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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-07-13

Voices, The Peoples News

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

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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Border Patrol agents apprehending human smugglers, helping with convictions: Over the last nine months, Swanton Sector Border Patrol agents alone have apprehended over 4,6000 foreign nationals who’ve illegally entered the U.S. from Canada from over 67 countries. Despite being understaffed, they’ve apprehended more people this fiscal year than in the last seven years combined.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_e102e190-20da-11ee-bfb8-1bf8caecb6df.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtcBmmxiA$

Biden administration expands parole program to millions from four more countries: Despite a federal judge in Florida ruling more than once that the Biden administration parole program is illegal, the administration has expanded it and created another parole program to allow even more people into the U.S
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/01/05/joe-biden-immigration-plan-el-paso-texas/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtRspTZUP$

# Children / Youth
Senate Republicans: Biden ‘created largest child trafficking ring in US history’: U.S. Senate Republicans launched a video on Wednesday claiming that President Joe Biden has “created the largest child trafficking ring in U.S. history.” The video quotes Republican senators at hearings expressing concern about the extraordinary number of unaccompanied minors being trafficked to and through the U.S. southern border. In one clip, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, says “Biden does not care about the 300,000 plus unaccompanied children that have been placed with sponsors since he became president.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_0cc6837a-20dd-11ee-be5c-8f14eaf139f0.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtRNpZP1Q$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
A 27-state coalition of attorneys general is asking the Supreme Court to side with a lower court regarding the unconstitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) funding mechanism: Under current law, CFPB can obtain hundreds of millions in funding by sending a half-page letter to the Federal Reserve. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled last year that the Obama-era funding mechanism is illegal and Congress has the power of the purse to oversee federal agency funding.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_b7f58ed2-20db-11ee-b8a6-03b46305e90c.html*:*:text=**BWe*20are*20asking*20the*20Supreme,boundaries*20provided*20by*20the*20Constitution.**B__;I37igJwlJSUlJSUlJeKAnQ!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtQ3PNkeI$

# Employment / Labor
Kenyan Workers Who Trained ChatGPT Demand Government Investigate Work Conditions: “The fortunes of Big Tech are currently built on the broken backs and minds of African youth,” one legal advocate said. The powerful artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot can generate text on almost any topic or theme, from a Shakespearean sonnet reimagined in the style of Megan Thee Stallion, to complex mathematical theorems described in language a 5 year old can understand. Within a week, it had more than a million users.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtQco55_7$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
Oil and gas production responsible for $77 billion in annual US health damages: These health impacts affected communities in states with high oil and gas production, as well as states with limited or no gas activity, underlining the need for comprehensive regulatory action to protect Americans from pollutants.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/05/230508114018.htm__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtQ8DJRa6$

Developer confirms funding for massive Rio Grande gas terminal: The Port of Brownsville was the last major deepwater port of Texas still undeveloped by large fossil fuel projects.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12072023/rio-grande-lng-export-terminal-brownsville/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtdJGBtLU$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Scientists are freaking out about surging temperatures. Why aren’t politicians? Western leaders’ attention is focused elsewhere as ‘unprecedented’ heat warms oceans and land. The beginning of July marked the planet’s hottest week in recorded history. Last month was the warmest-ever June. The arrival of a strong El Niño is likely to push global temperatures even higher, whipping up extreme weather worldwide.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-scientists-freaking-out-about-surging-temperatures-heat-record-climate-change/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtdrqiaAt$

A Comal County, Texas ranch owner ponders selling his land, setting off a clash between property rights and environmental concerns: Late last year, Harrison filed an application with the state to build a wastewater treatment plant on the property large enough to serve a 1,400-lot subdivision. The permit would allow 600,000 gallons of treated wastewater per day to be discharged into the west fork of Dry Comal Creek, which connects to the Comal and Guadalupe rivers, the most popular tubing destinations in the state.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/13/texas-comal-county-wastewater-permit-ranch-environmentalists/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtVaO0umn$

Biden Is Investing in Green Energy Across the South, Throwing Swing State Union Workers Under the Bus: “What Biden is doing is politically insane, environmentally bankrupt, and it’s poor economics.” The success of the climate program will require continued federal commitment. Biden is placing a bet that clean energy investments could ultimately work the same way as the military-industrial complex.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/07/10/biden-green-energy-union-workers/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtbAeMsjN$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure / Global ‘A Geography of Arks’: Extending Park Networks Across 1% of Earth Could Save More Than 1,000 at-Risk Species. A new study by scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Durham University and Princeton University asserts that bolstering the protections of current conservation areas is as important for keeping biodiversity intact as establishing new protected areas
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ecowatch.com/biodiversity-conservation-areas-protections.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtV7m8Mig$

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
Pesticides from farming leach into world’s waterways at rate of 710 tonnes a year, UN research shows: Safe levels exceeded in 13,000km of rivers globally with ingredients potentially degrading into more persistent substances, new research finds pesticides exceed safe levels in 13,000km of rivers globally.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/13/pesticides-from-farming-leach-into-worlds-waterways-at-rate-of-710-tonnes-a-year-un-research-shows__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtb3u_r_A$

Donald Rumsfeld and the Strange History of Aspartame: WHO plan to list Aspartame as ‘possible carcinogen’ ignites decades old debate about safety, and Donald Rumsfeld’s role in FDA approval. Dr. John Olney, who founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity, attempted to stop the approval of aspartame with Attorney James Turner back in 1996. The FDA’s own toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross told Congress that without a shadow of a doubt, aspartame can cause brain tumors and brain cancer and that it violated the Delaney Amendment, which forbids putting anything in food that is known to cause cancer.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-rumsfeld-and-the-s_b_805581__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtSAEDUF_$

# Food Recalls / Alerts
Major Food And Drink Brands That Are Disappearing Or Rebranding: 1. Diet Pepsi, 2. Victoria’s Secret 3. Campbell’s Soup, 4. Kodak, 5. Harley Davidson, 6. Jell-O, 7. Gap, 8. Chevrolet Volt
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://moneywise.com/life/lifestyle/brands-you-love-that-may-disappear-forever__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtVGJgCjQ$

# Gov / Politics
FBI Director Christopher Wray faced questions from Republicans lawmakers Wednesday over the federal law enforcement agency’s alleged bias against conservatives and Republicans
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4092726-fbi-director-christopher-wray-testifies-house-judiciary-live-updates/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtZE_KiQc$

20 states file brief in case challenging Delaware’s gun control bills: A coalition of 20 attorneys general is requesting the U.S. Court of Appeals reverse a district court decision upholding Delaware’s ban on “assault weapons” and certain magazines
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_0b5339c6-20e6-11ee-a407-77ed4d5cc77c.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtRJOhvMe$

It’s mindblowing that Biden thinks Elliott Abrams is a good man for any job: The US embraces repressive and murderous governments while in the same breath condemning the human rights abuses of its adversaries. Biden officials do not see how hypocritical, and counterproductive, it is to embrace figures like Abrams and Henry Kissinger while trying to rally the globe against their adversaries’ human rights abuses is almost unfathomable.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/biden-elliott-abrams__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtY5KsVwa$

Close to 100,000 Voter Registrations Were Challenged in Georgia — Almost All by Just Six Right-Wing Activists: The recent transformation of the state’s election laws explicitly enabled citizens to file unlimited challenges to other voters’ registrations. Experts warn that election officials’ handling of some of those challenges may clash with federal law.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtWtI2Jh8$

# Law Enforcment
L.A. Deputy Seen Punching Mom in Face as She Held a Baby: Sheriff Robert Luna said he had flagged the case for potential criminal charges.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/07/13/la-sheriffs-deputy-punched-mother-holding-baby/70409225007/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtQic0CaR$

# Legal / DOJ
Former Border Patrol Agent Sentenced to More Than Nine Years in Prison for Accepting Bribes to Facilitate the Trafficking of Illegal Drugs https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-border-patrol-agent-sentenced-more-nine-years-prison-accepting-bribes-facilitate__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtRbl9D6w$

The stealth Supreme Court rulings no one is talking about; the Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic. The court has used the shadow docket to effectively leapfrog over the appeals court system on major decisions, sometimes with devastating effects.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://share.transistor.fm/s/af2bb820/transcript__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtekKOCZK$
See also: Supreme Court “Shadow Docket” Under Review by U.S. House of Representatives (American Bar Association, 2021)
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.americanbar.org/groups/committees/death_penalty_representation/publications/project_blog/scotus-shadow-docket-under-review-by-house-reps/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtYMevmgc$

Twitter Refused to Pay Ex-Employees $500 Million in Severance, Lawsuit Says: Under Elon Musk, the company has laid off over 6,000 people, or about 80 percent of its staff. Twitter Inc on Wednesday was hit with a lawsuit accusing it of refusing to pay at least $500 million in promised severance to thousands of employees who were laid off after Elon Musk acquired the company. Courtney McMillian, who oversaw Twitter’s employee benefits programs as its “head of total rewards” before she was laid off in January, filed the proposed class action in San Francisco federal court.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/legal/twitter-owes-ex-employees-500-mln-severance-lawsuit-claims-2023-07-12/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtWn9pCf3$

# Medical / Health
Problems With Abuse, Neglect and Cover-Ups at Choate Extend to Other Developmental Centers in Illinois: Prompted by an outcry over abuse, Illinois proposed moving residents from Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center to similar facilities in the state. New reporting shows the problems at Choate are common throughout the statewide system.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/abuse-neglect-cover-ups-choate-extends-through-illinois__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtaDprtX-$

Illinois Leaves Three Administrators in Charge at Choate Despite Troubled History of Resident Care: A new state watchdog report calls for a “fundamental overhaul” at Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center. But the state kept on administrators who were in charge during some of the facility’s most troubled years. All three administrators were previously indicted on felony charges in connection with their handling of an abuse allegation at the facility.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.effinghamdailynews.com/news/local_news/state-leaves-3-administrators-in-charge-at-choate-despite-troubled-history-of-resident-care/article_6f52f6c0-218e-11ee-8fe4-13bf4e7fec38.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtULo80Ej$

FDA approves first over-the-counter birth control pill: Opill will be available in stores without a prescription.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/13/fda-approves-over-the-counter-birth-control-opill-00105711__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtdSdEd6V$

# Military / DOD
Biden Keeps Lying About The US “Not Trying To Surround” China: The U.S. president isn’t trying to fool the Chinese government about the military buildup in the Pacific. His comments are aimed at the Western public and U.S. allies https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://consortiumnews.com/2023/07/12/caitlin-johnstone-biden-lies-about-not-surrounding-china/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtVXNMvYb$

The Military-Industrial Complex Is Finally Facing Intense Bipartisan Scrutiny: A loose coalition of Democrats and Freedom Caucus Republicans are pushing NDAA amendments that challenge Washington’s foreign policy orthodoxy.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/07/11/congress-military-ndaa-amendments/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtVUS5DO2$

# Nuclear
How America’s push for the atomic bomb spawned enduring radioactive waste problems in St. Louis: The federal government and companies responsible for nuclear bomb production and atomic waste storage sites in the St. Louis area. Storage was so haphazard that even the path to the site was contaminated by trucks that spread waste on their hauls from 1966 to 1969. Tons of that nuclear waste flowed into Coldwater Creek, contaminating the often-flooding waterway and adjacent yards for 14 miles
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-waste-cancer-st-louis-army-corps-school-9e1ceb765822fc53fcbc2e42005adef2__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtb5ZDxOM$

# Planetary
New radar technique lets scientists probe invisible ice sheet region on Earth and icy worlds: Scientists at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) have developed a radar technique that lets them image hidden features within the upper few feet of ice sheets.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/New_radar_technique_lets_scientists_probe_invisible_ice_sheet_region_on_Earth_and_icy_worlds_999.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtXoz9pX6$

Robot team on lunar exploration tour: On the Moon, there are raw materials that humanity could one day mine and use. Various space agencies, such as the European Space Agency (ESA), are already planning missions to better explore Earth’
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/07/230712165135.htm__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtQXMu5Ae$

A connected robot team could improve our space exploration capabilities: A team of robots would still be able to complete a mission if one or two of the machines malfunction. Swiss researchers led by ETH Zurich are exploring the possibility of sending an interconnected team of walking and flying exploration robots to the Moon, a press statement reveals.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/connected-robot-team-improve-space-exploration-capabilities__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtc578qR3$

# Space
China begins construction of ultra-low orbit satellite constellation: The first satellite of the ultra-low orbit satellite constellation will be launched in December, carrying payloads such as an optical remote sensing camera, spaceborne intelligent processing equipment and an atomic oxygen detector. An ultra-low orbit is an orbital altitude of less than 300 kilometers. Its dynamic environment is complex and needs to offset the effects of the rapid decay of the satellite orbit due to heightened atmospheric drag.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/China_begins_construction_of_ultra_low_orbit_satellite_constellation_999.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtSISTKMA$

China unveils preliminary plan on manned lunar landing: China plans to land its taikonauts on the moon before 2030 to carry out scientific exploration, according to a preliminary plan released by the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Wednesday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://spacenews.com/china-sets-sights-on-crewed-lunar-landing-before-2030/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtZHrF7hJ$

# Technology
Musk launches xAI to rival OpenAI, Google: Elon Musk on Wednesday launched his own artificial intelligence company, xAI, as he seeks to compete with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT – a program he accuses of being politically biased and irresponsible.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.businesstoday.com.my/2023/07/13/musk-launches-xai-to-rival-openai-google/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtayVqCb2$

NASA humanoid robot to be tested in Australia: NASA says knowledge gained from this mission will potentially be used for NASA’s Artemis missions and other Earth-based robotics objectives. NASA’s humanoid robot Valkyrie is starting a new mission in Australia.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-humanoid-robot-to-be-tested-in-australia__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtdmrIDMb$

# Technology / Global
Google launches ChatGPT rival Bard in EU, Brazil: Google launched its AI chatbot Bard in the European Union, Brazil and a dozen other countries on Thursday and unveiled new features as it expands access to its answer to Microsoft-backed ChatGPT.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-google-chatgpt-rival-bard-eu.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xBS6gD5oE6Qdh24tXOGj8m4HeZOKJ9DG7FaV8kEzypI-xigN9XJ8Npc8cdQNDR9o3a6IndqsCH4uGfb697YzVbtQtd_Cpwti$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-07-12

Voices, The Peoples News

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

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# Indigenous
Removing Klamath dam recognizes rights of Indigenous people, and the river itself: Yurok Tribe’s 2019 Resolution 19-40, which recognizes the rights of the Klamath River itself “to exist, flourish, and naturally evolve; to have a clean and healthy environment free from pollutants; to have a stable climate free from human-caused climate change
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/removing-dams-from-the-klamath-river-is-a-step-toward-justice-for-native-americans-in-northern-california-196472*:*:text=Removing*20the*20dams*20will*20begin,from*20human*2Dcaused*20climate*20change__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zK8J4fTdM$

# Children / Youth
Kids Awaiting Foster Care Placement Are Being “Housed” in Jails and Offices: More than half the states in the U.S. have seen a decline in the number of licensed foster homes since 2021.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/kids-awaiting-foster-care-placement-are-being-housed-in-jails-and-offices/*:*:text=This*20is*20because*20child*20welfare,other*20places*20to*20send*20them__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zKxapza3R$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Fauci, Other ‘Bethesda Boys’ Colluded to Suppress COVID Lab-Leak Theory, U.S. House Committee Report Finds: A report released Tuesday by the U.S. House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic presents evidence of a coordinated effort by federal officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, to suppress the COVID-19 lab-leak hypothesis and instead promote the “natural origin” theory.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/authors/michael-nevradakis-ph-d/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zKxDtqZEf$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Millions of Taxpayers’ Data Given to Google, Meta: Lawmakers: TaxAct, H&R Block and TaxSlayer “recklessly” shared info including names, addresses, and incomes, a report alleges. They say some of that data was then used by Meta to create targeted advertising to its own users, other companies, and to train Meta’s algorithms. The Democrats’ report urges federal agencies to investigate and potentially go to court over the wealth of information that H&R Block, TaxAct and TaxSlayer shared with the social media giant.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/irs-taxpayer-tax-preparation-meta-congress-9315cfca7a0942ab89f765d183fbf822__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zKyszanQa$

# Education / Schools
Court’s Student-Loan Decision Is Not Legally Controversial: The court merely restated what then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi explained two years ago: “People think that the president of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not. … That has to be an act of Congress.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://dcjournal.com/courts-student-loan-decision-is-not-legally-controversial/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zKwYSUTDo$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
The U.S. is poised for record-high consumption of natural gas as extreme heat sends demand for air conditioning skyrocketing. “This is an interesting time to monitor the United States’ electricity mix,” the U.S. Energy Information Administration administrator said
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/extreme-heat-pushing-u-toward-200328447.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zKyGRF1xQ$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Analysis Spotlights Leonard Leo’s Role in Republican ‘Crusade’ Against ESG: Dark Money Network Is Helping GOP Attack Climate-Friendly Corporate Investments. Groups tied to Federalist Society co-chair Leo Leonard are targeting environmental, social and corporate governance.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/republicans-unveil-sweeping-bill-to-massively-suppress-voters-ahead-of-2024/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zK8RA0M2a$

Birds Around the World Are Building Their Nests With Trash: A new study has found that 176 bird species around the world are building their nests with trash from humans, such as cigarette butts, candy wrappers and plastic string.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ecowatch.com/birds-building-nests-trash.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zKzg-VJ5b$

Wild Bees Emerge From Nests Earlier as Temperatures Rise, Causing ‘Mismatch’ With Flowering Plants, Study Finds: Bees need flowers for food, and flowers need bees to pollinate them, so it is of vital importance that bees emerge from their nests at the same time as plants are flowering each year.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ecowatch.com/wild-bees-nesting-climate-change.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zK2DwFwig$

# General News
Trump Is Trying to Delay the Documents Trial Until He Can Retake the White House and Make All His Legal Problems Go Away: His lawyers insist he can’t get an impartial jury during the election, and also that he has too many other trials on his plate.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/trump-wants-to-delay-his-classified-documents-trial-until-after-the-2024-election/articleshow/101675187.cms__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zK7UNFgWV$

Trump Says Hunter Biden Should’ve Gotten the Death Penalty for Not Paying His Taxes on Time: No word on what he thinks the penalty for someone accused of inciting an insurrection and obstructing a federal investigation should be.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-hunter-biden-cocaine-justice-department-b2373556.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zK5FOKZfc$

# Gov / Politics / Global
As Ukraine Gets “Closer Than Ever” to Joining NATO, Does Peace Get Further Away? “While this issue of Ukraine being a member of NATO is on the table, [Russia] will keep fighting,” says Medea Benjamin.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/video/as-ukraine-gets-closer-than-ever-to-joining-nato-does-peace-get-further-away/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zK2mZ_Iir$

# Gov / Politics
Louisiana Republicans are preparing to use the Supreme Court’s decision overturning affirmative action in college education to argue for a total gutting of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Within hours of a U.S. Supreme Court decision dismantling a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, Texas lawmakers announced plans to implement a strict voter ID law that had been blocked by a federal court. Lawmakers in Alabama said they would press forward with a similar law that had been on hold.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-act-supreme-court-black-voters-6f840911e360c44fd2e4947cc743baa2__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zK7Yunqnj$

Republicans Unveil Sweeping Bill to Massively Suppress Voters Ahead of 2024: The bill is the product of years of Republican fearmongering over Trump’s election lies.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/republicans-unveil-sweeping-bill-to-massively-suppress-voters-ahead-of-2024/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zK8RA0M2a$

GOP Culture War Fights Complicate McCarthy’s Plan to Pass Defense Bill: House Republican leaders reportedly had hoped to clear the massive, must-pass annual defense authorization bill this week, but those plans now look likely to be dashed as far-right members of their own party again present challenges for Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his team.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.axios.com/2023/07/12/mccarthy-culture-wars-defense-ndaa__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zK2KQK1Cy$

# Industry / Corporations
How a UPS strike could disrupt deliveries and roil the package delivery business: A strike would likely mean package delays for consumers across the country. Along with ordinary Americans not receiving electronics and household goods, major industries, like hospitals reliant on medical devices shipped through parcel carriers, could see significant disruptions https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/2023/07/12/1186984345/ups-strike-shipping-package-delivery*:*:text=A*20strike*20would*20likely*20mean,carriers*20**C20could*20see*20significant*20disruptions__;I34lJSUlJeKAlCUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zK01T5Tnh$

