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jilibet 006 By Josh Smith and Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's acting president faces an impeachment vote on Friday, intensifying a political crisis as the Constitutional Court meets for its first hearing on suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol's short-lived martial law. The push to impeach Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, who has been acting president since Yoon was impeached on Dec. 14, has thrown South Korea's once-vibrant democratic success story into uncharted territory and watched with concern by allies. The plan for a vote to impeach Han was unveiled on Thursday by the main opposition Democratic Party after he declined to immediately appoint three justices to fill vacancies at the Constitutional Court, saying it would exceed his acting role. It remained unclear how many votes are needed to impeach Han as acting leader. The threshold for a prime minister is a simple majority, while a two-thirds majority is needed for a president. It is also unclear whether Han and the ruling party would accept any outcome. If Han is suspended, Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok will assume the acting presidency by law. Choi said on Friday impeaching the country's acting president would seriously damage the country's economic credibility and asked political parties to withdraw the plan. Choi spoke for the country's cabinet, flanked by ministers. Early on Friday, the South Korean won weakened to its lowest since March 2009, as analysts said there was little to reverse the negative sentiment stemming from the political uncertainty. The vote to determine Han's fate comes around the time the Constitutional Court on Friday will hold its first hearing in a case reviewing whether to reinstate Yoon or remove him permanently from office, after parliament's impeachment vote. It has 180 days to reach a decision. After weeks of defiance ignoring requests by the court to submit documents as well as summons by investigators in a separate criminal case over his martial law declaration on Dec. 3, a lawyer for Yoon said his legal representatives would attend Friday's hearing. Seok Dong-hyeon, a lawyer advising Yoon, named two lawyers for Yoon's legal team, one a former prosecutor and the other a former spokesman for the Constitutional Court. The two could not be immediately reached for comment. Yoon is not required to attend the hearing. If he is removed from office, a new presidential election would be held within 60 days. WORST POLITICAL CRISIS IN DECADES The events following the Dec. 3 martial law declaration have plunged the country into its gravest political crisis since 1987, when widespread protests forced the ruling party of former military generals into accepting a constitutional amendment bringing in direct, popular vote to elect the president. The turmoil has also spilled over into financial markets.Yoon shocked the country and the world with a late-night announcement on Dec. 3 that he was imposing martial law to overcome political deadlock and root out "anti-state forces". The military deployed special forces to the national assembly, the election commission, and the office of a liberal YouTube commentator. It also issued orders banning activity by parliament and political parties, as well as calling for government control of the media. But within hours 190 lawmakers had defied the cordons of troops and police and voted against Yoon's order. About six hours after his initial decree, the president rescinded the order. Yoon and senior members of his administration also face criminal investigations for insurrection over their decision to impose martial law. (Writing by Josh Smith, Jack Kim; Editing by Ed Davies and Michael Perry)

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The outage is part of a concerning trend of incidents involving undersea cables in the Baltic Sea region which have heightened tensions following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, asserted The Gurdian. Previous incidents included the severing of telecom cables linking Finland to Sweden and a gas pipeline damaged by a Chinese cargo ship's anchor earlier this year. The Finnish electricity grid's head of operations named Arto Pahkin eventually indicated that sabotage cannot be ruled out and emphasized on the need for vigilance, noted The Guardian. As the investigations continue, concerned officials remain on alert due to the strategic importance of these infrastructure connections in the context of regional security concerns. 