Voices, The Peoples News
April 26, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
“I’m a physician, that’s my identity”: An in-depth interview, retiring US public-health leader Anthony Fauci gives a characteristically straight-shooting analysis of the factors that contributed to the country’s pandemic ups and downs. “Something clearly went wrong, I don’t know exactly what it was,” he reflects. “The divisiveness was palpable, that’s part of it. The other part has nothing to do with that divisiveness. It has to do with the fracturing of our health care delivery system in this country.”
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# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
From Military to Policing, Say No to a Federal Budget That Prioritizes Violence: Biden’s budget would increase sky-high military spending and expand the police, and Republican proposals are worse.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nationalpriorities.org/pressroom/articles/2023/04/26/military-policing-say-no-federal-budget-violence/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfeBfuirL$
# Education / Schools
Texas House votes to require panic buttons in every classroom and armed guards in every school: Lawmakers have said school safety is a priority this session, but it is still unclear whether they’ll listen to Uvalde families who want to raise the minimum age to purchase semi-automatic guns from 18 to 21.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/24/texas-house-school-safety/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfc87wDuR$
Texas students deserve tutoring that is truly’“high-impact’: Too many Texas students are still experiencing the negative impact of unprecedented learning disruptions over the last few years.
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# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry Utilities Seize Control of the Coming Boom in Transmission Lines: Legislatures in a dozen states have passed “right of first refusal” laws that freeze out competition in transmission line projects, raising concerns about higher energy costs for consumers.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26042023/transmission-utilities-right-first-refusal/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfY_Mxp6h$
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry / Global # Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure EPA to start testing for toxic chemicals in Fifth Ward this summer: The Fifth Ward Cancer Cluster Summit will explore the high cancer rates in the area and find possible solutions for residents by the contaminated Union Pacific Rail Yard soil
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2023/04/25/449900/epa-announces-it-will-begin-testing-for-toxic-chemicals-in-fifth-ward-this-summer-as-residents-hold-summit-on-cancer-cluster/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfXMUQTZd$
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. They want their cases heard at the state level, while the industry seeks consideration in the federal courts.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042023/supreme-court-fossil-fuel-climate-change-lawsuits/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfbFWKQ0x$
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__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfcLMGgpx$
Songs of the dammed: As Lake Powell water levels drop, native plants are reclaiming Glen Canyon. A historic 23-year drought in the Southwest, a warming climate, and outsized human demands have all pinched the Colorado, which provides water to some 40 million people in seven states and two countries.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.biographic.com/songs-of-the-dammed/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfdGESvLi$
100+ Groups to NY Gov. Hochul: Don’t Allow Radioactive Waste Dumping in Hudson River: “Holtec’s ploy is ludicrously dangerous, and it’s on Gov. Hochul to stop the dump,” said one campaigner.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/100-groups-to-ny-gov-hochul-don-t-allow-radioactive-waste-dumping-in-hudson-river__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfcY9fzsO$
# General News
The True Dangers of Long Trains: Trains are getting longer. Railroads are getting richer. But these “monster trains” are jumping off of tracks across America and regulators are doing little to curb the risk.
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As Rail Profits Soar, Blocked Crossings Force Kids to Crawl Under Trains to Get to School: When crossings are blocked for hours, kids risk their lives to get to school by crawling through trains that could start at any moment. Ambulances and fire trucks can’t get through. The problem has existed for decades. But it’s getting worse.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/trains-crossing-blocked-kids-norfolk-southern__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfZNtqX23$
A Norfolk Southern Policy Lets Officials Order Crews to Ignore Safety Alerts: Workers on the desk can tell crews to disregard an alert when “information is available confirming it is safe to proceed” and to continue no faster than 30 miles per hour to the next track-side sensor, which is often miles away. In October, months before the East Palestine derailment, the company also directed a train to keep moving with an overheated wheel that caused it to derail miles later in Sandusky, Ohio.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://patch.com/pennsylvania/across-pa/norfolk-southern-policy-lets-officials-order-crews-ignore-safety-alerts__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfbShCgTC$
# Gov / Politics
With threats of a special session and a derisive moniker, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick tries to pressure the House speaker into acting on his conservative priorities. “The House bill is just wrong on its math,” Patrick said during a recent TV interview. “The Senate bill, seniors, if you’re watching, our bill gives you $1,060 every year you homestead your home from 65 on.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/26/texas-legislature-patrick-phelan-feud/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfTspakVj$
Texas Senate advances limits on farmland sales to China, other countries: The amended bill is a dramatically watered-down version of an earlier proposal that sought to ban land and home purchases by citizens of China and three other countries.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://dallasexpress.com/government/breaking-senate-advances-bill-limiting-farm-sales/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfZTPRcxk$
House Passes McCarthy’s Debt Limit Bill. Now What? The House on Wednesday narrowly passed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s package to raise the debt limit into next year and cut trillions of dollars in federal spending. The vote was 217-215, with four Republicans joining Democrats in voting against the bill.
