Voices, The Peoples News
February 22, 2024
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Archaeology / Anthropology
Ancient Megalithic Structure Older than the Egyptian Pyramids Discovered in the Peruvian Andes: A nearly 5,000-year-old ancient megalithic site discovered in the Peruvian Andes is older than the Pyramids of Egypt. Dated to around 2,750 B.C., using radiocarbon dating techniques, the circular stone plaza was built using massive vertical stones placed in upright positions.
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
NYC law that would have allowed 800K noncitizens to vote struck as unconstitutional by appeals court, ‘Enacted in violation’: “We determine that this local law was enacted in violation of the New York State Constitution and Municipal Home Rule Law, and thus, must be declared null and void,” Appellate Judge Paul Wooten wrote in the 3-1 majority decision.
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Donald Trump Is Plotting an Even More Aggressive Anti-immigration Agenda: The former president reportedly plans on utilizing the military to enforce immigration policies and erecting deportation camps along the border. Donald Trump, on day one, I will terminate every open border policy of the Biden administration, and we will begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.
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Bill would require feds to reimburse Texas for border security costs: U.S. Rep. Roger Williams, a Republican from north Texas who served as Texas’ Secretary of State under former Gov. Rick Perry, has filed a bill to have the federal government reimburse Texas for its border security costs. Texas taxpayers paid more than $800 million in 2020-2021, Williams says, and more than $2.9 billion in 2022-2023. An additional $4.6 billion has been allocated for 2024-2025, he said in a statement.
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# Corporations / Industry
Real estate investor will ‘immediately discontinue’ working in NYC over Trump verdict, eyeing Florida, Texas: The business leader gained recent recognition after he posted on X that his firm would “immediately discontinue” all underwriting on New York City real estate to focus on other markets like Texas and Florida. Cardone further claimed that New York has risks “that outweigh the opportunities” in terms of property value — and the blue state has shown its politicization when it comes to doing business. The business leader gained recent recognition after he posted on X that his firm would “immediately discontinue” all underwriting on New York City real estate to focus on other markets like Texas and Florida.
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# Education / Schools
A Texas school has punished a Black student over his hairstyle for months. Neither side is backing down: His offense: wearing his hair in long locs. Superintendent Greg Poole wrote in a full-page ad in The Houston Chronicle. “They realize being an American requires conformity with the positive benefit of unity, and being a part of something bigger than yourself.”
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# Employment / Labor
America’s Richest Men Ask the Courts to Make Unions Illegal: Lawyers for Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Amazon say the Court erred in 1937 by letting workers have rights on the job.
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This new Biden regulation could wipe out 1 million US jobs, manufacturing leader says: In fact, just two weeks ago, they announced one big regulation that could wipe out up to 1 million jobs,” Timmons warned. “It’s referred to as National Ambient Air Quality Standards or PM2.5.” “It’s not the name that matters. It’s the consequences. It’s stricter than rules they have even in Europe. And in vast portions of the country, we will barely be able to build new manufacturing facilities as a result,” Timmons added.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2024/02/22/us-news/new-biden-epa-regulation-could-wipe-out-up-to-1-million-jobs-manufacturing-leader-says/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1tRyW7VUm7Q7Gg_Q_zkG6EpU-b4vAkRnTLwNreJWuxQlziTjJye7mVn6VDNOOWv1mMe4HHNTMaLGC1t8ymAAz3Se4RmK9E1u$
# Environment / Climate / Chemicals / Infrastructure Ocean Temperatures Keep Shattering Records—and Stunning Scientists: Sea surface temperatures have been skyrocketing beyond expectations. That may be a bad sign for hurricane season—and the health of ocean ecosystems. For nearly a year now, a bizarre heating event has been unfolding across the world’s oceans. That may be a bad sign for hurricane season—and the health of ocean ecosystems.
