Voices, The Peoples News
January 6, 2021
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Nez Perce Tribe reclaims ancestral village site in eastern Oregon https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2020/12/nez-perce-tribe-reclaims-ancestral-village-site-in-eastern-oregon.html
Hope and peace: Bison return to the Rosebud reservation. Over the next five years, the leaders of the Wolakota Buffalo Range project hope to expand the herd to 1,500 buffalo, which would make it the largest owned by a Native nation.
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/hope-and-peace-bison-return-to-the-rosebud-reservation/
Washington, Oregon, and 29 indigenous tribes are suing the federal government for selling what community organizations call a “treasure trove” of Pacific Northwest history.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/washington/washington-oregon-sign-on-to-joint-lawsuit-to-stop-sale-of-seattle-national-archives-building/article_534520cc-4f8e-11eb-ae92-bb6d5000388e.html
# CoronaVirus
U.S. Funded Specific Research at Wuhan Lab that Led to Coronavirus
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/01/05/terrifying-report-u-s-funded-specific-research-at-wuhan-lab-that-led-to-coronavirus-n1306170
Why Would the US Have Funded the Controversial Wuhan Lab? Reports about the connection between the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Wuhan Institute of Virology risk feeding conspiracy theories about the origins of COVID-19.
https://thediplomat.com/2020/05/why-would-the-us-have-funded-the-controversial-wuhan-lab/
China Blocks WHO’s Virus Team From Entry at Last Minute. It took months of negotiations for Beijing to agree to allow a team of WHO investigators into the country with the aim of probing the how the pandemic began.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/05/china-blocks-entry-to-who-team-studying-covids-origins
Congressman Kevin Brady tests positive for COVID-19 weeks after receiving first dose of Pfizer vaccine. The highest-ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee was on the House floor for voting this week.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2021/01/06/congressman-kevin-brady-tests-positive-for-covid-19-weeks-after-receiving-first-dose-of-pfizer-vaccine/
Nebraska Guv: No Vaccine for Undocumented Meat Plant Workers. He claims all the workers are legal, so it won’t be a problem. The union says that’s a lie.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/nebraska-gov-pete-ricketts-says-no-covid-19-vaccine-for-undocumented-meat-plant-workers
32-Year-Old Mexican Doctor Suffers Seizures and is Paralyzed After Receiving the Pfizer Experimental Vaccine
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-mexico-vaccines/mexican-doctor-hospitalized-after-receiving-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN2970H3
27-Year-Old Canadian Healthcare Worker Faints and Suffers Multiple Seizures After Pfizer Experimental COVID Vaccine https://namelyliberty.com/27-year-old-canadian-healthcare-worker-faints-and-suffers-multiple-seizures-after-pfizer-experimental-covid-vaccine/
The New mRNA COVID Vaccines An Operating System in Your Body – Not a Conspiracy Theory, Moderna Admits It: “Our mRNA Medicines – The ‘Software of Life’”
https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/the-new-mrna-covid-vaccines-inject-an-operating-system-into-your-body-not-a-conspiracy-theory-moderna-admits-it/
States Using Race-Based ‘Equity’ Metric To Distribute Early Doses of COVID Vaccine https://www.insidesources.com/nh-using-race-based-equity-metric-in-distributing-early-doses-of-covid-vaccine/
Do I still need a vaccine even if I had COVID-19? The upside of being sick with COVID-19 is that you’re likely naturally immune now, but no one knows for sure how long this immunity lasts.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/coronavirus-vaccine-for-people-who-had-covid-90451233/?goal=0_3b5aad2288-e7fdc7cbe9-242676673
# Economy / Trade
Biden says $2,000 checks to ‘go out the door immediately’ if Democrats win in Georgia https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article248281040.html
# Employment
State unemployment compensation trust funds continue to struggle, report finds https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/state-unemployment-compensation-trust-funds-continue-to-struggle-report-finds/article_2f487f72-4ec4-11eb-8fbc-ab5403c841b4.html
# Environment / Climate / Interior
Trump administration finalizes an expanded drilling plan for Alaska’s Arctic petroleum reserve. The Trump administration announced Monday that it has opened an additional 7 million acres https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-arctic-trump/trump-administration-finalizes-oil-drilling-plan-in-alaska-wildlife-refuge-idUSKCN25D1JN
Louisiana: Judge tosses lawsuit over permit for $9.4 billion Formosa plastic complex. A Formosa affiliate behind the project remains barred from starting significant construction activities while the permit remains under review, though work on a water line and road widening on La. 3127 can continue.
