Voices, The Peoples News
April 5, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Illegal entries at U.S. northern border continue to surge: Federal agents patrolling the U.S.-Canadian border in Vermont, upstate New York and New Hampshire continue to apprehend record numbers of foreign nationals illegally entering the U.S. from Canada. While the number of apprehensions pale in comparison to southern border apprehensions, they represent a 743% increase from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 2022, and an 846% increase from Oct. 1, 2022, to Jan. 31, 2023, comparative to those timeframes last year.
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# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Republicans File to Repeal a Tax That Only Affects the Richest 0.1 Percent: Republicans are seeking to close the loop on tax avoidance for the ultra-wealthy. The vast majority of the Senate Republican caucus united last week to introduce a bill that would permanently repeal the estate tax, targeting one of the few provisions in the U.S. tax code that solely affects the richest 0.1 percent of Americans.
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# Education / Schools
Bernice King Urges Permanent School Strike Until Assault Weapons Ban Is Passed: “It should not have to take this kind of effort, but we’re living in times where what my father did, which was to really sacrifice their very lives, sacrifice their job, sacrifice their home, sacrifice everything, we’re right back at that place.”
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# Employment / Labor
The Party of “Family Values” Sees No Irony in Axing Child Labor Protections: The Republican Party is embracing policies that roll back a century of child labor protections. A recent exposé on child labor in the United States wasn’t about what might be called ‘child labor lite,’ examples, say, of kids working in candy stores, logging long hours as babysitters, or getting up early to do paper-delivery rounds. Instead, it was about truly Dickensian conditions, children, many of whom were unaccompanied migrants, getting mangled while working overnight shifts in meat-packing plants; children working long hours on construction sites; children working into the wee hours in food-processing facilities; children getting chemically burned after working overnight shifts as janitors. These kids were, plain and simple, being labor-trafficked.
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# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical Deep-sea mining vital to climate action, deadly to oceans: Mining companies are looking to the ocean floor to extract rare earths and metals that are in huge demand but short supply. Currently there is no internationally agreed code for mining under the ocean. After two weeks of negotiations ending March 31, however, the International Seabed Authority has now decided that companies can apply from July to mine the ocean floor. But campaigners and even corporations are pushing back due to fears of the massive environmental impact.
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Oil Price Rise Following OPEC+ Production Cut Announcement Underscores Volatility of Fossil Fuels: Oil prices rose by more than six percent on Monday after Saudi Arabia and other oil producing nations announced a surprise production cut of 1.15 million barrels per day from May through December.
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Residents of Sparta, Georgia, Push Back Against Railway Plans That Would Divide Properties and Increase Pollution: In 1926, in the heart of the South, a Black man named James Blaine Smith succeeded in buying 600 acres of land near Sparta, Georgia, and launched a successful farming business. Nearly 100 years later, his grandson and his family and neighbors are fighting to protect that land from the encroachment of a railway company that would bring further noise and pollution to the majority Black community where one in three people live below the poverty line.
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# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
When a former premier joins a coal company: The former premier is already taking a defensive posture in his new role, swatting down the would-be criticism of environmentalists. Mr. Horgan, who before becoming premier was the B.C. New Democrats’ mining and energy critic, is joining the board of Elk Valley Resources, an enterprise that is in the process of being spun off from Vancouver-based Teck Resources Ltd. The new business will focus on producing coal used to make steel.
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# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Insane in the membrane: Biden admin moving forward with light bulb bans in coming weeks: LED light bulbs ‘currently cost more than incandescent bulbs and are inferior,’ consumer groups said in letter to U.S. Department of Energy. The Biden administration is preparing to implement a sweeping nationwide ban on commonly used light bulbs as part of its [the WEF’s] energy efficiency and climate agenda. The regulations, which prohibit retailers from selling incandescent light bulbs, were finalized by the Department of Energy (DOE) https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-moving-forward-light-bulb-bans-coming-weeks__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w8nmL-zhp39J7PuPeFrUyn0GzFW9wjaQA7NO_xZU4aqC6ebUZ1Nfeg9NuOuE_iGF87MkDXtDiOn0i7ph-hqtYrPdZTVrdYsE$
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global
A toxic time bomb is ticking in the Arctic: Thousands of contaminated sites are sitting on permafrost that’ll soon thaw, a looming disaster that could spread beyond the region.
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# General News
“Corporations Are Not People”: Jayapal Files Bill to Reverse Citizens United: The proposal specifies that corporations do not have the same constitutional rights as individuals. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) has introduced a bill that would end corporate personhood with the goal of reversing Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the infamous Supreme Court decision that has unleashed a flood of corporate “dark money” into the U.S. election system, threatening to undermine democracy altogether.
