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Bloomberg Radio New York
"minsk" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Different context with respect to Ukraine. I'll ask it again. Whose side is time on right now? There was a time that was thought that it was on the Russian side. Is it still particularly if in fact Ukraine can hold out and hold some of the gains that they've had through the winter? Does Russia's bargaining position actually go down, particularly with respect to energy into Western Europe? Well, I actually think what the Russians are hoping to do is hang on to what they have. They believe that through a tough winter, the European unity may not hold. But I also don't believe that despite the reports we may be seeing in the media. I really don't think the Ukrainians are as strong as we might think they are. They're encounter offensives have slowed down possibly stalled. If Russia is serious about hanging on to that terrain, I think we'll see us back to the 2014 lines, the Minsk agreement lines and we find ourselves in a stalemate with both sides looking at each other and using a heck of a lot of artillery on a day to today basis. But I don't see the Ukrainians getting back to Maria poll and this notion that somehow they will take over Crimea again, I think it's fanciful. Mark, it's always good to talk to you because it's so very helpful. I really learned something every single time. That's Mark kimmitt. He's retired Brigadier general. Coming up, the S&P 500 or is erasing all gains since the stock sell off back in June. We're going to bring you the latest next as market space a sea of red. This is balance of power on Bloomberg television and on radio. Breaking news that completes your market day. Want to talk about the chip stocks because we did see them moving in a big way. And compelling stories that make your business week wasn't inflation dead just a few years ago. Arrow master. How much volume are you doing? Who's your typical investor? And Tim steno. I didn't know you before the pandemic. That's how
The Charlie Kirk Show
What the Media Isn't Telling You About Ukraine and Zelensky
"And so where it gets confusing for a lot of people in the west is that if you just let us know what Washington D.C. says, it sounds like Putin is just beginning his grand Napoleonic or hitlerian march across Europe. But when you break free of kind of that propaganda, we recognize and realize that this seems as if to be more kind of a family conflict that he wants very specific parts of Ukraine. Is it true that 80% of Ukraine's military has been destroyed and also why is it that Washington D.C. wants us to get more involved with this conflict giving the facts that you just presented? Well, the force that was in the field when the war started, this was the standing army of the Ukrainian state, which we had poured billions into to equip to train and to prepare for offensive operations, frankly, against the two autonomous republics and then eventually Crimea. 80% of that force is destroyed. And 80% of the soldiers that were part of that force are either dead or wounded. So that's a very serious condition for the Ukrainian armed forces. What the Ukrainians are relying on right now are, well, we would call the equivalent of reservists and national guardsmen and in many cases just civilians pressed into service. So that I think is the first answer that you need. The second part is that, you know, this nonsense that Putin wants to conquer all of Ukraine was never true. All he ever did in the Minsk agreements was asked that Russian speakers Russian citizens inside Ukraine be treated equally before the
WTOP
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"Day service 7 days a week It's 9 22 CBS News special report Officials from Ukraine and Russia are meeting on the border with Belarus as residents of the Ukrainian capital key venture out during a lull in the fighting Max Carmen says he wants to help defend his city Today we're trying to find with guys the local defense unit And we want to join So far Russian troops have been captured any major Ukrainian city and there are reports they have suffered heavy losses The U.S. is moving to protect its diplomats CBS News correspondent Kenny McCormick The U.S. embassy in Minsk Belarus has now suspended operations and a voluntary departure of some personnel and family members has been authorized This follows advice from the U.S. embassy in Moscow that Americans leave Russia immediately While commercial flights are still an option Today the US Treasury Department banned all transactions by U.S. citizens and banks with Russia's Central Bank as the U.S. ramps up its efforts to keep Russia from able to financially sustain its attack on Ukraine CBS News special report I'm Christopher Cruise And keep it here on WTO and WTO dot com all day long for the latest updates It's 9 23 in the family of a beloved Lyft driver is receiving an outpouring of support after somebody shot and killed him over the weekend Can short his county police say they're searching for the gunman who shot Abdul rauf Khan multiple times Saturday It happened around 5 30 p.m. on Dunlap street and hillcrest heights His nephew Aga Raza Ali tells NBC four Khan was a Lyft driver and was carjacked And these people don't have no value They just killed him and left him on the street Gone was held a hero back in 2017 for helping an Alexandria police officer under attack I have received at least around 200 calls people asking me when is the funeral we want to come because we knew the sky was so it was such a genuine guy Gigi Barnett WTO P news Prince George's county detectives say they'll release more information about this shooting later today Former D.C. fire chief Kenneth Albert has died according to the fire department He was 61 years old Elderly was born and raised here in D.C. and served as chief for three and a half years starting in 2011 He was named chief by former mayor Vincent gray Ellerbee retired from the department in 2014 More tech jobs in Tyson's I'm Jeff Gable It's 9 24.
WNYC 93.9 FM
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"This is WNYC 93.9 FM and a.m. 8 20 NPR news and the New York conversation Live from NPR news in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly Delegations from Russia and Ukraine have been meeting today in Belarus Officials from Kyiv are in search of a ceasefire as Russian forces continue to push closer to Ukraine's capital NPR's Tim Mack is following developments There was this Ukrainian delegation that's arrived at the border of Belarus for negotiations It's a little unclear how serious this effort is because either side's really sees me holding out for a breakthrough It should be noted that Belarus is not exactly neutral territory Russian troops launched its assault on tea from that location and the Belarusian government is very close to Putin The State Department says it's closing the U.S. embassy in Belarus because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine It's also advising non-essential staff at the U.S. embassy in Moscow to leave Russia Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the suspension of operations at the embassy in Minsk in a statement issued earlier today Also today the Treasury Department is banning transactions with Russia's Central Bank It includes assets held in U.S. dollars and other parts of the world The move is designed to prevent the Central Bank in Moscow from using its $630 billion in reserves to support the ruble The UN refugee agency says more than a half million people have fled Ukraine since Russian forces invaded the country the interior ministry says at least 352 civilians have been killed New York's governor It's doubling NYC at 8 32 good Monday morning 27 and sunny sunny and 34 today some commuting news now L and R trains have delays in the city and we have delays in NJ transit north Jersey coastline a collision investigation is underway blocking two lanes on the southbound Henry Hudson Parkway by a 179th street In the news New York governor Kathy hope was lifting the states indoor mask mandate for schools starting Wednesday but double NYC Steve Vanessa reports New York City students will have to wait a little while longer Hulk says she's dropping the mask mandate inside schools due to a combination of factors COVID positivity rates statewide are less than 2% Vaccination rates are some of the highest in the nation but mayor Adams says he'll decide on Friday whether to drop the city's public schools indoor mask mandate as well as the requirement to show proof of vaccination at indoor venues Both could go into effect on March 7th masks are still required on mass transit in hospitals and nursing homes as well as in shelters In other news this morning New York senator Chuck Schumer is pushing for more than $6 billion in emergency aid for Ukraine the money will cover humanitarian economic and security aid senator Schumer says that combined with the increased sanctions against Russia will send a strong message I expect that.
