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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-05-04

Voices, The Peoples News

May 4, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
California condors vs. avian flu: Can the endangered birds survive? An outbreak of avian flu has killed 20 condors in the Southwest, putting wildlife conservationists on high alert.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://therevelator.org/california-condors-avian-flu/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUXR65hW-$

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Joe Biden Sending Troops to the Southern Border Won’t Make Anyone Happy: This move almost certainly won’t silence Republicans’ attacks on Biden over immigration. Meanwhile, some Democrats and immigration advocates are angry the president is militarizing the border in anticipation of the termination of Title 42. Sending troops to deter migrants is unlikely to be effective this time, either.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/05/biden-sending-troops-mexico-southern-border/673931/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUWSJ4MOp$

Mexico, U.S. announce joint action to expand ‘legal pathways’ of entry to U.S: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and U.S. National Security Advisor Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall met Tuesday in Mexico City and announced a joint commitment to expand “legal pathways” of entry into the U.S.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mexico-u-s-announce-joint-action-to-expand-legal-pathways-of-entry-to-u-s__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUR4V9ZnH$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Fed Increases Rates a Quarter Point and Signals a Potential End to Hikes: Federal Reserve officials signaled they might be done raising interest rates for now after approving another increase at their meeting that concluded Wednesday. The unanimous decision marked the Fed’s 10th consecutive rate increase aimed at battling inflation and brings its benchmark federal-funds rate to a range between 5% and 5.25%, a 16-year high.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-reserve-raises-rates-signals-potential-pause-eb264784__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUVqzc0jm$

White House Details ‘Severe Damage’ to the Economy if Debt Ceiling Crisis Occurs: As the game of chicken continues, with each side trying to ramp up pressure on the other, the Post’s Jacob Bogage details five possible outcomes for the debt limit standoff. Here’s a brief overview…
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/newsletter/20230503-White-House-Warns-Severe-Damage-Debt-Default__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUTkPvun4$

How to Solve the Debt Ceiling Standoff? Sue Janet Yellen: A bondholder could simply allege that America failing to pay off its debts is unconstitutional. There’s a good argument for that. The New York Times reports that the Biden administration, faced with the Republican Party intention to hold the global economy hostage over the debt ceiling, is considering whether the whole thing is unconstitutional. The words of the 14th Amendment make the strongest argument: “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.” One wonders how the framers of the amendment could have made their intentions clearer without being clairvoyant
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/economy/2023-05-04-x-date-debt-ceiling-janet-yellen/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUU5v0Nvw$

Biden administration’s controversial rule raising fees for those with good credit goes into effect: The latest in a series of new Biden administration rule changes that charge higher fees to certain home buyers with good credit and lower fees for buyers with worse credit went into effect this week despite pushback from Republicans and many financial experts https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-administrations-controversial-rule-raising-fees-for-those-with-good-credit-goes-into-effect*:*:text=(The*20Center*20Square)*20**B,Republicans*20and*20many*20financial*20experts__;I34lJSXigJMlJSUl!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUfwYIfMu$

# Education / Schools
7th Grader Calls out Massachusetts School Board After He Was Sent Home for Wearing a T Shirt with The Words “There Are only Two Genders”: “I was told that people were complaining about the words on my shirt. That my shirt was making some students feel unsafe, yes, words on a shirt made people feel unsafe,” Liam said at the meeting. “I have been told that my shirt was ‘targeting a protected class.’ Who is this protected class? Are their feelings more important than my rights?” the seventh-grader said at the meeting. “I don’t complain when I see pride flags and diversity posters hung throughout the school. Do you know why? Because others have a right to their beliefs, just as I do.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/may/1/student-kicked-out-school-wearing-shirt-saying-the/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUZ-0tPHL$

Conservative Christians want more religion in public life. Texas lawmakers are listening: Opponents of church-state separation have been emboldened by recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions and the growing acceptance of Christian nationalism on the right. Senate has approved bills requiring all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments and allowed unlicensed religious chaplains to replace school counselors. And uplifted by school voucher program advocates, efforts are underway to cut down state constitutional amendments that bar direct state support of religious schools and organizations. It’s part of an effort to create a national model for infusing Christianity into public life, some Christian leaders say.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/04/texas-legislature-church-state-separation/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUQr3Zy09$

Texas School Cancels Theater Trip After Parents Complain About “Cross-Gender” Roles: Actors have played roles that don’t align with their gender “since the creation of theater,” one theater employee said. A school district in Texas has canceled a field trip to a play because some of the actors perform multiple roles, including characters who don’t align with their gender.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.onstageblog.com/editorials/2023/5/3/texas-school-cancels-field-trip-to-childrens-theatre-after-parents-complain-about-cross-gender-casting__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUQVEHy7L$

# Employment / Labor
10-Year-Olds Found Working at Kentucky McDonald’s Until 2AM: The two 10-year-olds prepared and distributed food orders, cleaned the store, worked at the drive-thru window, and operated a register, investigators found. The big picture: Child labor is on the rise in the U.S., and the federal government announced a crackdown earlier this year after tracking a 69% increase in illegally employed kids since 2018. In the last fiscal year, 835 companies employed more than 3,800 children illegally, Labor Department investigations revealed.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.axios.com/2023/05/03/mcdonalds-child-labor__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpURzuiUyi$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry Hundreds of gas plants could escape EPA climate rules: About 1,000 natural gas-fired power plants that provide energy at periods of peak demand could be excluded from the toughest standards under EPA. The Biden administration’s upcoming attack on one of the nation’s largest contributors to climate change is expected to rest on a novel technology for capturing power plants’ greenhouse gas pollution, according to two people familiar with the deliberations.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.eenews.net/articles/catching-carbon-is-a-pillar-of-historic-epa-power-plant-rules/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUSjNSjn-$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Biden’s climate tax breaks are popular, driving up law’s cost: A law to boost clean energy appears to be more potent than predicted, with big implications for both budget talks and efforts to fight climate change.
Other experts and investment banks have estimated that the law’s energy provisions could end up costing as much as $1.2 trillion over the next decade.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/world/us/increased-green-tax-credit-costs-are-sign-success-white-houses-podesta-says-2023-05-02/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUT9kSYaT$

The oceans are missing their rivers: For billions of years, rivers connected continents to the sea. Then we came along. In many places, the great culprit is the dam: a wall of concrete and stone bisecting a river, diverting its energy and water to human use. There are 58,000 ‘big dams,’ 50 feet high or taller around the globe, with another 3,700 more planned, mostly in lower-income countries in Asia and South America. Rising seas deservedly get headlines, but sinking land is an equally grave problem.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nautil.us/the-oceans-are-missing-their-rivers-302187/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUVeEc_IH$

Parts of Mississippi River seeing worst flooding in decades: While flooding along the Mississippi River happens every year, water levels are surging this year thanks to record snow across the Midwest that that’s been followed by a sudden thaw.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://watch.montanapbs.org/video/mississippi-rising-1683061098/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUXLKTlTQ$

The Supreme Court may gut the Clean Water Act: Can factories dump waste into seasonal streams without the Environmental Protection Agency’s oversight? Wetlands? Ponds? Before a bipartisan Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, cities pumped raw sewage into lakes, mining companies discharged acid waste into streams, and factories poured chemicals into rivers, which occasionally caught on fire. The Clean Water Act made such pollution illegal and expanded the federal government’s authority to regulate waterways across the country.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.fastcompany.com/90890790/supreme-court-guts-the-clean-water-act__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUYqKIIyU$

When The Lake Dried Up, This Oregon Town Was Shocked To See They Weren’t The First Settlers There: After a long and intense drought in 2015, Detroit Lake in Marion County, Oregon made history as it hit an all-time low. As the reservoir dried up, something remarkable was revealed – an old railroad town that had been submerged under the lake for over 60 years! Unseen by human eyes since the 1950s, this ghostly village was now exposed to the world after many decades of being hidden beneath the water.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a18817/dried-up-lake-reveals-sunken-oregon-town/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUT9Suf4d$

The floor of the ocean off the coast of the Pacific Northwest has sprung a leak: The spring, known as Pythia’s Oasis, is likely venting water from beneath local tectonic plates through a fault called the Cascadia Subduction Zone. This liquid is likely acting as a lubricant between the two plates colliding at the fault, and losing too much of it could increase the likelihood of a damaging earthquake. Often times, bubbles coming up from the bottom of the ocean herald hydrothermal vents, which can be hot beds of exciting biological activity. But a spring is a different story, and might be a little bit more worrying.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a43593025/hole-in-the-bottom-of-the-ocean/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUSsoDxcm$

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law Tuesday that targets the growth of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing in the state. The anti-ESG legislation prevents state officials from investing public money in the promotion of ESG goals, prioritizes financial returns for state funds and pensions, eliminates ESG considerations in state contracts and prohibits the issuance of green bonds.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ecowatch.com/florida-desantis-esg-investing.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUVHWi_nq$

Viewpoint fact check: Honeybees aren’t disappearing and GMOs do not cause colony collapse disorder: Fact: In 2020 the EU had approximately 19 million honeybee hives, managed by 615,000 beekeepers. These hives altogether produced 275,000 tonnes of honey. Beekeeping is practiced in all EU Member States where, together, they are the world’s second largest honey producer, after China with 500,000 tonnes. Despite millions of hives, people are worried about honeybees.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2023/05/04/viewpoint-fact-check-honeybees-arent-disappearing-and-gmos-do-not-cause-colony-collapse-disorder/?mc_cid=6bc1172a6a&mc_eid=c87bac2a19__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUVQ14UnL$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global In a horrifying discovery, geologists have found rocks made from plastic debris on Brazil’s remote Trindade Island. The island, which serves as an important refuge for green turtles, is more than 700 miles from land. The plastic rocks are evidence of how human pollution has now influenced Earth’s geological cycles https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/trindade-island-plastic-rocks-plastiglomerates/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUdkG2eQe$

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
Peanut butter is a liquid – the physics of this and other unexpected
fluids: Imagine you’re stirring a jar of peanut butter. If you stir really fast, with more shearing force, the PB gets runnier, while if you stir slowly the PB remains stiff. These types of fluids are called non-Newtonian fluids. Peanut butter may stick more than flow – maybe you could consider this movement more chunky-style. Peanut butter is actually a great example of a non-Newtonian fluid because it doesn’t flow as easily as air or water but will flow if sufficient force is applied, such as when a knife spreads it on bread. How easily it flows will also depend on temperature, you may have experienced peanut butter drips after slathering it on warm toast.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/peanut-butter-is-a-liquid-the-physics-of-this-and-other-unexpected-fluids-203716__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUdzD_37n$

CRISPR sausages? FDA approves the first gene-edited ‘experimental pigs’ for food: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized meat from gene-edited pigs, produced by researchers at Washington State University (WSU), for human consumption. The gene-editing tool CRISPR is being used to modify genetic traits of the line of pigs
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2023/05/03/crispr-sausages-fda-approves-the-first-gene-edited-experimental-pigs-for-food/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUcLUgvcr$

# Gov / Politics
Emails Reveal Herschel Walker Money Scandal: In all, the emails indicate that Walker solicited a combined $700,000 in political contributions from the Washingtons, instructing that more than $600,000 of that amount be wired directly to one of his companies, HR Talent.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://politicalwire.com/2023/05/03/emails-reveal-herschel-walker-money-scandal/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUU_LDGra$

Republicans Subpoena FBI for Document Alleging Unspecified ‘Criminal Scheme’ Involving Biden: Comer on Wednesday subpoenaed the FBI for the document, marking an escalation in Republicans’ investigation of Biden himself after largely focusing on the foreign business activities of his son Hunter Biden and other family members and associates.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3986605-republicans-subpoena-fbi-for-document-alleging-unspecified-criminal-scheme-involving-biden/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUbNHL0Pc$

Florida Republican’s homophobic comment prompts ‘audible gasps’ on state House floor: A Florida Republican representative accidentally admitted that his party hates LGBTQ people, while expressing support for a bill that would take away LGBTQ rights. The resolution would ban policies in the military such as diversity recruitment, unconscious bias training, and the use of gender-neutral language, effectively questioning the presence of LGBTQ people in the military.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://newrepublic.com/post/172377/florida-lawmaker-admits-republicans-hate-homosexuals__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUYwS2CbN$

Texas Senate Approves Bill To Allow Gov. Greg Abbott To Overturn
Elections: The GOP-controlled Texas Senate on Tuesday passed a proposal allowing the state to overturn elections in Harris County, home to the state’s most populous city Houston. The legislation penalizes county officials for running out of ballot paper at some voting sites in the
2022 election, the Houston Chronicle reported. Still, more importantly, it gives Republican Gov. Greg Abbott “precedent-setting” power to undo election results.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-senate-overturn-elections-harris-county_n_64526be2e4b0fe3b9bc81595__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUUE4jSoX$

GOP does it again: No legal weed, paid family leave, school lunches & more budget proposals, WI Gov is furious: Republican members of the Joint Finance Committee removed more than 500 provisions in Gov. Evers’
budget proposal. ‘These aren’t fringe ideas, controversial concepts, or Republican or Democratic priorities, they’re about doing the right thing,’ Evers said.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cannabis/23/05/32188676/gop-does-it-again-no-legal-weed-paid-family-leave-school-lunches-500-more-budget-proposals-wi-go__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUZXsvH9H$

# Law Enforcment
Police groups blame broken system as cities see crime rise: A rise in violence, looting and unhindered theft around the U.S. has helped fuel Americans’ rising concerns about crime. Some of the nation’s largest cities are experiencing crime waves in recent years, and new polling shows Americans concerns.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://newspress.com/police-groups-blame-broken-system-as-cities-see-crime-rise/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUYMrEF19$

I Answered the Call to Help Stop Cop City. I Spent 31 Days in Jail for It. In those 31 days, I witnessed mental health crises, a lack of running water and sadistic treatment by guards.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/i-answered-the-call-to-help-stop-cop-city-i-spent-31-days-in-jail-for-it/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUeZiMmtD$

# Legal / DOJ
Oklahoma AG Appeals to SCOTUS to Stay Execution of Richard Glossip: Drummond, as well as Glossip’s attorneys, have attempted to cast doubt on Glossip’s trial and retrial, saying the state withheld some evidence from his defense team, and that a key witness was unreliable due to his drug addiction and struggles with mental health. Indeed, Glossip has maintained his innocence. Glossip claims Sneed incriminated him to avoid getting the death penalty, and that Sneed, a meth addict, made admissions in jail and later in prison about framing Glossip, and also has talked of recanting his testimony. By live video during his clemency hearing, Glossip pleaded with the board to recommend clemency.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2023/05/01/richard-glossip-oklahoma-attorney-general-gentner-drummond-petition-stay-execution-death-row-inmate/70172647007/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUQXueJ3D$

Donald Trump’s Rape Trial Goes From One Disaster to Another: Trump’s lawyers would also almost certainly argue that any criminal trials should be delayed until after the 2024 election, leaving Trump free to pursue the presidency. Should these delays tactics succeed, and were Trump to regain the White House, he could then pardon himself and his allies for any federal crimes they may have committed. The answer to one further question is clear. Were Trump to be convicted of any felony charge and regain the White House, could he serve as president? The answer to that is yes.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/trump-legal-jeopardy-test-american-081800033.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUWm14ViV$

E. Jean Carroll’s Quest for Justice and the Carnage of Donald Trump’s
Misogyny: The 79-year-old writer’s rape case shows what happens to a country that elects a president who so openly embraces degrading women. Stop and consider for a moment that the Justice Department is arguing—in the words of Roberta Kaplan, Carroll’s attorney—that “when [Trump] lied about sexually assaulting our client, explaining that she ‘wasn’t his type,’ he was acting in his official capacity as President of the United States.” Beyond the mere act of, once again, conscripting the Department of Justice into acting as his personal Roy Cohn, Trump now has his attorney general claiming that when Trump insults, demeans, and belittles women, he is “acting within his scope of office as President.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/e-jean-carroll-trump-doj-response.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUbEOtQJx$

Judge Tosses Trump’s NY Times Suit, Orders Him to Pay Fees: In the 2021 suit, the embattled 45th president alleged that Times reporters Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russ Buettner schemed with Trump’s niece, Mary, to disclose his 20-year-old documents. But the paper’s newsgathering, which ultimately exposed Trump’s tax woes in a Pulitzer-winning 2018 article, was “at the very core of protected First Amendment activity,” the judge ruled. Reed dismissed the case in part because the Times’ reporting was “a matter of high public interest,” he wrote.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/05/03/judge-tosses-trumps-lawsuit-against-ny-times-orders-him-to-pay-legal-fees/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUewoezL1$

That sound you hear Is Donald Trump popping a blood vessel over Mike Pence’s Jan. 6 grand jury testimony: The special counsel criminally investigating Trump apparently took a particularly keen interest in Pence’s testimony.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/donald-trump-mike-pence-grand-jury-jack-smith__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUTdCpUr_$

After a 3rd woman testifies Trump sexually assaulted her, his lawyers announce they won’t call any witnesses: There were only two listed witnesses the Trump team could call in the case, according to court filings, and the list included Trump himself. The other listed possible witness was psychiatrist Edgar Nace.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3986432-trump-lawyers-wont-call-any-witnesses-in-rape-trial/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUfK1jQOw$

Trump Team Will Not Offer Defense in E. Jean Carroll Rape and Defamation Case: Although President Donald Trump has given sworn testimony and denied most allegations, his attorneys announced they would offer no defense in the rape and defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://americanindependent.com/donald-trump-rape-allegations-e-jean-carroll-lawsuit-defamation-trial-defense/*:*:text=Although*20President*20Donald*20Trump*20has,by*20writer*20E.*20Jean*20Carroll__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUYxYiXIK$

# Medical / Health
What Is Medical Gaslighting? 9 Doctors’ Statements That Are Major Red Flags: Phrases that may indicate you are being medically gaslit. “It’s all in your head.” “You’re overreacting.” “Why are you getting so emotional about this?” “It’s not as big of a deal as you are making it.” If your provider doesn’t collaborate with you on treatment options, it could also be a red flag. Medical gaslighting often happens when providers let racial or gender biases get in the way of care.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.insider.com/guides/health/mental-health/medical-gaslighting__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUTkYuKfh$

FDA Committee to Vote on New RSV Vaccine Targeting Pregnant Women & Babies: RSV is a common respiratory infection and symptoms (fever, runny nose, cough) are similar to a cold. The majority of individuals recover within a few days from an uncomplicated RSV infection, although occasionally the virus can cause lower respiratory infections requiring medical attention.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nvic.org/newsletter/may-2023/rsv-vaccine-adults-infants__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUaP4HtMB$

Kansas and Arizona Governors Veto Bills Prohibiting Infanticide: The overwhelming majority of Americans believe that a baby who survives an abortion deserves the same life-saving care and protection as any other baby born prematurely at the same age. Two Democratic governors, Laura Kelly from Kansas and Katie Hobbs from Arizona, however, evidently don’t agree. Recently, both governors vetoed bills in their states that would have protected these children from the horrors of infanticide.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/05/04/kansas_and_arizona_governors_veto_bills_prohibiting_infanticide___149183.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUXsWr2Rp$

