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luchtschip 7 december 2021 21:02

Biden Putin video call

setting van Biden met zijn adviseurs

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setting van Putin helemaal alleen aan de tafel als the Great Leader

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[verwijderd] 7 december 2021 21:05

Mitch McConnell, de minderheidsleider der Republikeinen in de Senaat, gaat toch Joe Biden helpen om het Schuldenplafond-probleem op te lossen. McConnell stelt een eenmalige procedure voor, waarbij met 60 Senaatsstemmen een mogelijkheid wordt gegeven dat de Democraten na goedkeuring van die procedure, met 51 stemmen het Schuldenplafond mogen verhogen.

De pro-Trump Senaatsleden lieten onmiddellijk weten dat er zeker NIET wordt geholpen om met 60 stemmen zo een procedure mogelijk te maken. Het is dus maar de vraag of het voorstel van Mitch McConnell iets bijdraagt, of alleen een tijdrovende doodlopende weg zal blijken te zijn.

Bron: edition.cnn.com/2021/12/07/politics/d... .

luchtschip 7 december 2021 23:29

video call Biden Putin

Russische verklaring over het video onderhoud

After almost three hours after the end of the video call, Putin came out with a statement, so far only in Russian. It states that the call was mainly devoted to the "internal Ukrainian crisis and the absence of progress in fulfillment of the Minsk..."

Untypically, the Kremlin mentions that Biden "underlined the allegedly 'threatening' character of the movement of Russian troops close to the Ukrainian partners and mentioned sanctions that the US and its allies would be ready to undertake in the case of further escalation."

"Vladimir Putin responded that the responsibility must not be transferred to the shoulders of Russia, since it is NATO that is carrying out dangerous attempts to seize the Ukrainian territory..."

"Therefore, Russia is seriously interested in receiving credible legal guarantees that exclude the expansion of NATO to the East..."

The Kremlin report is long, but it is uncommon for the Kremlin to report anything negative that the opposing side has said. The Kremlin conclusion is that the Russia-US dialogue must continue. No word about any role for Ukraine in that conversation.
Tough from both sides.

twitter.com/anders_aslund/status/1468...

luchtschip 8 december 2021 08:30

video call Biden Putin

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, die bij het gesprek aanwezig was

Biden zei tegen Putin, "ik kijk je recht in de ogen en zeg je dat wanneer je het waagt Oekraine verder binnen te vallen zullen wij ernstige maatregelen nemen.
De maatregelen ( sancties ) die de US ( onder Obama nam na de inval van Rusland in Oost Oekraine en de Krim ) in 2014 nam, zijn slechts een voetmassage in vergelijking met de maatregelen die we nu zullen nemen.

Video 0:58 minuut

2de tweet

twitter.com/ericgarland

Biden kan Rusland afsluiten van SWIFT, het internationaal betalingen systeem tussen banken, afsluiten van internet, het NordStrom II project afblazen, sancties uitvoeren op personen en bedrijven

Rusland is een net importer van consumenten producten als vers en gedroogd fruit, noten, groenten, vlees, kaas, wijn, alcoholische dranken, voedsel ingrediënten, verwerkt voedsel als specerijen, snacks en sappen.

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Dat stemt Putin tot nadenken, want bij voedsel tekorten komt het volk in verzet en kan Putin het veld ruimen

zie eerste tweet

twitter.com/ericgarland/status/146842...

luchtschip 8 december 2021 14:06

House passes bill authorizing $770 billion in Pentagon funding and setting Defense policy

twitter.com/RobertCooper58/status/146...

The National Defense Authorization Act, the annual must-pass legislation that sets the policy agenda and authorizes almost $770 billion in funding for the Department of Defense, passed in the House of Representatives on Tuesday night.

The bill now moves to the Senate, where it will likely be voted on later this week, before it can be signed into law by President Joe Biden.

he final version of the bill, which leadership from both chambers have agreed to, contains

>> changes to how sexual assault and harassment are prosecuted and handled within the military,
>> a 2.7% pay increase for military service members and Defense Department civilian employees,
and
>> $300 million in military aid to the Ukrainian Security Assistance Initiative, adding $50 million more than what was proposed in the budget request,

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het zwaard 9 december 2021 12:02

Biden organiseert Top voor Democratie: "Bewijzen dat democratie werkt"
Met een eerste tweedaagse virtuele top (op 9 en 10 december) wil de Amerikaanse president Joe Biden het thema democratie hoog op de internationale agenda zetten. Over een jaar wil hij een tweede en fysieke Top voor Democratie verwelkomen. Want de democratische instellingen worden volgens Biden in steeds meer landen ondermijnd, van binnenin en van buitenuit. Hij wil ze versterken en vernieuwen. In de lijst van genodigden vallen vooral de afwezigen op: landen als China, Rusland, Hongarije of Rwanda.

luchtschip 9 december 2021 15:58

Jobless claims sink 43,000 to 184,000 – lowest since 1969

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www.marketwatch.com/story/jobless-cla...

