“#BlackMenForBernie Leader Switches to Trump! I will Never Vote for Hillary, Welcome aboard the Trump Train,” read one tweet sent by a Russian account pretending to be a “Southern., Conservative Pro God, Anti Racism” Twitter user from Texas.
“Conscious Bernie Sanders supporters already moving towards the best candidate Trump! #Feel the Bern #Vote Trump 2016,” read another account known as “Red Louisiana News” that was actually operated by Russians.
It’s not clear how successful or effective the efforts were.
Still, the number of Sanders voters who supported Trump in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania — states considered key to Trump’s victory — was higher than Trump’s margin of victory in those states.
“I think there is no question that Sanders was central to their strategy,” Darren Linvill, one of the two Clemson researchers behind the study, told the Post. “He was clearly used as a mechanism to decrease voter turnout for Hillary Clinton.”
A spokesman for Clinton said that it was imperative that Democrats work together in 2020 to stop Russian disinformation efforts aiding the president and to defeat Trump.
It’s important for “everyone else, especially Democratic candidates, to work together and support each other to defend against these threats,” Nick Merrill told the Post.
The Hill has reached out to the Sanders campaign for comment.
El equipo de CHV Noticias volvió a sufrir un fail televisivo. Aunque esta vez, al parecer se trató de un error involuntario y no de una broma con el conductor, como sucedió con Ítalo Zúñiga.
En esta oportunidad el afectado fue el periodista Karim Butte, mientras se realizaba un despacho para el Festival de Viña del Mar. El conductor apareció sorpresivamente en pantalla haciendo un claro gesto de “ya no más”.
El momento fue captado ayer por la cuenta de twitter Televisivamente, y luego fue subido en alta definición por RataCl, quienes comentaron que “el equipo de CHV Noticias debe ser como trabajar en 31 minutos“. Mira:
“They have a great deal of courage and willingness to work,” Judy Hagen, the president of the American Belgian Malinois Club, said in an interview. “They’re very intelligent and they’re easily trained.”
Belgians, she said, can cost anywhere from $1,500 for a show dog puppy to over $30,000 for a fully-trained protection dog.
The identity of the dog has become the subject of rampant curiosity since Mr. Trump used glowing terms to describe the animal’s heroics on Sunday. In the same news conference, Mr. Trump used disparaging terms to describe Mr. al-Baghdadi’s death — “He died like a dog” — even as he praised the animal for pursuing the ISIS leader.
“Our ‘K-9,’ as they call it,” Mr. Trump said, “I call it a dog. A beautiful dog — a talented dog — was injured and brought back.”
Mr. Trump’s apparently complex relationship with dogs has become a matter of curiosity in recent years. Both critics and supporters have noted that he is among the few modern presidents who have not had a dog in the White House.
Earlier this year during a rally in El Paso, Mr. Trump mused that his associates had encouraged him to get a dog because it would be a political asset.
“You do love your dogs, don’t you?” Mr. Trump told the crowd. “I wouldn’t mind having one, honestly, but I don’t have any time. How would I look walking a dog on the White House lawn?”
A man adjusts a boy’s protective face mask on Thursday as they try to avoid contracting a new coronavirus in Seoul, South Korea. The country is reporting a spike in COVID-19 cases, predominantly in its south.
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The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Korea has doubled in just 24 hours, to 104 from 51, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. Many of the new cases of coronavirus are linked to a Christian sect in Daegu, a city in southern South Korea.
Korea’s CDC says a woman who became the country’s 31st confirmed patient on Feb. 18 had attended services held by a religious group called the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, The Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony.
The woman, who was born in 1959, had visited Wuhan, China — where the novel coronavirus was first discovered in December — the KCDC says. It adds that she was reported to have 1,160 contacts – by far the most of anyone on its list of patients.
“The church has shut down” because of the outbreak, NPR’s Anthony Kuhn reports from Seoul. “Daegu has closed some public facilities,” he adds. “A U.S. Army garrison in Daegu restricted travel in and out of the base and imposed a quarantine on personnel who had visited the church.”
In a message posted online, the Shincheonji church expressed deep regret over the coronavirus cases. It also said it’s cooperating with authorities and is spending several days sterilizing its buildings in Daegu.
The same woman who attended the church also visited Cheongdo Daenam Hospital, which has emerged as a second cluster of infections. Patients and staff there are being tested for the respiratory virus, and the hospital is being disinfected, according to the KCDC.
South Korea is also reporting its first coronavirus-related death — and the patient was from the Cheongdo Daenam Hospital cluster. While the 63-year-old man had tested positive for the virus, the exact cause of death was still being investigated, the KCDC says.
The virus has killed more than 2,000 people — most of them in China’s Hubei province, the center of the outbreak. Globally, nearly 17,000 people had recovered from the illness as of Thursday afternoon ET.
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Two Japanese passengers who had been on the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship have died after being infected with the novel coronavirus. Japan’s health ministry says the male and female passengers were hospitalized last week. They were both in their 80s.
The man and woman are the first Diamond Princess passengers to die during the virus outbreak. The cruise ship has been under a quarantine at Yokohama’s port near Tokyo since Feb. 3.
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Both of the passengers died about a week after tests confirmed they were infected with the respiratory virus. The male passenger was from Kanagawa prefecture and the female passenger was from Tokyo, the health ministry said. It added that while the man died from COVID-19, the woman died from pneumonia.
