Voices, The Peoples News
June 21, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Feds catch more than 460 known, suspected terrorists in nine months, most at northern border: In this surveillance image provided by the United States Border Patrol Swanton sector, two individuals illegally cross the US/Canada border in January 2023 at the Vermont, New Hampshire and New York enforcement sector.
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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
U.S. Government Bankrolled Discovery of Virus Closely Related to
COVID-19: U.S.-funded experiment in China posed biosafety risks but did not cause Covid-19 pandemic, scientists say. Several scientists said the new information, which the NIH released after it was sued by The Intercept, points to biosafety concerns, highlighting a general lack of oversight for research on pathogens and raising questions about what other information has not been publicly disclosed.
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# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Heists Worth Billions: An investigation found criminal gangs using sham bank accounts and secret online marketplaces to steal from almost anyone, and little being done to combat the fraud. Check fraud is one of history’s oldest financial crimes and criminals are finding new ways to use it to steal billions from banks.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/us/investigations/mailbox-robberies-drop-accounts-checkwashing-fraud-gangs-of-fullz__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03XYpq6W8Y$
How to protect yourself from drop account fraud, tips from our investigative unit: Cyber bank fraud is on the rise. Here are some important ways to protect yourself. The types of crimes that use drop accounts are multiplying rapidly, but there are ways to decrease your chances of becoming a victim https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/how-to-protect-yourself-from-drop-account-fraud-tips-from-our-investigative-unit-206840__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03XT4TNJ1S$
Dueling Bipartisan Proposals to Seize Pay From Failed Bank Executives:
Elizabeth Warren introduced a bill with widespread Republican support, but Sherrod Brown replaced it with his own. It seeks to hold executives who bankrupt their companies more accountable, empowering the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to claw back compensation, remove executives from their positions and the industry at large, and impose civil penalties.
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# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Ocean heat is off the charts – here’s what that means for humans and ecosystems around the world: Drought in Europe, dwindling Arctic sea ice, a slow start to the Indian monsoon, unusually hot ocean temperatures can disrupt climate patterns around the world, as an ocean scientist explains.
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# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure / Global Himalayan glaciers are melting faster than ever and may lose most of their ice: Ice loss in the region, home to Everest and many other famous peaks, is advancing at a record speed. During the 2010s, the glaciers lost ice as much as 65% faster than they had in the previous decade. And the trend is expected to worsen if greenhouse gas emissions continue at their current levels.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/himalayan-glaciers-are-melting-faster-than-ever-and-may-lose-most-of-their-ice/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03XY3UwVPQ$
# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
USDA Gives 2 Companies Green Light to Sell Lab-Grown Meat: The new brand of vat-grown meat promises a cruelty-free alternative to slaughterhouses, but don’t expect it overtake your grocery store overnight. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) just gave two startups permission to sell lab-grown chicken. GOOD Meat, a subsidiary of food technology company Eat Just, Inc., and UPSIDE Foods will be able to sell their products, which have been cultivated from real animal-cells.
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# General News
Aircraft detects underwater noises in search for missing sub near Titanic, Coast Guard estimates just over a day’s worth of air left inside missing sub https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.wcvb.com/article/titanic-oceangate-submersible-search-june-20/44267479*__;Iw!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03XV8bmjkD$
The Titanic Sub Didn’t Have a Basic Safety Beacon: Untethered by regulations, the vehicle wasn’t even equipped with some of the most essential tools. Its inexplicable design may end in tragedy.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/missing-titanic-sub-plagued-by-a-long-history-of-deadly-safety-issues__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03XTCmO0r8$
Who is on board the missing Titanic submersible: Five people are aboard a missing submersible near the wreck of the Titanic. Here’s what we know about the crew of the OceanGate sub. A French diver and a Pakistani father and son are among the missing.
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‘Like Disneyland’: Titanic Families Blast ‘Disgusting’ Tours: Families with relatives who died in or survived the 1912 Titanic disaster say the wreckage site is a “graveyard” that should be treated with respect—not as a travel destination.
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Missing Titanic sub once faced massive lawsuit over depths it could safely travel to: Court documents reveal a former OceanGate employee had several safety complaints over the tourist submersible, and then he was fired.
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Missing sub boss was previously sued for fraud in Florida: A Florida couple booked for the Titanic trip accused OceanGate Expeditions founder Stockton Rush of ‘fraudulent inducement’ and ‘unfair and deceptive acts’ in a February lawsuit.