# Law Enforcement
Austin suspends partnership with state police after trooper pulls gun on 10-year-old: Austin officials ended the police department’s partnership with the Texas Department of Public Safety on Wednesday, citing concerns of reports that troopers pulled a gun on a 10-year-old boy and his father over the weekend. Mayor Kirk Watson’s office told the Statesman that he does not expect to renew the partnership.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/12/texas-dps-austin-police/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zK8X2uFst$

Leniency for crimes against children is California’s ugliest trait: It’s not often that you hear crying in a legislative chamber, but what happened in California’s state capitol yesterday certainly made it excusable. Human trafficking victims reportedly sobbed after watching the California Assembly’s Public Safety Committee block a bill that would make the trafficking of children a “serious felony.” All six Democrats and one Republican on the committee voted against it, putting it up for “reconsideration” next year, while two Republicans supported it.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/leniency-for-crimes-against-children-is-californias-ugliest-trait__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zK59y_UF8$

# Legal / DOJ
DOJ Abandons Trump in E. Jean Carroll Rape Defamation Case: Trump not entitled to immunity in Carroll defamation lawsuit, DoJ says. In reversal justice department says presidency doesn’t shield Trump from lawsuit, paving way for possible trial in January
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/11/doj-trump-not-entitled-to-immunity-carroll-defamation-lawsuit__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zK5G-4xLn$

FBI Director Set To Clash With Republicans On The Trump Case, Hunter Biden And More:: As House Republicans rush to argue that the FBI search of Donald Trump’s home is marred by politics, they are readying a future Hunter Biden investigation designed to ensnare Joe Biden ahead of a potential reelection bid.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/10/republicans-hunter-biden-investigation-00050723__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zK-MTFk7O$

Criminals From Trump’s Inner Circle Convicted By GOP Leadership, Testimony Reveals: In a detailed examination of FBI Director Christopher Wray, California Congressman Ted Lieu, a Georgetown-trained lawyer, enumerated a series of criminal convictions against numerous people who have worked in former President Donald Trump‘s inner circle.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/criminals-from-trump-s-inner-circle-convicted-by-gop-leadership-testimony-reveals/ar-AA1dMs9w?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=f2c7e445782940c18d8aefde412c156e&ei=69__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zK-SpBQwl$

# Medical / Health
Iowa Republicans Pass Six-Week Abortion Ban: The limit is earlier than the point at which many people even know they’re pregnant. Both the state’s Senate and House passed the legislation on Tuesday night after Republican Governor Kim Reynolds called for a rare special session to hold a vote on the restrictions.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/12/iowa-passes-six-week-abortion-ban__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zK5Qx8gc3$

The Unfolding Medicaid Disaster: As more than 17 million people stand to lose health insurance in the unfolding Medicaid eligibility review disaster, there’s one company licking its lips: Maximus, a little-known federal contractor that is one of the biggest players in privatizing essential government services. Now that Biden and Congress have ended pandemic protections, nearly a million have lost Medicaid coverage for procedural reasons so far, and many more will.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.levernews.com/the-unfolding-medicaid-disaster/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zKzIQe8xM$

# Technology
133 Windows drivers with valid Microsoft signatures found crawling with malware: Microsoft reacts and suspends the licences of many developers. It’s a particularly dangerous problem because these drivers are loaded and installed by the operating system without prompting.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.pcworld.com/article/1991875/caution-malware-in-133-windows-drivers-this-is-how-microsoft-reacts.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zK6akV3o2$

# Technology / Global
China-Linked Hackers Get Access to U.S. Government Emails: An unnamed federal agency first noticed something was off in June. A Chinese hacking group exploited a weakness in Microsoft’s software to pry into an unnamed federal agency’s private emails, the White House said. The agency first flagged the security breach in June, after the hackers used fake authentication tokens to gain access.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/12/chinese-hackers-government-emails-microsoft-breach-00105879__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2kx4S0zdr_Ov6YMjEQd2Uvek2xKEhQeYpPz_jAGRzszo7SRHf7UWR1F7gzH5PdElnWWZjbtLveIDfdvdC1ZSuC6zK1MkC8eE$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-07-11

Voices, The Peoples News

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

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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
This is the stunning vaquita, the rarest animal in the world. Only 10 of them exist: Vaquitas are little porpoises that live in the northern area of the Gulf of California. Due to overfishing, they are almost extinct. Environmentalists believe fishermen’s use of gill nets is the reason behind the vaquita’s increasing endangerment, Kingdoms TV reports.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/this-is-the-stunning-vaquita-the-rarest-animal-in-the-world-only-10-of-them-exist/ar-AA1dHPCl?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=abb8987121db4692af9e099ed27ce1bf&ei=220__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmuzWVM9h$

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Busiest northern border sector: Apprehensions total more than past 7 years combined: Federal agents patrolling the busiest U.S. Customs and Border Protection sector at the northern border are apprehending a record number of foreign nationals illegally entering the U.S. through Canada. More known, suspected terrorists apprehended at northern border than at southern border by a margin of 5-1
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/vermont/article_f8af03ee-1fab-11ee-98e2-d39b84353b6c.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmgUaf_hQ$

Water Stations for Migrants at the Border Are Being Destroyed Amid Heat Waves: Migrant deterrence policies are inhumane and ineffective, says Texas-based human rights activist Eddie Canales. Heat domes are a key part of heat waves and have become hotter and longer due to climate change, making heat the leading cause of weather-related death in the United States.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/video/water-stations-for-migrants-at-the-border-are-being-destroyed-amid-heat-waves/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6Synmsgn963O$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Pandemic Masks and Lockdowns: Test Case for a New Social System? According to Jeffrey Tucker, president of Brownstone Institute, the COVID-19 lockdowns were not about public health but about the exercise of power over the whole population by a tiny elite in the name of science, and Tucker traces the roots of this ideology to post-Enlightenment counterrevolution of science.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-mask-lockdown-social-system/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmvS8jy77$

Potential health risks of mRNA-based vaccine therapy: When considering mRNA vaccines, the current paradigm is that the synthetic RNA cannot integrate into the genome of the vaccine recipients’ cells. To date, there are no published studies on the biodistribution, cellular uptake, endosomal escape, translation rates, functional half-life and inactivation kinetics of synthetic mRNA, rates and duration of vaccine-induced antigen expression in different cell types.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9876036/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmqQ7Fyit$

Researchers Take A Closer Look At Rare ‘Long Vax Syndrome’: Scientists and doctors are aiming to deepen their understanding of a rare link between receiving a covid-19 vaccination and developing side effects that resemble long covid, something that’s being called “long vax syndrome.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/long-vax-phenomenon-gets-closer-look-in-recent-studies/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmoNrFBLu$

One In Three Pfizer Vaccine Shots May Have Been A Placebo: “There’s new evidence that many of the batches of the Pfizer [COVID-19] vaccine administered to the public, up to the 30 percent, were placebos. And even worse, the evidence points to regulators knowing about it and willingly administering them. Now, either they were actively experimenting on the public or they were covering up for the fact that the vaccines came with numerous side effects.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bidmc.org/about-bidmc/news/2022/01/placebo-effect-contributes-to-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-events__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmuXX16xu$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
IRS Caught Red-Handed (Again), As Public Trust Plummets: “In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes,” Benjamin Franklin said. But for the IRS, you can add a third item to the list
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prescottenews.com/index.php/2023/07/11/irs-caught-red-handed-again-as-public-trust-plummets-inside-sources/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6Synmh940dGK$

# Employment / Labor
Texas Governor Outlaws Life-Saving Water Breaks for Workers as Climate Crisis Fuels Heat Waves: House Bill 2127 preempts local governments from enacting legislation in eight areas—with potentially deadly results.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texasobserver.org/texans-die-from-heat-exhaustion-after-governor-bans-water-breaks/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmkEbbDSH$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Chicago, other cities could sink due to climate change, study warns: Using data from sensors placed beneath downtown Chicago and computer simulations, the researchers found that heat is causing the ground to deform, and it could ultimately cause infrastructure to crack.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/07/11/chicago-other-cities-sinking-due-to-climate-change-study/70212216007/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmocktuPm$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure / Global Plastic-Eating Fungi Thriving in Human-Made ‘Plastisphere’ May Help Tackle Waste Globally: It was identified by an international team of scientists who counted 55 bacterial and 184 fungal strains that are able to break down a biodegradable polyester called polycaprolactone (PCL), often used in polyurethane production, a press release from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, said.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-eating-fungi-china.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmhmszfVG$

# General News
Why Asia matters to NATO as it looks to respond to China’s military expansion: Beijing is source of ‘systemic challenges’ but alliance members are divided on how to engage
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/10/asia-nato-china-military-expansion-beijing-how-to-engage__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmpxZe4IN$

China is knocking on Texas’ door: CCP officials in Argentina are working to establish a naval base at Tierra del Fuego that would grant the Chinese Navy control of a key passage connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, as well as access to the entire region’s communications and maritime transit. If realized, this would open the door to extraordinary strategic Chinese military assets in America’s backyard. Texas hears China knocking at our door. Will President Biden finally act?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-is-knocking-on-texas-door-here-s-how-us-needs-to-respond/ar-AA1dHvgM?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=abb8987121db4692af9e099ed27ce1bf&ei=120__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6Synmo611CvS$

# Gov / Politics / Global
Who Walked Away From The 2022 Russian-Ukraine Draft Peace Treaty? A timeline reveals a pattern of sabotage and aggression. Last June, seven African leaders met with President Putin in Moscow. They were on a peace mission to end the Ukraine war which has severely disrupted food and fertilizer deliveries to their countries.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/07/who-walked-away-from-the-2022-russian-ukraine-draft-peace-treaty/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=who-walked-away-from-the-2022-russian-ukraine-draft-peace-treaty__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmicavGlI$

Wagner Fighters Who Move To Belarus May Become Instructors In The Military, Secure Belarusian Interests In Africa: Central African Republic; If Wagner Troops Have To Leave The Country, Other Security Groups From Russia Are Welcome. “…The Wagner group enjoys quite a large ‘inheritance’ in Africa. As of today, the private company is present in many countries on the continent, including Mali, Central African Republic (CAR), and several other countries… [Wagner] simply keeps states from disintegrating and ensures the safety of civilians. For instance, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that the work of Wagner instructors in the CAR will continue.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.memri.org/reports/russian-media-outlet-vzglyad-wagner-fighters-who-move-belarus-may-become-instructors*:*:text=As*20many*20Wagner*20group*20fighter,for*20Belarusian*20workers*20in*20Africa__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmruzriE8$

Israel Killed Civilians, Targeted Hospitals in Jenin With U.S. Weapons and Support: Israel could not mount its military operations against Palestinians without $3.8 billion in annual U.S. military aid
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/israel-killed-civilians-targeted-hospitals-in-jenin-with-us-weapons-and-support/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmrVH2K8T$

As NATO meets on Ukraine, Russian officials fire warnings at West: Russia has long objected to Ukrainian membership of the Western military alliance. This week’s meeting is stirring old arguments.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/11/russia-slams-nato-leaders-summit-in-vilnius__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmlkLbqBM$

# Gov / Politics
Trump Administration Officials Were Legitimately Worried About Trump Provoking Nuclear War With North Korea: Just something to think about as he attempts to return to the White House. Less than a year into Donald Trump’s presidency, top homeland security officials were so alarmed about escalating tensions with North Korea that they held multiple meetings to prepare for a nuclear attack on American soil
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/10/anonymous-author-trump-nuclear-meetings-00105366__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmqDSRTlZ$

Trump Will Use the Justice Department to Destroy His Enemies in a Second Term, Former Officials Warn: Unlike the first time around, they fear he may actually be successful on the second try. Earlier this year, Rolling Stone reported that Donald Trump had taken to asking close advisers for the names of Justice Department staffers and senior FBI agents who have worked on federal probes involving him, because, in the event he wins the 2024 election, he wants them “quickly” and “immediately” fired.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://dnyuz.com/2023/07/10/trump-will-use-the-justice-department-to-destroy-his-enemies-in-a-second-term-former-officials-warn/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6Synmj3Wr0NZ$

With Ukraine’s Cluster Bombs Killing Its Own Citizens, Biden Readies Order To Send More: As the Ukraine war drags on, the Biden administration is now reportedly in the final stages of deciding whether to send more [cluster munitions] to the Ukrainian military. The decision to supply cluster munitions to Ukraine would likely be seen as a setback to nonproliferation efforts aimed at stopping use of the weapon.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/07/05/ukraine-cluster-bombs-biden/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6Synml0qkjo3$

GOP Lawmakers Say Fauci, Other NIH Leaders Were Reappointed Illegally: The allegations mark an escalation in lawmakers’ attacks on Fauci, who retired from his role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the end of last year, and the NIH in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fight over whether risky research helped create the virus. The allegations also call into question around $25 billion in medical research grants awarded by the agency in the past 18 months.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://rollcall.com/2023/07/10/house-committee-questions-legality-of-fauci-nih-appointments/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmkW2x8dA$

‘Trump is disqualified’: activists aim to keep insurrectionist off ballot in key states: “Failing to hold him responsible not only violates the Constitution, but it also sets a dangerous precedent for permitting violent attacks on our democracy,” said the Free Speech for People campaign director.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-14th-amendment-january-6__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmvtFz5EU$

# Industry / Corporations
How Corporations Keep Secrets From the Public, Even When They Lose Lawsuits: A corporation, sometimes called a C corp, is a legal entity that’s separate from its owners. Corporations can make a profit, be taxed, and can be held legally liable. Corporations offer the strongest protection to its owners from personal liability, but the cost to form a corporation is higher than other structures.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/corporations-secrets-public-lose-lawsuits/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=202307011__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmuwK5nlX$

China blocked from slew of takeovers under new National Security Act: Chinese buyers were involved in eight of the cases, many of which involved sensitive technologies. Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden told the BBC: “China represents the largest state-based threat to economic security. So it’s not a surprise that we should look carefully at Chinese transactions. But equally, we look across the board.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-blocked-from-slew-of-takeovers-under-new-national-security-act/ar-AA1dJ5yo?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=abb8987121db4692af9e099ed27ce1bf&ei=154__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmqwfqSMo$

# Legal / DOJ
A grand jury being seated Tuesday in Atlanta will likely consider whether criminal charges are appropriate for former President Donald Trump or his allies for their efforts to overturn his 2020 election result in Georgia
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.huffpost.com/entry/grand-jury-trump-georgia-2020_n_64acf2bfe4b0e5efaaddcd30?utm_source=cordial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp-us-reg-morning-email_2023-07-11&utm_term=us-morning-email__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmumuWq1b$

Clarence Thomas Is Literally in a Club Full of Exorbitantly Wealthy Conservatives: The Supreme Court justice just keeps on outdoing himself. The exclusive Horatio Alger Association brought the justice access to wealthy members and unreported V.I.P. treatment. He, in turn, offered another kind of access.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/us/clarence-thomas-horatio-alger-association.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmoHMKxTI$

The Biden-Big Tech Collusion Case: A federal judge has blocked contact between Biden administration officials and social media companies, ruling that the two were working together to censor speech. Officials weren’t merely flagging false statements. They were bullying companies to censor anything contradicting government guidance. On July 16, 2021, the President accused social-media companies of ‘killing people.’
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/judge-blocks-biden-officials-collude-big-tech-censorship__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmjFORVKB$

Biden DOJ to appeal federal ruling on Big Tech collusion: The Justice Department will appeal a federal court ruling that blocked Biden administration officials from contacting social media companies because of collusion concerns, court documents show.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/07/05/biden-doj-to-appeal-big-tech-collusion-ruling/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6Synmipvk8Vw$

# LGBTQ / Gender
Anti-LGBTQ+ laws violate free speech: Nearly 500 anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced in state legislatures in the U.S. in 2023. Many of those bills seek to reduce or eliminate gender-affirming care for transgender minors or to ban drag performances in places where minors could view them.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/anti-lgbtq-laws-in-the-us-are-getting-struck-down-for-limiting-free-speech-of-drag-queens-and-doctors-209307__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6Synmh3PVcog$

# Media
Meet the TV Meteorologist Who Quit After Facing Death Threats for Explaining Climate Crisis on Air: Chris Gloninger resigned from his position as chief meteorologist for KCCI-TV in Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday after receiving death threats. Last July, Gloninger, who has spent 18 years of his career covering climate change as well as the weather and became KCCI’s chief meteorologist in 2021, shared a series of disturbing emails he received regarding his coverage.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/24/iowa-meteorologist-resigns-death-threats-climate-coverage__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmkTkDOD3$

“Freedom of the Press Has Gone Up in Smoke”: Protesters Demand U.S. Drop Charges Against Assange: In Washington, D.C., protesters are demanding the U.S. government drop its espionage charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and for his immediate release from a British prison as he faces extradition from the U.K. to the U.S. “If the U.S. is allowed to continue this prosecution, the precedent that it sets is that the U.S. can arrest any journalist, of any nationality, in any country around the world, if they print something that the U.S. doesn’t like.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.democracynow.org/2023/7/11/headlines/freedom_of_the_press_has_gone_up_in_smoke_protesters_demand_us_drop_charges_against_assange__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6Synmvnw_eke$

# Medical / Health
Patients prefer getting their test results immediately: A recent study of 8,000 patients that accessed their test results via an online patient portal found that more than 95% wanted to continue to immediately receive test results through their portal. That percentage stayed at 95% when focused on patients with non-normal results.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/patients-want-their-medical-test-results-immediately-even-when-its-bad-news-survey__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmuQTnfYf$

Ozempic Weight Loss Drug Linked to Increased Risk of Thyroid Cancers: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) issued a safety signal last month, citing concerns about a possible link to thyroid cancer in people using glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, including semaglutide, which are sold under brand names like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.benzinga.com/news/23/07/33159345/miracle-weight-loss-drug-ozempic-linked-to-thyroid-cancer-regulator-warns__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmgmL1rP0$

Aspartame May Be Declared a Carcinogen by WHO: World Health Organization (WHO) — plans to release the results of a fresh review of safety data on the product. According to Reuters, the agency will declare that aspartame is “possibly carcinogenic to humans.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vox.com/2023/7/1/23780348/aspartame-cancer-carcinogenic-health-risk-who-iarc-fda-efsa-diet-coke-sugar-free__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6Synmt5v–hI$

Private Equity Has Been Buying Up Medical Practices and Raising Prices: Private equity firms have been buying up medical practices at a rapidly increasing rate over the past decade, building up market share and increasing prices, according to a study released this week.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/practices/acquisition-physician-practices-by-private-equity-firms-increases-study-finds-which__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmhkNi0e0$

# Military / DOD
$886 Billion Defense Bill Could Spark a War Over ‘Woke’: The House is expected to take up the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act this week, following the passage of the $886 billion bill by the Armed Services Committee in a 58-1 vote in June. More controversially, the bill would also provide protections for service members who refuse to take Covid-19 vaccines, block funding for drag shows on military bases, and roll back Pentagon programs aimed at fostering diversity, equity and inclusion, efforts that many Republicans reject as politically correct “
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/newsletter/20230710-886-Billion-Defense-Bill-Could-Spark-War-Over-Woke__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6Synmr9hpDJc$

Weapons contractors hitting Department of Defense with inflated prices for planes, submarines, missiles: At a time when the cost of replacing them is skyrocketing, we wondered why the Pentagon is finding it hard to procure weapons it needs at a price taxpayers can afford? A six-month investigation by 60 Minutes found it has less to do with foreign entanglements than domestic ones, what can only be described as price gouging by U.S. defense contractors. In the competitive environment before the companies consolidated, a shoulder fired stinger missile cost $25,000 in 1991. With Raytheon now the sole supplier, it costs more than $400,000 to replace each missile sent to Ukraine … even accounting for inflation and some improvements that’s a seven-fold increase.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.defense-aerospace.com/defense-contractors-accused-of-gouging-pentagon-over-weapon-prices-report/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmudEsrSJ$

