My “Build Back Better” plan with key investments to fight climate change, cutting emissions and make things more resilient. Each dollar we invest, every dollar — we raise a city block by two feet, flood-proof power stations, sanitations, reduction in the buildup of kindling in our forest, installing electrical lines underground rather than overhead — saves us six dollars for every single dollar we spend to do those things.
Because the next time disaster strikes, the flood is contained, the fire doesn’t spread as widely, and power stays on. Not to mention those investments save lives, homes and create good-paying union jobs.
I hosted 56 heads of state in Washington. And I pointed out, we’re talking about climate change, and I said I think of one word when I think of climate change: jobs. Good-paying jobs. Each of these things requires a good-paying job, not $7 or $12 or $15, but $45, $50 an hour plus health care. That’s what is needed. And so, folks — and also, Wall Street, not too far from here, acknowledges that if we spend the money on these things, we’re going to grow the economy, increase employment.
You know, the fire in Oregon sent smoke all the way to the Atlantic. A storm in the Gulf, as you have now figured out, can reverberate 10 states away. Supply chains and crop production get interrupted, driving up costs, devastating industries all over America. This is everybody’s crisis. Everybody’s crisis.
And let me just say, again: The fact is that the damage done on the West Coast, which I’ll be heading to, they’ve already burned five million acres to the ground. That’s bigger than the state of New Jersey, if I’m not mistaken. Five million acres. And you see it by the smoke that ends up coming over the East Coast.
Folks, we’re all in this. It’s about time we stopped the regional fights and understand helping somebody make sure there’s no fewer fires in the West warrants helping people in this alley make sure they’re not flooded.
And by the way, it’s not just the flooding. I’ll end with this — not just the flooding. Flooding ends up overrunning sanitation systems. And it causes disease. People get sick, and it’s serious, serious business. So we’ve got a lot of work to do.
‘Kudlow’ host slams the president for saying the top 1% pay almost no income tax on ‘America Reports’
“Kudlow” host Larry Kudlow blasted Biden for stating the top 1% get away with paying almost no income tax telling “America Reports” the president’s mantra of asking the wealthy to “pay their fair share” is a “Democrat talking point” they think polls well. He also noted that with Biden’s new tax plan, “only Colombia and Portugal” will have higher tax rates.
LARRY KUDLOW: With this Ways and Means proposal, which will come if you add in the states, this will come to 26.5% plus 4.1%. Just call it 31%. Only Colombia and Portugal, two small countries, have higher tax rates. We will now have the highest of all the big major industrial countries, including China. Is that what we want? In terms of the capital gains tax, we will have a higher capital gains tax for investment than China. Is that what we want? And will somebody look at these profit numbers and tax revenue numbers? This is phony, and they should ashamed of themselves for putting this stuff out there.
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It is a terrible, factual misstatement. It goes beyond cognitive dissonance. The numbers are very clear. First of all, the top 1% pay 40% of the income taxes. The bottom 50% or more don’t pay income taxes. He [Biden] doesn’t talk about that. If you do the numbers right, over a 10-year period, the spending will be roughly $5.5 trillion, plus a trillion for the so-called infrastructure, which only a third is for infrastructure. Nobody in their right mind believes that a strong economy with excessive inflation requires $6 trillion in new federal spending. I don’t care what side you are on, Democrat or Republican, supply-side or Keynesian. No one believes that. He [Biden] just said corporations don’t pay taxes. We are seeing record tax revenues from record profits. The Trump tax cuts not only succeeded in record-low unemployment, low poverty and helped minority groups, but they [tax cuts] paid for themselves. It was a $350 million corporate tax cut and added profits and revenues within 18 months. Biden’s economists and his own Treasury department will be happy to supply him with the numbers if he ever wants to look. If you go after these company that are so profitable, you will lose $100 billion in profits next year. Roughly half of S&P 500 profits will go down from higher taxes.
Prime Minister Theresa May might sneak a very tight victory on Tuesday, but an array of parliamentary blocs opposed to her deal mean the odds are against her.
That’s my basic assessment of what will happen at 3 p.m. ET when members of parliament in Britain’s House of Commons vote on May’s Brexit deal. That deal would govern a transition period following Britain’s planned March 29 departure from the European Union. But, while I think May has the best deal she could get from the EU, many in parliament disagree.
First off, there are the “hard-Brexit” fundamentalists of May’s own Conservative Party. Unified under the European Research Group parliamentary caucus, these MPs believe May’s deal offers insufficient break with the EU. They say that May’s deal would keep Britain overly tied to various EU regulations, especially in the area of trade and customs. The ERG have shown they are willing to act where it matters: They were instrumental in defeating May on this same deal back in January. While the prime minister’s team had hoped that some ERG would shift their voting intention in light of new concessions granted by the EU late on Monday, they have since ruled out doing so. That said, May will have her fingers crossed that some of these MPs will abstain rather than vote against her.
The next bloc against May are the so-called “remainer” MPs who oppose Brexit. Wishing to overturn the referendum that precipitated Brexit, these MPs believe that a new referendum should be called. They believe that the public will then vote to remain inside the EU.
Next up, there are the erstwhile allies of May’s government from the Northern Irish DUP and other Conservative MPs outside of the ERG. While these MPs support May on other policy issues, they have rejected May’s Brexit agreement in the belief that it offers too few protections against a breach in British sovereignty. Their particular concern fixes on the so-called “backstop” arrangement that would govern the Northern Irish border with the Republic of Ireland in the event no final status deal was reached with the EU.
Finally, there’s the opposition Labour Party. Led by Jeremy Corbyn, Labour wants May to call a new election that might allow them to enter power and then strike their own deal with the EU. But Labour has also suggested that it might call a second referendum if May’s plan is defeated on Tuesday. It’s worth noting here that Labour is nearly as divided on Brexit as are the Conservatives.
Regardless, the simple conclusion of these various interest groups is that May’s plan looks likely to be defeated. If that happens, Brexit itself may fall by the wayside. It’s a big day.
Facebook activa el filtro de noticias falsas para no repetir experiencia de elecciones de EE.UU.
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Facebook se está adelantando a las elecciones en Alemania, que se realizarán en otoño, y para evitar que las noticias falsas y factores externos puedan intervenir en la campaña electoral, como supuestamente habría ocurrido en EE.UU., la empresa está lanzando de forma adelantada su servicio de confirmación de noticias.
Según reportó The Verge con información de The Financial Times, Facebook lanzará su filtro para alertar de noticias falsas en Alemania después de la creciente preocupación en este país por las noticias fabricadas mediante la injerencia de Rusia en las elecciones de EE.UU., y que les colocan como un blanco fácil.
