Voices, The Peoples News
June 19, 2021
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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“When you hate, the only person who suffers is you,
because most of the people you hate don’t know it and the others don’t care.”
– Medgar Evers
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# Indigenous
Native Americans to Feds: Own Up to America’s Indian School History https://www.voanews.com/usa/native-americans-feds-own-americas-indian-school-history
Toward Food Sovereignty in Alaska Native Communities. A grassroots project to build biomass-heated greenhouses aims to alleviate food insecurity in the communities most affected by it.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2021/06/08/food-agriculture-alaska-native
# CoronaVirus (Virus Vaccine is still in clinical trials and tests)
4 British Airways Pilots DEAD Following COVID-19 Injections While Spain and Russia Prohibit “Vaccinated” From Air Travel https://humansarefree.com/2021/06/british-airways-pilots-dead-following-covid-19-injections.html
Canadian Politician Derek Sloan Uses Parliament Hill to Give Voices to Censored Doctors and Scientists Blowing the Whistle on COVID-19 Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/canadian-politician-derek-sloan-uses-parliament-hill-to-give-voices-to-censored-doctors-and-scientists-blowing-the-whistle-on-covid-19-genocide-and-crimes-against-humanity/
Majority of Physicians Decline COVID Shots, according to Survey https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/majority-of-physicians-decline-covid-shots-according-to-survey-by-the-association-of-american-physicians-and-surgeons-aaps-301314028.html
# Economy / Trade
Congress is barreling toward a fight as soon as next month over raising the debt ceiling, creating a huge challenge for President Biden and Democratic leaders in Congress.
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/559218-congress-barrels-toward-debt-cliff
# Education / Schools
Teachers across the country are on edge amid the heated national debate over critical race theory, as Republican legislators in multiple states have passed or introduced legislation that would limit how race and racism are discussed in classrooms.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/559242-teachers-on-edge-over-critical-race-theory-debate
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemicals Studies suggest the clean electricity standard the White House is proposing would give renewables a leg up in a nation awash in fossil fuel. But Congress is a stumbling block.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14062021/biden-infrastructure-clean-electricity-standard-manchin/
13 Refineries Emit Dangerous Benzene Emissions That Exceed the EPA’s ‘Action Level,’ a Study Finds https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13062021/texas-refineries-benzene-emissions/#:~:text=Citing%20U.S.%20Census%20Bureau%20and,lived%20below%20the%20poverty%20line
Federal Judge Says Biden Cannot Pause New Leases for Drilling on Public Lands https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2021/06/16/federal-judge-says-biden/
Power Demand Will Keep Breaking June Records as Brutal Texas Heat Wave Continues https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/texas-power-demand-keep-breaking-june-records-heatwave-2021-06-16/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
As Harsh Financial Realities Emerge, St. Croix’s Limetree Bay Refinery Could Be Facing Bankruptcy https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12062021/st-croix-limetree-bay-refinery-bankruptcy-trump-biden/
# Environment / Climate / Interior
Biden Has a Chance to Oversee Biggest River Restoration Project in U.S.
History
Removing four dams in the Pacific Northwest will help salmon recovery, clean energy, agriculture and Indigenous rights.
https://truthout.org/articles/biden-has-a-chance-to-oversee-the-biggest-river-restoration-project-in-history/
Rocky Mountains are burning more now than ever, and it could get worse.
Forests are burning more frequently than any time in the past 2,000 years.
https://givingcompass.org/article/rocky-mountain-forests-burning-more-now/
Is the Controlled Shrinking of Economies a Better Bet to Slow Climate Change Than Unproven Technologies?
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18062021/degrowth-economies-climate-change-technology-gdp/
Earth Is Now Trapping an ‘Unprecedented’ Amount of Heat, NASA Says https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jun/17/earth-trapping-heat-study-nasa-noaa
Brutal Drought Spreads Across American Farm Belt https://www.reuters.com/world/us/drought-spreads-key-us-crop-states-2021-06-17/
Forest Fire Smoke Threatens Amazon Communities Still Recovering From Covid
https://news.trust.org/item/20210616125122-dvzjh/?utm_source=InsideClimate+News&utm_campaign=2ec43786dc-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-2ec43786dc-327817917
Biden to reinstate road ban for Tongass National Forest: ‘There’s nothing like it anywhere else in the world.’ Several tribes and Alaska Natives are applauding the Biden administration’s plans to revive a ban on road-building in the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska.
https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/biden-to-reinstate-road-ban-for-tongass-national-forest
Earth’s Energy Imbalance Doubled in the Last 14 Years: As temperatures get hotter and Earth seemingly continues to bake, a new study from NASA and NOAA confirms that Earth is indeed heating up as the climate crisis continues.
https://www.ecowatch.com/earths-energy-imbalance-climate-change-2653450576.html
Megadrought Could Force California’s Lake Oroville Hydroelectric Power Plant To Shut Down https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/06/03/lake-orovilles-water-woes-could-turn-into-power-problem/
# Food / GMOs / Chemicals
Protein-Filled, With a Low Carbon Footprint, Insects Creep Up on the Human Diet Entrepreneurs are increasingly turning to insects as a food rich in essential nutrients, that can be reared at scale with minimal environmental impact https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15062021/insects-food-agriculture-climate-change-diet/
# Gov / Political
GOP increasingly balks at calling Jan. 6 an insurrection: A growing number of Republican lawmakers are refusing to say that the Jan. 6 insurrection was actually an insurrection.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/559217-gop-increasingly-balks-at-calling-jan-6-an-insurrection
Hollywood is lining up behind a sweeping, Democratic-backed election reform bill, with some of the country’s biggest stars using their platforms to make a last-minute push for the passage of the For the People Act.
