Una foto de la cara de Marcelo Tinelli llena de tatuajes es la tapa de la revista, que tituló la nota con “El Tinelli que nadie cuenta”.
Noticias habla de la relación laboral que el conductor tiene con López, empresario kirchnerista, dueño del mayor porcentaje accionario de Ideas del Sur, la productora fundada por Tinelli y en la que antes fue socio el Grupo Clarín.
“Cerca suyo confirman que Tinelli está incómodo con ciertas maniobras de su nuevo jefe-socio. De vacaciones, evitó opinar sobre la polémica salida de Antonio Laje y Oscar González Oro, por no encajar con la sintonía política que busca Indalo para el 2014. “¿Qué va a hacer? ¿Me va a echar a mí?”, desestimó ante sus colaboradores cuando surgió el tema en una reunión de trabajo. Tinelli confía en su propio peso para tomarse licencias. Si Clarín le permitió gestos como la presencia en el funeral de Néstor Kirchner, ¿por qué sería menos indulgente Cristóbal? Pero la tensión existe y el conductor no se resigna y padece no poder hacer lo-que-se-le-cante. Al punto que nadie termina de saber qué piensa en realidad”, dice la revista.
Además, la revista habla de cómo se prepara Tinelli en Punta del Este para su vuelta, el significado de su obsesión por dibujarse el cuerpo y el “mimetismo” con sus hijos adolescentes y la paternidad a los 54 años.
President Biden’s Friday night stump speech in Virginia was interrupted by anti-pipeline protesters — leading the commander-in-chief to tell his audience to ignore the hecklers.
The rest of the crowd attempted to drown out the protesters by booing and chanting “Let’s go, Joe!” as the president tried to restore order.
“That’s OK, that’s all right,” Biden said. “No, no, no, no. Let ’em talk. That’s OK. Look, this is not a Trump rally. Let ’em holler. No one’s paying attention.”
The president spoke before an enthusiastic and largely unmasked crowd of around 3,000 people in support of McAuliffe, a longtime Democratic party heavyweight who is seeking another term as Virginia’s governor. McAuliffe previously held that office from 2014 to 2018. Under Virginia law, governors cannot run for a second consecutive term.
President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event in Virginia, as he fended off hecklers shouting anti-pipeline remarks.AP
McAuliffe is favored to defeat his Republican opponent, private equity executive Glenn Youngkin. While the race is seen as competitive, the rapid growth of northern Virginia’s Washington, DC suburbs has tipped the commonwealth into the reliably Democratic column. No Republican presidential candidate has won Virginia since George W. Bush in 2004 and the last GOPer elected governor was Bob McDonnell in 2009.
“You’re not gonna find anyone, I mean anyone, who knows how to get more done for Virginia than Terry,” Biden said. “Off-year election, the country’s looking. This is a big deal.”
President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event for Virginia democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe on July 22, 2021. Getty Images
Still, as one of only two regularly scheduled governor’s races this year (New Jersey being the other), the Virginia contest is drawing outsize national attention as a potential measuring stick of voter sentiment ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
When not touting his administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the economy, Biden attempted to cast Youngkin as an “acolyte of Donald Trump.”
“I ran against Donald Trump in Virginia and so is Terry,” the president said at one point. “And I whipped Donald Trump in Virginia and so will Terry.”
Biden also accused Republicans of offering “nothing more than fear, lies and broken promises.”
“The United States is based on — the only country in the world based on the proposition, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident,’ that all women and men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” he said. “We’ve never met the test, but we’ve never walked away from it like the Republicans have.”
“El Chavo del Ocho”, su programa más célebre, fue el que dio la mayor popularidad a Gómez Bolaños, uno de los más grandes comediantes que ha tenido la región. Esa serie de televisión, que empezó a emitirse en 1971, traspasó no sólo fronteras, sino generaciones. Las historias de la vecindad de “El Chavo del Ocho” siguen vivas en la versión original, en caricatura y en videojuegos.
Gómez Bolaños nació en Ciudad de México el 21 de febrero de 1929. Estudió sin concluir ingeniería en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) y comenzó a dedicarse a la producción, la actuación y la dirección. El director de cine Agustín Delgado le puso el apodo de “Chespirito” (Shakespeare chiquito, por su baja estatura), en una comparación españolizada con el dramaturgo inglés William Shakespeare.
“El Chapulín Colorado” fue otra de las series más populares de Gómez Bolaños. Entre sus personajes están también Chaparrón Bonaparte, el doctor Chapatín y el Chómpiras.
Dos de los compañeros de set con los que Gómez Bolaños conservó una buena amistad fueron Rubén Aguirre, El profesor Jirafales, y Édgar Vivar, el Señor Barriga, que encabezó el gran homenaje que se le hizo a nivel regional a principios de 2012 y en el que ambos actores participaron. En cambio, era mala su relación con el actor Carlos Villagrán, que encarnó a Quico en “El Chavo del Ocho”, y con María Antonieta de las Nieves, que dio vida a La Chilindrina y con la que tuvo una pelea legal por los derechos del personaje.
Florinda Meza, Doña Florinda, la emblemática actriz de sus programas, fue el gran amor de su vida. Gómez Bolaños, que era 19 años mayor, se casó con ella en 2004 después de 27 años de vida en común.
La popularidad de “Chespirito” fue tal que cuando abrió la cuenta de Twitter @ChespiritoRGB en 2011 para comunicarse con sus fans empezó a recibir miles de mensajes desde toda América Latina. Actualmente, la cuenta tiene seis millones de seguidores. “Hola. Soy Chespirito. Tengo 82 años, y ésta es la primera vez que tuiteo. Estoy debutando. ¡Síganme los buenos!”, escribió en el primer mensaje. Y en su perfi ratificó su sentido del humor: “Para qué quieren mi perfil si soy más guapo de frente”.
El diario británico ‘The Guardian‘ ha filtrado documentos que evidencian el papel de un pequeño grupo de editores que escogen las ‘tendencias’, es decir, las noticias a su juicio importantes para ser mostradas los millones de los usuarios de la red social Facebook.
La mayor red social del mundo, que para millones de personas se ha convertido en la fuente principal y hasta única de noticias, cambia constantemente el algoritmo con el que muestra informaciones a los usuarios. Hace unos años Facebook anunciaba que este algoritmo era puramente mecánico, al estar basado en factores como las páginas del gusto del usuario, su ubicación etc., pero rechazó esta práctica en 2014. Entonces resultó que el algoritmo ‘prefería’ algunas noticias a otras.
Son pequeños grupos de editores, a veces tan solo 12 personas, los que escogen las noticias destacadas
En concreto, las noticias más relevantes de Facebook aparecen en el bloque llamado ‘Trending’ (tendencias), que la red social muestra a sus usuarios en lengua inglesa. Por ejemplo, sin intervención humana, este algoritmo automático prestó en su día amplia cobertura al desafío del cubo de agua helada (Ice Bucket Challenge), pero no demasiada atención a las protestas masivas registradas en torno al lema ‘Las vidas negras importan’ (Black Lives matter), informa el diario británico.
Desde entonces, son pequeños grupos de editores, a veces de tan solo 12 personas, quienes eligen las tendencias del momento. El diario ‘The Guardian’ ha podido conocer la ‘guía’ que la red social preparó para estos editores.
En EE.UU. para que una noticia resulte considerada de importancia nacional debe ser cubierta por al menos cinco de los diez principales medios
Del conjunto mundial, Facebook usa para determinar sus tendencias un millar de medios. En EE.UU., por ejemplo para que una noticia resulte marcada de importancia nacional, debe ser cubierta por al menos cinco de los diez medios siguientes: BBC News, CNN, Fox News, ‘The Guardian’, NBC News, ‘The New York Times’, ‘USA Today’, ‘The Wall Street Journal’, ‘The Washington Post’ y Yahoo.
Sin embargo, aunque admiten que a veces ‘meten’ en las tendencias temas de manera artificial, los empleados de Facebook involucrados en esta actividad que hablaron con ‘The Guardian’ aseguran ser imparciales.
In media news today, Chris Cuomo stays silent on CNN about the bombshell report on his brother’s sexual harassment charges, and more revelations come to light about the extent of Cuomo’s advising of his brother on the scandal.
In a widely panned “analysis” piece, a CNN White House reporter defended and even praised President Joe Biden Wednesday for finding an admittedly legally dubious way to extend a federal eviction moratorium.
Stephen Collinson, who fumed at what he called President Donald Trump’s “degradation of the rule of law” in another piece last year, noted that not even Biden knows if his administration’s overture to renters during the pandemic will pass muster in courts, but claimed Biden had “no choice but to take a chance.”
The moratorium expired on July 31, so the White House engineered what Collinson called “a classic Washington fudge — not unfamiliar in an era of Capitol Hill gridlock — in which presidents, especially Democrats, have improvised with executive power to shield constituencies from consequences of a malfunctioning political system.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention drafted a new eviction moratorium to protect tenants in counties with “substantial and high levels of transmission” of COVID-19, which amounted to almost the entire country. The Supreme Court stipulated last year, though, that the CDC could only be extended if given authority by Congress; Justice Brett Kavanaugh specifically argued unilateral extension by the CDC would be unconstitutional while siding with keeping it in place through its July expiration.
Biden admitted to reporters Tuesday that the “bulk of constitutional scholars” said it wasn’t legal and it was simply a ploy to buy time to allocate monies to renters and leasers. While the Washington Post”s Aaron Blake cringed at Biden’s logic – “a heck of a way to do the country’s business” – Collins said Biden had “averted a humanitarian crisis.”
“Politically, the spectacle of potentially millions of Americans being turned out of their homes would be an impossible one for any White House, let alone a Democratic administration built on the principle of using government power to alleviate the plight of poorer Americans. So, Biden had to do something,” he wrote.
He added it was a “viable political strategy” to pass blame onto Republicans if citizens were eventually booted out of their apartments and complained that the Supreme Court was “specifically constructed to counter the aspirations of an activist liberal government.”
