Voices, The Peoples News
Nov. 1, 2020
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
# Border / Immigration
Migrant Children From Other Countries Are Being Expelled Into Mexico
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielcassady/2020/10/30/migrant-children-sent-to-mexico-alone-against-us-policy/?sh=6e1319783b64
# CoronaVirus
In final days of campaign, Trump criticizes those fighting coronavirus. President Donald Trump is spending the closing days of his re-election campaign criticizing public officials and medical professionals who are trying to combat the coronavirus pandemic even as it surges back across the United States.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election/in-final-days-of-campaign-trump-criticizes-those-fighting-coronavirus-idUSKBN27G06Q
As Covid-19 Infections Skyrocket, House Report Slams Trump’s Pandemic Response as Among “Worst Failures of Leadership” in U.S. History https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/30/covid-19-infections-skyrocket-house-report-slams-trumps-pandemic-response-among
Experts Warn Trump HHS ‘Endangering People’ by Covering Up Key Covid-19 Hospitalization Data. “We’re now in the third wave, and I think our only way out is really open, transparent, and actionable information.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/30/experts-warn-trump-hhs-endangering-people-covering-key-covid-19-hospitalization-data
18 Trump rallies have led to 30,000 COVID-19 cases and likely over 700 deaths.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/523789-18-trump-rallies-have-led-to-30k-cases-700-deaths-stanford-university
Trump is ending his campaign on an ugly new low — and barely anyone
noticed: Trump has been claiming at his super-spreader rallies for the past week that American doctors are profiting from the death of COVID-19 patients. Take a step back and absorb this atrocity.
https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump-is-ending-his-campaign-on-an-ugly-new-low/
# Economy / Trade
How Trump gets away without paying taxes: It helps if you’re the president — who can block IRS enforcement of tax laws https://www.salon.com/2020/10/31/how-trump-gets-away-without-paying-taxes_partner/
Trump’s Plan To Defund Social Security. The president also said that if he is reelected, he wants not only to turn the delay into a tax cut that would result in significant revenue losses for Social Security, but also to eliminate employee payroll taxes for good.
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2020/08/12/489401/trumps-plan-defund-social-security/
Trump Administration Seeks Permanent Cuts in Social Security Funding http://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/20Daily/2008/200821_TrumpAdministration
Proposal Threatens Social Security Disability Benefits for Millions of Workers
https://www.cbpp.org/blog/presidents-budget-would-hurt-people-with-disabilities-1
A Wall Street tax that could lift many out of poverty already exists.
It’s just not being collected
https://www.salon.com/2020/11/01/a-wall-street-tax-that-could-lift-many-out-of-poverty-already-exists–its-just-not-being-collected/
GOP planted a time bomb in their 2017 tax cut bill that will actually raise most people’s taxes: Nobel economist. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the controversial tax cut bill passed by Republicans on a party-line vote in 2017, has a provision that will start slowly raising taxes next year.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/republicans-planted-time-bomb-in-their-tax-cut-bill-that-will-actually-raise-most-peoples-taxes-economist/
# Employment
Unions Representing Hundreds of Thousands of Workers Prepare for General Strike If Trump Subverts Election Results https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/30/unions-representing-hundreds-thousands-workers-prepare-general-strike-if-trump
Trump’s Economy: 7 Broken Promises to Working Americans https://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/economy/news/2020/02/03/176535/trumps-economy-7-broken-promises-working-americans/
Will Trump’s Broken Promises to Working-Class Voters Cost Him the Election?
https://flipboard.com/@NewYorker/will-trump-s-broken-promises-to-working-class-voters-cost-him-the-election/a-u-d8WFtfSHCRZMGd3JWZpA%3Aa%3A3199682-09a3fce08a%2Fnewyorker.com
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
In Bid to Beat ‘Public Health and Economic Crises,’ Senate Dems Urge Utilities to Suspend Shutoffs During Pandemic https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/30/bid-beat-public-health-and-economic-crises-senate-dems-urge-utilities-suspend
Exxon Mobil plans to lay off an estimated 14,000 employees globally, about 15% of its workforce, due to the collapse in oil demand.
https://www.reuters.com/article/exxonmobil-layoffs/exxon-to-cut-14000-jobs-as-pandemic-hits-oil-demand-idUSKBN27E30U
Two people strike plea deals in Ohio’s power plant bailout corruption scheme, and utility FirstEnergy fires CEO Chuck Jones and two other senior officials amid investigations into the company’s role.