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Durham: Feds had no real evidence to investigate Russian collusion, monitor Trump campaign: Former Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice John Durham testified Wednesday that the federal government had no substantive basis to begin its 2016 probe into Russian collusion with the Trump campaign.
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# Gov / Politics
Impeached Texas Attorney General Partnered With Troubled Businessman to Push Opioid Program: While launching a program to distribute packets to dissolve opioids, Attorney General Ken Paxton worked to connect its leaders with the state’s comptroller, who oversees the distribution of millions of dollars in opioid settlement money. Kenny Hansmire was tapped by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton to be part of a coalition to combat opioid abuse that Paxton declared would “be the largest drug prevention, education, abatement and disposal campaign in U.S. history.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/20/ken-paxton-kenny-hansmire-partner-on-opioid-program/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03Xa2POkeg$
House GOP Vows To Continue Biden Probes Despite Hunter’s ‘Sweetheart’
Deal: Oversight Chair James Comer said the plea deal would have “no impact” on his panel’s investigation into President Joe Biden and his family.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/20/house-republicans-hunter-biden-00102666__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03XZJYY7NE$
GOP Fears Kari Lake Bid Could Cost Them Arizona Senate Race: Republicans are facing a dwindling number of alternatives to mount a challenge to Kari Lake in the Arizona Senate primary, raising concerns for the party over what should be a prime pickup opportunity next year.
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Kari Lake meets with 6 GOP senators amid 2024 speculation: Lake narrowly lost her gubernatorial race in 2022, but is seen as a top GOP contender to win the seat held by moderate former Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.).
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The State That May Let Corporations Vote In Elections: Embodying that bipartisan spirit in post-Citizens United America, Delaware Democrats are now advancing a Republican bill that would allow corporations to directly vote in a municipal election.
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Who will start the war with China? “The thing we see across all the wargames is that there are major losses on all sides. And the impact of that on our society is quite devastating,” said Becca Wasser, who played the role of the Chinese leadership in the Select Committee’s wargame and is head of the gaming lab at the Center for a New American Security. In every exercise the U.S. is not engaged in an abstract push-button war from 30,000 feet up like the ones Americans have come to expect since the end of the Cold War, but a horrifically bloody one.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/09/america-weapons-china-00100373__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03XTaGuZ7f$
Biden Enrages China by Calling Xi Jinping a Dictator: The row erupted just one day after Antony Blinken met the Chinese leader to ease tensions. President Joe Biden’s remarks calling Chinese leader Xi Jinping a “dictator” and China a country with “real economic difficulties” drew fast condemnation from China on Wednesday, cracking open a new rift just after the two countries agreed to tentative steps to stabilize the relationship.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/china-biden-xi-jinping-dictator-c1fe17f72e2d37fcc840575eea1b78d2__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03XQTvW6o0$
China Says Biden Calling Xi a Dictator Is ‘Provocation’: China said U.S.
President Joe Biden had made a “public political provocation” by referring to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping as a “dictator,” as fresh tensions flared in bilateral ties just days after meetings to stabilize relations. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning called the US leader’s comments “irresponsible” at a regular press briefing in Beijing on Wednesday. “It is against the basic facts and diplomatic protocols, seriously violates China’s political dignity and amounts to public political provocation.”
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# Law Enforcment
Feds push gun rap against woman they let Hunter Biden escape: A judge threw out the same guns-and-drugs charge against Paola Connelly, but the feds aren’t giving up on it. As the body count from gun violence grows, a plea deal will allow the president’s son to escape prosecution for violating a federal law that prohibits drug users from possessing firearms. The same Department of Justice is trying to show us how serious it is about guns by fighting to reinstate an identical firearms charge against a 32-year-old Texas woman that a federal judge in that state dismissed https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-push-gun-rap-against-paola-connelly-that-they-let-hunter-biden-escape*:*:text=A*20judge*20threw*20out*20the,t*20giving*20up*20on*20it__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03XR1uQRos$
# Legal / DOJ
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued a bizarre and fiery rebuttal against apparent ethics claims hours before they were even published.
