Voices, The Peoples News
February 11, 2021
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Why Indigenous Knowledge Matters to the Future of Fisheries https://therevelator.org/indigenous-fisheries-reid/
Bridging the digital divide in Indian Country. A new report focuses on internet infrastructure on tribal lands and how tribes can use it to strengthen their sovereignty.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-technology-bridging-the-digital-divide-in-indian-country
# Animals / Pets / Food Recalls
New Mexico judge revokes protected lands for jaguars. Conservation groups vow to fight the ruling to help the cats reclaim their historic habitat.
https://www.newsbreak.com/colorado/durango/news/2161311665540/new-mexico-judge-revokes-protected-lands-for-jaguars
# Border / Immigration
Biden admin erects tent city in Texas to handle influx of illegal immigrants https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-tent-city-texas-illegal-immigrants
Biden terminates Trump emergency order used to construct border wall https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/538406-biden-terminates-trump-emergency-order-used-to-construct-border-wall
Proclamation on the Termination Of Emergency With Respect To The Southern Border Of The United States And Redirection Of Funds Diverted To Border Wall Construction https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-termination-of-emergency-with-respect-to-southern-border-of-united-states-and-redirection-of-funds-diverted-to-border-wall-construction/
# CoronaVirus
Forty Percent of U.S. COVID Deaths Were Avoidable: The new study rips into former President Donald Trump, saying he resoundingly failed his pandemic test and “brought misfortune to the USA and the planet.”
https://www.newsweek.com/40-percent-us-covid-deaths-could-have-been-averted-if-it-werent-trump-report-1568403
Doc Charged With Stealing Vax Says He Gave Shots to At-Risk. The doctor said the vial he’s accused of stealing was about to spoil, so he scrambled to give shots to vulnerable people he could find before that deadline.
https://nypost.com/2021/01/21/texas-doctor-charged-with-stealing-covid-19-vaccine-doses/
Coronavirus vaccination may be cause of rare blood disorder in at least
36 people
https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/rare-blood-disorder-covid-vaccine-thrombocytopenia
Deaths of Elderly Who Recovered From COVID-19, But Died After Vaccine, Raise Questions
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/norway-reviewing-deaths-of-frail-and-elderly-patients-vaccinated-against-covid-19-1.5272547
95 Percent of Americans Killed by COVID-19 Were 50 or Older, Chronic conditions, aging immune systems increase vulnerability https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2020/coronavirus-deaths-older-adults.html
Elderly man collapses, dies shortly after getting COVID-19 vaccine at Javits Center https://nypost.com/2021/02/07/elderly-man-collapses-dies-shortly-after-getting-covid-19-vaccine-at-javits-center/
More Americans have died from COVID-19 in the last year than were killed during World War II and the Vietnam War combined.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/07/30/fact-check-us-covid-19-deaths-surpass-combat-fatalities-many-wars/5535450002/
Wisconsin Resident Doctor has Miscarriage 3 Days After Being Injected with Experimental COVID mRNA Shot https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/wisconsin-resident-doctor-has-miscarriage-3-days-after-being-injected-with-experimental-covid-mrna-shot/
Biden raises hopes for new course to jumpstart rapid COVID-19 tests https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/538349-biden-raises-hopes-for-new-course-to-jumpstart-rapid-covid-19-tests
501 Deaths + 10,748 Other Injuries Reported Following COVID Vaccine, Latest CDC Data Show https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/deaths-injuries-following-covid-vaccine-cdc/
New Lancet Report: 40 Percent of U.S. COVID Deaths Could Have Been Avoided The scathing new report is an indictment of both Trump and a health care system that values profit over human life.