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# Gov / Politics
Florida congressman drafts articles of impeachment against secretary of Defense: U.S. Rep. Cory Mills, R-Florida, told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin last week that he was drafting articles of impeachment against him for “dereliction of duty. U.S. Rep. Cory Mills, R-Florida, told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin last week that he was drafting articles of impeachment against him for ‘dereliction of duty.’ Mills cited the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan that put the Taliban back in power, led to the death of 13 service members, left thousands of Americans and Afghan allies behind, and left $83 billion worth of military training equipment, weapons and ammunition to U.S. enemies.
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US to send Ukraine another $2.6 billion in military aid: The U.S. package brings the total amount of U.S. security assistance to Ukraine to more than $35.1 billion since Russia invaded in February 2022. The Pentagon on Tuesday announced $2.6 billion in new security assistance for Ukraine ahead of an anticipated spring counteroffensive against Russian invading forces. “Our focus is on supporting the Ukrainians to change the dynamic on the ground,” a senior U.S. defense official told reporters.
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Tennessee Republicans Are Literally Trying to Purge Democrats From the Legislature: Tennessee GOP begins expulsion process for 3 Democrats, House session devolves into chaos Monday night’s House session turned chaotic amid action over resolutions to expel three Democratic members.
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# Law Enforcement
No-Cash Bail Has Led to an Increase in Violent Crime: As an active-duty officer in one of the largest police departments in the country, I can attest to the deteriorating state of our criminal justice system. The fiction promulgated to the American public that criminals are the victims of society has taken us down a road filled with land mines from which it will be difficult to recover.
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Ex-Vice Cop Pleads Guilty to Running Illicit Sex Parlors: Peter Griffin used his badge to help his illegal businesses dodge the law. A retired San Diego police department vice detective tapped into his knowledge of the underworld to run multiple massage sex parlors across two states before he was arrested and pleaded guilty Tuesday.
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# Legal / DOJ
Donald Trump appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court On April 4, and became the first US president, current or former, to face criminal charges in court. His arraignment, the point at which he would hear the charges against him and enter a plea, resulted in 34 felony charges. After being formally booked and fingerprinted, Trump pleaded not guilty.
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See also: THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK against DONALD J. TRUMP, Defendant.
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Liberals Take Control Of Wisconsin Supreme Court: A liberal judge won the Wisconsin election for an open state Supreme Court, drastically shifting the future of abortion rights. Judge Janet Protasiewicz’s victory tips the balance of power on the state’s high court from conservatives to liberals for the first time since at least 2008
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Revealed: The progressive daughter of judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money case in Manhattan who worked for Kamala Harris and Joe Biden – and is swirling speculation of bias against the ex-president. Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter was a digital director for Kamala Harris’s 2020 presidential campaign and has worked for a slew of other Democratic campaigns. Her job has heightened Trump’s claims that Judge Merchan is biased against him
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Here’s Why the Trump Indictment Charges Are Felonies: The indictment lays out 34 felonies (not misdemeanors) which are based on the theory that the falsification of business records constitute felonies because they were made to cover up other crimes.
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Trump Demands Lawmakers ‘Defund’ DOJ, FBI After Charges: The former president said funding should stop until they “come to their senses.” Former President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers to “defund” the Justice Department and the FBI on Wednesday, a day after his historic indictment and casting himself as the victim of law enforcement agencies he claims have been hijacked by the left to prevent him from being re-elected president.
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Donald Trump Is Now Facing 136 Years in Prison: Trump, 76, is facing a total of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, which each carry a maximum sentence of four years behind bars. Taken together, the ex-president faces a whopping 136 years behind bars, but if convicted at trial and actually sentenced to jail, the time would likely be far less.
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# Medical Science
Policymakers Need to Choose a New Direction in Cancer Medication Investment: All who’ve lost a loved one to cancer cheered when President Biden made the Cancer Moonshot project a priority. That’s why it’s perplexing to see government policy undercut the goals of the Cancer Moonshot and make its objectives more challenging.
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One way to speed up clinical trials: Skip right to the data with electronic medical records: In health care crises, researchers can avoid waiting for clinical trial results by using data from health care systems to analyze the effectiveness of treatments for COVID-19 and other illnesses. The typical process of medical research is generally not well equipped to respond effectively to quickly evolving pandemics. This has been especially evident for the COVID-19 pandemic, in part because the virus the causes COVID-19 mutates frequently. Scientists and public health officials are often left continually scrambling to develop and test new treatments to match emerging variants.
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# Medical Technology
Medical Firm Execs Hid Lead-Test Device Malfunction: Three executives at Magellan Diagnostics face federal charges for allegedly endangering thousands of patients. Three former executives at a company in Billerica are facing criminal charges after federal investigators say they concealed a medical device malfunction that allegedly produced inaccurate test results for tens of thousands of children. Charges: Conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud an agency of the United States, and introduction of misbranded medical devices into interstate commerce with intent to defraud and mislead, according to United States Attorney Rachael S. Rollins.
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