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Más noticias (alarmantes) de Venezuela – Clarín.com
Más noticias (alarmantes) de Venezuela – Clarín.com

Morrocoy es como los venezolanos llaman a las tortugas. Es el nombre, también, que le han dado al callejón en el cual el experimento agonizante de Nicolás Maduro ha encerrado a su pueblo demorando cualquier posible salida. Como la realidad tiene su propia dinámica, las costuras del régimen no han hecho más que tensarse. El final de un modo u otro se acerca sin claridad sobre cómo será esa tragedia anunciada.

El riesgo de un estallido se ha potenciado por la irrupción de situaciones de hambruna en los sectores más carenciados, un descalabro que aviva el desabastecimiento ya generalizado de productos esenciales.

Analistas políticos en Venezuela le indicaron a este cronista que lo que ha amainado por ahora esa deriva es la esperanza del revocatorio que produzca un cambio concreto de gobierno. Es decir, la aplicación del articulado constitucional para que un referéndum quite del poder al presidente Nicolás Maduro y habilite el inmediato llamado a nuevas elecciones nacionales en el término de 30 días. Ese es el “morrocoy” que no termina de marchar.

La crisis va menguando la capacidad de maniobra del régimen mientras la descomposición del escenario muestra signos de anarquía creciente. Eso se refleja en saqueos que se multiplican en el interior del país con la gente abandonada a su suerte o muriendo por la falta de medicamentos elementales, incluso los que controlan la presión.

“Las colas en los mercados son brutales, kilométricas. Hay un componente de violencia que sólo se atenuó cuando se comenzaron a validar las firmas”, del revocatorio dice a este columnista el colega Fernando Peñalver, observador del desastre y que ya envió a su mujer e hija a México previendo el desenlace que anticipa la crisis. No es un caso aislado.

Esa fuga es un proceso que esta involucrando cada vez a mayores cuotas de la clase media con capacidad para hacerlo y temeroso de lo que se viene. “La única salida rápida y constitucional es el revocatorio -agrega el periodista-. No hay otra y no va más rápido porque el gobierno quiere apagar la candela con gasolina de alto octanaje”.

El estallido que amenaza a la construcción bolivariana se expresa en varios niveles. Uno de ellos es el agotamiento del pueblo que ya le dio un portazo al régimen en diciembre cuando le entregó el legislativo a la oposición por primera vez en tres lustros de chavismo.

La otra válvula inestable es la estructura militar, que exhibe un comportamiento vertical, bien recompensado, de los mandos superiores pero muy crítico en los intermedios debido al contacto familiar y directo que esa tropa tiene con la población carenciada y frustrada. El punto mayor de ese desorden es el enfrentamiento entre Maduro y su socio en el poder, el ex jefe del Congreso y ex capitán, Diosdado Cabello, el acaudalado cancerbero del status quo.

El combustible de la disputa es una economía opaca que ha permitido el enriquecimiento de un amplio sector ligado al poder. Esa gente maneja el mercado negro del bachaqueo que acapara y especula con el desabastecimiento; el pedaleo con las divisas en un sistema con puntas premeditadamente extremas y el contrabando de combustibles subsidiado, entre otros trasiegos ilegales.

El choque en la cumbre se agudizó últimamente por la redoblada presión internacional para que el endeble sucesor de Hugo Chávez genere algún tipo de salida antes de que las cosas se salgan definitivamente de control. Una alternativa sería un revocatorio sin elección inmediata para que una figura aceptada por todos arme las elecciones y el traspaso hacia 2018 o idealmente antes.

Esto evitaría una elección con campaña de apenas cuatro semanas que pondría en riesgo los acuerdos opositores. De ahí que algunos políticos antichavistas admitían esa opción que incluiría la amnistía para el heredero de Hugo Chávez. Algo así se ejecutó en Perú en el 2000 tras la huida de Alberto Fujimori cuando el legislador Valentín Paniagua ordenó la casa y llamó a las urnas seis meses después.

El desafío es hallar a quien cubra ese rol. Técnicamente le tocaría al vicepresidente Aristóbulo Istúriz. Es un oficialista que era respetado por opositores de peso como el líder del Parlamento Henry Ramos Allup, pero su deriva ultrachavista acabó por erosionarlo. El fuerte carácter cívico-militar del régimen, llevó a que se mente, también, al jefe del Estado Mayor y ministro de Defensa, el general Vladimir Padrino López. Pero esa idea carecería de aval en la región o en EE.UU.

Lo importante es que estos movimientos están detrás de los retrocesos de Maduro, que aceptó negociar con Washington; no descartó la alternativa del revocatorio y hasta recibió al influyente ex secretario para América Latina de la cancillería norteamericana Thomas Shannon.

Cuba, de especial influencia sobre Venezuela y el propio Maduro, no ha estado ausente de esa estrategia. El interés de Raúl Castro es bien pragmático. En caso de estallido, La Habana no podría retirarle la mano a su aliado y acabaría atrapada en un discurso oportunista sobre un golpismo inexistente. Se realimentaría así la hostilidad entre la isla comunista y los EE.UU. en momentos que la situación económica cubana se complicó y requiere un urgente flujo de inversiones que eviten su propia debacle.

Uno de los ácidos en esta arquitectura es que la situación se ha tornado mucho más volátil y con una velocidad de deterioro en crecimiento, también en la cumbre del régimen.

No son pocos quienes adivinan la mano de Cabello, de muy distante trato con el poder cubano, detrás de propuestas extremistas para que se llame a nuevas elecciones legislativas y arrebatar el Congreso a la alianza opositora MUD. O que la Corte, colonizada por el oficialismo, anule directamente el derecho legal a existir a esa coalición.

Esos enfrentamientos terminales, con el trasfondo del desastre humanitario y el litigio sobre el revocatorio, encienden alarmas aún más allá de la región. Una delegación diplomática italiana llegó con gran reserva a Venezuela para analizar la crisis.

El problema es que “ninguna de las partes quiere perder y eso es imposible en las condiciones actuales del país”, nos dice la periodista Yirmana Almarza. Y pone la mirada donde realmente hay que hacerlo cuando advierte que “la verdad es que no hay nadie canalizando la rabia social allá afuera”. Cualquier cosa puede suceder.

Es tan correcta la observación que es debido a eso que la chance de una salida negociada se debilita invariablemente. Hace pocas horas EE.UU. decido endurecerse y reclamó a Maduro que llame de una vez al revocatorio y habilite elecciones inmediatas. Es probable que esa línea más rígida, que no es solo de Washington, se extienda ahora en la región y en la OEA. La gran duda es si no se consumió el espacio también para esa alternativa.

Copyright Clarín, 2016. 

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They Pump $15 Billion A Year Into Bangladesh’s Economy — But At What Cost? – NPR
They Pump $15 Billion A Year Into Bangladesh’s Economy — But At What Cost? – NPR

Mim Akter Tania, 22, thought she was getting a job as a hospital custodian in Saudi Arabia. Instead, she says, she ended up as a domestic servant with an abusive boss.

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Mim Akter Tania, 22, thought she was getting a job as a hospital custodian in Saudi Arabia. Instead, she says, she ended up as a domestic servant with an abusive boss.

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How do you get ahead in Bangladesh?

Often it’s by leaving Bangladesh.

An estimated 10 million Bangladeshis are currently working abroad, primarily as low-skilled laborers in the Arabian Gulf. Only India, Mexico, Russia and China send out more migrant workers each year according to the World Bank.

The Bangladeshi migrant workers are gardeners, construction workers, janitors and maids. On average they earn $400 a month, far more than they’d make doing the same jobs at home. And the totals add up. The $15 billion sent home by migrant workers last year — called “remittances” in economic jargon — is Bangladesh’s second-largest source of foreign earnings after its gigantic textile industry.

But their months or years abroad can turn into misery, with stories of scams, exploitation and abuse, according to labor activists and human rights groups.

Getting in line

An entire industry has developed in Bangladesh to recruit, screen and process workers who yearn to go abroad.

Outside a two-story office building on the eastern side of the capital, Dhaka, young men hoping to get jobs in the Arabian Gulf are waiting on the street. Before they can finalize a labor contract they have to get poked, prodded and fingerprinted at a branch office of the Gulf Approved Medical Centres Association.

Mohammad Kiron Mia, 36, has worked abroad twice in Oman, as a tailor and then a gardener. He says he can earn twice as much there as in Bangladesh and that these jobs are a chance “to make a better life for my family and my children.”

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Mohammad Kiron Mia, 36, has worked abroad twice in Oman, as a tailor and then a gardener. He says he can earn twice as much there as in Bangladesh and that these jobs are a chance “to make a better life for my family and my children.”

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The job seekers are given physical exams at the Saudi-run agency to make sure they are fit to work. They are screened for HIV, TB and other infectious diseases. If they test positive, they’re barred from working in the Gulf (an official in the GAMCA office says they can still find work somewhere else in the world). Women have to take a pregnancy exam and are excluded if they’re pregnant.

The agency uploads their fingerprints and travel documents into a centralized database that will be available to immigration authorities in the countries the workers are sent to.

One of the applicants on a recent April day is Mohammad Kiron Mia, who is trying to get a job as a gardener in Oman.

For Mia, 36, this will be his third trip overseas. During the first he worked as a tailor in Oman for seven months. Then he returned on a two-year contract as a gardener.