His Wall Street Journal op-ed accuses ProPublica of falsehoods. Here’s the story that inflamed Alito: It involves a billionaire, a private jet, and some big ole fish https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court?utm_source=cordial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp-us-reg-morning-email_2023-06-21&utm_term=us-morning-email__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03XajvMInr$
Federal prosecutors announced criminal charges against the president’s son, and Republicans claimed the charges are evidence of a double standard at the U.S. Department of Justice: Republicans Describe Hunter Biden Criminal Charges As More Proof Of Joe Biden’s Corruption. Criminal charges against Hunter Biden are further evidence that the Justice Department is protecting the Bidens, according to Republicans on Capitol Hill.
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Federal Judge, Julie Rikelman represented an abortion clinic in the landmark Supreme Court case that gutted Roe v Wade, will now serve on a U.S. appeals court, overcoming opposition from conservatives and anti-abortion groups angry about her record. Sen. Elizabeth Warren
(D-Mass.) hailed her confirmation.
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Clarence Thomas’ billionaire ‘personal friend’ who took him on private jets and luxury vacations did have business in front of the Supreme Court https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://fortune.com/2023/04/24/clarence-thomas-billionaire-friend-harlan-crow-business-before-supreme-court/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03XZ2xfmcQ$
Clarence Thomas’ Billionaire Benefactor Tied To SCOTUS Bombshell: The Supreme Court just gutted wetland protections after lobbying by Harlan Crow’s business interests. Despite being caught in a swirling corruption scandal, the Supreme Court continues to rule on cases and issue far-reaching decisions that shatter years of precedent to rewrite the country’s laws.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.levernews.com/clarence-thomas-billionaire-benefactor-is-grateful-for-latest-scotus-bombshell/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03XfqYGF6X$
5 things to know about Harlan Crow, the billionaire funding Clarence Thomas’s lavish lifestyle: Here’s how the real estate billionaire got to where he is, and what else he’s been funding.
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Harlan Crow, the Billionaire Tied to Clarence Thomas, Wields Texas
Influence: He and his wife have contributed at least $14.7 million to state and federal political candidates, committees and parties over the past three decades.
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Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire: Island-hopping on a superyacht.
Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge.
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The Supreme Court’s “Unexploded Neutron Bomb” Among the Upcoming
Rulings: The Brennan Center’s Michael Waldman joins ‘Inside the Hive’ to discuss an impending SCOTUS decision, plus the Clarence Thomas–John Roberts originalism spectrum.
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Hunter Biden to plead guilty in Justice Department probe: Hunter Biden has been charged with federal offenses related to his taxes and business dealings, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday. The Justice Department has inked a deal with the president’s son to plead guilty to two counts of tax misdemeanors. Biden will also face a charge, but not prosecution, for the illegal purchase of a handgun, according to a Tuesday court filing.
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# LGBTQ / Gender
Survey: 61 Percent of LGBTQ People Have Avoided a Public Space Due to Fear of Violence: Concern about rising fascism and hate-fueled violence is now widespread in queer communities across the country. Sixty-one percent of LGBTQ+ people in the United States say they have avoided public spaces or a public event due to fear of discrimination or violence, according to a new survey of 1,000 adults by the nonprofit group SafeHome.org.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/survey-61-of-lgbtq-people-have-avoided-a-public-space-due-to-fear-of-violence/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03XT0qbbS1$
Discrimination and Barriers to Well-Being: The State of the LGBTQI+ Community in 2022: A comprehensive new CAP study finds that many LGBTQI+ people continue to face discrimination in their personal lives, employment, housing, and health care, as well as in the public sphere.
