxes in 2007 and 2011, and that other billionaires with household names — Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Carl Icahn and others — managed to pay very small amounts of taxes to the federal government, or none at all, even in years when their wealth grew by billions of dollars.Income vs. wealthIt is important to note the difference between “income” and “wealth” for purposes of the tax code. When an individual files a tax return, it is income that the government is measuring — the proceeds of wages, interest and business activities. Wealth, by contrast, encompasses not just money saved from income from labor or interest, but capital holdings — stocks, bonds, real estate — that may appreciate significantly in value but do not produce income until they are sold.According to the FILE – Larry Ellison, co-founder and chief executive officer of Oracle Corp., waits to meet with then-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo, Apr. 8, 2014.Monetizing unrealized gainsThe ProPublica data illustrate how the very wealthy are able to minimize income, even as they continue to spend lavishly.In brief, the strategy is to borrow money using their wealth as collateral. Oracle founder Larry Ellison, for example, has a $10 billion credit line collateralized by the same amount of Oracle stock in his possession. Because the money drawn from that credit line is considered a loan, not income, Ellison pays no tax on it.In theory — and probably in practice, experts say — Ellison and others can simply continue rolling over their debt throughout their lifetimes, absorbing the interest costs from the loans but never selling the underlying assets.Shocking, but not so shockingThe information uncovered by ProPublica was shocking insofar as individuals’ tax data are very closely held by the Treasury Department and are virtually never released publicly. However, the degree to which the very wealthy are able to avoid paying taxes and the methods they use to do so were not particularly surprising to those who study the tax code.“Tax scholars thought that this was the way it worked — that they have large assets, and they borrow because the incentives to do so are gigantic,” said Zachary D. Liscow, an associate professor at Yale Law School. “We already knew that. It’s public information when they sell [their shares], and they just haven’t sold that much. Yet they live these lavish lifestyles, which suggests that they are borrowing.”“I think it’s a big wake-up call,” said Steve Wamhoff, director of federal tax policy for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in Washington.“It tells us things that tax experts have already known for a long time. But it’s the amount of detail, the specific names, that we don’t normally see,” Wamhoff said. “Even though we know really wealthy people have all kinds of ways to avoid taxes, there’s something about seeing actual names and actual numbers that brings that into sharper focus, and makes people think about what a problem that is, and what we can do to fix it.”Reason not to sellThere are very obvious reasons why the owners of large paper fortunes prefer not to realize their gains by selling their holdings. The appreciation of the stock would be subject to taxes, immediately wiping out a substantial amount of their wealth.FILE – Then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., campaigns in Exeter, N.H., Nov. 11, 2019. Warren proposed a wealth tax that put her at odds with some of Wall Street’s weathiest people.However, if a wealthy individual holds on to stocks until death, the person’s heirs are able to inherit the holdings at their present value — a practice known as a “step-up-in-basis” — that essentially erases any tax liability that the appreciated shares had come to represent for the deceased.In this scenario, the heirs can then sell some of the shares with little or no paper gain, use the proceeds to pay off the estate’s outstanding loans and whatever estate taxes are due, and start the whole process over again.Policy implicationsThe wealthiest Americans are sitting on $2.7 trillion in unrealized capital gains, according to Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, economists at the University of California-Berkeley.If there are $2.7 trillion in unrealized capital gains that could somehow be subject to income tax — particularly at the 39.6% marginal rate that President Joe Biden’s administration supports — that would translate into more than $1 trillion in revenue for the federal government.“That is a large share of the federal budget,” Liscow said. “The scope for what could be funded, or the taxes that could be reduced to middle-class families, is gigantic.”Tax proposalsExactly how to get at that money, though, is unclear. The kind of wealth tax that many on the left are interested in implementing has proven hopelessly complicated to administer in other advanced economies, like France.Another option — taxing the wealthy on the money they take in via loans against their holdings — would require substantial revision to the tax code.What advocates are most hopeful about is that the ProPublica revelations will add momentum to a push to do away with the stepped-up-basis enjoyed by the heirs of the ultrawealthy. The Biden administration has proposed just such a move alongside its budget request.FILE – The headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington.“So, at least all of that would be taxed, eventually, under the Biden proposal,” said Wamhoff, “which is the very minimum that we can do to crack down on this.”Pessimistic noteHowever, Liscow said he was doubtful that the revelations would spur any other major reforms in tax policy.In May, he and Edward G. Fox, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan Law School, released a draft of a paper documenting a survey of approximately 5,000 people, done to gauge support for how the United States taxes returns on investment. The results found broad support for a system that taxes gains only after they are realized.Even when presented with a scenario mirroring the ProPublica report, in which a wealthy individual borrows against large unrealized gains, a majority of respondents did not support the idea of levying a tax on the borrowed funds.While he said he personally thought the very wealthy should pay more, Liscow said, “Am I hopeful that this will substantially move the needle? No, I’m not.”