Last year, Collinson fumed that Trump had put “the degradation of the rule of law” at the center of his re-election campaign, which wasn’t lost on critics of his latest piece online. In another article last year, he fretted over Trump’s “assault on constitutional norms.”
Critics lit into CNN for Collinson’s piece that seemingly excused Biden breaking the law because he agreed with the end result.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald, a frequent corporate media critic, tweeted, “Four straight years of corporate media and liberal politicians (excuse the redundancy) pretending to care so deeply about the rule of law above all else — including those who served in past lawless administrations — only to now have headlines like this one above.”
“I don’t think the tone here would be so restrained” if the piece had been about Trump, author Daniel Darling tweeted.
“Bold and decisive lawlessness,” quipped Commentary’s Noah Rothman.
Collinson penned another piece in March saying an infrastructure bill was a “window into Biden’s soul.” Another “analysis” praised Biden’s “moderate radicalism” ahead of his April address to Congress.
Familiares angustiados esperan noticias en el puerto de Jindo.
Con casi 300 personas todavía desaparecidas, tras el hundimiento de un ferry lleno de estudiantes frente a la costa de Corea del Sur, empiezan a surgir los primeros reportes de mensajes de texto enviados por los que quedaron atrapados.
“Esta debe ser mi última oportunidad para decirte que te quiero”, escribió el estudiante Shin Young-Jin a su madre desde el buque.
“Yo también te quiero”, le respondió su madre, claramente ajena a la crisis desatada en el barco en el que viajaba su hijo.
Según el diario Korea Herald, Shin Young-Jin figura entre las 179 personas rescatadas del barco que transportaba a un total de 462 pasajeros, hasta el momento se han reportado un total de 20 fallecidos.
Pero muchos otros padres que recibieron este tipo de mensajes no han tenido la misma suerte.
La agencia AFP reportó otro intercambio de mensajes con estudiantes a bordo.
Estudiante: “Papá, no te preocupes. Estoy llevando un chaleco salvavidas y estoy con otras chicas. Estamos dentro del barco, todavía en el vestíbulo”.
Padre: “Sé que el rescate está en camino. ¿Pero no tendrías que estar esperando fuera en la barandilla? Trata de ir si puedes”.
Estudiante: “El barco está demasiado inclinado. El vestíbulo está lleno de gente”.
La estudiante que envió estos mensajes sigue desaparecida.
“Haz lo que te digan”
Otro intercambio publicado en los medios surcoreanos fue entre un estudiante y su hermano cuando el barco empezó a tener problemas.
Estudiante: “El barco chocó contra algo y no se está moviendo. Dicen que la guardia costera acaba de llegar”.
Supervivientes del naufragio dijeron que les ordenaron permanecer quietos dentro del buque.
Hermano: “No entres en pánico. Tan sólo haz lo que te digan y todo estará bien”.
Pero no se volvió a dar ninguna comunicación.
Un superviviente dijo que “hubo un anuncio ordenándonos permanecer quietos, pero el ferry ya se estaba hundiendo”.
Algunos padres permanecieron en contacto con sus hijos por teléfono hasta que las líneas se cortaron.
Park Yu-Shin, cuya hija se encuentra entre los desaparecidos, le dijo a AFP que habló con su hija mientras ésta lidiaba con la emergencia.
“Me decía: nos estamos poniendo los chalecos salvavidas. Nos dicen que esperemos y nos quedemos quietos, así que estamos esperando. Puedo ver un helicóptero”, dijo Park, cuya hija todavía está entre los desaparecidos.
“Quería vivir”
Todavía no está claro que provocó el hundimiento del ferry, que transportaba en su mayoría a estudiantes, pero los supervivientes aportaron testimonios similares sobre lo que pasó este miércoles, así como las escenas de caos que se vivieron a bordo.
“Hubo un fuerte ruido y el bote empezó a hundirse inmediatamente por un lado”, dijo Kim Song-Muk, uno de los pasajeros rescatados.
“La gente se amontonó para alcanzar la escotilla exterior, pero era difícil con el barco volcado hacia un lado”.
El estudiante Lim Hyung-min narró cómo saltó al océano con otros jóvenes llevando un chaleco salvavidas y nadó hacia un bote de rescate cercano.
“Como el ferry estaba temblando e inclinándose, tropezábamos y chocábamos unos contra los otros”, dijo Lim, añadiendo que algunas personas estaban sangrando.
Una vez saltó al océano “estaba tan frío.. Me apuré, pensando que quería vivir”.
Críticas al rescate
El modo en que se llevó a cabo la evacuación está siendo fuertemente criticado.
Imágenes de la escena mostraron a equipos de rescate en el ferry accidentado sacando a adolescentes por las ventanas de las cabinas, mientras que otros saltaban al mar a medida que el barco se hundía.
El pasajero Koo Bon-Hee, de 36 años, contó a la agencia AP que mucha gente quedó atrapada dentro porque las ventanas eran muy difíciles de romper.
Él quería escapar antes pero el anuncio pidió a los pasajeros que se quedaran quietos. Ko Bon-Hee criticó el rescate, alegando que hubo tiempo suficiente para evacuar a los pasajeros y que muchos habrían sobrevivido tan sólo saltando al mar y esperar ser rescatados.
Otro superviviente dijo a la televisión local: “El anuncio nos dijo que nos quedáramos quietos, pero el barco ya se estaba hundiendo y habían muchos estudiantes que todavía no habían salido del barco”.
Kim Seong-mok dijo a la televisora coreana YTN que estaba “seguro” de que mucha gente estaba atrapada dentro del barco cuando el agua se empezó a filtrar rápidamente y la inclinación del barco les impidió llegar a las salidas.
Heroína
Los operativos de rescate continúan en la zona donde se produjo el hundimiento.
También se han dado reportes de actos heroicos a bordo.
Se ha dicho que una integrante de la tripulación, Park Ji-young, de 22 años, perdió su vida cuando trataba de asegurarse de que todos los pasajeros de los pisos superiores llevaran chalecos salvavidas y encontraran la salida.
“Le pregunté varias veces por qué no llevaba primero un chaleco salvavidas. Park sólo dijo que saldría del barco después de asegurarse de que todos los pasajeros estaban fuera”, dijo un superviviente a medios locales.
“Park empujó a los conmocionados pasajeros hacia la salida incluso cuando el agua le llegaba al pecho”.
Según reportó el Korea Herald, la joven empezó a trabajar para la compañía en 2012, para apoyar a su familia con su sueldo.
Cuando su cuerpo llegó al hospital, dijo el medio, su madre gritó: “No puedo creer que nos hayas dejado”.
Dos llamativos fallos ortográficos en pantalla en menos de una semana. Eso es lo que ha provocado una “reunión de urgencia en @sextaNoticias. Análisis del error “chapuzero”. No volverá a ocurrir”.
Así ha lamentado y se ha disculpado en su cuenta de Twitter el periodista y director adjunto de laSexta Noticias, Álvaro Rivas. Uno de estos mensajes cobra aún mayor relevancia, puesto que ha sido ‘retuiteado’ por el director de los informativos de la cadena de Atresmedia, César González Antón.
* Álvaro Rivas en ‘Al rojo vivo’
Hoy, en laSexta Noticias 14:00 horas, ha aparecido en la pantalla un “chapuzero” con “z”, en lugar de “chapucero” con “c”. Así abrían para informar de cómo Sanidad ha rechazado cambiar el reparto de fondos contra la pobreza infantil, por lo que era calificado de esa manera. Era en el informativo de Helena Resano, que presentaba por última vez en esta temporada antes de coger vacaciones.
“No sé dónde meterme. Llevamos dos bien gordas en cinco días”
Antes de anunciar este particular ‘gabinete de crisis periodístico’, Álvaro Rivas -también presentador eventual de Al rojo vivo en especiales de prime time- ha reconocido que “hemos escrito “chapucero” con z en el info. Mil perdones. No sé dónde meterme. Llevamos dos bien gordas en cinco días”.
El periodista se refería, con esas “dos bien gordas”, al otro error ortográfico que se pudo ver en laSexta Noticias el pasado fin de semana, del que ya les informó Vertele. Entonces, se pudo ver el adjetivo “debastador” escrito con “b”, en vez de “devastador” con “v”. Al mismo tiempo, su rival Noticias Cuatro tampoco se libro del ‘gazapo’, ya que impresionó un rótulo de “ubiera” sin “h”, en lugar del correcto “hubiera”.
En cualquier caso, en esta era del ‘bombardeo’, vorágine, saturación informativa y redes sociales, así como de la pelea constante y diaria de los medios de comunicación por la inmediatez, el periodista que esté libre de culpa de errores ortográficos, que tire la primera piedra.
En Twitter, los usuarios con bromas y sin ‘piedad’con el fallo
En las noticias más leídas del día, Andrés Manuel López Obrador y Margarita Zavala se disputan la primera y segunda posición en el porcentaje de opiniones positivas entre los ciudadanos para el sondeo realizado por la encuestadora Mitofsky, rumbo a las elecciones presidenciales del 2018. Como parte de las acciones de cobranza muchos despachos engañan a los deudores haciéndoles creer que una incautación está en camino, ¿hasta dónde tienen derecho a hacerlo?
1. Punteros, divididos entre buena y mala imagen
AMLO con 27.8% y Margarita Zavala con 16.6% se disputan la primera y segunda posición en el porcentaje de opiniones positivas entre los ciudadanos.
En tercer lugar se coloca el secretario de Gobernación, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, con 14.9%; muy cerca está el líder nacional del PAN, Ricardo Anaya, con 14.4% y en la quinta posición se ubica el titular de la SEP, Aurelio Nuño, con 10.8 por ciento.
Sin embargo, la encuesta “Los Presidenciables en la Opinión Pública”, de Consulta Mitofsky para El Economista, en el rubro de opiniones negativas, el tabasqueño también encabeza la tabla con 30.9%, seguido de Osorio Chong con 30.7% y Margarita Zavala con 23.1 por ciento.
Punteros, divididos entre buena y mala imagen. Ver nota.
