Voices, The Peoples News
March 13, 2021
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
The Cherokee Nation Infuses Cash Into Language Revitalization Efforts https://dailyyonder.com/the-cherokee-nation-infuses-cash-into-language-revitalization-efforts/2021/03/08/
NASA is naming the rocks and soil on Mars in the Navajo language https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/12/us/nasa-perseverance-mars-navajo-scn-trnd/index.html
# Border / Immigration
President Biden is finding it increasingly difficult to unwind his predecessor’s immigration regulations as the administration grapples with a surge of migrants at the southern border.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/543041-biden-officials-struggle-to-unravel-web-of-trump-immigration-rules
# CoronaVirus
The United States has passed 100 million vaccine doses administered, a big milestone that shows the pace of the vaccination campaign is accelerating. 100 Million Vaccine Doses Given to 66 Million People https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/543006-us-passes-100-million-covid-19-vaccinations
Reckless and premature rollbacks in states like Texas and Mississippi — and soon to be others, threaten to erode the hard-won progress we’ve made and create pockets of potential new infections.
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/542897-reckless-governors-are-threatening-covid-19-progress
Cuomo administration is ordering homes for disabled to accept COVID patients. It wasn’t just nursing homes. The Cuomo administration has spent the last year quietly allowing COVID-19 patients to return to homes for the disabled and the policy remains in effect. At least 552 residents of such homes have died of the virus as of Wednesday. More than 6,900 out of the more than 34,552 who live in the facilities have been infected, the agency said.
https://nypost.com/2021/03/11/cuomo-administration-is-ordering-homes-for-disabled-to-accept-covid-patients/
Pa. lawmakers plan to investigate Gov. Wolf’s oversight of nursing homes during COVID-19 pandemic; 12,000 deaths in such facilities occurred on his watch https://www.pennlive.com/coronavirus/2021/03/pa-lawmakers-plan-to-investigate-gov-wolfs-oversight-of-nursing-homes-during-covid-19-pandemic.html
3 More EU Countries Hit Pause on AstraZeneca After Reports of Illness and Deaths.| Denmark, Norway and Iceland today announced they are joining other European countries in temporarily suspending use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID vaccine following reports of blood clots in people who got the vaccine.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20210311-covid-19-denmark-pauses-use-of-astrazeneca-vaccine-over-blood-clot-fears
Utah mom Kassidi Kurill dies four days after second dose of Moderna vaccine https://nypost.com/2021/03/11/utah-mom-kassidi-kurill-dies-days-after-second-dose-of-covid-19-vaccine/
CDC: 1,524 DEAD 31,079 Injured Following Experimental COVID mRNA “Vaccines”
https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/cdc-1524-dead-31079-injured-following-experimental-covid-mrna-vaccines/
What the 1918 pandemic can tell us about a post-COVID-19 world:
Historians, medical experts, sociologists, and economists look back to
1918 to make predictions for the coming year.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90613787/what-the-1918-flu-can-tell-us-about-a-post-covid-19-world
House Dems to Revive Medicare for All Bill 1 Year After COVID Reached All States Representatives Pramila Jayapal and Debbie Dingell will introduce the Medicare for All Act of 2021 on March 17.
https://truthout.org/articles/house-dems-to-revive-medicare-for-all-bill-1-year-after-covid-reached-all-states/
ER Doctor and Advanced Trauma Life Support Professor: “I have never seen a patient sick with COVID-19. We are being deceived and manipulated.”