De este modo Facebook comenzará a verificar y marcar las noticias falsas para los usuarios alemanes las próximas semanas. Esta herramienta fue lanzada primero en EE.UU. mediante asociaciones con organizaciones independientes de verificaciones de hechos.
La decisión de Facebook también tiene un sustento económico. Los legisladores alemanes están considerando la imposición de multas a las redes sociales que permitan la difusión de noticias falsas.
El funcionamiento de la herramienta de Facebook el Alemania será el siguiente: los usuarios reportarán las noticias, y una organización llamada Correctiv, sin ánimos de lucro y con sede en Berlín, las revisará y etiquetará como verificadas o falsas, según sea el caso.
Facebook dijo al Times que estaba buscando socios de verificación en otros países para lanzar la herramienta en más lugares. “Nuestro enfoque está en Alemania en este momento, pero ciertamente estamos pensando en los siguientes países”, escribió The Verge.
Nintendo deslumbra con la Switch y HTC introduce la línea U de celulares con IA
[La semana en CNET en Español #118] Nintendo mostró finalmente su esperadísima consola Switch, HTC presentó su nueva línea de celulares U con inteligencia artificial y Facebook propone soluciones a la crisis de las noticias falsas.
Mr. Trump encouraged one organizer to pack the ballroom for a February event beyond the 700-person limit, advising that person to tell his staff at Mar-a-Lago that he said he would allow the increase. That organizer was told that the Mar-a-Lago security team had no final say over crowd numbers, but the event still grew to around 730 guests.
In the end, Mr. Trump did not attend, and it was screened by Mar-a-Lago officials and a private security company hired by the event’s organizers.
When the president is not at his club, the security bubble becomes easier to break.
Members and guests must still present identification and check in with the club’s security team, but several layers of Secret Service protection are not in place. Laurence Leamer, a Palm Beach resident who wrote a book about Mar-a-Lago, said in an interview that the scene could be freewheeling, “like having dinner at the Outback Steakhouse,” adding that the security “seems to me to be incredibly lax.”
Mr. Trump was at his nearby golf club four miles away when Ms. Zhang showed up at the resort on Saturday, and the process that the Secret Service uses to check visitors when he is in town was in place, officials said. Ms. Zhang was screened by agents before reaching the club’s reception area, but confusion over her name and a potential communication barrier led to her entering.
On Wednesday, the Secret Service was reviewing the Saturday incident with security at Mar-a-Lago. John Cohen, a former acting under secretary at the Department of Homeland Security who worked closely with the Secret Service on protection details, said the president’s “predictable” travel to the resort had made the location vulnerable.
“That’s a nightmare for the Secret Service,” he said. “A privately owned ranch where the president and his people use the location is much easier than protecting the president when he chooses to go to a private club that’s open to members that provides services to those people in exchange for a fee.”
When people approach a checkpoint at Mar-a-Lago, the Secret Service is focused on screening them for weapons or explosives, Mr. Mihalek said.
ROYAL PALM BEACH — In a Publix filled with lunchtime shoppers, a man Thursday walked into the produce section, fatally shot a woman and her young grandson, and then turned the gun on himself, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said.
The agency said late Thursday it would not identify either the woman or the toddler, who would have turned 2 years old this month. It said their family had invoked its rights under a 2018 amendment to the state constitution, modeled on California’s Marsy’s Law, that allows crime victims and their families to withhold their names from public reports.
The sheriff’s office said it would identify the gunman once it notifies his next of kin. It said that as of Thursday night, there was “no known motive or relationship between the gunman and his victims.” It cautioned that its detectives still were investigating.
Officials said a gun was found near the body of the man and they believe his injuries were self-inflicted.
Deputies said the Publix, in The Crossroads shopping plaza at Royal Palm Beach and Okeechobee boulevards, would remained closed until Saturday.
Customers can collect the items they left behind between 9 a.m. and noon Friday in front of the store, the agency said. All items have been safely bagged and a sheriff’s deputy will distribute them.
The murderous attack at the store sent panicked shoppers and workers scurrying for cover, witnesses said.
Juan Guardia said he was near the deli when chaos erupted.
“I heard, ‘They’re shooting!’ A woman Publix worker said, ‘Run! Shooting!’ ” Guardia recalled. “I was scared. It’s sad because everything happened fast. Everyone was running. Some employees were crying.”
At a news conference, sheriff’s spokeswoman Teri Barbera said detectives were interviewing witnesses and reviewing surveillance-camera video as they tried to determine what led to the shooting, which occurred at about 11:40 a.m.
Onlookers outside the shopping plaza expressed shock at the deadly events that came on the heels of a series of mass shootings around the country and days before Saturday’s five-year anniversary of the deadly rampage at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando that left 50 dead.
Store patrons saddened, shocked: ‘This is a friendly Publix’
“This is a friendly Publix. I can’t believe this crazy thing happened,” said Tracy Greene, a regular at the shopping center.
“I’ve been here for 20 years, and I can’t believe this is happening,” agreed Tracey Cohron, a Royal Palm Beach resident who often shops at the Publix. “I know so many people who work there. I’m scared to death to find out who even got shot.”
Had she left her home six minutes earlier, Cohron said, she might have been inside the store when gunfire erupted. “This is insane,” she said. “I can’t believe this is really happening in my neighborhood.”
Oahtee Moody, a Royal Palm Beach resident who lives across the street from the center, said the shooting was a tragic sign of the times.
“This is not a Publix problem. This is a people problem,” Moody said. “I was born and raised here, and I never would expect this to happen.”
Publix officials at the chain’s headquarters in Lakeland said they were aware of the shooting, but referred questions to the sheriff’s office.
“Our thoughts are with those who are impacted by this tragedy,” a Publix spokesperson said in a statement. “We are cooperating with the local law enforcement.”
Dozens of sheriff’s deputies remained at the shopping center throughout the day. They cordoned off the store and checked license tags on cars in the parking lot.
Publix employees were allowed to leave the store in groups throughout the afternoon. All declined to comment.
Other stores in the plaza closed after the shooting. It is unclear when they will reopen. Publix officials recently announced that the grocery store would close soon for renovations.
In a statement, County Commissioner Melissa McKinlay, who represents the area, expressed sympathy for those who were killed, their families, those who witnessed the shootings and first-responders.
But, she said, the shooting underscores a societal problem that must be addressed.
Mourning is not enough, she said. “Tomorrow we must step up and engage in a very honest conversation about why this happened and what we can do specifically to prevent this violence,” McKinlay said. “Inaction is not an option.”