“We are poor people,” he says of himself and several neighbors from his village who are with him outside the agency. He is hoping to return to Oman: “The jobs in Oman are better opportunities for us because the work permit costs far less than a permit for Saudi Arabia or Dubai.”

Permit fees are based on the destination and job and can cost thousands of dollars.

“I want to make a better life for my family and my children,” he says. “I can make twice as much money working in Oman compared to working here in Bangladesh.”

The GAMCA office where Mia has come to submit his paperwork is one of 46 across Bangladesh that process workers exclusively for Gulf countries. Other labor brokers with other agencies set up jobs for Bangladeshis seeking to work in India, Malaysia, Singapore and other parts of Asia.

“Bangladesh is one of the top 10 countries in the world for migration and remittance according to World Bank,” says Shariful Islam Hasan, head of migration for BRAC, Bangladesh’s largest nonprofit development and social service agency. Hasan says remittances are hugely important to Bangladesh. A single migrant’s wages help provide education, health care and food for that worker’s family. Bangladeshis will work abroad sometimes for five, 10, even 20 years, he says, to try to attain a better life.

“You will not find a single person in Bangladesh who doesn’t have someone — a relative, someone — abroad,” he says. “So everyone is very much involved with this migration and remittances process.”

One of the great benefits of remittances, Hasan says, is that unlike the money brought into the country by exports from the garment industry, this money is dispersed all across Bangladesh.

Yet Bangladesh is still one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite recent progress, per capita income remains below $2,000 a year.

Low wages and a lack of formal jobs at home push millions of Bangladeshis to seek work abroad. Rickshaw drivers hustle to earn a $5 or $6 a day. The minimum wage in Bangladesh’s largest industry, textiles, is just $95 per month.

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Broken promises

Hasan says there are many hazards for foreign workers. Some are scammed by job brokers who overcharge them for visas, flights and work permits. Others sign up to do one type of work — for instance driving a delivery van in Abu Dhabi — and end up toiling long hours instead outside in scorching heat on a construction site in Dubai. Women primarily find jobs as maids and housecleaners. Hasan says women are often overworked and subjected to physical, emotional and even sexual abuse.

“If you don’t get a holiday, if you don’t have food or what you need — according to the definition of modern-day slavery, this is one kind of slavery,” he says.

Mim Akter Tania, 22, knows this all too well. Tania shares an apartment with her husband, daughter and another young married couple in a crowded part of the Bangladesh capital known as Old Dhaka. When Tania got a contract last year to work as a custodian at a hospital in Saudi Arabia, she was incredibly excited.

“At that time we didn’t have much money so I thought that going to Saudi Arabia might give us a better chance to live a good life,” she says.

She hoped she could move up from mopping floors at the hospital to working as a nurse’s assistant or a medical technician. She sent her daughter, just a year old at the time, to live with her mother and signed a two-year contract to work in Saudi Arabia.

But when Tania got to Riyadh there was no job in a hospital.

Instead she was sent to work as domestic servant.

She says that after she worked all day at her boss’s house, he would send her in the evening to clean his brother’s house.

“I knew I had to do the work but my employer was not a good human being,” Tania says. “He often beat me and behaved very rudely toward me.”

When the boss and his brother tried to rape her, she says, she ran away and went to the Saudi police.

But the police just brought her back to her employer’s house.

Two months after she arrived, she says, her boss pushed her off a balcony. The fall broke her leg. From the hospital Tania got in touch with the Bangladeshi Embassy, which moved her to a safe house full of other Bangladeshi women who had also fled their employers and were waiting to go home.

Her salary was supposed to be $160 a month plus room and board, but she says, “I never got any payment for the work I did there. None.”

Hasan from BRAC’s migration program and other worker advocates say that Tania’s experience is far too common. Bangladesh has come to rely so heavily on the money that workers send home every month, Hasan says, that mistreatment and abuse are often overlooked.

Masud Ali Yakub says going to work abroad was a “big mistake.” In 2014 he paid $7,500 for a three-year work permit in Qatar. He borrowed much of the money. Yakub hoped to get a job as a driver but only found low-paying work installing drywall. Yakub, at home now with his daughter in Dhaka, says he is still paying off his loans.

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Underage workers

At times even children get pulled into the foreign worker system.

At the Kurmitola General Hospital near the international airport in Dhaka, the Begum family is gathered on a row of blue plastic benches in the ground floor waiting room. Their daughter, who they say is 16, is huddled next to her mother. She is wearing a black burqa with no head covering over a filthy hooded sweatshirt. She has bruises on her left cheek and a cut at the base of her neck. A small duffel bag with a checked-luggage tag still wrapped around the handle sits at the girl’s feet. She refuses to speak. Her mother, Minara, says she and her husband hadn’t heard from their daughter in months when she suddenly called from Saudi Arabia saying she was coming home.

Minara says this whole saga started months ago with a woman named Beauty, who came to the Begum family’s village and offered to get Minara’s daughter a job cleaning houses in Dhaka. While the family no longer heard from their daughter regularly, every month Beauty sent them 16,000 taka, almost $200.

Minara says her daughter was 15 when she left their village with Beauty. Now, just a matter of months later the girl is holding a passport that lists her age as 26.

Her parents believe that Beauty must have arranged for the fake passport. Minara and her husband brought the teenager straight to this hospital from the airport, but she won’t let the doctors or nurses touch her. She refused to go into a small examination room and is scared to enter the stalls in the hospital’s public restrooms.

All her daughter will tell them, Minara says, is that she wants to go home.

Minara is still trying to understand what happened to her daughter, what horrors she experienced. One of the things that made Minara think her daughter was OK was that every month her wages arrived like clockwork. Minara had no idea that that money was coming from Saudi Arabia — and that it was part of the hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign remittances flowing every month into Bangladesh.

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Muere soldado que estuvo oculto 29 años en la – Univisión
Muere soldado que estuvo oculto 29 años en la – Univisión

Al menos 32 personas han muerto por influenza en México en lo que va del año, de los 55…

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Trump repeats claim he won’t release his taxes while he’s under audit – CNN
Trump repeats claim he won’t release his taxes while he’s under audit – CNN

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Body found on Greek island believed to be of missing TV host Michael Mosley – Al Jazeera English
Body found on Greek island believed to be of missing TV host Michael Mosley – Al Jazeera English
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Así rescataron a una mujer convertida en la esclava sexual de un asesino en serie – RPP Noticias
Así rescataron a una mujer convertida en la esclava sexual de un asesino en serie – RPP Noticias



La víctima de 30 años permanecía en un contenedor metálico y estaba encadenada del cuello. | Fuente: Video: AP



La Policía de Carolina del Sur (Estados Unidos) difundió este sábado las imágenes del rescate de Kala Brown, una mujer que fue secuestrada y violada durante dos meses por el asesino serial Todd Kohlhepp. El operativo se realizó en noviembre de 2016 y permitió la captura del criminal.

Según lo muestra el video, Brown (30) fue hallada dentro de un amplio contenedor metálico en el que permanecía encadenada del cuello. Cuando le preguntaron por su novio, Charlie Carver, quien había sido secuestrado junto a ella, respondió que estaba muerto.

Mató a otras personas. “Todd Kohlhepp le disparó tres veces en el pecho, envolvió su cuerpo con un material azul, lo puso en el cargador frontal de un tractor y me encerró aquí. No lo he visto de nuevo. Él me dijo que lo mató y lo enterró. Dice que hay muchos cuerpos sepultados allá afuera”, explicó a las autoridades mientras era liberada.

El asesino de 45 años había atraído a sus víctimas a su propiedad en el Condado de Spartanburg tras ofrecerles trabajo en limpieza. Mientras mantuvo retenida a Brown, le confesó que, con la misma estrategia, había matado a otra pareja. 

Tras pesquisas en el terreno, el cuerpo de Carver fue encontrado. También se rescataron los cadáveres de Meagan Leigh McGraw Coxie (26) y su esposo Johnny Joe Coxie (29). Ambos estaban desaparecidos desde diciembre de 2015.

Cadena perpetua. Para evitar la pena de muerte, que es aplicable en Carolina del Sur, Kohlhepp reconoció su culpabilidad en todos los cargos. Además, mientras era arrestado indicó que también era autor de otros cuatro homicidios ocurridos hace 13 años en una tienda de motocicletas.  

Según informó el diario The Sun, el sujeto ya había estado en prisión durante 14 años en Arizona. Ahí, cuando tenía solo 15 años, secuestró a una adolescente de 14 para luego violarla.

Las autoridades usaron una sierra eléctrica para abrir la puerta del contenedor desde donde se oían los gritos de la mujer. | Fuente: Captura video
Todd Kohlhepp guió a las autoridades a los lugares donde sepultó a sus víctimas. | Fuente: Daily Mail

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Devastating Caldor Fire continues to burn toward Lake Tahoe, forcing thousands to evacuate – The Washington Post
Devastating Caldor Fire continues to burn toward Lake Tahoe, forcing thousands to evacuate – The Washington Post

He said the fire, which has only about 16 percent contained, has been tough to control. Firefighters are standing by to extinguish embers as they fall onto roofs and lawns, but because of the scale, “it will be a challenge to protect everything,” Clements said.

