Voices, The Peoples News
December 12, 2024
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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People talk about being Gen this or Gen that. Out of curiosity,
I researched to see what Gen I am from. Here are the results …
| Generations | Born | Current Ages |
| GenX | 1965–1980 | 44–59 |
| Boomers II (a/k/a Generation Jones)* |
1955–1964 | 60–69 |
| Boomers I* | 1946–1954 | 70–78 |
| Post War | 1928–1945 | 79–96 |
| [This Post War is where I am. Where do you fit in this timeline?] | ||
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
New data reveals America has tens of thousands of noncitizens from US adversary with deportation orders
https://www.yahoo.com/news/data-reveals-america-tens-thousands-222519333.html
One Of Trump’s Most Provocative Talking Points Isn’t Even Legal To Do: Trump’s threat appears to take immigration enforcement into uncharted ground. There is no mechanism to deport U.S. citizens, regardless of their parent’s status.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-trump-really-means-when-he-threatens-to-deport-americans_n_675a0209e4b04fd5c3670754
Trump’s border czar reveals which city is first for mass deportations. Trump’s pledge to arrest, detain and deport people living in the country without legal permission as part of his “day one” agenda would deploy federal, state and local law enforcement into immigrant communities across the country starting in Chicago
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-border-czar-reveals-city-174959741.html
“Who’s Willing to Get Arrested?” Immigrant Activists Ready for Trump Deportation Plans. Immigrant rights organizers and activists have a playbook from the last Trump presidency, but worry of less funding and more fatigue.
https://theintercept.com/2024/12/09/trump-deportation-immigrants-activists/
Also: The Intercept has been reporting from the front lines and the borderlines, exposing the lies and the inhumanity of U.S. immigration enforcement agencies.
https://theintercept.com/collections/the-war-on-immigrants/
She Was Separated From Her 1-Year-Old at the Border. The Government Wouldn’t Tell Her Why. U.S. officials can withhold their rationale in family separation cases that relate to national security. There have been about 80 children separated for these reasons this year, with an estimated 50 of them Russian.
https://www.propublica.org/article/family-separations-biden-russian-immigrants
Some migrants choosing to self-deport ahead of Trump presidency
https://www.yahoo.com/news/migrants-choosing-self-deport-ahead-221145872.html
Trump to strip ICE restrictions to enforce mass deportation. ICE restrictions have been in place since 2011 Officials say new policy will make agency’s job easier. An estimated 11 million illegal immigrants live in U.S.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/trump-strip-ice-restrictions-mass-deportation/
# Business / Industry / Corporation
NASA Nighttime Images Reveal Arctic Industrial Activity: A map shows a pan-Arctic view of nighttime lights and places where the intensity of artificial lights has increased (yellow), decreased (purple), or stayed the same (green). The team used nighttime satellite observations from the U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153659/nighttime-lights-reveal-industrial-activity-in-the-arctic
Trump’s Corruption Business Officially Expands in Saudi Arabia. New tower shows Trump unconcerned with ‘being beholden to a foreign state’: On Wednesday, Eric Trump took to social media to announce a new Trump Organization project in Saudi Arabia: Trump Tower Jeddah.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/new-tower-shows-trump-unconcerned-with-being-beholden-to-a-foreign-state-writer/ar-AA1vHfM8
Unless We Rebuild Manufacturing, Trump’s Tariffs Are Bad News for Small Business
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-tariffs-trade-china-small-business-mexico-1987609
# Cartels / Gangs / Drugs / Trafficking
Human trafficking up 25% globally as demand for young girls fuels growth
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3256018/human-trafficking-rises-globally-young-girls-un-report/
Also: UNODC global human trafficking report: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/2024/December/unodc-global-human-trafficking-report_-detected-victims-up-25-per-cent-as-more-children-are-exploited-and-forced-labour-cases-spike.html
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
Musk and Ramaswamy’s DOGE, a cocktail of corruption, illegality, and harm. A nascent federal advisory committee poised to violate open government rules, declared goals that are unattainable, and an underlying agenda that’s unpopular.
https://www.newsweek.com/musk-ramaswamys-doge-cocktail-corruption-illegality-harm-opinion-1998706
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Helene: Aid package of $227M goes through on veto override. State assistance of another $227 million to western North Carolina in the recovery from Hurricane Helene is going forward, the veto override of a Senate bill completed Wednesday by the state House of Representatives.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/north_carolina/article_ad0d5210-b820-11ef-97f3-bb1dbfcbd3a1.html?a&seyid=39246
29 House Republicans want Trump to scrap the IRS’s free direct tax filing tool on day one of his presidency
https://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-trump-scrap-irs-free-direct-tax-filing-tool-2024-12
Rich boomers refusing to retire are throwing a wrench into the $84 million Great Wealth Transfer, HSBC warns
https://fortune.com/2024/12/11/great-wealth-transfer-hsbc-report/
Steve Bannon warns GOP Congress will give wealthy and corporations ‘massive’ tax breaks
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3711903729298-steve-bannon-warns-gop-congress-will-give-wealthy-and-corporations-massive-tax-breaks
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Nuclear
Julian Brown, 21, has gone viral on Instagram for his invention, “Plastoline,” which converts old plastics into usable fuels such as gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. Brown’s passion for this project began in his teenage years, and he has been refining his idea ever since
https://www.tiktok.com/@atl5d/video/7446971375669120302
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Nuclear / Global
Canada Threatens to Cut Power to U.S. Over Trump Tariffs
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/11/ontario-premier-threatens-cut-off-energy-supply-us-00193895
Ontario premier says US energy exports will be cut off if Trump imposes sweeping tariffs on Canada
https://apnews.com/article/canada-interest-rate-cut-trump-tariffs-c0ef920ffb02ea0531c93516abad64e0
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure
Elon Musk Gloats as Trump Announces Billionaires Will Be Exempt From Normal Environmental Rules
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-trump-billionaires-exempt-environmental-rules
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / Global
The Arctic is changing. And not for the better, scientists say. The Arctic tundra , a critical “carbon sink” for thousands of years, is now releasing more of the greenhouse gas than it takes in, scientists have announced.
