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 Detik Jurnal Amerika-- Haiti-Lebih dari 8.400 orang menjadi korban kekerasan geng di Haiti tahun lalu, termasuk pembunuhan, cedera dan penculikan – peningkatan sebesar 122 persen dibandingkan tahun 2022, kata Perwakilan Khusus PBB untuk negara tersebut kepada Dewan Keamanan PBB pada hari Kamis. “Saya tidak bisa terlalu menekankan betapa parahnya situasi di Haiti, di mana berbagai krisis yang berkepanjangan telah mencapai titik kritis,” kata Maria Isabel Salvador, saat memaparkan laporan terbaru kantor politik PBB di sana, BINUH.

Negara Karibia ini masih dilanda meningkatnya kekerasan dan ketidakamanan yang dilakukan oleh geng-geng bersenjata dengan latar belakang tantangan politik, kemanusiaan dan sosio-ekonomi. Sekitar 83 persen dari lonjakan pembunuhan dan cedera yang belum pernah terjadi sebelumnya terjadi di ibu kota, Port-au-Prince, namun kekerasan telah menyebar ke tempat lain, khususnya Artibonite, departemen terbesar dari 10 departemen di Haiti. Di selatan ibu kota, geng-geng melakukan serangan besar-besaran untuk mengendalikan zona-zona penting dan terus menggunakan kekerasan seksual secara sistematis di wilayah-wilayah yang mereka kendalikan, sehingga menempatkan perempuan dan anak perempuan berusia 12 tahun dalam risiko.

Ibu Salvador mengatakan bahwa sejak pengarahan terakhirnya pada bulan Oktober, setidaknya 75 orang dilaporkan terbunuh oleh gerakan main hakim sendiri sipil yang muncul sebagai pertahanan kolektif melawan geng-geng tersebut. Sementara itu, BINUH terus berupaya meningkatkan kapasitas Kepolisian Nasional Haiti (HNP). ), namun tingkat pengurangan anggota yang tinggi semakin mengurangi kemampuan pasukan untuk melawan kekerasan geng dan menjaga keamanan.

Pemerintah Haiti dan komunitas internasional telah meningkatkan dukungan terhadap HNP selama beberapa bulan terakhir, tambahnya.

Hal ini mencakup peningkatan sebesar 13 persen yang dialokasikan di bawah anggaran nasional untuk tahun fiskal ini dan pasokan peralatan perlindungan individu, kendaraan lapis baja, sepeda motor dan senjata. Pada bulan Oktober lalu, Dewan Keamanan PBB mengizinkan pengerahan misi dukungan keamanan multinasional (MSS ) untuk mendukung kepolisian Haiti yang terkepung, yang ditawarkan Kenya untuk memimpin. Rezim sanksi tahun 2022 yang menargetkan para pemimpin geng dan pemodal mereka juga diperbarui pada akhir bulan itu.

Ibu Salvador mengatakan dia akan terus mendorong semua pemangku kepentingan untuk secara efektif mempersiapkan penempatan misi tersebut dan sekali lagi menghimbau negara-negara untuk berkontribusi secara besar-besaran untuk mencapai tujuan ini.Meskipun perbaikan situasi keamanan sangat penting untuk memutus siklus krisis yang menimpa Haiti, ia menekankan bahwa stabilitas jangka panjang hanya dapat dicapai melalui proses politik yang dimiliki secara nasional dan inklusif.

Senada dengan Sekretaris Jenderal PBB, beliau mendesak semua aktor politik dan pemangku kepentingan “di dalam dan untuk Haiti” untuk bersatu dalam memprioritaskan dan menjunjung tinggi kepentingan rakyat di atas segalanya. Dia mencatat bahwa “aktor kekerasan baru semakin menonjol” dalam beberapa bulan terakhir, sehingga memicu kekhawatiran atas peran mereka yang berpotensi mengganggu stabilitas.