Monocle 24: The Globalist
"minsk" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Globalist
"I think providing field hospitals digging up even graze. That is so Russia. That's just a manuscript of Kremlin techniques. That's how they try to scare the world into thinking that the war is inevitable. And that the west needs to meet demands and follow-up with some serious concessions. In all honesty, I think we met in the studio in October, the very first signs of military build up or at least when the west started paying attention to that because realistically since last spring of 2021, and even summer, not much has changed as we've seen the rise in battalion tactical groups. In Belarus, we've seen multiple military exercises in the country now that's practically being swallowed by Russia. But realistically, the threat is exactly the same. Now, will Russia invade or not remains the open question I might be biting my tongue and by the end of today something might happen. We see military cyberattacks coming towards Ukraine over and over again. I don't think that the actual invasion will happen, but I would like to draw your attention and everyone else's who's listening to a more serious problem that I think is arising. And it's been indicated by two visits of Macron and ola scholz to give anti Ukraine. And it seems like what they're trying to do. And the only solution that they seem to have found is to make Ukraine comply with Minsk agreements fully, and irreversibly. And that will cause the greatest damage to Ukraine's sovereignty. I mean, we have to understand that Minsk agreements are dead. Just like Minsk, the capital of the sovereign country itself is completely swallowed and absorbed by Moscow, so are the Minsk agreements. We have to lay them into the ground in the graves that Russians are digging up in Belarus because that agreement means that Ukraine will have quasi republics inside of its own Unitarian state that will forbid Ukraine from choosing its own future both internally in terms of internal policies and externally. The west demands that Ukraine does not enter NATO or any other alliance. Well, we can't do that anyways because we have territorial disputes on our in our country Crimea is annexed. And we have military formations in the east of the country, and if that is legitimized, officially and ratified even by foreign governments, that's the easiest way out for them to make sure that Ukraine is not going into NATO, but not saying it out loud, not violating their principles. And as we saw yesterday, Russia's lower house of parliament called for Putin to recognize the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk independent, effectively, as you say, completely killing off Minsk. Just finally lada, we're talking about Ukraine's membership of NATO. And as a loner says, I mean, that would seem to be off the table anyway. How far off is the country from being able to qualify for membership? Wouldn't it need to sort out major corruption and governance issues first? Well, Albania was in a much worse situation than Ukraine as far as corruption and lack of interoperability and it has been accepted and is a member. So I think a lot of political will is required. And sure, Ukraine is pretty much ready with the proper political will. However, I don't believe that this is the time to be discussing NATO membership. Whatsoever. And to follow up a little bit on what alone I had said about Macron. It is important to pay attention to the fact that Macron has repeated Putin's plea that was made, I believe in 2014. Regarding the creation of a new European security framework. I believe we should be focusing also on what exactly Macron means by this and what it means for Europe as a whole. So in other words, an alternative to NATO, it would need to join NATO because it could be part of this new European security framework. Possibly. And this is where the role of the United Kingdom is quite uplifting in Ukraine. People are very, very happy with the way that Boris Johnson has been leading the support. And we're looking forward to seeing how they're going to be cooperating with Poland. A lot of thank you very much. I learned just quickly before we go. I mean, if you had to give a prediction now, what's going to happen next? What should we be looking out for politically? I think politically, the most important thing is to ensure that Ukraine is not forced into unacceptable concessions that will forever damage our sovereignty and territorial integrity. Thank you very much indeed. That was a learner cliff co and lada Ross liske there. You're listening to the globalist on monocle 24. It's.
Monocle 24: The Globalist
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"Expect from these meetings particularly after this very performative chat we saw between Putin and Lavrov on Russian television? A short says goal is quite simple. And Berlin is sort of downplaying its expectations for this visit. They're sort of quietly saying, don't expect anything big, don't expect that we're just suddenly going to hammer out some last minute deal. This week, Schultz's goal is really keep Russia at the negotiating table and not invade allow time for future talks for them to proceed further, preferably in the Normandy format, which has France and Germany mediating to see if a diplomatic solution can be found. And of course, what the Normandy format advocates is the Minsk agreement. We'll be advocating for those to be actioned as Emmanuel Macron has done. This is something that Schultz hasn't hasn't really talked much about in terms of what sort of provisions of minks would he would he insist on whatnot what he would he insist on Russia to do. On Ukraine to do, of course, the Ukrainians frequently point out that Minsk in terms of action on Minsk in terms of whether Russia has honored Minsk, if you ask the Ukrainians, they would obviously have something different to say about how well that agreement has stood up. But I think part of this plays into Schultz's preference for ambiguity and for Germany's preference for ambiguity. To not say that much to basically allow for maximum maneuverability in negotiations behind closed doors. This is something that lots of that lots of German diplomats embrace something that certainly Angela Merkel previous to Schultz embraced in negotiations with Putin and others. And so does shorts his position differ from Merkel really at all. I wouldn't say that it does. Too much. I mean, Schultz was indeed in what Merkel's previous governments. I think that we would probably have expected that Angela Merkel would have avoided some of Schultz's earlier gaffes on the subject of Ukraine, but in terms of their actual approach, what they will try to do. I wouldn't say that it will be too differently at two different. In some ways, the influence of the greens within Schultz's. Current ruling coalition could be could have more influence than anything. We do know that the foreign minister annalena baerbock is in favor of a much tougher approach to authoritarians like Putin and to China's CCP. So Charles, what do you believe is going to happen today? I mean, we've seen Lavrov and Putin give this very odd television broadcast where they appear to be sort of very badly playing their well practiced roles. This is the one where they're sitting miles apart at a very, very long table that on Twitter has been described as a sushi conveyor belt. Look, every time a senior international leader of the stature of the Chancellor of Germany or the French president or by video link with President Biden, every time a leader like that visits Moscow. This is already a victory for president Putin. This is exactly what he wants to have happening. And if you're in the Kremlin right now, you are thinking that you've got the world wrapped around your finger. And everybody is coming to Moscow with entreaties for peace. And I think that this state of affairs, even at this heightened level of tension can actually last quite some time. And we might see troops where they are, troops being augmented and this feverish level of international diplomacy lasting throughout 2022. And of course Bolsonaro is going there tomorrow. Well, he's got some other things to worry about at home. If he's going there, I hope he's making a quick trip because he's got to get back to brazilia and put a lid back on things at home. Charles and Erin. Thank you both very much indeed. That's Aaron Burnett and Charles hecker. And Charles will be back to flick through the day's papers a little bit later on. This is the globalist on monocle 24. The foreign disc is monocle 24s weekly global affairs program. We tackled the world's biggest.
WABE 90.1 FM
"minsk" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"It's difficult to debate with the Russian president about some things but in this case he's right Dylan he said Ukraine is a beautiful country But Putin went too far and suggesting that beauty belongs to him Zelensky came to office in 2019 vowing to make peace with Russia and end the war in Ukraine's Donbass region but Putin has sounded increasingly frustrated that the Minsk agreements haven't been implemented the way he sees it Putin argues that the Ukrainians have to negotiate directly with separatist leaders even though Russia calls the shots and on boss Negotiate and reach an agreement with them Putin said arguing that Ukraine needs to muster up the courage and recognize what is written in the Minsk agreement and in his words not try to claim what's white as black and what's black is white It's not that clear cut though says Olga oligarch of the international crisis group she says the agreements were written in a passive voice and in a way that everyone could live with at a point when Ukraine was weak The Ukrainians understood that it wasn't the deal they wanted And that it is overall a deal that favors Russia But they needed the shooting to stop The deal sets out a series of military and political steps but not a clear sequence for instance it calls for elections in those regions now run by Russian proxies but doesn't spell out when the Ukrainians don't want to hold elections on these territories if they don't control them right Because if you hold elections while they're still under the control of the de facto leaders wealth effective leaders are going to win those elections Then there's the question of the special status for the separatist groups that's called for in the agreement Oker says it doesn't really define what that means though the Russians have a clear point of view The Russians see this as a way of guaranteeing that these territories which will continue in their view to be run by people beholden to Moscow will be able to then block Ukraine from doing things that Russia doesn't want them to do Ukraine argues that the Russians need to first withdraw heavy weapons and troops from dombas which Russia maintains are there Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Ukraine is doing its part to implement the deal or at least working on it It is a fair assessment to say that Ukraine has sought to move forward on most if not all of them While Russia has made good on virtually none of its obligations undermined In fact the State Department accuses Russia of violating the deal with its current build up in and around Ukraine The U.S. is not part of the Minsk agreement but blinken sees it as one possible diplomatic off ramp to a crisis that Russia created Michelle Kellerman and PR news Washington For 29 and.
