Voices, The Peoples News
January 19, 2024
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Kentucky unleashes fury with bill to legalize deadly force against unhoused: A controversial bill in Kentucky aims to criminalize homelessness and expand ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws, sparking widespread criticism for its approach to a growing social issue.
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# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Congress Passes Bill Keeping Government Open As Border, Spending Fights Rage: Measure funds federal operations into March as lawmakers work out full-year budget https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.wsj.com/politics/senate-house-cr-spending-deal-government-shutdown-4bebb74a__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1Ychi9V1eJz6OJa7EGxd4QBazayoHvI-xxc4d3bEVRWZQQ_bRMtFdvf31vnDwA1yN65_u-ItROQFeb_JmxZNuIHyIkmlIBlc$
Corporate Greed Is Driving Recent Inflation, Report Finds: A progressive think tank claims that consumers bear the brunt of high costs as corporations line their pockets. A new report by the progressive Groundwater Collective think tank claims that corporate greed is a primary driver of recent inflation. The report’s authors argue that although inflation has cooled significantly since the pandemic, consumers continue to pay high prices set by corporations to pad their own earnings.
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Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act Unleashes Medicare Changes in 2024: This brief provides an overview of the Part D benefit design and Part D enrollee cost-sharing requirements in 2023 and changes coming in 2024 and 2025.
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Make America mad again. Mad about the trillions of dollars taken from their paychecks: Decades of wealth transfer in America: How trillions moved from the many to the few. This is where America’s anger should be directed. The 40-year trickle-down delusion, fashioned by economists, politicians, and financial experts, has deprived average Americans of the means to support their families in a comfortable, debt-free manner.
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Wyden Slams Backroom Scheme to Cut Social Security, Medicare as Bill Clears House Committee: Fiscal Commission Bill Passed by House Budget Committee Would Fast Track Cuts to Benefits Like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
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# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemicals
Alaska senator vows to kill renewables bill as energy debate heats up in Juneau: The policy would set deadlines for Alaska’s electric utilities to generate a certain amount of their power from renewables. Even before Alaska’s annual legislative session gets into high gear, debate over a prominent renewable energy bill is intensifying, with a state senator vowing to block it in committee and an advocacy group hiring a lobbyist to push it forward.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2024/01/18/alaska-senator-vows-to-kill-renewables-bill-as-energy-debate-heats-up-in-juneau/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1Ychi9V1eJz6OJa7EGxd4QBazayoHvI-xxc4d3bEVRWZQQ_bRMtFdvf31vnDwA1yN65_u-ItROQFeb_JmxZNuIHyIqPTc96S$
Health risks from nuclear contamination in St. Louis denounced at congressional hearing: Nuclear waste in general has been “especially” harmful for communities of color. A state analysis showed that effects from radioactive waste that contaminated St. Louis’ Coldwater Creek and the surrounding area led to harmful health outcomes
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://missouriindependent.com/2024/01/18/health-risks-from-nuclear-contamination-in-st-louis-denounced-at-congressional-hearing/*:*:text=Nuclear*20waste*20in*20general*20has,harmful*20health*20outcomes*2C*20Bush*20said__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!1Ychi9V1eJz6OJa7EGxd4QBazayoHvI-xxc4d3bEVRWZQQ_bRMtFdvf31vnDwA1yN65_u-ItROQFeb_JmxZNuIHyIvu8En6d$
New Shell Files Could Aid Climate Cases, Attorneys Say: Newly-discovered Shell documents dating back decades could help strengthen lawsuits aiming to hold the oil major to account for climate damages, climate attorneys say.
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# Environment / Climate / Chemicals / Infrastructure The decades-long fight in a community treated as a dumping ground: Kettleman City is known for its almond harvests. But it faces an array of environmental threats. It sits at the crossroads of a heavily trafficked major highway and has also contended with toxic pesticide use, air pollution and water contamination. In tiny Kettleman City, farmworkers and other residents made inroads with a civil rights agreement. But they’re still battling pollution.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://publicintegrity.org/environment/pollution/environmental-justice-denied/the-decades-long-fight-in-a-community-treated-as-a-dumping-ground/*:*:text=Environmental*20Justice*2C*20Denied-,The*20decades*2Dlong*20fight*20in*20a*20community*20treated*20as*20a,they’re*20still*20battling*20pollution__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!1Ychi9V1eJz6OJa7EGxd4QBazayoHvI-xxc4d3bEVRWZQQ_bRMtFdvf31vnDwA1yN65_u-ItROQFeb_JmxZNuIHyIqoS-moQ$
Inside the decades-long fight over an Ohio Superfund site: In Uniontown, Ohio, outside of Akron, residents and officials have clashed over cleanup of the Industrial Excess Landfill. Thirty acres of desolate land stretch across the heart of Uniontown, Ohio, a vast expanse of grass, trees, and scruffy vegetation no one can use because a toxic stew of nearly one hundred deadly contaminants festers beneath its surface.