“Dukungan terus-menerus kepada Kepolisian Nasional Haiti, pengerahan MSS secara cepat, sanksi yang efektif, dan proses politik yang berkelanjutan" yang menghasilkan “pemilu yang kredibel, partisipatif, dan inklusif” sangat penting, katanya.

Ini adalah “elemen mendasar untuk memulihkan keamanan dan stabilitas di Haiti, sehingga supremasi hukum, lembaga demokrasi, dan pembangunan berkelanjutan menjadi kenyataan bagi rakyatnya,” tambahnya. Kepala Kantor PBB untuk Narkoba dan Kejahatan (UNODC), Ghada Waly, juga memberikan informasi terbaru kepada Dewan tentang perdagangan senjata dan aliran keuangan gelap di Haiti.

Sebuah laporan UNODC pada bulan Oktober lalu telah mengidentifikasi empat jalur laut dan darat utama yang digunakan untuk aliran senjata api dan amunisi ilegal, terutama dari AS.

Laporan terbaru, yang diterbitkan pada hari Rabu, menemukan bahwa tercatat ada 11 landasan udara informal atau rahasia yang tersebar di Haiti.

“Mereka mewakili titik buta yang mungkin digunakan oleh penyelundup manusia dan penyelundup, mengingat pesawat kecil yang terbang langsung antara Amerika Serikat dan Haiti sulit untuk dipantau,” kata Ms. Wady. Dinamika regional juga penting karena krisis yang semakin parah di Haiti tidak terjadi dalam ruang hampa, tambahnya, seraya mencatat bahwa senjata api ilegal semakin mengkhawatirkan di seluruh Karibia, “menimbulkan lingkaran setan bagi aktivitas geng dan perdagangan narkoba”.

Laporan ini juga mendokumentasikan tindakan untuk memerangi korupsi dan aliran keuangan gelap, “yang merupakan faktor utama yang memungkinkan terjadinya kekerasan dan kejahatan terorganisir serta mengganggu lembaga peradilan Haiti sendiri”.

“Namun demikian, upaya pemberantasan korupsi terus terhambat oleh kurangnya kapasitas, kurangnya peralatan forensik, dan terbatasnya keahlian dalam melakukan penyelidikan yang kompleks,” katanya.

Laporan UNODC berikutnya akan fokus pada analisis rinci mengenai dinamika geng di Haiti. ( Sumber UN PBB.)

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Wage growth well short of what was promised from tax reform | TheHill

Wage growth well short of what was promised from tax reform

The latest Employment Situation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows weekly employee earnings have grown $75 since tax reform passed, well short of the $4,000 to $9,000 annual increases projected by President TrumpDonald John TrumpRobert De Niro, Ben Stiller play Mueller and Cohen in 'SNL' parody of 'Meet the Parents' Trump order targets wide swath of public assistance programs Comey says Trump reacted to news of Russian meddling by asking if it changed election results MORE and House Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanTrump order targets wide swath of public assistance programs Sunday shows preview: White House officials talk Syria strike Wage growth well short of what was promised from tax reform MORE (R-Wis.).  

During the three months following passage of the tax bill, the average American saw a $6.21 increase in average weekly earnings. Assuming 12 weeks of work during the three months following passage of the corporate tax cuts, this equates to a $75 increase.

Assuming a full 52 weeks of work, the $6.21 increase in weekly earnings would result in a $323 annual increase, nowhere near the minimum $4,000 promised and $9,000 potential annual increases projected by President Trump and Speaker Ryan if significant cuts were made to corporate tax rates.

Unless something drastically changes, it seems that Americans are going to have to settle for much less than the $4,000 to $9,000 projected wage increases. An extra $322 a year isn’t going to do much to pay down the $1 trillion in additional debt they are projected to take on as a result of the tax cuts.

Yet, a key part of the argument for the recently passed corporate tax cuts and more than a trillion dollars in debt was the substantial wage hike promised by the president’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).