[Read and decide for yourself. Are we being deceived?] https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/er-doctor-and-advanced-trauma-life-support-professor-i-have-never-seen-a-patient-sick-with-covid-19-we-are-being-deceived-and-manipulated/
Pfizer Covid-Vaccines with “mRNA Flaws” in EU. Company and EMA concealed, but BMJ discovered https://www.gospanews.net/en/2021/03/11/pfizer-covid-vaccines-with-mrna-flaws-in-eu-company-and-ema-concealed-but-bmj-discovered/
President Biden is under increasing pressure to share the U.S. vaccine stockpile with the rest of the world https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/543004-us-comes-under-pressure-to-share-vaccines-with-rest-of-world
Maskless woman arrested in Galveston day after mandate lifted. Body camera footage released by Galveston police shows officers confronting the woman inside a Bank of America branch on Central City Boulevard.
https://abc13.com/woman-resists-officers-galveston-refuses-to-wear-face-mask-at-bank-of-america-protocol/10411661/
# Economy / Trade
The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have started the process of sending out the $1,400 direct payments included in President Biden’s coronavirus relief law, the agencies said Friday.
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/543029-irs-starts-sending-1400-direct-payments
The Stimulus Bill Is the Most Economically Liberal Legislation in Decades https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/03/10/house-stimulus-biden-covid-relief-checks/
GOP goes on the attack against Biden relief bill: Republicans are going on the attack against the newly signed $1.9 trillion coronavirus bill as they scramble to find a messaging foothold against Democrats’ first big win heading into 2022.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/543042-gop-goes-on-the-attack-against-biden-relief-bill
The Stimulus Payments’ Big Delivery Snafus Need to Be Addressed — Now.
The poorest households, which need the money the most, had significant problems getting their $1,200 and $600 payments.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-stimulus-payments-big-delivery-snafus-need-to-be-addressed-now/
# Employment / Labor
Right-to-Work Laws Are Rooted in Racism. The PRO Act Would Strike Them Down.
The measure must now pass the Senate to break the stranglehold that Jim Crow-era laws have placed on workers’ power.
https://truthout.org/articles/right-to-work-laws-are-rooted-in-racism-the-pro-act-would-strike-them-down/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemicals A Single Chemical Plant in Louisville Emits a Super-Pollutant That Does More Climate Damage Than Every Car in the City. Executives at Chemours promised at the White House in 2015 to try to abate the emissions. Now, they say it will take two more years.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09032021/a-single-chemical-plant-in-louisville-emits-a-super-pollutant-that-does-more-climate-damage-than-every-car-in-the-city/
What Happened to the Texas Power Grid? “Power companies get exactly what they want”: How Texas repeatedly failed to protect its power grid against extreme weather. Texas regulators and lawmakers knew about the grid’s vulnerabilities for years, but time and again they furthered the interests of large electricity providers.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/22/texas-power-grid-extreme-weather/
# Environment / Climate / Interior
Trump’s Forest Service Planned More Logging in the Yaak Valley, Environmentalists Want Biden To Make it a ‘Climate Refuge.’ One of the wildest places in America is a test case for the new administration’s conservation and climate strategies.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12032021/trumps-forest-service-planned-more-logging-in-the-yaak-valley-environmentalists-want-biden-to-make-it-a-climate-refuge/
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global Teenage Activists Post Signs to Warn of Toxic Air in London Neighborhoods https://www.nationofchange.org/2021/03/13/teenage-activists-post-signs-to-warn-of-toxic-air-in-london-neighborhoods/
# Gov / Political
Cuomo clings to political life. The position of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is getting more and more dire, and he is growing more and more defiant in the face of growing allegations of sexual harassment.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/543027-the-memo-cuomo-clings-to-political-life
How Israel is shaping Biden’s Iran policy. Biden has appropriated Trump’s “maximum pressure” strategy and has refused to lift sanctions on Iran and simply make the US a part of the Iran nuclear deal.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2021/03/12/neo-how-israel-is-shaping-bidens-iran-policy/?mc_cid=a81f307f51&mc_eid=3f7488d454
