Voices, The Peoples News
December 1, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Border Patrol agents can resume cutting wire barrier placed at Texas border by Guard troops: Federal agents can resume a practice of cutting wire barrier placed near the U.S. border with Mexico by Texas National Guard troops after a judge ruled against a request from the state of Texas to stop them from doing so.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/30/texas-border-concertina-wire-judge-ruling/
ICE to close facility capable of housing thousands of illegal immigrants: Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are apparently set to shut down a California detention facility capable of housing roughly 2,000 illegal immigrants despite the crisis hindering the state.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/ice-close-facility-capable-housing-thousands-illegal-immigrants#:~:text=Immigration%20and%20Customs%20Enforcement%20o,the%20crisis%20hindering%20the%20state
House passes bill to stop federal funds being used to house Illegal immigrants: The bill, H.R.5283, would specifically prohibit federal funding from being used to provide housing for illegal immigrants on any land under the jurisdiction of the Federal Land Management agencies, including the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Forest
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/14/texas-house-border-wall-crossing-crime-bill/
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
What Nikki Haley Has Said About Cutting Social Security: “Social Security will go bankrupt in 10 years,” Haley said during the Republican presidential debate in November. “What we need to do is keep our promises. Those who have been promised, should keep it. But for my kids in their 20s, you go and say we are going to change the rules, change the retirement age for them.”
https://www.newsweek.com/what-nikki-haley-has-said-about-cutting-social-security-1848779#:~:text=%22Social%20Security%20will%20go%20bankrupt,the%20retirement%20age%20for%20them.%22
Debanking saga spills into US as customers fume over closure of bank accounts: Many Americans who have been the victim of debanking say they receive ‘vague’ responses from their banks. Bank customers in the US have been left angry after their accounts were suddenly closed in the latest round of debanking across the US.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/us/debanking-america-bank-account-closures
# Education / Schools
District cites ‘educational larceny’ in aggressive audits of student housing: Since the 2018-19 school year Missouri’s Hazelwood School District has been conducting aggressive and intrusive investigations of student residency. District cites ‘educational larceny’ in aggressive audits of student housing. Since the 2018-19 school year, a Midwestern school district has sharply increased its rate of investigating student residency, deploying a team of employees who can use intrusive tactics.
https://publicintegrity.org/education/unhoused-and-undercounted/district-cites-educational-larceny-in-aggressive-audits-of-student-housing/#:~:text=Close-,District%20cites%20’educational%20larceny’%20in%20aggressive%20audits%20of%20student%20housing,who%20can%20use%20intrusive%20tactics
These programs make college possible for students with developmental disabilities: Inclusive postsecondary education programs help students with intellectual disabilities make friends and become independent adults. For students with intellectual and developmental disabilities, opportunities to attend college may appear few and far between. But this is changing, thanks to inclusive postsecondary education – known as IPSE – programs at colleges across the United States
https://theconversation.com/these-programs-make-college-possible-for-students-with-developmental-disabilities-212517#:~:text=For%20students%20with%20intellectual%20and,colleges%20across%20the%20United%20States
Segregation is back, now pushed by the ‘woke’: Evanston Township High School in Evanston, Illinois , offers ” affinity classes ” to students of color. According to the school district, the purpose of these classes is to help narrow the gap in academic performance between the races. They are designed to aid black and Latino students whose grades and achievements in the classroom are below those of their white peers, especially in AP courses. The school’s student population is 45% white, 23.4% black, 20.3% Hispanic, and 5.2% Asian. But while courses are optional and class segregation isn’t officially required, the district has made it clear they’re intended for students of color.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/segregation-is-back-now-pushed-by-the-woke
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemicals
Texas grid faces winter after failed attempt to get more power online: Nearly two years after Texas’ deadly 2021 winter storm, the ERCOT’s plan to entice companies to make more power available during tight conditions has failed. However, the grid operator’s president and CEO said Texas is still expected to have enough resources to meet demand this winter.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/01/texas-power-grid-ERCOT-winter-2023/?utm_source=Texas+Tribune+Newsletters&utm_campaign=35190119c2-trib-newsletters-thebrief&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-35190119c2-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=35190119c2&mc_eid=6f15633605
Austin coal plant: Despite the city of Austin commitment to being fully carbon-free by 2035, there’s been little movement on the closure of the Fayette Power Project, the coal plant responsible for about a quarter of our city’s greenhouse gas emissions.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2023-12-01/why-austin-cant-seem-to-quit-its-despised-coal-plant/?utm_source=Texas+Tribune+Newsletters&utm_campaign=35190119c2-trib-newsletters-thebrief&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-35190119c2-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=35190119c2&mc_eid=6f15633605
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure
Could This Substance Save Our Oceans From Plastic Hell? Plastic-eating bacteria are amazing. But they aren’t going to save the planet. But no matter what scientists may have discovered in this particular study, the stories you see in the media always seem to take the same spin: some variation of “these new plastic-eating bacteria will help us save the world from plastic pollution!”