Kaviaar 10 december 2021 08:22

quote:
ff_relativeren schreef op 7 december 2021 21:05:
Mitch McConnell, de minderheidsleider der Republikeinen in de Senaat, gaat toch Joe Biden helpen om het Schuldenplafond-probleem op te lossen. McConnell stelt een eenmalige procedure voor, waarbij met 60 Senaatsstemmen een mogelijkheid wordt gegeven dat de Democraten na goedkeuring van die procedure, met 51 stemmen het Schuldenplafond mogen verhogen.

De pro-Trump Senaatsleden lieten onmiddellijk weten dat er zeker NIET wordt geholpen om met 60 stemmen zo een procedure mogelijk te maken. Het is dus maar de vraag of het voorstel van Mitch McConnell iets bijdraagt, of alleen een tijdrovende doodlopende weg zal blijken te zijn.

Bron: edition.cnn.com/2021/12/07/politics/d... .

Republikeinen dienen alleen hun eigen belang en niet dat van het volk.

closer 10 december 2021 10:08

Judge says Texas abortion law’s enforcement mechanism unconstitutional

By Meryl Kornfield and Reis Thebault, 9 december

The enforcement mechanism for Texas’s abortion ban, which is the most restrictive in the nation and effectively outlaws the procedure, violates the Texas constitution, a state judge ruled Thursday.

While a win for abortion rights advocates, the narrow decision by District Judge David Peeples of Austin does not include an injunction that would halt litigation against doctors or others who “aid or abet” an abortion. Texas Right to Life, an antiabortion group that supported the legislation, said it will appeal the ruling. Meanwhile, according to abortion providers, the law, known as S.B. 8, remains in effect, continuing a near-total ban on abortion before many people know they’re pregnant at six weeks.

A spokeswoman for Whole Woman’s Health, which operates four abortion clinics in Texas, said it will not resume services until an injunction is granted.

“We are so grateful to Judge Peeples for his ruling today,” Jackie Dilworth shared in an emailed statement. “We couldn’t agree more: SB 8 IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL.”

Verder lezen: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/12...

closer 10 december 2021 16:29

Supreme Court will let lawsuit challenging Texas abortion law continue

Kevin Breuninger, Dan Mangan, FRI, DEC 10 2021

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a lawsuit challenging the legality of Texas’ new abortion ban can proceed before the law is enforced against anyone, at least against some currently named defendants.
However, the Supreme Court allowed the Texas law to remain in effect during that challenge.
The decision came more than a week after the high court heard oral arguments in a separate case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, in which the state of Mississippi asked the justices to overturn decades-old precedents supporting a constitutional right to abortion.
During those arguments, the court’s 6-3 conservative majority appeared ready to weaken that precedent over the strenuous objections of the three liberal justices.

Verder lezen: www.cnbc.com/2021/12/10/supreme-court...

luchtschip 10 december 2021 22:18

President Biden op twitter ;

I just signed a bill to fast-track the process to raise our debt limit. The nation’s full faith and credit has always been a shared responsibility. The bipartisan support of this legislation shows that it is still possible for leaders to work across the aisle and deliver.

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luchtschip 11 december 2021 20:55

Noodweer in het midden van de US

Tornado death toll is "north of 70," and may exceed 100, Kentucky Governor Beshear says.

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Kentucky is de Staat waar Mitch McConnell en Rand Paul gekozen zijn voor de Senaat

Tornado warnings issued Friday also covered parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri and Tennessee. Nearly 180,000 utility customers in those five states were without power early Saturday.

On Saturday morning, Biden said he had been briefed "on the devastating tornadoes across the central U.S."

"We’re working with Governors to ensure they have what they need as the search for survivors and damage assessments continue," Biden tweeted. "To lose a loved one in a storm like this is an unimaginable tragedy."

www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/2-dead-a...

[verwijderd] 15 december 2021 10:43

House lawmakers push Biden administration to do more to deter Russian aggression against Ukraine

(CNN)US lawmakers who have just returned from a trip to Ukraine are urging the Biden administration to take proactive steps to prevent further Russian aggression toward the country and to be prepared to place "extreme sanctions" on Moscow if it moves militarily against its neighbor.

