Voices, The Peoples News
July 14, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Industry wants new pipeline on Navajo land scarred by decades of fossil fuel extraction: Developers tout hydrogen as a clean energy source; Navajo opponents say it is another way outsiders will profit by harming their environment and health. Representatives from Tallgrass Energy have shown a map indicating the pipeline would run from Shiprock, New Mexico, in an arc across the northern reaches of the reservation to a spot north of Flagstaff, Arizona. And according to reports from others who attended the meetings, the final destination may actually be Mexico
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Unaccompanied 15-Year-Old Migrant from Guatemala Dies in U.S. Custody: The girl was provided medical treatment “according to the mother’s wishes and aligned with the recommendations of the hospital’s health care provider team,” the statement said. The girl’s condition deteriorated Friday, and she died Monday as a result of multi-organ failure due to an underlying disease,
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County attorney calls on Abbott, Patrick to prioritize border security in next special session: With Abbott likely to soon schedule a third special legislative session, Kinney County Attorney Brent Smith is calling on him to prioritize border security and create a state agency to specifically secure the border. Smith first made the request in a letter to the governor and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on May 31.
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# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
House Lawmakers Announce Bipartisan Group Focused on the Debt: A group of lawmakers led by Democratic Rep. Scott Peters of California and Republican Rep. Bill Huizenga of Michigan have formed the “Bipartisan Fiscal Forum” — BFF, for short — which they say is dedicated to “sounding the alarm about our nation’s unsustainable debt trajectory and working together to get control of our fiscal future.”
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Central bankers are planning CBDC currency implants ‘under your skin’ – top economist: A central banker reportedly told economist Richard Werner there are plans to issue CBDCs that ‘look like a small grain of rice,’ to be implanted under the skin. A prominent German economist says central banks plan to concretize central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in the form of microchips implanted under the skin, a technology that would enable absolute government control over personal finances.
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Nigel Farage warns about ‘tyranny’ of cashless society after getting de-banked: After having his bank accounts closed and a total of nine banks turning him away, Farage said, “The ultimate fear is if we get CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies), we could finish up like the Canadian truckers, people who were within the law, found themselves outside the law, and had their bank accounts frozen. Controlling people’s money would be the ultimate form of tyranny.”
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Bank of America pays $250 million to customers and in penalty fees for illegal practices: CFPB said Bank of America implemented a “double-dipping scheme” to “harvest junk fees” from customers and those actions are “illegal and undermine customer trust.”
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# Education / Schools
New school safety laws related to armed guards, mental health training and panic alerts: Experts say many of the changes will bolster school safety but some requirements may be challenging for public schools to implement by the upcoming school year with limited funding and staffing constraints.
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Biden Cancels $39B in Student Loan Debts: Over 800,000 people will have the remainder of their loans forgiven. In a statement, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona called the move a “historic step,” but Republicans were livid.
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The Education System Isn’t Ready for Another Widespread Closure: The pandemic showed the hard and fast limits on the potential for fully remote learning to be adopted broadly. In many communities, schools serve more than an educational function, they support children’s mental health, social needs, and nutrition and physical health needs.
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# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
Fossil fuel workers are dying inhaling gases, despite US warnings to big oil: There were nine incidents of workers dying from inhaling gases while gauging tanks between 2010 and 2014, according to two government agencies. All of the workers died alone. Most of their bodies were found slumped over thief hatches at the top of storage tanks. But the oil industry seems not to have taken note.
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Offshore wind just got its biggest boost yet: The Biden administration has approved the United States’ largest offshore wind project. The 98-turbine Ocean Wind 1 project will be built off the coast of New Jersey and could provide power for up to 380,000 homes.
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# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
In a Texas city, heat proved deadly even for those long used to it: Extreme heat killed 10 people in Laredo, a sign that the eventual death toll from this year’s widespread heat waves could be substantial.
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19 states ban utility shutoffs during heat waves. More should follow: This is not a red state vs. blue state issue; it’s about common sense and basic decency.
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# General Recalls / Alerts
Nissan to Recall 1.38 Million Cars in US, Europe and Japan: Nissan Motor Co. issued a recall of about 1.38 million vehicles including Note, Kicks, Serena and Leaf models, a company spokeswoman said Friday. The move will affect vehicles in the US, Europe and Japan.
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# Gov / Politics / Global
Russia Threatens to End Ukraine Grain Deal as U.N. Warns 1 in 10 Worldwide Faced Hunger in 2022: Concerns are growing that Russia will not extend a United Nations-brokered deal that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to parts of the world struggling with hunger, with ships no longer heading to the war-torn country’s Black Sea ports and food exports dwindling.
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# Gov / Politics
Republicans Are Looking to Give Themselves $8,000 Raises While Slashing Welfare: The minimum wage and House pay have remained the same since 2009, but Republicans only want to raise one of the two. This would be an $8,000 raise over their current salaries of $174,000. If Republicans get their way, the raise would come in a bill that otherwise cuts spending across the board except for defense, veterans’ care and border militarization, drastically decreasing funding for public programs and the social safety net.
