The White House released a statement from Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, DC, on Monday that said President Trump’s visit there over the weekend was a “routine” checkup.
The statement, written by Navy Commander Sean Conley, was released by White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham amid rumors about Trump’s medical condition.
“Despite some of the speculation, the President has not had any chest pain, nor was he evaluated or treated for any urgent or acute issues,” Conley wrote in the letter.
“Specifically, he did not undergo any specialized cardiac or neurological evaluations.”
The letter added that the visit was kept “off the record” due to uncertainties about the president’s schedule.
On Saturday, Grisham said the visit was part of his annual checkup, which he was getting out of the way early, but then revealed that he didn’t stay at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for very long.
“Anticipating a very busy 2020, the President is taking advantage of a free weekend here in Washington, D.C., to begin portions of his routine annual physical exam at Walter Reed,” Grisham said in a statement Saturday afternoon.
Trump in February spent more than four hours at Walter Reed for a checkup supervised by his physician and involving a panel of 11 specialists.
In his victory speech, Mr Imamoglu said the result marked a “new beginning” for both the city and the country.
“We are opening up a new page in Istanbul,” he said. “On this new page, there will be justice, equality, love.”
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Opposition supporters celebrated after the results were announced
He added that he was willing to work with Mr Erdogan, saying: “Mr President, I am ready to work in harmony with you.”
Mr Imamoglu’s lead of more than 775,000 votes marks a huge increase on his victory in March, when he won by a margin of just 13,000.
President Erdogan – the most powerful leader Turkey has seen in modern times – has just been dealt the biggest blow of his career.
This result shows that he made an incredible miscalculation by calling for the election to be re-run.
It will likely hasten splits in his ruling AK party and amplify talk of the post-Erdogan era. He will stress that he’s in power for the foreseeable future – elections are not scheduled until 2023 – but many will expect them earlier.
The result in Istanbul feels like it could be a precursor to them.
So how did the opposition win? Ekrem Imamoglu gave people the profoundly positive message they craved and rebuffed smears with smiles.
It was hugely effective, and showed the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has finally worked out how to counter the president.
They have waited 25 years to control this city and have long felt incapable of success. They are savouring this moment – after all, it could be a watershed one.
Who were the candidates?
Mr Imamoglu, 49, is from the secular Republican People’s Party and is mayor of Istanbul’s Beylikduzu district.
But his name was barely known before he ran for mayor in the March election.
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Binali Yildirim is an Erdogan loyalist
Mr Yildirim was a founding member of Mr Erdogan’s AKP and was prime minister from 2016 until 2018, when Turkey became a presidential democracy and the role ceased to exist.
He was elected Speaker of the new parliament in February and before that served as minister of transportation and communication.
Why was the previous result annulled?
Mr Imamoglu’s narrow victory of 13,000 votes in March was not enough for Mr Yildirim to accept defeat.
The ruling party alleged that votes were stolen and many ballot box observers did not have official approval, leading the election board to demand a re-run of the vote.
Critics argue that pressure from President Erdogan was behind the decision.
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Jubilation on the streets
By Cagil Kasapoglu, BBC Turkish, Istanbul
Hundreds of supporters of Mr Imamoglu have gathered here in his stronghold, Besiktas.
The cautious optimism that was prevalent during the early stages of vote counting has given way to a mood of total jubilation.
Hopeful youngsters are celebrating and proudly waving Turkish flags. Others are holding banners with pictures of Atatürk – the founder of the modern Turkish republic – on them. Some people are even wearing masks of Mr Imamoglu.
Many of these young people have only ever known President Erdogan’s AK party in government.
For them, this is an opportunity to push for change across the country.
“Many young people desperately want to leave Turkey,” Ayca Yilmaz, a 22-year-old university student tells me. “But now, we might consider staying here. We are hopeful once again.”
Why is this election so important?
Mr Erdogan, who is from Istanbul, was elected mayor in 1994.
He founded the AKP in 2001 and served as prime minister between 2003 and 2014, before becoming president.
