Voices, The Peoples News
April 7, 2024
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Recalls
What is this thing? Somewhere in the Bahamas. [Best viewed full screen]
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDepthsBelow/comments/1bw009o/what_is_this_thing_somewhere_in_the_bahamas_by/
# Archaeology / Anthropology
The Strange Klerksdorp Spheres Found In 3 Billion-Year-Old Rock: Klerksdorp spheres are small objects, often spherical to disc-shaped, that have been collected by miners and rockhounds from 3-billion-year-old pyrophyllite deposits mined by Wonderstone Ltd., near Ottosdal, South Africa
https://www.iflscience.com/klerksdorp-spheres-strange-spheres-found-in-3-billion-year-old-rock-68111
# Borders / Immigration / Migrants
‘The worst flop ever’: How Texas’ MAGA governor ruined Eagle Pass’ solar eclipse weekend: The intimidating presence of troops and razor wire at the Rio Grande ended up scuttling the original plans for the 57 South Music Festival in Eagle Pass for the weekend of the solar eclipse. The location for the festival was moved to the Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino, which is a 20-minute drive by car. As a result of the change, tickets for the festival dropped in price. At a March 14 town hall meeting, the town lowered their expectations for eclipse visitors from more than 100,000 to approximately 50,000.
https://www.alternet.org/texas-maga-governor/
US Court Orders Transfer of Migrant Children From ‘Profoundly Inhumane’ Open-Air Sites: “But it remains a tragedy that a court had to direct the government to do what basic human decency and the law clearly require,” said one advocate.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/migrant-children
Illegal alien who had previously been deported at least 8 times, charged with murder in Ohio: “Garcia-Gutierrez has been deported 7 times and he has been in our jail 11 times using 7 different names and 3 different date of births,” the Butler County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/womens-basketball-coach-dawn-staley-gets-hammered-on-x-after-trans-athlete-remarks
U.S. and China in high-level talks to deport more Chinese nationals, Mayorkas says: The negotiations come as the number of Chinese nationals crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without authorization rose to 24,000, an elevenfold increase over the prior year.
https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/us-china-high-level-talks-deport-chinese-nationals-mayorkas-says-rcna146590
# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Ivermectin cures parasites in cows, not COVID-19 in humans: Medical experts are warning the public of the dangers of taking Ivermectin, a medication used to treat heartworms in cows, as a COVID-19 remedy. “There’s no evidence that Ivermectin can either prevent or treat COVID-19, and the risk of attempting to use this is much greater than any potential benefits,” said Dr. David Vearrier, a toxicologist and professor of emergency medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
https://www.umc.edu/news/News_Articles/2021/08/Ivermectin.html
Prominent epidemiologist says data proves COVID lockdowns failed, and hurt population: Experts decry continued lack of public health transparency. “We’re still seeing the withholding of key information,” Dr. Robert Malone says.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/health/sun-prominent-epidemiologist-says-covid-19-lockdowns-had-serious
Earliest COVID-19 vaccine recipients wrote in tens of thousands of injuries left off CDC surveys: Agency unsuccessfully fought to keep “free text” entries hidden after turning over the checkbox survey data in a different lawsuit. “Persistent immune imprinting,” from taking same vaccine repeatedly, confirmed again.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/earliest-covid-19-vaccine-recipients-wrote-tens-thousands-injuries-left?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Major Policy Change on Social Security Payments: The maximum benefit for a worker who claims Social Security at full retirement age (FRA) in 2024 will be $3,822 a month, up from $3,627 in 2023. FRA is 66 years and 6 months for people born in 1957 and 66 and 8 months for those born in 1958; people born from July 2, 1957, through May 1, 1958, will reach it in 2024. The COLA isn’t just for retirees. It increases monthly payments for all types of Social Security and for Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
https://www.aarp.org/retirement/social-security/info-2023/cola-benefits-and-medicare-premiums-rise.html#:~:text=The%20maximum%20benefit%20for%20a,will%20reach%20it%20in%202024
$90,000,000,000,000 Transfer of Wealth Is Underway – Along With ‘Debt After Death’ Tidal Wave: An estimated $90 trillion transfer of wealth is now underway as baby boomers begin to give assets to their children – and a new survey shows a massive transfer of debt is happening at the same time.
