Voices, The Peoples News
May 4, 2021
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
This almost daily Voices, The Peoples News is posted through the blog function of www.MPEN-Ohio.net
You can visit the website and leave your comments if you desire.
# CoronaVirus (is still in clinical trials and tests)
Experimental Adenovirus COVID Injections Continuing to Kill Younger, Middle-Aged People https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/experimental-adenovirus-covid-injections-continuing-to-kill-younger-middle-aged-people/
CNN Host: It’s Time for Government and Big Business to Force Americans to Be Vaccinated. There are alarming signs that coercion is going to be the tool of choice for the “public-private partnership” when it comes to meeting Joe Biden’s stated goal of mass vaccinations.
https://trendingpolitics.com/cnn-host-its-time-for-government-and-big-business-to-force-americans-to-be-vaccinated/
FDA to authorize Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for 12-to-15-year-olds by early next week. The US Food and Drug Administration is poised to authorize Pfizer/BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine in children and teens ages 12 to 15 by early next week, a federal government official tells CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/03/health/pfizer-covid-vaccine-teens-fda/index.html
Separating rumor from fact on Covid-19’s origin: The U.S.- Chinese research involved genetically engineering bat coronavirus to make it infect human airway cells in mice, in order to invent vaccines and other therapeutics. U.S. taxpayer money supported the controversial vaccine research with Chinese scientists through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Some support came from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), led by Dr. Anthony Fauci.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/04/27/sharyl_attkisson_investigates_covid_19.html
Pharmaceutical Industry Dispatches Army of Lobbyists to Block Generic
COVID-19
https://theintercept.com/2021/04/23/covid-vaccine-ip-waiver-lobbying/
As Big Pharma Fights Off Patent Waiver, Pfizer Reports Hundreds of Millions in Profits From Covid Vaccine https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/04/big-pharma-fights-patent-waiver-pfizer-reports-hundreds-millions-profits-covid
# Economy / Trade
Small businesses say Big Labor’s PRO Act would put them under. The Biden Administration sent some stock prices tumbling and left small businesses worried after taking sides on a hotly contested labor issue that critics say could threaten the jobs of millions of independent workers https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/small-businesses-say-big-labors-pro-act-would-put-them-under
# Education / Schools
Powerful teachers union influenced CDC on school reopenings, emails show. The American Federation of Teachers lobbied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on, and even suggested language for, the federal agency’s school-reopening guidance released in February.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/teachers-union-collaborated-with-cdc-on-school-reopening-emails/
Biden Picks Warren Ally to Oversee Student Aid, Signaling Shift on Student Debt Richard Cordray, who used to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, will oversee $1.6 trillion in student debts.
https://truthout.org/articles/biden-picks-warren-ally-to-oversee-student-aid-signaling-shift-on-student-debt/
# Employment / Labor
PRO Act is another Biden tax increase on the middle class: President Joe Biden promised to not increase taxes on the middle-class, but his gift to organized labor, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act), has the same impact as a tax increase on millions of Americans.
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2021/04/30/pro_act_is_another_biden_tax_increase_on_the_middle-class_775053.html
Amazon’s Anti-Union Bullying Shows Why We Need the PRO Act. The PRO Act would limit the ability of corporate bullies like Amazon to intimidate, mislead and bamboozle employees.
https://truthout.org/articles/amazons-anti-union-bullying-shows-why-we-need-the-pro-act/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemicals Texas House passes bill to punish companies for divesting in fossil fuels. Rep. Gene Wu, D-Houston, said the legislation, which the House approved in a preliminary vote, would “punish speech.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/03/texas-house-fossil-fuel-oil-divest/
One of the country’s 10 largest coal plants just got a retirement date.
What about the rest?
To survive among the shrinking fleet of U.S. coal-fired power plants, it helps to be extremely big.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03052021/large-coal-plants-retirement-dates/
Senate passes resolution to reinstate pollution standards for methane emissions from oil and gas sector. The White House is in full support of the resolution calling it “an urgent and essential step” to protect Americans.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2021/05/04/senate-passes-resolution-to-reinstate-pollution-standards-for-methane-emissions-from-oil-and-gas-sector/
# Environment / Climate / Interior
Severe water cuts are coming for Arizona. The rest of the Southwest is next. The restrictions are essential to keep the states from running dry, but vulnerable communities have already suffered from water scarcity https://politomix.com/the-new-republic/1842486/severe-water-cuts-arizona-rest-southwest-next/
# Food / GMOs / Chemicals
Tyson Foods’ expansion in west Tennessee is pitting longtime farmers against one of the nation’s biggest protein suppliers. Scores of Tyson chicken farms have sprung up in west Tennessee in the past three years, as GOP lawmakers stripped environmental oversight.