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Mr Erdogan, seen voting, is a native of Istanbul and a former mayor of the city
But cracks in the party are now beginning to show and analysts suggest these could be exacerbated by this loss.
“Erdogan is extremely worried,” Murat Yetkin, a journalist and writer, said ahead of the vote.
“He is playing every card he has. If he loses, by whatever margin, it’s the end of his steady political rise over the past quarter of a century,” he added.
“In reality, he’ll still be president, his coalition will still control parliament – although many will perceive his defeat as the beginning of the end for him.”
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La mujer ya había recibido el tratamiento y había retornado a sus funciones en una mutualista privada en la que sigue trabajando actualmente.
Cecilia Labandera, hoy con 35 años, ingresó a trabajar a principios del 2010 a esa área administrativa tras un concurso abierto. Tras quedar tercera, trabajó casi dos años. En octubre de 2011 le diagnosticaron cáncer de mama, lo que la obligó a abandonar temporalmente su puesto de trabajo. Su tratamiento lo hizo en el Centro de Diagnóstico y Tratamiento Mamario de la Asociación Española, institución en la que también trabajaba, en donde recibió quimioterapia, radioterapia y una operación.
Durante ese proceso, en noviembre de 2012 esta cartera del Estado la declaró “incapaz” para trabajar en toda tarea.
Casi dos años después, en septiembre de 2013, finalizó su tratamiento. Su oncóloga, Patricia Suárez, presentó un escrito en el que dejó constancia que estaba apta para trabajar, y así volvió a hacerlo en la Asociación Española. Pero no en el Hospital Policial. El Ministerio del Interior la siguió certificando desde 2013 a 2016.
Hasta que en septiembre de 2016, el ministro Bonomi tomó la decisión final de apartarla de su cargo. Según la resolución de destitución, Labandera aportó informes médicos de especialistas de la órbita privada, cuando es la Junta Médica Nacional de Aptitud, del Ministerio del Interior, “la competente para dirimir la aptitud para el desempeño del cargo del funcionariado”.
Según una denuncia hecha pública, la mujer siempre manifestó voluntad de continuar trabajando y presentó informes que establecían que podía trabajar, pero no fueron considerados.
El Sindicato de Funcionarios Policiales de Montevideo, nucleado en el Pit-Cnt, divulgó un comunicado de prensa en el que critica el proceder de esta cartera. Calificó el hecho como una “extrema falta de empatía y respeto” a un funcionario.
Former President Donald Trump has offered a new explanation for his claims of voter fraud, saying his political opponents “used COVID” to change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
The former president, who has made frequent claims of widespread voter fraud despite federal and state election officials assuring that the votes were secure, said the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic afforded his foes the opportunity to cheat.
“They used COVID in order to cheat. They used COVID in order to rig the election and in order to steal the election. They used COVID,” he said during the Saturday night rally in Ohio. “That’s as simple as it gets.”
Several states took steps toward allowing for remote voting, such as vote-by-mail, in the 2020 election in an effort to curb the transmission of COVID-19, which the former president argued allowed for malfeasance because mail-in ballots are “treacherous.”
Trump praised the new moves taken by Republicans in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to reexamine the results of the 2020 presidential election, calling those leading the investigations “patriots.”
“I hear now that Wisconsin is looking very, very seriously [into the allegations of voter fraud], and I respect Wisconsin so much. It’s a great state. They’re looking very seriously. Pennsylvania is really starting to take this very seriously,” he said, thanking legislators in both states for their efforts.
Pennsylvania has signaled an openness to ordering an audit of its 2020 election results, with state Sen. David Argall, who heads a committee that oversees elections, telling local outlets last week that a forensic audit similar to the one being conducted in Arizona is now a “very real possibility.”
Wisconsin’s state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos announced in May that he would hire police officers and an attorney to investigate parts of the November 2020 general election. Contracts obtained by the Associated Press reported this week show that he has already hired some people to investigate “potential irregularities and/or illegalities” in the 2020 presidential election.
Trump’s support for the Wisconsin investigation was an apparent reversal from his position on Friday, when the former president chastised Vos by name for “working hard to cover up election corruption in Wisconsin.”