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# Gov / Politics / Global
Report Shows How Governments Reach Beyond Their Borders to Crush Dissent: Human Rights Watch examines how repressive governments use harassment, surveillance, and assassination to target dissidents. A report published Thursday by Human Rights Watch details how governments around the world relentlessly target dissidents, journalists, and others beyond their borders, resorting to threats, harassment, and even abduction and assassination to silence those perceived as threats.
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Israel Bombs Mosque, Homes in Rafah as Aid Leaders Warn ‘Famine Is Looming’: “No amount of humanitarian response will make up for the months of deprivation that families in Gaza have endured.”
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Navalny’s Death Highlights a New Global Division on Political Violence: A growing number of regimes seem to believe that a state is only really sovereign if it can kill undesirable citizens. The unexplained death in prison of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is a symbol of global attempts to shift the balance of power toward authoritarian elites everywhere.
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# Gov / Politics
Huge gap on spending bill policy riders as time dwindles: Thorniest issues are being kicked upstairs to leadership, which is otherwise occupied. There’s roughly one month before appropriations for fiscal 2024 expire. But there are still dozens of policy disputes separating the parties that congressional leaders haven’t even begun to dig in on.
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GOP privately expects government shutdown: Behind closed doors, House Republicans have shifted from optimistically cautious to expecting a government shutdown, Axios has learned. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will have to choose in coming weeks between a fight with Democrats that threatens a shutdown, or a deal with Democrats that threatens his job.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.axios.com/2024/02/21/republicans-government-shutdown-mike-johnson?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=inside_washington__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1tRyW7VUm7Q7Gg_Q_zkG6EpU-b4vAkRnTLwNreJWuxQlziTjJye7mVn6VDNOOWv1mMe4HHNTMaLGC1t8ymAAz3Se4ZoHFPiC$
Control of the House Could Come Down to This New York Republican: Marc Molinaro arrived in Washington hoping to be a pragmatic lawmaker. Congress had other ideas.
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Do Republicans Finally Have a Consensus Opinion on Abortion? Post-Roe, Republicans have struggled to find a coherent message on abortion, but as the 2024 election approaches, an increasing number of prominent GOP voices, including former president Trump, have begun to embrace a 15-to-16-week abortion ban.
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White House Slams House GOP for Taking ‘Vacation’ Instead of Passing Ukraine Aid: The White House continues to slam House Republicans for heading out to a lengthy “vacation” without providing additional funding for Ukraine or addressing the border. After making remarks Friday about the death of Russian opposition leader Aleksey Navalny, Biden laid into lawmakers about taking an extended Presidents’ Day break and the lack of Ukraine funding. “It’s about time they step up — don’t you think? — instead of going on a two-week vacation. Two weeks they’re walking away.
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Frustration boils as Gov. Greg Abbott, AG Ken Paxton target GOP incumbents: Big spending and anger surround reelection bids for state House members like Glenn Rogers, who’s facing heat for votes on vouchers and Ken Paxton’s impeachment.
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Alito Renews Threat to Overturn Marriage Equality: But Alito appeared reluctant in his agreement with the other eight justices and released a five-page statement saying the case “exemplifies the danger that I anticipated in Obergefell v. Hodges,” the 2015 case in which the court ruled 5-4 that same-sex couples in the U.S. had the same right to marry as heterosexual
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‘I Think We Should Kill ‘Em All,’ GOP Rep. Andy Ogles Says of Palestinians in Gaza: “Any congressional resolutions to censure or expel Ogles?” asked one commentator. Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles made the comments in response to pro-Palestine activists who confronted him in a hallway about the U.S.’s continued support for Israel’s genocidal assault in Gaza, which has killed 30,000 Palestinians so far, including 12,300 children.