2. Si tiene deudas y lo amenazan con un embargo, no se deje intimidar
Si un despacho de cobranza te amenaza con un embargo, según las modificaciones realizadas en el Código Penal hace un par de meses, se trata de una práctica ilegal que debe ser sancionada como un delito.
Sin embargo, hay casos en los que los embargos sí tienen lugar; los créditos hipotecarios son uno recurrente, en donde el banco puede recuperar el préstamo con el inmueble del deudor.
Por ejemplo un embargo por no pagar un crédito puede tener lugar solamente si hay de por medio la orden de un juez. Si quieres saber en qué otros momentos aplica, entra a la nota completa y entérate.
Si tiene deudas y lo amenazan con un embargo, no se deje intimidar. Ver nota.
3. Llega nuevo jugador al mercado bursátil
Santiago Urquiza, presidente de Central de Corretaje se veía contento. En Palacio Nacional estaba sentado en una esquina del presídium.
El secretario de Hacienda explicó la necesidad de promover el mercado de valores y que las empresas se gradúen y acudan al mercado de valores. “Tenemos un amplio potencial, que es mucho lo que podemos hacer para fortalecer al mercado de valores”, dijo el encargado de las finanzas públicas del país. Meade explicó que la BMV encontró sus orígenes en 1880, se formalizó en 1933, lo que quiere decir que cada 80 años aproximadamente se formaliza una bolsa, el cometa Halley pasa cada 79 años, por lo que “lo que vamos a presenciar hoy es más extraño que el cometa Halley”.
Llega nuevo jugador al mercado bursátil. Ver nota.
4. Hay gasolina para dos semanas: Anaya
José Antonio González Anaya, director General de Petróleos Mexicanos informó que la empresa productiva del Estado cuenta con inventarios de gasolinas y diesel asegurados para garantizar el abasto de combustibles durante las próximas dos semanas, tras el paso del huracán Harvey por el Golfo de México, que provocó el cierre de refinerías en Estados Unidos.
A pesar de lo que está pasando ahorita con el huracán que le pegó al área de Houston, ellos aseguran que tienen los inventarios asegurados para el siguiente par de semanas.
Al participar en la mesa de análisis en materia energética de la XI Reunión Plenaria del PRI, el director de la petrolera descartó alguna dificultad inmediata por las afectaciones del meteoro.
5. ¿Cuánto debo ganar para estar entre los más ricos?
Son ocho personas en el mundo los que acumulan la misma riqueza que 3,600 millones de personas juntas a nivel mundial, es decir, son más ricos que la mitad de la población más pobre.
En un mundo donde los que más tienen cada día amasan mayor cantidad de dinero, y los que menos, se alejan de pertenecer a ese grupo de 1% de los más acaudalados del planeta, las brechas en la distribución de los ingresos de la población siguen aumentando de manera considerable.
¿Pero cuánto tendrías que ganar tú para entrar a ese 1%?
¿Cuánto debo ganar para estar entre los más ricos?. Ver nota.
Joe Concha, Tammy Bruce, and Alicia Acuna react to Vice President Kamala Harris’s interview with Charlamagne tha God.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ clash this week with TV host Charlamagne Tha God drew a range of reactions Saturday from panelists on Fox News’ “The Big Saturday Show.”
Harris had reacted sharply after Charlamagne provoked the vice president on Comedy Central’s “Tha God’s Honest Truth” by asking her who America’s “real” president is.
“Don’t start talking like a Republican, about asking whether or not he’s president,” Harris reacted. “And it’s Joe Biden, it’s Joe Biden and I’m vice president and my name is Kamala Harris.”
The panelists credited Harris for defending herself and her boss – but also examined the circumstances that led to such a question being asked in the first place.
Tammy Bruce: ‘She didn’t giggle’
“One thing you notice was missing … she didn’t giggle,” Bruce said. “She didn’t laugh through any of that and I think that it sounds like a different language. I think maybe her biggest problem is, if Joe Manchin was president, she wouldn’t be next in line. But when you’re having to do this kind of argument where you then insist you’re the vice president and you say your name, you’re already losing the argument.
Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce. (Fox News)
“This is a fascinating display once again, when it comes to temperament, when it comes to having a … really quite defensive. She’s talking to a guy who’s got a lot of influence. This is where you can really win and take over this argument. When you face and expect that question and you handle it with grace and maybe even some humor, without giggling, and really own it, and push back with confidence instead of a weird self-defensiveness.”
Joe Concha: ‘Profoundly scary’
“You know what’s profoundly scary here? … One of the main questions this administration is getting is, ‘Who’s running the country?’ Do any other leaders of any other remotely advanced countries get asked such a question? Does anybody else find that disturbing? …
Fox News contributor Joe Concha (Fox News)
“Here’s another question being asked: Will a ticket that received 81 million votes – the most in U.S. history – ‘Hey are you running for a second term?’ Because we see a poll this week, 22% of the country … want Mr. Biden to run again. Think about this: We’re not even 11 months since the inauguration and the funeral plans are already being floated for Team Biden.
“And while inflation’s at a 40-year high – that’s horrific – and skyrocketing violent crime … that’s owned by the Democratic Party, and while the border’s anything but secure, it’s this perception of this administration that’s impossible to reverse – a perception that Joe Biden is too old, too incompetent, too disconnected from what’s important to the American people to do the job. And Plan B, Kamala Harris, is more like Plan G – as in Gah!
“This person is not equipped to be commander-in-chief.”
Charlie Hurt: ‘Completely out of touch’
“I think it’s a fair thing for a lot of Americans to seriously question [why Biden sometimes mistakenly refers to Harris, instead of himself, as the president] — not just because of the bizarre things that President Biden says from time to time but also because so many of these decisions are just completely out of touch with what ought to be done or just out of touch with reality. …
“This idea of snapping at the questioner and accusing the questioner of being a Republican reveals not only the testiness on her part, and the desperation on her part, but how out of touch they are.
Fox News contributor Charlie Hurt.
“It’s not Republicans who are so exercised about Joe Manchin right now. It’s Kamala Harris’ own party. It’s the left flank of her party. They’re the ones who so despise Joe Manchin, they think that Joe Manchin has taken control of the country – and of course it’s absurd. It’s 50-some senators who have real serious reservations about this wack-job proposal that the Biden administration is putting forward that’s gonna put inflation on steroids if they go along with it.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in 2018. He was interviewed by NPR on Tuesday.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in 2018. He was interviewed by NPR on Tuesday.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif talks to All Things Considered’s Mary Louise Kellyin Iran about heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington after the U.S. killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.Here’s the full transcript of their conversation.
Mary Louise Kelly: Foreign Minister, thank you. Our time is short, so I will be direct. Does Iran consider the U.S. killing of Qassem Soleimani an act of war?
Mohammad Javad Zarif: It’s an act of terrorism and an act of war.
It is both —
Both.
Terrorism and war, you believe, on behalf of the U.S.?
Yes. But it has three basically characteristics. One against Iraq. It violated territorial integrity and sovereignty of Iraq. And it also violated the agreement that they had with the Iraqis. And that is why the Iraqis decided to kick them out.
It hurt the feeling of many people across Iran and the rest of the world. And the reaction to that would be to make it almost impossible for the U.S. to continue to stay in this region. That is why I say the days of the United States in our region are numbered.
Third is they attacked a citizen and a senior official of Iran. We’re responsibleunder international law for protection of our citizens. This was an act of aggression, an armed attack, albeit a cowardly armed attack, against an Iranian official in foreign territory. It amounts to war, and we will respond according to our own timing and choice.
But we were on the streets in Tehran yesterday, we saw flags, banners with the words deep revenge written across them.
Yes.
What does that look like?
Well, that looks like the United States has committed a grave error. A grave error. And it will pay for that grave error.
Can you be specific?
Well, I was very specific. The Parliament of Iraq asked them to leave. The people of the region are asking them to leave. And the people of Iran are asking their government to do what it takes for the United States to pay for its crimes.
But what would Iran’s response look like?
Well, we will decide. We will decide. The United States, you see —
There’s nothing on or off the table?
Well, you see, in exercising our right to self-defense, we are only bound by international law, unlike the United States, which is not bound by international law.
The U.S. would differ. But go on.
U.S. would differ? Well, tell them to explain how they want to attack cultural sites. That’s a war crime. How do they want to — I mean, these are not off the record. These are statements made by the president of the United States. Disproportionate manner.
The defense secretary, as you well know, Mark Esper has said in the United States, the U.S. will not be attacking cultural sites.
Well, I’ve heard that the president in the United States is the commander in chief. And as you say, the buck stops here. So, unless President Trump changes his own threats, I don’t think that. … The defense secretary works on behalf of the president, not as a as an independent entity. But the point is, the United — the secretary of state, of all people, has said if Iran wants its people to eat, it has to listen to the United States. That’s a crime against humanity. Starvation is a crime against humanity, creating individual responsibility before the International Criminal Court. These are the statements that are being made. I’m not making them up. I mean, the Newsweek headlines — they’re, I mean, they’re headlines in the United States.
You were supposed to have —
They can differ with me. But I don’t think they have any grounds to differ with me.
You were supposed to be able to make this case in New York, at the United Nations this week, you were set to address the United Nations Security Council.
Not this case. Actually, the president of the Security Council invited me over 20 days ago. The current president.
Will you be able to go?
No, unfortunately, because Mike Pompeo decided that I was too dangerous for the United States.
How did — has he communicated that directly to you? How did you find out?
Not to us, to the secretary-general of the United States [sic]. He has said we didn’t have enough time to issue a visa. I don’t know how terrible bureaucracy the State Department has that in 25 days, they couldn’t issue a visa for a foreign minister. I’m not an unknown entity.
But you are — this is final, this is definite? Because I know there has been confusion in past about visas.
From his point of view it is. And I’m not that crazy about going to the United States anyway.
You’re just, just happy to skip this trip.
Well, I’m not happy to skip this trip because that was part of my obligation as the foreign minister of Iran to go to that session of the Security Council and talk about the need to respect international law, because that’s the title: the need to respect the principles of the U.N. Charter.
