Voices, The Peoples News
September 21, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Corporations / Industry
Auto giants announce layoffs as UAW strike continues: General Motors is stopping production at an assembly plant in Fairfax, Kansas and laying off roughly 2,000 people. GM said it would not pay out its normal unemployment benefits to the workers affected because of the strike. “We have said repeatedly that nobody wins in a strike,” GM said in a statement.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3164376359507-auto-giants-announce-layoffs-as-uaw-strike-continues__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l5rHl3F1$
Amazon now pockets 45 cents of every dollar its non-Amazon sellers make on the company’s website: A new report shows that Amazon now takes 45 percent of all third-party sales on its website, part of the company’s goal to become a monopoly gatekeeper for economic transactions.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/power/2023-09-21-amazons-185-billion-pay-to-play-system/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l4tHOh92$
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Revealed, Why the UN is not climate neutral: In an investigation that took a year and spanned multiple countries, reporters obtained details about carbon credits purchased by 33 UN entities, representing more than 75% of its reported offset portfolio since 2012. More than a dozen of the projects that issued the UN’s carbon credits were linked to reports of environmental damage, displacement, or health concerns. Others were deemed worthless by a number of leading climate experts.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/podcasts/2023/09/14/whats-unsaid-un-not-climate-neutral__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l1_00ded$
Human activity is chopping up the tree of life: we’re hacking off entire branches through extinction: Genus-level extinctions can leave gaping holes in the ecosystems humans depend on. The Tasmanian tiger, the Yangtze River dolphin, and the passenger pigeon, just some of the recent victims of what scientists have described as the sixth mass extinction.
A new study shows just how deep the crisis runs https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://themessenger.com/tech/humans-are-cutting-off-entire-branches-of-the-tree-of-life-study__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l_Z8iRLh$
A Black community in West Virginia sues the EPA to spur action on toxic air pollution: Research shows that two majority-Black communities in the state were left out of a regulatory effort earlier this year to tighten limits on cancer-causing chemicals.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/institute-west-virginia-sues-epa-to-spur-action-toxic-air-pollution__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l5e8xNH4$
# General News
District Judge Alan Albright granted several book shops a temporary injunction order pausing the implementation of House Bill 900. HB 900 bans sexually explicit materials from school libraries, requires booksellers to rate their books based on sexual relevance and prohibits school districts from purchasing from vendors who don’t use these ratings.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/31/texas-book-rating-lawsuit/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l_sdrXgN$
# Gov / Politics / Global
Zelensky’s speech to the UN General Assembly: Russia turned Syria into ruins. And if not Russia, the chemical weapons would have never been used there in Syria
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/20/full-text-zelenskyys-speech-to-the-un-general-assembly__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l9Xjx22g$
China has silently taken over South America, Xi Jinping is filling the power vacuum left by the United States: A conference, which was attended by more than 100 countries, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and Nicaragua was replete with speeches calling for a new world order, an order where China leads and the US follows. Founded in 1964, the G77 is the largest intergovernmental organisation of developing countries in the United Nations.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/21/china-xi-jinping-south-america-cuba-venezuela-biden-refugee/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l0YYjSbQ$
Shock Defeat Shows Putin Is Now Too Weak to Defend Allies: Vladimir Putin’s backyard just got a whole lot smaller. A year and a half after the Russian president’s rash, illegal, blundering invasion of Ukraine, Russian peacekeepers have been forced to admit defeat in the faraway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, handing control back to Azerbaijan after a 24-hour military offensive.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/shockingly-quick-defeat-shows-putin-130451245.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l0MVfgnZ$
Russia’s Growing Ties With Afghanistan Are More Symbolism Than Substance: As Russia’s relationship with the West has deteriorated, the Kremlin’s view of the Taliban has changed. But substantive economic cooperation will be hard to achieve. Russia is one of just a handful of states in the world actively seeking to strengthen its relationship with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/90584*:*:text=As*20Russia’s*20relationship*20with*20the,will*20be*20hard*20to*20achieve__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l_J9DEln$
# Gov / Politics
House GOP unveils budget with trillions in cuts to medicaid, food benefits, and more: The plan would cut mandatory spending, a category that includes Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by nearly $9 trillion over a 10-year period. The proposal would gash federal Medicaid spending by close to $2 trillion and SNAP by $800 billion.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://rollcall.com/2023/09/19/balanced-budget-plan-unveiled-by-house-republicans/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l7sevM0H$
President Biden addresses the U.N. General Assembly in New York: “if we allow Ukraine to be carved up”.“We have to stand up to this aggression today and deter other would-be aggressors tomorrow.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/2023/09/19/1200347032/president-biden-addresses-the-u-n-general-assembly-in-new-york__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l9mjhb1e$
Biden’s UN General Assembly Speech Aimed at Russia Exposes US Hypocrisy: Biden called the conflict “an illegal war of conquest, brought without provocation by Russia against its neighbor, Ukraine.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.antiwar.com/2023/09/19/bidens-un-general-assembly-speech-aimed-at-russia-exposes-us-hypocrisy/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l1L3myob$
House Speaker McCarthy on Funding Deadline and Impeachment Inquiry: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) spoke to reporters following a closed-door conference meeting on an impeachment inquiry into President Biden.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.c-span.org/video/?530447-2*house-speaker-mccarthy-funding-deadline-impeachment-inquiry__;Lw!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l_Qt6PMx$
