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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-04-20

Voices, The Peoples News

April 20, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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This daily Voices, The Peoples News is posted through the blog function of www.MPEN-Ohio.net

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
SARS-CoV-2 and NIAID-supported Bat Coronavirus Research: An Analysis: Evolutionary Distance of SARS-CoV-2 and Bat Coronaviruses Studied Under the NIH-supported Research Grant to EcoHealth Alliance The research that NIH approved under the grant to EcoHealth Alliance with a subaward to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China sought to understand how animal coronaviruses, especially bat coronaviruses, evolve naturally in the environment and have the potential to become transmissible to the human population.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/coronavirus-bat-research__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2JA12dnj$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
GOP Debt Limit Bill Targets Health Care Programs: New work requirements on public assistance programs are also in the bill. That includes beefing work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (previously known as food stamps) for those between 50 and 56 years old. There are also changes proposed to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. A portion of the bill also outlines work requirements for Medicaid, though it does not include changes to Social Security and Medicare, as long promised by Republicans.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3958661-house-gops-long-awaited-debt-limit-bill-features-1-5t-increase/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2JfFdhSs$

# Education / Schools
Want to fight right-wing censors? Join a public library board! They are at the front lines of this struggle nationwide: Progressive Library Boards Can Block Right-Wing Censorship. While school libraries provide resources and programming where children spend most of their days, in school, the public library operates at a different scale. Alongside larger collections and more extensive programming, public libraries are about public life beyond the classroom. Kids need both.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/progressive-library-boards-can-block-right-wing-censorship-heres-how/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2PQFDGyc$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry Electric vehicle tax credit rules create ‘chaos for consumers’: Latest EV tax credit rules reduce car eligibility and incentives. The list of electric cars eligible for a $7,500 federal tax credit is expected to shrink once new rules about battery manufacturing go into effect on April 18
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/hybrids-evs/ev-tax-credit-rules-reduce-car-eligibility-and-incentives-a1126512375/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2Jmy0zxe$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry / Global Guyana gets ‘Drilled’: Weighing South America’s latest oil boom : The South American nation of Guyana entered into an arrangement with ExxonMobil after vast oil resources were discovered off its coast, but many questions remain about what Guyana will actually reap from the project.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.envirolink.org/2023/04/18/guyana-gets-drilled-weighing-south-americas-latest-oil-boom-with-amy-westervelt/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2NcFKjbK$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure As the Midwest burns, Biden ignores plastic waste dangers: Between the Indiana recycling plant fire and the Ohio toxic train derailment, experts say the president needs to disregard industry lobbying and address the dangers of plastics.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.levernews.com/as-the-midwest-burns-biden-ignores-plastic-waste-dangers/*:*:text=Between*20the*20Indiana*20recycling*20plant,address*20the*20dangers*20of*20plastics__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2BuPeZQK$

Colorado judge rebukes state on pollution permit delays: A Weld County judge in late March issued summary judgment against the Colorado Department of Health and Environment’s Air Pollution Control Division for unacceptable delays in operating permit decisions for a Bonanza Creek Energy project in the county.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://coloradosun.com/2023/04/20/colorado-air-pollution-permit-delays-judge-rebuke-ozone/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2COnrwt9$

‘A layer cake of environmental pollution’: Greenpoint struggles with rezoning 18 years on: New York City’s vision of replacing a contaminated industrial shoreline with a community of luxury towers remains incomplete
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://gothamist.com/news/a-layer-cake-of-environmental-pollution-greenpoint-struggles-with-rezoning-18-years-on__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2J83ERe2$

House Bill 689 would establish state policy on environmental justice in North Carolina: North Carolina lawmakers have introduced House Bill 689, which would codify the state’s commitment to environmental justice.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsbreak.com/winston-salem-nc/2996829608189-house-bill-689-would-establish-state-policy-on-environmental-justice__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2BWEo3Kj$

Could California’s next dam removal take place on this endangered river? Removing two aging Eel River dams known as the Potter Valley Project would benefit salmon, lamprey and people, but what happens next remains unclear.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://therevelator.org/dams-eel-river/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2NR34L2j$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global
Interactive: Beyond the poles; How melting ice affects everyone: The planet’s massive ice sheets are melting as temperatures rise. Scientists are finding that melt is having surprising and far-reaching effects.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apps.npr.org/arctic-ice-melting-climate-change/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2GkLJN80$

Recently, scientists discovered ancient coral reefs supporting “a breathtaking mix” of marine life in the deep waters of the GMR, a press release from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) said. The previously undocumented reefs sit at a depth of 1,310 to 1,970 feet in the center of the archipelago, at the top of a previously unmapped seamount.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ecowatch.com/galapagos-reefs-biodiversity-discovery.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2E-s6Ny_$

‘They have conned us out of our lands’: Conflict brews in Peru as Mennonite settlers clear forest. Mennonite groups began arriving in the Peruvian town of the district of Padre Márquez in Peru’s Loreto region in 2020. Settling near the town of Tiruntán, one Mennonite colony has cleared hundreds of hectares of old growth rainforest since 2021. Tiruntán community members claim they were given plots of public land by the town mayor, which were then sold to “the Mennonites, some Chinese business owners, and a logging company” in an effort to get around regulations that prohibit the clearing of forested land. Similar situations are playing out in other parts of Peru, as well as elsewhere in South America.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/they-have-conned-us-out-of-our-lands-conflict-brews-in-peru-as-mennonite-settlements-clear-forest/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2AUj6d6a$

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
Floods may taint more water in California farm towns: Nitrate contamination of well water has been a decades-long problem in the San Joaquin and Salinas valleys, and now stormwater has flushed more fertilizer and manure into aquifers.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/04/california-floods-contaminate-water-nitrate/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2GHRTwl9$

# Gov / Politics / Global
The Brazen FBI Hunt for Russian Spies Ready to Betray Putin: The FBI has been boosting its efforts to recruit Russians with access to classified information in recent weeks, The Daily Beast has learned.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-turns-to-video-ads-in-hunt-for-russian-spies-ready-to-betray-vladimir-putin__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2DrSbd0_$

# Gov / Politics
Poverty Is 4th Leading Cause of Death in US: The nation’s fourth-leading mortality driver behind heart disease, cancer, and smoking: “Poverty kills as much as dementia, accidents, stroke, Alzheimer’s and diabetes,” said David Brady, the study’s lead author and a UCR professor of public policy. “Poverty silently killed 10 times as many people as all the homicides in 2019. And yet, homicide firearms and suicide get vastly more attention,” he added in a university news release.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-04-18/americas-4th-leading-cause-of-death-poverty__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2NsjljpR$

The Official Story of the Ukraine War Grossly Misleads; “when all is taken into account, primary responsibility lies with the West, in particular with the United States.”: The overriding function of presenting the war in Ukraine as a crime perpetrated by one country, even by one allegedly whacked-out leader, is to relieve the U.S., NATO and actors within Ukraine of even the slightest responsibility for the war. Russia and Putin are the only perpetrators; everyone else is either an innocent bystander or an unfortunate victim, so goes the official story.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://original.antiwar.com/frank_fitzgerald/2023/04/18/the-official-story-of-the-ukraine-war-grossly-misleads/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2OLPpfGg$

Bombshell filing: 9/11 hijackers were CIA recruits: At least two 9/11 hijackers had been recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation that was covered up. At least two 9/11 hijackers had been recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation that was covered up at the highest level, according to an explosive new court filing.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thegrayzone.com/2023/04/18/9-11-hijackers-cia-recruits/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2IXQJT1R$

Speak Your Truth: Don’t Let the Government Criminalize Free Speech: What the police state wants is a silent, compliant, oblivious citizenry: What the First Amendment affirms is an engaged citizenry that speaks truth to power using whatever peaceful means are available to us. This is why the First Amendment is so critical. It gives the citizenry the right to speak freely, protest peacefully, expose government wrongdoing, and criticize the government without fear of retaliation, arrest or incarceration.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/speak_your_truth_dont_let_the_government_criminalize_free_speech__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2AeUSh_X$

Lawmakers dig through the rubble of chaotic, deadly Afghanistan withdrawal: Lawmakers lamented the poor execution of the deadly withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan but disagreed on who was to blame at a Congressional oversight hearing https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/lawmakers-dig-through-the-rubble-of-chaotic-deadly-afghanistan-withdrawal__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2Dil7_co$

Americans Are Now Being Shot and Killed Over Simple Misunderstandings, And Republicans Could Not Give Less of a F–k: In the span of a week, Ralph Yarl was shot for ringing the wrong doorbell, Kaylin Gillis was killed for pulling into the wrong driveway, and two cheerleaders were shot over one of them getting into the wrong car.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/ralph-yarl-kaylin-gillis-heather-roth-payton-washington-shootings__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2DX_ZjnZ$

A tense exchange on Capitol Hill that perfectly captures America’s divide on guns: With most of the members’ seats emptied out, Moskowitz demanded to know why Republicans fixated on crime in the nation’s capital were not instead holding a hearing on “murder in schools” and asked why GOP lawmakers were so keen to ban books touching on gender issues when “dead kids can’t read.” The Florida Democrat’s comments reflected the extreme frustration of those who believe the logical response to multiple shootings with assault-style weapons is to make such deadly arms less available. His remarks also underscored a sense among Democrats that the GOP is deeply hypocritical as it conjures visions of a nation awash in violent crime but refuses to lay any blame on the easy access to guns that have killed so many innocent victims.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/politics/american-gun-divide-nashville/index.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2Jn8cLAo$

What Is This, the 19th Century? Two stories in the news suggest that we’re in a Regressive Era. In many conventional tellings of U.S. history, the Gilded Age, in which industrialist “robber barons” accumulated power and wealth by exploiting immigrants and children and bribing politicians, was followed by an era of progress (the Progressive Era, if you will), when various oppressive labor practices and forms of corruption were made illegal.It’s an inspiring little narrative, the forward march of justice and whatnot.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/child-labor-tycoons-19th-century-gilded-age.html?sid=623cb62a440f2846fb4804c7&email=1602501a99a5758652052c0857f4beec9307dbfdcb75c1cebcb48b174fbab7bf&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=traffic&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=TheSlatest__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2IOEMwQG$

# Juvenile Justice System

# Law Enforcment
A North Carolina 6-year-old and her parents were shot Tuesday night by an angry neighbor who fired at them after a basketball rolled into his yard, a report said: Kinsley White was wounded along with her mother, Ashley Hilderbrand, and father, William White, when a gunman opened fire around 8 p.m. in Gaston County after he became enraged about the bouncing ball. Robert Louis Singletary is at large and wanted in connection to the shooting, which happened at approximately 7: 44 p.m.
local time on Tuesday, the Gaston County Police Department announced in a social media statement.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://people.com/crime/6-year-old-girl-parents-shot-after-basketball-rolls-into-neighbors-yard/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2ByP6gVD$

Three people were charged with murder in connection to the shooting at a Sweet 16 party that killed 4: Wilson LaMar Hill Jr., 20, Ty Reik McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough, 16, were charged with reckless murder in connection to the mass shooting in Dadeville, Alabama, on April 15. Both teens were charged as adults. Officials have released few other details and did not comment on a possible motive.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pocharaponneammanee/two-teenagers-charged-reckless-murder-sweet-16-shooting__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2HiUKspZ$

Families of Uvalde shooting victims seek action from legislators: Two Texas legislators held a listening session Monday to hear from Robb Elementary School victims’ families, who continue to voice how unheard they feel by their representatives as they plead for gun control statewide and nationally. Their advocacy was spurred by the school shooting that took place on May 24, when 19 children and two teachers were killed.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://abcnews.go.com/US/uvalde-families-plead-legislators-gun-reform-emotional-testimony/story?id=90549398__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2D-IyB7w$

A San Antonio ballot proposition calls for policing reform: Proposition A on the May 6 ballot will test the city’s political climate and progressives’ ability to advance a controversial agenda. Proposition A would decriminalize abortion and low-level marijuana possession, ban no-knock warrants and chokeholds by law enforcement, create a “justice director” job at City Hall and require police to issue citations for certain low-level, nonviolent offenses instead of making arrests.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/20/election-san-antonio-proposition-a-abortion/?utm_source=Texas*Tribune*Newsletters&utm_campaign=12cf31bb89-trib-newsletters-thebrief&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-12cf31bb89-*5BLIST_EMAIL_ID*5D&mc_cid=12cf31bb89&mc_eid=6f15633605__;KyslJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2Frf5xKA$

Ocasio-Cortez: NYC’s New Police Contract Makes Cops Rich by Defunding Schools: The lawmaker said that crime can actually be reduced by funding public programs that support communities.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/04/18/aoc-slams-adams-over-cop-raises-says-nyc-defunding-safety/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2HBNzJaO$

County Autopsy Reveals Police Shot “Cop City” Protester Tortuguita 57 Times: The autopsy shows that Tortuguita had no gunpowder on their hands, contradicting the police narrative about their death. Protester of ‘Cop City’ near Atlanta was shot by police at least 57 times, autopsy says. Wounds were found throughout the body of Manuel Paez Teran, who was hit in the head, torso, hands and legs, DeKalb County Medical Examiner said.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://gizmodo.com/cop-city-protestor-shot-57-times-autopsy-tortuguita-1850357787__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2APPVq9_$

# Legal / DOJ
Tyre Nichols’s family is suing the city of Memphis and the police officers involved in his death for $550 million. The civil lawsuit alleges that the brutal beating of Nichols by Memphis police officers in the department’s “hyper-aggressive” specialized unit was sanctioned and tolerated by the MPD, the police chief, and the city.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.axios.com/2023/04/19/tyre-nichols-lawsuit-memphis-police-beating__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2CQ1QeM6$

Senior IRS agent blows whistle, alleging Biden DOJ thwarting criminal prosecution of Hunter Biden: A decorated supervisory IRS agent has reported to the Justice Department’s top watchdog that federal prosecutors appointed by President Joe Biden have engaged in “preferential treatment and politics” to block criminal tax charges against presidential son Hunter Biden, providing evidence as a whistleblower that conflicts with Attorney General Merrick Garland’s recent testimony to Congress that the decision to bring charges against Biden was being left to the Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for Delaware.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_de32adb2-df79-11ed-818a-57101cf74bda.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2JoyBkTa$

DeSantis Makes It Much Easier for Florida to Kill People: He signed a bill that will allow an 8-4 jury vote for the death penalty. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Thursday that enacts the lowest threshold for the death penalty in the nation. Juries in capital cases can now sentence defendants to death by a vote of 8-4. Other death penalty states require a unanimous vote, with the exception of Alabama, which has a 10-2 requirement.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/20/desantis-gives-florida-lowest-death-penalty-threshold/70134550007/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2BYpbTo_$

# Media
Who’s Paying Fox’s $787.5 Million Settlement With Dominion? You Are! If you pay for cable or satellite TV, you’re subsidizing Fox News, whether you watch it or not.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/04/19/fox-news-dominion-settlement/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2F8cdz_w$

# Medical / Health
The Supreme Court briefly extended an existing order that temporarily prevents restrictions on the abortion drug mifepristone from going into effect. The court’s original order staying the restrictions, released last week on Friday, April 14, stated that the temporary hold would last through Wednesday, April 19, 2023. It’s since been extended until midnight on Friday, April 21.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/14/scotus-mifepristone-abortion-stay/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2I0S6eTT$

SCOTUS: Mifepristone to Remain Available Without Tightened Restrictions, for Now: The drug, used for self-medicated abortions up to the 10th week, may be distributed by mail until 11:59 PM ET Friday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/scotus-mifepristone-to-remain-available-without-tightened-restrictions-for-now/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2Gf_3URv$

# Technology / Global
Tech Bosses Are Letting Dictators Censor What Americans See: The next time you’re about to fire off a post on social media, remember to first ask: What would Chinese leader Xi Jinping or Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi say? It sounds far-fetched, but recent moves from some leading names in tech and social media paint a worrying picture: Foreign censorship laws are increasingly determining what people in free countries, including the United States, can do online.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yahoo.com/news/tech-bosses-letting-dictators-censor-000322089.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2PJ8uyEf$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-04-19

Voices, The Peoples News

April 19, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Global
Moody seeks investigation into Biden administration’s handling of minors trafficked to U.S: “A Florida Grand Jury found shocking and horrific evidence of the Biden administration facilitating human trafficking and child exploitation of unaccompanied minors,” Moody said. “It should enrage everyone that any child is being exposed to such dangerous and terrible conditions. I’m calling on Congress to conduct hearings to further the investigation and uncover the evidence that HHS refused to provide to Florida’s Statewide Grand Jury.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/florida/article_b362cbc8-de32-11ed-80ad-67524949e8ef.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdEgikqVg$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Four states have advanced Republican-sponsored bills prohibiting union dues deductions for certain public-sector employees. Here’s what those bills say and where they stand.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_bf6858cd-e8e7-5202-af6a-b4d4f768f6d5.html?a&seyid=60861*utm_source=thecentersquare.com&utm_campaign=*2Fnewsletters*2Flists*2Ft2*2Fnational*2F&utm_medium=email&utm_content=read*20more__;PyUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdBUWNp1e$

