Voices, The Peoples News
December 21, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
US Civilians Are Taking Protection Of The Border Into Their Own Hands: Texas Civilians Joining Border Protection Unit Sparks Fears of ‘Vigilantes.’ New Republican legislation in the Texas House includes the option for average citizens to take action as part of a border policing unit aimed at countering illegal immigration.
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Cartel Wars At The Border Pose Grave Danger For US Agents: The Mexican military seized the IEDs after a gun battle erupted between cartels vying for control of a border area used for drug smuggling. Federal enforcement issued a warning to border officers, saying they should “exercise extreme caution and should report any possible armed subjects approaching the border with possible explosive devices.”
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The southern border of the United States remains mired in chaos, disaster, and death. Contrary to claims by the Biden administration–in particular Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas–the border is not secure. Indeed, the day-to-day reality and the data make clear that America’s southern border is the furthest thing from secure and is enduring record levels of apprehensions, human trafficking, and drug seizures.
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US Borders full of migrant’s litter, conservatives calling environmentalists to speak up: the federally-protected borderland in Arizona is overwhelmed by waste and human excrement due to an influx of illegal migrants, as revealed in photos and Border Patrol accounts. The Organ Pipe National Monument, housing endangered species, witnesses migrants awaiting law enforcement, lacking bathrooms. The area is littered with discarded documents and waste, reeking of excrement, posing health risks.
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Texas Gov. Flies 120 Migrants to Chicago Amid Ongoing Weaponization of Immigration by GOP: The flight comes after Chicago officials reportedly cracked down on buses coming from Texas with immigrant passengers. Since last year, Texas has bused over 80,000 immigrants to Democratic-led cities across the U.S.
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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Social Security clawbacks drive some Americans into homelessness: A year after the federal government first cut off her disability benefits, Denise Woods drives nightly to strip malls, truck stops, and parking lots around Savannah, Georgia, looking for a safe place to sleep in her Chevy. The government terminated her disability payments without notice. According to letters sent by the Social Security Administration, the agency determined it had been overpaying Woods and demanded she send back nearly $58,000.
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Senators demand answers from Social Security for clawbacks tied to COVID-19 relief: A group of U.S. senators is demanding answers from the Social Security Administration to address why the agency, in violation of its own policy, has been reducing and suspending people’s benefits because of the money they received as COVID-19 relief payments.
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Senators Demand Answers From Social Security on Clawbacks Tied to COVID Relief: Three U.S. senators on a panel that oversees Social Security have called on the Social Security Administration to address a news report saying that, in violation of agency policy, people’s benefits were reduced or suspended because they received COVID-19 relief payments. The lawmakers, who include Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), sent a letter to acting SSA Commissioner Kilolo Kijakazi saying they were “deeply concerned” and wanted answers to a list of questions.
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# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemicals Oil companies offer $382M for drilling rights in Gulf of Mexico in last offshore sale before 2025: Oil companies offered $382 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday after courts rejected the Biden administration’s plans to scale back the sale to protect an endangered whale species.
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West Texans rally against planned natural gas pipeline: Critics are calling on federal regulators to increase their scrutiny and oversight of the proposed pipeline, which would send gas from Texas to the Mexican coast for export to other countries.
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# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure
As the Arctic Warms, Its Waters Are Emitting Carbon: Since the 1970s, the Arctic has warmed at least three times faster than anywhere else on Earth, transforming its waters and ecosystems, the scientists said. Some of these changes promote more CO2 outgassing in the region, while others lead to more CO2 being absorbed.
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# General News
The Constitution’s Insurrection Clause threatens Trump’s campaign. Here’s how that’s playing out: Colorado’s Supreme Court decision to disqualify Donald Trump from the state’s ballot under a clause in the 14th Amendment marks the first time in history the provision has been used to prohibit someone from running for the presidency. The U.S. Supreme Court will likely have the final say on the matter, and their decision could have far-reaching consequences for Trump’s 2024 campaign
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Trump Tells High Court There’s No Need To Rush The Jan. 6 Case Against Him: Trump, though, would have the ability to end that prosecution if he returns to the White House before the case has concluded.
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With voting now less than a month away, the non-Trump GOP presidential candidates are again opting not to exploit his greatest vulnerability: The continuing legal consequences of his Jan. 6 coup attempt. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden agreed with a key part of the Colorado high court’s ruling.
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Colorado GOP Threatens to Go Rogue If Trump Decision Stands: The Colorado Republican Party on Tuesday threatened to switch its presidential nominating process from a primary to a caucus system, following the state’s Supreme Court ruling Tuesday that rendered former President Trump ineligible to appear on the primary ballot. The Colorado GOP’s account on X, formerly Twitter, replied to a post from Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who pledged to “withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary unless Trump is also allowed to be on the state’s ballot.”
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Colorado’s Trump Ruling Gives SCOTUS a Shot at Redemption: A decision from Colorado on Tuesday will likely force the court to decide, very quickly by SCOTUS standards, if states can ban Trump from the ballot using the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause. It stayed the ruling until Jan. 4, with the option to keep the stay in place if the Supreme Court takes up the case before then.