https://truthout.org/articles/new-lancet-report-40-percent-of-us-covid-deaths-could-have-been-avoided/
WHO official derides US intelligence on COVID: WHO mission to China says US intelligence on the supposed origin of the coronavirus is not reliable.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/10/dont-rely-on-us-virus-intelligence-who-mission-member-says
# Education / Schools
‘Dangerous’ MIT Researcher Wanted in Yale Student’s Murder https://www.newsbreak.com/connecticut/new-haven/news/2161640386791/armed-and-dangerous-mit-researcher-wanted-in-yale-grad-students-murder
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
Chevron Refinery Dumps Oil Into San Francisco Bay https://www.ecowatch.com/chevron-oil-spill-san-francisco-bay-2650428922.html
Appalachia’s fracking boom has done little for local economies https://www.ehn.org/fracking-economics-2650429410.html
# Environment / Climate / Interior
U.S. and Russia sign new maritime pollution agreement, conduct joint Bering Sea patrol https://www.arctictoday.com/u-s-and-russia-sign-new-maritime-pollution-agreement-conduct-joint-bering-sea-patrol/
With PFAS everywhere, Minnesota calls for big new crackdown on the ‘forever chemicals.’ The state wants lawmakers to designate the entire PFAS class as a ‘hazardous substance’ in state statute, a list that includes arsenic https://m.startribune.com/with-pfas-everywhere-minnesota-calls-for-big-new-crackdown-on-the-forever-chemicals/600021420/
Study finds dangerous air pollution levels in subway systems in the US https://www.zmescience.com/science/study-finds-dangerous-air-pollution-levels-in-subway-systems-in-the-us/
# Food / GMOs / Chemicals
As Vermont farmers plant cover crops to reduce runoff, report says they also use more herbicides
https://www.vpr.org/post/farmers-plant-cover-crops-reduce-runoff-report-says-they-also-use-more-herbicides#stream/0
Nation’s first mandatory farmworker hazard bonus gains approval. Leaders of Coachella, California, mandated a $4-per-hour pay increase for local food workers. They included ag workers at the last minute.
https://thecounter.org/farmworker-hazard-pay-covid-19-coachella/
America’s biggest retailers and foodservice companies have already agreed not to sell GMO salmon. AquaBounty says its first bioengineered salmon will be harvested in March, but that doesn’t mean it’ll be easy to buy.
https://thecounter.org/americas-biggest-retailers-foodservice-companies-gmo-salmon-aquabounty/
# General News
Can Biden save public transit from the pandemic? Ridership, and revenue are cratering. Will there be anything left once we’re vaccinated? The Biden administration and new Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will have to act fast to give federal help so states and cities can turn things around.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90598206/can-biden-save-public-transit-from-the-pandemic
# Gov / Politics
Over 100 Anti-Trump Ex-GOPers Plot Breakaway Party: Some 120 powerful former Republicans gathered together on a Zoom call last Friday to discuss how to wrestle power away from Donald Trump.
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2AB07P
Biden Calls China’s Xi 11 Months After Trump Cut Off Contact. According to the White House, Biden told Xi that his administration won’t accept China’s human-rights abuses and expansionism.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china/presidents-biden-and-xi-hold-first-phone-call-amid-tense-u-s-china-relations-idUSKBN2AB06A
Greene Replaces Trump as Democrats Fundraising Outrage Fuel. “Emotion opens emails,” said Jared Leopold, a longtime Democratic strategist.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/523501-gop-faces-fundraising-reckoning-as-democrats-rake-in-cash
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) isn’t pressuring fellow Republicans to acquit former President Trump as the impeachment trial appears poised to wrap as soon as this weekend.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/538358-mcconnell-not-pressuring-gop-to-acquit-trump
Senators Were Part of ‘Trump’s Mob’? Senate Trial, Day Two: The dereliction was even worse than the incitement.
https://prospect.org/impeachment/how-many-republican-senators-were-part-of-trumps-mob/
Reps Would Have to Resign From Corporate Boards Under Democrats’ Ethics Bill At least 15 House reps currently sit on the boards of private companies.
https://prospect.org/power/reps-would-have-to-resign-from-corporate-boards-under-democrats-ethics-bill/
# Law Enforcement
MI Man Faces Hate Crime Charges in Attack on Black Teens. Lee Mouat, 42, faces two federal hate-crime charges in a bike lock attack that left an 18-year old with a facial fracture and several missing teeth.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/michigan/articles/2021-02-11/man-charged-with-hate-crimes-for-attack-on-black-teen
Five Proud Boys Slapped With Conspiracy Charges in Riots. Prosecutors allege some of the individuals associated with the far-right group led crowds as they pushed through police lines to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6.
