Voices, The Peoples News
August 11, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Tribal nations celebrate their new monument in the Grand Canyon: How decades of Indigenous advocacy led to the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.
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See inside the Grand Canyon region’s new monument: The newly designated Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Grand Canyon National Monument encompasses a swath of incredible landscapes: 1 million acres of Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service lands. In many respects, though, its natural beauty hides in the shadow of the more famous Grand Canyon.
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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls Hidden moles in hidden holes: New animal species found in Turkey could have been hiding there for millions of years. The animals, named Talpa hakkariensis and Talpa davidiana tatvanensis, belong to a familiar group of subterranean, invertebrate-eating mammals found across Europe and Western Asia. While only one species of mole, Talpa europaea, is found in Britain, further east are a number of different moles, many of which have small geographical ranges.
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
The Political Wrangling Behind the Tragic Images of Migrants Stranded in Manhattan: Eric Adams is dialing up the pressure on Washington as New York City scrambles to address an influx of migrants. “We’ve been killing ourselves 24/7 to try to make sure no one sleeps on the streets,” says Anne Williams-Isom, the city’s deputy mayor for health and human services.
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Scoop: Biden wants new housing program for migrant families: The Biden administration is asking Congress to approve a temporary housing program for migrant families that illegally cross the southern border — a plan that would give them more freedom than traditional detention, Axios has learned.
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# Education / Schools
Videos denying climate science approved by Florida as state curriculum: Prager University Foundation’s animations cast doubt over renewable energy and liken climate activists to Nazis. Videos that compare climate activists to Nazis, portray solar and wind energy as environmentally ruinous and claim that current global heating is part of natural long-term cycles will be made available to young schoolchildren in Florida, after the state approved their use in its public school curriculum.
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The lessons Florida public school students will learn from PragerU Kids: Media Matters reviewed the right-wing propaganda Florida recently approved for use in public schools, including lessons that celebrate colonialism, downplay the harms of slavery, and analogize climate denialism to the Warsaw Uprising https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.mediamatters.org/dennis-prager/lessons-florida-public-school-students-will-learn-prageru-kids__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zliqHfdL6ePSNTNM3AqLAKU4-n0XutgFryfBPijbYxHvgK-aaaX3PEB8TLEPD34ylkCeenlx0WaPwuS_c-1uvxoURi6H-tg3$
Florida’s conservative PragerU teaching texts labeled ‘indoctrination’: Critics of the material approved by Gov. Ron DeSantis say it aims to influence young minds. Its founder says that’s true.
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What It Means That Florida Will Allow Conservative PragerU Content in Schools:
“How To Be a Rational Patriot”
“How To Be a Victor & Not a Victim”
“How To Embrace Your Masculinity”
“How To Embrace Your Femininity”
These are some of the videos produced by PragerU Kids, a resource for schools approved by the Florida Department of Education, the company announced July 20.
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# Employment / Labor
Econ Commentators Join TSMC to Declare U.S. Workers’ Premature Defeat: The econ blogosphere hasn’t really checked, but knows in its heart American workers aren’t up to the job.
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Government watchdog cautions against further interest rate hikes for risk of recession: Accountable.US warns further hikes “would needlessly and unAccountable.US, a government watchdog, called on the U.S. Federal Reserve to stop any further interest rate hikes for the foreseeable future because experts predict it would cause a recession. The Fed’s repeated interest rate hikes are slowing the economy based on several economic indicatorsnecessarily cause a recession and result in millions of Americans losing their jobs.”
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# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
Liquefied natural gas plants, significant sources of planet-heating fossil fuels, are popping up around the United States. Along the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana, the industry is transforming the local economy, at the expense of wetlands and air quality, as the country vies for more gas exports to Europe and Asia. The U.S. is now the world’s top exporter of LNG. Towns in southern Louisiana are paying the price.
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Private equity gets into oil and gas: A new report warns of bankruptcies and abandoned wells on Western public land: Private equity investment in the oil industry isn’t new. When the pandemic caused energy prices to tank in 2020, nearly 60% of the oil companies that declared bankruptcy had private equity backing, according to the Private Equity Stakeholder Project.
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# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Sun smacks Earth with 2 powerful, back-to-back X-class solar flares, knocking out radio signals across the US: We’ve seen more X-class flares this year than last, which is expected as the sun grows more active.
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Fracking linked to seismic tremors in new study: New research confirms that fracking leads to small, slow earthquakes or tremors, the origin of which had previously been unknown. For the study, scientists installed seismometers around a Kansas fracking site and measured vibrations for more than eight months. Comparing the measurements with the site’s injection schedule, and adjusting for background vibrations, they found that small tremors near the injection site only emerged during fracking.
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# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure / Global Cutting the Crap: A small group of English cold-water swimmers takes on industry and government over misuse of a loophole allowing the discharge of raw sewage into coastal waters. Swimmer Ed Acteson gives a shit about water pollution. Two years ago, this resident of Whitstable, England, launched SOS Whitstable and a campaign to highlight the dirty joke played on citizens: the dumping of raw sewage into the sea and rivers.
