Voices, The Peoples News
May 3, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) vowed to continue busing migrants to Democratic cities, including Chicago, despite ongoing criticism that his relocation program is inhumane and cruel.
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1,500 additional troops to deploy to border with Mexico as migrant surge expected next week: The troops will join about 2,400 National Guard members authorized to serve at the border with U.S. Customs and Border Protection as part of a support mission that began in 2018.
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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
U.S. and UK Secretly Agreed to Hide Vaccine Reactions: In the days leading up to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, U.S. and U.K. health officials entered into a “mutual confidentiality agreement” to keep vaccine adverse events under wraps.
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How a Tragic Story of Loss Reveals the Need for a New Ethical Framework for Managing Health: The shine on Jack Hurn’s life (just 26 years of age) starts wearing thin as he begins to deal with pounding headaches. These started just a few days after getting his first COVID-19 injection. But it gets worse, much worse. On the evening of June 9, 2021, Jack’s body fails to cope with the extensive thrombosis and hemorrhages in his brain.
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Spike in Rare Brain Infections in Kids Raises More Questions Than Answers: The number of rare, life-threatening brain abscesses in children more than tripled in Southern Nevada in 2022, and hospitals in other parts of the country also reported unusual spikes. Two doctors interviewed by The Defender explained how the timing suggests COVID-19 vaccines could be a factor. Doctors in other parts of the country similarly observed a spike in the number of cases in children since 2021.
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# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Fla. and La. must borrow millions to pay insurance claims: The Gulf Coast insurance crisis has hit a new low as two state-chartered insurance associations are being forced to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars for the first time in three decades to pay the hurricane claims of insolvent insurers.
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The Debt Ceiling Debate Is a Manufactured Crisis: Tax the Wealthy What They Owe. The budget-balancing problem in the U.S. stems from military spending and tax cuts for the rich. We are now somewhere between one and three months away from the U.S. hitting its debt ceiling limit, running out of accounting gimmicks and being unable to pay its bills.
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The Fed Raises Rates Again and Signals It May Be Ready to Pause: The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points and signaled that it may be ready to suspend its rate hike campaign.
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# Education / Schools
This is what it’s come to, Texas’s solution to school shootings: Training 8-Year-Olds in ‘Battlefield Trauma Care’: Texas’s Solution to School Shootings: Training 8-Year-Olds in “Battlefield Trauma Care”
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# Employment / Labor
Bernie Sanders Is Once Again Trying to Raise the Minimum Wage: Conservative Democrats who voted against raising wages may shift or defend their position as they seek reelection. Sanders has said the federal minimum wage should be at least $17 an hour, and the senator is expected to announce fresh legislation in a press conference with economists and union leaders on May 4. The wage hike would likely be instituted gradually over the course of several years to allow time for businesses to adapt.
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# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry
Green investment funds pushing money into fossil fuel firms, research finds: BlackRock and L&G among asset managers using funds with ESG label to invest in coal, oil and gas. Investment funds branded as green or socially responsible are being used by some of the world’s largest asset managers to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in fossil fuel companies https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/02/green-investment-funds-pushing-money-into-fossil-fuel-firms-research-finds__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlPS7ma8T$
Marcos-Biden meet yields clean energy, environmental protection pledges: President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and United States President Joe Biden committed to enhance the cooperation of Manila and Washington in addressing the climate crisis and investing in the transition to clean energy. Aside from reaffirming their decades-old security alliance, the two countries also agreed to expand their collaboration on clean energy transition and environmental protection.
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Biden Officials Are Backing Another “Climate Bomb” Fossil Fuel Project in Alaska: The nearly $40 billion proposal would see the construction of a pipeline and LNG facility along Alaska’s south coast. Biden administration officials are seeking to revive yet another major fossil fuel project in Alaska that climate advocates are warning would have 10 times the emissions impact of another recently-approved fossil fuel project in Alaska, infuriating climate advocates and experts https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/biden-officials-are-backing-another-climate-bomb-fossil-fuel-project-in-alaska/*:*:text=Biden*20administration*20officials*20are*20seeking,infuriating*20climate*20advocates*20and*20experts__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlK2n4ubv$
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure The man who discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is still trying to stop ocean pollution: In 1997, Captain Charles Moore first discovered the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” the largest accumulation of plastic waste in the ocean. Since then, scientists have documented how plastic has permanently damaged marine ecosystems and even altered evolution, and the problem has only grown larger. But Moore and other researchers aren’t giving up hope that we can still save the oceans.
