The president’s press secretary has just congratulated and welcomed the new Japanese prime minister, Yoshihide Suga.
The United States congratulates Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on obtaining an overwhelming majority in his Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election and his next election as prime minister through the Japanese diet. President Donald J. Trump is in a position to continue the vision of an open Indo-Pacific loss that he and former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have forged, adding additional reinforcement to the U. S. -Japan Alliance and advancing our unusual goals. The U. S. -Japan relationship has never been stronger, and President Trump looks forward running with Prime Minister Suga to make it even stronger.
One of the president’s night retuits was the slightly scathing that “Trump had a historic occasion for global peace today, and the only thing the media reported was who was wearing masks. “
Obviously, this is wrong. The New York Times published “signal agreements from Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, with enthusiastic Trump as host,” the Washington Post said, “Israel’s symptoms deal with formal ties with two Arab states in the White House. “CNN this morning has “Two Gulf countries identified Israel in the White House. This is what’s for all parties”and he also had a separate article and an interview with Jared Kushner, who opened the interviewer by commending him for helping negotiate the deal.
Our own Julian Borger also wrote his analysis, and I just checked with CTRL F and he doesn’t mention the mask once.
The agreements signed Tuesday in Washington were called Abraham’s Agreements, which involve a reconciliation between Judaism, Islam and Christianity, three religions that share ancestors in the Middle East.
Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed with the rhetoric, with lines for the example taken from a biblical blockbuster.
“This day is a fundamental component of history. This foreshadows a new peace,” the Israeli prime minister said.
Read it here: Historical arrogance ignores the realities of Trump’s diplomatic show in the East
In addition to CDC officials listed in administration’s responses to the coronavirus, key assistants to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will also testify before members of Congress today. In this case, the hearing will be about the dismissal of the former State Department inspector general, months later. Democratic-led committees opened an investigation into his dismissal.
President Donald Trump fired Steve Linick from his position as a state watchdog in May, while investigating the administration’s resolve to pursue billions of dollars in army sales to Saudi Arabia despite congressional opposition.
His dismissal is the component of a series of layoffs through Trump of officials guilty of preventing fraud and abuse in government agencies, Reuters reports. Layoffs have raised considerations among members of Congress, adding some of Trump’s Republican colleagues, about whether Trump is interfering with valid surveillance.
Linick also investigates allegations that Pompeo and his wife Susan had abused government resources by asking branch staff to manage non-public affairs.
Today, three of Pompeo’s most sensitive advisers, Brian Bulatao, undersecretary of directors, interim legal adviser Marik String and Clarke Cooper, Undersecretary of Political-Military Affairs, will appear before the House Control and Foreign Affairs Committees.
By highlighting tensions between Congress and the administration over Linick’s dismissal amid investigations, Bulatao and String agreed to testify until after the panels announced the subpoenas.
“All the facts we know there is an aversion to responsibility,” said a committee assistant.
Congress had called for an investigation into the Trump administration’s resolution in May 2019 to advance $8 billion in army sales to Saudi Arabia and neighboring countries by pointing to a “national emergency” due to tensions with Iran, in order to congressional objections to sales.
Lawmakers had blocked many sales for months, fearing that the apparatus would contribute to the human disaster in Yemen, where bombings through a Saudi-led coalition have claimed numerous civilian casualties.
A report published through the Office of the State Inspector General in August found that the state had fully assessed the dangers to civilians in Yemen when it carried out the massive sale of precision guided munitions, but violated the law.
My colleague Catherine Shoard, from our film workplace in London, is presenting a new way of seeking an increase in voter registration for the November election. Register and Samuel L. Jackson will teach you to swear in 15 languages.
While another 2,500 people are performing on their HeadCount online page to register for upcoming US elections, they are not going to be able to do so. Jackson has promised to teach them to swear in 15 languages. Site visitors can click on a button that allows them to register online to vote, verify their voting prestige, and know how and where to vote in the United States. Voting is a partnership with the global page of the Global Citizen crusade. It is not known whether Jackson’s master class of loose oaths will be available only to the first 2,500 participants.
Read it here: Samuel L. Jackson will swear in 15 languages if he votes
Today we have a first-person article through Erica Barry of Portland about how in Oregon devastated by fire, her life has already disappeared.
Early last week, my smoke detectors started ringing several times a day. I started moving around my basement apartment in Portland, Oregon, with a sning helmet and noise canceller around my neck, on the one hand, because there were no fires nearby. , the alarms weren’t doing their job. The formula too sensitive, the child crying over the wolf. On the other hand, the alarms were working very well: there is smoke. There’s everywhere.
The color of the midday sky as I crossed the bathroom milled mandarin, and the air quality outside my window was worse than that of any other city in the world. Meanwhile, wildfires that had already burned a million acres in Oregon and devoured piles of houses. now they were moving in a terrible eruption to my hometown.
Read it here: Erica Barry – Here in Oregon devastated by fire, an old man of life has disappeared
On the other hand, it is the ongoing wildfires that are the climate crisis. James Anderson and Matthew Brown spoke to some of the firefighters involved in the war for The Associated Press and discovered them exhausted.
Justin Silvera, a 43-year-old battalion commander at Cal Fire, california’s chimney department, said he lost track of the chimneys he fought with this year. He and his team have been on duty for 64 hours straight, their only one resting in 20-minute naps.