Trump contrasted his praise of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin with condemnation for other states, such as Michigan, where “the [Republicans in Name Only] in the Michigan Senate” recently released a report confirming Biden carried the state in 2020.
“Michigan is not [taking the allegations of voter fraud seriously]. You can’t get those Republicans. Some are great, by the way, but Michigan is not doing the job. … How do you win Ohio by so much, record numbers, and lose Michigan?” he said during the rally, suggesting that the only way would be through voter fraud.
Trump also singled out Georgia for criticism, saying Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s decision to remove 100,000 “out of date” names from the state’s voter rolls came too little, too late.
“Now, they’re saying they’re going to delete over 100,000 names. I said, ‘Why the hell didn’t you delete them before the election, not after the election?'” he said of Georgia.
The former president accused his political adversaries of a double standard, saying former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Georgia’s Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams did not attract the same criticism for failing to accept their electoral losses.
“Stacey Abrams goes around saying she won the election. Nobody says anything. Hillary Clinton says she won the election. Nobody says anything. I say we won the election. ‘That’s terrible. That’s terrible,’ [they say],” he said. “Isn’t it a terrible situation?”
Both Clinton and Abrams contested their respective losses, with Clinton calling for recounts in several swing states after her 2016 loss and Abrams refusing to use the word “concede” when acknowledging that Brian Kemp would become the governor of Georgia following the state’s 2018 election.
Trump, who continues to assert there are “mountains of evidence” of widespread cheating in the 2020 presidential contest, filed several claims alleging massive voter fraud, most of which were tossed by federal courts.
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Un abrazo de consuelo entre la atleta neozelandesa Nikki Hamblin (izquierda) y la estadounidense Abbey D’Agostino (derecha).
“¡Estos son los Juegos Olímpicos. Tenemos que terminar!”
Esas fueron las palabras de aliento de la atleta neozelandesa Nikki Hamblin a la estadounidense Abbey D’Agostino, en la pista este martes durante la carrera de 5.000 metros en los Juegos Olímpicos de Río 2016.
La caída de Hamblin y luego de D’Agostino, que no la pudo esquivar, y su mutuo aliento dejó una de las historias más conmovedoras por la nobleza de su espíritu olímpico.
De hecho, aunque llegaron últimas, los jueces decidieron clasificarlas a la final, que será el viernes.
Sin embargo, este miércoles se supo que la historia tiene un final triste para D’Agostino, ya que sus Olimpiadas en Río terminaron: como resultado de la caída, la atleta sufrió lesiones de rodilla que la dejan fuera de competición, informó la federación de atletismo de Estados Unidos en un comunicado.
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La solidaridad se hizo presente en la pista de atletismo en Río de Janeiro.
Últimas pero primeras
En la segunda serie, Hamblin pisó el borde de la pista lo que le provocó la pérdida de equilibrio y la caída al suelo.
D’Agostino, que venía detrás, no pudo esquivar a la neozelandesa y terminó también en el piso.
Por Darwin Franco Migues (@darwinfranco), académico y periodista independiente
Joaquín Guzmán Loera, “El Chapo”, no es únicamente el galán que coquetea a través del celular con la actriz de telenovela, Kate del Castillo, ni tampoco es solo aquel hombre aparentemente quieto que responde en video a las preguntas ligeras realizadas por Sean Penn, no. Esa es la representación mediática que se ha generado y explotado en estos últimos días en torno a éste, pero ese no es el verdadero Chapo Guzmán.
Quien otrora fuera uno de los líderes del Cártel de Sinaloa, una de las organizaciones criminales más ricas del mundo, es un hombre diferente al que no se nos quiere mostrar en las piezas informativas generadas tras su reaprehensión, pero mucho más en aquellas que hablan del aparente affair con del Castillo.
Estos “trabajos periodísticos”, al igual que el que publicó Sean Penn para la revista Rolling Stone, solo contribuyen a edificar aún más el “mito” alrededor de El Chapo pero no nos presentan al verdadero narcotraficante ni hacen que éste se confronte con toda la violencia que generó por años y, mucho menos, vinculan ésta con el enorme dolor que aún existe en las familias de aquellos que asesinó o desapareció.
