Trump takes the US nuclear briefcase so as not to give it to Biden

January 18, 2021 by drbyos

Trump will take the nuclear briefcase with him to Florida, after leaving Washington DC on January 20, and therefore will not hand it over to Biden at his inauguration.

Outgoing US President Donald Trump has no intention of handing over the nuclear briefcase containing the activation codes for the US atomic weapons defense system to his successor in office, Democrat Joe Biden, on Wednesday. his presidential inauguration, according to the British newspaper reported on Saturday The Independent.

The Republican leader, as part of his particular tantrum of not recognizing Biden’s victory in the presidential elections of November 3 for alleging that there was an electoral “fraud” concocted from the Democratic ranks to avoid his reelection, has decided not to participate in the investiture ceremony of the former vice president of the North American country, which will take place next Wednesday.

In this way, Trump breaks a tradition of more than 100 years, according to which the outgoing president attends the investiture of his successor to pass the witness to him on the steps of the Capitol.

The transfer of power in the US implies the handover of command and control of the vast US nuclear arsenal that is inside the aforementioned briefcase, said the British media, to later clarify that inside, in addition to containing the codes of activation, a button is located, which, if pressed, immediately activates the nuclear warheads loaded on ICBMs deployed at US Army military bases, submarines, and strategic bombers.

The Independent reported, however, that the nuclear codes that accompany Trump in his retirement at the residence of Mar-a-Lago, in Florida (southeast), will cease to function as soon as Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. USA

What’s more, the top military commanders will have a spare nuclear briefcase, which will be, in this case, the one that is given to the Democrat after he becomes the commander-in-chief of the United States, several sources stressed to the chain american television CNN.

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Facebook does not plan to lift Trump ban | Voice of America

January 12, 2021 by drbyos

Facebook Inc’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said Monday that the world’s largest social network had no plans to lift its ban on US President Donald Trump’s accounts, while the company cracked down on a phrase that it has become a rallying cry for the president’s supporters.

Sandberg, speaking during the conference Reuters Next, said she was glad Facebook had frozen Trump’s accounts, which came as tech giants rushed to crack down on her unfounded claims of fraud in the U.S. presidential election amid riots in Washington last week. pass.

Hours later, the company banned the phrase “stop theft” altogether, citing the use of the term to organize events that challenge the outcome of the US presidential election that have a propensity for violence.

If Trump wanted to appeal the removal of its content, that could happen through the company’s new Oversight Board, he added. Facebook said Trump could not appeal the actual suspension through the board.

“This shows that the president is not above the policies that we have,” Sandberg said, speaking with the columnist for Reuters Breakingviews, Gina Chon.

Twitch joins Instagram and Facebook, and blocks Trump’s account

On Wednesday, Twitter took a similar action after the assault by Trump supporters on the US Capitol. Before, it had censored three tweets for their controversial content and warned that if the president himself did not delete them, “the account will remain blocked.”

Facebook executives have long treated police speech posted by politicians with silk hands, arguing that people have the right to see the statements of their leaders.

The company backtracked a bit from that position and began applying labels to the president’s posts after facing a backlash this summer, including an advertising boycott, when he refused to act against Trump’s incendiary rhetoric surrounding anti-protests. racism across America.

He backtracked and banned Trump indefinitely from the platform following last week’s riots, which culminated in the assault on the United States Capitol.

Violent rhetoric on social media platforms, including Facebook, had intensified in the weeks leading up to the rallies as groups openly planned the meetings, according to researchers and public posts, prompting criticism of companies for not take more aggressive action in advance.

Sandberg acknowledged that Facebook may have overlooked some of those posts, but said he believed the events were largely staged on other platforms.

He said the company was on the lookout for other possible armed protests being planned for Washington, DC and in all 50 US state capitals in the lead up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20, prompting a warning from the FBI.

When asked why Facebook had failed to take comparable action against other leaders such as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and President Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, who have also been accused of inciting violence online, Sandberg said the policies of the company would apply globally.