# Military / Global
Russia Issues New Military Threat to NATO: Russia said on Wednesday that it could retaliate with military measures if NATO uses Finland’s territory. The warning came from Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova, who was commenting on a report that the U.S. military may place troops on Finnish bases. Antell told the paper that the agreement would not only augment Finland’s recent NATO membership but could also result in American soldiers being deployed to bases near Russia’s border with Finland.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-issues-new-military-threat-to-nato/ar-AA1aHfdN__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUeMplFkr$

Ukraine war latest: US ‘definitely’ behind Putin ‘assassination attempt’, Russia claims: The Kremlin has accused the US of being behind an “assassination attempt” on Vladimir Putin yesterday. Volodymyr Zelenskyy is visiting the International Criminal Court in The Hague – where he demanded the Russian leader be brought to justice.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-latest-russian-jets-intercepted-by-germany-eu-becoming-militarised-at-record-rate-russia-claims-12541713__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUegFNjvr$

Putin War Hawks Demand ‘Shoot-Down’ of Jet Carrying Zelensky: Putin’s alleged “assassination scare” has sent his cronies into a blind rage. It’s no longer enough to bomb women and children as they sleep. It’s time to “shoot down [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky’s plane” and “launch missiles at [his] residence in Kyiv,” two Kremlin allies said Wednesday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/vladimir-putins-war-hawks-demand-russian-shoot-down-of-plane-carrying-zelensky__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUXTGL28w$

NATO says Russia is ‘most significant and direct threat’ to members, security: NATO declared Russia the “most significant and direct threat” to its members’ peace and security, as the military alliance met Wednesday to confront what NATO’s chief called the biggest security crisis since World War II.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/nato-says-russia-is-most-significant-and-direct-threat-to-members-security__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUU_Pz3uv$

# Technology
The U.S. Senate voted 56 to 41 yesterday to rescind President Biden’s moratorium on tariffs on solar cells from Asia; but even though Biden is expected to veto the bill, the issue is far from settled. The vote sends the resolution to President Joe Biden’s desk, where it faces a certain veto. But its passage underscores the tricky politics that vulnerable Democratic lawmakers must navigate between reaching U.S. clean energy targets and taking a hard line on Chinese influence.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/03/senate-solar-vote-biden-00095133__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUa_340ye$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-05-03

Voices, The Peoples News

May 3, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) vowed to continue busing migrants to Democratic cities, including Chicago, despite ongoing criticism that his relocation program is inhumane and cruel.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.huffpost.com/entry/greg-abbott-texas-migrants-busing_n_6450a820e4b039ec4e86b7d1?utm_source=cordial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp-us-reg-fringe_2023-05-02&utm_term=us-fringe__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlEM73XdX$

1,500 additional troops to deploy to border with Mexico as migrant surge expected next week: The troops will join about 2,400 National Guard members authorized to serve at the border with U.S. Customs and Border Protection as part of a support mission that began in 2018.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-05-02/biden-1500-troops-mexico-border-migrant-surge-9989691.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlCK_TgWm$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
U.S. and UK Secretly Agreed to Hide Vaccine Reactions: In the days leading up to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, U.S. and U.K. health officials entered into a “mutual confidentiality agreement” to keep vaccine adverse events under wraps.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/us-uk-secretly-hide-vaccine-reactions-cola/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlIjrxevP$

How a Tragic Story of Loss Reveals the Need for a New Ethical Framework for Managing Health: The shine on Jack Hurn’s life (just 26 years of age) starts wearing thin as he begins to deal with pounding headaches. These started just a few days after getting his first COVID-19 injection. But it gets worse, much worse. On the evening of June 9, 2021, Jack’s body fails to cope with the extensive thrombosis and hemorrhages in his brain.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/jack-hurn-ethical-framework-managing-health/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20230502__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlN2tPhEg$

Spike in Rare Brain Infections in Kids Raises More Questions Than Answers: The number of rare, life-threatening brain abscesses in children more than tripled in Southern Nevada in 2022, and hospitals in other parts of the country also reported unusual spikes. Two doctors interviewed by The Defender explained how the timing suggests COVID-19 vaccines could be a factor. Doctors in other parts of the country similarly observed a spike in the number of cases in children since 2021.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/kids-spike-brain-infections/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlK8u8pwR$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Fla. and La. must borrow millions to pay insurance claims: The Gulf Coast insurance crisis has hit a new low as two state-chartered insurance associations are being forced to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars for the first time in three decades to pay the hurricane claims of insolvent insurers.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.eenews.net/articles/fla-and-la-must-borrow-millions-to-pay-insurance-claims/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlH_ZefRo$

The Debt Ceiling Debate Is a Manufactured Crisis: Tax the Wealthy What They Owe. The budget-balancing problem in the U.S. stems from military spending and tax cuts for the rich. We are now somewhere between one and three months away from the U.S. hitting its debt ceiling limit, running out of accounting gimmicks and being unable to pay its bills.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/the-debt-ceiling-debate-is-a-manufactured-crisis-tax-the-wealthy-what-they-owe/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlLPNzuVq$

The Fed Raises Rates Again and Signals It May Be Ready to Pause: The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points and signaled that it may be ready to suspend its rate hike campaign.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-raises-rates-again-signals-224713239.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlPvQT9II$

# Education / Schools
This is what it’s come to, Texas’s solution to school shootings: Training 8-Year-Olds in ‘Battlefield Trauma Care’: Texas’s Solution to School Shootings: Training 8-Year-Olds in “Battlefield Trauma Care”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://headtopics.com/us/texas-s-solution-to-school-shootings-training-8-year-olds-in-battlefield-trauma-care-38685242__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlEd42IGr$

# Employment / Labor
Bernie Sanders Is Once Again Trying to Raise the Minimum Wage: Conservative Democrats who voted against raising wages may shift or defend their position as they seek reelection. Sanders has said the federal minimum wage should be at least $17 an hour, and the senator is expected to announce fresh legislation in a press conference with economists and union leaders on May 4. The wage hike would likely be instituted gradually over the course of several years to allow time for businesses to adapt.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/bernie-sanders-is-once-again-trying-to-raise-the-minimum-wage/*:*:text=Sanders*20has*20said*20the*20federal,time*20for*20businesses*20to*20adapt__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlFJi9qvE$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry
Green investment funds pushing money into fossil fuel firms, research finds: BlackRock and L&G among asset managers using funds with ESG label to invest in coal, oil and gas. Investment funds branded as green or socially responsible are being used by some of the world’s largest asset managers to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in fossil fuel companies https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/02/green-investment-funds-pushing-money-into-fossil-fuel-firms-research-finds__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlPS7ma8T$

Marcos-Biden meet yields clean energy, environmental protection pledges: President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and United States President Joe Biden committed to enhance the cooperation of Manila and Washington in addressing the climate crisis and investing in the transition to clean energy. Aside from reaffirming their decades-old security alliance, the two countries also agreed to expand their collaboration on clean energy transition and environmental protection.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.philstar.com/music/2023/05/02/2263245/marcos-biden-meet-yields-clean-energy-environmental-protection-pledges__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlBdy5gFA$

Biden Officials Are Backing Another “Climate Bomb” Fossil Fuel Project in Alaska: The nearly $40 billion proposal would see the construction of a pipeline and LNG facility along Alaska’s south coast. Biden administration officials are seeking to revive yet another major fossil fuel project in Alaska that climate advocates are warning would have 10 times the emissions impact of another recently-approved fossil fuel project in Alaska, infuriating climate advocates and experts https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/biden-officials-are-backing-another-climate-bomb-fossil-fuel-project-in-alaska/*:*:text=Biden*20administration*20officials*20are*20seeking,infuriating*20climate*20advocates*20and*20experts__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlK2n4ubv$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure The man who discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is still trying to stop ocean pollution: In 1997, Captain Charles Moore first discovered the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” the largest accumulation of plastic waste in the ocean. Since then, scientists have documented how plastic has permanently damaged marine ecosystems and even altered evolution, and the problem has only grown larger. But Moore and other researchers aren’t giving up hope that we can still save the oceans.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.kcur.org/health/2023-05-03/ocean-pollution-plastic-great-pacific-garbage-patch-solutions__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlKcbEIVD$

Following internal review of Texas environmental regulators, critics demand reform: Watchdogs call for creation of an environmental justice office, better monitoring of Clean Air Act violations. House Bill 1505, the TCEQ reauthorization bill, represents the culmination of what’s known as a “sunset review,” a process that occurs once every twelve years and determines whether a state agency should be reauthorized or abolished. In the case of reauthorization, which will almost certainly be the fate of TCEQ, the sunset review is a rare opportunity to introduce reforms.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://capitalandmain.com/following-internal-review-of-texas-environmental-regulators-critics-demand-reform__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlNBTfFzk$

See how a quick-fix climate solution could also trigger war; Superpowers will control geoengineering and all the damage that comes with it: But geoengineering will require maintenance and resources; it may be deployed cheaply, but coordinating and administering the program and accounting for early mistakes could be expensive. What happens when one of the countries sponsoring it, perhaps the United States, China, or Russia, wants to pull out? Or when one of the countries affected by its side effects decides to rebel?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://onezero.medium.com/the-climate-change-solution-that-could-spark-global-war-bd1cc9cce1a3__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlJz6zNLa$

The FCC is supposed to protect the environment. It doesn’t: The agency is mandated to safeguard the environment from damage caused by communication infrastructure. But when companies want to add new cell phone towers, build on protected land or launch satellites, the agency typically does little or nothing.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/fcc-environment-cell-towers-failures__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlOMmiH4f$

18 Years Later, EPA Still Isn’t Tracking Health-Harming Air Pollution From Industrial Factory Farms: As President Biden continues to promise that his administration will address the climate crisis and protect the air we breathe from industrial polluters, 24 advocacy organizations are demanding his Environmental Protection Agency live up to that promise by doing more to protect communities from factory farms.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/legal-petition-challenges-epa-inaction-on-factory-farm-air-pollution-2021-10-26/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlLf6IGHJ$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global At last, England’s dying rivers are an election issue, and the danger isn’t just sewage: Tackling water pollution means unpicking a complex web of assaults from source to sea. That the state of England’s rivers seems at last to have become an election issue feels slightly miraculous, after so many years in which campaigners have swum against the political flow.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/03/england-rivers-election-sewage-water-pollution__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlDjZoCOq$

Lula Recognizes Six New Brazilian Indigenous Reserves: The Amazon rainforest plays a critical role in the mitigation of climate change, but in recent years it has been the target of a steep increase in deforestation. During the largest gathering of Indigenous people in Brazil, President Lula recognized six Indigenous lands, resuming the demarcation process which stalled for over five years under the two former presidents. Brazil has 733 Indigenous territories, of which 496 are now recognized by the state.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ecowatch.com/lula-brazil-indigenous-reserves-mining.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlGWz5ogM$

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
Mercury Is Especially Toxic to Kids, Here’s How It Gets From Coal-Burning Power Plants to Your Child’s Food: Mercury is a neurotoxic metal that can cause irreparable harm to human health – especially the brain development of young children. It is tied to lower IQ and results in decreased earning potential, as well as higher health costs. Lost productivity from mercury alone was calculated in 2005 to reach almost $9 billion per year.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/how-poisonous-mercury-gets-from-coal-fired-power-plants-into-the-fish-you-eat-176434__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlFnyfC_a$

# Gov / Politics / Global
Kremlin Says Putin Survived Overnight Assassination Attempt: Russia has accused Ukraine of a failed plot to assassinate Russian president Vladimir Putin in an overnight drone attack on the Kremlin. Moscow claimed Ukrainian forces targeted Russia’s parliament with two unmanned drones, but said these had been taken out by the military.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-assassination-attempt-drone-attack-b2331641.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlMRnEOn7$

What China Is Really Playing at in Ukraine: What will be left of Ukraine, it is already being bought by Western mega-players such as BlackRock, Cargill and Monsanto. Beijing is fully aware the NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is the un-dissociable double of the U.S. war against its Belt and Road Initiative.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-what-china-really-playing-ukraine__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlA3He4zH$

Major powers should work with China for political settlement of Ukrainecrisis: China is not the creator of the crisis, nor a party directly concerned. Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday held phone talks with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky. During their conversation, Xi reiterated China’s core position on promoting peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, and announced that Beijing will send a special representative on Eurasian affairs to visit Ukraine and other countries to conduct in-depth communication with all parties on the political settlement of the crisis.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://english.scio.gov.cn/in-depth/2023-04/28/content_85261076.htm__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlC3GwRqL$

# Gov / Politics
Washington Is Obstructing the Path to a Political Settlement in Ukraine: The U.S.’s rejection of China’s proposal for a negotiated settlement reveals that it is drawing benefits from the war.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/washington-is-obstructing-the-path-to-a-political-settlement-in-ukraine/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlDZjOGxg$

Texas Bill Would Let Secretary of State Undo Elections in Largest Democrat-Run County: The bill only requires the secretary of state to believe, not prove, election discrepancies occurred.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3985519-texas-bill-allows-sos-to-overturn-elections/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlAnYa-Hs$

Florida Republicans Push Bill to Lower Rifle Purchasing Age From 21 to 18: Polling has historically shown most Floridians support a higher age restriction on buying rifles and long guns. The state House passed House Bill 1543, by a count of 69 to 36. The bill would lower the age limit to buy rifles or “long” guns (which includes assault rifles) to 18, undoing the 2018 law, and now goes to the state Senate.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/florida-republicans-push-bill-to-lower-rifle-purchasing-age-from-21-to-18/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlIT5QgSP$

# Law Enforcment
A manhunt ends for the alleged suspect accused of fatally shooting five people in Cleveland, Texas: Texas manhunt suspect caught hiding in closet under laundry. Francisco Oropesa, 38, is accused of killing five people. He was caught hiding in a closet Tuesday underneath laundry.FBI: A tip from someone with ‘courage and bravery’ led to Oropesa’s arrest
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/texas-manhunt-search-francisco-oropesa/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlMXWrKGy$

# Legal / DOJ
The Supreme Court is facing the most public scrutiny it has seen in decades, following revelations that Justice Clarence Thomas hid lavish gifts he received from a billionaire conservative donor, revelations that in turn have snowballed into stories about other justices’ ethically dubious financial arrangements.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-investigation-clarence-thomas_n_64500751e4b039ec4e864be2?utm_source=cordial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp-us-reg-fringe_2023-05-02&utm_term=us-fringe__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlEqKuVK0$

In a sweeping verdict sure to reverberate in Illinois power circles, jury convicts all four defendants of bribery-related counts in ComEd 4 trial: A federal jury on Tuesday convicted four top lobbyists and executives at a state-regulated utility in the state’s highest-profile corruption case since former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted 13 years ago.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-comed-four-bribery-trial-verdict-madigan-20230502-ykjanxkczveudny7v4fci5bsqy-story.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlJnblluB$

# Medical / Health
Q&A: Linda Villarosa took on the perils of medical racism. She found Black Americans ‘live sicker and die quicker’: In her book “Under the Skin,” the veteran journalist offers a cradle-to-grave examination of how bias negatively affects health care https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03052023/linda-villarosa-linda-villarosa-medical-racism/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlAp1wtYJ$

# Military / Global
Australia: Outsourced to the US Military Establishment: Australia has ceased to have any pretensions of sovereignty in defence matters. In the US, the provision of services in such industries as security and intelligence is outsourced in a sprawling complex of contractors and subcontractors. In Australia, the entire military and security establishment is outsourced to Washington’s former mandarins, many of them earning a pile in consultancy fees. This, perhaps, is what Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles means when he talks about the Australian Defence Force moving “beyond interoperability to interchangeability.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/05/02/australia-outsourced-to-the-us-military-establishment/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlDlLDa8r$

# Pharmaceuticals / Drugs
CMS Charges Ahead with Drug Price Controls Despite Patient Concerns: The United States appears to be rushing headfirst to surrender our global advantage in medical discovery and choosing to let people suffer and die denied a breakthrough cure. To worsen the nightmare, the normal democratic process of public discussion that an open society relies on to keep bad ideas from becoming bad policies has been abandoned.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://dcjournal.com/cms-charges-ahead-with-drug-price-controls-despite-patient-concerns/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlG_t5kP1$

# Science
Body lotions, shampoos, cleaners and other everyday household products are safe to use, right? That’s what many of us assume, but a new study from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), and the Silent Spring Institute reveals that these products actually contain toxic chemicals that could be harmful to our health.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/body-lotions-mothballs-cleaning-fluids-and-other-widely-used-products-contain-known-toxic-chemicals-study-finds-204732__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlOFzeqpK$

# Technology
Two Massachusetts Towns Call a Halt to 5G Towers Until FCC Complies With Court Order to Review Science: In the warrant, the residents cited two separate rulings by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that mandated the FCC conduct such a review and noted that the FCC has failed to comply with the court orders.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://stuartbramhall.wordpress.com/2023/05/03/2-massachusetts-towns-call-halt-to-5g-towers-until-fcc-complies-with-court-order-to-review-science/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlKhKHIzt$

Tesla Plans to Build Huge Factory in Mexican City Struggling With Water Scarcity: Activists from Mexico are decrying the plan as a prime example of ‘colonial extractivism.’ Now Tesla has plans to build a huge electric car ‘gigafactory’ in that same water-insecure city. A gigafactory is Tesla’s term for its massive assembly and parts plants. The Monterey one will be built on 4,200 acres, twice the size of the company’s Texas plant, and around the size of three small towns.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-cant-build-northern-mexico-if-water-is-scarce-president-says-2023-02-24/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlMJO-oYo$

# Water
Texas’ deteriorating water systems jeopardize quality and supply for a growing population
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/2023/05/03/texas-water-infrastructure-is-broken-jeopardizing-quality-and-supply-for-a-growing-state/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlPWPaSLc$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-05-02

Voices, The Peoples News

May 2, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Coroner Rules ‘Fit and Healthy’ Man Dies from Brain Blood Clot Caused by COVID Vaccine: A 32-year-old psychologist in Britain developed blood clots and died 10 days after he took his first dose of AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine, a report released by a London coroner on Wednesday found, in a highly rare case of a fatal reaction to the vaccine.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/19/doctor-died-from-rare-reaction-to-astrazeneca-covid-jab-uk-coroner-rules__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zasb0mfE3$

More Women Bearing the Brunt of COVID Vaccine Reactions and Injury: According to a February 2021 study published in JAMA,1 during the first month that the shots were made available, women experienced 94 percent of the 66 reported cases of anaphylaxis severe allergic reactions to the experimental mRNA shots.2 Women also accounted for the first six cases of severe blood clots with low platelet counts after the roll-out of Johnson & Johnson/Janssen’s adenovirus vectored Ad26.COV2.S COVID vaccine, which prompted officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to temporarily pause use of the vaccine in mid-April 2021.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thevaccinereaction.org/2023/04/more-women-bearing-the-brunt-of-covid-vaccine-reactions-and-injury/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zagGE91ZZ$