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Following internal review of Texas environmental regulators, critics demand reform: Watchdogs call for creation of an environmental justice office, better monitoring of Clean Air Act violations. House Bill 1505, the TCEQ reauthorization bill, represents the culmination of what’s known as a “sunset review,” a process that occurs once every twelve years and determines whether a state agency should be reauthorized or abolished. In the case of reauthorization, which will almost certainly be the fate of TCEQ, the sunset review is a rare opportunity to introduce reforms.
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See how a quick-fix climate solution could also trigger war; Superpowers will control geoengineering and all the damage that comes with it: But geoengineering will require maintenance and resources; it may be deployed cheaply, but coordinating and administering the program and accounting for early mistakes could be expensive. What happens when one of the countries sponsoring it, perhaps the United States, China, or Russia, wants to pull out? Or when one of the countries affected by its side effects decides to rebel?
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The FCC is supposed to protect the environment. It doesn’t: The agency is mandated to safeguard the environment from damage caused by communication infrastructure. But when companies want to add new cell phone towers, build on protected land or launch satellites, the agency typically does little or nothing.
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18 Years Later, EPA Still Isn’t Tracking Health-Harming Air Pollution From Industrial Factory Farms: As President Biden continues to promise that his administration will address the climate crisis and protect the air we breathe from industrial polluters, 24 advocacy organizations are demanding his Environmental Protection Agency live up to that promise by doing more to protect communities from factory farms.
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# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global At last, England’s dying rivers are an election issue, and the danger isn’t just sewage: Tackling water pollution means unpicking a complex web of assaults from source to sea. That the state of England’s rivers seems at last to have become an election issue feels slightly miraculous, after so many years in which campaigners have swum against the political flow.
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Lula Recognizes Six New Brazilian Indigenous Reserves: The Amazon rainforest plays a critical role in the mitigation of climate change, but in recent years it has been the target of a steep increase in deforestation. During the largest gathering of Indigenous people in Brazil, President Lula recognized six Indigenous lands, resuming the demarcation process which stalled for over five years under the two former presidents. Brazil has 733 Indigenous territories, of which 496 are now recognized by the state.
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# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
Mercury Is Especially Toxic to Kids, Here’s How It Gets From Coal-Burning Power Plants to Your Child’s Food: Mercury is a neurotoxic metal that can cause irreparable harm to human health – especially the brain development of young children. It is tied to lower IQ and results in decreased earning potential, as well as higher health costs. Lost productivity from mercury alone was calculated in 2005 to reach almost $9 billion per year.
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# Gov / Politics / Global
Kremlin Says Putin Survived Overnight Assassination Attempt: Russia has accused Ukraine of a failed plot to assassinate Russian president Vladimir Putin in an overnight drone attack on the Kremlin. Moscow claimed Ukrainian forces targeted Russia’s parliament with two unmanned drones, but said these had been taken out by the military.
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What China Is Really Playing at in Ukraine: What will be left of Ukraine, it is already being bought by Western mega-players such as BlackRock, Cargill and Monsanto. Beijing is fully aware the NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is the un-dissociable double of the U.S. war against its Belt and Road Initiative.
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Major powers should work with China for political settlement of Ukrainecrisis: China is not the creator of the crisis, nor a party directly concerned. Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday held phone talks with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky. During their conversation, Xi reiterated China’s core position on promoting peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, and announced that Beijing will send a special representative on Eurasian affairs to visit Ukraine and other countries to conduct in-depth communication with all parties on the political settlement of the crisis.
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# Gov / Politics
Washington Is Obstructing the Path to a Political Settlement in Ukraine: The U.S.’s rejection of China’s proposal for a negotiated settlement reveals that it is drawing benefits from the war.
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Texas Bill Would Let Secretary of State Undo Elections in Largest Democrat-Run County: The bill only requires the secretary of state to believe, not prove, election discrepancies occurred.