# Education / Schools
Solving the Education Dilemma: If there is one thing all parents can agree on, it’s that they want their kids to have an excellent education, one that prepares them for success in their lives and careers. Let’s turn to the essentials of the education discussion. First we talk about a teacher problem. Then we talk about a problem of neglected children. Then we talk about the failure of No Child Left Behind. Then we talk about corruption. Then we remember the problems of this economy. Then we talk about unions. While talking in this vicious cycle of recrimination and finger pointing, what we do not talk about is the way in which we need to build a new system. The only way we can do that is to build it from the ground on which it needs to be built on, the children in the system.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.huffpost.com/entry/a-solution-to-the-educati_b_158683__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdBn8YjZf$
# Employment / Labor
Will ‘Made in America’ Really Lead to Good Jobs? What we haven’t done, and what we should do, to ensure that ‘new industrial strategy’ actually benefits workers https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2023/04/19/will-made-in-america-really-lead-to-good-jobs/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdLMMYBbB$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry Bill limiting oil drilling without landowners’ consent faces headwinds at Colorado legislature: Conflicts between residents and operators are escalating as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, operations infringe on suburban neighborhoods. Mountaineer, Longmont resident Chris Klinke is one of thousands of Coloradans who were unable to choose whether they wished to lease their oil and gas rights to operators https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://capitalandmain.com/bill-limiting-oil-drilling-without-landowners-consent-faces-headwinds-at-colorado-legislature__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdCp52Al9$

Blown Away: Fishermen Endangered by Offshore Wind’s Political Power:
Turbines the height of 70-story skyscrapers will soon tower over East Coast fishing grounds. But government regulators with ties to offshore wind developers are downplaying the danger to the marine ecosystem and fishermen’s livelihoods.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/fishermen-endangered-offshore-wind-political-power__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdKGS3kEA$

Renewable energy development faces opposition in rural Texas: In Franklin County, a group of locals are concerned about potential environmental harm from renewable energy facilities and support a bill that would impose more regulations on solar and wind. The industry says it’s being unfairly singled out.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/19/texas-renewable-energy-solar-wind-local-opposition/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdHseuhoG$

Chipotle Goes Electric With Rooftop Solar, Wind Energy and EV Chargers:
What could be better than sitting outside, enjoying a burrito made with fresh ingredients on a spring day? A burrito served in biodegradable packaging, made by a restaurant powered exclusively by renewables that provides electric vehicle (EV) chargers to its customers, at least that’s what Chipotle Mexican Grill’s new “Responsible Restaurants” model is counting on.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ecowatch.com/chipotle-electric-solar-wind-ev-charging.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdKG6pHDQ$

13 Years After BP Disaster, Oceana Urges Biden to Block New Offshore Drilling: A report from the ocean conservation organization details how the president can still keep a key campaign promise.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-can-prevent-next-deepwater-horizon__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdEidz0CM$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Ten rivers facing pollution, development, and climate change, and policies that can help. An annual report highlights 10 waterways that have arrived at forks: where public support could determine whether they receive protection.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://eos.org/articles/ten-rivers-facing-pollution-development-and-climate-change-and-policies-that-can-help__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdF2pnLrh$

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
Europe seeks drastic cut to BPA exposure: BPA is about to disappear from European burger wrappers, soft drink bottles, canned food liners and all other food packaging https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ehn.org/bpa-europe-2659877255.html*:*:text=Europe’s*20latest*20move*20on*20BPA&text=In*202021*2C*20the*20European*20Food,**C20a*20100*2C000*2Dfold*20drop__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSXigJMlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdD8WemsC$

# General News
Trump Turns on His Old Lawyer for DeSantis Disloyalty: Jenna Ellis has suddenly found herself on the outs in Trumpworld for the simple transgression of not hating Ron DeSantis.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-turns-on-his-old-lawyer-jenna-ellis-for-ron-desantis-disloyalty__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdBTwuTEU$

When the Fascists Arrive Holding Hands With the Oligarchs: Once the Nazis took power in Germany they banned books, outlawed drag shows, and homosexuality, changed school curricula to remove mention of their atrocities in WWI, and rewrote election laws so they’d never again lose an election. Sound familiar?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/fascism-gop-nazi-germany__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdOc6HDRe$
# Gov / Politics
Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones, one of the Democratic lawmakers who was expelled for protesting gun violence and then reinstated earlier this month, tried to carry a baby-size casket onto the Tennessee House floor to once again call for stricter gun laws. “It is immoral that we are allowing this to happen time after time after time and all they tweet is ‘thoughts and prayers,'” Jones said. “It is immoral. It is extreme and we must continue to make them uncomfortable.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tennessee-justin-jones-child-casket_n_643f2811e4b039ec4e7b289d__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdMUKdiWZ$

What’s Really Going on With the Fight Over Dianne Feinstein: Republicans and Democrats are both trying to stake out the moral high ground on Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s absence. That also happens to align with their political incentives.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/whats-really-going-on-with-the-fight-over-dianne-feinstein__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdLYg8zna$

Trump’s Fake Georgia Electors Are Now Ratting on Each Other: The fake GOP electors in Georgia that former President Donald Trump recruited as part of his failed attempt to stay in power are starting to point fingers at each other, court documents revealed on Tuesday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://headtopics.com/us/trump-s-fake-georgia-electors-are-now-ratting-on-each-other-38122945__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdJdMWBgm$

DeSantis Went to Washington, and It Didn’t Go Well: As he trekked to the nation’s capital to demonstrate strength with the Washington establishment on Tuesday, and before he even set foot in the district, several members of his state’s congressional delegation announced support instead for former President Donald Trump’s White House comeback bid.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/19/desantis-dc-trump-endorsement-00092695__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdGp7gwz9$

Gun violence emergencies prompt concerns of government overreach: Across the country, there is a push to declare gun violence as a “public health crisis” and impose a “state of emergency” in response to shootings. Proponents of the Second Amendment are concerned the emergency declarations lay the groundwork for expanded government powers, as witnessed during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gun-violence-emergencies-prompt-concerns-of-government-overreach__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdOrHW_tA$

# Law Enforcment
A 20-year-old white woman was fatally shot by a homeowner after she and her friends mistakenly pulled into his driveway: Kaylin Gillis and her friends were driving in a rural area of upstate New York on Saturday night, searching for their friend’s address with limited cell service, Washington County Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy said at a news conference on Monday. They drove up to the wrong residence and realized their mistake, and just as they were leaving, a man came out of the house and fired at least two shots, according to Murphy. One of the bullets struck Gillis, killing her.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/clarissajanlim/woman-shot-killed-wrong-house-new-york-friends__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdLtCSNlE$

A Group Of Police Surrounded A Black Running Club After They Gave High Fives And Cheered Runners At The Boston Marathon: Marathon watchers said officers formed a “human barricade,” blocking them from supporting runners. In Instagram videos now being reposted by fellow runners and marathon fans, many called out the disproportionate and racist policing, as the mainly Black run crew was encircled by more than 12 police officers, barricading them in from the street and watching them from behind on motorcycles.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stefficao/boston-marathon-2023-cheer-squad-overpolicing?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=04*19*2023*20Incoming*20newsletter&utm_term=News*20confirmed*20list__;Ly8lJSUl!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdCXi_iSk$

# Legal / DOJ
Bills to create new Texas courts would likely reverse Democratic gains, restore GOP dominance: Supporters say the proposals would increase efficiency and expertise, opponents argue the attempts are political and unconstitutional.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/19/legislature-create-courts-republican-bills/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdChuzh8R$

The Supreme Court isn’t doing what it said it would on abortion: The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” he writes in the document, labeled as the “Opinion of the Court.” “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdNHgTR2b$

# LGBTQ / Gender
DeSantis Administration Expands ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law to High School: The Florida governor is hell-bent on pushing his anti-LGBTQ crusade into every corner of the state’s education system. The new rule comes amid a string of anti-LGBTQ+ bills across the U.S., which have included restricting gender-affirming care and restrictions on drag performances.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.axios.com/2023/04/19/desantis-florida-expands-dont-say-gay-law__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdJsyiaMa$

# Medical / Health
The mother of Ralph Yarl, who was shot after he rang the wrong doorbell, shared how he’s doing since he came home. “You can see that he is just replaying the situation over and over again,” Yarl’s mother, Cleo Nagbe, said in an interview on Tuesday. “Moments after the family got off the phone with President Biden, who offered his prayers for Ralph’s health and for justice, we learned that the prosecutor will be charging the man who is responsible for the deplorable shooting of this innocent boy,” the statement read. “Gun violence against unarmed Black individuals must stop. Our children should feel safe, not as though they are being hunted. While this is certainly a step in the right direction, we will continue to fight for Ralph while he works towards a full recovery.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/18/ralph-yarl-mother-interview-kansas-city-shooting__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdKsP0QcN$

Emergency contraception is often confused with abortion pills, here’s how Plan B and other generic versions work to prevent pregnancy: The increase in abortion restrictions may also lead to a decline in access to emergency contraceptives. The key difference is that the abortion pill works only when a woman is pregnant, and emergency contraception works only when she is not. The so-called abortion pill is used for a medication abortion and actually consists of two separate pills that do different things.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.yahoo.com/emergency-contraception-often-confused-abortion-124430106.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdIePEKxa$

# Medical Science
Latest developments in gene editing: Recent studies that have advanced the potential uses of CRISPR in the biomedical field. Using a novel variant to repair DNA can improve safety and effectiveness of CRISPR-Cas9 for genetic research.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.drugtargetreview.com/article/80737/crispr-three-new-developments-in-the-world-of-gene-editing/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdBjyL-X7$

Experts weigh medical advances in gene-editing with ethical dilemmas: Hundreds of scientists, doctors, bioethicists, patients, and others started gathering in London Monday for the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing. The summit this week will debate and possibly issue recommendations about the thorny issues raised by powerful new gene-editing technologies.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/06/1158705095/genome-summit-gene-editing-ethics-crspr__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdPSA3HYd$

# Military / DOD
Air Force opens its own investigation into leaked Pentagon documents: The Air Force also announced the 102nd Intelligence Wing, the Air National Guard unit based in Cape Cod, Mass., where Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeria served and allowed the leak to happen, is not currently performing its assigned intelligence mission. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said he has directed the Air Force inspector general to go look at the Air National Guard unit based in Cape Cod, where Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira served and “anything associated with this leak that could have gone wrong” and allowed the leak to happen.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2023/04/18/leaked-ukraine-pentagon-documents-air-force-investigation-cape-cod-base/70126854007/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdGfJkCNi$

# Pharmaceuticals / Drugs
Government Drug Price Setting Threatens Older Adults: While several policies within the IRA could improve the Part D program for its beneficiaries, implementing price controls in the drug pricing system will ultimately cast a grim shadow over any progress the bill makes in the U.S. healthcare system. New legislation (H.R. 485) that is currently being debated in the House Energy and Commerce Committee and a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee present a threat to Medicare’s new and already limited ability to negotiate over some high-priced prescription drugs.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.brookings.edu/blog/usc-brookings-schaeffer-on-health-policy/2023/03/15/threats-to-medicares-new-drug-negotiation-power/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdKLl9_SK$

# Security
DHS official has office raided, covered in crime scene tape: The Department of Homeland Security intelligence official in charge of tracking cross-border threats was escorted from his office by federal police and security after an afternoon search that left his office sealed with crime tape, according to four sources with direct knowledge of the events.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/dhs-official-office-raided-covered-142418992.html*:*:text=The*20Department*20of*20Homeland*20Security,direct*20knowledge*20of*20the*20events__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdGuJN7b7$

# Water
New report warns against using PVC pipes in drinking water systems: The report raises concerns about chemicals in PVC leaching into the drinking water and says communities should use stainless steel or copper. A report released Tuesday by a coalition of U.S. environmental advocacy groups warned of the health risks of PVC plastic and urged public officials against using the material in community drinking water pipes. PVC is made with vinyl chloride, the same hazardous material released in the fiery train derailment that triggered a public health and environmental crisis in East Palestine, Ohio. It’s also a known carcinogen and endocrine disruptor.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2023/04/18/new-report-warns-against-using-pvc-pipes-drinking-water-systems/11688737002/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zmCY0r2civzh-KeNGU-g9UIqVUVoz9l2UKCMJOlCkxAGvJNjQm4qOlGTT_s0ozSLpONBGxauPPCbbVH_fiWUI5ihdFN44qxQ$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-04-17

Voices, The Peoples News

April 17, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

# Indigenous
After Spying on Standing Rock, TigerSwan Shopped Anti-Protest “Counterinsurgency” to Other Oil Companies: More than 50,000 pages of documents were recently made public after the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline lost a court case to keep them secret.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/04/13/standing-rock-tigerswan-protests/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcMgZR1VE$

Indigenous Groups Call for New National Monument: Grand Canyon National Park is one of the most iconic public lands in the U.S., but the surrounding area has long been in the sights of developers, especially uranium miners. That is why the Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition wants President Joe Biden to permanently protect around 1.1 million acres north and south of the park as Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ecowatch.com/indigenous-national-monument-grand-canyon.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcC52xILg$

# Indigenous / Global
Canada Has “Been Failing My Family for Over 100 Years,” Says Indigenous Activist: Families of missing and murdered Indigenous women have no recourse, says Cambria Harris whose mother was murdered. Skibicki was arrested and charged on May 18, 2022, with first-degree murder of Contois and charged on December 1, 2022, in connection with the other three women’s deaths. Winnipeg police have come under fire from the Indigenous community for refusing to search the Prairie Green or Brady Road landfills for Myran, Harris or Buffalo Woman
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/canada-has-been-failing-my-family-for-over-100-years-says-indigenous-activist/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcA3Gu6U9$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
McCarthy Slams Biden, Outlines GOP Debt Limit Plan: “Without exaggeration, America’s debt is a ticking time bomb that will detonate unless we take serious responsible action,” he said, later adding, “Defaulting on our debt is not an option. But neither is a future of higher taxes, higher interest rates, higher inflation, more dependence on China, and an economy that doesn’t work for working Americans. Let me be clear: a no-strings-attached debt limit increase cannot pass. But since the President continues to hide, House Republicans will take action.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/newsletter/20230417-McCarthy-Blasts-Biden-Over-Debt-Limit__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcNdGeol4$

# Education / Schools
Educators and Publishers Are Fighting the Right’s Attempt to Erase Black History: The right has compiled a glossary of words like “abolition” and “equity” that it deems suspect in classroom contexts. The right has compiled a glossary of words like “abolition” and “equity” that it deems suspect in classroom contexts. Judicial Watch (JW), a deeply conservative 29-year-old Washington, D.C.-based group that describes itself as a “non-partisan education foundation,” asserts that our military is “headed down the dark alley of anti-American wokeism.” As JW sees it, the U.S. Air Force Academy is an egregious offender because it “has made race and gender instruction a top priority in the training of cadets.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/educators-and-publishers-are-fighting-the-rights-attempt-to-erase-black-history/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcH7fPFEi$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global Number of Australia’s Fish Species Considered Critically Endangered Doubles: The amount of critically endangered fish species in Australia has recently doubled after nine species were newly categorized as critically endangered in March. All nine species are part of the galaxias genus, and an additional tenth galaxias species has been labeled as endangered. They include the short-tail galaxias, the tapered galaxias and the East Gippsland and West Gippsland galaxias, with the additions taking the total number of fish listed as critically endangered under national laws to 18
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ecowatch.com/australia-fish-species-critically-endangered.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcKtLfYSg$

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
Big Ag Panicking Over Bill to Require Labeling of Gene-Altering Products: The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved legislation that would for the first time require food to carry labels listing genetically-modified ingredients, which labeling supporters say could create loopholes for some U.S. crops.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-food-gmo-vote-idUKKCN0ZO08N__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcCFfF9fu$

# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin meets with China’s defense minister in Moscow: Putin and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu met with Gen. Li Shangfu less than a month after Chinese leader Xi Jinping held a three-day state visit to Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin met with China’s defense minister on Sunday, underscoring Beijing’s strengthening engagement with Moscow, with which it has largely aligned its foreign policy in an attempt to diminish the influence of the United States and other Western democracies.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/16/putin-meets-with-chinas-defense-minister-in-moscow__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcN6j9oSy$

EU leaders beat a path to Xi’s door seeking China’s help: In the weeks since Chinese leader Xi Jinping won a third five-year term as president, leaders and diplomats from around the world have beaten a path to his door. None more so than those from Europe.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/eu-china-trade-macron-us-ukraine-war-dispute-ea8b74d285ef5027a82bf5ccc94ccd6c__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcIwGuTxl$

# Gov / Politics
Speaker McCarthy Proposes Limiting Access To SNAP Food Benefits: McCarthy’s initial list calls for expanding the age bracket for people who must meet work requirements in order to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Food Assistance Program or SNAP, while closing what Republicans say are “loopholes” in existing restrictions, according to two people who were granted anonymity to discuss internal conversations. Cutting spending on federal food assistance programs is a perennial Republican target, and House conservatives are eager to make it part of any agreement to raise the debt ceiling
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/16/gop-mccarthy-snap-food-stamps-00092243__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcB4EiUsW$

McCarthy Slammed for “Pro-Starvation Agenda” to Force Cuts to Food Stamps: “Republicans are not only forcing people to give birth, but are comfortable letting those children starve? Disgraceful,” said Rep.
Rashida Tlaib. Progressives and Democrats in Congress have sharply criticized House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) for including a plan to slash food assistance benefits in his latest list of demands on the debt ceiling, which is expected to be released on Monday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/mccarthy-slammed-for-pro-starvation-agenda-to-force-cuts-to-food-stamps/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcB1KUkFQ$

Hundreds Turn Out to Denounce Texas Republicans ‘Vigilante Death Squads Policy’: Residents blasted Rep. Matt Schaefer’s controversial bill in a hearing that stretched late into the night. Hundreds of Texans converged on the capital this week to oppose a new state-led security force that would enlist civilians to track and capture undocumented people.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/04/14/hundreds-turn-out-to-denounce-texas-republicans-vigilante-death-squads-policy/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcAiSaapz$

