Voices, The Peoples News
August 1, 2024
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous / Global
Democratic Republic of Congo ordered to return land to Indigenous Batwa: The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has ordered the Democratic Republic of Congo to return ancestral lands to the Indigenous Batwa people, who were forcibly evicted for a national park.
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# Borders / Immigration
Armed and untouchable: ICE’s history of deadly force An analysis of six years of shootings by immigration agents reveals a rogue force whose officers sometimes recklessly fire their weapons. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has kept its use of deadly force secret. Until now.
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Texas begins flying migrants from southern border to Chicago. The first plane carried over 120 people
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Migrant crossings along the southern border increase as officials prepare for larger spike
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# Corporations / Industry / Business
A big Amazon ruling means it now has to recall over 400,000 dangerous or faulty third-party products in the US
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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
The Highly Infectious FLiRT Variants Behind the Summer Covid Wave: The latest dominant Covid variants have stronger infectiousness than their predecessors and the ability to evade vaccine-induced antibodies.
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# Drugs / Trafficking / Cartels
Biden to call on Congress and agencies to take action aimed at curbing flow of fentanyl
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Business leader shot dead after complaining about cartel extortion: Hours later on Tuesday, Julio Almanza was shot to death outside his offices in the city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas. ”We are hostages to extortion demands, we are hostages of criminal groups,” Almanza said in one of his last interviews.
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# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Why your Social Security payments may no longer be safe: A ruling found that Social Security payments can count as income when determining alimony payments. Those benefits can be garnished to pay alimony, among other obligations.
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# Education / Schools
Biden admin Title IX rule blocked in four more states, bringing total to 26
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# Employment / Labor
UAW Rips ‘Corporate Greed’ of John Deere as Mass Layoffs Follow $43 Billion in Stock Buybacks:”John Deere’s reckless layoffs and job cuts are an insult to the working class people of Iowa and Illinois,” said the United Auto Workers.
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# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
Unregulated oilfield power lines are suspected of sparking Texas wildfires: No state agency is taking responsibility for making sure the privately built lines that power many oil and gas sites are safe. Such lines have been blamed for sparking two recent Panhandle fires.
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# Environment / Climate / Chemicals / Infrastructure / Water Saharan dust moving into Central Texas
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How Soon Might the Atlantic Ocean Break? Two Sibling Scientists Found an Answer and Shook the World:The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is like a huge heat pump, taking water from the tropics to the north, warming areas in Europe. But as climate change accelerates, AMOC is becoming less stable.
It might even be headed to a shutdown.
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# Food / Farming / Bioengineering / Chemicals Black and other minority farmers are getting $2 billion from USDA after years of discrimination
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# General Recalls / Alerts
Amazon Has to Recall More Than 400,000 Dangerous Products: Regulators found that Amazon is responsible for defective products sold by its third-party vendors, which include flammable pajamas, faulty carbon monoxide detectors, and hair dryers that could electrocute you
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# General News
Memorable Moments When Former President Jimmy Carter and Willie Nelson Shared the Stage and Their Lifelong Musical Bond
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Kevin Piette, paraplegic since an accident, made history today by carrying the Olympic flame with his exoskeleton!
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Heirs to $35 Billion Fortune Face Off Over Atlanta’s Controversial ‘Cop City’: Cox Enterprises’ CEO led a fundraising effort for an Atlanta police training center. His cousin cashed out of the family business and is trying to stop the project.
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Atlanta’s Cop City Is Funded by Some of the Same Billionaires Who Back AIPAC: Donors to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee are underwriting a thin blue line between Israel and Cop City.
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The city of Atlanta wants to build a $90 million police training facility. If constructed, “Cop City” would be one of the largest militarized police training centers in the country
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Dark Money Just Got Darker: Wall Street Helped Fund Project 2025: Financial giants are helping wealthy donors funnel cash to Project 2025 and other extremist causes with zero transparency or tax repercussions.
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Influencer went to the West Bank to see if Palestinians support Hamas – he almost didn’t make it out alive
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San Diego Comic-Con at center of human-trafficking sting: Undercover law enforcement posed as “sex buyers” to contact potential victims and identify their traffickers during the three-day operation.
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# Gov / Politics / Global
Russia and West ‘prepare for prisoner swap’: A series of mysterious movements of Western prisoners inside Russia on Wednesday prompted hopes of a prisoner swap
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What a response looks like and when it comes is now anyone’s guess. The assassination of Ismail Haniyeh has the entire Middle East on an absolute knife’s edge.
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The United States and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history on Thursday, with Moscow releasing Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan in a multinational deal that set some two dozen people free, according to officials in Turkey, where the exchange took place.
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UN Experts Call for Israel Arms Embargo to End Illegal Occupation of Palestine. Outside pressure is crucial to ensuring Israel comply with International Court of Justice orders to end the occupation, they said.
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# Gov / Politics
Far Right Project 2025 Is Ending Its Public Push, But It’s by No Means Dead: The Trump campaign has tried to distance itself from Project 2025, despite deep connections to the far right manifesto.
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Trump-Aligned Project 2025 Would Mean Higher Taxes for Workers, ‘Corporate Welfare’ for the Rich. “The ultra-wealthy would get hefty handout while families suffer. We can’t let that happen,” said Sen. Martin Heinrich, the chair of the Joint Economic Committee.
