Voices, The Peoples News
March 1, 2024
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Greg Abbott Suffers Border Loss Hours Before Biden Visit: Texas Governor Greg Abbott suffered a legal blow on Thursday when a federal court temporarily blocked the state’s new deportation law from taking effect on March 5.
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Military Presence Behind Donald Trump During Border Speech Raises Alarm: Footage of the Texas Adjutant General standing behind Donald Trump in military uniform during his speech on border security has sparked controversy online.
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African migrants enter the U.S. from the sky: African, Asian Migrants Seek Nicaragua Shortcut to US. Migrants from South American and Caribbean countries, Africa and Asia, have long had to brave the lawless, virtually impassable rainforest that straddles Panama and Colombia, in a bid to reach the United States.
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Federal judge blocks enforcement of controversial Texas immigration law: A federal judge in Austin, Texas, ordered the state government Thursday to suspend enforcement of a controversial law that would allow state law enforcement agents to arrest and detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally.
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Biden delivers message directly to Trump about the border. Hear what he said https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/02/29/texas-immigration-judge-blocks-law-biden-speech-vpx.cnn__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2-qk8B1sAlMp7-aGb2w7jxXnrKdpFXrJ4Jh2yiDmDGG_vLVb00yxL6J_eRJe7EqS4yIwiKYHau6j9khZBtA_vfuQSBDAuUHr$
Some migrants say there’s no need for smugglers to get into US: As the Border Patrol continues releasing asylum-seekers and dropping them off by the busload at transit centers around San Diego, some of the migrants are reporting they crossed the border on their own without having to hire a smuggler. Damian Hernandez, of Guatemala, said he heard others were paying up to $700 for help from smugglers to get over the barrier, and that’s why he chose to venture off on his own to the hills east of Tijuana. “I found a spot along the metal wall and climbed over it,” Hernandez said in Spanish. “I didn’t need a smuggler.”
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# Corporations / Industry
The Fight to Keep the Plastics Industry From Drowning Us in Trash: Plastics recycling was always a lie. A new bill tries to address the growing mess. It includes a provision for what’s known as extended producer responsibility, requiring companies to pay a fee on plastic products, which will flow toward municipal governments to help with recycling and waste management efforts.
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Producer Responsibility to Reduce Plastics: Tackling our plastics crisis will require holding major industries responsible for the products and packaging they produce. Across the US, states are turning toward Producer Responsibility policies to fundamentally revamp and reinvest in our recycling systems to build a more efficient, financially sustainable system.
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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Scientist claims ‘smoking gun’ evidence COVID-19 intentionally created by researchers in Chinese lab: “This would account for the otherwise unexplained timing of the pandemic along with its place of origin.” Along with the research notes, Wade claimed the specific genetic structure of the coronavirus that allowed it to infect humans served as another strong indication of “the virus’s laboratory birth.” “Whereas most viruses require repeated tries to switch from an animal host to people, SARS-CoV-2 infected humans out of the box, as if it had been preadapted while growing in the humanized mice called for in the DEFUSE protocol,” Wade wrote.
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# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Senate passes short-term funding bill to avert government shutdown: Majority leader Chuck Schumer had hailed bipartisan legislation to stop partial shutdown due to occur this weekend
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Texas Poised to Lose Billions in Investment if Donald Trump Elected: Texas and other Republican states that benefit disproportionately from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) would lose billions of dollars of investment in their economy were Donald Trump to be re-elected in November and seek to repeal the landmark Biden administration deal.
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Corporate giants pay minimal taxes, reveals ITEP study on Trump-GOP tax law’s impact: ITEP’s latest study exposes how the 2017 tax law has allowed major U.S. corporations to drastically reduce their tax bills, highlighting the need for urgent reform in corporate taxation.
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# Environment / Climate / Chemicals / Infrastructure Texas Police Stop Parents Attempt to Save Kids From Wildfire: In a heart-wrenching turn of events, Texas police recently found themselves caught in the middle of a high-stakes situation when they stopped parents from trying to rescue their children from a raging wildfire.
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Vermont moves to protect pollinators by proposing pesticide restrictions: Vermont’s legislation to limit neonicotinoid pesticides, known for harming bees, progressed through. Exemptions exist for fruit growers, with restrictions during flowering periods, aligning with similar bans in Ontario, Quebec, and the EU
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# General News
Want to know how weird Donald Trump is? Just read this transcript: While network news shows and the political press at large continue treating the 2024 presidential race as if it’s a contest between two normal politicians , here’s a friendly reminder that it’s not. At all.
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Vietnam: Leaked Communist Party document warns of ‘hostile forces’: It was issued by the Politburo last July, and contains dire warnings about the threat posed to national security from “hostile and reactionary forces” brought to Vietnam through its growing international ties. These, Directive 24 argues, will “increase their sabotage and internal political transformation activities
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# Gov / Politics / Global
Iran has started work on a site with plans to build four new nuclear reactors. The United Nations’ atomic watchdog says Iran reduced its stockpile of near weapons-grade nuclear material, though still has enough weapons-grade material for several nuclear weapons. The Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) announced that it had begun work on the site in Hormozgan province at a ceremony, which was attended virtually by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
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China is seeking inroads to African coastal nations to allow China to station military forces or open a naval port, which the U.S. has strongly opposed. China’s shipmaking capabilities are far outpacing that of the U.S. and its Western allies. The FBI says China cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure are now at an unprecedented scale and that Beijing-backed actors were pre-positioning malware that could be triggered at any moment to disrupt U.S. critical infrastructure.