Republicans Attend NRA Convention the Same Weekend as 9 Mass Shootings: One of the shootings over the weekend included a birthday party in Alabama where four people died and 20 were injured.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/republicans-attend-nra-convention-the-same-weekend-as-9-mass-shootings/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcAfMDPlw$

# Law Enforcement
Black Teen Shot Twice After Ringing Wrong Doorbell: Community members are protesting after 16-year-old Ralph Yarl was shot twice after he went to pick up his younger siblings and mistakenly rang the doorbell of the wrong residence in Kansas City, Missouri. NBC News’ Maggie Vespa reports why police have not yet charged or identified the suspect after an arrest was made and what charges Yarl’s family is seeking.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew64lXUk5og__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcJQNdfXA$

Police Are Abusing Civil Forfeiture Laws to Seize Cash for Themselves: Massive loopholes in state laws are letting police walk away with millions in cash. Massive loopholes in state laws are letting police walk away with millions in cash.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/police-are-abusing-civil-forfeiture-laws-to-seize-cash-for-themselves/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcIc6qXeu$

Texas police made more than $50 million in 2017 from seizing people’s property. Not everyone was guilty of a crime. Law enforcement leaders say civil asset forfeiture is a necessary tool for fighting crime, but several lawmakers see it as a violation of Americans’ civil liberties. Texas legislators are poised to take up the issue once again in 2019.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2018/12/07/texas-civil-asset-forfeiture-legislature/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcNyeNf9q$

Civil forfeiture in the United States, also called civil asset forfeiture or civil judicial forfeiture,[1] is a process in which law enforcement officers take assets from people who are suspected of involvement with crime or illegal activity without necessarily charging the owners with wrongdoing. While civil procedure, as opposed to criminal procedure, generally involves a dispute between two private citizens, civil forfeiture involves a dispute between law enforcement and property such as a pile of cash or a house or a boat, such that the thing is suspected of being involved in a crime.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcEagSmxb$

# Legal / DOJ
DA’s secret weapon may be lawyer who dogged Trump for years: Matthew Colangelo has taken on Trump multiple times. Now, he’s in the middle of his highest-stakes yet. A little-known lawyer in New York has long been the thorn in Donald Trump’s side, pressing deeper with every passing year by taking down his scammy charity, blocking his presidential policies, investigating his finances, grilling his annoyed son with questions, and finally indicting the former president last month.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nation.lk/online/da-s-secret-weapon-may-be-lawyer-who-s-dogged-trump-for-years-204359.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcF0E1dC7$

New York Prosecutors Ignored Tainted Evidence Used Against Spanish-Speaking Drivers for Years: Mistranslated DWI warnings used in Westchester County may have pressured some drivers into taking a Breathalyzer test. The district attorney’s office didn’t investigate for three years.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/westchester-county-prosecutors-ignored-tainted-dwi-evidence*:*:text=Senior*20prosecutors*20in*20one*20of,been*20tainted*20by*20faulty*20evidence__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcEzxehDM$

Watch live: Jayland Walker’s family lawyer, pastor address grand jury decision: Here are the latest updates regarding the case. The eight Akron police officers involved in the killing of Jayland Walker last summer will not be criminally charged, a special grand jury decided, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said Monday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/local/2023/04/17/grand-jury-decision-in-jayland-walker-akron-police-shooting-case/70102616007/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcPx242cw$

Elderly Man Charged in Shooting of 16-Year-Old Black Teen: An arrest warrant has been issued for Andrew Lester, who will face charges of assault in the first degree and armed criminal action.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/ralph-yarls-family-contradict-kansas-city-cops-after-he-was-shot-for-ringing-wrong-doorbell__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcI_RBO75$

# LGBTQ / Gender
Meet Frank Mugisha: A Ugandan Activist Daring to Speak Out Against Bill to Jail & Kill LGBQT People: We speak with Ugandan LGBTQ activist Frank Mugisha about a draconian new anti-gay bill the country is on the verge of imposing, which makes it a crime to identify as queer, considers all same-sex conduct to be nonconsensual, and even allows for the death penalty in certain cases. Both the Biden administration and the U.N.
secretary-general are urging Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni not to sign the bill into law.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ySotxEFZRM__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcIrNIMVu$

# Media
Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News: What to know before the trial: A Delaware jury may soon decide whether Fox News knowingly published defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems, and whether the election equipment company should receive more than $1 billion in damages as a result.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/apr/17/dominion-voting-systems-defamation-lawsuit-against/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcFjc9RLK$

The Dominion v. Fox News Trial Will Not Be Televised: “It’s a Gift to Fox News”: The Judge in the Dominion lawsuit against Fox News has banned audio and video recordings at trial. Reporters worry the restrictions will dampen the impact of major testimonies and increase the risk of reporting mistakes.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217829049__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcIHbKoHz$

# Medical Science
Exciting ALS drug could pave way for more: The US Food and Drug Administration could kick off “a new era” if it chooses to approve a new drug, tofersen, for a rare form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The drug did not slow the progress of the degenerative condition in a phase III trial. But it did show signs of possible benefit, such as a reduction in a biomarker of neuronal damage and death, called neurofilament light chain (NFL).
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01039-4__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcJIeqFNi$

# Military / DOD
The Pentagon Is Preparing for Wars With Russia and China, Decades From Now: It is requesting its largest allocation ever for converting the latest scientific discoveries into weapons of war.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecpm30klPW8__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcDodO5Id$

# Military / Global
Leaked Pentagon Document Shows How Ukraine War Is Bleeding Into Middle East: A highly classified document explores how Ukraine war could spill over into war with Iran.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/04/13/leaked-pentagon-document-ukraine-iran-war/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcMDl4AJg$

# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
Space Force starts launches for constellations of hundreds of satellites: As experts from around the world converge on Colorado Springs for the Space Symposium, managing and protecting tens of thousands of smaller, cheaper satellites, both military and commercial, projected to go into space is set to be major topic. In the coming years, the large numbers of new satellites also means Colorado Springs companies will have plenty of work as demand for operators, ground infrastructure and support services grow.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://gazette.com/military/space-force-starts-launches-for-constellations-of-hundreds-of-satellites/article_b985b748-da38-11ed-b29b-236bda7b7ab1.html*:*:text=The*20agency*20plans*20to*20launch,a*20Denver*20company*2C*20made*20eight__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcIOp17mo$

Billionaire Space Flight Isn’t About Colonization. It’s Stoking a New Cold War. Space hegemony is among the core strategies the U.S. is using to maintain its primary global superpower status. The world has thoroughly entered the second space race, and the military applications of emerging spaceflight technologies may be central to global conflicts in the near future.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/billionaire-space-flight-isnt-about-colonization-its-stoking-a-new-cold-war/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcPzjad_F$

# Water
New tech could scrub ‘forever chemicals’ from your tap water: Researchers at the University of British Columbia have launched real world pilot tests of their water treatment method. Mohseni said the material his team developed, which looks like tiny porous plastic beads, can remove long and short chain chemicals at rates that match or exceed industry standards. The PFAS it captures could be stripped away, also making the beads potentially reusable or recyclable, he said.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230322140403.htm__;!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcJx6_huE$

EPA issues strongest statement to date about danger of PFAS in drinking water: EPA Administrator Michael Regan last month made one of his agency’s strongest statements to date about the danger of “forever chemicals.” New restrictions on those pollutants in drinking water would “prevent thousands of deaths and prevent tens of thousands of serious PFAS-related illnesses,” Regan said.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://phys.org/news/2023-04-epa-issues-strongest-statement-date.html*:*:text=EPA*20Administrator*20Michael*20Regan*20last,related*20illnesses*2C*22*20Regan*20said__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!whg51fuaIButrDwopn273uGGpS8ATC1NsX6GvCunNhi8oZuVvdHAtWNgq9vh5GbNbIvS89S33wIcp6qZ1p3AaylJcGa0F1GS$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-04-16

Voices, The Peoples News

April 16, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

# Indigenous
The Elephant on the Banks of the Colorado; The case of Arizona vs The Navajo Nation: The Navajo Nation’s rights to enough water for a healthy permanent homeland, rights that might include water from the Colorado River that borders the northwest corner of its reservation in Arizona, are the subject of a U.S. Supreme Court case being heard and decided this year. To the federal government, state governments, irrigation districts and water districts involved with the river, the reservation is a 27, 325 square mile elephant that they aren’t inviting in for a drink.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/04/14/the-elephant-on-the-banks-of-the-colorado-river/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xDGvBE_d$

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Rio Grande Valley border agents assaulted while apprehending tens of thousands a week: Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol agents continue to be assaulted by foreign nationals illegally entering the U.S. On April 11, he reported that in the past week, 11 agents were assaulted by illegal foreign nationals. RGV agents in one week apprehended 34,600 illegal foreign nationals, and reported at least 10,100 known gotaways.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/article_d853b38a-db07-11ed-8d4c-f7a6a2292ede.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xM0awFNA$

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Global NATO member Finland breaks ground on Russia border fence: The construction of barbed-wired fence along Finland’s long border with Russia – primarily meant to curb illegal migration – has broken ground near the southeastern town of Imatra less than two weeks after the Nordic country joined NATO as the 31st member of the military alliance
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.voanews.com/a/nato-member-finland-breaks-ground-on-russia-border-fence/7052017.html*:*:text=The*20construction*20of*20barbed*2Dwired,member*20of*20the*20military*20alliance__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xIjfB-jH$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Bad Pfizer vaccine batches account for 4.2% of doses but 71% of serious or lethal adverse events: Explains why some have severe side effects and others do not. Under Emergency Use Authorization, the vaccine companies and their subcontractors do not have any inspections of the final filled and finished vials. This is unprecedented for a widely used product of any type. It is possible that lipid nanoparticles aggregate in suspension and so some batches may contain more mRNA than others.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/bad-pfizer-vaccine-batches-account__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xJKK7tVS$

Pfizer funded a CDC “behavior change” project that targeted vaccine critics with psyops: The Public Good Projects (PGP), as it is benevolently dubbed, describes itself as a public health non-profit group centered around “large-scale monitoring programs, social and behavior change interventions.” PGP funding came not from lobbyists but directly from vaccine manufacturers like Pfizer and Moderna. Deviating from the norm of receiving funding from industry lobbyists working on behalf of corporations, PGP’s operating cash came directly from major industry players such as Pfizer and Moderna, both of which have a vested interest in stamping out so-called “vaccine hesitancy.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://citizens.news/716441.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xKXfNda8$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Oxfam Report: U.S. Billionaires Are Almost a Third Richer Since COVID
Hit: Tax Day is a reminder that the tax system isn’t working for ordinary Americans. Based on Forbes data, the report found that “U.S. billionaires are almost a third richer (over a trillion dollars, in real terms) than they were at the onset of the pandemic in 2020,” while overall U.S. billionaire wealth has soared 86% since 2013.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.alternet.org/us-billionaires-2659861608/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xLVtATtI$

‘It’s About Hurting the Poor’: GOP Ramps Up Cruel Push for Work
Requirements: “The legislators that want new work requirements for food stamps and Medicaid are the same ones working to eliminate the estate tax so that billionaire heirs never have to work a day in their lives.” Led by Rep. Matt Gaetz and other far-right members of the House GOP, Republican lawmakers are intensifying their push to establish new work requirements for millions of people who receive Medicaid and federal nutrition assistance, an effort that progressives slammed as a cruel attack on the poor.
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# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry Awash in Toxic Wastewater From Fracking for Natural Gas, Pennsylvania Faces a Disposal Reckoning A grand jury and the EPA have cited potential disposal problems, and activists are fighting new injection wells. Yet the gas industry claims fracking is essential for the state’s economic health and that most of its wastewater is safely recycled.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16042023/pennsylvania-produced-water-fracking-gas/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xHuRaMJV$

Texas Eyes Marine Desalination, Oilfield Water Reuse to Sustain Rapid Growth: Environmentalists have raised concerns about a bill moving through the Texas Legislature that would create a new fund for desalination, beneficial reuse of produced water and inter-state water purchases.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15042023/texas-water-legislation-desalination-oilfield-wastewatereyes-marine-desalination-oilfield-water/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xBYClK-o$

World’s 60 Largest Banks Have Dumped $5.5 Trillion Into Fossil Fuels Since Paris Accord: “Fossil fuel companies are the ones dousing the planet in oil, gas, and coal, but big banks hold the matches,” said one advocate. “Without financing, fossil fuels won’t burn.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/big-banks-funding-fossil-fuels-since-paris__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xOBSvlco$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure As Earth warms, more ‘flash droughts’ suck soil, plants dry: Climate change is making droughts faster and more furious, especially a specific fast-developing heat-driven kind that catch farmers by surprise
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/drought-sudden-agriculture-climate-change-heat-befc5fc8cf43a430b29f023bca40acc0__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xNrXzCFq$

Op-ed: Why is the chemical industry pitting public health against economic growth? EPA oversight is important, so is preventing the US petrochemical industry from expanding with a new generation of toxic projects.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ehn.org/chemical-industry-regulation-2659753767.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xOBhH7WW$

Louisiana’s Hurricane Victims Struggle to Recover as Climate Disasters Pile Up: Government agencies have abandoned Black and low-income communities in the face of one devastating storm after another.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ourcommunitynow.com/news/louisianas-hurricane-victims-struggle-to-recover-as-climate-disasters-pile-up__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xKLbOdhm$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global After 20 years, Giant Iceberg Breaks Away From Antarctic: An enormous iceberg that has persisted off the Antarctic coast for more than two decades finally started moving out to sea in late 2022. With the longtime nearshore feature now gone, scientists are waiting to see if the change will affect the nearby Thwaites Glacier, one of the largest contributors to global sea level rise from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Giant_iceberg_breaks_away_from_Antarctic_ice_shelf__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xMAF8P1S$

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
Kill the Messenger: mRNA-based livestock vaccines are under attack by vaccine skeptics. Here’s why their rejectionism is misplaced, and dangerous.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2023/04/11/kill-the-messenger-mrna-based-livestock-vaccines-are-under-attack-by-vaccine-skeptics-heres-why-their-rejectionism-is-misplaced-and-dangerous/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xDYgO9sG$

‘GMOs’, ‘contamination’ and ‘coexistence’: Challenging the misuse of concepts and wrongheaded regulation of agriculture and food. Yet the more popular nomenclature has persisted in part because biotechnology skeptics know that it stigmatizes a safe process. Who would want to eat an ‘organism’?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2023/04/13/gmos-contamination-and-coexistence-challenging-the-misuse-of-concepts-and-wrongheaded-regulation-of-agriculture-and-food/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xJmUh9GT$

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Global # Food Recalls / Alerts E S Foods recalls 1 million meal kits over metal in animal crackers: E S Foods, of Woodbury, NY, is recalling more than 1 million meal kits because animal crackers in the kits may contain bronze metal shavings. According to details published by the Food and Drug Administration, the recall was initiated on April 3 and is ongoing. The products were distributed nationwide.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2023/04/e-s-foods-recalls-1-million-meal-kits-over-metal-in-animal-crackers/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xGIE4346$

# General News
Declassified Guantanamo court filing suggests some 9/11 hijackers were CIA agents: This account was backed up by another FBI investigator, “CS-3,” who further claims that Bayoumi setting up bank accounts and renting an apartment for the two hijackers in San Diego “was done at the behest of the CIA.” What does the intelligence agency have to do with the suicide terrorist attack?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rt.com/news/574490-cia-dirty-deeds-nine-eleven/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xO7tmsOC$

How NATO states sponsored ICC prosecutor’s Putin arrest warrant: ICC prosecutor general Karim Khan raised millions from NATO states by crafting an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin while freezing investigations into well-documented US and Israeli war crimes. Along the way, he won powerful friends in Washington, London, Kiev and Hollywood.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thegrayzone.com/2023/04/13/nato-states-icc-prosecutor-putin/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xLPFC4Ey$

Book Banners Are Now Trying to Close Public Libraries: When a judge ordered the Llano County, Texas, library system to return 17 banned books to its shelves, county commissioners debated a radical workaround: closing the entire library system. The removal of 17 books was part of a nationwide campaign to purge libraries of specific books—many related to race, gender, or LGBTQ issues. Some librarians and readers have resisted those efforts, refusing book bans or filing lawsuits for the return of their books. In response, conservative officials have pushed to defund libraries outright, potentially forcing their closure.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.knowledia.com/CA/en/articles/book-banners-are-now-trying-to-close-public-libraries-5d13c8d4d7fbd85ced6c2ee0a8943aabfbaba0b6__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xKnlU3e2$

# Gov / Politics / Global
Seymour Hersh: the CIA Knows Ukrainian Officials Are Skimming US Aid: Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a report on Substack that alleged the CIA was aware of widespread corruption in Ukraine and the embezzlement of U.S. aid. The report said the Ukrainian government has been using U.S. taxpayer money to purchase diesel from Russia to fuel its military. Hersh said Zelensky “has been buying the fuel from Russia, the country with which it, and Washington, are at war, and the Ukrainian president and many in his entourage have been skimming untold millions from the American dollars earmarked for diesel fuel payments.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mronline.org/2023/04/14/the-cia-knows-ukrainian-officials-are-skimming-u-s-aid/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xOJblPeN$

# Gov / Politics
Governor Ron DeSantis’ All Out War on Black Floridians: How Ron DeSantis waged a targeted assault on Black voters: ‘I fear for what’s to come.’ In gerrymandering voting maps and gutting one of the biggest expansions of voting rights, the Florida governor seeks to dilute Black political power https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/12/ron-desantis-voting-rights-black-voters-florida-gerrymander__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xKo60maF$