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Trump’s ‘Project 2025’ would take away many of our hard-won rights and freedoms
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Austin pledges $500M in security aid to Philippines amid uncertainty: The aid is the latest sign of the strengthening security ties between the United States and The Philippines
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Ohio Senator J.D. Vance quietly threw his constituents’ health under the bus again. He discouraged government’s top environmental regulator from cracking down on steel industry pollution, though it’s sickening workers and communities.
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Billionaire oil CEO says Democrats are ‘starting to recognize’ the green energy push is ‘all a fallacy’
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DNC to kick off virtual roll call vote to formally nominate Kamala Harris
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‘Blame It on Kamala Harris’: VP Gave Lenient Plea Deals to Murderers, Domestic Abusers as DA Prosecutor who worked under Harris said she lacked ‘guts and the willingness to go after tough cases’
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Christian Nationalists Pursue State Capture — and North Carolina Is Exhibit A: North Carolina gubernatorial hopeful Mark Robinson exemplifies the Christian right’s sinister agenda. North Carolina is among the southern states that should be regarded as canaries in the coal mine for “state capture”: the process by which the far right is wresting control of U.S. politics in spite of representing a minority of the population’s views.
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The Republican War on Voter Initiatives Rolls On. Though the Michigan Supreme Court just struck down the most outrageous GOP attempt at voter nullification.
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Kamala Faces Her First Political Test: Defend Lina Khan, or Buckle to Corporate Power. Billionaires have launched a public campaign to axe their FTC adversary
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DOJ inspector general report explores how close Trump came to invoking Insurrection Act in Minnesota after George Floyd’s death and in DC
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Republicans Block Bill That Would Have Cut Taxes For Families
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Schumer Introduces ‘No Kings Act’ to Undo Supreme Court’s Presidential Immunity Ruling. “Congress has an obligation to act as a check and ensure that the president does not become a king,” an expert said in praise of Schumer’s move.
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Uncommitted Movement Demands DNC Speech for Doctor Who Volunteered in Gaza. “As American bombs fuel violence and suffering in Gaza, it is imperative that the Democratic Party hear directly from those who witness the atrocities firsthand.”
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FBI Issues Election Information Warning. Federal agencies issued an alert of a possible cyberattack targeting the November elections, warning that a specific hacking technique could prevent access to critical election information.
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# Law Enforcment / ATF / FBI / CIA
Police unions often defend their own. But not after the Sonya Massey shooting.
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# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court New Leak Exposes SCOTUS Rift Over Trump Immunity Case
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# LGBTQ / Gender
Federal protections of transgender students are launching where courts haven’t blocked them
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U.S. judge upholds LGBTQ student protections, a win for the Biden administration: Trump-appointed federal judge refused to block the anti-discrimination protections, breaking with six other judges who have said the rules are invalid.
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# Media
Russia has reportedly agreed to free Americans Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan in a multi-country prison swap.
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# Media / Global
Israel Kills Al Jazeera Journalists Ismail Al-Ghoul and Rami Al-Rifi in Gaza. The pair were widely known for their coverage of northern Gaza amid Israel’s genocide.
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# Medical Science / Technology
Researchers may have found the cause of autism: They believe that this newfound knowledge could be “crucial” for understanding, diagnosing, and even preventing autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
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# Military / DOD / NATO / Militia
SES Space and Defense secures US Air Force Air Combat Command contract
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Chinese warships off Alaska and Cambodia highlight the role of near and far waters in sea power dominance
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# Military / Nuclear / Global
Ukraine receives first F-16 fighter jets to bolster defenses against Russia, officials tell AP
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Ukraine just showed its low-cost, lightweight drones can destroy a Russian helicopter, Russian sources say
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# Other Interesting Things / Archaeology / Anthropology / Astronomy The world of BEYOND THE ICE WALLS FULL LORE & Explanation The Second Ring Beyond the ice walls: Map introduction and analysis (1)
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The world of BEYOND THE ICE WALLS FULL LORE & Explanation (2)
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Controversial Physicists Say They Are About To Test Whether We’re Living In A Simulation. They claim the quantum experiment would show if reality is rendered to us at the point of observation.
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# Security
Trump splits with GOP lawmakers on national security, raising alarm: National security-minded Republican lawmakers are alarmed by what they see as a growing split between themselves and former President Trump on key issues, including the war in Ukraine, preserving the NATO alliance and protecting Taiwan from Chinese aggression.
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# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
Watch a beetle-inspired micro-robot spread its wings and fly
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Researcher Uses Laser to Steal Data From a Tiny Chip: At Black Hat, an extremely persistent researcher shows how to steal information from a chip using a laser. But the average person probably shouldn’t worry too much about laser-based attacks.
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Hours left until August 1 ‘Jetson’s law’ allows flying cars to hit the streets – as US paves way for ‘roadable aircraft’
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Robocars can improve city traffic: When robot vehicles make up just 5% of traffic in our simulation, traffic jams are eliminated. Surprisingly, our approach even shows that when robot vehicles make up 60% of traffic, traffic efficiency is superior to traffic controlled by traffic lights.
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# Transportation / Travel
Biden admin proposes ban on airlines charging parents extra to sit next to children on flights
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United, Delta suspending flights to and from Tel Aviv amid rising tensions: “We continue to closely monitor the situation and will make decisions on resuming service with a focus on the safety of our customers and crews,” the spokesperson said.
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