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Понад чверть українців заявили про готовність емігрувати в ЄС і США – опитування
На постійне проживання в США або ЄС переїхали б 27,9% українців, якби їм надали громадянство без будь-яких умов, не поїхали б 68,7% – свідчать дані опитування Київського міжнародного інституту соціології (КМІС).
У будь-яке місце в Росії на постійне проживання при таких же умовах поїхали б тільки 5,8% українців, а 91,7% не зробили б цього. За умови отримання 100 тисяч доларів підйомних у Росію згодні переїхати 10,3% опитаних, а 85,9% не пішли б і на такий варіант, йдеться в дослідженні.
Опитування проводилося з 17 по 24 жовтня, інститут опитав 1 502 респондентів методом CATI (телефонні інтерв’ю з використанням комп’ютера) на основі випадкової вибірки мобільних телефонних номерів на підконтрольній уряду України території.
У 2018 році тодішній міністр закордонних справ України Павло Клімкін повідомляв, що щороку з країни за кордон виїжджає близько 1 мільйона громадян України.
У січні 2020 року в уряді України повідомили, що всього за останнє десятиліття з України виїхали і не повернулися назад близько 3,8 млн громадян країни або близько 10% її населення.
Українці їдуть за кордон у пошуках високооплачуваної роботи і якісної освіти. Серед найпопулярніших напрямків – Польща, Чехія, Фінляндія.
До 2014 року в цьому списку була і Росія, але через війну на Донбасі й анексію Криму основний напрямок тепер – це Захід.
У деяких європейських країнах програми для пошуків і прийому на роботу фахівців з України працюють на урядовому рівні.
your ad hereBy Gromada | 11/12/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
US State of Georgia Orders Trump-Biden Vote Recount
The top elections official in the southern U.S. state of Georgia on Wednesday ordered a hand audit of the close vote there between President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden. With almost all the votes counted in Georgia, Trump’s Democratic challenger for a four-year term in the White House is leading by 14,112 votes out of the nearly 5 million votes cast in the state. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, has said he wanted Trump to win the election, but pushed back against Republican claims that the Georgia vote count was plagued by irregularities. Georgia has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1992. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks during a news conference in Atlanta, Nov. 11, 2020.As he announced the close inspection of the Georgia vote, Raffensperger surrounded himself by local election officials and voiced support and admiration for their work. “Their job is hard. They executed their responsibilities, and they did their job,” Raffensperger said. He said he will invite both Democratic and Republican observers to watch the recount because “the stakes are high.” Ballots will be re-scanned on computers in the state, in addition to a human review of printed text on ballots, a process officials hope to complete by November 20. “This will help build confidence,” Raffensperger said. “It will be an audit, a recount and a recanvass, all at once.” According to unofficial vote counts throughout the United States, Biden has already won the popular vote in enough states to amass more than the 270-vote majority needed in the 538-member Electoral College to claim victory. The Electoral College is determinative in deciding U.S. presidential elections, not the national popular vote, although the most populous states hold the most sway in the Electoral College. U.S. national news media have not declared the winner in Georgia, where 16 electoral votes are at stake, nor in the western state of Arizona, where Biden is leading by 12,813 votes and 11 electoral votes are at stake.
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By Polityk | 11/12/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Trump Loyalists Get Top Pentagon Jobs After Esper Firing
A day after President Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper, three staunch loyalists to the president were named to top defense jobs. Among them was a former Fox News commentator who failed to get through Senate confirmation because of offensive remarks he made, including about Islam.
The abrupt changes sent reverberations through the Pentagon as nervous civilian and military personnel waited for the next shoe to drop. And they fueled worries of a wider effort to drum out anyone considered not loyal enough to Trump.
The unease was palpable inside the building throughout the day over concerns about what the Trump administration may do in the months before President-elect Joe Biden takes office and whether there will be a greater effort to politicize the historically apolitical military. While radical policy shifts seem unlikely before the Jan. 20 inauguration, the changes could further damage prospects for a smooth transition already hampered by Trump’s refusal to concede his election loss.
James Anderson, who had been acting undersecretary for policy, resigned Tuesday morning and he was quickly replaced by Anthony Tata, a retired Army one-star general. A short time later, Joseph Kernan, a retired Navy vice admiral, stepped down as undersecretary for intelligence, hastening what had been an already planned post-election departure. Kernan was replaced by Ezra Cohen-Watnick, who becomes acting undersecretary for intelligence.
The departures came on Christopher Miller’s second day on the job as defense chief. Miller also brought in his own chief of staff, Kash Patel, to replace Jen Stewart, who had worked in that job for Esper. Patel and Cohen-Watnick are both considered staunchly loyal to Trump and previously worked at the National Security Council.
Patel was among the small group of aides who traveled with Trump extensively during the final stretch of the campaign. He also is a former prosecutor in the national security division of the Department of Justice and former staff member on the House Intelligence Committee. In that post, he was a top aide to Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., leading the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Patel was linked in media accounts to efforts to discredit the investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. He moved to the National Security Council in February 2019, and earlier this year, he traveled to Syria for rare high-level talks aimed at securing the release of two Americans who have been missing for years, including journalist Austin Tice.
Cohen-Watnick was a protégé of Trump’s initial national security adviser, Michael Flynn, but was replaced in the summer of 2017 by Flynn’s successor, H.R. McMaster, as part of a string of shakeups at the White House and National Security Council.
While the personnel changes added to the tumult in the wake of Esper’s departure, it’s not clear how much impact they could have on the massive Pentagon bureaucracy. The department is anchored by the tenet of civilian control of the military, and much of the day-to-day activities are conducted by career policy experts and military leaders in the U.S. and around the globe who adhere to a strict chain of command.FILE – Pentagon is seen from an airplane over Washington, DC.Also, many of Trump’s policies and defense priorities have already been put in motion by Esper and his predecessors, guided by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, including the chairman, Army Gen. Mark Milley. All of those military leaders remain in place.
This is Trump’s second attempt to secure the policy job for Tata. Earlier this year, Trump appointed Tata to the post, but the Senate canceled a hearing on the nomination when it became clear that it would be difficult if not impossible to get him confirmed. Tata withdrew his name from consideration for the job, which is the third-highest position in the department. Trump then appointed Tata to serve in the job of deputy undersecretary.
There has been continuing tumult in the Pentagon’s policy shop. John Rood was forced to resign as undersecretary for policy in February after he drew White House ire for warning against the U.S. withholding aid to Ukraine, the issue that led to the president’s impeachment.
Tata will be “performing the duties of” the undersecretary job, rather than holding the “acting” title. Officials who carry the “acting” title have more authority than those who are “performing the duties of” the job.
According to reports, Tata posted tweets in 2018 calling Islam the “most oppressive violent religion I know of,” and he called former President Barack Obama a “terrorist leader” and referred to him as Muslim. The tweets were later taken down.
At the time of the Senate hearing, Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash. and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said Trump must not prioritize loyalty over competence and install someone in a job if the “appointee cannot gain the support of the Senate, as is clearly the case with Tata.”
