There’s a lot of sport made on social media over the fact that Donald Trump Jr., in his desperation to be more like his sociopathic father, is dating his stepmother’s doppelganger, in both age and looks. But spare some palace-intrigue armchair psychoanalysis for the fact that Trump’s daughter Ivanka grew up to marry a man who is startlingly like her daddy.
Jared Kushner’s softer voice and ability to dress himself fooled many political observers into thinking he would be a moderating presence on his father-in-law in the early days. But by now even the most appearance-bamboozled pundits must accept that in all ways that matter, Jared is virtually identical to Papa Trump: He’s as arrogant as he is incompetent, he’s assured of his own expertise on matters he has barely paid attention to, he’s shameless in his lying, and he’s fully confident he can bulldoze his way past his myriad failures simply by declaring himself successful.
“This is a great success story, and I think that’s really what needs to be told,” Kushner said on Fox News Wednesday, struggling to hold back a smile. And yes, he really was talking about the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Seriously.
Kushner bragged about how the ” federal government rose to the challenge” and “achieved all the different milestones that are needed” and then, to make the whole thing even more of a rhetorical nightmare, predicted that by July “the country’s really rocking again.”
He said this on the week that a certain “milestone” had, indeed, been achieved: The United States surpassed one million confirmed coronavirus cases, more than four times the number in Spain, which has the second-highest official case count. (No one is quite sure how badly China has been hit, with a government that is notoriously secretive, and a population several times larger than ours.) The U.S. death toll has already topped 60,000, which is no doubt a significant undercount, as analysis of overall death rates in the country suggest a lot of people are dying of COVID-19 and not getting officially counted.
Another “milestone” for the “great success story” Kushner is touting: More than 30 million unemployment claims filed in six weeks, which is nearly one in five American workers.
Kusher, like his father-in-law, comes from the sleazier corners of the real estate world and so no doubt has developed the same habits of smoothly lying about serious problems with properties and wildly exaggerating the value of his assets while bamboozling investors. Kushner is, after all, a notorious slumlord.
Now he’s just doing to the entire country what he did to his unfortunate tenants. But instead of ignoring rats and cockroaches and leaky plumbing while posing as a real estate mogul, Kushner is now shrugging off thousands dead and millions infected or unemployed, while trumpeting his “great success story.”
That Trump would let anyone as boastful as himself come so close has always been a surprise — narcissists don’t like competition — but ultimately, it appears he’s so flattered that Ivanka wanted to marry someone like Dear Old Dad that he keeps Jared around as a constant reminder.
Kushner’s preening is all the more disturbing because there’s good reason to believe that he’s second only to Trump in causing this crisis to spiral as badly out of control as it has.
In a piece headlined “Inside Donald Trump and Jared Kushner’s Two Months of Magical Thinking,” Vanity Fair reporter Gabriel Sherman reports that Kushner “shared Trump’s view that the media and Democrats were hyping the crisis for political purposes,” and spent months encouraging the president to ignore more than a dozen warnings, dating back to last year, from intelligence officials and health agencies about the virus and its likely economic impact.
One White House official even went as far as to tell Sherman that Kushner “is running everything” and is the “de facto president,” an accusation that is entirely believable in light of reports that Trump is too lazy and self-obsessed to do any work besides tweeting, watching TV to “monitor” his own press, and ranting at reporters in daily press conferences that were originally supposed to be opportunities for serious public officials and health experts to share news about the coronavirus.
Not that Kushner getting involved and running things has helped the situation. If anything, it appears to be making things worse. Sherman reports that Kushner’s “famously unshakable belief in his own judgment” led him to repeatedly tell federal officials that there was no need to take the coronavirus too seriously. Kushner simply assumed his desire to believe this wasn’t a real problem constituted a stronger understanding than that provided by actual experts in epidemiology.
Like Trump, Kushner has spent his life surrounded by people who, because his family has money, are willing to pretend his failures were successes. Kushner famously didn’t have the grades to get into Harvard, so his father paved his way in with a generous donation. He’s been failing up ever since, from annoying the harried journalists at the New York Observer with his mansplaining after he bought the paper with Daddy’s money to finding himself as de facto White House chief of staff for no other reason than that he married well.
Kushner’s “great success story” is being compared to George W. Bush’s infamous “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job” line, uttered to FEMA director Michael Brown in the wake of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster that left bodies floating in the streets and people camped for days in hellish conditions in the Superdome. That line was memorable because “Brownie” had failed so utterly, for which he eventually resigned, but also because Bush’s frat-style nickname was a reminder that Brown had gotten his position not because any expertise or relevant experience, but because Bush liked giving cushy jobs to Republican loyalists.