# Military / Global
China sends 34 war jets and four ships on ‘combat readiness’ patrols close to Taiwan amid boiling tensions between the two countries. Taiwan’s defence ministry detected 34 Chinese military aircraft flying near the island as well as four warships carrying out “combat readiness” patrols.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-07-11/taiwan-says-34-chinese-military-aircraft-detected-near-the-island__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmniklXqq$

# Pharmaceuticals / Drugs
The pharmaceutical industry finances about 75 percent of the [FDA]’s drug division: The pharmaceutical industry funding alone has become so dominant that last year it accounted for three-quarters, or $1.1 billion, of the agency’s drug division budget. Advocates for patients and doctors say the agreements have enabled the industry to weaken the approval process meant to ensure that drugs are safe and effective.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/health/fda-drug-industry-fees.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmsXJvxky$

# Social
Fans keep dying at this country music festival, families want answers: At Faster Horses in Michigan, seven reported deaths have occurred over the fest’s short nine-year history. Survivors of a 2021 tragedy want accountability. Despite Faster Horses’ heretofore successful legal argument that the CO deaths were an unforeseeable tragedy caused by a case of individual misuse, there has been more than one incident of carbon-monoxide exposure at MIS over the years.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/faster-horses-country-festival-fans-dying-1234783290/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmmVxO3jt$

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody on Monday called on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear before the Statewide Council on Human Trafficking to account for how Meta is being used to facilitate human trafficking and sex exploitation. Moody did so while announcing what she described as the “stunning” and “disturbing” findings of a statewide investigation that found that Meta platforms are being used more than any other social media platforms by human traffickers to commit crimes. It appears to be the first statewide inquiry and request of its kind.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/florida/article_a0ffff5c-1f7b-11ee-ae32-0768ce6c6daa.html*:*:text=(The*20Center*20Square)*20**C20Florida,human*20trafficking*20and*20sex*20exploitation__;I34lJSXigJMlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmoRX6uV9$

# Technology
Telecom Giants Knew Old Lead-Coated Cables Posed Health Threat But Did Nothing to Protect Public Health, Environment: More than 2,000 toxic, lead-coated cables left by telecom companies underground, underwater and on overhead poles across the country pose a potentially serious risk to the public, and particularly children’s, health, according to a new study published by The Wall Street Journal.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/telecom-lead-cable-poles-health-threat/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmkIyLVdz$

# Veterans / VA
Gunning for More VA Privatization: Veterans just dodged a GOP bullet to their health system, but now they face bipartisan fire once again: This threat to essential services, and the appearance that former soldiers had become political pawns, drew an angry response from veterans organizations, putting House Republicans on the defensive.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/health/2023-07-11-gunning-for-more-va-privatization/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6Synmnk6taH2$

# Weather
First major Saharan dust event reaches Florida. What it means: The dust not only reduces ocean warming but can also impede the development of tropical storms and hurricanes. The increase in dust in the last two weeks is probably among several reasons tropical storms haven’t developed after a fast start to the hurricane season in June.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/massive-dust-cloud-heading-toward-190537372.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xi872EfDJE0MUWk3YDQacSvux7K_0f4fhQkpp6IbvsA0eOEyNire94nc3SoKjRrZP8aWSXcRm8onN4PBLIfz6SynmkCuKwFF$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-07-10

Voices, The Peoples News

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

# Indigenous
The forgotten sovereigns of the Colorado River: As the West’s major river dries up, tribes have asserted rights to its water long ignored by state and federal authorities.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/07/the-forgotten-sovereigns-of-the-colorado-river-00096002__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFszAJHzS9$

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Virginia National Guard deploys 100 to Texas border on governor’s
orders: One hundred Virginia National Guard troops deployed to Texas on Saturday as Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) made good on his pledge to support Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott (R) in his efforts to patrol the border with Mexico
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/republican-virginia-governor-sends-100-national-guard-soldiers-to-u-s-mexico-border__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs1213Mt-$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
The Trillion-Dollar Grift: Inside the Greatest Scam of All Time: The pandemic relief was the biggest bailout in history, and it opened the door to wide-scale fraud the likes of which no one had ever seen, more than three years later, we still don’t know how much damage was done
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/pandemic-fraud-waste-billions-small-business-labor-fb1d9a9eb24857efbe4611344311ae78__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs8_wYb3g$

The Great Grift: More Than $200 Billion in COVID-19 Aid May Have Been Stolen, Federal Watchdog Says More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 relief initiatives
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2023-06-27/the-great-grift-more-than-200-billion-in-covid-19-aid-may-have-been-stolen-federal-watchdog-says__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs_Q-lRo5$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Federal Reserve prepares to increase interest rates to highest level since 2001: The U.S. central bank is bumping monetary prices closer to the levels of the dot-com bubble
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://westobserver.com/news/europe/the-federal-reserve-prepares-to-raise-interest-rates-to-the-highest-level-since-2001/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs6OUrYRk$

Federal debt explodes by $1 trillion in five weeks since deal suspending limit became law: The U.S. national debt has increased by $1 trillion in the five weeks since President Biden signed a bill into law that effectively turns off the debt ceiling until 2025. Total national debt now sits at $32.47 trillion and counting
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.foxnews.com/politics/national-debt-explodes-higher-biden-signs-debt-ceiling-deal?utm_source=Newswav&utm_medium=Website__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFsxurV7FW$

Price Controls: An Inflation Solution That Doesn’t Screw Workers: Economist James K. Galbraith discusses the history of how price controls have been used to address inflation.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/07/07/deconstructed-podcast-price-controls-inflation/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs5XclecG$

# Employment / Labor
Why workers demand Julie Su’s confirmation as labor secretary: Americans need Su to watch their backs more than ever, especially as a growing number of workers join unions on the heels of the pandemic and advocates push for a national version of the California law protecting health care workers.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nationofchange.org/2023/07/10/why-workers-demand-julie-sus-confirmation-as-labor-secretary/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs48t7ZTM$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
Activists want to prevent fracking in Ohio’s state parks: Activists are fighting against a new law that requires state agencies to consider proposals to drill for oil and gas under Ohio’s public lands
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.alleghenyfront.org/activists-rally-to-prevent-fracking-under-ohio-salt-fork-state-park/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs3DUEmSM$

Spotted Owl, Meet the Sagebrush Lizard: The Biden administration opened up a new front in the oil and gas wars putting the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard on the Endangered Species List. The lizard’s habitat runs through the Permian Basin, where nearly 40 percent of oil and 15 percent of natural gas is produced in the U.S.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://dcjournal.com/spotted-owl-meet-the-sagebrush-lizard/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs4zuR_o5$

People are absolutely ‘livid’ about this deceptive new Tennessee law: ‘Name it what it is, bribery’: In April, Tennessee adopted a law that requires the state government to consider planet-overheating methane gas a “clean” energy source, Heated reports. Methane gas, sometimes called natural gas, which is mostly methane but contains other gases, is an energy source similar to oil and coal. Burning natural gas creates air pollution and heat-trapping gases, including carbon dioxide (CO2), though relatively less than oil or coal.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/people-absolutely-livid-deceptive-tennessee-100000822.html*:*:text=In*20April*2C*20Tennessee*20adopted*20a,**C20energy*20source*2C*20Heated*20reports__;I34lJSUlJeKAnSUlJSUl!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFswP-eUDs$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
Oilsands giants lobbied to weaken emissions cap: Through the Pathways Alliance, an organization of some of Canada’s largest oil producers, high-level bureaucrats were asked for long lead times and a ‘flexible, non-regulatory approach’ to usher in a limit on the sector’s air pollution
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thenarwhal.ca/pathways-alliance-emissions-cap/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs1E5–Fl$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Study: Domestic oil and gas production responsible for $77 billion in health impacts yearly: A new report that tallied thousands of excess deaths and health impacts tied to pollution. The joint study focused on the health impacts of air pollution resulting from domestic oil and gas production and found that it is responsible for approximately $77 billion in health damages annually nationwide.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ehn.org/study-domestic-oil-and-gas-production-responsible-for-77-billion-in-health-impacts-yearly-2662253302.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs0KaI2wB$

Bernie Sanders: This year is set to be the hottest in history. Congress must act now: If there is not bold, immediate action to address the climate crisis, the quality of life that we are leaving our kids is very much in question. Climate change is ravaging the planet. We are now seeing floods, droughts, extreme weather disturbances and wild fires causing unprecedented damage.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/07/this-year-is-set-to-be-the-hottest-in-history-congress-must-act-now__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs2nM85YD$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure / Global Brazil’s Amazon deforestation plunges in first six months of Lula’s presidency: Lula vowed to end that, he seems to be taking action in this direction. The decline of 33.6% in deforestation was estimated based on satellite images provided by Brazil’s Institute of Space Research. The reduction was especially significant in June, with a 41% decline.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/06/brazil-amazon-deforestation-lula__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFsyz1R36P$

Scientists discover alarming new effect of plastic pollution in the ocean: ‘[Things are] rapidly changing’: plastic trash is acting like life rafts for these species, carrying them to new places. “This discovery suggests that past biogeographical boundaries among marine ecosystems, established for millions of years, are rapidly changing due to floating plastic pollution accumulating in the subtropical gyres.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/scientists-discover-alarming-effect-plastic-133000517.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs7ECaSMr$

# Gov / Politics / Global
The very idea of a President Trump scares some, bolsters others in Asia: Donald Trump’s “isolationist” foreign policy pronouncements are feeding insecurity in some Asian nations fearful of China’s growing power, and risk emboldening nationalists and authoritarians in the region.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-election-trump-asia-idUKKCN0YB12V__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs3b2-uoF$

Cocaine Lie Exposed: Records DESTROY Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Alibi – Reveals Biden Family Was at White House Before Drug Discovery
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/07/07/post-irresponsible-for-asking-about-cocaine-in-white-house/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFszXnZ8S7$

Vladimir Putin Debuts Deadly ‘Thermobaric Drone Ammo’ Designed to Obliterate People and Objects: ‘No Way of Protecting Yourself From It’: The drone, designed and built specifically to obliterate individual objects, reportedly comes in two sizes – 2kg and 4kg. This type of weapon is particularly effective against targets inside buildings and fortifications, as it leaves nowhere to hide.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://radaronline.com/p/vladimir-putin-deadly-thermobaric-drone-ammo-designed-obliterate-people/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs6M4188O$

# Gov / Politics
Ron DeSantis Will Start Giving Interviews to Mainstream Outlets: His presidential campaign is in the midst of a “strategy shift” as Donald Trump continues to dominate the Republican primary.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4006892-desantis-media-strategy-trump-news-dominates/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs1_YETo7$

As Donald Trump continues threatening to skip the Republican Party’s planned presidential primary debates, one of his rivals is making it clear why the former president may want to stay clear of him: Trump’s onetime debate coach and now unsparing critic, Chris Christie.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/the-one-thing-that-should-scare-trump-the-man-he-nearly-killed-with-covid_uk_64aa5cdee4b0b6417637b78e__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs90Qtj8D$

Ron DeSantis’ frightening response to Trump’s indictment: The Florida governor threatened to refuse to extradite former President Trump to New York, showing contempt for the Constitution, a threat to the rule of law we haven’t yet seen in this Trump-driven national crisis. As with Trump, DeSantis in making that pledge shows a boundless willingness to undermine America’s democratic institutions for personal political gain.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-04-01/donald-trump-indictment-ron-desantis-extradition__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFswKr4cAf$

Trump questions why he should participate in GOP primary debates: The potential for 2024 general election debates remains in question: The RNC last year voted to withdraw from the Commission on Presidential Debates, accusing the group that has run the debates since 1988 of bias against its candidates.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3970702-trump-questions-why-he-should-participate-in-gop-primary-debates/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs2cVDUtb$

Two Democratic lawmakers have raised concern over the Biden administration’s decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine. “That’s crossing a line,” said Rep. Barbara Lee (Calif.), adding the U.S. risked losing its “moral leadership” over the move.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://foreigndesknews.com/europe/congressional-democrats-raise-concerns-on-cluster-bombs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=congressional-democrats-raise-concerns-on-cluster-bombs__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFszX79Og3$

Trump And Desantis Begin Eyeing Super Tuesday States As They Prepare For 2024 Long Game: As the Republican presidential primary intensifies this summer, most White House hopefuls are devoting their time to events in Iowa and New Hampshire, the states that kick off the nomination process early next year. Not Ron DeSantis or Donald Trump.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-republicans-desantis-trump-super-tuesday-297403b2df67925ecb2b53b4b0c50b85__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs-RnNbcG$

I’ve Seen Cluster Bombs Maim Children. Why Is Biden Sending Them to Ukraine? The administration authorized the military to send cluster munitions to Ukraine. It’s a morally bankrupt decision, and there are better options. The impulse to send these weapons is obvious. Ukraine is short on ammo and needs to beat back the Russians. This is a stop-gap way to get them bombs fast while we work on resupplying them with better weapons.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/biden-ukraine-russia-cluster-bombs-human-rights-1234785326/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs5C75obF$

House GOP threatens to defund Mayorkas’ salary, ”Do your damn job or Congress will act”: Several House Republicans are considering a legislative action that would reduce Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ salary down to zero in response to what they deem to be his failure to enforce the southern border.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-defund-mayorkas-salary-do-damn-job?utm_source=Newswav&utm_medium=Website__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs15B6oky$

# Industry
With hundreds of explosive chemical plants, Louisiana could be a ticking time bomb this hurricane season: In additional reporting by The Advocate, it was revealed that many of these facilities could spread toxic, even lethal chemicals through the air anywhere across a 25-mile radius, were they to be damaged or destroyed in a hurricane. Chemicals like chlorine gas, once used as a chemical weapon in the First World War, could quite literally choke, burn or even kill innocent bystanders living all the way in another parish from the damaged plant.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4088831-with-hundreds-of-explosive-chemical-plants-louisiana-could-be-a-ticking-time-bomb-this-hurricane-season/*:*:text=Tragically*20for*20Louisiana*2C*20the*20state,Times*2DPicayune*20and*20The*20Advocate__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs7OxyqKn$

Russia banned GMOs years ago to distinguish itself from the United States. What’s its current stance toward genetic engineering, CRISPR and other New Breeding Techniques? The only exception to the ban is the import and planting/breeding of GM crops for research purposes.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2020/02/12/gmo-crop-animal-production-ban-necessary-to-safeguard-russias-food-security-says-president-vladimir-putin/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs9emTOQC$

# Legal / DOJ
Dozens of Witnesses Say Rodney Reed Is Innocent. Texas Court Says They’re All Wrong: The Court of Criminal Appeals has repeatedly ignored evidence of Reed’s innocence. Its latest ruling borders on the absurd. Despite overwhelming testimony in favor of Reed, the judge presiding over the evidentiary hearing fully embraced the state’s position that none of Reed’s witnesses were credible.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/07/07/rodney-reed-cca-texas-death-row/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=theintercept&utm_medium=social__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs977zP8q$

Investigation Uncovers More of Clarence Thomas’ Undisclosed Freebies from Wealthy Pals
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4087798-investigation-finds-clarence-thomas-accepted-more-undisclosed-gifts-from-wealthy-friends-through-elite-association/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs5trks7U$

The DOJ Is Probing Trump’s Push to Overturn the Election. Here’s What We Know: Special Counsel Jack Smith has already indicted Donald Trump, and his second investigation into the former president is heating up
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/2021/06/15/1006570584/trump-pressed-the-justice-department-to-reverse-the-election-results-documents-s__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs0ZEzJ_-$

Here are the other investigations Trump has to worry about: He’s already been charged in a 34-count indictment in New York in a hush money case.
The others include federal and state investigations into his efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 election and a civil case that threatens his ability to ever again do business in New York.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/trump-investigations-charges-classified-documents-d822569227ea882cedfeffd3284f9d4c__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFsxfOedRR$

# Medical / Health
No health-insurance choice for YOU! Democrats despise the thought of Americans making their own decisions on health insurance, so President Joe Biden is moving to crush the short-term, limited policies that 1.5 million of us now choose. That is, he’s rolling back Trump-era regulations that undid Obama rules to allow this choice. These are less-pricey, customizable policies that Democrats call “junk insurance” because it comes without the bells and whistles they deem necessary.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/07/09/no-health-insurance-choice-for-you/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs3o9ZR5P$

Biden’s new plan threatens health coverage for more than half a million people: His proposal would mandate the very practice of stripping coverage from the sick that he had promised ObamaCare would end. Overall, the Congressional Budget Office estimates such rules would oust 1.5 million people from their current plans, of which 500,000 would lose coverage entirely.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/4087396-bidens-new-plan-threatens-health-coverage-for-more-than-half-a-million-people/*:*:text=His*20proposal*20would*20mandate*20the,500*2C000*20would*20lose*20coverage*20entirely__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs9K_3aHp$

# Military / Global
With Ukraine’s Cluster Bombs Killing Its Own Citizens, Biden Readies Order to Send More: A new Human Rights Watch report says Ukraine’s use of the internationally banned weapon has led to civilian casualties.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/07/05/ukraine-cluster-bombs-biden/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFsykBRrKR$

Ukrainian Weapons Fund Has Spent Less Than 10% of Its Cash: The fund, designed to arm Kyiv “at pace,” has been running for almost a year.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukrainian-weapons-fund-has-spent-less-than-10-of-its-cash__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFsyaGwpQ9$

North Korea Threatens to Shoot Down U.S. Spy Planes: The U.S. will surely have to pay a dear price for its provocative air espionage.” North Korea accused the United States on Monday of violating its airspace by conducting surveillance flights and warned that, while Pyongyang was exercising restraint, such flights may be shot down.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsweek.com/north-korea-threatens-shoot-down-us-spy-aircraft-nuclear-tensions-south-korea-1811829__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs5Oz7pZ1$

Russia Bombs Humanitarian Aid Point in Ukraine, Killing 4: A regional governor said the school building was hit by a guided aviation bomb. Russia killed at least four people and injured dozens in a strike on a Ukrainian school that was also a humanitarian aid distribution point. The bomb attack took place in Orikhiv, a frontline town in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, National Police of Ukraine said in a statement
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukraine-nuclear-plants-putin-nato-latest-b2372242.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs4ZZLQey$

Russia’s war could reshape the global arms market in favor of China: If these changes lead to long-lasting effects on Russia’s defense-industrial base, opportunities could emerge for other suppliers to reshape the landscape of the international arms market, and China stands to benefit most.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.defensenews.com/opinion/commentary/2023/07/10/russias-war-could-reshape-the-global-arms-market-in-favor-of-china/*:*:text=If*20these*20changes*20lead*20to,in*20Ukraine*20and*20the*20pandemic__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs-cYXjGy$

# Science
There’s an enormous gravity hole in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Scientists say they’ve finally worked out what’s causing it: Gravity’s pull is a constant on Earth, but our planet is no uniform sphere. It’s covered in lumps and bumps, with geology of varying density yanking on nearby masses with subtly differing degrees of force in an undulating map known as a geoid.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-giant-gravity-hole-in-the-indian-ocean-and-we-may-finally-know-why__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs_0H86c7$

# Veterans / VA
As Veteran Disability Claims Soar, Unaccredited Coaches Profit Off Frustration with VA System: Austin-based VA Claims Insider says it has helped hundreds of thousands of clients. It has also touched off complaints and investigations.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/05/veterans-disability-benefits-brian-reese-va-claims-insider/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1OjvESQN0Ll6CQciG4hKEutQVrk_aRFUtt3yTrNggLxtgDXJTDFcER0v4WZNRNPlElkh3OLb6IivJjsLRwXygPOFs8XySxaB$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-07-07

Voices, The Peoples News

July 7, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

# Indigenous
How private interests benefit from tribal water settlements: When power players like mining and agriculture are involved, tribal nations, usually the senior-most water-rights holders, often must fight obstruction.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.7/indigenous-affairs-colorado-river-how-private-interests-benefit-from-tribal-water-settlements__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8BSH3Rpa$

Beyond “paper” water: The complexities of fully leveraging tribal water rights: Even after legal recognition, a host of factors constrain tribes’ control over their water resources
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2022/beyond-paper-water-the-complexities-of-fully-leveraging-tribal-water-rights__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8LkqwQJF$