Renowned Medical Researcher & Colleague Publish Systematic Review of Serious Harms From COVID-19 Vaccines: We found evidence of serious neurological harms, including Bell’s Palsy, Guillain-Barré syndrome, myasthenic disorder and stroke, which are likely due to an autoimmune reaction from mRNA and adenoviral vector vaccines . Severe harms, i.e. those that prevent daily activities, were underreported in the randomized trials.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thepulse.one/p/renowned-medical-researcher-and-colleague__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zaqsJGJKc$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Treasury’s Yellen Says US Could Default as Soon as June 1: If legislators do not raise or suspend the nation’s borrowing authority before then and avert what could potentially become a global financial crisis.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/x-date-debt-ceiling-yellen-treasury-borrowing-f726fd88a9bb7f72e50f0b948731ac57__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zaqyMtb37$

Accounting Board Should Resist Politicizing Tax Disclosure Rules: The Financial Accounting Standards Board has decided to risk its credibility by proposing tax-disclosure requirements that serve the interests of politicians rather than the investors it exists to inform. The Financial Accounting Standards Board on Wednesday said it wants companies to provide more information on their income taxes, the group’s latest attempt to give the public more detail on the companies they invest in.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.wsj.com/articles/fasb-again-aims-for-more-disclosure-on-taxes-from-u-s-companies-11669850859__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zapY5AJYp$

# Education / Schools
Florida Professor Fired for Racial Justice Lessons Hits Back: Samuel Joeckel was fired in March after a parent complained he was “indoctrinating” students with racial justice lessons. “PBA’s decision to terminate my employment was motivated by race,” he said, “and I look forward to working with the EEOC as they investigate the unlawful actions taken by PBA.” “I am hopeful that this will not only right the wrongs that PBA committed against me,” he continued, “but also protect faculty members at PBA and other schools.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2023/05/01/pbau-professor-fired-over-racial-justice-teaching-files-eeoc-complaint/70170030007/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zajBmIxxe$

School Satan Club Must Be Allowed to Go Ahead, Judge Rules; It’s a big win for The Satanic Temple: “In a victory for free speech and religious freedom, a federal court has ruled that the Saucon Valley School District must allow the After School Satan Club to meet in district facilities,” the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3981851-federal-judge-rules-pennsylvania-school-district-must-allow-after-school-satan-club/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zaoiaPgO2$

# Employment / Labor
The Bad Family Leave Policy Sweeping the Nation: State governments are trying to use payroll taxes to fund family and medical leave entitlements, and workers will again come out on the losing end of this bargain. When taxpayers see the dollars they put into a government program twice a month on their pay stubs, they want to ensure that money is there when they retire. Unfortunately, there never seems to be enough revenue to cover empty government promises, causing the inevitable worry that taxpayers will never see their contributions returned.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prescottenews.com/index.php/2023/05/02/opinion-the-bad-family-leave-policy-sweeping-the-nation-inside-sources/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zaotN5Nag$

A New Path for Gig Workers? A new law in Utah could be the first bill to expand opportunities for gig workers without robbing them of their independent status. Whether an individual is looking to supplement their household income or shift entirely away from the day-to-day grind of office work, the gig economy can be a no-strings-attached option to achieve both these goals. Gig work can serve as a springboard for individuals looking to earn extra income. They can supplement and diversify the income with tasks they enjoy, at rates they set, on a schedule they determine.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2021/08/12/will-the-gig-economy-become-the-new-working-class-norm/?sh=97b8c49aee60__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zavLpY-kx$

# Food Recalls / Alerts
FDA imposes restrictions on imported foods because of pesticides, Salmonella, filth: The Food and Drug Administration is continuing its use of import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2023/05/fda-imposes-restrictions-on-imported-foods-because-of-pesticides-salmonella-filth/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zahVHMD1P$

Gold Medal flour officially linked to Salmonella outbreak stretching from coast to coast: The Food and Drug Administration has officially linked a Salmonella Infantis outbreak to Gold Medal flour produced by General Mills. The company recalled certain flour products on April 28 because of Salmonella Infantis contamination but did not mention the outbreak in its recall notice.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2023/05/gold-medal-flour-officially-linked-to-salmonella-outbreak-stretching-from-coast-to-coast/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zasOsF_oS$

# General News
Trump to Appear on CNN for First Time in Years: The twice-impeached president has long had an adversarial relationship with the network he’s labeled “fake news,” but it looks like he’s ready to kiss and make up.
“CNN This Morning” anchor Kaitlan Collins will moderate the event at St. Anselm College, which will air at 9 p.m. ET on May 10 and will feature the former president taking questions from New Hampshire Republicans and undeclared voters who plan to vote in the 2024 GOP presidential primary.
This will be Trump’s first appearance on CNN since the 2016 presidential campaign.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/01/politics/donald-trump-town-hall/index.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zahdyVama$

“Get Him Out of Here”: Donald Trump Tossed NBC Reporter’s Phones During Tirade Aboard Campaign Plane: About 10 minutes later, as Hillyard continued to ask about the investigation, Trump snapped, grabbing the reporter’s two phones and chucking them to the side, according to a source familiar with the matter. “Get him out of here,” Trump told his aides, according to a recording obtained by Vanity Fair.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/trump-2024-gaggle__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zapG9g-9g$

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russian Occupiers Kidnap and Deport Ukrainian Children Under the Guise of Re-Education: Since the inception of Russia’s all-out war, 468 children in Ukraine were killed and more than 947 were injured. Russia also continues to kidnap and deport Ukrainian children to either Russian-controlled Ukrainian territories or Russian regions.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ge.usembassy.gov/russias-re-education-camps-hold-thousands-of-ukraines-children-report-says/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zasYS-6GK$

# Gov / Politics
The New Abnormal: Almost-Expelled TN Rep. Rips Apart Huge Pro-Gun ‘Argument’: Almost-Expelled Tennessee Rep. Gloria Johnson Rips Apart Huge Pro-Gun ‘Argument’ Tennessee House Rep. Gloria Johnson joins The New Abnormal podcast to talk gun control, her colleagues’ glaring racism, and a sad encounter with a third grader.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://money.yahoo.com/almost-expelled-tennessee-rep-gloria-080629282.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zasQyOGrS$

Only an asshole would tweet like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did: Two decades after Texas Gov. George W. Bush was elected president on a “compassionate conservative” platform, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is going out of his way to stress uncompassionate conservatism. The latest (and arguably lowest) example occurred on Sunday, when Abbott described a slaughtered family of five as “illegal immigrants.” (It should be noted, at least one of the victims may have been a permanent U.S. resident.)
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/only-an-asshole-would-tweet-like-texas-gov-greg-abbott-did__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zaoZ-7FnI$

Biden: US-Philippines ‘ironclad’ partners amid China tension: President Joe Biden reiterated U.S. commitment to the Philippines’ security and noted the “deep friendship” of the two nations as he welcomed Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for White House talks Monday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/philippines-marcos-biden-china-6f064bd1972bc5e377d19eabfe9da25c__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zas7Nl48-$

Abbott tells Lightfoot to blame President Biden for ‘critical tipping point’: In response to outgoing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blaming Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for illegal foreign nationals flooding the Windy City, he told her to call on President Joe Biden to secure the border and fix the problem he says the president created https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sports.yahoo.com/critical-tipping-point-chicago-mayor-161612779.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zasBjZHcx$

Maryland Senator Retires, Setting Stage for Competitive Race: “When this term ends, it will be my last years as an elected official,” he said in a YouTube video alongside his wife: Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin has run his last race. The longtime Democrat will not seek re-election in 2024, he announced Monday. “It is time,” Cardin said alongside his wife in a video posted to his YouTube channel. “And when this term ends, it will be my last years as an elected official.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://time.com/6275973/ben-cardin-senate-retirement-maryland/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zakKnwUKI$

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee Will Leave Office Next Year: He’s currently the longest serving governor in the United States. Jay Inslee, currently the longest serving governor in the U.S., announced Monday that his streak will be coming to an end in 2024. “Serving the people as governor of Washington state has been my greatest honor,” he said in a statement.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/01/washington-gov-jay-inslee-wont-seek-fourth-term-00094666__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zaqHKAVPH$

America Needs Results Driven Leadership: Honorary Chair Governor Chris Sununu spoke with Christine Amanpour on CNN about his interest in running for president in 2024. “I want to make the party bigger,” he said, and explained that “nobody get’s inspired by being yelled at.” He says Americans are instead looking for results-driven leadership that puts people before politics.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/04/26/exp-chris-sununu-amanpour-intw-042601pseg1-cnni-world.cnn?utm_source=Direct*Response*Group*LLC&utm_campaign=6981d4c052-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_04_28_06_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-6981d4c052-*5BLIST_EMAIL_ID*5D__;KysrJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zasgpExG6$

Katie Porter Is Teaching the Government How to Govern: As she barnstorms the state, the Senate hopeful is making the pitch that Congress and the executive branch have the power to fix their own dysfunction.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/politics/05-02-2023-katie-porter-california-senate-campaign/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zaiuNXRdD$

# Law Enforcment
Ex-Deputy Police Chief Indicted on Child Rape Charge: John “Jay” Porter allegedly assaulted a 15-year-old student in 2004 and 2005, when he was a school resource officer in Massachusetts: Former Hopkinton Deputy Chief of Police, John “Jay” Porter, 54, has been indicted by a grand jury on three charges of rape of a child. He is alleged to have assaulted the student while he was assigned as a school resource officer in the Town of Hopkinton school system
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/hopkinton-former-deputy-police-chief-161933137.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zalyrM7UW$

Lori Vallow’s hair found on tape used to wrap dead son: The hair, found on tape attached to a black plastic bag wrapping the body of Joshua “JJ” Vallow, contained a partial DNA profile that was compared to three DNA samples, including one from the boy’s mother, said Keeley Coleman, a DNA analyst for Bode Technology. The results showed the hair came from the mother.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/05/01/lori-vallows-hair-found-on-tape-wrapped-on-son-jjs-body-expert/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zar1YlFV4$

Hunt for Missing Girls Ends in Shock Discovery of 7 Bodies: Seven dead bodies have been found on a property in a small town in rural Oklahoma during a search for two missing teenagers, authorities say. Police said they believe the teenagers they were looking for, Ivy Webster, 14, and Brittany Brewer, 16, were among the dead.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/missing-girls-oklahoma-bodies-found-okmulgee-035ca34f2f524077e60562eee4750be8__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zai55oViW$

# Legal / DOJ
Trump lawyers grill E Jean Carroll over Apprentice texts and rape claim’s similarity to Law & Order episode Former Elle advice columnist was quizzed over whether she had lifted rape allegations from a 2012 Law & Order episode on day two of cross-examination. The former president’s lawyer spent Monday morning cross-examining Carroll to expand the divide between them both, flipping through her messages and TV appearances to portray her as an attention-seeking journalist who reveled in the spotlight after accusing Trump of a heinous crime.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://autos.yahoo.com/trumps-lawyers-e-jean-carroll-182803540.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zajK-GEke$

# LGBTQ / Gender
Trans Rep. Zooey Zephyr Sues Montana Over Ridiculous Censure: Zephyr is “physically barred from entering the Montana State Capitol and cannot engage in speech and debate,” the suit says. Zephyr, who is transgender, was censured by House Republicans after giving a fiery speech on the floor against a gender-affirming healthcare ban for trans youth. Now, she’s suing the House Speaker, the Sergeant at Arms and the state of Montana in response.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/04/26/transgender-montana-rep-zooey-zephyr-barred-from-house-floor-for-rest-of-2023-session/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zagkWsEdB$

# Medical Science
Plastic is already in blood, breast milk, and placentas. Now it may be in our brains: The particles could be linked to cognitive impairment and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/01/plastic-is-already-in-blood-breast-milk-and-placentas-now-it-may-be-in-our-brains__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zatI33SwW$

# Military / DOD
Georgia National Guard Will Use Phone Location Tracking to Recruit High School Children: The ad campaign will make use of a variety of surveillance advertising techniques, including capturing the unique device IDs of student phones, tracking pixels, and IP address tracking. It will also plaster recruiting solicitations across Instagram, Snapchat, streaming television, and music apps. The campaign plans not only call for broadcasting recruitment ads to kids at school, but also for pro-Guard ads to follow these students around as they continue using the internet and other apps, a practice known as retargeting. While the state’s plan specifies targeting only high school juniors and seniors ages 17 and above, demographic ad targeting is known to be error prone, and experts told The Intercept it’s possible the recruiting messages could reach the phones of younger children.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/04/16/georgia-army-national-guard-location-tracking-high-school/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zau80oeg_$

‘Like driving the Batmobile into the future’: Air Force uses JLTV in mission for 1st time: Two airmen drove a JLTV for an operational mission in eastern Nebraska to support launch facility maintenance near the town of Harrisburg.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2023-05-01/humvee-air-force-tactical-vehicle**A-9981461.html__;wqA!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zauizm9kA$

US military is tracking another mysterious balloon: The object flew across portions of Hawaii but did not go over any sensitive areas. The U.S. military has been tracking it since late last week and has determined that it poses no threat to aerial traffic or national security and is not communicating signals, one official said. It’s not clear if it’s a weather balloon or something else, the official said, adding that the U.S. could still shoot it down if it nears land. The object, which does not appear to have maneuverability, is moving slowly toward Mexico.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/05/01/us-military-tracking-mysterious-balloon-that-flew-into-us-airspace/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zaqFfAcky$

# Military / Global
Refreshed US-Philippine relations revive fighter jet training paused 3 decades ago: For the first time in more than 30 years, American and Filipino fighter pilots are flying together again in airpower drills that were among the largest in the Indo-Pacific during the Cold War.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/article/cnews-us-philippines-usa-defence-idCAKBN13H0UW__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zamgIaUdu$

In war, Japan’s coast guard would become arm of country’s Defense Ministry: Japan has addressed a 69-year-old gap in its self-defense measures by creating a process that gives the Ministry of Defense control of the coast guard in the event of a war.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cfr.org/article/how-japan-doubling-down-its-military-power__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zajL6G_y8$

UN envoy says Sudan’s warring sides agree to negotiate: Sudan’s warring generals have agreed to send representatives for negotiations, potentially in Saudi Arabia, the United Nations’ top official in the country told The Associated Press on Monday, even as the two sides clashed in the capital despite another three-day extension of a fragile cease-fire.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2023/05/01/un-envoy-says-sudans-warring-sides-agree-to-negotiate/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zaqDHUJgV$

# Technology
Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a ‘perpetual police line-up’: Once a photo has been scraped by Clearview AI, biometric face prints are made and cross-referenced in the database, tying the individuals to their social media profiles and other identifying information forever — and people in the photos have little recourse to try to remove themselves. US police have used the database nearly a million times, the company’s CEO told the BBC. One digital rights advocate told Insider the company is “a total affront to peoples’ rights, full stop.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-scraped-30-billion-images-facebook-police-facial-recogntion-database-2023-4__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zamJUfFZo$

TikTok: Chinese “Trojan Horse” is Run By State Department Officials: A News investigation has found dozens of ex-U.S. State Department officials working in key positions at TikTok. More individuals with backgrounds in the FBI, CIA and other departments of the national security state also hold influential posts at the social media giant, affecting the content that over one billion users see. While American politicians demand the app be banned on national security grounds, try to force through an internet surveillance act that would turn the country into an Orwellian state, make clueless statements about how TikTok is dangerous because it connects to your Wi-Fi, it is possible that TikTok is already much closer to Washington than it is to Beijing
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.mintpressnews.com/tiktok-chinese-trojan-horse-run-by-state-department-officials/284353/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zalVqJlzn$

# Veterans / VA
National study examines ‘mystery’ Gulf War illness while veterans wait for relief: The National Institutes of Health and Department of Veterans Affairs have launched a 5-year study to understand the chronic symptoms of what’s now called Gulf War illness. He found that Gulf War veterans had similar symptoms that were significant enough to constitute an illness; that the root of the illness seemed to lie in the brain; and that the main risk factor seemingly causing the disease was exposure to environmental pesticides or low levels of nerve gas during the war.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=5872__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3nmik-ThjWXNnjbqCeMECTzWAT42BkfrN6hJksa5is94ukN0M6_ZiqjcESxJQUOhBd46xeyWUjvI8elT1fWduM5zarwtke33$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-05-01

Voices, The Peoples News

May 1, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

# Indigenous
Navajo Nation officials, activists feel cut out as company advances uranium mining plans: Navajo group alleges U.S. violated human rights in uranium mine licensing. With historic uranium mine sites already polluting communities, members of the Navajo Nation have been fighting for 27 years to stop a new mining initiative from starting in the Crownpoint and Church Rock areas. When a foreign company started exploratory drilling for the possible return of uranium mining near Church Rock, community members say they were not informed in advance. “It was a complete shock,” Jonathan Perry, the director of Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining, said of the process that started this winter.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2023/05/01/navajo-nation-officials-activists-feel-cut-out-as-company-advances-uranium-mining-plans/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FLbZLlab$

# Archaeology
Anthropologist pair solve the mystery of Mayan 819-day count: A pair of anthropologists at Tulane University has solved the mystery of the Mayan 819-day count, a type of ancient Mesoamerican calendar system.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://phys.org/news/2023-04-anthropologist-pair-mystery-mayan-day.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly-nwletter__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FBDVC9-W$

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Texas Guv Denigrates Shooting Vics as ‘Illegal Immigrants’: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) did not miss an opportunity to label the victims of his state’s most recent high-profile shooting “illegal immigrants,” making the tone-deaf characterization in a statement on Sunday. Oropesa, 38, is believed to have gunned down five people, including an eight-year-old boy, after he was asked to stop firing a weapon in his front yard last week.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ca.news.yahoo.com/texas-guv-denigrates-shooting-victims-232902686.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FETLiRbE$

# Children / Youth
Whistleblower says U.S. government is ‘middleman’ in multibillion-dollar child migrant trafficking operation: Whistleblower on child migrant trafficking comes as Biden admin faces scrutiny over handling of forced labor The hearing, “The Biden Border Crisis: Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children,” will be held by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement and will examine the surge in unaccompanied children (UACs) at the southern border.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.foxnews.com/politics/whistleblower-tell-house-us-govt-middleman-multi-billion-dollar-migrant-child-trafficking-op__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FFwqOkgk$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks First Republic Bank Is Seized, Sold to JPMorgan in Second-Largest U.S. Bank Failure: San Francisco-based First Republic, the second-largest bank to fail in U.S. history, lost $100 billion in deposits in a March run following the collapse of fellow Bay Area lender Silicon Valley Bank. It limped along for weeks after a group of America’s biggest banks came to its rescue with a $30 billion deposit.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/first-republic-bank-silicon-valley-fdic-5ab48702b7136d42f73ac13e0a20955d__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FJqS-7Dj$

