Voices, The Peoples News
August 7, 2024
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Minnesota’s Peggy Flanagan could become nation’s first female indigenous governor
https://thehill.com/elections/4815229-minnesota-first-female-governor-peggy-flanagan-tim-walz/
# Borders / Immigration
Feds crack down on half billion-dollar Guatemalan smuggling operation: A multi-agency operation led to the indictment of a major transnational criminal organization based in Guatemala smuggling thousands of foreign nationals through Mexico into New Mexico and throughout the United States
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_98152516-54b3-11ef-9a4d-afa65b7cd56a.html?a&seyid=14041?utm_source=thecentersquare.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletters%2Flists%2Ft2%2Fnatinoal%2F&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Florida Invests in Catastrophe: The Sunshine State is putting public pension money into risky bonds that transfer risk away from insurance companies.
https://prospect.org/environment/2024-08-07-florida-invests-in-catastrophe/
# Education / Schools
Black leaders condemn Florida’s new education guidelines: Black leaders from around the nation are condemning Florida’s new education laws that further limit how Black history can be taught in schools.
https://thehill.com/homenews/race-politics/4110599-black-leaders-condemn-floridas-new-education-guidelines/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
Study Links Permian Blowouts With Wastewater Injection
https://hoodline.com/2024/08/study-links-fracking-wastewater-injection-to-west-texas-oil-well-blowouts-potential-groundwater-contamination-risks/
A Legal Fight Over Legacy Oil Industry Pollution Heats Up in West Texas: A “first of its kind” lawsuit contends that oil companies including Chevron failed to properly plug and decommission wells on private property, challenging common assumptions about plugged wells.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06082024/texas-oil-industry-pollution-lawsuit/
Ranchers reported abandoned oil wells spewing wastewater. A new study blames fracking.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/107868784
World’s Largest Uranium Deposit ‘Declared a National Park’—Lawsuits and Legal Battles Follow
https://www.eenews.net/articles/grand-canyon-monument-wont-end-fight-over-uranium-mining/
# Environment / Climate / Chemicals / Infrastructure / Water
In historic move, EPA bans pesticide; cites alarming setbacks for fetuses
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/08/06/epa-bans-dacthal-herbicide/74688204007/
From Heat Waves to Hurricanes, Climate Hazards Often Hit Renters the Hardest: The U.S. housing market is tight, and 40 percent of rental units are in the path of disaster.
https://grist.org/housing/climate-disasters-american-housing-crisis-renters/
# Food / Farming / Bioengineering / Chemicals
‘Stealing Family Farms’: Big Ag Gets Billions in Taxpayer-Funded Loans While Small Farms Starve
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/dustin-kittle-farm-credit-corruption-rfk-jr-podcast/
# Gov / Politics / Global
6,000 police deployed as Brtiain braces for wave of riots targeting immigration lawyers: British authorities were gearing up for a wave of riots across England with reports of at least 30 planned for Wednesday night amid fears the offices of law firms that represent immigrants and asylum seekers could be potential targets.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/08/07/braces-as-unrest-escalates/3681723019047/
# Gov / Politics
Georgia gives local officials new powers to investigate election results
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/07/g-s1-15750/georgia-election-board-counties-investigate-elections
Secretary of State Tony Blinken has alerted G7 allies about a potential imminent attack by Iran and Hezbollah on Israel, urging diplomatic efforts to prevent escalation, Axios reported.
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/05/iran-hezbollah-attack-israel-monday-blinken
Midwest dad takes on MAGA: Trump’s about to learn voters like Walz’s ‘progressive’ policies
https://www.yahoo.com/news/midwest-dad-takes-maga-trumps-091151262.html
Mike Johnson demands Biden ‘immediately release’ any withheld aid to Israel as Middle East tension grows
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4813328-mike-johnson-calls-biden-israel-weapons-rocket-attack/
Revealed: US neo-Nazi terror group aims to revive activities ahead of election
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/06/us-neo-nazi-base-election-rinaldo-nazzaro
Senator Lindsey Graham Introduces Bill to Allow Biden to Take Military Action Against Iran
https://www.newsbreak.com/videos/3552083857410-senator-lindsey-graham-introduces-bill-to-allow-biden-to-take-military-action-against-iran?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3MjI5NzEzMTc5MTk%3D
U.S., Australia deepen relationship amid growing China threat
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/08/07/Australia-defense-relationship-ties/2731722998813/
Kamala Harris Has Been Much More Involved in Foreign Policy Than We Realize
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2024/07/kamala-harris-would-bring-greater-foreign-policy-experience-most-new-us-presidents
Crow Jim: Project 2025’s Obsession With Reverse Racism: Blueprints for conservative rule can’t get enough of the smear that fighting racism against Black people amounts to racism against white people.
