Voices, The Peoples News
April 20, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
SARS-CoV-2 and NIAID-supported Bat Coronavirus Research: An Analysis: Evolutionary Distance of SARS-CoV-2 and Bat Coronaviruses Studied Under the NIH-supported Research Grant to EcoHealth Alliance The research that NIH approved under the grant to EcoHealth Alliance with a subaward to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China sought to understand how animal coronaviruses, especially bat coronaviruses, evolve naturally in the environment and have the potential to become transmissible to the human population.
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# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
GOP Debt Limit Bill Targets Health Care Programs: New work requirements on public assistance programs are also in the bill. That includes beefing work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (previously known as food stamps) for those between 50 and 56 years old. There are also changes proposed to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. A portion of the bill also outlines work requirements for Medicaid, though it does not include changes to Social Security and Medicare, as long promised by Republicans.
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# Education / Schools
Want to fight right-wing censors? Join a public library board! They are at the front lines of this struggle nationwide: Progressive Library Boards Can Block Right-Wing Censorship. While school libraries provide resources and programming where children spend most of their days, in school, the public library operates at a different scale. Alongside larger collections and more extensive programming, public libraries are about public life beyond the classroom. Kids need both.
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# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry Electric vehicle tax credit rules create ‘chaos for consumers’: Latest EV tax credit rules reduce car eligibility and incentives. The list of electric cars eligible for a $7,500 federal tax credit is expected to shrink once new rules about battery manufacturing go into effect on April 18
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/hybrids-evs/ev-tax-credit-rules-reduce-car-eligibility-and-incentives-a1126512375/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2Jmy0zxe$
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry / Global Guyana gets ‘Drilled’: Weighing South America’s latest oil boom : The South American nation of Guyana entered into an arrangement with ExxonMobil after vast oil resources were discovered off its coast, but many questions remain about what Guyana will actually reap from the project.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.envirolink.org/2023/04/18/guyana-gets-drilled-weighing-south-americas-latest-oil-boom-with-amy-westervelt/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2NcFKjbK$
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure As the Midwest burns, Biden ignores plastic waste dangers: Between the Indiana recycling plant fire and the Ohio toxic train derailment, experts say the president needs to disregard industry lobbying and address the dangers of plastics.
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Colorado judge rebukes state on pollution permit delays: A Weld County judge in late March issued summary judgment against the Colorado Department of Health and Environment’s Air Pollution Control Division for unacceptable delays in operating permit decisions for a Bonanza Creek Energy project in the county.
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‘A layer cake of environmental pollution’: Greenpoint struggles with rezoning 18 years on: New York City’s vision of replacing a contaminated industrial shoreline with a community of luxury towers remains incomplete
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House Bill 689 would establish state policy on environmental justice in North Carolina: North Carolina lawmakers have introduced House Bill 689, which would codify the state’s commitment to environmental justice.
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Could California’s next dam removal take place on this endangered river? Removing two aging Eel River dams known as the Potter Valley Project would benefit salmon, lamprey and people, but what happens next remains unclear.
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# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global
Interactive: Beyond the poles; How melting ice affects everyone: The planet’s massive ice sheets are melting as temperatures rise. Scientists are finding that melt is having surprising and far-reaching effects.
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Recently, scientists discovered ancient coral reefs supporting “a breathtaking mix” of marine life in the deep waters of the GMR, a press release from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) said. The previously undocumented reefs sit at a depth of 1,310 to 1,970 feet in the center of the archipelago, at the top of a previously unmapped seamount.
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‘They have conned us out of our lands’: Conflict brews in Peru as Mennonite settlers clear forest. Mennonite groups began arriving in the Peruvian town of the district of Padre Márquez in Peru’s Loreto region in 2020. Settling near the town of Tiruntán, one Mennonite colony has cleared hundreds of hectares of old growth rainforest since 2021. Tiruntán community members claim they were given plots of public land by the town mayor, which were then sold to “the Mennonites, some Chinese business owners, and a logging company” in an effort to get around regulations that prohibit the clearing of forested land. Similar situations are playing out in other parts of Peru, as well as elsewhere in South America.
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# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
Floods may taint more water in California farm towns: Nitrate contamination of well water has been a decades-long problem in the San Joaquin and Salinas valleys, and now stormwater has flushed more fertilizer and manure into aquifers.