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luchtschip 16 december 2021 00:54

President Joe Biden announced he is nominating Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of president John F. Kennedy, to serve as ambassador to Australia. (Story to come soon).

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luchtschip 16 december 2021 16:45

President Joe Biden op twitter :

The average number of Americans filing for unemployment over the last four weeks is now at its lowest level since 1969.

When I took office, over 18 million were receiving unemployment benefits, today only 2 million are.

America is on the move again.

twitter.com/POTUS/status/147150300089...

luchtschip 16 december 2021 17:05

Kamala Harris, Vice President, kondigt aan alle loden drinkwaterpijpen te vervangen

White House unveils plan to replace every lead pipe in the U.S.

Up to 10 million households, schools and care facilities get their drinking water through lead pipes, and each pipe can cost thousands of dollars to replace.

President Joe Biden promised his infrastructure proposal would replace every lead pipe in the country. Now the White House says it has a plan to deliver, despite a significant funding gap.

The administration’s plan for lead pipes and paints, unveiled by Vice President Kamala Harris in a speech Thursday, illustrates how officials are hoping to cobble together enough money to meet Biden’s goal through sources like the infrastructure law, Covid relief funding and the president’s stalled Build Back Better bill.

As many as 10 million U.S. households, schools and care facilities get their drinking water through lead pipes, and each pipe can cost thousands of dollars to replace. Lead poisoning can cause serious health problems, especially for children, whose physical and mental development can be severely affected.

lees verder

www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/...

closer 16 december 2021 21:54

Supreme Court sends Texas abortion case to appeals court instead of to judge who previously blocked the law

By Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow, Today at 1:16 p.m. EST

The Supreme Court returned the lawsuit over Texas’s restrictive abortion law to a federal appeals court Thursday, rejecting a request by abortion providers to send the case to a district judge who had previously declared the law unconstitutional.

The order came from Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, who last week wrote the majority opinion that left in place the law, which bans most abortions after six weeks. The decision granted a narrow path for providers to challenge the law’s unique enforcement structure.

The Thursday order granted part of the request from abortion providers — returning the case immediately rather than after the court’s standard 25-day delay.

But it sent the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, as requested by Texas officials led by Attorney General Ken Paxton (R).

He told the Supreme Court that Texas plans to ask the 5th Circuit to direct the Texas Supreme Court to interpret a provision of state law before the case is sent back to the district court. It is unclear how long that could take.

The move by the state is “a transparent attempt to forestall relief,” abortion providers told Gorsuch in a filing.

Verder lezen: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/court...

luchtschip 16 december 2021 23:09

Vluchtelingen van Zuid Amerika naar de US

Kamala Harris is met Private Sector overeengekomen dat. deze $ 1,2 miljard investeert in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras ( Central America )

Vice President Kamala Harris op twitter :

I met with CEOs to discuss the root causes of migration from Central America. We've secured over $1.2 billion from the private sector to invest in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. This will strengthen local economies and create new opportunities.

twitter.com/VP/status/147055186273458...

Pepsico, Cargill, Parkdale Mills, Mastercard, Care International, Grupo Maripusa, PriceSmart, JDE Peets, Microsoft, Nespresso, zijn de betreffende bedrijven die investeringen gaan doen in dit gebied

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[verwijderd] 17 december 2021 07:17

Releasing US$9.5 billion in frozen assets can’t help the Afghan people as long as the Taliban remain in power

Afghanistan is in a major humanitarian crisis: the health sector is failing, the economy is collapsing, and amid the COVID pandemic, famine is inflicting ever-larger numbers of casualties. According to the most recent report by the UN World Food Programme, more than half of the resident population of 38 million are facing acute hunger and 3.2 million children under five suffer from malnutrition.

Droughts, combined with the suspension of foreign aid in the aftermath of the Taliban’s takeover, have led to a dire economic situation, with recent reports indicating that some families in the northwest are selling their children out of desperation. Food and fuel prices are soaring.

On October 17, the Taliban foreign minister, Amir Khan Mottaqi, called on the US Congress to ease sanctions and release Afghanistan’s reserves. But would the US$9.5 billion (£7.16 billion) of frozen assets of Afghanistan Central Bank do anything to alleviate the deeply rooted poverty and food insecurity of the Afghan people – or will this only benefit the Taliban and its fighters?

Even in the near term, this amount of money will not go far to address poverty in Afghanistan. It has been estimated the reserves would cover the import costs of Afghanistan for only 15 months. The US-backed regime’s budget estimate for the fiscal year 2020 was $6.22 billion.