Tribes to Receive $1.7 Billion from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to Fulfill Indian Water Rights Settlements: Funding will help develop infrastructure projects that fulfill the terms of Tribal water settlements
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/tribes-receive-17-billion-president-bidens-bipartisan-infrastructure-law-fulfill__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8EyTb7sk$

The forgotten sovereigns of the Colorado River: As the West’s major river dries up, tribes have asserted rights to its water long ignored by state and federal authorities. If it weren’t for the Colorado River, Albuquerque wouldn’t exist — at least, not as a city of half a million. Which is interesting, because the city itself is nowhere near the river: The Colorado and its tributaries flow on the opposite side of the Continental Divide from New Mexico’s largest city.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/07/the-forgotten-sovereigns-of-the-colorado-river-00096002__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8MIMbLuW$

‘The fight for our lives’: Arizona’s water regime limits the Hopi Tribe’s future: A 45-year legal saga leaves the tribe fighting for their economic ambitions through water access. Under rules unique to Arizona, the tribe would have to justify how it would use every drop it wanted.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.7/indigenous-affairs-water-the-fight-for-our-lives-arizona-water-regime-limits-the-hopi-tribes-future?utm_source=wcn1&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2023-07-07-Newsletter__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8Oei0T5l$

# Chemicals
Chemicals are forever: a new factory opens near Lake Nipissing, where water is already contaminated: Industrial Plastics Canada’s new North Bay factory is set to use fluoropolymers, part of a group of chemicals known as PFAS that Canada has been slow to regulate
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thenarwhal.ca/pfas-factory-north-bay-ontario/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8PPLEJ0g$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
How and Why the Spy of Biden & Gates Hids the ManMade SARS-Cov-2 in the US Intelligence Dossier: The lawyer Avril Haines who now leads ODNI is the former CIA deputy director and prophetess of pandemic coronavirus without memory of Fauci’s SARS researches as “dual use” to develop vaccines and bio-weapons
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/07/how-and-why-the-spy-of-biden-gates-hids-the-manmade-sars-cov-2-in-the-us-intelligence-dossier/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8GA8tGi_$

After Long Silence on ‘Long Vax,’ Science Magazine Links Autoimmune Disorders to COVID Shots: After years of organizing and advocacy by people suffering autoimmune injuries from the COVID-19 vaccine, one of the world’s top scientific journals reports on the existence of “Long Vax.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/long-vax-science-magazine-autoimmune-disorders-covid-shots/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8NkOW1Gy$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
How the super rich are killing Social Security: It’s going to run out of money before you can ever receive it if the rich don’t start paying their fair share. As the rich have become far richer, more and more of the nation’s total income has escaped the Social Security payroll tax. For example, a CEO earning $20 million a year pays Social Security taxes on roughly 1% of their income, while a worker earning under the cap pays Social Security taxes on 100% of their income.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://robertreich.org/post/722034724903829504__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8J5ilv18$

# Education / Schools
Supreme Court preserves college preferences for wealthy whites: In its recent ruling on affirmative action in college admissions, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices squarely came down on the side of race and class-based preferences for wealthy whites.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nationofchange.org/2023/07/06/supreme-court-preserves-college-preferences-for-wealthy-whites/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8CZaxuft$

Affirmative action lasted over 50 years: 3 essential reads explaining how it ended: The Supreme Court’s decision to ban affirmative action programs reverses nearly 50 years of its own decisions that ruled diversity was of vital national importance.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/affirmative-action-lasted-over-50-years-3-essential-reads-explaining-how-it-ended-209273__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8HK4DrXT$

# Employment / Labor
One simple solution to tackle the gender pay gap: Equal pay advocates say that forcing companies to be clear about how much they are willing to pay for a position gives women crucial information to negotiate a higher salary than they would get otherwise.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://publicintegrity.org/accountability/one-simple-solution-to-tackle-the-gender-pay-gap/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8DZSI4oU$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
EPA seeks to slash chemical plants’ cancer-causing emissions: Major updates to air pollution regulations could reduce frontline communities’ excess cancer risk by 96%.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dailyclimate.org/chemical-plants-2662234270.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8A8E-ag4$

‘Double agents’: fossil-fuel lobbyists work for US groups trying to fight climate crisis: More than 1,500 lobbyists in the US are working on behalf of fossil-fuel companies while at the same time representing hundreds of liberal-run cities, universities, technology companies and environmental groups that say they are tackling the climate crisis, the Guardian can reveal.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/05/double-agent-fossil-fuel-lobbyists__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8Mv3kHJX$

Carbon Capture Faces a Major Test in North Dakota: An expert weighs in about Project Tundra and the viability of retrofitting coal plants to capture carbon. North Dakota announced the next steps for Project Tundra, an attempt to retrofit a 53-year-old coal-fired power plant so that its emissions are captured before they enter the atmosphere, and then buried underground.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06072023/carbon-capture-north-dakota/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8GesWMxR$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
Iran tried to seize 2 oil tankers near Strait of Hormuz and fired shots at one of them, US Navy says: The U.S. Navy said it intervened Wednesday when Iranian naval ships tried to seize two oil tankers and fired on one of them in the Gulf of Oman. It said that in both cases, the Iranian naval vessels backed off after the U.S. Navy dispatched a guided missile destroyer to the scene, and that both commercial ships continued their voyages.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/gulf-iran-us-tensions-shipping-oil-127f8b77aa7e41dcd8266b6fbe5800dc__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8DKDyHlK$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Canada’s Record Wildfires Made Four North American Cities Among the Five Most Polluted Cities in the World: Hundreds of wildfires have been burning in nearly all of Canada’s provinces for almost a month, the smoke from them drifting down into the midwestern and eastern United States.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.indiantime.net/story/2023/07/06/environment/canadas-record-wildfires-made-four-north-american-cities-among-the-five-most-polluted-cities-in-the-world/42661.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8OT-L-m_$

World Passes Highest Average Global Temperature Recorded: The average global temperature reached a new high on July 3 at 17.01 degrees Celsius (62.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the highest average since records initially began in the 19th century and since satellite monitoring began in the 1970s. July 4 was even hotter, reaching 0.17 degrees Celsius (0.31 degrees Fahrenheit) higher.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.researchgate.net/post/Temperature-of-Earth-increases-year-after-year-which-dangerous-for-the-world__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8JelNtls$

Opinion: The Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling puts climate progress and leadership in peril This radical reversal of social equity scaffolding poses a monumental challenge for environmental and climate justice.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ehn.org/affirmative-action-supreme-court-2662243132.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8FE6CCw1$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure / Global The Arctic Is Farting ‘Ancient’ Methane and It’s Scary as Hell: It’s yet another reminder that the “finding out” stage of climate change is upon us, and of the need for more action to rapidly cut greenhouse gas emissions. Rapidly receding glaciers are leaving new tracts of Arctic land uncovered and causing a potent greenhouse gas to bubble out of the ground, according to scientists studying the region.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/arctic-farting-ancient-methane-scary-180413294.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8Oxc5FGx$

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
Heat is a mortal threat to farmworkers. A nurse may have found a way to protect them: Educating field workers to listen to their bodies can help save lives as the climate grows warmer.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/07/05/farmworker-deadly-heat/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8Hn25Fdo$

2022 national food stamp payment error rates hit nearly 12%: For the first time since the COVID pandemic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released the fiscal year 2022 national payment error rate for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_3cbec6de-1b36-11ee-9900-9720c6712a9a.html?a&seyid=75609*utm_source=thecentersquare.com&utm_campaign=*2FNational*2Flists*2Ft2*2F*2F&utm_medium=email&utm_content=read*20more__;PyUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8EHEnOSp$

A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. Then billions of crabs died: The Indigenous people of St. Paul Island face a decision — stay or go?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://grist.org/food/alaska-snow-crab-vanish-st-paul-island/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8LFcr1lQ$

U.S. animal industries pose disease risks to people, report says: The United States is home to an enormous array of animal industries, including industrial agriculture, fur farming and the exotic pet trade, that pose a significant risk of creating infectious disease outbreaks in humans
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ustoday.news/report-says-us-animal-industries-pose-disease-risk-to-humans/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8FsVWqbn$

# General News
OceanGate Expeditions Suspends ‘Exploration and Commercial Operations’ After ‘Titan’ Implosion: The company announced on its website on Thursday. The announcement comes weeks after five people, including OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, died in a submersible during an OceanGate expedition to the Titanic wreckage
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/07/06/oceangate-suspends-all-exploration-commercial-operations-after-titan-implosion/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8C2sZCvW$

Former President Donald Trump posted on his social media platform what he claimed was the home address of former President Barack Obama on the same day that a man with guns in his van was arrested near the property, federal prosecutors said Wednesday in revealing new details about the case.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-politics/ap-trump-posted-what-he-said-was-obamas-address-prosecutors-say-an-armed-man-was-soon-arrested-there/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8KuU-Yuo$

Trump Is Apparently Unconcerned About the Prospect of His Online Ravings Getting Someone Killed (Again): The guy who incited an insurrection that left five people dead is now posting the alleged home addresses of people he doesn’t like and demanding protests on his behalf.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/07/donald-trump-is-apparently-unconcerned-about-the-prospect-of-his-online-ravings-getting-someone-killed-again__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8OLd0LQy$

# Gov / Politics / Global
Why China’s Latin America push raises US red flags: China’s ties to Cuba and growing presence in Latin America raise security concerns in Washington, even as leaders try to ease tensions
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/chinas-ties-to-cuba-and-growing-presence-in-latin-america-raise-security-concerns-in-washington-even-as-leaders-try-to-ease-tensions-208645__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8Eyeudtk$

# Gov / Politics
The GOP Guv Appointing His Big Donors to State Positions: Two of the governor’s UVA picks have given more than half a million dollars to Youngkin’s fundraising efforts since he announced his candidacy in 2021.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vpm.org/news/2023-06-29/youngkin-board-of-visitors-appointments-republican-donors-uva__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8CW9ryXc$

Biden Welcomes Swedish PM to White House, Pressing NATO Membership for Sweden: President Joe Biden: “Sweden is going to make our alliance stronger and has the same value set that we have in NATO.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/06/biden-ratchets-up-efforts-to-secure-swedens-nato-membership-ahead-of-key-summit__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8JQPu5zm$

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was recently kicked out of the House Freedom Caucus after a string of disagreements with the conservative group, according to two GOP lawmakers familiar with the situation: Why was Greene removed? Though tensions were already brewing within the Freedom Caucus, the formal vote came shortly after Greene and fellow caucus member Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) got into a heated clash on the House floor
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/07-6-2023/mtg-freedom-caucus-ouster/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8I9a1F6K$

First GOP Debate Next Month Faces Threats of Boycotts: First GOP debate next month faces threats of boycott as lower-polling candidates scramble to qualify. NEW YORK (AP) Seven weeks before the premiere debate of the
2024 GOP primary, anxiety is building that the event could prove messy and divisive for the party.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-republican-presidential-debate-1e4d65a395f83ac078139d14e41d4b63__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8HymmWdT$

Supreme Court Affirms the Truth; Affirmative Action Creates Racial Disharmony: The nation’s highest court has affirmed that Americans shouldn’t face discrimination to get into college or employment based on the color of their skin.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://dcjournal.com/supreme-court-affirms-the-truth-affirmative-action-creates-racial-disharmony/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8CWUYmPh$

More Than 700K Ohioans Sign Ballot Initiative to Protect Abortion Rights: If passed, the initiative would undo a trigger law that restricts abortions after around six weeks.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/more-than-700k-ohioans-sign-ballot-initiative-to-protect-abortion-rights/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8EQEbqwn$

# Law Enforcment
Police treatment in black and white – report on Minneapolis policing is the latest reminder of systemic racial disparities: At a time when Americans celebrated their nation’s independence, it’s clear not every American enjoys the same constitutional rights. The latest reminder that police officers around the country routinely deny Black people their constitutional rights comes from the Justice Department
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/police-treatment-in-black-and-white-report-on-minneapolis-policing-is-the-latest-reminder-of-systemic-racial-disparities-208418__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8ERbADBB$

Court sides with stalkers: The Supreme Court has basically decided that stalking is protected by the First Amendment, Mary Anne Franks writes. She takes apart the flawed logic behind the opinion, and its terrifying implications.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/jun/27/supreme-court-stalking-ruling-alarms-advocates-and-victims__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8GWPfRoO$

# Legal / DOJ
America Has a Supreme Court Problem: Hillary Clinton tried warning us. Now, what do you do with a rogue Court?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/07/supreme-court-legitimacy-crisis__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8Al974Th$

White House disagrees with judge’s order on social media in Missouri v. Biden: The U.S. Department of Justice will review a U.S. District Court injunction requested by Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey prohibiting President Joe Biden’s administration from some communication with social media companies https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/missouri/article_7f695f84-1b73-11ee-b558-5399f6cfd14e.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8G9hYoS9$

A Trump-Appointed Judge Just Handed Right-Wingers a Huge Victory in Their Fight Against Purported Social Media Bias: The Biden administration essentially won’t be allowed to talk to social media companies about their content.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-appointed-judge-restricts-officials-contact-social-media-giants-rcna92614__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8OZ_oQdA$

Supreme Court disclosures reveal more luxury travel from private interests: During 2021 and 2022, eight of the nine justices reported taking 34 trips at the expense of private groups including universities, legal groups and ideologically-focused organizations.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/07/supreme-court-disclosures-reveal-more-luxury-travel-from-private-interests?emci=2ab9365a-311c-ee11-a9bb-00224832eb73&emdi=ba26ae63-4b1c-ee11-a9bb-00224832eb73&ceid=8400680__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8LRW7O4v$

Trump Judge Effectively Names Himself President: Terry A. Doughty says he gets to decide who the FBI, DHS, HHS, and the Justice Department can talk to.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/justice/2023-07-06-trump-judge-effectively-names-himself-president/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8MJDKl8T$

# LGBTQ / Gender
Not all religions embrace the gender binary: Nonbinary genders beyond ‘male’ and ‘female’ would have been no surprise to ancient rabbis, who acknowledged tumtums, androgynos and aylonot
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/nonbinary-genders-beyond-male-and-female-would-have-been-no-surprise-to-ancient-rabbis-who-acknowledged-tumtums-androgynos-and-aylonot-206827__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8Bw6mL8Q$

# Media
What the Teamsters Are Really About: As a strike at UPS looms, the union’s plans may encompass more than winning a good contract. The negotiations between the Teamsters and UPS have broken down, with each side blaming the other for walking away from the table. Teamster contracts are the guarantors of decent wages, fair promotion, health coverage, job security, paid time-off and retirement income. The Teamsters Union also performs vital tasks in such areas as pension management, safety & health, community outreach, governmental affairs and communications.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-07-06-teamsters-ups-strike-looms/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8GNZ_nzA$

# Medical / Health
Why It’s Dangerous To Get Sick In America: The U.S. health care system is broken and corrupt, our coverage shows we can fix it. The U.S. health care system is cruel and dysfunctional. It’s also deeply corrupt. Below, we break down some of The Lever’s reporting on America’s extraordinarily complicated health care system, and the private interests and craven politicians who are profiting off misery.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.levernews.com/why-its-dangerous-to-get-sick-in-america/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8LfX89pK$

Medicare Advantage has a high price tag, and a staggering human cost. ‘Staggering’: Watchdog Finds Medicare Advantage Plans Deny Necessary Care. “These plans are designed to maximize profits for corporations, NOT to provide high-quality healthcare,” said Social Security Works.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/28/staggering-watchdog-finds-medicare-advantage-plans-deny-necessary-care__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8LhUU9yT$

The Unfolding Medicaid Disaster: Now that Biden and Congress have ended pandemic protections, nearly a million have lost Medicaid coverage for procedural reasons so far, and many more will. As states have begun clearing out their Medicaid rolls for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly three quarters of the Americans who’ve lost coverage have been terminated not because they’re ineligible for the low-income health insurance program, but due to administrative reasons, such as failing to quickly respond to a piece of mail.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.levernews.com/the-unfolding-medicaid-disaster/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8CvdgXgO$

Fauci Meets The Health Insurance Lobbyists: At a health insurance industry conference, former presidential COVID adviser Anthony Fauci accidentally revealed the truth about buckraking speeches. The lucky speakers and panelists get paid tens and sometimes even hundreds of thousands of dollars to briefly entertain powerful corporate executives, whose jobs involve influencing policy so that it serves their own financial interests, at the expense of everyone else.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.levernews.com/fauci-meets-the-health-insurance-lobbyists/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8AYeG81e$

The System Makes Patients Sick And CEOs Rich: Healthcare executives’ pay topped $335 million last year while 100 million Americans were saddled with medical debt. Big health insurance companies have been on a spending spree buying back shares of their own stock, a gimmick, illegal until a few years ago, that has made a few insurance company CEOs incredibly rich at a time when 100 million Americans are saddled with medical debt.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.levernews.com/the-system-makes-patients-sick-and-ceos-rich/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8LvlQyw-$

How and Why Biden & Gates Spy Hides Man-Made SARS-Cov-2 in US Intelligence Dossier: The report acknowledges that researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, where scientists conducted coronavirus research in the city where Covid first emerged, fell ill in the fall of 2019, shortly before the pandemic began. Advocates of the lab leak theory seized on the news as near-definitive proof that their hypothesis was correct.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/23/biden-administration-intelligence-wuhan-lab-00103523__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8OjEhJV2$

COVID Hasn’t Disappeared — But Empathy, Care and Solidarity Have: Governments worldwide are abandoning people to a debilitating disease with one simple trick: saying it no longer exists.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/covid-hasnt-disappeared-but-empathy-care-and-solidarity-have/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8NJuy_P-$

# Medical Science
DARPA’S New SHIELD Program Plans to Purge Your Blood of Pathogens, Roomba-Style: Likening SHIELD’s capabilities to “a Roomba-like treatment circulating within your blood,” the agency said in a statement this week that it aims to offer military personnel an array of preventive treatments for such injuries that often give rise to infections, offering preemptive care and protection against potential pathogens.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thedebrief.org/darpas-new-shield-program-plans-to-purge-your-blood-of-pathogens-roomba-style/*:*:text=Likening*20SHIELD’s*20capabilities*20to*20**Ba,care*20and*20protection*20against*20potential__;I34lJSUl4oCcJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8KSo0O2-$

# Military / DOD
Pentagon looks to improve classified information tracking in wake of secret documents leak: The Defense Department does not intend to scale back the number of its military and civilian employees with classified information access, but it plans to better track who is accessing what secrets, a Pentagon official said.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-07-05/pentagon-secret-document-leak-review-10649492.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8AJRDZVP$

The military robots are coming, at some point: Unmanned ground vehicle technology has been progressing, but familiar obstacles remain.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.defensenews.com/unmanned/2023/07/06/the-military-robots-are-coming-at-some-point/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8L8mowwX$

How a Notorious Georgia Army School Became America’s Training Ground for Global Torture: Across Latin America, the very name of Fort Benning is enough to strike terror into the hearts of millions, bringing back visions of massacres and genocides. This is because the fort is home to the School of the Americas
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://orinocotribune.com/how-a-notorious-georgia-army-school-became-americas-training-ground-for-global-torture/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8ENYrm2s$

Biden to Send Bombs Banned by 120+ Countries to Ukraine: The weapons can pose a deadly threat to civilians long after a conflict has ended. The weapons, banned by more than 100 countries, will be in a new aid package expected to be announced on Friday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/7/us-to-send-cluster-bombs-to-ukraine-despite-humanitarian-concerns__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8BXve71u$

# Military / Global
UPDATE: Ukraine and Russia each say the other is planning to sabotage the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. They’ve been trading accusations over the past year, but now they say an attack is imminent.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/2023/07/05/1186098943/ukraine-and-russia-accuse-each-other-of-planning-to-attack-zaporizhzhia-power-pl__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8JqXNS8D$

# Nuclear
The Fukushima Disaster: Exposing the nuclear industry and its lies. It begins with the words in 1961 of U.S. President John F. Kennedy: “Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by an accident, or miscalculation or by madness.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nationofchange.org/2023/07/06/the-fukushima-disaster-the-hidden-side-of-the-story/*:*:text=**BThe*20Fukushima*20Disaster*2C*20The*20Hidden,deadly*20dangers*20of*20nuclear*20technology__;I37igJwlJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8KrGMUWW$