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-08-07-crow-jim-project-2025-reverse-racism/
‘Project 2025’ and the Movement That Could Erode Black Equality: Spearheaded by a right-wing think tank, the agenda would roll back policies that have aided Black economic and social gains.
https://capitalbnews.org/project-2025-black-voters/
Inside the Next Republican Revolution: Whether Trump wins or not, the GOP plans a renewed assault on his nemesis, the “deep state.” Can conservatives train enough loyalists to actually get the job done?
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/19/project-2025-trump-reagan-00115811
# Law Enforcment / ATF / FBI / CIA
FBI executes search warrant on Rep. Andy Ogles, seizes cell phone day after primary win
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4814715-andy-ogles-fbi-phone-campaign-finance/
4 hotel employees charged with being party to felony murder in connection with Black man’s death
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/4-hotel-employees-charged-with-being-party-to-felony-murder-in-connection-w/
Ex-deputy charged in Sonya Massey killing says he feared for his life, new docs show
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/08/05/sonya-massey-sangamon-county-sheriffs-office-report/74682521007/
Okla. cops cuffed, slammed dad to ground for taking morning walk with autistic son, 6, disturbing bodycam video shows: An Oklahoma community is enraged, a 6-year-old boy is traumatized and two police officers are under investigation
https://nypost.com/2024/08/07/us-news/okla-cops-cuffed-slammed-dad-john-saxton-to-ground-on-walk-with-son/#:~:text=An%20Oklahoma%20community%20is%20enraged,morning%20walk%20with%20his%20son
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court
Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran arrested in political assassination plots including Trump: Merchant is currently in federal custody after getting arrested while allegedly planning to leave the U.S.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/7/us-charges-iran-linked-pakistani-over-political-assassination-plot
Hulking Florida teen who severely beat teacher over Nintendo Switch sentenced to five years in prison
https://nypost.com/2024/08/07/us-news/hulking-florida-teen-brendan-depa-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison-for-attacking-teacher-over-nintendo-switch/
Man known as pro-democracy activist convicted in U.S. of giving China intel on dissidents
https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-u-s-news/ap-man-known-as-pro-democracy-activist-convicted-in-us-of-giving-china-intel-on-dissidents/
Prosecutors used an AI tool to send a man to prison for life. Now the person who created it is under investigation.
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3552301949483-prosecutors-used-an-ai-tool-to-send-a-man-to-prison-for-life-now-the-person-who-created-it-is-under-investigation?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3MjI5NzEyNDg5MTg%3D
# Medical / General News
Bloomberg makes $600 million contribution to 4 Black medical schools
https://www.bloomberg.org/press/bloomberg-philanthropies-announces-largest-ever-gift-to-the-nations-four-historically-black-medical-schools/
# Military / DOD / NATO / Militia
7 U.S. personnel injured in ‘dangerous escalation’ rocket attack on Iraqi base
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/08/06/iraq-base-seven-injured-rocket-attack/4151722983772/
‘Sky’s the limit’: Fort Stewart soldiers prepare for the modern battlefield by building small drones from scratch: The small, hand-held hexacopter drone is far different from the RQ-7B Shadow drones
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-08-06/army-soldiers-building-drones-fort-stewart-14761022.html
The US Air Force Was Caught Red-Handed Trying To Cover-Up The Crash of Its Top-Secret Stealth Fighter
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/one-time-us-air-force-covered-stealth-bomber-disaster-145787
# Military / Nuclear / Global
Ukraine war briefing: ‘Russia does not control Kursk border’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/07/ukraine-war-briefing-russia-does-not-control-kursk-border
Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region continues into second day: Vladimir Putin convenes meeting with top officials as defence ministry acknowledges fighting is ongoing
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/07/ukraine-incursion-into-russia-kursk-region-continues-into-second-day
Russia Says Ukrainian Forces Cross Into Kursk Region Again: Putin called the military operation a “large-scale provocation.”
