Voices, The Peoples News
July 19, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Western tribes’ last-ditch effort to stall a large lithium mine in Nevada: It’s the latest development in a more than two year legal battle over a plan by the Canadian firm, Lithium Nevada, to build an open pit mine near Thacker Pass, along a remote stretch of sagebrush-studded land close to the Nevada-Oregon border.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1184812267/western-tribes-last-ditch-effort-to-stall-a-large-lithium-mine-in-nevada__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlinl7OsJ$
Federal ruling blocks tribes’ objection, approves building largest lithium mine: A federal appeals court on Monday denied a last-ditch effort by tribes to block construction of what’s likely to be the largest lithium mine in North America on federal land in Nevada.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/2023/07/17/1188204958/tribes-object-federal-ruling-approves-lithium-mine__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlhM17BSR$
# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Texas officials push back on media narrative about illegal border crossings: Texas officials are speaking out about what they argue is a false narrative being perpetrated by several media outlets regarding illegal border crossers at the Rio Grande River in Texas https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_5d7868d8-25d3-11ee-b169-773c26e70994.html*:*:text=(The*20Center*20Square)*20**C20Texas,Rio*20Grande*20River*20in*20Texas__;I34lJSXigJMlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlsyw4mh_$
Texas trooper alleges ‘inhumane’ practices against migrants at the border: The reported incidents have coincided with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s push for intense border security efforts through his Operation Lone Star. Troopers at the Texas border were ordered to push children back into the Rio Grande and failed to provide water to asylum seekers in extreme heat conditions, according to an email sent by a Department of Public Safety trooper, and first reported by the Houston Chronicle.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2023-07-18/texas-border-migrants-immigration-abbott-inhumane-mistreatment-mexico__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlmLF0_jV$
Security concerns grow as the U.S. continues to be outmatched in arctic territory: The Committee of Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security held a hearing on Tuesday concerning security threats in the Arctic Region. “The arctic has never been more essential to America’s national security,” said Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich. “Unfortunately, the Coast Guard’s icebreaking capabilities are outmatched by our enemies, and rising threats from China and Russia pose a serious risk to American prosperity and security.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_08ba124a-2580-11ee-a528-7f90ab71117d.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlovrYR8I$
Migration Bill Passed by UK Violates International Human Rights Law: UN Experts. “This bill sets a worrying precedent for dismantling asylum-related obligations that other countries, including in Europe, may be tempted to follow,” said the U.N. human rights chief
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/uk-migration-bill*:*:text=According*20to*20the*20U.N.*20Human,they*20are*20survivors*20of*20human__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlqK-ovbt$
Biden Urged to Stop ‘Monstrous’ Texas Policy of Pushing Migrant Children Back Into Rio Grande: “Where is the federal response to Greg Abbott’s illegal games?” asked one observer.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/migrant-children-rio-grande__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZloDw0aXf$
State investigating claim that DPS troopers were told to push migrants back into the Rio Grande and deny them water: The Office of the Inspector General investigating the claims, which include pushing small children and women with nursing babies back into the river and turning away a 4-year-old girl who later passed out from the heat.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/18/texas-troopers-department-public-safety-migrants-rio-grande-border/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlq4ImwB_$
# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Biden administration suspends funds to Wuhan lab over failure to provide COVID-related info: A memo that was obtained by Bloomberg News stated that a previous review revealed that the Wuhan laboratory does not adequately follow federal regulations. The lab had also failed to send documents about their security and safety
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-18/us-suspends-wuhan-institute-funds-over-covid-stonewalling__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlhnMLlfU$
# Education / Schools
AP Students Report Teacher Who Assigned Ta-Nehisi Coates Memoir: ‘Topic Is Too Heavy to Discuss.’ High school English students write to school board complaining that lesson plan runs afoul of new law
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://themessenger.com/news/ap-students-report-teacher-for-assigning-ta-nehisi-coates-memoir-topic-is-too-heavy-to-discuss?utm_source=onsite&utm_medium=related_story__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlh5vVH4O$
Moms for Liberty Convince Florida Schools to Ban Award-Winning Young Adult Books: The group had warned that the district could be held under ‘felony prosecution’ for continuing to stock the five books