A total of 634 people from the Diamond Princess have tested positive for COVID-19, the Japanese agency said. More than half that number are identified as “asymptomatic pathogen carriers,” meaning that while they don’t show signs of the illness, they can still transmit the disease to others or become sick themselves.
The deaths were reported as the shipwide 14-day quarantine expires and as the governments of Hong Kong, Australia, Israel, Canada and other countries work to repatriate their citizens. Like the Americans who recently arrived in the U.S., those passengers face new quarantines back home.
When passengers test positive for the novel coronavirus, they’re taken off the Diamond Princess and sent to local hospitals. Those diagnoses also reset the 14-day quarantine period for their traveling partners and close contacts.
About 3,700 passengers and crew were aboard the ship when it initially arrived at the Yokohama terminal. That number is now dropping by the hundreds
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced defections from senior allies Thursday as a backlash built and opponents planned legal challenges to his decision to suspend Parliament to push his Brexit plans.
The resignation of Ruth Davidson, who had been touted as a future prime minister, along with another senior Conservative in the House of Lords, was a sign of rising worry within Johnson’s ranks that the move to suspend Parliament was sidelining Britain’s elected representatives during one of the biggest political crises in generations.
Elsewhere in Europe, policymakers were jolted by the move to suspend Parliament for five weeks, which some of them said brought Britain closer to a sudden, cliff-edge Brexit that analysts say could spark food and medicine shortages. Some diplomats said they were increasingly convinced Johnson is a brutally ruthless tactician who would stop at little in a risky gambit to force both Europe and his own rebellious lawmakers into a compromise.
The resignations came after protesters jammed streets in cities around the country, including in London, Edinburgh and Manchester. Outside of Parliament, demonstrators chanted “stop the coup!” A petition calling for the government to stop the suspension quickly surged past 1 million signatures. Johnson’s adversaries promised to appeal his move in the courts. Brexit opponents were strategizing about how to use their dwindling time in Parliament to halt the relentless move toward an uncontrolled break from Europe.
Johnson sparked a torrent of criticism with his decision to ask Queen Elizabeth II to suspend Parliament for five weeks, dramatically shortening the time lawmakers have to try to block a no-deal Brexit.
Johnson has said Britain will leave the European Union by Oct. 31 with or without a deal. The majority of lawmakers in the House of Commons are opposed to leaving the bloc without a transition deal to smooth the way.
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said that when Parliament reconvenes after summer break Tuesday, he would move immediately to pass legislation to keep the chamber open and to prevent a no-deal Brexit.
“We will be back in Parliament on Tuesday to challenge Boris Johnson on what I think is a smash-and-grab raid against our democracy,” he told Sky News. “What we’re going to do is try to politically stop him on Tuesday with a parliamentary process in order to legislate to prevent a no-deal Brexit and also to try and prevent him shutting down parliament during this utterly crucial period.”
Opposition lawmakers will have to move fast if they are to have a chance at success. Once Parliament is suspended, no later than Sept. 12, any legislation in the pipeline is typically killed off, and lawmakers would have to start again from scratch when Parliament resumes Oct. 14.
In Davidson’s careful resignation letter, the charismatic leader avoided linking her move directly to Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament, instead focusing on family issues. But she also mentioned the “conflict I have felt over Brexit,” and the British media quickly linked the departure to Johnson’s strategy, given the timing.
Davidson’s departure after eight years leading the Scottish wing of the party is a major blow for the Conservatives, whose fortunes she helped to turn around in an area of Britain where the Conservative Party was for decades a toxic brand.
Davidson’s resignation came shortly after that of George Young, a former cabinet minister who left his post as a government whip in the House of Lords.
The move “risks undermining the fundamental role of parliament at a critical time in our history, and reinforces the view that the Government may not have the confidence of the House for its Brexit policy, Young wrote.
On Thursday, David Lidington, the effective deputy prime minister in the previous administration of Theresa May — who remains a nominal ally of Johnson — said the suspension was “not a good way to do democracy” and “sets a very bad precedent for future governments.” He told the BBC that if the opposition Labour Party had done something similar, “some of my Tory colleagues who are cheering at the moment would be turning purple with rage.”
Johnson’s government insists they are not doing anything unusual and that it is normal for a new prime minister to suspend Parliament ahead of the queen’s speech presenting the country’s legislative agenda.
It generally does happen every year, but the length of the suspension — the longest since 1945 — and the timing have drawn widespread criticism.
Johnson’s allies — the ones who were not quitting — were quick to dismiss the concerns Thursday.
Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg leaving Milbank in London on Aug. 29. (Stefan Rousseau/AP)
Jacob Rees-Mogg, leader of the House of Commons, dismissed what he called the “candyfloss of outrage” over the temporary shuttering of the legislature, using the British term for cotton candy. “I don’t think there is any attempt to railroad,” he told the BBC on Thursday, insisting Johnson simply wanted to get on with his domestic agenda.
But one top Johnson lieutenant, Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, was caught on camera acknowledging that Johnson was struggling to push through Brexit without a majority.
Britain is a “winner takes all system,” Wallace explained to French Defense Minister Florence Parly, in a candid discussion caught on camera ahead of an unrelated meeting in Helsinki and broadcast by the BBC. “And we’ve suddenly found ourselves with no majority and a coalition, and that’s not easy for our system.”
Wallace at one point in the exchange said, “I don’t know what the outcome of it will …” before doubling over in what appeared to be nervous laughter.