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# Gov / Politics / Global
The Brazen FBI Hunt for Russian Spies Ready to Betray Putin: The FBI has been boosting its efforts to recruit Russians with access to classified information in recent weeks, The Daily Beast has learned.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-turns-to-video-ads-in-hunt-for-russian-spies-ready-to-betray-vladimir-putin__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2DrSbd0_$
# Gov / Politics
Poverty Is 4th Leading Cause of Death in US: The nation’s fourth-leading mortality driver behind heart disease, cancer, and smoking: “Poverty kills as much as dementia, accidents, stroke, Alzheimer’s and diabetes,” said David Brady, the study’s lead author and a UCR professor of public policy. “Poverty silently killed 10 times as many people as all the homicides in 2019. And yet, homicide firearms and suicide get vastly more attention,” he added in a university news release.
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The Official Story of the Ukraine War Grossly Misleads; “when all is taken into account, primary responsibility lies with the West, in particular with the United States.”: The overriding function of presenting the war in Ukraine as a crime perpetrated by one country, even by one allegedly whacked-out leader, is to relieve the U.S., NATO and actors within Ukraine of even the slightest responsibility for the war. Russia and Putin are the only perpetrators; everyone else is either an innocent bystander or an unfortunate victim, so goes the official story.
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Bombshell filing: 9/11 hijackers were CIA recruits: At least two 9/11 hijackers had been recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation that was covered up. At least two 9/11 hijackers had been recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation that was covered up at the highest level, according to an explosive new court filing.
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Speak Your Truth: Don’t Let the Government Criminalize Free Speech: What the police state wants is a silent, compliant, oblivious citizenry: What the First Amendment affirms is an engaged citizenry that speaks truth to power using whatever peaceful means are available to us. This is why the First Amendment is so critical. It gives the citizenry the right to speak freely, protest peacefully, expose government wrongdoing, and criticize the government without fear of retaliation, arrest or incarceration.
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Lawmakers dig through the rubble of chaotic, deadly Afghanistan withdrawal: Lawmakers lamented the poor execution of the deadly withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan but disagreed on who was to blame at a Congressional oversight hearing https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/lawmakers-dig-through-the-rubble-of-chaotic-deadly-afghanistan-withdrawal__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2Dil7_co$
Americans Are Now Being Shot and Killed Over Simple Misunderstandings, And Republicans Could Not Give Less of a F–k: In the span of a week, Ralph Yarl was shot for ringing the wrong doorbell, Kaylin Gillis was killed for pulling into the wrong driveway, and two cheerleaders were shot over one of them getting into the wrong car.
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A tense exchange on Capitol Hill that perfectly captures America’s divide on guns: With most of the members’ seats emptied out, Moskowitz demanded to know why Republicans fixated on crime in the nation’s capital were not instead holding a hearing on “murder in schools” and asked why GOP lawmakers were so keen to ban books touching on gender issues when “dead kids can’t read.” The Florida Democrat’s comments reflected the extreme frustration of those who believe the logical response to multiple shootings with assault-style weapons is to make such deadly arms less available. His remarks also underscored a sense among Democrats that the GOP is deeply hypocritical as it conjures visions of a nation awash in violent crime but refuses to lay any blame on the easy access to guns that have killed so many innocent victims.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/politics/american-gun-divide-nashville/index.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2Jn8cLAo$
What Is This, the 19th Century? Two stories in the news suggest that we’re in a Regressive Era. In many conventional tellings of U.S. history, the Gilded Age, in which industrialist “robber barons” accumulated power and wealth by exploiting immigrants and children and bribing politicians, was followed by an era of progress (the Progressive Era, if you will), when various oppressive labor practices and forms of corruption were made illegal.It’s an inspiring little narrative, the forward march of justice and whatnot.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/child-labor-tycoons-19th-century-gilded-age.html?sid=623cb62a440f2846fb4804c7&email=1602501a99a5758652052c0857f4beec9307dbfdcb75c1cebcb48b174fbab7bf&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=traffic&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=TheSlatest__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0tyfhz4euluvEC0rY2C5RvYf8e-Tg9qSB5Yr2h4CA075dsAPR-NT4A5PRDMApufvp7RkKlgYA2mcJLDLJVtTGSrb2IOEMwQG$
# Juvenile Justice System
# Law Enforcment
A North Carolina 6-year-old and her parents were shot Tuesday night by an angry neighbor who fired at them after a basketball rolled into his yard, a report said: Kinsley White was wounded along with her mother, Ashley Hilderbrand, and father, William White, when a gunman opened fire around 8 p.m. in Gaston County after he became enraged about the bouncing ball. Robert Louis Singletary is at large and wanted in connection to the shooting, which happened at approximately 7: 44 p.m.
local time on Tuesday, the Gaston County Police Department announced in a social media statement.