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DeSantis Dishes on Why He Doesn’t Want to Be Trump’s VP: The Florida governor was reportedly on a short list that Donald Trump created for the position. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday he would not consider being Donald Trump’s running mate one day after the former president confirmed the former 2024 rival was on his “short list” — with DeSantis revealing that he was looking at other prospects, including another White House bid in four years.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2024/02/21/us-news/desantis-says-hes-not-doing-that-amid-trump-vp-speculations-has-not-ruled-out-2028-run/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1tRyW7VUm7Q7Gg_Q_zkG6EpU-b4vAkRnTLwNreJWuxQlziTjJye7mVn6VDNOOWv1mMe4HHNTMaLGC1t8ymAAz3Se4Ypy_8oW$
Senator Ron Johnson tells Congress he sees no point in using taxpayer dollars to stop Putin in Ukraine: At about 2 a.m. on February 13, Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin stood on the Senate floor and explained why he opposed sending more aid to help Ukraine fend off the invasion launched in 2022 by Russian President Vladimir Putin. “A lot of the points that Vladimir Putin made are accurate,” Johnson said. “They’re obvious, and so many of our people here in Washington DC are just ignoring that, making people believe like Ukraine can win. Putin won’t lose. Putin will not lose. He’s not going to lose.”
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Trump furious at leaked report that could upend his re-election campaign: Donald Trump and his senior staff are pointing fingers after a leak from his camp wound up on the front page of the New York Times. The newspaper revealed that Trump had privately told allies he supports a 16-week national abortion plan, with some exceptions.
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7 Democrats who could replace Biden if he drops his 2024 reelection bid: Virtually every major Democratic governor or senator is behind the president’s reelection bid and long ago dismissed the thought of replacing him on the ballot this year.
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Thousands of Texas Democrats Join Republicans in Petition for State Secession: After writing a letter to Abbott in January “to honor the wishes of the voters”, to call a special session in the Texas Legislature and “to put the Texas question to a vote,” Miller and others endorsing secession visited Abbott’s office on February 13 to personally submit more than 170,000 garnered signatures—part of a legislative effort to place the initiative on the Republican primary election ballot in the state.
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# Legal / DOJ
Supporters Rally Behind Assange as UK Court Hears ‘Pathetic’ US Case: “How pathetic the U.S. case is,” Stella Assange, the WikiLeaks founder’s wife, told a crowd gathered outside Wednesday’s court hearing, which represents the final legal avenue in the United Kingdom to prevent his extradition to the U.S.
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# Medical / Health
Women can be prosecuted for taking abortion pills, says Alabama attorney general: One week after the federal government made it easier to get abortion pills, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said Tuesday that women in Alabama who use those pills to end pregnancies could be prosecuted.
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Alabama Clinic Halts IVF Procedures After New Embryo Ruling: The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act applies to all children “regardless of their location” in or outside a mother’s uterus.
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‘Dozens’ Of Obstetricians Stop Practicing After Idaho Abortion Ban: Additionally, the report said two hospital obstetrics programs — at West Bonner General Health in Sandpoint and at Valor Health in Emmett — have closed since Idaho’s law banning abortion took effect, the report said. A third hospital obstetrics program is in “serious jeopardy” of closing, the report also said. Only 22 of 44 counties in Idaho have access to any practicing obstetricians, the report said. About 85% of obstetricians and gynecologists in Idaho practice in the seven most populous counties.
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Alabama’s Unhinged Embryo Ruling Shows Where the Anti-Abortion Movement Is Headed: The Christian right is paving the way for a world without abortion or IVF, but with lots of embryo adoptions. This time, by declaring not just a fetus but a fertilized egg in a lab the equivalent of an “unborn child,” the courts have done them one better. If this keeps up, anti-abortion groups may succeed at outlawing both abortion and in vitro fertilization, or IVF. They seem to have found a receptive audience on the Alabama Supreme Court, with the decision referring multiple times to what the majority called “extrauterine children.”