# Education / Schools
High School “died suddenly” – Epidemic of 15-19 year olds dropping dead in schools and dorms across USA and Canada in April 2023: There truly seems to be an epidemic of sudden deaths in schools across USA and Canada recently.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prepareforchange.net/2023/04/28/epidemic-of-15-19-year-olds-dropping-dead-in-schools-and-dorms-across-usa-and-canada-in-april-2023/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=epidemic-of-15-19-year-olds-dropping-dead-in-schools-and-dorms-across-usa-and-canada-in-april-2023__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FCqt0guU$

# Employment / Labor
Sanders Calls on Biden to Fight for Working People in Debt Ceiling Battle: “We have already too much inequality in America,” said Sanders. “Let’s not make it worse.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-working-people-debt-ceiling__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FH31mkeD$

Discrimination Against Moms Is Still Rampant in Most Workplaces: Moms are pushed out of jobs and subject to sexist stereotypes, but with few legal protections, many cases go unreported.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/opinion/workplace-discrimination-mothers.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FDq1gGiy$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry
A powerful series about a 2019 Houston chemical inferno, published by colleagues at Public Health Watch and the Texas Tribune. It finds a pattern regularly repeated: *Looming danger, known for years but never corrected.
*Inevitable disaster, with those in harm’s way left unprotected.
Part 1:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://publichealthwatch.org/2023/04/26/texas-houston-environment-pollution-epa-mitsui/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FG7OiYtL$
Part 2:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://publichealthwatch.org/2023/04/27/houston-texas-fire-pollution-epa-tceq/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FI7thWBP$

Climate Protesters Stage Blockade at White House Correspondents Dinner: The protesters called on Biden to reverse his approval of the massive Willow oil drilling project in Alaska.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-blockade-whca-dinner__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FLNOxlZg$

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russia’s Mercenary Boss Threatens Full-Blown Mutiny: Former Russian commander Igor Girkin warned on Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin might face “military mutiny” from the Wagner Group, a private military unit whose leader Yevgeny Prigozhin reportedly threatened to withdraw his troops from Bakhmut.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsweek.com/putin-faces-threat-military-mutiny-former-russian-commander-warns-1797505__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FP4QHrR3$

# Gov / Politics
The World Economic Forum Says It Will ‘Accelerate’ Implementation of Globalist Agenda 2030: World leaders will be gathering together later this year to “accelerate the implementation of Agenda 2030,” according to an announcement made by the unaccountable, corporate-led World Economic Forum (WEF) earlier this week.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/04/26/the-world-economic-forum-says-it-will-accelerate-implementation-of-globalist-agenda-2030/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FJ-VHjPi$

Biden threatens North Korea with annihilation: A nuclear attack by Pyongyang would “result in the end” of Kim Jong-un’s regime, Biden warned. U.S. President [sic] Joe Biden declared on Wednesday that a North Korean nuclear attack on his country or South Korea would spell doom for Pyongyang. Under a new agreement between Washington and Seoul, the U.S. would respond to such an attack with nuclear weapons, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol added. “A nuclear attack by North Korea against the United States or its allies or partners is unacceptable and will result in the end of whatever regime were to take such an action,” Biden told reporter
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rt.com/news/575394-biden-north-korea-nuclear/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FAnZsAXZ$

Rep. Matt Gaetz, Progressives Jointly Call for U.S. Military to Leave Somalia: The alliance is the latest sign of an emerging bipartisan anti-war coalition in Congress.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/04/27/reactionaries-and-progressives-jointly-call-for-u-s-military-to-leave-somalia/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FG0KF0gP$

John Pilger on the coming war. Speak up. Now: If the current propagandists get their war with China, this will be a fraction of what is to come. Silences filled with a consensus of propaganda contaminate almost everything we read, see and hear. War by media is now a key task of so-called mainstream journalism.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://consortiumnews.com/2023/05/01/john-pilger-the-coming-war-time-to-speak-up/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FAciJdEX$

# Legal / DOJ
HPV Vaccine Caused Cervical Cancer in Young Woman, Lawsuit Alleges: Dozens of federal Gardasil injury cases filed throughout the country have been consolidated in North Carolina. Plaintiff Caroline Cantera, 25, alleges New Jersey-based Merck & Co., Inc. and subsidiary Merck Sharp & Dohme oversold Gardasil as a ‘cervical cancer vaccine’ and downplayed known health risks to enhance sales.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.law.com/legalnewswire/post-detail/hpv-vaccine-caused-cervical-cancer-in-young-woman-lawsuit-alleges/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FH1qVrak$

Mike Pence Has Finally Testified to the Grand Jury Investigating Trump’s Attempts to Overturn the 2020 Election: The former vice president told the press he would “tell the truth” during his testimony, which is probably pretty bad news for Donald Trump. Donald Trump tried to stop Mike Pence from testifying.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.axios.com/2023/04/27/mike-pence-grand-jury-testimony-trump__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FCsoQuQD$

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas voted to end federal tenant protections that his billionaire benefactor’s company says threatened its real estate profit margins, according to corporate documents reviewed by The Lever. Thomas did not disclose his relationship with real estate billionaire Harlan Crow, nor did he recuse himself from the
2021 case, despite its potential impact on Crow Holdings https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jacobin.com/2023/04/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-gifts-eviction-ban__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FNYdZtN2$

# Marijuana / Hemp / CBD Oil
Texas House Bill 1805 rallies support from physicians and Texas patients: This bill would allow doctors to prescribe medical marijuana for chronic pain in lieu of opioids and limit THC by milligram dose instead of percent by weight.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/2023/04/13/449128/medical-marijuana-bill-to-help-texans-with-chronic-pain-passes-house-vote/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FLMX2fgw$

# Media
Biden Hypocritically Slams Arrest of U.S. Journalist in Russia But Pursues Assange: The double standards of the U.S. government are on full display in the lead-up to World Press Freedom Day.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/biden-hypocritically-slams-arrest-of-us-journalist-in-russia-but-pursues-assange/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FO4JW-GD$

# Medical / Health / Global
Public Health Agency of Canada report calls for toppling of ‘capitalism and liberty’: The report’s all-white authors identified themselves as ‘uninvited land occupiers,’ before calling for the wholesale ‘decolonization’ of society in the interest of public health. “Fundamental changes in our socioeconomic structures are needed to rebuild our relationships with each other and with our planet,” reads the conclusion of the April 17 report prepared for chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nationalpost.com/opinion/public-health-agency-of-canada-report-calls-for-toppling-of-capitalism-liberty__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FFt-EGfC$

Doctors Trying Different Care For Newborns In Opioid Withdrawal: As the number of infants with opioid withdrawal rises, academic medical centers are developing promising new methods to treat these infants and support their mothers.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/caring-babies-opioid-withdrawal__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FOuOYh7v$

Nevada Doctors Warn Of Surprising Surge In Child Brain Infections: From 2015 to 2021, Nevada’s Clark County averaged five cases a year of pediatric brain abscesses. Last year, there were 18. Researchers presented the finding this week to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Epidemic Intelligence Service conference to bring attention to the baffling increase in life-threatening brain infections among children
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newser.com/story/334625/experts-struggle-to-explain-rise-in-childrens-brain-infections.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FHNJwFAJ$

# Military / Global
Kids in Putin’s Crosshairs Again as Missiles Strike Ukraine: Four schools and three kindergartens were damaged by three cruise missiles. The Ukrainian general staff report noted civilian dead and wounded, with children among the casualties. It said apartment buildings had been damaged along with schools, hospitals and kindergartens.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/air-defence-systems-repelling-russian-missile-attacks-kyiv-region-officials-2023-05-01/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FNxoe7A4$

Russians seem to be baiting US jets to dogfight in Syria, general says: Russian pilots have begun buzzing American fighter jets over Syria in apparent invitations to dogfight, according to the three-star general in charge of U.S. air operations in the Middle East. It’s the latest example of Russian troops growing increasingly confrontational toward the U.S. and its allies as they cross paths over war zones and in shared airspace around the world.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2023/04/28/russians-seem-to-be-baiting-us-jets-to-dogfight-in-syria-general-says/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mil-ebb&SToverlay=de88742f-46f7-4f2c-819d-3b36a47d6a7e__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FFhHOipf$

Horrific Slaughter: Russia Finally Admits to Destroying NATO’s Deep Underground Command Bunker in Kiev. According to Pronews , “dozens of NATO officers” were killed in a “terrifying strike” by a Mach 12 missile. In all likelihood, we are talking about the defeat of the “shadow General Staff” of NATO in Ukraine. The secret underground bunker, built at a depth of 400 feet (120 meters), housed several NATO officers (retired) and advisers. In total, more than 300 people. To date, according to the portal, 40 people have been pulled out from under the rubble of the underground headquarters, but most of those who died under the rubble have not yet been found.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theinteldrop.org/2023/03/14/horrific-slaughter-russia-finally-admits-to-destroying-natos-deep-underground-command-bunker-in-kiev/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FANHchtU$

# Science
Eleven chemical plants in China and one in the U.S. emit a climate super-pollutant called nitrous oxide that’s 273 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Proven, low-cost pollution controls could quickly curb those emissions, but neither China nor the U.S. require abatement measures
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06082020/china-n2o-super-pollutant-nylon-emissions-climate-change/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FFITgUWZ$

Environmentalists Want the FTC Green Guides to Slam the Door on the ‘Chemical’ Recycling of Plastic Waste The plastics industry says heating and treating plastic waste with chemicals enables it to make new plastics. But environmentalists say that process, emitting large amounts of climate and air pollution, isn’t recycling and isn’t green.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01052023/plastic-waste-chemical-recycling-ftc/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FHdW2xKS$

# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
Texas cattle found dead with tongues cut out: The Texas sheriff’s office is coordinating with other agencies to investigating the suspicious deaths found in similar circumstances.| Six cattle were found with tongues removed, no blood spilled and no signs of struggle. The cattle were found along a Texas highway in Madison, Brazos, and Robertson County. A straight, clean cut had been made with ‘apparent precision’ to remove the hide around the cow’s mouth on one side, leaving the mat under the hide untouched, the sheriff’s office said. The tongue had also been completely removed with no blood spill. Two had their anus and external genitalia removed with a circular cut. An official cause of death has not yet been determined for any of the six cows.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/texas-cows-death-tongue-madison-county-b2325253.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3SgbyQRjl7iB6TNW0Yn43n5WfJBJXZSA47hKa1nzm1eKHa3X6roE0GR5VWAB2g0kSCF_L47lZXjYsaR-Ux-9b0Y2FHY_tXNO$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-04-30

Voices, The Peoples News

April 30, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

# Indigenous
San Carlos Apache call for international intervention over copper mine at Oak Flat: At the U.N., leaders describe the destruction of Indigenous sacred sites as a ‘major human rights violation.’ The San Carlos Apache Tribe has taken its fight to the United Nations to save its traditional territory in Arizona from a massive copper mine. Chi’chil Bildagoteel, also known as Oak Flat, is home to one of the largest sources of copper in North America, and it is also the tribe’s most sacred site.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://grist.org/article/san-carlos-apache-take-copper-mine-fight-to-united-nations/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0qxS89tjc$

# Indigenous / Global
Dwindling sea ice and rising Arctic ship traffic may bring unwelcome visitors to King Island, Alaska: Members of the King Island Native Community see potential threats to their food security and cultural resources.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/04/arctic-alaska-king-island-sea-ice-cruise-ships-traffic-native-indigenous/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q8HSrTSu$

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
U.S. Plans Migrant Processing Centers in Latin America and Rapid Deportations from Southern Border: The Biden administration has announced plans to open processing centers across Latin America where asylum seekers would have to request permission to come to the U.S., blocking tens of thousands from seeking relief at the U.S. / Mexico border. The first processing centers will be located in Guatemala and Colombia.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/27/biden-migrant-processing-centers-latin-america-00094151__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q1kozMGG$

Biden authorizes military to call up reservists to combat drug trafficking at southern border: President Joe Biden issued an executive order authorizing active-duty armed forces reservists to be called up to address “international drug trafficking” at the southern border. He did so ahead of the public health authority Title 42 ending in less than two weeks, on May 11
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://dailycaller.com/2023/04/27/biden-reserve-troops-drug-trafficking-border/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0qxV5UPkO$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
COVID Vaccines Were Never Safe for Pregnant Women, Pfizer’s Own Data Show: Pfizer elected not to follow up the vast majority of pregnancies in the original human trials, despite high miscarriage rates in the minority they did follow.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-covid-vaccine-pregnancy/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20230428__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q2zoMqsT$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Debt Limit Vote Offers a Preview of GOP Attacks If Party Controls Congress: The rush proposal cuts funding for federal agencies and expands work requirements for Medicaid and food stamps. “Maybe that’s why we’re moving so fast, maybe Mr. McCarthy doesn’t want people to realize what’s in the bill, and I don’t blame him,” McGovern told the committee. “This is a ransom note to the American people that makes devastating draconian cuts to programs that help the poor, the hungry, the sick and the vulnerable.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/debt-limit-bill-offers-a-preview-of-gop-attacks-if-party-controls-congress/?utm_source=Truthout&utm_campaign=8c2fd52471-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_3_20_2023_13_41_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bbb541a1db-8c2fd52471-650262369&mc_cid=8c2fd52471&mc_eid=b8214b3276__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q5Jk8KDw$

Joe Manchin’s Tax Hike On The Working Class: The yacht-owning coal baron crushed low-income families while representing one of America’s poorest states. Despite representing one of America’s poorest states, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (D) decided in 2021 to kill legislation to extend expanded child and antipoverty tax credits that were helping the working class.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.levernews.com/joe-manchins-tax-hike-on-the-working-class/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q8qylW7f$

# Education / Schools
‘Important Conversations Never Had’: Colleges Quietly End Mandates Without Addressing Harms: Many major universities across the country are quietly dropping their COVID-19 vaccine mandates for students at the end of the spring semester. Critics say in addition to ending mandates, there must be a public conversation about the harms they caused.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/colleges-end-covid-vaccine-mandates/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20230428__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0qyEJSLww$

The University Of California Bails Out Eviction-Happy Private Equity: The school pumped billions into a Blackstone real estate fund eager to evict tenants and jack up student rents in the midst of a major housing crisis.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.levernews.com/the-university-of-california-bails-out-eviction-happy-private-equity/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q5Yfn0kQ$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry
Educator, Environmentalist, Union Leader, Senator, Paul Pinsky Now Gets to Turn His Climate Ideals Into Action: The long-time liberal state senator from Prince George’s County, an outspoken environmental critic of former Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, takes over the Maryland Energy Administration in the Moore administration.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24042023/paul-pinsky-maryland/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0qw-kfHnA$

Fossil fuel companies lost out when the Supreme Court declined to hear arguments to move climate change lawsuits to federal courts, opening the door for cities, states and counties to sue at the state level, where they are more likely to succeed.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042023/supreme-court-fossil-fuel-climate-change-lawsuits/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q-AdRFur$

Utilities Seize Control of the Coming Boom in Transmission Lines: Legislatures in a dozen states have passed “right of first refusal” laws that freeze out competition in transmission line projects, raising concerns about higher energy costs for consumers.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26042023/transmission-utilities-right-first-refusal/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q5QLVKCw$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Inside Biden’s Embattled Climate Agenda. Analysts Say the Fight Is Far From Over: For the third time in just over a month, President Joe Biden will likely be forced to exercise his veto power to save a piece of his embattled environmental agenda. Some analysts say the moment may mark a turning point in Biden’s presidency as he takes a more aggressive position to push his priorities past a divided Congress while seeking a second term.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28042023/inside-bidens-embattled-climate-agenda-analysts-say-the-fight-is-far-from-over/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q3Nos0qQ$

North Carolina residents urge UN to investigate toxic PFAS pollution: Chemical manufacturer Chemours accused of violating human rights by releasing ‘forever chemicals’ into Cape Fear River basin.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/north-carolina-pfas-pollution-un-human-rights__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q8_ZB_sy$

How is climate change affecting nutrients in plants? Higher levels of carbon dioxide are changing micronutrients in grasses, trees and even kelp. What does that mean for animals higher up the food chain?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://knowablemagazine.org/article/food-environment/2023/climate-change-effect-on-plant-nutrients__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q37IXkHi$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global
Life beneath the Arctic ice is chock-full of microplastics: Frozen polar waters host a critical species of algae. Accumulating plastic particles could threaten the whole ecosystem. All 12 samples of algae the scientists collected from ice floes contained microplastics. In total, they counted about 400 individual plastic bits in the algae they examined. The work adds to the growing body of evidence that microplastics are truly everywhere: in freshly fallen Antarctic snow, the air, baby poop, our blood, everywhere.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://gizmodo.com/life-beneath-the-arctic-ice-is-chock-full-of-microplast-1850362480__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0qxD9xuON$

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
SNAP work requirements don’t actually get more people working – but they do drastically limit the availability of food aid: The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would cut spending, in part by expanding work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, through which nearly 43 million low-income Americans get help buying groceries. The House bill calls for this policy to apply to adults as old as 55, while today this policy only applies to adults under 50.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/snap-requirements-don-t-actually-124652008.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q1yaCztD$

# General News
He blew the whistle on Trump’s Truth Social. Now he works at Starbucks: About six months ago, Will Wilkerson was the executive vice president of operations for former president Donald Trump’s media business, and a co-founder of Trump’s Truth Social website. Today, he is a certified barista trainer at a Starbucks inside a Harris Teeter grocery store.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217869718__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q6Jv3inf$

Letter sent to Congress revealed more than Trump intended: In the wake of Donald Trump’s history-making indictment on criminal charges of business fraud, US officials are honing in on the former president over the ongoing classified documents scandal, which centers on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. The latest news to emerge about the case certainly makes for interesting reading. Trump’s legal team has sent a letter to Congress in defense of the former president, however, its contents have disclosed some interesting revelations regarding the top-secret documents stowed away at the Florida estate.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://verdict.justia.com/2023/04/28/trumps-nonsensical-letter-to-congress-attacking-the-dojs-mar-a-lago-case-shows-he-has-no-defense__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q3FRN2K2$

Another Jan. 6 mystery revealed: Pence’s second script rewrite: The never-before-told backstory of why the then-vice president made a change not seen since Al Gore, as a rebuttal to Trump allies’ fringe theories. Pence’s decision to craft and employ his own unprecedented language as he presided over the final step of the 2020 election reflected his resistance to a pressure campaign by then-President Donald Trump to subvert the process. Pence’s rewrite has since drawn the attention of congressional investigators.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/15/mike-pence-january-6-script-change-00017294__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q02EYm6-$

# Gov / Politics / Global
China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis: Respecting the sovereignty of all countries. Universally recognized international law, including the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, must be strictly observed. The sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of all countries must be effectively upheld. All countries, big or small, strong or weak, rich or poor, are equal members of the international community. All parties should jointly uphold the basic norms governing international relations and defend international fairness and justice. Equal and uniform application of international law should be promoted, while double standards must be rejected. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/zxxx_662805/202302/t20230224_11030713.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q6G-RkoY$