From a document titled, “Corporate Tax Reform and Wages: Theory and Evidence,” on the White House’s website:

“Reducing the statutory federal corporate tax rate from 35 to 20 percent would, the analysis below suggests, increase average household income in the United States by, very conservatively, $4,000 annually.”

The document goes on to say:

“When we use the more optimistic estimates from the literature, wage boosts are over $9,000 for the average U.S. household.”

No less than Speaker Ryan’s website trumpeted the Council of Economic Advisers report claiming that on average, the proposed corporate tax cuts would result in at least a $4,000 annual increase in wages.

Now, some supporters of the tax bill may say this analysis is unfair because it is too early for the effects of the tax bill to show up in wages. By that logic, they also shouldn’t take credit for reported employment growth increases.  

Still others may point to the $1,000 bonuses announced by some companies shortly after passage of the tax bill. First, that is significantly less than the promised $4,000 to $9,000. Second, these are not wage increases; these are one-time bonuses.

Will companies pay them again, and if so when? Third, the $1,000 represents a fraction of the estimated potential company tax savings.

Using 2016 net income, 2016 effective tax rates, the new 21-percent corporate tax rate and company bonuses, we estimated company bonuses as a percentage of a number of company’s potential tax savings. The results: In many cases, the bonuses represent a mere pittance of the possible tax savings.

Navient announced that it would be giving $1,000 bonuses to 98 percent of its 6,7000 employees, paying out nearly $7 million in bonuses. While that may seem generous, it pales in comparison to Navient’s potential tax savings.

Using Navient’s 2016 net income, its 2016 effective tax rate, estimated annual tax savings of nearly $200 million and its announced bonuses, we calculated that the announced bonuses represent less than 4 percent of Navient’s potential tax savings.

Turning to the airline industry, JetBlue’s employees might be feeling blue if they realized that their $1,000 bonuses are estimated to be less than 10 percent of JetBlue’s potential tax savings, while American Airlines’ bonuses are estimated to represent less than 15 percent of its estimated potential annual tax savings

Not to be outdone, Comcast’s bonuses represent less than 8 percent of its estimated potential annual tax savings, while Walmart appears downright generous, giving an estimated $0.16 of every dollar of its estimated potential annual tax savings to employees in the form of bonuses.

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What happened to the minimum $4,000 promised? I guess like many promises by politicians, they were empty. Instead, they seem to have gone to share buybacks. For the period December 2017 through February 2018, share buybacks more than doubled to $200 million.

Is a $323 wage increase and a one-time bonus of $1,000 that represents a fraction of estimated potential company tax savings worth the more than $1 trillion in additional debt placed on Americans? Is this the best Congress could do? No.

Instead, Congress could have simply made each company’s tax cut contingent on each company increasing wages. The problem is that some companies receiving tax cuts didn’t raise wages.

If Congress had made each company’s tax cut contingent on each company’s wage increases, the American people would have gotten more bang for their tax cut bucks. Additionally, this would have created a real incentive for companies to raise wages: Increase wages, get a tax cut; don’t and you won’t.

If the justification for saddling the American people with at least $1 trillion in additional debt was greater wage growth, tax cuts should have been tied to each company’s wage growth; that’s just logical. That’s getting a better deal for the American people, and that’s getting a better return on investment.

Chris Macke is the founder of Solutionomics, a think tank focused on developing solutions for a more efficient, merit-based corporate tax code. He has advised the U.S. Federal Reserve by providing market updates and implications of monetary policy changes on asset valuations and market distortions, and he's a contributor to the Fed Beige Book. Find him on Twitter: @solutionomics.

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France issues report detailing evidence of Assad role in chemical attacks

France issues report detailing evidence of Assad role in chemical attacks

France declassified a report on Saturday laying out evidence that officials said proves that a chemical attack in Syria last week was carried out by the government of President Bashar Assad.