Opponents seized on the video as evidence that Johnson had seized on the tactic for crassly political gain — and that he had even misled the queen to do so.
A government spokesman said later that Wallace “misspoke.”
The British Parliament voted down the deal three times, mostly because of the so-called “backstop,” an insurance plan that would guarantee an open border between Ireland and Northern Ireland to prevent a return to violence there. Under the plan, the United Kingdom risks getting stuck inside the European Customs Union, limiting its ability to conduct independent trade deals.
In the rest of the European Union, some onlookers questioned whether the challenges to democracy and the rule of law that have enveloped countries such as Hungary and Poland have spread to Britain’s far more ancient political system.
“Boris Johnson is often compared to Donald Trump. He also isn’t far off from Machiavelli,” read one editorial in Le Figaro, a French newspaper.
European leaders were mostly quiet about the British drama, wary of being sucked into a domestic political dispute and already skeptical about the chances that Britain would manage to agree to a transition deal before it departed.
David Frost, Johnson’s new Brexit negotiator, was in Brussels on Wednesday to meet with senior E.U. officials, but he brought no new ideas about how to change those aspects of the transition deal that are most unpalatable in Britain, according to diplomats briefed on the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk about the sensitive conversations.
E.U. Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier indicated Thursday that nothing had changed in E.U. calculations.
“The EU will continue to protect the interests of its citizens and companies, as well as the conditions for peace and stability on the island of Ireland. It is our duty & our responsibility,” he wrote on Twitter.
A demonstrator, wearing a mask depicting Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and holding a mock gravestone inscribed with the words “RIP British Democracy,” protests outside the gates to Downing Street in central London on Aug. 28. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images)
Others are hoping to use the courts to stop Johnson from suspending Parliament. A cross-party group of more than 70 lawmakers began a legal challenge Thursday in Scotland’s highest civil court. Gina Miller, the business executive who in 2017 won a high-profile legal challenge over how the British government could start the Brexit process, has filed an application at the High Court in London seeking an urgent review of Johnson’s decision. Miller has written that while prorogation “is an acceptable UK constitutional practice, no prime minister in modern history has attempted to use it in such a brazen manner.” She said that the effect is to “curtail or deny Parliament its constitutional right to scrutinize or pass legislation to limit the damage of a no deal Brexit.”
Birnbaum reported from Brussels, and Quentin Ariès contributed from Brussels.
Luego de llorar y llorar día y noche, de llamar a su mamá cada día y de pensar que tocaba fondo, Brad Pitt va saliendo a la superficie. Estas últimas horas fueron de buenas noticias para el actor que se separó escandalosamente de Angelina Jolie: pudo visitar a sus seis hijos y se enteró de que no será procesado por las acusaciones de maltrato.
TMZ, medio que destapó la historia, se rectificó alegando que “pese a todo lo publicado, nunca hubo una investigación contra Pitt y que el caso no irá a ninguna parte. Maddox (de 15 años), su hijo, no sufrió lesiones”.
De a poco, las aguas se calman y la ex pareja ya toma decisiones adultas. Desde que la actriz le pidió el divorcio -el 19 de septiembre-, el actor no había conseguido reunirse con sus hijos. Sin embargo, según publica la revista People, consiguió verlos la semana pasada: “Brad ha pasado un tiempo maravilloso con ellos recientemente”, reveló una fuente. “Ama a sus hijos por encima de cualquier cosa en el mundo y ellos a él igual. Él va a hacer lo que sea por estar con ellos, ahora y siempre”.
Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh y los mellizos Knox y Vivienne saltaron de alegría al ver al rubio. Angelina y Brad llegaron a un acuerdo de forma voluntaria para establecer el régimen de visitas. Ella tendrá la custodia física de los niños, mientras que el actor puede visitarlos, en un principio bajo la supervisión de un terapeuta.
A Pitt la crisis matrimonial lo sensibilizó tanto que, según aseguran sus amigos, está listo para pedirle disculpas a su ex. La sorpresa es que busca pedirle perdón a Jennifer Aniston, y no a Angelina. ¿Por qué? Se sabe que la hizo sufrir, no fue sincero y terminó engañándola con Angelina en el set de la película “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”. Recapacitar le llevó años, pero ahora siente que es momento de reivindicarse.
“Capitalism is an ideology of capital — the most important thing is the concentration of capital and to seek and maximize profit,” she said during an interview at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, according to Bloomberg News.
“To me, capitalism is irredeemable,” she added, arguing that capitalism’s goals come at a cost to people and the environment, Bloomberg reported.
The congresswoman, who has described herself as a democratic socialist, added during her interview that “we should be scared.”
“Just as there’s all this fearmongering that government is going to take over every corporation and government is going to take over every business or every form of production, we should be scared right now because corporations have taken over our government,” she said.
Ocasio-Cortez also said that the “emphasis in democratic socialism is on democracy” and expanding the rights of workers.
“It’s just as much a transformation about bringing democracy to the workplace so that we have a say and that we don’t check all of our rights at the door every time we cross the threshold into our workplace,” she said. “Because at the end of the day, as workers and as people in society, we’re the ones creating wealth.”
“We should be scared right now because corporations have taken over our government.” @AOC explains why she is in favor of democratic socialism at #SXSW#tictocnewspic.twitter.com/1lSLYCyTew
“I am allowed to ask for votes. I will ask during the impeachment proceeding for a vote on whether Mulvaney should testify, and whether Bolton should testify,” Schumer said during an interview with MSNBC.