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# Medical Technology
Neuralink’s First Brain Implant Is Working. Elon Musk’s Transparency Isn’t: Elon Musk says Neuralink’s first human trial subject can control a computer mouse with their brain, but some researchers are frustrated by a lack of information about the study. Could be vulnerable to hacking, ethicists warn https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/elon-musks-neuralink-concerning-lack-120011176.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1tRyW7VUm7Q7Gg_Q_zkG6EpU-b4vAkRnTLwNreJWuxQlziTjJye7mVn6VDNOOWv1mMe4HHNTMaLGC1t8ymAAz3Se4duuR3l-$
# Military / DOD
Army recruiting ahead of last year as service prepares to restructure units for a smaller force, top general says: The Army’s recruiting numbers are stronger than they were at this time last year, the Army’s top general said Tuesday while touring a motor pool and visiting with soldiers at Fort Cavazos.
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Army secretary talks force structure cuts, SOF ‘reform’: Army Secretary Christine Wormuth also attributed “some” of the moves to “the recruiting challenges that we’ve been experiencing…if we don’t turn our recruiting situation around, we will likely have to contemplate additional force structure changes, because we can’t have unready forces; we can’t have hollow formations.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2023/06/28/exclusive-army-secretary-talks-force-structure-cuts-sof-reform/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1tRyW7VUm7Q7Gg_Q_zkG6EpU-b4vAkRnTLwNreJWuxQlziTjJye7mVn6VDNOOWv1mMe4HHNTMaLGC1t8ymAAz3Se4X7C3ODe$
New military prosecutors replace generals and admirals in more than 2,500 courts-martial in just 2 months: Four independent military prosecution offices created by Congress have invoked their authority in the past two months to take the decision-making in 2,649 courts-martial from generals and admirals.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-02-21/military-court-martial-special-trial-counsels-13071418.html*:*:text=U.S.-,New*20military*20prosecutors*20replace*20generals*20and*20admirals*20in*20more*20than,martial*20in*20just*202*20months&text=Four*20independent*20military*20prosecution*20offices,martial*20from*20generals*20and*20admirals__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!1tRyW7VUm7Q7Gg_Q_zkG6EpU-b4vAkRnTLwNreJWuxQlziTjJye7mVn6VDNOOWv1mMe4HHNTMaLGC1t8ymAAz3Se4TynJ0On$
DARPA’s New REMA Program is Turning Ordinary Drones into Autonomous Killing Machines. Kind of:DARPA’s newly announced REMA program hopes to turn ordinary commercial and military drones into autonomous killing machines. By joining a program that was announced less than three months ago, the newly awarded partner companies will create a universal system that can equip existing drones with the capability to act autonomously and finish their mission even when the connection to their human operator has been lost.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2024-02-08__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1tRyW7VUm7Q7Gg_Q_zkG6EpU-b4vAkRnTLwNreJWuxQlziTjJye7mVn6VDNOOWv1mMe4HHNTMaLGC1t8ymAAz3Se4TK3uPTz$
# Military / Global
Israel Fired on U.N. Convoy It OKed to Enter Gaza: CNN reports that email correspondence showed the food convoy was given permission to enter, but it was still destroyed.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-idf-fired-gaza-aid-convoy-unrwa-rcna131564__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1tRyW7VUm7Q7Gg_Q_zkG6EpU-b4vAkRnTLwNreJWuxQlziTjJye7mVn6VDNOOWv1mMe4HHNTMaLGC1t8ymAAz3Se4XWbu7jJ$
China Sends Warships to the Middle East: China has sent a guided-missile destroyer to the Gulf of Aden as part of an anti-piracy mission amid tensions over Houthi rebel attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea. Setting sail from Zhanjiang, a coastal city in Guangdong province, the 46th fleet of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy embarked for the gulf on Wednesday.