# Science
Plastic-eating fungi thriving in human-made ‘plastisphere’ may help tackle waste globally: “The growing body of scientific evidence sheds light on the environmental potential for plastic degradation that needs to be unlocked.” The researchers found two of the types of bacteria growing alongside the Dafeng fungi to be promising candidates for breaking down plastic, Streptomyces and the genus Jonesia, which was discovered recently. Jonesia cf. Quinghaiensis was especially dominant in the 55 bacterial strains that were sampled.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://phys.org/news/2023-05-plastic-eating-fungi-man-made-plastisphere-tackle.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8BZtbhRj$

# Social
White House announces $3.1 billion to address homelessness, including among veterans: The new measure is “the largest-ever, single-year investment … to help communities address homelessness,” the Biden administration said in a statement.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.legion.org/news/259318/white-house-announces-31-billion-address-homelessness-including-among-veterans__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8JsxA0KB$

“Some people need to get their asses kicked,” Stephen A. Smith, the sports commentator and anchor is getting closer and closer to the truth of what is happening in the black community.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/07/some-people-need-to-get-their-asses-kicked-stephen-a-smith/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8IcBJybi$

Guns and drugs are killing people in the US at increasing and unprecedented rates, 20-year study finds: In a paper, “Trends in Mortality From Poisonings, Firearms, and All Other Injuries by Intent in the US, 1999-2020,” published in JAMA Internal Medicine, the researchers find disturbing trends in the rate and manner in which Americans are dying.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-07-guns-drugs-people-unprecedented-year.html*:*:text=The*20study*20finds*20the*20number,an*20average*20rate*20of*207*25__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8D3fuMZP$

# Technology
U.S. Must Beat China in Broadband Spectrum Allocation: It’s no secret, China is spying on us: It’s time for the United States to respond, and the first order of business must be to diplomatically expand broadband services.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://dcjournal.com/u-s-must-beat-china-in-broadband-spectrum-allocation/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8HDS_U-y$

# Water
PFAS are bad, but other water-polluting chemicals are even worse: PFAS get a lot of attention, but there are other compounds in our drinking water that are more dangerous, and much more common. News that 3M is paying more than $10 billion to clean “forever chemicals” from municipal drinking water isn’t helping our confidence.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-07-05/pfas-are-bad-but-other-water-polluting-chemicals-are-even-worse__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8EiqAPiU$

Almost half of the tap water in the US is contaminated with chemicals known as “forever chemicals,” according to a new study: The number of people drinking contaminated water may be even higher than what the study found, however, because the researchers weren’t able to test for all of these per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances, or PFAS, chemicals that are considered dangerous to human health. There are more than 12,000 types of PFAS, according to the National Institutes of Health, but this study looked at only 32 of the compounds.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/05/health/pfas-nearly-half-us-tap-water-wellness/index.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8F52s6Wn$

NW drinking water concerns could get worse as the climate changes: Changes in snowpack and streamflow could mean places like the Yakima Basin in Washington and the Willamette River Basin in Oregon have bigger chances for more frequent water shortages in the summer, according to the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group and the Oregon Climate Assessments.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.epa.gov/climateimpacts/climate-change-impacts-freshwater-resources__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8PvPBDP-$

# Weather
Earth shatters heat records, faces uncharted extreme weather: Scientists say to brace for more extreme weather and probably a record-warm 2023 amid unprecedented temperatures. Remarkable historic heat is hitting the planet, raising alarm over looming extreme weather dangers, and an increasing likelihood this year will be Earth’s warmest on record.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://globalnews.ca/news/9813396/hottest-day-global-heat-record/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3PNd6Ik1qxRDV6ovIvbWiAnaZlMr9MiNxI16P9cGXb9169OQ4l7MsTLjHXL4IiCbVGP9RM9gJeG8dGREfa8zfEg_8F9SGgu0$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-07-05

Voices, The Peoples News

July 5, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

# Indigenous
The Colorado River Flooded Chemehuevi Land. Decades Later, the Tribe Still Struggles to Take Its Share of Water. The Chemehuevi’s reservation fronts about 30 miles of the Colorado River, yet 97% of the tribe’s water stays in the river, much of it used by Southern California cities. The tribe isn’t paid for it.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/chemehuevi-tribe-reservation-water-colorado-river-california__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPiES1Z7a$

Tribal nations push for seats at the table in Colorado River negotiations: As federal and state officials prepare to renegotiate the rules governing the Colorado River, the region’s tribal nations are demanding seats at the table, seats that could make or break the basin’s future.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4077526-tribal-nations-push-for-seats-at-the-table-in-colorado-river-negotiations/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPrly86z0$

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Two soldiers arrested in rural Texas for smuggling migrants: Both soldiers were released with pending court dates for the charge of smuggling people, which became a felony in Texas through a law passed earlier this year.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/two-national-guard-soldiers-arrested-for-human-smuggling__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPkYoKfK7$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Pfizer-Biontech Covid Vaccine produces the toxic Spike protein in Human Body Even after 2 Years: With an explosive study a microbiologist confirms the tremendous alteration of the DNA in the blood of a former Swiss banker injured by the jabs of the mRNA genic serum
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Malaria making a comeback in the US? New cases and climate change raise big concerns: The CDC is warning of locally acquired cases in Texas and Florida. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning over the return of locally acquired cases of malaria, meaning infections not linked to foreign travel and transmitted by local mosquitoes. The cases, identified in Florida and Texas, raise a lot of questions.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vox.com/science/2023/6/23/23771154/malaria-transmission-florida-texas-mosquitoes-risk-prevention-anopheles__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPtMnoBzY$

Symptoms of malaria: Most people, at the beginning of the disease, have fever, sweats, chills, headaches, malaise, muscles aches, nausea, and vomiting. Malaria can very rapidly become a severe and life-threatening disease.
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Some Children Suffered Seizures Following mRNA COVID Shots: Any associations between a vaccine and adverse outcomes produced by this approach are considered statistical signals that indicate the need for further investigation into the safety of a vaccine. The first period of 1-21 days, known as the “primary risk interval,” is believed to be the time-period that vaccinated people are more likely to experience adverse events.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thevaccinereaction.org/2023/07/some-children-suffered-seizures-following-mrna-covid-shots/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPqla10q5$

More Evidence SARS CoV-2 Escaped from Chinese Laboratory: U.S. government officials admitted the first patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus were researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China, despite claims by former director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) Anthony Fauci. “We may never know” the true origin of the novel coronavirus, Ben Hu, Yu Ping and Yan Zhu, researchers
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thevaccinereaction.org/2023/07/more-evidence-sars-cov-2-escaped-from-chinese-laboratory/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPkljA1pv$

CDC is concealing references to a covid vaccine on Minnesota death certificates (that are exceedingly rare to begin with because of widespread medical establishment denialism of vaccine adverse side effects). In almost every death certificate that identifies a covid vaccine as a cause of death, the CDC committed data fraud by not assigning the ICD 10 code for vaccine side effects to the causes of death listed on the death certificate.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://brownstone.org/articles/cdc-altered-death-certificates/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPrn0XB15$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Will DeSantis’s Culture War Backfire? Increasing cancellations of convention plans and business investments are starting to damage Florida’s economy. Thanks to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s war on LGBTQ people, public schools, and educational curricula, Florida stands to lose massive amounts of convention business.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/politics/2023-07-05-will-desantis-culture-war-backfire/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPuDfiMdM$

Asset Management Firms Are Gaining Power Over Housing, Hospitals, Water and More: Who owns our world? In recent years, one set of financial actors keep coming up as an answer to that question: asset management firms. Brett Christophers explains how asset managers like BlackRock and Blackstone have come to “own the world.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/asset-management-firms-are-gaining-power-over-housing-hospitals-water-and-more/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPlaCVEFq$

# Education / Schools
Republicans Target Minority Scholarships After Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling: Missouri went on the attack the day the Court ruled, and Wisconsin may be next
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/supreme-court-affirmative-action-minority-scholarships-republicans-1234783254/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPl7uCimX$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
Country’s Largest Grid Operator Must Process and Connect Backlogged Clean Energy Projects, a New Reports Says: PJM could benefit numerous states with thousands of jobs and billions in investment by implementing recent reforms, including priority for proposals ready to proceed and a “fast lane” for smaller deals.
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# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Ecosystem collapses could happen much sooner than previously expected: Extreme weather events will accelerate change in stressed systems, leading quickly to tipping points. Across the planet, rainforests are turning into savannas or farmland, while savannas are experiencing drying out and transitioning into deserts https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/ecosystem-collapses-could-happen-much-sooner-than-previously-expected/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPpueElrS$

June extremes suggest parts of the climate system are reaching tipping points: Research shows heat domes, wildfires and vanishing polar ice are the symptoms; unabated greenhouse gas emissions are the cause. Earth’s critical reflective polar ice caps are at their lowest extent on record in the satellite era, with the sea ice around Antarctica at a record-low extent by far, spurring worried scientists to share dramatic charts of the missing ice repeatedly.
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# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
Scientists create edible food packaging that could replace single-use plastics: California-based startup Sway, makes seaweed-based, home-compostable, and carbon-negative thin film packaging. Its materials even come from different colors of seaweed. Sway co-founder and CEO Julia Marsh said that the funding will help the startup to move closer to launching pilots next year. Some of their investors include Alante Capital, the Sustainable Ocean Alliance, and Conservation International Ventures.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/41271/20221208/california-startup-uses-seaweed-replace-packaging-plastic-bags-work.htm__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPiugs94m$

The problem with ‘humanely raised’ poultry and eggs: Chicken producers are misleading consumers with misinformation. Their own food is chosen; their social, familial, and physical environment is controlled; their reproductive organs and activities are manipulated; and how long they live is determined by humans. They can be abused and killed at will based on economic “necessity.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.alternet.org/problem-humanely-raised-poultry-eggs/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPrY3clmT$

# Gov / Politics
Federal Judge Blocks Florida GOP’s ‘Clear and Brazen Attack’ on Voter Registration Efforts “We applaud the court’s decision, but we must ensure this harmful law is struck down altogether,” said the ACLU of Florida’s legal director.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/federal-judge-florida-voter-registration__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPruz8AZx$

As We Celebrate Independence, the U.S. Stifles Freedom Around the Globe: The U.S. has been a major force of violent repression globally that stamps out people’s hopes for freedom and justice. The 4th of July is a strange spectacle: In Washington, D.C., patriots wave American flags at a parade even as the U.S. approves Morocco’s occupation of the Western Sahara, helping to crush the Sahrawi people’s hope for independence.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/as-we-celebrate-independence-the-us-stifles-freedom-around-the-globe/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPk7zXOYP$

The 2024 election could be Big Pharma’s reckoning: It’s clear at this point that the 2024 election could very well hinge on which party can capture the populist mantle on Big Pharma.
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Judge unleashes on Biden for potentially biggest ‘attack’ on freedom in United States history: Biden likely violated First Amendment during COVID-19 pandemic, federal judge says, Google, Meta and Twitter were all named in the lawsuits. A U.S. District Court judge is temporarily preventing White House officials from meeting with tech companies about social media censorship, arguing that such actions in the past were likely First Amendment violations.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-likely-violated-first-amendment-covid-19-pandemic-federal-judge-says__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPtidmO-c$

Meta Hires CIA Agent to Head Election Censorship Division: Facebook parent company Meta has decided to put a former CIA agent in charge of their ‘Elections Policies.’ Just when you thought the left’s censorship efforts couldn’t get any worse, Facebook parent company Meta has decided to put a former CIA agent in charge of their “Elections Policies,” meaning things are about to get worse…much worse!
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.patrioticviralnews.com/articles/meta-hires-cia-agent-to-head-up-their-election-censorship-division/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPosOA72d$

Making Madness Normal in Wartime: A new book on World War I by journalist Charles Glass, who has covered recent wars in the Middle East, offers an opportunity for us to compare then and now.
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‘Totally indefensible’: Biden nominates death squad backer Elliott Abrams to diplomacy panel: “Elliott Abrams, enemy of human rights, apologist for mass murder, should have no place within spitting distance of any Democratic administration in any capacity.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nationofchange.org/2023/07/05/totally-indefensible-biden-nominates-death-squad-backer-elliott-abrams-to-diplomacy-panel/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPtOtXGiv$

As 2024 Crashes Into View, Trump vs. Biden 2.0, Revisionist History Is Rearing Its Ugly Head: Whether or not Trump runs again, his entire operation is about undermining the guy who’s actually trying to help.News execs and political analysts don’t seem to care whether we’ve been here, seen that. Do audiences?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.salon.com/2021/10/07/ready-for-the-mega-ugly-2024-rematch-the-perennial-optimist-vs-the-perma/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPl9nuq6v$

# Law Enforcment
Fourth of July Block Party Shooting Kills 3, Injures 7: It was one of 16 mass shootings in the U.S. over the holiday weekend. The Shreveport Police Department said 11 people were shot and four died after the early Wednesday morning shooting in the city’s MLK neighborhood. More than 200 people were attending the event.
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Kenneth Nixon , a black man was wrongly convicted of murder, now he is suing police: Kenneth Nixon accuses the Detroit Police Department of framing him. At 19, he was convicted of a murder he did not commit. A judge dismissed all his charges and vacated his sentence. Now, Nixon is suing the Detroit Police Department, accusing officers of framing him.
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Deadly Holiday Weekend Of Gun Violence: 4 Days, 11 Mass Shootings: More than a dozen mass shootings between Friday and Tuesday of the Independence Day long weekend claimed 19 lives, but shootings on July 4 itself were the lowest they’ve been in years, despite an overall uptick in mass shootings so far this year
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# Legal / DOJ
Biden’s DOJ Is Pressuring Journalists to Help Build Its Case Against Assange: The prosecution of the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is already a threat to a free media, the justice department’s campaign to get me and other journalists to testify only makes matters worse. The Department of Justice and FBI are pressuring multiple British journalists to cooperate with the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, using vague threats and pressure tactics in the process.
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# LGBTQ / Gender
Use the wrong pronoun? You could face up to five years in prison and other punishments: Michigan House passes bill that could make using wrong pronouns a felony, fineable up to 10,000. A recently passed bill in Michigan could make it a felony to intimidate someone by intentionally using the wrong gender pronouns, according to some legal experts.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.foxnews.com/politics/michigan-house-passes-bill-using-wrong-pronouns-felony-fineable-10000__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPmfpLaEP$

Far Right U.S. Groups Are Exploiting a Loophole to Export Bigotry With a Tax Break: U.S. law allows anonymous donors to give hundreds of millions to groups campaigning globally against LGBTQ rights.
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# Media
Union Officials Blast UPS for Saying Company Has “Nothing More to Give” Workers: UPS workers have authorized a strike if a new contract isn’t agreed upon by July 31. The Teamsters rejected that notion, and said that the company was disingenuous in stating it “had nothing more to give” to workers. The union also pointed out that workers have been overworked and underappreciated, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, when revenues for the company increased by record margins.
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# Medical / Health
Anthony Fauci to become professor at Georgetown University medical school: Anthony Fauci, who was previously the top public health official leading the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic, will be joining the faculty at Georgetown University, in Washington DC. Fauci is the country’s leading expert on infectious diseases anf has served under seven presidents, providing guidance on infectious disease outbreaks in the US, including Ebola and the HIV/Aids epidemic. In 2008, Fauci was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his “determined and aggressive efforts to help others live longer and healthier lives” in efforts to address the HIV/Aids epidemic.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.georgetown.edu/news/dr-anthony-fauci-to-join-georgetown-faculty-as-distinguished-university-professor/*:*:text=Starting*20July*201*2C*20Fauci*20will,future*20physicians*20in*20infectious*20diseases__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPj5MCmuF$

# Medical Science
Tooth Regrowing Drug Therapy Set For Human Clinical Trials Next Year: Japanese scientists are reportedly set to start human trials for a drug that can regrow teeth. All being well, the clinical trial will start next year and a tooth regeneration therapy could be ready for people with holey smiles as early as 2030, according to Japanese media.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.iflscience.com/tooth-regrowing-drug-therapy-set-for-human-clinical-trials-next-year-69685__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPv3L5ZT5$

# Military / Global
Putin’s New Lethal Plan Amid Ukraine War; Russia to Unleash Tank Fury on Zelensky: Russia’s largest arms manufacturing company, Rostec, has decided to begin mass tank production. Rostec announced that Uralvagonzavod (UVZ) is suspending all secondary output, and hundred percent of the production capacity will be occupied in manufacturing tanks.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/07/putins-new-lethal-plan-amid-ukraine-war-russia-to-unleash-tank-fury-on-zelensky/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPnEI_8cy$

# Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons “Sharing” Is a Dangerous Practice That Brings Us Closer to War: President Biden is calling Russia’s nuke-sharing in Belarus “irresponsible” despite the U.S.’s own arsenal in Europe. It is irresponsible to disburse nuclear weapons to other countries, increasing the risk that those weapons could be used by accident, miscalculation, or deliberately, especially with an active war nearby.
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# Pharmaceuticals / Drugs
A son died, his parents tried to sue. How U.S. courts protect Big Pharma: According to a Reuters investigation, parents trying to sue Merck were “stymied by one of Corporate America’s most effective liability shields: the doctrine of federal preemption” which says federal law and federal regulations supersede state laws, but some are now moving forward.
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Merck accused of downplaying early evidence of Singulair drugs brain impact: Merck’s early safety claims later faced intense scrutiny amid reports over two decades that patients, including many children, had died by suicide or experienced neuropsychiatric problems after taking the drug. Merck Knew Its Popular Asthma Drug Could Lead Kids to Commit Suicide, Lawsuits Alleged
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# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
UFO Crash ‘100 Percent’ Covered-Up by U.S. Government, Congressman Says: Representative Tim Burchett, a Tennessee Republican, is convinced that the United States government covered up an alleged UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. Burchett has accused the U.S. government of covering-up incidents related to UFOs, also known as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsweek.com/ufo-crash-100-percent-covered-us-government-congressman-says-1807498__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPqLUJlOo$

Top US officials have ‘first-hand knowledge’ of UFOs: Sen. Marco Rubio: “Some of these people still work in the government,” the 52-year-old Rubio told the outlet. “And frankly, a lot of them are very fearful, fearful of their jobs, fearful [of] their clearances, fearful of their career, and some, frankly, are fearful of harm coming to them.” Rubio’s comments come amid an ongoing investigation, led by House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.), into the alleged the secret military UFO program. The committee is expected to hold a hearing on the matter soon.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.zerohedge.com/political/top-us-officials-have-first-hand-knowledge-secret-ufo-program-rubio__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPq5W4BLz$

# Technology
Citing ‘Orwellian’ Tactics, Federal Judge Orders White House to Stop Censoring Americans’ Social Media Posts: A federal judge has blocked Biden administration officials from contacting social media companies in a landmark order targeting government censorship and suppression of online postings.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/07/04/judge-restricts-biden-officials-from-colluding-with-big-tech/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPltwwSRc$

Real-life invisibility cloaks are already here. But how do they work? The cloak acts like a movie screen, reflecting light directly back to the source, which in this case is the mirror. Light rays bouncing off the cloak pass through the transparent part of the mirror and fall on the user’s eyes.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/technology-articles/inventions-1/real-life-invisibility-cloaks/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPomJCOWL$

In case you haven’t noticed, the “cutting-edge” tech market has really been living up to its name lately: The tech sector saw ~165k layoffs in 2022; this year, it’s already seen 212k+, according to tracking site. Understandably, the market is depressing tech workers’ historically high salary expectations. It’s also pushing many to consider other forms of professional worth, beyond the “net” variety.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehustle.co/some-tech-workers-are-embracing-pay-cuts-and-canada/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPjBqnCm7$

830 tech companies worlwide/ layoffs 212958 employees laid off in 2023
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://layoffs.fyi/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1oCZJ2IRtFtVNVQ5K9TQqJDnqGRL67JgOYNfBMbXQQEWWKfXe2GDXFYBSdkdlcVwxSB-IEW6fayVOOnKd2q_3ohZPis354Sb$