Este dolor se generó no por sus “acciones de defensa” (como él sugiere en el video grabado por Kate del Castillo Productions) sino por su forma unilateral de actuar a través de la imposición del miedo y el terror. Ese es “El Chapo” Guzmán.
Si nos quedamos solo con este “El Chapo” que hoy se nos muestra/vende en los medios de comunicación, estaremos haciendo algo muy similar a lo que hemos hecho con diversos narcotraficantes que terminamos perdonando cuando vemos la representación de su vida (no su vida real ni las repercusiones sociales de ésta), a través de una serie o telenovela, o acabaremos justificando lo terrible de sus hazañas como hoy lo hacen cientos de mexicanos que cantan los narco-corridos porque consideran la posibilidad de ser algún día como Joaquín Guzmán Loera, “el jefe de jefes”.
El mito y su exacerbada representación mediática descontextualiza y desvincula al sujeto de sus acciones creando narrativas emotivas que humanizan los hechos violentos que éste cometió o puede ser capaz de cometer.
“Él no quería ser malo ni quería causar mal, fue la difícil vida que tuvo la que lo hizo así”, esto alguna vez me contestó una fanática de la telenovela El señor de los cielos, la cual narra a modo de ficción la vida del narcotraficante mexicano, Amado Carrillo Fuentes.
Para ella, lo que hacía Aurelio Casillas (Amado Carrillo Fuentes) podría ser totalmente justificado por la dolorosa vida que llevó, aunque en sí mismas las acciones que éste generaba en la serie fueran totalmente violentas y ella, como televidente, fuese totalmente capaz de identificarlo. La gran diferencia es que lo que “El Chapo” y Amado Carrillo realizaron no fue ficción sino absoluta realidad.
El problema con estas representaciones mediáticas que se construyen alrededor del narcotráfico, los narcotraficantes y la narco cultura es que impactan la producción social de sentido; es decir, la manera en que todos aprendemos a nombrar y significar algo en el mundo.
Por ello, estas representaciones buscan más la visibilización del mito alrededor del “capo más buscado del mundo” que la contextualización que nos permita entender qué posibilitó que un hombre como Joaquín Guzmán Loera escalara la estructura criminal del Cártel de Sinaloa pero también reconocer qué circunstancias se concatenaron para que éste escapara en dos ocasiones de prisiones de alta seguridad.
Este contexto cargado de redes de corrupción y filtración del narcotráfico en los tres niveles de gobierno del país, sin embargo, no vende tanto como el capo escapista que hace túneles bajo tierra o el capo que en su afán de inmortalizar su vida es capaz de traer a dos actores para que uno le haga su película y el otro una entrevista a modo.
Y, en medio de todo esto, se da tiempo de mostrar sus dotes de “don juan” hacia una actriz que en su momento también contribuyó a edificar el mito del narcotraficante a través del papel de Teresa Mendoza en la telenovela La Reina del Sur. Bajo este argumento no está por demás decir que Kate del Castillo no es Teresa Mendoza, como tampoco es únicamente la representación de la mujer que coqueteó con “El Chapo” que hoy se nos vende en la mayoría de los medios mexicanos.
Lo que hoy vemos después de la recaptura de “El Chapo” Guzmán es la producción y representación mediática que de él se hace en los medios, ya sea por decisión propia o en colusión con los intereses político-ideológicos del gobierno de Enrique Peña Nieto. “El Chapo” hoy es su producto y lo están explotando a través de la misma narrativa que Joaquín Guzmán Loera quería controlar a través de Penn y del Castillo, la de su mito.
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The government of United States has announced additional travel restrictions affecting Iran, Italy and South Korea, which have emerged as major hotspots of the new coronavirus outbreak, following the first death from the virus in the country.
Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday the existing travel ban on Iran would extend to foreign nationals who had been in that country the past 14 days. He also urged US citizens not to travel to affected areas of Italy and South Korea. The US has already imposed restriction on entry from China, where the virus originated late last year.