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2021/05/03/tyson-foods-expansion-in-west-tennessee-pits-longtime-farmers-against-one-of-the-nations-biggest-protein-suppliers/
# Gov / Political
Records Show Iowa State Officials Coordinated with Big Tech to Censor Election Posts – Judicial Watch:| Judicial Watch announced today that it received 624 pages of records from the office of the Secretary of State of Iowa, revealing how state officials pressured social media companies (Twitter and Facebook) to censor posts about the 2020 election https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/big-tech-iowa-officials/
New Yorker writer Jane Mayer talks about the criminal investigation into whether Donald Trump engaged in tax, banking and/or insurance fraud. If convicted, he could be sentenced to prison.
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/18/978635443/could-trump-be-the-1st-u-s-president-charged-with-a-criminal-offense
Report: Trump’s Inner Circle Expected to Be Arrested Soon: Since taking office in January 2017, President Donald Trump has been besieged by civil lawsuits and criminal investigations of his inner circle.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-probes-explainer-idUSKBN27N0SS
Report: Trump Terrified About Going To Prison After Losing Election: The president is said to be not only worried about “existing investigations”
but new federal probes into matters we don’t even know about yet.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/11/donald-trump-post-white-house-prosecutions
Former members of Trump’s inner circle are living in fear after Rudy Giuliani raid, report says. A former Trump advisor said the raid is proof that officials are willing to pursue his inner circle.
https://news.yahoo.com/former-members-trumps-inner-circle-103040838.html
Biden, GOP set to find out if US wants activist government https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/551596-biden-gop-set-to-find-out-if-us-wants-activist-government
Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz Threatens to Punish CEOs Who Oppose Voter Suppression Bills https://www.texasdemocrats.org/media/gop-lawmakers-retaliating-against-corporations-who-speak-out-against-new-voter-suppression-laws/
McCarthy Makes It Clear: Embrace Trump’s Election Lies or Get Kicked Out of Leadership. Liz Cheney, after tweeting the simple truth about the election, looks increasingly abandoned by the GOP.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/05/liz-cheney-kevin-mccarthy-election-lies/
# Law Enforcement
Wisconsin National Guardsman Charged in Jan. 6 Capitol Riot. Abram Markofski is now the fourth servicemember to be charged in the riot.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/551779-wisconsin-national-guard-member-charged-in-capitol-riot
# Legal / Judicial / DOJ
Flynn, Bannon, Manafort, Ivanka: Private Emails From Inside The Mueller Investigation. “We actually sat at dinner together,” Flynn said of his meal with Vladimir Putin. The records released Monday also show that Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump Jr. were deeply involved in the early stages of the campaign.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/flynn-bannon-manafort-private-emails-mueller
# LGBTQ
Tennessee Governor Signs Anti-LGBTQ Education Bill Into Law. The new Tennessee law allows parents and guardians to withdraw their children from classes that feature discussion about sexual orientation and gender identity.
https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/tennessee-gov-bill-lee-signs-anti-lgbtq-education-bill-into-law
# Security
Biden Admin Considering Using Private Firms to Conduct Warrantless Surveillance of U.S. Citizens. The Biden administration is reportedly considering working with private firms to monitor “extremist chatter by Americans online” because the federal government is legally limited to what they can do without a warrant.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-biden-admin-considering-using-private-firms-to-conduct-warrantless-surveillance-of-u-s-citizens
Will the Biden Administration Shine Light on Shadowy Special Ops Programs?
https://theintercept.com/2021/03/20/joe-biden-special-operations-forces/
# Water
California Officials Want Nestlé to Stop Draining Water. The cease-and-desist comes at the same time California’s Governor Gavin Newsom declared a drought emergency in two of the state’s counties.
https://www.ecowatch.com/california-nestle-water-public-lands-2652807771.html
Tons of Plastic Comes From Rivers. A study recently published in Science Advances found that 80 percent of the plastic that is found in the world’s oceans comes from more than 1,000 different waterways.
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/18/eaaz5803
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
NOTE: Material appearing here is distributed without profit or monitory gain to those who have expressed an interest in receiving the material for research and educational purposes. At any point, you can select the link in every email to subscribe, unsubscribe, or send news items:
j.selman.1234@livingston.net
The news that is reported is not necessarily the viewpoint of Voices, The Peoples News. Nothing within this message should be construed as endorsing, promoting or abetting any illegal or unethical activity.
Articles are reprinted under Fair Use Doctrine of International Copyright Law. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html
All copyrights belong to original publisher under Bill s.1618 Title III passed by the 105th U.S. Congress. This email cannot be considered spam as long as we include: Contact information & a Remove Link. Reprinted under the Fair Use Law: Doctrine of international copyright law. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html