On Tuesday, Johnson, who is Black, criticized Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s busing effort during a press conference, calling it “right-wing extremism” that was intentionally targeting cities “led by people of color.”
hey, if you dont want a massive flood of illegal aliens bused to your city, then get your federal representatives/governor to fix the immigration issue - or, you know, bus them somewhere else
Since April 2022, Texas has bused more than 66,000 migrants to six Democratic-run cities, four of which have Black mayors - Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Washington.
It's not a flood but a regular thing Republicans do.
I don’t understand. Since when can the Feds just waltz onto private property and destroy fencing on it?
The 4th Amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The wire was put there by Texas. It’s not the property of the land owner.
Texas is pouring on a theatrical production to say the border isn’t being controlled by the Biden administration. The Biden administration is removing the props for the theater production.
I really don’t see where are the short or long term savings for them
Short term: customers are pissed. The only reason they still had a 30 euro per month Intesa San Paolo bank account was that changing the IBAN everywhere is an hassle. ING direct gives the same stuff for free but the thought of the many forms and calls to change it, let them stay hooked. Now they got a new IBAN. Also, no more physical bank access. They lost the only reason to stick with them. Can move to ING and get the same but for 360 euro less each year.
Long term: customers migrated somewhere else and pay the fees to the competition
ISLAMABAD, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Pakistan’s Supreme Court began hearings on Friday on a petition by rights activists seeking to halt deportation of Afghan refugees, a lawyer said, as authorities are combing refugee settlements in an effort to find and send home thousands.
“Due to the urgency, as thousands of people are suffering on daily basis, I’ve requested the court to take up the case as early as next week,” said Umar Ijaz Gilani, the lawyer representing the rights activists.
Thousands of Afghans have gone underground in Pakistan to avoid deportation, fearing for their lives if they return to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan following a hasty and chaotic withdrawal of U.S.-led Western forces in 2021.
Friday’s petition is separate from another focused exclusively on seeking Pakistani citizenship for such children, as guaranteed by the South Asian nation’s constitution, he said.
Many arrived after the Taliban retook Afghanistan in 2021, joining a large number living there since the Soviet invasion of the neighbouring nation in 1979.
Pakistani police have searched door-to-door in refugee settlements for any who have not left voluntarily, starting from the southern port city of Karachi, where hundreds of thousands of Afghans live.
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In the day’s opening address, Britain’s King Charles is expected to warn that repeated signs of climate impact are being ignored, with devastating consequences.
The COP28 conference will also hear from U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who has made climate change a frequent rallying point, before world leaders including Kenya’s President William Ruto and Saudi Arabia’s Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud take the podium.
The United Nations on Friday published its first draft for what could serve as a template for a final agreement from the COP28 summit, which ends Dec. 12.
The draft offers “building blocks” for a political outcome and includes several options for addressing one of the thorniest issues at the summit: deciding whether, and to what extent, fossil fuels should play a role in the future.
The summit also clinched an early victory by adopting a new fund to help poor nations cope with costly climate disasters.
Also on the table for discussion is whether to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, which totaled some $7 trillion last year, and whether to include provisions for carbon capture and removal technology.
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DUBAI, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Britain’s King Charles said on Friday the world was “dreadfully far off track” on addressing climate change and that the global economy would be in peril unless the environment was rapidly repaired.
“I pray with all my heart that COP28 will be another critical turning point towards genuine transformational action,” he said, in reference to the 2015 summit held in France.
Countries, however, are divided over the future of fossil fuel, the burning of which is the main cause of climate change.
The summit, which runs until Dec. 12, clinched an early victory on Thursday, with delegates adopting a new fund to help poor nations cope with costly climate disasters.
The king, whose role is ceremonial but is attending the summit on behalf of the British government and after an invite from host nation the United Arab Emirates, did not single out any group in his speech, his first major climate address as Britain’s monarch.
Charles cited the impact of climate change globally, including floods in India and Pakistan and severe wildfires in the United States, Canada and Greece.
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MANILA, Nov 29 (Reuters) - The Philippines’ Securities and Exchange Commission has begun the process of blocking access to the world’s largest crypto exchange Binance, whose chief last week stepped down and pleaded guilty to breaking U.S. anti-money laundering laws.
The SEC said the operator of Binance was not a registered corporation in the Philippines, and was operating without the necessary licence and authority to sell or offer any form of securities.
The removal of access in the Philippines, the SEC said in a statement, will take effect within three months of the issuance of its advisory on Nov. 28 to give Filipino users time to pull out investments from the crypto exchange.
It has asked Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) and Facebook parent Meta to ban online advertisements from Binance in the Philippines, and warned those selling via or convincing people to invest in the platform they may be held criminally liable.
Former Binance chief Changpeng Zhao stepped down as CEO last week after pleading guilty to wilfully causing the exchange to fail to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program.
Reuters sought comment from Binance through email, but received an automated response.
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LONDON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Reduced supply from major copper producers Panama and Peru may flip the global copper market into a deficit from surplus in 2024 or at least tighten oversupply if the disruptions are not resolved in coming months, analysts said on Tuesday.
Panama’s top court on Tuesday ruled that Canadian miner First Quantum’s (FM.TO) contract to operate the Cobre Panama mine there is unconstitutional, while a union representing half of the workers at Peru’s Las Bambas mine went on strike.
If the Cobre Panama mine were to be permanently shut, then the market could easily move into deficit in 2024, said Macquarie analyst Alice Fox.
Bank of America’s 2024 base-case scenario sees the global copper market surplus at 150,000 metric tons, said analyst Michael Widmer.
Copper, used in power and construction, is widely expected to benefit from the green energy transition in coming years, however it is up just 1.2% so far in 2023 amid patchy post-pandemic recovery of top metals consumer China and concerns about economic growth elsewhere.
This could be the trigger for some longer-term investors to come in, especially given the deficit calls for the back half of this decade are now being brought forward," said Al Munro at broker Marex.
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Most hostages released during a six-day-old truce have been rushed to hospitals out of sight in a country still reeling from the shock of their abduction during a Hamas rampage on Oct. 7 in which Israel says 1,200 people were killed.
The families of two girls who were held together found it hard to hear their children on their return home because they spoke only in whispers.
Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, abducted on Oct. 7 and set free two weeks later, said she confronted Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar while in captivity and asked him how he was not ashamed for having acted violently against peace activists like herself.
Ahal Besorai said his niece and nephew, Alma and Noam Or, 13 and 16, and a woman in their room had shared a diary, but the children were prevented from taking it when their captors removed the two of them.
He told CNN the children thought they were being taken to the toilet but the militants “handcuffed them, blindfolded them, (and) took them to the car that took them to the place where they were being handed over to the Red Cross.”
One Israeli mother, Daniel Aloni, wrote to thank Hamas’ armed al-Qassam Brigades before her release with daughter Emilia.
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Bills will increase by 11-16% in 23 municipalities, including Spain’s second-largest city.
Since September last year, rainfall in Spain has been around 17% below the 30-year average, and some reservoirs in Catalonia in the northeast and Andalucia in the south are only 15% full.
As Catalonia endures its worst recorded drought, officials announced last week that part of the region, including Barcelona, was entering a pre-emergency phase.
Permitted water consumption was reduced to 210 litres a day per resident from 230.
Fresh water now requires more treatment because rivers have become sluggish, and the output of costly desalination plants has been boosted.
Arrangements are being made to allow deliveries by ship if necessary, and new desalination plants are to be built.
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