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# Security
With an Eye on National Security, Biden Administration to Invest $20 Billion in Ports: President Joe Biden signed an executive order outlining the measures for ports, which are the main entry point for foreign goods and handle trillions of dollars in trade per year. The U.S. Coast Guard will get powers to respond to cyberattacks against maritime infrastructure including requiring operators to share information about incidents and threats. The post of national maritime security director will also be established.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-order-seeks-improve-us-port-cybersecurity-2024-02-21/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1tRyW7VUm7Q7Gg_Q_zkG6EpU-b4vAkRnTLwNreJWuxQlziTjJye7mVn6VDNOOWv1mMe4HHNTMaLGC1t8ymAAz3Se4W5JI-Kf$
# Space / NASA
US heads back to the Moon — with a commercial spaceship: A spacecraft built and flown by Houston-based company Intuitive Machines sailed around the moon on Thursday headed for an attempt at the first U.S. touchdown on the lunar surface in more than half a century and the first ever entirely by the private sector.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/us-nears-attempt-first-moon-landing-half-century-with-private-robot-spacecraft-2024-02-22/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1tRyW7VUm7Q7Gg_Q_zkG6EpU-b4vAkRnTLwNreJWuxQlziTjJye7mVn6VDNOOWv1mMe4HHNTMaLGC1t8ymAAz3Se4fIa-iLi$
# Technology
Cellular outage reports increase at AT&T, Verizon and others as some 911 services affected: People in need of emergency services in San Francisco are being instructed to use a landline if their cell phones do not work. Most of the problems are being reported at AT&T, per Downdetector, a website that tracks network outages. Around 7 a.m. ET, about 48,000 AT&T consumers reported that their network was out. Three hours later, that number increased to more than 71,000 outage reports.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://justthenews.com/nation/states/att-t-mobile-verizon-and-other-cellular-users-report-outage__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1tRyW7VUm7Q7Gg_Q_zkG6EpU-b4vAkRnTLwNreJWuxQlziTjJye7mVn6VDNOOWv1mMe4HHNTMaLGC1t8ymAAz3Se4SPN49xd$
Gab’s Racist AI Chatbots Have Been Instructed to Deny the Holocaust: The proliferation of generative AI chatbots on extremist platforms could lead to increased radicalization, experts warn. The far-right social network Gab has launched nearly 100 chatbots, including AI versions of Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump, on a new platform called Gab AI. Several of these chatbots, including the default chatbot Arya, disseminate controversial beliefs
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bestofai.com/article/gabs-racist-ai-chatbots-have-been-instructed-to-deny-the-holocaust__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1tRyW7VUm7Q7Gg_Q_zkG6EpU-b4vAkRnTLwNreJWuxQlziTjJye7mVn6VDNOOWv1mMe4HHNTMaLGC1t8ymAAz3Se4dO8SeSl$
Apple’s iMessage Is Getting Post-Quantum Encryption: Useful quantum computers aren’t a reality—yet. But in one of the biggest deployments of post-quantum encryption so far, Apple is bringing the technology to iMessage. Under Apple’s PQ3 standard, iMessage will periodically reissue new keys under this new post-quantum standard — making it harder for hackers to gain access, even if they previously had access to an older encryption key. The new standard will be deployed across both iMessage for iPhones and Mac.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.axios.com/2024/02/21/apple-quantum-encryption-imessage__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1tRyW7VUm7Q7Gg_Q_zkG6EpU-b4vAkRnTLwNreJWuxQlziTjJye7mVn6VDNOOWv1mMe4HHNTMaLGC1t8ymAAz3Se4dRIBFbO$
Intel’s AI Reboot Is the Future of US Chipmaking: The biggest chipmaker in the US is hoping that generative AI—and US government concern about China’s tech ambitions—will revitalize its business.
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Intel Accelerates AI Everywhere with Launch of Powerful Next-Gen Products: Intel Core Ultra and 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors expand Intel’s unmatched AI portfolio, bringing AI to all https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1663/intel-accelerates-ai-everywhere-with-launch-of-powerful__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1tRyW7VUm7Q7Gg_Q_zkG6EpU-b4vAkRnTLwNreJWuxQlziTjJye7mVn6VDNOOWv1mMe4HHNTMaLGC1t8ymAAz3Se4RYU1V2d$
# Technology / Global
Leaked Documents Reveal Beijing’s Big Business of Hacking show Chinese spying on citizens and foreigners alike: “This represents the most significant leak of data linked to a company suspected of providing cyberespionage and targeted intrusion services for the Chinese security services.”
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