This situation with Kushner is arguably even worse. Unlike with a hurricane, which can only be predicted a few days in advance (and not with much precision), Kushner he had months of warnings that the pandemic was coming, and blew it off because the preparation needed to minimize its impact would have taken hard work and expertise of the sort that Kushner has spent his life avoiding. Instead, it was clearly easier for him to ignore the problem in hopes that it would go away.
In fact, as this interview shows, Kushner is still ignoring the problem, choosing to assure the public that things will be back to normal in July, even though that is literally impossible. Even if we already had the testing and tracing protocols needed to begin considering a return to normal life (which we don’t), the process would be gradual. The economic impact of what will likely be a 20% unemployment rate, if not higher, doesn’t vanish overnight, but will reverberate for years to come.
But even talking about this alternate universe where we have sufficient testing is a joke. Trump, with Kushner at his side, made damn sure that the testing was slowed down because he wanted to artificially deflate the official coronavirus caseload. The president clearly continues to believe that we don’t actually need mass testing, and that simply lying to the public and claiming we have tests when we don’t will suffice.
All the White House gift-shop commemorative coins in the world — surreal and delusional as they are — can’t hide the dead bodies and the lost jobs. Jared Kushner may have failed upward his entire life, no amount of self-congratulation will fool people into seeing this coronavirus disaster as anything but the epic fuck-up it truly is.
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Officials were told to assign inmates to fixed positions in dormitories, classes, lineups and workshops, and to control every detail of life inside the camps, at every moment of the day, including wake-up, meals, studies and showers.
Detainees must meet “disciplinary demands” or face punishment, the directive added.
“Strengthen the management of the students’ hygiene,” it said. “Ensure that they get timely haircuts and shave, change and wash their clothes. Arrange for them to have baths once or twice a week, so that they develop good habits.”
The demands listed in the directive echoed the accounts of former detainees like Orynbek Koksebek, an ethnic Kazakh man who spent four months in an indoctrination camp in Xinjiang after being detained by the Chinese authorities in December 2017.
“There was military discipline in everything we did, how you walk, stand up straight. If you didn’t, they would slap you,” he said in an interview in the Kazakh city of Almaty earlier this year.
A key disclosure in the leaked directive is an official description of the conditions that detainees must meet to be released from the camps. Aside from achieving a good score in the point system, the document said, inmates must be categorized at the lowest threat level and have served a minimum term of one year — though interviews with former detainees indicate that camps sometimes release people sooner.
The directive also emphasized the importance of showing remorse. Discussions with detainees should “promote the repentance and confession of the students for them to understand deeply the illegal, criminal and dangerous nature of their past behavior,” it said.
A different document, among the set shared with The Times earlier this year, described how family members outside the camps are told that their behavior can also affect when a detainee is released — a implied threat aimed at silencing complaints.
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The New York Police Department told Fox News Wednesday that the man wanted in a brutal beating of an Asian woman in Midtown Manhattan earlier this week has been arrested and charged.
The suspect has been identified as 38-year-old Brandon Elliot. He was arrested at about 2 a.m. and subsequently charged with assault as a hate crime and attempted assault as a hate crime.
The New York Post, which first reported on the arrest, said Elliot lives in a homeless shelter near where the attack occurred.
The beating was brutal and was caught on surveillance video from inside a lobby in Midtown.
The Post, citing police, reported that the suspect yelled anti-Asian statements while he beat the woman. Sources told the paper that the assailant yelled, “F—k you, you don’t belong here.”
The video appears to show the 65-year-old woman getting kicked in the stomach, which causes her to fall. The assailant proceeds to pummel her while she is on the ground, kicking her in the head and body.
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A Post Office in Florida’s largest county is inundated with a mail backlog, which could reportedly contain ballots.
The Minority Leader of the Florida House of Representatives, Kionne Mcghee, posted undated footage to his Twitter account on Friday that allegedly showed USPS Inspection Service officials arriving at a Florida Post Office location in Miami-Dade County to look into a massive mail pile-up, which is said to include mail-in ballots.
One local resident told McGhee he or she hadn’t received mail in five days, while a source told McGhee that sorting was expected to go on past Tuesday.
Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Fla., who represents the area said in a statement on Friday said she has contacted relevant authorities.
“I am aware of the concerning situation involving backed-up mail, including election mail, at the Post Office in Princeton,” Mucarsel-Powell said. “Earlier today, I inspected this facility and took immediate action to contact the US Postal Service and the USPS Office of the Inspector General. I have requested an immediate briefing from the Postmaster General. I am working to ensure that mail delays do not impact participation in this election.”
A spokesperson for the Miami-Dade County Elections Departments also told our local Fox affiliate USPS has assured them that “all ballots will be delivered timely.”
