Voices, The Peoples News
January 23, 2024
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
The U.S. Supreme Court ordered Texas to allow federal border agents access to the southern border after the state deployed miles of concertina wire used to deter migrant crossings: The high court’s order effectively maintains long-running precedent that the federal government, not individual states, has authority to enforce border security. The order did not explain justices’ decisions. For now, it effectively upholds longstanding court rulings that the Constitution gives the federal government sole responsibility for border security.
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# Corporations / Industry
A Louisiana court just revived plans for the country’s biggest plastics plant: An appeals court cleared the way for the chemical giant Formosa Plastics to start building its $9.4 billion complex in Cancer Alley.
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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
FDA Shuts Down Enquiries about DNA Contamination in Covid Vaccines: FDA Shuts Down Enquiries About DNA Contamination In COVID Vaccines Authored by Maryanne Demasi via The Brownstone Institute, The recent findings of DNA fragments in the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines have led many to question why the FDA, which is responsible for monitoring the quality and safety of the vaccines, has failed to sound the alarm. For years, the
FDA has known about the risk posed by residual DNA in vaccines.
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# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Inflationary woes: More chain stores closed in 2023, continuing into 2024. Since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, inflation and prices for all goods and services soared, initially breaking 40-year record highs. As prices and costs go up, wages have gone down, “placing additional stress on family finances,” The Heritage Foundation’s “Biden Inflation Tracker” notes.
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IRS announces sweeping effort to restore fairness to tax system with Inflation Reduction Act funding: Agency focus will shift attention to wealthy from working-class taxpayers; key changes coming to reduce burden on average taxpayers while using Artificial Intelligence and improved technology to identify sophisticated schemes to avoid taxes
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# Education / Schools
A Fossil Fuel Miseducation: How an oil and gas organization in Illinois is promoting misinformation in schools. A 1996 video, produced by oil and gas lobbyists, might seem like a throwback to a bygone era. But in fact, an Illinois nonprofit run by fossil fuel interests is still facilitating public education campaigns, involving in-school presentations, classroom materials, teacher workshops, and even the museum theater where I watched this video, to ensure the next generation learns that oil is, like, neat.
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Texas Board of Education Urged to Reject Climate-Accurate Textbooks: Republican state official pans scientific consensus as a “woke environmental agenda.” The Texas Board of Education could vote as early as Tuesday on whether it will recommend school districts to use a batch of new science textbooks, which include accurate descriptions of the causes and effects of climate change. While recommendations by the Republican-dominated board do not carry legal weight, they have an outsized influence on the educational priorities in Texas and can have rippling effects in other school districts nationwide.
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# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemicals Oil companies used to run this town. Now they’re back to mine for lithium: Fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil are looking at rural communities to mine for critical minerals, raising familiar hopes and fears. ExxonMobil, Schlumberger, Occidental Petroleum and Equinor are exploring whether their core skills of pumping, processing and reinjecting underground fluids such as oil and water could be deployed to process lithium from unconventional brine resources, helping to ease forecast shortages of a material expected to be vital for the energy transition.
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# Gov / Politics / Global
Leaked German War Plans Reveal ‘WWIII’ Potential; NATO Begins War Drills: Europe is preparing for Russian President Vladimir Putin to expand his country’s war in Ukraine and attack NATO ally countries next year, leaked documents published in German newspaper Bild reveal. According to the outlet — which obtained the classified military information from the German Ministry of Defense, the country’s armed forces are gearing up for a “hybrid” Russian attack in Eastern Europe. The newspaper detailed how multiple potential alarming scenarios could unfold in the months ahead.
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Israel Proposes 2-Month Ceasefire in Exchange for Remaining Hostages: Israel has given Hamas a proposal through Qatari and Egyptian mediators that includes up to two months of a pause in the fighting as part of a multi-phase deal that would include the release of all remaining hostages held in Gaza, two Israeli officials said.
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# Gov / Politics
A Critical Week for Border-Ukraine Dealmakers: Senate negotiators say they are closing in on a high-stakes and politically thorny package of border security measures and emergency foreign aid, but some high hurdles remain, including some key questions about the spending that a deal would entail.
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Jared Woodfill’s alleged involvement in providing a Southern Baptist leader, who’s been accused of rape, with potential victims: Woodfill has been endorsed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbott.
The newly-unearthed email shows that Woodfill continued to furnish Pressler with young aides until at least 2017, 13 years after he was first warned that Pressler was a sexual predator, and less than a year after he was made aware of new sexual misconduct allegations.
