Voices, The Peoples News
April 18, 2024
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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“The truth that makes men free is for the most part
the truth which men prefer not to hear.”
– Herbert Sebastien Agar
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# Indigenous / Global
‘We can’t hunt or fish’: The villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives. In 2002, high explosives were laid in oil wells across 20 sq km of forest. The firm has gone but the pentolite remains, despite a court ruling, putting lives and the ecosystem at risk
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/18/sarayaku-ecuador-amazon-indigenous-land-explosives-oil-company-ecosystems
# Archaeology / Anthropology
Ancient Quarry? Mysterious Site In The Corner Of Utah: When you first enter the monument’s Quarry Exhibit Hall and look at the 1,500 displayed fossils, you can’t help but ask yourself: Did paleontologists really discover the bones like this or artfully place them here for effect? The answer is the bones are just as nature arranged them more than 150 million years ago, deposited by an ancient stream.
https://www.visitutah.com/articles/real-dinosaur-quarry
Ancient monument ‘unlike anything archaeologists have seen before’ unearthed in France, spanning from the Neolithic Age (between 10000BC and 2200BC) and the Iron Age (1200BC to 550BC): The oldest occupation – meaning a layer of remains left by a single culture – was the most intriguing to the experts. The discovery of the complex leaves many questions to answer, with the experts hoping that studies will reveal the purpose it once served and how the land, and its people, evolved over the ages.
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3405801645743-ancient-monument-unlike-anything-archaeologists-have-seen-before-unearthed-in-france?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3MTM0NDIyNTQ5NDY%3D
# Borders / Immigration / Migrants
Resolving Border Crisis Requires Increasing Legal Migration: Policy Solutions to Address Crisis at Border Exist, But Require Will and Staying Power to Execute. Any long-term solution to the crisis at the southern border must include greater plausible paths for legal migration for low-skilled workers in Latin American countries.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/policy-solutions-address-crisis-border-exist-require-will-staying-power
We Need Less, Not More, Immigration: Immigration is not the weather; it can be controlled and managed to benefit the American people. Closing the U.S.-Mexico border, as President Trump is threatening, and cutting off aid to the countries of Central America from which migrants have been fleeing will only feed the crisis that exists along the border. Shock-and-awe actions, such as family separation, have not worked in taming the forces driving migration from the region, and indeed may be driving more movement. It’s well past time to truly grapple with what explains the increased number of arrivals in recent months and to put real solutions in place, difficult as they will be to execute.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/policy-solutions-address-crisis-border-exist-require-will-staying-power
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Former US Treasury Secretary warns Trump plans would ‘set off an inflationary spiral’: “I don’t think it would just be massive deregulation,” Summers said, “I think it would be massive regulation in the form of restrictions on the ability to buy products from abroad, which would raise prices and would set off an inflationary spiral.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4601150-summers-trump-term-inflationary-spiral/
# Education / Schools
Outrage as high school student is suspended just for using the term ‘illegal alien’ in class discussion: A 16-year-old North Carolina high school student says he was suspended just for saying “illegal alien” while discussing word meaning in English class,p. The newspaper reported that the boy’s mother, Leah McGhee, said a teacher had given an assignment that used the word “alien,” and Christian responded by asking if the teacher meant “like space aliens or illegal aliens without green cards?”