https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/plastic-eating-bacteria-wont-save-us/
How bad is the plastic pollution of our oceans and can we stop it? At least 14 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean every year, and plastic makes up 80% of all marine debris found from surface waters to deep-sea sediments. Marine species ingest or are entangled by plastic debris, which causes severe injuries and death. A new analytical tool can show the main sources of plastic pollution and help governments determine how to best reduce the amount that is reaching the ocean.
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/trend/archive/winter-2022/our-ocean-is-choking-on-plastic-but-its-a-problem-we-can-solve
How can we reduce plastic pollution in the oceans and save marine life? Here’s what you can do:
Use reusable coffee cups and shopping bags instead of single-use ones. Reusable silicone bags and other durable containers can replace single-use plastic sandwich bags. When you shop, consider buying some grocery items in bulk by filling your own containers.
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/10-ways-reduce-plastic-pollution
How Do We Clean Up All That Ocean Plastic? There are currently 75 to 199 million tons of plastic polluting our oceans, according to the World Economic Forum. This is a result of humans recycling only nine percent of plastic waste and dumping 10 million tons of it into the seas each year.
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/10/13/how-do-we-clean-up-all-that-ocean-plastic/
North Denver’s green space paradox: Will a billion-dollar infrastructure project heal a Colorado community — or displace its residents?
https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.12/communities-north-denvers-green-space-paradoxx?utm_source=wcn1&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2023-12-01-Newsletter
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / Global
Inside India’s Gargantuan Mission to Clean the Ganges River: The Ganges river is one of the world’s most sacred waterways, and one of its most polluted. To restore it, India is undertaking one of the biggest engineering programs in the history of sanitation. o date, the Namami Gange program has cost over 328 billion rupees ($3.77 billion) and promised the construction of more than 170 new sewage facilities and 5,211 kilometers of sewer lines, enough to cross the Atlantic Ocean. It is a fascinating test case in the global effort to clean up our rivers and seas.
https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/restoring-indias-holiest-river
# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
‘Forever Chemicals’ Found in Freshwater Fish, Yet Most States Don’t Warn Residents: At least 17 states have issued PFAS-related fish consumption advisories, KFF Health News found, with some warning residents not to eat any fish caught in particular lakes or rivers because of dangerous levels of forever chemicals.
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/pfas-forever-chemicals-freshwater-fish-regulatory-gap/#:~:text=At%20least%2017%20states%20have,dangerous%20levels%20of%20forever%20chemicals
# General News
‘Daily Show’ Brutally Eulogizes ‘War Criminal’ Kissinger: During his stint in government, Henry Kissinger supervised policies that took the lives of at least 3 million people.