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By Polityk | 06/11/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Головне у новинах на ранок 11 червня: дипломати США та «Героям слава!», дзвінок генсека НАТО Києву і Євро-2020
Якою інформацією резонує Україна і світ – у добірці новин від Радіо Свобода
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By Gromada | 06/11/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Рух пасажирів на кордоні поступово зростає – ДПСУ у четверту річницю «безвізу» з ЄС
Офіційно безвізовий режим між Україною та Європейським союзом вступив у силу чотири роки тому, 11 червня 2017 року
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By Gromada | 06/11/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
China, Russia Military Budgets Combined Exceed US Spending, Top General Says
China and Russia’s combined military spending exceeds that of the United States when adjusted for purchasing power, which has allowed China to shorten capability gaps in its quest to become the top superpower by midcentury, the top U.S. military officer said Thursday.”Combined, the Russian and Chinese budgets exceed our budgets if all the cards are put on the table,” Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley told the Senate Armed Services Committee. He called China’s increased spending trend “disturbing.”Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, left, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, arrive for a Senate Armed Services budget hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 10, 2021.China and Russia are the U.S. military’s two biggest competitors. Defense secretaries from Jim Mattis to Lloyd Austin have identified China as the “pacing challenge” for the U.S. military.Senator Jim Inhofe, the ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, wrote in a FILE – Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., attends a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee markup at the Capitol in Washington, May 26, 2021.”It is our obligation to defend this nation, and this proposed budget does not do so,” added Senator Roger Wicker, a Republican from Mississippi. Other senators, including Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee, pointed to funding gaps between what was requested by several military leaders for Pacific defense and what was in the administration’s current budget request.Milley and Austin said the defense budget, which amounts to $715 billion, required the department to make tough choices, but it was a means to provide the U.S. with “an adequate defense.””We’re going after the capabilities that can match the operational concepts that we’re putting into play and allow us to be not only competitive but actually dominant in this competition,” Austin said.Senator Tim Kaine, a Democrat from Virginia, defended the budget, telling his Republican colleagues that while the Biden budget is $6 billion smaller than the proposed Trump administration budget for this year, Trump’s military budgets actually ended up being lower as he repeatedly took money out of the Pentagon budget for “nonmilitary emergencies” such as building a wall along the southern U.S. border.’Accidental conflict’With the U.S. focus on the growing Chinese threat, Senator Angus King of Maine said Thursday that “one of the most serious risks” was an “accidental conflict with China.” The registered independent pointed to tensions over Taiwan and in the South China Sea, saying the U.S. needed an effective communication line to prevent such a conflict.”There needs to be a direct line of communication between the military and also between government officials as well,” Austin agreed.”I’m concerned about something that could happen that could spark a crisis [with China], and I think we need the ability to be able to talk with both our allies and partners, but also our adversaries or potential adversaries,” he said.
