Voices, The Peoples News
July 29, 2021
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous / Global
# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
How the USDA is failing America’s captive elephants. Performing elephants are denied all that is natural to them and are forced to endure beatings, electric shock, food and water deprivation and intimidation.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2021/07/29/how-the-usda-is-failing-americas-captive-elephants/
# Border / Immigration
Gov. Greg Abbott draws criticism for ordering state troopers to pull over vehicles with migrants, saying it will stem COVID-19 risk. The executive order allows DPS troopers to reroute vehicles back to their origin point or a port of entry. Critics say citing the coronavirus as justification is hypocritical since the governor won’t let local officials require masks in public.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/28/greg-abbott-texas-migrants-covid-19/
# Bundy Rides Again
Armed standoffs with the government, “Uber militias,” and Ammon Bundy’s run to be Idaho’s next governor. Does running for office make him less dangerous, or more?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/07/armed-standoffs-with-the-government-uber-militias-and-ammon-bundys-run-to-be-idahos-next-governor/
# CoronaVirus
FDA: Troubled COVID-19 J&J Vaxx Maker Can Resume Production https://www.thedailybeast.com/emergent-biosolutions-to-resume-production-of-johnson-and-johnson-covid-19-vaccine
Covid: Found Hung Italian MD of Plasma-Therapy: supported by Tom Hanks but Stolen by Gates’ Big Pharma
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2021/07/28/covid-found-hung-italian-md-of-plasma-therapy-supported-by-tom-hanks-but-stolen-by-gates-big-pharma/?mc_cid=5dd3930561&mc_eid=3f7488d454
Pfizer Says Data Support Covid Booster Shots, As Efficacy Fades Over Time https://khn.org/morning-breakout/pfizer-says-data-support-covid-booster-shots-as-efficacy-fades-over-time/
Technocrats Flex Muscles: Mask And Vaccine Mandates Return With A Vengeance https://www.technocracy.news/technocrats-flex-muscles-mask-and-vaccine-mandates-return-with-a-vengeance/
FDA’s Full Approval of Vaxx ‘May Come in Next Two Months’: A CNN report says the FDA is working “as fast as possible” to clear the COVID vaccines for full approval.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fda-says-full-approval-for-covid-19-vaccine-could-come-in-couple-of-months
‘Poverty Is a Policy Choice’: Study Projects Covid Aid Will Cut US Poverty Nearly in Half “Eradicating poverty is not a utopian fantasy, it’s a policy option.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/29/poverty-policy-choice-study-projects-covid-aid-will-cut-us-poverty-nearly-half
Big Pharma Monopolies Make Cost of Global Vaccination Against Covid-19
5 Times Costlier Than Needed: “This is perhaps one of the most lethal cases of profiteering in history.”
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/vaccine-monopolies-make-cost-vaccinating-world-against-covid-least-5-times-more
# Economy / Trade
The House cleared a $2.1 billion emergency spending bill that includes funding for the Capitol Police in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection https://thehill.com/homenews/house/565527-house-clears-21-billion-capitol-security-bill-sending-to-biden
# Employment / Labor
Labor rights advocates’ Fight for $15 has helped millions of workers.
“The success of the movement for higher wages… only reaffirms how far out of step lawmakers in Congress are from their constituents https://www.nationofchange.org/2021/07/29/labor-rights-advocates-fight-for-15-has-helped-millions-of-workers/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemicals Washington state county is first in US to ban new fossil fuel infrastructure. A county in Washington state has become the first such jurisdiction in the US to ban new fossil fuel infrastructure https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/28/washington-state-whatcom-county-ban-fossil-fuel-infrastructure
Can retrofitting dams for hydro provide a green energy boost? With the era of building big dams over in the U.S., a growing number of existing dams are being modified to produce hydropower.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/can-retrofitting-dams-for-hydro-provide-a-green-energy-boost
# Environment / Climate / Interior
Nature Is Screaming to Prioritize Climate: Executive Editor David Dayen asserts that events in South Florida and the Pacific Northwest demonstrate that the climate crisis is on our shores right now.