WABE 90.1 FM
"minsk" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"Enraged the fact that this is happening Later avoiding war in Eastern Europe may hinge on how Ukraine and Russia interpret peace agreements of the past It is a fair assessment to say that Ukraine has sought to move forward on most if not all of them while Russia has made good on virtually none of its obligations under Minsk First the news Lie from NPR news I'm Lakshmi Singh The White House is not preparing for a mass evacuation of U.S. citizens from Ukraine if Russia invades but NPR's Frank orda's reports it is getting ready to help Americans who leave the former Soviet republic One of the missions that the 82nd airborne division may take is helping those Americans who cross the border into Poland A White House official said they are constantly evaluating the evolving security situation and planning for a range of contingencies The official also stressed that U.S. troops will not enter Ukraine but they will be across the border helping Americans who arrive with logistics and other support As of October The White House says there were about 6000 permanent residents of Ukraine who are U.S. citizens and about 16,000 American visitors and travelers in the country That number is expected to be lower since U.S. officials have been urging citizens to leave the country Franco Gordon and PR news Former president Donald Trump is condemning Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell for breaking with the Republican National Committee NPR's Windsor Johnston reports McConnell on Tuesday criticized the RNC for censuring two Republican representatives for taking part in the investigation into the January 6th insurrection from last year Senator McConnell called out the RNC for characterizing the deadly riot as legitimate political discourse saying it was in fact a violent insurrection He also pushed back against the group censure of Republican representatives Liz Cheney and Adam kinzinger who have taken on aggressive roles in the ongoing investigation In a statement former president Donald Trump said Mitch McConnell does not speak for the Republican Party and does not represent the views of the vast majority of its voters In Paris Windsor Johnston reporting the CDC's opting to keep its federal guidance on indoor masks in place for now citing still high levels of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths but democratic governor JB pritzker Illinois has announced that as of the end of the month residents in his state will no longer have to wear a mask in public indoor spaces except in schools and he's not alone The governor of New York Kathy hogel is also lifting her state's mass or vaccine mandate for indoor businesses But NPR's quill Lawrence reports the mask rule will remain in effect in many other public spaces such as schools and state hospitals Local joins a growing list of governors lifting mask mandates as the omicron surge in cases appears to have subsided She says the state's high rate of vaccination and falling rate of infection justify a step toward returning to normal life Why is all this happening Because New Yorkers and businesses stepped up and did the right thing And I will always be grateful for them for being the reason these numbers have been declining Neighboring New Jersey announced it will lift the mask mandates for schools huckel says she will revisit that issue in March and she cautioned that the pandemic is not over Quill Lawrence NPR news New York It's NPR From W ABE news in Atlanta good afternoon I'm Jim Berra sits four O four Camden county residents in South Georgia will get a chance to vote on plans to build a commercial spaceport there As Molly Samuel reports a judge is ordering a special election for next month The county has been working for years to develop a commercial spaceport on an old industrial property near the coast Boosters say launching small rockets up to a dozen a year would attract the growing commercial space industry to the largely rural county Critics say the rockets could threaten homes and Cumberland island national seashore And they object to the millions of dollars the county has already spent on the idea So they started a petition to make the county bring its purchase of the property to a vote This week a judge said they got enough signatures and he set a special election for March 8th The federal government signed off on the county's license to operate the spaceport late last year But to make it a reality the county needs.
WNYC 93.9 FM
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"Adults have been dominating the banned books conversation But what do young people have to say History is going to repeat itself and you kind of have to know a little bit of history It just all comes down to the maturity of the student and the person that's reading it We're talking about banning books and we're hearing from students Call us to weigh in at 877-869-8253 I'm Melissa Harris Perry and that's next time on the takeaway weekday afternoon at three on 93.9 FM It's morning edition from NPR news I'm laila vaulted in Washington And I mean Martinez and Kyiv Ukraine where there's a revolving door of diplomats coming through As we speak French president Emmanuel Macron is on his way to mariinsky palace There he's said to me with Ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky to discuss tensions with Russia It's the second stop of a short intense diplomatic trip Yesterday macom met with Russian president Vladimir Putin alone for several hours McCall has emerged as the face of Europe in its attempt to prevent Putin from sending his military into Ukraine Here to explain all this NPR's Paris correspondent Eleanor Beardsley Eleanor what can we expect from today's meeting Kyiv Hi a well Macron and zelensky are going to sit down and go over the points The topics he discussed yesterday with Putin and they're going to look for areas to build a possible dialog with zelensky And see if they can keep expanding that dialog and keep talking Macron said yesterday his first goal in the shuttle diplomacy trip is to stop this immediate crisis deescalate these tensions and he's going to get back to Putin again after speaking to zelensky today You know Macron said that zelensky had shown amazing strength and composure throughout this crisis And he clearly has Macron's respect which Putin clearly does not share because at one point yesterday in the press conference Putin was speaking of the conflict in eastern Ukraine told zelensky to deal with it Deal with awhile And today's meeting comes on the heels of Macron's visit to Moscow That was yesterday How did he and Putin describe that meeting Well that was a very weird meeting You could tell a lot about more than 5 hour meet up in their summers and in their body language Putin spent a lot of time railing against NATO he said you know NATO he said you've had your guns and troops right on our border yet You point to our military exercises on our territory said he didn't understand that You could see how much it really was a thorn in his side You saw his cynical worldview You know he spoke of Ukraine not keeping promises in the Donbass where they've been fighting separatist Russian backed separatists for 8 years He spoke of human rights violations in Ukraine and how they had closed down the media which is exactly what Putin does himself So and you saw Macron actually trying to deal with this to have something positive to say He looked very pained at times Actually the negotiating table itself was like a metaphor metaphor for the distance and difficulty of all this there were like 20 feet apart at this very long table It was very cold looking and uncomfortable Yeah And macro admitted there were a lot of disagreements He said Europeans did not necessarily share Putin's worldview but he said he came to deescalate the crisis He said geography is not going to change shit isn't in your is in Europe and we have to negotiate with him or someone else will and then he said this In a particular Polaris He said Europeans will not have security if Russia does not have security So does that sound like progress Yeah it was very difficult to say They agreed there were a lot of points to follow up on but we didn't get the details of those Analysts say that just the fact that they sat down together for 5 hours with no aids just interpreters was good They kept the dialog going That's a measure of success One analyst called Putin mister niet and a French government source told NPR this morning that mackerel was struck by a much harder in calcium Putin than the one he met two years ago Macron said it's clear He's been isolated and he described him as having a bunker mentality Now that meeting took place as Joe Biden met with new German Chancellor Olaf Schultz are they all on the same page Absolutely Germany's committed to being in alignment with the U.S. and they say that if Russia invades Ukraine that the Nord stream to gas project bringing Russian gas to Germany will be stopped NPR's Eleanor Beardsley Illinois thanks a lot Thank you Another Supreme Court ruling deals a blow to the Voting Rights Act That's right The high court yesterday stopped a lower court order that said Alabama's new congressional map doesn't give enough power to black voters The lower court had said that to comply with the Voting Rights Act Alabama had to create two majority black districts up from one district currently Black residents make up more than a quarter of the state's population The Supreme Court's decision is a win for the state's Republican map makers Here to explain is scotus blog cofounder Amy Howe Amy what stood out to you from the ruling It's another ruling that shows the effect of the death of justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2020 and her replacement with a much more conservative justice Amy Coney Barrett This was a ruling in which chief justice John Roberts We don't think of as a liberal joined the courts three liberal justices but that only gets you four votes and you need 5 to form a majority So that means that the states map is going to stay in place for the 2022 elections even though a three judge panel that notably includes two judges appointed by president Donald Trump said that it violated the Voting Rights Act which shows you how conservative the Supreme Court has become So what did the justices say So the justices as a court didn't say that much We didn't hear from the majority to explain this decision to put the order on hold This came to the court on the so called shadow docket Alabama was asking the justices to put the lower court's decision on hold on an emergency basis But we heard from three different sets of justices The main descent was justice along a pagan joined by justice Stephen breyer and Sonia Sotomayor And she said the lower court got it exactly right what the state is asking us to do is to rewrite decades of precedent and by putting the lower courts ruling on hold we're allowing elections to go ahead with the state's map even though the lower court found that it violated the Voting Rights Act The chief justice wrote a separate dissent He did not join justice cake and descent He too would have kept the lower courts order on hold and required the state to draw new maps for the 2022 election He said the district court may have gotten the law right as it currently stands But he said the law governing these kinds of cases is confusing It does need clarification And so he agreed with the decision to go ahead and hear all arguments And then the third opinion came from justice Brett tavana joined by justice St. Louis was in essence a response to justice Kagan He said we're not allowing the state to rewrite that through the president We're not revisited to the president We're just we're not weighing in on the merits of the case at all We're just setting the case for argument And then I'm going to get a little wonky here because you talked about something called the Purcell principle which I think is something that we're going to hear a lot about in 2022 and 2024 It's the idea that federal courts shouldn't intervene in state elections in the run up to the election He said the.