As of May 26, there had been 232 mass shootings in the United States this year, according to The National Violence Archive, a nonprofit research group. One took place inside a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, where 10 people died.
The organization defines a mass shooting as an event where four or more people are killed or injured, not counting the shooter.
Two deadly rampages occurred recently in South Florida. Two people were killed and 21 injured at a Memorial Day weekend concert in the Miami area and three people were fatally shot Sunday at a graduation party for Miami-Dade College students.
In a tweet, to alert the public of the Publix shooting in Royal Palm Beach, the sheriff’s office sought to calm people’s worst fears.
“Detectives are investigating a shooting that took place INSIDE Publix in RPB. Upon arrival deputies located three individuals deceased from gunshot wounds, one adult male, one adult female and one child. The shooter is one of the deceased. This was NOT an active shooter situation.”
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Deadliest recent shootings in Palm Beach County
June 2015: Greenacres grandmother Nilda Sheffield fatally shoots her daughter Elizabeth Flores and her daughter’s two children, 2-year-old Sofia Chiddo, and 7-year-old Xavier Neff.
September 2010: Patrick Dell burst into his estranged wife’s home in Riviera Beach and kills Natasha Whyte-Dell and four of her seven children. A fifth child was shot in the neck but survived.
January 2010: Wellington mortgage broker Neal Jacobson fatally shoots his wife and 7-year-old twin sons, Eric and Joshua.
November 2009: Paul Michael Merhige kills four family members at a Thanksgiving dinner in Jupiter.
September 2002: Michael Roman executes five family members in a Lake Worth home.
President Trump’s new executive order giving the attorney general broad authority to declassify government secrets threatens to expose U.S. intelligence sources and could distort the FBI and CIA’s roles in investigating Russian interference in the 2016 elections, current and former U.S. officials said.
On Thursday, Trump allowed Attorney General William P. Barr to declassify information he finds during his review of what the White House called “surveillance activities during the 2016 Presidential election.”
Trump has long complained that the U.S. government engaged in illegal “spying” on his campaign, alleging without evidence that his phones were tapped and that American officials conspired with British counterparts in an effort to undermine his bid for the White House.
It appeared unprecedented to give an official who is not in charge of an intelligence agency the power to reveal its secrets. Current and former intelligence officials said they were concerned that Barr could selectively declassify information that paints the intelligence agencies and the FBI in a bad light without giving a complete picture of their efforts in 2016.
Ordinarily, any review of intelligence activities would be done by the Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats. But in giving that authority to Barr, the president has turned to someone he perceives as a loyalist and who has already said that he thinks the government spied on the Trump campaign.
“This is a complete slap in the face to the director of national intelligence,” said James Baker, the former FBI general counsel. “So why is the attorney general doing the investigation? Probably because the president trusts the attorney general more,” said Baker, now a director at the R Street Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington.
Trump has never considered Coats a close or effective adviser, and earlier this year administration officials said they thought the president might fire him.
Michael Morell, a former CIA deputy director, called it “potentially dangerous” to let Barr decide what to declassify, because “the DNI is in the best position to judge the damage to intelligence sources and methods.”
“This is yet another destruction of norms that weakens our intelligence community,” said Morell, now the host of the Intelligence Matters podcast. “It is yet another step that will raise questions among our allies and partners about whether to share sensitive intelligence with us.”
Trump told reporters Friday that the Russia probe was “an attempted coup or an attempted takedown of the president of the United States.” He said he hoped Barr would investigate several foreign countries, including two of the United States’ closest allies.
“I hope he looks at the U.K. and I hope he looks at Australia and I hope he looks at Ukraine,” Trump said. “I hope he looks at everything, because there was a hoax that was perpetrated on our country.”
Others questioned whether Barr would take intelligence officials’ advice or act on his own when deciding what he might make public.
“The part of this order that I find the most troubling says that the attorney general should consult with intelligence community elements on declassification ‘to the extent he deems it practicable,’ ” said Robert Litt, who is a former general counsel for the office of the director of national intelligence and is now with the law firm Morrison & Foerster. “He apparently doesn’t have to consult with them if he thinks that would be impracticable.”
In a statement, Coats signaled that he expected Barr and the agencies to work together.
“Much like we have with other investigations and reviews, the Intelligence Community will provide the Department of Justice all of the appropriate information for its review of intelligence activities related to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election,” Coats said. “As part of that process, I am confident that the Attorney General will work with the IC in accordance with the long-established standards to protect highly-sensitive classified information that, if publicly released, would put our national security at risk.”
A senior official said Barr has expressed concerns privately that the CIA may not have done much to try to use its own source networks in Russia to figure out whether allegations in a document written by British former intelligence officer Christopher Steele were accurate.
Trump and his allies in Congress have seized on the document, often called “the dossier,” as evidence that the Obama administration built an investigation of Trump predicated on unsubstantiated and salacious claims.
A former senior CIA official said the dossier played no role in an intelligence community assessment, released in January 2017, that concluded Russia tried to help Trump win.
“First, the CIA was falsely accused of using the dossier in the [assessment], and once people finally realized they did not use it, now the CIA is being criticized for not investigating the dossier,” said the former official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.
“It is not the CIA’s job to investigate a document that was in the hands of the FBI and floating around the media,” the former official said. “The CIA was focused on trying to identify what the Russians were doing to interfere in our election. The FBI is who was focused on counterintelligence concerns with respect to U.S. persons.”
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III found that the FBI began an investigation into potential coordination between Russia and Trump campaign associates in July 2016, after an Australian diplomat told U.S. officials that a Trump adviser claimed to know about incriminating information Russia possessed about Hillary Clinton. Earlier that month, emails that Russian government hackers stole from the Democratic National Committee had been published by WikiLeaks.
Republican lawmakers have previously demanded information about the FBI investigation that has revealed the identity of an informant and led to the partial disclosure of an application for surveillance of a former Trump campaign aide, Carter Page. Those disclosures came after lengthy negotiations between Justice Department officials and members of Congress.
Now, Barr has the authority to declassify such information on his own.
“This extraordinary assignment and the reaction it has provoked shows how far we have moved from historical norms,” said David Kris, a former head of the national security division at the Justice Department and the founder of Culper Partners, a consulting firm. “Since the mid-1970s, the country has expected the attorney general to help oversee and enforce a system of intelligence under law, appropriately respectful of privacy and rigorously apolitical.
“Now, because of the president’s relentless efforts to politicize law enforcement, many observers fear that the attorney general is a threat to apolitical intelligence under law.”