https://dailyhodl.com/2024/04/05/90000000000000-transfer-of-wealth-is-underway-along-with-debt-after-death-tidal-wave-report/
# Education / Schools
Inflation, COVID-era spending policies result in teacher layoffs nationwide: School districts across the country are laying off teachers, citing high inflationary costs, budget deficits and federal COVID-era funding running out after receiving windfalls in federal subsidies for three years.
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/inflation-covid-era-spending-policies-result-teacher-layoffs-nationwide?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
# Employment / Labor
‘Time for Justice in Alabama’: Supermajority of Mercedes-Benz Workers File for UAW Vote: “We are standing up for every worker in Alabama,” said one employee. “We’re going to turn things around with this vote. We’re going to end the Alabama discount.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mercedes-alabama-uaw
# Environment / Climate / Chemicals / Infrastructure
Trump’s Second-Term Blueprint Would Take A Wrecking Ball To Public Lands: Pendley’s blueprint for Trump, if he should win in November, includes holding robust oil and gas lease sales on- and offshore, boosting drilling across northern Alaska, slashing the royalties that fossil fuel companies pay to drill on federal lands, expediting oil and gas permitting, and rescinding Biden-era rules
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/project-2025-trump-blueprint-public-lands_n_660f001fe4b083254eab6ba5#:~:text=Pendley’s%20blueprint%20for%20Trump%2C%20if,and%20rescinding%20Biden%2Dera%20rules
# Environment / Climate / Chemicals / Infrastructure / Global
Another Submersible Has Gone Missing in the Ocean, This Time Near Antarctica. It was crucial to studying climate science. While it wasn’t carrying humans like the Titan submersible, it’s an unfortunate loss for scientific research.
https://www.mensjournal.com/news/another-submersible-has-gone-missing-ocean-near-antarctica
# General News
Impersonated, imprisoned and sectioned, man gets identity back after 30 years: When William Woods met Matthew Keirans in 1988 he had no idea he would have every aspect of his life taken from him.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/04/05/man-gets-his-identity-back-after-30-years/
# Gov / Politics / Global
Still Facing US-Backed Famine, Yemenis Want to Save Gaza From the Same Fate: Millions in Yemen, where 80 percent are food insecure, protest every Friday in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.
https://truthout.org/articles/still-facing-us-backed-famine-yemenis-want-to-save-gaza-from-the-same-fate/#:~:text=Millions%20in%20Yemen%2C%20where%2080,solidarity%20with%20Palestinians%20in%20Gaza
‘A dire situation’: Mexico’s refusal to pay water debt grips South Texas border: U.S. dam repairs coupled with low-water payments are hurting RGV
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/southwest/a-dire-situation-mexicos-refusal-to-pay-water-debt-grips-south-texas-border/
# Gov / Politics
Biden Admin Installs New Rule Making It Harder to Fire Bureaucrats: The rule, issued by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), clarifies that nonpartisan career civil servants with protected status can’t have that status taken away, and it prevents nonpartisan career civil servants from being reclassified as political appointees.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4574163-biden-administration-new-rule-makes-it-harder-to-fire-federal-workers/
New rule strengthening federal job protections could counter Trump promises to remake the government: The government’s chief human resources agency issued a new rule on Thursday making it harder to fire thousands of federal employees, hoping to head off former President Donald Trump’s promises to radically remake the workforce along ideological lines if he wins back the White House in November.
https://apnews.com/article/federal-employee-job-protections-rule-trump-biden-4c1954c0ac089d0370a405ec4029fc9d
Biden steps up pressure on Israel, using the key levers available against an ally with strong domestic support: Israel has historically made statements and taken actions to placate US anger without always following through. But will Biden’s threat to put conditions on aid force Israel to behave differently?