“We want to lower the amount of travel to and from the most impacted areas, this is a basic containment strategy,” said Health Secretary Alex Azar at a joint news conference with President Donald Trump.
Shortly before the news conference, the Washington state Department of Health confirmed that one person had died of the disease officially known as COVID-19, marking the first death linked to the new coronavirus in the US.
The death in the western state comes amid a slowly growing number of cases of community transmission in the US. There are some 62 cases in the country, mostly evacuees from a cruise ship. Of the 22 cases in the US directly, around 15 are in recovery, while several remain ill.
Trump told reporters at the White House that the deceased person was a “medically high-risk” woman in her late 50s, although a health official in Washington state later said it was a man.
The victim appears to have become ill through local transmission, said Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“The investigation at this time shows no evidence of link to travel or a known contact,” Redfield said at the news conference.
Redfield stressed that “the risk to the American public remains low,” echoing comments by Trump, who urged the media to exercise restraint.
“If you are healthy, you will probably go through a process and you will be fine,” the president said. “There is no reason to panic at all. This is something that is being handled professionally.”
Trump also announced he will meet on Monday heads of top pharmaceutical companies to discuss the novel coronavirus.
Global spread
The virus has now hit 61 countries worldwide, with more than 2,900 people killed and nearly 86,000 infected since it was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year.
Its rapid spread beyond China’s borders in the past week has caused stock markets to sink to their lowest levels since the 2008 global financial crisis over fears the disease could wreak havoc on the world economy.
Although the vast majority of infections have been in China, more daily cases are now logged outside the country.
South Korea, which has the most infected people outside China, reported its biggest surge in new cases on Saturday with 813 more patients confirmed, bringing its total to 3,150. Italy, the epicentre of the outbreak in Europe, also reported a jump in new cases on Saturday, its number of infections exceeding 1,000 and the death toll jumping by eight to 29. Iran, meanwhile reported 205 new cases, with the overall number of infections now standing at 593 and the death toll at 43.
France on Saturday cancelled all gatherings of 5,000 people or more in a bid to contain the coronavirus outbreak which has infected 100 people throughout the country.
The virus has also spread to previously untouched areas in recent days, reaching new countries including Azerbaijan, Mexico and New Zealand, as well as the first case in sub-Saharan Africa with Nigeria reporting a case. Qatar and Ecuador both confirmed their first cases on Saturday.
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Morris said by spearheading innovative partnerships and leveraging resources from ASU, tribes and community organizations, she hopes that Inno-NATIONS will create a “collision community,” causing a ripple effect of economic change in tribal communities.
Both events are free and take place at The Department in downtown Phoenix.
Inno-NATIONS will also launch a three-day pilot cohort with approximately 20 Native American businesses starting in June.
“Beyond Buckskin” features Jessica Metcalfe, a Turtle Mountain Chippewa, Dartmouth graduate and entrepreneur, who grew a small online store into a successful boutique on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota.
The store promotes and sells Native American-made couture, streetwear, jewelry, and accessories from more than 40 Native American and First Nations artist, employing tribe members from the Turtle Mountain community.
ASU Now spoke to Metcalfe to discuss her work.
Jessica Metcalfe
Question: We’ve seen Native American fashion emerge and evolve. How did you get into the business?
Answer: I was writing my master’s thesis in 2005 and my advisor at the time had told me about some research she had done, which looked at Native American fashion in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She had wondered if I was interested in picking up where her research left off. I looked into it and found that there were these breadcrumbs, little bits here in there, that something had been going on in the past 60-70 years, but hadn’t been looked at as a collective movement.
Through my doctoral dissertation, what I discovered was that Native American fashion has gone through waves of acknowledgements by the broader public, but what we’re experiencing now is perhaps the biggest wave yet.
You have designers like Patricia Michaels out at New York’s Style Fashion Week and the Native Fashion Now traveling exhibit touring the country, so there’s really a lot of exciting things happening lately. It’s coming from a collective movement. Designers basically grouping together to share costs but also to put together more events to cause a bigger ruckus.
Q: How did you build your online store into a brick-and-mortar business?
