Voices, The Peoples News
February 5, 2021
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Biden signs disaster declaration to help Navajo Nation with COVID-19 response. Sens. Romney, Sinema also introduce legislation to expand access to drinking water on tribal nations.
https://www.kob.com/new-mexico-news/biden-signs-disaster-declaration-to-help-navajo-nation-with-covid-19-response/6001150/
# Indigenous / Global
Curing the ‘colonial hangover’: how Yukon First Nations became trailblazers of Indigenous governance https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/01/30/curing-the-colonial-hangover-how-yukon-first-nations-became-trailblazers-of-indigenous-governance.html
# Archaeology
Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered a major, previously unknown kingdom. The large block’s hieroglyphics could be referring to the King Midas, of the ‘golden touch’ myth. “We had no idea about this kingdom,”
Osborne said. “In a flash, we had profound new information on the Iron Age Middle East.”
https://www.sciencealert.com/archaeologists-in-turkey-have-discovered-a-mysterious-ancient-kingdom-lost-in-history
# Border / Immigration
ICE union contract prompts fear of resistance to Biden: A union contract signed by the Trump administration on its last full day in office could enable Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to stall President Biden’s vision for a reimagined immigration system.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/537387-ice-union-contract-prompts-fear-of-resistance-to-biden
U.S. Citizen Children Deported Under Pandemic Rule: US citizen newborns sent to Mexico under Trump-era border ban. At least 11 migrant women sent to Mexico border towns without birth certificates for newborns since last March https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/05/us-citizen-newborns-mexico-migrant-women-border-ban
# CoronaVirus
Wisconsin Guv Reissues Mask Mandate Minutes After GOP Repeal. The resolution passed 52-42, with seven Republicans voting with every Democrat in the heavily gerrymandered Assembly to oppose the measure.
https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-governor-mask-mandate-d8436b7f9a7539e9d1cd2589483916d8
Johnson & Johnson Asks FDA for Emergency Authorization of Single-Shot
COVID-19 Vaccine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/04/johnson-johnson-covid-19-vaccine-single-dose-fda
CDC and TSA Form Federal Mask Police — Enforcement Is Up To Officer Discretion https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/02/daisy-luther/cdc-and-tsa-form-federal-mask-policeand-enforcement-is-up-to-officer-discretion/
# Economy / Trade
Senate Democrats approved a budget resolution early Friday morning that will allow them to pass coronavirus relief without GOP support.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/537482-senate-democrats-approves-budget-resolution-teeing-up-coronavirus-bill
VP Harris Casts Tie-Breaking Vote to Move Ahead with Democratic COVID Relief Bill https://www.democracynow.org/2021/2/5/headlines/vp_harris_casts_tie_breaking_vote_to_move_ahead_with_democratic_covid_relief_bill
Biden Coronavirus Relief Plan Clears Senate Budget Hurdle After ‘Vote-a-Rama’
https://www.rollcall.com/2021/02/04/budget-vote-a-rama-begins-as-senate-grinds-toward-late-night/
Most reclaimed wood is used in one-off projects. This furniture company is thinking way bigger. Room & Board’s stunning furniture line uses 400-year-old wood.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90601167/most-reclaimed-wood-is-used-in-one-off-projects-this-furniture-company-is-thinking-way-bigger
Closing the Racial Wealth Gap
https://www.brookings.edu/research/closing-the-racial-wealth-gap-requires-heavy-progressive-taxation-of-wealth/
# Employment / Labor
Senate Democrats are facing internal divisions over efforts to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, which could result in the proposal being watered down or jettisoned from the coronavirus relief bill.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/537464-minimum-wage-push-sparks-democratic-divisions
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining Global
Alberta’s ‘back door’ plan to free up billions of litres of water for coal mines raises alarm. Amid concerns about droughts, selenium pollution, at-risk species and Indigenous consultation, the Alberta government is poised to allow coal companies to undercut a functioning water market https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2155884135097/albertas-back-door-plan-to-free-up-billions-of-litres-of-water-for-coal-mines-raises-alarm
For decades B.C. failed to address selenium pollution in the Elk Valley.
