Voices, The Peoples News
August 13, 2024
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
A Wisconsin Tribe Built a Lending Empire Charging 600% Annual Rates to
Borrowers: The Lac du Flambeau tribe is at the center of a $1 billion class-action settlement that comes after years of fending off claims of predatory lending practices
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Washington State Solar Project Paused Amid Concern About Native Cultural Sites
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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Recalls
Building Collisions Are Killing as Many as 1 Billion Birds a Year in the U.S.
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# Corporations / Industry / Business
Apartments, hockey rinks and Amazon warehouses: Macy’s closures will set off a wave of change at shopping malls
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# Drugs / Trafficking / Cartels
Mexican prosecutors consider treason charges after US jails drug lord ‘El Mayo’ Zambada: The United States managed to arrest Mexico’s most-wanted drug lord, but Mexican prosecutors — and the president — now say they are considering bringing treason charges against those who handed him over.
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# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Global Western sanctions are so tight that Russia and China could soon use an ancient trading system. It’s worked before.
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# Employment / Labor
UAW Hits Trump, Musk With Federal Labor Charges Over Effort to ‘Intimidate Workers’
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# Environment / Climate / Chemicals / Infrastructure / Water U.S. Landfills Are Major Sources of Airborne PFAS Pollution
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U.S. Forest Service Orders Arrowhead Bottled Water to Stop Taking Water From San Bernardino Mountains
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# Environment / Climate / Chemicals / Infrastructure / Global
Warmest Sea Surface Temperatures in 400 Years Present ‘Existential Threat’ to Great Barrier Reef
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# Food / Farming / Bioengineering / Chemicals
The Rise of Edible Bioplastics: In an unexpected development, companies are now developing something called bioplastic due to the skyrocketing amount of microplastics in both the environment, as well as within the human body itself.
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# Food / Alerts / Recalls / How-to
Another death reported in outbreak traced to Silk and Great Value plant-based beverages: A third person has died in connection with an outbreak of listeria linked to recalled plant-based refrigerated beverage products, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada.
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# Gov / Politics / Global
Hundreds of fleeing Rohingya reportedly killed in drone strikes as fears mount of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar
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Jordan will not be a battlefield for Iran or Israel, foreign minister warns
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Putin must explain how his war allowed Russia to be invaded – and offering locals £90 each won’t do it | Sergey Radchenko
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Israel Is Torturing Palestinian Prisoners to Death With US Complicity: Some Israeli leaders are pushing to legalize the torture and rape of Palestinians to avoid accountability.
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CCP Plans to ‘Activate Agents’ to Export Persecution Onto US Soil: A new Chinese Communist Party plot has been revealed through leaked documents and by whistleblowers.
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# Gov / Politics
US preparing for ‘significant’ Iran attack on Israel as early as ‘this week’
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The White House offered Putin a way to stop the Kursk invasion: ‘Get the hell out of Ukraine’
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Maricopa County agrees to test ballot tabulators used in elections, not just backup machines: “From now on, the same equipment used at vote centers will undergo rigorous testing,” the Arizona GOP said.
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After calling for cease-fire, Biden releases $3.5 billion in military aid to Israel amid global criticism
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# Juvenile / Children / Youth
‘Authoritarian Nightmare?’: Using AI Facial Recognition Technology to Verify Kids Ages
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# Law Enforcment / ATF / FBI / CIA
4 former officers accused of staging sham raid to extort nearly $37 million from California man
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# Medical / General News
With over 577,000 signatures verified, Arizona will put abortion rights on the ballot: Arizona voters will get to decide in November whether to add the right to an abortion to the state constitution.
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# Military / DOD / NATO / Militia
US, South Korea to begin second round of large-scale military drills aimed at North: The drills could trigger a belligerent response from North Korea, which portrays them as invasion rehearsals. During last year’s exercises, the North conducted ballistic missile tests.
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The Army will spend roughly three years studying the physics of shooting the hypervelocity projectile from 155mm cannons.
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# Military / Nuclear / Global
China’s air force is again being called out for ‘dangerous’ moves over the South China Sea, this time for popping flares in front of a US ally’s aircraft
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Marcos condemns China’s ‘illegal and reckless’ actions over disputed reef
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Houthis suspected of attacking a third ship in the Red Sea
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Iraq Militia Warns US and Israel over ‘Unified’ Strike from Iran and Allies
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Maps: Ukraine’s incursion into Russia forces Moscow to make an important decision
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Philippines protests Chinese jets’ firing of flares in patrol plane’s path
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Russia left ‘mainly kids’ and conscripts to defend its borders, Ukrainian soldier says after surprise attack
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Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia has embarrassed Moscow. What it means for the conflict: If Ukraine manages to hold on to some of its Kursk gains, that would strengthen Kyiv’s hand in future peace talks
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Yemen’s Houthis seized UN rights office in Sanaa, UN official says
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Poland adding to air defense arsenal as US approves $850 million missile deal
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Poland buys 96 Apache helicopters to boost attack capabilities: Once the 96 aircraft are delivered, the Polish military will be the Apache’s second largest user in the world, preceded only by the U.S. military.
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# Other Interesting Things / Archaeology / Anthropology / Astronomy Newly deciphered, 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets used lunar eclipses to predict major events: Ancient Babylonians linked astronomical phenomena to pestilence, the death of kings and the destruction of empires
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# Pharmacy / Pharmaceuticals
The Pharmacy Guild recently launched and aims to create the first national pharmacy union in the U.S. But it has a difficult road ahead going up against giants like Walgreens and CVS. Still, its organizers expect the union to be successful.
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First Walgreens Pharmacists File to Join New National Union: The group of 10 pharmacy professionals marks the first set of Walgreens employees to file to join the Pharmacy Guild, as well as the first group in Washington state to do so, according to the union.
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# Veterans / VA
Republican Project 2025 Takes Dead Aim at Veterans’ Health and Disability Benefits
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Project 2025 VA Disability: What could change in your VA benefits with this project? The project proposes profound revisions to the Agent Orange Act and the PACT Act.
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Pentagon will begin cognitive tests for all troops to track effects of weapons blasts
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