#AceBreakingNews report …., [Nov 6, 2022 at 10:10] The show of forceโ followed intelligence reports alleging that Tehran was planning to attack Saudi Arabia, the paper says
The US has sent Persian Gulf-based warplanes in the direction of Iran, in response to intelligence reports alleging that Tehran was planning an attack on Saudi Arabia, the Washington Post has reported.
Last Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Riyadh had told Washington that Iranian missile and drone strikes on targets within the Saudi territory were โimminent.โAfter getting this information, the US scrambled its jets in the region and sent them towards Iranian airspace โas an armed show of force,โ WaPo reported.
The move by Washington, which hadnโt been reported earlier, was โthe latest illustration of the strength and importance of a partnershipโ the Biden administration has with Saudi Arabia, the paper added.The Iranian foreign ministry has rejected the claims that itโs planning to attack Saudi Arabia as โbaseless accusations,โ devised โto create a negative atmosphere against Iran and destroy the current positive trends with the countries of the region.โRead moreIranian
Iranian troops attend a maneuver in northwestern Iran, October 17, 2022Saudi Arabia fears imminent attack from Iran โ WSJRiyadh has been Washingtonโs main ally in the Gulf for decades, but the future of those relations has been in question after the OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), which is de facto led by Saudi Arabia, decided in early October to reduce oil production.
The move was made despite the US urging the Saudis to do the opposite, having argued that lower oil prices would hurt Russia and make it harder for Moscow to finance its military operation in Ukraine.According to NBC, the White House has been discussing rolling back its military aid to the Saudis and excluding them from military drills and conferences in the region as punishment for Riyadhโs defiance.
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#AceNewsDesk – Aged care workers will get a pay rise of at least 15 per cent, after Australiaโs industrial umpire handed down an โinterimโ decision in a highly anticipated and long-awaited wage case.
The Fair Work Commission has ruled the pay rise for aged care workers is “plainly justified”.(Supplied: Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation.)none
Unions had wanted a 25 per cent pay boost and a wages increase was a key recommendation of a 2021 Royal Commission, which exposed major problems in the sector, including overwork, neglect and abuse.
In a lengthy decision published late on Friday, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) said an interim increase of 15 per cent was “plainly justified”, with the decision establishing the “existing minimum rates do not properly compensate employees for the value” of their hard work.
“We accept the expert evidence that, as a general proposition, work in feminised industries โ including care work โ has been historically undervalued and that the reason for that undervaluation is likely to be gender-based,” the FWC said in its ruling.
“We also recognise that there is ample evidence that the needs of those being cared for in their homes have significantly increased in terms of clinical complexity, frailty and cognitive and mental health.”
Further pay rises could be possible
The timing of the pay rise โ and whether it should be gradually introduced โ will start being discussed later this month and the commission has left open the possibility of further pay increases.
“We wish to make it clear that this does not conclude our consideration of the unions’ claim for a 25-per-cent increase for other employees, namely administrative and support aged care employees,” the FWC added.
“Nor are we suggesting that the 15-per-cent interim increase necessarily exhausts the extent of the increase justified by work value reasons in respect of direct care workers.”
It will take submissions from employers and the federal government, before handing down stages 2 and 3 of its decision.
It argued that it needed to act in stages to avoid “unduly delaying any increase to minimum wages” and to ensure it can “more quickly consider how to phase-in any initial minimum wage adjustments”.
Labor has long said that low pay has contributed to people leaving the sector.
“We need to bring workers back to the aged care sector and fill the staff shortages,” Aged Care Minister Anika Wells said.
“Increasing wages in aged care is essential to ensuring that men and women are paid equally,” she added.
The government had promised to fund a pay increase and argued publicly in favour of it, but had not put a figure on how much salaries should rise.
“Aged care work is hard work โ but it’s undervalued work,” said Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke.
“This result is the first step in changing that.
“We fought for this pay rise because our government is committed to getting wages moving again, particularly in low-paid female-dominated industries like this one.”
Union warns pay rise will not end ‘aged care crisis’
Unions have described Friday’s decision as a “down-payment” and believe broader pay increases are needed to fix problems in the sector.
They argue that aged care has suffered from government neglect over a long period, leading to shortages of trained staff, which has exacerbated the challenge of caring for Australia’s ageing population and contributed to well-documented problems.
“This is a reasonable start but we need the commission to go further and permanently end the poverty wage settings that dominate aged care,” Health Service Union national president Gerard Hayes said.