Schumer predicted that Republicans would be “in a real dilemma” over the efforts by Democrats to get witnesses to testify. A motion to call a witness as part of the Senate trial would only take a simple majority, meaning Democrats need to win over four GOP senators to get to 51 votes.
“Asking for witnesses, something so reasonable … I expect we’ll get a bunch of Republicans to vote with us on these requests,” Schumer added.
Schumer is also asking for one resolution that would be passed at the start of the trial that would determine both the procedure and any specific witnesses that would be called. During the Clinton trial, senators passed two resolutions: one, on the process, and a second calling specific witnesses.
“What has to happen is Senator McConnell and Senator Schumer need to figure out if they can come together with a proposal that we, the Senate, can move forward to support,” Murkowski said.
SALEM, Ore. — Some Republican lawmakers returned to the Oregon Senate on Saturday, ending a walkout over a carbon-emissions bill they said would harm their rural constituents.
Nine of the 12 minority Republicans returned after Senate President Peter Courtney said the majority Democrats lacked the votes to pass the legislation aimed at countering climate change. The House had previously passed the bill, one of the centerpieces of Oregon’s 2019 legislative session, which is scheduled to end on Sunday.
Democrats have an 18 to 12 majority in the Senate but need at least 20 members — and therefore at least two Republicans — to vote on legislation.
Democrats had said the climate legislation was critical to make Oregon a leader in the fight against climate change and will ultimately create jobs and transform the economy. They made dozens of concessions to respond to concerns from conservatives and industry leaders, but they didn’t go as far as Republicans hoped.
The GOP senator walkout began June 20. Many left the state after Gov. Kate Brown ordered the state police to bring them to the Capitol.
“Our mission in walking out was to kill cap and trade,” Senate Minority Leader Herman Baertschiger told reporters Friday. “And that’s what we did.”
The bill, if passed, would have been the second in the nation to cap and trade pollution credits among companies. It aimed to dramatically reduce greenhouse gases by 2050 by capping carbon emissions and requiring businesses to buy or trade for an ever-dwindling pool of pollution “allowances.” California has a similar program.
Baertschiger said he received assurances from the Democratic Senate president and the governor that the climate bill won’t move forward this session. More than 100 bills remain to be addressed. Baertschiger said he’s confident the Senate can work through dozens of measures before the legislative session ends.
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, who chairs the committee in charge of funding decisions, said she felt “relief” that Republicans agreed to return to get through the rest of the legislative agenda, including added funding for critical services such as child welfare and public safety.
Steiner Hayward said a climate change bill will likely come up again in the future.
“Nobody’s giving up,” she said.
Brown could call a special session to handle outstanding bills.
Democrats have a supermajority in both the House and Senate, enabling them to pass bills — including ones to raise revenue — if they vote as a bloc. But if Republicans stay away, the Democrats lack a quorum to convene.
The Republicans wielded power disproportionate to their numbers this session. They walked out of the Senate last month to block a school funding tax package. They returned only after Brown brokered a deal in which Democrats dropped legislation on gun control and children’s vaccination requirements, upsetting backers of those measures and leaving gun-control proponents and those concerned about disease outbreaks feeling betrayed. The Senate, with a quorum established, passed the school funding measure.
In the House, Republicans in May forced a clerk in the Oregon Legislature to read aloud every word in nearly every piece of legislation, giving granular details about farm loans, motor vehicle taxes and other government minutiae as the minority party used the stalling tactic.
“This is not how our democracy is supposed to work,” said Tara Hurst, executive director of the lobbying group Renew Oregon, which helped craft the climate proposal. “Continuing to capitulate to demands of a small minority, which has taken our Legislature hostage, will only lead to more of the same because there are no consequences.”
Rep. Rachel Prusak, a freshman Democrat from a Portland suburb, said she is “heartbroken over the state of our Legislature.”
Bottoms, 51, who was elected mayor of Georgia’s capital in 2017, gained a national profile in the wake of last year’s unrest following the death of Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. She was praised for a forceful, personal appeal to protesters, including some whom had begun vandalizing property in Atlanta’s downtown. “This is not a protest … This is chaos. A protest has purpose.”
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Los venezolanos votarán en centros de votación ubicados en colegios. En los públicos es probable que haya imágenes de Chávez.
En Venezuela hace años que las elecciones se plantean como un punto de quiebre, pero en las parlamentarias de este domingo hay un dato concreto e inédito que las convierte en un evento especial, y potencialmente histórico: la oposición llega como favorita.
La escasez de bienes básicos, la inflación más alta del mundo y la caída del gasto social han afectado profundamente el día a día de los venezolanos, que pasan muchos de sus días haciendo filas entre un supermercado y otro para poder comprar lo básico.
A eso se suman una inseguridad rampante, las denuncias de corrupción y la sensación de que el país con las reservas petroleras más grandes no avanza.
167 diputados
113 nominales
51 por listas
3 en representación de los indígenas
La mayoría de los venezolanos, según encuestas, están insatisfechos y quieren un cambio. O, al menos, castigar al gobierno de Nicolás Maduro.
El mandatario fue el encargado de remplazar al político más carismático y popular que ha conocido Venezuela en décadas, el fallecido Hugo Chávez.
Y lo hizo poco antes de que el precio del petróleo, la fuente de ingresos más importante del país, comenzara a caer de forma dramática hasta en un 60%.