Secretary Pompeo, in past, when this has been an issue with Iranian diplomats such as yourself coming to the United Nations in New York and visa issues have been difficult, has said a nation that has killed U.S. citizens, that has knowingly killed hundreds of Americans — why should they be allowed to come to the U.S.? Why should a nation that knowingly supports international terrorist groups, why should they be allowed to come address the United Nations?
Well, now, I mean, these allegations are easy to make. But when we see who is killing and who is maiming and who has killed a thousand Iraqi scientists —
Iran has sent weapons that have killed hundreds of Americans in Iraq. You know this.
Who killed — who killed 290 Iranians, civilians in a civil airliner?
You’re referring to an airplane bombing.
Yes. The record is clear. The record of the United States in this region is clear. They have killed a lot of Iraqis. They’ve killed a lot of Afghanis. They’ve killed a lot of people elsewhere in this region. They are killing a lot of people in Yemen. The weapons that the United States provides to Saudi Arabia is killing and maiming people.
Many sides are killing a lot of people in Yemen, unfortunately.
Unfortunately, it’s a war that the United States —
Including the Houthis, who Iran backs.
The Houthis have always asked — they didn’t start a war. They’re defending themselves. You cannot equate somebody who’s defending themselves, but with somebody who’s attacking them.
May I turn you to the nuclear deal? We have heard from Iran that Iran will suspend compliance with the remaining limits in the nuclear deal. Is this the end of the deal?
No, we didn’t say we will suspend complying with the remaining limits. We said that we have taken four steps. Our fifth step would be to suspend compliance with the limit on the number of centrifuges. That means effectively that all limits on our centrifuge program are now suspended.
Why do this now?
Huh?
Why?
Because it’s it’s at the two-month period that we have said before that if the Europeans do not comply with their own obligations, we will take measures.
You see, JCPOA was negotiated not in an —
You’re using the formal name for the nuclear deal. Go on.
Yeah. Not in an atmosphere of trust, but in an atmosphere of mistrust. That is why we put in place the mechanisms for dealing with violations. And that mechanism was triggered by Iran after U.S. withdrawal. And in November of 2018, we informed that we have exhausted that mechanism, and we have no other choice but to start reducing our level of compliance. But we made it very clear that we are ready to go back to full compliance the minute they start complying with their own. Doesn’t mean that the United States should comply. Means that Europe should comply.
MLK: Still, it’s not good news for the nuclear deal which you personally negotiated.
Well, it’s not good news. Certainly not. And we’re not happy about this, but it’s a remedy. When you execute somebody or you imprison somebody for committing an offense, you certainly are not happy for depriving somebody of their life or their liberty. But you have to do it because it’s a remedy that the law has provided in order to prevent lawlessness. This is a remedy provided in the deal.
So this is not —
Unpleasant.
— Iran racing to build a nuclear bomb.
No. If we wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we would have to be, would have done it a long time ago. Iran does not want a nuclear bomb, does not believe that nuclear bombs create security for anybody. And we believe it’s time for everybody to disarm rather than to arm.
Last question. There’s something like five U.S. citizens still being detained in Iran, including the aging Baquer Namazi, who is in ill health.
He’s not detained.
He’s here.
He’s here, yet he —
He would probably prefer not to be.
Well, he’s an Iranian citizen.
Is there hope for future exchanges?
Well, I don’t think that this action by the United States helped. We had proposed a universal exchange of all prisoners and we were doing that in good faith. We released an American citizen for an Iranian citizen. That could have continued. But now —
You’re talking about the recent exchange of a Princeton graduate student who is an American held here.
And an Iranian professor —
Yes.
— who had been held without —
And those channels are still open?
I don’t think at this time we can discuss those issues. We have to deal with the present issue at hand, unfortunately.
If I’m hearing you correctly, you’re saying there will not be future exchanges while the situation is so tense between Washington —
Well I think those talks are certainly suspended now.
Foreign Minister Zarif, thank you for your time.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you.
Editor’s note: NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly described a 1988 attack on an Iranian civil airplane as a bombing. The U.S. Navy actually fired missiles at Iran Air Flight 655. Earlier in the conversation, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif mentioned the secretary-general of the United States. He was referring to the United Nations secretary-general.
Over 30,000 teachers went on strike in Los Angeles County today. The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) serves 640,000 students and is the second biggest school district in the country. The last time Los Angeles teachers went on strike was 1989.
The protest follows a string of successful teacher strikes across the country. Teachers in states like West Virginia and Oklahoma — who are among the lowest paid educators in the country — have organized and participated in strikes in order to advocate for higher wages and improved conditions for students.
Prior to negotiations, the average annual mean wage for a teacher was $45,240 in West Virginia and $42,460 in Oklahoma. After going on strike, teachers in both of these states received pay increases.
“What you’re seeing with unions is real enthusiasm and a belief that you can actually be successful,” Robert Bruno, professor of labor and employment relations at the University of Illinois tells the Associated Press. “The educational sector is rife with deep grievance and frustration, but there’s now a sense that you can actually win.”
The annual mean wage for teachers in California is $74,940 and $75,000 in the LAUSD, and while teacher pay is a significant issue for protesting educators, the current teachers strike in Los Angeles is also about class size.
The strike has gained attention and support from progressive politicians.
“Very proud of L.A. public school teachers today for taking a stand. Teachers are the unsung heroes of American democracy. Today they’re putting everything on the line so our nation’s children can have a better shot,” tweeted New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“Los Angeles teachers work day in and day out to inspire and educate the next generation of leaders. I’m standing in solidarity with them as they strike for improved student conditions, such as smaller class sizes and more counselors and librarians,” tweeted California Senator Kamala Harris.
“The eyes of the nation are watching, and educators … all over the country have the backs of the educators in L.A.,” Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said at the protest on Monday, according to the Los Angeles Times. “We need the conditions to ensure that every child … gets the opportunity he or she or they deserve.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, speaks to reporters as she leaves an event with furloughed federal workers amid the partial government shutdown, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Though President Trump and the White House did not immediately respond to Pelosi, Republicans accused Pelosi of playing politics. House Minority Whip Steve Scalise tweeting that Democrats are “only interested in obstructing @realDonaldTrump, not governing.” Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen denied anyone’s safety would be compromised, saying that both Homeland Security Department and Secret Service “are fully prepared to support and secure the State of the Union.”
DISSENSION AMONG DEMS OVER THE WALL: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., broke from other top Democrats and acknowledged Wednesday on Fox News’ “Special Report with Bret Baier” that border walls “obviously” work in some areas, and rejected suggestions that barriers should be removed where they already exist … In addition, the second most powerful House Democrat said the question of whether to fund President Trump’s proposed border wall is “not an issue of morality.”
Hoyer’s comments were seemingly at odds with the positions of other House Democrats, most notably House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who have argued that border walls like the one Trump is proposing are ineffective and immoral.
Nearly 250 illegal immigrants arrested in New Mexico after crossing border, seeking medical care, Border Patrol says
COLLUSION CONFUSION: President Trump’s personal attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, claimed Wednesday night that he “never said there was no collusion” between members of President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russian officials — but he did say that Trump himself never colluded with Russian officials … The former New York City mayor also said on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” that “if the collusion happened, it happened a long time ago. It’s either provable or it’s not. It is not provable because it never happened … I’m telling you there’s no chance it happened.” Trump previously denied any member of his campaign conspired with Russian officials. In May 2017, Trump flatly stated: “There is no collusion, certainly myself and my campaign.”
MUELLER TEAM MEMBERS HAD DIRT ON DOSSIER: Details about Justice Department official Bruce Ohr’s meetings with the author of the salacious anti-Trump dossier were shared by Ohr with his expansive circle of contacts inside the department — including senior FBI leadership and officials now assigned to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, Fox News’ Catherine Herridge has learned … Ohr gave a closed-door transcribed interview last August sharing details of his 2016 meetings with British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who authored the dossier later used to secure a surveillance warrant for a Trump campaign aide.
In a series of questions about his meetings with Steele — including one on July 30, 2016 — and about with whom he shared the information, Fox News has confirmed the Ohr transcript stated: “Andy McCabe, yes and met with him and Lisa Page and provided information to him. I subsequently met with Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, and eventually (an FBI agent). And I also provided this information to people in the criminal division specifically Bruce Swartz, Zainab Ahmad, Andrew Weissmann.”
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São Paulo – Fertilizer purchases increased, as did agricultural machinery. Rural property infrastructure was expanded, the quality of seeds used in crops improved. These are some of the consequences that the rise in price of the main agricultural commodities produced in Brazil, which started in the middle of the past decade, brought to the Brazilian countryside. Soy and maize prices started to rise in that time and currently are still at least 100% higher.
“Last year sales of harvesters and tractors grew a lot, as well as pesticides, fertilizers. The technological level grew a lot”, says the head of the Brazilian Agribusiness Association (Abag), Luiz Antonio Pinazza. According to him, Brazilian farmers still own resources, due to the rise of agricultural commodity prices, and the countryside is going through a very favorable moment.
The head of the Economy Department of the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA, in the Portuguese acronym), Wilson Vaz de Araújo, cites, besides the use of technology and fertilizers, the investments in storage systems and field management capacity as consequences of the rise in agricultural product prices. More modern processes, according to him, allowed the increase of productivity, and thus, the increase of production.
Larger investment in fertilizers can be seen in the sector statistics. The delivery of fertilizers on the Brazilian market, which were 20.1 million tonnes in 2005, increased to 31 million last year, according to the Brazilian National Fertilizer Association (Anda).The Brazilian industry of agricultural machinery and implements profited US$ 5.9 billion in 2008 and US$ 13.1 billion in 2013, according to the Brazilian Machinery Manufacturers Association (Abimaq).
Life in the countryside
According to Araujo, from Mapa, in regions where agriculture is strong the new level of prices for agricultural commodities influenced the quality of life, the financial sector, commerce, input suppliers and even education. In this regard, Afrânio Cesar Migliari, secretary of Agriculture and Environment of the municipality in Mato Grosso, which is considered the national capital of agribusiness, said “quality of life in the countryside improved, in cities devoted to agribusiness”.