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://themessenger.com/news/moms-for-liberty-convince-florida-schools-to-ban-award-winning-young-adult-books__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlspjiW05$
Secular Group Demands School Ban Bible After ‘Moms For Liberty’ Gets 5 Books Pulled: Among the recently banned books were Alice Sebold’s ‘Lucky’ and ‘Push’ by Sapphire
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://themessenger.com/news/secular-group-demands-school-ban-bible-after-moms-for-liberty-gets-5-books-pulled__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZloNiJz0C$
California Governor Spars With School Board Over Harvey Milk Comments as Book Ban Fight Heats Up: Newsom said in a statement shared to Twitter that the state was “stepping in” and would be purchasing and providing the textbook that mentions Milk for students at TVUSD, noting in a tweet that it’s “the same one that hundreds of thousands of kids are already using.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsweek.com/newsom-rips-school-board-over-rejected-textbook-harvey-milk-reference-1812896__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlnUQA3M1$
How School Board Meetings Became Flashpoints for Anger and Chaos Across the Country: In the first wide-ranging analysis of school board unrest, ProPublica found nearly 60 incidents that led to arrests or criminal charges. Almost all were in suburban districts, and nearly every participant was white.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://projects.propublica.org/school-board-meetings-flashpoints-for-anger-chaos/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZls3riF5C$
# Employment / Labor
Where Discrimination Flourished Like Mushrooms: Washington state fines a mushroom grower $3.4 million for firing women farmworkers and replacing them with male contract labor.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/labor/2023-07-19-where-discrimination-flourished-like-mushrooms/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlilQein2$
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
For clean energy, miners want a road in one of the most remote national parks: Between August and early October, when the first snows fell, crews worked to clear trees and brush from dozens of areas where future, larger crews could build concrete landing pads and begin delivering equipment necessary to build a 211mile private ‘industrial access’ corridor, sliced through one of the largest and most pristine wilderness areas on Earth.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.mining.com/web/this-road-could-save-the-planet-and-carve-up-alaskan-wilderness/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlp2T2CBF$
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Extreme heat grips 3 continents as climate change warms Earth: Across North America, Europe and Asia, hundreds of millions of people endured blistering conditions. Punishing heat waves gripped three continents Tuesday, breaking records in cities around the Northern Hemisphere less than two weeks after the Earth recorded what scientists said were likely its hottest days in modern history.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://phys.org/news/2023-07-millions-extreme-continents.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZliHigFn3$
New GOP Bill Would Curb Biden’s Power to Fight Climate Change: The Capito-Pfluger legislation would prohibit the president from declaring a national emergency “on the premise of climate change,” under any of three laws — the National Emergencies Act, the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, and the Public Health Service Act, according to the bill text.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/27/house-passes-oil-stockpile-bill-00079877__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlkWR7Gpc$
# Gov / Politics
Why the Ukraine Conflict will Unravel NATO and Biden: If Biden’s has failed in this intermediate Russian stage, it can hardly go onto its final, Chinese one. Biden is about to lose his military wager in Ukraine. That is bound to end Biden’s project of uniting US allies, the closest thing there has been to a Biden Doctrine.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/07/18/why-the-ukraine-conflict-will-unravel-nato-and-biden/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlg9WpiEo$
A Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky – Part 1: Palestinian Attorney Noura Erakat: The U.S. Is Normalizing Apartheid by Hosting Israel’s President.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLeBb6hPUC8__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlhu4G6Yg$
A Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky – Part 2: What are the true reasons behind the current situation in Ukraine today? What kind of operation has the CIA been running in Ukraine over the course of many years?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq-Jab4DUhA__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlnN3q9kJ$
Forbidden questions, denied warrants, witness tipoffs: Agents detail interference in Biden probe: Retired FBI supervisor’s account to Congress of how the bureau tipped off Joe Biden’s team in December 2020 about plans to conduct an interview of his son Hunter not only corroborates a key allegation from two IRS whistleblowers, it further paints a portrait of unusual meddling into the investigation of the first family’s overseas business dealings and taxes.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/07/18/two-wagner-fighters-killed-for-refusing-to-partake-in-mutiny/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlgWMQpBN$