“Nobody should be mistaken. This will not fix the crisis. We still have massive unfinished business in aged care.
“For the last decade, this industry has relied on the goodwill of an exploited, casualised workforce. Today represents progress, but the legal, political and industrial fight continues”.Carolyn Smith from the United Workers Union says it is a “bitter pill” for those who miss out. (Supplied: United Workers Union)none
United Workers Union aged care director Carolyn Smith said aged care workers would be “gutted” that there is yet to be a final outcome for other aged care support workers.
“Anyone with knowledge of aged care knows lifestyle, laundry and catering are essential to delivering the quality care residents need,” Ms Smith said.
“It is a bitter pill for these workers that decisions on their pay rises have been put off for further consideration.
“During the two years the case has been on foot, these workers at the heart of the case have been working their guts out, keeping aged care running during a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.”
Aged Care is one of the fastest-growing spending areas for the federal government.
Last month’s budget forecasts the cost of aged care to increase by more than 6 per cent per year over the next decade.
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#AceBreakingNews – Two miners who spent nine days trapped in a collapsed South Korean zinc mine living on instant coffee powder have been rescued: They are said to be in a stable condition.
The “miraculous” rescue comes with South Korea still in mourning over a deadly crush
The men, aged 62 and 56, are believed to have kept warm by lighting a fire and building a tent out of plastic.
It comes during a period of national mourning for South Korea, after more than 150 people were killed in a crush in the capital Seoul last week.
The two miners were stranded nearly 200 metres (650 feet) underground after part of the zinc mine they were working in collapsed on 26 October in Bonghwa, in the east of the country.
They were finally rescued on the night of 4 November – more than nine days after their ordeal began. Both were able to walk out of the mine and were taken to a local hospital. Their doctor said they should make a full recovery.
President Yoon Suk-yeol called their rescue “truly miraculous”.
“Thank you and thank you again for coming back safely from the crossroads of life and death,” he wrote on Facebook.
Authorities said the miners survived by drinking water that fell from the ceiling and using instant coffee mix powder as a meal.
The rescue operation began on Thursday when emergency workers drilled a hole and inserted a small camera in an effort to locate the miners, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.
The were eventually discovered sitting shoulder to shoulder to keep warm, in a spacious chamber where several mine shafts meet.
The niece of one of the survivors described how her uncle didn’t recognise her when he came out, because he was wearing an eye-mask after nearly ten days in the dark…………..She described his rescue as “surreal”, according to AFP news agency.
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#GlobalWarming & #ClimateChange News Desk – Some of Kenya’s most popular tourist destinations – including the Amboseli, Tsavo and Laikipia-Samburu reserves – have suffered most according to Sky News
The carcass of an elephant that died during the drought in the Shaba National Reserve
Hundreds of animals have died in Kenyan wildlife reserves in East Africa’s worst drought in decades, according to a report.
The Kenya Wildlife Service counted the deaths of 205 elephants, 512 wildebeests, 381 common zebras, 51 buffaloes, 49 endangered Grevy’s zebras and 12 giraffes within the past nine months.
It comes after four consecutive seasons of drought in parts of Kenya over the past two years have taken a drastic toll on people, animals, and livestock.
Some ofKenya‘s most popular tourist destinations – including the Amboseli, Tsavo and Laikipia-Samburu reserves – have suffered most, the report states.
The authors have called for an emergency aerial census of the wildlife in Amboseli in order to determine the scope of impact that the drought has had on animals living there.
Other experts are suggesting the urgent delivery of water and salt licks in the worst-affected regions.
Andrew Letura kneels next to the carcass of an endangered Grevy’s Zebra, in Samburu national park
Elephants for example can consume up to 240 litres (63.4 gallons) of water a day, according to Jim Justus Nyamu, executive director of the Elephant Neighbours Centre.
For Grevy’s zebras, specialists advise increasing provisions of hay.
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#GlobalWarming & #ClimateChange News Desk – #COP27 might be in Egypt โ but there’s a list of environmental topics that could see you thrown in jailCOP27 on the shores of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has been billed as the “African COP” โ with its agenda to focus on climate adaptation and infrastructure for developing nations, including many on the African continent.
But inflated accommodation costs, human rights abuses, and questions over Egypt’s own climate credentials have cast a shadow over the event before it gets underway this evening (AEDT).
