Voices, The Peoples News
March 4, 2021
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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“When the power of love overcomes the love of power there will be peace.” Sri Chinmoy
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# Indigenous
What tribal sovereignty means for Freedmen citizenship. Is Congress coercing the Choctaw Nation into doing away with discriminatory policies?
https://www.hcn.org/articles/tribes-what-tribal-sovereignty-means-for-freedmen-citizenship
Judge Rules That Cherokee Freedmen Have Right To Tribal Citizenship https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/31/547705829/judge-rules-that-cherokee-freedmen-have-right-to-tribal-citizenship
Sacred Apache land ‘on death row’ in standoff with foreign mining titans. Tribal members in Arizona are fighting to protect a piece of land they consider their “Mount Sinai.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sacred-apache-land-death-row-standoff-foreign-mining-titans-n1259331
# Animals / Pets / Food Recalls
Performance Dog, a raw pet food made by a company called Bravo Packing, Inc., are being recalled because they may be contaminated with salmonella and listeria (dangerous bacteria).
https://www.petful.com/recalled/performance-dog-2021/
# CoronaVirus
ID requirements are meant to stop vaccine tourists, but they can also shut out vulnerable residents. Proof-of-residency and ID requirements are supposed to ensure COVID-19 vaccines are equitably distributed — but the rules are shutting out some of the people they aim to protect.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/coronavirus-vaccine-id-undocumented
Whistleblower Reveals Many Pregnancy Complications following Experimental COVID Injections . Whistleblower who sits on a COVID-19 task force is claiming that many pregnancy complications, including preterm birth, miscarriage, and spontaneous abortions following COVID vaccines are being concealed from the public.
https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/whistleblower-reveals-many-pregnancy-complications-following-experimental-covid-injections-vaccine-leaving-a-trail-of-devastated-mothers/
“It is now time to open Texas 100 percent.” Clearly these actions reject all scientific evidence about the spread of the disease and will inevitably cause unnecessary infections and death.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/03/these-gop-governors-are-trying-to-distract-us-from-their-deadly-failures-by-killing-more-people/
# Economy / Trade
Senate’s GOP will force clerks to read bill to delay COVID-19 relief bill vote.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/541460-senate-gop-will-force-clerks-to-read-bill-to-delay-covid-relief-vote
Senate Republicans are taking on a risky strategy to use all the procedural tactics at their disposal to delay President Biden’s popular
$1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package as long as possible in hopes that they can turn public opinion against the legislation.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/541541-gop-pulling-out-all-the-stops-to-delay-covid-19-package
This town in California handed out free $500 monthly checks, no strings attached. After a year, unemployment fell and quality of life improved https://www.zmescience.com/medicine/basic-income-stockholm-usa-results-good-2467324/
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) pledged on Thursday that Democrats would pass a massive coronavirus relief bill this week, even as Republicans plot how to slow down the bill.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/541638-schumer-vows-senate-will-pass-coronavirus-relief-this-week
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
Fractured: Buffered from fracking but still battling pollution: Part 4 of our 4-part series, “Fractured,” an investigation of fracking chemicals in the air, water, and people of western Pennsylvania https://www.ehn.org/fractured-oil-and-gas-pollution-2650623184.html
TX Power Grid Operator Fires CEO After Winter Storm Failures. ERCOT was caught flat-footed amid plunging temperatures two weeks ago, and millions lost power.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/02/ercot-texas-bill-magness/
Texas’ grid operator fires its top executive and bars a second electric provider from operating on the grid as fallout from last month’s storm-driven outages and price spikes continues.
https://energynews.us/digests/texas-grid-ceo-fired-over-massive-storm-driven-outages/
A House oversight committee begins an investigation of the Texas energy crisis.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/03/ERCOT-congress-investigate/
# Environment / Climate / Interior
House Energy and Commerce leaders unveil sweeping climate change legislation
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/03/house-energy-commerce-climate-legislation-473351
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global Antarctica is running out of wilderness. The continent is crammed with “ghost” stations—just one sign of how this empty, icy place is becoming more crowded.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/03/antarctica-running-out-wilderness/618192/
Antarctica’s wilderness fails to capture continent’s biodiversity
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2506-3
# Food / GMOs / Chemicals
Foreign ownership of U.S. farmland is growing. A Missouri lawmaker wants to ban it in the state. The bill brings up questions about whether foreign entities are really the ones driving up land prices in farm country, or if domestic investors are.