# Gov / Politics
“Provocative & Dangerous”: Biden to Send Nuclear-Armed Subs to South Korea as Activists Demand Peace: President Joe Biden pledged to deploy nuclear-armed submarines to South Korea for the first time in 40 years. Alongside South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol, Biden also pledged to involve officials from Seoul in nuclear planning operations targeting North Korea. The visit between the two leaders comes as the U.S. and South Korea mark 70 years of military alliance under 1953’s Mutual Defense Treaty, signed at the close of active conflict in the Korean War.
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Minnesota Senate passes Democracy for the People Act—prohibits foreign-influenced corporate spending in elections: The bill, which garnered 80 percent of Minnesota voters’ support, according to a statewide poll conducted in November, will head to the governor’s desk, who pledged to sign it.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://freespeechforpeople.org/minnesota-becomes-first-state-in-the-nation-to-pass-legislation-prohibiting-foreign-influenced-corporations-from-spending-money-in-elections/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q1cO7eq9$

‘Disappointing day for women’: Senate GOP filibuster blocks Equal Rights Amendment: “Inequality hurts everyone, and we must not continue to be a nation that harmfully excludes and marginalizes women.” Equal Rights Amendment supporters on Thursday slammed the vast majority of U.S. Senate Republicans for filibustering a resolution that would make the 100-year-old measure the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. The 51-47 vote to invoke cloture was short of the 60 needed for final consideration of the resolution.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3975654-senate-gop-blocks-equal-rights-amendment/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0qxjh-YBK$

Texas House OKs Bill to Remove Officials Who Refuse to Prosecute Abortion Providers: The bill aims to force left-leaning prosecutors to prosecute abortions or risk being replaced by an Abbott appointee.
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Abortion Bans Flame Out in 2 States After Republicans Defect: “Once a woman became pregnant for any reason, she would now become property of the state of South Carolina,” said a Republican who voted against one of the bills.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/politics/abortion-laws-red-states-republicans/index.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q8_cXyoS$

Key nations sit out US standoff with Russia and China, leaks show: Documents illustrate how emerging nations’ bid to duck Washington’s showdown with Moscow and Beijing have put Biden’s global agenda at risk.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://headtopics.com/us/key-nations-sit-out-u-s-standoff-with-russia-china-leaks-show-38580818__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q1E5rYXp$

As fentanyl crisis grows, US-Mexico divide deepens: Mexico’s president denies the opioid is produced in his country. U.S. Republicans want to send troops across the border to attack the labs. As alarm grows in the United States over the fentanyl epidemic, a highly acrimonious dispute has erupted between the U.S. and Mexican governments, threatening cooperation in battling an opioid that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/fentanyl-and-us-opioid-epidemic__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q2aczr4h$

# Law Enforcment
After a Texas family asked a neighbor to stop shooting a gun in his yard because their baby was trying to sleep, he came over and killed 5 people with an AR-15 style rifle. The youngest victim is an 8-year-old child. The suspect remains on the loose
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# Legal / DOJ
This Pharmacist Said Prisoners Wouldn’t Feel Pain During Lethal Injection. Then Some Shook and Gasped for Air. A Florida pharmacist serves as an expert witness on behalf of states defending lethal injection protocols, often speaking about a drug that he has no authority to prescribe. His testimony has helped pave the way for executions across the country.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/pharmacist-helps-clear-the-way-lethal-injection-protocol__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q3AeDT93$

Donald Trump’s ‘Army’ Turns on Him in Court: Leaders of the far-right Proud Boys, fearful about their place in a post-Trump America, instead tried to prevent it from happening at all, even if it meant a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, prosecutors argued Monday. “These defendants saw themselves as Donald Trump’s army, fighting to keep their preferred leader in power no matter what the law or the courts had to say about it,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Conor Mulroe said Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/24/proud-boys-trial-closing-00093502__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q91AO55v$

# LGBTQ / Gender
Zooey Zephyr, Montana’s First Trans Lawmaker, Speaks Out After Being Banned & Silenced by Republicans: The Republican-controlled Montana House of Representatives voted Wednesday to censure the state’s first and only openly transgender lawmaker. The latest high-profile example of statehouses deciding who can be heard during legislative debates is playing out in Montana, where a transgender lawmaker on Wednesday was barred from speaking on the House floor for the remainder of the session.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/montana-trans-lawmaker-silenced-zooey-zephyr-d398d442537a595bf96d90be90862772__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q82slZPr$

‘Let her speak!’: protests after Montana Republicans silence trans lawmaker: Zooey Zephyr hasn’t been allowed to speak on house floor since taking a stand against bill that would ban gender-affirming care. The interruption — hours after supporters rallied on the Capitol steps — was the latest development in a standoff over Zephyr’s remarks against lawmakers who support a ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Zephyr, a first-term Democrat from Missoula, hasn’t spoken on the Statehouse floor since last Tuesday when she told Republican colleagues they would have “blood on their hands” if they banned gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/25/zooey-zephyr-silenced-again-backers-protest-montana-00093689__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0qzjkcbcg$

Kansas GOP Overrides Democratic Gov. to Pass Sweeping Anti-Trans Bathroom Law: The new law applies to schools, locker rooms, prisons, domestic violence shelters and rape crisis centers.
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Montana Governor Signs Gender-Affirming Care Ban, Ignoring a Plea From His Own Son: Gianforte’s son, who is nonbinary, told him “these bills are immoral, unjust, and frankly a violation of human rights.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/montana-governor-son-nonbinary__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q72iR8yB$

# Medical / Health
Up to one in 20 new diabetes cases could be linked to COVID, study suggests: Research adds to growing evidence that pandemic may be contributing to rapid rise in people with diabetes. The research adds to mounting evidence the pandemic may be contributing to a rapidly escalating diabetes crisis, with individuals who have experienced more severe Covid at greatest risk.
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# Military / DOD
US conducts 1st evacuation of its citizens from Sudan war: Hundreds of Americans fleeing two weeks of deadly fighting in Sudan reached the east African nation’s port Saturday in the first U.S.-run evacuation, completing a dangerous land journey under escort of armed drones.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://time.com/6275755/sudan-war-us-evacuation/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0qyUGlzoy$

# Military / Global
Iran capture of US-bound oil tanker may have been retaliation, official says: The United States recently redirected a tanker attempting to ship Iranian crude oil to China, an action that likely triggered Tehran’s seizure this week of an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, U.S. officials say.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2023-04-28/iran-tv-airs-footage-of-commandos-seizing-us-bound-tanker-9949492.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q4BueA8P$

North Korea threatens to deploy more nuclear assets as US prepares to send submarine: The US agreed to deploy nuclear-armed submarines to South Korea and involve Seoul in its nuclear planning to counter nuclear threats from the North. In return, South Korea agreed to not develop its own nuclear weapons.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/north-korea-warns-serious-danger-053223495.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q02qkU3I$

Armed Russian fighter jets make aggressive maneuvers near US F-16 fighter jet: Russians seem to be baiting US jets to dogfight in Syria, general says. It’s the latest example of Russian troops growing increasingly confrontational toward the U.S. and its allies as they cross paths over war zones and in shared airspace around the world.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2023/04/28/russians-seem-to-be-baiting-us-jets-to-dogfight-in-syria-general-says/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yMrwNbz9CyMDyaBa1mUR5rt9judfeLAnwELhEsbnccGVGl4XfFQ0WrkyCkIL5E4gYJTsKuJKPJUPUqHRkuuDSqu0q-1IG0S_$

# Water
Saudi company draws unlimited American water as West suffers drought: The company, a Saudi Arabian dairy firm called Almarai, purchased 1,790 acres in the Palo Verde Valley to secure a supply of alfalfa for its dairy cows. Soon after, Saudi Arabia began phasing out domestic alfalfa production to preserve its water supplies, which were dwindling after years of overuse for agriculture. The purchase made headlines as critics including local politicians and environmentalists questioned whether it was fair for a foreign entity to use up valuable groundwater resources for products that wouldn’t ultimately benefit Americans. Foreign corporations are increasingly purchasing land in the US; in the Southwest, thanks to longstanding laws on water rights, these purchases often come with unlimited access to the valuable water underneath the soil.
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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-04-28

Voices, The Peoples News

April 28, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

# Indigenous
# Indigenous / Global
10 First Nations sue Ontario and Canada over resource extraction and broken Treaty 9 promises: Arguing that resource extraction has violated Indigenous jurisdiction for over a century, the case could stall the Ontario government’s plans to mine the Ring of Fire. The nations are asking a court to find that a long list of federal and provincial laws related to resource extraction are not valid on their territories — and to bar Canadian governments from making any further decisions about how land there could be used without Indigenous consent.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-treaty-9-lawsuit/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr_orJQ-C$

‘I’ll keep fighting’: Indigenous activist and Goldman winner Alessandra Munduruku: In an interview with Mongabay, Alessandra discusses what the prize means to her, the policy changes in Brazil, and the current crisis in the Munduruku territory. While she praises some actions of the current government, she says her fight isn’t over yet, as she warns of possible environmental issues arising from upcoming infrastructure projects.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/ill-keep-fighting-indigenous-activist-and-goldman-winner-alessandra-munduruku/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_trwd5_Qv0$

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Global
Migrant Massacre in Ciudad Juárez Is Rooted in U.S.-Mexico Border Policing: Mexico’s borders are crucial arenas in a necessary global struggle for migrant rights.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/migrant-massacre-in-ciudad-juarez-is-rooted-in-us-mexico-border-policing/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_trwrHc_VU$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Arizona GOP appeal to U.S. Supreme Court to stop COVID-19 vaccine mandate: The Arizona Legislature filed an emergency application to the Supreme Court over COVID-19 vaccine mandates on the federal level
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.kulr8.com/news/national/arizona-gop-appeal-to-u-s-supreme-court-to-stop-covid-19-vaccine-mandate/article_eeb7e28f-5060-59df-b4c9-887ddfd5c202.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr8VYC76V$

500 Australians Join World’s First COVID Vaccine Injury Class Action
Lawsuit: Mr O’Gradie is one of the three lead applicants on a landmark Covid vaccine injury class action lawsuit filed in federal court on Wednesday. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/waiting-to-drown-covid-vaccine-injury-class-action-filed-against-federal-government/news-story/8f91ca843cc4b62b7df9cbabd398cfe6__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr3FZbtPq$

# Employment / Labor
From Plumbers to Electricians, the U.S. is Gasping for Skilled Workers: The labor shortage may have an old-fashioned solution: Carpenters, electricians, and other trades are good jobs that make workers happy. As millions of Americans reevaluate their careers during the pandemic and quit their jobs, skilled trades that typically offer higher pay and on-the-job training may be a promising new career choice.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.businessinsider.com/labor-shortage-skilled-trades-carpenters-electricians-plumbers-angi-2021-9__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr5Uh-HbV$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry
Shell tries to quash air quality fears from Beaver County chemical plant: When a terrible odor blanketed the area around the Shell cracker plant earlier this month, residents had only their noses and sporadically high readings from public air monitors to assess the situation.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.post-gazette.com/business/powersource/2023/04/26/shell-cracker-plant-smell-benzene-air-quality/stories/202304260075__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr-9uWmo0$

The blue-collar workers left behind by the green economy: A California oil refinery shut down during the pandemic. A year later, former employees were not all right. The United States is embarking on an epochal transition from fossil fuels to green energy. That shift is necessary to avert the worst outcomes of climate change. It also stands to put hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people out of work.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2023/04/26/blue-collar_workers_left_behind_by_green_economy_596957.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr0w1-wGn$

Why Republicans see electoral gold in talking up energy: The GOP believes its energy plan is a winner on the campaign trail. Most people don’t know about it. The GOP’s House campaign is planning a 2024 push that showcases the economic priorities embodied in the sprawling energy bill passed in March. Republicans have also wrapped that bill, which they gave the primo designation H.R. 1, into the legislation they approved Wednesday laying out their demands in the national debt standoff.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/26/republicans-elections-energy-00092550__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_trx4gMWr7$

California Enters ‘Uncharted Territory’ After Cutting Payments to Rooftop Solar Owners by 75 Percent: New net metering rules have taken effect in California, giving solar owners a much worse deal than they had before on the excess power they sell back to the grid. Will it tank demand for installation?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27042023/inside-clean-energy-california-rooftop-solar/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr8nWk-aL$

Colorado leaders are rallying against a railway project that would carry crude oil along the Colorado River: Colorado leaders are rallying against a railway project that would carry crude oil along the Colorado River. While opponents of the project note the catastrophic consequences of a major spill into the Colorado River, those working to get the rail built say the likelihood of contamination is overstated.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cpr.org/2023/04/27/colorado-uinta-basin-railway-project-opposition/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr9tzpvCg$

Industrial takeover: The East End, a historically Black neighborhood in the Gulf Coast city of Freeport, will soon no longer exist, as the commissioners of nearby Port Freeport have acquired the land through eminent domain to expand the port to accommodate bigger Panamax container ships. Many former East End residents echo Jones’s upset at the way their community has been displaced – churches, businesses and homes – in a way some describe as systematic. The methods the port has used, including eminent domain and house “swaps”, are the subject of ongoing legal disputes.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/24/port-freeport-texas-east-end-historically-black-neighborhood__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr5jLw3vQ$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Temperatures in the world’s oceans have broken records, testing new highs for more than a month in an ‘unprecedented’ run that has led to scientists stating the Earth has reached “uncharted territory” in the climate crisis. ‘Unprecedented’ warming indicates climate crisis is taking place before our eyes, experts say
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/26/accelerating-ocean-warming-earth-temperatures-climate-crisis__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_trxyfvV8g$

The EPA wants to broaden a ban on a deadly chemical on store shelves: But methylene chloride’s fumes are so dangerous, the chemical can kill you in a matter of minutes. Sustained pressure and a Public Integrity investigation prompted an earlier ban on certain products containing methylene chloride. The EPA would widen that to all consumer and ‘most’ business uses.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/workers-rights/worker-health-and-safety/unequal-risk/epa-ban-methylene-chloride-paint-strippers/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr2sbWLZp$

Senate votes to overturn Biden truck pollution limit: The Senate on Wednesday passed a Republican-led effort to undo a Biden administration rule that aims to cut pollution from heavy-duty trucks.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3973488-senate-votes-to-overturn-biden-truck-pollution-limit/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr0nyODDP$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global
Recent, rapid ocean warming ahead of El Niño alarms scientists: There’s growing concern that the oceans are heating up quickly, and scientists are unsure of the implications. The global sea surface hit a new record high temperature. It has never warmed this much, this quickly. Scientists worry that, combined with other weather events, the world’s temperature could reach a concerning new level by the end of next year.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65339934__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr1OYSvar$

# Gov / Politics / Global
A Regional Election Threatens to Upend a Delicate Balance in Moldova: A pro-Russia candidate’s victory in the race for Gagauzia governor could destabilize Moldova and derail its EU aspirations. Anew governor will be elected on April 30 in Gagauzia, a traditionally pro-Russian autonomous region in southern Moldova. The outcome of this election could be crucial, as it may offer Russia a fresh opportunity to create instability in Moldova.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/89627__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr-N0GQEE$

Washington’s ironclad alliance with Seoul is a tad rusty. Nuclear assurances contribute to a dangerous cycle of anxiety. At a time when the alliance’s deterrence posture toward North Korea has never been stronger, there is a real crisis of confidence in both countries. The harrowing years of the Trump administration, when an erratic president extorted payoffs from Seoul and regularly threatened to break the alliance, and North Korea’s development of intercontinental ballistic missiles have caused South Koreans to worry that Washington could abandon them in a conflict to try to protect U.S. cities.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://dnyuz.com/2023/04/27/americas-ironclad-alliance-with-south-korea-is-a-touch-rusty/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr8U4Ugnu$

Xi Jinping Tells Volodymyr Zelensky China Will Send Peace Envoy to Ukraine and other nations, state media said, after Beijing said it wants to act as mediator in Russia’s war with the country.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/china-ukraine-russia-ac231aec87246cca207c8bb48fd49f34__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr6UNd-JK$

# Gov / Politics
Big money donors rally behind Biden as he launches his reelection bid. Big money Democratic donors are lining up to support President Joe Biden now that he confirmed he’s running for reelection. Reid Hoffman, the billionaire LinkedIn co-founder, has offered to host fundraising events for Biden.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/26/biden-big-business-donor-support-reelection.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_trxPVb2Tx$

“Don’t Get in Our Way”: Kamala Harris Kicks Off Biden’s Reelection Bid With a Battle Cry on Abortion: As Republican politicians struggle to sell the party’s extreme antiabortion agenda to the American public, Harris made clear that reproductive rights will be on the ballot in 2024.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/harris-pushes-abortion-key-issue-033459185.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr418PwNT$

‘MAGA economic sabotage’: 217 House Republicans pass debt ceiling bill with harmful cuts: “Republicans just passed a bill that would kill jobs, take away federal benefits for millions, and make everyday life for Americans more expensive. This is completely unworkable.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.alternet.org/maga-sabotage/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr44I90Gp$

House GOP breaks with Democrats over audit of U.S. funds for Ukraine : The resolution would audit the Biden administration’s military assistance to Ukraine
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/policy/international/3973322-house-gop-breaks-with-democrats-over-audit-of-u-s-funds-for-ukraine/*:*:text=The*20Republican*20majority*20of*20the,to*20Ukraine*2C*20despite*20Democratic*20opposition__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr1w3aad_$

What Should Biden Do About the Debt Limit? Negotiating with the GOP would be a disaster, but not negotiating has political perils, too. Which leaves what? So what should Joe Biden do about the debt limit, now that the Republicans have delivered their pay-up-or-we’ll-kill-the-economy-and-blame-you ransom note? The cuts it proposes are directed at the social and environmental policies enacted by Democratic presidents and Congresses past and present.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-04-27-biden-debt-limit/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr-s3CFo8$

Republicans Declare War on Young Voters: The GOP answer to anger about its abortion, climate, and gun control crusades is to double down. After Mitt Romney’s 2012 loss to Barack Obama, the Republican National Committee published a water-thin self-assessment, which was known as the “Growth and Opportunity Project” or, colloquially, the “RNC autopsy.”
What was a revelation for some Republicans brought out smirks from others.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/politics/2023-04-27-republicans-war-young-voters/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr1huv_tW$

House party leaders bring in millions in the first quarter of 2023 amid heated debt ceiling proposal https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/04/house-party-leaders-bring-in-millions-in-the-first-quarter-of-2023-amid-heated-debt-ceiling-proposal/*:*:text=U.S.*20House*20party*20leaders*20brought,federal*20campaign*20finance*20disclosures*20found__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_trwh9O7LD$

Congress members want answers about Chinese ‘police stations’ in the U.S: Two Arrested for Operating Illegal Overseas Police Station of the Chinese Government. Defendants Are New York City Residents Who Allegedly Operated the Police Station in Lower Manhattan and Destroyed Evidence When Confronted by the FBI. In a letter to FBI Director Chris Wray, congressional members on the U.S. Select Committee on the Chinese Community Party on Wednesday expressed concerns about the FBI potentially not knowing about Chinese “police stations” operating in the U.S. They also asked Wray to provide information about the FBI’s efforts to investigate Chinese transnational repression in America
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-arrested-operating-illegal-overseas-police-station-chinese-government__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_trx6LrIfX$