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# General News
Loss of Civil Liberties graphically portrayed in powerful video documentary, Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties clearly depicts the rapid erosion and loss of civil liberties and civil rights in the U.S. since 9/11. Available for free viewing at the link below, this empowering video presents interviews with ranking members of Congress, top legal experts, and even a former CIA chief, all of whom describe many insidious efforts to take away privacy and freedoms guaranteed under the U.S. constitution.
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Racism and the Abuse of Technology, from Henrietta Lacks to Porcha Woodruff: The abuses of technology are not some future threat. Take the cases of Henrietta Lacks, who died in 1951, and a more recent example in 2023, of Porcha Woodruff, a young Detroit mother wrongly arrested for armed robbery and carjacking after being misidentified by AI-driven software. She was the first woman known to be arrested due to faulty facial recognition software. At least five men have been similarly wrongly arrested. All six are Black.
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Tomorrow Island (Big Diomede) and Yesterday Island (Little Diomede): The Russian island of Big Diomede (part of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug), also known as Imaqłiq, Inaliq, Nunarbuk or Ratmanov Island The U.S. island of Little Diomede (part of Alaska) or Iŋaliq, also known as Krusenstern Island[a] The Diomede Islands are located in the middle of the Bering Strait between mainland Alaska and Siberia. If marginal seas are considered, then they are the northernmost islands within the entire Pacific Ocean.
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# Gov / Politics
How Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump’s Toxic, Twisted Bromance Nearly Drove the Country Off a Cliff: Journalist and biographer Andrew Kirtzman traces the former New York City mayor’s downward spiral and the “terrible trouble” he’s in as 2020 election investigations come to a head.
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For Biden, Thwarting China’s Development Is Job One: Biden’s advanced semiconductor blockade is cheating. It is a clear violation of the rules the US agreed to uphold. The Biden administration has imposed a blockade on advanced computer chips headed for China. The action is expected to slow China’s technological development while inflicting serious damage on the broader economy.
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The Illusion of Scandal: How Washington is Attempting to Dismiss $20 Million as an Illusion: The Bidens have been in the business of influence peddling for decades. The media and political establishment is now striving to top that performance by declaring $20 million in payments to Biden family members as an “illusion” of influence. At the heart of this scandal is the BFF, the Biden Family Fund.
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Oliver Stone Regrets Voting For Biden, Fears He Might Start World WarIII: Stone was speaking to UK commentator Russell Brand for his podcast Stay Free, when he said: “Biden is an old Cold Warrior, and he really hates the old Soviet Union which he confounds again with the Russian Federation, which is not communist. “It seems that he’s dragging us stupidly into a confrontation with a power that is not going to give. This is their borders. This is their world. This is NATO going into Ukraine. This is a whole other story.
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Ohio Is a Sign That Republicans Should Be Worried: On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, the Republicans may have just learned a very big lesson after a crucial defeat in the Midwestern state.
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# Law Enforcment
U.S. sanctions 3 Sinola Cartel members for fentanyl trafficking: The U.S. sanctioned three high-ranking members of the Sinaloa Cartel on Wednesday for involvement in illicit fentanyl trafficking
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A prison guard says she was forced to stay at her post during labor pains. Texas is fighting compensation for her stillbirth. The seven-months-pregnant officer reported contraction-like pains at work, but said she wasn’t allowed to leave for hours. The anti-abortion state is fighting her lawsuit, in part by saying her fetus didn’t clearly have rights.
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# Legal / DOJ
U.S. House Oversight Releases Bank Records Showing Hunter Biden Took Millions From Russian And Ukrainian Oligarchs: The House Oversight Committee released bank records Wednesday showing Hunter Biden took millions of dollars worth of payments from Russian, Ukrainian and Kazakh oligarchs.
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Clarence Thomas’s Life of Luxury Has Had Even More Conservative Benefactors: It’s not just Harlan Crow bankrolling the Supreme Court justice’s fancy vacations, but a whole cadre of influential right-wing individuals as well. “I said it would get worse; it will keep getting worse,” said Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse.
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Judges hear oral arguments in Biden social media censorship case: A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Thursday in a free speech case involving the federal government and social media censorship during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly all of the points raised by Department of Defense (DOJ) lawyer Daniel Tenny, representing the administration, were met with resistance by the three judges hearing the case, and opposition from the plaintiff’s lawyer.
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Trump pushes back after DOJ accesses his social media data: Former President Donald Trump blasted the Department of Justice after news broke that the DOJ obtained a search warrant for “data and records” related to Trump’s account on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, the latest step in the federal charges against him.
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Hitler, Burr and Trump: Show trials put the record straight for history but can also provide a powerful platform for the defendant: Donald Trump’s trial for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election will promote accountability – but could this show trial have a dangerous outcome, too?
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Trump Rages at Proposed Date for His Election Charges Trial: He unsurprisingly believes the case should only be tried after the 2024 election.
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Exasperated Prosecutors Say Hunter Biden Plea Deal Is Dead: “Now that the parties are at an impasse, a trial is in order,” prosecutors said. Hunter Biden’s plea deal over tax and gun crimes is dead in the water, federal prosecutors in Delaware confirmed Friday, weeks after a routine court hearing on the matter devolved into chaos.