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-kursk-strikes-border/33068723.html
Ukraine released its first official footage of its devastating Storm Shadow missiles in combat
https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-shares-first-video-storm-shadow-missiles-combat-decade-report-2024-8
Iran prepping attack on Israel in response to Hamas leader assassination in Tehran
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-latest-5-august-2024-631cf209427743bfa105516d52c1556d
Israel-Iran latest: Israel vows to kill Yahya Sinwar as he’s named Hamas leader as US warns against escalation: Israeli military spokesperson says ‘there is only one place’ for new Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-iran-attack-war-hamas-hezbollah-yahya-sinwar-b2592386.html
North Korea claims it’s sending 250 new missile launchers toward the South Korean border
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/5/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-oversees-transfer-of-missile-launchers-to-border
Satellite images show long-range strikes destroyed a Russian aircraft that can drop glide bombs, Ukraine says
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-attack-rostov-airfield-su-34-jet-1934512
Middle East Braces for Possible Wider War as Tensions Boil After Israeli Attacks on Lebanon, Iran
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-04/israel-braces-for-attack-from-iran-as-us-urges-gaza-cease-fire
Preparing for WWIII? Satellite photos reveal China’s new longer, stealthier submarine with X-shaped stern
https://www.twz.com/first-look-at-columbia-missile-submarines-x-shaped-stern
Ukraine launches attack into Russia, marking biggest incursion since war began
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-keeps-up-air-attacks-russias-kursk-regional-governor-says-2024-08-07/
# NASA / Rocketry / UFO Disclosure / Space
DARPA Funding Plan to Build Huge Streetlight on the Moon: Spacetech company Honeybee Robotics, which was acquired by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin in 2022, has come up with a concept for a 330-foot pole that could act like an oversized streetlight for a future base on the surface of the Moon.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/huge-streetlight-moon
NASA Perseverance Rover Makes Game-Changing Discovery On Mars
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/perseverance-rover/heres-how-ai-is-changing-nasas-mars-rover-science/
Powerful solar eruption temporarily rips ‘tail’ off Earth’s magnetosphere: Earth is constantly being bombarded by a stream of charged particles from the Sun known as solar wind. Just like wind around a jet or water around a boat, these solar wind streams curve around Earth’s magnetic field, or magnetosphere, forming on the sunward side of the magnetosphere a front called a bow shock and stretching it into a wind sock shape with a long tail on the nightside.
https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/coronal-mass-ejection-gives-earth-s-magnetosphere-rare-wings
NASA may return Starliner astronauts on SpaceX Dragon
https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-iss-astronaut-schedule-flux
NASA moon probe plays laser tag with lunar lander
https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-iss-astronaut-schedule-flux
# Other Interesting Things / Archaeology / Anthropology / Astronomy
‘A king will die’: 4,000-year-old lunar eclipse omen tablets finally deciphered: Tablets added to the British Museum’s collection many decades ago have finally been deciphered.
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/a-king-will-die-4-000-year-old-lunar-eclipse-omen-tablets-finally-deciphered
How an eerie 40-mile cave system has remained a mystery for 8,000 years
https://metro.co.uk/2024/05/07/mystery-cave-france-left-scientists-baffled-20789160/
Archaeologists discover ‘monumental’ 3,000-year-old structure mentioned in the Bible
https://www.ladbible.com/news/world-news/discovery-moat-city-david-jerusalem-bible-stories-millo-ophel-834286-20240723
Unraveling the Indian Ocean’s Mysterious Gravity Hole. The sea level here is hundreds of feet lower than the rest of the ocean.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gravity-hole-indian-ocean
Archaeologists Found 7,000-Year-Old Treasures—an Incredible Hoard of Human History. The discovery dates back to between 5700 and 5100 B.C.
https://www.mensjournal.com/news/archaeologists-7000-year-old-canoes-mediterranean
A 10,000-Year-Old Stone Sculpture Discovered at the Bottom of a U.S. Lake
https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/9000-year-old-stonehenge-like-structure-found-under-lake-michigan
# Rocketry / Space / Global
China launches 1st satellites for planned megaconstellation: Like Starlink, China’s Qianfan satellites have an easy-to-pack flat-panel design.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/china-deploys-first-satellites-for-a-broadband-network-to-rival-starlink/
# Science / Technology / Biosciences
As Neuralink Implants Second Subject’s Brain, First Patient Says His Doesn’t Work as Well Anymore
https://futurism.com/neoscope/neuralink-second-implant-functionality
Research Suggests all Humans Share One Single Ancestor and it’s not Adam: LUCA stands for “Last Universal Common Ancestor,” a term used by scientists to describe a fundamental, primitive organism from which all life has descended. This tiny, rudimentary life form is considered the root of the entire tree of life, encompassing everything from the tiniest bacteria to the most massive creatures that have ever existed.
https://www.pastchronicle.com/fast_gallery/research-suggests-all-humans-share-one-single-ancestor-and-its-not-adam/
Earth has six continents not seven, radical new study claims: This bold claim comes from a detailed study that looks into the geological processes behind the breakup of the European and North American continents, exploring how these landmasses have evolved over millions of years.
https://www.earth.com/news/claim-earth-has-six-continents-not-seven-north-america-europe-connected/
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
Elon Musk declares war and files a huge lawsuit on X advertisers: ‘We tried peace for 2 years, now it is war’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-x-lawsuit-garm-b2592199.html
First observation of electron and muon interactions with “ghost particle” neutrinos
https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/physics/electron-muon-neutrino-collider-particle/
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