Voices, The Peoples News
August 21, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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– Julian Assange
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Open floodgates at Arizona border allow thousands of migrants to walk into the country: Each of the 114 gates in Arizona, which have been open for nearly two months, has 12-foot doors wide enough for a motorcycle to drive through. Smugglers drive busloads of migrants to the Mexican side of the border, where they get off and simply walk into the US.
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# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Voters worry about government spending, but inflation more pressing: Voters are concerned about excessive government spending, but issues such as inflation are more important in the run-up to the 2024 election.
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Biden’s China Policy: Less Than Meets the Eye: The White House executive order on export controls is mostly window dressing. But the details of the order are feeble. And with China’s economy on the ropes, the administration is already coming under pressure to weaken the order still further.34
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# Education / Schools
New Mexico Schools Are Increasingly Embracing Restorative Justice: The shift comes as Indigenous leaders in the state have called for an end to the “criminalization of Native children.”
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Fifth-Grade Teacher in Georgia Fired for Reading Children’s Book to Class: My Shadow Is Purple is a Scholastic-approved book recommended for lower primary schools.
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# Employment / Labor
The United Auto Workers Meet Electrification: The Big Three’s transition to electric vehicles will largely be driven by public investment. That doesn’t guarantee there will be good-paying jobs.
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UPS Labor Contract Is Historic, But Is It Enough? Some Workers Say No: Even with the potential new wage increase, the 60 percent part-time workforce at UPS would still make “poverty pay.”
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# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure / Global Ecuadorians Vote on Referendum to End Oil Drilling in Yasuní National Park: The vote offers Indigenous tribes and the entire country the possibility of “a different future,” said one advocate. With over 90% of the ballots counted by early Monday, around six in 10 Ecuadorians rejected the oil exploration in Block 43, situated within Yasuni.
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Trudeau Sends in the Military to Fight Canada Wildfires: Over 35,000 people have been ordered to evacuate. Trudeau said in a social media post on Sunday that the federal government had agreed to send in military assistance after a request from the British Columbian government. Forest fires are not uncommon in Canada but the spread of blazes and disruptions underscore the severity of its worst wildfire season yet.
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# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
Insect-resistant Bt GMO crops have helped cut pesticide use. Now Nature is pushing back: As Biotech Crops Lose Their Power, Scientists Push For New Restrictions
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# General Recalls / Alerts
Ford, Kia, Nissan, Chrysler among nearly 660,000 vehicles recalled: The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued multiple recalls last week, including more than 230,000 Nissan Sentra sedans to prevent a problem that could lead to steering loss. Chrysler also recalled more than 181,000 Jeep Compass SUVs to correct a software problem that may prevent instrument panel brightness from being adjusted.
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# General News
Texas EV owners face a new tax. Find out why, and how much it will cost drivers here: A new state law set to go into effect next month will require electric vehicle owners to pay an additional fee each year. Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a legislative proposal into law on May 13 that will make all electric vehicle (EV) owners in the state responsible for paying a $200 annual fee, The Dallas Morning News reported. The law, which will take effect on Sept.
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Norfolk Southern Spent $1.9 Million in Washington as Congress Weakened Rail Safety Bill: In the six months since the East Palestine derailment, the railway giant has activated its lobbyists and spread money around Congress.
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# Gov / Politics
Former President Donald Trump confirmed he will be skipping Wednesday’s first Republican presidential primary debate and others as well. Former President Donald Trump made it official Sunday: He will skip the first Republican primary debate on Wednesday, citing his big lead in GOP polls.
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# Law Enforcment
Police Are Getting DNA Data From People Who Think They Opted Out: Forensic genetic genealogists skirted GEDmatch privacy rules by searching users who explicitly opted out of sharing DNA with law enforcement.
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“Serial” Podcast’s Adnan Syed Might Go Back to Prison Because of Toxic Maryland Politics: The whiplash-inducing back and forth of the most viral true-crime case in recent memory might owe to disputes between local- and state-level officials.
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California Woman Fatally Shot For Displaying Pride Flag Outside Her Store: A 66-year-old woman in Southern California was shot dead for displaying a Pride flag outside her store, according to law enforcement.
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Court documents suggest reason for police raid of Kansas newspaper: A reporter accessed a public state website for information on restaurant operator Kari Newell.The police chief who led the raid of a Kansas newspaper alleged in previously unreleased court documents that a reporter either impersonated someone else or lied about her intentions when she obtained the driving records of a local business owner. But the reporter and the newspaper’s attorney said no laws were broken. Some believe it violated a Kansas law that makes it more difficult to force reporters and editors to disclose their sources or unpublished material.