The World Health Organization recently repeated its recommendation that even vaccinated people should continue to wear masks, in part due to the global spread of Delta.
The C.D.C. has stood by its mask guidance, however, with Dr. Walensky noting the W.H.O.’s global purview and the fact that wealthy nations have snapped up so many of the available shots. She has added that local officials in the United States can opt for more stringent measures to protect the unvaccinated. On Thursday, Los Angeles County said it was reinstating an indoor mask mandate for everyone beginning this weekend, regardless of vaccination status. On Friday, Dr. Walensky pointed out the heterogenous nature of the country and said “these decisions have to be made at the local level.”
“If you have areas of low vaccination and high case rates, then I would say local policymakers might consider whether masking at that point would be something that would be helpful for their community,” she added.
In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday there were currently no plans to reintroduce an indoor mask mandate for everyone citywide, nor did he think the move was needed. The city has reported a recent streak of more than 400 cases per day, up from about 200 per day on average just a few weeks ago. “We need to watch it like a hawk,” he said on a radio show, referring to the Delta variant.
Health officials are focused on hospitalizations, he said, which have remained low in recent weeks. About 53 percent of city residents are fully vaccinated, according to city data. Should hospitalization rates rise, he said, the city will adapt.
“We don’t have a plan to change course at this point,” he said, adding that “if we see something that we need to change, we will say it immediately and will call people to arms.”
After narrowly missing a self-imposed goal of having 70 percent of adults at least partially vaccinated by July 4, the Biden administration is making a renewed push to try to reach those who have still not gotten their shots. Officials have also recently announced the creation of “surge response teams” to help hard-hit states manage Delta-driven outbreaks. Missouri and Nevada have already requested assistance.
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Este lunes comienza en la capital francesa la conferencia internacional sobre cambio climático.
Los líderes mundiales se encuentran en una París todavía golpeada por los ataques del pasado 13 de noviembre para intentar avanzar en la lucha contra el cambio climático.
Les ofrecemos una guía rápida para conocer en qué consiste esta cumbre.
¿Para qué es la conferencia?
Al grano, los gobiernos del mundo ya se comprometieron a recortar las actividades humanas que liberan gases de efecto invernadero, como la quema de combustibles fósiles.
Pero esa no es la solución al problema.
La dificultad está en conseguir que 195 países acuerden cómo lidiar con el asunto del cambio climático.
Cada año, desde 1992, se celebra la conferencia de las partes con los negociadores tratando de componer un plan práctico.
Este año, en París, es la última oportunidad para este proceso. Los negociadores dispusieron en 2011 que el acuerdo definitivo debía adoptarse antes del fin de 2015.
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de incremento de temperatura desde 1850.
2 ºC se considera el límite de un calentamiento global demasiado peligroso.
30% han subido los niveles de CO2 desde la Revolución Industrial.
4% ha retrocedido la cantidad de hielo en el Ártico.
9 de 10 de los años más cálidos registrados han ocurrido desde el año 2000.
Los críticos dicen que el problema del cambio climático no será tan urgente cuando se toman 20 años para acordar una solución.
Pero los defensores de las cumbres argumentan que tomarse tanto tiempo es necesario porque las decisiones se adoptan por consenso en el sentido de que no hay nada acordado hasta que todo ha sido acordado.
Las partes creen que, a pesar de esta enorme limitación, es la mejor manera de garantizar un resultado justo: todos compartimos el planeta, así que todos deberíamos tener una voz con el mismo peso respecto a su futuro.
¿Por qué tiene un nombre tan extraño?
COP21 es la forma abreviada del inglés para la vigésimoprimera Conferencia de las Partes de la Convención Marco de Naciones Unidas sobre Cambio Climático.
Este larguísimo título fue creado en la cumbre celebrada en 1992 en la brasileña Río de Janeiro, donde por primera vez se reunieron los países preocupados por el cambio climático.
Allí se acordó una convención que entró en vigor en 1994 y que ha sido suscrita por 195 países.
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Los líderes mundiales acuden a la jornada inaugural para luego dar paso a los equipos negociadores de cada país.
La clave del acuerdo está en la “estabilización de los gases de efecto invernadero en la atmósfera a un nivel que evite la interferencia humana dañina en el sistema climático”.
¿Quién asistirá?
Se espera que unas 40.000 personas de todo el mundo lleguen a la cumbre en las dos semanas que dura.
Una gran parte son delegados de los gobiernos, sobre todo funcionarios. Dependiendo del caso, van desde equipos de dos personas a varios cientos en el caso de los países más ricos.
Hay muchos lobistas y representantes de empresas, de la industria y la agricultura. También de grupos ambientalistas.
Los líderes políticos también se harán presentes, aunque sólo por un día. Su papel será dar discursos e impulsar el trabajo de sus negociadores hacia un compromiso efectivo.
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En cuanto llegó a París, el presidente de EE.UU., Barack Obama, fue al teatro Le Bataclan, donde rindió tributo a las víctimas de los ataques del 13 de noviembre.
Entre los representantes estatales destacan los ministros de Medio Ambiente, que también llegarán al final de las negociaciones para darle forma al acuerdo definitivo.
¿Qué esperan conseguir?
Piensa en todo lo que te rodea: el teléfono o computadora en que estás leyendo esto, lo que comes, la ropa que vistes…
Casi todo lo que ves, tocas o sientes ha sido cultivado, construido, transportado usando energía que viene de combustibles fósiles.
Han sido de enorme utilidad para el desarrollo de la humanidad, permitieron la industrialización, el desarrollo, sacar a millones de la pobreza.
Pero está bien documentado que el dióxido de carbono que se genera tiene un efecto invernadero; es decir, atrapa el calor en la superficie del planeta.
Según los científicos, es impredecible el impacto que tendrá en el clima el hecho de que la media de la temperatura de la Tierra supere 2 ºC la de los tiempos previos a la industrialización.
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La conferencia sobre el cambio climático durará toda esta semana.
Y estamos ya a medio camino de ese peligroso punto.
Así que el propósito de París es trabajar una manera de limitar las emisiones de esos gases, mientras se permite que los países puedan seguir creciendo y se le ofrezca ayuda a los menos desarrollados y más afectados por la subida de las temperaturas.
¿Simple? Es probablemente el acuerdo de cooperación más ambicioso jamás planteado.
¿Cuáles son los puntos de desacuerdo?
El destino final es un mundo donde las temperaturas no suban más de 2 ºC por encima del nivel en que estaban entre 1850 y 1899.