Bloomberg Radio New York
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Without conflicts of interest because whether it's industry analysts who get paid to put you in the top right hand portion of the magic quadrant or the investment banks who obviously have a huge vested interest in keeping the the treadmill of ipo's in mergers and acquisitions going most of those folks don't necessarily have the best interests of investors and or they don't have the best interest of of being clear and honest about what they're looking at at heart so really had twenty one years at arrow tae of just trying to look through the hype and the nonsense and and to decode it for investors and help them follow rule number one of warren buffett's rule number one of investing which is don't lose money and rule number two is invest in things. You understand and help them understand what they're investing in. Now they host the podcast bubble trouble together which will get to shortly. But first they met in london while running during the covert lockdowns like the pandemic like few moments suppression you kind of get creativity and dependent mc definitely was the example that just making some of the best friends of my life. You know richard being one of them during the most surreal period. They'll ever live. And that's when you start to think differently about projects. You could a bouquet working through the hardback paperback to come. What can you do in this limbo period and yes it's been a surreal experience of one grateful for you know weird kind of way but to be able to do things you would never have done otherwise people to beat people. You'd never malto is so bubble. Trouble was started as a bit of a warning based on trends. They were seeing right. Yes here's richard. Bubble trouble was really borne out of the dual conviction of will and myself that we are both reliving history in terms of these bottles. Whether it's the tron a computer companies that you saw listed and went to huge valuations in the seventies and eighties on the stock market or the nineties late nineties. Early two thousand when your dentist was recommending which optical networking stocks to buy to all of the the nonsense about monetize ing eyeballs and. We want to rose phrase right and and we both have a a similarly skeptical. I don't have his scottish dour accent to to pull it off but a similarly skeptical and humorous. Take on just all of these self important that you get from these companies and all the world changing rhetoric and equally we both have a fascination with business models with with economics with how markets work and will and i both appreciate each other's ability to go off on and just completely hilarious rants about one another aspect of technology or markets. Much of which we have to tone down for the Podcast because they would be far too profanity laced to to put out on on on the airwaves. A out there one Keep my bedside to bouquet. Used to read as a child by my bedside. I keep a big bite heyman ski. Who hopefully these introduction to your listeners. Hold that thought we're gonna tell you who heyman minsk. He is for anyone unsure right after a quick break. Okay so before the break will page was discussing the book that he keeps by his bedside by him and linski don't believe he said the name but i believe the book is stabilising unstable economy. That's right haymond. Minsk was an american economist whose research attempted to provide an understanding and explanation of the characteristics of financial crisis which he attributed to swing potential fragile financial systems he supported sub government intervention in financial markets opposed some of the financial deregulation policies. That were really popular in the nineteen eighties. He stressed the importance of the federal reserve as a lender of last resort and argued against over accumulation of private debt in the financial marcus famously. His theories about data accumulation received revived attention in the media during the subprime mortgage crisis of two thousand eight. Minsk argued that a key mechanism that pushes economy towards a crisis is an accumulation of debt by the nongovernment sector and we all know a stable genius. Who loves accumulating debt right stable genius heymann identified three types of borrowers that contribute to the cumulation of insolvent debt hedge borrowers speculative borrowers and ponzi borrowers. The hedge bar can make debt payments covering interest and principal from current cash flows from investments for the speculative borrow the cash flow from the investments conserves. The debt i e cover the interest do. The borrower must regularly roll over or re borrow from the principal. The ponzi borrower borrows based on the belief that the appreciation of the value of the asset will be sufficient to refinance the debt but could not make sufficient payments on interest or principal with the cash flow from investments themselves. Only the appreciating asset value can keep the ponzi borrower afloat and this is essentially. What happened in two thousand eight on a very very large scale. Thank you came in. Minsk for your insights. Okay now back to will. Pitch was originally conceived as notion of a credit crunch win liquidity drives up markets and of course in two thousand six that started to merge to reality which leads to the financial crisis but the title is containment. Ski has subheading which says why stability in itself is destablizing as just an interesting way of thinking about capital markets. When we've all got it good you know when government belt budget balancer in check marcus growing. Gdp are under control. When you hit that sweet spot where where just couldn't complain about a single economic indicator you should start reading human skin realize why stability is in itself these stabilizing because then we get a little bit to cokie a little bit too over mistake party. A little bit too hardly casino and you know what follows and then the big child's causing the ball you cried wolf and it's just weird like we have. This is a financial crisis. Ten years on should be merely seem to come out with like a worrying regularity predictable level regularity as well economics am university. I studied the argentine default which.
Lex Fridman Podcast
"minsk" Discussed on Lex Fridman Podcast
"And we've all had this experience of creatively misunderstanding One of one of my favorite one of my favorite stories involving marvin linski is when i asked him about how he was able to turn out so many fantastic. Phd many fantastic people who did great phd thesis. How did you think of all these great ideas. When he said is he would generally say something. The didn't exactly make sense. He didn't really know what it meant. But the student would figure like oh my god. Minsk he said must be a great idea. The sweat here. She would work on work and work until they found some meaning in this set of chauncey gardiner like utterance that and then some great thesis would come out of it. Yeah i love the so much. Because there's a young people come up to me. And i am distinctly made aware that the words i say have a long lasting impact. I will now start doing the inskeep method of saying something Cryptically profound and then letting them actually Make something useful in great outta the you have to become revered enough. People will take as a default that everything you say. Some profound is. Yes exactly exactly. I i mean i love marvin mickey so much. There's so much I've i've heard this view with him where he said that The key to success has been to hate everything he's ever done Like in the past. Here's so many good leg. One liners and just the or also To work on things that nobody else is working on because he's not very good at doing stuff. Oh i i think that was just false. Well but see. I took whatever he said and i ran with it and i thought it was profound because as marvin myskina. A lot of behavior is in the i of the beholder. There's a lot of the meanings in the either beholder. Minsk as early programs was begging program racially with us so this is back in the day when you had job control cards at the beginning of your ibm card deck..
Artificial Intelligence (AI Podcast) with Lex Fridman
"minsk" Discussed on Artificial Intelligence (AI Podcast) with Lex Fridman
"Of the one of the problems was that they wanted to kind of dewey decimal numbering system for all of their concepts which meant that each node could only have at most Ten children and each node could only have one parent and While that does enable the dewey decimal type Numbering of concepts labeling of concepts Prevents you from representing all the things you need to about on objects in our in our world and that was one of the things which on they never were able to overcome and i think that was one of the main reasons that project failed. So we'll return to some of the doors eve open but if we can go back to that room and then g. four around there with marvin minsk effort by the way. I should mention that. Marvin wouldn't do his estimate until someone brought him an envelope so that he could literally do it back of the envelope calculation to come up with this number well because i feel like the conversation in that room is important one. You know this how Sometimes signs is done in this way. If you people get together and plant the seed of ideas and they reverberate throughout history and some some kind of dissipated disappear and some you know drake equation and they seems like a meaningless equation somewhat meaningless but i think it dries them what they thought lot of scientists and when the aliens finally show up that equation will get even more Valuable because then we'll be able to us in the long arc of history. The drake will Will proved to be quite useful. I think in that same way. Conversation of just how. Many facts are required to capture the basic commonsense knowledge of the world as a fascinating question. I want to distinguish between what you think of his facts. And the kind of things that we represent so We map to and essentially make sure that psych has the ability to as it were read and access the kind of facts you might find..