Defense officials said Miller, who previously was director of the National Counterterrorism Center, continues meeting with staff and becoming familiar with the Pentagon and its wide range of complex and critical national security issues and mission.
Anderson’s departure was first reported by Politico.
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By Polityk | 11/12/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Режисер Васянович відмовився від ордена, який йому присудив Зеленський
«Я протестую цією відмовою проти генерування владою кримінальних проваджень проти більшості кіновиробників…»
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By Gromada | 11/11/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
З початку епідемічного сезону проти грипу в Україні провакцинувалися понад 50 тисяч людей – ЦГЗ
У Центрі громадського здоров’я МОЗ повідомили, що з початку епідемічного сезону проти грипу в Україні провакцинувалися 50 143 людини.
«За 45 тиждень по Україні (2-8 листопада – ред.) інтенсивний показник захворюваності на грип та ГРВІ по Україні становить 433,1 на 100 000 населення, що на 10,3% менше епідемічного порога. За тиждень проти грипу щеплено 20 468 осіб. Циркуляції вірусів грипу не зареєстровано», – йдеться в повідомленні.
За даними ЦГЗ, з 28 вересня до 8 листопада перехворіло 2,4% населення країни, госпіталізовані 1,5% хворих, із них 5 524 — діти віком до 17 років. Повідомляється, що летальних випадків немає.
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Напередодні у столичній адміністрації повідомили, що за 45-й тиждень року зареєстровано 11 286 хворих на грип та ГРВІ (дітей – 4 379, дорослих – 6 907) у Києві, вказавши, що загалом інтенсивність епідемічного процесу перебуває на низькому рівні.
Наприкінці жовтня в Україні почалася сезонна вакцинація від грипу.
your ad hereBy Gromada | 11/11/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Поліція з електрошокерами: у Раду передали законопроєкт про більше підстав на їх використання
Кабінет міністрів України скерував на розгляд парламенту законопроєкт про розширення підстав використання поліцією електрошокерів, повідомила у середу пресслужбба Міністерства внутрішніх справ.
«У більшості держав світу як альтернативу застосування вогнепальної зброї підрозділи поліції застосовують електрошокери як засіб стримання агресії. Протягом двох років спеціалісти МВС проводили дослідження, погоджували використання таких пристроїв з Мін’юстом, вивчали досвід країн, зокрема Великої Британії. На сьогодні ми отримали першу партію сучасних електрошокерів», – заявив очільник МВС Арсен Аваков.
За його словаами, застосування електрошокерів, «це гуманний поліцейський засіб примусу», який дозволяє припинити правопорушення і зупинити зловмисника, завдавши йому меншої шкоди в порівнянні з вогнепальною чи травматичною зброєю.
У нинішній редакції «Закону про Нацполіцію» електрошокери дозволено використовувати для: відбиття нападу на поліцейського, іншу особу та/або об’єкт, що перебуває під охороною та для відбиття нападу тварини, що загрожує життю і здоров’ю особи чи поліцейського.
У поданому до Верховної Ради законопроєкті пропонується розширити підстави застосування електрошокових пристроїв контактної та контактно-дистанційної дії для затримання особи:
яка вчинила адміністративне чи кримінальне правопорушення і чинить при цьому фізичну протидію поліцейському;
яка вчинила тяжкий або особливо тяжкий злочин і намагається втекти;
яка чинить збройний опір або намагається втекти з під варти;
озброєної особи, яка погрожує застосуванням зброї та інших предметів, що загрожують життю чи здоров’ю людей, зокрема поліцейського.
Коли Верховна Рада може розглянути відповідний законопроєкт наразі невідомо.
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By Gromada | 11/11/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
МВС: звільненому з ув’язнення в Італії Марківу вручили високу церковну нагороду
«Україна має достойних воїнів, які борються за нашу територіальну цілісність та незалежність» – глава ПЦУ митрополит Епіфаній
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By Gromada | 11/11/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Україна не буде відмовлятися від 12-річної шкільної освіти – Шкарлет
Україна не збирається відмовлятися від 12-річної шкільної освіти, заявив тимчасовий виконувач обов’язків міністра освіти та науки Сергій Шкарлет на сторінці у Telegram 10 листопада.
«Це абсолютний фейк. Дискусія, яка не перший рік триває в освітній спільноті з приводу термінів початку та завершення шкільного навчання, у жодному разі не передбачає повернення десятирічки. Для мене є абсолютно зрозумілим, чому саме 12-річна система. Це загальноєвропейська тенденція. Наприклад, у Німеччині, в деяких федеральних землях, дитина не зможе вступити до магістратури, якщо в неї попередньо немає 15,5 років навчання: 12 років школи і 3,5 роки бакалаврату», – заявив Шкарлет.
На його думку, необхідний діалог із батьками, «які, на відміну від освітян, все ще мають більше запитань, ніж відповідей про 12-річну школу».
«Ми маємо напрацювати необхідні рішення, щоб 12-річна шкільна освіта діяла, стала зручною та ефективною для дітей, педагогів, батьків. У деяких країнах ЄС навчання розпочинають із 5 років і закінчують у 17. Звучала така пропозиція і на сьогоднішній (10 листопада – ред.) нараді в МОН із керівниками облуправлінь. Це варто обдумати, враховуючи стандарти Нової української школи, та обговорити на педрадах, в інститутах підвищення кваліфікації, з батьками. МОН розглядає всі пропозиції «за» і «проти». Наголошую, що дискусія є відкритою, і допоки не будуть напрацьовані оптимальні варіанти, жодних рішень МОН не ухвалюватиме», – додав Шкарлет.
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Згідно з ухваленим у 2017 році «Законом про освіту», передбачений поділ середньої освіти на три рівні: початкова освіта тривалістю чотири роки; базова середня освіта тривалістю п’ять років; профільна середня освіта тривалістю три роки. Навчання учнів за програмами дванадцятирічної повної загальної середньої освіти починається: для початкової освіти – з 1 вересня 2018 року; для базової середньої освіти – з 1 вересня 2022 року; для профільної середньої освіти – з 1 вересня 2027 року.
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By Gromada | 11/11/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Trump, Republicans Rebuff Transition Process
President-elect Joe Biden dismissed the Trump administration’s refusal to begin the official transition process, even as key Republican Party leaders sided with President Donald Trump in his uphill legal fight to overturn Biden’s projected presidential election victory. White House correspondent Patsy Widakuswara has the latest.