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After a far-right pro-Russia candidate secured a surprise lead in Romania's presidential election Monday, the eastern European NATO member is bracing for a high-stakes parliamentary vote on Sunday, amid fears it could bring about a strategic shift in the country. Calin Georgescu was in pole position with almost 23 percent after the first round of voting, a political earthquake in the country of 19 million people that has so far resisted nationalist appeals that have gained traction in Hungary and Slovakia. His victory ahead of centre-right mayor Elena Lasconi -- who scored 19.18 percent -- ended the hopes of Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu to compete for the presidency in the December runoff. After coming third at 19.15, Ciolacu said his Social Democratic Party (PSD) won't challenge the narrow result, and announced his resignation as party leader. Experts say the far right's surprise success could affect the parliamentary elections later this week, and even influence the chances of forming a future government. In the runoff ballot on December 8, Lasconi will face Georgescu, a NATO critic who in the past expressed his admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Georgescu's popularity surged ahead of the vote with a viral TikTok campaign calling for an end to aid for Ukraine, which shares a 650-kilometre (400-mile) border with Romania. In a first reaction on his YouTube channel, the 62-year-old independent candidate insisted "there is no East or West", stressing that neutrality was "absolutely necessary". "I am not an extremist, I am not a fascist -- I am a Romanian who loves his country," he said in reference to media reports that "tried to portray" him in a wrongful way. For his rival Lasconi, the upcoming runoff represents "an existential battle", "a historic confrontation" between those who wish to "preserve Romania's young democracy" and those who want to "return to the Russian sphere of influence". "We must not allow anger to throw us back into the past," she said to thunderous applause from her supporters, vowing to stand up for Europe and NATO. The political earthquake comes amid soaring inflation and mounting fears of Romania being potentially dragged into Russia's war in neighbouring Ukraine, as the country has emerged as a key player on the alliance's eastern flank. In Sunday's vote, another far-right contender, AUR party leader George Simion, secured nearly 14 percent. Already pounding the campaign trail for this week's parliamentary elections, Simion said Romania now has "the chance to have a sovereign government and a sovereign president". Overall, the far right won more than a third of all votes in Sunday's presidential ballot. "The far right is by far the big winner of this election," political scientist Cristian Pirvulescu told AFP, predicting a possible "contagion effect" in the parliamentary vote. Extremist forces and Lasconi's centre-right party now have "wind in their sails", sociologist Gelu Duminica said, though "it remains to be seen if they know how to capitalise" on it. The PSD, which has shaped the country's politics for more than three decades, has never before been eliminated in the first round of a presidential election. The National Liberal Party (PNL) party, with whom the PSD currently governs, also suffered a defeat. While many expressed their disbelief over the poll in the streets of the capital Bucharest, others were enthused. Maria Chis, 70, said she was surprised by Georgescu's lead in the first round but had been impressed after watching his TikTok videos. "He seems a man of integrity, serious and patriotic. He inspires seriousness. I think only someone like him can bring change," said the pensioner, who was planning to vote for him in the second round. Alex Tudose, the owner of a construction company, was gloomy. "There is sorrow, disappointment, that after so many years in Euro-Atlantic structures we voted for a pro-Russian by over 20 percent," the 42-year-old said. "There is clearly a strong fragmentation both in society and in the political class, and I think we saw that yesterday," he said. ani-anb-kym/sbkDanny Sauter, who was recently elected supervisor for District 3 in San Francisco’s northeast, grew up in a household where politics and public service were constantly in the background. Sauter’s father was a labor attorney who represented multiple unions and his mother was a teacher who ran the community-service program at the local high school and would take him to a soup kitchen with her to volunteer. That blend of experiences “always oriented me towards being interested in public service,” said Sauter, a nonprofit executive director, community organizer and political moderate by San Francisco standards, whose campaign won the backing of moderate forces seeking an aligned majority of supervisors. Come January, Sauter will get to do the public’s business on a whole new level as a first-time elected official and District 3’s first new supervisor since 2015. His district includes the Financial District — the flagging engine of The City’s economy — in addition to Chinatown, Jackson Square, North Beach, Fisherman’s Wharf, Polk Gulch and Union Square, as well as Russian, Telegraph and Nob hills. Sauter ran on issues like hiring more first responders for public safety, ranging from police to dispatchers; getting cleaner neighborhoods ; building affordable housing; protecting renters; filling vacant storefronts; and reducing homelessness. His stances drew support from some