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Democrats Turn Against Defense Bill Ahead Of Final Passage Vote: House Democrats are jumping ship on the traditionally bipartisan defense authorization bill after Republicans passed amendments overturning the Pentagon’s new abortion travel policy and restricting transgender medical care.
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Kevin McCarthy Cedes Speakership to the Far Right Once Again: Facing the prospect of yet another conservative mutiny that would derail the House floor, McCarthy once again conceded to far-right demands and set up votes on controversial topics that conservatives want to go on the record about and GOP moderates wanted to avoid.
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Investor Exits DeSantis Fundraiser To Avoid Pay-To-Play Issue: A Wall Street titan with Florida pension business withdraws from the governor’s fundraiser after questions from The Lever.
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Republicans’ new bill, the ACE Act, features restrictions on mail-in voting and fewer limits on money in politics. There’s also a total rewrite of the District of Columbia’s election law, with the stated intention of using the district as a petri dish for conservative policies to restrict voting.
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Ron DeSantis May Have a Successor in the Wings: Byron Donalds: Donalds, the only Black member of the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus, who was nominated to challenge Kevin McCarthy’s Speakership, is considering a run for governor in Florida.
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Cluster Bomb Decision Puts Blood of Future Civilian Victims on Biden’s Hands: In Washington, using taxpayer money to shred the bodies of children and other civilians isn’t a big deal.
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Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor More, Threatening the First Amendment: In their zeal for control over online speech, House Democrats are getting closer and closer to the constitutional line, if they have not already crossed it. For the third time in less than five months, the U.S. Congress has summoned the CEOs of social media companies to appear before them, with the explicit intent to pressure and coerce them to censor more content from their platforms.
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70 House Republicans voted in favor of an amendment to the country’s annual defense bill that would have cut off all US military aid to Ukraine: “Notwithstanding any provision of this or any other Act, no federal funds may be made available to provide security assistance to Ukraine,” reads the one-sentence amendment, one of the dozens offered by hard-right Republicans that lawmakers voted on over the course of Thursday evening.
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# Legal / DOJ
How DOJ’s E. Jean Carroll Reversal Could Be Used Against Trump in the Next Indictment: The reversal of the department’s previous position in Carroll’s civil case might have significant ramifications not just for that case but for a potential further looming prosecution of the former president.
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Former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, reportedly told a grand jury that Trump truly believed the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. (It wasn’t.) The federal investigation is focusing on Trump’s failed efforts to stay in power.
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A lawyer for Hunter Biden reportedly warned the former president to stop spreading dangerous rheoteric about the current president’s son online, citing several examples. Trump has faced legal repercussions for rhetoric he has spread both online and offline.
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‘Corruption’: Thomas Aide Accepted Money From Lawyers Who Have Had Cases Before Supreme Court “This court loses more and more of its legitimacy every day.” In 2019, an aide to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas pocketed cash from multiple lawyers who have argued cases before the high court, including ones who recently helped gut affirmative action and the federal government’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas pollution
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# Media
UPS Workers Prep to Strike for Demands That Would Improve Lives of Over
340,000: Negotiations have stalled after the company and the union failed to reach an agreement. These demands are mainly economic, such as wage increases for all workers, including for people who have worked at the company for a long time, as well as for part-time workers. The Teamsters are also demanding improved pension benefits and protections for health and welfare benefits.
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USPS Is Closing More Post Offices, Effective Immediately: Now, new weather concerns are prompting dozens more closures, with several new additions just announced. Read on to find out about the latest USPS service suspensions.
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USPS Lists Hundreds of Post Offices and Other Facilities Where It Will Consolidate Operations The changes will take place as soon as next month. More than 200 post offices and other U.S. Postal Service facilities are set to shed some of their operations as soon as this year as the mailing agency seeks to consolidate those functions at larger buildings, according to documents shared by management.
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# Medical / Health
Proposed Medicaid Rule Could Strip States of Local Control, Expert
Warns: The Biden administration is attempting to expand its power over the management of Medicaid at the local level.
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# Military / DOD
Bipartisan bill bans JROTC programs at Chinese Communist Party-linked
schools: Sen. Ted Cruz, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced an act that would prohibit the Department of Defense from establishing or maintaining a Junior Reserve Officers’
Training Corps program at any private school operated by entities linked to the People’s Republic of China, Chinese Communist Party, or the People’s Liberation Army https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_340ff702-21ac-11ee-a637-ef4286e2fbc2.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xxL-hJwnN7TIaSzMaQ67dPKVkAcZlUEpdl3R3XeEV7PSRnG0FGTOh6bTfhDb9nKGvDu-1dxgRo-BLHifl5vsALC-sYCN9FXC$
Biden authorizes activation of up to 3,000 reserve troops for ‘Operation Atlantic Resolve’: Biden’s order specifies no more than 3,000 can be activated at any one time, of whom no more than 450 may be members of the Individual Ready Reserve, which consists of trained soldiers who have previously served in the Active Army or Selected Reserve.