https://thecounter.org/land-access-farmland-missouri-foreign-ownership/
# Gov / Political
Pelosi under fire as National Guard troops sick after being ‘served metal shavings & raw meat while protecting Capitol’
https://www.the-sun.com/news/2442676/national-guard-troops-sick/
Pelosi Urged to Probe ‘Shaved Metal’ Found in Troops’ Food. According to one congressman, at least 30 National Guard members on U.S. Capitol duty have become sick over the past month after eating the dodgy food.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pelosi-urged-to-investigate-metal-shavings-found-in-capitol-national-guard-troops-food
House passes voting rights bill over GOP opposition (and defeats proposal to let 16- and 17-years-olds vote
https://apnews.com/article/house-passes-sweeping-voting-rights-bill-88088175552f13a8e3f6f25d7bc45f6c/gallery/bbb98c18fc4047448da85c56d8450148
Pence said in an op-ed published in the Daily Signal that there were “significant voting irregularities” and “numerous instances of officials setting aside state election law” in the 2020 presidential contest.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/541376-pence-breaks-silence-to-criticize-2020-elections?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=37347
The Iran nuclear deal needs to be fixed and rewritten, not just revived https://bit.ly/309VNzl
Capitol Police begged for help. For 199 minutes, Trump’s Pentagon stalled https://wapo.st/2OpvRNG
House Passes Landmark Voting Rights and Police Reform Bills https://thehill.com/homenews/house/541545-house-passes-voting-rights-and-elections-reform-bill
Georgia Bill Would Criminalize Giving Water to Voters Waiting in Long Lines. The measure is part of a bill that reduces early voting times and imposes other restrictive measures on Georgia voters.
https://truthout.org/articles/georgia-bill-would-criminalize-giving-water-to-voters-waiting-in-long-lines/
# Law Enforcement
D.C. Guard Chief: Trump Pentagon Screwed Up Riot Response. Even Republican senators expressed anger and incredulity after Maj. Gen.
William Walker outlined restrictions the Defense Department placed on his Guardsmen.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dc-national-guard-chief-blames-army-trump-pentagon-for-botched-riot-response
GOPer Who Backed George Floyd Reforms ‘Pressed Wrong Button.’ Rep. Lance Gooden was the sole Republican to vote in favor of the police-reform bill—but he has an explanation.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/lance-gooden-the-only-republican-who-backed-george-floyd-police-reform-says-he-pressed-wrong-button
DEA Suspends Agent for Joining Capitol Riot-Adjacent Crowd. Mark Ibrahim was still carrying his service weapon as he listened to Donald Trump hawk the lie the election was stolen.
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2021-03-03/us-suspends-federal-agent-who-joined-crowd-outside-capitol-during-rampage-lawyer-says
House Democrats late Wednesday voted 220-212 to overhaul policing nationwide with national standards.
https://apnews.com/article/breonna-taylor-joe-biden-race-and-ethnicity-police-legislation-57796a64d9dd71b35aa48ac217249cec
Documents show how federal law enforcement was tracking extremists ahead of the Capitol riot. We obtained documents that show authorities particularly focused on the Proud Boys, even monitoring the hotel they were staying at.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/dhs-federal-protective-service-capitol-riot
FBI chief says Trump supporters committed ‘terrorism’ in Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill https://parstoday.com/en/news/world-i135968-fbi_chief_says_trump_supporters_committed_’terrorism’_in_jan._6_attack_on_capitol_hill
Corrupt Pentagon Trumpites withheld support for Capitol Police for 3 hours and 19 minutes https://www.veteranstoday.com/2021/03/03/corrupt-pentagon-trumpites-withheld-support-for-capitol-police-for-3-hours-and-19-minutes/
The House has passed a police reform bill named after George Floyd that would ban chokeholds and eliminate qualified immunity for law enforcement.
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/03/973111306/house-approves-police-reform-bill-named-after-george-floyd
# Legal / Judicial / DOJ
Trump Served With Civil Rights Suit After Capitol Riot: Attorneys for Rep. Bennie Thompson and the NAACP have served the former president at his Mar-a-Lago club with a lawsuit filed in February.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-served-with-rep-bennie-thompsons-civil-rights-lawsuit-after-capitol-riot
# LGBTQ
Legislators Fail to Cite Examples to Justify Anti-Trans Laws. An Associated Press investigation found that many lawmakers seeking to ban trans girls from high school sports could not name one incident where inclusion had brought problems.
https://apnews.com/article/lawmakers-unable-to-cite-local-trans-girls-sports-914a982545e943ecc1e265e8c41042e7
# Media
# Medical Alternatives / Herbology
Green tea supplements modulate facial development of children with Down syndrome, study finds https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210303095226.htm#:~:text=The%20researchers%20observed%20that%20the,positive%20effects%20at%20low%20doses.
# Other News
Americans are not safe in their homes. Not anymore, at least. “How ‘secure’ do our homes remain if police, armed with no warrant, can pound on doors at will and forcibly enter?” Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the lone dissenter in Kentucky v. King. This present menace comes from the government and its army of bureaucratized, corporatized, militarized mercenaries who are waging war on the last stronghold left to us as a free people: the sanctity of our homes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56408.htm
# Security
Former Homeland Security agent arrested for taking bribes from organized crime After his release from prison, Cisneros was recently charged with conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official, bribery, and 26 counts of money laundering.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2021/03/04/former-homeland-security-agent-arrested-for-taking-bribes-from-organized-crime/
# Social
EUGENICS: Over 1,000 Female Prisoners in California Forcibly Sterilized Because “It’s Cheaper than Welfare”
https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/eugenics-over-1000-female-prisoners-in-california-forcibly-sterilized-because-its-cheaper-than-welfare/
# Water
Mississippi’s water problems have reached a boiling point. Texas’
experience of last month’s deadly winter storm may have grabbed headlines, but its neighbors fared just as badly.
https://grist.org/justice/mississippi-winter-storm-water-covid/
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