Voices, The Peoples News
March 17, 2021
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Animals / Pets / Food Recalls
Bravo Packing Expands Dog and Cat Food Recall. Bravo Packing, Inc., of Carneys Point, New Jersey, is expanding its previously announced voluntary recall of two pet food products to now include all pet food and bones in all package sizes because they may be contaminated with disease-causing bacteria.
https://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-recall/bravo-packing-expands-recall/
# Border / Immigration
On immigration — please stay home: Biden urged migrants not to come to the U.S. In Biden’s words: “Don’t come over. Don’t leave your town or city or community.”
https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/us-news/biden-urges-migrants-to-not-come-to-us-as-criticism-mounts-says-dont-leave-your-town.html
Biden’s full response: https://abcn.ws/2P2N6Ew
The House may vote this week on targeted immigration bills that would help “Dreamers” and farm workers. Those measures face an uncertain future in the Senate.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-congress/democratic-controlled-u-s-house-to-vote-thursday-on-citizenship-path-for-dreamers-idUSKBN2B817V
US Border Patrol Arrests 22 Wanted Fugitives at Texas Ports of Entry https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/crime/2021/03/12/cbp-arrests-22-fugitives-el-paso-west-texas-new-mexico-ports-entry/4673565001/
Four people matching terror watchlist arrested at border. Three of the people arrested were from Yemen and one was from Serbia.
https://www.axios.com/four-people-matching-terror-watchlist-arrested-at-border-86b44533-4aae-4b73-b509-0501c90c370a.html
# CoronaVirus
California Virus Strains Are Now ‘Variants of Concern’: The COVID-19 variants may be more transmissible, but the good news is that vaccines don’t appear to be significantly less effective against them.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/17/health/california-variants-of-concern-cdc/index.html
See also:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/transmission/variant-cases.html
States dismantle COVID-19 safety protocols at our peril: The gusto of Reopening 2.0 already has epidemiologists bracing for a fourth gale of coronavirus.
https://www.ehn.org/states-dismantle-covid-19-safety-protocols-2651112016.html
Moderna Is Testing Its Covid-19 Vaccine on Young Children. Trial will involve children aged 6 months to 11 years
https://www.wsj.com/articles/moderna-is-testing-its-covid-19-vaccine-on-young-children-11615892416
Italy opens manslaughter case after teacher dies hours after getting AstraZeneca vaccine. Prosecutors in the northern Italian region of Piedmont opened the probe into his death later that day. They also seized nearly 400,000 shots of the AstraZeneca vaccine from the same batch.
https://nypost.com/2021/03/16/italian-teacher-dies-hours-after-getting-astrazeneca-vaccine/
Reports of Deaths After COVID Vaccines Up by 259 in 1 Week, CDC Data Show. Between Dec. 14, 2020, and Mar. 5, 2021, 31,079 reports of adverse events were submitted to VAERS, including 1,524 deaths, 5,507 serious injuries and 390 reports of Bell’s Palsy.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-reports-death-up/
Before COVID, Gates planned social media censorship of vaccine safety advocates with Pharma, CDC, Media, China and CIA –In October 2019, shortly before the COVID outbreak, Gates and other powerful individuals began planning how to censor vaccine safety advocates from social media during a table-top simulation of a worldwide pandemic, known as Event 201.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/before-covid-gates-planned-social-media-censorship-of-vaccine-safety-advocates-with-pharma-cdc-media-china-and-cia
Democratic New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s office was warned that ordering nursing homes to readmit residents recovering from COVID-19 would lead to unnecessary deaths, a new report reveals. But Murphy went ahead with implementing the order anyway.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/coronavirus-new-jersey-governor-phil-murphy-nursing-home-patients-will-die
The next wave of vaccine developers are striking deals with producers and institutes in low and middle income countries.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41587-021-00001-x?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=fad63894c2-briefing-dy-20210317&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-fad63894c2-43812897
Report Finds a Third of COVID Deaths Tied to Lack of Insurance as Dems Reintroduce Medicare for All https://www.democracynow.org/2021/3/17/headlines/report_finds_a_third_of_covid_deaths_tied_to_lack_of_insurance_as_dems_reintroduce_medicare_for_all
Sacklers Offer $4.3 Billion To Settle Claims Purdue Helped Cause Opioid Crisis https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2021/03/12/605038.htm
Child Suicide is Becoming an “International Epidemic” Amid Restricted Pandemic Life, Doctors Warn. The damage we’re inflicting on children is too devastating to be waved away in the name of public health—it’s quickly becoming an emergency in its own right.
https://fee.org/articles/child-suicide-is-becoming-an-international-epidemic-amid-restricted-pandemic-life-doctors-warn/
# Economy / Trade
The IRS is planning to extend the tax-filing deadline to mid-May, according to two top House Democrats.