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Democrats Ramp Up Calls for Justice Clarence Thomas to Step Down After New Corruption Revelations: Democrats have renewed their calls for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign, following yet another bombshell report from ProPublica detailing even more lavish gifts from right-wing billionaires, including “38 destination vacations.”
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# Media
Sam Bankman-Fried Might Soon Be Officially Barred From Talking to the Press: The FTX founder’s gag order, which will be hashed out in court on Friday, has ignited First Amendment concerns from The New York Times and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
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# Medical / Health
Perspective: Your Exorbitant Medical Bill, Brought to You by the Latest Hospital Merger: After decades of unchecked mergers, health care is the land of giants, with one or two huge medical systems monopolizing care top to bottom in many cities, states, and even whole regions of the country. Reams of economic research show that the level of hospital consolidation today, 75% of markets are now considered highly consolidated, decreases patient choice, impedes innovation, erodes quality, and raises prices.
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CMS Dials Up Public Pressure On States Over Medicaid Enrollment Red Tape: New HHS Analysis: Congressional Republicans’ Medicaid Red Tape Would Jeopardize Health Coverage and Access to Care for 21 Million Americans If Implemented. At least 36 states are believed to be falling short in one of the key areas of concern; paperwork problems, long call center wait times, or slow application processing.
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Medical exploitation of Black people in America goes far beyond the cells stolen from Henrietta: Henrietta Lacks’ cells, known as HeLa cells, have had a profound impact on medical science since they were first taken from Lacks in 1951. Those cells have contributed to the development of the polio vaccine, research into cancer, studies on the effects of radiation and toxic substances, gene mapping and countless other scientific pursuits.
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After an Austin employee gave birth to a stillborn baby, she was disqualified from parental leave. Now, city leaders want change. Two days after delivering a stillborn baby, an Austin Public Health employee was notified she would not qualify for the city’s eight weeks of paid parental leave.
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She was jailed for losing a pregnancy. Her nightmare could become more common: Chelsea Becker, prosecuted for murder after her stillbirth, spent 16 months in jail: ‘Why did the hospital call police?’
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# Military / DOD
Pentagon’s Own Map of U.S. Bases in Africa Contradicts Its Claim of “Light” Footprint: A formerly secret map from AFRICOM shows a network of 29 U.S. military bases that stretch from one side of Africa to another. Where there are U.S. bases, there is the potential for attacks, because bases are not just launching pads for offensive military operations, but targets for them too.
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US Army working through challenges with laser weapons: The U.S. Army is working through a variety of challenges with directed-energy weapons for air defense, including how to affordably manufacture the high-tech capability and sustain it on the battlefield, according to service officials with knowledge of the effort.
The Army is grappling with how to fight with laser weapons, as well as how to easily repair them in the field and affordably make the systems https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.defensenews.com/land/2023/08/11/us-army-working-through-challenges-with-laser-weapons/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!zliqHfdL6ePSNTNM3AqLAKU4-n0XutgFryfBPijbYxHvgK-aaaX3PEB8TLEPD34ylkCeenlx0WaPwuS_c-1uvxoURhD8a2bt$
# Military / Global
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un Fires His Top General, Calls for War Preparations: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un dismissed the military’s top general and called for more preparations for the possibility of war, a boost in weapons production, and expansion of military drills, state media reported on Thursday.
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# Pharmaceuticals / Drugs
Supreme Court Blocks $6 Billion Opioid Settlement That Would Have Given the Sacker Family Immunity: It’s been a rough summer for pharmaceutical companies trying to resolve lawsuits by declaring bankruptcy.
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# Science
Scientists believe they may have discovered a fifth force of nature: Scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab, believe they may have discovered a fifth force of nature which would revolutionize physics as we know it. This week, the scientists behind the Muon g-2 (g minus 2) experiment released the world’s most precise measurement yet of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon.
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# Space
Russia Launches 1st Moon-Landing Mission in Almost 50 Years: A new international space race is on to find water on the lunar surface. The launch from Russia’s Vostochny spaceport in the Far East of the Luna-25 craft to the moon is Russia’s first since 1976 when it was part of the Soviet Union. The Russian lunar lander is expected to reach the moon on Aug. 23, about the same day as an Indian craft which was launched on July 14.
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# Veterans / VA
Why You Should Get a Veterans Designation on Your Driver’s License: A Veteran designation on a DL/ID card proudly recognizes military service, and is intended to enable US Veterans to access certain privileges, benefits, or compensation associated with being a Veteran without having to carry and produce their Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD Form 214).
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# Weather
NOAA Adjusts Hurricane Season Prediction to ‘Above-Normal’: Record-warm Atlantic sea surface temperatures and slow-developing effects of an El Niño favor hurricane activity. NOAA forecasters are upping their expectations for the 2023 hurricane season, based on record-warm Atlantic sea surface temperatures. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that forecasters have increased the likelihood of an above-normal season to 60 percent.
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