Voices, The Peoples News
Nov. 15, 2020
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
# Animals / Pets / Food Recalls
Some scientists say that the predators are essential to curbing the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease because they pick off weak deer.
https://unfoldtimes.com/using-wolves-as-first-responders-against-a-deadly-brain-disease/
# Border / Immigration
Federal judge rules acting DHS head Chad Wolf unlawfully appointed, invalidates DACA suspension. Chad Wolf took office unlawfully, says federal court judge, therefore could not suspend program that shields young people from deportation https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/15/judge-rules-daca-suspension-invalid-homeland-security-head-in-office-illegally
# CoronaVirus
Shocking Claim by Italian Infectious Diseases Institute: “Risks of Confusion between seasonal Flu and SARS-2 Virus”
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/11/13/covid-shocking-claim-by-italian-infectious-diseases-institute-risks-of-confusion-between-seasonal-flu-and-sars-2-virus/
Trump to withhold vaccine from states he lost in election (You just can’t make this stuff up). In his first public comments Trump, who is yet to concede in the election, criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who said he planned to have a panel of experts review a vaccine.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-make-first-public-remarks-week-n1247752
Biden public health advisers reject national ‘lockdown.’ Two public health experts advising President-elect Joe Biden on COVID-19 rejected the idea of “lockdowns” like those seen in the spring to bring down rising case numbers.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/525870-biden-public-health-advisers-reject-national-lockdown
How They Will Make the COVID Vaccine Appear to be Working https://healthimpactnews.com/2020/how-they-will-make-the-covid-vaccine-appear-to-be-working/
The Trump plan for mass death is unfolding before our eyes https://buzzflash.com/articles/the-trump-plan-for-mass-death-is-unfolding-before-our-eyes
States split on COVID-19 responses as cases surge: Governors across the country are grappling with an alarming surge of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations, so far putting forward a fractured response.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/525952-states-split-on-covid-19-responses-as-cases-surge
North Dakota: All Hospitals Full, Highest Death Rate in the World, Finally Locks down.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/11/14/north-dakota-all-hospitals-full-highest-death-rate-in-the-world-finally-locks-down/
Collateral Damage? CDC Admits COVID Lockdowns Sparked Surge In Children’s Mental Health Issues https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/collateral-damage-cdc-admits-covid-lockdowns-sparked-surge-childrens-mental-health-issues
States split on COVID-19 responses as cases surge. Governors across the country are grappling with an alarming surge of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations, so far putting forward a fractured response.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/525952-states-split-on-covid-19-responses-as-cases-surge
# Economy / Trade
How climate change, globalization will impact the global economy.
Without immediate action on climate change and freeing up global trade, the global economy will lose trillions.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-global-economic-and-climate-change-forecast-2050/
Economists Say U.S. Needs 400 Percent More COVID Relief Than McConnell Is Offering. The senate majority leader’s delays threaten to worsen the issues that the stimulus bill is supposed to relieve.
https://www.salon.com/2020/11/15/to-truly-recover-us-needs-400-more-coronavirus-relief-than-mcconnell-is-offering-economists-say/
# Education / Schools
Iowa State GOP Student Group Tweeted Call to Arms Over Biden. The school administration has taken no disciplinary action against the College Republicans.
https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/education/iowa-state-students-faculty-staff-condemn-administrative-response-to-college-republicans-tweet-20201113
# Environment / Climate / Interior
Are We Really Past the Point of No Return on Climate? Scientists Respond To Controversial New Study https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-study-greenhouse-gas-emissions-2648886531.html
Biden Reaffirms Commitment to Rejoining Paris Agreement
https://www.ecowatch.com/paris-climate-agreement-biden-2648649350.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
# Environment / Climate / Interior Global
Entangled: How a global seaweed ‘plague’ threatens West Africa’s coastline https://earth.org/seaweed-plague-threatens-west-africa-coastline/
The thaw of the Third Pole: China’s glaciers in retreat. Glaciers in China’s bleak, rugged Qilian mountains are disappearing at a shocking rate as global warming brings unpredictable change https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-thaw-of-the-third-pole-chinas-glaciers-in-retreat
# Food / GMOs / Chemicals
Factory Farms Are Poisoning Rural Communities. Will Biden Take on This Crisis?
https://truthout.org/articles/factory-farms-are-poisoning-rural-communities-will-biden-take-on-this-crisis/
# Global Politics and other news
A Hero’s Welcome: Inside Evo Morales’ Triumphant Return Tour. Oliver Vargas traveled with Evo Morales as he made his triumphant return to Bolivia following his exile after last November’s US-backed coup.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/heroes-welcome-inside-evo-morales-triumphant-return-bolivia/273074/
# Gov / Politics
Heads roll as Trump launches post-election purge. President Trump is stepping up his war on the federal government after losing the 2020 election, sending heads rolling across key agencies with a late push to get personnel and policies in place before he leaves the White House.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/525916-heads-roll-as-trump-launches-post-election-purge
Far-right groups plan DC rallies for Trump as tensions grow. A wide array of far-right groups and Trump supporters are planning to descend on the nation’s capital Saturday amid heightened tensions over the results of the presidential election.