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The ACLU is fighting back against anti-trans legislation: Since 2015, political attacks against LGBTQ people have grown exponentially in state legislatures across the country. The ACLU has launched a nationwide tracking system to publicly document and categorize anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in state legislatures, and guide users to learn more about efforts to protect LGBTQ people and the right to safe, inclusive schools and communities. The goal of this page is to help advocates, organizers, and allies take action against these bills while also revealing these proposals for what they are: a coordinated and political attack on LGBTQ people nationwide.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://action.aclu.org/petition/2023-state-legislative-action-pledge-sign-now__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03XT4b3Cal$
# Medical / Health
One year after the fall of Roe v. Wade, abortion care has become a patchwork of confusing state laws that deepen existing inequalities:
Abortion bans and restrictions have numerous downstream effects on health care. For instance, medical students in states where those laws exist will not receive training for some standard procedures. While there is no law in the U.S. that regulates what a man can do with his body, the reproductive health of women is now more regulated than it has been in 50 years. And the scope of reproductive health care that women can receive is highly dependent on where they live.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/one-year-after-the-fall-of-roe-v-wade-abortion-care-has-become-a-patchwork-of-confusing-state-laws-that-deepen-existing-inequalities-207390__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03XVXIW6s5$
# Military / Global
Ukraine to get AMRAAM weapons under $1 billion deal with RTX: Part of the firm-fixed-price deal, the largest ever awarded for AMRAAM weapons, will cover missiles for sale to multiple foreign allies and partners.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2023/06/21/ukraine-to-get-amraam-weapons-under-1-billion-deal-with-rtx/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03XTPL6IhE$
# Pharmaceuticals / Drugs
Drugmaker Eli Lilly will acquire Dice Therapeutics, a biopharma company that develops drugs for autoimmune diseases, for $2.4B. Dice is a biopharmaceutical company that uses a proprietary technology platform to develop new oral therapeutic drugs for autoimmune diseases.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.econotimes.com/Eli-Lilly-Acquires-Dice-Therapeutics-for-24B-to-Boost-Autoimmune-Treatment-Line-1658203__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03XYtl7vCo$
# Science
Newly discovered ‘einstein’ tile is a 13-sided shape that solves a decades-old math problem: A new 13-sided shape is the first example of an elusive ‘einstein,’ a single shape that can be tiled infinitely without repeating a pattern. For decades, mathematicians wondered if it was possible to find a single special shape that could perfectly tile a surface, without leaving any gaps or causing any overlaps, with the pattern never repeating. Of course, this is trivial to do with a pattern that repeats, just look at a bathroom or kitchen floor, which is probably made up of simple rectangular tiles.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.livescience.com/newly-discovered-einstein-tile-is-a-13-sided-shape-that-solves-a-decades-old-math-problem__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03XW170nxm$
# Social
Islam’s call to prayer is ringing out in more US cities – affirming a long and growing presence of Muslims in America: The earliest documented public broadcasting of the Muslim call to prayer in the U.S. took place during the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893. Minneapolis recently became the first major U.S. city to allow the “adhan,” or Muslim call to prayer, to be broadcast from mosques five times a day.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/islams-call-to-prayer-is-ringing-out-in-more-us-cities-affirming-a-long-and-growing-presence-of-muslims-in-america-205555__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03XXYgOtDG$
# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample will have new home in Houston: If everything goes according to plan, OSIRIS-REx’s return capsule will separate from the spacecraft, enter the atmosphere and parachute safely to Earth for recovery https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.americaspace.com/2021/05/11/nasas-osiris-rex-begins-long-journey-home-with-first-ever-asteroid-sample-from-bennu/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03XXjxDrPt$
Intelsat To sustainably extend life of four satellites by 2027:
Intelsat, operator of one of the world’s largest integrated satellite and terrestrial networks and leading provider of inflight connectivity (IFC), ordered its second Mission Extension Pod (MEP) from Northrop Grumman Corporation’s SpaceLogistics, which will add life to an Intelsat satellite, providing uninterrupted services to many customers. The new contract represents the fourth deal with SpaceLogistics, following an order for a single MEP in April 2023 and two Mission Extension Vehicles
(MEVs) already in service with Intelsat satellites.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.intelsat.com/2023/06/20/intelsat-to-sustainably-extend-life-of-four-satellites-by-2027/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03Xbo4vlBm$
# Technology / Global
Monster Energy thinks it owns the word ‘monster’: A game dev is calling out the energy-drink maker for objecting any time a company wants to use the word ‘monster.’ The energy-drink maker frequently objects when other companies want trademarks, including the words ‘monster,’ ‘beast,’ or other things it thinks it owns. It has filed 134 such objections in Japan, including against Pokémon (short for ‘pocket monsters’) which the patent office has rejected, per Automaton. In the US, there are 100+ pending objections, per Gizmodo. Monster’s beef with Glowstick Entertainment? Its game, Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.gamesradar.com/monster-energy-has-even-gone-after-pokemon-and-monster-hunter-for-daring-to-use-the-word-monster/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1BMzqDg5Al4mfyFR7R3ryRPBbWTjYkFK0pD4PHh0sb_L1iintWBS-LqkUeWcT2hHk1yISxUrxKPT_wl98VcASB03XcQZTqK0$
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