The Miami Herald reported that the issue is being looked into, alongside potential remedies to ensure the office is caught up on delivery before Election Day.
According to information from the state, the last day for a Supervisor of Elections is be able to mail out a ballot is 8 days before the election.
The ballot must be returned by 7 p.m. ET on Nov. 3 in order to be counted.
A voter who has requested a ballot may change his or her mind and vote in person.
President Trump defeated Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton by a margin of 1.2% in the 2016 election, though there is speculation that this year’s race could be tighter.
Early indications show that Democrats are turning out in lower rates than expected in Miami-Dade – the largest county in the state.
Estos parlantes habían sido apagados en 2009, pero se comenzaron a utilizar de nuevo esta semana.
La península coreana se despertó este viernes en pie de guerra y alterada sobre todo por el ruido de unos parlantes.
El líder de Corea del Norte, Kim Jong-un, declaró un “cuasi-estado de guerra” con su vecino Corea del Sur y ordenó a las tropas del frente en la frontera estar “listas para el combate”.
Aunque en los últimos años se han visto -y escuchado- arranques similares del mandatario norcoreano, al momento no se había llegado a ninguna confrontación militar.
Pero esta vez, de acuerdo a algunos medios surcoreanos, la amenaza parece real.
Y el pronóstico mediático tiene que ver en parte con un sistema de parlantes que Corea del Sur tiene instalado cerca de la zona desmilitarizada (ZDC) casi desde que finalizó el conflicto entre ambas naciones en 1953, parte de una guerra psicológica en contra de la dinastía que se instaló en el país del norte a partir de ese año.
Vallas gigantes también son utilizadas en la frontera.
Esta semana el poderoso sistema de altavoces fue reactivado, después de seis años, tras la explosión de una mina cerca de una base militar surcoreana.
“Los mensajes emitidos por los altavoces han herido la dignidad del supremo líder. Comandantes fueron desplegados urgentemente para operaciones de ataque en contra de las instalaciones de guerra psicológica de Corea del Sur, si no frenan esas operaciones”, señaló la Agencia de Noticias de Corea del Norte, KCNA
Corea del Sur ordenó la evacuación de las localidades ubicadas en la zona. Además, la agencia de noticias Yonhap reportó disparos de artillería realizado por distintos cuerpos del ejército de ambas naciones.
Sin embargo, ¿qué dicen realmente esos mensajes que se emiten a todo volumen y que tienen al borde de un confrontación militar a las dos Coreas?
Desde 2004
Hasta la década de los 90, Corea del Sur utilizó diversas maneras para llevar los mensajes contra el régimen norcoreano a través de su frontera. Uno de ellos fue el sistema de parlantes.
Después de una suspensión que duró diez años gracias a acercamientos diplomáticos, en mayo de 2004, once baterías de estos potentes parlantes fueron reinstaladas en distintos puntos de la zona fronteriza, debido al hundimiento de un buque naval surcoreano con más de 100 tripulantes a bordo.
En 2009 habían sido apagados otra vez como parte de un nuevo acuerdo entre ambos países (que técnicamente continúan en guerra desde 1953), pero la explosión de una mina cerca de una unidad militar esta semana hizo encender de nuevo los aparatos de sonido.
De acuerdo a un material entregado por la agencia de noticias NK News a BBC Mundo, el contenido de los mensajes va desde declaraciones en favor de la democracia y la libertad hasta una invitación a los soldados enemigos a desertar y traspasar la línea fronteriza.
El Ministerio de Defensa de Corea del Sur había dicho ya en 2004 –y lo reiteró esta semana- que los mensajes tendrán el mismo contenido que la emisión del programa radial “Las voces de la libertad”, que se puede escuchar en Seúl en una radio de frecuencia modulada (107.3 FM).
“Es un programa acerca de la homogeneidad étnica, recordando que las dos Coreas comparten la misma cultura e historia, la superioridad del sistema del sur, incluyendo nuestra cultura de consumo, los estándares de economía internacional y varios tipos de éxitos musicales del pop surcoreano”, le dijo a NK News una fuente anónima.
Esa afirmación también está en la misma vía de lo que una fuente militar dijo a la agencia de noticias AFP.
“Se pueden escuchar mensajes de la presidenta del país (Park Geun-hye), acerca de la libertad y la democracia, acompañados de canciones sobre el mismo tema y comentarios sobre cómo la obesidad es un problema por encima de la hambruna en su país”, anotó.
El sistema de parlantes ha sido reinstalado varias veces en la frontera con Corea del Norte.
Pero no parece ser un sistema de mensajes al azar: es una larga secuencia de contenidos que juegan al “largo plazo”.