Now no one knows how to stop it. There are no viable solutions to stop the tide of selenium leaching into Canadian and U.S. waters. Deformed fish, a potential fish population collapse and contaminated drinking water signal more trouble to come https://nativefishcoalition.org/blog/2020/5/14/for-decades-bc-failed-to-address-selenium-pollution-in-the-elk-valley-now-no-one-knows-how-to-stop-it
B.C. charges mining, fracking companies very little for water use, new research finds. Some of the province’s biggest water guzzlers are paying as little as 28 cents for an Olympic-sized swimming pool’s worth of freshwater https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-industrial-water-use-research/
# Environment / Climate / Interior
Climate change is causing sea levels to rise faster than previously thought https://www.zmescience.com/science/climate-change-sea-levels-05022021/
Progressive lawmakers push President Joe Biden to declare a national emergency on climate change that would give him broader powers to act https://energynews.us/digests/dems-push-for-climate-emergency-clean-electricity-standard/
# Environment / Climate / Interior Global B.C. allows logging in nine ‘protected’ old-growth areas. Torrance Coste, national campaign director for the Wilderness Committee, said it is “stunning” to now discover it will be business as usual in the second-growth forests included in the deferral areas.
https://kleanindustries.com/resources/environmental-industry-market-analysis-research/b.c-allows-logging-in-protected-old-growth-forest-areas/
French court convicts the government for not doing enough on climate change https://www.zmescience.com/science/climate-change-sea-levels-05022021/
# Food / GMOs / Chemicals
New report finds toxic heavy metals in popular baby foods. FDA failed to warn consumers of risk. Significant amounts of arsenic, lead, mercury, and other toxic heavy metals are in baby food made by the largest such companies in the U.S.
https://www.axios.com/baby-food-toxic-heavy-metal-661b8625-2c16-4361-a870-917d6beaf54f.html
Smithfield accused of false environmental marketing, advertising: A complaint filed against Smithfield Foods on Thursday alleges instances of false advertising related to the company’s sustainability effort https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2021/02/04/smithfield-foods-accused-false-environmental-marketing-advertising-meat-processor-ftc/4376126001/
# Food / GMOs / Chemicals / Global
European Food Safety Authority accused of minimizing some effects of endocrine disruptors. Experts warn a new European draft report “could significantly delay restrictive measures against harmful chemicals.”
https://www.ehn.org/european-food-safety-authority-endocrine-disruptors-2650289466.html
Op-ed: European food regulators are pushing outdated science. Europe’s food safety regulators have an opportunity to bring a cleaner, safer future to the health of 450 million people https://www.ehn.org/european-food-regulators-endocrine-disruptors-2650289959.html
# General Recalls / Alerts
Hyundai has recently recalled 93,000 Hyundai Tucson cars due to their engine’s possibility of spontaneously bursting into flames.
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/256722/20210204/over-93-000-hyundai-tucson-cars-recalled-engine-possibly-bursting.htm
# General News
Atlantic Council Pens Anonymously Authored Expose Calling for Regime Change in China. The report outlines a plan for the United States to pursue a China without Xi Jinping, with a weakened Communist Party, and operating in a region dominated by the US and its allies.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/atlantic-council-pens-anonymously-authored-expose-calling-for-us-regime-change-in-china/275068/
To Counter China’s Rise, the U.S. Should Focus on Xi. A proposal for a full reboot of American strategy toward China.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/28/china-foreign-policy-long-telegram-anonymous-463120
The entire U.S.-China relationship is now in a dangerous downward spiral. Can the Trump-Xi meeting stabilize things?