The COP location, at Sharm el-Sheikh on the Sinnai Peninsula, is already raising some red flags for Human Rights Watch.(Getty Images: Natallia Dzenisenka)none
Attending the event as a delegate for Griffith University, Virginia Young had accommodation in the coastal city of Sharm el-Sheik booked and paid for in advance.
But around four months ago, she was contacted by the hotel to say her bill had gone up โ from $2,500 to $10,500 โ and that she’d need to pay or have her reservation cancelled.
With few options, she managed to scrape together the funds. But she wasn’t the only one.
Kathryn Bowen, deputy director of the University of Melbourne’s Climate Futures, was contacted a few months ago to say she’d have to stump up an extra $US440 a night for the two-week conference or her booking would be scrapped. She refused and was temporarily left without a place to stay.
According to Professor Bowen, there’s been no clarity over who has issued the directive, with hoteliers, government and event officials all pointing the finger at each other.
Mark Howden, IPCC author and director of the Climate Change Institute at the Australian National University (ANU), said getting to this COP had been a prohibitively expensive business.
“Stories about price gouging are rife and the scale of this is quite extraordinary,” Professor Howden said.
Price gouging is a common feature at COPs, and was also an issue at last year’s event in Glasgow.
While some may be able to wear the inflated costs, price gouging is expected to exclude many NGOs and interest groups from the very developing nations this COP is supposed to be platforming.
Pushback likely on key issues
Last month, the African Climate Justice Collective โ a grassroots African movement representing “civil society organisations, movements of women, peasant communities, African citizens and more” โ sent a declaration to African governments and COP negotiators.
They called for the rejection of any attempts to “brand COP27 as an African COP if it does not recognise the voices of African people in their diversity, and push for agreements that draw closer to making climate justice expectations a reality.”Numerous African grassroots groups are calling for a better deal for developing nations.(Getty Images: Guy Peterson)none
Among their list of outcomes they want to see from the conference is progress on loss and damage โ payment from developed countries to developing countries for climate impacts.
Melbourne Climate Futures director Jacqueline Peel says “loss and compensation” is an important factor in climate justice.
“In climate [change] those countries that have contributed least to the problem are suffering the most.”
But there’s likely to be a lot of pushback from developed countries, who will find it a difficult sell domestically, according to Frank Jotzo, director of the Centre for Climate and Energy Policy at ANU.
“Providing money under any kind of planned scheme that will essentially look like it’s compensation for wrongs done, that is always the hardest transfer to make politically,” Professor Jotzo said.
“Loss and damage is a very tough thing for the US administration [and] it’s a tough sell for many other countries as well.”
Traditionally, NGOs and protest groups have helped to raise the profile of difficult or unpalatable issues at COP meetings, and their absence could detract from this year’s event, according to Professor Howden.
“Many people from Africa and other developing countries similarly haven’t been able to afford to get there,” he said.
Environmental activists ‘silenced’
But for protesters who may be able to afford to get to Sharm el-Sheikh, that could be just the first hurdle.
A spokesperson from one African climate group said they couldn’t respond to questions from the ABC due to safety fears.
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Brendan Mackey is an IPCC-contributing author from Griffith University.
The university is an observer organisation, but Professor Mackey will be attending remotely rather than in person.
He says if previous COPs are anything to go by, it’s likely activists could run into trouble.
“The thing to look at is how the authorities react to public protests. [Protest] is a very common feature of the COPs. NGOs organise public events to protest issues โ they have rallies.
“I was at the COP[15] in Copenhagen and the Copenhagen law enforcement was very harsh โ I witnessed peaceful protesters being whacked by police.”
Serious concerns have already been raised about the host nation’s treatment of environmental activists.
Human Rights Watch says debate around environmental issues in Egypt is far from free, and the country is using COP27 to greenwash its reputation.
Amr Magdi, a senior Egypt researcher with Human Rights Watch, says environmental activists in Egypt have been silenced as part of a broader crackdown on civil rights over the past decade.
The current government, which rose to power in 2013 in a military coup, has arrested tens of thousands of activists.
“Many organisations had to shut down because of this, particularly environmental groups,” he said.
“Any researcher or journalist knows going to the street and talking to affected communities and talking about environmental issues is extremely risky โ not just for them, but for the residents.”Human rights groups say Egypt has a track record of persecuting activists.(Getty Images: LightRocket)none
Even the location of the conference, in Sharm el-Sheikh, rings alarm bells for Mr Magdi.