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By Polityk | 06/11/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Алуштинська «справа Хізб ут-Тахрір»: для обвинувачених кримчан вимагають від 14 до 19 років тюрми
24 червня захист приступить до дебатів, де підсудні виступлять з останнім словом
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By Gromada | 06/11/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Нацрада призначила штрафи «4-му каналу» та каналу «Наш» за мову ворожнечі
Регулятор також призначив перевірку каналу «Наш» та ще двом локальним каналам
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By Gromada | 06/10/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Дипломати посольства США вдягнули форму збірної України, яку вимагає змінити УЄФА
«Українська команда виглядатиме чудово», – вважають у посольстві
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By Gromada | 06/10/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Нацрада з питань ТБ скасовує дозвіл на ретрансляцію каналу «Білорусь 24»
Регулятор вказує на те, що в ефірі каналу транслювали фільми із забороненими артистами, а батальйон «Донбас» назвали «карательним»
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By VilneSlovo | 06/10/2021 | Повідомлення, Свобода слова
Нацрада призначила штрафи «4 каналу» та «НАШ» за мову ворожнечі
Регулятор також призначив перевірку каналу «НАШ» та ще двом локальним каналам
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By VilneSlovo | 06/10/2021 | Повідомлення, Свобода слова
В Одесі біля церкви на кладовищі знайшли трьох колишніх пацієнтів центру психічного здоров’я
Поліція розслідує залишення без допомоги трьох колишніх пацієнтів Одеського обласного медичного центру психічного здоров’я. Вони стверджують, що їх вивезли з диспансеру і залишили на кладовищі, де їх і знайшли, повідомила у фейсбуці омбсудсмен Людмила Денісова. У центрі психічного здоров’я підтвердили, що чоловіки проходили лікування, але були виписані.
«Моєму представнику підтвердили, що знайдені чоловіки – їхні пацієнти, яких виписали напередодні за власним бажанням і за письмовою заявою. Та пояснили, що вказані особи перебували у задовільному психічному стані на момент огляду, до них не застосовували примусову госпіталізацію. Всі троє не були визнані судом недієздатними», – написала Денисова.
Знайдених людей помістили до Одеського центру реінтеграції бездомних осіб. Як розповів Радіо Свобода директор центру Олександр Лімзаєв, говорити можуть тільки двоє з трьох.
«В одного з них закрита травма голови і він взагалі не розмовляє, а також не може писати – рука не працює. У ще одного чоловіка немає ніг нижче коліна, але він може розмовляти – дає пояснення, хоча й сумбурні, розповідає як їх вивезли. Третій пацієнт говорить дуже погано, щось пригадує, називає ім’я, говорить, що був у дитячому притулку, але говорить дуже смутно», – розповів Лімзаєв.
Чоловіків знайшли на кладовищі ще 4 червня, а 8 червня їх відвідав регіональний представник омбудсмена Валентин Михайлов. В центрі психічного здоров’я Лімзаєву розповіли, що 3 червня виписали усіх пацієнтів – гострих приступів в них не було, лише хронічний стан, а підстав утримувати їх в медичному закладі не було.
«Вони потребують постійної сторонньої допомоги. Їм потрібні спеціальні умови та спеціальний персонал – психологи або психіатри. В Одеському обласному психоневрологічному диспансері кажуть, що це були їхні пацієнти, але напередодні їх виписали, а як вони добралися з диспансеру на кладовище – їм незрозуміло», – говорить Лімзаєв.
Відстань від диспансеру до кладовища близько семи кілометрів.
В центрі реінтеграції немає суворих обмежень термінів перебування, зазвичай люди живуть там допоки не повернуться в суспільство, але умов для утримання людей, що потребують постійної допомоги, там, за словами директора, також немає.
Як розповів Радіо Свобода головний лікар Одеського обласного медичного центру психічного здоров’я Анатолій Волощук, наразі в медичному закладі перебуває 212 таких людей – дієздатних, без гострих психотичних станів, але також без соціальних зв’язків.