Organizers Are Resisting a 2-Tiered Legal System in Majority-Black Jackson, Mississippi: Black Jacksonians plan to make this attempt at reinstating white supremacist rule “extremely difficult” to implement. July 1, 2023, House Bill 1020 will take effect, and the whole City of Jackson will be no more, at least with respect to the administration of its criminal legal system. Instead, the city will be partitioned into unequal halves: a Capitol Complex Improvement District (CCID) and an unnamed nowhere land.
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The House GOP’s Extremism Is Alienating Independent Voters, New Survey Finds: They may be losing ground with independents, but House Republicans are rewarded with coveted slots on Fox News.
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New DeSantis-Endorsed Florida Bill An Outright Attack On The 1st Amendment And Free Speech: Florida governor Ron DeSantis likes to proclaim himself a defender of free speech, but time and time again he’s looked to stifle, suppress, and silence speech. He’s done it with his social media bill that limits the 1st Amendment rights of social media sites, with his Stop WOKE Act which literally bars speech, and with his various retaliation bills against Disney for daring to criticize him.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/28/new-desantis-endorsed-florida-bill-an-outright-attack-on-the-1st-amendment-and-free-speech/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xALY9ws1$

From the sublime to the rediculous: MAGA ‘Loser’ Wants It to Be Illegal for Women to Own Dogs
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# Legal / DOJ
Trump Spends 7 Hours Answering Questions in Deposition for $250 Million Fraud Lawsuit: Former President Donald Trump spent nearly seven hours on April 13 answering questions during his second deposition as part of a 250 million fraud case bought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. The New York attorney general claims that her office has uncovered “significant evidence indicating that the Trump Organization used fraudulent and misleading asset valuations on multiple properties to obtain economic benefits, including loans, insurance coverage, and tax deductions for years.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-spends-7-hours-answering-questions-in-deposition-for-250-million-fraud-lawsuit_5194132.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xD9PVhDt$

If the Law Is Legitimate, Clarence Thomas Must Stand Trial: Justice Clarence Thomas has repeatedly broken the law for two decades.The Supreme Court justice repeatedly broke the law for two decades. But do the laws even apply to the leaders on our judicial branch? If Senate Democrats want the public to trust that they believe in the rule of law, they need to take action.
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Possibility Of Donald Trump Being Convicted Of Crime Just Went Way Up, Says Niece: ‘A Proverbial Smoking Gun’: “This adds a new level of seriousness to Donald’s case because it potentially gives prosecutors physical evidence of his crimes: a proverbial smoking gun,” Mary Trump wrote. “That means, the very real possibility Donald will not just be charged with, but convicted of a crime just went way up,” she tweeted.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsweek.com/mary-trump-outlines-why-donald-trump-conviction-may-now-more-likely-1794581__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xKQBhYK0$

# LGBTQ / Gender
The New Hate: Transphobia rising in the wake of Nashville: The attempt to link trans identity to violence is part of a larger effort on the right to identify new targets in the culture wars, serving up fresh meat to a GOP base that’s long idealized racism, heterosexism, classism, and other forms of prejudice. There’s a bait and switch at work here, with rightwing officials and pundits designating trans people as the new public enemy number one.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/04/14/the-new-hate-transphobia-rising-in-the-wake-of-nashville/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xHcmmHGr$

Elon Musk demands Life in Prison for Child Sex-Change Defending DeSantis Bans in Florida: In response to an argument that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is “destroying an entire state” with his GOP-favored policies, which include the banning of sex change surgeries for kids, billionaire Elon Musk said that those facilitating the sterilization of children should be harshly punished.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://krcrtv.com/news/nation-world/elon-musk-says-any-parent-or-doctor-who-sterilizes-children-should-go-to-prison-for-life-ron-desantis-msnbc-michael-cohen-sex-change-gender-affirming-care__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xOb8LiJl$

Florida GOP’s New Anti-Trans Bill Is So Extreme It Could Ban Treatment for Breast Cancer: The bill is one of the cruelest in the country targeting transgender people. The bill passed the Healthcare Regulation Committee by a vote of 12–5 and now heads to the House for a vote. The measure is one of the cruelest in the country to target transgender and LGBTQ rights and care. But the bill’s vague wording has larger repercussions as well.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://newrepublic.com/post/171330/florida-gop-anti-trans-bill-extreme-ban-treatment-breast-cancer__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xAFsOMPk$

# Media
Season of the Snitch: The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the significance of classified Pentagon leaks on the Ukraine proxy war and the corporate media’s role as a surrogate police force, zealously hunting down the 21-year-old leaker before the FBI could.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoIBi72_4tA__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xLPVABFc$

Why the Media Don’t Want to Know the Truth About the Nord Stream Blasts: First, journalists lapped up Russian culpability. Now they peddle a preposterous James Bond-style story. Anything to ignore the US role. No one but the terminally naïve should be surprised that security services lie, and that they are all but certain to cover their tracks when they carry out operations that either violate domestic or international law or that would be near-universally rejected by their own populations.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://original.antiwar.com/cook/2023/04/13/why-the-media-dont-want-to-know-the-truth-about-the-nord-stream-blasts/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xAkrK9nI$

# Medical / Health
Biden to open up Medicaid, Obamacare to about 700,000 illegal immigrants: About 700,000 foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally will be able to access taxpayer-funded health care under a new program President Joe Biden authorized Thursday https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-to-open-up-medicaid-obamacare-to-about-700-000-illegal-immigrants__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xL_s6EOt$

Why Ron DeSantis Is Afraid To Talk About The Abortion Ban He Just Signed: If you want to know how the politics of abortion is playing out in America right now, pay attention to a pair of high-profile governors who just signed major abortion-related legislation, and, more important, pay attention to how they signed it.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-desantis-florida-abortion-ban_n_64395086e4b066950599ee1e?owi&utm_source=cordial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp-us-reg-politics_2023-04-14&utm_term=us-politics__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xJPq7ybU$

A deadly fungus with mysterious origins is raising alarms: Candidas auris, which is spreading around the world, is difficult to detect and even harder to treat. Early research suggests rising global temperatures, a byproduct of climate change, may have helped it evolve to live inside the human body. But the fungus’ origins remain a mystery—where it emerged and why it did so suddenly are still unclear.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.science.org/content/article/rise-deadly-superfungus-may-be-tied-global-warming__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xEXlbbLl$

Abortion Rights Supporters Protest at US Supreme Court, Nationwide: From Florida and Texas to California and Illinois, demonstrators marched with chants like, “Red state, blue state, you can’t hide, the war on abortion is nationwide,” and “Fascist judges make me ill, hands off the abortion pill.”
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# Medical Science
Phthalate alternative may harm brain development and health: Acetyl tributyl citrate, a leading phthalate alternative, found to disrupt neuron-like cells. In a new study conducted in cell cultures, researchers found that the chemical acetyl tributyl citrate (ATBC) might not be the best replacement because it appears to interfere with the growth and maintenance of neurons. “Our study suggests that ATBC, but not other non-phthalate alternatives, could interfere with cells that maintain brain health. We think this finding warrants further testing of ATBC at different doses, in different settings and in whole organism models.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/science/032723/phthalate-alternative-may-harm-brain__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xBbFWIlj$

# Military / DOD
B-52 bombers train with Japanese, South Korean fighters after North Korean ICBM launch: B-52 bombers train with Japanese, South Korean fighters after North Korean ICBM launch. U.S. B-52 bombers flew with Japanese and South Korean fighter jets Friday in separate exercises as a show of unity intended to deter would-be adversaries, https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2023-04-14/b-52-bombers-japan-south-korea-9806470.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xAB_uZSm$

# Military / Global
Taiwan highly vulnerable to Chinese air attack, leaked documents show: Dozens of highly classified documents have been leaked online, revealing sensitive information intended for senior military and intelligence leaders. In an exclusive investigation, The Post also reviewed scores of additional secret documents, most of which have not been made public https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.firstpost.com/world/taiwan-highly-vulnerable-to-chinese-air-attack-us-leaks-show-12460692.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xNymCTsx$

North Korea says it tested new solid-fuel long-range missile: North Korea said Friday it flight-tested a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time, a possible breakthrough in its efforts to acquire a more powerful, harder-to-detect weapon targeting the continental United States.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/north-korea-says-it-tested-new-solid-fuel-long-range-missile-1.6355178__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xIPAnLMo$

Taiwan highly vulnerable to Chinese air attack, leaked documents show: Taiwan is unlikely to thwart Chinese military air superiority in a cross-strait conflict, while tactics such as China’s use of civilian ships for military purposes have eroded U.S. spy agencies’ ability to detect a pending invasion, according to leaked Pentagon assessments.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3952204-leaked-documents-include-troubling-assessment-of-taiwans-ability-to-ward-of-chinese-air-attack-report/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xD9FQdIl$

# Science
U.S. Working on ‘Universal’ Genetically Engineered Bioweapon – Russian Parliamentary Investigation: “The United States aims to develop a universal genetically engineered biological weapon capable of infecting not only people, but animals as well as agricultural crops. Its use involves, among other things, the goal of inflicting large-scale and irreparable economic damage on the enemy,” the commission wrote in its final report. The report stated that “the situation is aggravated by the fact that the production of such biological agents can easily be dispersed over various enterprises.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sputnikglobe.com/20230412/us-working-on-universal-genetically-engineered-bioweapon-russian-parliamentary-investigation-1109381193.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xGvsrQ5B$

Genetic engineering and biological weapons: Rapid developments in biotechnology, genetics and genomics are undoubtedly creating a variety of environmental, ethical, political and social challenges for advanced societies. But they also have severe implications for international peace and security because they open up tremendous avenues for the creation of new biological weapons.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1326447/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xGEXe564$

After lightning struck a tree, a researcher went to investigate. He found a completely new material: For a geologist, discovering a new rock is always a thrilling experience. But the excitement reaches unprecedented heights when the only comparable specimens are extraterrestrial rocks. A professor from the University of South Florida found a new phosphorus material in a rock that has never been seen before happening naturally on Earth.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.zmescience.com/science/after-lightning-struck-a-tree-a-researcher-went-to-investigate-he-found-a-completely-new-material/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xHfwiQbw$

# Water
Federal Judge Throws ‘Science Under the Bus’ With Decision Against EPA Clean Water Rule: “This ruling readily bows to the forces in this country that have been trying for years to gut the Clean Water Act.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://therealnews.com/federal-judge-throws-science-under-the-bus-with-decision-against-epa-clean-water-rule__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ze0LR_2wjAqox2IfZI-3Ude0AeVc6f4YM5-UfAqnSEG_HJNhRy3UxtnzqbzlkN3gLBW_wAfkKaim1LXIbJD0kQT3xCfAMcpE$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-04-13

Voices, The Peoples News

April 13, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Husband of BBC Presenter Killed by Covid Vaccine Sues AstraZeneca. Vaccine is Unsafe ‘Defective Product’: The widower of a BBC presenter who died from coronavirus vaccine complications has launched legal action against pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca together with 75 people whose ‘relatives died or suffered injuries related to the jab’.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11959425/Widower-BBC-presenter-died-jab-no-alternative-file-suit-against-AstraZeneca.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwPmNOAlL$

U.S. Approves First 3 COVID Vaccine Injury Claims: U.S. Government Finally Compensates First Petitioners for COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries. 3 People Awarded an Average of $1,500 for Damaged Hearts
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://healthimpactnews.com/2023/outrage-u-s-government-finally-compensates-first-petitioners-for-covid-19-vaccine-injuries-3-people-awarded-an-average-of-1500-for-damaged-hearts/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwOtTzaYU$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
The consequences of the U.S.-China trade war are starting to emerge. The economic interdependence built up over decades is now being reversed, leaving everyone worse off. US-China trade tensions have negatively affected consumers as well as many producers in both countries. The tariffs have reduced trade between the US and China, but the bilateral trade deficit remains broadly unchanged. While the impact on global growth is relatively modest at this time, the latest escalation could significantly dent business and financial market sentiment, disrupt global supply chains, and jeopardize the projected recovery in global growth in 2019.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2019/05/23/blog-the-impact-of-us-china-trade-tensions__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwIwzBW1L$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry EPA Proposes Major Reforms to Reduce Cancer Risk Near Industrial Facilities: The new rules could reduce exposed residents’ unacceptable cancer risk by 96 percent. The EPA has proposed tougher air pollution rules for chemical plants and other industrial facilities after ProPublica found an estimated 74 million Americans near those sites faced an elevated risk of cancer.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/air-pollution-epa-sacrifice-zones__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwHR2W5yE$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure The Biden administration looks to reform public-land management. Entities could lease land to restore and heal it. DOI is proposing a new kind of leasing, conservation leases that would allow companies to offset environmentally harmful activities by paying to restore a degraded ecosystem or reestablish corridors for the migration of large game animals.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ecowatch.com/biden-conservation-leasing-public-lands.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwC6WZwMr$

How do you keep migrating birds off a giant toxic lake? The Berkeley Pit on the edge of Butte, Montana, is a huge, defunct copper mine that has become one of the world’s largest bodies of acid mine drainage-tainted water. Unfortunately, it also offers a tempting, and deadly, landing spot for migratory birds, a combination that killed some 3,000 snow geese in 2016.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.4/north-birds-how-do-you-keep-migrating-birds-off-a-giant-toxic-lake__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwMmYzuXy$

‘Definitely Toxic’: Hundreds Forced From Homes as Indiana Plastics Fire Continues to Burn: Multiple fires that began burning Tuesday afternoon were still burning within about 14 acres of various types of plastics stored inside and outside buildings at a former factory site in Richmond, 70 miles (113 kilometers) east of Indianapolis, Fire Chief Tim Brown said.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/industrial-fire-richmond-indiana-evacuation-601a621343fff987747e99d7136d45b3__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwLROit7G$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global Hyundai urged to stop illegal miners using its machines in Amazon: A report published by Greenpeace found the South Korean conglomerate’s excavators and other heavy machinery are precipitating the destruction of the rainforest and putting the survival of Indigenous populations at risk.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/12/hyundai-urged-to-stop-miners-using-its-machines-in-amazon__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwPloIrM3$

# Gov / Politics / Global
A Change of Power in Türkiye (Formerly Turkey) Would Bring Significant Shifts in Security and Defense, But if Erdoğan wins another five-year term, the script is already written. President Tayyip Erdogan accused the West of supporting terrorism and standing by coups, questioning Turkey’s relationship with the United States and saying the ‘script’ for an abortive putsch last month was ‘written abroad.’
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/article/cnews-us-turkey-security-idCAKCN10D1NN__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwKfrhM-f$

What’s really going on between China and Russia. Behind the scenes, they’re deepening their defense partnership. Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Moscow Monday for a three-day state visit to Russia. Relations between the two countries have grown closer over the past year as China’s imports of Russian oil have increased and both countries seek to undercut the U.S. on the world stage.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/chinese-president-visits-putin-in-russia-as-the-countries-increase-cooperation__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwEvzG_EL$

# Gov / Politics
Expelled Tenn. lawmaker started by stopping an oil pipeline: Justin J.
Pearson used a bullhorn to help fight a pipeline project, but it got him ejected by Republican lawmakers from the Tennessee House of Representatives. Backlash from the unprecedented political retribution has vaulted the pair to national prominence and given them a platform far larger than before they were ejected. Now they’re being represented by Attorney General Eric Holder.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.eenews.net/articles/expelled-tenn-lawmaker-started-by-stopping-an-oil-pipeline/*:*:text=Before*20he*20took*20on*20gun,an*20oil*20pipeline*20**C20and*20won__;I34lJSUlJSUl4oCUJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwE73vLpm$

Hear Trump Officials Admit 2020 Election Lies Were Bogus: Not only did Giuliani and others say they had no proof to back their Dominion claims, a Trump official told Fox News in early December 2020 to save the date for January 6.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.yahoo.com/hear-trump-officials-tell-fox-032721580.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwHYv1qs0$

Latest two party switches make it 29 legislatures with veto-proof majorities: There are now 29 state legislatures where one party holds veto-proof majorities in both chambers: nine for Democrats and 20 for Republicans https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.apg-wi.com/news/national/latest-two-party-switches-make-it-29-legislatures-with-veto-proof-majorities/article_87d94cc6-06a2-58d8-ac41-d63d7c1ffa1f.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwHzAa2nf$

Wisconsin Supreme Court race was the most expensive state judicial election in U.S. history: Liberals won control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the first time in 15 years in the most expensive state judicial election in U.S. history.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/02/28/wisconsin-supreme-court-race-already-most-expensive-in-u-s-history/69955195007/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwLD-s0zd$

# Legal / DOJ
Federal prosecutors won’t pursue charges against anyone over the death of American tourist Shanquella Robinson in Mexico last year. Robinson’s family wrote to President Biden calling for justice after a video showed her being beaten prior to her death. Robinson’s family was initially told by friends that she died from alcohol poisoning, according to attorneys, but her death certificate later listed the causes as severe spinal cord injury and atlas luxation, a form of severe neck injury.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/shanquella-robinson-death-no-us-charges__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwK4CrFSH$

Trump Asks for Delay in Rape Trial Because Jurors Will Be Thinking About His Alleged Hush Money Crimes. The ex-president’s lawyers believe Trump will not be able to get a fair trial because of all the other shady stuff he’s allegedly done.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-lawyer-monthlong-delay-rape-trial-e-jean-caroll-joseph-tacopina/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwM3SDvDz$

Trump Rips Letitia James as He Heads to Her Office to Testify: The former president will be deposed in the $250 million fraud lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. The former president is in Manhattan on Thursday to answer questions under oath in a lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. The $250 million suit accuses Trump and three of his children of “numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentations” related to their business in the state. The case is expected to go to trial later this year.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-going-under-oath-york-131450754.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwF_6k7eY$