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Russia looks to increase the age limit of its military to bolster its forces in the face of continuing losses in the Ukraine theatre. Meanwhile, Russia is increasingly confident that the West will surrender the Ukraine conflict to Russia. However, there has been more talk, but no commitments, regarding sending NATO troops into Ukraine for training and other non-combat missions.
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Armenia has suspended its membership in the Collective Security Treaty Organization with Russia: Meanwhile, Russia and Venezuela discuss cooperation on use of nuclear technology. Armenia has frozen its participation in the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) because the bloc had failed the country, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview broadcast on Thursday.
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# Gov / Politics
Mitch McConnell Surrenders to Trump: The Republican leader announced that he will step down from his leadership post in November, meaning that if Trump wins the presidential election, as he currently seems favored to do, he’ll have a Senate Republican leader in place more ready to work with him.
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Growing fears of a confrontation between U.S. and Iran: With each strike, fears grow that Israel, the US and Iran’s allies are inching closer to all-out war: n the last week alone, an Israeli airstrike has killed a Hezbollah commander in Lebanon, Hezbollah struck a sensitive Israeli base with rockets and Israel killed a senior Hamas militant with an airstrike in Beirut. Each strike and counterstrike increases the risk of the catastrophic war in Gaza spilling across the region.
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The United States Weighs Its Options in the Face of Iran’s Provocations: Deadly strike by Iran-backed militias on U.S. troops in Jordan signals an expansion of the Middle East war. Three U.S. troops were killed and at least 34 injured in a drone strike on a U.S. base in northeast Jordan on January 28. The attack comes against a backdrop of rising regional tensions since the outbreak of conflict in Gaza following the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel.
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America and Iran; From Containment to Coexistence: The enduring estrangement between the United States and Iran represents the central paradox for American policy in the Persian Gulf. The world has changed dramatically since the 1979 Islamic Revolution gave rise to a religious government in Tehran and ruptured U.S.-Iranian relations.
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Sen. John Cornyn Makes It Official, He’s Running To Succeed Mitch McConnell: Texas Republican tells colleagues he wants to fix a broken Senate as next GOP leader. WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Cornyn kicked off his campaign Thursday to succeed Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell after he steps aside in November.
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Road to Hunter Biden’s Burisma riches was paved in Moscow with effort to court Russian oligarchs: Democrats’ effort to revive Russia collusion claims against Trump an attempt to blunt impeachment runs into and inconvenient truth: Hunter Biden and partners targeted Vladimir Putin’s oligarchs for big bucks.
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Law Professor Spots ‘Most Chilling’ Part Of New Trump Move That Knocked His ‘Socks Off’: The trial schedule proposed by the former president’s defense attorneys ― with its references to the dates of the Republican National Convention and the GOP front-runner Trump’s other 2024 campaign commitments — “did more than anything else to knock my socks off,” Yoshino told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
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Trump Using Increasingly Aggressive Language in Recent Months: If he wins the November election he has said he will go after his critics, President Joe Biden, and others he feels have hurt him. “In 2016, I declared: I am your voice. Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice,” Trump said in March. “And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution,” said Trump, who still insists baselessly that the 2020 election he lost to Biden was stolen from him. “I will totally obliterate the deep state, and we know who they are,” he said.
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Background and Issues for Congress; U.S. Defense Infrastructure in the Indo-Pacific: The Indo-Pacific occupies a central role in U.S. national strategy and hosts a large number of U.S. military forces. To enable the operation of these forces and accomplish its strategic objectives, the United States maintains and uses at least 66 significant defense sites spread across the region.
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Liz Cheney nukes the Supreme Court over Trump delay, and hands Dems a weapon: What percentage of voters know Trump can cancel prosecutions of himself if he wins back the White House? Delaying the January 6 trial suppresses critical evidence that Americans deserve to hear. Donald Trump attempted to overturn an election and seize power. Our justice system must be able to bring him to trial before the next election.
SCOTUS should decide this case promptly.
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Cognitive Decline? Trump Goes on Bonkers Rant at Border: Donald Trump seems to have a weird idea of who’s entering through our borders, claiming on Thursday that a good chunk of them are people “who don’t speak languages.”
“Everybody I speak to says how horrible it is,” Trump said, adding that there were “millions of people” arriving from “places unknown,” from “countries unknown” with no language.
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Missouri GOP Backs Away From Guv Candidate With KKK Links: The Missouri Republican Party disavowed the gubernatorial hopeful, who denounced them back as “a bunch of Anti-White hypocrites.” The Missouri Republican Party on Thursday denounced a GOP candidate for governor with ties to the Ku Klux Klan, saying party officials will go to court if necessary to remove him from the ticket.