https://www.newsweek.com/teen-suspended-saying-illegal-alien-sparks-republican-outrage-1891021
Florida Schools Must Teach ‘Evils Of Communism,’ DeSantis Orders: “It’s going to give the students the truth about communism,” DeSantis said of the law at a signing ceremony, adding, “We might as well tell them the truth when they’re in our schools, because a lot of these universities they go to, they’re going be told how great communism is.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-desantis-florida-schools-communism_n_66200bdfe4b07db21fd5de66
After School Satan Clubs gain popularity amid legal victories: There are congregations around the country, and they tell those interested that if their goals are to “sell my soul, get rich, join the Illuminati, etc.” they should “look somewhere else.” While the clubs are controversial, mostly for their name and association with the Satanic Temple, students are not actually getting proselytized or instructions in devil worship.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/3990175-after-school-satan-clubs-gain-popularity-amid-legal-victories/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Etc:
Biden vows to protect U.S. steel industry by blocking Japanese merger and seeking new Chinese tariffs: President Joe Biden wants to triple tariff rates on Chinese steel and aluminum if investigators confirm allegations of the country’s unfair trade practices
https://apnews.com/article/biden-china-steel-tariffs-union-workers-0399b0450b67086ca86edc43ac45e5e9
Biden administration announces reforms to federal oil and gas leasing system on public lands: The Bureau of Land Management’s new Oil and Gas Rule is said to save taxpayers money, help ensure public lands are used for their highest value, and better protect communities and the environment.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2024/04/18/biden-administration-announces-reforms-to-federal-oil-and-gas-leasing-system-on-public-lands/#:~:text=Permanent%20increases%20to%20federal%20fees,little%20as%20%241.50%20per%20acre
# Environment / Climate / Chemicals / Infrastructure
California cracks down on water pumping: ‘The ground is collapsing’: Officials say the Tulare Lake groundwater subbasin failed for years to provide adequate plans to mitigate their well-known water problems.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/17/california-water-drought-farm-ground-sinking-tulare-lake#:~:text=Over%2Dpumping%20of%20groundwater%20in,their%20well%2Dknown%20water%20problems
# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Technology
The Rise of the Carbon Farmer: Farmers around the world are reigniting the less intensive agricultural practices of yesteryear—to improve soil health, raise yields, and trap carbon in the atmosphere back down in the soil.
https://www.spglobal.com/esg/insights/topics/carbon-farming-opportunities-for-agriculture-and-farmers-to-gain-from-decarbonization
See also: What is Carbon Farming?
https://www.carboncycle.org/what-is-carbon-farming/
Unhealthy pesticide levels found in one-fifth of US produce, says report: Consumer Reports reveals alarming levels of pesticides in many U.S. fruits and vegetables, including popular items like strawberries and potatoes.
https://www.ehn.org/unhealthy-pesticide-levels-found-in-one-fifth-of-us-produce-says-report-2667807233.html
# General News
Strange ‘Anomaly’ Off the Coast of Africa Has People Freaking Out: The 62-year-old farm worker had taken pics of dead aloe vera plants, an evergreen succulent prized for its healing properties, that he’d lined up on the beach at sunrise, so that they evoked tentacled monsters invading the shore. He then posted the otherworldly pics to Facebook in an effort to raise awareness about environmental degradation. “I thought I could use this as a metaphor for how people see these plants as aliens, but we are actually the two-legged aliens messing up their world,” Vorster described.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/14/aliens-crawling-on-coast-spark-hysteria-online/
Mystery as Underwater Anomaly Larger Than Texas Spotted off African Coast: A giant cluster of waves over 80 feet high and spanning 2,000 miles, an area larger than Texas, appeared to move through the ocean off the coast of Africa on April 10 in a journey that lasted about 24 hours before it vanished. Some online commentators said the formation could only have been created by something moving under the surface of the sea, making it an “unidentified submersible object,” the ocean equivalent of a UFO.
https://www.newsweek.com/underwater-anomaly-larger-texas-spotted-african-coast-1889674
# Gov / Politics / Global
Vladimir Putin ‘to use weapons of mass destruction’ as Russia and Iran form ‘coalition from hell’: Vladimir Putin is hoping that the conflict between Iran and Israel will distract the West from the invasion of Ukraine, an expert has warned.
https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/134400/vladimir-putin-weapons-mass-destruction-ukraine-russia-Iran-israel
Prosecutors Seek to Try Russians for Ukraine War Crimes—In Argentina: In a country long traumatized by torture, Putin’s victims hope to get their day in court.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/prosecutors-seek-to-try-russians-for-ukraine-war-crimes-in-argentina
Situation in Ukraine: ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova: Mr Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, born on 7 October 1952, President of the Russian Federation, is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation (under articles 8(2)(a)(vii) and 8(2)(b)(viii) of the Rome Statute)
https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and
How the ICC’s Warrant for Putin Could Impact the Ukraine War: While this is a significant step, it will be critical for the international community to continue to pursue accountability for the crime of aggression. What do the warrants mean for international criminal accountability for Russian crimes in Ukraine?
