Voices, The Peoples News
April 25, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Is the Metropolitan Museum of Art Displaying Objects That Belong to Native American Tribes? Only a small percentage of works donated by Charles and Valerie Diker have clear ownership histories. Experts say this could mean objects are stolen or fake. Meanwhile, the Met has been slow to ask tribes for information about the items.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/the-met-museum-native-american-collections?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQTUVzXv1$
America’s Biggest Museums Fail to Return Native American Human Remains: The remains of more than 100,000 Native Americans are held by prestigious U.S. institutions, despite a 1990 law meant to return them to tribal nations. Here’s how the ancestors were stolen, and how tribes are working to get them back.
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The Museum Built on Native American Burial Mounds: For decades, Dickson Mounds Museum in Illinois displayed the open graves of more than 200 Indigenous people. Thirty years after a federal law required museums to begin returning remains, the statewide museum system still holds thousands. Illinois’ state museum system holds more than 7,000 burial remains taken from Native American mounds and other sites. Yet, despite a 1990 federal law that required museums start returning remains, Illinois did “close to nothing” for more than 20 years, according to a new report by ProPublica.
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In Secret Recording, a Top City Library Official Calls Alaska Natives ‘Woke’ and ‘Racists’: Despite Judy Eledge’s history of inflammatory comments and social media posts, Alaska’s governor has awarded her public money and a national role. What’s more, city and state agencies meant to protect Alaskans’ civil rights have been hamstrung.
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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
U.S. to Spend Billions on New COVID Vaccines Despite Failure to Prevent Infection: last year, the Biden Administration announced that it no longer had funding, absent further Congressional action, to make additional purchases and it began preparing for the transition of COVID-19 vaccines to the commercial market. This means that manufacturers will be negotiating prices directly with insurers and purchasers, not just the federal government, and prices are expected to rise.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/how-much-could-covid-19-vaccines-cost-the-u-s-after-commercialization/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQQyeCyuh$
Health Care Workers Offered Money to Raise COVID Shot Uptakes: Multiples states, including Ohio, West Virginia, and Minnesota, are offering sizable cash prizes through lotteries to incentivize uptake of the SARS-CoV2 vaccine. This has raised questions about the efficacy and ethics of vaccine incentive programs.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/assets/Programs/PublicPolicy/Vaccine*20Incentives_PGPPSC.pdf__;JQ!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQRSeQmr0$
The Origins of AIDS; The Polio Vaccine: “Did scientists inadvertently cause the AIDS epidemic? An experimental oral polio vaccine that was prepared, I believe, in chimpanzee kidneys and chimpanzee blood, and which was fed to over a million Africans correlates so precisely with the first appearances of AIDS. Could it have been the polio vaccine, and why are scientists so ready to dismiss the possibility?”
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Group Sues DOE to Obtain Key COVID Origins Documents: The U.S.
Department of Energy, which oversees a network of 17 U.S. laboratories, including advanced biology laboratories, on Feb. 26 released a report concluding COVID-19 most likely came from a lab in China, but the department hasn’t responded to a Freedom of Information Act request for documents related to the report.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/doe-covid-origins-documents/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20230425__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQcpUk6Ic$
DeSantis’ Surgeon General Doctored Covid Vaccine Study: Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo personally altered a state-driven study about Covid-19 vaccines last year to suggest that some doses pose a significantly higher health risk for young men than had been established by the broader medical community, according to a newly obtained document.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/24/florida-surgeon-general-covid-vaccine-00093510__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQaXkU-qE$
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Joe Manchin’s Tax Hike On The Working Class: The numbers from the Institute On Taxation And Economic Policy are stark: The Manchin Tax Increase resulted in single moms with two kids who were making $25,000 a year being hit with a 12.5 percent tax increase, and married couples with two kids who were making the same amount being hit with a nearly nine percent tax increase. The expiration of the expanded tax credits resulted in more than three million kids being thrown into poverty. New data shows it also resulted in a massive regressive tax increase on the working class.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://itep.org/the-lever-joe-manchins-tax-hike-on-the-working-class/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQdNcIHap$
Corporations Illegally Conspiring to Fix Prices, Report Finds: “Large corporations which are supposed to be competing with one another are often secretly conspiring to set prices,” said one expert. “In doing so, they cause economic harm to consumers and contribute to inflation.”