https://truthout.org/articles/corporate-media-eulogize-kissinger-as-a-statesman-instead-of-a-war-criminal/
Kissinger’s Cluster Bombs Are Still Killing People in Asia: Henry Kissinger’s bombing campaign likely killed hundreds of thousands of Cambodians − and set path for the ravages of the Khmer Rouge
https://theconversation.com/henry-kissingers-bombing-campaign-likely-killed-hundreds-of-thousands-of-cambodians-and-set-path-for-the-ravages-of-the-khmer-rouge-209353
The CDC’s Gun Violence Research Is in Danger: In a year pocked with fights over US government funding, Republicans are quietly trying to strip the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of its ability to research gun violence.
https://www.wired.com/story/cdc-gun-violence-research-gop-proposal/#:~:text=In%20a%20year%20pocked%20with,ability%20to%20research%20gun%20violence
# Gov / Politics / Global
‘Historical opportunity’: Baltic nations seek to purge Russian influence in wake of Ukraine war: Twenty thousand Latvian residents are subject to an immigration law adopted after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that requires Russian citizens to prove a proficiency in Latvian in order to extend their residency. The policy is part of a host of controversial “de-Russification” measures sweeping the Baltics.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2023-11-24/baltics-russia-nato-12133369.html
North Korea rebuffs US ambassador’s offer to negotiate ‘on any topic’: The sister of North Korea’s leader has rejected a United States request for negotiations and likened the idea to a ploy by Washington to infringe on her country’s power to govern itself.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2023-11-29/kim-sister-rejects-us-north-korea-satellite-launches-12209900.html
Hamas: It Doesn’t Matter How Many Hostages Are Still Alive: A senior member of the Hamas terrorist movement stated that it is “not so important” how many hostages are still alive, in an interview with CBS news on Thursday. When asked by CBS how many hostages are still alive, the senior Hamas member, Ghazi Hamad, stated; “I don’t know. The number is not so important.”
https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-776037
Israel Plans to Kill Hamas Bosses Around Globe Postwar: Israeli officials told the newspaper that spy agencies, acting on orders from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—are drawing up plans to find and assassinate Hamas chiefs in Qatar, Turkey, and Lebanon, and that the deadly campaign could take years.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-plans-to-kill-hamas-leaders-around-the-world-after-war-da88e6b9
Israel Recalls Its Spanish Ambassador Amid Growing Feud: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said he had “serious doubts that Israel is complying with international humanitarian law” in its bombardment of Gaza. The Israeli government recalled its ambassador in Madrid after the Spanish prime minister said he had “serious doubts that Israel is complying with international humanitarian law” in its bombardment of Gaza. Pedro Sánchez’s comments were made during an interview on Spain’s state broadcaster, TVE, on Thursday morning.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/30/spain-pm-pedro-sanchez-israel-hamas-terror-attacks-gaza
Top Israeli Official Reveals Chilling Plan for Rest of Gaza: Most of Gaza will meet “the same fate” as has the northern region, which has been bombed into oblivion, a top Israeli official warned in an interview with The Daily Beast.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/israeli-defense-forces-spokesman-says-most-of-southern-gaza-will-suffer-same-fate-as-north
America’s Far Right Is Calling for Civil War in Ireland: Following last week’s riots in Dublin, an alliance between far-right, anti-immigration influencers in the US and Ireland continues to grow.
https://www.wired.com/story/far-right-calling-for-ireland-civil-war/
# Gov / Politics
In Congress, Calls Mount for Social Security to Address Clawbacks: An investigation by KFF Health News and Cox Media Group gained further traction on Capitol Hill this week as additional members of Congress formally demanded answers from the Social Security Administration about billions of dollars it mistakenly paid to beneficiaries, and then ordered they repay.
https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2023/11/congress-calls-mount-social-security-address-clawbacks/392379/#:~:text=An%20investigation%20by%20KFF%20Health,and%20then%20ordered%20they%20repay
Nikki Haley Called Moscow Evil—But Hubby Flexed Russian Guns: Allied Defense, the military vehicle exporter co-owned by Nikki Haley’s husband, had an image of a Russian tanker on its website. That was until an inquiry from The Daily Beast.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/nikki-haley-husband-michael-haleys-firm-allied-defense-had-pic-of-russian-tank-on-website
It was billed as the “Red State vs. Blue State Debate” by moderator Sean Hannity, but DeSantis was thoroughly trounced by California Gov. Gavin Newsom: The 90-minute meeting was a hard-to-explain event that pitted one struggling Republican presidential hopeful against a Democratic rival who may or may not seek the presidency in four years.