A pesar de la delicada situación económica, el presidente ha optado por no alterar el modelo heredado de control de precios y de control de cambios. Maduro culpa de los problemas a una “guerra económica” de la oposición para sabotear su gestión.
Ahora los venezolanos tendrán la posibilidad de pronunciarse sobre Maduro.
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En estas elecciones volvió la esperanza a la oposición venezolana.
La gran mayoría de la oposición vuelve a presentarse aglutinada en torno a la llamada Mesa de la Unidad (MUD). Si las encuestas están en lo correcto, puede ser mayoría en el Parlamento e impulsar cambios significativos para el Estado.
Esto es lo que está en juego este domingo en Venezuela.
Las elecciones no solo serán un plebiscito para Maduro, sino para el modelo económico que él y su antecesor plantearon para el país petrolero.
Hablamos, en efecto, de lo que han llamado el socialismo del siglo XXI, donde el Estado es el actor principal de la economía y un proveedor de numerosos subsidios.
Dos elementos fundamentales son los precios de bienes básicos regulados por decreto y el hecho de que el Estado monopoliza el cambio de divisas.
Los ajustes que, según economistas, el gobierno debió haber adoptado hace años, probablemente vendrán después de las elecciones: reducción del gasto público, aumento del precio de la gasolina y devaluación, entre otras.
Pero la manera como se hagan esos ajustes y el impacto que tengan sobre el socialismo del siglo XXI dependerán de quién –y por cuánto– gane las elecciones.
2. La libertad de los políticos presos
Una de las facetas del gobierno de Maduro que más lo diferencian con su antecesor es la severidad con que se trata a la oposición.
Aunque durante Chávez hubo varios casos de políticos presos, bajo Maduro no solo aumentaron, sino que adquirieron una dimensión internacional.
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Unas 80 personas están presas por sus actividades contra el gobierno.
Desde el presidente de Estados Unidos hasta la Internacional Socialista han pedido la liberación de las personas –alrededor de 80– que están en la cárcel por sus actividades contra el gobierno.
La oposición ha dicho que, en caso de ganar, su prioridad será aprobar una ley de amnistía que permita liberar a líderes opositores como Leopoldo López o Antonio Ledezma, que fueron arrestados acusados de promover la violencia y el derrocamiento de Maduro.
3. El chavismo como lo conocemos
El chavismo solo ha perdido una de las 19 elecciones que se han llevado a cabo en los últimos 17 años: si pierde, se enfrentará a un escenario desconocido.
Elementos de disidencia han emergido durante el último año, a pesar de ser descalificados por el gobierno: exministros, activistas y medios de comunicación que se denominaban chavistas han salido a criticar a Maduro.
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La publicidad del oficialismo es muy usual en las calles venezolanas.
Si el chavismo pierde, expertos han dicho que es probable que estos elementos crezcan dentro de la base chavista y surjan nuevos liderazgos que, en un punto, puedan enfrentar a Maduro en unas presidenciales (las próximas son en 2019).
Si gana, Maduro lo tomará como un respaldo a la revolución, que, como él mismo ha manifestado, se profundizaría.
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Muchos consideran que Maduro se juega su liderazgo en estas parlamentarias.
Hay sectores el chavismo que han dicho que si el oficialismo pierde, Maduro debe renunciar.
Son chavistas que consideran que Maduro traicionó el legado de Chávez, porque, según ellos, oprimió a la disidencia, promovió la corrupción oficial y permitió que la crisis económica –que ellos ven como una guerra económica– se profundizara.
Si el chavismo pierde, hay analistas que consideran que entre sus filas culparán de la derrota a Maduro, que llega a las elecciones con entre 25% y 35% de aprobación, según encuestas.
5. El futuro de la oposición
La oposición ya sabe qué pasa cuando pierde unas elecciones que le planteó a su electorado como un punto de quiebre: la desesperanza y la desconfianza en el voto se toman la psiquis de sus bases.
“A partir del 6 de diciembre viene el cambio para Venezuela”, les han dicho a sus partidarios.
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La oposición se jugó todas sus cartas una vez más en las parlamentarias.
Si pierden, puede haber un sector de la oposición que descarte la vía electoral como la manera de generar cambios.
La oposición ha estado dividida en el último año, y una derrota, puede profundizar la ruptura.
Pero incluso si ganan una mayoría simple del Parlamento, la oposición tendrá que negociar con el gobierno y habrá un sector que estará en descuerdo, porque desconfía de lo que llaman “el régimen”.
6. La gobernabilidad
Precisamente por las divisiones que pueden producirse en ambos bloques y por la necesidad de que tengan que negociar, si gana la oposición es probable que Venezuela entre en periodo de incomunicación entre Ejecutivo y Parlamento.
El gobierno y la oposición no hablan desde el intento de diálogo durante la ola de violencia que dejaron las protestas contra Maduro en 2014.
Antes de lo que en realidad fue un acercamiento fallido, no hablaban hace más de una década.
Por eso una negociación en caso de que la oposición gane la mayoría se ve poco probable. Y sin embargo puede ser necesario.
Un parlamento opositor se tendrá que enfrentar a un Tribunal Supremo de Justicia que no ha fallado una sola vez en contra del gobierno en 9 años y que, para muchos, favorece al Ejecutivo.
El TSJ tiene el poder de poner freno a las iniciativas de ley de la oposición.
En ese caso, las soluciones a los no pocos problemas que tiene Venezuela se pueden quedar en el limbo del choque de trenes institucional.
