Voices, The Peoples News
June 23, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Fleecing in Indian Country: An undercovered SCOTUS decision brushes against Native sovereign immunity, also potentially snuffs out loopholes exploited by payday lenders. The question of whether businesses nominally affiliated with Native tribes can escape bankruptcy law went all the way to the Supreme Court; SCOTUS said no in an 8-1 decision, the lone dissenter being Justice Neil Gorsuch, who has developed a reputation as the Court’s most ardent Native rights supporter.
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Navajo Nation Just Got Hosed by the Supreme Court, Again: “In short, the 1868 treaty did not impose a duty on the United States to take affirmative steps to secure water for the Tribe, including the steps requested by the Navajos here, such as determining the water needs of the Tribe, providing an accounting, or developing a plan to secure the needed water,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in his majority opinion, which was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Amy Coney Barrett.
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# Indigenous / Global
As Newtok, Alaska, crumbles, residents are left in a dangerous limbo: The land in Newtok is water-logged, unstable and unlivable, and it’s been eroding into the Ninglick River for decades, an inch here, a few feet there. In fall 2022, a massive storm began in the Pacific Ocean and devoured more than 30 feet of land between the public school and the river’s edge. The storm exacerbated problems that are forcing the community to undertake one of the country’s first climate-change driven relocation projects: a village-wide move from Newtok to Mertarvik.
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Lifelong GOPer fears DeSantis will ‘destroy’ Florida businesses as anti-immigrant law sparks mass exodus: The new law places harsh restrictions on undocumented immigrants. Following right-wing lawmakers’ passage of Senate Bill 1718, thousands of working-class immigrants, including many who are residing lawfully in the U.S., have opted to leave Florida. The new law places harsh restrictions on undocumented immigrants.
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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Global ‘pandemic treaty’: Nations wrestle with how to fairly share virus data: Researchers say a plan is needed to ensure countries aren’t being exploited, if the world is to prevent the next pandemic. Negotiators met to discuss the latest draft of a ‘pandemic treaty,’ an agreement among countries worldwide about how to best respond to the next massive outbreak.
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‘Criminal’: “Confidential” documents released by BioNTech to the European Medicines Agency reveal tens of thousands of serious adverse events and thousands of deaths among people who received the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine during a time period when the vaccine makers insisted they saw no “safety signals.”
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# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Senate Appropriators Set Up Funding Clash With House: The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved funding levels for fiscal year 2024 in line with the caps established under the recent bipartisan deal to raise the debt limit. “The disagreement is a significant setback for the appropriations process, as the Senate will ultimately require 60 votes, meaning bipartisan support, to advance spending bills and avoid a shutdown this fall.”
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# Employment / Labor
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Transportation / Industry Carbon Credit Market Seizes On a New Opportunity, Plugging Oil and Gas Wells: A wave of new companies are crafting financial incentives to block emissions from wells that are near the end of their life spans—and orphaned wells with no clear owners. Yet doubts persist about project oversight and the ethos of the market.
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Methane Activists in Richmond Detect Potentially Dangerous Gas Leaks: Guided by a fistful of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Lee Williams sniffed the smell of rotten eggs on Grove Avenue earlier this month, took out a methane tracking device and registered a “100 percent” reading, meaning a single lit match could ignite a blaze on the street.
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In New Record, Solar and Wind Generated More Electricity Than Coal for First 5 Months of Year: Solar and wind power generation has set a new record, with more power generated from those renewables than coal for the first five months of 2023, according to Energy Information Administration (EIA) data, as CBS News reported.
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# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Iowa Meteorologist Quits Over Climate Coverage Death Threat: Chris Gloninger received multiple harassing emails, including one that labeled his coverage, ‘liberal conspiracy theory’ and ‘nothing but a Biden hoax.’
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Inside Manchin’s war with Biden: Sen. Joe Manchin has been at war with the administration for months over its implementation of last year’s landmark climate law. He is even accusing President Joe Biden of breaking a promise to him. “They’re going to try to screw me,” the West Virginia Democrat said earlier this year of White House officials.
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Heads of state meet in Paris to lay the groundwork for this year’s United Nations climate summit, focusing on a loss and damage fund for climate-vulnerable countries.
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An Oregon county files a lawsuit seeking nearly $52 billion from 17 oil and gas companies for allegedly contributing to the 2021 heat dome event that killed 97 people in the state.
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Stronger Endangered Species Act Protections Proposed by USFWS, NOAA: Three newly proposed regulations from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) would reverse rules made during Donald Trump’s presidency that removed protections under the Endangered Species Act.