tech-aligned reformists who labeled longtime Supervisor Aaron Peskin an obstructionist on housing. A native of Columbus, Ohio, Sauter, 36, got his start in private industry, moving to San Francisco after graduating from university for his first job, which was at a tech startup where Sauter said he met his future wife. “The company didn't work out, but that's worked out,” Sauter said of his marriage. Sauter, who minored in entrepreneurship and Chinese as an undergraduate at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio,, then co-founded a digital marketing agency in North Beach called Bamboo, which he helped run for five years and grow to 58 employees. In late 2015, however, Sauter’s life took a turn when he became increasingly involved in North Beach Neighbors, a neighborhood organization serving the area where he rents an apartment and for which he served as a board member and past president. For the group, Sauter led a successful effort to establish a farmers market, which he has run and which typically operates on Saturdays at Greenwich St. and Columbus Ave. The experience fueled Sauter’s desire to be more widely involved in local affairs, he said. Sauter said setting up the farmers market also demonstrated how difficult it can be to get things done in The City, prompting thoughts for him about cutting red tape and improving municipal services. Sauter began volunteering for political campaigns, like Sen. Scott Wiener’s for state Senate in 2016. He helped to count and draw attention to the number of vacant stores in the district, organized street cleanups and a volunteer delivery service to support local restaurants during the COVID-19 lockdown, lobbied for more protected bicycle lanes and advocated for more housing as the first housing chair of the San Francisco group of the Sierra Club. In August of 2019, Sauter left Bamboo, which is now located in Seattle, and became the executive director of Neighborhood Centers Together, a nonprofit that provides support to eight neighborhood centers around The City. “I left that work with the advertising agency to try and be closer to this world, this world of politics, this world of civic engagement, public service,” Sauter said. “I didn't exactly know where it would lead me, but I knew I needed to be in this world. It was something I couldn't shake.” About the same time, Sauter said he started taking lessons in Cantonese to better communicate with Asian American residents of District 3, which he has pursued ever since. Seeing a lack of what he saw as a credible candidate to challenge Supervisor Peskin in the 2020 election, Sauter jumped into the deep end, and though Peskin prevailed, Sauter finished second with 43% of the vote after the final tally of ranked choices. This year, Peskin was not on the ballot, as he is termed out after his second consecutive term — Peskin’s fifth on the board overall — and Sauter beat out two candidates whom Peskin endorsed. Sauter got almost 55% of the vote, or 14,056 votes, compared to 45% for second-place finisher Sharon Lai, who got 11,512 votes, after five rounds of ranked-choice voting. Sauter’s win came despite a coordinated strategy in the final stretch of the race in which several of his opponents formed alliances to urge voters to place each other’s names above Sauter’s as a second choice. Among other things, they challenged Sauter’s commitment to police; Sauter said that he opposed increasing police spending in 2020 following a Minneapolis police officer’s murder of George Floyd, highlighting the need for more mental-health and social-worker responders. This election, Sauter insisted that he supported increased police staffing. Candidate Moe Jamil also portrayed Sauter, a vocal advocate for building more housing , particularly high-density housing on commercial corridors, as someone “Bought and Paid for by Big Developers” and questioned Sauter’s commitment to protecting tenants, a concern Sauter rejected. Sauter has argued that embracing urban density will make San Francisco more vibrant and help achieve climate goals. Sauter received contributions from a wide array of interests, including real estate and the San Francisco Apartment Association Political Action Committee, as well as prominent tech and venture-capital figures. In all, he raised $429,211, including public financing. Outside spending in support of Sauter was higher than for any other candidate, coming from two moderate groups: an Abundance Network-sponsored committee that spent $161,877 and a GrowSF committee that spent $70,910, according to city records. The Abundance Network , a pro-housing organization with tech origins, was instrumental in the moderate takeover of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee in March, and the committee in turn endorsed Sauter. Diana Taylor, president of the Barbary Coast Neighborhood Association, said she expected Sauter’s experience supporting small businesses will help attract neighborhood-serving retail in areas like where she lives just north of downtown, which she said has many vacant storefronts and no