Diane Taylor brings us this, about a study showing that the Trump administration is changing and minimizing human rights violations in its reports:
The Trump administration has overlooked or altered important human rights data, adding torture, reproductive rights and sexual persecution, from its annual human rights assessments, a new report reveals.
The State Department’s annual reports have long been reviewed by governments, judges and lawyers, as well as by the United Nations, as a “gold standard” of objective data on the human rights scenario in countries around the world. The United States began compiling these reports in 1976.
The Asylum Research Center conducted an investigation and a line-by-line comparison between the US State Department’s human rights reports. But it’s not the first time The last year of Obama’s management and the first three years of Trump’s management.
The CRA on five countries with serious human rights violations – Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Sudan – for analysis.
It found that some sections of the US reports were inconsistent with what was on the floor as documented through other reliable data resources and had the effect of minimizing the severity of human rights in those countries. The main adjustments were on women’s rights, civilians and political rights and LGBTQ issues.
Read more here: Trump administration amends and minimizes human rights violations in reports
Here’s a dark one from the Washington Post this morning. It turns out that others who use the Proud Boys call, the far-right organization that Donald Trump has said to “step back and stand firm” in the first presidential debate, are sending intimidating emails to the Democratic electorate in several states. But the origin of emails is not entirely clear. Report through Isaac Stanley-Becker and Craig Timberg:
Authorities in Florida and Alaska were investigating threatening emails sent to the Democratic electorate Tuesday claiming to belong to the Proud Boys but gave the impression of being a deceptive crusade and a vulnerability in the organization’s online network.
The emails, which gave the impression of targeting Democratic knowledge of virtual knowledge bases called “electoral files,” told recipients that the organization was “owning all their information” and asked the electorate to replace their party’s record and vote for Trump.
“You’ll vote for Trump on Election Day or we’ll chase you,” warns the emails tuesday night that would have reached the electorate in four states, three of which are highly controversial in the upcoming presidential election.
Emails were reported in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Florida and Alaska. Only Alaska is a primary target of the presidential campaign, yet it has a career well seen by the United States Senate. Enrique Tarrio, president of the Proud Boys and Latin Director of Florida for Trump, has denied any involvement.
Read more here: Washington Post: threatening emails sent to the Democratic electorate in 3 undecided states, triggering investigations
After winning the 2016 election, Donald Trump promised to create new jobs and economic prosperity in Youngstown, Ohio, a city that suffers decades of decline, but four years later those promises never came here again.
Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone meet residents who lost their jobs and had their families split by economic necessity, and witness how the demise of the city’s only newspaper made it harder to hold politicians accountable for their failures.
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and Khalil Abdallah have a few more main points behind the scenes of this interrupted interview consultation involving Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump finished a solo interview with 60 Minutes of CBS News on Tuesday and did not return for an appearance he intended to record with Vice President Mike Pence.
After film crews settled in the White House on Monday, Trump spoke to host Lesley Stahl for about forty-five minutes on Tuesday before finishing the interview and telling the network that he thought he had enough curtains to use, according to two sources.
Trump resigned from the interview because he was frustrated with Stahl’s question line, a source said. Another user claimed that most of the interview was aimed at the coronavirus.
CBS News did not respond to a CNN request for comment. When contacted to comment, the White House did not question CNN’s reports.
There are also others in the clip that Trump tweeted appearing to unmasked host Stahl at the White House.
The president then accused Stahl of dressing up in a mask and tweeted a brief clip of her without a counterpart of blanks.
A user familiar with the scenario told CNN that the tweet symbol shows Stahl with his manufacturers after Trump finished the interview. Stahl had not yet returned to collect his belongings to hand over his mask. She had been dressed in a mask from the moment she entered. the White House and just before the interview began.
There’s more here: CNN – Trump ends ’60 minutes’ interview before scheduled recording of joint appearance with Pence
Chi Ossé, who is running to make up New York’s 36th arrondissement, writes to us today that it is not enough for Black Lives Matter to manifest itself; we will also have to apply for office:
Black Lives Matter, the civil rights motion of the moment, born seven years ago following the murders of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, has now reached its majority. After many waves of protests, the 2020 wave marked the largest protest movement in the country’s history. In June, I co-founded Warriors in the Garden, one of New York’s leading protest groups, and spent almost every day for months This mass mobilization came to life after the murder of two other black Americans, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, at the hands of police. But the catalyst wasn’t the fuel. Slavery came to our shores in 1619 and explained for 400 years the black jolgorio and the United States. The country is a powder room; 2020 lit the fuse.