Amid Pressure to Resign, Feinstein Asks Senate to Replace Her on Judiciary Panel: Rep. Ro Khanna said her absence has delayed efforts to advance judicial nominees who will protect the right to abortion. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said she had asked to be ‘temporarily’ replaced on the Senate Judiciary Committee while she is recovering from shingles, but the California Democrat remained committed to returning to the Senate amid pressure by some in her party to step down
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/amid-pressure-to-resign-feinstein-asks-senate-to-replace-her-on-judiciary-panel/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwMkqMQfr$

# LGBTQ / Gender
North Dakota’s governor has signed two trans athlete bans into law, effectively prohibiting transgender girls and women from joining female sports teams in K-12 and college. Lawmakers in the House and Senate passed the bills with veto-proof majorities this year.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/north-dakota-transgender-lgbtq-sports-ban-04c0f81665e763a63760c793fb67948a__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwDdLECn5$

# Media
Judge Sanctions Fox News for Withholding Evidence in Dominion Defamation Suit: Days before trial is set to begin, Dominion has been granted permission to conduct additional depositions. “I’m not very happy right now,” Judge Eric Davis told Fox News attorneys.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3946538-judge-sanctions-fox-news-for-withholding-evidence-in-dominion-lawsuit/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwCZ8zNU5$

Fox News Heads to Trial in Peril: It’s time for Dominion Voting Systems to make its case against Fox News in its $1.6 billion defamation suit. The election-system company has identified 20 occasions it was demonized on Fox after the 2020 election. Can Dominion prove Fox did it on purpose?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/fox-news-dominion-trial__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwAD60K4I$

Judge Sanctions Fox News for Withholding Evidence in Dominion Defamation Suit: Days before the trial is set to begin, Dominion has been granted permission to conduct additional depositions. “I’m not very happy right now,” Judge Eric Davis told Fox News attorneys.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2023/04/12/judge-sanctions-fox-news-for-withholding-evidence-in-dominion-lawsuit/?sh=49ea48aa176b__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwFiSVESF$

Judge Tells Fox News Lawyers They Have a “Credibility Problem” Days Before Trial Starts: Judge Eric Davis clashed with the network’s legal team several times during its pretrial hearing this week.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.salon.com/2023/04/12/the-is-pissed-says-fox-news-has-a-credibility-problem-after-murdoch-revelation/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwKMmXYW6$

# Medical / Health
Paper Doll Politics: The recent rulings on access to the abortion pill assume women should have no agency over their own lives: If you take Matthew Kacsmaryk’s lengthy opinion last week ordering a stay of the FDA’s long-standing approval of the abortion medication mifepristone at its word, there are only two kinds of women in the country: the slutty ones and the stupid ones. Women still deserve whatever it is they get, and somehow also need to be protected from whatever it is they want.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/mifepristone-case-rulings-explained-women.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwKYBUybW$

The FDA Should Not Enforce the 5th Circuit’s Indefensible Abortion Pill Decision: The agency has no obligation to impose the court’s orders, and doctors have no duty to follow them. the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals partially vindicated Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s lawless and unprecedented decision attempting to cut off access to mifepristone, the first drug in a medication abortion. Even the 5th Circuit could not defend Kacsmaryk’s attempt to revoke the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug, which it granted in 2000.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/abortion-pill-fifth-circuit-ruling-mifepristone-fda-doctors.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwEP4CHHA$

# Security
Declassified Guantanamo Court Filing Suggests some 9/11 Hijackers were CIA Agents: The document was originally published via a Guantanamo Bay court docket, but while public, it was completely redacted. Independent researchers obtained an unexpurgated copy.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thepressunited.com/updates/special-service-declassified-guantanamo-court-filing-suggests-some-9-11-hijackers-were-cia-agents/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwPfkUcP9$

# Water
North Dakota judge blocks controversial water rule: North Dakota U.S.
District Court Judge Daniel Hovland issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday that blocked the implementation of the Biden administration’s clean water rule, also known as WOTUS
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/north-dakota-judge-blocks-controversial-water-rule__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3vSJPGUU4HokJREI3_pU29ylxyenIHJ7_pZpuP8h62Z1nNQdr5kUlm0jGTQqbi9A-Sdm5QM3CLmaU-2RstMAsj-OwAdyS6_u$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-04-12

Voices, The Peoples News

April 12, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Mexico Immigration Chief Charged Over Detention Center Fire: The catastrophe killed 40 migrants locked inside the facility. Mexico’s immigration head will face criminal charges in a fire that killed 40 migrants in a detention center last month but President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday that he will not dismiss the official known for his hard line on northbound migration.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://hosted.ap.org/semissourian/article/f3d01df8b7da14bcfbe7d7ef69a6e565/mexican-migration-chief-be-charged-fire-keep-job*:*:text=MEXICO*20CITY*20(AP)*20**C20Mexico’s,hard*20line*20on*20northbound*20migration__;I34lJSXigJQlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY5CrYfW6$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Biden to Spend $5 Billion on New Coronavirus Vaccine Initiative Supported by Gates, Fauci and Republican Lawmakers: The administration is asking lawmakers to set aside $2.55 billion for vaccinating the world, $1.7 billion for therapeutics and supplies, and $750 million for humanitarian aid, according to numbers shared with POLITICO by a public health advocate briefed on the call and confirmed by a Capitol Hill aide.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/18/biden-administration-asks-congress-for-5-billion-to-fight-covid-overseas-00010264__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY-_VeBCd$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical China could dominate sodium batteries, the next big advance in power: In two years, China will have nearly 95 percent of the world’s capacity to make sodium batteries. Lithium battery production will still dwarf sodium battery output at that point, Benchmark predicts, but advances in sodium are accelerating.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sej.org/headlines/why-china-could-dominate-next-big-advance-batteries__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY02L_oVQ$

There could be millions of abandoned wells in the US. Plugging them is a monumental task: While exact figures are tough to come by, experts believe hundreds of thousands of orphan wells remain around the country. While exact figures are tough to come by, experts believe hundreds of thousands of orphan wells remain around the country.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/04/11/plugging-abandoned-oil-wells/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgYxLZaAZq$

Air pollution skyrockets as new Colorado oil and gas activity booms: The rise of hydraulic fracturing techniques has fostered rapid growth of oil and natural gas (O&NG) extraction in areas across the United States. In the Denver-Julesburg Basin (DJB), which mostly overlaps with Weld County in the Northern Colorado Front Range (NCFR) north of the City of Denver Metropolitan Area (DMA), the well drilling has increasingly approached, and in many instances moved into urban residential areas.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://online.ucpress.edu/elementa/article/doi/10.1525/elementa.398/112753/Air-quality-impacts-from-oil-and-natural-gas__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY8k8Tuyj$

Montana Judge Cancels Gas Power Plant Permit Over Climate Concern: Climate concerns motivated a Montana judge to cancel the air quality permit for a controversial natural gas power plant. The 175-megawatt NorthWestern Energy plant would have emitted more than 23 million tons of greenhouse gases over its 30-year or more lifespan, the equivalent of adding 167, 327 new cars to the roads each year, something that the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) did not fully consider when it issued the permit, Montana 13th Judicial District Court Judge Michael Moses ruled Thursday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ecowatch.com/montana-judge-gas-plant-permit-cancellation-climate-change.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgYySaYQGV$

The EPA faces questions about its approval of a plastic-based fuel with an astronomical cancer risk: That risk is 250,000 times greater than the level usually considered acceptable by the EPA division that approves new chemicals, and it’s higher than the lifetime risk of cancer for current smokers. “A senator questioned the EPA chief and a group sued the agency after ProPublica and the Guardian revealed that the EPA gave a Chevron refinery approval to make a fuel that could leave people nearby with a 1-in-4 lifetime risk of cancer.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/chevron-epa-plastic-biofuel-cancer-risk__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY3rUreZo$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Crisis? What crisis? Media failing to convey the urgency of the climate emergency: If an alien landed on Planet Earth today and started watching television and reading the newspapers, it would probably not realize that humanity and the natural world face an existential threat – one that has taken us into the Sixth Mass Extinction, is already devastating the lives of many, especially in the Global South, and is set to hit the rest of us soon.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.globalissues.org/news/2023/04/11/33533__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgYxdItZYG$

Global warming is disrupting an Antarctic current system that life on Earth relies on: The most terrifying thing about the abyssal ocean may be the fact that normal life on Earth is dependent on the way water moves through it. If that circulation changes, the repercussions could be devastating for all life on Earth: food chain disruptions, weather patterns drastically changing, and ocean life finding itself suddenly unbalanced.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.salon.com/2023/04/11/global-warming-is-disrupting-an-antarctic-current-system-that-life-on-earth-relies-on/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY-IahGmv$

Republicans accused of hypocrisy over toxic waste bill: Republican lawmakers have been accused of “the height of hypocrisy” by tabling a bill that would loosen regulations on industrial toxic waste disposal after many expressed their outrage at a toxic spill caused by a train derailment near East Palestine, Ohio, in February.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-accused-hypocrisy-toxic-waste-bill-hr1-1793026__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY9sWNwNi$

Leaking to the bottom of the sea can be a harbinger of doom: The Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) is a massive fault line that stretches from Vancouver Island to northern California. Researchers from the University of Washington found hot liquid seeping from the ocean floor near the area about 50 miles off Newport, Oregon. The team suspects that the underwater source, called Pythia’s Oasis, could be connected to the CSZ and that the fault line would be under more stress in the event of a leak. “Pythias Oasis provides a rare window into processes operating deep in the seabed, and its chemistry suggests this fluid originated near the plate boundary,” said Deborah Kelley, UW professor of oceanography
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://oltnews.com/leaking-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea-can-be-a-harbinger-of-doom-the-daily-beast__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY8ObZwaU$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global Canada wants more Indigenous knowledge in IPCC climate reports: Canadian delegates to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have called for broader inclusion of Indigenous knowledge in future climate reports. The comments were made at an IPCC meeting in Switzerland, where 195 nations’ delegates negotiated the wording of a report that summarizes years of climate change research for policymakers.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cabinradio.ca/125749/news/politics/canada-wants-more-indigenous-knowledge-in-ipcc-climate-reports/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY2TdIe7V$

# General News
Missouri State House Republicans Pass Budget Bill That Removes Library Funding: Republicans are retaliating against a librarians’ organization for suing the state over a law on book banning. Republican lawmakers in the Missouri state House of Representatives followed through on threats they previously made to librarians, passing a state budget this week that eliminates all funding to public libraries throughout the “Show Me State.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.salon.com/2023/04/12/missouri-state-vote-to-defund-public-libraries_partner/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgYyzMGFm7$

Donald Trump Sues Michael Cohen for Blabbing About Stormy: The ex-president is demanding more than $500 million from his one-time fixer for violating a confidentiality agreement. The lawsuit, filed in a Florida federal court on Wednesday, accuses Cohen of spreading false information about Trump and breaching his contractual obligations to the former president in Cohen’s public statements, published books, podcast series and other media appearances.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/politics/donald-trump-michael-cohen-lawsuit/index.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgYzbAxgG2$

# Gov / Politics / Global
Peace in Ukraine Is Too Important to Leave in the Hands of Arms Dealers: Arms makers are stoking conflicts and then pitching weapons as a path to peace.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/peace-in-ukraine-is-too-important-to-leave-in-the-hands-of-arms-dealers/?utm_source=Truthout&utm_campaign=d5a023de39-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_3_20_2023_13_41_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bbb541a1db-d5a023de39-650262369&mc_cid=d5a023de39&mc_eid=b8214b3276__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY0v3UbI9$

Border Panic and ‘Total Disarray’ as War Spills Into Russia: Residents of Russia’s Bryansk region say local authorities orchestrated a massive cover-up to conceal the fact that the war has come to Russian territory and they can’t do anything to stop it.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.knowledia.com/CA/en/articles/border-panic-and-total-disarray-as-war-spills-into-russia-f8da61c290d556f4bde013f984ee729a87f56c2c__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgYzeebkMM$

# Gov / Politics
Republican Who Backed Tree Hangings Booted Off Justice Panel: Tennessee State Rep. Paul Sherrell wanted lynching-style capital punishment to return to his state.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/paul-sherrell-tennessee-republican-who-called-for-tree-hanging-executions-removed-from-justice-committee__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY6CPm5Hm$

# Medical / Health
Maternal Death Rates in U.S. Rose Sharply in 2021, CDC Should Make It a Priority to Find Out Why: A maternal death is defined by the World Health Organization as “the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes” (1). Maternal mortality rates, which are the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, are shown in this report by age group and race and Hispanic origin.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2021/maternal-mortality-rates-2021.htm__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY_BbEVaN$

# Pharmaceuticals / Drugs
White House names fentanyl mixed with xylazine ’emerging threat’ to U.S: The director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy on Wednesday designated fentanyl combined with xylazine as an emerging threat
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-u-s-news/us-names-veterinary-drug-fentanyl-mixture-emerging-threat/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY03NoyO7$

# Water
Biden administration proposes evenly cutting water allotments from Colorado River: As the river shrinks, the Biden administration is getting ready to impose, for the first time, reductions in water supplies to states.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.earth.com/news/biden-administration-proposes-water-rationing-to-save-the-colorado-river/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY2kGnKXp$

13 Groups Sue the EPA for Failing to Update Regulations on Water Pollution: Industrial facilities produce millions of pounds of hazardous chemical waste every year and dump it into U.S. waterways. Under the Clean Water Act, the EPA is required to set limits on the amount of pollution companies can discharge based on the best available technologies, and to revise those limits every five years.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/13-groups-sue-the-epa-for-failing-to-update-regulations-on-water-pollution/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yJ0DexPJy9acYMgBFnVnoEys1Fw6nqXVJesomROVBrtSCLQB76VLjKyN36Dd7KRfuPR2b7Av-Xw81dkcshhkVMWgY8VGgx12$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-04-11

Voices, The Peoples News

April 11, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Republicans’ Border Policy Has Apparently Escalated From ‘Build the Wall’ to ‘Invade Mexico’: From Ron DeSantis’s plan to severely target undocumented immigrants to mounting calls to bomb Mexico over drug cartels, the GOP’s 2024 message on the border is coming into clearer focus.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://headtopics.com/us/republicans-border-policy-has-apparently-escalated-from-build-the-wall-to-invade-mexico-37783841__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo54FJS2fd$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Switzerland Stops Recommending COVID-19 Vaccination : Also, England withdrew booster recommendations for healthy people younger than the age of 50, and Denmark stopped vaccinating the same population in 2022. Swiss authorities have stopped recommending COVID-19 vaccination, including for people who are designated at high risk from COVID-19. Switzerland’s Federal Office of Public Health now says, “No COVID-19 vaccination is recommended for spring/summer 2023.” People designated at high risk also aren’t recommended to get a COVID-19 vaccine
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.gulf-insider.com/switzerland-stops-recommending-covid-19-vaccination/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo55Pk4ATf$

Twitter Pressured to Label COVID-19 Facts as ‘Misinformation.’ In March of 2020, the global social media platform Twitter implemented a COVID-19 “misinformation” policy that would add labels and warning messages to Tweets Twitter administrators deemed to be “misinformation.”
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Death of Teenage Girl in Japan Linked to Pfizer mRNA COVID Shot: A 14-year-old girl died in Japan on Aug. 12, 2022, two days after receiving a third dose of Pfizer/BioNTech’s Comirnaty messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 shot.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/03/10/national/japan-first-covid19-vaccine-death/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo5zr6f8cU$

Woman dies from brain haemorrhage in Japan days after vaccine, but link uncertain: Woman dies from brain haemorrhage in Japan days after vaccine, but link uncertain. A Japanese a woman in her 60s died from a brain haemorrhage three days after receiving a Pfizer coronavirus vaccination, the health ministry said on Tuesday, adding that there may not be a link between the two.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/woman-dies-brain-haemorrhage-japan-days-after-vaccine-link-uncertain-2021-03-02/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo53p0zsoV$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Trump’s Latest Accounting Gambit Just Failed: Already drowning in legal trouble from his recent arrest and two other potential criminal indictments on the horizon, Donald Trump continues to delay the New York attorney general’s attempt to bankrupt him, this time, by finding Republican-friendly accountants in Texas. His family company, the Trump Organization , was forced to scramble and find new accountants early last year amid accusations it regularly faked business records to inflate assets. The shunned Trumps settled on Whitley Penn, a relatively unknown accounting firm that doesn’t even rank among the ‘Big Four,’ not even among the big four in North Texas.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2987458865923-trump-s-latest-accounting-gambit-just-failed__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo5xUtBVUN$

Pentagon Tries to Cast Bank Runs as National Security Threat: In recent months, the Pentagon has moved to provide loans, guarantees, and other financial instruments to technology companies it considers crucial to national security, a step beyond the grants and contracts it normally employs. So when Silicon Valley Bank threatened to fail in March following a bank run, the defense agency advocated for government intervention to insure the investments. The Pentagon had even scrambled to prepare multiple plans to get cash to affected companies if necessary, reporting by Defense One revealed.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/04/03/silicon-valley-bank-bailout-pentagon/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo56RSdi5g$

Feds borrowing $6 billion per day, budget group says: The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released a report pointing out that those figures amount to an average of $6 billion per day so far in fiscal year 2023. “Our fiscal challenges will only become more difficult the longer we wait to do anything,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the CRFB
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_f2423162-d7d4-11ed-8869-afde1f5dc41a.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo5-RAfEdq$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical The EPA faces questions about its approval of a plastic-based fuel with an astronomical cancer risk: A senator questioned the EPA chief and a group sued the agency after ProPublica and the Guardian revealed that the EPA gave a Chevron refinery approval to make a fuel that could leave people nearby with a 1-in-4 lifetime risk of cancer.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.mmm-online.com/home/channel/this-climate-friendly-fuel-comes-with-an-astronomical-cancer-risk/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo56Qr80yP$

Plastic Recycling Plant Could Send Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Into the Susquehanna River, Polluting a Vital Drinking Water Source: Warnings that a large-scale plastics recycling plant planned along a floodplain in Central Pennsylvania could flush toxic PFAS into the Susquehanna River, a major source of drinking water for millions, are stirring a budding opposition movement.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11042023/encina-pfas-forever-chemicals-susquehanna-river/*:*:text=Warnings*20that*20a*20large*2Dscale,stirring*20a*20budding*20opposition*20movement__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo5ybnvEYx$ .