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Government official forced to flee after Trump fans shared address online: court filing: A government official was forced to flee his home after one former President Donald Trump’s supporters shared his address online, according to information revealed in an unredacted gag order issued Wednesday
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“Fascism Out Loud”: Trump’s Escalating Racist Rhetoric & the Far Right’s Plan for a Slow Civil War: As the 2024 presidential election campaign heats up, Republican front-runner Donald Trump is escalating his racist rhetoric https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.democracynow.org/2023/12/21/jeff_sharlet_trump_blood_poisoning_project2025__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1664cOEHvctYmERcC7fnDgSY4YVjRH5SL6CvrBoo_Qv9y8gpJatUnjRWgkoG7wTGC1VwXbfdPmwwj6V-CeBUSkSpEg-G7_8V$
# Gov / Politics / Global
China has made ‘clear signals’ that they plan to go to war in Asia: Jonathan DT Ward:
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Why North Korea’s Latest Nuclear Claims Are Raising Alarms: North Korea’s new wave of propaganda suggests that it has succeeded in miniaturizing its nuclear warheads and made its missiles easier to launch and harder to intercept. The claims, not fully corroborated, show the country is on a path that is worrying to its neighbors, and to the United States.
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When Zionist militias, using advanced Western arms, conquered historic Palestine in 1947- 48, they expressed their victory through the deliberate humiliation of Palestinians. Much of that humiliation targeted women, in particular, knowing how the dishonor of Palestinian females represents, according to Arab culture, a sense of dishonor to the whole community. This strategy remains in use to this day.
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# Gov / Politics
Amid U.N. Security Council Intrigue, U.S. Privately Moves To Block Another Option For International Accountability For Gaza: As bloodshed continues in Gaza, the Biden administration is finalizing plans to urge Switzerland to reject a request from Palestine to hold a conference on violations of the Geneva Conventions. This comes as the U.S. is simultaneously slow-rolling a U.N. Security Council resolution that would drastically increase the flow of humanitarian aid into the besieged strip
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U.S. Relationship With Netanyahu Government Has Turned Toxic: Biden Administration’s Relationship With Netanyahu Government Has Turned Toxic. Senior officials are working day and night toward a resolution to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, but they’re getting little help from Bibi—who’s supposed to be an ally.
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The West is now at war with Iran and its proxies: Beefing up U.S. naval deployments is not enough to boost deterrence, Washington must also respond decisively to proxy attacks on its forces and increase economic pressure on Tehran. It has been a recurring theme of Iran’s innate hostility towards the West that, irrespective of the ayatollahs’ constant threats, Tehran has invariably shied away from provoking a direct confrontation.
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US shouldn’t protect Chinese shipping in the Red Sea: The United States has established a maritime security initiative to confront Houthi rebel attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea. Two actions should now follow. First, President Joe Biden should order air and missile strikes against Houthi forces in Yemen. He should request that the United Kingdom, France, and Spain (also members of the initiative) participate in those strikes to lend them multinational credibility.
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US stalls UN resolution amid rising Gaza crisis and Israeli war crime claims: The unfolding crisis in Gaza and the U.S.’s pivotal role in shaping the UN Security Council’s response underscore the complexities of international diplomacy and humanitarian intervention.
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FEC urges Congress to close foreign money loophole: The Federal Election Commission is urging Congress to close a loophole in federal law that allows foreign corporations to finance ballot measures.
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# Legal / DOJ
A federal judge temporarily blocked a California law that would have banned carrying firearms in most public places starting next month, ruling that it violates the Second Amendment and deprives people of their ability to defend themselves and their loved ones.
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# Medical / Health
The Texas Supreme Court is calling on the state’s medical board to offer guidance to doctors on how to handle exceptions to Texas’ abortion laws. However, doctors say nonbinding guidance won’t be enough to give them reassurance.
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Texas abortion law’s wording is causing dangerous confusion over emergency medical exceptions, critics say: Emergency medical exceptions to the Texas abortion ban are extremely rare, and experts say the law leaves medical providers with their hands tied and puts patients at risk.
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# Medical Technology
Bioprinting in 3D: Imagine someone needs a heart transplant and scientists take cells from that person to create an entire new heart for them. Research on the International Space Station is helping to bring that dream closer to reality. The Russian state space agency ROSCOSMOS launched equipment in 2018, 3D MBP, that included a magnetic printer called Organ.Aut. A series of experiments from 2018 through 2020 showed that this approach could create tissue constructs, helping to pave the way for additional research on producing artificial organs.
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# Military / DOD
Biden prepares to launch missile strike on Houthi rebels amid crisis in Red Sea: The Biden administration has sent messages to the Houthi rebels in Yemen via several channels recently warning them to stop their attacks on ships in the Red Sea and against Israel, two U.S. officials said.