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/525915-far-right-groups-plan-dc-rallies-for-trump-as-tensions-grow
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday suggested that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will be in for a rude awakening early next year when President-elect Joe Biden is in the White House.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/525872-pelosi-mcconnell-in-for-rude-awakening-when-biden-takes-office
Trump Won’t Accept Defeat. Ever. His forever campaign is just getting started.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/trumps-forever-campaign-is-just-getting-started/617021/
Why Trump Carried Out His Pentagon Purge. With his Administration coming to a close, the President is still reshaping the government around himself. https://hindikhabre.com/why-trump-carried-out-his-pentagon-purge/
‘A Dangerous Attack on Our Democracy’: McConnell Backs Trump’s Refusal to Concede to Biden. “There is no decisive pool of ‘illegal’ ballots, and Republican Party messaging on this score is at best a cynical attempt to delegitimize a decisive presidential defeat.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/09/dangerous-attack-our-democracy-mcconnell-backs-trumps-refusal-concede-biden
Justice Alito warns of dangers to free speech, religious liberty in Federalist Society address https://nypost.com/2020/11/13/justice-alito-warns-of-threats-to-religious-liberty-in-speech/
Georgia audit to trigger hand recount of presidential vote https://apnews.com/article/georgia-audit-hand-tally-ballots-vote-8fa73ef353b36eddf14e1360eeecc22d
Blockbuster/Exclusive: Terrified of prison, Trump offers to trade 4 more years for stopping nuclear Suicide Ploy. Trump will turn over “the football” to the Pentagon in trade for their backing in a coup. Trump has told both congressional leaders in the GOP and his Scotus stooges the he will burn the United States to the ground unless they can find a way of cancelling the election.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/11/14/terrified-of-prison-trump-offers-to-trade-4-more-years-for-stopping-nuclear-suicide-ploy/
The president is said to be not only worried about “existing investigations” but new federal probes into matters we don’t even know about yet.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/11/donald-trump-post-white-house-prosecutions
The Trump EPA’s parting gifts. Three rules set to finalize before Joe Biden’s inauguration could create a headache for his administration.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-epa_n_5fadbd38c5b6b36333689adf?ncid=NEWSSTAND0001
Fauci: Trump Hasn’t Attended Task Force in ‘Several Months.’ Fauci also said “it would better if we could start working with” the Biden-Harris transition team immediately.
https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-suggests-it-would-better-begin-working-biden-team-says-trump-hasnt-attended-task-force-1547571
Trump Implies Biden ‘Won’ in Tweet on ‘Rigged Election.’ The president wrote, “He won because the Election was Rigged,” in a Sunday morning tweet and then corrected himself saying he “conceded nothing.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-implies-biden-won-in-tweet-on-rigged-election
Thousands rally in DC to protest election results, show support for Trump. Thousands of Trump supporters rallied around the nation’s capital Saturday to contest the election results and back the president’s allegations that the election was invalid due to widespread voter fraud.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/526015-trump-supporters-conclude-rally-in-dc-to-protest-election
# Legal / Judicial / DOJ
With ‘Irrevocable Injustice’ on the Line, Democratic Lawmakers Demand Trump Admin Put Brakes on Federal Killing Spree. “The American people have spoken and the federal death penalty should be abolished.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/14/irrevocable-injustice-line-democratic-lawmakers-demand-trump-admin-put-brakes
# Media
Fox Anchor Pauses Mid-Segment Over ‘Very Disturbing’ Sign at MAGA Rally.
Eric Shawn broke from his conversation with a Republican strategist to say, “We’ve just seen a very disturbing sign. It said, ‘Coming for Blacks and Indians first welcome to the New World Order.’ Who the hell knows, you know, what people have and what they say on these things?”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-anchor-pauses-mid-segment-over-very-disturbing-sign-at-maga-rally
A Pennsylvania postal worker who initially alleged that a postmaster had tampered with mail ballots, an accusation embraced by Republicans as evidence of an unfair election, told federal investigators in a recorded interview that his sworn affidavit had been written by Project Veritas, and that he could no longer stand by his statement.
https://www.oann.com/project-veritas-sits-down-with-2nd-usps-worker-who-claims-they-were-ordered-to-assist-in-voter-fraud/
“Campus Reform” Is Funneling Koch Money to Groom Right-Wing “Journalists”
Millions of dollars of untraceable “dark money” is being funneled to conservative and libertarian student groups.
https://truthout.org/articles/campus-reform-is-funneling-koch-money-to-groom-right-wing-journalists/
# Military / DOD
New Pentagon chief says military ‘remains strong’ following leadership purge. Newly appointed acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller said Friday that the military “remains strong” following President Trump’s abrupt ouster of his predecessor and the resignations of several top Defense officials.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/525885-new-pentagon-chief-says-military-remains-strong-following-leadership-purge
As Millions Face Eviction and Starvation, Pentagon to Spend Nearly $2 Billion a Day on War https://thewashingtonstandard.com/as-millions-face-eviction-starvation-pentagon-to-spend-nearly-2-billion-a-day-on-war/
A new top DoD adviser’s controversial proposal: get rid of the Marine Corps https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-corps-douglas-macgregor-proposal
# Veterans / VA
Serious injuries’ reported in explosion at Connecticut VA hospital. An explosion at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Connecticut has left several people with “serious injuries,” the Associated Press reports
https://apnews.com/article/explosion-veterans-hospital-connecticut-75a95285d7af5367edf87d8f20e5ca74
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