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# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure / Global Climate Diplomats lose cool over money: Belize is an idyllic country surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and rainforests. But it expressed frustration that developing nations cannot fulfill promises to provide money dedicated to preserving such beauty. At least $100 billion is required to save the rainforests, which are natural carbon dioxide vacuums.
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Forecasted El Niño Could Cost $3-Trillion in Losses Globally: A new study shows that the El Niño weather cycle packs a heavy financial punch. “The primary reason for these high costs is that the effect of El Niño is persistent. It hits and lasts for a while.”
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The Atlantification of the Arctic Ocean Is Underway: The discovery of a tiny fish far from its normal range is a poignant reminder of the changes that are already happening. The Arctic Ocean is warming quickly, the Fram Strait is nearly 2 degrees Celsius warmer than it was in 1900. But Atlantification is about more than rising temperatures: It’s a process that is reshaping the physical and chemical conditions of the Arctic Ocean.
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# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
Texas lowers barrier for food stamps, but many still won’t qualify: Although SNAP is a federal program that allows families access to food stamps, each state can set different requirements for eligibility. Texas looks at a household’s income but also factors in the value of a household’s cars, known as the vehicle asset test. The current SNAP policy in Texas, which was set in 2001, disqualified applicants whose primary vehicle was valued at $15,000 or more and had additional vehicles valued at $4,650 or more.
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# General News
Acouple shopping at a Bed Bath & Beyond store in Toledo, Ohio, said that a shop employee called the police on them for allegedly having ‘too many high ticket items’ in their shopping cart, thinking they were trying to shoplift them. The couple are Black. Lamar Richards was shopping with his partner at the Toledo store on June 16 after the two just purchased their first home.
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# Gov / Politics / Global
A deepening of US-India economic ties was central to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Washington DC visit, which was capped with a state dinner last night. US and India to announce defense and technology agreements. Activists’ concerns linger about human rights under Modi
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Russia’s Showcase Economic Forum Is Now a Charade: The excessive optimism of Putin and his ministers smacks of an attempt to convince not even mythical investors so much as themselves that business as usual is possible, and even compatible with their threats to unleash nuclear war.
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# Gov / Politics
Ex-GOP Rep. Will Hurd Announces He’s Running for President: He vowed that he wouldn’t be “afraid of Donald Trump.” Former Texas Congressman Will Hurd announced he’s running for president on CBS Mornings Thursday. “This morning, I filed to be the Republican nominee for president of the United States,” Hurd told CBS Mornings.
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Rick Scott Reportedly Looking to Join 2024 Presidential Race: It would make him the fourth GOP presidential candidate from Florida. Scott is now the junior senator from Florida and DeSantis is sitting in the governor’s office in Tallahassee, having capitalized on an endorsement from Donald Trump himself to bury Putnam in the primary and squeak to victory in the general election. But if anything, the rivalry between DeSantis and Scott has only intensified.
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There is no legal reason the US shouldn’t supply cluster bombs to Ukraine, but that doesn’t make it morally right: The U.S. has been here before. It provided Saudi Arabia with cluster munitions, which contain bomblets that can scatter across a wide area, often not exploding until later, during the kingdom’s military intervention in Yemen. Washington suspended sales of cluster bombs to the Saudis in 2016 following mounting concern over the toll they were taking on civilian lives. But the U.S. is still holding out from joining more than 120 nations that have signed an international ban on cluster bombs.
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California Representative Adam Schiff became the 25th member of the House of Representatives to be censured, over his leading role in the investigations of former President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia. I just left the House floor, where the SECOND McCarthy backed effort to censure me for holding Donald Trump accountable just passed. The GOP is completely unhinged and beholden to Donald Trump. But make no mistake, this will not stop me from holding Trump and his accomplices accountable.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential run gets support from Wall Street veteran Omeed Malik: While these people said Kennedy didn’t pitch himself as a candidate, his attendance at the dinner represents another way to beef up his presence in the political conversation
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The Great Reset? Learn about the Great Reset, its ramifications for America, and pro-freedom alternatives completely free. In 2020, members of the world’s elite met at the World Economic Forum and launched the Great Reset initiative to transform the world economy. Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive director of the Forum, wrote, “Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a ‘Great Reset’ of capitalism.” The Great Reset is not new but premised on old and dangerous ideologies.
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House Freedom Caucus might boot MTG: House Freedom Caucus faces an internal purge. At least two hardliners have discussed trying to boot members who no longer meet the group’s standards, according to Republicans with knowledge of the talks. The lawmakers declined to name who’s behind the ouster calls, underscoring the sensitivity of the situation.