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US officials frustrated by Biden administration’s response to attacks in Red Sea: An hours-long firefight involving U.S. commercial vessels in the Red Sea this weekend has left some U.S. officials frustrated by what they see as the Biden administration’s deliberate downplaying of a major threat to American forces. A U.S. Navy warship scrambled to respond to multiple distress calls on Sunday, as Houthi rebels in Yemen launched missiles and drones against three separate commercial vessels. The USS Carney fired back, taking down three unmanned aerial systems.
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Biden weighs up direct military strikes against Houthi sites in Yemen to avoid the $2million cost per shot of bringing down the rebel group’s attack drones in bid to protect trade routes through the Red Sea The Pentagon is keeping its cards close to its chest amid reports that officials have offered Biden an option for direct military strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen, which could result in a standoff with Iran
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# Military / Global
REIGN OF TERROR: Yemen will be a warzone ‘worse than Vietnam’ for US, Iran-backed Houthi chief warns after ‘missile strike plan’ revealed. The US is allegedly drawing up potential plans to strike Yemen, while its 10-country naval fleet takes shape in the Red Sea. The leader of the Iran-backed Houthi rebels has vowed to target American warships if President Biden orders missile strikes against its forces.
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Iran warns US will face ‘problems’ with Red Sea task force plans: US and allies in talks to form multinational task force to address attacks by Iran-aligned Houthis on ships in Red Sea. Iran’s Defence Minister Mohammad Reza Ashtiani has warned that a planned United States-backed multinational task force to protect shipping in the Red Sea would face “extraordinary problems.”
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# Space / NASA
NASA’s 3D-printed Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Test a Success:
Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, successfully tested a novel, 3D-printed RDRE for 251 seconds (or longer than four minutes), producing more than 5,800 pounds of thrust. That kind of sustained burn emulates typical requirements for a lander touchdown or a deep-space burn that could set a spacecraft on course from the Moon to Mars
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/marshall/nasas-3d-printed-rotating-detonation-rocket-engine-test-a-success/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1664cOEHvctYmERcC7fnDgSY4YVjRH5SL6CvrBoo_Qv9y8gpJatUnjRWgkoG7wTGC1VwXbfdPmwwj6V-CeBUSkSpEir8uFdy$
NASA Outlines Future Strategy for Post-ISS Microgravity Research Labs in LEO: In September 2022, the National Space Council directed NASA to “develop a plan for the next generation microgravity national lab in a commercial space station world.” NASA has been working to develop this strategy, to include considerations for establishing robust international partner pathways outlined in a report https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_Outlines_Future_Strategy_for_Post_ISS_Microgravity_Research_Labs_in_LEO_999.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1664cOEHvctYmERcC7fnDgSY4YVjRH5SL6CvrBoo_Qv9y8gpJatUnjRWgkoG7wTGC1VwXbfdPmwwj6V-CeBUSkSpEji-eYU3$
China’s secret space plane emits strong signal to the ground when passing North America: satellite tracker: Strong emissions were detected at the frequency of 2280 megahertz while the uncrewed reusable plane was flying over British Columbia, Canada, where Scott Tilley is based, he told the South China Morning Post in an email on Tuesday. Ling Xin is a science journalist based in Ohio.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3245815/chinas-secret-space-plane-emits-strong-signal-ground-when-passing-north-america-satellite-tracker?utm_source=Newswav&utm_medium=Website__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1664cOEHvctYmERcC7fnDgSY4YVjRH5SL6CvrBoo_Qv9y8gpJatUnjRWgkoG7wTGC1VwXbfdPmwwj6V-CeBUSkSpEhkjNMQp$
# Water
A Saudi company abusing water rights in the US lost its leases: Gov. Katie Hobbs on Tuesday defended the decision to strip a Saudi company of its right to lease state land to farm alfalfa for export, and get the water underneath it free, but had no answers to what will become of the nearly 3,500 acres after that.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.eacourier.com/news/state/saudi-firm-to-lose-lease-on-arizona-alfalfa-operation/article_d409fdee-63aa-11ee-9be7-875e2c10313b.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1664cOEHvctYmERcC7fnDgSY4YVjRH5SL6CvrBoo_Qv9y8gpJatUnjRWgkoG7wTGC1VwXbfdPmwwj6V-CeBUSkSpEujWg3CE$
Saudi company with alfalfa farms in Arizona to appeal governor’s move to revoke groundwater deal: Fondomonte leases thousands of acres of state-owned land for farming, and while numerous companies have similar agricultural leases, Fondomonte has become a lightning rod of sorts because the location of its leases allows it to pump water unchecked. Fondomonte Arizona grows alfalfa that it ships back to the Middle East to feed cows. Below-market-rate leases to the company first were reported by The Arizona Republic last year.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2023/10/03/saudi-company-fondomonte-to-fight-arizona-termination-of-water-lease/71051063007/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1664cOEHvctYmERcC7fnDgSY4YVjRH5SL6CvrBoo_Qv9y8gpJatUnjRWgkoG7wTGC1VwXbfdPmwwj6V-CeBUSkSpEpBkYBV5$
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