Twitter turns its back on Donald Trump and closes his account “permanently”

January 9, 2021 by drbyos

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The outgoing president’s favorite social network argues “risks of further incitement to violence,” referring to the assault on Congress this week. Already other popular platforms such as Instagram or Facebook had suspended the president’s accounts after the Capitol episode.

The president who ruled through Twitter characters was left without his favorite spokesperson. The social network announced this Friday, January 8, that it has “permanently suspended” the account of the head of the American Union, culminating in a divorce that began with warnings and sanctions against Donald Trump when he began with his unfounded allegations of fraud in the elections of November.

On this occasion, Twitter is attached to the “risk of further incitement to violence”, something that comes after the assault on the Capitol on Wednesday that ended five dead. That day, the outgoing president, with only 12 days remaining in his term, gave a speech to the front of the White House in which he encouraged a crowd to address Congress amid the vote to ratify Joe Biden as the new president.

That same day, Twitter suspended Trump’s account for 12 hours, which has about 88 million followers. The president returned to this platform with a message of calm in which he called for an “orderly” transition.

However, on Thursday, Facebook and Instagram – which is owned by the former – announced that they were suspending the mogul’s accounts “indefinitely and for at least two weeks.”

These sanctions arouse controversy over the capabilities of these companies, with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador raising his voice against these punishments. “You cannot allow a corporation of the owner of Facebook or Twitter to decide who will and who will not give him the possibility to communicate,” he said.

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Elections in Barcelona: A headless Barça seeks president

January 6, 2021 by drbyos

While the team navigates as best it can through the League, the Barcelona environment is constantly boiling. Election pre-campaign. Barcelona fans are very aware these days of the race to occupy the presidency of the club, because many members have disconnected from the squad led by Ronald Koeman, from the matches, from the day-to-day of Messi and company. The present has become something of a nightmare. The decline of the best Barça in history was telegraphed. It was warned. It was seen coming so much, that when it has arrived it has not surprised any culé.

And when the past is glorious, nostalgia invades many Barcelona fans. Because the present looks like an ordeal. The nine candidates for the chair that Josep Maria Bartomeu occupied until his resignation are clear that they have to sell enthusiasm for the future. And above all, solutions to a major economic crisis.

Jordi Farré
He forced the motion of censure against Bartomeu

It was he who forced the motion of censure, which was not carried out but which pushed Bartomeu to leave. He had to resign and the Management Board called elections in the middle of the pandemic, in January, for when a third wave of infections is expected. Farré got 20,000 partners to support him with their signatures to oust the previous president. Bartomeu preferred to leave rather than be doomed to lose a vote of no confidence.

Jordi Farré has no problems in qualifying as an independentista, close to Esquerra Republicana, although he also defends that politics should not enter the club. Entrepreneur of the food world, he says he has tested Jurgen Klopp, a coach who won over a sector of Barcelona when his Liverpool destroyed Valverde’s Barça at Anfield. His candidacy has a lot of support among the base member. He would be the people’s candidate. He promises a free tattoo with the Barça crest and a pizza to each member who gives him their signature.

Joan Laporta
The memory of Guardiola’s golden years

It is the favorite, a priori. Polls give you a winner if the youngest member turns out to vote en masse. In his first acts of pre-campaign he has been restrained, focused and conservative. The Laporta who threw himself French cava in a nightclub in the upper area of Barcelona does not connect with the oldest member, who has always voted for Núñez and for centrality. That is why he wants to give the image of a calm man and attract more votes. But at the same time there is a successful Laporta, who smokes cigars and spends his vacations on luxury yachts, with women of scandal. That is the idol of the younger members, who dream of being like him, of returning to Madrid at 5-0. If they vote for you, you win.