https://www.houmatoday.com/story/business/2021/01/05/judge-tosses-lawsuit-over-permit-9-4-billion-plastics-plant-st-james-parish/6557167002/
# General News
Operation LAC (Large Area Coverage) was a United States Army Chemical Corps operation which dispersed microscopic zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCdS) particles over much of the United States and Canada in order to test dispersal patterns and the geographic range of chemical or biological weapons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_LAC
Operation Sea-Spray was a 1950 U.S. Navy secret experiment in which Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria were sprayed over the San Francisco Bay Area in California.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray
Operation Dew refers to two separate field trials conducted by the United States in the 1950s. The tests were designed to study the behavior of aerosol-released biological agents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dew
Project 112 primarily concerned the use of aerosols to disseminate biological and chemical agents that could produce “controlled temporary incapacitation” (CTI).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_112
Operation Whitecoat was a biodefense medical research program carried out by the United States Army at Fort Detrick, Maryland between 1954 and 1973. The program pursued medical research using volunteer enlisted personnel who were eventually nicknamed “Whitecoats”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Whitecoat
The Supertanker offers many dramatic efficiency improvements related to drop capability. The Evergreen Supertanker offers at least eight times more drop capability over other commonly used large airtankers.
http://evergreenaviation.com/supertanker/
Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx) https://geoengineering.environment.harvard.edu/frank-keutsch-stratospheric-controlled-perturbation-experiment
SCoPEx is a scientific experiment to advance understanding of stratospheric aerosols that could be relevant to solar geoengineering.
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/keutschgroup/scopex
# Gov / Politics
Raphael Warnock has defeated Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R) in their Senate runoff in Georgia, giving Democrats an additional seat in the upper chamber.
https://www.axios.com/warnock-loeffler-senate-georgia-runoffs-d2b4104c-b992-43cb-a2ab-497723dde941.html
The margin between Perdue and Ossoff is currently 0.4 percent—a gap tight enough to entitle the GOP incumbent to request a machine recount if it remains unchanged.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ossoff-georgia-election-results-show-he-now-leads-perdue-by-16370-votes-with-98-in
Some Republican Trump allies in Congress plan to object to electoral results in battleground states (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin). If an objection has support in writing from both a House member and a senator, then both chambers will vote on the objection today.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-fight-for-presidency-955739443d5ee6e061878ce0b781b78e?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=35949
If Donald Trump Refuses to Leave the White House, Secret Service Will Escort Him Out
https://www.newsweek.com/if-trump-refuses-leave-white-house-secret-service-escort-1545612?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=35949
The House and Senate will meet in a joint session of Congress at 1 p.m.
to formally count the presidential Electoral College votes, which are
306 for Biden and 232 for Trump
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-congress-procedure-expla/explainer-the-meeting-of-the-u-s-congress-that-will-seal-bidens-win-idUSKBN29B1AL
Trump declares he will “fight like hell” to hold on to the presidency.
Watch – Full Speech – Jan 4, Georgia, “Biden is not gonna take this White House!”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-says-hell-fight-like-hell-to-hold-on-to-presidency
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) objected to recording his home state’s Electoral College tally at a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, triggering a historic debate and votes in the House and Senate.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/06/gop-lawmakers-object-to-arizona-electors-455462
Pence tells Congress he lacks ‘unilateral authority’ to reject electoral votes, dealing a final blow to President Trump’s push for Pence to overturn the election result.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/532915-pence-tells-congress-he-lacks-unilateral-authority-to-reject
As expected, Republican lawmakers in Congress filed a written objection Wednesday over Arizona’s electoral votes in the presidential election https://www.oleantimesherald.com/news/nation/gop-targets-arizona-for-first-objections-in-electoral-college-certification/article_7fcaefd3-d143-5696-a027-d8724b442dd6.html
The list of Republican lawmakers who will oppose Wednesday’s vote to certify the Electoral College results continues to grow, thereby trying to block former Vice President Joe Biden from becoming the nation’s 46th president.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/02/ted-cruz-electoral-college-challenge-453430
Vice President Mike Pence was taken from the Senate chamber after protesters entered the Capitol to protest the results of President-elect Joe Biden’s win.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/532938-pence-removed-from-senate-as-protestors-breach-capitol-security
Inside Trump’s outgoing federal execution spree. Private executioners paid in cash. Middle-of-the-night killings. False or incomplete justifications. ProPublica obtained court records showing how the outgoing administration is using its final days to execute the most federal prisoners since World War II.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-trump-and-barrs-last-minute-killing-spree
Warnock, who will become Georgia’s first Black U.S. senator, gave an emotional interview to CNN hours after his victory was called.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/raphael-warnock-says-dr-king-is-smiling-on-his-stunning-senate-victory
Trump era bows out with scorched-earth drama in divided GOP. Republican allies will launch a formal, public and futile effort to keep him in power by overturning the results of November’s election.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/532806-trump-era-bows-out-with-scorched-earth-drama-in-divided-gop
Pence interrupts Trump’s speech to confirm he isn’t going to overturn the election. The VP’s statement reaffirmed that he doesn’t have the powers his boss thinks he does.
https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2021/01/trump-pence-electoral-college/
Trump Won’t Stop Lying, Extorting, and Cheating, Even if It Kills the GOP https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trump-wont-stop-lying-extorting-cheating-even-if-it/id1386408605?i=1000504460942&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=naytev&utm_medium=social
Lawmakers Told to ‘Get Under Chairs’ as Precaution If Protesters Breach US Senate or House Floors, Tear Gas Used INSIDE Capitol https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/breaking-lawmakers-told-get-chairs-precaution-patriots-breach-us-senate-house-floors-tear-gas-used-inside-capitol/
US Capitol lockdown: Illinois congress members shelter in place; Rep.