«З 1 квітня 2019 року Національна служба здоров’я України не фінансує цю групу людей. Серед трьох знайдених є, наприклад, людина з інвалідністю – без ніг. Але тоді він має знаходитись в травматології. Він до нас поступає постійно – виписуємо, він йде, а потім повертається», – стверджує Волощук.
В лікарні немає контактів родичів жодного з трьох людей, що зараз перебувають в центрі реінтеграції. Волощук наголосив, що колишніх пацієнтів знайшли не на кладовищі, а біля церкви на кладовищі – там регулярно годують бездомних.
Після інциденту головний лікар знову звернувся до місцевої і обласної влади і, за його словами, попередньо міська влада заявила, про готовність обговорювати можливість фінансування для утримання таких пацієнтів.
«Ще в лютому 2021 року ми склали список таких людей, які потребують фінансової підтримки для їхнього подальшого утримання. Соціальні служби мали перевірити чи є в них родичі, чи є у родичів можливість взяти участь в утримуванні людей. Треба створити притулки або соціальні центри, ми неодноразово це пропонували. Наразі близько третини лікарні не фінансується, ми скоротили тисячу місць з весни позаминулого року», – пояснив Волощук.
В 2020 році медичний заклад вже отримував додаткове фінансування з місцевих бюджетів для підтримки пацієнтів без гострих психотичних станів.
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By Gromada | 06/10/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У Києві двом скверам присвоять імена героя Небесної сотні Веремія і розвідника ЗСУ Шаповала
У Києві налічується понад дві тисячі вулиць
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By Gromada | 06/10/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Абітурієнти в Україні сьогодні складають тест ЗНО з біології
У четвер, 10 червня, абітурієнти в Україні складають тест зовнішнього незалежного оцінювання з біології. Як повідомляє Центр оцінювання якості освіти, для проходження тесту з біології зареєструвалися 127 202 людини.
«Створено 8 631 аудиторія у 551 пункті тестування. Тест налічує 50 завдань, на виконання яких відведено 150 хвилин. За правильне виконання всіх завдань можна набрати 82 бали», – йдеться в повідомленні.
Учасників ЗНО допускатимуть до пункту тестування до 10:50.
«Якщо учасник прибуде до пункту тестування після 10:50, його не буде допущено до участі в ЗНО. В запрошенні-перепустці зазначено проміжок часу, у який учасникові/учасниці ЗНО рекомендовано прибути до пункту тестування і пройти процедуру допуску», – повідомили у центрі.
В Україні тестуванням із хімії 21 травня стартувала основна сесія ЗНО 2021 року.
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By Gromada | 06/10/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Усик сів на колію – «Укрзалізниця» попросила боксера не показувати поганий приклад
Коли і де була зроблена фотографія не повідомляється, сам боксер поки публічно не коментував звернення залізничників
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By Gromada | 06/10/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
US Attorney General Warns Ransomware ‘Getting Worse and Worse’
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland warned Wednesday that ransom-motivated cyberattacks are “getting worse and worse,” echoing other top Biden administration officials who have sounded the alarm about the problem in recent weeks.