A: I first launched a blog in 2009 as an outlet for my dissertation research, and wanted to share it with more people and to also get more stories and experiences. My readers kept asking where could they see and buy these clothes? At that time, there wasn’t an easy way to access functions like a Native American Pow Wow or market in order to do that.
I had established a rapport with designers through my research and writing. They saw what I was doing through the blog and then a question popped into my head. “How would you feel about creating a business together?” There were 11 initial designers who said they needed the space, and I worked with them to sell their goods online. We just now opened our design lab on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. We are creating a system where we can meet demand and maximize a need in Indian Country.
We employ Native Americans from ages 15 to 22. There aren’t a whole lot of opportunities for people that age on the reservation. They either work at the grocery store or the gas station. One of them is interested in film and photography and so they run our photo shoots. Another person is interested in business entrepreneurship, and they get to see how an idea goes from concept to execution.
Q: The subtext is that this isn’t just about fashion but, history, representation and cultural appropriation?
A: Our clothing is just more than just objects. It’s about how the material was gathered, what the colors represent, what stories are being told and how does that tie into our value system. One of the things I often discuss is the Native American headdress. Our leaders wear them as a symbol of their leadership and the dedication to their communities. These stories are a way to share our culture with non-Natives and protect our legacy for future generations.
Q: Why is it important for Native American businesses to branch out into other cultures?
A: Native American people desperately need to diversify their economic opportunities on and off the reservations. Up until recently, people haven’t thought of fashion or art as a viable career path.
A recent study conducted by First Peoples Fund that found a third of all Native American people are practicing or are potential artists. That is a huge resource we already have in Indian Country and we need to tap it and develop it, and push for Natives in various fields to look at themselves as entrepreneurs and launching businesses.
Now, Native American people have an opportunity to make a positive impact in their local communities by reaching people through their art and sharing our culture with the rest of the world.
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São Paulo – Managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, were in Rabat, capital of Morocco, this Thursday (8th) and spoke on the economy of transitioning Arab countries, that means, the ones affected by the Arab Spring of 2011. In a speech at the Moroccan Economic, Social and Environmental Council, she advocated the strengthening of the small and medium-sized companies, middle class and a “middle road” for the roles of government, not too intrusive or too liberal.
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Lagarde spoke in a session of the Economic Council in Morocco
“The good news is that the economic situation in the Arab transitioning countries is looking up – higher exports, higher public investment and signs that private investment will rise,” said Lagarde. “Countries like Morocco are reaping the fruits of their efforts by diversifying and spurring both exports and foreign investment – especially in high value-added areas, like cars, aeronautics, and electronics,” she added.
That said, she pointed out that economic stability alone in not enough, as these nations go through a “jarring job crisis”, unemployment rate averaging 13%, with youth unemployment up to 29% entre, one of the highest rates in the world. Since 2012, according to Lagarde, the number of people out of work has jumped by 1.5 million.
For the Fund’s director, these nations have to double the average growth rates, currently at 3%, to have a larger job creation. It is worth noting that the block cited is quite diverse, including countries which did not change regime, such as Morocco and Jordan, to cases such as Syria, which is in civil war.
As such, she recommended the strengthening of the “central pillars’ of economy. One of these pillars is represented by the small and medium-sized companies, which are the backbone of a healthy economy and are the main engines of job creation”.
Lagarde pointed out that in the transitioning Arab nations the formal economy is dominated by a few large firms and the informality rates range from 17% in Jordan to a 35% in Tunisia.
Other main point is the strengthening of the middle class which, according to her, in countries such as Egypt, Jordan and Morocco, has a higher share of the wealth today than in the 960’s. “Let me be frank: the dividends of growth have too often gone to the top, leaving too many others out in the cold”, she said.
The IMF’s director observed that global experience shows that a strong middle class is necessary to drive and economy forward. “A strong middle class makes societies more cohesive, and lays ground for stability and prosperity. A strong middle class is also home to the kinds of entrepreneurs we need for today’s modern economy,” she said.