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House Republicans are trying to exact a price from Democrats for agreeing to increase the nation’s borrowing authority and prevent the government from defaulting on the obligations it has accrued over decades. They’re arguing for their priorities and going after President Joe Biden’s in a separate bill. The legislation in question has virtually no chance of becoming law. But Republicans hope passage will force Biden to the negotiating table, where they could seek concessions in return for lifting the nation’s borrowing authority and ensuring that the U.S. Treasury can fully pay its bills.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/debt-limit-bill-house-republicans-kevin-mccarthy-f73e6c2fce8abdfab4973c727ea79517__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfXp0ix75$
# Law Enforcment
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is planning to dismiss seven employees, claiming they failed to check on a 16-year-old boy who died by suicide last month, a prison spokesperson said. Joshua Keith Beasley Jr. had been transferred to the adult prison system despite his long history of suicidal behavior in youth facilities.
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# Legal / DOJ
Trump Is Losing the Carroll Rape Case Even Before It Starts: With the rape trial of former President Donald Trump just days away, his effort to prevent jurors from hearing about another incident, when Trump allegedly forced himself on a different journalist, fell flat Monday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-losing-the-e-jean-carroll-rape-case-even-before-it-starts__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfUa3S_bb$
Disney Sues DeSantis Over ‘Targeted Campaign’ of Retaliation: The Walt Disney Company filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, alleging the state’s actions toward the company amount to a “targeted campaign” of government retaliation.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.axios.com/2023/04/26/disney-sues-desantis-reedy-creek-florida__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfa4Ww-23$
Ivanka Hires Epstein Lawyer, Ditches Family in Fraud Case: Donald Trump and his three eldest children are being accused of inflating Trump Organization property values. When the investigation began, the three shared legal counsel. But on March 6, Ivanka appeared to try and distance herself from the rest of her family’s allegations. “The complaint does not contain a single allegation that Ms. Trump directly or indirectly created, prepared, reviewed or certified any of her father’s financial statements,” one of Ivanka’s former attorneys wrote to the judge in a letter
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsbreak.com/new-york-state/3005719878024-ivanka-hires-jeffrey-epstein-lawyer-ditches-don-jr-and-eric-trump-in-fraud-case__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfahsT0xT$
# Media
DeJoy says USPS will keep raising prices, follow abortion pill rulings: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy outlines 10-year plan to plug losses and adapt to world with fewer letters, more e-commerce
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-postal-service-overhaul-calls-for-higher-prices-slower-mail-and-more-packages-11616509800__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfQgwjbSQ$
# Medical / Health
Born to Die: Medicare spends tens of billions of dollars on hospice care each year. A new report ponders why regulators insist on going easy on literal death merchants. The death business has been infiltrated by an onslaught of professional grifters since 2010, and our bureaucrats seem alarmingly content to allow it to stay that way.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/health/2023-04-26-born-to-die-hospice-care/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfVpC5_D_$
# Medical Science
After Pandemic Delays, FDA Still Struggling to Inspect Foreign Drug Manufacturers: In the wake of recent deaths from bacteria-tainted eyedrops, a ProPublica analysis of FDA data reveals that the agency only inspected 6% of the overseas plants where drugs and their ingredients are produced in 2022. Without a doubt, the COVID-19 pandemic slowed inspections to a trickle, in fiscal year 2021, according to the data, the agency inspected a mere 99 overseas sites, less than 4% of eligible foreign manufacturers. By comparison, 15% of domestic manufacturers were inspected that year
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.fiercepharma.com/manufacturing/fda-beats-u-s-inspection-forecast-as-it-continues-to-struggle-oversight-abroad__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfZa1i_Nk$
# Military / DOD
War, What is it Good For? The rise of the Pentagon on a fallen planet. The American experience of war since 1945 should have offered an all-too-obvious lesson for us, as well as for the planet’s other great powers, when it comes to the value of giant military establishments and the conflicts that go with them.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/04/24/war-what-is-it-good-for-2/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfSiM4pFL$
# Technology
Big Tech Companies Are Becoming More Powerful Than Nation-States: They are already richer than many countries, and the rise of AI looks set to increase their influence. U.S. citizens are being subjected to a relentless onslaught from intrusive technologies that have become embedded in the everyday fabric of our lives, creating unprecedented levels of social and political upheaval.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-tech-companies-more-powerful-than-nations__;!!On18fmf1aQ!w5p4b29IIqJWmmHCHXilpO11moR-5rsKn_fhzX-mhoDK76N783Dli5yMjg4C2U_ZmgMadD24XQ85_iKN_rj3c4wrfaoHyTL1$
# Water
‘We can’t be living in an economy of 40 million people this close to the edge.’: Lake Mead, a key water source for California and six other states, is close to drying up. Water policy expert Felicia Marcus says dramatic action is needed on conservation, recycling and efficiency.
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