Por ejemplo, se pasa de los relatos de los desertores y su nueva vida en Corea del Sur a una conversación familiar sobre cómo lidiar con el clima caliente en el país.
La transmisión puede finalizar con una oración budista.
Los mensajes políticos
Pero de acuerdo al informe de NK News, también hay una fuerte carga política de cuenta de los mensajes en contra del líder de Corea del Norte, Kim Jung-un.
Aunque el mensaje contra el “líder supremo” se ha ido suavizando para optimizar la eficacia de la guerra psicológica sutil en los últimos años, algunos programas mantienen esa línea de confrontación abierta.
Otro método de guerra psicológica es el
Uno de los programas es conducido por el periodista Ju Seong, quien es un abierto crítico del gobierno de Pyongyang y se concentra en desmenuzar las acciones y decisiones del joven Jung-un.
“Hola, residentes de Corea del Norte, este es un programa donde revisamos los artículos del ‘Rodong Sinmun‘ (el diario oficial del partido de gobierno de Corea del Norte) y hallamos las mentiras que se esconden en sus páginas”, se puede escuchar al periodista en el micrófono.
“Aquí dice que está yendo a otro país en una visita oficial. Lo digo: ningún gobierno extranjero le da la bienvenida a Kim Jung-un porque es un dictador. Además él está jugando al rey solitario que camina sobre una alfombra roja”, añadió Ju.
Otros métodos
Pero no es solo el poderoso sistema de altavoces el que Corea del Sur utiliza como propaganda en contra del sistema norcoreano.
Militantes pacifistas han hecho uso del sistema de globos inflados con helio y cargados de panfletos para llevar mensajes propagandísticos “de paz y democracia” a través de una de las fronteras más custodiadas del mundo.
Los altavoces está distribuidos a lo largo de la frontera entre ambas Coreas.
Unas horas después de ser lanzados desde el lado sur, los globos van cayendo en tierra y los volantes que están en el interior de los globos quedan al alcance de la mano de personas que residen más allá de la línea fronteriza.
Otra estrategia se basa en levantar enormes vallas con el mismo objetivo de los panfletos y los parlantes, que puedan ser leídas por los soldados que custodian la zona desmilitarizada.
Además, esta zona fronteriza es conocida por tener la mayor densidad de transmisiones radiales en el planeta debido a lo que se conoce como “interferencia intencional” de las ondas: un sistema de flujo de ondas en ambas direcciones para evitar que se puedan escuchar los programas que se emiten en el país vecino en lugar del propio.
Al menos seis personas murieron y 290 desaparecieron tras el naufragio de un ferry frente a la costa sur de Corea del Sur con 475 personas a bordo, en su mayoría estudiantes de secundaria que se iban de vacaciones.
La agencia de noticias Yonhap informó que 179 personas habían sido rescatadas, citando a fuentes de los guardacostas, lo que dejó la cifra de desaparecidos en 290. La cifra de personas a bordo también fue aumentada hasta 475.
Seis muertes fueron confirmadas, entre ellas un estudiante y una mujer de la tripulación, aunque con temores de que el balance mortal final sea mucho más elevado.
“Me temo que hay pocas posibilidades de encontrar en vida a los que todavía están atrapados dentro”, dijo Cho Yang-Bok, un responsable de las tareas de rescate a la cadena YTN.
Al caer la noche, los buceadores, entre ellos un equipo de las fuerzas especiales surcoreanas, seguían inspeccionando el barco de varias cubiertas con la ayuda de grandes focos para encontrar supervivientes.
Las autoridades temen que cientos de personas estén atrapadas en el ferry, que volcó y se hundió cerca de la isla de Byungpoong en apenas dos horas después del envío de la primera señal de socorro a las 09H00 de la mañana local (00H00 GMT).
La televisión mostró imágenes aéreas de los pasajeros con chalecos salvavidas en botes hinchables huyendo del ferry. Algunos bajaban deslizándose por el casco del barco totalmente inclinado mientras otros eran rescatados por pequeños botes de pescadores.
El ferry se dirigía a la isla de Jeju, un complejo turístico muy popular en el país. Entre los pasajeros había más de 300 estudiantes y 14 profesores de una escuela de enseñanza secundaria de Ansan, una ciudad en el sur de Seúl, que iban de vacaciones.
Al menos 78 de los rescatados eran estudiantes.
“Siento un profundo dolor de ver cómo unos estudiantes que iban de viaje se enfrentan a este trágico accidente. Quiero que pongan toda su energía en su misión”, dijo la presidenta Park Geun-Hye durante una visita al centro de coordinación de emergencias en Seúl.