“We have to do everything we possibly can here,” Garland told lawmakers. “This is a very, very serious threat.” The attorney general’s warning during a Senate hearing on the Justice Department’s fiscal 2022 budget request followed a pair of high-profile ransomware attacks over the past month that have rattled the U.S. national security and law enforcement establishment and sparked calls for beefed-up cyber defenses. In a ransomware attack, hackers lock a company’s or organization’s data, offering keys to unlock the files in exchange for a large sum of money. FILE – Tanker trucks are parked near the entrance of Colonial Pipeline Company, in Charlotte, N.C., May 12, 2021.Last month, cybercriminals believed to be based in Russia hacked the computer networks of Colonial Pipeline, America’s largest fuel pipeline operator, disrupting supplies along the East Coast and touching off panic-buying. Colonial later said it paid $4.4 million to retrieve access to its network. On Monday, the Justice Department revealed it had seized most of the ransom. Last week, ransomware criminals struck JBS USA, the U.S. arm of the world’s largest processor of fresh beef and pork based in Brazil. JBS refused to pay a ransom and was forced to shut down its processing facilities in the United States. FILE – A JBS meatpacking plant is seen in Plainwell, Michigan, June 2, 2021.The White House has said the criminal gangs behind both attacks — known as DarkSide and REvil — are likely based in Russia, but officials have not alleged any ties to the Russian government. The Justice Department identified DarkSide as the hacking group that was targeted by law enforcement officials for retaliation and ransom recovery. The ransomware attacks are likely to hang over the June 16 meeting between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told lawmakers on Monday that Biden will make clear to Putin that “states cannot be in the business of harboring those who are engaged in these kinds of attacks.” Once seen as a financial crime, ransomware has emerged as a growing national security threat in just the last couple of years, as cybercriminals have turned to attacking local governments, schools, hospitals and other critical service providers, and demanding millions of dollars in ransom. According to a May 12 report by Check Point Research, ransomware attacks more than doubled this year compared with the beginning of 2020, with health care and utilities the most commonly targeted sectors. “You can imagine what could happen if we had multiple attacks at the same time on even more fundamental infrastructure. So, I’m very worried about it, and so is the administration,” Garland said. “And that’s why we’ve asked for such a large increase in our cyber budget.” The Justice Department’s nearly $36 billion budget includes about $1.1 billion for cybersecurity. If approved by Congress, that would constitute the largest increase in cybersecurity resources for the department in more than a decade, according to Garland. In April, before the attack on Colonial, the Justice Department set up an internal task force dedicated to developing strategies to combat ransomware. Its first major operation was recapturing most of the millions of dollars paid in ransom by Colonial to DarkSide hackers, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced. Garland called the recovery a “significant success,” but he said it is not enough. “This has to be a constant, just a constant focus,” he said, adding that he has discussed the issue with his counterparts from major U.S. allies.
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By Polityk | 06/10/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Joe Manchin: The West Virginia Senator Blocking Joe Biden’s Agenda
A long-simmering battle within the Democratic Party came to a head this week when Democratic Senator Joe Manchin announced he will not support a sweeping package of voting rights reforms because no Republicans are willing to vote for it. At the same time, he repeated his vow to vote to protect a Senate rule, called the filibuster, that allows a minority of the body to prevent pieces of legislation from receiving an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor. FILE – Gov. Joe Manchin, left, is sworn into office for a second term at the Capitol in Charleston, West Virginia, Jan. 19, 2009.Manchin worked his way up through state politics beginning in 1982, serving in the state’s House of Delegates and the State Senate, before being elected West Virginia’s secretary of state in 2001, and then governor in 2005. In 2010, he won a special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat that opened with the death of Democratic Senator Robert Byrd. Political leanings While the West Virginia he grew up in was heavily Democratic, Manchin is now the sole member of his party in any statewide office, and is its only member in the state congressional delegation. In his most recent election, Manchin prevailed in 2018 with only 49.6% of the vote. By contrast, Donald Trump won West Virginia with 68% of the vote in 2016 and 69% in 2020. That may be, in part, why Manchin is farther toward the political right than other members of his party. But political expediency may not explain everything. A political mentor to Manchin, Byrd was the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, representing West Virginia for 51 years. He was also a dedicated Senate institutionalist who wrote two books about the body, a supporter of the filibuster, and a strong believer in the ability of senators to put party aside and work together for the good of the country. But Byrd’s legacy — and the legacy of the filibuster — is complicated. The founder of a local Ku Klux Klan