Esa es la aspiración de largo plazo que ya se ha pactado.
Pero hay graves diferencias sobre cómo alcanzarlo. Los países en desarrollo dicen que quieren el derecho a seguir quemando petróleo y carbón hasta que terminen con la pobreza.
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Miles de ciudadanos piden a las autoridades más acción contra el cambio climático en todo el mundo estos días.
Argumentan que ahora es su turno, pues los ricos han tenido acceso sin restricciones a los combustibles fósiles por dos siglos.
Así que el acuerdo de París requiere encontrar un balance entre la necesidad de recortar esos gases con el derecho a usarlos.
La cuestión de quién paga es también crucial.
¿Quién va a asumir el coste de la transición a las energías renovables para los países que no se lo pueden permitir?
¿Quién va a poner dinero para ayudar a los países pobres a adaptarse a la subida de los niveles del mar y a las sequías y olas de calor?
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El mundo estaba dividido entre países desarrollados y los que estaban en desarrollo, tomando como medida los ingresos del país.
¿Pueden los países que sufran el impacto del cambio climático en el futuro poner demandas legales contra los que consideren responsables?
Estas son algunas de las cuestiones más complicadas que están por responderse. Pero sobre todo está el asunto de la justicia.
Los países más ricos dicen que el mundo ha cambiado desde que se iniciaron las conferencias en 1992.
Entonces, el mundo estaba dividido entre países desarrollados y los que estaban en desarrollo, tomando como medida los ingresos del país.
Pero esta división ya no es necesariamente vigente, pues están las economías emergentes que pueden también arrimar el hombro en los crecientes costos del cambio climático en el futuro.
¿Servirá para algo?
La diferencia que puede hacer la cumbre es potencialmente enorme.
En los años 80, los científicos descubrieron el agujero en la capa de ozono y el acuerdo alcanzado en Montreal, Canadá, estableció la manera de atajar el problema.
Rápidamente, el mundo dejó de usar los destructivos gases que causaron el problema y en la actualidad el agujero se está cerrando.
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La diferencia que puede hacer la cumbre es potencialmente enorme.
El cambio climático requiere un método similar, pero a una escala mucho mayor.
Un acuerdo ambicioso en París limitaría los gases de efecto invernadero y pondría al mundo en el camino hacia la reducción del impacto del cambio climático.
Pero la realidad de la política y las negociaciones hace que probablemente se trate de un acuerdo de compromiso.
Entonces, con el tiempo, los negociadores podrán fortalecer el acuerdo y hacerlo más ambicioso.
La esperanza no está perdida. Basta ver lo lejos que ha llegado la humanidad simplemente con la iteración y reiteración de las ideas hasta que se convierten en algo mejor.
Un ejemplo, los teléfonos inteligentes e internet.
Así que pese al potencial de fracaso y lo probable de un compromiso algo desordenado, un resultado en la cumbre de París, sea débil o robusto, es que va a estar en el corazón de todo lo que intentemos en el futuro.
Y ese será uno de los grandes logros de la humanidad.
About two years ago, US president Donald Trump entrusted his son-in-law and White House advisor, Jared Kushner, with one of the world’s most pernicious problems: achieving peace in the Middle East.
Specifically, Kushner was tasked with formulating a plan to finally end land disputes between Israelis and Palestinians. Most observers assumed any deal would include Palestinian statehood and end Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.
On June 22, Kushner—who previously worked in his family’s New York real estate development company—unveiled his proposal. Entitled “Peace to Prosperity,” it reads somewhat like a glossy brochure for a proposed building development—perhaps unsurprising given the backgrounds of Kushner and Trump.
As developers are wont to do, Kushner paints a rosy future. “Generations of Palestinians have lived under adversity and loss, but the next chapter can be defined by freedom and dignity,” the proposal states.
The plan is premised on three tenets: “Unleashing economic potential, empowering the Palestinian people, and enhancing Palestinian governance.” It’s replete with buzzwords, charts, and tables. It promises investments in private enterprise, education, health care, and government in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. It features images of happy Palestinians, with minimal mention of Israel and no discussion of the state of Palestine.
Shockingly, it contains no political solution to the problem Kushner was tasked with solving. It doesn’t address the famously difficult questions that have doomed other peace proposals, like the status of the city of Jerusalem or Palestinians’ right of return. There’s no talk of what might be done with Israeli settlements in occupied territories, nor any discussion of borders at all. What it offers is a carrot and a warning:
If implemented, Peace to Prosperity will empower the Palestinian people to build the society that they have aspired to establish for generations. With the support of the international community, this vision is within reach. Ultimately, however, the power to unlock it lies in the hands of the Palestinian people. Only through peace can the Palestinians achieve prosperity.
The White House says that a political solution outlining that peace will eventually be proposed. But for now, there is just this colorful and optimistic roadmap to Palestinian prosperity.
It’s no wonder, then, that Arab leaders decried the proposal as a “nonstarter” and see no reason to take it seriously. “Homelands cannot be sold, even for all the money in the world,” Egyptian analyst Gamal Fahmy said in a Reuters report. “This plan is the brainchild of real estate brokers, not politicians. Even Arab states that are described as moderate are not able to openly express support for it.”
The plan is being similarly dismissed in Israel. As diplomatic correspondent Noa Landau notes in the Israeli publication Haaretz (paywall), “The so-called ‘deal of the century’ is jumping a hundred steps ahead some have said [about] the Americans’ colorful printed proposal.” But she argues that this is “precisely the intention” and “there is no point analyzing it from too pragmatic a perspective.” Kushner’s deal is about a “vision” for Palestinians, she writes.
That much is true. The plan provides a picture of a rich and shiny life that might be possible, putting aside all the major obstacles. Like any business proposal, it is meant to intrigue potential investors and get them dreaming big before getting bogged down by pesky facts on the ground.
El asalto tuvo lugar cerca de la sede de la Comunidad Andina de Naciones (CAN), la Comisaría de Aramburú y el edificio de RPP Noticias. | Fuente: RPP
Un ciudadano identificado como Nilson Quispe Ratache (50) fue herido de bala este jueves luego de que unos asaltantes le robaron 70 mil soles. El hecho ocurrió pasadas las 3:00 p.m. en el cruce de las avenidas Aramburú y Paseo de la República, en Surquillo.
Quispe, quien ahora es atendido en el Hospital Casimiro Ulloa, había retirado el monto de una conocida agencia bancaria para luego trasladarse en su camioneta. Según contaron algunos testigos, dos sujetos a bordo de una moto lineal dispararon contra su ventana y lo hirieron del brazo derecho. Posteriormente, abrieron la puerta del vehículo y se fugaron con el dinero.