Lex Fridman Podcast
"minsk" Discussed on Lex Fridman Podcast
"Of the one of the problems was that they wanted to kind of dewey decimal numbering system for all of their concepts which meant that each node could only have at most Ten children and each node could only have one parent and While that does enable the dewey decimal type Numbering of concepts labeling of concepts Prevents you from representing all the things you need to about on objects in our in our world and that was one of the things which on they never were able to overcome and i think that was one of the main reasons that project failed. So we'll return to some of the doors eve open but if we can go back to that room and then g. four around there with marvin minsk effort by the way. I should mention that. Marvin wouldn't do his estimate until someone brought him an envelope so that he could literally do it back of the envelope calculation to come up with this number well because i feel like the conversation in that room is important one. You know this how Sometimes signs is done in this way. If you people get together and plant the seed of ideas and they reverberate throughout history and some some kind of dissipated disappear and some you know drake equation and they seems like a meaningless equation somewhat meaningless but i think it dries them what they thought lot of scientists and when the aliens finally show up that equation will get even more Valuable because then we'll get able to us in the long arc of history the drake will Will proved to be quite useful. I think in that same way. Conversation of just how. Many facts are required to capture the basic commonsense knowledge of the world as a fascinating question. I want to distinguish between what you think of his facts. And the kind of things that we represent so We map to and essentially make sure that psych has the ability to as it were read and access the kind of facts you might find..
The World and Everything In It
A Year on From a Stolen Election, Alexander Lukashenko Remains in Power
"In august twenty twenty protesters took to the streets in belarus following a presidential election. There that almost no one trusted but more than a year after that the man often referred to as europe's last dictator alexander lukashenko remains in power and opposition leaders fed lonard seek sky is still in exile in lithuania with top officials in her political party sentenced to prison just yesterday. Even though observers say seeking of sky was the rightful winner of that election. So where do things stand now. And how are christians faring. World's european correspondent jenny lynn schmidt reports in the years since protests filled. The streets of many belarussians watched in dismay as the nation's troubles faded from the international spotlight. That changed in may when alexander lukashenko forced a flight from greece to lithuania to land in belarus authorities boarded. The plane arrested opposition journalist. Remind pro to save sage and his girlfriend sofia so paige and threw them in jail. The european union and the united states quickly imposed sanctions lukashenko retaliated by releasing migrants across the border into the eu. Hannah luebbe cova is a journalist from minsk and a fellow with the atlantic council. The regime came up with this idea to bring migrants from iraq or other countries to belarus. And then help them to cross the border authorities. Lithuanian poland have reported seeing belarussian guards. Forcefully push migrants into their countries last week. Poland declared a state of emergency for two provinces as more than thirty. Two hundred migrants tried to cross from belarus illegally. Well of course it was revenge from look. Shane pick you wanted to. This is the situation. You wanted to artificially create a crisis on the border with boroughs. But luke says that means western sanctions are working. Lukashenko's recent release. A few political prisoners is another sign. Baluba cova says the sanctions have loopholes. That be closed
NPR News Now
Belarus Opposition Leader Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison
"A court in belarus has sentenced one of the country's most prominent opposition activists to eleven years in prison on the grounds of trying to overthrow the state. Npr's charles means has details from moscow. In a video posted from the courtroom in minsk maria kolesnikova could be seen making a heart shape symbol with their hands and smiling while wearing handcuffs. Thirty nine year old professional flute player kolesnikova was among the trio of women who led opposition movement against longtime strongman alexander lukashenka during presidential elections last year when lukashenko claimed a landslide victory despite evidence of vote-rigging hundreds of thousands took to the streets to demand an end to his rule yet lukashenka has held on thanks to a government. Crackdown that scene. Over thirty thousand arrests kolesnik of was one of the few opposition figures who refused to flee abroad. Charles means npr news. Moscow
Fantasy Focus Football
Vikings TE Irv Smith Jr. Expected to Miss 2021 Season Following Meniscus Surgery
"I have an update and i learned that i trust my instincts more frequently. This her adam schefter just now twitting viking site. An irv smith underwent surgery to repair his minsk's this morning and with a four to five months recovery timetable. It is most likely to end his season per sources so the writing was indeed on the wall. Unfortunately herb smith thanks to be clear. We didn't have that news when we were talking about it. I'm sure the vikings certainly knew that was headed their way when they traded for chris
Data Engineering Podcast
"minsk" Discussed on Data Engineering Podcast
"What are some of the shortcomings that you've experienced where you maybe wish. You had more of the capabilities or experiential and sort of polish aspects of the cloud warehouses the limitation that. We strongly feel means anyone to we'll have to spin. That takes two to three minutes and that bothers a lot. We won't out data to really quickly and that means you can just go and you can quit. Data you intently. But here in q. League have to read for two minutes for the first quarter to execute and we have thought that. How can we swallow. But i think there's no solution to it. You'll have to have a learning to make agreeable so we want to have the storage and compute totally separate. And the computer should be up in stanley and dislike snowflake snowflake you can switch cassirer just by query and instantly. So that's not the case with and that's a major limitation wondering what you see as some of the sort of scale ability or experience benefits of using the notebook interface with spark as execution engine versus things like presto or versus things like presto neutrino for doing the query execution on top of object storage. And maybe using something like the glue metadata catalog or catalogue for managing the table space. He'll be out of using hype. Backlog fall mandating that they will. They will smith at it up so beauty. I means we. You've dotted with eight of minsk..
Bloomberg Radio New York
"minsk" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"All the global news in San Francisco Edge. Yeah, Jules, I know you like sports parlance. So no hits. No, you know. No runs. No errors. Both said the meeting was constructive to work toward goals in the future. Iran Arctic strategic, but let's particular arms, But there was some glaring differences and interesting perspective differences. For example, Mr Putin says the U. S. Has perpetrated human rights abuses secret CIA prisons across the globe, including those in the European countries. What people were tortured. What is this? The great human rights record? Uh, well, I doubt that. So Mr Putin, saying that Russia was better at controlling protest, so they didn't get out of hand like what happened January six that the U. S Capitol. Mr Biden says That's ridiculous Comparisons. One thing for literally criminals. To break through a cordon. The wind of the capital, kill a police officer and be held on accountable and it is for people objective marching on the capital, One sane, you are not allowing me to speak freely, and Mr Biden said the US would not stand by to watch abuses such as happened to election, Albany. Mr Biden also says issues in Ukraine, I communicated the United States' unwavering commitment to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. We agreed to pursue diplomacy. Mr Putin says it is basically though, and Mr Biden needs to understand an issue of Russian security. So Ukraine we have one single commitment to Help and facilitate the implementation of the Minsk agreements. If Ukrainian side is ready to do that were buried to follow this path without any adults and again through a translator, Putin said. With regard to cybercrime and hacking the U. S, commits far more attacks than Russia does face similar threats when it comes to one of the key Russian regions and its health care system, and we see where they cyberattacks have launched from we see that These attacks have coordinated from the United States territory. But Mr Biden says he told Putin any cyber attacks would be met with strong U. S cyber activity, and I talked about the proposition that certain critical infrastructure should be off limits to attack period. Cyber any other means I gave them a list. Now. Both sides say they've dispatched ambassadors to work on paths forward both for issues where there is agreement, and for those where there's not Blomquist Maria today. Oh, says Abidance Europe trip from G seven and NATO, the U. N Commission EU Commission. I should say it was built to show strength and she says he appears to have succeeded, he said. I am going to be very firm when it comes to some of the human rights abuses that were CNN, Russia. I'm going to be very firm on the cyber attacks, and I'm going to be very firm on the foreign policy. He did rain stage. Those points. Mr Biden some things up by saying we'd see 3 to 6 months down the road in San Francisco. I'm Ed Baxter. This is Bloomberg. Brian. Thanks very much 38 minutes past the hour time for global.
Larry O'Connor
Russia Tells US to Expect ‘Uncomfortable’ Signals Ahead of Putin-Biden Summit
"Rattling from Russia this Memorial Day, his minister of defense, said the United States should expect some quote uncomfortable signals from Russia and the coming days. Ahead of the summit scheduled for Presidents Biden and Putin in Geneva, mid June. Russia would form 20 new military units around its Western edge is before the end of the year to counter act what he calls NATO expansion. The U. S has been pressing Russia on human rights abuses, among other issues. This is Russia plans for joint military exercises with Belarus in the fall. Russia's support for Belarussian president especially after a flight was forced to divert to Minsk last week, apparently so a dissident could be picked off it. Is another bone of contention with the West.