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Pro-RFK Jr. Super PAC has deep ties to Marjorie Taylor Greene, George Santos: The Super PAC is one example of the nominally Democratic candidate running a campaign that’s awash in support from backers of Donald Trump https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-new-drugs-type-2-diabetes-kids/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20230623__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDb3HMbvr$
Kevin McCarthy, Who Bashed Trump After Jan. 6., Now Backs Effort To Expunge Impeachments: Speaking to reporters while exiting the Capitol on Friday, McCarthy said that he felt it was “appropriate” to expunge the impeachments “because it never should have gone through.” Trump was impeached twice over the course of his presidency.
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# Law Enforcment
Beyond Wonderland 2023 Shooting: The Dance Music Community Reacts: Attendees detail ‘chaos’ of shooting, ‘I’m not OK.: June 17 shooting at The Gorge Amphitheatre has left two dead and others injured, but left more questioning the violation of what felt like a safe, communal space. Our staff worked in close coordination with local authorities to secure the area, while also preserving it for investigators to conduct their work in a smaller, isolated section.”
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Atlanta’s Attack on Cop City Protesters Should Be a Warning to Us All: The fight against the militarized police training center dubbed ‘Cop City’ is one of the great struggles of our time. The ongoing attack on the network of environmental and abolitionist activists in Atlanta should make all people concerned with the right to protest, the future of the environment and the rise of militarized police forces take notice.
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# Legal / DOJ
Federal prosecutors recommend a 16-20 year prison sentence for former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder based on his role in a $61 million corruption scheme that caused ‘immeasurable damage to the institution of democracy in Ohio.’
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2023/06/22/feds-recommend-16-20-year-sentence-for-larry-householder-in-corruption-case/70340403007/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDXqdaunn$
Biden DOJ ran interference for first son Hunter in tax fraud probe, IRS whistleblowers say in bombshell testimony: Two IRS whistleblowers told Congress in closed-door testimony released Thursday that the Justice Department waged a coverup in the tax fraud investigation of first son Hunter Biden, revealing stunning details of alleged interference and new evidence indicating President Biden was involved in his son’s foreign dealings.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/06/22/irs-whistleblowers-say-doj-covered-up-hunter-biden-tax-fraud/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDeQMDVmT$
A former FBI intelligence analyst who was found to have classified materials in her bathroom, just like the ex-president, was sentenced this week to nearly four years in prison by a Missouri federal judge
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://autos.yahoo.com/ex-fbi-analyst-gets-46-213551204.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDVULgrVq$
A former FBI analyst was just sentenced to prison for the same Espionage Act crimes Trump is charged with in Mar-a-Lago case: The on-point Kingsbury case shows that the former president faces the real prospect of going to prison if convicted of these Espionage Act charges (and there are 31 of those counts in his case).
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/a-former-fbi-analyst-was-just-sentenced-to-prison-for-the-same-espionage-act-crimes-trump-is-charged-with-in-mar-a-lago-case/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDXubWIhL$
The January 6 Case Against Trump Is ‘a Shark Beneath the Water’: CBS News reporter Robert Costa breaks down the former president’s legal mess, and explains how things could get much worse.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/january-6-case-against-trump__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDckYUyxj$
Trump lawyers quit classified documents case: Two lawyers who represented Donald Trump in the months before the former president was indicted on federal charges over his handling of classified documents quit working for him.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/09/trump-lawyers-quit-classified-documents-case.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDcAZRrXS$
How will Trump’s lawyers handle his federal indictment? Legal experts predict these strategies will be key: CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman says Trump’s defense strategy will be to delay. “Defense always looks at delay, delay, delay, and Donald Trump is the champion of delay,” she said, “At the same time, you’re going to see motion upon motion to dismiss this case because that’s the only place that they could put their eggs in that basket.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-arraignment-what-is-next-step-defense-attorneys-legal-strategy/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDapejZWM$
Inside the Implosion of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Legal Team: At a time of peak legal peril for the former president, his attorneys had the knives out, for each other
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-indictment-maralago-legal-team-implosion-1234769596/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDbErl_h0$
Prosecutors turn over grand jury testimony to Trump’s team in documents case: Prosecutors turned over unclassified discovery materials to former President Donald Trump’s legal team, including grand jury testimony from his valet.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/4062258-doj-mar-a-lago-grand-jury-testimony-trump/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDcf-dkFB$
What changed skeptical prosecutors’ minds in Trump docs case: When prosecutors got a tape of a meeting at Trump’s golf club in New Jersey, it reportedly pushed the case over the edge. In the tape, detailed in Trump’s eventual indictment, the ex-president allegedly brandished a classified Pentagon document and confessed he knew it hadn’t been declassified. Trump has insisted he didn’t know “anything about it” and that “everything I did was right.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tape-was-turning-point-for-skeptical-prosecutors-in-docs-case-report__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDSs1gS4T$