Investigación. Al lugar llegaron efectivos de la Policía Nacional y peritos del Ministerio Público. También estuvo César Apolinario Luque, cuñado de la víctima. Según contó, él y su familiar trabajan de manera independiente y se dedican al rubro de la construcción.
Según comentó el jefe de la Región policial Lima, Gastón Rodríguez, los ladrones escaparon con dirección a La Victoria y no se pudo activar el plan cerco debido a que el aviso se dio 6 o 7 minutos tarde.
La víctima se recupera de sus heridas en el Hospital Casimiro Ulloa. | Fuente: Reniec
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El piloto murió cuando trataba de escapar de rebeldes en Siria.
Turquía le entregó a diplomáticos rusos el cuerpo del piloto ruso muerto después de que su avión fuera derribado por fuerzas turcas en la frontera de Siria.
El féretro con los restos del teniente coronel Oleg Peshkov fue trasladado desde el sur del país a la capital, Ankara, donde fue recibido por el embajador ruso y el agregado militar.
Turquía había indicado previamente que logró recuperar el cuerpo del piloto, y el primer ministro turco Ahmet Davutoglu confirmó que lo entregarian de inmediato a las autoridades rusas.
El primer ministro precisó además que el cuerpo del piloto fue tratado de acuerdo a la tradición de la Iglesia ortodoxa.
Todavía no se sabe con certeza cuándo repatriarán los restos a Rusia.
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El avión ruso fue derribado por un misil turco.
Peshkov murió cuando rebeldes sirios le dispararon al tratar de salir de su paracaídas.
El otro piloto en el avión, Konstantin Murakhtin, sobrevivió y fue rescatado en el territorio controlado por rebeldes en Siria en una operación de fuerzas especiales.
Murakhtin señaló que quiere regresar al trabajo y quedarse en Siria, y agregó que “alguien tiene que pagar” por la muerte de su colega.
Los lectores de este medio son amantes de la farándula colombiana y mundial, las noticias que incluyen reinados de belleza, novelas y el mundo actoral cautivaron a nuestros lectores este año. Aunque no todas las noticias fueron positivas, ya que algunas generaron impacto por informar sobre trágicos hechos, la sección que más ocupó casillas en el Top 10 de ‘Las más leídas’ fue farándula.
Al igual que en el año anterior, cuando se hizo el ranking de las noticias más leídas, este año El universal trae de nuevo el conteo.
En 2014 la noticia más leída en El Universal también estuvo vinculada con la farándula colombiana y fue Daniela Ospina la protagonista de la misma (Lea aquí:Esto es lo que más leyeron los usuarios de El Universal en 2014); en esta ocasión, Diomedes Díaz y el boom que causó su bionovela lideraron el conteo.
Este es el ranking de las noticias más leídas en EU durante el 2015.
LAS MUJERES DE DIOMEDES DÍAZ
La noticia de las 10 mujeres más importantes en la vida de Diomedes publicada en marzo de este año fue la que más llamó la atención de los lectores de este diario. Sin duda el boom que tuvo la novela del cantautor colombiano fue la mayor influencia para que esta noticia llegara a tener 577.942 lectores.
Las casillas 2 y 7 también fueron ocupadas por información relacionada con ‘El cacique de La Junta’.
La segunda posición fue para “Bertha Mejía, el primer amor de Diomedes Díaz”, la cual tuvo más de 262.244 vistas desde que fue publicada en febrero de este año.
La séptima casilla la ocupó una trágica noticia. El recuento de cómo fueron los hechos en los que murió Martín Maestre, el tío de Diomedes, la cual tuvo 175.976 vistas desde abril.
Otra de las noticias trágicas que ocuparon casillas en el ranking fue la muerte de la actriz Adriana Campos. El fallecimiento de esta actriz en un accidente de tránsito causó gran conmoción y también despertó el interés de los lectores por descubrir cómo ocurrieron los lamentables hechos.
Las burlas a Paulina Vega Dieppa, tras su elección como Miss Universo, fue la otras noticias de farándula que entró en el Top 10, en el que también se metió una información sobre la flor de jamaica, que desde que se publicó en 2011 ha estado dentro de las más leídas.
São Paulo – Andacco, a footwear manufacturing company based in the state of Minas Gerais, is stepping up its sales to the Arab market. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Libya and Kuwait account for as much as 10% of the company’s exports.
“We have already seen [our exports to the Arabs] go up by 20% this year, as a result of deals closed at [industry] fairs,” says Export manager Leandro Oliveira. He explains that the company sells to distributors in Arab countries. “They come to the fairs, place the orders, we ship the product and they distribute it,” he says.
The top-selling items are men’s shoes. “Our product is leather-made and we do not use swine leather, not even the lining; the lining is made out of bovine leather,” says Oliveira, adding that the brands shoes are handmade.
Currently, the Andacco plant puts out 4,000 pairs of shoes per day, including men’s and women’s models. Of these, 40% are shipped abroad, to 22 different countries. The leading targets are Russia, the United States, Chile, and Bolivia.
Oliveira posits that Arabs are being attracted into buying due to the export-friendly exchange rates of the past two years, i.e. the high price of the US dollar against Brazil’s real. “I hadn’t seen as many Arabs as in the 2014 Couromoda fair in a long time,” says the manager of the leather fashion fair held last month in São Paulo.
Apart from Couromoda, Andacco does business with Arab clients on a regular basis at Francal, another fair in São Paulo, and at Expo Riva Schuh, in Riva del Garda, Italy. The company is preparing to go back to attending Micam, a shoe fair in Milan.
In order to take its Middle East deals to an even higher level, the company became associated with the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and hired a company specializing in footwear to shop for new markets in the region.
“The aim is to determine the acceptance of our products on the Arab market, the outlook for new deals, to work on developing the market, and that includes taking part in local fairs,” Oliveira explains.
Headquartered in the city of São Sebastião do Paraíso, Andacco is a part of the leather and show conglomerate Cacique, established in 1967, and currently employing 600 people.
Protesters marched in an Indigenous Peoples Day rally in Boston on Oct. 10, 2020, as part of a demonstration to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Boston made that change last week.
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Protesters marched in an Indigenous Peoples Day rally in Boston on Oct. 10, 2020, as part of a demonstration to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Boston made that change last week.
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This year marks the first time a U.S. president has officially recognized Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
President Biden issued a proclamation on Friday to observe this Oct. 11 as a day to honor Native Americans, their resilience and their contributions to American society throughout history, even as they faced assimilation, discrimination and genocide spanning generations. The move shifts focus from Columbus Day, the federal holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus, which shares the same date as Indigenous Peoples’ Day this year.