“Normally you would host that in Cairo or Alexandria, not in Sharm el-Sheikh, which is isolated and has so many army and police checkpoints on the road from Cairo.
“It was already a sign about what the government intends to do with this COP.”
Mr Magdi, who is Egyptian, can speak freely from his home in Berlin.
He says there are a handful of environmental topics that are safe to work on in Egypt because they don’t antagonise the government.
“These areas could be rubbish collection, beach collection, clean energy โ stuff that does not annoy the government and does not impact the policy making.”
But according to Human Rights Watch, there’s a long list of environmental topics in Egypt that are off limits for anyone looking to stay out of jail.
These include overdevelopment, and environmental damage caused by large corporations or the military.
“If you want to work on the impact of tourism on the environment, the growing fossil fuels industry in Egypt and the use of coal, if you want to talk about the environmental impact of the vast and opaque businesses owned by the government and military, you can’t do that โ you risk jail,” Mr Magdi said.
Ahead of hosting COP27, Egypt submitted its first update to its emissions pledge โ known as a nationally determined contribution, or NDC.
But that pledge will see its emissions continue to grow at their present rate, or even accelerate through 2030, as the country expands its fossil fuel production and use.
The UN Emissions Gap Report released late last month found that global emissions reduction pledges for 2030 have us on track for 2.4-2.6 degrees Celsius of warming this century โ far beyond the 2C limit agreed to under the Paris Agreement, and which COPs are meant to be striving for.
The report found emissions need to be cut by 45 per cent more than is currently pledged by 2030, to give us a chance of staying below 1.5C of warming, and at least 30 per cent to stay below 2C.
After a brief dip during the COVID slowdown, global emissions bounced back to an all-time high in 2021.
The UN had called on all countries to submit more ambitious emissions reduction pledges following COP26 in Glasgow last year.
However, in what the UN has described as a “wasted year”, only a handful of countries submitted updated NDCs.
As a country hosts a COP, the presidency of the decision-making body falls to that country for the following 12 months, or until the next conference.
Egypt’s climate change record has some doubting the strength of leadershipthat the country will bring to the presidency.
For their part, Egyptian representatives say they’re confident that COP27 will include “stronger will and a higher ambition on mitigation, adaptation and climate finance”.
“As the incoming presidency, Egypt will spare no effort to ensure that COP27 becomes the moment when the world moved from negotiation to implementation, and where words were translated to actions,” Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said in a statement.
“Where we collectively embarked on a path towards sustainability, a just transition and eventually a greener future for coming generations.”
Egypt’s foreign minister also told Associated Press earlier this year that protests would be permitted.
“We are developing a facility adjacent to the conference centre that will provide them the full opportunity of participation, of activism, of demonstration, of voicing that opinion,” Sameh Shoukry said.
“And we will also provide them access, as is traditionally done on one day of the negotiations, to the negotiating hold itself.”
But for many others, this COP will likely be about managing expectations.
“I’m hearing really mixed messages around the expectations for this COP,” Professor Bowen said.
“Some people are reflecting that it’ll be a year that won’t reach the same points of decision that last year did.
“And last year wasn’t that momentous either.”
#COP27: King Charles hosts meeting ahead of climate summit
King Charles greets PM Rishi Sunak, and designer and campaigner Stella McCartney at the palace
By Georgina Rannard: BBC News Climate & Science
King Charles III has hosted a reception to discuss tackling climate change, as global leaders prepare for the UN climate summit COP27.
About 200 politicians and campaigners met at Buckingham Palace, including PM Rishi Sunak, US climate envoy John Kerry and COP President Alok Sharma.
The King is internationally known for his climate work but it was agreed he would not go to COP27.
The UN conference begins on Sunday in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
Mr Sunak told the meeting that the UK’s global leadership on climate change will continue after its COP presidency ends this week. The UK hosted COP26 in Glasgow last year.
“Every moment that we allow climate change to ravage our planet we will see more human suffering,” he said.
“If we do not act today we will risk leaving an ever more desperate inheritance for our children tomorrow.”
Mr Sunak, who will attend the opening days of the summit, had faced fierce criticism from climate activists and opposition politicians for initially saying he would not go due to pressing matters in the UK.
The prime minister paid tribute to King Charles’s work on climate, saying he had worked for 50 years to find solutions, long before the first UN COP meeting.