Los padres de los alumnos se reunieron en la escuela secundaria de Ansan a la espera de noticias, e intentaban comunicarse con sus hijos.
Muchas personas fueron rescatadas por barcos de pesca y buques mercantes que estaban en la zona antes de que llegaran los guardacostas con apoyo de helicópteros.
También participaron en el rescate buceadores y fuerzas especiales de la marina surcoreana, explicó el viceministro. “Hay mucho barro en el agua y la visibilidad es muy escasa”, explicó.
El ferry, una embarcación de 6.825 toneladas, zarpó del puerto de Incheon el martes por la noche pero empezó a tener problemas tras recorrer 13 millas (20 kilómetros), frente a la isla de Byungpoong.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer claimed in a recent interview that “all” of the Americans who wanted to leave Afghanistan are already out, contradicting statements by the State Department that a small number of U.S. citizens are still trying to flee the Taliban-controlled country.
During an interview with ABC-affiliated WSYR at the New York State Fair on Friday, Schumer, D-N.Y., was asked how President Biden’s widely criticized ending to the U.S. war in Afghanistan might affect Democrats’ chances in the 2022 midterm elections.
“You know, I can’t predict that,” Schumer responded. “I will say there will be a job for congressional oversight. There always is.”
“But at the moment, actually, I’m still focused on trying to get some of those brave Afghans out,” he continued. “The Americans, all of whom wanted to come out have come out, praise God. But there are a lot of Afghans who risked their lives for our soldiers and others. Many got out, some didn’t, and I’m still working on trying to get some of them out.”
Schumer’s comments came several days before Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that U.S. officials in Washington had identified a “relatively” small number of Americans seeking to depart Mazar-i-Sharif International Airport and that the State Department was working with the Taliban to facilitate additional charter flights from Kabul, where the last of the U.S. troops departed on Aug. 30.
Blinken said the United States believes there are “somewhere around 100” American citizens still in Afghanistan who want to leave. The State Department had previously put that estimate at between 100 and 200.
It appeared to be the first time that the Biden administration confirmed there were Americans at the Mazar-i-Sharif airport after several reports that Taliban fighters had blocked Americans aboard six planes from evacuating.
Schumer’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
Fox News’ Edmund DeMarche contributed to this report.
La Fiscalía del Estado de Veracruz reconoció que el sacerdote José Luis Sánchez Ruíz, escapó de sus secuestradores y posteriormente llegó por su cuenta, en estado de shock y con huellas de tortura, a San Andrés Tuxtla.
“Quien dio el aviso de que el cura ya se encontraba con bien fue la Diócesis de San Andrés” dijo el fiscal General, Luis Ángel Bravo Contreras, quien en compañía del gobernador interino, Flavino Ríos Alvarado, arribaron al municipio de Catemaco, donde el padre fue privado de su libertad el pasado viernes 11 de noviembre de 2016.
No obstante que unos 150 elementos de la Fuerza Civil cercaron las inmediaciones del Palacio Municipal de Catemaco, para lo que sería un informe de las diligencias referentes al plagio del presbítero veracruzano, las autoridades se enterarse por redes sociales que la Diócesis de San Andrés Tuxtla había confirmado la aparición de José Luis Sánchez Ruíz.
“Quien dio el aviso de que el padre ya se encontraba con bien fue la Diócesis. Estamos por entrevistarnos con él. Vamos a esperar, pero el Ministerio Público sí investiga. Tenemos muchos elementos que no puedo darte a conocer porque la secrecía del caso así lo impone”, refirió Bravo Contreras.
Por su parte, una fuente de la Diócesis de San Andrés confirmó que el padre habría escapado de sus agresores durante las primeras horas de este domingo y que sus manos son de las partes más lesionadas a causa de posibles ataduras. Ahora se encuentra resguardado por la propia feligresía, pues los agresores siguen libres.
Alcalde de Catemaco señala a OGAI por el vandalismo
En otro tenor, el alcalde de Catemaco, Jorge González Azamar, aprovechó la visita del gobernador interino para demandar que Wilfrido Reyes Martínez y Luis Sánchez Aguirre, dirigentes de la Organización del Gobierno Autónomo Indígena (OGAI), fueran sujetos a investigación por su presunta responsabilidad en el incendio del Palacio Municipal.
González Azamar confirmó que presentará una denuncia por los hechos, pues al no hacerlo, “se convertiría en omiso”.
Las instalaciones municipales fueron consumidas por el fuego en un 70 por ciento, lo que afectó documentos que pertenecían a los 50 mil habitantes del municipio y que estaban bajo resguardo del Registro Civil, el Ministerio Público, el Catastro y a la Comandancia Municipal.