# Medical / Health
Why millions of Americans are losing Medicaid coverage: At least 1.5 million Americans lost Medicaid coverage in April, May and the first three weeks of June 2023, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit that tracks health data. The federal government has estimated that 15 million people will lose their coverage, including 5.3 million children, by mid-2024 due to the end of the continuous enrollment policy.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/more-than-1-5-million-americans-lost-medicaid-coverage-in-the-spring-of-2023-due-to-the-end-of-pandemic-policies-and-paperwork-problems-208146__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDZDudaz1$
A Year Without Roe: Cascade Of Bans, Legal Fights Shape Abortion Access: In the year since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization “dropped a nuclear bomb into public health,” as one expert said, the U.S. has become a patchwork of state laws banning or expanding access to abortion.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.americanprogress.org/article/a-year-after-the-supreme-court-overturned-roe-v-wade-trends-in-state-abortion-laws-have-emerged/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDbmciSqz$
Family physicians lobby Congress for more Medicare pay and less red tape: Family doctors from across the country met with members of Congress to advocate for legislation that would increase physician Medicare payments, cut administrative roadblocks to treatment and address a “worsening primary care physician shortage.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/06/family-physicians-lobbying-congress-for-more-medicare-pay-and-less-red-tape/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDTcujRZF$
FDA Approves 2 New Diabetes Drugs for Kids; Critic Says Clinical Trial Sample Was ‘Shockingly Low’: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week approved two drugs to treat Type 2 diabetes for children ages 10 and up, but critics accused the agency of failing to address the disease’s root cause and of approving the drugs on the basis of a clinical trial sample too small to adequately assess the drugs’
potential side effects.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-new-drugs-type-2-diabetes-kids/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20230623__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDb3HMbvr$
# Military / Global
Declassified files expose British role in NATO’s Gladio terror armies: Newly declassified British files shed disturbing light on the origins and internal workings of Operation Gladio, a covert NATO plot deploying fascist terror militias across Italy. Have spies in London applied these lessons in Ukraine?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thegrayzone.com/2023/06/19/files-british-natos-secret-terror-armies/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDaAiRW97$
Taiwan military aid granted by once-reluctant appropriators: After their initial hesitance, House Republican appropriators are funding Taiwan military aid as grants via the State Department. When Congress approved up to $2 billion in Taiwan military aid per year via the fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, appropriators balked.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.defensenews.com/congress/budget/2023/06/22/taiwan-military-aid-granted-by-once-reluctant-appropriators/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDQ4UfbVd$
# Science
After decades of debate, FDA moves to regulate in-house lab tests: So-called lab-developed tests, which are created and used within a single lab, have long avoided scrutiny by the Food and Drug Administration. But as the tests become increasingly popular, including for prenatal screening. Despite accuracy concerns, some critical lab tests avoid federal scrutiny. Now the FDA is taking steps to change that.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://undark.org/2023/06/20/fda-lab-developed-prenatal-screening-tests/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDaY-N-Sc$
# Security
The Case for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Reform: Q & A: US Warrantless Surveillance Under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The law enables the National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other US bodies to gather and/or search private communications without a warrant. This surveillance affects people both within the United States and in other countries. Given our nation’s history of abusing its surveillance authorities, and the secrecy surrounding the program, we should be concerned that Section 702 is and will be used to disproportionately target disfavored groups, whether minority communities, political activists, or even journalists.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/privacy-and-surveillance/warrantless-surveillance-under-section-702-fisa__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDbV3pXRb$
# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
SpaceX launches 47 more Starlink satellites into orbit: A Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Friday with 56 more Starlink internet satellites, wrapping up SpaceX’s action-packed first half of the year that included the debut of the company’s Starship mega-rocket, two Falcon Heavy missions, and two astronaut launches.
[Note: The debris field must be enourmous by now.] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://spaceflightnow.com/2023/06/23/falcon-9-starlink-5-12-coverage/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDaV9_PqK$
Orbital Debris and Human Spacecraft: More than 27,000 pieces of orbital debris, or “space junk,” are tracked by the Department of Defense’s global Space Surveillance Network (SSN) sensors. Much more debris — too small to be tracked, but large enough to threaten human spaceflight and robotic missions — exists in the near-Earth space environment.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/news/orbital_debris.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDZLQ6rtK$
Space debris problem now urgent, scientists say: Governments must start working urgently to remove orbital debris, which could become a catastrophic problem for satellites a few decades from now, a space science conference heard on Thursday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://phys.org/news/2013-04-space-debris-problem-urgent-scientists.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!yubY4pqLmhAWAMr6otrF_uZLa-UwPeDScAaBHinBT7cVfsSEMKJ-2CrI14SYST3FuB8mPO1ATK-IfPj2V960vfjMDSW7zOvl$
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