The explosion that followed was bright and chaotic, like the last fireworks explosion on July 4, but strong explosions, when merged, fixed and targeted in the same direction, bear another name: a rocket. Protests are not the end of the engine yet. they’re asked where we’re going from here. We answer that heaven is not the limit, but the direction.
There is a call in the motion for dismantling and deconstruction. Not only racism, but also our most powerful establishments. If, for many years, these establishments have served the tough in the pursuit of oppression, it is claimed, they will have to be decided by a more strategic approach, rooted in pride and optimism.
Protests work. Black Lives Matter’s social perspectives have become overwhelmingly positive for the first time. Since it is a democracy, we will have to turn our popularity into political power.
Read more here: Chi Ossé – It’s not enough for Black Lives Matter to show up, we’ll also have to run for office
Trump’s crusade has once again insisted on his position that Joe Biden is China’s national team for the president of the United States.
The line of attack is somewhat dull through the New York Times Revelations that China is one of only three foreign countries (the others are Britain and Ireland) where the president helps maintain a bank account. the fact that Hunter Biden has opened a bank account in China against him.
Lily Kuo in Beijing sums up the Chinese industry and Trump’s taxes:
Tax records reviewed through the New York Times showed an undeclared bank account in China controlled through Trump International Hotels Management. The account paid $188,561 in taxes in China between 2013 and 2015 in connection with license agreements imaginable, according to the newspaper.
Previous Times reports showed that he paid $750 in U. S. taxes in 2016 and 2017.
Recent tax records have also shown that Trump invested at least $192,000 in five corporations that are to conclude industrial agreements in China. These corporations claimed $97,400 in business expenses, adding bills as recently as in 2018, the Times reported.
The revelations also come after Trump accused his opponent, Joe Biden, of being “weak with China” and described Biden’s circle of relatives as “selling our country” to China. Trump’s crusade published classified ads of attacks opposed to Biden’s son for “signing. “a billion-dollar deal “with the government-owned Bank of China, accusations that have not been substantiated.
Read more here: Donald Trump paid nearly $200,000 in taxes to China
Vivian Ho in San Francisco asked us how California is doing lately more than the United States as a total in the fight against coronavirus, but warns that experts and public fitness officials are expecting a fall wave.
“Many states across the country, and frankly nations around the world, face new waves of cases,” Dr. Mark Ghaly, California’s secretary of social and fitness services, said at his briefing on Tuesday. “We are seeing the effects of testing, hospitalizations and demanding situations in some hospitals across the country, things we faced here in California this summer, but thanks to our cooperation, they went well. So far, we haven’t faced those increases. “
California was the first state to order citizens to take refuge in the place when the pandemic gave the impression in the country in early spring. The state has avoided accumulation in cases like New York and its mortality rate remained relatively low. The government, led through Gavin Newsom, has been promoted across the country for its life-filled leadership.
But restrictions began to subside in May and, as the weather warmed, citizens of some counties returned to the beaches, bars, restaurants, gymnasiums and lounges. On July 4, the state recorded an average of between 6,000 and 7,000 new cases consistent with the day. .
“We made a terrible mistake, like so many other positions in the United States, when we opened too temporarily in May and continued to let them open in June, which led us to the terrible era we live in July and August,” John Swartzberg said. , Professor Emeritus of Infectious Diseases at the University of California, Berkeley, “California has learned from this mistake. “
Read more here: California turns out to win the fight against Covid-19 How long is this going to last?
The Louisville-based Courier-Journal published an article this morning about his exclusive joint interview with ABC News with Jonathan Mattingly, an officer involved in the raid that led to the murder of Breonna Taylor, who caused so much suffering and unrest in the community. across the country.
In that document, Mattingly says that murder “has nothing to do with race. “
Report via Darcy Costello and Tessa Duvall:
In the four-hour large-scale interview, Mattingly criticized city officials and police for not acting more temporarily to correct the “false narratives” surrounding Taylor’s death.
He said incorrect information, such as that the police were in the apartment, that Taylor was not on the search warrant, and that he was sleeping in his bed when he was shot, sparked public anger, protests and vitriol and threw him and others. officials as murderers.
“Because it has nothing to do with George Floyd. No is none of that, ” said Mattingly. “It’s not Ahmaud Arbery. No’s none of that. These are two completely different types of incidents. It’s not a matter of race like other people. “I need to check to do. It’s not.