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By Polityk | 11/11/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Biden: ‘Embarrassment’ That Trump Has Not Conceded Election Loss
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday he is not worried about President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede after last week’s national election, but that he thinks it is an “embarrassment” for Trump and the country. “I think it will not help the president’s legacy,” Biden told reporters in Wilmington, Delaware, where he is working on his transition to power and planning his first steps after his expected inauguration on January 20. Trump, without offering major evidence of voting or vote-count irregularities, has filed more than a dozen lawsuits in several states, trying to overturn Biden’s projected election victory. Signs by supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump hang outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, Nov. 10, 2020.But Biden said, “We’ve already begun the transition” and that Trump’s refusal to concede “does not change the dynamic.” Biden is focusing first on addressing the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 238,000 Americans — the most in any country. Biden said he might make a couple of key appointments to his administration before the annual Thanksgiving holiday, which falls on November 26 this year. “The fact they’re not willing to acknowledge our victory is not of much consequence,” he said. Trump, in trying to contest the election results, has kept his administration officials from cooperating with Biden’s representatives to arrange a transition of power. The General Services Administration, a U.S. government agency, has refused to certify Biden’s presumptive victory. That is keeping Biden officials from taking over office space in federal agencies, being assigned government email addresses and receiving federal money to fund the transition. But Biden brushed it aside without much concern. “We can get through without the funding,” he said, while also acknowledging he had yet to start receiving the Presidential Daily Brief on U.S. intelligence findings around the world. “The PDB would be useful,” he said, “but I’m not the sitting president.” Biden said there was no need for his team to file litigation to try to force acknowledgment that he had won the election. “I think it will all come to fruition on January 20,” he said. Asked what he would tell Trump if he were watching the news conference, Biden smiled and said, “Mr. President, I’ll look forward to speaking with you.”
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By Polityk | 11/11/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Trump’s Legal Challenge to Biden Win Seen as Uphill Battle
The Trump campaign’s latest legal challenge to the November 3 presidential election results may be a case of “too little, too late,” some legal experts say.With the election over and former vice president Joe Biden projected as the winner, President Donald Trump faces an uphill battle in his push to overturn the results with scant evidence of fraudulent voting or improper vote counting.That is the assessment of a number of legal experts after Trump’s reelection campaign filed a sweeping new lawsuit that challenges the legality of millions of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, a battleground state that was carried by Biden and put him over the top.The Trump campaign’s 105-page complaint, filed in federal court in Philadelphia late Monday, advances an untested legal theory about voting by mail while rehashing previous arguments and offering little new evidence of fraud, the experts say.Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference on legal challenges to vote counting in Pennsylvania, November 7, 2020, in Philadelphia.The Trump lawyers’ apparent goal is to persuade the courts to discount the massive number of votes cast by mail, most of which were cast by Biden supporters.The suit alleges that Pennsylvania’s use of disparate procedures for handling voting by mail and voting in person represents a “violation” of the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, and it asks for an injunction against certifying the state’s election results. U.S. states have different deadlines for certifying their results; Pennsylvania’s deadline is November 23.Danielle Lang, co-director of the voting rights and redistricting program at Campaign Legal Center, said the new lawsuit is “more voluminous but not any more meritorious” than previous ones.Voters in Pennsylvania had the choice between voting in person and voting by mail, Lang noted.“It was always going to be the case that those different methods of voting would be accompanied by different procedures, but it doesn’t mean those procedures are less secure or less appropriate or less constitutional,” Lang said.The lawsuit argues that of the approximately 6.75 million ballots cast in Pennsylvania, the 2.6 million that were sent by mail had fewer safeguards to ensure their transparency and verifiability. The majority of the mail ballots were cast by Biden supporters.While the suit alleges that “almost every critical aspect” of the voting process in Pennsylvania was “shrouded in secrecy,” its core claim is that in-person voters and those voting by mail were treated differently.
“Having once granted the right to vote on equal terms, the State may not, by later arbitrary and disparate treatment, value one person’s vote over that of another,” the suit states, citing the Supreme Court’s ruling in the disputed 2000 presidential election between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore.In that case, the Supreme Court objected to Florida’s patchwork of standards for accepting and rejecting contested ballots, effectively bringing the Florida recount to a halt and giving the presidency to Bush.FILE – An election worker places a vote-by-mail ballot into an official ballot drop box outside a voting site in Miami, Florida.But having different standards for voting by mail and voting in person does not constitute a violation of the Equal Protection Clause, said Richard L. Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California at Irvine.“If this claim succeeded, it would mean that voting was unconstitutional across the entire country,” Hasen wrote in an email. “The claim is especially weak when voters had the choice to vote using either system.”What is more, Hasen said, it may be too late for the Trump campaign, which has known about the Pennsylvania voting procedures for months, to bring a lawsuit now.“Otherwise you give the campaign an option to sue over things only if they lose and disenfranchise voters who relied on the legality of the existing system,” Hasen wrote.Election administration is a state matter, and legal experts say it is highly unlikely — but not out of the question — that the Supreme Court will get involved in resolving the dispute.The Supreme Court is seen at sundown on the eve of Election Day, in Washington, D.C., November 2, 2020.“Even if the Supreme Court gets involved, there doesn’t seem to be much chance of flipping enough votes to change the outcome of the presidential election,” said Michael R. Dimino, a law professor and election expert at Widener University Commonwealth Law School.
In the lead-up to the November 3 election, the Trump campaign and Republicans filed dozens of lawsuits against states’ plans to expand voting by mail during the deadly coronavirus pandemic.President Trump repeatedly denounced the use of mail-in ballots, arguing with little proof that they were ripe for fraud. While Republicans were able to prevent some changes in voting procedures, most states went ahead with expanded voting by mail, eventually allowing more than 65 million Americans to cast ballots via the postal system.Biden on Saturday was projected by news organizations as the winner on the strength of what is deemed an insurmountable vote lead in enough states to give him a majority in the Electoral College, or at least 270 electoral votes. The results remain subject to court challenges and recounts, and will not be official until certified by the individual states which must happen by December 8.The challenge now facing the Trump legal team is that there may not be enough disputed ballots at stake to alter the election outcome, according to legal experts. Unlike in 2000, when former President George W. Bush won a disputed election by a few hundred ballots in Florida, Trump is running behind Biden by tens of thousands of votes in several battleground states, including Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia and Nevada.Not all legal experts think the Trump lawsuit is without merit. Dimino said the lawsuit presents “some good arguments” that the vote count in Pennsylvania was not conducted in accordance with law.Election challengers, left, wait outside after an election official, right, closed the door to the central counting board, November 4, 2020, in Detroit.For example, the complaint alleges that Republican vote-count observers were denied “meaningful access” — asserting that poll watchers were kept too far from the ballot counting in Philadelphia. In that case, a judge last week agreed with the Trump campaign and ordered that the watchers be moved closer, Dimino noted.
“And the campaign has other good claims that the administration of the election was at least questionable,” Dimino said. “So there is definitely a chance that the legal arguments will prevail.”
However, the most formidable challenge for the Trump team is “convincing judges that the election violations should result in discarding a large enough number of votes to alter the outcome,” Dimino said.