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‘We’re not a dump,’ poor Alabama towns struggle under the stench of toxic landfills: Imports of waste from across the country have turned parts of the state into ‘a toilet bowl,’ and residents are fighting back. The landfill, called Big Sky Environmental, sits on the fringes of West Jefferson and is permitted to accept waste from 48 US states. It used a nearby rail spur to import sewage from New York and New Jersey. This epic fecal odyssey was completed by trucks which took on the waste and rumbled through West Jefferson – sometimes spilling dark liquid on sharp turns to the landfill.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/15/were-not-a-dump-poor-alabama-towns-struggle-under-the-stench-of-toxic-landfills__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1Ychi9V1eJz6OJa7EGxd4QBazayoHvI-xxc4d3bEVRWZQQ_bRMtFdvf31vnDwA1yN65_u-ItROQFeb_JmxZNuIHyIsmpB14d$
A Mississippi city reeling from a clean water crisis sees a sudden end to trash collection: “We have all of the problems with crime, potholes, dilapidated buildings, and we are putting our effort and energy into garbage,” a restaurant owner said. Residents of Mississippi’s capital are scrambling to figure out what to do with their trash after garbage collection abruptly ended this week as contract negotiations failed between the mayor and the City Council.
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EPA poised to overtake ‘deficient’ San Jacinto toxic waste pit cleanup: EPA could take over toxic cleanup of one San Jacinto River waste pit, calling company plans ‘seriously deficient’ A line of buoys marks the boundary of the northern impoundments of the San Jacinto Waste Pits just north of Interstate 10 on the San Jacinto River, Tuesday, July 13, 2021, in Channelview.
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# General News
Trump Aims to Be ‘Messiah’ for Evangelicals: The former president has been ramping up the “spiritual” language he uses on the campaign trail. Donald Trump has in recent months been ramping up the “spiritual” language he uses on the campaign trail, casting himself as the man appointed by God to wage war on the perceived enemies of Christianity, according to author and this week’s guest on The New Abnormal, Sarah Posner.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/listen-closely-trump-wants-to-be-a-messiah-figure-for-evangelicals__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1Ychi9V1eJz6OJa7EGxd4QBazayoHvI-xxc4d3bEVRWZQQ_bRMtFdvf31vnDwA1yN65_u-ItROQFeb_JmxZNuIHyImOGd1XA$
# Gov / Politics / Global
Leading American nuclear scientist has a warning about Kim Jong Un: A leading US nuclear scientist and North Korea observer is issuing a stark warning that Kim Jong Un could be prepared to wage a war.
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# Gov / Politics
Trump’s Running for Dictator. What’s Haley Running for? Her confident performances have made her the most formidable Republican challenger to Donald Trump. But the more you listen to her, the mushier her message is.
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A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending: The magical-thinking phase is ending. Barring some miracle, Trump will soon be the presumptive Republican nominee for president. When that happens, there will be a swift and dramatic shift in the political power dynamic, in his favor. Trump will not be contained by the courts or the rule of law. If Trump does win the election, he will immediately become the most powerful person ever to hold that office. He will do so with the fewest constraints of any president, fewer even than in his own first term.
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White House Requests “Unprecedented” Loophole That Would Obscure Arms Sales to Israel: Picking up White House language, the Senate supplemental bill would conceal weapons sales from Congress and the American people. As part of $3. 5 billion earmarked for Foreign Military Financing (FMF) funding for Israel, the executive branch sought permission to unilaterally blanket-approve the future sale of military equipment and weapons—like ballistic missiles and artillery ammunition — to Israel without notifying Congress.