Dylan Baca, a 19-year-old Arizonan who was instrumental in helping broker the proclamation, is overwhelmed by the gravity of Biden’s action.
“I still don’t think I’ve fully absorbed what that has meant,” he said. “This is a profound thing the president has done, and it’s going to mean a lot to so many people.”
Four years ago, the Native leader started an organization alongside Arizona state Sen. Jamescita Peshlakai, Indigenous Peoples’ Initiative, with a similar mission: to tell a more positive and more accurate tale of Native Americans by replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
What is Indigenous Peoples’ Day?
Indigenous Peoples’ Day advocates say the recognition helps correct a “whitewashed” American history that has glorified Europeans like Italian explorer Christopher Columbus who have committed violence against Indigenous communities. Native Americans have long criticized the inaccuracies and harmful narratives of Columbus’ legacy that credited him with his “discovery” of the Americas when Indigenous people were there first.
“It is difficult to grapple with the complete accomplishments of individuals and also the costs of what those accomplishments came at,” said Mandy Van Heuvelen, the cultural interpreter coordinator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.
There are no set rules on how one should appreciate the day, said Van Heuvelen, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe from South Dakota. It’s all about reflection, recognition, celebration and an education.
“It can be a day of reflection of our history in the United States, the role Native people have played in it, the impacts that history has had on native people and communities, and also a day to gain some understanding of the diversity of Indigenous peoples,” she said.
The idea was first proposed by Indigenous peoples at a United Nations conference in 1977 held to address discrimination against Natives, as NPR has reported. But South Dakota became the first state to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples day in 1989, officially celebrating it the following year.
Biden’s proclamation signifies a formal adoption of a day that a growing number of states and cities have come to acknowledge. Last week, Boston joined Arizona, Oregon, Texas, Louisiana, Washington, D.C., and several other states in dedicating a second Monday in October to Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Native Americans have borne the brunt of the work to make that happen.
Many state and local governments have gone a step further. More than a dozen states and well over 100 cities celebrate the day, with many of them having altogether dropped the holiday honoring Columbus to replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
What might seem to some like a simple name change can lead to real social progress for Indigenous Americans, said Van Heuvelen.
“What these changes accomplish, piece by piece, is visibility for Native people in the United States,” she said. “Until Native people are or are fully seen in our society and in everyday life, we can’t accomplish those bigger changes. As long as Native people remain invisible, it’s much more easier for people to look past those real issues and those real concerns within those communities.”
What about Columbus Day?
Columbus Day remains a federal holiday that gives federal government employees the day off from work.
The day was first founded as a way to appreciate the mistreatment of Italian Americans, and Congress eventually made it a federal holiday in 1934.
“Italian American culture is important, and I think there are other times and places to recognize that. But I think it’s also important to also recognize the history of Columbus Day itself,” said Baca. “Should we recognize a man whose labors killed children, killed women and decimated the Native American population here? I don’t think that is something that we want to be honored.”
Monday marks Oregon’s first statewide recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, in place of Columbus Day, after its legislature passed a bill brought by its Indigenous lawmakers. Rep. Tawna Sanchez, one of those lawmakers, says the movement to recognize the day is an ideal time to capitalize on the momentum of political recognition.
“I don’t know that we’ll ever get to a place where people have their land back or have the recognition of who they are, to the degree that we that we need to or should. But the fact that people are paying attention at this very moment — that’s important, because we will have a greater opportunity to educate people and help them understand why we are where we are right now,” she said.
“History is always written by the conqueror,” said Sanchez. “How do we actually tell the truth about what happened and where we sit this very moment? How do we go forward from here?”
“Pero según me dijo el asunto no pasó de ser un machucónâ€�, dijo ParÃs. “Al momento no hay necesidad de operación. Si hubiera sido un desgarre y hubiera necesitado una operación la cosa hubiera sido bien difÃcil para Larryâ€�.
“Esas son lesiones muy fuerte para recuperarse de ellas. Por suerte su caso no es tan graveâ€�, dijo ParÃs en el obvio contexto que Ayuso ya se acerca a los 39 años y a dicha edad hubiera tenido que trabajar el triple de lo que trabajarÃa un joven en sus 15 o 20 años para poder volver a plenitud de forma.
Un ejemplo de lo duro que es ese tipo de lesión es el de Kobe Bryant, quien se perdió partes de las temporadas 2012-2013 y 2013-2014 debido a una lesión como ella. Incluso luego de retornar a juego en el 2014-2015 sufrió otra lesión en una pierna y hombro que lo ha imposibilitado de jugar temporadas completas por tres años consecutivos.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Nadler is granted access to more documents in the Russia probe; Catherine Herridge reports on what’s next.
House Judiciary Committee Democrats announced Wednesday that former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks has agreed to testify before the panel next week, after she was subpoenaed in May concerning Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report.
The interview will be held June 19 and a closed-door transcript will be released, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said. Hicks, a longtime aide to Trump, was mentioned throughout Mueller’s report, which Democrats claimed included unexplored evidence of obstruction of justice.
Hicks told Fox News she had “nothing to add” to the committee’s statement. She is the Executive Vice President and Chief Communications Officer for Fox Corporation. Fox News is a subsidiary of Fox Corporation.
In a statement, Nadler, D-N.Y., seemingly recognized that Democrats might not get all the answers to their questions. Robert Trout, an attorney for Hicks, had told the panel in a letter last week that there were important differences between documents and testimony related to Hicks’ work on Trump’s campaign, as opposed to her time in the White House, which may be protected by executive privilege.
Former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee next week, its chairman said. (AP, File)
“Ms. Hicks understands that the Committee will be free to pose questions as it sees fit, including about her time on the Trump Campaign and her time in the White House,” Nadler said. “Should there be a privilege or other objection regarding any question, we will attempt to resolve any disagreement while reserving our right to take any and all measures in response to unfounded privilege assertions. We look forward to her testimony and plan to make the transcript promptly available to the public.”
Democrats’ subpoenas specifically requested, among a slew of other materials, information from Hicks concerning the “‘Republican Platform 2016’ provisions relating to Russia and Ukraine, including, but not limited to, the exclusion of language related to providing lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine and the inclusion of language about providing ‘appropriate assistance’ to the armed forces of Ukraine.”
Mueller’s report found no proof of any connection between the platform provision on Ukraine and any misconduct.