As regards the state, Lagarde pointed out the governments “need to take a step back from some areas and step forward in others”, that is, to grant less subsidies and expand the social protection. The subsidies to food and fuel are commonplace in the Arab world. She advised the resources should be directed to safety nets, health education and public investment.
“Most importantly, [the state] needs to become less of an employer, and more of an effective and impartial regulator and enabler of the private sector – the ultimate source of good jobs”, stressed the businesswoman.
In Lagarde’s evaluation, strengthening these central pillars means to make the economy more of a “participatory” and less of a “privilege” economy.
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She suggested the adoption of a series of policies for this goal, such as facilitating the opening of companies by reducing the bureaucracy, boosting credit offer, reducing tariff and non-tariff trade barriers, enabling young people to enter the job market, reducing the labor regulations fees and strengthening the women participation in economy.
In this last issue, the IMF’s director said that the difference between male and female contribution to the job market in the Middle East and North Africa is three times larger than in most developing nations. “It is imperative to let women contribute, by removing outdated obstacles and introducing enabling policies”, she pointed out. “After all, it was Ibn Rushd who said that ‘treating women like a burden to the men is one of the reasons for poverty’”, she added, referring to Averroes, Arab philosopher defender of Aristotle’s’ philosophy in the Middle Ages.
Lagarde suggested a bigger transparency and the adoptions of good governance. And that goes for both public and private. According to her, more than half the companies in Middle East and North Africa report having been asked for a bribe.
According to the IMF, the speech of the managing director was a preview of the issues which will be discusses in the regional conference Building the Future: Jobs, Growth, & Fairness in the Arab World , which will be held on the 11th and12th, in Amman, Jordan. The event is promoted by the IMF, Government of Jordan and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development.
Lagarde concluded by saying that the IMF is a partner of the transitioning Arab nations seeking for reforms. She declared that the institution delivered 55 technical assistance missions in the region in 2013 and committed more than US$ 10 billion in financial support.
The Republican strategist who orchestrated the “swift boating” of John Kerry in 2004 is behind a new effort to aid Donald Trump’s re-election campaign.
Chris LaCivita will run a Super Pac called Preserve America, beginning with a $30m ad campaign in key states, based on Trump’s law-and-order message. According to Politico, the casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus are among Republican mega-donors funding the group.
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was a group that emerged in August 2004, as Kerry, a Vietnam veteran who became an anti-war campaigner and then a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, challenged George W Bush in the polls.
Swift boats were small river craft used by the US navy in Vietnam. Kerry, later secretary of state under Barack Obama, captained one.
Reporting for the Guardian, Julian Borger wrote: “John Kerry’s Vietnam war record has been trashed in a series of advertisements and a book by a group … who claim that Kerry inflicted injuries on himself and falsified his field reports to win his medals and ultimately get out of Vietnam after four months of combat.”
He added: “It is a potentially devastating multi-media assault on a presidential candidate. It also turns out to be largely untrue.”
The effort achieved sufficient levels of infamy – and was sufficiently successful – that in US politics at least its name became a verb.
As the New York Times put it in 2008, “swift boat” became “the synonym for the nastiest of campaign smears, a shadow that hangs over the presidential race as pundits wait to proclaim that the swift boating has begun and candidates declare that they will not be swift boated.”
LaCivita’s website describes him as “a former Marine who was wounded in combat … a fierce competitor with a proven track record of winning difficult campaigns at every level of the ballot”.
Politico quoted him and embedded ads accusing Biden of being weak on law and order, a key Republican tactic as the campaign hots up and a president who has watched a pandemic kill more than 180,000 and crater the economy seeks political distraction.
“The radical leftwing mob is trying to destroy our country from within and Joe Biden is too weak to stop them,” LaCivita said. “It’s a concern shared by a growing number of Americans and we intend to spread their message far and wide.”
Somewhat ironically, news of the swift boat veteran’s return came as Military Times released a poll showing “a slight but significant preference” for Biden among US servicemen.
Trump claims strong support in the US military. The new poll showed Biden up 43% to 37%, slightly below his lead in most national polling averages.