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2162175810674/five-proud-boys-slapped-with-conspiracy-charges-in-capitol-riots
Police Deployed Potentially Lethal Chemical During Black Lives Matter Protests The hexachloroethane smoke that police used against protesters can cause vomiting, respiratory distress and even death.
https://truthout.org/articles/police-deployed-potentially-lethal-chemical-during-black-lives-matter-protests/
# Legal / Judicial / DOJ
Barr Rejected Officer’s Guilty Plea for Floyd Killing: The former attorney general believed a plea deal would be seen as too lenient and too hasty without an investigation.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/william-barr-rejected-plea-deal-for-derek-chauvin-report.html
Dems Air Chilling Video, Dispatch Audio in Impeachment Trial. “We need some reinforcements up here now,” one officer yells, as he begs for backup. “They’re starting to pull the gates down. They’re throwing metal poles at us.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/democrats-air-chilling-dc-police-dispatch-in-trump-impeachment-trial
Eugene Goodman May Have Saved Romney’s Life: New Footage: In new surveillance footage played Wednesday during Trump’s impeachment trial, Goodman can be seen directing Romney to turn away from the direction of the mob.
https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2021/02/watch-officer-eugene-goodman-saves-mitt-romney-from-capitol-mob/
DA Opens Criminal Probe Into Trump’s Call to Raffensperger. Trump asked Georgia’s top elections official to “find” the votes necessary to overturn his loss in the state.
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966332808/georgia-district-attorney-is-investigating-trumps-call-to-overturn-election
New riot footage stuns Trump trial: The presentation packed an enormous emotional punch. Its impact was visceral, even as most Americans need no reminder of a day that was a low-point in the nation’s history.
https://thehill.com/homenews/the-memo/538339-the-memo-new-riot-footage-stuns-trump-trial
LIVE COVERAGE: Democrats to conclude case against Trump: House Democratic impeachment managers will conclude their case on Thursday that former President Trump should be convicted for inciting a mob to attack the Capitol.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/538404-live-coverage-democrats-to-conclude-case-against-trump
WATCH TODAY’S TRIAL — IT STARTED AT NOON: Here’s the C-SPAN live stream:
https://bit.ly/3tLFqGJ
WHAT TO EXPECT IN TODAY’S TRIAL PROCEEDINGS — TRUMP’S ‘LACK OF REMORSE’:
What to expect, via The Hill’s Mike Lillis: https://bit.ly/3afLqQx
Trump Attacked Pence on Twitter Minutes After Learning VP Was Evacuated from Capitol: Trump’s Tweet Attacking Pence Came Right After Learning His VP’s Life Was In Danger. A statement from Sen. Tommy Tuberville shows Trump turned his mob against Pence minutes after hearing his vice president had to be hustled from the Senate.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-pence-tweet-capitol-riot-impeachment-trial_n_6024b281c5b6b295bc045640
Democrats argue Trump will incite violence again. House Democrats pressing the Senate to convict former President Trump in his impeachment trial argued Thursday that an acquittal would raise the potential for him to incite violence again in the future.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/538494-democrats-argue-trump-will-incite-violence-again
Trump’s Senate Trial “Goes to the Heart” of Why Impeachment Was Created.