Estos hechos se registraron a menos de un mes de la presencia del secretario de Gobernación, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, quien aseguró que mediante operativos comandados por la Secretaría de Marina, se combatiría a los grupos que operan en la zona, como Los Zetas, Los Mismos y el Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación.
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The European Union has agreed to delay the United Kingdom’s departure from the EU, known as Brexit, until Oct. 31.
The deal, announced early Thursday in Brussels, averts a potential crisis as British leaders had failed to agree on their own plan for pulling out of the multi-state trade arrangement by Friday.
British Prime Minister Theresa May again called on Parliament to approve her Brexit deal.
“I know that there is a huge frustration from many people that I had to request this extension,” May said in a news conference. “The U.K. should have left the EU by now and I sincerely regret the fact that I have not been able to persuade parliament to approve the deal.”
French President Emmanuel Macron called the six-month extension “the best possible compromise” with other EU leaders who were prepared to give the U.K. a year to work out its Brexit plan. Macron favored a shorter deadline fearing potential negative effects of the U.K. staying in the bloc before its exit.
“What is indispensable for us is that nothing can compromise the European project in the following months,” the French president said as quoted by the Washington Post. “We have a European renaissance to implement, and I do not want the issue of Brexit to block us at this point.”
Elections for the European Parliament are scheduled for next month. Macron said the British have to decide whether to participate in the elections with an eye toward soon leaving the EU.
“Please do not waste this time,” said European Council President Donald Tusk, advising the U.K. to finally decide on the details of its planned departure from the EU.
Few observers missed that the Oct. 31 deadline coincides with Halloween.
“They’re not trying to be funny, but I think it’s totally appropriate given that, the way Brexit has gone, said NPR’s Frank Langfitt on All Things Considered. “It has been pretty much a horror story from early on.”
Langfitt said the real reason for the late October deadline is that the European Commission, the group that proposes legislation within the EU, will be seated on Nov. 1.
“So the idea is get the U.K. out before then,” said Langfitt. “There’s a concern that if there is a Brexiteer prime minister who comes in after Prime Minister May, they might try to cause some trouble.”
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — People stood in parking lots, jostled into front yards and packed into the rafters to witness Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s inaugural appearances here in the first presidential caucus state.
It was part of a trend: In December, the liberal group Progress Iowa doubled the size of its annual meeting from four years ago, with 300 activists eager to participate. In October, Iowa Democrats sold out their 1,500-seat dinner in Des Moines, which featured another potential contender, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey.
The Iowa caucuses remain 13 months away, but a pent-up demand for change in the White House is tangible among Democrats eager for the 2020 campaign to start in earnest. The throngs of voters bombarding events in Iowa are testament to something fearful for Republicans: The huge tide of Democratic voters who powered the party’s 2018 gains have not lost interest as attention turns to the 2020 presidential race.
“I’ve never been to a rally, but I wanted to for a long time,” said Dan Elliott, as he waited in the ornate Orpheum Theatre lobby in Sioux City for Warren to speak Saturday morning. “I’m surprised by the energy here. The lines are longer than people expected.”
Iowans cited a slew of reasons for their eagerness to begin the lengthy nomination process to settle on a leader to go up against President Trump. There were the tax cuts that one voter called “a waste of time and money;” the trade war with China depressing demand for exports and hurting farmers; the hostility toward immigrants, a labor pool heavily used on Iowa farms; the rolling back of environmental regulations that impact Iowa’s rivers; a foreign-policy approach changing the country’s status in the world; and the general chaos and lack of civility in the White House.
“It is never too soon to try to get rid of Donald Trump,” said Shannon Kennedy, a 48-year-old Iowan who stood in line to take a selfie in front of a barn-door sized American flag at the Orpheum Theatre. “There is an urgency to get things back on track. Our country is a laughingstock right now.”
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Con el iPhone SE, por primera vez dejan de “crecer” las pantallas de los teléfonos de Apple.
Pequeño, menos caro y muy parecido al iPhone 5. Esa es la esencia el nuevo iPhone SE que acaba de lanzar Apple en su flamante sede en California.
El nuevo modelo tendrá una pantalla de cuatro pulgadas -menor de las 4,7 pulgadas del iPhone 6 y 5,5 pulgadas del iPhone 6 Plus que se lanzaron hace un año y medio- y saldrá a la venta por US$399.
Es tres veces más rápido que el iphone 5S según dijo el vicepresidente de Apple, Greg Joswiak, durante la presentación que tuvo lugar en la sede de la empresa en Cupertino.
“Es el teléfono de cuatro pulgadas más potente del mundo”, dijo Joswia, quien aseguró que muchos consumidores prefieren aparatos más pequeños.