Laporta has promised to end the division of Barcelona and for that he called his arch enemy Sandro Rosell when the one who was president between 2010 and 2015 was released after two years in prison. They have recovered their relationship and he wants to take a photo with Rosell to seal the peace and end the division between the ‘cruyffistas’ and those who are not.

Lawyer, he was already president from 2003 to 2010 and makes a flag of his independence. Founder of Democràcia Catalana, he was a member of Parliament for Solidaritat Catalana per la Independència. Mateu Alemany, formerly of Valencia, is his first signing as a club executive. Under his tenure, Barça won two Champions League titles and boasts of being able to convince Messi not to go to Manchester or Paris Saint Germain.

Victor Font
A serious aspirant who goes hand in hand with Xavi and Jordi Cruyff

Laporta’s great rival. In 2018 he already announced that he was going to present himself, and his project is solid. He has Xavi as coach, in an attempt to make him the new Guardiola, and with Jordi Cruyff for his sports structure. Víctor Font is a telecommunications businessman who has succeeded in Qatar with his company. He was a founding shareholder of the Catalan newspaper ‘Ara’, champion of independence, although he declares himself realistic about the few possibilities of achieving secession now. He has already received criticism from the most radical fans because he said he would accept, without problems, a game of the Spanish team at the Camp Nou. Toni Nadal, uncle and former coach of the tennis player, is in his candidacy. Font and Laporta are very close in the first polls.

Toni Freixa
Flee from the label of being a continuist

Toni Freixa will try to be president for the second time. In 2015 he was last in the elections. Lawyer by profession, he was on the Laporta board. Then he was spokesperson and secretary with Sandro Rosell and was on the board of Josep Maria Bartomeu for a few months. Politically, he is a Catalanist but marks a distance with the independence movement and is seen as a focused candidate, far from radicalism.

He does not want the continuation label to be hung on him, although he is closer to Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell, Laporta’s eternal rival. He is a regular commentator at COPE and wants Koeman to continue for many years. Former Barça player Lluís Carreras will be in charge of developing the football project. In summer he criticized Messi’s behavior towards the club as a result of the burofax sent by the Argentine, although he will count on him for the future. He has always made a constructive opposition to Josep Maria Bartomeu.

Emili Rousaud
I was going to be Bartomeu’s dolphin

Emili Rousaud is an entrepreneur in the energy sector, whose company was a pioneer in breaking the monopoly of electricity in Catalonia. He was a director of Bartomeu. It was going to be his dolphin. But when the ‘Barçagate’ exploded – the hiring of a company to praise the last president through social networks and criticize players – he resigned to denounce that someone had put his hand in the club’s box. He is Catalan but not pro-independence.

The central idea of his candidacy is to sign Neymar for free, when his contract in Paris ends, and another world-class player. He wants Koeman and Messi to continue. Supporting Rousaud are the former player representative Josep Maria Minguella and his son, who follows in his father’s wake as a FIFA agent. Minguella has hinted that Michael Zorc, Borussia Dortmund sports director, or Monchi, would come to Barça to make economic and travel signings that allow the debt to be reduced when they are later sold.

Agustí Benedito
He wants to demolish the Camp Nou and build another stadium

He will try to be president for the third time. He was second in the elections that Sandro Rosell won in 2010 and third in 2015, when Bartomeu surpassed him thanks to Luis Enrique’s ‘triplet’. Entrepreneur and recognized independentista, he has not given many details of his project yet. Polls give you little travel. He proposes not to start remodeling the Camp Nou, but to tear it down and build a new stadium in another location.

Xavi Vilajoana
Endorsed by his great work in La Masía and the women’s team

Xavi Vilajoana is an industrial engineer and businessman. He has been a manager of formative and women’s football with Josep Maria Bartomeu until the end. Refuse the word continuist and remember that there is no one from the previous board of directors in your project, although you will not have to endorse for having belonged to it. Bet on Ronald Koeman. He has done a good job at La Masía during Bartomeu’s tenure. Young people like Ansu Fati or Mingueza have emerged with him. It has also turned Barça women into dominance in the Iberdrola League, because they had responsibilities in the women’s section.