Ron DeSantis and the Politics of Ugly Freedoms: Freedom in the current historical moment turned ugly. The dark side of freedom as a call to domination and repression is with us once again, longer hides in the shadows; nor is it relegated to the margins of society. It is also being weaponized as a political tool to eliminate those institutions which provide support for those individuals considered enemies, or dehumanized because of their color, identity, politics, and ethnicity.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/07/19/ron-desantis-and-the-politics-of-ugly-freedoms/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlue075uB$
Alabama Republicans are basically daring the Supreme Court to enforce its recent Voting Rights Act decision: Alabama Republicans, under orders of the U.S. Supreme Court to redraw congressional districts to give minority voters a greater voice in elections, rejected calls Monday to craft a second majority-Black district and proposed a map testing the judges’ directive. Lawmakers must adopt a new map by Friday after the high court in June affirmed a three-judge panel’s ruling that Alabama’s existing congressional map — with a single Black district out of seven statewide — likely violated the Voting Rights Act.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/17/alabama-republicans-reject-second-majority-black-house-district-00106675__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlveCDufK$
# Juvenile Justice System
ACLU Urges Court to Save Children From Deadly Heat at Louisiana’s Angola Prison, With heat indexes 133 degrees this month, a medical expert for the plaintiffs warned the court that the conditions could be fatal: “It has been dangerously hot in Angola so far this summer,” said one medical expert. “Confining children for all or most of the day to concrete and cement buildings without air conditioning is foolhardy and perilous.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theappeal.org/angola-prison-louisiana-children-deadly-heat/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZll6XD-kT$
Emergency Filing Details Routine Solitary Confinement for Youth at Angola Prison: Advocates are asking a federal judge to take emergency action and remove children from Angola Prison after mounting abuses
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/emergency-filing-details-routine-solitary-confinement-for-youth-at-angola-prison__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlvsJCw6B$
# Legal / DOJ
2hrs ago – Donald Trump arrested: Judge won’t move New York hush money case to federal court: A New York federal judge on Wednesday rejected former President Donald Trump’s efforts to move his New York criminal case to federal court. The former president failed two main components needed to justify his move of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case from state to federal court.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/judge-deny-trump-hush-money-case-federal-court__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlhNIjEEX$
# LGBTQ / Gender
State Spying Poses ‘Roadblock’ for Interstate Seekers of Abortion, Transgender Care: “Digital surveillance data makes profiling easy and suggests that travel data will be weaponized to identify new targets for healthcare prosecutions and investigations.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/abortion-surveillance__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZliD4Cf6B$
# Medical / Health
Climate connections: a warming planet, pathogens and disease: People around the world are living longer, healthier lives than they were just half a century ago. Climate change threatens to undo that progress
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://grist.org/climate-connections-diseases-pathogens/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlkq3_KDL$
# Military / DOD
Raytheon, Northrop Grumman secure further hypersonic weapon development contract: RTX and Northrop Grumman secure contract advancing hypersonic weapons for the US Army as hypersonic weapon development competition heats up.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.airforce-technology.com/news/raytheon-northrop-grumman-contract-hypersonic/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZljaMYW2l$
# Military / Global
Wagner Fighters Executed for Refusing to Join Mutiny: Two Wagner Group mercenaries were executed by their colleague for refusing to participate in Yevgeny Prigozhin’s short-lived armed mutiny last month, according to Russian officials and news reports.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/07/18/two-wagner-fighters-killed-for-refusing-to-partake-in-mutiny/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZlgWMQpBN$
# Recycle / Repurpose / Reuse
Living on Earth: The risks of ‘chemical recycling’: So-called ‘chemical recycling’ of plastics is a highly inefficient process that releases large amounts of carbon emissions and hazardous pollutants.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=23-P13-00028&segmentID=3__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZljxmFdzv$
# Social
FEMA Has So Far Paid Out Less Than 1% of What Congress Allocated for Victims of New Mexico Wildfire: Congress gave FEMA $3.95 billion to compensate victims of the Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon Fire in northern New Mexico. Seven months later, just $3 million has been paid, and most hasn’t gone to households.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/fema-paid-out-less-than-one-percent-of-claims-new-mexico-wildfire__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3dqyb3bUMnMglvkatwB3pSQvmsEHKwOG5g3inDk931GBm4hhvy89UEMP7gv5latqW5MnhY6gv-4XVzOTq4l1CQJZljO1xL5P$
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