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Trump administration officials say the intelligence assessment was not conclusive
The White House is under pressure to explain how much the administration knew about allegations Russia offered the Taliban bounties to kill US troops.
Officials have insisted that President Donald Trump was not “personally” informed of the alleged plot in Afghanistan in 2019.
But reports say the president received a written briefing earlier this year.
There is concern that Mr Trump might have had access to information about threats to US forces but did not act.
The intelligence reportedly arrived amid US attempts to negotiate a peace deal to end the 19-year war in Afghanistan and while Mr Trump sought to improve relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Reports by The New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, quoting unnamed US officials, said a Russian military intelligence unit had offered Taliban-linked militants bounties to kill US troops in Afghanistan.
Russia has denied the initial reports while the Taliban said it had not done any deal with Russian intelligence. The allegations come as Mr Trump seeks re-election in the November poll.
CNN and the Associated Press have also reported that the president received the intelligence in a written briefing earlier this year, without specifying when. Mr Trump is said to largely ignore the President’s Daily Brief, relying more on oral briefings by intelligence officials a few times a week.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany did not answer when asked by reporters whether the information had been included in the president’s written briefing, saying only that Mr Trump had not been “personally briefed”.
Ms McEnany also said there was “no consensus within the intelligence community” about the assessment. But former intelligence officials told US media that, in previous administrations, claims of such importance would be reported to the president, even if the evidence had not been fully established.
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Trump administration officials say the president was not “personally briefed”
Eight Republican Congress members attended a White House briefing led by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien on Monday.
Some expressed alarm about the claims, calling for action against Russia and President Putin be taken if the intelligence reports, currently under review, were confirmed.
In a separate statement, Representatives Liz Cheney and Mac Thornberry, who is the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, said: “We believe it is important to vigorously pursue any information related to Russia or any other country targeting our forces.”
Democrats were not included in the initial meeting, and they have been scheduled to take part in a briefing with White House officials on Tuesday.
Writing on CNN, Bernstein – one of the journalists who investigated the Watergate scandal in the 1970s – said there were special concerns over “[Mr] Trump’s deference to [Mr] Putin”, with the US president “inordinately solicitous of [Mr] Putin’s admiration” while ignoring important matters on the bilateral agenda.
His report, based on unnamed sources with knowledge of hundreds of highly classified calls with foreign heads of state, echoes remarks made by former members of the Trump administration, including John Bolton, who served as national security adviser and said Mr Trump “remained stunningly uninformed on how to run the White House”.
In an interview to promote his book, Mr Bolton said of Mr Trump: “I think Putin thinks he can play him like a fiddle.”
What is the context?
The unnamed officials cited by the New York Times’ initial report said US intelligence agencies had concluded months ago that a unit of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency had sought to destabilise its adversaries by covertly offering bounties for successful attacks on coalition forces.
Islamist militants, or armed criminal elements closely associated with them, were believed to have collected some money, the newspaper said.
Twenty American troops died in Afghanistan in 2019, but the New York Times said it was not clear which deaths were under suspicion.
The officials quoted by the New York Times said the White House’s National Security Council had considered how to respond, including imposing an escalating raft of sanctions against Russia.
According to the Times story on Friday, President Trump was briefed on the reports in March. Mr Trump denied having been briefed, writing on Twitter on Sunday that neither he nor Vice-President Mike Pence had been told “about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians”.
As New York celebrates relaxed restrictions after reaching a 70 percent vaccination threshold, the Empire State will wave bye-bye to the coronavirus pandemic with a statewide fireworks extravaganza from various locations at 9:15 p.m.
Without further ado, here’s where to watch the ’works and enjoy the sign of changing times.
New York Harbor
The Elevated Acre
This hidden, raised gem is an ideal spot to watch the night sky light up this evening.
Built into the skyscraper at 55 Water St., this city park offers a one-of-a-kind view over the lower East River waterfront while also boasting one of New York’s most unique green spaces.
New York will celebrate reaching a 70% vaccination threshold with a statewide fireworks extravaganza on Tuesday.AP
Battery Park
For a closeup on tonight’s action, head to the southern tip of Manhattan island.
Battery Park’s all-encompassing views of New York Harbor are sure to make these fireworks a warm welcome back to normalcy for city dwellers.
Brooklyn Heights Promenade
Raised above Brooklyn Bridge Park (another A-plus spot to watch), this local esplanade offers an awe-inspiring view of lower Manhattan and its surrounding waterways.
Enter this 1,826-foot-long platform over the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway on Remsen Street off Montague Terrace.
The Brooklyn Bridge
Standing atop the Brooklyn Bridge during a fireworks display is likely what goes through Alicia Keys’ mind when she sings “Empire State of Mind.”
Take it all in tonight from the pedestrian level of the city’s iconic landmark and you won’t regret it. The big lights will surely inspire you.
Fireworks light up the Brooklyn Bridge.REUTERS
Jones Beach, Long Island
Wantagh Park
This bayfront park — directly north of Jones Beach at 1 King Road in Wantagh — is an appropriate setting for those who don’t want to travel down to the barrier island and watch from one of Jones’ many fields.
Nyack Memorial Park, Hudson Valley
Scenic Hudson RiverWalk, Tarrytown
For some space between you and the show, head across the river to Westchester to watch this spectacle fly over the Mario Cuomo Bridge.
Piermont
For Rocklanders who won’t be watching from Nyack Memorial Park, Piermont’s extensive pier and Parelli Park will certainly make for a great vantage point from the south looking north.