BBC Newsday
Biden Administration to Reimpose Sanctions on Belarus Over Diverted Flight
"Says it will impose further sanctions against Belarus after last Sunday's force diversion to Minsk of a commercial airliner. The incident resulted in the detention of an opposition journalist and his girlfriend. Ellie McConnell reports. White House press secretary Jen Psaki called the events of last Sunday a direct affront to international norms, She said the events took place amid an escalating wave of repression by the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko. In response, the United States will reimpose sanctions against nine Belarusian state and enterprises blocking US citizens from any transactions with, um it will also work with the European To draw up a list of targeted sanctions against key members of the Lukashenka administration associated with human rights abuses and corruption, the falsification of the 2020 election on the events off last Sunday President
BBC World Service
U.S. Drawing up Targeted Sanctions on Belarus Officials After Plane Incident
"Against Belarus after it forced to commercial aircraft to divert to Minsk and act which resulted in the detention of an opposition journalist and his girlfriend. Ellie McConnell reports the White House press secretary. In response, the United States will reimpose sanctions against nine Belarusian state and enterprises blocking US citizens from any transactions with, um it will also work with the European Union and other allies to draw up a list of targeted sanctions against key members of the Lukashenka administration. President Biden has announced his first annual
Monocle 24: The Briefing
Air France, Austrian Flights Canceled as Russia Denies Belarus Bypass
"Air france and austrian airlines have both had to cancel services after their flight plans were rejected by moscow will for more on this. I'm joined by mark audie. Who's the principal director at my intelligence and a senior associate fellow at the royal united services institute in london and i'm also joined by multiple twenty four security correspondent ben. Ben i'll start with you Maybe can you deconstruct this for us. A little just we're supposed to be getting back into the air Airlines are very excited that they can of course be getting passengers and crisscrossing oliver europe We have this Small blockade or certainly some aircraft to have been turned around to entering russian aerospace It's quite unfortunate timing isn't it but it's all part of a wider context so we all remember that sundays saw this shocking version of a ryanair flight to minsk in belarus and the arrest of one passenger in opposition journalists and the us immediate sanctions were banning belarus in alliance from landing in the eu and ordering airlines to avoid belarussian aspects since then bellarusse is a whole on the radar. Almost can make out the the borders of the country on a map. Because there's no flights above it. It also meant that. Some flights between the eu and russia had to change routes and apparently now russian authorities are unwilling to accept that and declined those flights by f. haas genera. It isn't entirely clear. Why it's only those airlines and whether there are technically shoes to blame related to these route changes or if there are mostly political motivations for example signaling that russia standard belarus and that it's flexing its muscles and emphasizing the importance of its aviation market an airspace
Today in Focus
Belarus Plane Diversion: How It Happened
"It was last sunday morning. In athens apple passengers are waiting for ryan ryanair flight to vilnius lithuania and among them was the twenty six year-old blocker roman prosser vetch and his twenty three year. Old girlfriend sofia paika. They were almost on the plane when he noticed that there is a man who might have followed him and who tried to take pictures of his documents and he immediately texted his friends. All mia hobart overpass. Oval doesn't but those kind of translated into english remain had written. Ll telling his friend. It seemed the security services. Were following me at the apple and even tried to photograph my comments. It's not certain he added but in any case that's some suspicious shit so the plane left for venues and when they were about fifteen minutes before landing still on the territory of belarus. The plane diverted. The reason for the diversion was a message from air. Traffic control in minsk belarus where there were claims of bomb threat for security reasons. We command you to land and from the from the intonation trump airport. Security's off Informed the email the pilot was told to land. it was some very abrupt. It was very violent and many passengers felt that the plane might actually go down so the cared and all of a sudden one passengers reaction especially stood out. Ramon started panicking and he tried to give his phone and his laptop to his girlfriend. He has a lot of contacts among bloggers and activists and he knew that security forces would must certainly confiscate his laptop his his phone so he started to deliver any data from his devices
The Economist: The Intelligence
From out of Thin Air: Belarus Dissidents' Fates
"Belarus is facing mounting pressure over its detainment of dissident journalist remond porta savage and his girlfriend sofia pay last night. Mississauga appeared in a video. Ostensibly confessing to publishing information about belarusian officials but looking extremely uncomfortable. Let's here on sunday. The country's president alexander lukashenko had ordered the payers flight from greece to lithuania to be diverted to belarus's capital. Minsk were arrested mr. His mother. Natalia has called on the international community to help. I said that. The person giving american president joe biden has called belarus's actions outrageous and i love. Underline president of the european commission said there would be new sanctions on belarus. This is an attack on democracy. This is an attack on freedom of expression and this is an attack on european sovereignity and this outrageous behavior needs a strong answer but putting meaningful pressure on. The regime won't be easy. It was very clear from the beginning that this was ordered by alexander lukashenko himself the president. The dictator of belarus ruled it for twenty. Six years are cutting ostrovsky. Economists russia editor to international audience. They said there was a bomb alert. They received an email over tanner's threat so the instructed the pilots to make a u-turn and landed minsk airport. No explosive obviously found because none were ever planted for the domestic audience. Interestingly enough there was a different message a few days earlier one of the security chiefs and belarus said they were going to hunt down all the opposition leaders who they consider to be
Monocle 24: The Briefing
E.U. Agrees to Impose Sanctions on Belarus
"The european union is still attempting to calibrate the punishment appropriate to the state ordered hijacking of civilian airliner flying between two of its capitals in response to bert belarus's bewildering excursion into air piracy. On sunday the eu has banned belarusian from european skies and promised further sanctions roman protest the belarusian journalists removed from the ryanair aircraft. After it was forced to land in minsk has appeared in video apparently under some giresse non joined with more on this alex culture of risk analyst focused on russia ukraine belarus and eurasia at h. s. market alex. First of all a bill. Russian state media is reporting the order to crown. The plane was directly from president lukashenko's. So it's clear that he wants to be associated with this action isn't yet clear to the rest of us what he thinks he's doing a won't think from perspective of lukashenka it's clearly a very successful Operation by special forces In which they into subsets A person who from Soup from november last year was on the belarussian list of known terrorists so This is probably his way of thinking. We managed to get Ah terrorist and get him detained and And now he will face He will face punishment
THE NEWS with Anthony Davis
Belarus 'Diverts Ryanair Flight to Arrest Journalist', Opposition Says
"Authorities scrambled a fighter jet and flagged what turned out to be a full spam alert to force orion airplane to land on sunday and then detained opposition minded journalist who was on board during condemnation from europe and the united states in what was described by some e you leaders as a hijacking. The passenger plane flying from athens to lithuania were suddenly diverted to minsk the capital of belarus escorted there by a soviet era. Mig twenty nine fighter jet on its landing. authorities journalists roman protas savage into custody productivity had his head in his hands and was shaking when he realizes the flight was headed for minsk. Lithuania's delfi news outlet said quoting passenger later as lead away. According to the report he remarked all the death penalty here. The twenty six year old journalist worked for poland based online new service nexta which will cost of mass protests against belarussian president alexander lukashenko last year via the telegram messenger app at a time when it was hard for foreign media to do so pro to seven who now works for different telegram channel could mover is wanted in belarus on extremism charges and stands accused of organizing mass riots and of inciting social hatred allegations. He denies data showed. The plane was diverted just two minutes before. It was due to cross into lithuanian espace. Us foreign relations committee chairman. Bob menendez issued a statement with the heads of seven european parliamentary foreign affairs panels denouncing the force landing as an act of piracy. They called for a ban. On all overflights of belarus including to and from the country and for nato and easy you states to impose sanctions and suspend better russa's ability to use interpol poll. The us demanded a full investigation of an action. They said endangered the lives of the passengers including us citizens