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/543673-irs-plans-to-extend-filing-deadline-to-mid-may-report
# Employment / Labor
Amazon Is Hiring Aggressive Firms to Bust Union Efforts. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos declined Bernie Sanders’s invitation to a Senate Budget Committee hearing on inequality today.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/03/amazon-intensifies-severe-effort-discourage-first-warehouse-union
Sanders Bill Would Hike Taxes on Big Corporations That Pay CEOs Over 50 Times More Than Median Worker. “Walmart, which pays its CEO nearly 1,000 times more than its average worker, would pay up to $855 million more in taxes.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/17/sanders-bill-would-hike-taxes-big-corporations-pay-ceos-over-50-times-more-median
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemicals Texas’ last Public Utility Commission member resigns at Gov. Greg Abbott’s request https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/16/texas-public-utilty-commission-resignation/
Electricity repricing bill hits wall in House, marking first major schism with Senate this session. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said the House “stood for big business.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/16/ercot-overbilling-legislature/
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick spars with last remaining Public Utility Commission member over readjusting energy prices during winter storm. The state’s energy grid operator overcharged power companies by roughly $3 billion after the winter storm — not $16 billion https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/11/ercot-texas-overcharge-16-billion/
Griddy Energy customers may be off the hook for exorbitant energy bills after company files bankruptcy. If approved, former Griddy customers might not have to pay their outstanding bills, some of which cost more than $15,000.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/16/griddy-bankruptcy-electricity-bills/
Some on Wall Street Profited off Texas Blackouts. In a Private Call, a Top Regulator Pledged He Would Try to Protect Their Windfall.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/wall-street-profited-off-texas-blackouts/
During February’s freeze in Texas, refineries and petrochemical plants released almost 4 million pounds of extra pollutants. The companies mounted their standard “affirmative defense,” and environmentalists doubt Texas regulators will hold them accountable https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-weather-texas-emissions/texas-freeze-led-to-release-of-tons-of-air-pollutants-as-refineries-shut-idUKL1N2KP03J
Dallas Fed: Biden regulations impact New Mexico worse than Texas in Permian Basin Anticipated federal policy changes to oil and gas leasing and permitting on federal lands “could shift oil production, prompting a realignment of Permian Basin activity between Texas and New Mexico.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/dallas-fed-biden-regulations-impact-new-mexico-worse-than-texas-in-permian-basin
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is seeking an exemption or waiver for New Mexico from one of the first executive orders issued by President Joe Biden that halted new oil and gas leasing on federal land.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/new_mexico/new-mexico-biden-oil-and-gas-ban-undermines-states-ability-to-safeguard-economy-environment/article_ccf628be-8655-11eb-91be-23e2707bd409.html
JPMorgan staff said a $1.1 billion deal might be corrupt. The bank sent the money anyway. Two giant energy companies were offering more than $1 billion to drill oil just off Nigeria’s coast. JPMorgan Chase had been asked to facilitate the 2011 payment.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomwarren/jpmorgan-corruption-risk-nigeria-oil-deal
# Environment / Climate / Interior
Great Lakes algae catching microplastics. Researchers found that one type of algae, which has greatly expanded its range within the Great Lakes and is one of the most abundant algae by weight there, could catch up to one trillion pieces of microplastic in the Great Lakes.
https://www.ehn.org/great-lakes-plastic-algae-2651097829.html
Jackson mayor demands help After month-long water crisis amid pandemic, racism, broken infrastructure. The crisis in Jackson, which is 82 percent Black, highlights how climate catastrophe threatens much of the nation’s aging infrastructure.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2021/03/17/jackson-mayor-demands-help-after-month-long-water-crisis-amid-pandemic-racism-broken-infrastructure/
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global The human right that benefits nature. More than 100 constitutions across the world have adopted a human right to a healthy environment, which is proving to be a powerful way to protect the natural world.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210316-how-the-human-right-to-a-healthy-environment-helps-nature
How one woman convinced a community to love a bad omen. An Indian biologist went door-to-door, listening and helping people develop livelihoods, to save an endangered species.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2021/03/15/india-species-conservation/?ct=t(RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN)
The victims of Agent Orange the U.S. has never acknowledged. America has never taken responsibility for spraying the herbicide over Laos during the Vietnam War.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/magazine/laos-agent-orange-vietnam-war.html
Study finds Greenland ice-sheet has melted before, and it could again.