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Voices, The Peoples News

July 3, 2023
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# Indigenous / Global
Unions, Native People Fight Mining “Reforms” and Police Repression in Argentina: Indigenous people and workers are resisting a reform which attacks the right to protest. For weeks now, the people of Jujuy, Argentina, have been in the streets resisting right-wing political attacks on wages and the right to protest. In the past few days the conflict has escalated with severe police repression throughout the largely Indigenous and impoverished province.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/unions-native-people-fight-mining-reforms-and-police-repression-in-argentina/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUuMQKMsV$

Europe’s Green Revolution threatens Indigenous culture: The Sámi indigenous people have inhabited northern Sweden for thousands of years.
Now their way of life is threatened by giant wind farms https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-sweden-indigenous-sami-green-energy/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUkPSwg6H$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
The Great Bank Robbery Of 2023: The government pays banks big money while letting them rip off everyone else. The yawning gap between what you are paid on your deposits and what banks are earning from other institutions when they loan out or invest your money. It’s a caper that has quietly become a systemic upward transfer of wealth thrumming beneath the macroeconomy, but as you’ll see below, the theft can be stopped.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.levernews.com/the-great-bank-robbery/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUhyv6EBr$

# Education / Schools
The Affirmative Action Decision Doesn’t Have a Damn Thing to Do With Meritocracy: Throughout my career, many have considered me, a Black queer Ivy League graduate, as a beneficiary of unfair advantages. Racism has allowed them to ignore classism and nepotism elsewhere in college admissions https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/the-affirmative-action-decision-doesnt-have-to-do-with-meritocracy-1234782275/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUg72EgIk$

Supreme Court strikes down President Biden’s plan to erase billions in student debt: In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court claimed that the Biden administration’s plan lacked authority and overstepped the powers of the Education Department and instead needed to go through Congress.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/30/supreme-court-strikes-down-bidens-student-debt-relief-plan-00104409__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUpiDhC9V$

# Employment / Labor
New Law Aims to Protect Pregnant Workers, But Our Safety Knowledge Falls Short: Experts say not enough is known about which work circumstances and chemical exposures are dangerous for pregnant people.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/new-law-aims-to-protect-pregnant-workers-but-our-safety-knowledge-falls-short/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUtTRBYmt$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
SD governor is investor in ethanol plant partnered with carbon pipeline company: Gov. Kristi Noem is an investor in an ethanol plant that’s partnered with a company proposing a controversial carbon-capture pipeline.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://southdakotasearchlight.com/2023/06/30/noem-investor-in-ethanol-plant-partnered-with-carbon-pipeline-company/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUiu_8BHC$

Lithium scarcity pushes carmakers into the mining business: Ford, General Motors and others are striking deals with mining companies to avoid raw material shortages that could thwart their electric vehicle ambitions
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/business/lithium-mining-automakers-electric-vehicles.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUj00ZYT1$

Little publicized but treacherous, methane from coal mines upends the lives of West Virginia families: In lawsuits targeting the coal operator Arch, residents contend that mining activity has disrupted their lives and emitted a gas that threatens their safety and the planet.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mountainstatespotlight.org/2023/07/02/coal-methane-arch-west-virginia-families/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUt3ekRBB$

A Private Equity-Fueled Oil Disaster In Utah: Private financiers and fossil fuel drillers in Utah are planning to run crude oil trains along the fragile banks of the Colorado River, and get public money to build it. Back in May, Lever reporter Julia Rock investigated the corporate interests pushing the new rail project forward. In this long read, she talks with activists and insiders about why this project could be disastrous for the American West.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.levernews.com/biden-admin-boosts-big-oils-colorado-river-scheme/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUlKw5DEX$

In Denver, oil trains hit a fork in the road to Colorado’s transportation future: “We believe transporting crude oil along the Colorado River is a risk we cannot afford to take,” they wrote in a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “Were a train to derail, it would be frontline communities who bear the brunt of the damage, in the air they breathe and the water they drink.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://coloradonewsline.com/2023/06/30/the-city-in-denver-oil-trains-hit-a-fork-in-the-road-to-colorados-transportation-future/?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUgHl3O6y$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Federal money begins flowing to Lake Erie for projects with an eye on future climate impacts: The $8.2 million for those four projects is just a tiny part of almost $6 billion authorized over the next few years for NOAA’s climate-related programs under the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03072023/lake-erie-climate-impacts/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUiEqJ2nA$

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
New report finds most US kale samples contain ‘disturbing’ levels of ‘forever chemicals’: PFAS was found in seven of eight samples bought at US stores, with organic kale containing higher levels of the toxic compounds.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/30/kale-pfas-forever-chemicals-contamination__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUguhRejs$

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russian Progressives and Antiwar Forces May Find Opening in Wake of Failed Coup: Yevgeny Prigozhin’s attempted coup is over, but it could still have far-reaching consequences for Putin’s government. While the U.S. made it clear that they had nothing to do with the uprising, it did take advantage of the moment to impose a new round of sanctions on the Wagner Group.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/russian-progressives-and-antiwar-forces-may-find-opening-in-wake-of-failed-coup/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUrbhOwO-$

The International Atomic Energy Agency states that Iran is only keeping a fraction of the commitments it made in the Non-Proliferation Treaty Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.jns.org/world-news/iran/23/6/5/292769/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUpogaaim$

Prigozhin Told the Truth About Putin’s War in Ukraine: Yevgeny Prigozhin is a disinformation artist whose failed rebellion was marked by a burst of radical honesty. The truth, he said, was that “there was nothing extraordinary happening on the eve of February 24,” the day last year when Russian invaded. Ukraine was not planning any kind of attack against Russia, he added. Russia’s invasion “was started for a completely different reason,” Prigozhin said.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/07/01/prigozhin-truth-putin-war-ukraine/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUiFKceD0$

# Gov / Politics
Biden Admin May Supply Cluster Bombs to Ukraine, Flouting Human Rights Concerns: Dual-purpose improved conventional munitions (DPICMs) are surface-to-surface warheads that burst and disperse deadly multiple, smaller bomblets over a wide area. Many bomblets fail to explode on initial impact, leaving duds that can indiscriminately wound and kill, like landmines, for many years.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-administration-poised-to-supply-ukraine-with-banned-cluster-bombs__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUu4X2mO5$

The United States has stopped sharing information with Russia on the status or locations of missiles and telemetry data: The State Department said international law permits such measures to induce a state to return to compliance with its international obligations.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/world/us-stop-giving-russia-some-new-start-nuclear-arms-data-2023-06-02/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUqjYrXtL$

U.S. is opening its first diplomatic post above the Arctic Circle and it will be staffed by a single ‘consul’: The move, which Blinken announced at a news conference in Oslo after attending a NATO foreign ministers meeting, comes as competition over the high north’s resources with Russia intensifies.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://fortune.com/2023/06/01/u-s-first-diplomatic-post-above-arctic-circle-norway/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUm9rIsRY$

H.R. 3099 was Introduced in the House of Representatives on May 5, 2023. This bill, known as the “Special Envoy for the Abraham Accords Act,” is the latest act by the United States in the service of Israel. This bill establishes the position of Special Envoy for the Abraham Accords within the Department of State. The Abraham Accords are agreements to normalize relations between Israel and Arab states that do not recognize Israel. It is an anti-Palestinian accord more than anything.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.mintpressnews.com/h-r-3099-service-of-israel-troubling-special-envoy-bill-and-its-ramifications/285173/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUvJ5WoZu$

Is North Carolina Going to Become Like Ron DeSantis’s Florida? DeSantis backed by North Carolina House majority leader, 18 other state leaders: Mark Robinson, the leading Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, has a history of sharing sexist, homophobic, and transphobic views, as well as trivializing assault. Already with a veto-proof GOP majority in the state legislature, North Carolina may be poised to lose its purple state cred.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4071226-desantis-backed-by-north-carolina-house-majority-leader-18-other-state-leaders/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUmEKWeoT$

The ‘law and order’ party is packed full of criminals: The Republican Party has been packed full of criminals for decades, and the past several election cycles show that the rot has only gotten worse. Republicans have historically been the party of crime and corruption, and their posturing about “law and order” is both dishonest and dangerous when looking at both their past leaders and their current makeup.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.occupy.com/article/law-and-order-party-packed-full-criminals*sthash.BruMaZzQ.dpbs__;Iw!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUmgG6iAC$

After Jan. 6, can we stop pretending Republicans are the “law and order” party? Going back to Watergate, “law and order” Republicans often turn out to be criminals who think they’re above the law https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.salon.com/2022/06/09/after-jan-6-can-we-stop-pretending-are-the-law-and-order-party/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUmqCzzUb$

The Moms Who Started The School Board Wars Are Now Presidential Kingmakers: Moms for Liberty have taken over school boards, banned books and made life hell for some educators. And yet Republican presidential candidates are longing their support https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.huffpost.com/entry/moms-for-liberty-ron-desantis-donald-trump_n_64a02919e4b0dcb22c459ca2__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUldl2rXX$

# Legal / DOJ
AOC: Supreme Court Rulings Show ‘Creep Towards Authoritarianism’: The conservative supreme court is “creeping dangerously towards authoritarianism”, the Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Sunday, raising again the unlikely scenario of impeaching justices for recent actions:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/03/first-thing-supreme-court-creeping-dangerously-towards-authoritarianism-aoc-says__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUkw1oJvl$

Supreme Court Will Consider Right of Domestic Abusers to Own Firearms: United States v. Rahimi is expected to address the scope of the Second Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a case that could allow people who are found to pose a credible threat of violence against their partner or child to retain the right to own and use guns.
At issue is a 1994 amendment to the Federal Firearms Act that prohibits those who are actively subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1185371815/supreme-court-domestic-abuse-guns__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUvCIZiHQ$

Supreme Court: Affirmative Action Is OK, If the Students Are Getting Sent to Die in Wars: The precedent set by the court’s decision is primed to transform college admissions standards around the country, yet there is one area where the law mandating diversity in recruitment is remaining conspicuously unchanged: U.S. military academies. By making an exception for military academies, and legacy admissions, the court once again sided with the ruling class.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/06/29/supreme-court-affirmative-action-military-academy/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUhfqf8c9$

The Supreme Court’s worst new ruling you never heard of, Standing to bring cases: One ruling hidden inside one of the Supreme Court’s horrendous decisions last week hasn’t got nearly the attention it deserves: the court’s radical expansion of who has standing to bring cases before the court.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-supreme-courts-most-dangerous__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUu8QDp78$

# LGBTQ / Gender
Judges in Kentucky and Tennessee Block Gender Affirming Care Bans: Two judges handed down opinions thoroughly debunking anti-trans talking points within hours of each other. The judges blocked portions of the law that would have banned transgender youth from accessing puberty blockers and hormone therapy. In the Tennessee case, the judge stopped short of also blocking the ban on gender-affirming surgeries for youth.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4073403-judges-block-youth-transgender-care-bans-in-kentucky-tennessee/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUidQEdyc$

# Medical / Health
How Arizona Became Ground Zero for Abortion Rights Battle: First-year Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) issued a far-reaching executive order that strips the state’s fifteen local county attorneys of their authority to prosecute abortion related cases. Turns out elections have consequences.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-arizona-became-ground-zero-for-the-abortion-rights-battle?ref=wrap__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUmf-vOpB$

# Military / DOD
America Is a Military Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy: The architects of the police state have us exactly where they want us: under their stamping boot. The message being sent to the citizenry is clear: there is no place in our nation today for the kind of revolution our forefathers mounted against a tyrannical government. “What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?” Thomas Jefferson.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.zerohedge.com/political/state-martial-law-america-military-dictatorship-disguised-democracy__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUnCvt_4Y$

# Military / Global
Iran has alarmed Israel by unveiling what it claims is its first domestically made hypersonic missile. It had previously said it would be able to hit Israel within 400 seconds. The Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi, attended the unveiling of the missile, named Fattah, or “conqueror” in Farsi.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/6/7/iran-has-a-hypersonic-missile-what-does-that-mean__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUuMtXp-8$

Both the United States and Cuba have denied a report that China is going to build a spy base in Cuba. However, the U.S. says that China has had a spy base in Cuba since 2019 and efforts to expand its intelligence gathering are ongoing. Nevertheless, current and former U.S. officials claim that China and Cuba are indeed negotiating to establish a new joint military training facility on the island, sparking alarm in Washington
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-confirms-china-spy-base-cuba-2019-99987323__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUm3qi4yR$

China has refused U.S. requests to re-establish military-to-military communications: Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitted Monday that Chinese President Xi Jinping denied his request to re-establish a military backchannel to avoid potential conflict — as has existed for decades between the US and Russia.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/06/19/blinken-says-xi-refused-to-establish-pentagon-deconfliction-hotline/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUs7rYhSH$

Russia is deploying nuclear weapons in Belarus. NATO shouldn’t take the bait: In June 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a new policy of Russia deploying some of its nuclear weapons in Belarus. The nuclear sharing arrangements between Russia and Belarus represent a fundamental change in Russian nuclear policy and the European security landscape.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thebulletin.org/2023/04/russia-is-deploying-nuclear-weapons-in-belarus-nato-shouldnt-take-the-bait/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUjk2WXJz$

United States says that the possibility of Russia using nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war is “real”: The Russian Federation’s recent announcement of plans to station non-strategic nuclear weapons in Belarus represents the first “nuclear sharing” agreement made since the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons entered into force in 1970, emphasizing that against the backdrop of the Ukraine conflict, the risk such arms will be used is higher today than at any time since the end of the cold war.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://press.un.org/en/2023/sc15250.doc.htm__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUoiFBhuM$

# Pharmaceuticals / Drugs
Pharma Giants Block Access to Vaccine Doses for Research: Pfizer and Moderna are preventing scientists from using their current vaccines for research. The U.S. should act now to restore competition.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/health/2023-07-03-pharma-giants-block-access-vaccine-research/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUvEgtpkt$

# Technology / Global
Israel Is Already Weaponizing AI — But Not in the Ways It Claims to Be: Israel claims to be a leader in AI tech, but its main innovations are lax industry ethics and widespread surveillance. To avoid falling into the trap of Israeli hype, we must take a step back and look at the Israeli methods of oppression and state violence over time.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/israel-is-already-weaponizing-ai-but-not-in-the-ways-it-claims-to-be/?utm_source=Truthout&utm_campaign=5558fe1abd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_3_20_2023_13_41_COPY_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bbb541a1db-5558fe1abd-650262369&mc_cid=5558fe1abd&mc_eid=b8214b3276__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2n2fXt9xIGgdiKrUNQ5QOa2CtaTKFXMV4qbFNuUGITr2sNPce9hRkxP4L3p1Ab3pP74n1YA9iBWNK2ss_pa9RqzGUgZyNb5c$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-07-02

Voices, The Peoples News

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

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Biden plan to move migrant teenagers into North Carolina boarding school ‘alarming’: North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Walker expressed serious concerns over the Biden administration’s handling of unaccompanied minors at the southern border in light of a new operation to fly thousands of teenagers into his hometown.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/biden-plan-move-migrant-teens-north-carolina-boarding-school-alarming__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5fFMhW0p$

Texas sends another migrant bus to Los Angeles church ahead of July 4th: The migrants, including 11 children, are from countries including Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. CHIRLA believes the bus was sent through Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s state-funded busing efforts, but has not received confirmation from the governor’s office. ABC News has also reached out to Abbott’s office to confirm.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://abc7ny.com/los-angeles-migrants-texas-karen-bass/13451226/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5UrxEwPx$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Long COVID is not a single condition, but a spectrum of evolving symptoms: In a comprehensive nationwide study published in the Open Forum Infectious Diseases, experts report that long COVID is not a singular condition, but rather a spectrum of persisting symptoms with varying presentations that fluctuate over time
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.earth.com/news/long-covid-is-not-a-single-condition-but-a-spectrum-of-evolving-symptoms/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5dKGXkox$

# Education / Schools
Why Is Biden Giving Teachers’ Union Boss More Power? Randi Weingarten, the influential leader of one of the largest teachers’ unions in the U.S., helped create our current education disaster. She still has the president’s ear.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-on-earth-is-biden-giving-teachers-union-boss-randi-weingarten-more-power__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5f08ushf$

Supreme Court Decides Fake Plaintiffs Are Good Plaintiffs: In using a case where the stated plaintiff had no involvement in the lawsuit to wipe away student debt cancellation for over 43 million borrowers, the Supreme Court has gotten away with substituting their own beliefs for the law.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/justice/2023-06-30-supreme-court-decides-fake-plaintiffs-good/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5UVC4zx7$

Affirmative Action: What the Corporate Pundits Missed
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/30/affirmative-action-what-the-corporate-pundits-missed/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5VKo2K-V$

Advocates for Racial Equity on Campus Say SCOTUS Ruling Won’t Deter Their Fight: Civil rights leaders said a “colorblind” society is a conservative fantasy and schools must lift up students of color. Civil rights leaders said the fight is not over and cautioned that the ruling does not prevent a prospective student’s identity or experiences with racism from being considered as part of the application process, a point Chief Justice John Roberts was also careful to make after issuing a divisive 6-3 opinion.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://abcnews.go.com/US/experts-scotus-affirmative-action-decision-highlights-diversity-higher/story?id=99942281__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5Rd54AsV$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
Advocates from Across the Country Rally in Chicago for Coal Ash Rule Reform: More than 100 coal ash sites sit within two miles of the Great Lakes, a drinking water source for 30 million people. Community groups called on the EPA for stricter regulation.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01072023/coal-ash-rally-chicago/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5edIZtIF$

Q&A: Kate Beaton Describes the Toll Taken by Alberta’s Oil Sands on Wildlife and the Workers Who Mine the Viscous Crude: The title of her graphic memoir, “Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands,” refers to an incident in 2008 when hundreds of ducks landed on a pond of mine tailings and died.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01072023/qa-cartoonist-kate-beaton-albertas-oil-sands-wildlife-workers/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5WHSd6xp$

Rush to Build Carbon Pipelines Leaps Ahead of Federal Rules and Safety Standards: At least two companies are planning to convert natural gas pipelines to carry carbon dioxide instead, but there aren’t yet any federal safety rules to cover them.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01072023/carbon-pipelines-safety-standards/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5Wi3WTJ-$

Texas Pipeline Operators Released or Flared Tons of Gas to Avert Explosions During Heatwave: Oil and gas companies in West Texas released hundreds of tons of toxic gases into the air last week as a record-breaking heatwave drove pressure inside pipelines and compressors to dangerously high levels.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30062023/texas-pipeline-flare-release-gasheat/*:*:text=Oil*20and*20gas*20companies*20in,compressors*20to*20dangerously*20high*20levels__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5T-3izaF$ .