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/06/26/can-the-u-s-china-crisis-be-stabilized/
Russia Is a Rogue, Not a Peer; China Is a Peer, Not a Rogue, Different Challenges, Different Responses https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE310.html
# Gov / Politics
House votes to kick Greene off committees over embrace of conspiracy theories https://thehill.com/homenews/house/537445-house-votes-to-kick-greene-off-committees-over-embrace-of-conspiracy-theories
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), said he may vote this month to convict former President Trump on an article of impeachment, is pushing back against possible retaliation from the Nebraska Republican State Central Committee by warning that his party must choose between “conservatism and madness.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/537476-gop-senator-warns-his-party-must-decide-between-conservatism-and-madness
We need a constitutional amendment defining “high crimes and misdemeanors https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/537398-we-need-a-constitutional-amendment-defining-high-crimes-and
Republicans who impeached Trump are already on the chopping block Candidates, donors and local party officials are organizing against the
10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/trump-revenge-gop-impeachment-backers-461189
Trump Plots Petty Revenge Tour Against GOP Critics: Former president is reportedly desperate to head off on a speaking tour specifically designed to drain support from Republicans who backed his impeachment.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-plotting-petty-revenge-tour-against-republicans-who-abandoned-him-says-report?ref=home
Cori Bush Demands Expulsion for Every Republican Who Incited the Capitol Siege Representative Bush called the January 6 Capitol breach a “blatant, heinous, vile white supremacist attack.”
https://truthout.org/articles/cori-bush-demands-expulsion-for-every-republican-who-incited-the-capitol-siege/
Former California mayor charged in corruption probe. “No one is above the law. Public officials should be working to benefit the people, not their own bank account.”
https://www.nationofchange.org/2021/02/05/former-california-mayor-charged-in-corruption-probe/
In powerful speeches to Congress, AOC & Rashida Tlaib demand accountability for Capitol attack. “Some are already demanding that we move on or, worse, attempting to minimize, discredit or belittle the accounts of survivors.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/2/5/alexandria_ocasio_cortez_rashida_tlaib
# Law Enforcement
Incarcerated Activist Kinetik Justice, Others, Severely Beaten in Alabama Prison DOJ Sued over Abuse https://www.democracynow.org/2021/2/5/incarcerated_activist_kinetik_justice_others_severely
Austin Leads the Way in Cutting Police Funding and Using the Money for Housing https://truthout.org/articles/austin-leads-the-way-in-cutting-police-funding-and-using-the-money-for-housing/
# Legal / Judicial / DOJ
Trump hires impeachment lawyer, McConnell wants Senate trial in February for Capitol riot incitement charge https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/21/trump-not-prepared-for-senate-impeachment-trial-for-capitol-riots.html
# Murmurs of War
Head of Strategic Command: US Must Prepare for “Very Real Possibility”
of Nuclear War With China. In an era when international cooperation in the face of pandemics and climate change is essential, the world appears to be racing towards a new Cold War, and unfortunately, few except the military top brass are talking about it.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/strategic-command-us-must-prepare-nuclear-war-china-russia/275088/
# Nuclear / Radiation
New Mexico eyed for major nuclear waste storage facility. Critics say virtual meetings bypassed rural communities and raise concerns about the company behind the proposal.
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/experts-nuclear-waste-storage-a-concern-in-new-mexico-southwest/article_f360ee7a-2373-11eb-8e97-57673c219e98.html
# Social
U.S. Won’t Let Him in—Even Though His Docs Say He’s American. Under a controversial Trump administration COVID order that Joe Biden has left in place, Óscar Luis Cortes García is stuck in limbo.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-us-wont-let-him-ineven-though-his-documents-say-hes-american
# Technology
Instagram Bans Plum Accounts Obtained Through Extortion. The social media company targeted nine cybercriminals and the middlemen who helped them sell the valuable handles.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/instagram-bans-hundreds-of-coveted-accounts-stolen-through-hacking-and-extortion?source=cheats&via=rss
Apple’s First Virtual Reality Headset Will Feature 8k Screen for Each User’s Eye An 8K Display screen? That’s too big for a screen resolution but that is not impossible for Apple’s first virtual reality headset.
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/256732/20210205/apples-first-virtual-reality-headset-will-feature-8k-screen-each.htm
Tiktok to Begin Notifying Users of Misleading Content to Prevent Spread of Misinformation https://www.techtimes.com/articles/256730/20210204/tiktok-misleading-content-prompt-start-warning-users-fact-checking-explained.htm
Android 11 Update: From wireless auto, messaging feature to smart home features Android is up for an upgrade with Android 11 software. The new software promises better messaging features, wireless Android auto, beter media controls and more.
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/256709/20210204/android-11-update-better-messaging-feature-more-storage.htm
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