According to the secretary, Sorriso and the remaining soy and maize producing municipalities in the region, such as Lucas do Rio Verde, Nova Mutum and Princesa do Leste, have better living conditions today. “There are new vehicles, new trucks, imported vehicles”, says Migliari. Civil construction is thriving in Sorriso, according to him, and there are several new housing complexes, high-value condominiums. “The state changed a lot in the past ten years”, he said about Mato Grosso.
The higher income has consequences not only on the personal life of farmers in Mato Grosso, according to Migliari, but also on agricultural activity itself, on farms’ structures, investment in higher quality seeds and fertilizers, more modern machinery, acquisition of new airplanes, tractors, automatic planters and harvesters. And the acquisition of newer technology helped the state to address one of its main bottlenecks, which is agricultural labour. Sorriso plants 660,000 hectares of soy per year and 440,000 hectares of maize, which was considered secondary in the municipality until it started to profit better and to receive investments.
Rise in soy and maize prices
Asian demand for grains and the decision of the US to produce ethanol from maize are among the factors leading to maize and soy’s new prices. “China imported two million tonnes of grain in 2000, and today it imports between 65 and 70 million tonnes. And Brazil occupies a big part of this market”, says Pinazza. Speculation in the commodity market as a whole, which also includes non-agricultural products such as oil, has also favored the price rise, according to the director.
The head of the Economy Department of the Brazilian Ministry points out the variation of stock prices, especially after 2009. “In general, the prices were quite generous”, he says, citing income increase and urbanization in developing countries, mainly from Asia as possible reasons. Araújo believes the grain market will keep the upward trend. “The level of agricultural commodity prices has changed. There may be some fluctuation, but they will stay in this new level”, he says.
Trump knocked Comey in a tweet as “a disgrace to the FBI” while predicting that he “will go down as the worst Director in its long and once proud history.”
“He brought the FBI down, almost all Republicans & Democrats thought he should be FIRED, but the FBI will regain greatness because of the great men & women who work there!” he added.
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Ana Isabel Rodríguez Salazar, abogada, atropelló a tres policías y una motocicleta al tratar de escapar de una intervención en San Isidro. Estaba completamente ebria. (El Comercio / Hugo Pérez)
Un repaso a las noticias que tuvieron como escenario Lima y que causaron impacto durante la semana en esta galería.
ABOGADA EBRIA ATROPELLÓ A TRES POLICÍAS
El Poder Judicial dispuso nueve meses de prisión preventiva para Ana Isabel Rodríguez Salazar, la abogada que en estado de ebriedad atropelló a tres policías enSan Isidro en su intento por evitar ser intervenida.
ÁRBOLES DE EL OLIVAR EN ESTADO CRÍTICO
Los 1.675 árboles que se encuentran dentro del bosque de El Olivar en San Isidro serán rescatados a través de un programa de recuperación de la Municipalidad de San Isidro.
La clausura definitiva de imprentas que funcionaban sin licencia en el Centro Histórico de Limageneró actos de violencia por un grupo de comerciantes que se oponen a esa medida.
Roger L. Harris, the Spotsylvania County sheriff, released the 911 call and body-camera footage on Friday and said in a videotaped statement that the deputy who shot Mr. Brown had been placed on administrative leave. He did not give the deputy’s name, and the sheriff’s office did not return calls on Saturday.
The Virginia State Police, the agency that is leading the investigation, plans to turn over its findings to a special prosecutor for review, said Corinne Geller, a State Police spokeswoman.
Sheriff Harris said the State Police had been contacted at his request to ensure “an impartial and transparent investigation.”
La Bravia J. Jenkins, the commonwealth’s attorney for the city of Fredericksburg, Va., confirmed on Saturday that she had been appointed special prosecutor.
“Video of the incident has been released, but the investigation continues,” she said in an email. “I have nothing further to report at this time.”
The authorities described a fast-moving sequence of events that had begun at about 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday, when the deputy gave Mr. Brown a ride. Ms. Brown said her brother had been dropped off at his mother’s house.
About 45 minutes later, the sheriff’s office received a 911 call for a “domestic incident,” the State Police said.
Faced with growing worries over a potential winter coronavirus surge, health officials in California and other areas are turbocharging the push for COVID-19 booster shots in hopes of getting more adults the extra dose as soon as possible.
The move comes amid initial sluggish demand for boosters, which has sparked concern that more people who got their initial vaccinations nearly a year ago will see their immunity wane further into the pivotal holiday season. In California, only 34% of fully vaccinated seniors age 65 and over have received a booster, as have just 14% of fully vaccinated adults.
Federal guidance says any adult can get a booster if they are at increased risk of COVID-19 exposure because of where they work or live.
State and local health officials are urging the public as well as pharmacies, medical centers and other vaccine distributors to take a liberal view of this — meaning that any adults are eligible as long as two months have passed since they got a Johnson & Johnson shot, or at least six months have passed since they received a second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna.
Traditionally, the “increased risk” criteria outlined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been applied to those who work in places such as hospitals, schools, grocery stores or factories — or those who live in congregate settings like prisons or homeless shelters.
But the wording of the recently issued criteria is broad, and some health officials, including in California, are now increasingly pointing out that it can be interpreted in a much more expansive way.
Dr. Tomás Aragón, state health officer and director of the California Department of Public Health, sent out a letter Tuesday instructing vaccination providers to “allow patients to self-determine their risk of exposure. Do not turn a patient away who is requesting a booster.”
California health authorities, fearing another winter coronavirus wave, are urging all eligible adults to get COVID-19 booster shots.
Booster-eligible adults may include those who “live in geographic areas that have been heavily impacted by COVID,” those who “reside in high transmission areas,” “who work with the public or live with someone who works with the public,” or “live or work with someone at high risk of severe impact of COVID,” Aragón wrote.
There may also be “other risk conditions as assessed by the individual,” he added.
On Wednesday, the California Department of Public Health summed up its booster guidance as follows: “In general terms that everyone can understand, we urge Californians to get a booster if someone in their home has a medical condition or if they work around other people.”
The list of qualifying medical conditions itself is expansive, including being overweight, pregnant, a current or former smoker, or having high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma, depression or an alcohol- or drug-use disorder.
Based on all of those reasons, “pretty much everybody is eligible,” said Dr. Sara Cody, the health officer and public health director for Santa Clara County, Northern California’s most populous county. “We really encourage everyone to get out and get their booster shot.”
With only one week since 5- to 11-year-olds were eligible for COVID-19 vaccines, Orange County health officials are reporting ‘a very healthy demand.’
Officials have been regularly beating the drum for boosters in recent weeks, saying it’s important for eligible people to take advantage of the extra protection ahead of the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, which last year fueled the worst COVID-19 wave yet.
Gov. Gavin Newsom this week called the potential winter COVID-19 surge his “biggest anxiety.”
“While we were spared the worst in the summer, the prospects of a challenging winter are upon us,” he said Wednesday during a press conference to promote booster shots in Los Angeles. “And that’s why we’re doing everything in our power to prepare and to protect ourselves.”
While California is relying on an interpretation of the CDC booster guidelines to essentially throw the doors open, federal officials, for their part, are already evaluating whether to officially expand eligibility.
Just this week, Pfizer and BioNTech asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to allow boosters of their COVID-19 vaccine for anyone 18 or older. Results from a new study found that a booster dose resulted in a relative vaccine efficacy of 95% when compared with people who did not receive a booster.
The request comes amid concern about increased spread of the coronavirus with holiday travel and gatherings.
California’s messaging marks a shift from just a few weeks ago, when officials generally placed greater emphasis on urging elderly individuals and those with weakened immune systems to get the booster.
That was partly based on the CDC’s official recommendations that — for people vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna — groups who should get the booster shots include seniors 65 and older, adults 50 and over with certain underlying conditions, and adults who live in long-term care settings. The CDC also recommended that all adult J&J recipients get a booster.
The CDC also made the boosters available to other specified groups, but stopped short of officially recommending they avail themselves of the additional shot. This included younger adults with an underlying condition, as well as those age 18 to 64 who live or work in settings that put them at increased risk.
As the CDC guidance notes, however, that risk “can vary across settings and be affected by how much COVID-19 is spreading in a community.”
In Colorado, for example, officials have taken the stance that, given how widespread coronavirus transmission is throughout the state, all adults are eligible for a booster.
“Because COVID-19 is spreading quickly throughout the state, Colorado is a high-risk place to live and work. Anyone who is 18 or older who would like a booster and is due for one should make a plan to get one,” the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment says on its website.
California’s message is similar. Without a booster, health officials warn, vaccinated people will be at greater risk for breakthrough infections, which can lead to hospitalizations and death among the most vulnerable.
“If you think you will benefit from getting a booster shot, I encourage you to go out and get it,” Dr. Mark Ghaly, secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, said during a briefing Wednesday.
He added, “It’s not too late to get it this week. Get that added protection for the Thanksgiving gatherings that you may attend. Certainly, going into the other winter holidays, it is important.”
Vaccination rates are up, but there’s fear Black and Latino men will continue waiting until they almost die from COVID-19 or watch people they know die before getting vaccinated.
More than 3.7 million Californians have received a booster so far, according to the state Department of Public Health. By comparison, roughly 25 million people are thought to be fully vaccinated statewide.
The group of boosted Californians includes Daniel Loyd, 60, who said he received his booster as soon as he could.
Outside a CVS in Agoura Hills on Thursday, Loyd said he was not only concerned about his own risk factors, he has diabetes, but was also trying to protect those around him — including his wife, who has asthma, and their neighbors at the retirement community where they live.
Greg Mead of Woodland Hills, on the other hand, said he will not be getting a booster. He said he was fully vaccinated with J&J and felt unwell for three days afterward.
“I’m done with the shots,” he said.
It’s not uncommon for people who get a booster to experience a low-grade fever, or perhaps some chills or fatigue; it typically lasts for 24 hours.
“But all of it goes away. And it’s much more important for people to just put up with that one day of side effects, because they have the benefit of the protection for a long time to come,” said Dr. Marty Fenstersheib, vaccine officer for Santa Clara County.