That would require evidence of systemic fraud and irregularities, something the Trump campaign has yet to produce.Even if Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral ballots were given to Trump — a seemingly far-fetched scenario given his substantial disadvantage in the vote tally — the president would still need to win at least one additional state to reverse Biden’s projected victory.In the week since the Nov. 3 election, the Trump campaign and the president’s supporters have filed lawsuits in four other states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Nevada.With a couple of notable exceptions, most of the legal action has failed, with judges either dismissing the suits or demanding tangible evidence.A voter picks up an informational flier while filling out a ballot during absentee early voting at Wayne County Community College in Detroit, October 31, 2020.In Michigan, the latest legal challenge to the vote-counting procedures came from a conservative group on Sunday. The lawsuit, filed by the Great Lakes Justice Law Center, seeks a new election in Wayne County — the Detroit area — alleging Tuesday’s election there was marred by fraud.Tom Spencer, a veteran Republican lawyer who served as co-counsel on the Bush legal team during the Florida recount, said that despite the tough odds, Trump should pursue all available legal avenues.“I remember the Gore lawyers in Florida saying you know, we have to do this not only for Gore but also for the American people so that they have confidence in the outcome and that they know that our client has turned every stone in order to make it,” said Spencer, now vice president of the Lawyers Democracy Fund.
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By Polityk | 11/11/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Pentagon Policy Chief Resigns Following Esper Firing
Another top U.S. Pentagon official is leaving his post, a day after the termination of Defense Secretary Mark Esper. In his resignation letter to President Donald Trump dated Tuesday, Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy James Anderson listed some of his achievements and said it had been an honor to serve his country. “Now, as ever, our long-term success depends on adhering to the U.S. Constitution all public servants swear to support and defend,” he wrote.
Acting policy chief of @DeptofDefense resigns following clash with @WhiteHouse. pic.twitter.com/SdTKhhx0pY— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) November 10, 2020On Monday, Trump announced via Twitter that he had fired the defense secretary. “Mark Esper has been terminated. I would like to thank him for his service,” Trump wrote Monday. Trump Fires Defense Secretary Via Twitter Christopher Miller, Director of National Counterterrorism Center, will serve as acting secretary of defense ‘effective immediately’Esper had been expected to serve through the transition period between now and President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration in late January 2021.
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By Polityk | 11/11/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
US Election Results Dismay Trump’s Populist Allies in Europe
There was undisguised glee among Europe’s liberals and centrists when Joe Biden was projected the winner of the race for the White House. But for the continent’s populist nationalists, including a group of national leaders in Central Europe, the election outcome has prompted dismay, and some foreboding.With Trump out of the White House they would be deprived of a powerful cheerleading ally in Washington and some centrists predict his departure will have a knock-on effect of retarding the political fortunes of leaders on the continent of Europe who espouse populist politics.“Trump’s defeat can be the beginning of the end of the triumph of far-right populisms also in Europe,” tweeted Donald Tusk, former president of the European Council and now head of the European People’s Party, Europe’s largest transnational political party made up Christian Democrats and moderate Conservatives.President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House, Nov. 4, 2020, in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen and First Lady Melania Trump listen.While most European leaders congratulated Joe Biden Saturday when he was projected as the victor by America’s TV networks – based on the provisional tallies of the states – Central European populist leaders noticeably withheld their compliments, or were slower than Western European counterparts in doing so.These included Janez Jansa, prime minister of Slovenia, where Melania Trump was born. Echoing the objections of Donald Trump, who disputes Biden’s projection as the winner, Jansa complained the media was premature in announcing the outcome, tweeting “complaints have been filed.” The Slovenian leader noted “the courts have not even begun to decide.”Slovenia’s Prime Minister Janez Jansa says Democratic US presidential nomiee Joe Biden’s projection as the winner, the media was premature in announcing the outcome of the election.Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who like his Slovenian counterpart endorsed Trump in the run-up to the vote, also withheld his congratulations Saturday. A pro-government news site owned by Orban’s political allies declared America was in the grip of chaos and criticized “big media” for declaring Biden the winner.But Orban shifted Monday and offered his congratulations, albeit not on a phone call but via a letter. “Let me congratulate you for a successful presidential campaign. I wish you good health and continued success in performing your exceedingly responsible duties,” Orban wrote in the letter quoted by state news agency MTI.Orban, who faces an election in 2022, was largely ostracized by the Obama administration for presiding over what Washington saw as an erosion of the country’s democratic checks and balances. Biden served as Obama’s vice president. In 2018 the Orban government was offended when the U.S. Department of State announced a $700,000 grant to help nurture independent media outlets in Hungary.EU pressureFor Central Europe’s populist governments, Trump’s reversal coincides with an approaching rule-of-law showdown with Brussels. The European Union parliament and the Council of Europe have agreed on a mechanism for the disbursement of the bloc’s funds that would require countries like Hungary and Poland to uphold democratic rules — or lose the cash.Hungarian ministers last week accused the EU of failing to focus on pressing problems, including rising anti-Semitism and Islamist terrorism. “Ideological pressure is used under the guise of the rule of law against certain countries just because we say no to migration, no to multiculturalism, and because we have a different view on the role of family in society,” said Hungary’s justice minister, Judit Varga.In practical terms the departure of Trump gives the populist leaders less cover in their confrontations with Brussels and the bloc’s more liberal-minded Western European states, say analysts. Populists also believe their close alliance with Washington gave them a boost in electoral terms, making them appear in tune with the zeitgeist; they fear they may now appear to be going against the gain of history.Trump is credited by members of Poland’s Law and Justice Party with helping Polish President Andrzej Duda win reelection in June in a closely fought race. An eve-of-poll White House meeting, as well as Trump’s decision to move some American troops stationed in Germany to Poland, boosted Duda’s campaign, they say.File – Polish President and presidential candidate of the Law and Justice (PiS) party Andrzej Duda holds up a bouquet after the announcement of the first exit poll results on the second round of the presidential election in Pultusk, July 12, 2020.Biden is expected to be much tougher on rule-of-law issues, although diplomats say they would be surprised if he reversed military and business deals with Central Europe’s populist governments already in the pipeline, if for no other reason than that might be exploited by Moscow, which has been courting them. Populism out, liberalism in?For populists out of power but hoping to win forthcoming elections, including Matteo Salvini of Italy’s Lega party, Marine Le Pen of France’s National Rally and Tino Chrupalla of Germany’s AfD, a Biden win means they may find themselves leaning into a headwind of liberalism. Their opponents are already predicting that 2021 will see in Germany the AfD slump and the Greens surge, and that the following year France’s Emmanuel Macron will secure reelection.Other forecasts under this optimistic scenario suggest liberalism will be back and populism out, with the PiS losing in 2023 and Britain’s opposition Labour Party ousting Britain’s populist-leaning Conservatives in 2024.Denis MacShane, a former British Labour Party lawmaker and one-time minister for Europe, says Biden’s projected win shows populist nationalism is not “taking over.” He highlights a series of election setbacks populists have suffered in