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/state/2020/10/29/two-indicted-along-householder-ready-cop-pleas-hb-6-scandal/6067620002/
The $16 Million Was Supposed to Clean Up Old Oil Wells; Instead, It’s Going to Frack New Ones. North Dakota, where Covid-19 rates are surging, is redirecting the federal relief money, turning it into grants that will go directly to oil companies.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28102020/north-dakota-coronavirus-stimulus-funding-fracking-oil-wells#:~:text=Scott%20Skokos%2C%20who%20heads%20the,bring%20new%20ones%20to%20life.
# Environment / Climate / Interior
Design ideas aim to save D.C.’s sinking Tidal Basin. Washington, D.C.’s 140-year-old Tidal Basin is sinking. Five architects offer radical redesigns for preservation https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-29/design-ideas-aim-to-save-d-c-s-sinking-tidal-basin
EPA Sued for ‘Once Again Putting Corporate Interests Over Public Health or the Environment’ by Reapproving Herbicide Atrazine. “We’re not going to just stand by and watch another generation get poisoned by one of the most dangerous pesticides still in use.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/30/epa-sued-once-again-putting-corporate-interests-over-public-health-or-environment
PhD Chemist Whistleblower who Worked 17 Years Developing Chemtrails: 90% of Chemtrails Designed to Alter Emotions/Mood/State of Mind and Provoke “Flu-like Symptoms”
https://healthimpactnews.com/2020/phd-chemist-whistleblower-who-worked-17-years-developing-chemtrails-90-of-chemtrails-designed-to-alter-emotions-mood-state-of-mind-and-provoke-flu-like-symptoms/
No Matter Who Wins, the US Exits the Paris Climate Accord the Day After the Election: If victorious, Democrat Joe Biden has promised to swiftly rejoin. But the process would be tricky, like jumping on a moving train.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28102020/paris-climate-accord-US-exit-day-after-election
# Environment / Climate / Interior Global Environmentalists urge halt to Mexico’s plan to allow herbicide, GM corn. They say it will open the door to the cultivation of genetically modified corn and allow the use of glyphosate, a controversial herbicide.
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/decree-would-allow-herbicide-gm-corn/#:~:text=More%20than%20200%20activists%20and,of%20glyphosate%2C%20a%20controversial%20herbicide
# Gov / Politics
The Memo: Trump retains narrow path to victory. Victory for President Trump in Tuesday’s election remains a distinct possibility, despite the fact that he lags in national polls.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/523680-the-memo-trump-retains-narrow-path-to-victory
Texas Turns Blue: If Biden takes Texas, which trends appear to Support, not only will this be the most shocking blow to the GOP, in combination with a handful of other battleground states, this will surely secure the presidency for Biden—despite any post November 3 ballot counting.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/10/31/texas-turns-blue/?mc_cid=d15818e427&mc_eid=3f7488d454
Secret Russian Funded Lobby Group to Aid Trump in Overthrowing Election Results (video proof) ALEC, a secret Kosher Nostra/Russian front to pay off state legislators has put a plan in motion to overthrow the 2020 election and keep Donald Trump, in the White House until his work is done, 6 million Americans dead.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/10/31/secret-russian-funded-lobby-group-to-aid-trump-in-overthrowing-election-results-video-proof/
This is not a normal election of Republicans or Democrats. It’s normal vs. abnormal. Republicans held an abnormal convention and nominated an abnormal candidate. The assembled speakers argued that the other party’s nominee was a criminal who should be thrown in jail.
https://www.vox.com/2016/7/28/12281222/trump-clinton-conventions
Days After Hypothermia Fiasco, Add Heat Stroke to ‘Things You Can Get at a Trump Rally’: Supporters Hospitalized During Event in Florida. “Trump campaign goes into home stretch by infecting, freezing, and burning its own supporters.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/30/days-after-hypothermia-fiasco-add-heat-stroke-things-you-can-get-trump-rally
Donald Trump’s Hunger Games: More power. More money. More golf. More women.