https://www.usip.org/publications/2023/03/how-iccs-warrant-putin-could-impact-ukraine-war
Leaked Document Reveals Russia’s Latest Efforts to Weaken the West: A once-secret document has revealed Russia’s plans to carry out an aggressive information campaign against Western nations involving psychological and economic tactics aimed at weakening the U.S. and its allies.
https://thedebrief.org/leaked-document-reveals-russias-latest-efforts-to-weaken-the-west/#:~:text=The%20revelations%20were%20reported%20this,trade%20and%20other%20informational%20psychological%E2%80%9D
‘A direct, protracted war with Israel is not something Iran is equipped to fight’: Iran’s “dramatic weekend air assault on Israel” was a “spectacular failure,” says Jason Rezaian. The limited damage clarified that “Iran doesn’t have the means to mount a significant conventional response to Israeli might. And Tehran is painfully aware of this.” But that doesn’t mean the Islamic Republic poses no threat. It’s just likely to respond to any Israeli retaliation with “asymmetrical tactics” like abductions and assassinations, which are “unpredictable and cheap compared with military operations.”
https://theweek.com/international/iran-unable-fight-Israel-direct-war
Israel Considers Attacking Iran and Invading Rafah as Netanyahu Seeks Lifelines to Stay in Power New reporting indicates that the Biden administration has approved Israel’ s plan to attack Rafah in exchange for Israel not launching counterstrikes on Iran.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/15/israel-iran-war-netanyahu-gaza-lifeline-isolation/
‘This could get very big, very quickly’: Former U.S. defense Secretary on Israel and Iran: Mark Esper tells Christiane Amanpour that the Middle East is arguably “on the precipice” of wider regional war.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2024/04/16/amanpour-esper-iran-ukraine-trump.cnn
# Gov / Politics
Leaked Cables Show White House Opposes Palestinian Statehood: Despite Biden’s pledge to support a two-state solution, cables argue that Palestine should not be granted U.N. member status.
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/17/united-nations-biden-palestine-statehood/
Democrats Question U.S. Claims That Israel Isn’t Violating International Law Using American Weapons: Biden campaign co-chair Rep. Veronica Escobar co-led a congressional letter questioning the administration’s compliance with its own arms transfer memo.
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/16/israel-weapons-aid-us-biden-escobar/
Lawmakers still conflicted about giving Israel weapons: As the world awaits Israel’s response to Iran’s missile attack over the weekend, U.S. lawmakers are still calling for Washington to stop sending weapons to Israel.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2024/04/16/lawmakers-still-conflicted-about-giving-israel-weapons-00152610
Trump Snags Another Top Republican: Oh No, Not You Too, Sununu: A parade of GOP “leaders” have abandoned their principles to enter the Shameless Bootlickers Hall of Fame. Sununu slams RNC chair for saying GOP should unite around Trump, “You got to let the voters decide, not a bunch of political elites out of D.C.,” Sununu said on Fox.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/24/new-hampshire-primary-haley-trump-00137528
The MAGA Right Is Flirting With Political Violence: Tom Cotton is encouraging vigilantism, and Kari Lake is urging supporters to “strap on a Glock.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-maga-right-is-flirting-with-political-violence
After viewing ‘portion’ of classified docs Biden stashed in his basement, Republican congressman calls for ‘damage assessment’: The material in the documents – which date back to Biden’s long tenure in the Senate and his eight years as vice president – was still pertinent to existing threats, according to Waltz.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/17/us-news/republican-congressman-calls-for-damage-assessment-after-viewing-classified-docs-biden-stashed-in-his-basement/
Congressional hearing on the Biden classified documents probe turns into a proxy campaign battle: “What I wrote is what I believe the evidence shows, and what I expect jurors would perceive and believe,” Hur said. “I did not sanitize my explanation. Nor did I disparage the president unfairly.”
https://apnews.com/article/classified-documents-biden-hur-special-counsel-122526da6d89d7bf4d6ccfc54590312b
Biden’s only strategy is to ‘give away more stuff’: veteran political strategist: “Biden’s the old guard. Representing a very small state for 50 years. His game’s only to give away more stuff. He is what he always was. No Commander-in-Chief, never chosen to lead in the Senate. No world leader. But people don’t care about infrastructure. They care about inflation. Immigration. Trump can’t get younger or sharper but he definitely has a chance at re-election.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/15/opinion/bidens-only-strategy-is-to-give-away-more-stuff-veteran-political-strategist/
Democrats regain full control of state House with two special election wins: In special elections on Tuesday, state House Democratic candidates Peter Herzberg and Mai Xiong scored victories in two Southeast Michigan districts to help secure a 56-54 voting majority for their caucus.