Upstate
Other firework shows slated to shoot off around New York will occur at Albany Empire State Plaza, Binghamton University’s M Lot, Lake Placid Club, Niagara Falls State Park, the Rochester area’s Dome Arena, the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse and downtown Utica.
Onlookers gather for a past fireworks display in New York City.FilmMagic
Facebook informó el martes que limitará la publicación de noticias engañosas en la página de “Inicio” de los usuarios, argumentando que la continua circulación de historias falsas son una molestia para los miembros de esta enorme red social.
“Hemos escuchado que la gente quiere ver menos historias engañosas y noticias falsas”, dijeron los ejecutivos de Facebook Erich Owens y Udi Weinsberg en un blog.
“Los engaños son una forma de ‘spam’ recurrente en la sección de ‘Noticias’ de Facebook, e incluyen fraudes, como por ejemplo ‘Haga clic aquí para ganar una provisión de café para un año’ o noticias deliberadamente falsas, como ‘Un hombre ve un dinosaurio durante un paseo en Utah'”.
Investigadores de Facebook afirmaron que los usuarios “a menudo comparten estos engaños y luego deciden borrarlos, cuando se dan cuenta de que ha sido estafados”.
En una actualización de las Noticias en Facebook, se limitará la propagación de ‘posts’ que han sido ya reportados como falsos y se agregarán mensajes que advertirán a los usuarios que esa noticia ya sido etiquetada como sospechosa.
La red social añadió además una opción que permite a los usuarios reportar noticias falsas.
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En las noticias más leídas del día, A pocos días del lanzamiento de Android Oreo, Google tuvo que retirar más de 500 apps de Play Store por contar con una “puerta trasera” secreta que permitía instalar spyware. Gran Bretaña enviará 90 autobuses de doble piso a la ciudad de México, tras suscribirse un contrato que la primera ministra británica, Theresa May. Elegir una carrera por su rentabilidad es mejor que por su popularidad.
1. Elige una carrera por la rentabilidad, no por popularidad
A la hora de elegir la carrera que estudiaremos, la gran mayoría entramos en conflicto, pero ¿cuál es la mejor decisión cuando elegimos una?
Carreras como Química, Física, Estadística y Finanzas son las áreas educativas que suponen la mejor inversión en México, debido a su alto nivel de rendimiento y bajo riesgo, según el estudio Compara Carreras 2017 del Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad (Imco).
Esto fue determinado mediante el índice de calidad de la inversión utilizado por el Instituto, que combina información de ingreso promedio y costo de la carrera con el riesgo de desempleo e informalidad. Si quieres saber cuáles fueron estas carreras, entra a la nota completa.
Elige una carrera por la rentabilidad, no por popularidad. Ver nota.
2. ¿Qué dicen los medios de EU y Canadá sobre la renegociación del TLCAN?
México, Estados Unidos y Canadá se reservaron buena parte de la información sobre la primera ronda de renegociación del TLCAN que concluyó el pasado domingo 20 de agosto y sólo hicieron público un pronunciamiento trilateral en el que indican que “los negociadores de cada país seguirán haciendo consultas en sus respectivos países y se reunirán de nuevo en México para una segunda ronda de negociación del 1 al 5 de septiembre.
La prensa de estos tres países ha expresado los defectos que encuentran en el acuerdo y los objetivos que persiguen con la renegociación. Medios de los tres países, como The Toronto Star, el diario con mayor circulación en Canadá, y USA Today han compilado las opiniones y afirmaciones de expertos y funcionarios vinculados a la renegociación del tratado comercial sobre los principales temas que preocupan a cada nación.
¿Qué dicen los medios de EU y Canadá sobre la renegociación del TLCAN?. Ver nota.
3. Theresa May se congratula por contrato con la CDMX
Serán 90 autobuses de doble piso los que mandará Gran Bretaña a la ciudad de México, tras suscribirse un contrato que la primera ministra británica, Theresa May, citó este miércoles como ejemplo de la capacidad comercial de su país tras el Brexit.
Los autobuses, íconos de las calles londinenses, fueron producidos en las fábricas Alexander Dennis Limited de Escocia y Guildford, en el oeste de Londres.
Theresa May se congratula por contrato con la CDMX. Ver nota.
4. Elon Musk presentó el nuevo traje espacial de SpaceX
Los cohetes lanzados por SpaceX en los últimos meses carecían de un elemento al que la filmografía y los viajes espaciales ya nos tenían acostumbrados: los astronautas. Parece que Elon Musk atendió esta carencia porque este miércoles publicó en su cuenta de Instagram la primera fotografía del nuevo traje espacial de SpaceX.
Hasta el momento, ninguno de los viajes realizados por los transbordadores espaciales de la compañía propiedad de Elon Musk ha sido tripulado. Los planes desvelados por el emprendedor acerca de establecer una colonia humana en Marte indicaban que en algún momento la compañía tendría que atender el problema de la indumentaria que vestirían los futuros tripulantes de sus naves espaciales reciclables.
Elon Musk presentó el nuevo traje espacial de SpaceX. Ver nota.
5. Google retira 500 apps que espían a millones de usuarios Android
A tan sólo unos días del lanzamiento de Android Oreo, el Sistema Operativo vuelve a ser noticia, pero no por algo positivo, ya que Google tuvo que retirar más de 500 apps de Play Store por contar con una “puerta trasera” secreta que permitía instalar spyware, y así espiar a los usuarios Android y robar sus datos.