Adam Kinzinger: ‘This is a coup attempt’
https://abc7chicago.com/congress-adam-kinzinger-capitol-building-house-of-representatives/9412651/
Oregon leaders shelter in place, speak out amid U.S. Capitol lockdown https://katu.com/news/local/oregon-leaders-shelter-in-place-speak-out-amid-us-capitol-lockdown
GOP senators, led by Cruz, to object to Electoral College certification, demand emergency audit –The lawmakers call for an electoral commission to be established to audit results.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-senators-cruz-electoral-college-certification-audit
Trump tells rioters ‘go home,’ repeats claims that election ‘fraudulent.’ In a one-minute taped video released on social media, Trump urged his supporters to disperse. But he reiterated his false claims that his election defeat was “fraudulent,” which was the basis for the protest in the first place.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/532976-trump-tells-rioters-go-home-we-love-you
President-elect Joe Biden forcefully condemned the violence in the nation’s capital as “insurrection” and called on President Trump to demand an end to the “siege.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/532982-biden-calls-violence-at-capitol-insurrection-demands-response-from
Trump Pours Fuel on Fire as He Tells Mob They’re ‘Special’
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/29/opinions/trump-pours-gasoline-on-fire-dantonio/index.html
GOP Rep. Says ‘Hitler Was Right’ in Speech to Trump Fans. Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) was elected in November to represent a rural southern Illinois district.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/newly-elected-gop-congresswoman-says-hitler-was-right-in-speech-to-pro-trump-demonstrators
Both Republicans and Democrats want Trump impeached — again — after the siege at the U.S. Capitol
https://www.mic.com/p/calls-for-trumps-impeachment-emerge-again-after-the-siege-at-the-us-capitol-54530302
Jon Ossoff wins US Senate runoff in Georgia, handing control of US Senate to Democrats, NBC News projects. https://nbcnews.to/35h6kvH
The mobs are storming state legislatures, too
https://www.mic.com/p/the-mobs-are-storming-state-legislatures-too-54552943
# Marijuana / Hemp / CBD Oil
A new report from the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice criticizes local moves to legalize marijuana and decriminalize drugs.
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/trump-cop-commission-bashes-cannabis-reform-newsletter-january-6-2021/
# Medical / Global
The UK’s DEFRA (Dept for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs) is gassing chickens of residents in “zones” near detected cases of bird flu.
https://www.iceagefarmer.com/2021/01/05/uk-going-door-to-door-killing-chickens-bird-flu-as-cover-story/
# Military / DOD
VT: This report just in, 8 PM EST 1/5/2021: The US has deployed chemical warfare units (that we claim don’t exist) to the Persian Gulf to operate off the USS Nimitz. Special planes, F 35 naval variants, the report states, can deploy low concentrations of Sarin or VZ gas that would kill tens of thousands of Iranian Revolutionary Guards before any knew what hit them.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2021/01/05/blockbuster-secret-russian-source-tells-of-trump-military-coup-attack-on-iran/?mc_cid=40caa1c1e7&mc_eid=3f7488d454
# Murmurs of War
Veteran whistleblower claims Trump has secret plan to trigger conflict with Iran. I have very little doubt, there is highly classified planning going on to provoke an Iranian action. “He has 17 or 18 days left to do that. More than enough time. It’s also enough time to block him by an informed public, if that information got out.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-iran-files-daniel-ellsberg-assange-whistleblower-b1782341.html
# Social
Proud Boys Brawl With D.C. Cops Ahead of Pro-Trump March. “We had your f*cking back, but we ain’t got your back no more!” one man told police, noting that he and other members of the group have military training.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/proud-boys-brawl-with-dc-cops-accuse-police-of-betraying-constitution-after-getting-pepper-sprayed
Trump-Incited Violence and Chaos Hit Capitol Hill. “This is what the president has caused today, this insurrection.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/congressional-offices-evacuated-as-furious-trump-supporters-storm-capitol-hill/
The U.S. Capitol Police locked down the Capitol building and evacuated multiple congressional buildings amid increasingly violent protests outside.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/532925-capitol-police-evacuate-madison-cannon-buildings
1 person was shot this afternoon inside the U.S. Capitol building after pro-Trump protesters charge building, https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/one-person-shot-in-us-capitol-after-pro-trump-protesters-charge-building-source-says
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