https://apnews.com/article/michigan-election-majority-democrats-house-deadlocked-77f6261041701e9839c9ce2069d7c24b
He’s dropping little clues: The troubling message we are missing from Trump’s MAGA rallies: During a rally in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, the last such event before his criminal trial began, Donald Trump displayed his authoritarian and fascist behavior and beliefs to the extreme. Trump is literally reading a page from a dictator’s playbook. At the end of his, Trump reached a crescendo by threatening those Americans, a group he has previously targeted as “vermin” and “traitors,” who are poisoning the “blood” of the nation
https://www.salon.com/2024/04/18/hes-dropping-little-clues-the-troubling-message-we-are-missing-from-maga-rallies/
Trump is funneling campaign money into cash-strapped businesses. Experts say it looks bad: Trump’s joint fundraising committee wrote three checks in February and one in March to his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, totaling $411,287 and another in March to Trump National Doral Miami for $62,337, according to a report filed to the Federal Election Commission this week.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/18/trump-campaign-funnels-money-to-his-businesses/73344744007/
Trump will meet with Polish President Duda as NATO leaders call for additional support for Ukraine: The planned dinner meeting comes as European leaders prepare for the possibility that Trump might win the November election and return to the White House. Leaders of NATO countries are especially concerned given Trump’s long history of critical comments about the Western alliance, even after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-poland-duda-election-c003208a11a4a8b13bd74c0056bf164a
US diplomacy thwarts Palestinian UN membership amid claims of supporting statehood leaked cable shows: This diplomatic maneuvering seeks to avoid a U.S. veto, which would publicly align the country against Palestinian self-determination.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2024/04/18/us-diplomacy-thwarts-palestinian-un-membership-amid-claims-of-supporting-statehood-leaked-cable-shows/
# Law Enforcment / ATF / FBI / CIA
Man arrested in pipe-bomb attack on Massachusetts Satanic Temple: Authorities said the bomb appeared to be made from a piece of plastic pipe, and they were able to identify the suspect from a DNA sample on it.
https://scrippsnews.com/stories/man-arrested-after-allegedly-throwing-pipe-bomb-at-satanic-temple/
Complaint asks FBI to probe Trump claims on $50 million loan: A watchdog group is asking the Justice Department to investigate whether Donald Trump repeatedly lied in sworn statements, including his own administration, about a $50 million loan that apparently never existed in the first place, and which could be evidence of tax evasion
https://truthout.org/articles/50-million-mystery-loan-to-trump-warrants-inquiry-watchdog-group-says/
# Legal / DOJ
The Supreme Court case that could turn homelessness into a crime, explained: The Grants Pass case does not involve an explicit ban on existing while homeless, but the Ninth Circuit determined that the city of Grants Pass, Oregon, imposed such tight restrictions on anyone attempting to sleep outdoors that it amounted to an effective ban on being homeless within city limits.
https://www.vox.com/scotus/24121344/supreme-court-homeless-grants-pass-martin-crime-grants-pass-johnson
Trump jury selection moves ahead as his allies threaten chaos in Congress: As Donald Trump appears in Manhattan courtroom once again for day two of his hush money trial, some of his loudest allies on Capitol Hill are threatening to do something that could break the strained patience of their colleagues: fire the Speaker of the House. The latest threat became real when Thomas Massie, a right-winger from Kentucky, signed on to Ms Greene’s lonely effort.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-jury-selection-congress-mike-johnson-b2529825.html
How A New York Judge Is Trying To Ensure Trump Gets A Fair Jury: While Trump says his hush money trial amounts to “election interference,” the judge overseeing the case has been scrupulously transparent and has accommodated the one-of-a-kind defendant sitting in his courtroom with Secret Service protection in addition to his coterie of lawyers.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-jury-selection_n_66200d5be4b07db21fd5e051#:~:text=The%20potential%20jurors%20are%20asked,being%20treated%20in%20Merchan’s%20courtroom
The Supreme Court case that could change how prosecutors charge January 6 rioters: Another week, another blockbuster Supreme Court case that could have lasting consequences for American politics: On Tuesday, the nation’s high court heard arguments in a case challenging whether federal prosecutors could charge rioters in the January 6, 2021, siege of the Capitol using a law that criminalizes what is known as “obstructing an official proceeding.”