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Three people were charged with murder in connection to the shooting at a Sweet 16 party that killed 4: Wilson LaMar Hill Jr., 20, Ty Reik McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough, 16, were charged with reckless murder in connection to the mass shooting in Dadeville, Alabama, on April 15. Both teens were charged as adults. Officials have released few other details and did not comment on a possible motive.
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Families of Uvalde shooting victims seek action from legislators: Two Texas legislators held a listening session Monday to hear from Robb Elementary School victims’ families, who continue to voice how unheard they feel by their representatives as they plead for gun control statewide and nationally. Their advocacy was spurred by the school shooting that took place on May 24, when 19 children and two teachers were killed.
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A San Antonio ballot proposition calls for policing reform: Proposition A on the May 6 ballot will test the city’s political climate and progressives’ ability to advance a controversial agenda. Proposition A would decriminalize abortion and low-level marijuana possession, ban no-knock warrants and chokeholds by law enforcement, create a “justice director” job at City Hall and require police to issue citations for certain low-level, nonviolent offenses instead of making arrests.
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Ocasio-Cortez: NYC’s New Police Contract Makes Cops Rich by Defunding Schools: The lawmaker said that crime can actually be reduced by funding public programs that support communities.
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County Autopsy Reveals Police Shot “Cop City” Protester Tortuguita 57 Times: The autopsy shows that Tortuguita had no gunpowder on their hands, contradicting the police narrative about their death. Protester of ‘Cop City’ near Atlanta was shot by police at least 57 times, autopsy says. Wounds were found throughout the body of Manuel Paez Teran, who was hit in the head, torso, hands and legs, DeKalb County Medical Examiner said.
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# Legal / DOJ
Tyre Nichols’s family is suing the city of Memphis and the police officers involved in his death for $550 million. The civil lawsuit alleges that the brutal beating of Nichols by Memphis police officers in the department’s “hyper-aggressive” specialized unit was sanctioned and tolerated by the MPD, the police chief, and the city.
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Senior IRS agent blows whistle, alleging Biden DOJ thwarting criminal prosecution of Hunter Biden: A decorated supervisory IRS agent has reported to the Justice Department’s top watchdog that federal prosecutors appointed by President Joe Biden have engaged in “preferential treatment and politics” to block criminal tax charges against presidential son Hunter Biden, providing evidence as a whistleblower that conflicts with Attorney General Merrick Garland’s recent testimony to Congress that the decision to bring charges against Biden was being left to the Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for Delaware.
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DeSantis Makes It Much Easier for Florida to Kill People: He signed a bill that will allow an 8-4 jury vote for the death penalty. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Thursday that enacts the lowest threshold for the death penalty in the nation. Juries in capital cases can now sentence defendants to death by a vote of 8-4. Other death penalty states require a unanimous vote, with the exception of Alabama, which has a 10-2 requirement.
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# Media
Who’s Paying Fox’s $787.5 Million Settlement With Dominion? You Are! If you pay for cable or satellite TV, you’re subsidizing Fox News, whether you watch it or not.
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# Medical / Health
The Supreme Court briefly extended an existing order that temporarily prevents restrictions on the abortion drug mifepristone from going into effect. The court’s original order staying the restrictions, released last week on Friday, April 14, stated that the temporary hold would last through Wednesday, April 19, 2023. It’s since been extended until midnight on Friday, April 21.
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SCOTUS: Mifepristone to Remain Available Without Tightened Restrictions, for Now: The drug, used for self-medicated abortions up to the 10th week, may be distributed by mail until 11:59 PM ET Friday.
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# Technology / Global
Tech Bosses Are Letting Dictators Censor What Americans See: The next time you’re about to fire off a post on social media, remember to first ask: What would Chinese leader Xi Jinping or Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi say? It sounds far-fetched, but recent moves from some leading names in tech and social media paint a worrying picture: Foreign censorship laws are increasingly determining what people in free countries, including the United States, can do online.
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