https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/donald-trump-hunger-games-meme/
McConnell’s latest agenda is to make sure the GOP continues to trample democracy even if they lose the Senate
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/16/mitch-mcconnell-gop-leader-senate-control-322289
A wave of reports expose Trumpworld corruption as the president’s allies point fingers https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/trump-corruption-2648564184/
Experts Warn More Than 1 Million Mail-In Ballots Could Be Rejected in
2020 Races. Rejected ballots could end up swinging close races.
https://truthout.org/articles/experts-warn-more-than-1-million-mail-in-ballots-could-be-rejected-in-2020-races/
Biden event cancelled as ‘armed’ Trump supporters threaten campaign bus https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-camp-cancels-austin-texas-event-after-pro-trump-ambush-on-campaign-bus
Trump humiliates a vulnerable GOP senator in her home state https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/trump-humiliates-a-vulernable-gop-senator-in-her-home-state/
Marchers Headed To North Carolina Polls Pepper Sprayed, Arrested By Police https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2020/10/31/report-crowd-headed-to-north-carolina-polls-pepper-sprayed-arrested-by-police-after-march/?sh=7e0270247bdb
Senate battle threatens to spill into overtime https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/523731-senate-battle-threatens-to-spill-into-overtime
In historic early turnout, more than 90 million ballots cast as of Saturday.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/10/30/trump-biden-live-updates/
US judge to hear Republican bid to void 100,000 votes in Texas.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-texas/u-s-judge-to-hear-republican-bid-to-void-100000-votes-in-texas-idUSKBN27G0W9
Alex Jones and Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes: We will be at the polls to keep Democrats away…kill them if needed https://www.mediamatters.org/infowars/militia-leader-stewart-rhodes-says-his-group-will-be-polling-locations-and-ready-kill
A Pro-Trump Militant Group Has Recruited Thousands of Police, Soldiers, and Veterans An Atlantic investigation reveals who they are and what they might do on Election Day.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/right-wing-militias-civil-war/616473/
Video: Trump Supporters Tried to Run Biden Bus ‘Off the Road’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/31/biden-harris-bus-texas-trump-supporters-highway
Trump Praises Drivers That Biden Campaign Says Tried To Run Bus ‘Off The Road’
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/10/31/trump-praises-drivers-that-biden-campaign-says-tried-to-run-bus-off-the-road/?sh=6bc82571262a
The FBI is now investigating ‘Trump train’ that surrounded Biden campaign bus https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/fbi-is-investigating-trump-train-that-surrounded-biden-campaign-bus-in-texas-report/
Why Trump Can’t Afford to Lose. The President has survived one impeachment, twenty-six accusations of sexual misconduct, and an estimated four thousand lawsuits. That run of good luck may well end, perhaps brutally, if Joe Biden wins.
https://www.newsbreak.com/new-york/new-york/news/2093843281315/why-trump-cant-afford-to-lose
Trump asserts dictatorial power over top government employees. In a major power grab, Donald Trump signed an executive order on Oct. 21 that asserts he has vast new authority to punish federal employees with demotions or firing without cause. It’s a Trumpian assertion of a right to cronyism and personal fealty to him.
https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump-asserts-dictatorial-power-over-top-government-employees/
# Law Enforcement
Kentucky State Police Trained out of Mein Kampf (busted by high school
paper!)
https://manualredeye.com/90096/news/local/police-training-hitler-presentation/?fbclid=IwAR10ZvUzeTTqT4FxgLqiAN9TdGVBm1W2f3bh5LHA0eWaSLQxFAIGoUZC5ys#
# Media
Social Media’s Threat to the Election Process. It may take days or weeks after Election Day to count the votes, declare winners in hotly contested races, and certify the results for the U.S. 2020 general election.
https://iowalabornews.com/?p=28545
Assanage And The Empire: Americans now worship the money none but a tiny few ever see, in thrall to a monstrous criminal racket that scorns them as mindless serfs
https://www.newsweek.com/emb-midnight-827-assange-what-wikileaks-teaches-us-about-how-us-operates-366364
# Medical / Health
On Trump’s watch, thousands died due to lost health insurance, study shows. New research shows that approximately 2.3 million Americans have lost health insurance since President Trump took office, leading to thousands of deaths. And that’s before you factor in the pandemic.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90569986/trump-health-insurance-aca-impact
# Military / DOD
Cutting defense spending by 10 percent would debilitate America’s military https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/523364-cutting-defense-spending-by-10-percent-would-debilitate-americas
# Social
White supremacist group training for violence in case Donald Trump loses election, says report https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-white-supremacist-group-patriot-front-violence-b1380695.html
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