# Juvenile Justice System
Texas’ troubled juvenile justice department is sending more children to adult prisons. Texas imprisoned Joshua Keith Beasley Jr. when he was 11, purportedly for his own good. Five years later, he returned home in a casket. “They didn’t try to fix the brokenness,” his mother says. “They just broke him more.” Youth in adult prisons have historically been exposed to more physical and sexual violence than adult prisoners, and spend more time in solitary confinement, often placed there to separate them from adults. Children in adult facilities are 36 times more likely to die by suicide than those in juvenile facilities, according to a 2018 report by Neelum Arya, policy director at FREEAMERICA.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/28/texas-juvenile-justice-prison-transfers/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr2fW85vC$

# Law Enforcment
From Military to Policing, Say No to a Federal Budget That Prioritizes Violence: Biden’s budget would increase sky-high military spending and expand the police, and Republican proposals are worse. As Congress holds a slew of hearings on the budget during this month and next, it’s crucial to challenge both Biden’s violence-heavy budget and the Republicans’ even-worse proposals and to demand an entirely different path.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nationalpriorities.org/pressroom/articles/2023/04/26/military-policing-say-no-federal-budget-violence/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr4t_ZEHO$

# Legal / DOJ
Jury Has Likely Decided Trump’s Fate in Rape Case Already: E. Jean Carroll took the stand on Wednesday—and jurors have likely already made up their minds about whether she is telling the truth
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/trumps-fate-in-rape-lawsuit-lies-in-hands-of-librarian-janitor__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_trxzbHDc8$

Clarence Thomas Billionaire Benefactor Harlan Crow Bought Citizenship in Island Tax Haven: Leaked documents reveal the GOP megadonor held dual citizenship in St. Kitts and Nevis as he lavished the Supreme Court justice with gifts.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/04/25/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-citizenship-st-kitts/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr8LLnldd$

The First “Wrongful Death” Case for Helping a Friend Get an Abortion: The lawsuit’s long game, beyond instilling fear, is establishing fetal personhood, the holy grail of the anti-abortion movement. The lawsuit claims that aiding a self-managed abortion is tantamount to murder under state law, allowing Marcus Silva to bring a wrongful death case. Texas law specifically exempts the abortion patient from facing prosecution, leaving Brittni Silva out of the legal crosshairs.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/04/26/abortion-wrongful-death-texas-lawsuit/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr31qujjz$

Oklahoma Parole Board Denies Clemency for Death Row Prisoner Richard Glossip: Glossip’s execution is set for May 18 even though the state’s own attorney general sought to vacate the conviction. “Public confidence in the death penalty requires that these cases receive the highest standard of reliability,” the attorney general said. “While the State has not questioned the integrity of previous death penalty cases, the Glossip conviction is very different. I believe it would be a grave injustice to execute an individual whose trial conviction was beset by a litany of errors.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/26/us/richard-glossip-oklahoma-execution-parole-board/index.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr-KsmAmk$

Former Vice President Pence Testifies to Federal Grand Jury Investigating Donald Trump: Pence’s appearance before a grand jury in Washington scrutinizing the president he once loyally served is a milestone in the Justice Department’s investigation and likely gives prosecutors a key first-person account about certain conversations and events in the weeks preceding the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. It also carries significant political implications, coming as Pence hints at entering the 2024 presidential race and a potential run against Trump, the Republican front-runner.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/pence-trump-grand-jury-2020-jan-6-9dac6db37ab8923ff1b0f09f3a9a32c8__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tryXIY-c5$

# Military / DOD
Warren Report reveals vast Pentagon-to-Defense contractor lobbying pipeline: In 2021, there were at least 672 former government officials working for top defense contractors like Lockheed Martin. Officials who weren’t lobbyists were in top positions as board members or senior executives. The officials include former members of Congress, senior staffers and military officers. Perhaps not coincidentally, the companies that employed the most former government officials are also the companies who receive the most from the government in contracts.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/warren-report-reveals-vast-pentagon-to-defense-contractor-lobbying-pipeline/*:*:text=According*20to*20the*20report*20released,government*20they*20formerly*20worked*20for__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr-WzVDJV$

The Rise of China (and the Fall of the U.S.?) China’s gain is America’s loss: That war! Meanwhile, after a congressional war game simulating a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, the head of the new House committee on China, Mike Gallagher (R-WI), insisted that Washington needed to arm that island “to the teeth.” At the same time, the U.S. military is upgrading its forces in the region, its military positions in the Pacific, and its training exercises for just such a future conflict. At the same time, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has turned a cold shoulder to the Biden administration’s attempts to restart high-level talks of any sort while, as the New York Times reported recently, his country has begun a significant buildup of its nuclear arsenal.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://tomdispatch.com/the-rise-of-china-and-the-fall-of-the-u-s/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr9YDWuSI$

# Security
FBI Official Subpoenaed Over Alleged Retaliation: An FBI official accused of retaliating against conservative employees has been subpoenaed by the House of Representatives.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/25/house-republicans-subpoena-fbi-official-for-alleged-retaliation-against-whistleblowers/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1eTdh2TqnEYwWKftNq3_dAK0d2ROQxyKtmvCW8tZZsXz9oHXyv-spHc9lAbdjcv7f8mrHImvR34qtSufgukHnk_tr55W4vcx$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-04-27

Voices, The Peoples News

April 27, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

# Indigenous
More precipitation, more drought: Rosebud Sioux Tribe to implement climate adaptation plan: The Rosebud Sioux Tribe partnered with scientists to create a Climate Adaptation Plan, which will begin implementation this year. The plan urges the tribe to expand food sovereignty and local processing facilities, promote habitat conservation, plant trees and native plants, and build a climate center, among other recommendations.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://southdakotasearchlight.com/2023/04/25/sd-climate-change-rosebud-sioux-tribe-drought-flood-blizzard-adaptation-plan/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!wLTPBKZpBv8XLYFF86MPK0MfzkB1MXi8oRh4reBqxlCXrSPUiC67kfjYtCZnn5yGCniw6NOK5GGZdwOPeQBZoAhArIRC37xZ$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Arizona GOP appeal to U.S. Supreme Court to stop COVID-19 vaccine mandate: The Arizona Legislature filed an emergency application to the Supreme Court over COVID-19 vaccine mandates on the federal level
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.kulr8.com/news/national/arizona-gop-appeal-to-u-s-supreme-court-to-stop-covid-19-vaccine-mandate/article_eeb7e28f-5060-59df-b4c9-887ddfd5c202.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!wLTPBKZpBv8XLYFF86MPK0MfzkB1MXi8oRh4reBqxlCXrSPUiC67kfjYtCZnn5yGCniw6NOK5GGZdwOPeQBZoAhArMyKmEtX$

500 Australians Join World’s First COVID Vaccine Injury Class Action Lawsuit: Mr O’Gradie is one of the three lead applicants on a landmark Covid vaccine injury class action lawsuit filed in federal court on Wednesday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/waiting-to-drown-covid-vaccine-injury-class-action-filed-against-federal-government/news-story/8f91ca843cc4b62b7df9cbabd398cfe6__;!!On18fmf1aQ!wLTPBKZpBv8XLYFF86MPK0MfzkB1MXi8oRh4reBqxlCXrSPUiC67kfjYtCZnn5yGCniw6NOK5GGZdwOPeQBZoAhArAH6yIHI$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry Shell tries to quash air quality fears from Beaver County chemical
plant: When a terrible odor blanketed the area around the Shell cracker plant earlier this month, residents had only their noses and sporadically high readings from public air monitors to assess the situation.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.post-gazette.com/business/powersource/2023/04/26/shell-cracker-plant-smell-benzene-air-quality/stories/202304260075__;!!On18fmf1aQ!wLTPBKZpBv8XLYFF86MPK0MfzkB1MXi8oRh4reBqxlCXrSPUiC67kfjYtCZnn5yGCniw6NOK5GGZdwOPeQBZoAhArGDr4t4F$

The blue-collar workers left behind by the green economy: A California oil refinery shut down during the pandemic. A year later, former employees were not all right. The United States is embarking on an epochal transition from fossil fuels to green energy. That shift is necessary to avert the worst outcomes of climate change. It also stands to put hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people out of work.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2023/04/26/blue-collar_workers_left_behind_by_green_economy_596957.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!wLTPBKZpBv8XLYFF86MPK0MfzkB1MXi8oRh4reBqxlCXrSPUiC67kfjYtCZnn5yGCniw6NOK5GGZdwOPeQBZoAhArLT2AnXy$

Why Republicans see electoral gold in talking up energy: The GOP believes its energy plan is a winner on the campaign trail. Most people don’t know about it. The GOP’s House campaign is planning a 2024 push that showcases the economic priorities embodied in the sprawling energy bill passed in March. Republicans have also wrapped that bill, which they gave the primo designation H.R. 1, into the legislation they approved Wednesday laying out their demands in the national debt standoff.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/26/republicans-elections-energy-00092550__;!!On18fmf1aQ!wLTPBKZpBv8XLYFF86MPK0MfzkB1MXi8oRh4reBqxlCXrSPUiC67kfjYtCZnn5yGCniw6NOK5GGZdwOPeQBZoAhArKvX6rFY$

California Enters ‘Uncharted Territory’ After Cutting Payments to Rooftop Solar Owners by 75 Percent: New net metering rules have taken effect in California, giving solar owners a much worse deal than they had before on the excess power they sell back to the grid. Will it tank demand for installation?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27042023/inside-clean-energy-california-rooftop-solar/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!wLTPBKZpBv8XLYFF86MPK0MfzkB1MXi8oRh4reBqxlCXrSPUiC67kfjYtCZnn5yGCniw6NOK5GGZdwOPeQBZoAhArJ3-Hta3$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Temperatures in the world’s oceans have broken fresh records, testing new highs for more than a month in an ‘unprecedented’ run that has led to scientists stating the Earth has reached “uncharted territory” in the climate crisis. ‘Unprecedented’ warming indicates climate crisis is taking place before our eyes, experts say
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/26/accelerating-ocean-warming-earth-temperatures-climate-crisis__;!!On18fmf1aQ!wLTPBKZpBv8XLYFF86MPK0MfzkB1MXi8oRh4reBqxlCXrSPUiC67kfjYtCZnn5yGCniw6NOK5GGZdwOPeQBZoAhArJwLBkrQ$

The EPA wants to broaden a ban on a deadly chemical on store shelves: But methylene chloride’s fumes are so dangerous, the chemical can kill you in a matter of minutes. Sustained pressure and a Public Integrity investigation prompted an earlier ban on certain products containing methylene chloride. The EPA would widen that to all consumer and ‘most’ business uses.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/workers-rights/worker-health-and-safety/unequal-risk/epa-ban-methylene-chloride-paint-strippers/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!wLTPBKZpBv8XLYFF86MPK0MfzkB1MXi8oRh4reBqxlCXrSPUiC67kfjYtCZnn5yGCniw6NOK5GGZdwOPeQBZoAhArFsnRh6T$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global Recent, rapid ocean warming ahead of El Niño alarms scientists: There’s growing concern that the oceans are heating up quickly, and scientists are unsure of the implications. The global sea surface hit a new record high temperature. It has never warmed this much, this quickly. Scientists worry that, combined with other weather events, the world’s temperature could reach a concerning new level by the end of next year.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65339934__;!!On18fmf1aQ!wLTPBKZpBv8XLYFF86MPK0MfzkB1MXi8oRh4reBqxlCXrSPUiC67kfjYtCZnn5yGCniw6NOK5GGZdwOPeQBZoAhArOjT_n1l$

# Gov / Politics / Global
A Regional Election Threatens to Upend a Delicate Balance in Moldova: A pro-Russia candidate’s victory in the race for Gagauzia governor could destabilize Moldova and derail its EU aspirations. Anew governor will be elected on April 30 in Gagauzia, a traditionally pro-Russian autonomous region in southern Moldova. The outcome of this election could be crucial, as it may offer Russia a fresh opportunity to create instability in Moldova.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/89627__;!!On18fmf1aQ!wLTPBKZpBv8XLYFF86MPK0MfzkB1MXi8oRh4reBqxlCXrSPUiC67kfjYtCZnn5yGCniw6NOK5GGZdwOPeQBZoAhArMcfPMO9$

Washington’s ironclad alliance with Seoul is a tad rusty. Nuclear assurances contribute to a dangerous cycle of anxiety. At a time when the alliance’s deterrence posture toward North Korea has never been stronger, there is a real crisis of confidence in both countries. The harrowing years of the Trump administration, when an erratic president extorted payoffs from Seoul and regularly threatened to break the alliance, and North Korea’s development of intercontinental ballistic missiles have caused South Koreans to worry that Washington could abandon them in a conflict to try to protect U.S. cities.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://dnyuz.com/2023/04/27/americas-ironclad-alliance-with-south-korea-is-a-touch-rusty/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!wLTPBKZpBv8XLYFF86MPK0MfzkB1MXi8oRh4reBqxlCXrSPUiC67kfjYtCZnn5yGCniw6NOK5GGZdwOPeQBZoAhArIMAKOpq$

Xi Jinping Tells Volodymyr Zelensky China Will Send Peace Envoy to Ukraine and other nations, state media said, after Beijing said it wants to act as mediator in Russia’s war with the country.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/china-ukraine-russia-ac231aec87246cca207c8bb48fd49f34__;!!On18fmf1aQ!wLTPBKZpBv8XLYFF86MPK0MfzkB1MXi8oRh4reBqxlCXrSPUiC67kfjYtCZnn5yGCniw6NOK5GGZdwOPeQBZoAhArLR3_b7U$

# Gov / Politics
Big money donors rally behind Biden as he launches his reelection bid. Big money Democratic donors are lining up to support President Joe Biden now that he confirmed he’s running for reelection. Reid Hoffman, the billionaire LinkedIn co-founder, has offered to host fundraising events for Biden.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/26/biden-big-business-donor-support-reelection.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!wLTPBKZpBv8XLYFF86MPK0MfzkB1MXi8oRh4reBqxlCXrSPUiC67kfjYtCZnn5yGCniw6NOK5GGZdwOPeQBZoAhArGGWfTEQ$

“Don’t Get in Our Way”: Kamala Harris Kicks Off Biden’s Reelection Bid With a Battle Cry on Abortion: As Republican politicians struggle to sell the party’s extreme antiabortion agenda to the American public, Harris made clear that reproductive rights will be on the ballot in 2024.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/harris-pushes-abortion-key-issue-033459185.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!wLTPBKZpBv8XLYFF86MPK0MfzkB1MXi8oRh4reBqxlCXrSPUiC67kfjYtCZnn5yGCniw6NOK5GGZdwOPeQBZoAhArBu-a41p$

‘MAGA economic sabotage’: 217 House Republicans pass debt ceiling bill with harmful cuts: “Republicans just passed a bill that would kill jobs, take away federal benefits for millions, and make everyday life for Americans more expensive. This is completely unworkable.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.alternet.org/maga-sabotage/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!wLTPBKZpBv8XLYFF86MPK0MfzkB1MXi8oRh4reBqxlCXrSPUiC67kfjYtCZnn5yGCniw6NOK5GGZdwOPeQBZoAhArFOPR0L2$

# Legal / DOJ
Jury Has Likely Decided Trump’s Fate in Rape Case Already: E. Jean Carroll took the stand on Wednesday—and jurors have likely already made up their minds about whether she is telling the truth
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/trumps-fate-in-rape-lawsuit-lies-in-hands-of-librarian-janitor__;!!On18fmf1aQ!wLTPBKZpBv8XLYFF86MPK0MfzkB1MXi8oRh4reBqxlCXrSPUiC67kfjYtCZnn5yGCniw6NOK5GGZdwOPeQBZoAhArC2bzuW3$

Clarence Thomas Billionaire Benefactor Harlan Crow Bought Citizenship in Island Tax Haven: Leaked documents reveal the GOP megadonor held dual citizenship in St. Kitts and Nevis as he lavished the Supreme Court justice with gifts.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/04/25/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-citizenship-st-kitts/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!wLTPBKZpBv8XLYFF86MPK0MfzkB1MXi8oRh4reBqxlCXrSPUiC67kfjYtCZnn5yGCniw6NOK5GGZdwOPeQBZoAhArBbF3_O_$

The First “Wrongful Death” Case for Helping a Friend Get an Abortion: The lawsuit’s long game, beyond instilling fear, is establishing fetal personhood, the holy grail of the anti-abortion movement. The lawsuit claims that aiding a self-managed abortion is tantamount to murder under state law, allowing Marcus Silva to bring a wrongful death case. Texas law specifically exempts the abortion patient from facing prosecution, leaving Brittni Silva out of the legal crosshairs.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/04/26/abortion-wrongful-death-texas-lawsuit/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!wLTPBKZpBv8XLYFF86MPK0MfzkB1MXi8oRh4reBqxlCXrSPUiC67kfjYtCZnn5yGCniw6NOK5GGZdwOPeQBZoAhArMZ2mszt$

# Security
FBI Official Subpoenaed Over Alleged Retaliation: An FBI official accused of retaliating against conservative employees has been subpoenaed by the House of Representatives.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/25/house-republicans-subpoena-fbi-official-for-alleged-retaliation-against-whistleblowers/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!wLTPBKZpBv8XLYFF86MPK0MfzkB1MXi8oRh4reBqxlCXrSPUiC67kfjYtCZnn5yGCniw6NOK5GGZdwOPeQBZoAhArLF3VZW4$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-04-26

Voices, The Peoples News

April 26, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
“I’m a physician, that’s my identity”: An in-depth interview, retiring US public-health leader Anthony Fauci gives a characteristically straight-shooting analysis of the factors that contributed to the country’s pandemic ups and downs. “Something clearly went wrong, I don’t know exactly what it was,” he reflects. “The divisiveness was palpable, that’s part of it. The other part has nothing to do with that divisiveness. It has to do with the fracturing of our health care delivery system in this country.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/25/health/fauci-pandemic-lessons/index.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfZddLdsk$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
From Military to Policing, Say No to a Federal Budget That Prioritizes Violence: Biden’s budget would increase sky-high military spending and expand the police, and Republican proposals are worse.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nationalpriorities.org/pressroom/articles/2023/04/26/military-policing-say-no-federal-budget-violence/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfeBfuirL$

# Education / Schools
Texas House votes to require panic buttons in every classroom and armed guards in every school: Lawmakers have said school safety is a priority this session, but it is still unclear whether they’ll listen to Uvalde families who want to raise the minimum age to purchase semi-automatic guns from 18 to 21.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/24/texas-house-school-safety/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfc87wDuR$