Researchers find million-year-old plants in frozen ice core.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/study-finds-greenland-ice-sheet-has-already-melted-before-and-it-could-again/
# Gov / Political
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has condemned a string of shootings in Atlanta on Tuesday that police said appeared to target Asian women https://www.thedailybeast.com/blinken-condemns-murder-of-asian-women-in-string-of-atlanta-shootings
Tensions are reaching a boiling point in the Senate over the fate of the legislative filibuster as Democratic support grows for eliminating the procedural roadblock.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/543521-tensions-flare-over-senate-filibuster
Biden Wants the Filibuster to Remain in Place, But Says He Supports Reforming It Biden told ABC News he wants senators to be forced to stand up and speak during a filibuster, like “in the old days.”
https://truthout.org/articles/biden-wants-the-filibuster-to-remain-in-place-but-says-he-supports-reforming-it/
Making it easier to vote does not threaten election integrity. Simply put, tightening rules to prevent astronomically rare events of fraud is likely to cause far more harm than good.
https://theconversation.com/making-it-easier-to-vote-does-not-threaten-election-integrity-157007
Texas Republican leaders vows to fight ‘For the People’ election bill https://starlocalmedia.com/news/state/texas-republican-leaders-vows-to-fight-for-the-people-election-bill/article_18b12dfc-d2e1-54a3-af93-8a0deda6e53a.html
President Biden on Wednesday acknowledged concerns of Asian Americans following shootings at massage parlors in Atlanta but said he is waiting until the FBI completes its investigation to attribute a motive to the killer.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/17/atlanta-spa-shootings-president-biden-waiting-before-assigning-motive/4734680001/
People’s Action Statement on Anti-Asian and Gender-Based Violence https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2021/03/17/peoples-action-statement-anti-asian-and-gender-based-violence?cd-origin=rss
# Legal / Judicial / DOJ
N.C. 64-Year-Old Planted Pipe Bombs Throughout City: Terry Lee Barham allegedly targeted a church, a government building, and a veterans’ lodge.
http://my40.tv/news/local/man-arrested-in-brevard-explosives-case
Brandon Clarke Gets 25 Years for Grisly Bianca Devins Murder. Brandon Clark posted photos to social media of the 19-year-old’s corpse.
https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2021/03/brandon-clark-sentenced-bianca-devins-mom-talks-about-indescribable-pain-of-teens-murder.html
# LGBTQ
# Marijuana / Hemp / CBD Oil
The National Cancer Institute published a series of posts about the wide use of medical cannabis and CBD and how federal policies limit research.
https://prevention.cancer.gov/news-and-events/blog/cannabis-and-cancer-part-1
Cannabis and Cancer, Part 1: Despite Lack of Evidence, Cannabis Products Widely Used
https://prevention.cancer.gov/news-and-events/blog/cannabis-and-cancer-part-1
# Medical / Health
Reproductive problems in both men and women are rising at an alarming rate A likely culprit is hormone-disrupting chemicals.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reproductive-problems-in-both-men-and-women-are-rising-at-an-alarming-rate/
94% of older adults prescribed drugs that raise risk of falling. From 1999-2017, more than 7.8 billion fall-risk-increasing drugs were prescribed to older adults in the US, and deaths from falls doubled https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210316100647.htm
# Military / DOD
Trump admin insider reveals how US military sabotaged peace agreement to prolong Afghanistan war. Appointed in the final days of Trump’s presidency to remove all US troops from Afghanistan, Douglas Macgregor tells The Grayzone how military leadership undermined the withdrawal and pressured Trump to capitulate.
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/16/trump-us-military-peace-agreement-war-afghanistan/
# Social
Racist clauses in property deeds can’t be enforced, but still exist. A Texas bill would make it easier to remove them. Housing advocates say they appreciate the measure, but want to see more legislative action to overcome racial inequalities in the housing market.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/17/texas-property-deeds-racist-clause/
White-Supremacist Propaganda Was Out of Control in 2020: Some 5,125 cases of racist, anti-Semitic, anti-LGBTQ, and other hateful messages were spread through physical flyers, stickers, and posters last year.
https://www.adl.org/white-supremacist-propaganda-spikes-2020
# Technology
Twitter Deletes QAnon to Protect US from Upheaval; Russia May Delete Twitter for the Same Reason. With American social media companies increasingly controlled by the national security state, Russia is considering bans on the likes of Twitter and YouTube.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/russia-considers-deleting-twitter-for-the-same-reason/276235/
# Water
America’s drinking water is surprisingly easy to poison. The cyberbreach at a plant in Oldsmar, Florida, which could have resulted in a mass poisoning, was a reminder of a disturbing reality: Despite a decade of warnings, thousands of water systems around the country are still at risk.
https://www.propublica.org/article/hacking-water-systems
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