https://time.com/6341265/ron-desantis-gavin-newsom-debate/
Serial Liar George Santos, Facing House Expulsion Vote, Promises To Go Down Fighting: Noted fabulist Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) defiantly said he’ll keep fighting to keep himself from being the sixth member ever to be expelled from Congress in a vote set for today. While a handful of Republicans defended him Thursday, GOP members led the debate to throw him out. “You, sir, are a crook,” said Rep. Max Miller
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/santos-to-fight-expulsion_n_65689a68e4b07b937ff3d188?utm_source=cordial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp-us-reg-morning-email_2023-12-01&utm_term=us-morning-email&email_hash=a0fc9b12cacd32ea6c05c417239d9ca02ed55e16
GOP Melts Down As Dick Durbin Uses Its Tactics For Advancing Biden Judges: “It’s called precedent,” the Senate Judiciary Committee chair said of violating the same rule that Republicans ignored to move forward with judicial nominees. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee had full-blown meltdowns after chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) held votes on two of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees without allowing debate. It’s a tactic that Republicans used on Democrats twice
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dick-durbin-judiciary-committee-biden-judges_n_6568fef4e4b066e398b6fb64
Edward Blum’s crusade against affirmative action has used the legal strategy developed by civil rights activists: Without much scrutiny or fanfare, Edward Blum has led the attack against federal minority voter protection laws and the use of race in college admissions. Blum’s subsequent conservative crusade and legal strategies derive from an unlikely source – the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, known as the NAACP, the very civil rights group that used the courts to dismantle racial segregation in its seminal 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education.
https://theconversation.com/edward-blums-crusade-against-affirmative-action-has-used-the-legal-strategy-developed-by-civil-rights-activists-215223
Santos expelled from Congress in historic vote: After a damning ethics report, and as he faces dozens of criminal charges, the US House of Representatives has expelled Congressman George Santos. The New York Republican is only the sixth lawmaker in history to be expelled from the lower chamber of Congress, and the first since 2002.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4337205-house-expels-george-santos/
# Law Enforcment
A First Amendment battle looms in Georgia, where the state is framing opposition to a police training complex as a criminal conspiracy: This isn’t the first time that US authorities have criminalized civil disobedience or framed grassroots organizing as a conspiracy.
https://theconversation.com/a-first-amendment-battle-looms-in-georgia-where-the-state-is-framing-opposition-to-a-police-training-complex-as-a-criminal-conspiracy-214820
# Medical / Health
What is ‘White Lung Syndrome,’ the Ohio child pneumonia outbreak? Ohio is the first state to report an outbreak of pediatric pneumonia. The average age of the affected children is 8, the youngest is 3. The most common symptoms are a cough, fever and fatigue
https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/ohio-child-pneumonia-white-lung-syndrome/
The South is ‘the epicenter’ of a new HIV crisis. Medicaid expansion could help: If Mississippi alongside the other six southern states affected by the surge in HIV cases expanded Medicaid, the program would provide more federal funds for the poorest people, including making pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, more widely available, a daily pill that’s been touted as a game changer because it’s so effective at preventing HIV.
https://publicintegrity.org/health/the-south-is-the-epicenter-of-a-new-hiv-crisis-medicaid-expansion-could-help/#:~:text=If%20Mississippi%20alongside%20the%20other,game%20changer%20because%20it’s%20so
Nanoplastics Linked to Parkinson’s and Some Types of Dementia – new study: By Janosch Heller, Dublin City University Since it was first produced at the start of the 20th century, synthetic plastic – and especially plastic packaging, has been an ever-present fixture in everyday life.