Texas students deserve tutoring that is truly’“high-impact’: Too many Texas students are still experiencing the negative impact of unprecedented learning disruptions over the last few years.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/paid-post/texas-students-deserve-tutoring-that-is-truly-high-impact/?utm_source=Texas*Tribune*Newsletters&utm_campaign=d67f773f3b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_04_25_04_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-d67f773f3b-*5BLIST_EMAIL_ID*5D&mc_cid=d67f773f3b&mc_eid=6f15633605__;KyslJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfSMI6ic0$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry Utilities Seize Control of the Coming Boom in Transmission Lines: Legislatures in a dozen states have passed “right of first refusal” laws that freeze out competition in transmission line projects, raising concerns about higher energy costs for consumers.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26042023/transmission-utilities-right-first-refusal/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfY_Mxp6h$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry / Global # Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure EPA to start testing for toxic chemicals in Fifth Ward this summer: The Fifth Ward Cancer Cluster Summit will explore the high cancer rates in the area and find possible solutions for residents by the contaminated Union Pacific Rail Yard soil
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2023/04/25/449900/epa-announces-it-will-begin-testing-for-toxic-chemicals-in-fifth-ward-this-summer-as-residents-hold-summit-on-cancer-cluster/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfXMUQTZd$

Supreme Court declines to hear appeals from fossil fuel companies in climate change lawsuits: Baltimore and other cities, states and counties are suing the industry for damages from climate-induced extreme weather and sea level rise. They want their cases heard at the state level, while the industry seeks consideration in the federal courts.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042023/supreme-court-fossil-fuel-climate-change-lawsuits/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfbFWKQ0x$

EPA accused of failing to regulate use of toxic herbicides despite court order: Instead of yanking products, EPA made Monsanto and others amend labels before reapproving dicamba, lawsuit claims. The US Environmental Protection Agency has in effect ignored a 2020 federal court order prohibiting the use of Monsanto and other producers’ toxic dicamba-based herbicides that are destroying millions of acres of cropland, harming endangered species and increasing cancer risks for farmers
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/24/epa-monsanto-toxic-herbicides-dicamba__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfcLMGgpx$

Songs of the dammed: As Lake Powell water levels drop, native plants are reclaiming Glen Canyon. A historic 23-year drought in the Southwest, a warming climate, and outsized human demands have all pinched the Colorado, which provides water to some 40 million people in seven states and two countries.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.biographic.com/songs-of-the-dammed/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfdGESvLi$

100+ Groups to NY Gov. Hochul: Don’t Allow Radioactive Waste Dumping in Hudson River: “Holtec’s ploy is ludicrously dangerous, and it’s on Gov. Hochul to stop the dump,” said one campaigner.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/100-groups-to-ny-gov-hochul-don-t-allow-radioactive-waste-dumping-in-hudson-river__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfcY9fzsO$

# General News
The True Dangers of Long Trains: Trains are getting longer. Railroads are getting richer. But these “monster trains” are jumping off of tracks across America and regulators are doing little to curb the risk.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.moneylife.in/article/the-true-dangers-of-long-trains/70339.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfYBUd9zP$

As Rail Profits Soar, Blocked Crossings Force Kids to Crawl Under Trains to Get to School: When crossings are blocked for hours, kids risk their lives to get to school by crawling through trains that could start at any moment. Ambulances and fire trucks can’t get through. The problem has existed for decades. But it’s getting worse.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/trains-crossing-blocked-kids-norfolk-southern__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfZNtqX23$

A Norfolk Southern Policy Lets Officials Order Crews to Ignore Safety Alerts: Workers on the desk can tell crews to disregard an alert when “information is available confirming it is safe to proceed” and to continue no faster than 30 miles per hour to the next track-side sensor, which is often miles away. In October, months before the East Palestine derailment, the company also directed a train to keep moving with an overheated wheel that caused it to derail miles later in Sandusky, Ohio.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://patch.com/pennsylvania/across-pa/norfolk-southern-policy-lets-officials-order-crews-ignore-safety-alerts__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfbShCgTC$

# Gov / Politics
With threats of a special session and a derisive moniker, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick tries to pressure the House speaker into acting on his conservative priorities. “The House bill is just wrong on its math,” Patrick said during a recent TV interview. “The Senate bill, seniors, if you’re watching, our bill gives you $1,060 every year you homestead your home from 65 on.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/26/texas-legislature-patrick-phelan-feud/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfTspakVj$

Texas Senate advances limits on farmland sales to China, other countries: The amended bill is a dramatically watered-down version of an earlier proposal that sought to ban land and home purchases by citizens of China and three other countries.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://dallasexpress.com/government/breaking-senate-advances-bill-limiting-farm-sales/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfZTPRcxk$

House Passes McCarthy’s Debt Limit Bill. Now What? The House on Wednesday narrowly passed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s package to raise the debt limit into next year and cut trillions of dollars in federal spending. The vote was 217-215, with four Republicans joining Democrats in voting against the bill.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/newsletter/20230426-House-Passes-McCarthys-Debt-Limit-Bill-Now-What__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrffZqSL8h$

House Republicans are trying to exact a price from Democrats for agreeing to increase the nation’s borrowing authority and prevent the government from defaulting on the obligations it has accrued over decades. They’re arguing for their priorities and going after President Joe Biden’s in a separate bill. The legislation in question has virtually no chance of becoming law. But Republicans hope passage will force Biden to the negotiating table, where they could seek concessions in return for lifting the nation’s borrowing authority and ensuring that the U.S. Treasury can fully pay its bills.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/debt-limit-bill-house-republicans-kevin-mccarthy-f73e6c2fce8abdfab4973c727ea79517__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfXp0ix75$

# Law Enforcment
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is planning to dismiss seven employees, claiming they failed to check on a 16-year-old boy who died by suicide last month, a prison spokesperson said. Joshua Keith Beasley Jr. had been transferred to the adult prison system despite his long history of suicidal behavior in youth facilities.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/25/texas-prison-suicide-beasley/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfWs5L8g6$

# Legal / DOJ
Trump Is Losing the Carroll Rape Case Even Before It Starts: With the rape trial of former President Donald Trump just days away, his effort to prevent jurors from hearing about another incident, when Trump allegedly forced himself on a different journalist, fell flat Monday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-losing-the-e-jean-carroll-rape-case-even-before-it-starts__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfUa3S_bb$

Disney Sues DeSantis Over ‘Targeted Campaign’ of Retaliation: The Walt Disney Company filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, alleging the state’s actions toward the company amount to a “targeted campaign” of government retaliation.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.axios.com/2023/04/26/disney-sues-desantis-reedy-creek-florida__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfa4Ww-23$

Ivanka Hires Epstein Lawyer, Ditches Family in Fraud Case: Donald Trump and his three eldest children are being accused of inflating Trump Organization property values. When the investigation began, the three shared legal counsel. But on March 6, Ivanka appeared to try and distance herself from the rest of her family’s allegations. “The complaint does not contain a single allegation that Ms. Trump directly or indirectly created, prepared, reviewed or certified any of her father’s financial statements,” one of Ivanka’s former attorneys wrote to the judge in a letter
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsbreak.com/new-york-state/3005719878024-ivanka-hires-jeffrey-epstein-lawyer-ditches-don-jr-and-eric-trump-in-fraud-case__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfahsT0xT$

# Media
DeJoy says USPS will keep raising prices, follow abortion pill rulings: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy outlines 10-year plan to plug losses and adapt to world with fewer letters, more e-commerce
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-postal-service-overhaul-calls-for-higher-prices-slower-mail-and-more-packages-11616509800__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfQgwjbSQ$

# Medical / Health
Born to Die: Medicare spends tens of billions of dollars on hospice care each year. A new report ponders why regulators insist on going easy on literal death merchants. The death business has been infiltrated by an onslaught of professional grifters since 2010, and our bureaucrats seem alarmingly content to allow it to stay that way.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/health/2023-04-26-born-to-die-hospice-care/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfVpC5_D_$

# Medical Science
After Pandemic Delays, FDA Still Struggling to Inspect Foreign Drug Manufacturers: In the wake of recent deaths from bacteria-tainted eyedrops, a ProPublica analysis of FDA data reveals that the agency only inspected 6% of the overseas plants where drugs and their ingredients are produced in 2022. Without a doubt, the COVID-19 pandemic slowed inspections to a trickle, in fiscal year 2021, according to the data, the agency inspected a mere 99 overseas sites, less than 4% of eligible foreign manufacturers. By comparison, 15% of domestic manufacturers were inspected that year
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.fiercepharma.com/manufacturing/fda-beats-u-s-inspection-forecast-as-it-continues-to-struggle-oversight-abroad__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfZa1i_Nk$

# Military / DOD
War, What is it Good For? The rise of the Pentagon on a fallen planet. The American experience of war since 1945 should have offered an all-too-obvious lesson for us, as well as for the planet’s other great powers, when it comes to the value of giant military establishments and the conflicts that go with them.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/04/24/war-what-is-it-good-for-2/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfSiM4pFL$

# Technology
Big Tech Companies Are Becoming More Powerful Than Nation-States: They are already richer than many countries, and the rise of AI looks set to increase their influence. U.S. citizens are being subjected to a relentless onslaught from intrusive technologies that have become embedded in the everyday fabric of our lives, creating unprecedented levels of social and political upheaval.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-tech-companies-more-powerful-than-nations__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfaoHyTL1$

# Water
‘We can’t be living in an economy of 40 million people this close to the edge.’: Lake Mead, a key water source for California and six other states, is close to drying up. Water policy expert Felicia Marcus says dramatic action is needed on conservation, recycling and efficiency.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://capitalandmain.com/we-cant-be-living-in-an-economy-of-40-million-people-this-close-to-the-edge__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfe20XHJu$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-04-25

Voices, The Peoples News

April 25, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

# Indigenous
Is the Metropolitan Museum of Art Displaying Objects That Belong to Native American Tribes? Only a small percentage of works donated by Charles and Valerie Diker have clear ownership histories. Experts say this could mean objects are stolen or fake. Meanwhile, the Met has been slow to ask tribes for information about the items.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/the-met-museum-native-american-collections?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQTUVzXv1$

America’s Biggest Museums Fail to Return Native American Human Remains: The remains of more than 100,000 Native Americans are held by prestigious U.S. institutions, despite a 1990 law meant to return them to tribal nations. Here’s how the ancestors were stolen, and how tribes are working to get them back.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.axios.com/local/columbus/2023/01/20/ohio-museums-still-hold-native-american-remains__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQUXS7jzt$

The Museum Built on Native American Burial Mounds: For decades, Dickson Mounds Museum in Illinois displayed the open graves of more than 200 Indigenous people. Thirty years after a federal law required museums to begin returning remains, the statewide museum system still holds thousands. Illinois’ state museum system holds more than 7,000 burial remains taken from Native American mounds and other sites. Yet, despite a 1990 federal law that required museums start returning remains, Illinois did “close to nothing” for more than 20 years, according to a new report by ProPublica.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/repatriation-nagpra-museums-dickson-mounds-museum*:*:text=For*20decades*2C*20Dickson*20Mounds*20Museum,museum*20system*20still*20holds*20thousands__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQT_HHxkR$

In Secret Recording, a Top City Library Official Calls Alaska Natives ‘Woke’ and ‘Racists’: Despite Judy Eledge’s history of inflammatory comments and social media posts, Alaska’s governor has awarded her public money and a national role. What’s more, city and state agencies meant to protect Alaskans’ civil rights have been hamstrung.
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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
U.S. to Spend Billions on New COVID Vaccines Despite Failure to Prevent Infection: last year, the Biden Administration announced that it no longer had funding, absent further Congressional action, to make additional purchases and it began preparing for the transition of COVID-19 vaccines to the commercial market. This means that manufacturers will be negotiating prices directly with insurers and purchasers, not just the federal government, and prices are expected to rise.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/how-much-could-covid-19-vaccines-cost-the-u-s-after-commercialization/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQQyeCyuh$

Health Care Workers Offered Money to Raise COVID Shot Uptakes: Multiples states, including Ohio, West Virginia, and Minnesota, are offering sizable cash prizes through lotteries to incentivize uptake of the SARS-CoV2 vaccine. This has raised questions about the efficacy and ethics of vaccine incentive programs.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/assets/Programs/PublicPolicy/Vaccine*20Incentives_PGPPSC.pdf__;JQ!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQRSeQmr0$

The Origins of AIDS; The Polio Vaccine: “Did scientists inadvertently cause the AIDS epidemic? An experimental oral polio vaccine that was prepared, I believe, in chimpanzee kidneys and chimpanzee blood, and which was fed to over a million Africans correlates so precisely with the first appearances of AIDS. Could it have been the polio vaccine, and why are scientists so ready to dismiss the possibility?”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7935079/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQWdAr_8E$

Group Sues DOE to Obtain Key COVID Origins Documents: The U.S.
Department of Energy, which oversees a network of 17 U.S. laboratories, including advanced biology laboratories, on Feb. 26 released a report concluding COVID-19 most likely came from a lab in China, but the department hasn’t responded to a Freedom of Information Act request for documents related to the report.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/doe-covid-origins-documents/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20230425__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQcpUk6Ic$

DeSantis’ Surgeon General Doctored Covid Vaccine Study: Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo personally altered a state-driven study about Covid-19 vaccines last year to suggest that some doses pose a significantly higher health risk for young men than had been established by the broader medical community, according to a newly obtained document.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/24/florida-surgeon-general-covid-vaccine-00093510__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQaXkU-qE$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Joe Manchin’s Tax Hike On The Working Class: The numbers from the Institute On Taxation And Economic Policy are stark: The Manchin Tax Increase resulted in single moms with two kids who were making $25,000 a year being hit with a 12.5 percent tax increase, and married couples with two kids who were making the same amount being hit with a nearly nine percent tax increase. The expiration of the expanded tax credits resulted in more than three million kids being thrown into poverty. New data shows it also resulted in a massive regressive tax increase on the working class.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://itep.org/the-lever-joe-manchins-tax-hike-on-the-working-class/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQdNcIHap$

Corporations Illegally Conspiring to Fix Prices, Report Finds: “Large corporations which are supposed to be competing with one another are often secretly conspiring to set prices,” said one expert. “In doing so, they cause economic harm to consumers and contribute to inflation.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/corporate-price-fixing-us-economy__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQTrz_ykq$

# Education / Schools
Federal Court Restores Religious Exemption to Vaccination in Mississippi: a federal court has ruled that the First Amendment requires that, by July 15, 2023, the State of Mississippi afford its residents a religious exemption for their children to attend school without one or more state mandated vaccines!
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://icandecide.org/press-release/ican-attorneys-secure-religious-exemption-to-vaccination-in-mississippi/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQUzLv6UC$

Recovery high schools help kids heal from an addiction and build a future: Every weekday at 5280 High School in Denver starts the same way. Students in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction gather on the steps of the school’s indoor auditorium to discuss a topic chosen by staff members. One recent morning, they talked about mental health and sobriety. The students attend Colorado’s only recovery high school, one of 43 nationwide. These schools are designed for students who are recovering from substance use disorder and might also be dealing with related mental health disorders. Compared with their peers at regular schools who have gone through treatment, recovery high school students have better attendance and are more likely to stay sober, and their graduation rate is at least 21% higher, according to one study.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/04/1167856499/recovery-high-schools-help-kids-heal-from-an-addiction-and-build-a-future__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQWJE0-oQ$

Inside the Prisoner-led Struggle to Win Education for All: Prisoners in Washington State are renewing their fight to democratize education amid new restrictions threatening their decade-old program. They took this dramatic step because new official restrictions are jeopardizing a liberating, prisoner-led program known as Taking Education And Creating History, or TEACH. Organized by a handful of incarcerated people, including me, over a decade ago, TEACH’s goal is to democratize education for people with long sentences.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://scheerpost.com/2023/04/06/inside-the-prisoner-led-struggle-to-win-education-for-all/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQZfC4zEN$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
‘Like a dam breaking’: Experts hail decision to let US climate lawsuits advance: Cities bringing climate litigation against oil majors welcome US supreme court’s decision to rebuff appeal to move cases to federal courts.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/25/experts-hail-decision-us-climate-lawsuits-advance__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQfl6JE-3$

Can Biden’s newest climate rule survive? The Biden administration’s newest ambitious climate rule isn’t even out yet, but Republican-led states are already gearing up to attack it. EPA’s forthcoming regulation slashing carbon pollution from power plants would be the strongest-ever effort to tackle one of the nation’s leading drivers of climate change.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2023/04/24/can-bidens-newest-climate-rule-survive-00082767__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQcPzuSdU$

Antarctica’s melting ice is an existential crisis for people in Texas: Ice in Antarctica is melting rapidly. Texans need to know how fast Antarctica is melting. West Antarctica contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by more than 10 feet. But the ocean is not a bathtub: Antarctic melt affects some places more than others. And Galveston, Texas, is in the crosshairs.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apps.npr.org/arctic-ice-melting-climate-change/texas-galveston-sea-level-rise.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQbDijPpo$

California overhauls its sea level rise plan as climate change reshapes coastal life. “Sea level rise lapping over and pushing up groundwater under the California shoreline is the next climate threat in a state already thrashed around by wildlife, drought and deluge. Sea level rise lapping over and pushing up groundwater under the California shoreline is the next climate threat in a state already thrashed around by wildfire, drought and deluge.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.kqed.org/science/1979603/california-overhauls-its-sea-level-rise-plan-as-climate-change-reshapes-coastal-life__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQYxqGUc2$

Supreme Court declines to hear appeals from fossil fuel companies in climate change lawsuits: Baltimore and other cities, states and counties are suing the industry for damages from climate-induced extreme weather and sea level rise. The Supreme Court declined to hear appeals by major oil companies to move climate-change lawsuits against them from state to federal courts, with the latter being far more skeptical of such suits.
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EPA accused of failing to regulate use of toxic herbicides despite court order: Instead of yanking products, EPA made Monsanto and others amend labels before reapproving dicamba, lawsuit claims. The US Environmental Protection Agency has in effect ignored a 2020 federal court order prohibiting the use of Monsanto and other producers’ toxic dicamba-based herbicides that are destroying millions of acres of cropland, harming endangered species and increasing cancer risks for farmers
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/24/epa-monsanto-toxic-herbicides-dicamba*:*:text=The*20US*20Environmental*20Protection*20Agency,new*20fillings*20in*20the*20lawsuit__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQX2aQsT6$

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
Maine reduces do-not-eat wildlife advisory prompted by ‘forever chemicals’: People are advised not to eat deer, wild turkey and other game harvested in a 25-square-mile area of central Maine.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/04/24/outdoors/maine-do-not-eat-warning-pfas-deer-turkey/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQYqMIOmX$

# Gov / Politics / Global
Top-Tier Criminals Pivot to Secretly Fight Against Putin: Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion has severed ties between the once interchangeable underworlds of Russia and Ukraine. Now, some of Ukraine’s organized crime groups are working against their former allies, creating a new phenomenon of “patriotic criminals.” These new wartime activities range from delivering aid and stopping crime to cyberwarfare, according to organized crime experts and members of the Ukrainian underworld
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.knowledia.com/CA/en/articles/top-tier-criminals-pivot-to-secretly-fight-against-putin-e8f0e9ebc6c5b187659a8ae4e73e2644c5ff46dc__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQU40dsH7$