Algunos expertos afirman que, con ello, Apple quiere fortalecer su posición en mercados emergentes como China y América Latina.
Te contamos aquí las claves del iPhone SE y por qué este nuevo modelo podría interesarte.
Dos opciones
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Apple tradicionalmente anuncia nuevas versiones de sus famosos smartphones en otoño.
Con cuatro pulgadas, la pantalla del iPhone SE es exactamente del mismo tamaño que la del iPhone 5, la generación anterior los 6 y 6S.
Este modelo incluye funcionalidades que no tenían los iPhone 5c y 5s, pero que sí tenían los iPhone 6 con pantallas más grandes.
Concretamente, ofrece el sensor de huellas dactilares, es compatible con el sistema de pagos Apple Pay y añade la función “Hey Siri” que permite hablar con el asistente virtual sin tener que pulsar ningún botón.
Además incluye la misma cámara trasera de 12 megapíxeles de los iPhone 6s, capaz de grabar video en 4k, mientras que la delantera tendrá 1,2 megapíxeles.
Apple anunció dos modelos por capacidad de memoria, uno de 16 gb y el otro de 64 gb.
Misterio resuelto
El precio del nuevo iPhone era el gran misterio hasta ahora.
Al final, estará disponible en el mercado por US$399 el de menor capacidad y US$499 el de 64 gigabytes.
Apple comenzará a recibir pedidos este mismo lunes y los envíos comenzarán el 31 de marzo.
El nuevo modelo se irá introduciendo escalonadamente en el mercado y en países como España no estará disponible hasta abril.
Más pequeño
“Algunas personas les gustan los teléfonos más pequeños”, reconoció Greg Joswiak en el acto de presentación del nuevo modelo.
Apple vendió 30 millones de teléfonos con pantallas de 4 pulgadas el pasado año, aunque las ventas han sido más lentas en los últimos meses, en línea con el resto del mercado de teléfonos inteligentes.
Según algunos expertos la clave de esta apuesta de Apple está en que parte de los usuarios de iPhone de modelos anteriores más pequeños prefieren mantenerlos en vez de cambiarse a otro de tamaño mayor.
“Los iPhone más grandes se siguen vendiendo en grandes cantidades, pero hay evidencias de que algunas personas que tienen iPhone pequeños los mantienen en vez de cambiarse a uno más grande”, explicó a la agencia Reuters Jan Dawson, de la consultora Jackdaw Research.
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“A algunas personas les gustan los teléfonos más pequeños”, dijo el vicepresidente de Apple, Greg Joswiak en el acto de presentación del nuevo modelo.
La directora de investigación de Gartner, Annette Zimmerman, por su parte, asegura que el mercado de teléfonos inteligentes “se ha consolidado en torno a los dispositivos de cinco y seis pulgadas a nivel mundial”.
Por eso el ofrecer teléfonos más pequeños “no es realmente que capte una tendencia, sino que las personas que tienen un iPhone 4 o 5 están bastante contentas con el tamaño”.
Zimmerman lo ve como “una forma de actualizarse y, obviamente, la venta de un teléfono con un tamaño de pantalla más pequeña ayudará con los márgenes (de venta) de estos dispositivos”, añadió.
“No creo que dé lugar al fuerte crecimiento (de ventas) que vimos después de que saliera el iPhone 6. Sería muy difícil de superar”.
Sin sorpresas
“La presentación del lunes fue justo lo que esperábamos”, señaló el periodista especializado en tecnología de la BBC Dave Lee.
Con la ralentización de las ventas del iPhone, Apple necesitaba captar algunos nuevos clientes y el iPhone SE probablemente lo logrará, apunta Lee.
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Este nuevo teléfono está dirigido a los usuarios cuyo presupuesto no puede estirarse como para adquirir uno de los últimos modelos de iPhone de mayor calidad y quizá incluso hayan pensado cambiarse a Android.
No obstante, a diferencia del 5c, el último modelo iPhone que Apple tiene un precio más asequible y no viene en una gama de colores alegres que fácilmente los identifican con el “modelo barato”.
El teléfono estará disponible en gris espacial, plateado, dorado y oro rosado, igual que los modelos más recientes de Apple. Esto hará al usuario sentir que tiene uno de los productos de la más alta gama, sólo que más pequeño.
Algunos analistas de productos tecnológicos critican lo que consideran es una falta de innovación por parte de la compañía californiana.
“Oficialmente nos hemos quedado sin ideas para nuevos productos”, ironizaba en Twitter el analista de tecnología de CBS Jeff Bakalar.
President Trump said he’ll raise tariffs Friday on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods, ending a truce in the U.S. trade war with Beijing amid negotiations that the president said are moving “too slowly.”