Lluís Fernández-Alà
A little-known businessman in the culé environment

Lluís Fernández-Alà was not known in the culé environment. Entrepreneur. He does not hide his independence movement, but clarifies that it is important to separate politics from sport. He was close to Unió Democràtica de Catalunya, Jordi Pujol’s Convergència partner. He supported the motion of censure against Josep Maria Bartomeu. His ideal coach for the first team is García Pimienta and having more with La Masía is one of the axes of his project.

Pere Riera
The most ignored of the aspirants

The ninth candidate is the most unknown. Entrepreneur in the chemical and real estate sector. He has not yet made his candidacy public, but it has transpired that he is preparing it and that he wants to collect signatures to try to reach the status of official candidate.

Voting

143.459: FC Barcelona has partners all over the world.
5: Members will be able to vote in five places outside Catalonia: Andorra, Madrid, Palma, Seville and Valencia.

Kim, Kanye and the Tumor

January 6, 2021 by drbyos

I was trying to get over the breakup of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, which can only be compared to the end of Lucerito and Mijares, when I found out that the Six for Mexico, El Tumor and Va por México announce through the mellifluous voice of Markititititititito Courteous that they will open the doors to all those resentful morenistas who did not reach a candidacy. That, of course, could be taken as an act of democratic opening, nothing opportunistic or desperate, but there is a record that these organizations have tired of ensuring that Morena’s people are first of all nacos and fundamentally assholes.

Just yesterday, in one of his typical tweets that include recorded laughter, Claudio X. González assured that Morena and those who participate there are a danger to humanity as a whole, they lack plans, structure and ideology. This has its grace coming from a tycoon who is so poor that he has nothing but money, and who between the purchase and income of candidates and parties could have invested in hospitals against the coronavirus, so that things did not look so twisted. Still, it sounds a little strange that he suddenly backs down and makes an open invitation to his political orgy. Covid for all that scum that until very recently made him vomit.

He has already canceled the sign of We Reserved the Right of Admission and after a while he will even want to elicit the Noroñas.

In electoral times anything goes, but this does seem lower than Alazraki’s campaigns and can unleash very circus phenomena. On the radio show The Journalists in La Octava, Álvaro Delgado and Alejandro Páez Varela interviewed Cristóbal Arias, candidate for Morena’s candidacy in Michoacán, who is so sad, haggard, tired and without illusions for not having achieved his purpose that, in revenge, he would be able to accept going to the “ PRIAN-RD ”, turning his back on a political life that is not like doing a series on Netflix, but close to the left and social movements.

Oh how heavy, how heavy, always hitting his past in the tower!

And so we will see several.

I will not be the Greater Warlock, but after reading my crystal ball, I have the impression that the Brody horses! González – who is like Senator Palpatine from Star Wars at the service of the Empire saying I love democracy– will end up being more self-destructive, wicked, and violent than the Kim vs. Kanye.

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Winter storm paints the world white

January 4, 2021 by drbyos

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Here are some images that users provided on social networks

Agencies / La Voz de Michoacán

The income of the Cold Front No. 24 and the Fourth Winter Storm caused snowfalls in several municipalities of Chihuahua, After this, users on social networks shared various videos and images about the snowfall in the north of the country.

The State Coordination of Civil Protection reported that the meteorological phenomenon caused precipitation in the form of sleet and snow mainly in the mountainous region, for which some sections of road were closed.

The falling snow was used by people who did not waste a second to record this impressive natural phenomenon in Chihuahua.

Here are some images that users provided on social networks:

But it should be noted that Milan was not far behind and so he looked during the winter storm.