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Truck Spills Toxic Soil Collected From Ohio Train Derailment: Around
20,000 pounds of contaminated soil was strewn along a highway. Truck carrying 40,000 pounds of toxic soil from train derailment in Ohio overturns. A truck carrying 40,000 pounds of toxic soil from the cite of a train derailment in Ohio overturned, according to multiple reports.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cbsnews.com/news/east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment-truck-carrying-40000-pounds-of-toxic-soil-crashes-on-highway/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo55XOPYQv$

Ocean Surface Temperatures Reach Record High of Nearly 70°F: The global ocean surface temperature reached 21.1°C (approximately 70°F) in early April, the highest recorded ocean surface temperature since records began. The recorded high beat the previous highest ocean surface temperature of 21.0°C, recorded in 2016.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ecowatch.com/ocean-surface-temperature-record.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo55_hqrYE$

Environmental Groups Sue to Block ‘Unconstitutional’ New Law Allowing Fracking in Ohio State Parks: Environmental and community groups in Ohio have filed a preliminary injunction to stop the leasing of public lands, including state parks, to the oil and gas industry. Ohio HB 507, which redefines methane gas as “green energy” and requires state parks to lease their lands for fracking, went into effect on April 7.
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# General News
Congressional Effort to End Assange Prosecution Underway: The Obama administration could not find a way to charge Assange without also implicating standard journalistic practices. The Trump administration, unburdened by such concerns around press freedom, pushed ahead with the indictment and extradition request.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/03/30/julian-assange-congress-rashida-tlaib/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo59e6JEqq$

20 Years After Illegal US Invasion of Iraq, Its Architects Are Still Cashing In: It had been 15 years since the U.S. invaded Iraq when, on March 19, 2018, the celebrated Iraqi novelist and poet Sinan Antoon published a blistering op-ed in The New York Times. He took readers through his observations of the steady deterioration of Iraqi society since the war began, but the most scathing words came toward the end. “No one knows for certain how many Iraqis have died as a result of the invasion 15 years ago,” Antoon wrote. “Some credible estimates put the number at more than one million. You can read that sentence again. The invasion of Iraq is often spoken of in the United States as a ‘blunder,’ or even a ‘colossal mistake.’ It was a crime. Those who perpetrated it are still at large.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/20-years-after-illegal-us-invasion-of-iraq-its-architects-are-still-cashing-in/*:*:text=War*20*26*20Peace-,20*20Years*20After*20Illegal*20US*20Invasion*20of*20Iraq*2C*20Its*20Architects,still*20profiting*20from*20the*20invasion__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo5we1avuX$

# Gov / Politics
Third Democratic lawmaker leaves party, switches to Republican within amonth: Democrats were dealt another blow from within their own ranks this week as yet another state lawmaker declared he was leaving the party. State Rep. Jeremy LaCombe announced he had left the Democratic Party and would be registering as a Republican. It was not clear what prompted LaCombe’s departure; however, he is now the second Louisiana Democrat in less than a month to switch party affiliations
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3940124-raskin-reveals-oversight-republicans-have-quietly-sent-six-subpoenas-in-probe-of-biden-family-finances/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo57TRJ5NA$

US Navy Challenges Beijing in South China Sea Amid Taiwan Drills: Warship conducts freedom of navigation operation near Spratlys. Move comes as US set to hold military drills with Philippines
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-10/us-navy-challenges-beijing-in-south-china-sea-amid-taiwan-drills__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo51oZbC4l$

Biden on Presidential Run in 2024: ‘I Plan on Running’: “I plan on running Al, but we’re not prepared to announce it yet,” Biden said alongside first lady Jill Biden.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.today.com/news/politics/joe-biden-presidential-run-2024-plan-running-rcna78920__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo58HyuxgS$

Warmongers in Congress Use Tik-Tok to Justify Aggression towards China: Last Thursday, a Congressional hearing took place where the TikTok CEO was grilled for five hours on the grounds of ‘security concerns.’ Ten years ago, Edward Snowden told the whole world the truth about the US global surveillance programs. If Congress cares about our digital privacy, it should first begin by investigating the surveillance policies of its own US agencies. The campaign against TikTok is a fear-mongering tactic to wage war on China. Unlike China as well as other Western countries, such as the EU, the US does not have any digital privacy laws on the federal level.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.laprogressive.com/the-media-in-the-united-states/tik-tok-to-justify-aggression__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo53wrf6hO$

In Surprising Turnaround, Tennessee’s Republican Governor Is Pushing Gun Reform: Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed an executive order to tighten background checks on Tuesday, marking a victory for gun reformers in the GOP-controlled state.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.huffpost.com/entry/in-surprising-turnaround-tennessees-republican-governor-is-pushing-gun-reform_n_6435a237e4b0a9d64e7a91d6*:*:text=TennesseeBill*20Lee-,In*20Surprising*20Turnaround*2C*20Tennessee’s*20Republican*20Governor*20Is*20Pushing*20Gun*20Reform,pass*20a*20red*20flag*20law__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo5xSwSzoa$

The Effort to Suppress the Vote Is Spreading to the Republican Mainstream. They’ve been at it for a long time, and they’re picking up steam. It is understandable if this particular report flew below the radar for you. We are all living in Steve Bannon’s Trumpian dreamworld in which “flooding the zone with shit” has become a remarkably successful political tactic.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/republican-effort-to-suppress-the-vote.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo5309XM4X$

# Legal / DOJ
The mother of the 6-year-old who shot an elementary school teacher was charged with child neglect. No charges are expected to be brought against the 6-year-old; however, teacher Abigail Zwerner filed a $40 million lawsuit against administrators of the elementary school, accusing them of negligence.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/2023/04/11/1169193122/6-year-old-shooting-virginia-mom__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo56jUH0AY$

Judge Overseeing Trump Case Appears to Have Donated to Biden’s Campaign and ‘Stop Republicans’ Group – FEC Records: Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing the Manhattan criminal case against former President Donald Trump appears to have donated at least 35 to Trump’s 2020 political opponents, according to a recent review of Federal Election Commission (FEC) records.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/04/07/trump-case-judge-juan-merchan-donated-to-biden-campaign-in-2020/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo53C3yfNf$

House Oversight Committee subpoenas banks, Biden family associates in probe of finances: The House Oversight Committee issued subpoenas to banks asking for Biden family associates’ financial records. Raskin, the ranking member of the committee, wrote in a memo to other Democrats on the committee that Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) has issued six subpoenas and sent 39 letters in the Biden investigation.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3940124-raskin-reveals-oversight-republicans-have-quietly-sent-six-subpoenas-in-probe-of-biden-family-finances/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo57TRJ5NA$

US Virgin Islands subpoenas four top businessmen in Epstein banking inquiry: A US Virgin Islands investigations into the sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to an American bank issued subpoenas to four wealthy business leaders on Friday, extending its reach into the highest echelons of tech, hospitality and finance. The subpoenas issued to the Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Hyatt Hotels chairperson Thomas Pritzker, American-Canadian businessman Mortimer Zuckerman and former CAA talent agency chairperson Michael Ovitz are crafted to gather more information about Epstein’s relationship with JPMorgan Chase.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://abcnews.go.com/US/virgin-islands-government-subpoenas-multiple-banks-jeffrey-epsteins/story?id=72018117__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo5y8JhTa7$

Trump Really, Really, Really Doesn’t Want Mike Pence Testifying About January 6: That might just have something to do with the former veep’s unique insights into the ex-president’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election. as well as the violent riot that followed.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mike-pence-appeal-subpoena-executive-privilege-january-6-testify-grand-jury/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo59WLl-c5$

Pence will not appeal ruling requiring him to testify in grand jury probe: Former Vice President Pence will not appeal the order from a federal judge to testify in the grand jury probe of former President Trump’s actions surrounding the January 6 Capitol riot.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU8EBLYGt8s__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo53Ksu5g0$

# Media
Censorship by Proxy: How Big Tech Censors Global News Platforms: Censorship by proxy alerts us to the power of economic entities that are not normally recognized as “gatekeepers.” In 2022, the digital financial service PayPal (whose founders include Peter Thiel and Elon Musk) froze the accounts of Consortium News and MintPress News for “unspecified offenses” and “risks” associated with their accounts, a ruling that prevented both independent news outlets from using funds maintained by PayPal.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.laprogressive.com/the-media-in-the-united-states/censorship-by-proxy__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo59zLYlCQ$

NPR Is Stuck on Elon Musk’s Nightmare Ride—And There’s No Off-Ramp in Sight: The billionaire recently designated NPR as “government-funded” a week after labeling it “state-affiliated media.” Meanwhile, other outlets like the BBC and PBS have also gotten caught in the crosshairs.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://flipboard.com/topic/uktelevision/npr-is-stuck-on-elon-musk-s-nightmare-ride-and-there-s-no-off-ramp-in-sight/a-a0RHxPBJRXu1giRbYvcbkA*3Aa*3A3195374-cbf82056dc*2Fvanityfair.com__;JSUl!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo58g240Bt$

# Medical / Health
Drug Companies Are Restricting 340B Patients: Drug companies keep making excuses for why they do not have to live up to their 340B statutory obligations. Drugmakers are allowed to restrict providers’ use of community and specialty pharmacies to dispense drugs in the 340B drug discount program, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The decision is a win for drug manufacturers Sanofi, Novo Nordisk and AstraZeneca.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/340B-hhs-appeals-court-ruling-sanofi-novo-nordisk-astrazeneca/641606/*:*:text=Drugmakers*20are*20allowed*20to*20restrict,Sanofi*2C*20Novo*20Nordisk*20and*20AstraZeneca__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo5_5Tputp$

‘One Shot Destroyed My Life’: Woman Injured by Merck’s HPV Vaccine Speaks Out: Gardasil attorneys from the national law firm of Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman filed a lawsuit against Merck on behalf of a young woman who alleges she developed Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia (POTS) and a host of other serious injuries after receiving the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gardasil-attorneys-allege-hpv-vaccine-caused-girl-to-develop-pots-301176521.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo5xbpfUCh$

Merck safety report about Gardasil 9 talks of deaths, injuries, and accidental vaccination: According to a global Periodic Safety Update Report (PSUR)¹ produced by Merck, who manufacture Gardasil and Gardasil 9, there were 21 reports of deaths after HPV vaccination in a six-month period in 2018. In one case, the patient received five HPV vaccinations whereas three is the recommended maximum number.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://changingtimes.media/2019/12/06/merck-safety-report-about-gardasil-9-talks-of-deaths-injuries-and-accidental-vaccination/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo5y83gjsh$

Insurance Lobbyists Force Government to Heel on Medicare Advantage: But advocates see an opening for reining in the worst abuses of the program.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/health/2023-04-11-insurance-lobbyists-medicare-advantage/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo50rMHGCi$

# Medical Science
Lab-Created Bird Flu Virus Accident Shows Lax Oversight of Risky ‘Gain-of-Function’ Research + More: The story of how the H5N1 viruses came to be created, and the response to a 2019 safety breach, raises uncomfortable questions about the tremendous trust the world is placing in research labs.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/04/11/lab-leak-accident-h-5-n-1-virus-avian-flu-experiment/11354399002/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo50aipwUC$

Lab That Created Risky Avian Flu Had ‘Unacceptable’ Biosafety Protocols PART 1: Student Infected With Debilitating Virus in Undisclosed Biolab Accident
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2022/11/01/biosafety-lab-accident-chikungunya-virus/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo54XtdI72$
PART 2: Accident With 1918 Pandemic Virus Raises Questions About Pathogen Research https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2022/11/01/pandemic-1918-flu-virus-biosafety/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo5wwS6oxr$
PART 3: Lab That Created Risky Avian Flu Had ‘Unacceptable’ Biosafety Protocols https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2022/11/01/biosafety-avian-flu/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo5-fFTIuz$

# Military / DOD
US Army awards Lockheed up to $4.5 bln missiles contract: Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) said on Monday the U.S. Army has awarded a multi-year production contract for Joint-Air-to-Ground Missiles (JAGM) and HELLFIRE missiles, in a deal that could go up to $4.5 billion including follow-on awards.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-army-awards-lockheed-up-45-bln-missiles-contract-2023-04-03/*:*:text=April*203*20(Reuters)*20*2D*20Lockheed,billion*20including*20follow*2Don*20awards__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo5xNF5b3v$

# Military / Global
Egypt’s secret aid for Russia goes against decades of US allyship: Egypt planned to secretly send rockets to Russia, despite being a longtime US ally. In response to the newly leaked US intelligence documents detailing this deal, a spokesperson for Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said that the country is “committing to maintain equal distance with both sides” of the war in Ukraine.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.yahoo.com/egypt-secretly-planned-supply-rockets-005840717.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo51fwH04m$

# Security
FBI sought to develop sources in Christian churches and Catholic dioceses to combat ‘domestic terrorism,’ documents show; FBI hit with subpoena for records by House Judiciary Committee: FBI planned to use churches as “new avenues for tripwire and source development. Based on the limited information produced by the FBI to the Committee, we now know that the FBI relied on at least one undercover agent to produce its analysis, and the FBI proposed that its agents engage in outreach to Catholic parishes to develop sources among the clergy and church leadership to inform on Americans practicing their faith,” Jordan wrote in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-judiciary-subpoenas-fbi-director-christopher-wray-violent-extremism/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo57M3__hE$

FBI documents associate Internet slang like ‘based’ and ‘red pill’ with ‘extremism’: The doc listed key terms associated with ‘Involuntarily Celibate’ and ‘Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism’ | 8 April 2023 | New documents released Monday warned that common internet lingo is being associated with “Violent Extremism” by the FBI. The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project said it used a Freedom of Information Act request to expose FBI documents that include glossaries showing that common internet slang has been flagged as an indication of ‘Involuntary Celibate Violent Extremism’ or ‘Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism.’
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://straightarrownews.com/media-miss/fbi-documents-associate-internet-slang-like-based-and-red-pill-with-extremism/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo5-6QMy_x$
See also: FBI Glossary for Flagging ‘Violent Extremism’
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/04/05/heres-fbi-glossary-for-flagging-violent-extremism/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo59-bIVBi$

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.’ A controversial facial recognition database, used by police departments across the nation, was built in part with 30 billion photos the company scraped from Facebook and other social media users without their permission, the company’s CEO recently admitted, creating what critics called a ‘perpetual police line-up,’ even for people who haven’t done anything wrong.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-scraped-30-billion-images-facebook-police-facial-recogntion-database-2023-4__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo5-q8plaP$

A Front Company and a Fake Identity: How the U.S. Came to Use Spyware It Was Trying to Kill: The secret contract was finalized on Nov. 8, 2021, a deal between a company that has acted as a front for the United States government and the American affiliate of a notorious Israeli hacking firm. Under the arrangement, the Israeli firm, NSO Group, gave the U.S. government access to one of its most powerful weapons, a geolocation tool that can covertly track mobile phones around the world without the phone user’s knowledge or consent. Elements of America’s expansive national security apparatus in recent years have bought the weapons, deployed them against drug traffickers, and have quietly pushed to consolidate control of them into the hands of the United States and its closest allies.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/us/politics/nso-contract-us-spy.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo59NkK3MN$

# Veterans / VA
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Terminates Catholic Pastoral Care Contract During Holy Week, Defense Contractor Brought in That Can’t Handle Role: Move violates First Amendment Right to Free Exercise of Religion.| Walter Reed National Military Medical Center has issued a “cease and desist order” to Holy Name College, a community of Franciscan Catholic priests and brothers, who have provided pastoral care to service members and veterans at Walter Reed for nearly two decades. The government’s cease and desist order directed the Catholic priests to cease any religious services at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2023/04/10/walter-reed-broglio-franciscans-medical-service-245065__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo5xjO__3I$

The Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services is accusing Walter Reed National Military Medical Center of denying Catholic service members and veterans their right to practice their religion after it canceled a contract for pastoral care and issued a ‘cease and desist’ order to a community of Catholic priests just days before Holy Week.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/04/09/catholic-archdiocese-accuses-walter-reed-of-stifling-religious-rights-with-cease-and-desist-order/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo55kQMS_h$

# Water
Biden issues second veto of his presidency on Clean Water Act regulation: President Joe Biden vetoed the second bill of his presidency on April 6, 2023. Biden vetoed H.J.Res.27, a joint resolution of disapproval under the terms of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) that sought to void an Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers rule from 2023 that specified “which bodies of water fall under the scope of the Clean Water Act and are thereby under federal jurisdiction and protected.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_0fa5d140-d7e5-11ed-b36d-0fe5cb258ea6.html*:*:text=Biden*20vetoed*20H.J.Res.27,Act*20and*20are*20thereby*20under__;I34lJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!3L08iesmo6nmPVEWcZxXbCgxVW0XZo1QjQg_zsjs0uN9lA5FCaVPklJCih9eNlJ5WTu7lnm1FkfaMNxKG_p776lo51rDwxxX$

