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Donald Trump fires red balls at his own camp

Donald Trump fires red balls at his own camp

USA: Donald Trump fires red balls at his own camp






On Twitter, the US president called Republican leaders "pathetic"


Donald Trump has changed his pain. And the most amazing thing is that he is now mainly attacking his own camp. The U.S. president on Tuesday redoubled his virulence against the tenors of the Republicans,described as "pathetic," sowing a little more trouble in his party in the run-up to two crucial Senate elections.


From his club in Mar-a-Lago, Florida,and just before starting another day of golf, Donald Trump expressed his frustration in a series of particularly virulent tweets. The object of his wrath: the increasingly strong prospect of Congress rejecting its veto of the defense budget, which would be a first since his arrival in the White House.



Senate Republican leader not impressed


"The weak and tired Republican "leadership" will allow the bad defense law to pass," the outgoing president said on Twitter. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell soon made it clear that he would not be impressed by presidential tweets, calling in a message of no confidence to Donald Trump to reject his veto.



Crossing the line on several fronts, Donald Trump has also once again advanced conspiracy theories to deny his defeat to Joe Biden. And once again his targets are in his camp: "The leadership of the Republican Party chooses the path of minimal resistance. Our leaders (not me, of course!) are pathetic. The only thing they know how to do is lose!. The outgoing president, still popular among Republican voters, matched his tweets with a thinly veiled threat to his party's lawmakers." P.S. I have elected many senators and members of the House of Representatives. I think they've forgotten!.


The balance of power at stake

David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler will surely hear it. The two Republican senators are playing their seats on January 5 in two by-elections in Georgia, which captivate the political world. Because with them, the whole balance of power under Joe Biden is at stake. If the two Democratic candidates - Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff - win, Democrats will regain control of the Senate, and hold all the levers of power in Washington.


On paper, Republicans are off to a good start, but Donald Trump's angry recent weeks in the White House have worried the Grand Old Party. His tirades against the electoral system could, among other things, undermine the mobilization of their constituents in Georgia. Finally, the president's unexpected reversals on the plan to help the U.S. economy embarrass Republican senators. With less than a month to go before he leaves office, the conservative camp is increasingly concerned about the scorched earth strategy of the 45th president of the United States.



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The unit prices of the various Covid-19 vaccines mistakenly published on Twitter

The unit prices of the various Covid-19 vaccines mistakenly published on Twitter

The unit prices of the various Covid-19 vaccines mistakenly published on Twitter





A Belgian minister posted on Twitter the prices, hitherto confidential, of anti-Covid vaccines, causing embarrassment from the European Commission


It's called a big dumpling... A Belgian minister posted on Twitter the prices, hitherto kept confidential, of anti-Covid vaccines, causing embarrassment from the European Commission. Eva De Bleeker posted on her Twitter account on Thursday a table detailing the amounts promised by her government to manufacturers for each of the six vaccines ordered, with the price per unit practiced in the EU.


The Belgian Secretary of State for Budget quickly deleted her tweet but screenshots were seized and the contents were still visible on Friday.



The price per unit ranges from 1.78 to 14.70 euros


Thus, the general public has learned that the price per unit varies from 1.78 euros for the vaccine of the Swedish-British group AstraZeneca, to 18 U.S. dollars (or 14.70 euros) for that of the American Moderna, through that of Pfizer/BioNTech which costs 12 euros. "I wanted to be transparent, maybe a little too transparent," Eva De Bleeker said afterwards, admitting her blunder to Belgian MPs. But this "does not jeopardize" the deliveries of vaccines to Belgium,the Flemish liberal leader assured.


The European Commission on Friday reaffirmed the importance of respecting this "obligation" of discretion. "Anything about information like the price of vaccines is covered by confidentiality, it is a very important obligation," Stefan De Keersmaecker, a spokesman for the EU executive, said at the daily press briefing in Brussels. "This is a contractual requirement" in the context of orders already placed to pharmaceutical groups, said the head of the spokesman, Eric Mamer, noting that they had obtained compliance with this rule all over the world.



Prices "covered by a confidentiality clause"


Disclosure of prices paid in Europe exposes the Commission to difficulties with pharmaceutical companies. Confidentiality "is in the interest of the company (already under contract) but also in the interest of ongoing negotiations with other companies, with other vaccine developers," said Stefan De Keersmaecker. The Pfizer Group did recall that prices were "covered by a confidentiality clause in the contract with the Commission," according to a spokeswoman for Pfizer Benelux contacted by the Belga agency.


On Friday, the Secretary of State's Twitter feed only posted the message on the subject: "Here are the facts: 33.5 million vaccines will be purchased this year for 279 million euros." Another $500 million will be provided, this time from the 2021 budget, for future purchases.



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Twitter to close live video platform in March

Twitter to close live video platform in March

Twitter to close live video platform in March






According to the group, the application is no longer financially sustainable


If you still want to make some videos using the Periscope app, you'll have to do it fast. Twitter announced on Tuesday that it plans to close its live video platform by March. In a blog post, the social network justifies its choice by the fact that the application, which is facing a continuous decline in the number of users, is no longer financially sustainable.


"Over the past two years, we have seen a decline in usage and we know that costs will only increase over time," Twitter explains in the post. "The truth is that the Periscope app has been in an unsustainable maintenance mode for some time," adds the group, which bought the platform in 2015.



Features built into Twitter


The app will no longer be available for download from March 2021. Nevertheless, most of Periscope's core features will be retained, and integrated into Twitter. "We probably would have made this decision sooner" if 2020 and the Covid-19 pandemic had not "redefined priorities," the bluebird said.



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