Australian State Media - with a child flashing the devils horns, one eye symbolism and all - FFS subtle
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-02/nsw-fast-tracks-covid-19-freedoms-for-fully-vaccinated/100587056
Philadelphia becomes first major city to ban police stops for minor traffic violations
The new rule targets “secondary violations” that include things such as expired registration, a single broken piece tail light or missing inspection and emissions testing certificates.
Philadelphia became the first major U.S. city to ban police stops for minor traffic violations in an effort to reduce harmful interactions between law enforcement and people of color.
Mayor Jim Kenney signed legislation Monday, some two weeks after the city council voted 14-2 in favor of the policy, which will limit traffic stops to primary violations that threaten public safety.
“To many people who look like me, a traffic stop is a rite of passage – we pick out cars, we determine routes, we plan our social interactions around the fact that it is likely that we will be pulled over by police,” said Council Member Isaiah Thomas, who introduced the ordinance. “By removing the traffic stops that promote discrimination rather than public safety, City Council has made our streets safer and more equitable”
The new rule targets “secondary violations” that include things such as expired registration, a single broken piece tail light or missing inspection and emissions testing certificates.
Thomas said the bill redirects law enforcement’s efforts toward promoting public safety while lessening “negative interactions that widen the divide and perpetuate mistrust.”
The city police department will have 120 days to train officers on the new ordinance.
In Philadelphia, 62% of police officers and 7 in 10 homicide investigators are white, despite accounting for less than one-third of the overall population.
During a July 2020 legislative hearing about police arbitration concerns, the Defenders Association of Philadelphia said its analysis of 1,200 officer interactions with people of color resulted in confiscation of contraband “considered detrimental to society” less than 1% of the time.
Thomas also sponsored a companion bill that creates a searchable database of traffic violations that will track driver and officer information to better illuminate how widespread and deep the problem goes. City council approved the measure, 15-1.
“Data and lived experiences showed us the problem and data will be key to making sure this is done right,” he said. “Data will tell us if we should end more traffic stops or amend how this is enforced. Data will also tell other cities that Philadelphia is leading on this civil rights issue and it can be replicated.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/philadelphia-bans-police-stops-certain-traffic-violations
26 Democrats Ask Federal Agencies to Investigate if Texas Migrant Arrests Violate Constitution
Democratic members of Congress are asking the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. attorney general to investigate whether arrests of migrants violate constitutional rights. Over two dozen Democratic members have joined together to investigate “legal problems that have arisen out of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative to arrest and jail migrants on state criminal charges” reports Austin’s local CBS station.
Specifically, the 26 Democrats sent a letter asking the federal bureaus to investigate Abbott’s “catch and jail” immigration policy. The representatives claim the policy violates the U.S. Constitution because of violations of state law and logistical problems that have resulted from the thousands of arrests.
Among the signees was U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and 19 other U.S. Congressional Democrats, as well as local Texas Democratic leaders.
Democratic members of Congress are asking the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. attorney general to investigate whether arrests of migrants violate constitutional rights. Over two dozen Democratic members have joined together to investigate “legal problems that have arisen out of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative to arrest and jail migrants on state criminal charges” reports Austin’s local CBS station.
Specifically, the 26 Democrats sent a letter asking the federal bureaus to investigate Abbott’s “catch and jail” immigration policy. The representatives claim the policy violates the U.S. Constitution because of violations of state law and logistical problems that have resulted from the thousands of arrests.
Among the signees was U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and 19 other U.S. Congressional Democrats, as well as local Texas Democratic leaders.
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Austin’s CBS reports:
Since July, Abbott has directed Texas state police to arrest migrants suspected of having crossed the border illegally on state criminal charges in response to a rise in border crossings. Almost all of the arrests have been for allegedly trespassing on private property in Val Verde and Kinney counties. After the arrests began, local judicial systems quickly became overwhelmed and fell behind state deadlines while hundreds of migrants remained imprisoned, sometimes for weeks without even being appointed an attorney.
In the letter, the Democratic members wrote “these operations have continued to militarize Texas’ border communities and interfered with the federal immigration system, likely violating the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.”