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US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights: This research explores the current capabilities of the US military to use electromagnetic (EMF) devices to harass, intimidate, and kill individuals and the continuing possibilities of violations of human rights by the testing and deployment of these weapons.
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How the United States tortures and murders its own citizens: In the summer of 1988, the International Committee began to study the development of electromagnetic weapons by the United States of America. The term “offensive microwave weapons” comes from a report published in 1982 by the Congressional Clearing House on the Future titled, “Future Agenda”. It presented offensive microwave weapons as a growing threat which would certainly be a hot issue 10 years in the future. In fact, it is now 18 years later and the term offensive microwave weapons is still a mystery to most people.
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Health Impacts of Crowd-Control Weapons: Directed Energy Devices: Directed energy weapons, also known by the brand name Active Denial System, are a new technology developed by the U.S. military. This technology delivers very high-frequency millimeter-wavelength electromagnetic rays that heat skin on contact, causing a painful burning sensation. These weapons have not been used on protestors to date but are actively in development for military as well as crowd-control purposes, and they are being marketed to law enforcement as well as military agencies.
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High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP) and High Power Microwave (HPM) Devices Threat Assessments: Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) is an instantaneous, intense energy field that can overload or disrupt at a distance numerous electrical systems and high technology microcircuits, which are especially sensitive to power surges. A large scale EMP effect can be produced by a single nuclear explosion detonated high in the atmosphere. This method is referred to as High-Altitude EMP (HEMP). A similar, smaller-scale EMP effect can be created using non-nuclear devices with powerful batteries or reactive chemicals.
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# Science
Making a new person from skin or blood cells, but no egg and sperm?’ Scientists debate ethics of ‘synthetic human reproduction’: Scientists are getting closer to the possibility of making a new person from skin or blood cells, without the need for sex. This approach goes well beyond in vitro fertilization, which combines egg and sperm in a laboratory, because it doesn’t require natural eggs or sperm.
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# Security
TSA Rolling Out ‘Voluntary’ Facial Recognition Program to Another 400 Domestic Airports: In March of this year, TSA administrator David Pekoske again noted the process is still (supposedly) optional, but that it’s not going to stay that way for long. How long that will be remains to be seen https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/13/tsa-rolling-out-voluntary-facial-recognition-program-to-another-400-domestic-airports/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xxL-hJwnN7TIaSzMaQ67dPKVkAcZlUEpdl3R3XeEV7PSRnG0FGTOh6bTfhDb9nKGvDu-1dxgRo-BLHifl5vsALC-scdbK47_$
# Social
America Just Set a Bleak Record for Mass Killings: This year has seen relentless slaughter unlike any other. The deadliest six months of mass killings unfolded across the U.S. in the first half of 2023, eclipsing any other six-month period for at least 17 years.
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# Space
India launches rocket to land spacecraft on Moon: India’s space agency launched a rocket on Friday that sent a spacecraft into orbit and toward a planned landing next month on the lunar south pole, an unprecedented feat that would advance India’s position as a major space power.
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Japan rocket engine explodes during test: official: The explosion of the Epsilon S engine at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) testing site is the latest in a series of failures that have deflated Japan’s space ambitions. The explosion took place about a minute into the test of the second stage engine, the official said.
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Rocket Lab readies launch of seven satellites from New Zealand: California-based Rocket Lab plans to launch seven miniature satellites that will gather data on Earth’s atmosphere to improve weather forecasting, replace a decommissioned technology spacecraft and send twin navigation satellites into space
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Space Force to open launch business to a third provider: The move would expand competition for national security space launch, a field dominated by SpaceX and United Launch Alliance. The Space Force’s solicitation for the next phase of national security launches will likely seek to distribute its most demanding missions among three providers, a change of course from its plan to choose just two companies to meet its space lift requirements.
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# Technology
Where Have All The Liberals Gone? The FBI has been forwarding thousands of content moderation “requests” to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube on behalf of the SBU, Ukraine’s Security Agency. Yesterday a House Committee, Republican-led, released a series of documents showing without a doubt that the FBI has been forwarding thousands of content moderation “requests” to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube on behalf of the SBU, Ukraine’s Security Agency. The documents not only contain incontrovertible evidence that our own FBI pressures tech companies to censor material, but that the Bureau is outsourcing such work to a foreign government, in this case Ukraine. This passage below for instance reads “The SBU requested for your review and if appropriate deletion/suspension of these accounts.”
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NATO Summit Serves Up Cringe Nothing-Burger – Nothing but 26,000 dead Conscripts for Biden’s Vanity: Rather than provide Ukraine with a concrete road map to membership, NATO declared that it would extend an invitation to Ukraine when “conditions are met”, one of which is that the conflict with Russia must be over. New Twitter Files Contradict FBI Director’s Testimony: The FBI maintained a large operation actively seeking the censorship of thousands
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