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The U.S., Egypt, and Qatar have come up with a real plan for ending the war in Gaza—and it could actually work, if Israel and Hamas agree to it. Fred Kaplan examines why Netanyahu is resistant, and the role Biden might still be able to play in getting him to accept the proposal.
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Meet the Two Competing Groups of Conspiracy Theorists Claiming to Lead the Michigan Republican Party: Maybe–state Chair Kristina Karamo is in hot water for giving too much money to the star of Sound of Freedom, among other things. Her opponents, for the record, are also weird.
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Ron DeSantis Vows To Veto Florida Bill That Would Help Trump: The threat comes one day after the Florida governor ended his presidential campaign. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) indicated he would veto a bill that would give up to $5 million in taxpayer money to Donald Trump to help pay his extensive legal fees.
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Trump Tries to End the GOP Primary Before It Even Starts: As voters finally head to the polls on Tuesday, Donald Trump and his team are as confident as ever that they can snuff that flame out—putting an end to the primary competition before it can even start.
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“Mistakes Are Unfortunate”: Virginia officials unearth 4,000 missing votes from 2020 that ‘shorted’ Biden – who won the state by 500K from Trump. Roughly 4,000 missing votes from the 2020 election in Virginia have been found. The findings revealed that President Joe Biden was ‘shorted’ 1,648 votes and that Donald Trump improperly received an extra 2,327. Biden went on to win the state by nearly half a million votes against Trump
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Arizona GOP chair attempted to offer money to Kari Lake to stay out of Senate race, in recording Jeff DeWit allegedly made the offer to Lake in March 2023: An audio recording obtained by DailyMail.com reveals the extraordinary moment when what appears to be Arizona’s top Republican official tried to bribe populist firebrand Kari Lake not to run in the state’s Senate race. Jeff DeWit, 51, chair of the Arizona Republican Party, can be heard asking Lake, a close ally of Donald Trump, to name her price to stay out of politics for two years. ‘There are very powerful people who want to keep you out,’ he tells her in a conversation recorded at the start of March last year.
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# Legal / DOJ
Something stinks in the Supreme Court, and it’s not just because the pair of cases it’s considering are ostensibly about fish! It’s more that the court has once again cooked up a fake case that would allow it to tear down major precedent. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a pair of cases designed to hobble federal agencies that interpret and enforce the law, a step that will seize significant power from the executive branch.
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Kevin Morris invoked attorney privilege at least 17 times to avoid questions about Hunter Biden Morris loaned Hunter Biden at least $5 million and purchased over $800K worth of artwork to keep the first son afloat during his father’s presidential campaign.
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# Medical / Health
Roe anniversary sparks calls for restoring federal right to abortion: Progressive advocacy groups, medical professionals, and elected officials across the United States renewed demands for federal action to restore and expand nationwide abortion rights, the 51st anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling.
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Infections and falls increased in private equity-owned hospitals: After hospitals were purchased by private equity firms, patients had a substantial increase in infections, falls, and other adverse events. Previous research from a team led by Dr. Zirui Song from Harvard Medical School found that, on average, private equity acquisitions of hospitals lead to increased costs for society. However, the impact of private equity on the quality of medical care hasn’t been clear. To help measure this potential impact, Song’s team looked at hospital-acquired conditions. These are health problems acquired during a hospital stay that a person did not have beforehand. They can include infections, blood clots, falls, and other adverse events.
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# Military / DOD
The Pentagon did not properly track $1 billion worth of military equipment sent to Ukraine, according to a watchdog report. The report from the Pentagon Inspector General says that while the Defense Department has improved its ability to track military aid sent to Ukraine, it “did not fully comply” with requirements and much of the equipment sent is “delinquent,” meaning it’s not possible to complete an inventory of everything sent.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/11/politics/pentagon-tracking-weapons-ukraine-report/index.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0Pi5kTBubxBPltyAaCIEma7zRZjX5LJmZYhTWvRJqLhY87jSDwPOtxL93ifl1MLJnPq07e_0PNHE8Md0eIG1pGLNeeZ81Cmi$
New Spin on a Revolving Door: Pentagon Officials Turned Venture Capitalists: The high-stakes world of Pentagon lobbying is being altered by the rise of defense technology startups. Retiring generals and departing top Pentagon officials once migrated regularly to the big established weapons makers like Lockheed Martin and Boeing. Now they are increasingly flocking to venture capital firms that have collectively pumped billions of dollars into Silicon Valley-style startups offering the Pentagon new war-fighting tools like autonomous killer drones, hypersonic jets and space surveillance equipment.
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