Biden Team Seeks a Way Out of Nuclear Standoff With Iran https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/18/biden-iran-nuclear-deal-policy/
Today, a story buried by CNN and others is coming to light. The plan was to have rioters herd Congress into the Tunnels, with a few exceptions and we know who they are. The rest of Congress would be trapped by corrupt capitol police. This is why the standown at the Pentagon. Here is the story CNN buried https://www.veteranstoday.com/2021/03/12/trumps-coup-murder-congress-rule-with-flynn-and-his-gang-of-posers-and-fakes/
Is Oath Keepers Founder, Stewart Rhodes, Once the Protected Prince of the GOP, Finally facing a Shitstorm for Jan 6? The Oath Keepers has long been a vital part of the GOP, well financed and part of their inventory of subversive groups under the umbrella of InfoWars, Prison Planet and Fox News.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2021/03/12/is-oath-keepers-founder-stewart-rhodes-once-the-protected-prince-of-the-gop-finally-facing-a-shitstorm-for-jan-6/
The Great Reset: Corporate Socialism, or ‘Capitalism’ with Chinese Characteristics
https://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm?blog_id=70755
New York state assembly taking ‘first step’ to impeaching Cuomo –The news comes as the state filed a police report on an alleged incident involving potential criminal conduct https://www.berkshireeagle.com/nyt/nyt_page_one/cuomo-faces-new-threat-impeachment-inquiry-led-by-democrats/article_b6f375a8-295a-52eb-9604-05a3ab1043ca.html
Mitch McConnell is holding our nation hostage. GOP won’t agree to the basic rules that allow the Senate to function. Put another way: Nice legislative body there, shame if something happened to it.
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-edit-let-chuck-lead-20210123-zaepcvswubcnraqwjn4mp3hwdi-story.html
# Law Enforcement / Incarceration
Charges Are Coming for at Least 100 More Capitol Rioters, Feds Warn https://www.thedailybeast.com/charges-are-coming-for-at-least-100-more-capitol-rioters-feds-warn
CNN has reported that the FBI is now investigating many of Rhodes’
associates in the Oath Keepers
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2021/03/12/breaking-news-virginia-governor-amanda-chase-met-with-extremist-who-planned-to-kill-congress-with-poison-gas-and-stewart-rhodes/?mc_cid=a81f307f51&mc_eid=3f7488d454
The Twisted Group Focused on Making Nazis Comfy in Prison. It calls itself the Global Minority Initiative. Experts say it resembles a petri dish fostering far-right grievance when the feds are finally cracking down after Jan. 6.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-twisted-group-focused-on-making-nazis-comfy-in-prison
# Media
90,000 Ballots in Largest Nevada County Sent to Wrong Addresses, Bounced Back https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nevada-thousands-mail-in-ballots-went-wrong-addresses
# Medical / Health
Owners of Hospital Conglomerate Made Billions as Health Care Workers Lacked PPE. The largest for-profit hospital conglomerate in the U.S. has made billions for its biggest shareholders during COVID.
https://truthout.org/articles/owners-of-hospital-conglomerate-made-billions-as-health-care-workers-lacked-ppe/
Community Health Centers Are Fueling Vaccine Equity. The Relief Bill Funds Them.
Data shows that 54 percent of those who received their vaccines at a community health center were people of color.
https://truthout.org/articles/community-health-centers-are-fueling-vaccine-equity-the-relief-bill-funds-them/
# Military / DOD
US military deploys new type of nuclear weapon seen as key to countering Russia https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/04/politics/us-nuclear-weapon-submarine/index.html
# Nuclear / Radiation
New highly radioactive particles found in Fukushima. Work just published in the Journal Science of the Total Environment documents new, large (>
300 micrometers), highly radioactive particles that were released from one of the damaged Fukushima reactors.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210217134852.htm
# Social
Sarah Everard’s Murder Is Every Woman’s Worst-Case Scenario. The murder of Sarah Everard in the U.K. is an extreme, devastating example of what women face every day. Even if we’re not harassed outside, we’re still always prepared for it.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/sarah-everards-murder-is-every-womans-worst-case-scenario
The long history of racism against Asian Americans in the U.S.: But in the United States, Asian Americans have long been considered as a threat to a nation that promoted a whites-only immigration policy. They were called a “yellow peril”: unclean and unfit for citizenship in America.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/the-long-history-of-racism-against-asian-americans-in-the-u-s
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