functioning commercial corridor. Taylor said she expected Sauter to elevate community voices versus paid lobbyists, who too often hold inordinate sway in her opinion. “Danny, as a neighborhood organizer, knows that leveling the playing field is critical to making projects fit in a neighborhood,” she said. Sauter was optimistic about the future, saying he believes that falling interest rates will energize the economy. He did not endorse any candidate for mayor but said having a new mayor in Daniel Lurie will help shake off “stigma” that has settled on The City, which has suffered from negative perceptions fueled by stories in recent years about San Francisco’s problems with crime, commercial vacancies and homelessness. “There has been a hesitancy to take a chance in San Francisco,” Sauter said. ”A new mayor is an important opportunity for us to go and sell San Francisco again.” Sauter said he wants to spur action on a variety of fronts, particularly to stimulate a revival of the downtown economy, an area he thinks has not received enough “urgency.” Downtown San Francisco has had record-high office vacancies since the pandemic and the rise of remote work. “I think everything related to downtown and tourism and hospitality has to be front and center,” said Sauter, who recently met with Lurie and told the mayor-elect the No. 1 thing he wants to work with him on is “everything related to downtown recovery.” Like others, Sauter said he also hopes to see a significant number of office-to-residential conversion projects in underutilized office buildings downtown. Though Mayor London Breed pushed for regulatory changes to facilitate such conversions and voters in March passed a transfer tax exemption on the sale of converted buildings, there has been no flood of proposals. “Everyone's been talking about this for the last few years, but we're not seeing much action on it. And I want to understand why that is,” he said. Sauter points to the example of the former Pfizer headquarters building in midtown Manhattan , which is being converted into apartments as part of what is billed as the largest office-to-residential conversion in the Big Apple’s history. “We need to figure out why they're able to do it and why we're not,” Sauter said. One thing Sauter said he would like to see is city employees working in person in offices more days a week, which he argued could especially benefit neighborhoods around Civic Center. “It is an area for The City itself to lead and to say, ‘We're back in person,’” he said. In Fisherman’s Wharf, Sauter said some vacant commercial spaces on Bay Street could be replaced with dense housing. On Washington Square Park, meanwhile, Sauter said he wants to see progress on rebuilding the burned out shell of an apartment building at 659 Union St. , which gutted by a massive fire in 2018. Proposals to redevelop the property , including a hotel and rooftop restaurant, stalled. Sauter said he wants The City to investigate the possibility of buying the site for affordable housing and potentially for a North Beach station for the Central Subway, which Sauter — pointing out that a tunnel has already been dug to the site — said he would like to see extended from Chinatown to Fisherman’s Wharf. Precedent for such a purchase exists because The City in 2012 bought property on Stockton Street for the Central Subway’s Chinatown Rose Pak Station , he said. “One way or another, I want some action on that building,” Sauter said. “I want some movement. I know the neighborhood does. It's a big hole in the neighborhood.”

At least 65 million tune in for Netflix NFL Christmas Day games. NBA holiday ratings also skyrocketTEHRAN - The Israeli regime makes the most of the instability in Syria to expand its expansionist project. As insecurity and a power vacuum emerged in the Arab state after armed groups took control of state institutions, the Israelis seized on the crisis. Israeli tanks were seen crossing into the outskirts of the southeastern Syrian province of Quneitra on Sunday, with shelling heard in the area. The Israeli occupation forces also dispatched infantry to a buffer zone in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, the regime’s military confirmed on Sunday. The occupation army said it would remain in Syrian territory for “as long as necessary” Hebrew media reported that Unit 5101, more commonly known as Shaldag, has reached the summit of Syria’s Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights. Analysts have said the land grab signals new Israeli ambitions to occupy and annex large parts of Syria after the fall of its government. It is the first time Israeli forces have taken up positions beyond the buffer zone since it was established in 1974. The regime further exploited the crisis in Syria with airstrikes on key sites. Israel’s air raids on the Mazzeh district of the capital, Damascus, with explosions heard in the vicinity. Separately, regional intelligence sources told news agencies that Israeli fighter jets targeted the Syrian air base of Khalkhala in southern Syria. By Sunday evening, Israeli warplanes bombarded more Syrian army sites in Damascus. The lightening developments in Syria have sparked widespread comment across Israeli politics. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the fall of President Assad as a “historic day.” “This of course creates new, very important opportunities for Israel,” he said. Opposition leader Yair Lapid said they showed why “it is more important than ever to create a strong regional coalition, with Saudi Arabia and the countries of the Abraham Accords, to work together”. “The Iranian axis has weakened significantly, and Israel needs to strive for an overall political achievement,” he added. Other Israeli politicians called on the government in Tel Aviv to take control of the entire Golan Heights. Government minister Amichai Chikli wrote in a social media post that there must be a new Israeli “defense zone” at the 1974 ceasefire line. A member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, Tzvi Succot, echoed those comments, saying this measure would be “immense” during a time when the political and military cost “is likely lower than ever”. Meanwhile, former Israeli military intelligence officer Lieutenant Colonel, Mordechai Kedar, was interviewed on Sunday by Hebrew media, Kan Reshet Bet, where he claimed: “I am in contact with the rebels in Syria and I have passed a detailed list of equipment they requested from Israel to senior officials in the country. The rebels are willing to sign a peace agreement with Israel, only if they control Syria and Lebanon.” The Israeli spy agency, Mossad, was also thrilled with the fall of Homs, a clear sign highlighting how significant this development was to the security of the regime. In a post on social media, a Mossad-affiliated channel wrote: “Homs, the corridor used by Iran to bring weapons to Hezbollah, is no longer active.” The post added: "Amazing". There is no credible evidence that Iran had used the city of Homs to transfer weapons to the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah. Experts say militants operating in Syria had previously received medical treatment at field hospitals in the occupied Golan as well as in the Israeli city of Safed. Time will tell what the intentions of this latest mixture of armed groups are. Some have lately vowed to have a more moderate outlook with neighbors in the region and are no longer associated with Daesh and al-Qaeda. Whether this outlook serves Israeli interests is a key factor as most countries in West Asia believe the Israeli regime is the source of instability in the region.

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But this past weekend, December 7 and 8, the sound of rhythmic drumming, traditional chants, and ringing bells could be heard pulsing through the historic building’s brick walls across the adjacent Long Meadow, marking the inaugural Eenda-Lunaapeewahkiing Indigenous Culture Fair. The free event gathered Native American community members from across Turtle Island (the name for the land mass now known as North and Central America) and local Brooklyn residents in a site-situated celebration of Lenape history, culture, and artisanship. Organized between the Éenda-Lŭnaapeewáhkiing (Land of the Lunaapeew) Collective , which is currently made up of five Lenape communities spanning Ontario, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; the New York City-based nonprofit American Indian Community House; and the Prospect Park Alliance, the fair brought educational performances, hands-on craftmaking, and Native-made goods back to the Lenapehoking, where the Lenape were forcibly displaced by European colonizers during the 17th century. “We’re spread all around and that’s part of the problem,” Éenda-Lŭnaapeewáhkiing Collective founder George Stonefish, who is of Lenape and Ottawa descent, told Hyperallergic. Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic. Daily Weekly Opportunities Part of the ReImagine Lefferts initiative addressing Prospect Park’s history of land dispossession and enslavement, the fair is also an extension of Stonefish’s own longtime work. In 2018, he organized the first Lenape Powwow on Manhattan Island at the Park Avenue Armory, and he hopes to do another in Prospect Park. New York City Parks Department officials didn’t permit the multi-day event this year, so in mid-August,Stonefish proposed the cultural fair instead. “This [event] is a real departure for the Prospect Park Alliance and the Picnic House as a venue ... but the leadership of the Alliance and the Parks Department really wanted to support this as a welcoming gesture, and hopefully we can do something like this again,” Dylan Yeats, project manager for the ReImagine Lefferts initiative, told Hyperallergic . Throughout the weekend, Brooklyn residents were treated to performances by the Red Blanket Singers, a Southern-style Native American drum and dance group made up of Nanticoke, Lenape, Haliwa-Saponi, and Mohawk tribal members, who carried out traditional dances originating from communities across the continent. At a table in another corner, children