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/559214-hollywood-goes-all-in-for-the-for-the-people-act
How Republican States Are Expanding Their Power Over Elections https://www.anandmarket.in/how-republican-states-are-expanding-their-power-over-elections/
After Supreme Court warning, Democratic candidates choose to ‘Make it about McConnell’: Minutes after Mitch McConnell threatened to hold yet another Supreme Court seat open if he reclaims the role of Senate majority leader, Democratic candidates aspiring to join the body jumped on the warning as a rallying cry for their candidacies.
https://bangordailynews.com/2021/06/19/national-politics/after-supreme-court-warning-democratic-candidates-choose-to-make-it-about-mcconnell/
Democratic clamor grows for select committee on Jan. 6 attack As Democrats chew on their options for investigating Jan. 6, the select committee is rising to the top.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/559191-democratic-clamor-grows-for-select-committee-on-jan-6-attack
Graham calls voting rights bill ‘biggest power grab’ in history
https://www.businessinsider.com/graham-voting-rights-bill-power-grab-republicans-manchin-compromise-2021-6
Over 100 Anti-Protest Bills Have Been Introduced Since George Floyd Rebellion Often backed by organizations affiliated with police unions, the laws encompass a wide range of punitive tactics.
https://truthout.org/articles/over-100-anti-protest-bills-have-been-introduced-since-george-floyd-rebellion/
# Law Enforcement
A new videos show a Marine Corps veteran and former New York City police officer wielding a flagpole as he attacks police, as well as rioters crushing another officer into a door as he screams in pain. Still another video shows a New Jersey man punching an officer in the head.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/06/19/fierce-capitol-attacks-police-newly-released-videos.html
The Origins of America’s Secret Police: The man credited for building the FBI into the massive domestic intelligence apparatus that it is today was J. Edgar Hoover. When will the American people realise that the biggest threat to American freedom is not from without but from within its very own walls, where it has been prominently residing for the last 112 years https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/01/the-origins-of-americas-secret-police/
Lessons from the history of America’s secret police. James Comey reminds us that things can be, and have been, much worse https://isthmus.com/opinion/democracy-in-crisis/lessons-from-the-history-of-americas-secret-police/
# Media
With Bezos at the Helm, Democracy Dies at the Washington Post Editorial Board. In the Soviet Union, everybody was aware that the media was controlled by the state. But in a corporate state like the U.S., a veneer of independence is still maintained, although trust in the media has been plummeting for years.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/jeff-bezos-at-helm-democracy-dies-at-washington-post-editorial-board/277738/
# Medical / Health
Democrats seek new ways to expand Medicaid in holdout states.
Congressional Democrats are pushing legislation that would expand Medicaid in states that have so far refused to do so, seeking to fill one of the major remaining holes in the Affordable Care Act.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/559225-democrats-seek-new-ways-to-expand-medicaid-in-holdout-states
“This antibiotic will ruin you” – A Woman Had to Undergo 20 Surgeries to Repair Damage This Common Drug Caused. (FDA issued a warning too late…) https://althealthworks.com/this-antibiotic-will-ruin-you-a-woman-had-to-undergo-20-surgeries-to-repair-damage-this-common-drug-caused-fda-issued-a-warning-too-late-4/
Future of U.S. Healthcare May Be Playing Out in Nevada: State Democratic lawmakers move ahead with public-option plans aimed at cutting costs for consumers; Republicans and industry groups call it overreach
https://www.wsj.com/articles/future-of-u-s-healthcare-is-playing-out-in-nevada-11624095000
# Military / DOD
Navy Hits Unidentified ‘Target’ off Cape Canaveral with 10 KT Nuclear
Torpedo: It is extremely likely that the US Navy fired a Mark 45 torpedo with a 10 kiloton W34 nuclear warhead today at a target deemed “hostile” 105 miles off the Florida coast, curiously adjacent to the Kennedy Space Center.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2021/06/18/breaking-exclusivenavy-hits-unidentified-target-off-cape-canaveral-with-10-kt-nuclear-torpedo/
# Social
The New Poor People’s Campaign Launches Moral Monday, June 21st: This national day of action will demand that the United States Congress pass the proposed non-partisan resolution to establish a Third Reconstruction, which “reflects an omnibus vision for a fundamental restructuring” that lifts American society from the bottom up.
https://caprw.org/resources/working-together.html/article/2021/06/18/the-new-poor-people-s-campaign-launches-moral-monday
# Technology
House Republicans are publicly sparring over several high-profile antitrust bills that have bipartisan support, signaling a bumpy road ahead for the legislation.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/559227-gop-divided-over-bills-targeting-tech-giants
# Veterans / VA
‘I will walk every step’: Army veteran on 1,800-mile journey to raise suicide awareness: Army veteran Greg Washington wants to raise awareness about veteran suicides but also wants to honor and remember his friends through his journey of 65 days of walking and 71 days of visits.
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2021-06-18/i-will-walk-every-step-army-veteran-on-1-800-mile-journey-to-raise-suicide-awareness-1734544.html
# Water
Red Alert: Water Level of Lake Mead Hits Record Low https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2021/06/10/lake-mead-declines-new-low-colorado-river-crisis-deepens-arizona-drought/7621138002/
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