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RESUMEN DE NOTICIAS: Sampedranas se revelan en Facebook para que Maluma de concierto – Diez.hn
RESUMEN DE NOTICIAS: Sampedranas se revelan en Facebook para que Maluma de concierto – Diez.hn

La muertes de una persona en un accidente de tránsito, así como un concierto de Maluma gracias a las redes sociales, destaca en el resumen de noticias de este sábado. En China un tornado, el más fuerte de los últimos 50 años, dejó al menos 98 muertos.

En este resumen de noticias de este sábado, te presentamos las que mayor impacto tuvieron en Honduras y el planeta entero:

Frustan asalto en rapidito y capturan a asaltante

Una persona identificad como Ángel Josué Canales Herrera fue capturada en un frustrado asalto a un rapidito en San Pedro Sula.
Canales Herrera, que luego fue presentado por las autoridades de Fusina, fue capturado infranti cuando asaltaba a los pasajeros de un bus de la ruta uno.

Elementos asignados a la Gran Terminal Metropolina recibieron la alerta por lo que se movilizaron e intervinieron la unidad en las cercanías del Infop.

Un muerto deja accidente en La Ceiba

Una persona, identificada Erwin Avimelec Alvarado Díaz, perdió la vida y otra resultó herida este sábado en un aparatoso accidente de tránsito ocurrido en la CA-13, frente al desvío del Centro Universitario Regional del Litoral Atlántico de La Ceiba.

Alvarado Díaz falleció cuando el vehículo tipo turismo que conducía, fue a impactar contra la parte trasera de un camión que se encontraba estacionado a orillas de dicha vía.

Cuentas de la palillona están en cero

Las cuentas de Ilsa Molina, la palillona, que esta semana llegó deportada y luego puesta a las órdenes de los juzgados, se encuentran en cero, informaron las autoridades.
La “Palillona” pasó de hospedarse en hoteles de lujo internacionales debido a los diversos viajes que realizaba con el dinero del Seguro Social, a residir en la Penitenciaría Nacional Femenina de Atención Social (PNFAS).

Lo único que el Estado puede recuperar del dinero que se desfalcó del Seguro Social, es una lujosa vivienda, situada en la colonia Portal del Bosque de Tegucigalpa, valorada en 150 mil dólares, que en lempiras equivale a más de 3.2 millones.

Maluma cantará en San Pedro Sula

El popular cantante colombiano, Maluma, ofrecerá un concierto en San Pedro Sula, informaron sus representantes.
Muchos sampedranos se habían quejado en las redes sociales porque primero solo se presentaría en Tegucigalpa.

El concierto de San Pedro Sula será el miércoles 31 de agosto. Un día antes se presentará en la capital hondureña. Luego del cafetero cantará en Managua, Nicaragua y en Guatemala.

Capturan al mayor traficante de drogas de Colombia

El “mayor traficante de drogas sintéticas” de Colombia, que era abastecido por cárteles del narcotráfico mexicanos, fue capturado por la policía, informó este viernes el presidente Juan Manuel Santos.
“¡Con todo #ContraElCrimen! @PoliciaColombia capturó a ‘Alejo 2CB’ el mayor traficante de drogas sintéticas del país”, escribió Santos en la red social Twitter.

Identificado como Alejandro Arboleda Uribe, el detenido era “abastecido por cárteles mexicanos” y debía su apodo a ser quien introdujo en el país “la cocaína rosada, como es conocida la sustancia 2CB en el mundo de los estupefacientes y en las fiestas electrónicas”, detalló la Policía Nacional en un comunicado.

98 muertos deja el peor tornado de los últimos 50 años en China

Al menos 98 personas murieron y 800 resultaron heridas en el este de China debido al peor tornado de los últimos 50 años en la provincia de Jiangsu.
Vientos de 125 km/h destruyeron varias localidades y provocaron graves daños en la ciudad de Yancheng.

Las fuertes lluvias y granizo golpearon la ciudad en la madrugada provocando deslizamientos de tierra.

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More states challenging Biden’s health worker vaccine mandate – fox8.com
More states challenging Biden’s health worker vaccine mandate – fox8.com

**Related Video Above: Ohio Attorney General says he’s filing lawsuit to stop federal vaccine, testing mandate.”

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A second set of states has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers.

The latest suit, dated Monday, was filed in Louisiana on behalf of 12 states and comes less than a week after another lawsuit challenging the rule was filed in Missouri by a coalition of 10 states.

“The federal government will not impose medical tyranny on Louisiana’s people without my best fight,” Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said in a news release announcing the lawsuit.

Both lawsuits say the vaccine mandate threatens to drive away health care workers who refuse to get vaccinated at a time when such workers are badly needed. They also contend the rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services violates federal law and unconstitutionally encroaches on powers reserved to the states.

The Louisiana lawsuit quotes from Friday’s order by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocking a broader Biden administration vaccine mandate that businesses with more than 100 workers require employees to be vaccinated by Jan. 4 or wear masks and be tested weekly for COVID-19.

Borrowing language from the 5th Circuit, the Louisiana lawsuit calls the health care worker vaccine requirement a “one-size-fits-all” sledgehammer. In addition to Louisiana, the suit covers Montana, Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia.

The Missouri suit includes Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming.

The Biden administration has not yet filed responses in either of the suits.

The Louisiana-based lawsuit was assigned to U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, an appointee of President Donald Trump. Any appeals of a Doughty decision would go to the 5th Circuit.

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Stephanie Lazarus, LAPD cop who killed ex-boyfriend’s wife, won’t be freed – Los Angeles Times
Stephanie Lazarus, LAPD cop who killed ex-boyfriend’s wife, won’t be freed – Los Angeles Times
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Sanders gets tough reception at minority women’s event, signaling challenges ahead – The Washington Post
Sanders gets tough reception at minority women’s event, signaling challenges ahead – The Washington Post

Holly Bailey

David Weigel

April 24 at 10:31 PM

HOUSTON — The groans erupted halfway through Bernie Sanders’s appearance Wednesday at a presidential candidates’ forum sponsored by She the People, a group that aims to drive up voter participation among women of color.

Before an audience of about 1,700, many of them African American and Hispanic women, the moderator asked Sanders (I-Vt.) how he would handle the rise in white supremacy. Sanders spoke of fighting discrimination and running a campaign “to bring our people together around an agenda that speaks to all people” — then returned to a familiar message on universal health care.

For many in the audience, that was insufficient. “Come on!” a woman shouted from the back, as others began to jeer and boo.

The reception reflected Sanders’s struggle to win support from minority voters, a problem that dogged his 2016 primary campaign against Hillary Clinton. Sanders has taken steps since to improve his outreach, including meeting with black leaders and talking more frequently about the difficulties facing minorities, but Wednesday’s event suggested the senator still faces challenges.

Sanders at one point mentioned his long record on civil rights, but it did little to mollify the crowd.

“I was actually at the March on Washington with Dr. King back in 1963, and — as somebody who actively supported Jesse Jackson’s campaign, as one of the few white elected officials to do so in ’88 — I have dedicated my life to the fight against racism and sexism and discrimination of all forms,” Sanders said. That prompted audible groans.

Sanders may have come into the event at a disadvantage, since many black women supported Clinton in 2016. Some Clinton backers believe Sanders did too little to help her after she won the nomination.

Sanders did eventually coax a warmer reception when he vowed to use the presidential “bully pulpit” to counter hate.

Wednesday’s event, billed by organizers as the first-ever presidential forum for women of color, took place at Texas Southern University, a historically black institution in Houston, one of the most rapidly diversifying cities in the country.

Democrats hope minority voters, especially black women, will turn out in bigger numbers in 2020. Clinton won the black vote in 2016 with 89 percent to then-candidate Donald Trump’s 8 percent — but just 59 percent of registered black voters turned out. The group is a central part of the Democratic coalition.

Sanders was one of eight Democratic presidential hopefuls who appeared at the She the People forum, and the candidates sought to appeal to the attendees in various ways.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) repeated an earlier pledge to choose a woman as his running mate. Former congressman Beto O’Rourke (D-Tex.) endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment.

Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-
Calif.), who has faced criticism from some liberals who think she was too tough as San Francisco’s district attorney, promised to pardon low-level drug offenders if she wins the White House.

“We have to have the courage to recognize that there are a lot of folks who have been incarcerated who should not have been incarcerated and are still in prison because they were convicted under draconian laws,” Harris said.

Looming over the event was former vice president Joe Biden’s anticipated entry into the race on Thursday. Biden has close relations with many in the African American community, but some are unhappy with his treatment of Anita Hill in 1991, when she accused then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. Biden chaired the Judiciary Committee at the time and oversaw Thomas’s confirmation hearing.

Jamila Taylor, a 41-year-old policy analyst from Virginia, arrived at Wednesday’s event wearing a shirt that read, “I still believe Anita Hill.” She said that Biden had the right to seek the presidency but that his record should be a factor.

“He should be under scrutiny just like everyone else in the race,” Taylor said. “Speaking for myself, I think it was mishandled.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) took the stage after Sanders and presented herself as a candidate of ideas. She was asked whether Democratic women might choose a male in the primary season out of concern that the broader electorate would not support a woman for president.

Warren warned against making such choices based on fear. “Are we going to show up for people that we didn’t actually believe in because we’re too afraid to do anything else?” she said. “That’s not who we are.”

The forum highlighted Democrats’ need to appeal to a diverse array of voters in 2020. Energizing liberal minority women is one key task for the party, but some Democrats say it’s equally important to appeal to centrist and even conservative voters, including those who supported Trump.