https://prospect.org/environment/nature-screaming-prioritize-climate-miami-condo-collapse-northwest-heat-wave/
# Food / GMOs / Chemicals / Global
Family Farm Action Alliance Releases Report to “Counter Big Ag’s Deception”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/28/family-farm-action-alliance-releases-report-counter-big-ags-deception
# Gov / Politics
Invoking the spirit of Selma, Texas activists begin 27-mile march demanding federal action on voting rights. The marchers will travel south from Georgetown to Austin over four days, hoping to build pressure on Congress to act on federal legislation to boost or safeguard access to voting. They will end with a Saturday morning rally at the Capitol.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/28/texas-voting-rights-march/
House Republicans and Democrats are at each other’s throats over two explosive issues — the Capitol insurrection and a new mask mandate — that have collided this week in a perfect storm of partisan hostility.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/565382-house-at-war-over-jan-6-inquiry-mask-mandate
Seventeen Republican senators voted with all 50 Democrats on Wednesday to advance a bipartisan infrastructure deal, in a win for President Biden and the bipartisan group of negotiators.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/565378-the-17-republicans-who-voted-to-advance-the-senate-infrastructure-bill
What the Capitol insurgency reveals about white supremacy https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2021/01/12/what-the-capitol-insurgency-reveals-about-white-supremacy-and-law-enforcement/
GOP Could Retake the House in 2022 Just by Gerrymandering Four Southern States A new study finds that Republicans could gain up to 13 seats in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/07/gop-could-retake-the-house-in-2022-just-by-gerrymandering-four-southern-states/
# Law Enforcement
More Trump Cops Face Prison in Colorado Racist Assault (Warning) https://www.veteranstoday.com/2021/07/28/more-trump-cops-face-prison-in-colorado-racist-assault-warning/
Police Use of Force – U.S. Commission on Civil Rights https://www.usccr.gov/pubs/2018/11-15-Police-Force.pdf
Systemic Police Brutality and Its Costs in the United States https://www.hrw.org/report/2020/09/30/kettling-protesters-bronx/systemic-police-brutality-and-its-costs-united-states
Two cops were arrested after one of them pistol-whipped and choked an unarmed man. Kyle Vinson cried for help with a bleeding head after two Colorado officers held him down and one hit his head with a gun multiple times and threatened to shoot him.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/aurora-police-arrested-pistol-whipping-choking
Virginia Cop Sent Back to Jail on Jan. 6 Charges After Ordering 37 Guns https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/565337-ex-va-cop-who-stormed-capitol-ordered-jailed-after-feds-find-guns-in
Former Mississippi cop pleads guilty after tasing handcuffed man on video https://www.nationofchange.org/2021/07/29/former-mississippi-cop-pleads-guilty-after-tasing-handcuffed-man-on-video/
# Medical / Health
Pfizer is suing Uncle Sam to legalize essentially the same practice it was accused of three years ago, a fighting response to a federal crackdown that has resulted in a dozen drug companies being accused of similar practices.
https://khn.org/news/article/pfizer-court-fight-could-legalize-medicare-copays-and-unleash-gold-rush-in-sales/
Memorial Hermann will become the third Houston health system to implement a vaccination mandate for hospital employees. The announcement comes after Harris County’s COVID-19 threat level was raised to “orange”
last week.
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/2021/07/28/404408/memorial-hermann-to-become-3rd-houston-hospital-system-to-set-vaccine-mandate/
First Biosimilar Insulin Approved By FDA, Can Swap-In For Brand Names
https://apnews.com/article/business-science-health-8c698faa57d55ce73bc7422cfd22ca89
# Social
Federal eviction ban expiring: : More than 35,000 evictions have been filed in Houston since the start of the pandemic. Watch the video by the Tribune’s Lauren Santucci.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/29/texas-rent-relief-evictions-moratorium/
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