“We are the ones who are chasing someone. He is kneeling on one neck. It is like this. “
Mattingly said in the interview that he no longer expects to return to the Louisville Metro Police Department. Mattingly, married and a father of four, said he and his circle of relatives had also been victims.
In particular, he criticized civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, saying he had come to Louisville “stirring up all those things. “He just walks in, reasons the problems, throws away all those lies or direct innuendos, leaves other people unresolved and then disappears. .
None of the officials involved face fees for criminals for Breonna Taylor’s death.
Read more: Courier – Diary: Breonna Taylor’s filming ‘had nothing to do with race,’ says official in interview
Our diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour writes to us that even if Biden wins the US election, time is running out to save Iran’s nuclear deal:
Iran’s weakened government may only have a few months to negotiate a revived nuclear deal before facing its own electoral challenge of extremists who oppose any commitment to the West.
The narrow window led Biden to propose a slow to join Iran’s nuclear deal defected through Donald Trump in 2018, to show progress toward Iran’s presidential election.
Iranian reformers and centrists remain seriously affected by the failure of the original agreement to bring economic benefits to Iranians.
Once Trump abandoned the deal, he exerted maximum economic pressure on Tehran, blocking Iran’s oil exports and leaving supporters of the commitment to the United States suffering to protect his strategy. In a recent interview with Kar Va Kargar, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif insisted that the Ministry had been naive in negotiating with the Americans, but said Trump had “blown up the entire negotiating room. “
Iran’s current president, Hassan Rohani, also a supporter of the agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, but is retiring after two four-year terms. A diversity of conservatives, adding members of Iran’s tough Revolutionary Guard Corps, are preparing to stand up, advocating for closer ties to China or a stronger, more self-sufficient economic policy.
Read more here: Even if Biden wins U. S. election, time runs out to save Iran nuclear deal
We are less than two weeks away from the U. S. election and are seeing legal disputes over proceedings in several states.
Jonathan Drew and Bryan Anderson discussed the Procedure in North Carolina for the Associated Press and found that time is running out for thousands of voters to make correct mistakes in absentee voting.
Court battles had halted the procedure for deceded mail-back ballots on October 4 until the state issued new rules on Monday. State and federal judges temporarily froze key parts of the proceeding amid lawsuits about what to do with ballots that did have a witness’s signature and other information.
State and county officials, many of whom the paintings were delayed overnight, said it would take several days to tell at least 10,000 electorates that they have presented problems.
An asymmetrical picture arose from the announcement of the new rules: some counties said they had virtually eliminated the delay, but some voters said they had not yet been contacted.
In Durham, 24-year-old un affiliated voter Stéphane Prieto surprised Tuesday afternoon when a journalist told him that his poll had been marked for containing incomplete witness data. The state database did not accurately imply what was missing, but if your survey does not. Having a witness’s signature, you’ll need to search another one.
“It’s a little troubling,” he said of the possibility of getting and presenting a new poll for the election.
Prieto, a part-time house that voted for Joe Biden, said his mother surveyed her and mailed her on October 6.
“She was by my side, ” said Prieto as he filled out his ballot. “She signed it and, you know, we completed it. It’s been good. Durham County’s leading election official did not respond to an email from the Palestinian Authority for comment.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections said that on Monday, about 10,000 ballots across the state had a number of shortcomings, but that number may be higher because counties have been told not to enter miscalcable ballots into a state database to freeze the processing of During the Two-Week Freeze , the electorate was not contacted about voting errors.
Council Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell said it would take several days for counties to integrate the accumulation of poor ballots into the formula to provide a complete picture of the number of ballots across the state. However, Bell said he expects it early next week. “these electorates have their documents in hand and they can return them to us. “
As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 2 million votes had been cast in advance in North Carolina, more than 600,000 by mail.
State law requires that the absentee electorate have another adult to attend the election and point and print their names on the outer envelope. A federal ruling last week ruled that ballots by mail without witness signatures require the electorate to restart the procedure and testify again.
Remade absentee ballots may be mailed or returned by hand to county election forums or early voting sites, or they may also vote in person.
Meanwhile, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday night that North Carolina can settle for mail ballots that are removed on Election Day for more than a week later. same legal dispute over the witness requirement.
North Carolina won through Donald Trump in 2016 with 3. 66% and will be one of the states on the battlefield that Joe Biden intends to win on November 3.