When former PM Liz Truss entered No 10, it was announced King Charles would not go to the summit.
The monarch has a long-standing interest in environmental issues and attended COP26 in Glasgow last year, but the Palace said it had sought advice from then-PM Ms Truss and that “with mutual friendship and respect there was agreement that the King would not attend”.
King Charles planted a common lime tree in Buckingham Palace garden after hosting the reception
On Thursday a spokesperson for Mr Sunak said, “had the prime minister been in post earlier the situation might have been different”.
Buckingham Palace says the reception on Friday afternoon was organised to “facilitate discussion of sustainable growth, progress made since COP26 in Glasgow and collective and continued efforts to tackle climate change.”
At COP26 in Glasgow last year, the King told leaders: “I can only urge you, as the world’s decision-makers, to find practical ways of overcoming differences so we can all get down to work, together, to rescue this precious planet and save the threatened future of our young people.”
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This today is for Me all that ‘ Following the Path of God ‘ is all about to be ‘ Humble In The Sight of my Enemies ‘ in today’s world that would be that someone will need to stop any battle or war by being Humble by admitting they are wrong to the other side and what they are fighting to be ‘ Right ‘ about was ‘ Wrong ‘ well that is how my life goes ……
l Learn this over many years as being ‘ Right ‘ did not seem ” Right ‘ but l was excellent at being ‘ Wrong ‘ by always saying in any disagreement Ok l was ‘ Wrong You Are Right ‘ and then waiting to see if the other person said these words – Maybe ‘ We Are Both Wrong ‘ and l would then say ‘ Its Not Being Right Or Wrong That Matters Only The Truth Only The Truth & Only God Knows The Truth ‘ – this confused many people as the world is built on ‘ Right & Wrong ‘ and for many the ‘ Truth ‘ eludes them until one day ‘ God Willing A Light Dawn’s ‘ as it did in Me when l realised that when You say You are Right many people said – So you agree with Me – l said l do not agree with You but You believe You are Right – they would pause …….
Saying – So You Do Not Believe l Am Right? l Said it does not matter what l believe as You do and that’s Ok – This my People is the world that exists it is not Humble people that ‘ Rule Over The Land ‘ but ‘ Self Righteous ‘ and they even when You agree with them They want You to believe they are Right and this was a ‘ Great Lesson l Learned ‘ and it took many many years but once mastered it brings peace in Your Heart & In Your Life – Thank you, God …..
If God had not entered My Heart & Life l would not be the person God wanted Me to be l would not just be Humble but l would not Understand Humility and that was a ‘ Golden Lesson ‘ and that was why today l can now write about my experiences and hope and ๐๐ that you may find that in Your Heart & Life by asking God daily to ‘ Fill You With The Humility of Jesus (Iesu) ‘ as l asked so long long ago then as You walk on Your journey with God You will be filled daily with Kindness & Love as You Walk each step word by word in Peace & Truth forever and evermore …….
We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved, beneath every anger is a wound to be healed and beneath every sadness is the fear that there will not be enough time.
When we hesitate in being direct, we unknowingly slip something on, some added layer of protection that keeps us from feeling the world, and often that thin covering is the beginning of a loneliness which, if not put down, diminishes our chances of joy.
It’s like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real. Our challenge each day is not to get dressed to face the world but to unglove ourselves so that the doorknob feels cold and the car handle feels wet and the kiss goodbye feels like the lips of another being, soft and unrepeatable.
If you feel things deeply, if the world has weathered you, if you are going through something that is uncomfortable or painful, or hard you often have to decide between allowing yourself to dive into those emotions, or allowing yourself to numb them. And, a lot of human beings choose to numb their experience of the world. A lot of human beings tell themselves that it is all too much, that is all too inconvenient, to deal with the depth of their circumstance. And it is often not their fault. In a world that has given us so many ways to kill our pain through television, or prescriptions, or the sensationalizing of being cool and favorable over being inquisitive, and authentic, it is almost a subconscious thing we do. We try to protect ourselves from pain, but if I have learned one thing this year, it is that pain demands to be felt. It will show up in other ways if we do not deal with it.
So, the greatest thing you can do when you are dealing with pain, hardship, change, or opposition is to feel it. Please, do not run from your feeling. Run towards it. Run within yourself. Meditate. Get to know your mind, your heart, and your soul. Trace your fingers over your wounds. Get to know the parts of yourself that you have hidden from the light. Heal yourself from the inside.
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