Mr. Trump said on Twitter that U.S. tariffs of 10 percent will be increased to 25 percent on a variety of Chinese imports. He also warned that $325 billion worth of Chinese goods that haven’t been subject to tariffs will be levied at a rate of 25 percent “shortly.”
A team of trade negotiators from China led by Vice Premier Liu He is due in Washington this week to resume the latest round of talks with Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and other U.S. officials. Both sides reported progress during negotiations in Beijing last week, and CNBC had reported that a deal could come by this Friday.
Mr. Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed in late November to suspend any more tariff increases on both sides as talks continued. The U.S. had begun raising tariffs on Chinese products in 2018 as Mr. Trump complained about Beijing’s unfair trade practices and a rising trade deficit with China.
The Chinese had responded with retaliatory tariffs on a broad range of U.S. goods, including agricultural products.
Mr. Trump said Sunday that partial tariffs on Chinese high-tech products “are partially responsible for our great economic results.”
“The Tariffs paid to the USA have had little impact on product cost, mostly borne by China,” he said. “The Trade Deal with China continues, but too slowly, as they attempt to renegotiate. No!”
Economists say that tariffs are paid by U.S. importers, not by China, and that the importers pass along most of those increased costs to U.S. consumers.
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El miércoles se debe iniciarse la sesión para votar si se enjuicia a Rousseff.
El presidente de la Cámara de Diputados de Brasil, Waldir Maranhão, revocó la decisión de anular la votación que autorizaba a iniciar el juicio político para suspender a la presidenta del país, Dilma Rousseff.
La anulación la anunció el lunes por la mañana, y a última hora de ese mismo día se echó para atrás.
Maranhão, del Partido Progresista, escribió dos cartas informando de la decisión final, una dirigida a la Cámara de Diputados y otra al presidente del Senado, Rennan Calheiros (PMDB-AL).
El titular de Diputados había solicitado al Senado que el proceso volviera a la cámara que preside para ser reconsiderado.
Sin embargo,el del Senado anunció que seguirá adelante con el cronograma previsto.
“Es una decisión intempestiva”, que “no tiene ninguna cabida” en el proceso democrático y que “no puede ser aceptada”, dijo el presidente del Senado, Renán Calheiros.
Es decir, el miércoles se debería iniciar la sesión para votar si se enjuicia a Rousseff.
Y de pasar por mayoría simple, comenzaría el “impeachment” y la mandataria sería suspendida de inmediato por hasta 180 días.
The Pennsylvania woman accused of directing pro-Trump rioters to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the Capitol siege, stealing a laptop in Pelosi’s office, and allegedly trying to send it to Russia has been arrested.
Riley June Williams
Federal authorities say Riley June Williams, who was on the run with possibly the laptop computer or hard drive, surrendered, according to multiple reports.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office online database of those charged in the Capitol riot listed Williams as being “arrested 1/18/21 in the Middle District of Pennsylvania.” There were no further details available just before midnight Monday of her arrest, but the “statement of facts” in the case was included.
The FBI tip line for the deadly Capitol insurrection has been flooded with calls since Jan. 6. One witness who made several calls into the FBI’s tip line was Williams’ former partner, the feds said.
Her ex said they saw Williams in video footage from inside the Capitol building. She was directing rioters up a staircase, according to the ex, named “W1” in the criminal complaint.
“W1 also claimed to have spoken to friends of WILLIAMS, who showed W1 a video of WILLIAMS taking a laptop computer or hard drive from Speaker Pelosi’s office,” the complaint reads. “W1 stated that WILLIAMS intended to send the computer device to a friend in Russia, who then planned to sell the device to SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service.
“According to W1, the transfer of the computer device to Russia fell through for unknown reasons and WILLIAMS still has the computer device or destroyed it,” the complaint states. “This matter remains under investigation.”
The feds have watched YouTube videos of Williams inside the Capitol.
“She can be heard in the video repeatedly yelling, ‘Upstairs, upstairs, upstairs,’ and can be seen physically directing other intruders to proceed up a staircase,” the feds wrote.
“I have confirmed with U.S. Capitol Police that the staircase depicted in the video does, in fact, lead to Speaker Pelosi’s office,” the feds added, also writing, “The maps confirm that there is a nearby staircase, which leads to the office of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.”
Williams apparently fled soon after, the feds said. Her mother told law enforcement officers in Harrisburg, Pa., that Williams packed a bag and left her home. She would be gone for a couple of weeks, Williams told her mother.
“WILLIAMS did not provide her mother any information about her intended destination,” the feds wrote. “Sometime after January 6, 2021, WILLIAMS changed her telephone number and deleted what I believe were her social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, Telegram, and Parler.”
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