One major topic was the criminal justice system and how it treats minorities. Sanders had created a stir earlier in the week by saying that convicted criminals should be able to vote while serving prison terms.

Two other candidates, interviewed Wednesday outside the forum, took a different view.

“I would think, especially for nonviolent offenders, that we rethink removing the right to vote and allow everyone, or as many as possible, to participate in our democracy,” O’Rourke said. But he added, “For violent criminals, it’s much harder for me to reach that conclusion.”

And former San Antonio mayor Julián Castro said it makes sense to discuss the issue, but “where I would draw that line is . . . with the people who were incarcerated having the opportunity to still vote.”

Michelle Ye Hee Lee contributed to this report.

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Gurnee explosion: 1 dead, 2 missing after silicone plant explosion in Waukegan, Illinois Friday – CBS News
Gurnee explosion: 1 dead, 2 missing after silicone plant explosion in Waukegan, Illinois Friday – CBS News

Waukegan, Illinois — One person is dead and two are missing after an explosion rocked a silicone plant in the Illinois city of Waukegan Friday night, according to Waukegan fire marshal Steven Lenzi. Emergency crews in Waukegan suspended the search for the missing employees due to hazardous material and the structural integrity of the building. Officials said it is unlikely the missing people survived the explosion, CBS Chicago reported.

Officials said nine people were in the building at the time of the blast in the city north of Chicago. Four people were transported to local hospitals. 

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of all involved in this horrific incident, ” Waukegan Fire Marshal Steven Lenzi said in a statement. “Our personnel worked tirelessly through the night to control this scene with help from many neighboring agencies.”

It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the explosion, which damaged at least five other buildings in the area, according to officials.

AB Specialty Silicones manufactures and distributes various grades of silicone products, CBS Chicago reported.   

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UN court order demanding that Israel halt its Gaza offensive further isolates the US position – The Associated Press
UN court order demanding that Israel halt its Gaza offensive further isolates the US position – The Associated Press
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10 killed after small plane crashes into Texas airport hangar, investigators say – Fox News
10 killed after small plane crashes into Texas airport hangar, investigators say – Fox News
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Plane crash kills 10 near Dallas

10 killed in a plane crash near Dallas, Texas.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a fiery plane crash that killed all 10 passengers on board Sunday morning at an airport near Dallas.

The twin-engine Beechcraft Super King Air 350 crashed into a hangar and started a fire at the Addison Municipal Airport in Texas, Fox 4 reported.

It wasn’t immediately clear what may have triggered the crash. The plane was said to have been bound for St. Petersburg, Florida.

2 KILLED, 1 INJURED AFTER PLANE CRASHES INTO NORTH CAROLINA HOME

Firefighters worked to stop the blaze, forcing the airport to stay closed for 45 minutes, but the plane was destroyed in the fire, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

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The plane experienced failure after losing an engine as it took off and crashed into an unoccupied hangar, according to Addison officials.

Addison is about 20 miles north of Dallas.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Cómo Putin ha fortalecido al nuevo ejército de Rusia – BBC Mundo
Cómo Putin ha fortalecido al nuevo ejército de Rusia – BBC Mundo

Dejando atrás la herencia soviética.

En 1998 el semanario The Economist hablaba del “congelado, hambriento e inútil ejército ruso”. Diez años más tarde decía: “Un más agresivo ejército ruso aún no es rival de la OTAN, pero es lo suficientemente fuerte como para asustar a algunos vecinos”. Ahora, tras la anexión de Crimea, la OTAN empieza a mirar con respeto a las fuerzas armadas que responden a las órdenes del comandante en jefe y presidente Vladimir Putin.

El más alto oficial de la Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte, el general Philip Breedlove, dijo la semana pasada que la alianza ha realizado movimientos de fuerzas en los estados del este europeo porque busca garantizar la seguridad de sus aliados frente a lo que llamó el alarmante estado de alerta de las tropas rusas en la frontera ucraniana.

Según el militar, hay unos 40.000 soldados rusos cerca de la frontera de ese país con Ucrania y la OTAN no ha visto que se registrara una retirada de efectivos, como se había informado en los últimos días.

De acuerdo con el corresponsal de asuntos diplomáticos de la BBC, Jonathan Marcus, “lo que es más alarmante para los líderes de la OTAN es el nivel de disponibilidad de esas tropas”.

El general Breedlove cree que podrían movilizarse en 12 horas. Y dijo que “son absolutamente capaces constituirse en una fuerza invasora, con todas las piezas y partes necesarias para” acompañar el avance de fuerzas terrestres (como aviones, helicópteros, hospitales y suministros). El militar piensa que las unidades rusas podrían conseguir sus objetivos estratégicos dentro de tres o cinco días.

Putin decidió reformar las fuerzas armadas tras el conflicto de 2008 en Georgia.

“Creo que eso no es realista, aun si la meta final fuera alcanzar las regiones (de Ucrania) donde se han levantado banderas rusas”, le dijo a BBC Mundo Konrad Muzyka, analista de fuerzas armadas de la publicación especializada en asuntos militares IHS Jane (Muzyka sí cree que es convincente la estimación de que las tropas rusas pueden desplegarse en 12 horas hacia Ucrania).

Este es un renovado y más dinámico ejército ruso, uno que comenzó a transformarse después de la campaña de 2008 en Georgia.

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“Fuerza bruta”

Según Igor Sutyagin, especialista en estudios sobre Rusia del Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) de Reino Unido, “hasta 2008 todavía se trataba del viejo ejército soviético, armado en torno de la idea de una movilización al estilo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial”.

En ese entonces logró vencer en el enfrentamiento que terminó con la escisión de Abjasia y Osetia del Sur de Georgia, porque -le dice Sutyagin a BBC Mundo- “usaron la fuerza bruta y tenían un ejército mucho más grande que el georgiano”.

“A pesar de que ese conflicto duró apenas pocos días”, afirma Konrad Muzyka, “la evaluación del desempeño de las fuerzas armadas rusas fue negativa”.

Los altos mandos identificaron “falta de interoperabilidad, falta de modernas plataformas C4ISR (abreviatura de “comando, control, comunicaciones, computadoras, inteligencia, vigilancia, y reconocimiento”) y falta general de movilidad”.

El gobierno de entonces, con el ahora presidente Vladimir Putin en el rol de primer ministro, decidió implementar una serie de reformas.

Soldados rusos en Georgia en 2008.

La llegada de las brigadas

Esas transformaciones comenzaron de mano de Anatoly Serdyukov, ministro de Defensa entre 2007 y 2012.

Él fue el responsable de la transformación de la estructura, organización y coordinación de las fuerzas.

De acuerdo con The Economist, “Serdyukov era un competente administrador, capaz de superar la resistencia al cambio”.

El cambio más importante de los que implementó Serdyukov, según Sutyagin, fue pasar de una organización en divisiones a una en brigadas, mucho más pequeñas y móviles.

Una división puede tener hasta 13.000 efectivos, una brigada hasta 3.500, aproximadamente.

De acuerdo con Sutyagin, esto le ha otorgado a las fuerzas armadas rusas mayor flexibilidad. Además, dice, “es más fácil equipar una brigada”, ya que se necesita menos material, vehículos, armas.

Serdyukov, el arquitecto de las reformas.

El número total de efectivos rusos desde 2008 hasta estos días bajó de unos 395.000 a 270.000, entre los que no se cuentan los reservistas.

La reducción de personal llevó a una mejora en los entrenamientos: es más fácil y económico formar y capacitar a una brigada que a una división.

Ejercicios repentinos

No obstante, Sutyagin cree que todavía hay “problemas estructurales en el ejército ruso”.

Un batallón, que está conformado por varios cientos de hombres, depende de una jefatura constituida por dos personas: un oficial y un soldado, explica. Él lo considera insuficiente. “¿Cuánto pueden asistir en la preparación de una operación?”, dice.

Sin embargo, Muzyka, de IHS Jane, cree que se están haciendo avances en los esquemas de integración y comunicación.

“Se ha puesto énfasis en mejorar la triple interoperabilidad de ejército, fuerza aérea y armada”, afirma.

El conflicto en Georgia “evidenció importantes brechas en la cooperación entre la fuerza aérea y las fuerzas terrestres”, por lo que ahora, explica, “se introdujo nuevo equipamiento y programas de entrenamiento”.

Otro elemento importante fue la introducción de ejercicios repentinos, iniciados en 2013, para “mejorar los niveles generales de preparación de las fuerzas armadas rusas y su capacidad de desplegarse velozmente en un teatro de operaciones”.

Los primeros, a comienzos de ese año, no salieron del todo bien. Hubo serios errores de logística, explica Muzyka: “Se rompían los vehículos camino a los campos de entrenamiento, algunos se quedaban sin combustible”.

Sin embargo, hacia fines de 2013, “progresaron mucho y mejoró sustancialmente la capacidad de despliegue”, aunque la logística sigue siendo un problema.

Miles de millones

Pero los cambios no fueron simplemente organizativos. Hubo un constante respaldo económico.

Por caso, en 2013 mientras el Parlamento ruso redujo el presupuesto de Educación, Salud y Obras Públicas, incrementó el de Defensa.

Votó un aumento de 1,27 billones de rublos (US$40.000 millones) en tres años, lo que en 2016 lo llevaría al equivalente a US$106.400 millones.