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April 10, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

# Education / Schools
School district to hear from public after superintendent candidate lost job for greeting 2 females as ‘ladies’: Vito Perrone’s use of ‘ladies’ salutation in email to Easthampton School Committee interpreted as ‘microaggression’
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.foxnews.com/us/vito-perrone-easthampton-school-district-superintendent-candidate-lost-job-greeting-ladies-mircoaggression-cynthia-kwiecinski-suzanne-colby__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhQukA_Rh$

# Gov / Politics / Global
Iran and Saudi Arabia: A Chinese Win-Win: The high-speed de-dollarization train has already left the station.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57460.htm__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhYHNyBUZ$

How China’s Saudi-Iran Deal Can Serve U.S. Interests: There’s less to Beijing’s diplomatic breakthrough than meets the eye.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/14/china-saudi-iran-us-middle-east-geopolitics-diplomacy/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhSXI8xbt$

Russian Strike Kills Young Girl and Father as 31 Abducted Ukrainian Children Returned to Families: In Ukraine, an 11-year-old girl and her father were killed Sunday as Russia’s military struck a residential building in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia. The violence came as a Ukrainian charity said it has reunited dozens of children with their families over the past week, after they were deported from occupied parts of Ukraine.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.democracynow.org/2023/4/10/headlines/russian_strike_kills_young_girl_and_father_as_31_abducted_ukrainian_children_returned_to_families__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhZ5mFq74$

Seoul to question Washington over social media military leaks, South’s president says: The documents reportedly ranged from information about the ongoing war in Ukraine to the possibility of South Korea providing artillery shells to Kyiv. Papers shared on social media purported to contain data on Israel, South Korea and France obtained by US agencies.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/09/leaked-pentagon-documents-draw-denials-from-us-allies__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhbGVylUC$

# Gov / Politics
A Change in Values to Reverse a Nation in Perilous Decline: We need a value to replace greed as our highest goal. Compassion? Justice? Love of truth?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/progressive-values-in-age-of-greed__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhVqfBdvP$

Savage Capitalism: Savage capitalism – wrecking lives, wrecking the planet. The recent report by the International Panel on Climate Change, although watered down to meet the objections of the worst polluters, spells out what this means in graphic detail. Billions will face disaster from flooding, desertification, water shortage and other environmental consequences of global warming – unless there is a radical reversal of humanity’s production and consumption consequences.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1311__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhaGMnV35$

Two Manhattan DA Classmates Hold Trump’s Fate in Their Hands: Justice Juan Merchan and Special Counsel Jack Smith were in the same class of rookie Manhattan prosecutors in 1994. Now they both could affect Donald Trump’s fate.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-two-manhattan-da-classmates-hold-trumps-fate-in-their-hands__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhUkJ5X4h$

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Seeks Pardon for Man Convicted of Murdering BLM Protester: Daniel Perry accelerated his car into a crowd of protesters during the 2020 George Floyd protests in Austin.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/world/us/texas-governor-seeks-pardon-man-convicted-murder-black-lives-matter-shooting-2023-04-09/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhfuyHv95$

Nashville governing council votes to return Rep. Justin Jones to Tennessee House after expulsion: One of the two Black Democrats who were expelled last week from the GOP-led Tennessee House was reinstated Monday after Nashville’s governing council voted to send him straight back to the Legislature
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/nashville-governing-council-votes-to-return-rep-jones-to-tennessee-house-after-expulsion__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhcjg1WLI$

# Law Enforcment
Teen Could Face Death By Firing Squad After Cocaine Found In Luggage At Bali Airport: A19-year-old Brazilian traveler is facing the possibility of a death sentence in Bali after more than 6.5 lbs of cocaine was found in her luggage.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/teen-could-face-death-by-firing-squad-after-cocaine-found-in-luggage-at-bali-airport/ar-AA19GLCP?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=021ef48167f84bb8a7b64e2a1c50b7e3&ei=8__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhU0Cicgm$

She sought help from police but they arrested her instead. Now she has been awarded $200K: When Yessenia Garcia and her boyfriend told police that a vandal shattered the window of their car, police in turn accused her of being involved in a hit-and-run, arrested her, and forced her to spend a night in jail.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rawstory.com/she-sought-help-from-police-but-they-arrested-her-instead-now-she-has-been-awarded-200k/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhfXTR_wC$

# Legal / DOJ
Trump Will Try to Have Case Dismissed Before Trial: Jim Trusty said motions to dismiss will be prioritized to “amputate this miscarriage of justice early on.” While Donald Trump launches verbal attacks against the prosecutor and judge overseeing his criminal charges in connection with hush money payments to the adult film star Stormy Daniels, an attorney for the former US president has said his main focus is on legal maneuvers aiming to get the case dismissed long before a trial jury is ever seated.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/10/trump-lawyer-jim-trusty-defense-strategy__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhdP-9k9e$

# LGBTQ / Gender
Majority of LGBTQ+ People in the U.S. Struggle to Afford Basic Necessities: A new survey’s findings corroborate years of research showing that LGBTQ+ people experience poverty at high rates. The survey’s findings align with years of research that LGBTQ+ people experience poverty at high rates, and investigates new aspects of queer economic insecurity.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://19thnews.org/2023/04/lgbtq-finances-bills-economic-insecurity/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhReNJIpd$

# Medical / Health
Study reveals that pollution can cause lung cancer in thousands of non-smokers: The analysis of more than 30,000 patients in Europe, America and Asia suggests that fine particles cause tumors. The new study demonstrates that particles in the air cause cancer in healthy people who happen to have mutations that predispose them to lung cancer, like EGFR. The study indicates that just three years of breathing polluted air can cause the incidence of lung cancer in non-smokers to take off.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-04-06/a-study-reveals-that-pollution-can-cause-lung-cancer-in-thousand-of-non-smokers.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhTzpYuGG$

The Department Of Justice Has Asked An Appeals Court To Halt A Suspension On Mifepristone “If allowed to take effect, the court’s order would thwart FDA’s scientific judgment and severely harm women.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/clarissajanlim/abortion-drug-mifepristone-doj-fda-appeals-court__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhYQK9uHU$

Two federal judges have issued conflicting opinions on the FDA’s approval of an abortion medication, setting the stage for a Supreme Court battle: A federal judge in Texas suspended the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a drug used in medication abortion, potentially making it inaccessible nationwide. The case marks the latest right-wing endeavor to chip away at abortion access across the US since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/federal-judge-mifepristone-abortion-drug-ruling__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhTCTWa2U$

Abortion Medication in Limbo: “Unprecedented Step in Taking Away Basic Freedoms From Women”: “The district court’s extraordinary and unprecedented order should be stayed pending appeal,” the Justice Department said in a court filing. “If allowed to take effect, the court’s order would thwart FDA’s scientific judgment and severely harm women,” the filing said. “This harm would be felt throughout the country, given that mifepristone has lawful uses in every state.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/us-govt-asks-appeal-court-190117929.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhabaknX5$

# Military / DOD
The Threat from Extremist Groups Is Growing. Service Members and Vets Are Getting Sucked into the Violence. “Nothing shall deter us from our duty in this eternal struggle — not death nor prison,” Brandon Russell wrote from his jail cell in May 2020. “We are always comforted by the thought of knowing we did the right thing in fighting this wretched System.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/04/05/threat-extremist-groups-growing-service-members-and-vets-are-getting-sucked-violence.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhZcWQVFm$

The Army Increasingly Allows Soldiers Charged With Violent Crimes to Leave the Military Rather Than Face Trial. A federal watchdog called for ending the practice nearly 50 years ago, but the military pushed back. Now, soldiers leave the Army with a negative discharge, avoiding possible federal conviction and with little record of the allegations against them.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/04/10/army-increasingly-allows-soldiers-charged-violent-crimes-leave-military-rather-face-trial.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhRmFsf22$

# Military / Global
Documents possibly leaked from the Pentagon show cracks in Ukraine’s defenses: Alleged leaked Pentagon documents suggest that Ukraine’s air defense system could run out of ammunition by May. The authenticity of the Pentagon documents has not been verified, the Guardian reports. But officials are investigating whether the potential leak came from a US insider.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-may-run-out-of-air-defenses-by-may-leaked-pentagon-documents-warn-b96b0655__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYheRUUSBo$

Pentagon in Panic as Second Set of Leaked Documents Gains Traction, Revealing Spying on Allies and Deteriorating Ukraine Capabilities
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/04/pentagon-in-panic-as-second-set-of-leaked-documents-gains-traction-revealing-spying-on-allies-and-deteriorating-ukraine-capabilities.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhUlj3iTV$

Leaked documents: NATO members active in Ukraine: Special operations personnel from NATO members France, America, Britain and Latvia were already active in Ukraine. Leaked military documents on Ukraine battlefield operations circulated as early as March. The leak is one of the most high-profile breaches of military intelligence since the Russian invasion in 2022.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/07/leaked-military-documents-on-ukraine-battlefield-operations-circulated-as-early-as-march-00091073__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYhbi4jNwj$

# Science
This catalyst can upcycle plastic waste in ways that almost seem too good: A zirconium-based catalyst promises to break down polymers. It’s probably the best plastic-degradation solution we’ve come across.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://phys.org/news/2023-02-zirconia-based-catalyst-plastics-upcycling-sustainable.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xY9sokevo95BxwjpLBpY3DKgRFAcMZqNB5EqYIx_MEOE0LGwi63Y5DID87xYqJp701H4g3E-LHlrM5vnW-NS-crYha3jr814$

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April 9, 2023
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# Education / Schools
North Dakota Republicans Vote to Boost Own Meals After Nixing Free School Meals: One Republican who voted to expand his own meals said last week that child hunger isn’t the responsibility of the state.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.inforum.com/news/north-dakota/north-dakota-senators-boost-their-own-meal-reimbursements-after-rejecting-free-school-lunch-bill__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRuf8a8yrAW$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
The US hands China the Middle East at its own peril: Alongside the recent China-brokered agreement for Iran and Saudi Arabia to resume diplomatic ties, these developments typify an ongoing transition: America is stepping back, and China is stepping up in the Middle East.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsweek.com/china-saudi-arabia-gulf-middle-east-us-relations-economics-security-1768304__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRuf1lirwDV$

‘Gold library’ helps Brazil crack down on Amazon’s illegal mining: Launched in 2019, the Ouro Alvo program is creating a gold database with samples obtained from different parts of Brazil. The information is allowing the Federal Police to create a chemical fingerprint of each sample, which they can then use to cross-reference the origin of seized or suspicious gold. While technology can be a great ally to fight the illegal gold trade, experts say the country still needs stricter regulations governing the industry.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/gold-library-helps-brazil-crack-down-on-amazons-illegal-mining/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRufzwepWoD$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Another casualty of climate change, dissolved oxygen: Oxygen-depleted deserts, an expected feature of our warming oceans.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://hakaimagazine.com/news/another-casualty-of-climate-change-dissolved-oxygen/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRufxNF2gqx$

Logging Plan on Yellowstone’s Border Shows Limits of Biden Greenhouse Gas Policy: Despite new ‘guidance,’ the Forest Service moves to clear-cut mature pines in Montana without a detailed accounting of the cost in carbon emissions. The U.S. Forest Service decided to move forward with a 16,000 acre logging project on the border of Yellowstone National Park without applying the new guidance, which would have involved a detailed projection of resulting greenhouse gas emissions.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07042023/logging-deforestation-custer-gallatin-national-forest/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRuf6wGPQLg$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global New research on seafloor formations near Norway shows much faster ice sheet retreat, up to 2,000 feet per day, than has previously been documented.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05042023/ice-sheet-retreat-climate-change/*:*:text=A*20new*20study*20of*20the,of*20the*20last*20ice*20age__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRufyZuHf8I$

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
Plastics touching our food may be making us gain weight: Hormone-disrupting chemicals are entering our bodies. We eat 44lbs of plastic in our lifetimes. “Our experiments show that ordinary plastic products contain a mix of substances that can be a relevant and underestimated factor behind overweight and obesity,” says Martin Wagner, an associate professor at NTNU’s Department of Biology, in a university release.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://studyfinds.org/plastic-chemicals-weight-gain/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRufzLLlfux$

# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin has one last step before a decisive blow to the West: The problem for Putin, however, is that India remains suspicious of China because of the protracted border standoff,” he said. The observer noted that after the clashes on the border with China in 2020, India took tough measures by imposing restrictions on Chinese mobile applications and investors. However, this does not mean that Delhi does not want to challenge the dollar’s global dominance, Zeeshan added.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theinteldrop.org/2023/04/07/putin-has-one-last-step-before-a-decisive-blow-to-the-west/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRuf2KpSGDh$

# Gov / Politics
History in the Making: David Cay Johnston on Why Trump’s Arraignment May Renew American Democracy: “Donald has lied and cheated and stolen from people left and right. He spent a decade up to his eyeballs with a major international drug trafficker, for whom he did extraordinary and inexplicable favors. Nothing has ever happened to him in all of these cases. And now, finally, Donald is being called to account,” Johnston stated.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.democracynow.org/2023/4/4/trump_arraignment__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRuf6AtZUga$

Gerald Ford’s Pardon of Nixon Is Why Trump Can Run for Prez: Trump’s legal woes will put Gerald Ford’s pardoning metric to the test. For presidents and governors, 38th president’s pardon of Nixon is lone precedent. Richard Nixon’s legal problems ended on the steps of Marine One, with a double victory signal. Donald Trump’s began Tuesday with the first U.S. presidential perp walk in Manhattan.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://rollcall.com/2023/04/06/trumps-legal-woes-will-put-gerald-fords-pardoning-metric-to-the-test/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRuf1Mq8QPt$

Why Did These 5 Boot TN Black Reps but Keep White Colleague?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.yahoo.com/why-did-5-vote-boot-205811182.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRuf0fbB1Y7$

Anti-Protest Laws Are Not About Safety, They Are About Silencing Dissent: We must not allow our movements for justice to be silenced by laws that criminalize dissent. While demonstrators always fear being criminalized for exercising their constitutional right to stage protests, being charged with domestic terrorism has a particularly chilling effect. The move to charge protesters with domestic terrorism comes months after one protester, Manuel Paez Terán (who went by the name Tortuguita), was killed by police.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/anti-protest-laws-are-not-about-safety-they-are-about-silencing-dissent/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRuf240Ym3n$

# Law Enforcment
Policing Does Not Have Problems, It Is the Problem: Policing is neither reformable nor redeemable. Watching the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols for me drove home a deeper understanding that policing as an institution can never be reformed, and that policing itself is structurally tied to inherent forms of repressive control, “legitimate” violence and surveillance.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/policing-does-not-have-problems-it-is-the-problem/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRuf0i1g83k$

7 Black People Killed After Cops Falsely Discover a Gun That was Never
There: In a number of police brutality cases, the actions of a police officer are justified if the person is holding or reaching for a firearm, even when it is found later that the cop made a mistake. Recently, a Missouri Prosecutor has decided not to criminally charge two Independence Police Department officers who shot and killed 39-year-old Tyrea Pryor after a car crash after mistaking him for holding a gun.
Pryor’s case is one of many examples of police brutality but here are seven examples of cops pulling the “they had a gun” card.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theroot.com/7-black-people-killed-after-cops-falsely-discover-a-gun-1850259091__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRuf_eMdRVY$

NYC Police and Landlords Are Turning to Surveillance Tech to Expand Their Reach: The city has long been a testing ground for surveillance tools as a mechanism for social control.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/nyc-police-and-landlords-are-turning-to-surveillance-tech-to-expand-their-reach/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRufyAnoFv9$

# Legal / DOJ
Trump Legal Team Moves to Block Report from Georgia Grand Jury: Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are attacking a special grand jury and prosecutors who investigated him in Georgia, asking a state court to throw out its report and all testimony from the inquiry and bar Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from continuing to investigate or prosecute Trump.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-grand-jury-filing-prosecutors-b92649f938006c325d9c6aa68f5cc857__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRuf5HMH2My$

Lawmakers Urge Chief Justice Roberts to Probe Clarence Thomas’s Secret Trips: Calls mount for Thomas to be investigated after accepting millions in undisclosed gifts from billionaire Harlan Crow.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3940506-democrats-ask-chief-justice-to-investigate-clarence-thomas-trips-it-is-your-duty/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRufw3zmeEW$

# Medical / Health
Federal Judge in Texas Rules to Restrict Access to Medication Abortion: The ruling by Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who has deep anti-abortion ties, will likely be reviewed by the Supreme Court. A Texas federal judge ruled Friday evening to suspend the FDA’s approval of mifepristone — one of two drugs used together to cause an abortion, virtually banning the sale of the pills across the country.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/07/texas-judge-halts-fda-approval-of-abortion-pill-00091096*:*:text=A*20Texas*20federal*20judge*20ruled,the*20pills*20across*20the*20country__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRuf_FMBcl_$

Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need: This view of the problematic use of algorithms for prior authorizations – and denial based on incorrect assessment of patient needs – is at the center of reporting and analysis published in the health, medicine and life sciences publication, STAT.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/03/medicare-advantage-uses-algorithms-to-block-care-for-seniors.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRufzRdQvz5$

Minnesota Lets Nurses Practice While Disciplinary Investigations Drag On. Patients Keep Getting Hurt. A 2015 state audit found the Minnesota Board of Nursing was slow to act on complaints about nurses, putting the public at risk. The board ramped up its discipline for a few years, but now cases are backing up again.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJFCrRzgVhE__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRuf6JAgvQj$
See also: KARE 11 Investigates: A ProPublica and KARE 11 Investigation finds the state nursing board drags its feet investigating complaints against nurses accused of serious misconduct.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.kare11.com/article/news/investigations/kare-investigates-board-delays-allow-potentially-dangerous-nurses-to-practice/89-1da65951-01ff-4d6b-a3bd-b1d55ac209af__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRuf8ewa3ed$