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# Education / Schools
Federal Court Restores Religious Exemption to Vaccination in Mississippi: a federal court has ruled that the First Amendment requires that, by July 15, 2023, the State of Mississippi afford its residents a religious exemption for their children to attend school without one or more state mandated vaccines!
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://icandecide.org/press-release/ican-attorneys-secure-religious-exemption-to-vaccination-in-mississippi/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQUzLv6UC$
Recovery high schools help kids heal from an addiction and build a future: Every weekday at 5280 High School in Denver starts the same way. Students in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction gather on the steps of the school’s indoor auditorium to discuss a topic chosen by staff members. One recent morning, they talked about mental health and sobriety. The students attend Colorado’s only recovery high school, one of 43 nationwide. These schools are designed for students who are recovering from substance use disorder and might also be dealing with related mental health disorders. Compared with their peers at regular schools who have gone through treatment, recovery high school students have better attendance and are more likely to stay sober, and their graduation rate is at least 21% higher, according to one study.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/04/1167856499/recovery-high-schools-help-kids-heal-from-an-addiction-and-build-a-future__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQWJE0-oQ$
Inside the Prisoner-led Struggle to Win Education for All: Prisoners in Washington State are renewing their fight to democratize education amid new restrictions threatening their decade-old program. They took this dramatic step because new official restrictions are jeopardizing a liberating, prisoner-led program known as Taking Education And Creating History, or TEACH. Organized by a handful of incarcerated people, including me, over a decade ago, TEACH’s goal is to democratize education for people with long sentences.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://scheerpost.com/2023/04/06/inside-the-prisoner-led-struggle-to-win-education-for-all/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQZfC4zEN$
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
‘Like a dam breaking’: Experts hail decision to let US climate lawsuits advance: Cities bringing climate litigation against oil majors welcome US supreme court’s decision to rebuff appeal to move cases to federal courts.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/25/experts-hail-decision-us-climate-lawsuits-advance__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQfl6JE-3$
Can Biden’s newest climate rule survive? The Biden administration’s newest ambitious climate rule isn’t even out yet, but Republican-led states are already gearing up to attack it. EPA’s forthcoming regulation slashing carbon pollution from power plants would be the strongest-ever effort to tackle one of the nation’s leading drivers of climate change.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2023/04/24/can-bidens-newest-climate-rule-survive-00082767__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQcPzuSdU$
Antarctica’s melting ice is an existential crisis for people in Texas: Ice in Antarctica is melting rapidly. Texans need to know how fast Antarctica is melting. West Antarctica contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by more than 10 feet. But the ocean is not a bathtub: Antarctic melt affects some places more than others. And Galveston, Texas, is in the crosshairs.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apps.npr.org/arctic-ice-melting-climate-change/texas-galveston-sea-level-rise.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQbDijPpo$
California overhauls its sea level rise plan as climate change reshapes coastal life. “Sea level rise lapping over and pushing up groundwater under the California shoreline is the next climate threat in a state already thrashed around by wildlife, drought and deluge. Sea level rise lapping over and pushing up groundwater under the California shoreline is the next climate threat in a state already thrashed around by wildfire, drought and deluge.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.kqed.org/science/1979603/california-overhauls-its-sea-level-rise-plan-as-climate-change-reshapes-coastal-life__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQYxqGUc2$
Supreme Court declines to hear appeals from fossil fuel companies in climate change lawsuits: Baltimore and other cities, states and counties are suing the industry for damages from climate-induced extreme weather and sea level rise. The Supreme Court declined to hear appeals by major oil companies to move climate-change lawsuits against them from state to federal courts, with the latter being far more skeptical of such suits.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nationalreview.com/news/supreme-court-deals-blow-to-oil-companies-being-sued-for-climate-change/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQSX8_YfL$
EPA accused of failing to regulate use of toxic herbicides despite court order: Instead of yanking products, EPA made Monsanto and others amend labels before reapproving dicamba, lawsuit claims. The US Environmental Protection Agency has in effect ignored a 2020 federal court order prohibiting the use of Monsanto and other producers’ toxic dicamba-based herbicides that are destroying millions of acres of cropland, harming endangered species and increasing cancer risks for farmers