Este código malicioso fue descubierto por la firma de seguridad informática Lookout, quienes notificaron a Google para que pudiera tomar acciones al respecto. Ahora, tras haber eliminado las aplicaciones maliciosas de la tienda virtual de la compañía, han decidido anunciar su hallazgo.
Google retira 500 apps que espían a millones de usuarios Android. Ver nota.
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Exclusivo: “Kinucha” Mitre rompe el silencio: La oveja negra de la familia.
Es la mayor de de los hermanos del director de La Nación. Cree que su hermano murió hace 11 años por temas familiares y “cosas de plata”. El peleado reparto de la herencia y un relato crudo de las feroces internas en la familia argentina más aristocráticas.
Además…
El Moyano que faltaba: el hijastro excéntrico del camionero. Empresa sindical-familiar. Vida en Puerto Madero, novia modelo y autos de lujo.
Vero Lozano habla sobre “Corcho” Rodríguez y Odebrecht: “A mi marido le creo todo”.
SANTA FE, N.M. — Over 1,000 firefighters backed by bulldozers and aircraft battled the largest active wildfire in the U.S. on Saturday after strong winds pushed it across some containment lines and closer to a small city in northern New Mexico.
Preliminary overnight mapping imagery indicated that the fire that has burned at least 166 homes grew in size from 103 square miles (266 square kilometers) Friday to 152 square miles (393 square kilometers) by early Saturday, officials said.
Ash carried 7 miles (11 kilometers) through the air fell on Las Vegas, population about 13,000, and firefighters were trying to prevent the blaze from getting closer, said Mike Johnson, a spokesman for the fire management team.
Calmer winds on Satuday were aiding the firefighting effort after gusts accelerated the fire’s advance to a point on Friday when “we were watching the fire march about a mile every hour,” said Jayson Coil, a fire operations official.
Winds gusted up to 65 mph (105 kph) Friday before subsiding as nightfall approached. By Saturday, aircraft that dump fire retardant and water could resume flights to aid ground crews and bulldozers.
The fire’s rapid growth Friday had forced crews to repeatedly change positions because of threatening conditions but managed to immediately re-engage without being forced to retreat, Coil said. No injuries were reported.
“Kind of a nod to everybody out there that made good decisions on the fly with limited information in a chaotic environment with direct personal threat,” Coil said. “They did an excellent job.”
The winds first sent the flames advancing furiously on April 22 across the northern New Mexico landscape. Since then, crews have worked to limit structure damage by installing sprinklers, pumps and hoses and clearing vegetation around buildings, officials said.
With that work and five times as many firefighters now working the fire, they were in much better position than a week earlier and were on track to make “tremendous progress,” Carl Schwope, the incident management team’s commander said Friday.
The fire as Saturday was contained around about a third of its larger perimeter, down a little from Thursday. The fire started April 6 when a prescribed burn set by firefighters to clear out small trees and brush that can fuel fires was declared out of control. That fire then merged with another wildfire a week ago.
With the fire’s recent growth, estimates of people forced to evacuate largely rural areas plus a subdivision near Las Vegas doubled from 1,500 to 2,000 people to between 3,000 and 4,000, said Jesus Romero, the assistant manager for San Miguel County.
Officials have said the fire has destroyed 277 structures, including at least 166 homes. No updated damage assessments were available on Saturday, Romero said.
Wildfires were also still burning Saturday elsewhere in New Mexico and in Arizona. The fires are burning unusually hot and fast for this time of year, especially in the Southwest, where experts said some timber in the region is drier than kiln-dried wood.
Wildfires have become a year-round threat in the West given changing conditions that include earlier snowmelt and rain coming later in the fall, scientist have said. The problems have been exacerbated by decades of fire suppression and poor management along with a more than 20-year megadrought that studies link to human-caused climate change.
In northern Arizona, firefighters neared full containment of a 30 square-mile (77 square-kilometer) blaze that destroyed at least 30 homes near Flagstaff and forced hundreds to evacuate. A top-level national wildfire management team turned oversight of fighting the blaze back to local firefighting forces on Friday.
National forests across Arizona announced they would impose fire restrictions starting next Thursday that limit campfires to developed recreation sites and restrict smoking to inside vehicles, other enclosed spaces and to the recreation sites.
“Given current drought conditions and the ‘very high’ fire danger level, it is too risky for these activities,” said Taiga Rohrer, fire management officer for the Tonto National Forest.
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Davenport reported from Flagstaff, Arizona. Associated Press writer Felicia Foneca in Flagstaff and Scott Sonner in Reno, Nevada, contributed to this report.
Sen. Rand Paul has tested positive for the coronavirus and is in quarantine, he said Sunday.
“Senator Rand Paul has tested positive for COVID-19. He is feeling fine and is in quarantine. He is asymptomatic and was tested out of an abundance of caution due to his extensive travel and events,” read a message on the Kentucky Republican’s Twitter handle.
“He was not aware of any direct contact with any infected person.”
He is the first US senator to test positive for the virus.
Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart (D-Fla.) and Ben McAdams (D-Utah) said they tested positive last week.
A handful of other members of Congress have been in self-quarantine after being exposed to somebody who tested positive.
Paul said he “expects to be back in the Senate” following the quarantine and “will continue to work for the people of Kentucky at this difficult time.”
“Ten days ago, our D.C. office began operating remotely, hence virtually no staff has had contact with Senator Rand Paul,” he said in another posting.
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