learned how to make dolls out of dried corn husks and twine while their parents shopped for handmade holiday gifts crafted from raw hide, grapevines, deer bone, wampum, turquoise, and other natural elements. Many of the artisans who had congregated at the Picnic House have longstanding relations and were glad for the opportunity to catch up with old friends and family, who they will often see when they gather at powwows, where they typically sell their goods. “We’ve known George Stonefish our whole lives, we’ve known Red Blanket, so it’s nice to get together because we see people that we know,” Rozlynn Tone-Pah-Hote, a Kiowa-Maya-Oneida contemporary beadworker, told Hyperallergic . She and her husband had brought handmade jewelry, lacrosse heads, and beaded holiday ornaments to the market, which she said had gone better for them in sales in comparison to this year’s Thunderbird American Indian Powwow in Queens. She thinks this is because of the fair’s lack of vendor fees and its free access to the public, unlike the powwow, which is a ticketed event that can rack up expenses for sellers. In addition to the purposeful omission of booth fees, vendors were given hotel room accommodations and parking spaces. “We were taken care of very well, which is not very common anymore,” Tone-Pah-Hote said. Partly funded through the ReImagine Lefferts Initiative, which received funding from the Speaker’s Initiative of New York City Council Speaker Adrienne E. Adams, the event was also supported by the Manna-hatta Fund through the American Indian Community House and the Éenda-Lŭnaapeewáhkiing Collective. Brent Stonefish, another founder of the collective who traveled from Ontario, told Hyperallergic that he hopes more Lenape community members from Canada will return for future events. 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Tesla has made several changes to its Supercharger network, including adding longer cables, to make the experience smoother as more non-Tesla EVs join the network and complicate things. In North America, Tesla has been opening up the Supercharger network to electric vehicles from other automakers for the better part of the year. Things have been moving slowly, and there are a few reasons for that. First off, earlier this year, and the company had to rebuild it, including hiring back some employees. That has slowed things down. But Tesla also has to take things a bit slower because non-Tesla EVs using the Supercharger network complicate things. We previously reported that the fact many charge ports are located at different locations on the vehicles than on Tesla vehicles, which are already on the back of the driver’s side. It forces those EV drivers to park in a way that blocks another charging stall when plugging in at a Supercharger. Longer cables at Supercharger stations are expected to fix that, but Tesla has been slow to deploy its new V4 stations, which are equipped with much longer cables. Tesla has now released an update on the situation and how it is addressing the situation: These are all great updates. It is frustrating to see on Tesla’s navigation that there are stalls available at the Supercharger station you are going to just to find out that the information is not accurate. In some cases, that can be because there’s indeed a stall where no one is plugged in, but you can’t park there because a non-Tesla EV is blocking it, which is OK as per Tesla’s integration of non-Tesla EVs. It looks like now Tesla is using the data it gets when a non-Tesla EV plugs into a Supercharger to figure out whether it must be blocking the next stall. If that’s the case, that Supercharger will be marked as non-available. It probably should have been done from the start, but I’m happy to see it happening now. Tesla has also disclosed that it is designing and redesigning stations so that it wouldn’t happen in the first place. With Supercharger V4 having longer cables, Tesla now expects to have more longer than shorter cables within the next year and a half. Finally, Tesla also says that it has been encouraging other automakers to place their charge port at the location. I hope the latter point proves successful because I think it’s a no-brainer. The charge port should be at the back of the driver’s side. Some automakers have also been using dual ports, most often with only one DC fast-charging one, on the driver’s side, and another level 2 charge port on the right side, which makes sense, especially for street charging in cities. Great updates from Tesla Charging. and subscribe to the . Tesla is a transportation and energy company. It... Fred is the Editor in Chief and Main Writer at Electrek. You can send tips on Twitter (DMs open) or via email: fred@9to5mac.com Through Zalkon.com, you can check out Fred’s portfolio and get monthly green stock investment ideas. Get interesting investment ideas by Fred Lambert ChargePoint Home WiFi Enabled Electric Vehicle (EV) ChargerHoman: Deportation plan to prioritize national security threats, violent criminals

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