Como recuerda Muzyka, en enero de 2012 el gobierno modificó la estructura salarial de las fuerzas armadas, incluyendo un incremento de sueldo de entre 150% y 200%, a lo que se sumó la incorporación de “bonos, como el de pago por trabajo riesgoso”.

En la actualidad, un oficial de bajo o medio rango gana en torno de los US$1.200 mensuales, el doble del salario promedio del país.

Y los sueldos militares “se actualizan dos veces al año”, agrega Igor Sutyagin.

Pero, añade, debe tenerse en cuenta que en Rusia todavía “hasta un 30% de las tropas de tierra son conscriptos que están de servicio militar por un año” (solían ser dos años).

La rotación a la que obliga este sistema dentro de las unidades de combate hace que pasen cuatro meses al año sin estar en condiciones para combatir, ya que deben entrenar e incorporar a los conscriptos, explica el experto.

Y si un joven decide volverse un soldado profesional, su salario será menor al promedio del que ofrece la economía rusa, y no recibirá una vivienda gratuita, como las que las fuerzas armadas le proveen a los oficiales.

Por lo tanto, tendría que gastar la mayor parte del sueldo en pagar un techo, aunque “hay intentos de aumentar los salarios”, dice Sutyagin.

El analista cree que eso lleva a que no se enlisten necesariamente los individuos mejor educados o más fuertes físicamente.

De hecho, el sistema de conscripción ha generado numerosas polémicas, por casos de abuso y por la mala preparación de los jóvenes enlistados.

“Un Ford T”

Sutyagin cree faltan resolver otros problemas, como la escaza estandarización del equipamiento que se le provee a las brigadas: reciben diez variedades diferentes de tanques y siete de vehículos armados y de transporte.

“Están comprando nuevos equipos, pero no son necesariamente diseños nuevos”, aclara. Da como ejemplo el tanque T90, del que compraron cientos en los últimos siete años.

“Están comprando nuevos equipos, pero no son necesariamente diseños nuevos“

Igor Sutyagin

Es un vehículo de combate basado en el T72, un diseño que tiene más de 40 años. Para Sutyagin, es comparable a haber comprado un coche Ford T rediseñado en 1950. “Sigue siendo un Ford T”.

No osbtante, Muzyka, de IHS Jane, señala que están avanzando en el desarrollo de un nuevo tanque de guerra, llamado Armata, que comenzará a fabricarse hacia 2015.

“Estará armado con un cañón de ánima lisa de montaje externo de 125 mm”, dice, “que podrá disparar misiles guiados por láser con una cabeza explosiva antitanques hasta una distancia de al menos 5.000 metros”.

En cuanto a vehículos blindados para transporte de personal, Rusia comprará unidades del BTR-82A, “con mejor comunicación, mejor blindaje y armamento y un motor más potente que el de sus predecesores”, de acuerdo con el experto.

El diario New York Times reporta también que en Crimea se vieron modernos vehículos de transporte Tigr-M y el dispositivo de bloqueo de comunicaciones R-330Zh, “que puede bloquear GPS y las señales de teléfonos satelitales”.

Ratnik

El renovado “guerrero” ruso.

Una de las áreas donde el ejército ruso está mostrando un avance sustancial es en el equipo que porta cada uno de los efectivos. Dentro del programa denominado Ratnik (“guerrero”), una continuación del Barmitsa de fines de los 90, han reducido el peso del equipo de protección e incorporado mejoras en los sistemas de comunicación.

Algunas de estas mejoras pueden verse en las fuerzas rusas desplegadas en Crimea, aunque Konrad Muzyka aclara que el plan es distribuir el nuevo kit de forma amplia a partir de junio de 2014.

Ratnik representa “una gran mejora”, dice Sutyagin. “Mejores chalecos antibalas, ropa que reduce la transpiración, uniformes más cómodos, radios más compactas y confiables y más difíciles de espiar. El casco es más liviano, no es de acero, es más ancho. Y las (nuevas) gafas protectoras son importantes, porque pueden evitar que pequeños objetos golpeen los ojos”.

“Esto afecta psicológicamente” a los soldados, agrega. “La vieja protección antibalas soviética pesaba 16 kilos. Ahora es modular y liviana. Aún en la configuración más completa es más liviana que la vieja, y la más simple pesa tan solo 2,5 kilos”, dice. “Así que los soldados se dan cuenta de que es mejor llevarla puesta”.

“Como se ve en Crimea, ya no la dejan atrás, la usan”, dice.

“Antes (los soldados) usaban pesados equipos de comunicación de la era soviética, ahora portan livianas radios personales“

Igor Sutyagin

Además de protección antibalas y uniformes nuevos, Ratnik incluye la renovación del armamento, equipos de comunicación, de navegación y de abastanciemiento de energía, dice Muzyka.

El especialista explica que en breve los soldados llevarán una especie de tableta con softrware especializado y capaz de interactuar con otros dispositivos como radares o drones.

Estos últimos también son una novedad: no estaban disponibles en 2008, pero ahora ya se utilizan para brindar información sobre objetivos a unidades de artillería.

Entre tanto, se han incorporado otras mejoras, como cuenta Sutyagin: “Antes (los soldados) usaban pesados equipos de comunicación de la era soviética, ahora portan livianas radios personales”.

Desde 2012 comenzaron a portar dispositivos de geolocalización, basados en el sistema satelital GLONASS (el equivalente ruso del GPS).

Pero ese equipo no termina de convencer, de acuerdo con Sutyagin, quien lo ilustra con un chiste que suele escucharse en las filas rusas: “¿Qué es lo bueno del receptor GLONASS? Se puede usar como un ladrillo y lanzar”. Pesa en torno a un kilo y es difícil de operar, explica el especialista.

¿Puede vencer a la OTAN?

Más allá de algunas fallas y de que el proceso de mejora todavía no ha terminado de dar todos sus frutos, la toma de Crimea mostró a fuerzas rusas en mucho mejores condiciones que las que se vieron en Georgia en 2008.

Esto es algo en lo que concuerdan todos los especialistas.

No obstante, Sutyagin ofrece una salvedad: él cree que la operación no habría sido tan fácil si la decisión política en Kiev hubiera sido enfrentarse a las tropas rusas que se desplegaron en la península.

“No se vio pelear” a los soldados rusos, dice. En cualquier caso, aclaró, Rusia habría mantenido una ventaja por una simple razón: “Ucrania gastaba (en 2012) US$5.000 por soldado por año y un 80% era para salarios; Rusia gastaba US$33.000, (de los cuales) US$14.000 en salarios”.

Pero Sutyagin cree que el ejército ruso no está a la altura de los de otras potencias y cree que sería superado por la OTAN en un potencial enfrentamiento.

“Las fuerzas armadas rusas tendrían dificultades en conducir operaciones de gran escala sin una anterior movilización y preparación de líneas logísticas“

Konrad Muzyka

Las principales potencias bélicas de la alianza, EE.UU. y Reino Unido, son consideradas más formidables que las rusas.

El ejército británico, menor en personal y presupuesto que el ruso es más profesional y “mucho mejor equipado, motivado y entrenado”, afirma Sutyagin.

Por su parte, EE.UU. sigue teniendo el más importante ejército del mundo, con un presupuesto actual de US$682.000 millones.

Las mejoras en el ejército ruso lo han preparado más para conflictos locales, dice Sutyagin.

Konrad Muzyka está de acuerdo: “Las fuerzas armadas rusas tendrían dificultades en conducir operaciones de gran escala sin una anterior movilización y preparación de líneas logísticas”.

Un escenario como el de una invasión china, comenta Sutyagin, “sería caótico”.

Y cuenta otro chiste que -dice- circula entre los militares rusos: “Si China decide invadir Rusia va a tener muchos problemas para vencer en el este del país; no por la fortaleza de las tropas rusas, sino porque no van a poder encontrarlas”.

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Biden to travel to New Jersey, New York next week to survey Hurricane Ida storm damage – Fox News
Biden to travel to New Jersey, New York next week to survey Hurricane Ida storm damage – Fox News
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Dems push Biden on spending bill following Hurricane Ida

Fox News congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports from Capitol Hill, says moderates could negotiate a scaled-back bill to pass in the Senate

President Biden will travel to New Jersey and New York next week to survey the aftermath of Hurricane Ida after it caused severe flood damage on the east coast.

The president’s plan to visit Manville, New Jersey, and Queens, New York, on Tuesday comes after he surveyed damaged neighborhoods in Louisiana Friday to observe the storm’s impact there, particularly in suburbs surrounding New Orleans.

“My message today is….there’s nothing political about this,” Biden said Friday. “It’s just simply about saving lives and getting people back up and running. And we’re in this together. And so we’re not leaving any community behind rural, city, coastal.”

President Joe Biden participates in a briefing about the response to damage caused by Hurricane Ida, at the St. John Parish Emergency Operations Center, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, in LaPlace, La., as Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards listens. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Category 4 storm first struck Louisiana last Sunday with sustained maximum winds of 150 mph before moving north toward the tristate area on Wednesday and Thursday with severe rain, leading the governors of New York and New Jersey to issue states of emergency.

