Voices, The Peoples News
March 16, 2021
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Tribal leaders respond to the idea of an Indigenous Interior secretary.
Members of Montana’s American Indian Caucus and tribal leaders from various organizations penned separate letters to members of Montana’s delegation, expressing their support of Rep. Deb Haaland for Interior Secretary.
https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2021/02/11/montana-tribal-leaders-support-deb-haaland-interior-secretary/6721240002/
# Border / Immigration
Biden searches for the immigration solutions he promised during his campaign against Trump as Republicans seek to ensure Biden takes the blame for a burgeoning crisis.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/543285-border-crisis-threatens-bidens-political-momentum?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=37610
The Biden administration will send thousands of migrant teenage boys to a Dallas convention center and a former oil field workers’ camp in Midland, an emergency measures officials are taking to alleviate extreme overcrowding at border facilities in South Texas.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/15/south-texas-border-facilities-overcrowded-dallas-midland/
Rep. Ilhan Omar Leads Congressional Call to End ICE Contracts with Local Jails https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/15/omar-leads-letter-urging-biden-end-ice-contracts-local-jails
# Bundy Rides Again
Ammon Bundy Arrested After Missing Trial Over Mask Policy. Provocateur was at the courthouse to fight charges stemming from an incident in August, when he refused to leave the state Capitol building.
https://www.startribune.com/ammon-bundy-arrested-after-missing-trial-on-trespass-charge/600034677/
# CoronaVirus
Vaccine safety experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) are meeting on Tuesday to review the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, after a number of countries paused their rollouts.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56411561?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Binforadio%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D
This is what we know about AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine and blood clots This week, Germany joined France, Italy, and Spain in halting vaccinations with AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, following reports of rare blood clots in people given the shots.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-blood-clots
Drug Lobby Asks Biden to Punish Foreign Countries Pushing for Low Cost Vaccines. The drug industry has sharply criticized any attempt to share vaccine patents or the technological knowledge needed to manufacture them, despite global need.
https://theintercept.com/2021/03/03/vaccine-coronavirus-big-pharma-biden/
Trump Tower Got Vax Through Program for Poorer Nabes: Ineligible employees received a jab and the hotel admits they organized it through a program intended to help hard-hit communities on Chicago’s south and west sides.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/03/16/trump-tower-vaccinated-staff-at-luxury-hotel-saying-it-was-part-of-program-meant-to-help-hard-hit-south-and-west-sides/
# Economy / Trade
Biden is planning the first major tax hike in almost 30 years. The move would represent the first major federal tax hike in nearly 30 years. The last significant tax increases were implemented in 1993 under the Clinton administration.
https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-plans-major-federal-tax-increase-almost-3-decades-report-2021-3
Huge fight looms over raising taxes as President Biden looks for a way to pay for his agenda while Republicans are planning to dig in their heels ahead of the 2022 elections.
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/543314-huge-fight-looms-over-raising-taxes
# Employment / Labor
440 Tesla Workers Tested Positive for Coronavirus After CEO Elon Musk Defied Plant Closure Order https://www.livemint.com/news/world/over-400-tesla-workers-tested-covid-positive-after-musk-reopened-plant-report-11615685645855.html
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemicals Texas Senate scrambles to advance bill that would force ERCOT to reprice energy charges from winter storm https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/15/ERCOT-winter-storm-pricing/
# Environment / Climate / Interior
Under Biden, the BLM backtracks on Hammond grazing permit. Days before their herd was set to return to public lands near Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, two fire-starting ranchers lose their grazing rights.
https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2021/02/new-administration-rescinds-grazing-permit-for-hammond-ranches-inc-day-after-environmental-advocates-filed-lawsuit.html
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global Syria’s 10-year war has left a toxic environmental legacy. A forthcoming report shows how a decade of conflict has polluted rivers, destroyed crops and scorched forests.