chapter in West Virginia in the 1940s, Byrd later renounced his connection to the racist organization. However, he also filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and voted against the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court. Byrd’s influence Some of Byrd’s beliefs about the way the Senate can and should operate seem to live on in Manchin, despite dwindling evidence that meaningful cross-party cooperation is possible. “I think he’s a guy who has certain commitments that maybe are a little out of step with the way American politics has emerged over the last decade,” said Richard Brisbin, an emeritus professor in the political science department at West Virginia University. FILE – Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., presides over a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 26, 2007.”I really think, deep in his heart, he thinks people can come together and get along and solve problems,” Brisbin said. “And I just think that’s very difficult in the kind of political climate we have in the United States at present. And I don’t think that there are many politicians, highly visible politicians in national politics, who are in his camp, particularly among the Republicans, but also to some degree among at least half the members of his own party.” ‘No’ vote on ending filibuster In a Senate with 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans, Democrats’ advantage derives from the ability of Vice President Kamala Harris to break ties in a party-line vote. However, the filibuster requires 60 votes to end debate on a bill. This means that with a few exceptions, Democrats need to persuade 10 Republicans to side with them in order to get any legislation passed. Republican leaders in the Senate have essentially promised to use the filibuster to block everything Democrats and Biden want to do. “One hundred percent of our focus is on stopping this new administration,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said last week. Continued Republican obstruction has led to increasingly loud calls from Democrats to eliminate the filibuster, which they could do with a majority vote amending the body’s rules that would be immune to the filibuster. Manchin has consistently poured cold water on his fellow party members’ hopes that he will side with them on a rule change. By pairing a renewed commitment to saving the filibuster with the announcement that he would not vote for the Democrats’ package of voting rights legislation, Manchin sparked an especially sharp reaction from many on the left. “Joe Manchin is doing everything in his power to stop democracy and to stop our work for the people, the work that the people sent us here to do,” Congressman Jamaal Bowman said in a CNN interview on Monday. Early support for bill The voting rights legislation that Manchin will not support is particularly important to Democrats in light of the multiple state-level laws being passed by Republican-dominated legislatures that will make it more difficult to vote, and in some cases, give legislators the authority to overrule local elections officials and potentially overturn the results of an election. FILE – Voters line up outside a polling place in Charleston, W.Va., Oct. 21, 2020, the first day of early in-person voting in the state for the November 3 election.What is particularly galling to Manchin’s Democratic colleagues is that his objections to the voting rights bill have nothing to do with its contents. In fact, he co-sponsored substantially identical legislation in 2019. His objection is that the bill will not receive any Republican support in Congress, and that passing it along party lines, as he wrote, “will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy.” Detractors point out that in 2019 when Manchin supported the bill, it also had no Republican co-sponsors and would likely have received no Republican votes on the Senate floor. A unique position While critics of Manchin on the Democratic side claim he is standing in the way of Congress making progress in the current session, not everyone agrees. Some expect that bipartisan cooperation isn’t only possible but likely — just not on the issues the Democratic left is most passionate about. “Senator Manchin is a Democrat, who represents West Virginia, which is a state trending more Republican,” said Michael Thorning, associate director of governance at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington. “Perhaps he is uniquely representative of the situation that we see in Congress, where you have an evenly divided Senate, and a House that is very, very tight.” He added, “The last election did not produce a result that suggested one party had a very strong mandate. So, you take a senator like Joe Manchin, someone who has fairly moderate policy positions that match up with the voters of his state — he’s going to want to steer the federal policy debates toward that.” Thorning said that far from dooming the Senate to a session with no progress, Manchin’s stance on the filibuster may allow senators the political space they need to compromise on other issues, including an infrastructure bill and criminal justice reform. “Those would be big accomplishments, ones that could not be achieved in recent years,” Thorning said.
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By Polityk | 06/10/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Вулицю в Ірпені можуть назвати на честь одіозного ексректора Мельника – влада пояснила, чому
Пропозиція надійшла від громади, мешканці Ірпіня вирішуватимуть, чи дати вулиці ім’я Мельника – міськрада
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By Gromada | 06/09/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