HURRICANE LARRY HITS CATEGORY 3 IN ATLANTIC, MAY CAUSE ROUGH SURF, RIP CURRENTS ALONG EAST COAST: REPORT

In a region that had been warned about potentially deadly flash flooding but hadn’t braced for such a blow from the no-longer-hurricane, the storm killed at least 46 people from Maryland to Connecticut on Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

WHITE HOUSE JUGGLING ‘MULTIPLE CRISES’ BETWEEN AFGHANISTAN, HURRICANE IDA, OFFICAL SAYS

At least 23 people died in New Jersey, Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy said. At least 13 people were killed in New York City, police said, 11 of them in flooded basement apartments, which often serve as relatively affordable homes in one of the nation’s most expensive housing markets. Suburban Westchester County reported three deaths.

President Joe Biden tours a neighborhood impacted by Hurricane Ida, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, in LaPlace, La. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

More than 1,000 employees with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) were deployed to Louisiana and parts of the Northeast last week, according to a Saturday press release from the agency.

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The National Guard Bureau deployed 15 high-water vehicles in New Jersey to help with search and rescue efforts, the American Red Cross set up 13 emergency shelters across New York and New Jersey, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is assisting wireless carriers in restoring power to residents impacting by the storm.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Purdue Pharma offers $10-12 billion to settle opioid claims – NBC News
Purdue Pharma offers $10-12 billion to settle opioid claims – NBC News

The maker of OxyContin, Purdue Pharma, and its owners, the Sackler family, are offering to settle more than 2,000 lawsuits against the company for $10 billion to $12 billion. The potential deal was part of confidential conversations and discussed by Purdue’s lawyers at a meeting in Cleveland last Tuesday, Aug. 20, according to two people familiar with the mediation.

Brought by states, cities and counties, the lawsuits — some of which have been combined into one massive case — allege the company and the Sackler family are responsible for starting and sustaining the opioid crisis.

At least 10 state attorneys general and the plaintiffs’ attorneys gathered in Cleveland, where David Sackler represented the Sackler family, according to two people familiar with the meeting. David Sackler, who was a board member of the company, has recently been the de facto family spokesperson.

The lawsuits that Purdue and the Sacklers are seeking to settle allege that their company’s sales practices were deceptive and at least partly responsible for the opioid crisis, which claimed more than 400,000 lives from 1999 to 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some of the lawsuits also allege that after 2007 the Sackler family drained the company of money to enrich themselves.

“The Sackler family built a multibillion-dollar drug empire based on addiction,” New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said in May when his state joined others in suing the Sackler family and their company. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey was the first to name family members in her suit in January.

A pharmacist holds prescription painkiller OxyContin, 40mg pills, made by Purdue Pharma L.D. at a local pharmacy, in Provo, Utah on April 25, 2017.George Frey / Reuters file

Purdue Pharma, which makes the opioid painkiller OxyContin, and the Sackler family have denied the allegations laid out in the lawsuits.

In a statement to NBC News, the company said: “While Purdue Pharma is prepared to defend itself vigorously in the opioid litigation, the company has made clear that it sees little good coming from years of wasteful litigation and appeals.”

“The people and communities affected by the opioid crisis need help now. Purdue believes a constructive global resolution is the best path forward, and the company is actively working with the state attorneys general and other plaintiffs to achieve this outcome,” the company added.

A representative for the Sackler family did not respond to a request for comment.

At the Cleveland meeting, the company presented a plan for Purdue to declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy and then restructure into a for-profit “public benefit trust,” according to the summary term sheet that was read to NBC News and another source who is familiar with the potential deal.

The Purdue lawyers claim the value of the trust to plaintiffs would include more than $4 billion in drugs that would be provided to cities, counties and states, the people familiar with the matter said. Some of the drugs are used to rescue people from overdoses.

The in-kind drugs, combined with profits from the sale of drugs, would add up to a total Purdue settlement ranging from $7 billion to $8 billion, according to two people familiar with the offer.

Family and friends who have lost loved ones to OxyContin and opioid overdoses leave pill bottles with protest messages on them outside the headquarters of Purdue Pharma, which is owned by the Sackler family, in Stamford, Connecticut on Aug. 17, 2018.Jessica Hill / AP file

The trust would exist for at least 10 years. Three “well-recognized expert” trustees would be independently appointed by a bankruptcy court, according to the terms of the potential deal. Those trustees would in turn choose a board of directors to run the trust, according to the term sheet.

Any profits from the sale of Purdue’s drugs such as OxyContin or Nalmefene, a drug that has been fast-tracked by the FDA and would be used for emergency treatment of opioid overdoses, would go to the cities, counties and states if they agree to the settlement.

The Sackler family would give up ownership of the company and would no longer be involved, according to two people familiar with the matter.

For their part, the Sackler family, which has faced an increasingly hostile activist movement, would pay at least $3 billion. Forbes ranks the family as the 19th richest in America, with a fortune of at least $13 billion shared by an estimated 20 family members.

The Sackler money would be obtained by the family selling off Mundipharma, a separate global pharmaceutical company they own, according to a person briefed on the potential settlement deal. An additional $1.5 billion may be tacked onto the $3 billion if the sale of Mundipharma exceeds $3 billion.

Mundipharma describes itself on its website as a privately owned network of “independent associated companies” with “a presence in over 120 countries.” Mundipharma is controlled by the Sackler family.

A 2016 Los Angeles Times investigation of Mundipharma described how the global venture offered a new international pipeline for Purdue’s opioids.

Purdue Pharma’s legal team informed the assembled plaintiffs’ attorneys that if they did not take the potential settlement, the company would go ahead and declare bankruptcy, the people familiar with the matter said. The company’s lawyers claim the value of a fully liquidated Purdue in a standard bankruptcy would be considerably lower than the current settlement offer amount, according to documents read to NBC News.

Purdue Pharma is just one of the opioid companies being sued by more than 2,000 cities and counties for “grossly” misrepresenting “the risks of long-term use of those drugs for persons with chronic pain,” according to court documents. The cases against a variety of opioid companiesare being overseen by U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster of Northern Ohio, who attended the meeting last week, according to two people familiar with the meeting.

The states have brought their cases separately. But the Purdue settlement deal was presented as a global deal for all plaintiffs, including the states, according to people familiar with the potential deal.

The opioid crisis has cost the United States more than $504 billion, according to a 2017 report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Purdue Pharma has earned more than $35 billion from the sale of OxyContin.

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Buttigieg calls for ‘a new American spring’ in campaign launch | TheHill – The Hill
Buttigieg calls for ‘a new American spring’ in campaign launch | TheHill – The Hill

Pete ButtigiegPeter (Pete) Paul ButtigiegBiden sees donor enthusiasm, strong polls post-controversy Booker launches campaign tour starting in New Jersey Sanders sees path to beating Trump in Rust Belt MORE, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., on Sunday officially launched his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, calling for a “new American spring.”

“You and I have the chance to usher in a new American spring,” he told a crowd of supporters at a rally in South Bend. “So with hope in our hearts and with fire in our bellies, let’s get to work and let’s make history.”

Buttigieg, 37, made the announcement almost three months after launching an exploratory committee. 

“My name is Pete Buttigieg. They call me Mayor Pete,” he said. “I am a proud son of South Bend, Indiana, and I am running for president of the United States.”

Buttigieg was introduced Sunday by several mayors, including Austin’s Steve Adler, who called Buttigieg a “mayor’s mayor” and “a mayor among mayors.”

“I am standing here today with other mayors because we know something that this country needs to know, and we are in a unique position to know it. We can answer the question that many in America are asking. Yes, America, Mayor Pete is really that special,” Adler said.

The Afghanistan veteran in recent months has seen his poll numbers climb and his campaign raised more than $7 million in the first quarter of 2019, emerging as a serious candidate in the presidential race. 

Buttigieg has placed third in recent polls in both Iowa and New Hampshire, which will host the two earliest major presidential nominating contests in 2020.

The mayor has also seen his favorability ratings increase by more than 30 points since February, according to a recent poll.  

Buttigieg said his campaign will center around three main principles: freedom, security and democracy.

Buttigieg, who is gay, said “you are certainly not free if a county clerk” gets to determine whether you can get married. He added that “you’re not free if your reproductive health choices are dictated by male politicians.”

The South Bend mayor took a shot at President TrumpDonald John TrumpWH spokesman: We’re working with DHS, ICE to try to send undocumented immigrants to sanctuary cities Trump says he has legal right to send undocumented immigrants to sanctuary cities Sanders calls on Trump to scrap his trade plan MORE when he shifted to “security,” saying that there is “a lot more to security than putting up a wall from sea to shining sea,” a reference to Trump’s efforts to build a wall along the southern border. Buttigieg also said the U.S. “should have nothing to fear from children fleeing violence.”

“I’m here today to tell a different story than ‘Make America Great Again,'” he said, without naming Trump. “I do believe in American greatness. I believe in American values.”

He also pointed to “climate security,” calling climate change a “life and death issue,” and called for “keeping us safe in the face of white nationalism.”

On the subject of democracy, Buttigieg criticized voter suppression and the Electoral College while appearing to call for Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., to gain statehood.

Buttigieg also said Sunday he recognizes the “audacity” of running for president as a “midwestern millennial mayor,” calling it “more than a little bold.”

“But we live in a moment that compels us each to act,” he added, calling for a new generation of leadership. “The forces changing our country today are tectonic. … This time is not just about winning an election, it’s about winning an era.” 