https://time.com/5946800/syrian-war-environmental-impact/
# Food / GMOs / Chemicals
The global pollination ‘trade’ reveals how crucial biodiversity is to food security. Pollinators underpin the global food trade, and that makes rich nations highly dependent on conservation measures in tropical countries https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2021/03/the-global-pollination-trade-reveals-how-crucial-biodiversity-is-to-food-security/
A COVID Outbreak at a California Meatpacking Plant Started a Year Ago—and Never Went Away. Almost half of the workers at the Farmer John pork processing plant have been infected with the virus.
https://thefern.org/2021/03/at-california-pork-plant-confusion-and-safety-violations-as-covid-19-spread/
# Global Politics and other news
North Korea warned the United States not to “cause a stink” if it wants to “sleep in peace.” A statement by Kim Yo Jong, who is Kim Jong Un’s sister
https://apnews.com/article/lloyd-austin-seoul-antony-blinken-south-korea-north-korea-9ace712d14a96bfbe180e666e0d20612?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=37610
# Gov / Political
NEO: America’s Despicable ‘Dark War’ on the Syrian People https://www.veteranstoday.com/2021/03/15/neo-americas-despicable-dark-war-on-the-syrian-people/
Charles Booker Eyes Running Against Rand Paul by Building Urban-Rural Coalition Booker has launched Hood to the Holler, a group working to unite rural and urban Kentuckians around populist issues.
https://truthout.org/articles/charles-booker-eyes-running-against-rand-paul-by-building-urban-rural-coalition/
Cuomo Has Worked to Protect Himself, Not New York’s People, Says State Senator.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is refusing to step down despite growing calls for his resignation.
https://truthout.org/video/cuomo-has-worked-to-protect-himself-not-new-yorks-people-says-state-senator/
Biden’s Escalation of War on Syria Amid the Pandemic. Having just taken office amid a pandemic, the Biden administration quickly ordered an airstrike that dropped 1.75 tons of explosives on a town in Syria near the Iraq border, re-inflaming tensions between Washington and Damascus.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/vanessa-beeley-biden-war-against-syria-amid-pandemic/276129/
# Law Enforcement / Incarceration
9 arrested in Polk County search for laced drug source. On Facebook, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office advises a dangerous trend of drug dealers and cartels cutting various drugs with fentanyl which is leading to death and or serious hospitalizations.
https://www.kltv.com/2021/03/15/arrested-polk-county-search-laced-drug-source/
The Violent Online Persona Tied to an Accused Proud Boy Cop. The brewing scandal shows officers remain deeply involved with some of the same right-wing groups that stormed the Capitol.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/violent-online-persona-tied-to-accused-proud-boy-cop-in-fresno-california
“Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) offered a scathing warning to Democrats on Tuesday, amid growing pressure to nix the legislative filibuster.” https://bit.ly/38LuWyg
# Legal / Judicial / DOJ
Attorney General Merrick Garland faces press freedom cases and leftover First Amendment questions from the Trump years. One is a quirky situation that would effectively transform the new president’s Justice Department into Trump’s law firm in a private defamation case
https://www.lawfareblog.com/heres-merrick-garlands-orientation-memo-trump-era-hangover-press-freedom?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=37610
Blockbuster/Exclusive: Two with ties to Israeli Intelligence Arrested in the Murder of Capitol Police Officer (updating)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-capitol-arrests/two-charged-for-pepper-spraying-police-officer-who-died-after-assault-on-u-s-capitol-idUSKBN2B7213
Can Cyrus Vance, Jr., Nail Trump? Insiders say that the Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation has dramatically intensified since the former President left office.