https://www.arcamax.com/currentnews/newsheadlines/s-3191970
Top GOP Fundraisers Battle to Replace McConnell as Party’s Senate Leader: Fundraising prowess has emerged as an essential factor in the race to replace McConnell.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4521407-fundraising-looms-large-in-battle-to-replace-mcconnell/
‘They can recommend what they want,’ but Trump is setting policy from position of strength: The former president paid no price for bucking hard-line conservatives on Social Security and abortion in the primary.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/05/trump-abortion-social-security-00150680#:~:text=’They%20can%20recommend%20what%20they,and%20abortion%20in%20the%20primary
US, China hold military talks in Hawaii: The talks mark the restart of a dialogue Beijing abruptly ended following then-House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, a self-governing island that China claims as its own. Chinese officials have criticized U.S. support for Taiwan as interference.
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-china-hold-military-talks-in-hawaii-/7558684.html
# Law Enforcment / ATF / FBI / CIA
Condemned Inmate Could Face ‘Surgery Without Anesthesia,’ Lawyers Say: Missouri’s execution protocol allows for “surgery without anesthesia” if the typical process of finding a suitable vein to inject the lethal drug doesn’t work, lawyers for a death row inmate say in an appeal aimed at sparing his life. Invasive “cutdown procedure,” involves an incision that could be several inches wide and several inches deep. Forceps are used to tear tissue away from a vein that becomes the injection point.
https://apnews.com/article/missouri-execution-brian-dorsey-injection-method-aaffa63d0e64c2c87f1d99fbe01cfc0d
NYPD cop’s murder mirrors larger national pattern: Repeat offenders committing violent crimes,
revolving door justice, the pattern has emerged across the country as cities like New York and Washington, D.C. have softened bail laws and continue to release dangerous individuals into the public.
https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/nypd-cops-murder-mirrors-larger-pattern-justice-system-releases-dangerous-offenders
# Legal / DOJ
‘Are you kidding me?’: Biden-appointed judge torches DOJ for blowing off Hunter Biden-related subpoenas from House GOP: District Judge Ana Reyes on Friday sharply criticized the Department of Justice for instructing its personnel not to comply with subpoenas from the House Judiciary Committee while pursuing charges against former Trump officials who defied congressional subpoenas
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/05/biden-appointed-judge-torches-doj-00150884
# Media
Amid surging mail theft, post offices failing to secure universal keys: A CBS News review of thousands of pages of audits, court records and agency documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show postal workers and supervisors not tracking the keys, not locking them up and not reporting them missing.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mail-theft-post-offices-fail-to-secure-universal-keys/
The Postal Service is running a ‘covert operations program’ that monitors Americans’ social media posts: The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News.
https://news.yahoo.com/the-postal-service-is-running-a-running-a-covert-operations-program-that-monitors-americans-social-media-posts-160022919.html
USPS has cheated mail carriers for years: Dozens of post office managers have been caught changing employee timecards. Managers at hundreds of post offices around the country have illegally underpaid hourly workers for years, arbitrators and federal investigators have found. Private arbitration records tell part of the story. From 2010 to 2019, at least 250 managers in 60 post offices were caught changing mail carriers’ time cards to show them working fewer hours, resulting in unpaid wages, according to a batch of arbitration award summaries obtained by Public Integrity for cases filed by one of the three major postal unions.
https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/workers-rights/cheated-at-work/usps-cheated-mail-carriers/
# Medical / General News
Vaping Is Linked to Serious New Conditions: EVALI is a serious medical condition in which a person’s lungs become damaged from substances contained in e-cigarettes and vaping products. Vaping involves using a device known as an e-cigarette, also called a vape pen, mod, or tank, to heat up liquid, turning it into a vapor that can be inhaled.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/what-does-vaping-do-to-your-lungs
He Got a Pig Kidney Transplant. Now Doctors Need to Keep It Working: Researchers think a combination of genetic edits and an experimental immunosuppressive drug could make the first pig kidney transplant a long-term success.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/04/05/pig-kidney-transplant-rick-slayman/73214776007/
# Medical / Science / Technology
The World’s Most Powerful MRI Machine Just Took Some Stunning Images of the human brain: The world’s most powerful MRI machine has started proving its worth, by scanning living human brains. The resulting images give an ultra high resolution glimpse into the brain, which will help us better understand the nature of consciousness and treat neurodegenerative diseases.