Vaccinated parents say they are continuing to give human milk to their young children beyond six months or a year to protect them from COVID-19.
Unvaccinated Californians are still about seven times more likely to get a coronavirus infection than those who have already been inoculated. But Ghaly said the state is seeing more coronavirus cases among those who got their shots earlier on.
“We’re concerned about what it means for hospitalizations and pressure on our healthcare delivery system, but ultimately for your safety and protection,” he said. “So now is the best time to consider getting that shot.”
That’s especially important, health officials say, as California’s emergence from the latest Delta wave appears to have stalled. The number of newly confirmed coronavirus cases has plateaued in recent weeks — and COVID-19 hospitalizations statewide have been relatively flat since mid-October.
Nationally, new daily coronavirus cases are starting to climb — up 5% over the past week.
Studies have shown that all three COVID-19 vaccines have lost some of their protective power, and data out of Israel indicate that booster shots are reducing the risk of severe illness and death.
A study of 780,000 veterans shows a dramatic decline in effectiveness for all three COVID-19 vaccines in use in the U.S.
Recently, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious diseases expert, cited a study published in the journal Lancet that found that, compared with people in Israel who received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, people who got a third dose had a 93% lower risk for COVID-related hospitalization, a 92% lower risk of severe disease, and an 81% lower risk of COVID-related death.
A report published by the CDC in September showed that vaccine effectiveness against hospitalizations fell from 91% to 77% for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine four months after getting the second dose. Available data for the J&J vaccine showed that vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization more than 28 days after getting the single-shot dose was 68%.
But while boosters are an increasingly important component of the fight against the pandemic, health officials say getting more people vaccinated to begin with is even more critical.
Nearly 70% of Californians have already received at least one dose, and about 63% are fully vaccinated, according to data compiled by The Times. However, those figures remain well below what health officials believe is necessary to bring the pandemic to its knees.
“We are concerned about the winter. We’re concerned about rising case numbers, pressure on our hospitals from a number of other issues on top of COVID,” Ghaly said. “So do what you can today to get your vaccine. Protect yourself into the winter.”
Surveillance footage captured the final moments of a slain couple before they disappeared, as the two women laughed and joked about the ‘weirdo’ camping next to them in the Utah wilderness.
Just five days later, on August 18, the bodies of Kylen Schulte, 24, and Crystal Beck, 38, were found in the La Sal Mountains, the second-highest range in Utah.
The married couple’s friend Kayla Borza, one of the last people to see them alive, had been with them in the tavern in the town of Moab.
‘We were just having a great time, having a couple drinks, and all they said was there was a creep [staying] next to them,’ said Borza, who believes that creep is the man that killed Schulte and Beck.
Surveillance footage captured the final moments of a slain couple, Kylen Schulte, 24, and Crystal Beck, 38, before they disappeared, as the two women laughed and joked about the ‘weirdo’ camping next to them in the Utah wilderness
The married couple’s friend Kayla Borza, one of the last people to see them alive, had been with them in the tavern in the town of Moab
Footage, first obtained by the Daily Beast, showed them laughing over drinks with Borza and enjoying their evening together.
The couple, who got married in April, were semi-regular customers at Woody’s Tavern in Moab, said bar manager Arielle Beck.
Beck (unrelated to Crystal Beck) said the couple were there from around 6pm to 9pm on August 13 and that was the last time they were seen at Woody’s, even though police and local media reported there were seen there again the next evening. Arielle Beck claims she worked both nights and didn’t see them again after Friday.
Schulte (right) and Beck (left) were found shot dead four days after going missing while camping in Utah mountains
Cindy Sue Hunter said she discovered the bodies of her friends, Schulte, 24, and Beck, 38, after receiving a frantic call from Schulte’s father, Sean-Paul, she told ABC4 News Friday.
Schulte’s father, who lives in Montana, called Hunter after he hadn’t heard from the couple in three days following a disturbing call from his daughter, he reportedly told Hunter.
‘He said ‘I just found out that there was a creeper dude that they were scared of. That they needed to move their camp,’ Hunter said. ‘All of a sudden I had such a sense of urgency.’
Hunter was able to locate the couple’s campsite in Moab on Wednesday, remaining on the phone with Kylen’s father while she searched the area.
‘Then I saw her body and I turned away,’ Hunter said. ‘I think something inside me didn’t want to acknowledge what I had seen so I was looking at the beauty of the creek and everything and talking to the father the whole time and I turned around again to make myself see and it was her.’
Kylen Schulte (left) and Crystal Beck, who married recently, were found dead in the Moab mountains of Utah after being reported missing four days earlier
Aunt Bridgit Calvert started a GoFundMe page to help Sean-Paul pay for funeral expenses for the two girls
On Wednesday, the Grand County Sheriff’s Office in Moab released a statement saying: ‘At this time the Grand County Sheriff’s Office is conducting an ongoing homicide investigation.’
When speaking with ABC4 News Friday, Cindy Sue Hunter (pictured) said she discovered the bodies of her friends, Kylen Schulte, 24, and Crystal Beck, 38, while speaking to Schulte’s father on the phone
The Sheriff’s Office continued by saying they believe ‘there is no current danger to the public in the Grand County area.’
Hunter, on the other hand, doesn’t find the sheriff’s statement comforting.
‘How are we safe if you have a double homicide?’ Hunter asked. ‘ You don’t have a suspect in custody. You’re not claiming it was a murder-suicide so how are we possibly safe? It honestly feels like they’re just trying to protect the tourism industry in Moab.’
Schulte’s and Beck were camping in the Moab mountains about a week ago when they reportedly vanished.
Their bodies were discovered near the South Mesa area of La Sal Loop Road and police identified them as the missing women Thursday evening.
Their bodies were transferred to the state medical examiner’s office.
The two reportedly were last seen on August 14 after telling close friends they moved campsites because they had been ‘spooked’ by a ‘weirdo’ man camping near them.
Their bodies were found near the South Mesa area of La Sal Loop Road on August 18
Schulte’s father Sean-Paul asked the people of Moab to help find his daughter’s killers on Facebook as the police’s person of interest has been released and no arrests have been made
Schulte’s father called for the Moab community to help find ‘my girls’ on August 17 in a Facebook post after not hearing from them.
He reported that the girls, ‘Haven’t been to work. Haven’t called. Not in hospital. Not in Moab jail,’ but police were searching for them.
The dad posted again a day later reporting the girls had been missing for four nights and days.
He said: ‘Moab PLEASE PLEASE FIND MY GIRLS.’
In an updated post, he begs Moab not to give up on finding his daughter’s killer and asked them to interview everyone who was on the mountain.
He wrote: ‘Moab. This is Kylen and Crystals dad. Please please
‘DO NOT STOP !!!!’
The sheriff’s office released a statement saying they are looking into all avenues provided by those who come forward.
Schulte’s (left) and Beck (right) were camping in the mountains of Moab, Utah, about a week ago when they reportedly vanished. Their bodies were discovered Wednesday night near the South Mesa area of La Sal Loop Road
‘We are currently following up with what comes to our attention during this investigation and will continue to be available to people to come forward with information,’ the sheriff’s office told local NBC-affiliated television station KSL-TV.
The father reported that a person of interest had been questioned and released by police, but his daughter’s killer was still out there.
The family called Schulte the ‘moon and the stars since the day she was born’ on the GoFundMe page created to help Sean-Paul pay funeral expenses for the two women.
The couple – who was recently married – spent a lot of time camping.
Their aunt wrote on a GoFundMe page, ‘They found their way from the best campsite to the next.’
CHUCK TODD spoke to PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP on NBC’S “MEET THE PRESS” …
— TRUMP on why Iran shot down the drone: “I think they want to negotiate. And I think they want to make a deal. And my deal is nuclear. Look, they’re not going to have a nuclear weapon. … And I think that they want to negotiate. I don’t think they like the position they’re in. Their economy is, is absolutely broken. …
“According to Prime Minister Abe, they went to him, it’s according to the prime minister, and they said, ‘What do we do with Trump? Can we make a deal? Is there something that can be done?’ That’s what Prime Minister Abe told me. I said, ‘Do you mind if I say that if I have to?’ And he said, ‘Not particularly.’ So they came to Prime Minister Abe. He then called me. I said, ‘Send the following message: you can’t have nuclear weapons. And other than that, we can sit down and make a deal. But you cannot have nuclear.’”
— TRUMP on John Bolton: “I have some hawks. Yeah, John Bolton is absolutely a hawk. If it was up to him he’d take on the whole world at one time, OK?”
— REGRETS: “I would say if I had one do over, it would be, I would not have appointed Jeff Sessions to be attorney general. That would be my one –” TODD: “That’s your, in your mind, that’s your worst mistake?” TRUMP: “Yeah, that was the biggest mistake.”
— TRUMP on Pelosi: TODD: “Let me ask you this, why do you think Nancy Pelosi has held off her impeachment caucus?” TRUMP: “Because I think she feels that I will win much easier. I mean, I’ve been told that by many people.”
— ON ELECTION MEDDLING:TODD: “You’re going to see Vladimir Putin in a week.” TRUMP: “Yes. I’m going to see many people.” TODD: “Are you going to address him directly about interference in 2020?” TRUMP: “I may.” TODD: “Are you going to tell him –” TRUMP: “I may.” TODD: “– not to do it?” TRUMP: “I may if you’d like me to do it, I’ll do that.”
— TODD: “Are you prepared to lose?” TRUMP: “No. Probably not. Probably not.” TODD: “Very hon — I mean, you joke –” TRUMP: “It would be much better, it would be much better if I said, ‘Yeah.’ … It would be much easier for me to say, ‘Oh yes.’ No I’m probably not too prepared to lose. I don’t like losing. I haven’t lost very much in my life.”
Happy Sunday morning.
SNEAK PEEK … THE PRESIDENT’S WEEK: Monday: The president will have lunch with VP Mike Pence and sign an executive order on “improving price and quality transparency in health care.” Tuesday: The president will present the Medal of Honor to David G. Bellavia. Wednesday: The president will speak at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference before flying to Osaka, Japan.