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-capitol-riot-obstruction-charge-trump-d4b01cb32cdbd2065e802902a90bd9f1
‘I Could Show You the Checks!’: Jake Tapper Challenges Donald Trump Lawyer’s Claim Ex-Prez ‘Did Nothing Wrong’: “Well, tell me more, because you’re right. The hush money is not the the alleged violation of law . It’s the falsification of business records,” Tapper countered. “You know, there is a paper trail here. I could show you the checks signed by Donald Trump reimbursing Michael Cohen.
“https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3403933289204-i-could-show-you-the-checks-jake-tapper-challenges-donald-trump-lawyers-claim-ex-prez-did-nothing-wrong?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3MTM0NjkyMDY1NDE%3D
# Media
Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”: Amid the internal battle over the New York Times’s coverage of Israel’s war, top editors handed down a set of directives not to use the word Palestine “except in very rare cases” and to steer clear of the term “refugee camps”
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/#:~:text=The%20New%20York%20Times%20instructed,memo%20obtained%20by%20The%20Intercept
# Medical / General News
Texas health officials are proposing to drop at least three of the state’s largest nonprofit children’s health plans making way for national for-profit chains to expand their foothold and possibly disrupt existing health programs and coverage.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/18/texas-medicaid-provider-contracts/
# Medical / Global
Belgian Health Fund President Proposes Euthanasia Extension for Elderly as Resource Conservation Measure: Belgium’s euthanasia laws should cover elderly people who are “tired of life” or who feel they are a burden on the public purse, a health insurance chief has urged. Luc Van Gorp, 57, the president of the CM health fund, a Christian mutual insurance provider, said that the number of Belgians over 80 would double to 1.2 million by 2050.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/belgian-health-fund-president-euthanize-old-people-to-save-money/
# Military / DOD
“World War 3 Is HERE!” – CIA Spy Opens Up: In this clip of the Shawn Ryan Show, we discuss how we are already in the first phase of World War 3 and what that will look like for the next years to come.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45q6mfd1zIA
U.S., Not Israel, Shot Down Most Iran Drones and Missiles: American forces did most of the heavy lifting responding to Iran’s retaliation for the attack on its embassy in Damascus. Of the more than 330 missiles and armed drones fired by the Iranian military Saturday night, only about 165 actually got airborne and headed toward their target, Israel, a senior US Air Force officer told the outlet the Intercept, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “US intelligence estimates that half of the weapons fired by Iran failed upon launch or in flight due to technical issues,” the source said.
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/iran-attack-israel-drones-missiles/
# Military / Global
China sounds alarm after Philippines and US announce ‘mega drills’ involving 16000 soldiers: Issuing a warning against holding the drills, China’s Foreign Ministry said that the involvement of extra-territorial countries to show off their force in the South China Sea will only provoke confrontation and undermine regional stability.
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/philippines-us-drills-china-balikatan-b2530691.html
Israel Continues to Pound the Gaza Strip Amid Reports U.S. Approves of Rafah Land Invasion: Israeli forces have killed at least 11 people, including five children, in strikes on the southern city of Rafah. Israel has repeatedly attacked the city ahead of an expected ground invasion.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/02/rafah-invasion-gaza-israel-displaced-hamas/
U.S. signs off on more bombs, warplanes for Israel: Despite a widening rift with the Israeli government, the Biden administration continues to authorize the transfer of 2,000-pound bombs and other weapons
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/29/us-weapons-israel-gaza-war/
Japan showed off the destroyer it’s turning into an aircraft carrier for F-35 stealth fighters: JS Kaga was helicopter carrier identified as a destroyer refitted with to carry F-35 jets. The Kaga will now undergo sea trials, and its results will help with the upgrades on another ship.