“I’m on this 23rd, and so far it’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen,” Silvera said before sitting in a motel for 24 hours. After running in Santa Cruz County, his next project is to head north to attack wildfires near the Oregon border.
“There are never enough resources,” said Silvera, one of nearly 17,000 firefighters in California. “Normally, with Cal Fire we can attack tankers, helicopters and bulldozers. We’re smart at it. But those situations on the ground, the drought, the wind, that thing is taking off. We can’t involve one until it blows up. “
George Geissler, a washington state forester, said there were a lot of unmaneded requests for help across the West. Agencies are constantly looking for firefighters, planes, engines and personnel.
Fire crews from at least nine states and other countries have been called, in addition to Canada and Israel. Hundreds of agency agreements to provide mutual assistance have been maximized at the federal, state, and local levels, he said.
Tim Edwards, president of the Cal Fire union, the country’s largest firefighting company at the time, said: “We are hardened in combat, but it turns out that year after year it becomes more and more difficult, and at some point we may not be able to cap. We will succeed at a breaking point. “
Immediate fire risks are compounded by considerations about Covid in camp and at home. Firefighters “see all this destruction and fatigue, and then receive those calls from their homes, where their families take care of school and childcare because of COVID. . He stresses them and we have to keep our heads in the game,” said the 25-year-old veteran.
In addition to human cost, fires also have economic implications. California has spent $529 million since July 1 on wildfires, said Daniel Berlant, Deputy Deputy Director of Cal Fire. By comparison, the government spent $691 million for the full fiscal year that ended. June 30th. The U. S. government will reimburse the maximum state prices for the largest disasters.
Stacy Stewart, senior specialist at the National Hurricane Center, said the typhoon could occur just before the entire eye wall moves inland and half the hurricane crosses the Gulf Coast between 6 a. m. M. ya 7 am, East Time.
He says he will bring “catastrophic and fatal” rainfall to parts of the Gulf Coast, Florida and southeastern Alabama until Wednesday night.
Risks related to him will continue after it hits land, with the typhoon generating heavy rains Wednesday night and Thursday in parts of central and southern Georgia, Stewart said.
The Associated Press reports that Hurricane Sally hit the Panhandle of Florida and South Alabama with side rains, tidal flashes covering the beach, strong winds and power outages wednesday morning, advancing towards the coast at an incredibly slow rate that promised prolonged and imaginable flooding. Floods.
Some 150,000 homes and businesses had lost strength until Wednesday morning, according to website forceoutage. us. Se declared curfew in Alabama’s coastal Gulf Shores city due to life-threatening conditions. Mr Chip Simmons promised to remain as deputies with the citizens as long as it can be physically imagined. The county includes Pensacola, one of the largest cities on the Gulf Coast.
“The sheriff’s workplace will remain there until we can no longer be there, and then, and only then, will we remove our agents,” Simmons said in a briefing on the typhoon that expired at night.
This for a typhoon who, over the weekend, seemed to be heading for New Orleans. “Obviously, this shows what we’ve known for a long time with typhoons: they’re unpredictable,” said Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson IV.
For more evidence that management is taking the risk of coronavirus seriously, The Hill boasted of an exclusive this morning claiming to have received behind-the-scenes documents showing how concerned fitness officials were in Oklahoma while Trump planned to rally there in Tulsa in June. “How loud do I have to talk?” asked an epidemiologist running for the state in an email.
“I am concerned that mass collection in Tulsa of another 19,000 people will lead to death in Oklahoma,” Aaron Wendelboe said in the email, which had not been reported before. “As a state epidemiologist, I think I have a duty to speak and warn of estimated risk. “
In an internal threat analysis, Wendelboe, who left the branch after his contract expired this summer, estimated that the occasion would likely lead to “at least 2 deaths and closer to 10. “
Five days prior to the occasion, in a separate email to Tulsa Health Department Director Bruce Dart, Wendelboe wrote: “I am sure of one instance where we would organize a public occasion saying: ‘. . . and through the In this way, there is a possibility that attending this could result in at least two deaths. ”
Wendelboe asks about his warnings to the Oklahoma State Department of Health.
On the occasion when the Tulsa rally saw a much smaller turnout than the organizers presumed beforehand, this led the president to make adjustments to the most sensible of his cross-team.
Read it here: The Hill – Internal documents display wavy red flags ahead of Trump demonstration in Tulsa
Donald Trump gave the impression last night at an ABC mayoral event, a rare appearance by the president outside Fox News TV. One audience member asked, “Why don’t you have a national mask clearance and why don’t you wear a mask more often??”
To that, Trump replied:
Well, I wear them when I have to, and when I’m in hospitals and other places, but I’ll say this, they said at the Democratic Convention, they’ll serve a national mandate, they never did. Because they checked it out and they didn’t. And the smart thing is, you ask like Joe Biden, they said, we’re going to do a national mandate on masks. He didn’t. I mean, he never did.
Overnight, Joe Biden responded to that claim, noting that he, unlike Trump, is lately president.
Yesterday, the prestigious American journal Scientific American broke with culture by supporting Biden in its first presidential endorsement, claiming trump had broken America “because he rejects science. “
Hello, and here’s Wednesday’s live policy on U. S. policy. But it’s not the first time For you. Here’s a look at what happened and a little bit of what we can expect today as the country continues to fight coronavirus, West Coast wildfires and the effect of Hurricane Sally. on the east coast.
I’m Martin Belam and I’ll be with you for the few hours, you can yell at me here: martin. belam@theguardian. com