Kevin McCarthy has officially lost all control of his GOP “clown show.”: It seems like only yesterday that we were on the cusp of defaulting on the debt and many of us were predicting that the kamikaze Freedom Caucus in the House of Representatives was going to make it happen. They sure sounded serious.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.yahoo.com/kevin-mccarthy-officially-lost-control-131829426.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_lwlQa2u5$
House Republicans scrap vote on stopgap spending bill: Hard-line conservatives also blocked progress on the fiscal 2024 Defense spending legislation. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s plan to prevent a government shutdown came to a standstill Tuesday, with just 12 days left to avert the crisis.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2023/09/19/house-republicans-scrap-vote-on-stopgap-spending-bill-00116856__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_lz5zjCDZ$
‘Total Sh*t Show’: McCarthy Sends Lawmakers Home as GOP Pushes US Toward Shutdown: “Speaker McCarthy is wasting precious time catering to the hard, hard MAGA right,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/government-shutdown-mccarthy__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l51-6daF$
Brilliant speech. The US is using Taiwan to create needless and highly dangerous conflict: The US is using Taiwan to create needless and highly dangerous conflict, Scott Horton says. TRUTH. And listen to the audience reaction, people get it. It’s politicians and journalists who appear to be utterly blind to this.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/china/experts/taiwan.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l9wkN3a4$
# Law Enforcement
DNA evidence sent Anthony Sanchez to death row, but did it actually solve the crime? A college ballerina was raped and murdered in Oklahoma. DNA put Anthony Sanchez at the scene. But it did not tell the whole story.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/09/18/oklahoma-execution-dna-anthony-sanchez/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l5A29pkV$
# Media
Over Assange, Britain’s press prefers to serve power not media freedom: “Julian Assange is by far the most important case involving free speech this century.” We might have expected British journalists to have turned the Julian Assange case into a cause celebre for press freedom and free speech. Not at all. Most of the mainstream media are silent or hostile, and are acting as instruments of the state.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.globalresearch.ca/assange-britain-press-prefers-serve-power-not-media-freedom/5832936__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l_BssZHD$
# Medical Technology
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Gets Greenlight To Recruit Humans For Brain-Chip Trial: The company is building a brain implant that aims to help patients with severe paralysis control external technologies using neural signals. The study will take six years and is looking for people with quadriplegia to test the whole Neuralink system.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/19/23880861/neuralink-human-clinical-trial-n1-implant__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l8v5wYa0$
Ethics Group Asks SEC to Probe Musk Claims About ‘Gruesome’ Neuralink Monkey Trials: “It seems obvious to everyone but Elon Musk that Neuralink’s device is unsafe,” said one critic. “Now he is deliberately misleading investors and the public by outright lying about the company’s monkey experiments.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/neuralink-monkeys__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l5xwo9AC$
# Military / DOD
Pentagon’s Budget Is So Bloated That It Needs an AI Program to Navigate It: Thanks to its bloat and political wrangling, the annual Department of Defense budget legislation includes hundreds of revisions and limitations telling the Pentagon what it can and cannot do. To make sense of all those provisions, the Pentagon created an AI program, codenamed GAMECHANGER.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/09/20/pentagon-ai-budget-gamechanger/*:*:text=Thanks*20to*20its*20bloat*20and,an*20AI*20program*2C*20codenamed*20GAMECHANGER__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_lwZbaAr7$
Two U.S. drone ships have been sent to Japan, the first time such vessels have been deployed near China: The unmanned surface vessels (USVs) Ranger and Mariner arrived Sept. 18 in Yokosuka “as part of a scheduled port visit during Integrated Battle Problem (IBP) 23.2,” a drone exercise, according to a Navy statement on the event.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4216391-us-drone-ships-deployed-near-china-for-first-time/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l7mEUioH$
US And Russia Put Boots On The Ground In The Same Country: The United States and Russia both had troops stationed in Armenia. A U.S. military spokesperson said Wednesday that American troops would complete a joint-military exercise as planned with Armenian forces in the country, which houses a Russian military base that was set up following an interstate agreement between Moscow and Yerevan in 1995.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsweek.com/us-russia-troops-soldiers-armenia-azerbaijan-nagorno-karabakh-1828847*:*:text=The*20United*20States*20and*20Russia,controlled*20territory*20of*20Nagorno*2DKarabakh__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_lz3LfKK7$
# Military / Global
Is Russia Preparing to Wage WWIII? Putin’s Nuclear Missile Forces Conducting War Drills: Vladimir Putin had thousands of troops from the nuclear missile forces conduct exercises that showcased the “highest degrees of combat readiness,” amplifying concerns World War III could be imminent, according to a new report.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.swp-berlin.org/publications/products/arbeitspapiere/Arndt-Horovitz_Working-Paper_Nuclear_rhetoric_and_escalation_management_in_Russia_s_war_against_Ukraine.pdf__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l_JEl7bh$
# Space
Sun Blasts Powerful X2-Class Solar Flare during geomagnetic storm watch (video). The huge X2.2 solar flare erupted from a new sunspot on the face of the sun. The huge solar flare, which registered as a powerful X2.2 sun storm, occurred began at 2:38 p.m. EST (1938 GMT) and reached its peak strength 48 minutes later. From start to finish, the intense solar storm lasted one hour and 12 minutes, and created temporary radio blackouts on the sunlit side of Earth, according to an alert from the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Group operated by NOAA. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured video of the new flare.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jifd-B8p7U8__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0GbBLKunF6whMztEOsIoEL0QvGNQqppy4jLm4sh-XAleOXotunuXOOwJPzWeYZ2-91xjG8ngF8wDiJFiTy5hO_p_l6oXa32W$
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