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Biden Cries Foul Over Putin’s Chilling Nuclear Warning To West Amid Russia’s Avdiivka Victory: The U.S. has responded to the nuclear rhetoric of Russian President Vladimir Putin. During his state of the nation address to Russians, Putin said the West was creating the real threat of a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons and warned it against sending troops to Russia. The U.S. state department slammed Putin and said that it is not the way to speak for a head of a nuclear-armed state.
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The United States claims that Russia has obtained what it calls a “troubling” emerging anti-satellite weapon which can cause destabilization among the world powers. This new tech has not yet been deployed. In response to this development, the U.S has issued direct warnings to the Russian government against deploying a nuclear-capable anti-satellite weapons, which indicate that the U.S. believes the new anti-satellite weapon could be nuclear-capable.
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# Law Enforcment
Police officer and court employee die after being shot during Missouri home eviction: A police officer and a court employee died Thursday after being shot during an eviction at a home in Independence, Missouri — about an hour from Kansas City — according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
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# Legal / DOJ
Donald Trump got exactly what he wanted from the Supreme Court: The US Supreme Court might have just insured that Donald Trump will not face a criminal trial for his attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election before the next one. And he may end up avoiding a trial altogether, if he wins the presidency in November and tries to tell his administration to shut down the cases against him.
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James Biden testimony transcript released, shows contradictions with other witness testimony: The transcript of James Biden’s testimony shows contradiction with other impeachment witnesses, especially over a key meeting between Joe Biden and Hunter Biden’s business partner in Los Angeles.
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# Media
Is the Media Enabling Trump to “Usher in a New Era of Fascism”? former MSNBC journalist Mehdi Hasan launched a new digital media company called “Zeteo,” which is Greek for “to seek.” Hasan intends this as an answer to the failings of the mainstream media, which he says is enabling Donald Trump’s effort to “usher in a new era of fascism in the United States.” His belief that the conventions of political reporting are failing to meet this moment, and why the far-right information space is flourishing while the small-l liberal media is in crisis.
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# Medical / Health
Involuntary Sterilization: The Eugenics Movement in America From Epilepsy to the Feeble-Minded: Most people are unaware that in the late 1800s, the concept of controlling reproductive results through genetic manipulation was beginning to take shape. The purpose was to breed out unwanted genetic traits and replace them with superior traits. This is the story of Carrie Buck, and three generations of her very small
family: Emma, Carrie and Vivian. A grandmother, a mother and a child who, by virtue of their poverty and some very bad luck, became the test case for forced sterilizations in the United States.
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CVS, Walgreens Will Start Selling Abortion Pills This Month: The move includes a “phased rollout” in select areas, with plans to expand distribution to all states where it’s legal. The pill mifepristone will be available with a prescription at pharmacy counters in a few states to start.
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Zoomer Hackers Shut Down the Biggest Extortion Ring of All: A ransomware gang cripples UnitedHealthcare. Could a comprehensive antitrust investigation finish the job? Ransomware gangs, which brought in a record $1.1 billion in 2023, have besieged the U.S. health care system in recent years. Four of last year’s ten most disruptive ransomware hacks attacked health care providers, and affiliates of BlackCat/ALPHV alone took credit for attacks on at least three hospital systems and an electronic health records provider last year. Last summer, the private equity–gutted Prospect Medical chain of safety-net hospitals descended into chaos at the hands of a ransomware gang, and was forced to divert patients from some hospitals for weeks.
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# Military / DOD
Cooperation among N. Korea, Russia, China, Iran raises possibility of ‘simultaneous conflicts with nuclear-armed adversaries’: Growing military cooperation among North Korea, Russia, China and Iran raises the possibility of “simultaneous conflicts with multiple nuclear-armed adversaries,” a top US general warned Thursday.
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Huge Boost To Army’s Air Defenses Planned In New Force Structure: The U.S. Army has laid out plans to significantly expand its air and missile defense units, with a particular focus on counter-drone and counter-cruise missile capabilities , as part of a larger restructuring of its forces. This reflects U.S. military concerns about these and other aerial threats that have been growing for years now . This is also a major turn-around for the service, which has been very much playing catch-up with these threats, as The War Zone has highlighted in the past.
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Map Shows US Military Projecting Power Around China: The services of the U.S. armed forces have led or joined at least 20 multinational training events in the Western Pacific since January, many with the aim of maintaining readiness to face adversaries including North Korea and strategic rivals like China. In the Indian and Pacific oceans—a combined theater of operations the Pentagon says will remain a priority for decades to come—American troops have been deployed for nearly 10 weeks in various bilateral, trilateral and multilateral exercises.
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# Military / Global
Russian Ships’ ‘Very Strange’ Black Sea Manoeuvre Raises Questions: In a recent “interesting incident,” a group of Russian vessels appeared to approach the Bosporus Strait before unexpectedly turning around instead of crossing to Russian-held Crimea, according to a Ukraine Navy spokesman.
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