“Even more egregiously, these programs have directly led to a violation of state laws and constitutional due process rights” the letter continued.
https://saraacarter.com/blog/2021/11/01/26-democrats-ask-federal-agencies-to-investigate-if-texas-migrant-arrests-violate-constitution/
Houthis Reportedly Targeted Civilians With Ballistic Missiles, As Their Advance In Ma’rib Continues
On November 1, Yemen’s Information Minister claimed that the Houthis (as Ansar Allah are known) carried out a missile attack on the Yemeni province of Ma’rib. The fighters reportedly killed or wounded 29 civilians.
According to the claims of Muammar al-Iryani, two Houthi ballistic missiles hit a mosque and a religious school in the residential neighborhood of al-Aumd, killing and wounding civilians, including women and children.
The Marib governor’s office confirmed the attack, adding that it took place late on October 31.
In their turn, the Houthi are yet to comment on the attack.
The only video that is reportedly showing the damage was shared on social media.
If confirmed, this is the second Houthi attack with ballistic missiles targeting the Yemen’s Ma’rib in recent days. However, the previous attack did not target civilian settlements.
On October 28, the Houthis hit the house of Sheikh Abdul Latif al-Qibli Nimran, a Saudi-backed tribal leader, in the town of Al Sayyad with a ballistic missile, according to pro-Saudi media sources.
Sheikh Abdul Latif survived the pinpoint missile strike. However, twelve people, including two of the Sheikh’s children, were killed.
The claims of a new missile attack came amid the Houthi rapid advance on Ma’rib frontlines.
https://southfront.org/houthis-reportedly-targeted-civilians-with-ballistic-missiles-as-their-advance-in-marib-continues/
PM pledges $2 billion for Pacific countries to help fight climate change
Australia has promised more money to help its developing Pacific neighbours fight climate change at a key climate summit seeking to agree on rapid cuts to global emissions.
In his final address to the United Nations COP26 summit in Glasgow, Prime Minister Scott Morrison laid the challenge of combating climate change at the feet of the world's scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs.
Mr Morrison spruiked Australia's new commitment to net zero by 2050 and said the country's emissions would fall 35 per cent by 2030.
But while he said the nation's commitment "notes" the predicted drop, Mr Morrison did not update an official target of a 26 to 28 per cent drop from 2005 levels, a figure significantly out of step with many of the world's richest nations.
Scientists consider ambitious 2030 targets essential to giving the world a chance of staving off devastating global warming of more than 1.5 degrees. They're a key focus of the 26th Conference of the Parties taking place this week in Glasgow.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who had urged the world to halve emissions by 2030, opened the conference with a dire warning that the world was strapped to a "doomsday device" that could only be deactivated with fast and ambitious climate change action.
"Humanity has long since run down the clock on climate change," he said.
"It's one minute to midnight on that doomsday clock and we need to act now."
Another key goal is getting rich countries to follow through on a commitment to give $100 billion a year to developing countries to fight and adapt to climate change.
Mr Morrison's updated finance pledge takes Australia's commitment to $2 billion until 2025, double the previous five-year period and $500 million more than the Prime Minister announced last year.
According to World Resources Institute, Australia should be spending about US$3 billion a year, based on each country contributing 0.22 per cent of its gross national income.
Mr Morrison assured the dozens of world leaders in attendance that "technology will have the answers to a decarbonised economy" and drew a parallel to the record-breaking vaccine development that helped pull parts of the world out of the worst of the coronavirus pandemic.
"The challenge of combating climate change will be met the same way. And it will be met by those who frankly are largely not in this room. It will be outside this. Our technologists or engineers, our entrepreneurs are industrialists and our financiers that will actually chart the path to net zero. And it is up to us as leaders of governments to back them in."
https://www.9news.com.au/national/cop26-glasgow-climate-summit-australia-prime-minister-scott-morrison-increases-climate-funding-in-speech-banking-on-scientists-to-solve-climate-change/73af5dad-e706-47a4-b554-0021065a9b7a