BBC Newshour
World Reacts to Belarus Plane ‘Hijacking’ and Arrest of Journalist
"Alexander Lukashenko. And forced to change course to the capital of Belarus, Minsk where the prominent journalist Roman protest, Savage was seized. The action has variously been described as a state hijacking that was the Greek Foreign Ministry on active state terrorism that was the Polish prime minister. German, he said it could not remain without a clear consequence on the French have called for firm and four a firm and unified response. That's your first from two passengers who were on that flight, talking about the journalist Roman pretty Savage and his reaction when he found out the plane was being diverted to Minsk. You seen your harness from, say, significance of this morning, He said nothing. He just turned two people and said he was facing the death penalty. He was nervous at first, but later when he understood he couldn't change anything. He calmed down and accepted it. The chief executive of Ryanair, Michael O'Leary, condemned the actions, saying Sunday's events amounted to state sponsors sponsored piracy. He made his comments in an interview with the Independent Irish radio station used talk. This was a case of state sponsored I was a state sponsored hijack your state sponsored piracy and but unfortunate can't say much about it because the EU authorities and NATO are dealing with at the moment. We're debriefing. The crews are Cruise did a phenomenal job to get that aircraft and almost all the passengers out of Minsk After six hours, I think was very fighting for the crew for the passengers who were held under armed guard have their bags searched on when it was clear it appears that the intent of the Russian authorities was too Remove a journalist and his traveling companion on you know, we believe there was also some KGB agents offloading off the aircraft as well. Michael O'Leary was speaking to news hour on Sunday. Belarus is opposition leader Svetlana taken off Sky Air, who many recognizes the winner off presidential polls last year
New Jersey 101.5
"minsk" Discussed on New Jersey 101.5
"I'm Jeff to Minsk in hand. I'm Bill Doyle. Hey, Before we talk about this MV C thing, motor vehicles yes, of its kind of connected because they're both about this pandemics. This this'll new guidance that came out from the CDC. We were joking about this off the air. Basically, to just paraphrase it. It's that if you are outdoors You don't have to wear a mask any longer unless you're in large groups. Right? Uh huh. Who the hell is wearing a mask outdoors. If they're not in the large group right now, I think people evil we're in a large group is still not wearing their masks and what you're outdoors outdoors is supposed to be safe. No, I hear you about that, but like they're they're basically implying. By this guidance that a lot of people who are not in a large group and outdoors. Walking around wearing masks in this country Seems that way, right? I I'm not seeing a lot of that. I don't understand that. Who would do that? I don't know. I just people still are There is a woman and I'm not trying to make fun of her. I've just not understood that there is a woman in my neighborhood. And throughout this entire thing for a year. Now I occasionally see her just walking by herself. She's not with anybody else. She's not approaching anybody and she wear it and she wears a mass. I mean, at the height of this pandemic. I never wore a mask outside. Not when you're like, not like, you know, Preston and a long line waiting to get into something Just just just never did it. So I guess there are those who do that. Weird where they were talking Absolutely nobody The CDC. I mean, Yeah, Honestly, Yeah. I mean, like, maybe they realized that guidance has not been followed anyway. And so here's the new guidance. I don't get it, man that zig. When you see people drink to this day, you'll occasionally see it. You'll see people driving and we'll have a mask on And they always want to think and they're alone in the car. I always want to think. Okay, they just forgot. Yes. I've done that right? It's an easy thing to forget. Or they're literally driving on Lee one minute down the road to the next stop, and like, why bother taking it off and then putting it back on something like that? But yeah, man, I've It's like it's like there are definitely two extremes here. There are those who just don't believe in anything like the guy who called in was just yesterday, saying that this entire pandemic in covert 19. It's all psychological operations. It's like like a military move. There's either that or people who were like wearing rubber gloves and masks walking alone in the park with nobody near them. No. All right. There's a state Senator Anthony book. Oh, who brings up something that I had not even thought much about? And I want to throw this out and ask what you think of this. Have you noticed that a lot of the motive the motor vehicle agencies? They are constantly closing down because of covert outbreaks. I think a lot of us have heard of that. Did you know? That under their current procedures, and M V C agency closes for like 22 weeks. Over a single worker having covert 19. I always was assuming You know, it's like outbreak that that there was like a true outbreak that there were like 567 people all at once, all in two days, who all had it, And that's why they had to close it because they didn't know how many more might then get it right. And you don't want to then give it to the public. But no all the long, apparently the guideline at Motor Vehicle Commission. It's been one outbreak one employee. And that's it and they shut down for like 14 days. And he wants to do something about that. No number one I want to know. Have you at all been inconvenienced by this? Have you had something to do? Maybe you had an appointment. And it was bad enough even before they were closing. Just getting an appointment. Getting your stuff done with right facility at the right time with unemployment, all that kind of crap. And then they closed down for a week. Two weeks, right? Outrageous, Right. Like if you waited for an appointment, your day is finally coming. And then you find out, you know, a day ahead. Oh, yeah. Guess what? They're gonna be out of commission for two weeks. Real nice. So it is that a pain Have you been inconvenienced by some of these covert closures with motor vehicle agencies and To compare and contrast and this is because of something that book Oh said. If you've had even a single case of covert wherever you work, a single co worker, whatever. What did you replace the business Do They do what book? Oh says, because here's Here's his quote. He says. Every day we hear of another motor Vehicle commission agency that's closing for two weeks because a single worker has co Vered. Nobody else operates like that. Your grocery store doesn't close for days or weeks every time the cashier test positive Sanitized test and get back to work safely without missing a beat. There simply is no good excuse for the repeated disruption of service at our motive at a motor vehicle agencies. And I have to think he's right. Yeah, I can't think of any other place that has been doing this. And so if you have had any even one time, a covert case pop up where you work. What did they do? How do they handle it? I'm assuming exactly as he says. They let everybody know you go and get tested. If you want to. They keep that person out. They bring in a deep, clean crew. And you just keep working. Isn't that what everybody does always worked here, right? I would think that's the way it works everywhere. So that's a major part of this question is, if this has happened where you work, what do other types of businesses do, whether it's an office store? Whatever..
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Club-wielding police in Belarus arrest over 500 protesters
"Police in belarus are swinging clubs at demonstrators for ninety days. Straight have been demanding the resignation of the country's president today thousands of people tried to enter the centre of minsk but the area was cordoned off with armored vehicles. Protesters believe the results of the august. Election were manipulated.
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Belarus 'people’s ultimatum' protest met with violent crackdown
"Thousands of people again marched peacefully through Belarus's capital, Minsk, demanding Alexander Lukashenko leave power. The protests appeared to be the biggest in weeks they were to back up on ultimatum from the opposition. The Lukashenko either step down by Sunday night or face a national strike. The authorities answer was unmistakable. Police attacked the end of the protest for the barrage of stun grenades. This's ABC News
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Belarus protests: Nationwide strike to go ahead, says opposition leader
"Services in Belarus of fired stun grenades at demonstrators in the capital Minsk, who are calling for the resignation of President Alexander Lukashenko. They have been reports that riot police have also fired rubber bullets. The opposition says there'll be a general strike on Monday.