“This is the most important impeachment trial in American history,” says journalist John Nichols.
https://truthout.org/video/trumps-senate-trial-goes-to-the-heart-of-why-impeachment-was-created/
Trump Campaign Paid Millions to Organizers of Rally That Led to Capitol Rampage. The revelation lends credence to impeachment managers’ argument that Trump was responsible for the events of January 6.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-campaign-paid-millions-to-organizers-of-rally-that-led-to-capitol-rampage/
Oath Keepers Planned to Deploy Armed Force to Capitol: Docs: As Jan. 6 and the inauguration approached, Ohio bartender and militia leader Jessica Watkins was “awaiting direction from President Trump,”
prosecutors say.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/oath-keepers-jessica-watkins-planned-to-deploy-armed-force-to-capitol-riot-prosecutors-allege
# Marijuana / Hemp / CBD Oil
West Virginia House GOP Leader Polls Colleagues On Marijuana Legalization As Revenue Booster https://www.marijuanamoment.net/west-virginia-house-gop-leader-polls-colleagues-on-marijuana-legalization-as-revenue-booster/
New Mexico Marijuana Legalization Bills Get First Hearing This Week https://www.marijuanamoment.net/new-mexico-marijuana-legalization-bills-get-first-hearing-this-week/
Cannabis Reduces Blood Pressure in Older Adults, According to Ben-Gurion University Researchers https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/aabu-crb020521.php
# Media
Fox News Cut Off an Impeachment Manager Mid-Sentence, Censoring the Trial On Wednesday, Fox News turned away from the trial while Rep. Eric Swalwell was introducing key evidence.
https://truthout.org/articles/fox-news-cut-off-an-impeachment-manager-mid-sentence-censoring-the-trial/
# Medical / Health
Gunfire at Allina clinic in Wright County leaves several seriously wounded, followed by explosion –A bomb exploded about 30 minutes later at the clinic, according to emergency dispatch audio.
https://www.bakersfield.com/ap/national/gunfire-at-minnesota-clinic-leaves-several-seriously-wounded/article_5e063d58-2a44-5e7c-966f-ecee90360215.html
Trump’s gruesome health legacy: What you need to know https://www.fastcompany.com/90603414/harvard-researchers-have-calculated-how-many-unnecessary-deaths-the-trump-administration-left-behind
# Science
New compound shows promise against hard-to-kill pancreatic and breast cancers, in mice. It doesn’t attack them directly, but strips tumors of their defense.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/new-compound-shows-promise-against-hard-to-kill-pancreatic-and-breast-cancers-in-mice/
# Social
Unity Lies with People, Not Politicians. Unity will be achieved by addressing problems that concern a broad swath of Americans and advancing solutions that are supported by a majority of them–including Democrats, independents, and some Republicans https://insidesources.com/unity-lies-with-people-not-politicians/
A timeline of the great reset agenda: From foundation to Event 201 and the pandemic of 2020. How the great reset ideology pitched its tent in the ‘new normal’ camp: perspective https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/timeline-great-reset-agenda-event-201-pandemic-2020/
After “Event 201” Coronavirus Simulation in 2019, World Economic Forum Now Plans “Cyber Pandemic” Simulation for July 2021 https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/after-event-201-coronavirus-simulation-in-2019-world-economic-forum-now-plans-cyber-pandemic-simulation-for-july-2021/
Bozeman’s sole multicultural enclave faces evictions amid a housing crisis. For some residents, the displacement signals the loss of affordable housing — and the only diverse neighborhood in the Montana city.
https://www.newsbreak.com/montana/bozeman/news/2162064622458/bozemans-sole-multicultural-enclave-faces-evictions-amid-a-housing-crisis
# Technology
The Florida Water Supply Hack Demonstrates Our Vulnerability to Cyberattacks https://apnews.com/article/business-water-utilities-florida-coronavirus-pandemic-utilities-e783b0f1ca2af02f19f5a308d44e6abb
# Things that make ya go ‘Hmmmm’
Listen to a 17,000-year-old musical instrument made from a seashell.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56017967
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