recent months. Writing in The Article, a British news-site, he says: “Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark and Finland all have social democratic prime ministers. Greens are the new rising force in European politics. In New Zealand, Labour’s Jacinda Ardern, has won a new term of office, seeing off rightwing nationalist populist opposition.”He added: “Political scientists, intellectuals and commentators now need to get down to work and stop leaning on the crutch of populism as a catch-all explanation of politics going into the next decade.” New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks at the Labour Election Day party after the it won the general election, in Auckland, Oct. 16, 2020.Biden’s projected win has certainly spooked populist leaders currently out of power. Tomio Okamura, head of the Czech Republic’s far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy party, said a Biden victory represents a victory for migration and the dictatorship of minorities. Jan Skopecek of the Civic Democratic Party, a Euro-skeptic party in the Czech Republic, the second largest in the country’s chamber of deputies, warned this week that Biden supports radical leftist views and would struggle to pinpoint Czechia on the map.But the closeness of the U.S. presidential vote, as well as Republican seat gains in the House of Representatives and the likelihood Republicans will retain a majority in the U.S. Senate, is providing some solace for Europe’s populist nationalists.They say the election doesn’t amount to a repudiation of populism as Trump managed to increase his overall vote, and they highlight how Trump even in defeat broadened his electoral coalition, making it more multi-ethnic.They also say populist nationalism has been a long time in the making and is rooted deeply now. Distrust of establishment parties and political elites will persist amid continuing squabbles over immigration and fears of distant and unaccountable international organizations, they argue.European populists have seen their support fall off since the coronavirus pandemic emerged. A survey in October by British pollster YouGov showed a decline in populist thinking in eight European countries, including Germany, Britain, France and Italy. Political analysts said the findings were likely tied to the pandemic because of the natural tendency for people to rally around their governments at times of national crisis.Populists, like some establishment parties, have also struggled to maintain a consistent message about how to handle the pandemic.But some analysts say there will likely be plenty of fertile ground for populists to hoe in the meantime. Support for populist beliefs could recover quickly as the focus of the crisis shifts to the economic fallout, impacting politics even more. Income disparity and industrial and rural decline — the bread-and-butter of populism — are likely to worsen after the pandemic. Migration is likely to increase. The transition towards green economies is also likely to help populists recruit supporters.“We live in a populist era,” said Christoph Trebesch of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a research institute based in Germany. He doesn’t believe that the US election will come to be seen as marking the end of populist nationalism.“At least all the signs suggest that this isn’t going to happen I don’t see evidence of a turnaround. It isn’t as though, say, Biden won by 10 percent. It is tempting to think that everything will go back to normal, but I don’t think this is going to happen. Populists have their ups and downs but the trend is upwards,” he said.
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By Polityk | 11/11/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
US Supreme Court to Hear Obamacare Case
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a Republican effort to strike down the Affordable Care Act health care law.The hearing comes weeks after Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court, giving conservatives a 6-3 majority.At the center of the case is a requirement in the 2010 law for most people to have a minimum level of health insurance or face a financial penalty.In a 2012 case, the Supreme Court ruled that provision was allowed on the basis that it represented a tax that Congress is allowed to levy. In 2017, the Republican-controlled Congress and set the penalty to zero.A group of states, led by Texas, is leading the current charge to dismantle the health care law, commonly known as Obamacare. They argue that the mandate for individuals to purchase health coverage is unconstitutional, and that without that provision, the entire Affordable Care Act must be struck down.Part of the original congressional intent in requiring people to have coverage was that it would bring more healthy people into the system who would pay premiums without using many services, helping to offset costs of individuals who needed more care, including those with pre-existing conditions who had previously been denied coverage.Texas and its partners argue that eliminating the individual mandate would create an imbalance and push health costs unfairly higher.The opposition is led by California, and points to the 2017 action by Congress as evidence that lawmakers had no problem with removing only the penalty for the individual mandate while allowing the rest of the Affordable Care Act to remain in place. They further argue that as the law stands, with no penalty in place, it merely encourages people to have health insurance, and thus cannot be seen as an unconstitutional imposition by the government.The court is expected to issue its ruling in the case by late June or early July.Of the justices who were members of the court during the 2012 case, Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas voted to strike down the entire law. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor voted to uphold it.Justices Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch have since joined the court. If the court strikes down the law, up to 20 million people could lose their health coverage and insurance companies could be allowed to deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.
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By Polityk | 11/10/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Trump’s US Election Loss Dismays His Populist Allies in Europe
There was undisguised glee among Europe’s liberals and centrists when Joe Biden was projected the winner of the race for the White House. But for the continent’s populist nationalists, including a group of national leaders in Central Europe, the election outcome has prompted dismay, and some foreboding.With Trump out of the White House they would be deprived of a powerful cheerleading ally in Washington and some centrists predict his departure will have a knock-on effect of retarding the political fortunes of leaders on the continent of Europe who espouse populist politics.“Trump’s defeat can be the beginning of the end of the triumph of far-right populisms also in Europe,” tweeted Donald Tusk, former president of the European Council and now head of the European People’s Party, Europe’s largest transnational political party made up Christian Democrats and moderate Conservatives.President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House, Nov. 4, 2020, in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen and First Lady Melania Trump listen.While most European leaders congratulated Joe Biden Saturday when he was projected as the victor by America’s TV networks – based on the provisional tallies of the states – Central European populist leaders noticeably withheld their compliments, or were slower than Western European counterparts in doing so.These included Janez Jansa, prime minister of Slovenia, where Melania Trump was born. Echoing the objections of Donald Trump, who disputes Biden’s projection as the winner, Jansa complained the media was premature in announcing the outcome, tweeting “complaints have been filed.” The Slovenian leader noted “the courts have not even begun to decide.”Slovenia’s Prime Minister Janez Jansa says Democratic US presidential nomiee Joe Biden’s projection as the winner, the media was premature in announcing the outcome of the election.Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who like his Slovenian counterpart endorsed Trump in the run-up to the vote, also withheld his congratulations Saturday. A pro-government news site owned by Orban’s political allies declared America was in the grip of chaos and criticized “big media” for declaring Biden the winner.But Orban shifted Monday and offered his congratulations, albeit not on a phone call but via a letter. “Let me congratulate you for a successful presidential campaign. I wish you good health and continued success in performing your exceedingly responsible duties,” Orban wrote in the letter quoted by state news agency MTI.Orban, who faces an election in 2022, was largely ostracized by the Obama administration for presiding over what Washington saw as an erosion of the country’s democratic checks and balances. Biden served as Obama’s vice president. In 2018 the Orban government was offended when the U.S. Department of State announced a $700,000 grant to help nurture independent media outlets in Hungary.EU pressureFor Central Europe’s populist governments, Trump’s reversal coincides with an approaching rule-of-law showdown with Brussels. The European Union parliament and the Council of Europe have agreed on a mechanism for the disbursement of the bloc’s funds that would require countries like Hungary and Poland to uphold democratic rules — or lose the cash.Hungarian ministers last week accused the EU of failing to focus on pressing problems, including rising anti-Semitism and Islamist terrorism. “Ideological pressure is used under the guise of the rule of law against certain countries just because we say no to migration, no to multiculturalism, and because we have a different view on the role of family in society,” said Hungary’s justice minister, Judit Varga.In practical terms the departure of Trump gives the populist leaders less cover in their confrontations with Brussels and the bloc’s more liberal-minded Western European states, say analysts. Populists also believe their close alliance with Washington gave them a boost in electoral terms, making them appear in tune with the zeitgeist; they fear they may now appear to be going against the gain of history.Trump is credited by members of Poland’s Law and Justice Party with helping Polish President Andrzej Duda win reelection in June in a closely fought race. An eve-of-poll White House meeting, as well as Trump’s decision to move some American troops stationed in Germany to Poland, boosted Duda’s campaign, they say.File – Polish President and presidential candidate of the Law and Justice (PiS) party Andrzej Duda holds up a bouquet after the announcement of the first exit poll results on the second round of the presidential election in Pultusk, July 12, 2020.Biden is expected to be much tougher on rule-of-law issues, although diplomats say they would be surprised if he reversed military and business deals with Central Europe’s populist governments already in the pipeline, if for no other reason than that might be exploited by Moscow, which has been courting them. Populism out, liberalism in?For populists out of power but hoping to win forthcoming elections, including Matteo Salvini of Italy’s Lega party, Marine Le Pen of France’s National Rally and Tino Chrupalla of Germany’s AfD, a Biden win means they may find themselves leaning into a headwind of liberalism. Their opponents are already predicting that 2021 will see in Germany the AfD slump and the Greens surge, and that the following year France’s Emmanuel Macron will secure reelection.Other forecasts under this optimistic scenario suggest liberalism will be back and populism out, with the PiS losing in 2023 and Britain’s opposition Labour Party ousting Britain’s populist-leaning Conservatives in 2024.Denis MacShane, a former British Labour Party lawmaker and one-time minister for Europe, says Biden’s projected win shows populist nationalism is not “taking over.” He highlights a series of election setbacks populists have suffered in recent months. Writing in The Article, a British news-site, he says: “Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark and Finland all have social democratic prime ministers. Greens are the new rising force in European politics. In New Zealand, Labour’s Jacinda Ardern, has won a new term of office, seeing off rightwing nationalist populist opposition.”He added: “Political scientists, intellectuals and commentators now need to get down to work and stop leaning on the crutch of populism as a catch-all explanation of politics going into the next decade.”
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks at the Labour Election Day party after the it won the general election, in Auckland, Oct. 16, 2020.Biden’s projected win has certainly spooked populist leaders currently out of power. Tomio Okamura, head of the Czech Republic’s far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy party, said a Biden victory represents a victory for migration and the dictatorship of minorities. Jan Skopecek of the Civic Democratic Party, a Euro-skeptic party in the Czech Republic, the second largest in the country’s chamber of deputies, warned this week that Biden supports radical leftist views and would struggle to pinpoint Czechia on the map.But the closeness of the U.S. presidential vote, as well as Republican seat gains in the House of Representatives and the likelihood Republicans will retain a majority in the U.S. Senate, is providing some solace for Europe’s populist nationalists.They say the election doesn’t amount to a repudiation of populism as Trump managed to increase his overall vote, and they highlight how Trump even in defeat broadened his electoral coalition, making it more multi-ethnic.They also say populist nationalism has been a long time in the making and is rooted deeply now. Distrust of establishment parties and political elites will persist amid continuing squabbles over immigration and fears of distant and unaccountable international organizations, they argue.European populists have seen their support fall off since the coronavirus pandemic emerged. A survey in October by British pollster YouGov showed a decline in populist thinking in eight European countries, including Germany, Britain, France and Italy. Political analysts said the findings were likely tied to the pandemic because of the natural tendency for people to rally around their governments at times of national crisis.Populists, like some establishment parties, have also struggled to maintain a consistent message about how to handle the pandemic.But some analysts say there will likely be plenty of fertile ground for populists to hoe in the meantime. Support for populist beliefs could recover quickly as the focus of the crisis shifts to the economic fallout, impacting politics even more. Income disparity and industrial and rural decline — the bread-and-butter of populism — are likely to worsen after the pandemic. Migration is likely to increase. The transition towards green economies is also likely to help populists recruit supporters.“We live in a populist era,” said Christoph Trebesch of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a research institute based in Germany. He doesn’t believe that the US election will come to be seen as marking the end of populist nationalism.“At least all the signs suggest that this isn’t going to happen I don’t see evidence of a turnaround. It isn’t as though, say, Biden won by 10 percent. It is tempting to think that everything will go back to normal, but I don’t think this is going to happen. Populists have their ups and downs but the trend is upwards,” he said.
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By Polityk | 11/10/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Норки та коронавірус: головний санлікар України висловився про можливі загрози
Заступник міністра охорони здоров’я, головний державний санітарний лікар України Віктор Ляшко прокоментував можливі наслідки від інфікування коронавірусом у норок.
«Наявні дані свідчать про те, що клінічна картина, ступінь тяжкості та передача інфекції серед заражених варіантом SARS-CoV-2 пов’язаним з норками є подібними до циркулюючого в загальному населенні коронавірусу SARS-CoV-2. Однак варіант, пов’язаний з норками – ще відомий як «варіант кластеру 5» – має поєднання мутацій або змін, які раніше не спостерігались. Ймовірність антигенної мутації SARS-CoV-2 ще не доведена, але у найгіршому випадку антигенна мутація може мати наслідки для імунітету, реінфекцій та ефективності вакцин від COVID-19», – написав Ляшко у фейсбуці.
Він додав, що мав розмову про виявлення випадків захворювання норок із послом Данії в Україні Оле Егберг Міккельсеном.
«Пан посол поділився досвідом Данії з даного питання та запевнив, що їх уряд вже вживає заходів щодо обмеження подальшого поширення цього варіанту вірусу серед популяцій норок та людей, зокрема. Йдеться про забиття норок на всіх норкових фермах по всій території Данії та нові обмеження для 280 000 людей, які проживають в муніципалітетах, де розташовані норкові ферми», – зазначив Ляшко.
Він додав, що проінформував прикордонників, науковців, медиків та Мінекономіки щодо необхідності проведення оцінки ризиків, пов’язаних з поширенням SARS-CoV-2 у популяції норок.
Тим часом Асоціація звірівників України у вівторок поширила пресреліз, в якому заявила про готовність українських ферм вакцинувати норок від вірусу SARS-CoV-2, якщо розробники підтвердять ефективність препаратів.
4 листопада влада Данії ухвалила рішення знищити всіх норок на фермах після виявлення випадків зараження серед тварин для запобігання передачі мутованого коронавірусу людині. Йдеться про тварин на понад тисячі норкових ферм у Данії.
Данія є найбільшим в світі виробником хутра норки. На фермах в країні утримуються понад 15 мільйонів норок. Природоохоронні організації назвали нинішню ситуацію трагедією. Захисники тварин закликали уряд використати це, щоб назавжди закрити галузь.