-Updated 4 p.m.

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Sheriff’s deputies were "justified" in fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr., district attorney says – CBS News
Sheriff’s deputies were "justified" in fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr., district attorney says – CBS News

North Carolina sheriff’s deputies were “justified” in their fatal shooting of a Black man in April because the man ignored their commands and drove his car directly at one of them before they fired any shots, a prosecutor said Tuesday. District Attorney Andrew Womble said none of the deputies involved would be criminally charged in the fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr.

“The officers’ actions were consistent with their training and fully supported under the law in protecting their lives and this community,” Womble said during a press conference.

The district attorney said that Brown used his car as a “deadly weapon,” causing Pasquotank County deputies to believe it was necessary to use deadly force. Womble acknowledged Brown wasn’t armed with guns or other weapons as deputies were trying to take him into custody while serving drug-related warrants at his house in Elizabeth City on April 21.

In a statement, the Brown family’s attorneys said Womble was making an “attempt to whitewash this unjustified killing.”

“The bottom line is that Andrew was killed by a shot to the back of the head,” the attorneys said. “Interestingly, none of these issues were appropriately addressed in today’s press conference.”

The prosecutor said he would not release bodycam video of the confrontation between Brown and the law enforcement officers, but he played portions of the video during the news conference. The video came from four body cameras worn by deputies during the shooting.

An image capture from police body camera video shows Pasquotank County sheriff’s deputies during the fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, April 21, 2021.

In the footage played to reporters, the deputies are seen jumping out of the back of a sheriff’s office pickup truck as it pulls up to Brown’s house. The deputies then rush toward Brown, who was in his car.

As the deputies surround the car, one of them, who Womble identified as Deputy Joel Lunsford, tried to open the driver’s side door.

Womble said Brown was holding his phone when the deputies approached the vehicle and that Brown threw the phone down and began to rapidly back the car away from the deputies. As the car backed away, the door handle came out of Lunsford’s hand, Womble said.

Brown then drove the car forward and to the left between two deputies as he was told to stop the vehicle. As the car was moving, Lunsford appeared to briefly brace his left hand against the passenger side of the hood.

“It was at this moment that the first shot is fired,” Womble said. He said the first shot fired at Brown’s car went through the front windshield, not the back as was previously reported.

As Brown drove away, the deputies opened fire with bullets entering the car through the passenger side of the car, the rear windshield and the trunk, according to Womble. He said the incident lasted a total of 44 seconds.

The three deputies involved in the shooting — Investigator Daniel Meads, Deputy Robert Morgan and Corporal Aaron Lewellyn — have been on leave since it happened. The sheriff’s office said Morgan is Black while Meads and Lewellyn are White.


DA: Shooting of Andrew Brown “was justified”

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Four others who were at the scene were reinstated after the sheriff said they didn’t fire their weapons.

“Clearly they did not feel that their lives were endangered,” the Brown family’s attorneys said of the four deputies who didn’t shoot.

An independent autopsy released by the family found that Brown was hit by bullets five times, including once in the back of the head. Lawyers for Brown’s family who watched body camera footage say that it shows Brown was not armed and that he didn’t drive toward deputies or pose a threat to them. Womble has previously disagreed in court, saying that Brown struck deputies twice with his car before any shots were fired.

The sheriff has said his deputies weren’t injured.

The Brown family’s attorneys called for the release of the full bodycam video and the State Bureau of Investigation’s report on the shooting. The attorneys also called for the U.S. Department of Justice to “intervene immediately.”

The shooting sparked protests over multiple weeks by demonstrators calling for the public release of the footage. While authorities have shown footage to Brown’s family, a judge refused to release the video publicly pending the state investigation.

Separately, the FBI has launched a civil rights probe of the shooting.

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Casi la mitad de los uruguayos califica "regular" su situación – El País – Diario El País
Casi la mitad de los uruguayos califica "regular" su situación – El País – Diario El País

El 45% de los uruguayos calificó como “regular” su situación económica, mientras que un 38% señaló que la misma es “buena o muy buena”. Así se desprende de un nuevo estudio publicado por Opción Consultores. Un 11% y 6% consideran que sus finanzas son “malas” o “muy malas”, respectivamente.

Además, el 48% de los uruguayos dice tener expectativas positivas para el futuro de su economía personal. Y son los encuestados más jóvenes (entre 18 y 29) años quienes tienen expectativas aún más positivas que el resto de la población.

Por el contrario, advierte el estudio, es entre las personas de nivel socioeconómico alto donde las expectativas son menores.

Sobre la economía del país, un 42% considera que la misma mejorará en el próximo año. El informe establece que “se revierte el saldo de expectativas futuras en relación a la situación económica del país, volviendo a ser positivo”.

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The emerging Boeing 737 MAX scandal, explained – Vox.com
The emerging Boeing 737 MAX scandal, explained – Vox.com

Boeing executives are offering a simple explanation for why the company’s best-selling plane in the world, the 737 MAX 8, crashed twice in the past several months, leaving Jakarta, Indonesia, in October and then Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in March. Executives claimed Wednesday, March 27, that the cause was a software problem — and that a new software upgrade fixes it.

But this open-and-shut version of events conflicts with what diligent reporters in the aviation press have uncovered in the weeks since Asia, Europe, Canada, and then the United States grounded the planes.

The story begins nine years ago when Boeing was faced with a major threat to its bottom line, spurring the airline to rush a series of kludges through the certification process — with an under-resourced Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) seemingly all too eager to help an American company threatened by a foreign competitor, rather than to ask tough questions about the project.

The specifics of what happened in the regulatory system are still emerging (and despite executives’ assurances we don’t even really know what happened on the flights yet). But the big picture is coming into view: A major employer faced a major financial threat, and short-term politics and greed won out over the integrity of the regulatory system. It’s a scandal.

The 737 versus 320 rivalry, explained

There are lots of different passenger airplanes on the market, but just two very similar narrow-body planes dominate domestic (or intra-European) travel. One is the European company Airbus’s 320 family, with models called A318, A319, A320, or A321 depending on how long the plane is. These four variants, by design, have identical flight decks so pilots can be trained to fly them interchangeably.

The 320 family competes with a group of planes that Boeing calls the 737 — there’s a 737-600, a 737-700, a 737-800, and a 737-900 — with higher numbers indicating larger planes. Some of them are also extended-range models that have an ER appended to the name and, as you would probably guess, they have longer ranges.

Importantly, even though there are many different flavors of 737, they are all in some sense the same plane, just as all the different 320 family planes are the same plane. Southwest Airlines, for example, simplifies its overall operations by exclusively flying different 737 variants.

Both the 737 and the 320 come in lots of different flavors, so airlines have plenty of options in terms of what kind of aircraft should fly exactly which route. But because there are only two players in this market, and because their offerings are so fundamentally similar, the competition for this slice of the plane market is both intense and weirdly limited. If one company were to gain a clear technical advantage over the other, it would be a minor catastrophe for the losing company.

And that’s what Boeing thought it was facing.

The A320neo was trouble for Boeing

Jet fuel is a major cost for airlines. With labor costs largely driven by collective bargaining agreements and regulations that require minimum ratios of flight attendants per passenger, fuel is the cost center airlines have the most capacity to do something about. Consequently, improving fuel efficiency has emerged as one of the major bases of competition between airline manufacturers.

If you roll back to 2010, it began to look like Boeing had a real problem in this regard.

Airbus was coming out with an updated version of the A320 family that it called the A320neo, with “neo” meaning “new engine option.” The new engines were going to be a more fuel-efficient design, with a larger diameter than previous A320 engines, that could nonetheless be mounted on what was basically the same airframe. This was a nontrivial engineering undertaking both in designing the new engines and in figuring out how to make them work with the old airframe, but even though it cost a bunch of money, it basically worked. And it raised the question of whether Boeing would respond.

Initial word was that it wouldn’t. As CBS Moneywatch’s Brett Snyder wrote back in December 2010, the basic problem was that you couldn’t slap the new generation of more efficient, larger-diameter engines onto the 737:

One of the issues for Boeing is that it takes more work to put new engines on the 737 than on the A320. The 737 is lower to the ground than the A320, and the new engines have a larger diameter. So while both manufacturers would have to do work, the Boeing guys would have more work to do to jack the airplane up. That will cost more while reducing commonality with the current fleet. As we know from last week, reduced commonality means higher costs for the airlines as well.

Under the circumstances, Boeing’s best option was to just take the hit for a few years and accept that it was going to have to start selling 737s at a discount price while it took the time to design a whole new airplane. That would, of course, be time-consuming and expensive, and during the interim they’d probably lose a bunch of narrow-body sales to Airbus.

The original version of the 737 first flew in 1967, and a decades-old decision about how much height to leave between the wing and the runway left them boxed-out of 21st century engine technology — and there was simply nothing to be done about it.

Unless there was.

Boeing decided to put the too-big engines on anyway

As late as February 2011, Boeing chair and CEO James McNerney was sticking to the plan to design a totally new aircraft.

“We’re not done evaluating this whole situation yet,” he said on an analyst call, “but our current bias is to move to a newer airplane, an all-new airplane, at the end of the decade, beginning of the next decade. It’s our judgment that our customers will wait for us.”

But then in August 2011, Boeing announced that it had lined up orders for 496 re-engined Boeing 737 aircraft from five different airlines.