The U.S. government is facing backlash after auctioning off an Italy-sized portion of the country: ‘Sad to see’: This area was heavily damaged by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, and more drilling could lead to a repeat of the disaster. The parcel is called lease 259.
It stretches from the southern tip of Texas to the Alabama-Florida border, covering 73.3 million acres, an area as large as Italy.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/lease-259-gulf-of-mexico-oil-drilling/*:*:text=The*20U.S.*20government*20is*20facing,a*20repeat*20of*20the*20disaster__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5bGTO_7e$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Youth Climate Activists Turn Up The Heat: Climate Defiance, a new youth-led org that’s bringing disruptive, direct action to our nation’s most influential leaders and fossil fuel enablers.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.levernews.com/you-love-to-see-it-youth-climate-activists-turn-up-the-heat/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5W4i9bGB$

Now that President Biden’s student loan cancelation program has been cancelled, here’s what’s next: The Supreme Court rejected President Joe Biden’s student loan program that aimed at delivering up to $20,000 of relief per borrower. But that will change on Sept. 1, 2023, when interest will once again begin to accrue on outstanding student loans. Payments on the actual loans is set to resume in October 2023. When payments resume, the average student loan payment is expected to be between $200 and $500 per month
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/now-that-president-bidens-student-loan-cancellation-program-has-been-canceled-heres-whats-next-208551__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5dmHl3f1$

‘It gets worse every day’: Why are sea lions and dolphins dying along California’s coast? The unprecedented outbreak has scientists concerned as record number of animals turn up lifeless on beaches.The culprit is an algae named pseudo-nitzschia, which produces an amino acid that can act as a neurotoxin. A similar outbreak last year sickened dozens of sea lions and other marine life, but many think this year’s outbreak is even worse.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/28/california-beaches-sea-lions-dolphins-dead*:*:text=The*20culprit*20is*20an*20algae,year’s*20outbreak*20is*20even*20worse__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5VlNPUMR$

Rainfall Extremes Increasingly Threaten Mountain Regions and Areas Downstream From Them: A new study suggests the threat of flooding rains, landslides and erosion has been underestimated, especially in high-elevation and snow-dominated regions.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28062023/rainfall-extremes-mountain-regions/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5QcD01ks$

# Gov / Politics / Global
Another Russian Billionaire Has Renounced His Citizenship: He was previously sanctioned by Canada, the U.K., and Australia but has citizenship in Cyprus, according to Forbes. Yury Milner said on Twitter on October 11 that he left Russia in 2014 after Moscow’s illegal seizure of Ukraine’s Crimea, and that he has now further cut ties with his homeland.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-billionaire-renounces-citizenship/32075480.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5VDyiqWx$

# Gov / Politics
We’re Number One! (Actually, 38, out of 38): A recent Oxfam study of 38 OECD nations ranked the U.S. last or near last in minimum wages, unemployment standards, worker protections, and the right to organize. A new Oxfam survey on worker well-being compares us to the other advanced and semi-advanced economies. America remains exceptional-y bad. On wages and unemployment benefits, Belgium, France, and the Netherlands ranked 1-2-3. The U.S. ranked 36th, behind the Czech Republic, but ahead of Denmark and Mexico.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/labor/2023-06-26-were-number-one-oxfam-worker-survey/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5c67Gimz$

As Youngkin Tries to Pull Virginia Out of RGGI, Experts Warn of Looming Consequences for Low-Income Residents and Threatened Communities: A narrow vote has advanced the governor’s move to withdraw from the cap and trade initiative. But foes of his plan point out that in just three years, hundreds of millions of dollars have flowed to energy efficiency and climate mitigation in the state.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25062023/glenn-youngkin-rggi-virginia-climate-change/?utm_source=InsideClimate*News&utm_campaign=8755572de6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_07_01_01_00&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-8755572de6-327817917__;Kw!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5dvlXGhW$

# Law Enforcment
Stop Cop City Week of Action Showed Movement’s Strength Amid Rampant Repression: Police sought to repress and intimidate protesters during the week of action, but the movement only emerged stronger.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rightsanddissent.org/news/dozens-of-cops-descend-on-a-peaceful-vigil-as-the-stop-cop-city-week-of-action-begins/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5d4hMbb5$

# Legal / DOJ
Samuel Alito’s Revealing Temper Tantrum: Justice Alito’s preemptive response to the ProPublica story about his connections with GOP donors reveals much about his breach of judicial ethics. Let’s compare his behavior to Justice Barrett. It is sometimes possible to gauge the legitimacy of an exposé by the nature of the response. Consider, for example, recent revelations concerning Supreme Court justices Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/justice/2023-06-27-samuel-alitos-revealing-temper-tantrum/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5Y6jIy6T$

Feds Say They Have 80,000 Pages of Evidence on George Santos: The truth-averse freshman representative received the grim news in a court appearance on Friday. Federal prosecutors have charged Santos with 13 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds and making false statements to Congress. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. Taken together, the allegations suggest Santos relied on “repeated dishonesty and deception to ascend to the halls of Congress and enrich himsel.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/prosecutors-turn-over-more-than-80000-pages-of-material-to-rep-george-santos-in-fraud-case__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5d3CkPHX$

# Media
The Struggle Against Assange’s Extradition Continue: As Julian Assange’s appeal of his extradition to the United States wends its way through British courts, now is a good time to review what’s at stake. Nothing less than a free press and the rule of law. That’s because Assange is being persecuted for publishing proof of U.S. military criminality, among other war and political matters.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/30/the-struggle-against-assanges-extradition-continue/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5UeoH22_$

# Medical / Health
‘Profit Over the Public’s Health’: Study Details Efforts by Makers of Forever Chemicals to Hide Their Harms: After examining decades of once-secret files, researchers find that DuPont and 3M waited at least 20 years before disclosing dangers of PFAS
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27062023/profit-over-publics-health-study-makers-of-forever-chemicals-hide-harms/?utm_source=InsideClimate*News&utm_campaign=8755572de6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_07_01_01_00&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-8755572de6-327817917__;Kw!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5SuhPUhz$

Minnesota Stands Out in Midwest on Abortion: Minnesota has become a haven for those seeking abortion from neighboring red states, showing how Democratically controlled legislatures can expand the right to abortion post-Dobbs. A MinnPost and Change Research poll found that nearly 75 percent of college-educated Minnesotans oppose a ban on abortion. Maye Quade, the state senator, says that level of agreement is extremely rare: “I don’t think you can get 75 percent of Minnesotans to agree on what the weather is right now.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/health/2023-06-29-minnesota-stands-out-midwest-abortion/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5XQiy_PW$

Indiana Supreme Court Greenlights Near-Total Abortion Ban: Indiana was the first state to pass a near-total abortion ban following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overruling of Roe v. Wade. The court, in a 4-1 decision, found that the Indiana constitution does not include a broad right to abortion, allowing Indiana to join 14 other Republican-led states in enforcing abortion bans.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4076110-indiana-supreme-court-upholds-near-total-abortion-ban/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5QNToDhA$

The quiet privatization of government health insurance programs: “The debate over Medicare Advantage payments is good example of what this all means politically,” he added. “The bottom line of health insurance companies now depends crucially on their lobbying clout and ability to boost payments in Medicare and Medicaid.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.axios.com/2023/03/28/medicare-medicaid-privatization-health-insurance__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5WnYSgym$

Abortion bans force doctors like me to watch women suffer. I won’t be silent: In the last six months, I’ve been denied the ability to publicly advocate against legislation that will harm patients. But I will no longer be silenced, no matter what comes next. When politicians and others attack physicians who provide abortion care, they know that these types of attacks have ended in murder before. I might have been the first example of post-Roe political targeting of physicians, but I will not be the last. How much worse will it get?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2023/07/02/indiana-abortion-doctor-speaks-attacks-after-roe/70366244007/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5ajNeA49$

# Military / DOD
David (Bam) Bramlette found himself in a classroom in Washington, D.C. discussing whether Russia might invade Ukraine. At the time, he admits, he found the prospect of a Russian invasion implausible. Russia pulled the trigger and invaded Ukraine last year. David had completed stints working for the U.S. military as a Green Beret on a counter-Russia mission and as an Army Ranger in Iraq and Afghanistan, felt compelled to go fight the Russians.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-us-troops-reveal-most-horrifying-surprises-of-russias-war-in-ukraine__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5X7tJgs1$

US official; CIA chief made secret trip to Ukraine prior to Wagnermutiny: The US spy chief traveled to Kiev in June to meet with his intelligence counterparts and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Director Burns met with the Ukrainian president and other intelligence chiefs in a meeting before the Wagner rebellion, which was not discussed, confirms a U.S. official.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/cia-director-met-zelenskyy-secret-trip-ukraine-rcna92166__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5XiJhcDc$

Wagner Group’s aborted mutiny sign of war’s ‘corrosive effect’ on Russia: CIA chief
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/07/01/cia-chief-sees-aborted-mutiny-as-sign-of-corrosion-in-russia/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5V83BTtt$

# Military / Global
A Marine special ops commander explains why Russia’s stalled advance in Ukraine is no surprise Russia doesn’t wage war elegantly: I served 24 years as a Special Operations Officer in the United States Marine Corps. This article is based upon factual research and my own perspective after conducting Special Operations missions around the world, to include detailed studies of potential adversaries.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://taskandpurpose.com/news/russia-invasion-ukraine-strategic-failures/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5f-yijXd$

CIA-GATE’S X-FILE: Pretty Yoga-Coach at top of US Counter-Intelligence Leading Alleged Weapons Black-Market: We can see that the CIA controls a significant part of the arms trade black market. Millions of dollars are being spent on financing terrorist groups and political radicals around the globe. Biden has already allocated more than $50 billion for purchasing weapons for Ukraine.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/07/cia-gates-x-file-2-pretty-yoga-coach-at-the-top-of-us-counter-intelligence-which-leads-an-alleged-weapons-black-market/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5XgrVL7z$

# Pharmaceuticals / Drugs
Walgreens to close 150 stores across the U.S. as pharmacy chain faces ’emerging challenges’: The company expects to face “emerging challenges” such as lower consumer spending with the end of stimulus funds and resumption of student loan payments, Brewer said. Walgreens stock closed Friday down about 10% since the company’s earnings announcement.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://original.newsbreak.com/@p-world-news-network-1608581/3077295972934-walgreens-to-close-over-450-stores-worldwide-the-impact-of-changing-consumer-trends__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5e20uPxe$

# Science
Microplastic exposure breeds antimicrobial resistance: Laboratory research shows that someway, somehow, PVC plastic makes microbes more virulent and resilient. Researchers led by Sasha Tetu, a microbiologist at Macquarie University in Australia, have shown that chemicals leaching from marine microplastic pollution can alter the composition of microbial communities, making them more virulent and increasing the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/microplastic-exposure-makes-microbes-more-virulent-180982436/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5cUPWoWn$

Scientists discover game-changing bacterium that literally eats nuclear waste, here’s how it could protect us from toxins: This would help manage leaks at the toxic dump sites where nuclear waste is disposed.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/microbes-radioactive-waste-nuclear-energy/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5UxcqQwq$

# Weather
Scorching heat and Canada wildfires could be tied to ‘wavy, blocky’ jet stream: Scientists say a closely watched atmospheric pattern, the jet stream, is behind both the Canadian wildfires and the scorching heat
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/scorching-heat-canada-wildfires-could-003942607.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0xF-9ULG68GxsIEPMWyHya-Gb8TdDCTTrNfbX9UcNVkr5ZIhaCeCYrxYQ4cXxa3A_6ZN8w_YFRj934Wo6mvRdl8y5eYKW9BJ$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-06-30

Voices, The Peoples News

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

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Government Contracts With COVID Vaccine Makers Let Federal Agencies Bypass Normal Regulatory Process, FOIA Documents Show: BARDA, a little-known federal agency, was responsible for conducting the quality review of the COVID-19 vaccine doses distributed in the U.S., which allowed the federal government to avoid regulations in the distribution of COVID-19 countermeasures, Sasha Latypova reported.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bill-gates-tuberculosis-vaccine-africa-southeast-asia/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQPF0HB_-$

Australia Ditched Moderna’s COVID Vaccine for Kids Under 12 — But Why? The Australian federal government this month updated its website to state that Moderna’s Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine is “no longer available” for children under 12 — but there was no press release, no media coverage and no “dear doctor” letters.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/australia-moderna-spikevax-covid-vaccine-kids/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20230630__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQIXLHDU6$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
The Supreme Court’s Next Gift For Its Billionaire Benefactors: The Supreme Court just agreed to hear a case next term that could preempt Congress and the Biden administration from instituting a federal wealth tax. A think tank affiliated with some of those benefactors recently pressed the court to accept the case and outlaw such taxes.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.levernews.com/the-supreme-courts-next-gift-for-its-billionaire_benefactors/?utm_source=newsletter-email&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=newsletter-article__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQH0NDK97$

Bidenomics and the American Death Sentence of Poverty: While recent economic numbers may give Biden reason to wax poetic, they also mask the suffering of millions of Americans shackled by poverty. “Poverty is America’s death sentence, and we won’t be silent anymore,” Bishop William Barber intoned as he opened the Poor People’s Campaign Moral Poverty Action Congress on June 19th in Washington, DC.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/29/bidenomics_and_the_american_death_sentence__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQNMWs7Ke$

# Education / Schools
Supreme Court Kills Student Debt Relief, 1 Day After Slashing Affirmative Action: The decision comes as the student debt payment pause is slated to end, yanking away a chance at relief for millions.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1182216970/supreme-court-student-loan-forgiveness-decision-biden__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQJqLqrK7$

Right-Wing Think Tank, Walmart Heirs Behind Latest Attack on Arkansas Teachers: SB 473 caps decades of efforts by the right to eviscerate teachers’ unions.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/right-wing-think-tank-walmart-heirs-behind-latest-attack-on-arkansas-teachers/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=Truthout*2Fmagazine*2FNews*of*the*day__;JSUrKys!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQCqx0ZwQ$

Supreme Court Reverses Decades of Precedent to Curtail Affirmative
Action: The decision will likely have devastating impacts on racial equity in higher education. Supreme Court reverses decades of precedent by ending affirmative action By a 6-to-3 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively ended race-conscious admission programs at colleges and universities across the country.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/supreme-court-reverses-decades-of-precedent-to-curtail-affirmative-action/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQEIElhLR$

# Employment / Labor
TSMC to Bring 500+ More Migrant Workers to Arizona: The chipmaking giant, which expects to receive up to $15 billion in federal tax credits and grants for its Arizona facility, says U.S. workers are not up to the job.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/labor/2023-06-30-tsmc-migrant-workers-arizona/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQP0S-b_s$

How Americans created a wave of pro-worker laws: The legislation would make it easier for workers to organize at a time that more and more Americans are seeking to join unions.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/30/how-americans-created-a-wave-of-pro-worker-laws/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQPh4pnt2$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
EPA Announces $7 Billion in Solar Grants for Low-Income Communities: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the $7 billion Solar for All grants competition to increase affordable solar energy access to millions of low-income households, a press release from the EPA said.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-launches-7-billion-solar-all-grant-competition-fund__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQAkxhYjM$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
In the Everglades, a Clash Portrayed as ‘Science vs. Politics’ Pits a Leading Scientist Against His Former Employer: An influential foundation contends that Tom Van Lent stole “trade secrets.” Environmentalists question why such “secrets” exist, as work unfolds on a controversial reservoir touted by Gov. Ron DeSantis as the “crown jewel of Everglades restoration.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30062023/everglades-science-politics/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQCT2Hqsx$

Off the coast of Florida, archaeologists are finding ancient sites hidden beneath the waves, tucked into the state’s sunken continental shelf.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://hakaimagazine.com/features/buried-history/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQAuchMva$

Deep-Sea Mining Could Cause 25x the Biodiversity Loss of Land-Based Mining, Report Warns: Rising demand for metals like nickel, cobalt, copper and manganese to make batteries used in smartphones and electric vehicles, along with depleting land-based deposits, has led to increased interest in deep-sea mining. But research suggests that the process of extracting mineral deposits from the ocean floor could destroy habitats and decimate species.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ecowatch.com/deep-sea-mining-ocean-biodiversity-loss.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQKB4twjT$

# General News
“We Buy Ugly Houses” CEO Steps Down Following ProPublica Investigation: The president and CEO of HomeVestors of America announced Tuesday that he will step down this summer, after an investigation by ProPublica found some of the company’s homebuying franchises had deceived sellers and targeted people in vulnerable situations.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/we-buy-ugly-houses-homevestors-david-hicks-ceo-retirement?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQBdgjviA$

Self-indicted by unpatriotic hate speech, witless right hypocrites slur Dems for ‘hating America’: The first national party to run “for the American presidency by running against the Constitution and the rule of law.” If colluding against the Constitution, top secrets, elections, and law isn’t betrayal, then what?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nationofchange.org/2023/06/30/self-indicted-by-unpatriotic-hate-speech-witless-right-hypocrites-slur-dems-for-hating-america/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQMeUtNbF$

The Roberts Court’s Cynical Use of Free Speech to Allow Discrimination: If a Colorado web designer can refuse to serve a same-sex couple, why can’t a business owner discriminate against Blacks, Muslims, and Jews? And in similar cases, claims that religious or other personal principles permit discrimination are presumably constitutionally protected as a form of free speech. To say that this is the mother of all slippery slopes would be an understatement.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-06-30-roberts-court-cynical-use-free-speech/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQKkfQxDD$

DeSantis Transferred $92 Million to Project Helping Developer Who Donated to Him: One newspaper questioned whether the revelations demonstrated a “too-cozy” relationship between DeSantis and his donors. One newspaper questioned whether the revelations demonstrated a “too-cozy” relationship between DeSantis and his donors.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/06/29/florida-approved-92-million-for-project-backed-by-desantis-donor-report-says/?sh=18b556793e6f__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQKzfX5Od$

# Gov / Politics
DeSantis pitches bizarre plan to eliminate four key agencies: The 2024 presidential candidate’s call to eliminate four key federal agencies is foolish. His plan to abuse those agencies is even worse. His list included the Department of Education, the Commerce Department, the Department of Energy and the IRS
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/desantis-pitches-bizarre-plan-eliminate-four-key-agencies-rcna91797__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQNicSSM8$

Former top Ohio lawmaker sentenced to 20 years in one of state’s largest scandals: Former Ohio House speaker Larry Householder was sentenced Thursday for his role in a $60 million bribery scheme.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2023-06-29/ex-gop-ohio-house-speaker-sentenced-to-20-years-for-role-in-60m-bribery-scheme-appeal-expected__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQFho52qa$

The Supreme Court Sets Fire to Affirmative Action. John Roberts Won’t Own Up to It: The Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action on Thursday, critically restricting decades-long programs that considered race in college admissions.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/supreme-court-strikes-down-affirmative-141830815.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQPdZefGW$

Republicans Are Back to the Ol’ “Have Their Cake and Vote Against It Too”: A number of Republican lawmakers are suddenly giving high praise to Joe Biden’s infrastructure agenda—despite voting against it.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://dnyuz.com/2023/06/29/republicans-are-back-to-the-ol-have-their-cake-and-vote-against-it-too/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQJBhWzPm$

# Industry
DeSantis signs bill to use radioactive waste in road construction: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has approved a plan to use phosphogypsum, a radioactive waste material, in “demonstration projects.” The Environmental Protection Agency has regulated the waste product since 1989, and it notes that phosphogypsum contains the radioactive elements uranium, thorium, and radium. “All uses of phosphogypsum waste have been banned unless the waste has very little radioactivity,” according to the EPA.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/desantis-signs-bill-to-use-radioactive-waste-in-road-construction__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQGr2yhVL$

The fashion industry is nothing like Shein’s viral influencer videos: I’ve investigated the fashion industry. Maxine Bédat, founder of the New Standard Institute, digs into the recent Shein influencer trip, how social media can spread false narratives, and our need to really hold the fashion industry accountable. Shein and its competitor Temu together import 600,000 packages a day into the U.S. These products are air freighted
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.fastcompany.com/90916348/ive-investigated-the-fashion-industry-its-not-like-shein-viral-influencer-videos__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQAWxgPM3$

# LGBTQ / Gender
Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Discrimination Of Same-Sex Couple: The Supreme Court on Friday greatly expanded the rights of people who want to discriminate against same-sex couples in a case involving an amateur website designer who was never asked to make a website for a same-sex wedding.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-same-sex-couples_n_6481d91de4b025003edbde97*:*:text=The*20Supreme*20Court*20on*20Friday,for*20a*20same*2Dsex*20wedding__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQFOAfe0G$

# Media
Starting July 9, the cost of a Forever stamp, or mailing a one-ounce letter, will increase from 63 cents to 66 cents.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/price-of-forever-stamps-is-going-up-in-july-here-s-what-to-know/ar-AA1deluZ?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=ca7e83ef7f684c69be2e8c07c6a79d93&ei=16__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQH3jLVwr$

Google said on Thursday it plans to censor Canadian news from search results in Canada, once a new federal law called the Online News Act takes effect.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1185087587/google-says-it-will-start-blocking-canadian-news-stories-in-response-to-new-law__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQELe7ARW$

UPS strike is imminent if satisfying offer is not given: If UPS does not give the International Brotherhood of Teamsters an offer the union can agree to, many Americans will be affected by a workers’ strike starting Aug. 1 https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_baac6202-16a1-11ee-a593-03c76faa55ce.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQOYGERVq$

