Voices, The Peoples News
December 20, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous / Global
Why more than 60 Indigenous nations oppose the Line 5 oil pipeline: The 70-year-old pipeline, which just won a key permit, poses “an unacceptable risk of an oil spill into the Great Lakes.” Line 5 is an outdated oil-and-gas pipeline that poses unacceptable risks of an oil spill, especially as it travels along the lakebed through the Straits of Mackinac in a four-mile section known as the dual pipelines.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://grist.org/indigenous/why-more-than-60-indigenous-nations-oppose-the-line-5-oil-pipeline/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHMp6pqC_$
# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Immigrant rights groups sue Texas to halt law allowing arrests of migrants: The lawsuit asks judge to prevent the state from enforcing Bill 4, which authorizes Texas police to arrest immigrants suspected of crossing the border illegally.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/19/texas-immigration-law-lawsuit-border-aclu/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHB3O849j$
Chicago Suburb to Oust Immigrants From Hotel and YMCA in Policy Change: All migrants housed in two locations in Oak Park will be required to move out by Jan. 31, village officials disclosed Wednesday. The approximately 160 people at The Carleton of Oak Park hotel and the West Cook YMCA are to be notified of the eviction date this week.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/chicago-suburb-evict-immigrants-hotel-ymca-change-policy__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHB0Yi0hI$
# Censorship
Combating censorship: Pressley’s bill targets discriminatory book bans as civil rights violations: In a bold move against escalating book bans, Rep. Ayanna Pressley introduces a legislative response to safeguard diversity and freedom in literature. Specifically, the legislation would: Ensure primary and secondary schools have a library with a trained librarian; Require public libraries and school libraries to maintain a diverse collection of books; Classify discriminatory book bans as violations of federal civil rights laws https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nationofchange.org/2023/12/20/combating-censorship-pressleys-bill-targets-discriminatory-book-bans-as-civil-rights-violations/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHPS3-h3s$
# Education / Schools
Steve Bannon Wants Kids to Use Guns to Defend Themselves From Bullies: On Tuesday, Bannon broadcast an episode of his podcast from Turning Point USA’s America Fest, during which he advocated for American children to receive firearms training in school, arguing that possessing guns would also help them combat bullying, a suggestion that drew cheers from the conservative crowd at the event.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-wants-kids-use-guns-defend-themselves-bullies-1853928__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHFsBqF1x$
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemicals
Worried about safety, a small West Texas town challenges planned cross-border pipeline: A proposed pipeline has residents in the 2,000-person town of Van Horn on alert as concerns mount over lack of transparency and possible environmental risk. Critics are calling on federal regulators to increase their scrutiny and oversight of the proposed pipeline, which would send gas from Texas to the Mexican coast for export to other countries.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/2023/12/20/worried-about-safety-a-small-west-texas-town-challenges-planned-cross-border-pipeline/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHJ2MAbfc$
Drilling under Pennsylvania’s ‘Gasland’ town has been banned since 2010. It’s coming back: One of Pennsylvania’s leading natural gas companies is poised to drill and frack in the rural community where it was banned for a dozen years for polluting the water supply.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wtop.com/national/2023/12/drilling-under-pennsylvanias-gasland-town-has-been-banned-since-2010-its-coming-back/*:*:text=It’s*20coming*20back.,-The*20Associated*20Press&text=A*20year*20after*20pleading*20no,for*20polluting*20the*20water*20supply__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHHmstf8g$
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure
Republicans ask Supreme Court to review Antiquities Act: Lawmakers want the high court to take up litigation centered on Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument expansion and timber harvesting. House and Senate Republicans are urging the Supreme Court to take up a review of the Antiquities Act, arguing that former President Barack Obama “usurped Congress’s authority” to manage federal lands and warning that other presidents might do the same.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2023/12/19/republicans-ask-supreme-court-to-review-antiquities-act-00132517__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHB7deNv3$
“World’s biggest iceberg” weighs one trillion tons and is floating freely in the open seas: Called A23a, the platform of floating ice has a surface area of 1,500 square miles, a volume of 263 cubic miles and a mass just below one trillion tones. That makes it not only four times as big as Greater London, but a whopping 100 million times as heavy as the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.earth.com/news/iceberg-that-weighs-more-than-the-eiffel-tower-is-floating-freely/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHOvOU0OH$
12% of bird species driven to extinction: Humans are probably responsible for the extinction of around 1,500 bird species over the past 126,000 years. Ecologists made the estimate by using a model that looked at documented extinctions, fossil records and predictions of species richness on 1,488 islands. The model suggested that around 1,300–1,500 bird species — about 12% of the total worldwide — have become extinct since the Late Pleistocene (which was an epoch roughly 126,000–12,000 years ago). Human activities are likely to have caused the vast majority of these extinctions.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04065-4*:*:text=The*20model*20suggested*20that*20around,vast*20majority*20of*20these*20extinctions__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHH041bFU$
# Gov / Politics / Global
Ukrainian trial demonstrates 2014 Maidan massacre was false flag: A massacre of protesters during the 2014 Maidan coup set the stage for the ouster of Ukraine’s elected president, Viktor Yanukovych. Now, an explosive trial in Kiev has produced evidence the killings were a false flag designed to trigger regime change.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thegrayzone.com/2023/12/11/ukrainian-maidan-massacre-false-flag/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHEOHLhQL$
Everyone hates Zelensky and his WEF/Nazi dictatorship: Ukrainians tell MP they would give up citizenship to avoid conscription: Some 74% of men and 65% of women said they would opt to hand over their passports in Facebook surveys.| A majority of Ukrainians responding to a Facebook poll by a leading lawmaker have said they would be willing to renounce their citizenship in order to avoid being drafted into the military.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rt.com/russia/589300-ukrainians-renounce-citizenship-bezuglaya/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHJikylRB$