▷ City Council wants to deepen partnerships with British cities after Brexit

January 4, 2021 by drbyos

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Cities Association wants to deepen partnerships with British cities after Brexit

Dedy: The importance of partnerships is growing – “Understanding on a small scale creates peace on a large scale”

Osnabrück. After Great Britain leaves the EU on New Year’s Eve, the German Association of Cities wants to deepen its partnerships with British cities. “In the wake of Brexit, friendships and contacts between British and European partner municipalities must not break. On the contrary: the importance of such partnerships is growing,” said Helmut Dedy, General Manager of the German Association of Cities, in an interview with the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” (NOZ). “We will continue to actively shape these partnerships in German cities and use them to strengthen friendship between the municipalities and the people of both countries,” said Dedy and added: “Small-scale exchange and understanding create peace on a large scale.

There are currently 419 British-German city partnerships. “You are trusting and lively. And it should stay that way,” said the city council chief executive.

From January 1, the Brexit regulations will initially be applied provisionally after the agreement on the future trade partnership with the United Kingdom was adopted by the EU and the United Kingdom in the last days of last year. Brexit will not change the “deep connection between the people of Great Britain and the countries of the European Union”, said Dedy. “Even if Great Britain and the European Union no longer go together on many issues in the future, many people would like the established relationship to continue.”

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Trump lawyer: Pence must be shot for treason

January 3, 2021 by drbyos

A lawyer for Trump says Vice President Mike Pence should be executed for “treason” for not having seconded lawsuits to overturn the election results.

Lin Wood, a lawyer for outgoing US President Donald Trump, suggested on Twitter Saturday that Pence should “face execution by firing squad”For not supporting the allegations of electoral fraud and granting the victory to Democrat Joe Biden in the presidential elections on November 3.

Pence will oversee a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives on January 6 in the US Congress, during which Biden’s victory over Trump will be formalized. The current president refuses to acknowledge the results, but, so far, he has not presented any evidence to support the above.

The role of the vice president, as president of the Senate, in said ceremony is a formality stipulated in the United States’ Election Counting Act of 1887.

“If Pence is arrested, [el secretario de Estado Mike] Pompeo will save the elections. Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason. He will face execution by firing squad. He’s a coward and will sing like a bird and confess EVERYTHING, ”Wood tweeted.

If Pence is arrested, @SecPompeo will save the election. Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason. He will face execution by firing squad. He is a coward & will sing like a bird & confess ALL.

— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) January 1, 2021

Wood has lost several lawsuits that sought to challenge the Republican magnate’s electoral defeat in the federal courts of the key states, where Biden triumphed.

In the thread of his claims, said lawyer even mentioned that the attention had focused on the Democrats during the effort to reverse the result of the elections, but that one of the main culprits of Trump’s defeat was his own formation, that is say, the Republican Party.

In another message, Wood said that Pence should immediately resign from his post, unless he publicly declares that he will reject the results of the Electoral College of those states where the alleged electoral fraud was concocted.. “A man of God would NEVER certify a false lie,” he stressed.

On December 14, Electoral College delegates awarded Biden’s candidacy victory with 306 votes to Trump’s 232, ending a run of court cases in the New York mogul’s campaign.

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An electoral free bar in Barcelona

January 3, 2021 by drbyos

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Updated:01/03/2021 01: 35h

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When there are three weeks until the elections to the presidency of Barcelona take place, the candidates who intend to succeed to Josep Maria BartomeuAlthough not all of them will get the 2,257 signatures necessary to pass the cut that allows them to plunge into the final battle. Overcoming the barrier of early support is vital and none of them is sparing efforts to gain the trust of a disenchanted partner eager for joys, hopes and new projects. The pre-candidates know it they devise strategies with which to attract the voter, although not all initiatives have a laudable background.

There is nothing like putting flashy names on the table to honor your candidacy. Considering that the fan pays more attention to what happens on the pitch than in the offices, it does not matter the cast of businessmen who conform each proposal. Any media footballer can dazzle and decide an election. It happened to Florentino Pérez with Figo in 2000 or three years later to Joan Laporta with a David Beckham who never made it to the Barça club. On this occasion there have been several pre-candidates who have tried to scratch votes promising signings that will not play for Barcelona.