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Belarus: Dozens arrested as police blast protesters with water cannon
"Riot police in Belarus have deployed water cannon and stun grenades to break mouse protests in the capital. Minsk demonstrations gripped the country since Alexander Lukashenko's disputed election victory in August. But critics say the authorities are now routinely using violence to suppress political dissent will join in studio here in Zurich by monocle twenty, four security correspondent. Ben. Ben Who is also a researcher at the. Center for Security. Studies at eight here in Zurich and is an expert on Bellarusse good afternoon. Welcome to the roofing. Thanks can often and tyler. Let's start as this is something that we've been living with since August and like many things with the news agenda other stories have overtaken Belarus in away but bring us up to date on really what is happening. As we said, we've seen obviously what is seen as as a spike in violence by the government but where where do we stand right now? Indeed. This is the yesterday was the tenth Sunday of protests including election, Sunday? Exactly ten weeks ago that we've seen massive protests in better than we talking hundred thousand people or more particularly in the capital means but in other cities across the country, the thing is it's probably hasn't has hasn't been in the headlines as much as in previous weeks is that indeed, there has sadly not been any political progress that these this protest movement has achieved, the government keeps cracking down. On protests and this Sunday was yet again, more violent than previous Sundays. So we've seen disturbing videos of people being beaten up in the streets in prisons and hundreds of arrests set again including lots of journalists you mentioned that this is it's it's nationwide and but of course, obviously, the focus is probably on the capital. Are there other areas where you would say that also that there is more attention to you see greater agitation towards frontiers or anywhere else in the country? Sutton in the foreign policy realm, we've seen an escalation as in the EU and contacting you for ministers are discussing sanctions against betters on this very day we've seen this realm escalating in a sentence number of countries have not only enacted sanctions against Belarus officials. We've also seen nine countries currently pulling back staring Bassedas from as a signal of discontent. So that's certainly an escalation and that includes all of Belarus neighbors apart from Russia including, for example, Ukraine with which relations have so far been actually quite quite quite cozy, and this is certainly an escalation. Domestically, we actually shouldn't even talk about the tenth Sunday of protests which was yesterday, but maybe about the sixty four, th day of protests because we focus on these massive rallies in the capital as you said, but as local activism across the country and particularly local neighborhoods where people probably feel more safe from government repression and there's been for anywhere from concerts, small gatherings, distributing leaflets, hanging out flags, these white red white flags of the opposition that we've seen everywhere and even honking by bus drivers honking bye-bye trains. There's these many quiet signs of solidarity that Belarussians have. Given each other over these weeks. But indeed, no political progress whatsoever as someone who's spent time in the country what do you think the the political divide looks like I say political divide. I mean for the man and woman on the street are we talking about? Could you say there's a twenty thirty percent hard line know super pro Lukashenko backer of versus the rest of the country countrymen. Do you see people buy into the vision and he'd it's obviously very hard to say because we lack reliable survey data this moment but there is room about exactly these twenty to thirty percent which are still staunch supporters of Lukashenka, and that can. Be for very material reasons because they owe their positions in government jobs or the social benefits. This very government I would doubt though that these would be the people who would go out and rally in his favor because I think I've said it in the past as well about Belarussians that tend to be quite pragmatic because there is so little way to voice wants political opinion. that. They look they have the need to make ends meet and that certainly a factor. But what we can tell the shore is that there's a majority that is unhappy with the way the country is ruled and with his person in particular maybe less. So with the political system as such but certainly, with Lukashenka, he's lost all legitimacy in the eyes of majority of Belarussians. How they behave in their everyday life is certainly a different story. We we only see in the end, a minority that goes out to protest and shows their faces. Towards to authorities because obviously, they will become a target of repression and we've seen so many instances of arrests. Also of people being snatched from their own homes from the streets of from. So people are hesitating but the certainly majority that wants to see taint change and won't have any to emphasize everyone so far is peaceful apart from state security forces and that's quite remarkable given. It's been months since the protests that we haven't seen any escalation on that end if we turn to Brussels and e ministers, the discussion that they will be having today the the probably having it right now. Aside from recalling ambassadors, which is, of course, is is wonderful symbolism but I guess when we talk about potential sanctions, one would be thinking clearly economic where can the EU and well I, mean I guess. The. The first point we have to recognize as well that there is an a manufacturing base there are a number of big companies are you based companies that manufactured Belarus the not probably slapping not right at the front of or at least that made in Belarus on the front of their labels but nevertheless, you do have an economic base which is based on manufacturing what, what can e you do and how hard will the EU push on sanctions Indeed so so far we've seen sanctions against the vigil individuals to say we've seen in the past as well. So we talk ministers, we tone security heads of security forces currently not look Shaneco himself, but that may change, for example, German foreign minister, high comas also for sanctions against Lukashenko. Deed this very limited political signals that the US currently sending can send whereas economic sanctions as you indicate, that could particularly be restrictions for access to capital same as a sanctions against Russia. In certain areas those would certainly hurt the regime more particularly the. Elite that is still dependent on Lukashenko as well and the state-owned enterprises that are important factor in Belarus the problem with that, and that's really the pickle you for ministers are in first of all this hurts. European. Companies probably negligible but second, it hurts workers in Belarus themselves. People working in it in factories, they will lose their jobs, they will lose their income and the only access to capital to investment. will be left for Belarussian authorities will be. Russia. So this dependence on Russia is already. So high would only increase and that's part of the hesitation of EU officials indeed to enact such broad sanctions that will not hurt the public but also make Belarus more dependent on Russia and just before we go, you're finishing up a paper on the Belarus topic right now as well. will it be available for listeners to consume when it to hit screens? It will certainly be published anytime soon we haven't. Put pitcher with a specific institution it but it will be on Belarussian civil society, which indeed is very tricky because we've seen in a way the remake awakening of civil society these days but this decentralized nature is grassroots movement that we see is so strong. It's so convincing box decentralized nature lack of organization lack of centralized leadership is actually part of their weakness as well. So. We're looking at that how does protest move and translate into political force? Begnaud, Zog for you Bennasar, our security correspondent here in Europe
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What's the deal in Kyrgyzstan?
"The being few short remains for foreign observers of a given event to be clown themselves than by drawing convenient comparisons we should probably banish any suggestion that what is happening in Kingston has anything much in common with what has been happening in Belarus. There are granted superficial similarities, lodge crowds of citizens who aren't buying the result of a recent election and amount of violence between protesters and police but recent events in Belarus are actually pretty straightforward overstaying tyrant Riggs won election to many demonstrations and the present standoff ensue. Kingston. Is some several layers more complicated and seems poised for a more decisive and dramatic? K. Gaston voted in parliamentary election on Sunday. This was not necessarily predestined to be a Hollow Mockery K. Gaston previous parliamentary election in two thousand fifteen pretty decent reviews from international observers on Freeness and fairness fronts certainly by the generally would be gone standards of Central Asia. This is was different not least because this really doesn't happen. Often the governing party didn't turn up Kingston Social Democratic. Party was stunned by loyalties divided between Kingston's current President Surin by Jeenbekov and he's predecessor Almaz atom by of the two former have fallen out badly in recent years to the extent that last August automobile was arrested and this past June sentenced to eleven years in the clink on corruption charges. As of Monday morning Adam Beyer was a man thanks to the crowds which stormed the National Security Committee building in Bishkek with the former president was being held former Prime Minister John Toro Sati Baldev also on the hook on corruption charges will sprung in similar circumstances. According to official results only four parties of the sixteen contested Sunday's election past the threshold of seven percent necessary to take seats in Kigali stands parliament the Supreme Council three of these parties protesters could not help but notice enjoyed the favour of president. Jeenbekov, who was widely believed to have had his thumb on the scales protests on Monday morning started small and peaceful grew larger and Rowdier, and by Monday evening had taken the parliament building set bits of it on fire and set about redecorating the surrounding streets with ransacked documents. Giga Stan does have an amount of foam for this sort of thing in two thousand and five mass protests which eventually became known as the Tulip Revolution. Forced President Askar Akayev from office. He is now a mathematics professor at Moscow State University in two thousand and ten his successor. Kurmanbek Bakiyev also skipped the country with an angry mob at his heels he was lost heard of. In Minsk begin with breaking news in Kirghistan, the prime minister has resigned. Vert list of is leaders overthrown by popular acclaim. Now appears to have been joined by Prime Minister Cutback Borakove who resigned after the positive results of Sunday's election were annulled by electoral authorities nominated. Piece, in the country and stability in society is more important than any politicians mandates. Suggests that the central. Election Committee thoroughly investigate any violations during the election process. That's a no the result if necessary. I asked political leaders to calm the voters and ask them to take part in gathering. As, this explainer went to wear President Jeenbekov precise whereabouts on certain was also making these sort of statements of willingness to pass power along to responsible new leaders. That one issues is one shovels, the contents of the state treasury into one's Portman toes and frantically oldest one's pilot to fire up the engines and seek clearance for landing in some capital. Four, it's interesting extradition treaties. Possibly significantly President Jeenbekov found the time earlier today to convey birthday greetings to President Vladimir. Putin of Russia volunteering ernest appreciation of Putin's it says here, great contribution and constant attention to the consistent expansion and development of cages Russian multifaceted ties. Custodians Parliament has installed a new prime minister Saadia drop her off another politician who was in prison time last week, it very much remains to be seen how long he'll lost with the parliament buildings still occupied by protesters. Mr Japan was appointed at an emergency meeting in Bishkek hotel, which he had to leave virus service entrance. Once his presence became public knowledge the crowd still filling the streets and squares of Bishkek seen Kina until I talked to Gassiev, a businessman who trades in your shaped greenhouses and is also a representative of a younger generation of caregivers politicians. He is claiming the mantle of the head of government. As to what happens next, it may become important that to external players in particular will be hoping that what happens next? Little as possible Russia maintains a military airbase account in Gaston north China which borders Kingston to the south is a major trading partner. As, both will understand however, an as another cohort of caregivers politicians are presently learning the hard