https://outline.com/vw9HL6
FBI Lab Flaws Traced To 3,000 Cases: More than six years after the FBI crime laboratory was rocked by controversy, the Justice Department has identified about 3,000 criminal cases that could have been affected by flawed science and skewed testimony.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-lab-flaws-traced-to-3000-cases/
NAACP’s Trump Suit Delayed Amid Hunt for Mysterious ‘Ricky’: Last month, “Ricky” signed for a federal lawsuit delivered to former President Trump, and vanished. Now, the “Ricky” mystery has spilled into federal court.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-naacp-lawsuit-against-trump-is-delayed-after-some-guy-named-ricky-took-the-paperwork
Judge Thinks QAnon Shaman Is Lying—and Has Vids to Prove It. A federal judge says Jacob Chansley “blatantly lied” during a jailhouse interview with CBS News.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-plays-videos-to-prove-qanon-shaman-jacob-chansley-lied-in-60-minutes-interview-on-capitol-riot
Gov’t Job Applicant Admits Terror Plot on Polygraph: Feds say Ethan Collins told a polygraph examiner he admires ISIS for their “courage and conviction” and believes the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer was “justified.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ethan-collins-applied-for-a-govt-job-then-fessed-up-to-terror-plots-on-the-polygraph-test-feds-say
# LGBTQ
Actor Elliot Page has made history as the first openly transgender man to appear on the cover of Time magazine https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/543377-elliot-page-becomes-first-openly-transgender-man-on-time-cover
# Medical / Health
Purdue Pharma Reveals Plan to End Sackler Family’s Control. However, two dozen state attorneys general immediately rejected the bankruptcy plan.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/purdue-pharma-reveals-plan-to-end-billionaire-sackler-familys-control
Purdue’s Sackler embraced plan to conceal OxyContin’s strength from doctors, sealed deposition shows https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/21/purdue-pharma-richard-sackler-oxycontin-sealed-deposition/
‘Remarkable’ decline in fertility rates: There has been a remarkable global decline in the number of children women are having, say researchers. Their report found fertility rate falls meant nearly half of countries were now facing a “baby bust” – meaning there are insufficient children to maintain their population size.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46118103
# Military / DOD
DARPA is officially looking into jetpacks for US special forces. DoD is considering a “portable personal air mobility system” that could be used on special forces, search and rescue and logistics missions.
https://taskandpurpose.com/military-tech/military-jetpack-research-drape/
# Other News
Jared Kushner Bids Adieu to Taxpayers With $24K Hotel Tab. The expenditure for “accommodation and food services” during Kushner’s December 2020 trip to Jerusalem came out of the State Department budget.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jared-kushner-says-farewell-to-us-taxpayers-with-dollar24000-jerusalem-hotel-tab
# Social
Water Crises and Environmental Racism Continue in Jackson, Miss. After Winter Storm. Even now, city officials cannot show the water is potable, forcing those residents for whom service has been restored to boil water to drink, brush their teeth, and attempt to clean themselves.
https://www.ecowatch.com/water-crisis-mississippi-2651079800.html
Albuquerque’s racist history haunts its housing market. Policymakers and activists fight to remove pro-segregation, anti-immigrant provisions from property deeds.
https://www.hcn.org/issues/53.4/south-race-racism-albuquerques-racist-history-haunts-housing-market
# Space
Researchers find four strains of bacteria on the ISS — three are completely new to science https://www.voanews.com/science-health/3-new-strains-bacteria-discovered-iss-researchers
# Veterans / VA
Camp Lejeune: Marine vets petition for registry for toxic water victims.
The veterans claim a registry could uncover more medical conditions and lead to more compensation for those harmed by toxic water at the Marine base https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2021/03/16/marine-veterans-petition-for-medical-health-registry-for-camp-lejeune-toxic-water-victims/
# Water
Premature or precautionary? California is first to tackle microplastics in drinking water. California is about to set the world’s first health guidelines for microplastics in drinking water. Yet no one agrees how to test water for the tiny bits of plastic, or how dangerous they are.
https://patch.com/california/pleasanton/s/hh0j7/premature-or-precautionary-california-first-tackle-microplastics-drinking-water
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