The development came amid a fury of aggressive legislative activity from House Democrats. The full House effectively voted on Tuesday to hold Attorney General Bill Barr and former White House Counsel Don McGahn in what Democrats characterized as “contempt,” after complaining that the two had improperly refused to turn over documents and testimony.
Democrats have been expected to go to court soon to enforce a subpoena against McGahn, who did not show up for his scheduled hearing last month. The White House asserted executive privilege and directed McGahn not to testify.
Nadler has additionally subpoenaed former McGahn aide Annie Donaldson, who also was mentioned throughout the Mueller report. Her deposition was scheduled for June 24, but it was unclear whether she will appear.
Earlier this week, Nadler’s panel hit pause on a separate, still-pending contempt vote that it earlier had forwarded on to the full House. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee held Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt for unrelated matters concerning the 2020 census.
Fox News’ Chad Pergram and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
DOG the Bounty Hunter said that Brian Laundrie’s parents could face prison if they’ve helped their son evade capture.
In an exclusive interview with The Sun, Dog said of Chris and Roberta Laundrie: “You don’t know if he’s standing in the park across the street or behind the golf course.
Dog the Bounty Hunter said if Brian Laundrie’s parents helped- they could face consequencesCredit: John Chapple for The US Sun
Dog said if they did help their fugitive son, they could wind up in prisonCredit: Social Media – Refer to source
“But if you’re sending someone to take him some clothes and food.
“Pretty soon,” Dog said, “the lies come back to bite you.”
There is no reason to believe that Brian’s parents have assisted their son in continuing to evade authorities, however Dog claimed that if they did, the fugitive could use any parental assistance he may have received to his own advantage.
The reality TV star, who joined the hunt for Brian last month added: “You know what these guys do when they get caught? They got authors that come to them in prison and go ‘Listen you’re all done and you need commissary money. You’re going to tell us what really happened, we’re going to write your autobiography.”
“And 99.9% of these criminals, tell the truth. ‘Oh my mom and dad helped me out, but I made them.’”
Dog also claimed that if Brian was helped that “he’s gonna rat off Mom and Dad. If he’s going to kill his girlfriend, who he loves- he’s going to tell on mom and dad.”
Chris and Roberta Laundrie have claimed that they do not know their son’s whereabouts, but Dog said that if they do, the FBI could strong arm that sort of information out of them.
“One of these days the men in black are gonna knock on that door and say ‘Excuse me, Mr. Chris, but we have a United States warrant for your arrest.’”
“And if they don’t find him in a couple of days, that’s exactly what the feds are going to do.”
Dog alleged that the FBI could go to the parents and say: “When you guys can figure out where he might be- you give us a clue, we may be able to set you a bond and you get to go home.’
But Dog – real name Duane Chapman- said he has “never heard of that in the 41 years” he has worked as a bounty hunter.
He added: “I have heard when they go get a parent… when the son is robbing a bank and they want to negotiate for the kid to come out, so they will get mom and mom talks to the kid.
“I’ve never heard of the police departments, and I’m sure it wasn’t the FBI, that take the father on the ride along. They must have some good friends.”
Brian had been weeks into a cross country trip with his fiancée when he returned home to his parent’s house without her on September 1.
Gabby’s parents reported her missing on September 11 and her remains were found a week later in a Wyoming national park.
Speaking to The Sun Dog added: “Most of the guys that kill their wives and their family, they hide up for three or four days and then protesters start and the rumors start.
“So the people have put up enough pressure where the dad rode around in a golf cart, and showed the cops, what to do. ”
Dog said he had at first speculated on a scenario where Brian had killed Gabby by accident, and perhaps called his mom and dad immediately after her death, telling them he “put his hand over her mouth to stop her screaming.”
Dog added: “Now we have to remember that…Gabby and Brian lived with his mom and dad for almost two years in the house.
“I was there, it’s not a huge house, so I am sure the parents heard probably Gabby’s screaming.”
But Dog said the timeline seems to suggest that was not the case.
Bertolino’s office said they had no comment when contacted about Dog’s comments.
Chris was seen leaving his North Port, Florida, home alone on Thursday morning.
Bertolino said: “Chris Laundrie is assisting Law Enforcement today in the search for Brian. Chris was asked to point out any favorite trails or spots that Brian may have used in the preserve.
“Although Chris and Roberta Laundrie provided this information verbally three weeks ago it is now thought that on-site assistance may be better.
“The preserve has been closed to the public and the Laundries as well but the parents have been cooperating since the search began.”
HUNT FOR BRIAN
Bertolino added: “As to yesterday, we were just asked to be on standby as they were focusing in on certain areas.”
He drove back to his North Port home alone in Gabby’s van on September 1, a week and a half before her mother reported her missing.
Brian’s parents reported him missing on September 17 after they claimed he told them he was going for a hike in the Carlton Reserve.
The Laundrie family has drawn some scrutiny after appearing to change the timeline of events they originally shared with police.
According to a statement released by the family’s attorney Steven Bertolino, Brian actually “left to hike in the preserve” on Monday, September 13, not Tuesday, September 14 as his parents originally stated.
Bertolino told WFLA: “The Laundries were basing the date Brian left on their recollection of certain events.
“After consulting with the FBI and confirming the day Brian’s Mustang was found and returned to the Laundries’ home, we now believe the day Brian left to hike in the preserve was Monday September 13.”
Brian remains at large but there have been a series of alleged sightings in parts of Florida, Mexico, Canada, and along the Appalachian Trail. Most potential leads have led to dead ends.
He is considered a person of interest in Gabby’s death but has yet to officially be named a suspect.
Exclusive footage obtained by The Sun on Thursday shows Dog as he was served with a $1.3million lawsuit accusing him of “racist and homophobic behavior.”
The lawsuit accuses him of “racist and homophobic behavior” before and after filming his axed reality show Dog Unleashed.
What happens next: The House Intelligence Committee is scheduled to meet at 6 p.m. to vote on approving the report and forwarding it the House Judiciary Committee. The Judiciary Committee has scheduled its first impeachment hearing for Wednesday. President Trump was invited to participate, but White House counsel declined. Here’s a guide to how impeachment works.
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Attorney General William Barr is expected to release a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report in the coming days and conservative attorney George Conway says there’s one key phrase to look for.
“As the report states: ‘[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.’”
But Conway ― husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway ― shared a tweet from former prosecutor and CNN legal analyst Elie Honig that pointed out there was more to that quote:
Conway has been a fierce Trump critic despite his wife’s role at the highest levels of the administration. Last month, the president called him a “total loser” on Twitter and Conway fired back with:
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