Russia and China Lock Arms Again to Defy the West: Senior officials from Russia and China talked up the staying power of their partnership this week and vowed to press on with a trade relationship conducted without the U.S. dollar. Mikhail Mishustin, the Russian prime minister, visited Beijing for the second time this year. On Wednesday, he was given an audience with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who said deepening ties between the two nations was “a strategic choice,” according to China’s official Xinhua News Agency.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsweek.com/russia-china-mikhail-mishustin-beijing-visit-xi-jinping-1854005__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHNVGGqsu$
# Gov / Politics
Republicans Don’t Want to Answer for Trump’s Racist Anti-Immigrant Rant: Trump’s defenders suggest he was merely talking about policy when he said immigrants were “poisoning the blood of the country.” But there was nothing ambiguous about his remarks. Republicans have for years relied on racist and xenophobic tropes to buttress their draconian anti-immigration policies and vision. Trump himself has promised a harsh crackdown on immigrants should he retake the presidency in 2024, one that includes mass deportations and a network of migrant detainment camps.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://au.news.yahoo.com/gop-sen-disappointed-trump-anti-192621670.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHHJd6L8h$
Gen. Jack Keane: US military being ‘shut down’ here by Biden White House: Fox News senior strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane reacts to growing Middle East tensions and Houthi attacks
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gen-jack-keane-us-military-220144088.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHNyUkn99$
# LGBTQ / Gender
The New “Lavender Scare,” How Fear and Prejudice Impacted a Nation in Crisis: On April 27th, 1953, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower put into place Executive Order 10450.1. The purpose of the policy was to purge the federal government of anybody who did not fit the ideals of American morality during its era. While the document refrained from explicitly naming homosexuals as one of its targets, it did exclude anyone with “sexual perversion,” which was a euphemism for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) people at that time.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1113&context=aujh__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHMjJ-_5h$
You’ve Probably Heard of the Red Scare, but the Lesser-Known, Anti-Gay ‘Lavender Scare’ Is Rarely Taught in Schools: In 1980 was the continuation of a policy launched nearly 30 years earlier, in 1953. Under President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Executive Order 10450, the investigation, interrogation and systematic removal of gay men and lesbians from the federal government became policy. Known as the “Lavender Scare,” the policy was based on the unfounded fear that gay men and lesbians “posed a threat to national security because they were vulnerable to blackmail and were considered to have weak moral characters,” says historian David K. Johnson. According to him, this aspect of American history has largely been overlooked.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://time.com/5922679/lavender-scare-history/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHGCtMF-u$
The Lavender Scare: the shocking true story of an anti-LGBT witch-hunt: In an eye-opening new documentary, director Josh Howard reveals the horrifying state-sanctioned homophobia that once plagued the US https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jun/18/the-lavender-scare-the-shocking-true-story-of-an-anti-lgbt-witch-hunt__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHFmilyBY$
# Medical Science
America’s deadly flirtation with antiscience and the medical freedom movement: The initial United States government response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was marked by a frequent disconnect between government policies and the recommendations of scientific experts.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8011881/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHBhkQ-wl$
In a World First, a Patient’s Antibody Cells Were Just Genetically Engineered: That’s the idea behind a trial launched by Seattle-based biotech company Immusoft. The company announced today that its scientists have genetically programmed a patient’s B cells and put them back in his body in an effort to treat disease. It’s the first time engineered B cells have been tested in a person.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/innovation/world-first-patients-antibody-cells-were-just-genetically-engineered__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHCNQoLzl$
The Age of Crispr Medicine Is Here: Scientists have long imagined being able to correct defective genes to treat diseases at their source. Crispr offers a way to do that. It took just over 11 years—lightning fast for drug-development timelines—for Crispr to move from a tool used in laboratories to a real therapy that could be prescribed to patients.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://time.com/6343853/fda-crispr-treatment-sickle-cell/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHKSIcrye$
# Military / Global
U.S. deploys B-1B bomber after N.K. ICBM launch: The show of strength came after Kim Jong Un oversaw the launch of a ballistic missile capable of reaching any part of US mainland. The leader said his country would react to “confrontation with all-out confrontation.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.sky.com/story/us-deploys-bombers-in-response-to-north-korea-missile-tests-12751415__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHN-wDrOT$
# Space
China’s Space Plane Puts Mysterious Objects In Earth Orbit: China’s Shenlong space plane caused intrigue this week after allegedly placing six unidentified objects into the Earth’s orbit shortly after taking off on its third mission. The Shenlong was launched on a Long March 2F rocket on December 14 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert, according to China’s official news service Xinhua. The reusable robotic aircraft is on a mission whose detailed objectives have not been disclosed to the public.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsweek.com/china-space-objects-mysterious-earth-orbit-1853973__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHODmCi0p$
Scientists stumped by mysterious anomaly found on far side of Moon: The Korean orbital spacecraft Pathfinder Lunor Orbiter during the Danuri mission encountered a peculiar anomaly that challenged prior understandings of the satellite. Scientists have proposed two hypotheses to explain this unusual phenomenon, yet neither of them has substantial evidence backing it, reports IFLScience.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thedebrief.org/buried-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon-the-detection-of-a-mysterious-heat-emitting-object-leads-to-an-unexpected-discovery/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2G4i-VZcJiZh-HJF_VtDu1yxwXMn4cK9zZuqCZYSpjvK6KXfM-bNmjaPMiBIpt2rUEqn_Gq88xVIRIN9mDes6DRSHKwbRQLj$
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