Всесвітня організація охорони здоров’я заявила, що інфікування норок новим коронавірусом зафіксували, крім Данії, також у Нідерландах, Іспанії, Швеції, Італії та США.
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By Gromada | 11/10/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У Києві залишаються закритими на карантин 5 шкіл – КМДА
У Київміськадміністрації повідомили, що у столиці на дистанційному навчанні залишаються п’ять шкіл, а також 355 класів зі 135 шкіл – на самоізоляції.
«Через коронавірус, окрім п’яти шкіл, закрито й 12 закладів дошкільної освіти, а також 157 груп у 140 дитсадках. Це непогана тенденція у навчальних закладах, проте загальна ситуація в місті – невтішна», – прокоментував виконувач обов’язків першого заступника голови КМДА Валентин Мондриївський.
Посадовець вважає, що закриття шкіл «не дає бажаного результату» у боротьбі з поширенням коронавірусу. Мондриївський додав, що коли Києва готові працювати в нових реаліях.
Станом на 29 жовтня, коли у Києві відновилося навчання після осінніх канікул, влада повідомляла про 8 шкіл на карантині.
На сьогодні у столиці зафіксовано 45 667 випадків захворювання на COVID-19, померли 894 людини, одужали – 17 004.
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By Gromada | 11/10/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Biden Presidency Will Face Historic Challenges
After winning a close election, President-Elect Joe Biden now shifts focus to governing a deeply divided nation that is grappling with a deadly pandemic and a struggling economy. VOA’s Brian Padden reports that for the incoming moderate Democratic president, success will likely hinge on both finding common ground with conservative Republicans while maintaining support from progressives in his own party.
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By Polityk | 11/10/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Harris Makes History as First Black and Indian American Woman VP
Vice president-elect Kamala Harris made history this week when she became the first woman ever to win election on a presidential ticket. VOA’s Congressional Correspondent Katherine Gypson reports on the path that brought Harris to the second most powerful position in the U.S. government.Camera: Adam Greenbaum Produced by: Katherine Gypson, Jesse Oni
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By Polityk | 11/10/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Бакота, Тустань і Драгобрат: Держтуризму назвало місця в Україні, які найбільше шукали в Google
Державне агентство розвитку туризму України отримало від компанії Google перелік українських туристичних об’єктів, місць та напрямків, які найбільше шукали в перші дев’ять місців 2020 року.
Перша п’ятірка запитів серед природних парків та заповідних зон виглядає так: Бакота, Рожеве озеро (Лемурійське), Тустань, Синевир, Блакитні озера (Чернігівщина).
Серед міських парків та розважальних зон у пошуковиках першість отримав Центральний парк культури та відпочинку імені Максима Горького у Харкові, за ним ідуть зоопарк у Києві, аквапарк у Затоці, аквапарк в Одесі, Х-Park у Києві.
У категорії «море та пляжі» найбільше шукали Аркадію (Одеса), Залізний порт, Чорноморськ, Кирилівку, Коблево.
Серед гірських туристичних об’єктів найбільше пошукових запитів було про Буковель, Драгобрат, Верховину, Яремче та Карпати загалом.
your ad hereBy Gromada | 11/10/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Some Republicans Attack Georgia Votes, Provide No Evidence
Some Republicans renewed their attacks Monday on Democrat Joe Biden’s lead over President Donald Trump in Georgia, with U.S. Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler taking the extraordinary step of calling for the resignation of Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the state’s chief elections officer and a fellow Republican. Republicans laid out a strategy to investigate but still presented no evidence of large-scale voter fraud in the balloting, saying they were still looking into ways to overturn Biden’s lead of 11,000 votes. Georgia is one front in a nationwide scramble by Trump forces to question his loss in multiple states. The Associated Press and other news organizations declared Biden the victor Saturday when he surpassed the 270 electoral vote threshold with victories in Pennsylvania and Nevada. The AP has not yet called the presidential race for Georgia’s 16 electoral votes. Perdue and Loeffler offered no evidence and gave no specific examples of illegal votes or fraud, and their campaigns did not respond to requests for further comment. Raffensperger flatly declined to step down, saying in a statement, “That is not going to happen.” Raffensperger said his office is investigating any specific reports of illegal votes, but officials don’t expect to find any significant problems. “Does it rise to the numbers or margin necessary to change the outcome to where President Trump is given Georgia’s electoral votes? That is unlikely,” Raffensperger said. Elected in 2018 by a statewide vote, Raffensperger has overseen the rollout of Georgia’s new voting system, which features touchscreen machines that print paper ballots read by a scanner. After the coronavirus pandemic began, he strongly encouraged voters to vote by mail, despite criticism from other Republicans. Loeffler and Perdue, who both face a Jan. 5 runoff against Democrats that will determine party control of the U.S. Senate, accused Raffensperger of “mismanagement and lack of transparency.”Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger attends a conference of local election officials in Savannah, Georgia, Dec. 11, 2019.”The secretary of state has failed to deliver honest and transparent elections,” they said in a joint statement. “He has failed the people of Georgia, and he should step down immediately.” Other Republicans have been more cautious, with Gov. Brian Kemp, House Speaker David Ralston and Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan all supporting the accuracy of the count in a joint Friday statement. On Monday, however, Kemp spokesperson Cody Hall said the Republicans’ concerns should be “a wake-up call” for Raffensperger to examine “any and all” fraud allegations. Kemp, a former secretary of state who oversaw the 2018 elections while he was running for governor, came under intense fire from Democrats and outside voting groups. Kemp narrowly defeated Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams, but she refused to explicitly concede, alleging systemic voter suppression by Kemp. On Monday, Fair Fight Action, a voting rights group Abrams founded after her loss, attacked Perdue and Loeffler. “With their bizarre press statement, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue have become full participants in Donald Trump’s crybaby campaign to undermine our democracy,” spokesperson Seth Bringman said. “Voters decided, and President-Elect Joe Biden won Georgia.” Raffensperger’s office said officials are confident in the results of the 2020 election. “The facts are the facts, regardless of outcomes,” Gabriel Sterling, who oversaw the implementation of the new voting system, said at a news conference. He said he wanted everyone to understand “that in Georgia we had an actual accurate outcome.” He debunked examples of what he characterized as misinformation about problems that occurred as votes were counted in several counties in the state. While Sterling was speaking at the Georgia Capitol, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue was laying out the Republican Party recount strategy to House Republicans in the same building. Perdue, a former Georgia governor, is the cousin of David Perdue. Recounts rarely change outcomes in races where a candidate leads by thousands of votes. By Monday, 55 of Georgia’s 159 counties had submitted certified, final results, including Gwinnett County, the state’s second-most-populous county. “We must count every legal vote and cast out every illegal vote in the state of Georgia,” Sonny Perdue said. Perdue said the Republicans are trying to flip the deficit before the state certifies overall results. “We obviously know the president is currently trailing in Georgia,” Sonny Perdue said. “We do believe that Georgia may be his best chance of reclaiming that lead and helping secure the electors he needs to be reelected.” Trump expressed that confidence himself, tweeting on Monday afternoon that “Georgia will be a big presidential win, as it was the night of the Election!” Perdue said the Trump legal team is focused on four issues. The first is whether people may have voted twice, as may have happened in some cases in Georgia’s June primary, where people who requested an absentee ballot may have gone to polls to vote in person because they believed their absentee ballot hadn’t been received. Perdue also said Republicans are trying to make sure votes weren’t cast by people who moved out of state, on behalf of those who have died, or by convicted felons who haven’t completed probation or parole or paid all their fines. He presented no specific instances or evidence of wrongdoing, saying complaints still need to be investigated. U.S. Rep. Doug Collins, who gave up his seat and then came up short in his attempt to beat Loeffler and reach the Senate runoff, was tapped Sunday to lead the recount team in Georgia.