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/24/epa-monsanto-toxic-herbicides-dicamba*:*:text=The*20US*20Environmental*20Protection*20Agency,new*20fillings*20in*20the*20lawsuit__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQX2aQsT6$
# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
Maine reduces do-not-eat wildlife advisory prompted by ‘forever chemicals’: People are advised not to eat deer, wild turkey and other game harvested in a 25-square-mile area of central Maine.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/04/24/outdoors/maine-do-not-eat-warning-pfas-deer-turkey/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQYqMIOmX$
# Gov / Politics / Global
Top-Tier Criminals Pivot to Secretly Fight Against Putin: Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion has severed ties between the once interchangeable underworlds of Russia and Ukraine. Now, some of Ukraine’s organized crime groups are working against their former allies, creating a new phenomenon of “patriotic criminals.” These new wartime activities range from delivering aid and stopping crime to cyberwarfare, according to organized crime experts and members of the Ukrainian underworld
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.knowledia.com/CA/en/articles/top-tier-criminals-pivot-to-secretly-fight-against-putin-e8f0e9ebc6c5b187659a8ae4e73e2644c5ff46dc__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQU40dsH7$
# Gov / Politics
President Joe Biden Announces 2024 Reelection Bid: President Joe Biden on Tuesday formally announced that he is running for reelection in 2024, asking voters to give him more time to “finish this job” he began when he was sworn into office and to set aside their concerns about extending the run of America’s oldest president for another four years.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-officially-kicks-off-2024-reelection-bid__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQVZEHNvY$
Biden 2024 news – live: President warns of ‘MAGA extremist’ attacks in reelection campaign launch video: Democrat posts ‘Let’s Finish the Job’ promo announcing fresh run and attacking GOP populists, warning basic rights are under assault from intolerant conservatives
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-news-running-reelection-announcement-poll-b2326222.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQdaoITsQ$
Neoliberalism as the U.S. Empire Declines: The U.S. empire’s decline raises the question of what comes next. The most interesting possibility and perhaps the likeliest is that China and the entire BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) grouping of nations will undertake the construction and maintenance of a new world economy.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.laprogressive.com/democracy/neoliberal-u-s-empire-declines__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQUYQt8gF$
Democratic Child Care Bill Keeps Work Requirements: At a time when Democrats are savaging House Republicans for expanding work requirements in Medicaid and SNAP, their signature child care bill also contains them
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# Legal / DOJ
Judge Demands Hunter Biden and Ex-Paramour Show Up for Court: The bitter dispute over support for their 4-year-old is headed for trial in July.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12009431/Hunter-Biden-ordered-appear-Arkansas-court-paternity-case-judge-rules.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQY_sdKk0$
Abbott’s Plan to Pardon Sgt. Who Killed BLM Protester May Already Be Backfiring: The parole board will allow the district attorney to present evidence in the case before making a pardon determination.
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# LGBTQ / Gender
Florida Passes Bill That Allows for “Legal Kidnapping” of Transgender Children: The bill would allow courts to intervene in custody disputes and remove trans children from gender-affirming parents. On March 13, Florida’s Senate Committee on Health Policy voted to pass Senate Bill 254, which would impose criminal penalties on parents, guardians and medical providers helping trans children as they seek gender-affirming care. According to the bill, licensed medical facilities and medical providers granting this life-saving care to trans people under 18 risk criminal penalty or revocation of their medical licenses.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/proposed-florida-bill-could-allow-legal-kidnapping-of-trans-children/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQdQjPqSG$
Texas Agriculture Dept Tells Employees to Dress According to ‘Biological Gender’: The department sent a memo outlining the anti-trans dress code and warning that those who violate it may be fired. An ACLU attorney says it violates federal law that bans employment discrimination based on one’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
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# Media