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# Legal / DOJ
Stephen Miller Calls On Republicans To Ready Criminal Referrals For Biden And Democrats: Former presidential advisor Stephen Miller declared “lawfare” on President Joe Biden and the Democrats while addressing Trump’s multiple criminal indictments. Miller urged conservatives to weaponize the Department of Justice after accusing Democrats of doing the same.
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A Legally Besieged Trump Focuses on a Personal Goal: Revenge Against Hillary Clinton: Trump is fighting legal battles on multiple fronts. And yet he refuses to give up on a hopeless lawsuit that has already gotten him and his lawyer fined over its frivolous nature.
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Texas House impeachment managers submitted nearly 4,000 pages of evidence in suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial, providing granular detail of how Paxton allegedly misused his office to help his friend Nate Paul. Ken Paxton’s team said there was no evidence to support impeachment.
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Trump Agrees to $200K Bond in Georgia Election Case: The former president’s lawyers appeared at the Fulton County courthouse to negotiate the terms of his bond.
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Georgia RICO Charge Against Trump Is Broader Than Federal January 6 Indictment: Trump and/or his cronies are charged with 161 predicate acts in their criminal enterprise to overturn the election. RICO Allows the Prosecutor to “Tell the Whole Story.” Willis’s “story is a much broader and more detailed arc of treachery and deceit” than federal Special Counsel Jack Smith was able to capture in his federal indictment of Trump
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# Medical / Health
Trump Judge’s anti-abortion ruling followed payments from group leading case: The conservative group arguing the abortion pill case has made frequent payments to the spouse of James Ho, who helped threaten access to the medicine, arguing abortion creates “aesthetic injury” to doctors, has close ties to the conservative legal group leading the case
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Growing Number of Leprosy Cases Reported After COVID-19 Vaccination: Vaccination is an effective means to contain the spread of COVID‐19 infection. While data on the safety of COVID‐19 vaccines remain limited in patients with leprosy, there have been a plethora of articles reporting the adverse effect and flare of pre‐existing dermatological diseases such as psoriasis, atopic dermatitis and lichen planus after COVID‐19 vaccination
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Florida Hit With 25 Cases of Flesh-Eating Bacteria: The rare, flesh-eating bacteria found in brackish seawater has killed five people in the Tampa Bay area this year. Five people are confirmed dead in the Tampa Bay area due to a rare, flesh-eating bacteria in the waters. According to Florida Health, Vibrio vulnificus is a bacterium that naturally occurs in warm, brackish seawater and requires salt.
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Rare flesh-eating bacteria kill three in New York and Connecticut: Authorities issue warnings about eating raw shellfish and exposure of wounds to salt or brackish water after vibriosis deaths
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# Medical Science
Embryo definition needs to change: Scientists are calling for a new definition of human embryos to include laboratory-grown embryo-like structures if they acquire the potential to develop into a fetus. Embryo models are grown from human stem cells and can recreate some features of early development. They currently can’t develop into individuals https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.realclearscience.com/2023/08/19/scientists_say_the_definition_of_embryo_needs_to_change_974000.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0JdkyDZhaxq22V5hqjP8mCV-htmYuVK3FZA45NfxMplIA-WDEP_k9NocSOnJBF6dNg2F0X9kFBWhDnu74R0lkBo38KyKwg7J$
# Military / Global
US, Japan and Australia plan joint navy drills in South China Sea: The drill will underscore their commitment to the rule of law in the region after recent Chinese aggression, to underscore their commitment to the rule of law in the region after a recent show of Chinese aggression in the disputed waters, Filipino security officials said.
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# Pharmaceuticals / Drugs
Inside the Big Pharma Playbook Making Prescription Drugs Unaffordable in the U.S: Polling shows that large numbers of Americans are forgoing prescribed medicines because they can’t afford them. Now, scores of drugs, many with much less benefit, cost more than $50,000 a year. Ten drugs, mostly used to treat rare diseases, cost over $700,000 annually. Pharmaceutical manufacturers say high U.S. prices support research and development and point out that Americans tend to get new treatments first.
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# Weather
Double Whammy: L.A. Hit With Quake as Hurricane Bears Down: The rain from Hilary, formerly a Category 4 hurricane, fell as a magnitude 5.1 earthquake hit Southern California on Sunday afternoon https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiDKAOZGSmA__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0JdkyDZhaxq22V5hqjP8mCV-htmYuVK3FZA45NfxMplIA-WDEP_k9NocSOnJBF6dNg2F0X9kFBWhDnu74R0lkBo38AfTOHPq$
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