SPOTTED: Bernie Sanders dining with Danny Glover, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Cornell West and Nina Turner at Motor Supply Co. in Columbia. (hat tip: Bloomberg’s Emma Kinery)
ON IRAN … WSJ’S MIKE BENDER and GORDON LUBOLD: “Trump Bucked National-Security Aides on Proposed Iran Attack”: “President Trump bucked most of his top national-security advisers by abandoning retaliatory strikes in Iran on Thursday. In private conversations Friday, Mr. Trump reveled in his judgment, certain about his decision to call off the attacks while speaking of his administration as if removed from the center of it. ‘These people want to push us into a war, and it’s so disgusting,’ Mr. Trump told one confidant about his own inner circle of advisers. ‘We don’t need any more wars.’” WSJ
— NYT’S ED WONG and MICHAEL CROWLEY: “Pompeo, a Steadfast Hawk, Coaxes a Hesitant Trump on Iran”: “[A]s the debate over the strike showed, the uncompromisingly hawkish views Mr. Pompeo holds on Iran are starting to clash with the perspective of a president deeply skeptical of military entanglements, especially in the Middle East. Mr. Pompeo is unlikely to publicly signal frustration with the president.
“Some officials say he would work through the bureaucracy to push his policy goals while on the surface sticking to the role of loyal soldier, if only because he harbors political ambitions for which Mr. Trump’s support would be invaluable. Despite Mr. Pompeo’s insistence that he has ‘ruled out’ a Senate run next year in Kansas, many Trump administration officials expect him to enter the race.” NYT
VP MIKE PENCE told JAKE TAPPER on CNN’S “STATE OF THE UNION” that the president will announce additional sanctions on Iran tomorrow.
CHRIS WALLACE spoke to SEN. TOM COTTON (R-ARK.) on “FOX NEWS SUNDAY”: COTTON: “I think retaliatory strikes were warranted when we’re talking about foreign vessels on the high seas, I think they were warranted against an American unmanned aircraft. What I see is Iran steadily marching up the escalation chain it started out with threats then went to attack on vessels and ports, went to attack on vessels at sea now it’s an unmanned American aircraft. I fear that if Iran doesn’t have a firm set of boundaries drawn around its behavior were going to see an attack on a U.S. ship or U.S. manned aircraft.”
— WAPO’S SIMON DENYER in Tokyo: “North Korea’s Kim receives ‘excellent letter’ from Trump, state media says”: “North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has received an ‘excellent’ letter from President Trump and is seriously considering what his American counterpart had to say, North Korean state media reported Sunday. Earlier this month, Trump announced he had received a ‘beautiful letter’ from Kim, breaking the silence between the two men since a summit in Hanoi in February ended in failure. Now, Trump appears to have written back and received a similarly warm response. Kim ‘said with satisfaction that the letter is of excellent content,’ the Korean Central News Agency reported.
“‘Appreciating the political judging faculty and extraordinary courage of President Trump, Kim Jong Un said that he would seriously contemplate the interesting content,’ the agency said. The White House has not commented, but there will inevitably be speculation that the letters could pave the way for a third summit between the two leaders.” WaPo
CNN’S JAKE TAPPER: “Nancy Pelosi called Trump Friday night asking him to call off ICE raids”: “Trump and Pelosi spoke at 7:20 p.m. ET Friday night for about 12 minutes, according to the source. White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere confirmed a phone call took place Friday night between Trump and Pelosi. A senior Democratic aide said Trump is ‘trying to create leverage in a situation where he has none,’ adding that ‘it won’t work.’ ‘Democrats aren’t going to compromise their values,’ the aide said. ‘He’s walked away from several deals on immigration. We have no illusions here.’” CNN
— TAPPER got Pence to say toothbrushes, blankets and medicine should be given to children at the border — something DOJ’s attorney did not agree to in court. Clip
BUZZFEED’s HAMED ALEAZIZ and ADOLFO FLORES: “[T]wo senior administration officials told BuzzFeed News that those within the administration believe acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, or his staff, leaked operational details and that is what ultimately put the ICE operation in jeopardy. ‘Leaking the locations and details to stop the operation from happening not only harmed operational integrity, but it put the safety and well-being of his own officers in jeopardy,’ said one senior administration official.
“‘The ICE mission is enforcing the nation’s laws and ensuring those who are unlawfully present in the country are removed if ordered by a judge; this will leave an un-erasable mark on his tenure.’ DHS officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the matter.” BuzzFeed
— @Haleaziz: “!!! Former ICE dir. Tom Homan accused acting DHS Sec. McAleenan of ‘resisting what ICE is trying to do’ in this operation and heavily implies that McAleenan leaked operation details to the Washington Post. Homan was picked by Trump to be ‘border czar.’” Video
NYT’S JONATHAN MARTIN and ASTEAD W. HERNDON: “‘The Black Vote Is Not Monolithic’: 2020 Democrats Find Split Preferences in South Carolina”: “Recent polls have shown [Biden] with support from about 50 percent of African-American voters in the state. It is what elevates Mr. Biden above his 22 Democratic rivals; though he is often portrayed as a champion of the white working class, he is viewed by many black voters as the play-it-safe choice who could best recreate the multiracial Obama coalition.
“But many young black voters are drawn to Elizabeth Warren and her plan to cancel student debt, while others prefer Bernie Sanders and his calls for systemic change. Some black women like Kamala Harris’s leadership style and her personal story as a graduate of Howard University. And some black men are sizing up Cory Booker, who employs the cadences of the black church in his stump speech.” NYT
— MARTHA RADDATZ spoke to SEN. CORY BOOKER on CBS’ “FACE THE NATION”: RADDATZ: “And Sen. Booker, I want to turn back to politics and to Vice President Biden’s comments. He said he worked along segregationists in congress in order to get things done. You called the comments deeply disappointing, but the two of you spoke privately on Wednesday evening. What was your takeaway from that conversation?”
BOOKER: “Well I’ve said my peace. I have a lot of respect for Joe Biden and a gratitude towards him, and has even more of a responsibility than I have to have — be candid with him, to speak truth to power. He is a presidential nominee and to say something — and again it’s not about working across the aisle, if anything I’ve made that a hallmark of my time in the Senate to get big things done and legislation passed.
“This is about him evoking a terrible power dynamic that he showed a lack of understanding or insensitivity to by invoking this idea that he was called son by white segregationists who — yes, they see him — in him, their son.”
— CBS’S ED O’KEEFE interviewed SEN. KAMALA HARRIS for “FACE THE NATION” (also will run on “CBS This Morning” tomorrow): “2020 Democratic hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris of California reiterated her support for impeachment proceedings against President Trump but admitted there is tension within the Democratic party over moving forward. In an interview with CBS News political correspondent Ed O’Keefe, Harris said that she believes impeachment is ‘the existential question.’
“‘This is the tension which is, do you stand to fight for these principles that were part of the — the spirit behind the design of our democracy, checks and balances, accountability?’ Harris asked. ‘Or do you stand with strategy, which is what is the ultimate goal and if it’s saying that this guy should not be in office and if this could hurt the chances of winning an election, should you hold off?’” CBS
REALITY INTERVENES AGAIN FOR BUTTIGIEG … SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE: “One person dead, up to 10 others injured in shootings early Sunday at South Bend bar”: “One person is dead and as many as 10 others are injured after shootings at an east side bar early today.” South Bend Tribune
BORDER TALES — “‘Stop Repeating History’: Plan to Keep Migrant Children at Former Internment Camp Draws Outrage,” by Ben Fenwick in the NYT in Fort Sill, Okla.: “For Satsuki Ina, who was born in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II, the news that the United States would detain undocumented migrant children at this Army base in Oklahoma felt like an unwelcome wallop from the past. The base, Fort Sill, Okla., once held 700 Japanese-Americans who lived in tents in desertlike heat, surrounded by barbed wire and guards. They were among the more than 100,000 residents of Japanese ancestry who were rounded up by the government during the war and placed in detention camps around the country.
“Ms. Ina and more than 200 demonstrators arrived at FortSill on Saturday to protest the government’s latest plan for the base: to house 1,400 undocumented children who arrived in the United States without a parent or a legal guardian. The protesters called the plan, which was announced this month, a return to one of the nation’s great shames. ‘We are here to say, “Stop repeating history,”’ Ms. Ina, 75, said at a news conference on Saturday, standing in front of a howitzer display outside the base.” NYT
CNN’S PAM BROWN and MANU RAJU: “Democrats cut deal to hear from White House counsel office insider, source says”: “The House Judiciary Committee appears to have reached a deal with former White House aide Annie Donaldson that would allow her to not appear before the committee by a Monday deadline and answer written questions instead, according to sources familiar with the matter.” CNN
GABE DEBENEDETTI in NY Mag, “‘That’s Hell’: Democrats’ Debate Prep Gets Real”: “Biden debated well during the 2008 cycle and as the vice-president in 2012, but it’s been seven years, and now he knows he’s everyone’s top target. Multiple candidates who are set to debate him next week are expecting both Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris to go after his flip-flop on the Hyde Amendment, Harris to attack him on his criminal-justice record, Bernie Sanders to criticize his ‘middle-ground’ plans, and Pete Buttigieg to knock him in his signature generational terms. On both nights, they suspect, candidates will bring up Biden’s recent comments about working with segregationist senators. And Biden is preparing for all of it.”NY Mag
— “What the 2020 Democrats Are Like Behind the Scenes,” by NYT’s Alex Burns: “[S]ome of the most telling — and in some cases, jarring or endearing — moments with the candidates happened off camera, or outside the context of the interview. [John] Hickenlooper, for instance, showed up at our office flustered because he had lost his wallet, and confessed sheepishly that it had been a long time since he had dealt with certain indignities of being a private citizen. Learning after the interview that his flight home had been canceled, Mr. Hickenlooper took the development in stride; he lingered in the newsroom, bantering with our colleague Stephanie Saul about Teddy Roosevelt’s relationship with the muckraking reporters of his day.