The situation has been made worse by several other factors: drought, dependency on international aid and high unemployment rates. These extend far deeper and beyond the reach anything $9.5 billion could achieve. International aid made up about 75% of the US-backed regime’s budget. Afghanistan’s assets are only a fraction of the aid the country needs.

Skills deficit

It is naive to think that the Taliban’s caretaker cabinet and its civil service is able to administer these funds efficiently. The Taliban’s leadership lacks the knowledge, skill and experience needed to run state institutions and deliver services while managing an unfolding humanitarian crisis against the backdrop of a pandemic.

The skills that helped the Taliban win on the battlefield are not easily transferable. And more than half of the Taliban’s caretaker cabinet is on at least one designated terrorist list, which makes diplomatic engagement with the Taliban very difficult at the international level. At home, the Taliban leadership suffers from internal fragmentation that makes agreement on national-level public policy decisions difficult.

At the sub-national level, the Taliban has placed fighters in upper-level administration positions, while thousands of former government employees have either left their jobs or have been replaced with Taliban loyalists, according to my anonymous sources still living there. Women, who previously made up almost half of the civil service, have been almost entirely excluded. Taliban fighters placed at executive administrative levels lack the required managerial and leadership skills – some reportedly even lack basic literacy. The prospects of these people having the capacity to put the funds to productive use addressing the abject poverty in the country is very low.

Additionally, fears of misappropriation of National Bank’s assets are well-grounded. The limited international aid that has reached Afghanistan has occasionally been misappropriated and distributed among the Taliban fighters.

These concerns become all the more relevant given that the Taliban is not able to pay its fighters. The group has about 80,000 fighters who were paid 10,000-25,000 Afghanis (the equivalent of US$200-US$400) per month before the group took over Kabul. At the lower end, the Taliban needs at least $16m a month for the salaries of its fighters alone. Some of the Taliban’s fighters have reportedly defected to IS or al-Qaeda. The Taliban will undoubtedly lose more if it prioritises civilian spending over paying its fighters.

Political considerations

Finally, the release of Afghanistan’s foreign assets is tied to the question of the Taliban’s legitimacy. No government so far – including staunch supporter Pakistan – has officially recognised the Taliban’s government. Freezing Afghanistan’s assets was a political decision by US president Joe Biden to put pressure on the Taliban to form an inclusive government, so releasing these assets to the Taliban is akin to formal recognition of the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan. Even if it was released for entirely humanitarian reasons, the Taliban would not hesitate to make this into a propaganda coup.

Economic sanctions have been effective in some regards. The Taliban is realising that its survival depends on changing its policies, both regarding women’s rights and forming an inclusive government. The opening of schools for girls in cities such as Herat and Mazar-e Sharif is indicative of the effectiveness of pressure put on the Taliban both internationally and nationally.

But economic sanctions also have a dire impact on the civilian population. Although the UN raised $1.2bn in emergency funds, the international community is grappling with how to engage with the Taliban, deliver the much-needed aid – and yet not empower, legitimise and enrich the Taliban. Helping Afghans while bypassing the Taliban is possible. Unicef, for example, is setting up a system that will allow direct payment to teachers while bypassing the Taliban.

Afghanistan’s state power monopoly owes more than $90 million to its power suppliers in neighbouring countries such as Iran, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. Given the deteriorating relationships between the Taliban and some of these countries, there are concerns that the suppliers might cut off electricity. International aid could be used to pay foreign electricity suppliers directly while denying the Taliban the opportunity to misappropriate funds.

Afghan civilians should not be subjected to starvation in a bid to pressure a government they did not put in office. Likewise, the international community has a responsibility to ensure the wealth of the Afghan people is not squandered by shortsighted Taliban desperately trying to cling to power.

theconversation.com/releasing-us-9-5-...

[verwijderd] 17 december 2021 07:55

Hardliners get key posts in new Taliban government

The Taliban have announced an interim government in Afghanistan, declaring the country an "Islamic Emirate".

The new cabinet, entirely male, is made up of senior Taliban figures some of whom are notorious for attacks on US forces over the last two decades.

It will be led by Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, one of the movement's founders, who is on a UN blacklist.

The interior minister is the feared FBI-wanted leader of the Haqqani militant group, Sirajuddin Haqqani. The skills that helped the Taliban win on the battlefield are not easily transferable. And more than half of the Taliban’s caretaker cabinet is on at least one designated terrorist list, which makes diplomatic engagement with the Taliban very difficult at the international level.

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