https://www.businessinsider.com/japan-shows-off-upgraded-aircraft-carrier-capable-of-launching-f35s-2024-4#:~:text=Japan%20says%20first%20modification%20work,the%20upgrades%20on%20another%20ship
Japan Solidifies US Relations With Upgraded Aircraft Carrier: U.S. treaty ally Japan is a step closer to fielding its first aircraft carriers since World War II following modifications to a helicopter destroyer, which will soon launch and recover American-made fifth-generation fighter jets.
https://www.newsweek.com/japan-js-kaga-helicopter-destroyer-aircraft-carrier-upgrade-china-us-alliance-1888740#:~:text=U.S.%20treaty%20ally%20Japan%20is,made%20fifth%2Dgeneration%20fighter%20jets
# Security / Surveillance
Big Tech Says Spy Bill Turns Its Workers Into Informants: One of Silicon Valley’s most influential lobbying arms joins privacy reformers in a fight against the Biden administration–backed expansion of a major US surveillance program.
https://www.wired.com/story/iti-section-702-expansion-opposition/#:~:text=One%20of%20Silicon%20Valley’s%20most,a%20major%20US%20surveillance%20program
# Space / NASA / UFO Disclosure / Planetary
NASA’s chief says China is being ‘very, very secretive’ and pretending its space projects aren’t linked to the military: NASA chief Bill Nelson accused China of secretly working on military projects in space. NASA believes Beijing is masking these projects as civilian efforts. Nelson often warns of dire consequences if China reaches the moon first. The US aims to do so by 2026.
https://www.independent.co.uk/space/nasa-china-space-military-masking-b2530718.html
Russia, China catching up to U.S. in space weaponry, new report finds: Russia has ramped up its space warfare capabilities over the last decade as it seeks to regain Soviet-era military advantages that were lost after the Cold War
https://spacenews.com/russia-china-catching-up-to-u-s-in-space-weaponry-new-report-finds/
Chinese satellite internet mission rounds off record year for global launches: China launched three low Earth orbit broadband test satellites Friday, completing a record-breaking year for launches globally.
https://spacenews.com/chinese-satellite-internet-mission-rounds-off-record-year-for-global-launches/
China to expand its space station, international astronaut selection underway: China is planning to expand its Tiangong space station with a multi-functional module to enhance its capabilities.
https://spacenews.com/china-to-expand-its-space-station-international-astronaut-selection-underway/
James Webb Space Telescope Discovery Reveals a Dark Matter Anomaly Related to Ghostly ‘Einstein Ring’: A remnant of the early universe discovered last year by the James Webb Space Telescope has yielded a few astronomical surprises, including an Einstein ring and other properties that are now helping astrophysicists unveil new insights into the mysterious nature of dark matter.
https://thedebrief.org/james-webb-space-telescope-discovery-reveals-a-dark-matter-anomaly-related-to-ghostly-einstein-ring/
# Technology
Google Fires 28 Workers for Protesting Cloud Deal With Israel: The fired workers included nine Google employees who were removed by police after occupying Google offices on Tuesday. Project Nimbus, a joint contract to provide the Israeli government and military with cloud and artificial intelligence services.
https://time.com/6968385/google-fires-workers-protesting-israeli-contract-project-nimbus/
Boston Dynamics’ robot Atlas being billed as ‘fully-electric humanoid’: Boston Dynamics replaces its flagship humanoid robot after 10 years with a completely new machine that looks like the Pixar lamp with a mechanical humanoid body.
https://www.livescience.com/technology/robotics/watch-boston-dynamics-newest-atlas-robot-wake-up-in-the-creepiest-way-possible
# Veterans
VA secretary: ‘We’re at a critical moment for shaping and securing veteran health care’: The $369 billion spending plan that the Department of Veterans Affairs proposes for fiscal 2025 is “a maintenance budget” that tightens the workforce and pulls back on construction but continues to prioritize disability and health care benefits for veterans.
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2024-04-11/veterans-affairs-budget-pact-act-suicide-homeless-13532333.html
Discounted internet access for millions of veterans will end June 1: A $14 billion internet subsidy program used by millions of veterans and their families will end June 1 unless lawmakers vote for its renewal.
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2024/04/17/internet-subsidy-used-by-millions-of-vets-troops-set-to-expire-in-may/
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