On Saturday, Biden addressed the National Guard Association. In a shot at Trump’s words and actions against protesters in cities including Kenosha, Wisconsin; Portland, Oregon; and Washington DC, he said he would “never put you in the middle of politics, or personal vendettas.
“I’ll never use the military as a prop or as a private militia to violate rights of fellow citizens. That’s not law and order. You don’t deserve that.”
Republicans, led by GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy, are seeking to remove Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee over his 2012-2015 interactions with Christine Fang, the accused foreign agent. Fang helped fundraise for Swalwell’s campaign in 2014 and once placed an intern in his House office. But when Swalwell was briefed on concerns about Fang in 2015, he says he immediately cut off contact and cooperated with the bureau’s probe.
An FBI official has previously defended Swalwell, telling outlets in December that Swalwell was “completely cooperative” and “under no suspicion of wrongdoing,”
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy intends to force a vote on Swalwell’s committee post Thursday afternoon, contending that the Democrat’s interactions with Fang disqualify him from holding the sensitive assignment. Swalwell wouldn’t be eligible for a security clearance in the private sector and shouldn’t therefore be granted access to national security secrets through the intelligence panel, McCarthy argued at a Thursday press conference.
Asked to explain his push against Swalwell, McCarthy fell back on classified information he says he received in an FBI briefing last year. “I cannot talk to you about what I was given in a classified briefing,” he said, adding that the public record of Swalwell’s relationship with Fang should be enough to disqualify him.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who unilaterally appoints the Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee, has stood behind Swalwell, saying she has “no concerns” about his actions.
House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff also defended Swalwell Thursday, issuing a statement of support in a “Dear Colleague” letter aimed at rallying the Democratic caucus to his side. Schiff noted that Republicans — including the panel’s current ranking GOP member Devin Nunes of California and then-Speaker John Boehner — were briefed on the matter in 2015 and raised no concerns about Swalwell’s ability to continue serving on the committee.
“It’s disturbing that Leader McCarthy is attempting to weaponize classified counterintelligence briefings as a political cudgel, and use them to smear a House colleague in the process,” Schiff said. “Members face real counterintelligence risks from sophisticated actors, and bad faith political attacks on Members will only make it more difficult to respond.”
Members of Congress are not required to receive security clearances to access classified intelligence, though calls to strip members of the House Intelligence Committee of their access to classified information have become well-worn political weapons in recent years.
Fang first interacted with Swalwell when he held a city council post in California, one of several back-and-forths she reportedly had with local officials across the country. She maintained those contacts until 2015, when intelligence officials’ alarm grew about her relationship with Swalwell, and they offered him a “defensive briefing.” Those briefings are meant to alert the targets of potential foreign operations in order to protect information from falling into the wrong hands.
Swalwell told POLITICO in December that he feared the initial Fang story, which he said he first learned Axios was pursuing in mid-2019, was planted to damage him after he emerged as a prominent Trump critic during a short-lived presidential bid.
“The timing feels like that should be looked at,” he said at the time.
The battered city’s street cleaners and road repair teams were collecting bodies in the streets, he said, as municipal services had collapsed. “Some people were killed during those collections. We’ve had no electricity, or heating, sanitation, water, food for 11 days,” he said.
(CNN)The nine victims of a mass shooting in San Jose on Wednesday have been identified as investigators begin the process of figuring out why such a fierce burst of violence happened during the early morning hours at a light rail yard.
Eight of the victims, who ranged from ages 29 to 63, were identified Wednesday by the Santa Clara County office of the Medical Examiner-Coroner as Paul Delacruz Megia, 42; Taptejdeep Singh, 36; Adrian Balleza, 29; Jose Dejesus Hernandez III, 35; Timothy Michael Romo, 49; Michael Joseph Rudometkin, 40; Abdolvahab Alaghmandan, 63; and Lars Kepler Lane, 63.
CNN’s Jon Passantino, Sarah Moon, Eric Levenson, Stella Chan, Cheri Mossburg, Paul P. Murphy, Josh Campbell, Steve Almasy, Joe Sutton, Dan Simon and DJ Judd contributed to this report.
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