# Gov / Politics
President Joe Biden Announces 2024 Reelection Bid: President Joe Biden on Tuesday formally announced that he is running for reelection in 2024, asking voters to give him more time to “finish this job” he began when he was sworn into office and to set aside their concerns about extending the run of America’s oldest president for another four years.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-officially-kicks-off-2024-reelection-bid__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQVZEHNvY$

Biden 2024 news – live: President warns of ‘MAGA extremist’ attacks in reelection campaign launch video: Democrat posts ‘Let’s Finish the Job’ promo announcing fresh run and attacking GOP populists, warning basic rights are under assault from intolerant conservatives
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-news-running-reelection-announcement-poll-b2326222.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQdaoITsQ$

Neoliberalism as the U.S. Empire Declines: The U.S. empire’s decline raises the question of what comes next. The most interesting possibility and perhaps the likeliest is that China and the entire BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) grouping of nations will undertake the construction and maintenance of a new world economy.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.laprogressive.com/democracy/neoliberal-u-s-empire-declines__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQUYQt8gF$

Democratic Child Care Bill Keeps Work Requirements: At a time when Democrats are savaging House Republicans for expanding work requirements in Medicaid and SNAP, their signature child care bill also contains them
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/health/2023-04-25-democratic-child-care-bill-work-requirements/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQehik-kz$

# Legal / DOJ
Judge Demands Hunter Biden and Ex-Paramour Show Up for Court: The bitter dispute over support for their 4-year-old is headed for trial in July.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12009431/Hunter-Biden-ordered-appear-Arkansas-court-paternity-case-judge-rules.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQY_sdKk0$

Abbott’s Plan to Pardon Sgt. Who Killed BLM Protester May Already Be Backfiring: The parole board will allow the district attorney to present evidence in the case before making a pardon determination.
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# LGBTQ / Gender
Florida Passes Bill That Allows for “Legal Kidnapping” of Transgender Children: The bill would allow courts to intervene in custody disputes and remove trans children from gender-affirming parents. On March 13, Florida’s Senate Committee on Health Policy voted to pass Senate Bill 254, which would impose criminal penalties on parents, guardians and medical providers helping trans children as they seek gender-affirming care. According to the bill, licensed medical facilities and medical providers granting this life-saving care to trans people under 18 risk criminal penalty or revocation of their medical licenses.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/proposed-florida-bill-could-allow-legal-kidnapping-of-trans-children/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQdQjPqSG$

Texas Agriculture Dept Tells Employees to Dress According to ‘Biological Gender’: The department sent a memo outlining the anti-trans dress code and warning that those who violate it may be fired. An ACLU attorney says it violates federal law that bans employment discrimination based on one’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/texas-agriculture-dept-tells-employees-to-dress-according-to-biological-gender/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQWSQ9c3P$

# Media
The Inside Story of Tucker and Lemon’s Monday Media Massacre: Bboth men are controversial, and have faced backlash from the media and the public as well as their co-workers. The Fox News star leans into his role as a provocateur, promoting a right-wing agenda that barely bothers to conceal its grounding in racism, sexism, xenophobia, conspiracy thinking, religious intolerance, and hatred of the LGBTQ community. His less inflammatory CNN counterpart, meanwhile, has been mired in accusations of misogyny and bad behavior on set. But it would be a mistake to read their tandem dismissals as some righteous act on the part of cable news media writ large to purge itself of toxic men.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://time.com/6274088/tucker-carlson-don-lemon-firing/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQbvJIqr_$

CIA’s War on WikiLeaks Is a Scandal Worthy of Congressional Investigation: In 2010, Chelsea Manning shocked the world with leaked documents that exposed abuses and crimes committed by the United States military in Iraq. These revelations also made the publisher of those documents, Julian Assange, and his organization, WikiLeaks, household names. The U.S. government is charging Assange, a publisher, with violating the Espionage Act. Under the Espionage Act, one does not have the ability to make a public interest defense. All prosecutors have to do is show that a whistleblower possessed documents or transferred “national defense information” to a member of the press. Damage has already been done, but the future of journalism is in further jeopardy if the U.S. government holds a trial against Assange, convicts him, and shows the world that it has the final say over who is and is not a journalist.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/cias-war-on-wikileaks-is-a-scandal-worthy-of-congressional-investigation/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQe_7ziEN$

# Medical / Health
Exclusive: Public Health Emergency in U.S. Set to Expire May 11, But EUA Vaccines, Liability Shields Aren’t Going Away Anytime Soon: President Biden earlier this month signed a bill that immediately rescinded the COVID-19 national emergency declared in March 2020, by former President Trump. But a separate Public Health Emergency won’t expire until May 11 and at least two other COVID-19-related federal emergencies are set to remain in effect past that date.
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# Medical Science
Biomarker pattern found in kids with COVID 19-linked inflammatory syndrome: Findings from NIH-funded study could lead to new means of diagnosis and treatment for MIS-C. Children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) a rare condition linked with the virus that causes COVID-19, have biochemical indicators of cell injury and cell death that are distinct from other children with COVID-19, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/biomarker-pattern-found-kids-covid-19-linked-inflammatory-syndrome__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQaIWvcoA$

# Military / Global
Ukraine War Is Shaking Up Global Arms Industry: The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) estimates that six countries, the U.S., Russia, France, China, Germany, and Italy, were responsible for 80 percent of global weapons exports from 2018 to 2022.
The U.S. alone counted for 40 percent, while Russia was a distant second at 16 percent https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/global-arms-industry__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQbl3vwN8$

Leaks Reveal Reality Behind U.S. Propaganda in Ukraine: According to Hersh’s report, the CIA assesses that Ukrainian officials, including President Zelenskyy, have embezzled $400 million from money the United States sent Ukraine to buy diesel fuel for its war effort, in a scheme that involves buying cheap, discounted fuel from Russia.
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# Pharmaceuticals / Drugs
Owners of OxyContin Maker Gave $19 Million to Institute That Shaped Federal Opioid Policy: Yet officials with the National Academies have kept quiet about one thing: their decision to accept roughly $19 million in donations from members of the Sackler family, the owners of Purdue Pharma, the maker of the drug OxyContin that is notorious for fueling the opioid epidemic.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/oxycontin-purdue-pharma-national-academies-opioid-policy/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQdzza1cL$

# Security
Once Shocking, U.S. Spying on Its Allies Draws a Global Shrug: The latest leak of classified documents that appeared online this year, the motive behind which remains unknown, has again illustrated the broad reach of U.S. spy agencies, including into the capitals of friendly countries such as Egypt, South Korea, Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/us/politics/us-spying-allies.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQQJJws0c$

In Pentagon Leak, The Problem is What’s Classified, Not What Gets Out: The government already puts way too much material behind its moat. In fact, the human harm caused by unauthorized leaks is almost always inflicted by the government itself in the form of egregious prosecutions of leakers.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/04/13/pentagon-classified-documents-leak/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQXnd9uit$

# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
Starship’s Explosion Spells Much Bigger Troubles for SpaceX: About four minutes after SpaceX’s gargantuan rocket lifted from its Texas launch pad, it burst into a fireball over the Gulf of Mexico, never reaching space. Though SpaceX hasn’t shared many details yet about what happened during Starship’s maiden voyage, one fact is known: It was intentionally ordered to explode.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mashable.com/article/spacex-starship-flight-test-explosion-on-purpose__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQcmgV5f7$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-04-24

Voices, The Peoples News

April 24, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

# Indigenous
The giving forest, and a tribe’s sustainable logging practices: over the last 160 years, much of this forest has been chopped down and regrown nearly three times. The Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin, its stewards, have pulled nearly two hundred million cubic feet of timber from this land since 1854, white pine cut into museum displays and hard maple made into basketball courts for the Olympics. Yet the forest has more trees on the same acreage than it did a century and a half ago, with some trees over 200 years old.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://us.knews.media/climate/the-giving-forest-and-a-tribes-sustainable-logging-practices/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcyYbP-HoL$

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Global
Thousands of Asylum Seekers Make Their Way Up Mexico to Protest Migrant Abuse: thousands of asylum seekers are marching from the southern state of Chiapas to Mexico City protesting abuse and demanding immigration jails be shut down. This comes nearly a month after the deadly fire at an immigrant jail at the U.S. Mexico border.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/06/06/mexico-asylum-seekers-face-abuses-southern-border__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcyQxwvnQs$

# Bundy Rides Again
Ammon Bundy Sparks Standoff Scare After Court Loss: A judge issued a default ruling against Bundy in a hospital harassment case. Hours later, fans received an “emergency alert” summoning them to his Idaho home.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/ammon-bundy-sparks-standoff-scare-after-court-loss__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcySHAooWA$

# Education / Schools
Educators Are Standing Up for Healthy Green Schools and a Livable Climate This Earth Week: The pathway to a Green New Deal for Education runs through teachers, school leaders, students, and organized communities willing to embrace a bold vision for learning and a more sustainable future.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/earth-day-education-green-new-deal__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcyVmOZoC4$

The Iowa Social Studies Teacher Who Quit Because He Couldn’t Tell His Students That Slavery Was Wrong: Wickenkamp repeatedly sought clarification from the Fairfield Community School District about what he could say in class, according to emails obtained by The Post. He sent detailed lists of what he was teaching and what he planned to teach and asked for formal approval, drawing little response.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://dianeravitch.net/2023/03/07/washington-post-when-teachers-are-not-allowed-to-teach-the-truth/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcybMJvPLa$

DeSantis’s Board of Education Nominees Are Steeped in Far Right Dark Money: The dark-money funded extremists appointed to the board by Ron DeSantis will wield power over Florida’s K-12 schools.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/19/conservative-school-board-fundraising-florida-00057325__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcydEtg34O$

# Employment / Labor
Workers Fighting Union-Busting May Have a New Legal Tool at Their Disposal: A class-action lawsuit against a California-based grocery retailer could set a new precedent against union-busters.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/workers-fighting-union-busting-may-have-a-new-legal-tool-at-their-disposal/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcydwyKAYZ$

Cost-Cutting at Disney Continues With Thousands of Layoffs: The firings will primarily affect employees at ESPN and Disney’s entertainment, parks, and experiences and products divisions.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/walt-disney-co-begin-second-wave-layoffs-cutting-several-thousand-jobs-sources-2023-04-24/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcyZZ_4ZA8$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry New rules may force carbon capture at power plants: The U.S. EPA prepares to propose power plant emissions limits so strict that they’ll likely require operators to capture most of their emissions or switch to new fuels altogether.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://energynews.us/newsletter/new-rules-may-force-carbon-capture-at-power-plants/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcyUB5OFEL$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry / Global Manitoba silica sand mine sparks fear and debate on green energy: A Calgary company wants to mine silica sand from southeastern Manitoba to spark a green energy boom, but residents worry for their water and their way of life.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ehn.org/manitoba-silica-sand-mine-sparks-fear-and-debate-on-green-energy-2659899144.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcyRVqwsJk$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Educator, Environmentalist, Union Leader, Senator, Paul Pinsky Now Gets to Turn His Climate Ideals Into Action: The long-time liberal state senator from Prince George’s County, an outspoken environmental critic of former Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, takes over the Maryland Energy Administration in the Moore administration.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24042023/paul-pinsky-maryland/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcyfPCGUap$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global Life beneath the Arctic ice is chock-full of microplastics: Frozen polar waters host a critical species of algae. Accumulating plastic particles could threaten the whole ecosystem. The algae, made up of long strings and clumps of single-celled organisms called diatoms, is an essential player in the polar ecosystem. It’s food for zooplankton, which in turn nourish everything from fish to birds to seals to whales, either directly or through an indirect, upwards cascade along the Pac-Man-esque chain of life.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://gizmodo.com/life-beneath-the-arctic-ice-is-chock-full-of-microplast-1850362480__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcyaP-Istj$

Formerly Stable Greenland Glacier Shows Signs of Rapid Retreat: Once upon a time, the Steenstrup Glacier, located in northwestern Greenland, was one of the most stable glaciers in the country. But new research shows this ice formation is now in the top 10% of glaciers contributing to all ice melt in the entire region.From 2018 to 2021, the glacier retreated a whopping 5 miles, a rare and considerable amount of change.
The formation thinned by about 20% and contributed double its usual ice discharge into the ocean https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/04/230419125120.htm__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcyelCEh8c$

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
How is climate change affecting nutrients in plants? Experiments in crops exposed to high carbon dioxide levels indicate that many food plants contain less of other nutrients than under carbon dioxide concentrations of the past. Several studies find that plants’ levels of nitrogen, for example, have fallen, indicating lower plant protein content.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://knowablemagazine.org/article/food-environment/2023/climate-change-effect-on-plant-nutrients*:*:text=But*20experiments*20in*20crops*20exposed,indicating*20lower*20plant*20protein*20content__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcyQBP69p1$ .

# Gov / Politics / Global
Ukraine Spat Is Heating Up the Korean Nuclear Stand-Off: South Korea’s president heads to the White House this week asking for more nuclear protection from the U.S. while desperately avoiding pressure to step up against Putin.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukraine-spat-is-heating-up-the-korean-nuclear-stand-off__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcyQuH_6rk$

Saudi Arabia Owns Stake in Firm That Bought Democratic Party’s Campaign Tech: The Saudis had also invested in the private equity firm that sold off the tech companies that power Democratic campaigns.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/04/23/saudi-arabia-democratic-party-campaign-ngp-van/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcyeucwFp9$

# Gov / Politics
By the Numbers: McCarthy’s Plan to Kick 10 Million or More People Off Medicaid: Our new analysis estimates that over 10 million Medicaid expansion enrollees, more than 1 in 5 of all Medicaid enrollees in expansion states, would be at risk of losing Medicaid coverage under the policy in McCarthy’s debt limit bill using 2019 (pre-pandemic) data.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/4-21-23health2.pdf__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcycwS0YSO$

# Law Enforcment
‘Stand your ground’ laws empower armed citizens to defend property with violence – a simple mistake can get you shot, or killed: Laws shielding from prosecution those who kill and maim citing self-defense have spread across the states and may be fueling a ‘shoot now, think later’ mindset among homeowners.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/stand-your-ground-laws-empower-armed-citizens-to-defend-property-with-violence-a-simple-mistake-can-get-you-shot-or-killed-204012__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcyU5mp2Pa$

Probe Ordered After Instacart Driver Shot Up at Wrong House: At least two rounds hit the Florida teenager’s car. A man in South Florida shot at the car of two people who drove onto his property after they got lost trying to drop off an Instacart order, police said, leaving the car with bullet holes and a flat tire.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/2023/04/23/1171507677/south-florida-shot-at-instacart-delivery-driver-wrong-address__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcyeFn89zU$

# Legal / DOJ
Mississippi to Create Special Justice System for Just One City: Majority-Black Jackson: Part of a national backlash against criminal justice reforms, the move takes away local control and hands it to unelected officials appointed by Republicans.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/04/20/mississippi-jackson-black-court/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcyatmaKk5$

Oklahoma Court: We Want Richard Glossip Dead and Evidence Be Damned: In a stunning rebuke to the state’s attorney general, the appeals court refused to vacate Glossip’s conviction, clearing the way for his execution. The independent counsel who reviewed the case concluded that Glossip should receive a new trial, and that pushing for his execution did not “serve the interests of justice.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/04/20/richard-glossip-oklahoma-court-execution/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcyfyKTCKC$

Michael Cohen Is Getting Dragged Into Yet Another Trump Case: Former President Trump sued his former fixer Michael Cohen on Wednesday over breach of contract and other claims, hitting back at his former personal attorney who has since turned against the 45th president. The 32-page complaint takes aim at Cohen’s book, podcast and many media appearances, alleging he maliciously worked to acquire attention and wealth at Trump’s expense.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3946633-trump-hits-former-fixer-michael-cohen-with-500m-lawsuit/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcySr97F3y$

Federal Prosecutors Are Considering Four Charges Against Hunter Biden: The possible charges are two misdemeanors and two felonies, including lying on a federal form to obtain a firearm. The possible charges are two misdemeanors and two felonies, including lying on a federal form to obtain a firearm. Federal prosecutors are reportedly weighing charging Hunter Biden on four counts, three charges related to tax fraud and one charge connected with the purchase of a .38 revolver.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/federal-prosecutors-considered-four-charges-003625301.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcySzPTdXk$

Hunter Biden’s Lawyers to Meet With DOJ Prosecutors Overseeing Criminal Probe President’s son is seeking an update on status of long-running investigation
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.wsj.com/articles/hunter-bidens-lawyers-to-meet-with-doj-prosecutors-overseeing-criminal-probe-50de191f__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcyXraOgEd$

# Media
Tucker Carlson Is No Longer a Fox News Host: Fox announced the move in a press release on Monday. “Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways,” the statement read. “We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/24/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news-00093485__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcyV3IQoWY$

Don Lemon Couldn’t Help but Get Fired From CNN in the Most Hilarious Way Possible: Don Lemon’s “I’m Fired” Note Is Making Me Lose My Mind. A spectacular end to a stupefying run at CNN.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://slate.com/business/2023/04/don-lemon-fired-cnn-statement-tucker-carlson.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcyW-hNsWZ$

# Medical / Health
Republicans’ War on Their Own Public Health: Tens of thousands of conservatives died because they believed anti-vaccine lies. Now the GOP is bringing back measles and polio.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/health/2023-04-24-republicans-war-public-health-vaccines/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcybZMY9Zr$

# Military / DOD
The US is about to blow up a fake warship in the South China Sea, but naval rivalry with Beijing is very real and growing: The live-fire drill is not a response to increased tensions with China over Taiwan, both the U.S. and the Philippines have stressed. But, either way, Beijing isn’t happy – responding by holding its own staged military event involving actual warships and fighter jets deployed around Taiwan, a self-governed island that Beijing claims as its own.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/the-us-is-about-to-blow-up-a-fake-warship-in-the-south-china-sea-but-naval-rivalry-with-beijing-is-very-real-and-growing-198651__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcyWgAqgTM$

Pentagon Requests $36 Million for Havana Syndrome: The new military budget would fund research as well as treatment for “anomalous health incidents.” But one thing the bill would not cut is the military, which last month requested an $842 billion budget. Buried in the Pentagon’s sprawling budget request is an ask for at least $36 million to respond to Havana syndrome, the mysterious symptoms alleged by U.S. spies and diplomats.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/04/20/pentagon-budget-havana-syndrome/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcyZh57xVo$

# Military / Global
US Abrams tanks heading to Germany, where Ukrainian troops will train to use them: The United States is delivering Abrams tanks next month to the Army’s sprawling base in Grafenwoehr, where it will train Ukrainian soldiers to use them in their fight against Russia, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Friday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.stripes.com/sports/europe/2023-04-21/ukraine-abrams-tanks-ramstein-9874831.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xqz45M72axH9gMUptlhv4laTO4X0v-ls671l041usNPTywcAPEwQwifDCUVfRskjjh4a-kLFRDVpZmLWBpGBtbbcySoq_Ytp$

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