https://www.naturalblaze.com/2023/11/nanoplastics-linked-to-parkinsons-and-some-types-of-dementia-new-study.html
# Military / DOD
N. Korea to boost war capability amid new US sanctions: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for the military’s readiness to respond to “any provocation by enemies”, state media said on Friday, coming as the United States slapped fresh sanctions against the isolated country, following its launch of a spy satellite last week.
https://nz.finance.yahoo.com/video/n-korea-boost-war-capability-080941789.html
US to increase weapons deployment to counter North Korea: U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday said the United States will increase its deployment of advanced weapons such as fighter jets and bombers to the Korean Peninsula as it strengthens joint training and operational planning with South Korea in response to a growing North Korean nuclear threat.
https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-south-korea-lloyd-austin-north-0bdc85edf1b5ef8d88375de76beb40f5
U.S. arms transfers to Israel: over 70,000 weapons since 1950: A detailed report unveils the extent of U.S. military aid to Israel, spotlighting the profound implications of this support on the longstanding conflict in Gaza.
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/29/us-weapons-provided-israel-aircraft-missiles-bombs
# Military / Global
Ceasefire Deal Expires as Israel Resumes Fighting in Gaza: The pause had raised hopes for a broader deal, but that appeared to have collapsed as the two sides traded blame while smoke rose from Gaza’s ruined skyline and sirens wailed in Israeli border communities.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/12/1/israel-hamas-war-live-relief-and-joy-as-more-palestinian-prisoners-freed
Chinese Spy Balloons Linked to Hypersonic Missile Program to Prepare for ‘Merciless’ Attacks on U.S: New Beijing command looks to dominate ‘near-space’ — domain the U.S. says does not exist. The report by a group of researchers at the National University of Defense Technology states that the military set up a command for hypersonic missiles and high-altitude balloons, such as the suspected surveillance balloon shot down in February off the South Carolina coast by an Air Force jet fighter after traversing much of the continental U.S. The report, “Near Space Operations Command,” made public during a Beijing conference on command and control in October, said the new operations command will direct hypersonic missiles against heavily protected targets, including communications equipment and hubs in the heartland of an adversary.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/nov/30/china-defense-report-links-high-altitude-spy-ballo/
# Planetary
Earth is moving towards a 25-hour day as its rotation changes: Projections suggest that in 200 million years, a day will extend to 25 hours. This evolving dynamic of Earth’s rotation underscores the importance of advanced measurements, though it leaves one to wonder who or what might be around to witness these changes in the distant future.
https://www.earth.com/news/earths-rotation-is-shifting-toward-a-25-hour-day/
# Social
Holidays Canceled for South Carolina Trailer Park Residents After New Property Owner Sends Eviction Notices: Neighbors at the Mustang Village Mobile Home Park in Greenville said they had to abandon their holiday plans after learning in early November that they needed to be out by Dec. 3. Some said that with nowhere to go, they could soon end up homeless, news station WYFF reported.
https://themessenger.com/news/holidays-canceled-for-south-carolina-trailer-park-residents-after-new-property-owner-sends-eviction-notices
# Space
‘Cannibal’ Sun Eruption to Hit Earth Friday, May Affect Satellites, Radio: A “cannibal” ejection of solar plasma from the sun is due to slam into the Earth on Friday, triggering “strong” geomagnetic storms in the atmosphere that could affect electronic communications
https://www.newsweek.com/cannibal-cme-space-weather-geomagnetic-storms-1848341
# Veterans / VA
94-Year-Old Veteran Struggles After Being Kicked Out of Nursing Home, Replaced by Migrants: ‘It’s Not Fair’: Frank Tammaro was given less than two months’ notice he and 53 other seniors would have to move out of Island Shores Residences in March, and had to make other living arrangements.
https://nypost.com/2023/11/30/news/army-vet-kicked-out-of-nyc-nursing-home-to-make-room-for-migrants/
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