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Florida Republicans Push Bill to Lower Rifle Purchasing Age From 21 to 18: Polling has historically shown most Floridians support a higher age restriction on buying rifles and long guns. The state House passed House Bill 1543, by a count of 69 to 36. The bill would lower the age limit to buy rifles or “long” guns (which includes assault rifles) to 18, undoing the 2018 law, and now goes to the state Senate.
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# Law Enforcment
A manhunt ends for the alleged suspect accused of fatally shooting five people in Cleveland, Texas: Texas manhunt suspect caught hiding in closet under laundry. Francisco Oropesa, 38, is accused of killing five people. He was caught hiding in a closet Tuesday underneath laundry.FBI: A tip from someone with ‘courage and bravery’ led to Oropesa’s arrest
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# Legal / DOJ
The Supreme Court is facing the most public scrutiny it has seen in decades, following revelations that Justice Clarence Thomas hid lavish gifts he received from a billionaire conservative donor, revelations that in turn have snowballed into stories about other justices’ ethically dubious financial arrangements.
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In a sweeping verdict sure to reverberate in Illinois power circles, jury convicts all four defendants of bribery-related counts in ComEd 4 trial: A federal jury on Tuesday convicted four top lobbyists and executives at a state-regulated utility in the state’s highest-profile corruption case since former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted 13 years ago.
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# Medical / Health
Q&A: Linda Villarosa took on the perils of medical racism. She found Black Americans ‘live sicker and die quicker’: In her book “Under the Skin,” the veteran journalist offers a cradle-to-grave examination of how bias negatively affects health care https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03052023/linda-villarosa-linda-villarosa-medical-racism/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlAp1wtYJ$
# Military / Global
Australia: Outsourced to the US Military Establishment: Australia has ceased to have any pretensions of sovereignty in defence matters. In the US, the provision of services in such industries as security and intelligence is outsourced in a sprawling complex of contractors and subcontractors. In Australia, the entire military and security establishment is outsourced to Washington’s former mandarins, many of them earning a pile in consultancy fees. This, perhaps, is what Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles means when he talks about the Australian Defence Force moving “beyond interoperability to interchangeability.”
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# Pharmaceuticals / Drugs
CMS Charges Ahead with Drug Price Controls Despite Patient Concerns: The United States appears to be rushing headfirst to surrender our global advantage in medical discovery and choosing to let people suffer and die denied a breakthrough cure. To worsen the nightmare, the normal democratic process of public discussion that an open society relies on to keep bad ideas from becoming bad policies has been abandoned.
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# Science
Body lotions, shampoos, cleaners and other everyday household products are safe to use, right? That’s what many of us assume, but a new study from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), and the Silent Spring Institute reveals that these products actually contain toxic chemicals that could be harmful to our health.
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# Technology
Two Massachusetts Towns Call a Halt to 5G Towers Until FCC Complies With Court Order to Review Science: In the warrant, the residents cited two separate rulings by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that mandated the FCC conduct such a review and noted that the FCC has failed to comply with the court orders.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://stuartbramhall.wordpress.com/2023/05/03/2-massachusetts-towns-call-halt-to-5g-towers-until-fcc-complies-with-court-order-to-review-science/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlKhKHIzt$
Tesla Plans to Build Huge Factory in Mexican City Struggling With Water Scarcity: Activists from Mexico are decrying the plan as a prime example of ‘colonial extractivism.’ Now Tesla has plans to build a huge electric car ‘gigafactory’ in that same water-insecure city. A gigafactory is Tesla’s term for its massive assembly and parts plants. The Monterey one will be built on 4,200 acres, twice the size of the company’s Texas plant, and around the size of three small towns.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-cant-build-northern-mexico-if-water-is-scarce-president-says-2023-02-24/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlMJO-oYo$
# Water
Texas’ deteriorating water systems jeopardize quality and supply for a growing population
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/2023/05/03/texas-water-infrastructure-is-broken-jeopardizing-quality-and-supply-for-a-growing-state/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yR6Fp2Yyb36weUQ9zYMhr3FzlDlU4DVTWb9-c_2YJi83K4kpdVGkPVhX-BBdHXVYt7ItjU3Ip34Ff3ZNGD4sRQ4DlPWPaSLc$
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