# Medical / Health
2023 Scorecard on State Health System Performance: Americans’ Health Declines and Access to Reproductive Care Shrinks, But States Have Options: Federal and state governments could: close the coverage gaps that remain and enroll uninsured people who are eligible for subsidized coverage; improve the cost protections of insurance plans; and lower barriers to reproductive health, preventive health, and behavioral health care, particularly for the most vulnerable.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/scorecard/2023/jun/2023-scorecard-state-health-system-performance__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQDHaVeeU$

Health care varies widely based on where you live. Report ranks best, worst states: The Commonwealth Fund’s 2023 Scorecard on State Health System Performance ranked states based on health care access and affordability. The top five states with the highest overall health system scores include Massachusetts, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. The states scoring the lowest were Mississippi, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/06/29/health-rankings-state-report/70364652007/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQKNTEhW0$

# Medical Science
Global team of scientists discovers why herpes simplex encephalitis is so devastating in some babies and children: Defects in a single protein involved in cell death may impair the immune system’s ability to combat a herpes viral infection in the central nervous system, scientists have found in new research that examines a pediatric infection and explains how the flawed protein can lead to a rare but severe form of encephalitis.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-06-global-team-scientists-herpes-simplex.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQCDwPyJi$

Menopausal hormone therapy linked to increased rate of dementia: Use of menopausal hormone therapy is associated with an increased rate of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, suggests a large Danish study published by The BMJ.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/link-between-hormone-replacement-therapy-and-increased-risk-of-dementia-in-later-life/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQOzUDma5$

Gates Commits $400 Million to Test New TB Vaccine on 26,000 People in Africa and Southeast Asia: The Gates Foundation unveiled plans Wednesday to fund a long-awaited trial for what, if proven effective, would be the first new tuberculosis vaccine in over a century.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.statnews.com/2023/06/28/tuberculosis-vaccine-gates/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQM_DbIhB$

# Military / Global
Kremlin Wants to Purge Wagner’s Prigozhin Loyalists: For anyone wondering how Russia might change after this weekend’s aborted putsch, it would be worth keeping an eye on Viktor Zolotov, the longtime bodyguard of President Vladimir Putin, who emerged as one of the few apparent winners in the regime’s near-death experience
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://time.com/6290766/zolotov-putin-prigozhin-russia-wagner/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQG0eU0cw$

# Social
White House announces $3.1 billion to address homelessness, including among veterans: The new measure is “the largest-ever, single-year investment … to help communities address homelessness,” the Biden administration said in a statement.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.legion.org/news/259318/white-house-announces-31-billion-address-homelessness-including-among-veterans__;!!On18fmf1aQ!13cvA21sTOCp-QCdR6EFbYphy70QsouC19gttIzLD4K4FVXYtx8uEk75ET-xe2dDnwhKnkVO7kgvlXeDWXYjJQckQHSq3MKU$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-06-29

Voices, The Peoples News

June 29, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Border Patrol Video of Killing Shows Native Man Had No Gun, Complied With Orders: Raymond Mattia’s family said the partial release of body camera footage “feels like a cheap attempt to justify what they did.” Raymond Mattia’s one-story home on the Tohono O’odham Nation, on the edge of Arizona’s southern border, is still riddled with bullet holes. The 58-year-old was killed in a hail of gunfire last month, after stepping outside to find nearly a dozen Border Patrol agents and at least one tribal police officer advancing on his property in the dark.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/06/26/border-patrol-killing-raymond-mattia/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr4MOJoI4$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
A New Intelligence Report Suggests That the Lab-Leak Wars Will Never End: A lab leak was once dismissed by many as a conspiracy theory. But the idea is gaining traction, even as evidence builds that the virus emerged from a market.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/18498/?utm_source=gquery&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=gquery-home__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr5XbTdTO$

‘Bombshell’ study of Pfizer COVID Vaccine suggests some people got highly dangerous shots, others got a placebo: Danish scientists uncovered compelling evidence that a significant percentage of the batches of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine distributed in the EU likely consisted of placebos, and the non-placebo batches demonstrated higher-than-normal severe adverse events in recipients, prompting the researchers to call for further investigation.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-biontech-covid-vaccine-placebo/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20230629__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_YtrzXfOSkG$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Joe Biden wants a ‘new economic world order.’ It’s never looked more disordered. The president and his critics agree that the free trade era is over in Washington. They just aren’t sure what comes next. The Biden administration has been trying to bury the free-trade era for months.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/25/joe-bidens-economy-trade-china-00096781__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr_yi5WLi$

Record numbers of people are worse off, a recipe for political discontent: 4 in 10 Americans say they are worse off financially since Biden took office. Nearly six in 10 Democratic-aligned adults don’t want to see Biden nominated again for the job, and half on the Republican side would rather not see Donald Trump as their party’s nominee.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/record-numbers-worse-off-recipe-political-discontent-poll/story?id=96884607__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr-tn5nl1$

The Truth About Joe Biden’s Economy: Americans are feeling the pain at the pump and at the grocery store. Inflation is at a 40-year record high. Yet, President Joe Biden and his administration say that the economy is better than ever. Stephen Moore explains the truth about Joe Biden’s economy.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/heritage-explains/the-truth-about-joe-bidens-economy__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr06O1OxX$

Biden leans into ‘Bidenomics’ to boost his economic message ahead of 2024: The trickle-down theory, made famous by former President Reagan, focuses on cutting taxes and easing regulations.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.yahoo.com/biden-leans-bidenomics-boost-economic-203933743.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr07KvDc0$

National Debt Projected to Soar Over Next 30 Years: Despite the dramatic showdown over the debt ceiling and the resulting budget agreement that restrains federal spending through 2025, the national debt is projected to rise to record levels over the next 30 years, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2023/06/the-national-debt-could-nearly-double-in-size-over-the-next-30-years__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_YtrxVJmghG$

With the second special session underway, lawmakers make their first pitches on how to deliver more than $12 billion in new property tax cuts and end a monthslong impasse: A stalemate among Texas’ top Republicans has dragged on for months. Tax-cut proponents in the House and Senate made their first pitches to end the impasse Wednesday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/28/texas-legislature-tax-cut-plan/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr4ZUlUmU$

# Education / Schools
The ACLU is fighting classroom censorship: Censorship Act is Unconstitutional and Remains a Threat to our First and 14th Amendment Rights. To protect students and teachers from unlawful censorship and racial discrimination, a lawsuit brought by civil rights and social justice groups must be allowed to proceed.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/oklahomas-classroom-censorship-act-is-unconstitutional-and-remains-a-threat-to-our-first-and-14th-amendment-rights__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytrzn3Qqg6$

# Employment / Labor
Ford Cuts 1,000 American Jobs After Biden Admin Boosts Company With Green Subsidies: Ford announced it will lay off at least 1,000 workers in the United States and Canada, despite the Biden administration’s promotion of its electric vehicles and allocation of billions of dollars in green subsidies that will benefit auto manufacturers including Ford.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/biden-effect-ford-cutting-1000-jobs-after-agreeing/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_YtrxTv9Wnh$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
Samuel Alito’s Wife Leased Land to an Oil and Gas Firm While the Justice Fought the EPA: A deal made by Alito’s wife with an energy company paints recent Supreme Court decisions on the environment in a damning light.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/alito-ruled-to-curb-epas-power-after-his-wife-leased-land-to-oil-and-gas-firm/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytrxfi-N4z$

Everything you need to know about the tar sands and how they impact you: Each day, our window for saving the climate, and the billions of lives that depend on it, gets a little bit narrower. While people all around the world are taking action, oil companies are trying to light the fuse of one of the world’s biggest carbon bombs.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/story/3138/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-tar-sands-and-how-they-impact-you/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr2nPJFCx$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
Trudeau Lit a Fuse to One of the Largest Carbon Bombs on Earth, Activist Says: Big oil is fueling fires. We must stop funding projects like the Trans Mountain pipeline, says Tzeporah Berman.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaMZoK343Q0__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr2j9z6Q6$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Public Lands Rule rhetoric gets wacky; Conservatives aren’t so keen on conservation: In a hearing Thursday morning, the House Natural Resources Committee heard testimony about the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed Public Lands Rule that would allow land managers to treat conservation as one of the multiple uses of BLM land.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://westernpriorities.org/2023/06/rhetoric-vs-reality-on-the-public-lands-rule/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr8KhrlLR$

Barrasso legislation would block BLM’s proposed Public Lands Rule: U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., along with Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., and several other Republican senators, introduced legislation to protect multiple use policy on federal lands.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/barrasso-legislation-would-block-blms-proposed-public-lands-rule/article_9dafab22-e9f7-11ed-b049-63ca178f9e9f.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr0KSSkwL$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure / Global Meltwater is hydro-fracking Greenland’s ice sheet through millions of hairline cracks destabilizing its internal structure: Glaciologists are discovering new ways surface meltwater alters the internal structure of ice sheets, and raising an alarm that sea level rise could be much more abrupt than current models forecast.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/meltwater-is-hydro-fracking-greenlands-ice-sheet-through-millions-of-hairline-cracks-destabilizing-its-internal-structure-207468__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr9zoTWV6$

# General News
The patriotism of killing and being killed: Why are patriotism and war so intertwined in U.S. media and politics? Given the destructiveness of U.S. militarism, a strong argument can be made that true patriotism involves preventing and stopping wars instead of starting and continuing them.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/is-killing-and-being-killed-the-highest-form-of-patriotism__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr4PV5IHg$

# Gov / Politics / Global
Chinese Spy Balloon Was Fitted With American Gear: A Chinese spy balloon that flew over the U.S. earlier this year before being shot down by the military was fitted out with American gear that helped it gather photos and videos
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.firstpost.com/world/chinese-spy-balloon-had-americas-gear-for-audio-video-spying-12804572.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr-mkCDgZ$

Russian General Who Knew of Prigozhin’s Coup Goes Missing: The top Russian military leader thought to have had advance knowledge of the weekend’s armed mutiny has reportedly gone missing amid rumors he’s being interrogated for possible “complicity in the rebellion.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/06/28/russian-general-who-knew-about-mutiny-is-missing-report/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_YtrwnnBzYu$

# Gov / Politics
“It Will Be a Revenge Machine”: Why a Second Trump Administration Would Be Much Worse: “[Trumpism] is like a progressive disease,” says former White House national security advisor John Bolton. “It might remit for a while, but it never gets better.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/it-will-be-a-revenge-machine-why-a-second-trump-administration-would-be-much-worse?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=scottmonty*2Fmagazine*2FTracking*Trumpism__;JSUr!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr5wfiH8F$

Kevin McCarthy Seems to Be in Full Damage Control Mode After Questioning Trump’s Political Strength: Speaker Kevin McCarthy has scrambled to contain the fallout after he questioned whether former President Donald Trump is the strongest candidate in the 2024 presidential race – comments that outraged Trump allies.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.wral.com/story/mccarthy-attempts-damage-control-after-questioning-trump-s-strength-as-a-candidate/20931662/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr2QHvhkn$

First Amendment Politics Gets Weird: Public and Private Platform Reform and the Breakdown of the Laissez-Faire Free Speech Consensus: Until very recently, it was conservatives who were most associated with, and responsible for, the deregulatory tilt of the First Amendment and its embrace of a privately owned and operated marketplace of ideas. Progressives, meanwhile, were the primary critics of the expansive discretion granted to powerful corporate actors under what one of us has called the increasingly dominant “laissez-faire conception of constitutional liberty.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lawreviewblog.uchicago.edu/2022/06/06/douek-lakier-first-amendment/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytryw6CPwa$

Senate Republicans try to stop messy Montana primary: GOP leaders are working to clear the field for former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy, who is challenging Democratic Sen. Jon Tester. The race to take on Sen. Jon Tester, one of the most vulnerable Democrats on the ballot next year, kicked off Tuesday with a campaign launch by Tim Sheehy, a Navy SEAL-turned-aerial firefighter.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/28/senate-republicans-montana-primary-00104125__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_YtrwOu61oG$

With new evidence, Congress unmasks a multi-year government plot to protect Biden, sully Trump –From search warrants to charges, federal agencies put thumb on scale of justice and elections, new evidence suggests https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/congress-has-begun-unmasking-whole-government-plot-protect-biden__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr0jRxVuN$

Ex-Ohio House Speaker Gets 20 Years for Huge Bribery Scheme: Householder funneled millions of dollars from the state’s electric utility to his political allies to effectively seize control of the legislature. Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was hit Thursday with a maximum prison sentence of 20 years for a $60-million bribery scheme that is believed to be the largest corruption case in the state’s history
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-ohio-house-speaker-called-quintessential-mob-boss-faces-long-prison-term-595a447c__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr0Y9unHz$

Texas AG Paxton’s Property-Buying Spree Under Investigation: A real estate spending spree by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is under investigation as he awaits his impeachment trial.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/paxton-impeachment-property-spree-18177408.php__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr0cKRSYh$

# Industry
American Companies That Are No Longer American: many quintessentially American brands are no longer American-owned at all. From Ben and Jerry’s to IBM and Holiday Inn, overseas investors have played a big part in keeping these companies moving forward. Without them stepping in, some of them may have ceased to exist altogether.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.businessinsider.com/american-companies-that-are-no-longer-american-2017-6__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr1euihFI$

# Law Enforcment
Two More Cops Fired After Man Is Left Paralyzed: Randy Cox was left paralyzed while being transported in a police van. Internal affairs investigators said Lavandier and Rivera were among several officers at the police station who recklessly dragged him out of the van and around the detention area while he was paralyzed, mocked him for not being able to move and falsely accused him of being drunk.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/new-haven-prisoner-paralyzed-randy-cox-connecticut-21e7353c780098c72e78d0cce61a4aaf__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr_9JmUHs$

# Legal / DOJ
The Supreme Court Has A Billionaire Problem: David Sirota and ProPublica’s Justin Elliott discuss new revelations surrounding the Supreme Court. The annual cascade of Supreme Court decisions this week will make lots of headlines, but polls show that Americans of all political stripes are increasingly troubled by the lack of a code of ethics for the high court.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1183337280/supreme-court-ethics-financial-disclosures-possible-conflicts-of-interest__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr8mODlEV$

Hunter Biden Set to Be Deposed in Lawsuit Brought By Laptop Repair Shop Owner: The authenticity of the contents of the Hunter Biden laptop has been confirmed by numerous news outlets, including the Washington Examiner. The deposition comes more than a week after it was announced that Hunter Biden would enter a plea deal related to two charges regarding failure to pay federal income tax.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/hunter-biden-deposed-defamation-case-laptop-repair-shop-owner__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_YtryKEJHx6$

# Media
UPS workers stage ‘mock strike’ in DTLA: The International Brotherhood of Teamsters said Wednesday that a nationwide UPS strike “is imminent,” after walking away from the national bargaining table and demanding the package delivery service company to provide its best and final offer by Friday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/teamsters-warn-a-nationwide-ups-strike-is-imminent/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytry23OncY$

# Medical / Health
Malaria cases in Texas and Florida are the first U.S. spread since 2003, the CDC says: Five cases of the mosquito-borne infection malaria have been detected in the United States in the past two months. Four of the cases were found in Florida, while the fifth was logged in Texas, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/malaria-florida-texas-cdc-mosquitoes-a7ea0cbe37bc8df093ce35e836cd717e__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr4SJpSs0$

Almost 7 Million People Are Predicted to Lose Medicaid Due to ‘Technicalities’: Of the 15 million expected to lose coverage, nearly 7 million may lose it solely due to clerical or logistical problems. Florida’s in the lead.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://fortune.com/2023/06/19/over-1-million-americans-lose-medicaid-florida-paperwork-biden-white-house/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr4gX9C15$

# Military / DOD
The Military Industrial Complex: The Military Industrial Complex Is More Powerful Than Ever The current war machine isn’t your grandfather’s MIC, not by a country mile.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thenation.com/article/world/military-industrial-complex-defense/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_YtrzXRBMS1$

Reining in America’s Military Industrial Complex: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.“ – President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953, “Chance for Peace.” Seventy years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his “Chance for Peace” speech, tallying up the costs of United State’s Cold War militarization and comparing our extraordinary expenditures on weapons to Americans’ unmet needs.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://quincyinst.org/militaryindustrialcomplex/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr9fSBgQb$

# Military / Global
Germany to permanently deploy troops near Russia’s border: The move comes amid a NATO drive to increase their military strength on the bloc’s ‘eastern flank.’ Germany’s defense minister Boris Pistorius said on Monday that Berlin is to station 4,000 troops to Lithuania, a fellow NATO member, as the bloc seeks to fortify its ranks around Russia’s exclave, Kaliningrad.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rt.com/news/578743-germany-troops-lithuania-nato/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr2p_td-0$

Xi Jinping’s dream of a Chinese military-industrial complex: The president has promoted technocrats to key posts in a renewed push for one of his core policies. Wu Guoguang, who worked as an adviser to the former Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang and is now with the Asia Society, a US think-tank, identifies five of 13 new members of the party’s elite 24-member politburo appointed last year as representing “a new generation within the CCP leadership.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ft.com/content/6f388e4b-9c4e-4ca3-8040-49962f1e155d__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr–FnHaU$

# Security
DHS outsourced censorship to third parties, then tried to cover it up: House Judiciary GOP report, Federal government’s moves show it “implicitly admitting that its censorship activities are unconstitutional,” interim staff report says. Today, the House Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released an interim staff report detailing how the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) expanded its mission to surveil and censor Americans’ speech on social media.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/new-report-reveals-cisa-tried-cover-censorship-practices__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_YtryLvr0Tt$

# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is set to depart from the International Space Station to deliver NASA experiments and samples dating back as far as six years: On its return journey, the spacecraft will carry more than 3,600 pounds of equipment, supplies, and scientific experiments, some of which have been on the space station for nearly six years with final in-orbit tests completed earlier this year.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/SpaceX_Dragon_to_return_to_Earth_with_experiments_samples_from_ISS_999.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr-f52aXj$

Scientists discover gigantic ‘structure’ under the surface of the Moon: The Moon has been a subject of awe and fascination for millennia, with its shape-shifting powers and enigmatic dark side. And though it’s the one celestial body on which man has taken (small) steps, we still have big leaps to go in understanding its potential and uncovering its secrets. Buried beneath its South Pole-Aitken basin – one of the largest preserved craters in the Solar System – is a structure which weighs at least 2.18 billion kilogrammes and measures more than 300km (186 miles) in depth and 2,000km (1,243 miles) in length.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-discover-gigantic-structure-under-the-surface-of-the-moon/ar-AA1aYIe2?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=714034fb4d124e58a827c3970f100272&ei=9__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytrwgspoav$

# Transportation
New York City to start charging drivers to enter Midtown Manhattan as soon as 2024 – MTA: The Federal Highway Administration approved the plan Friday, determining it would have no significant environmental impact and foregoing a more involved environmental review. Construction for the initiative, the first of its kind in the U.S., can now begin, and NYC motorists could be paying the toll as soon as spring of 2024.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-congestion-pricing-gets-key-federal-approval-possibly-in-place-by-april-2024__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr_zg_l9C$

Buttigieg’s America: Train with chemicals slides into Montana river after bridge collapses: Seven cars that fell into the water contained molten sulfur and hot asphalt, local authorities have said. The department said the cause of the incident remains unclear, and declined to speculate on whether the bridge collapse had led to the derailment, or vice versa.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rt.com/news/578678-train-derail-montana-chemicals/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr694Vst0$

# Tips, Tricks and How To’s
How To Keep Your Dog Calm During Fourth Of July Fireworks, According To Veterinarians: Your dog doesn’t have to experience hours of anxiety or nervous behaviors on Independence Day. Here’s what to do.
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# Veterans / VA
Supreme Court agrees to hear case that could expand VA education benefits to nearly 2 million vets: The Supreme Court on Monday said it will consider a legal fight involving two federal programs that award educational benefits for veterans, including those who served in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-gi-bill-post-911-educational-benefits-for-veterans/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr8yxwYKs$

Court Overturns Ruling That Would Have Given Some Vets Extra GI Bill Money for More School
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/01/22/court-overturns-ruling-would-have-given-some-vets-extra-gi-bill-money-more-school.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!35PJrjKipQQAWMaE4pDxoJPEVBgyFxBfM1aGdEvoaIU9oVYSaS5zKLE9BSF4UBXkHx2X5zVYxmyjQAqQumYw8_Ytr94hDgK7$

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