It’s not entirely clear what happened, but, reading between the lines, it seems that in talking to its customers Boeing reached the conclusion that airlines would not wait for them. Some critical mass of carriers (American Airlines seems to have been particularly influential) was credible enough in its threat to switch to Airbus equipment that Boeing decided it needed to offer 737 buyers a Boeing solution sooner rather than later.

Committing to putting a new engine that didn’t fit on the plane was the corporate version of the Fyre Festival’s “let’s just do it and be legends, man” moment, and it not surprisingly wound up leading to a slew of engineering and regulatory problems.

New engines on an old plane

As the industry trade publication Leeham News and Analysis explained earlier in March, Boeing engineers had been working on the concept that became their 737 MAX even back when the company’s plan was still not to build it.

In a March 2011 interview with Aircraft Technology, Mike Bair, then the head of 737 product development, said that reengineeing was possible.

“There’s been fairly extensive engineering work on it,” he said. “We figured out a way to get a big enough engine under the wing.”

The problem is that an airplane is a big, complicated network of interconnected parts. To get the engine under the 737 wing, engineers had to mount the landing gears higher and more forward on the plane. But moving the landing gears changed the aerodynamics of the plane, such that the plane did not handle properly at a high angle of attack. That, in turn, led to the creation of the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS). It fixed the angle-of-attack problem in most situations, but it created new problems in other situations when it made it difficult for pilots to directly control the plane without being overridden by the MCAS.

On Wednesday, Boeing rolled out a software patch that it says corrects the problem, and it hopes to persuade the FAA to agree.

But note that the underlying problem isn’t really software, it’s with the effort to use software to get around a whole host of other problems.

Recall, after all, that the whole point of the 737 MAX project was to be able to say that the new plane was the same as the old plane. From an engineering perspective, the preferred solution was to actually build a new plane. But for business reasons, Boeing didn’t want a “new plane” that would require a lengthy certification process and extensive (and expensive) new pilot training for its customers. The demand was for a plane that was simultaneously new and not new.

But because the new engines wouldn’t fit under the old wings, the new plane wound up having different aerodynamic properties than the old plane. And because the aerodynamics were different, the flight control systems were also different. But treating the whole thing as a fundamentally different plane would have undermined the whole point. So the FAA and Boeing agreed to sort of fudge it.

The new planes are pretty different

As far as we can tell, the 737 MAX is a perfectly airworthy plane in the sense that error-free piloting allows it to be operated safely.

But pilots of planes that didn’t crash kept noticing the same basic pattern of behavior that is suspected to have been behind the two crashes, according to a Dallas Morning News review of voluntary aircraft incident reports to a NASA database.

The disclosures found by the News reference problems with an autopilot system, and they all occurred during the ascent after takeoff. Many mentioned the plane suddenly nosing down. While records show these flights occurred in October and November, the airlines the pilots were flying for is redacted from the database.

These pilots all safely disabled the MCAS and kept their planes in the air. But one of the pilots reported to the database that it was “unconscionable that a manufacturer, the FAA, and the airlines would have pilots flying an airplane without adequately training, or even providing available resources and sufficient documentation to understand the highly complex systems that differentiate this aircraft from prior models.”

The training piece is important because a key selling feature of the 737 MAX was the idea that since it wasn’t really a new plane, pilots didn’t really need to be retrained for the new equipment. As the New York Times reported, “For many new airplane models, pilots train for hours on giant, multimillion-dollar machines, on-the-ground versions of cockpits that mimic the flying experience and teach them new features” while the experienced 737 MAX pilots were allowed light refresher courses that you could do on an iPad.

That let Boeing get the planes into customers’ hands quickly and cheaply, but evidently at the cost of increasing the possibility of pilots not really knowing how to handle the planes, with dire consequences for everyone involved.

The FAA put a lot of faith in Boeing

In a blockbuster March 17 report for the Seattle Times, the newspaper’s aerospace reporter Dominic Gates details the extent to which the FAA delegated crucial evaluations of the 737’s safety to Boeing itself. The delegation, Gates explains, is in part a story of a years-long process during which the FAA “citing lack of funding and resources, has over the years delegated increasing authority to Boeing to take on more of the work of certifying the safety of its own airplanes.”

But there are indications of failures that were specific to the 737 MAX timeline. In particular, Gates reports that “as certification proceeded, managers prodded them to speed the process” and that “when time was too short for FAA technical staff to complete a review, sometimes managers either signed off on the documents themselves or delegated their review back to Boeing.”

Most of all, decisions about what could and could not be delegated were being made by managers concerned about the timeline, rather than by the agency’s technical experts.

It’s not entirely clear at this point why the FAA was so determined to get the 737 cleared quickly (there will be more investigations), but if you recall the political circumstances of this period in Barack Obama’s presidency, you can quickly get a general sense of the issue.

Boeing is not just a big company with a significant lobbying presence in Washington, it’s a major manufacturing company with a strong global export presence and a source of many good-paying union jobs. In short, it was exactly the kind of company that the powers that be were eager to promote — with the Obama White House, for example, proudly going to bat for the Export-Import Bank as a key way to sustain America’s aerospace industry.

A story about overweening regulators delaying an iconic American company’s product launch and costing us good jobs compared to the European competition would have looked very bad. And the fact that the whole purpose of the plane was to be more fuel-efficient only made getting it off the ground a bigger priority. But the incentives really were reasonably aligned, and Boeing has only caused problems for itself by cutting corners.

Boeing is now in a bad situation

One emblem of the whole situation is that as the 737 MAX engineering team piled kludge on top of kludge, one thing they came up with was a cockpit warning light that would alert the pilots if the plane’s two angle-of-attack sensors disagreed.

But then, as Jon Ostrower reported for the Air Current, Boeing’s team decided to make the warning light an optional add-on, like how car companies will uncharge you for a moon roof.

The light cost $80,000 extra per plane and neither Lion Air nor Ethiopian chose to buy it, perhaps figuring that Boeing would not sell a plane (nor would the FAA allow it to) that was not basically safe to fly. In the wake of the crashes, Boeing has decided to revisit this decision and make the light standard on all aircraft.

Now to be clear, Boeing has lost about $40 billion in stock market valuation since the crash, so it’s not like cheating out on the warning light turned out to have been a brilliant business decision or anything.

This, fundamentally, is one reason the FAA has become comfortable working so closely with Boeing on safety regulations: The nature of the airline industry is such that there’s no real money to be made selling airplanes that have a poor safety track record. One could even imagine sketching out a utopian libertarian argument to the effect that there’s no real need for a government role in certifying new airplanes at all, precisely because there’s no reason to think it’s profitable to make unsafe ones.

The real world, of course, is quite a bit different from that, and different individuals and institutions face particular pressures that can lead them to take actions that don’t collectively make sense. Looking back, Boeing probably wishes it had just stuck with the “build a new plane” plan and stuck it out for a few years of rough sales, rather than ending up in the current situation. Right now they are, in effect, trying to patch things up piecemeal — a software update here, a new warning light there, etc. — in hopes of persuading global regulatory agencies to let their planes fly again.

But even once that’s done, they face the task of convincing airlines to actually go buy their planes. An informative David Ljunggren article for Reuters reminds us that a somewhat comparable situation arose in 1965 when three then-new Boeing 727 jetliners crashed.

There wasn’t really anything unsound about the 727 planes, but many pilots didn’t fully understand how to operate the new flaps — arguably a parallel to the MCAS situation with the 737 MAX — which spurred some additional training and changes to the operation manual. Passengers avoided the planes for months, but eventually came back as there were no more crashes, and the 727 went on to fly safely for decades. Boeing hopes to have a similar happy ending to this saga, but so far they seem to be a long way from that point. And their immediate future likely involves more tough questions.

A political scandal on slow-burn

The 737 MAX was briefly a topic of political controversy in the United States as foreign regulators grounded the planes, but President Donald Trump — after speaking personally to Boeing’s CEO — declined to follow. Many members of Congress (from both parties) called on him to reconsider, which he rather quickly did, pushing the whole topic off Washington’s front burner.

But Trump is generally friendly to Boeing (he even has a Boeing executive serving as acting defense secretary, despite an ongoing ethics inquiry into charges that he unfairly favors his former employer) and Republicans are generally averse to harsh regulatory crackdowns. The most important decisions in the mix appear to have been made back during the Obama administration, so it’s also difficult for Democrats to go after this issue. Meanwhile, Washington has been embroiled in wrangling over special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, and a new health care battlefield opened up as well.

That said, on March 27, FAA officials faced the Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Aviation and Space at a hearing called by subcommittee Chair Ted Cruz (R-TX). Cruz says he expects to call a second hearing featuring Boeing executives, as well as pilots and other industry players. Cruz was a leader on the anti-Boeing side of the Export-Import Bank fight years ago, so perhaps is more comfortable than others in Congress to take this on.

When the political system does begin to engage on the issue, however, it’s unlikely to stop with just one congressional subcommittee. Billions of dollars are at stake for Boeing, the airlines who fly 737s, and the workers who build the planes. And since a central element of this story is the credibility of the FAA’s own process — both in the eyes of the American people and also in the eyes of foreign regulatory agencies — it almost certainly isn’t going to get sorted out without more involvement from the actual decision-makers in the US government.

Source Article from https://www.vox.com/business-and-finance/2019/3/29/18281270/737-max-faa-scandal-explained

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