The report claims that several chemical strikes were carried out in the Damascus suburb of Douma on April 7, and that symptoms experienced by the victims — skin burns, suffocation and other breathing difficulties, among other markers — were consistent with the effects of chlorine gas.

"Reliable intelligence indicates that Syrian military officials have coordinated what appears to be the use of chemical weapons containing chlorine on Douma, on April 7," the report, released by the French Foreign Ministry, reads.

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The report also states that the Syrian government has carried out a number of chemical weapons strikes since April 4, 2017 — the same day a chemical attack in Syria's northern Idlib province left more than 80 civilians dead.

The U.S. issued an assessment on Friday night pointing to the Syrian government's role in the alleged chemical attacks in Douma.

That report cites "multiple media sources, the reported symptoms experienced by victims, videos and images showing two assessed barrel bombs from the attack, and reliable information indicating coordination between Syrian military officials before the attack."

The assessment also suggests that the Syrian government not only used chlorine in the attack on Douma, but that reported symptoms were also consistent with exposure to sarin, a deadly nerve agent.

The French and U.S. assessments came hours after leaders in Washington, Paris and London authorized "precision strikes" on targets in Syria believed to be associated with the country's chemical weapons arsenal.

Syria and its allies, Russia and Iran, have denied that Assad's government used chemical weapons, and have sought to blame both foreign actors and militant groups for staging the attacks in Douma.

Russia has accused the U.S. and its allies of failing to produce adequate evidence of the Syrian government's role in the chemical attack.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the international chemical weapons watchdog, launched an investigation into the alleged chemical strikes on Douma on Saturday.

The allied strikes on Friday were cast by U.S. officials, not as a punishment for Assad's government, but as a means to eradicate Syria's chemical stockpile and production capabilities.

Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the director of the Joint Staff, said Saturday that while the allied attacks dealt a blow to Syria's chemical weapons program, Damascus likely retained "residual" elements of its chemical arsenal.

President TrumpDonald John TrumpInfowars' Alex Jones blasts Trump over airstrikes: 'He's crapping all over us' McCain to Trump: Airstrikes alone won't achieve objectives in Syria Top general: US did not notify Russia on Syria targets MORE and other U.S. officials have said that they are prepared to take further action in Syria, unless Assad's government ceases its alleged use of chemical weapons.

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Mueller can prove Cohen made secret trip to Prague before the election: report

Special counsel Robert MuellerRobert Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE’s team has proof that President TrumpDonald John TrumpRobert De Niro, Ben Stiller play Mueller and Cohen in 'SNL' parody of 'Meet the Parents' Trump order targets wide swath of public assistance programs Comey says Trump reacted to news of Russian meddling by asking if it changed election results MORE’s personal lawyer made a secret trip to Prague during the 2016 campaign despite his denial that he'd ever been there, McClatchy reported Friday.

It is not clear why Michael Cohen was in Prague. The claim he visited was originally made in a dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.

Cohen denied that he'd ever been to Prague "in my life" after the dossier's publication, tweeting a photo of his passport.

McClatchy reported that Cohen entered the country through Germany in August or early September 2016, which does not require a passport stamp.

The dossier claimed that, in Prague, Cohen met with a prominent ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Konstantin Kosachev, but it is not clear whether Mueller has evidence of such a meeting.

Koschahev was one of 24 Russian oligarchs slapped with U.S. sanctions earlier this month.

If such a meeting happened, it would be further evidence of ties between Trump associates and Putin. The dossier also claims that Cohen, among others, was deeply involved in a “cover up and damage limitation operation in the attempt to prevent the full details of Trump’s relationship with Russia being exposed.”

Neither Cohen nor Mueller commented on the story to McClatchy.

The report comes on the same day that U.S attorneys confirmed that they are investigating Cohen for criminal activity.

The FBI raided Cohen's office and home on Monday, in part on a referral from Mueller's office. 

 
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