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By Polityk | 11/10/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Haiti’s President, Opposition Leaders Congratulate Biden on US Election Win
Haitian President Jovenel Moise congratulated U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on his election victory Sunday. “I extend my congratulations to President-elect @JoeBiden, and Vice-President-elect @KamalaHarris. The USA is an important ally for Haiti, and I look forward to continued cooperation with this friend,” he tweeted.Je présente toutes mes félicitations au Président élu @JoeBiden, ainsi qu’à la Vice- Présidente élue @KamalaHarris. Les USA constituent un partenaire de premier plan pour Haïti qui souhaite poursuivre ses relations de coopération avec ce pays ami.— Président Jovenel Moïse (@moisejovenel) November 8, 2020Bilateral relations between the two countries have remained cordial during President Donald Trump’s administration. President Moise joined Caribbean leaders at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, in March of 2019 to discuss trade and investment. The meeting was hailed by the Caribbean participants as extremely positive with Trump promising them renewed U.S. engagement in the region. In Port-au-Prince Monday, opposition leader Louis Gerald Gilles of the Nou La party told VOA he thinks a Biden administration will bring positive changes to the bilateral relationship. “I think Joe Biden’s victory is a breath of fresh air in terms of our relationship with the United States. We have to recognize that Trumpism – Donald Trump’s policy – was centered around his personality – it was ‘I am the lone ruler.’ But the Democrats adhere more to institutions and traditions, human rights, the constitution, respect for democratic principles – it’s a huge departure from a person who acts like a sheriff. The fact that he (Trump) lost the election shows that the world is against this type of autocratic government,” Gilles said. But Wilson Joseph, leader of the youth opposition party Mouvman Jenes pou Refonde Ayiti (MJRA), says he doesn’t think Biden’s election victory will change much. “Haiti’s problems have not changed. Remember, Obama was U.S. president not that long ago and after January 12 (2010, the year of the devastating earthquake) what changed? Not much, really. Joe Biden was his vice president. So what is there to celebrate? We (Haitians) have to stop relying on the United States, we have to learn to govern ourselves and look after our own interests,” he said. Anti-corruption activist Ricardo Fleuridor of the PetroChallenger movement thinks a Biden administration will bring positive changes not only for Haiti but the world. “Haitians cannot say we don’t need the United States when you consider how great America’s influence is throughout the world. But Haitians must also do their part to get the country back on track and work hand in hand with this important ally to make that happen,” he told VOA. In early October, Biden made a campaign stop in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami, Florida, where he courted the Haitian American vote and promised to take action on an immigration issue high on their list of priorities, the Temporary Protected Status program. More than 55,000 Haitians are currently enrolled in the program, which allows them to live and work legally in the United States, according to the National Immigration Forum. President Trump has said he intends to end TPS in September 2021.
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By Polityk | 11/10/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Застосунок «Дій вдома» періодично дає збої – Вершиніна
Ці збої «не на користь людей» – менеджер програми «Радник з питань ВПО»
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By Gromada | 11/10/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Відкриття КПВВ на Донбасі не вплине на ситуацію з COVID-19 – Вершиніна
Переміщення людей через лінію розмежування на Донбасі суттєво не вплине на захворюваність на COVID-19 і кількість ліжко-місць у лікарнях України. Про це в ефірі Радіо Донбас.Реалії (проєкт Радіо Свобода) заявила менеджер програми «Радник з питань ВПО», координатор благодійного фонду Stabilization Support Services Валерія Вершиніна.
«Від переміщення людей через КПВВ буде не більше шкоди, ніж від переміщення людей між областями. Люди, які здебільшого мешкають на непідконтрольній Києву території, і до лікарень звертаються саме на непідконтрольній території. Медичний туризм на велику відстань не працює майже», – сказала Вершиніна.
Штаб операції Об’єднаних сил планує 10 листопада відновити пропуск осіб і транспортних засобів через лінію розмежування на Донбасі – на території Донецької області через КПВВ «Гнутове», «Новотроїцьке», «Мар’їнка», «Майорське», а на Луганщині – через КПВВ «Станиця Луганська» і новостворені контрольні пункти в’їзду-виїзду «Щастя» і «Золоте».
У свою чергу, підтримувані Росією угруповання «ДНР» і «ЛНР» на своїх інформаційних ресурсах заявляють про те, що не відкриватимуть пункти пропуску зі свого боку.
Про відкриття нових пунктів пропуску на лінії розмежування 28 жовтня домовилася Тристороння контактна група щодо врегулювання конфлікту на окупованій частині Донбасу.
КПВВ на лінії розмежування закриті з 15 жовтня через поширення коронавірусної інфекції COVID-19 на окупованій території.
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By Gromada | 11/10/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Allies Congratulate Biden As Russia, China Await Legal Challenges
World leaders have been giving their reactions to the victory of Joe Biden in the U.S. presidential election. But as Henry Ridgwell reports from London, some U.S. rivals including China and Russia are awaiting the outcome of legal challenges to the result.
Camera: Henry Ridgwell Produced by: Jason Godman
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By Polityk | 11/10/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Twitter Could Strip Trump of Certain Privileges Post-Presidency
Twitter says it could strip President Donald Trump’s account of certain privileges when projected election winner Joe Biden takes office on January 20.
Trump’s recent tweets alleging voter fraud in the November 3 election have been tagged by Twitter, with notices that say for example, “This claim about voter fraud is disputed.”
Ordinarily, Twitter would remove such tweets, but affords world leaders some further latitude.
“A critical function of our service is providing a place where people can openly and publicly respond to their leaders and hold them accountable,” a Twitter spokesman told the Bloomberg news agency. “With this in mind, there are certain cases where it may be in the public’s interest to have access to certain tweets, even if they would otherwise be in violation of our rules.”
This policy, however, does not apparently extend to former leaders, Twitter told the Reuters news organization.
“This policy framework applies to current world leaders and candidates for office, and not private citizens when they no longer hold these positions,” a Twitter spokesman told Reuters in a statement.
Trump is refusing to concede the election, alleging voter fraud. He is suing various states over what he says are irregularities.
Media organizations, including VOA, have projected Biden as the winner of the election, with 279 electoral votes.
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By Polityk | 11/10/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