“Ms. Harris arrived at the newspaper with a complaint and a request. She asked Patrick Healy, our politics editor, if The New York Times could make it easier to read articles offline on the paper’s smartphone app — an important consideration for a West Coast lawmaker who is regularly confined to transcontinental flights with spotty Wi-Fi. Ms. Harris — who was at her most animated in the interview when discussing her passion for cooking — also asked to meet Sam Sifton, the food editor.
“Soon, the two were kibitzing about recipes amid a maze of desks and a gathering crowd of onlookers. (Ms. Harris was less excited when Carolyn Ryan, a masthead editor, approached to ask her about a blossoming late-March crisis for Mr. Biden, involving his physical behavior with women.)” NYT
HMM … THE STAR TRIBUNE — “New documents revisit questions about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s marriage history,” by J. Patrick Coolican and Stephen Montemayor: “New investigative documents released by a state agency have given fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Rep. Ilhan Omar and whether she once married a man — possibly her own brother — to skirt immigration laws. Omar has denied the allegations in the past, dismissing them as ‘baseless rumors’ first raised in an online Somali politics forum and championed by conservative bloggers during her 2016 campaign for the Minnesota House. But she said little then or since about Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the former husband who swept into her life in 2009 before a 2011 separation.
“The questions surfaced again this month in a state probe of campaign finance violations showing that Omar filed federal taxes in 2014 and 2015 with her current husband, Ahmed Hirsi, while she was still legally married to but separated from Elmi. Although she has legally corrected the discrepancy, she has declined to say anything about how or why it happened.” Star Tribune
BONUS GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman, filing from Aspen, Colorado:
— “The Problem With HR,” by Caitlin Flanagan in The Atlantic’s July issue: “For 30 years, we’ve trusted human-resources departments to prevent and address workplace sexual harassment. How’s that working out?” The Atlantic
— “What Abortion Access Looks Like in Mississippi: One Person at a Time,” by Zoë Beery in the N.Y. Times Magazine: “With state legislatures passing new abortion restrictions, the Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund follows its own compass on how to best help clients.” NYT
— “What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane,” by William Langewiesche on the cover of July’s Atlantic: “It is easy to imagine Zaharie [Ahmed Shah] toward the end, strapped into an ultra-comfortable seat in the cockpit, inhabiting his cocoon in the glow of familiar instruments, knowing that there could be no return from what he had done, and feeling no need to hurry. Around 7 a.m. the sun rose over the eastern horizon, to the left. A few minutes later it lit the ocean far below.” The Atlantic
— “The Birth and Death of a Bike Company: What Happened to SpeedX,” by Iain Treloar in Cycling Tips – per TheBrowser.com’s description: “Gripping account of the rise and fall of SpeedX, a Chinese start-up which promised to build a better bicycle, raised $15 million, pivoted into bike-sharing, raised and spent another $100 million, then made arguably most catastrophic blunder in the history of marketing. On June 4th 2017, anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, the bike avatars on SpeedX’s bike-sharing app were replaced by avatars of tiny tanks rolling through the centre of Beijing. Literally overnight, the business was doomed.” Cycling Tips
— “Who Gets to Own the West?” by NYT’s Julie Turkewitz in Idaho City, Idaho: “A new group of billionaires is shaking up the landscape.” NYT
– “Hideous Men,” by E. Jean Carroll on the cover of NY Mag: “Donald Trump assaulted me in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 23 years ago. But he’s not alone on the list of awful men in my life.” NY Mag
— “Building the Wind Turbines Was Easy. The Hard Part Was Plugging Them In,” by WSJ’s Russell Gold in an adaptation of “Superpower: One Man’s Quest to Transform American Energy”: “In the Oklahoma panhandle, one entrepreneur saw a future fueled by cheap and clean energy. But there was a big snag.” WSJ … $17.70 on Amazon
— “Goodbye, Chrome: Google’s web browser has become spy software,” by WaPo’s Geoffrey A. Fowler: “Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser — in a single week. Here’s why Firefox is better.” WaPo
— “Joe Exotic Built a Wild Animal Kingdom. He Was the Most Dangerous Predator of Them All,” by Sean Williams in The Daily Beast: “A cunning and cuddly persona created an empire. A murder plot brought it crashing down.” The Daily Beast
— “The Land Where the Internet Ends,” by Pagan Kennedy in the NYT in Green Bank, W.Va.: “To find real solitude, you have to go out of range. But every year that’s harder to do, as America’s off-the-grid places disappear.” NYT
— “The Unsolved Mystery of the Malibu Creek Murder,” by Zach Baron in GQ: “When a man was killed in Malibu Creek State Park last summer while camping with his two young daughters, it sent the placid Southern California community into hysterics—spawning amateur sleuths, conspiracy theories, and public paranoia. Was it related to a rash of unsolved incidents in the area? But while the tragedy’s aftermath publicly played out like a new season of Serial, there was also a family left picking up the pieces after a seemingly random act of violence. This is a story about what happens when lightning strikes in the most chilling manner imaginable.” GQ (h/t Longform.org)
— “Something Borrowed, Something Blue,” by Dan Nosowitz in BuzzFeed in Sept. 2014: “In 1937, my great-grandfather started a workwear company in New England called Madewell. In 2006, 17 years after the last factory shut down, J.Crew relaunched a women’s clothing company with the same name and logo, based on a 50-year history in which it had no part.” BuzzFeed (h/t Longform.org)
PLAYBOOKERS
SPOTTED: Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) shopping at the Jenkins Row Harris Teeter. … Bill Weld in Portsmouth, N.H., at the town’s pride celebration. Pic … Hungarian Ambassador László Szabó playing guitar and sitar with jazz fusion band Djabe at the Kennedy Center. PicItalian Ambassador Armando Varricchio, Kazakh Ambassador Erzhan Kazykhanov and Portuguese Ambassador Domingos Fezas Vital also attended.
SPOTTED at a joint book party at Juleanna Glover’s house last night for Jim Sciutto’s “The Shadow War: Inside Russia’s and China’s Secret Operations to Defeat America” ($18.98 on Amazon) and Winston Lord’s “Kissinger on Kissinger” ($17.10 on Amazon): Norah O’Donnell and Geoff Tracy, Tom Nides and Virginia Moseley, Tammy Haddad, Suzanne Kianpour, Kaitlan Collins, Melanne Verveer, Mike Abramowitz, Gloria Riviera, Dan Yergin, Indira Lakshmanan, Karin Tanabe, Shayna Estulin, Jeff and Mary Zients, Eric Lipton, Mike Allen, Mike Pillsbury and Paula Dobriansky.
WEEKEND WEDDING — “Bryana Turner, Robert Jackson Jr.” – N.Y. Times: “Mrs. Jackson, 31, is the founder and principal of Turner Divorce Mediation … Mr. Jackson, 42, is a commissioner on the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington. He is currently on public service leave from the faculty of the N.Y.U. School of Law, where he specializes in corporate law and financial regulation. He previously served in the Obama administration as a counselor to senior Treasury Department officials during the financial crisis.” With a pic.NYT
BIRTHDAYS: Sylvia Burwell, president of AU, is 54 … Chasten Buttigieg is 3-0 (h/t Marina McCarthy) … Steven Cheung (h/t Janae Garcia) … Kaelan Dorr of Sinclair Broadcast Group (h/ts Andy Hemming) … Aaron Cutler, partner at Hogan Lovells (h/t Boris Epshteyn) … Paul Tewes … Amber Moon, director of external comms at BAE Systems … POLITICO Europe’s Kate Day, Etienne Bauvir and Ali Walker … State’s Robert Palladino … J.P. Fielder … Josh Lauder … Jeremy Katz, president and COO of D1 Capital Partners and a Trump WH alum (h/t Tevi Troy) … Robert D. Kaplan, CNAS senior fellow and senior adviser at Eurasia Group, is 67 … Pelosi alum Judy Lemons … Ryan Woodbury … POLITICO’s Ryan Kohl …
… Suzanne Clark, president of the U.S. Chamber … former Rep. Baron Hill (D-Ind.) is 66 … former Rep. Robert Dold (R-Ill.) is 5-0 … former Rep. Cresent Hardy (R-Nev.) is 62 … Atanu Chakravarty … Adam Lerner … Louisa Tavlas, director of comms at the Niskanen Center … Bradley Engle … Rick Reynolds … Chris Spanos … Steven Stombres, partner at Harbinger Strategies … political consultant Joe Duffy … Emma Whitestone of Blueprint Interactive (h/t dad Randy) … Sivan Ya’ari is 41 … Jerry Speyer is 79 … Patrick Morris … Brian Pomper is 3-0 … Caitlin Dorman … Mark Leder … Bronagh Finnegan … Tom Frechette … Tina Karalekas … Robin Strongin … Greg Hale is 44 … Andrew Roos (h/ts Teresa Vilmain)
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Un repaso a las noticias que tuvieron como escenario Lima y que causaron impacto durante la semana en esta galería.
ABOGADA EBRIA ATROPELLÓ A TRES POLICÍAS
El Poder Judicial dispuso nueve meses de prisión preventiva para Ana Isabel Rodríguez Salazar, la abogada que en estado de ebriedad atropelló a tres policías en San Isidro en su intento por evitar ser intervenida.
ÁRBOLES DE EL OLIVAR EN ESTADO CRÍTICO
Los 1.675 árboles que se encuentran dentro del bosque de El Olivar en San Isidro serán rescatados a través de un programa de recuperación de la Municipalidad de San Isidro.
CONTRALORÍA EMITIÓ INFORME SOBRE POLÉMICO BY-PASS
La Contraloría General de la Republica identificó una serie de hechos que podrían afectar la ejecución y operación de la obra que actualmente realiza la Municipalidad de Lima en la avenida 28 de julio, la cual consta de tres by pass y una nueva alameda
COMERCIANTES DE IMPRENTAS SE ENFRENTARON A PNP
La clausura definitiva de imprentas que funcionaban sin licencia en el Centro Histórico de Lima generó actos de violencia por un grupo de comerciantes que se oponen a esa medida.