The last of them, Emili Rousaud, the resigned vice president who denied Bartomeu when he had made him his continuation dolphin. The businessman, whose sports vice president would be the prestigious former soccer player representative Josep Maria Miguella, announced contacts with Haaland and an agreement in principle to sign the fashion forward in Europe. The next day, the Norwegian’s representative denied it. Fake news. I have never spoken with any candidate for the Barça presidency for Haaland and I will not do it. If there is a new president elected in January, he can call me, “said Mino Raiola, who maintains an excellent relationship with Joan Laporta.

The names of Xavi Hernández and Jordi Cruyff They have also been linked to the future of Barcelona since the candidacy of Victor Font, who has based his sports project on the cornerstone of the former player. However, the leader of “Yes to the future” has received a couple of missiles to the waterline with the public resignation of both. First it was Xavi who explained in a letter that he had made the decision to stay in Qatar until the World Cup, at the end of 2022. Jordi Cruyff also got off Font’s boat: «I am focused on my commitment to Shenzhen and outside the electoral process. Font has taken the blow in an undaunted way, taking refuge in his project, which he claims to be above names. Is the reason why demand electoral debates (There is only one confirmed, on January 22 on TV3), a proposal joined by Toni Freixa and Agustí Benedito.

Other candidates opt for more earthly initiatives to convince the partner. The most imaginative has been Jordi Farré, which exchanges signatures of support for tattoos and pizzas of Fabián Martín, world champion in this culinary discipline. The engineer has already delivered 500 pizzas, although he is far from the total support needed to make the cut. Original and supportive has also been the proposal of Toni Freixa, which recently introduced Lluis Carreras as soccer director. The lawyer has decided to donate a kilo of rice for each signature received.

Laporta’s campaign

Joan Laporta, whom the latest polls give as the top favorite to win the elections, has decided to shake the pride of the partner with a shocking campaign. It covered the entire facade of a 13-storey building adjacent to the Bernabéu with a canvas with his image and the slogan “want to see you again.” Provocation and genius were the words most used to define the action of a candidate who has not yet announced any signing and who knows that prudence and not making mistakes can give him the definitive victory.

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Xavi and Jordi Cruyff make up a list in the Barcelona elections

December 30, 2020 by drbyos

Barcelona, which has long ceased to be that team that dazzled locals and strangers, wants to regain its identity for the next elections. As a solution to the controversial management of Bartomeu, the feasible possibility that Lionel Messi will leave and the serious economic crisis, one of the lists that will be presented to elections in the Blaugrana club proposes to resort to his roots. Víctor Font, candidate for president, confirmed that Xavi Hernández (a glory of the institution) and Cruyff’s son (another of the greatest idols) will be part of his football project.

Víctor Font, the candidate who brought together Xavi and Jordi Cruyff.

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The leader asserted that Xavi accepted the proposal to return to Barsa as manager and that Jordi Cruyff will be the sports director. “After talking so much about the project, today it was time to give names. It is important to explain it in the most pedagogical way possible. We want to clarify above all how the sports structure (which will have Juli López as General Director of Sports) should work to give it stability and maximize the options for success, “he said Font.

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Despite the fact that the former multi-champion midfielder with Barcelona declared at the time that he did not want to be proactive with any candidate and praised the two main future leaders (Víctor Font and Joan Laporta), finally decided to get involved again in the day to day of the club culé.

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The return of Xavi to the Catalan team is the most important letter that Font puts on the table to try to retain Messi, who recently confessed that his future has not yet been decided: “I have nothing clear until the end of the season. I do not know if I will leave or not, and if I leave, I would like it to be in the best way, always hypothetically speaking. I would like to return one day, I would like to return to the city, to work at the club, to contribute. Hopefully the president who comes will do things well to raise important titles again ”, in dialogue with La Sexta.

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