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UPenn, Which Hosts Biden’s Think Tank, Sees Chinese Donations Soar, Including From CCP-linked Sources: The University of Pennsylvania, home to Biden’s think tank, recently tripled its donations from China over its previous gift-reporting period https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/01/11/penn-biden-center-is-dark-money-nightmare-patronage-mill/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1Ychi9V1eJz6OJa7EGxd4QBazayoHvI-xxc4d3bEVRWZQQ_bRMtFdvf31vnDwA1yN65_u-ItROQFeb_JmxZNuIHyIiUsOmn3$
Biden Says U.S. Will Continue to Bomb Yemen Even Though Strikes Have Not Stopped Houthi Attacks: U.S. forces on Thursday conducted a fifth strike against Iranian-backed Houthi rebel military sites in Yemen as President Joe Biden acknowledged that the American and British bombardment had yet to stop the militants’ attacks on vessels in the Red Sea that have disrupted global shipping.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/watch-biden-says-u-s-strikes-in-yemen-arent-stopping-houthi-attacks-but-strikes-will-continue__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1Ychi9V1eJz6OJa7EGxd4QBazayoHvI-xxc4d3bEVRWZQQ_bRMtFdvf31vnDwA1yN65_u-ItROQFeb_JmxZNuIHyIqe2jlY0$
How New Jersey College Democrats Were Threatened Over a Primary Endorsement: New Jersey College Democrats wanted to endorse Andy Kim. Then they began receiving a series of intimidating calls. In a series of calls over several hours, Magee reportedly warned against the endorsement, suggesting that it could threaten funding and future job prospects for leaders of the College Democrats
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Oklahoma Republican Introduces Shortest, Most Racist Bill You’ve Ever Read: An Oklahoma bill is sparking outrage for including all Hispanic people in its definition of “terrorists.” The bill is clearly intended to target a wide range of people of Hispanic or Latino descent, including Afrolatino people. Police and prosecutors are far more likely to deem Black and Latino people gang members than white people, meaning that people of color are more likely to have been accused or convicted of something considered terrorism.
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# Legal / DOJ
New Trump Deposition Video Could Screw Him Over in E. Jean Carroll Trial: A Trump deposition video for one legal case is coming back to haunt him in another one. In a video deposition made public Friday by the New York Attorney General’s Office, the 2024 presidential candidate claimed that he only became president the first time because of the “brand,” and that, according to him, he should have tacked even more onto his bank statements—statements that New York courts have already deemed overinflated and fraudulent.
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# Medical / Health
Moody is warning Floridians and Americans about another illicit drug on the market: fake Xanax, known as “benzo dope. In an alert, she said there’s an increase in the number of deaths nationwide from bromazolam, a potent benzodiazepine, which is reportedly being mixed with illicit fentanyl, she said. “It is imperative that Floridians understand how dangerous bromazolam is on its own,” Moody said. “It is also reportedly mixed with fentanyl, leading to adverse health conditions, overdoses and even deaths – including here in Florida. Please, never use an illicit substance. Just one pill can kill.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.citizentribune.com/news/national/moody-warns-about-another-dangerous-drug-on-market-fake-xanax-benzo-dope/article_039acb64-a413-5c06-a0db-f5418414d0f7.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1Ychi9V1eJz6OJa7EGxd4QBazayoHvI-xxc4d3bEVRWZQQ_bRMtFdvf31vnDwA1yN65_u-ItROQFeb_JmxZNuIHyIhlLSSPp$
# Military / Global
North Korea Tests Underwater Nuke Drone to Deter U.S: The country’s Defense Ministry vowed to “strike horror” into the hearts of America and its allies. Pyongyang promises to deter ‘hostile military manoeuvres’ after US, South Korea and Japan conduct naval exercises.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/19/north-korea-touts-underwater-nuclear-weapon-system-blasts-us-drills__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1Ychi9V1eJz6OJa7EGxd4QBazayoHvI-xxc4d3bEVRWZQQ_bRMtFdvf31vnDwA1yN65_u-ItROQFeb_JmxZNuIHyIt9yBqh7$
North Korea Unveils New Missile Designed for US Mainland Strike: The Hwasong-18 is The North’s only known solid-fuel ICBM and it’s designed to strike the mainland U.S. In recent days, North Korea has also been escalating its warlike, inflammatory rhetoric against its foes.
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