# Military / DOD
Pentagon investigating purported leak of secret military documents about Ukraine: The Defense Department is investigating a purported leak on social media of classified military documents that lay out details about U.S. and NATO support for Ukraine against invading Russian forces, a Pentagon official said Friday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-04-07/pentagon-ukraine-leak-investigation-9734347.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRuf-DHVO_d$

US sends guided-missile submarine to Middle East as Iran-backed attacks escalate: The U.S. Navy’s show of force comes amid growing harassment of U.S. troops in Syria and attacks on U.S. bases by Iran-backed militants.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/gulf-tensions-us-submarine-iran-74d6bc9cf2b8781edab7b081151914ae__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRuf9X-p6ci$

# Military / Global
Iran kickstarts multi-front Middle East war against Israel – analysis: The Islamic Republic’s proxies and allies appear to have begun a multi-front conflict with Israel over the past week. A week of attacks on Israel, including rockets fired from Lebanon, Gaza and Syria, represent the manifestation of an Iranian strategy to confront Israel with multiple threats on different fronts.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-738765__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRufzzdTlMj$

Troops Reveal Pact to ‘Destroy’ Putin’s Empire From Within: “The same torture, the same mass graves… the things the Russians are doing in Ukraine, they were doing back in Chechnya,” Maga told The Daily Beast from his unit’s hideout in eastern Ukraine last month. “They just come and destroy everyone who could be against their power.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/chechen-fighters-make-war-pact-with-ukrainian-troops-to-fight-vladimir-putin?ref=home__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRuf8VdsFbC$

# Social
New York tenants fight as landlords embrace facial recognition cameras: More than 130 residents at a Brooklyn apartment complex oppose plan to use the cameras, whose use, experts say, is quietly expanding in cities
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/may/29/new-york-facial-recognition-cameras-apartment-complex__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRuf7uqAlaz$

# Technology
Lie Detector Firm Lobbies CIA, DOD on Automated Eye-Scanning Tech: Converus is pitching EyeDetect to defense and intelligence agencies. But experts say eye movements are not reliable indicators of deception.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/04/07/lie-detector-dod-cia-converus/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRufyuv1Etq$

# Water
Water Is a Human Right. Let’s Create a Society That Affirms This: We have come to know water as the latest casualty of late capitalism’s doctrine of scarcity.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/water-is-a-human-right-lets-create-a-society-that-affirms-this/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!z7gXR_Itxk8FzCHYeGgsrPegS_j6fm0JtHhP3Jm86tRaNBJBYQvznc0MWOOHdH_0UsvCNfRkDdl1o-wM6HNY-BRuf2BbUzFG$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-04-06

Voices, The Peoples News

April 6, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

# Indigenous / Global
Indigenous Pataxó demand land demarcation amid rising violence and murders by Sarah Sax and Hanna Wallis: The Pataxó Indigenous people in southern Brazil are experiencing a renewed wave of violence and orders to leave their communities after they began reoccupying part of their traditional lands last summer. They are looking to see if and how the new administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva can curb violence, mitigate land conflicts and demarcate their lands while standing up to powerful economic interests in the region, as state and local authorities are connected to the recent murders and violence.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/indigenous-pataxo-demand-land-demaraction-amid-rising-violence-and-murders/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI5ysgXnmX$

Expansion of Mennonite farmland in Bolivia encroaches on Indigenous land by Iván Paredes Tamayo: Mennonites first began settling in Bolivia in the 1950s, primarily in the department of Santa Cruz. Today, Bolivia’s Mennonite population numbers around 150,000, most of whom are involved in mechanized, industrial agriculture. As Mennonite colonies continue to expand, so too are their massive crop fields, which are putting pressure on Santa Cruz’s Indigenous Territories and other protected areas. However, like those of other Mennonite communities in Latin America, Chihuahua’s Mennonite families are masters of agribusiness and soy cultivation, and are continually expanding their industrial farms.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/expansion-of-mennonite-farmland-in-bolivia-encroaches-on-indigenous-land/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI52p4XRBG$

Ecuador court upholds ‘rights of nature,’ blocks Intag Valley copper mine: Community members in Ecuador’s Intag Valley have won a court case to stop the Llurimagua copper mining project, with the court ordering the revocation of mining licenses from Chile’s Codelco and Ecuador’s ENAMI EP. The Llurimagua mining concession is in the Tropical Andes, the world’s most biodiverse hotspot, home to dozens of threatened and endemic species, including two near-extinct frog species.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/ecuador-court-upholds-rights-of-nature-blocks-intag-valley-copper-mine/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI54wAeDLJ$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Covid Origins: Updated Chinese Study Confirms Presence Of Raccoon Dog: Wednesday’s study, published in the journal Nature, “confirmed the existence” of the animal and others susceptible to the coronavirus at the Wuhan market, The New York Times reported. But researchers stressed that they found no direct evidence that a raccoon dog was infected and have not ruled out a scenario in which people gave the virus to animals.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://khn.org/morning-breakout/covid-origins-updated-chinese-study-confirms-presence-of-raccoon-dog/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI5111HeBL$

Scientists respond to COVID-origins data: The analysis confirms that swabs from the market, which has long been linked to the start of the pandemic, contained genetic material from wild animals and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. This suggests that it’s possible an animal could have been an intermediate host of a virus that spilled over to infect humans.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00998-y__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI52jcITNF$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
The powerful forces keeping high interest title lending alive in Georgia: TMX Finance and Select Management Resources, two major title lending brands, have been cozying up to Georgia lawmakers in a position to bottleneck industry reform.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/11/15/how-title-lenders-trap-poor-georgians-in-debt-triple-digit-interest-rates__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI5-bMQxxZ$

House Freedom Caucus bills would reduce deficit by $1 trillion over decade (10 years): Members of the House Freedom Caucus introduced 500 bills to reduce non-discretionary spending to pre-COVID levels. The legislation faces an uphill battle with a Democratically-controlled Senate and the likely veto pen of President Joe Biden. Biggs argues that the bills would save roughly $100 billion in 2024 and $1 trillion over a decade.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house-freedom-caucus-bills-would-reduce-deficit-by-1-trillion-over-decade*:*:text=The*20legislation*20faces*20an*20uphill,*241*20trillion*20over*20a*20decade__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI5wrIFvWK$ .

Grocery Chains, Including Safeway and Stop & Shop, Are Closing Stores, Starting April 16: Several of the closing locations are underperforming, the grocery companies said. Grocery stores across the country have been axing locations, and no one is totally immune.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bestlifeonline.com/grocery-stores-closing-jan-news/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI5xFzzMBT$

# Education / Schools
Maine School District Pulls Library Books After Complaints: The books were removed from shelves even before being reviewed. A school board in southern Maine on Monday voted almost unanimously to keep “Gender Queer: A Memoir” in school libraries after some parents and community members challenged the book over illustrations of nudity and sex.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclusion/3673798-maine-school-district-votes-against-removal-of-one-of-the-nations-most-challenged-books/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI5-3EVgdR$

Students across the U.S. stage walkouts, demanding an end to gun violence: Relentless shootings have already claimed more than 10,000 lives in a little over three months this year. “We’ve grown up in the midst of America’s gun violence crisis. In fact, we’ve been called the ‘school shooting generation,'” protest organizer Students Demand Action explained. “Now we’re rising up and organizing in our high schools, colleges, and communities across the country to demand action to end gun violence.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/national-school-walkout__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI521U64GN$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Op-ed: Biden’s Arctic drilling go-ahead illustrates the limits of democratic problem solving: President Biden continues to deploy conventional tactics against the highly unconventional threat of climate change.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ehn.org/biden-alaska-drilling-2659719857.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI57GvBhTP$

Bills aimed at adding more natural gas power to Texas grid clear Senate: Lawmakers passed Senate Bill 6 and Senate Bill 7 by votes of 22-9 and 31-0, respectively. The bills represent a push toward funneling more money to natural gas energy production in the state, which supporters say will improve the electric grid because those generators can essentially come on with the flip of a switch. Critics say the bills could lead to untold billions in added costs to customers and minimal benefits while ignoring needed efforts to reduce electricity demand.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/05/texas-senate-grid-natural-gas-energy-legislature/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI5_0l99WY$

These global banks made emission pledges. They still invest billions in Gulf Coast LNG exports: By the end of the decade, the Gulf Coast could see as many as 12 new liquefied natural gas terminals built along its shores.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lailluminator.com/2023/04/05/these-global-banks-made-emission-pledges-they-still-invest-billions-in-gulf-coast-lng-exports/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI5-WZfIgf$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global Projected collapse of crucial Antarctic current met with media silence:
Science doesn’t guide U.S. corporate media, which were virtually silent on the landmark study. The Nature study, which also refers to the current as the Antarctic Bottom Water, found that this circulation system is projected to slow down 42% by 2050, with a total collapse “this century,” according to study co-author Matthew England
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://fair.org/home/projected-collapse-of-crucial-antarctic-current-met-with-media-silence/*:*:text=The*20Nature*20study*2C*20which*20also,3*2F29*2F23__;I34lJSUlJSUl!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI50OUiQSg$

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
‘Growing chicken from animal cells’: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced [recently] that it has completed its second pre-market consultation with a lab-grown meat company. GOOD Meat will use animal cell culture technology to take living cells from chickens and grow the cells in a lab to make cultured animal cell food.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2023/04/05/growing-chicken-from-animal-cells-fda-appears-poised-to-approve-second-us-lab-grown-meat/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI51S_KpKi$

# General News
Trump’s Secret Love Child Revealed – Twitter Users React with Savage Humor: The story came from one of the doormen who once worked at the Trump Tower, Dino Sajudin. Sajudin had a story to tell, and it was 2015, five months into Trump’s successful presidential run. He knew the name of Trump’s alleged mistress and the child that Trump allegedly fathered with the anonymous woman. But one person on Twitter noticed the charge related to the child Trump fathered out of wedlock, and Twitter was ground zero for hilarity after she did.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bestlifeonline.com/grocery-stores-closing-jan-news/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI5xFzzMBT$

# Gov / Politics / Global
Europe Moves to “De-Risk” From China: By depending on China for renewable energy materials, EU governments risk making the same mistake as they did with Russian gas. Public opinion in Europe is split north-south on whether and how to decrease economic interdependence with China
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://morningconsult.com/2023/04/04/europe-china-de-risking/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI55XS8P7g$

# Gov / Politics
Two Republicans Kicked Off County Election Board in North Carolina for Failing to Certify Results: What happened to the officials stands in sharp contrast to elsewhere in the U.S., where those who voted against certification faced few consequences. Forestieri and DeHaan told the board that they could not be certain of the identities of voters or the validity of their ballots because they disagreed with a federal judge striking down a voter ID law for discriminating against minorities. Forestieri defended their actions as a “free speech issue.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.salon.com/2023/04/04/two-kicked-off-county-board-in-north-carolina-for-failing-to-certify-results_partner/*:*:text=Forestieri*20and*20DeHaan*20told*20the,a*20*22free*20speech*20issue.*22__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI5_yOfcbX$

China sending weapons to Russia would be ‘historic mistake,’ NATO chief says: At NATO headquarters, members gathered this week to welcome Finland into the alliance fold. They also took stock of Russia’s war in Ukraine, which has raised security concerns that extend beyond Europe.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2023-04-05/nato-finland-meeting-brussels-9711396.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI59w45be1$

Tennessee Republicans move to expel 3 Democratic lawmakers for supporting student-led gun protests: “This is authoritarianism,” Tennessee state Representative Justin Jones says of attempts to remove him. “This is an assault on our democracy.” The extraordinarily rare move resulted in a chaotic and fiery confrontation between lawmakers and supporters opposing the move and has further fractured an already deep political division inside the Tennessee Legislature.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/tennessee-house-gop-moves-to-expel-3-democrats-after-participation-in-gun-control-protest__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI5z1kY8PY$

GOP Election Bill in Florida Aims to Make It Harder for Gen Z to Vote: The bill “came out of nowhere” and passed a committee vote within 24 hours of introduction, one Democratic lawmaker said. The bill would bar people from voting by mail if they don’t have a verified Social Security number, a valid state-issued driver’s license or a Florida ID card
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/03/florida-senate-election-laws-00090252__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI52bMC67C$

CHD Founder Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Files to Run for U.S. President: Kennedy Jr. has filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to run for president in 2024 as a Democrat. The filing was confirmed Wednesday by his campaign treasurer, John E. Sullivan. Kennedy will officially announce his candidacy on April 19 in Boston, his campaign said.
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White House Blames Trump for Deadly Afghanistan Withdrawal mess, then sneaks away to Camp David: “During the transition from the Trump Administration to the Biden administration, the outgoing administration provided no plans for how to conduct the final withdrawal or to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies,” the document states. “There were no such plans in place when President Biden came into office, even with the agreed-upon full withdrawal just over three months away.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/04/06/biden-review-of-chaotic-afghan-withdrawal-blames-trump/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI5-kEfjBV$

# Law Enforcment
ICE Has Quietly Been Forcing Schools and Abortion Clinics to Share Private Data: Since 2008, ICE has spent more than $2.8 billion on new surveillance, data collection and data-sharing initiatives. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have requested information from news organizations, elementary schools and abortion clinics, according to documents received by Wired. Other primary recipients of the subpoenas include telecommunications and technology companies, money transfer services and airlines.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.wired.com/story/ice-1509-custom-summons/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI5-pi28QR$

# Legal / DOJ
Judge in Trump Case Gets Dozens of Threats After Indictment: The ex-president and his MAGA minions have accused the Manhattan jurist and his family of being biased against him. One official told NBC News that Judge Juan Merchan and his chamber have received “dozens” of threats since Mr Trump vocally criticised the judge. Additionally, District Attorney Alvin Bragg has received threat since news broke that a grand jury would indict the former president.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-judge-arraigment-threats-b2315414.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI5_fMneYc$

Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor: For over 20 years, Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas has been treated to luxery vacations by billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow. Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI569d_-Fl$

AOC Renews Call for Clarence Thomas to Be Impeached Following Bombshell Report: “This degree of corruption is shocking, almost cartoonish. Thomas must be impeached.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/aoc-renews-call-for-clarence-thomas-to-be-impeached-following-bombshell-report/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI5yYsnK16$

New York Indictment Is Just the Beginning of Trump’s Mounting Legal Woes: The New York district attorney’s case against Trump is a strong one. Trump is also the target of criminal investigations by the U.S. Justice Department and the State of Georgia. Statements of facts, which provide a road map of the case, are frequently used in complex white-collar crime cases. *This is the first sentence of the Statement of Facts: The defendant DONALD J. TRUMP repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/new-york-indictment-is-just-the-beginning-of-trumps-mounting-legal-woes/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI56H_4xFu$

# LGBTQ / Gender
A New Ban On Trans Girls And Women In School Sports Could Lead To “Invasive Examinations” Of Student-Athletes To Prove Their Gender, Advocates Say: The Republican lawmaker who introduced the bill said it would be enforced via student-athletes’ physical exams.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lilkalish/kansas-republicans-ban-transgender-women-and-girls-from__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI58DxvcQB$

# Medical / Health
White House moves to crack down on medicare advantage care denials: Final regulations issued Wednesday mean Medicare Advantage plans won’t be able to reject coverage of care that would otherwise be covered for those enrolled in the traditional Medicare program, Stat explains. Nursing home payments, hospital executive compensation, and more are also in the news.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://khn.org/morning-breakout/white-house-moves-to-crack-down-on-medicare-advantage-care-denials/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI58h4s0uK$

CMS, insurers clash over whether Medicare Advantage is going to be cut in proposed rule: Health insurers and the Biden administration are at loggerheads over whether Medicare Advantage (MA) plans will see a pay cut next year, the ramifications of which come amid increased regulatory scrutiny for the popular program.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/cms-insurers-clash-over-whether-medicare-advantage-going-be-cut-proposed-rule__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI5zBrscw0$

Michigan Becomes First State to Repeal Abortion Ban Post-Roe: The bill comes after voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure protecting abortion access in the state last year.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/michigan-becomes-first-state-to-repeal-abortion-ban-post-roe/*:*:text=On*20Wednesday*2C*20Michigan*20became*20the,abortion*20ban*20in*20the*20state__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI56RGe8B7$

# Military / Global
Intel Signals Putin on the Verge of a Military Firing Spree: The apparent dismissal of a top Russian military commander in Ukraine is a sign that more heads could soon roll in the Kremlin’s military ranks, according to a new British government intelligence assessment.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/intel-signals-putin-on-the-verge-of-a-military-firing-spree/ar-AA19yFEK?li=BBnbcA1__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI550fN6-M$

# Pharmaceuticals / Drugs
Pharmacist sentenced to 15 years in prison in $11 million Tricare fraud scheme: Prosecutors said Sandy Mai Trang Nguyen used her position as the pharmacist in charge of Irvine Wellness Pharmacy to help other schemers fill more than 1,000 bogus prescriptions. A former licensed pharmacist in Irvine, Calif., was found guilty on 21 counts of healthcare fraud and sentenced to 180 months in federal prison.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-04-05/fraud-tricare-court-9710443.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0K4Ki6WWd2ySkv2uQ_FrORaVP9YKxYHIJUOKN1PmqtYjDhkzjc3NiDkgQnKaBUHkxC4P3EuZX2siEMnf0oZ4uXjI56k7HJD2$

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