The Inside Story of Tucker and Lemon’s Monday Media Massacre: Bboth men are controversial, and have faced backlash from the media and the public as well as their co-workers. The Fox News star leans into his role as a provocateur, promoting a right-wing agenda that barely bothers to conceal its grounding in racism, sexism, xenophobia, conspiracy thinking, religious intolerance, and hatred of the LGBTQ community. His less inflammatory CNN counterpart, meanwhile, has been mired in accusations of misogyny and bad behavior on set. But it would be a mistake to read their tandem dismissals as some righteous act on the part of cable news media writ large to purge itself of toxic men.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://time.com/6274088/tucker-carlson-don-lemon-firing/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQbvJIqr_$
CIA’s War on WikiLeaks Is a Scandal Worthy of Congressional Investigation: In 2010, Chelsea Manning shocked the world with leaked documents that exposed abuses and crimes committed by the United States military in Iraq. These revelations also made the publisher of those documents, Julian Assange, and his organization, WikiLeaks, household names. The U.S. government is charging Assange, a publisher, with violating the Espionage Act. Under the Espionage Act, one does not have the ability to make a public interest defense. All prosecutors have to do is show that a whistleblower possessed documents or transferred “national defense information” to a member of the press. Damage has already been done, but the future of journalism is in further jeopardy if the U.S. government holds a trial against Assange, convicts him, and shows the world that it has the final say over who is and is not a journalist.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/cias-war-on-wikileaks-is-a-scandal-worthy-of-congressional-investigation/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQe_7ziEN$
# Medical / Health
Exclusive: Public Health Emergency in U.S. Set to Expire May 11, But EUA Vaccines, Liability Shields Aren’t Going Away Anytime Soon: President Biden earlier this month signed a bill that immediately rescinded the COVID-19 national emergency declared in March 2020, by former President Trump. But a separate Public Health Emergency won’t expire until May 11 and at least two other COVID-19-related federal emergencies are set to remain in effect past that date.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/united-states-covid-eua/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQWf2-NgI$
# Medical Science
Biomarker pattern found in kids with COVID 19-linked inflammatory syndrome: Findings from NIH-funded study could lead to new means of diagnosis and treatment for MIS-C. Children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) a rare condition linked with the virus that causes COVID-19, have biochemical indicators of cell injury and cell death that are distinct from other children with COVID-19, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/biomarker-pattern-found-kids-covid-19-linked-inflammatory-syndrome__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQaIWvcoA$
# Military / Global
Ukraine War Is Shaking Up Global Arms Industry: The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) estimates that six countries, the U.S., Russia, France, China, Germany, and Italy, were responsible for 80 percent of global weapons exports from 2018 to 2022.
The U.S. alone counted for 40 percent, while Russia was a distant second at 16 percent https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/global-arms-industry__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zb_AdkADBlbiVqO0t0BOxncEC7xHtRKS0MqNlyxcoVT7v1HrNPtRUgIze-DRwOsiH08teIw89y9ZUn61ZsRkBhMzQbl3vwN8$
Leaks Reveal Reality Behind U.S. Propaganda in Ukraine: According to Hersh’s report, the CIA assesses that Ukrainian officials, including President Zelenskyy, have embezzled $400 million from money the United States sent Ukraine to buy diesel fuel for its war effort, in a scheme that involves buying cheap, discounted fuel from Russia.
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# Pharmaceuticals / Drugs
Owners of OxyContin Maker Gave $19 Million to Institute That Shaped Federal Opioid Policy: Yet officials with the National Academies have kept quiet about one thing: their decision to accept roughly $19 million in donations from members of the Sackler family, the owners of Purdue Pharma, the maker of the drug OxyContin that is notorious for fueling the opioid epidemic.
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# Security
Once Shocking, U.S. Spying on Its Allies Draws a Global Shrug: The latest leak of classified documents that appeared online this year, the motive behind which remains unknown, has again illustrated the broad reach of U.S. spy agencies, including into the capitals of friendly countries such as Egypt, South Korea, Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates.
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In Pentagon Leak, The Problem is What’s Classified, Not What Gets Out: The government already puts way too much material behind its moat. In fact, the human harm caused by unauthorized leaks is almost always inflicted by the government itself in the form of egregious prosecutions of leakers.
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# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
Starship’s Explosion Spells Much Bigger Troubles for SpaceX: About four minutes after SpaceX’s gargantuan rocket lifted from its Texas launch pad, it burst into a fireball over the Gulf of Mexico, never reaching space. Though SpaceX hasn’t shared many details yet about what happened during Starship’s maiden voyage, one fact is known: It was intentionally ordered to explode.
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