https://newatlas.com/medical/powerful-mri-brain-scans-iseult/
# Military / DOD
US preparing for significant Iran attack on US or Israeli assets in the region as soon as next week: The US is on high alert and actively preparing for a “significant” attack that could come as soon as within the next week by Iran targeting Israeli or American assets in the region in response to Monday’s Israeli strike in Damascus that killed top Iranian commanders, a senior administration official tells CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/politics/us-israel-iran-retaliation-strike/index.html
Military personnel swear allegiance to the Constitution and serve the American people – not one leader or party: In the U.S., unlike in many other countries, the oath implies military leaders should be trusted for their expertise and judgment, not for their loyalty to an individual or political party. We emphasize to cadets the rules and professional expectations associated with this profound responsibility.
https://theconversation.com/military-personnel-swear-allegiance-to-the-constitution-and-serve-the-american-people-not-one-leader-or-party-225161
Former defense security predicts Iran will launch retaliatory attack: Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Friday he thinks Iran will retaliate for a recent airstrike by Israel on an Iranian Embassy compound in Syria, but on a limited scale. “They are going to act,” Esper said on CNN’s “The Source” with anchor Kaitlan Collins.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4577866-former-defense-security-predicts-iran-will-launch-retaliatory-attack/
# Science Technology / Biosciences
A Superconductor Found In Nature Has Rocked The Scientific World: Scientists from Ames National Laboratory have identified the first unconventional superconductor with a chemical composition also found in nature. Miassite is one of only four minerals found in nature that act as a superconductor when grown in the lab.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a60216120/superconductor-found-in-nature/
# Space / NASA / UFO Disclosure / Planetary
Thousands of unusual white rocks found on Mars by NASA’s Perseverance rover: Thousands of strange white rocks found on Mars. Will they ever be brought to Earth? “These are very unusual rocks and we’re trying to figure out what’s been going on.”
https://www.space.com/thousands-mysterious-rocks-mars-sample-return
Comet 3 Times Size of Everest Returns to Sun After 71 Years—to Converge With Total Solar Eclipse: Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks can currently be seen in the night skies of the northern hemisphere. Comets, composed of dust, rock and ices, heat up and expel gas when their orbits bring them closer to the sun, creating a glowing halo around the comet itself known as a coma. Outbursts observed from Comet 12P give it a horned-like appearance, earning it nicknames such as “Devil Comet” and “Millennium Falcon.”
https://www.space.com/horned-comet-visible-total-solar-eclipse
# Technology
Strange allies unite in an across-the-aisle effort to save Chinese TikTok from forced divestment: The battle lines in Washington over the TikTok divestment bill cross partisan divides and make allies out of ideological opposites.
https://justthenews.com/nation/technology/strange-allies-unite-across-aisle-effort-save-chinese-tiktok-divestment
# Transportation / Travel
Tesla Is Going All In on Robotaxis—Buckle Up: Autonomous vehicle tech has proven tricky for even the most sophisticated tech developers. But Tesla seems to be staking its future on it. Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggested this afternoon that his electric automaker is going all-in on autonomous vehicle tech–and that Tesla’s robotaxi will be unveiled on August 8.
https://aitopics.org/doc/news:69EBDA72
Elon Musk Is Forcing Self-Driving on Customers Whether They Want It or Not: Sorry, but if you’re buying a Tesla you’re going to have to endure a Full Self-Driving test drive. Musk recently sent out a company-wide memo instructing all of its sales associates to install and activate the newest version of FSD on its vehicles so that they can take buyers on a “short test ride.”
https://www.inverse.com/tech/tesla-ev-full-self-driving-demonstration-elon-musk
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