https://www.newsbreak.com/the-independent-517119/3711753671671-the-arctic-is-changing-and-not-for-the-better-scientists-say
# Food / Farming / Bio-engineering
Cancer warning issued over popular cooking oil that is ‘poisoning’ Americans. A new study looked at the tumors of more than 80 patients with colon cancer and found that seed oils may raise the risk of the disease
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14177541/cooking-oils-colon-cancer-young-people-study.html
# Food Recalls / Alerts
# Foods / Things that impact your health
The role of herbal medicines in treatment of urinary tract diseases
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5297587/
Common Plants Offer Relief for Urinary Diseases. Certain herbs and vitamins may help prevent UTIs and resolve uncomplicated infections. But if you have severe symptoms, you may need medical attention.
https://us.supersmart.com/en/blog/prostate-urinary-health/5-plants-recognized-benefits-for-urinary-health-s199
# Gov / Politics
Mitch McConnell Says Trump Win Puts Americans In A ‘Very Dangerous World’: The GOP’s outgoing Senate leader said he plans to spend his final two years in office pushing back against the Trump-fueled isolationism within his party.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-trump-americans-dangerous-world_n_675a09cae4b02802b83c4117
McConnell Warns Trump’s Isolationism Is Reminiscent of Pre-World War Two Dangers. “Even the slogan is the same. ‘America First.’ That was what they said in the ’30s.” Rogers reported further on their exchange
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/even-the-slogan-is-the-same-mcconnell-warns-trumps-isolationism-is-reminiscent-of-pre-world-war-two-dangers/
“The core definition of authoritarianism is that the executive overwhelms the other branches of government and all checks on power and the situation of the president, or head of state, are removed,” Ben-Ghiat, the author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present,”said.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ruth-ben-ghiat-george-conway-trump-second-term_n_675aa697e4b0518821f250dc
Also: Authoritarianism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism
Also: Dictatorship: https://www.britannica.com/topic/dictatorship
Missouri introduces ‘Donald Trump’ bill that makes it legal for people with felonies to run for office
https://thehill.com/homenews/5036799-donald-trump-missouri-law-felony-candidacy/
The Republicans’ plan to redefine US citizenship is Authoritarianism 101
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/5032536-trump-birthright-citizenship-authoritarian-threat/
Senior GOP Senator Secretly Refusing to Bend the Knee to Trump. Incoming Majority Leader John Thune has a plan to defy Donald Trump.
https://newrepublic.com/post/189266/donald-trump-nominations-senate-republican-john-thune
The Federalist Society Will Soon Be Under New Management. Here’s what we know about the major players jockeying to lead the linchpin organization of the conservative legal movement.
https://newrepublic.com/article/189076/judicial-extremists-run-federalist-society
Eric Trump Drops Unnerving Hint About His Dad’s Coming 2025 Corruption. As Donald Trump’s son sends surprisingly clear signals about what’s coming, an expert on kleptocracy explains why conditions are ripe for the new Trump oligarchy to launch an extraordinary corruption spree.
https://newrepublic.com/article/189292/eric-trump-drops-dark-ominous-hint-dads-coming-2025-corruption
# Gov / Politics / Global
Ukrainian spies ‘gun down top Russian missile scientist in Moscow’ in latest assassination
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1987790/ukraine-assassinates-russian-missile-scientist-moscow
Putin’s Hidden Vulnerability. To Break the Kremlin’s War Machine, the West Must Exploit the Grievances and Fears of Ordinary Russians
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/putins-hidden-vulnerability#
Putin Is Already Escalating His War on the West. The reality is that the war has already sprawled and escalated, just not quite in the ways many observers might expect.
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/putin-is-already-escalating-his-war-on-the-west/
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Trump Has Sick Plan for Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Donald Trump’s team is prepared to use the Justice Department for its “war on woke.”
https://newrepublic.com/post/189250/trump-plan-justice-department-civil-rights-division-war-woke
Dem undermines GOP Afghanistan hearing with photo of Trump official meeting with Taliban
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3711306721897-dem-undermines-gop-afghanistan-hearing-with-photo-of-trump-official-meeting-with-taliban
Trump May Have Just Cost Himself a Bunch of Allies. Donald Trump will avoid accountability. But will his alleged partners in crime?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-lot-pissed-off-ex-180113795.html
# LGBTQ / Gender
Republicans Sneak Anti-Trans Health Care Provision Into Defense Bill. The proposal would codify explicitly anti-LGBTQ+ policy into federal law for the first time in decades.
https://theintercept.com/2024/12/10/republicans-anti-trans-health-care-ndaa/
# Media
This Is How Trump’s Department of Justice Spied on Journalists. In a new report, the Justice Department’s inspector general found that the agency violated its own rules to snoop on reporters.
https://theintercept.com/2024/12/11/trump-justice-department-spied-journalists-congress/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
He Quit His Job to Protest the Media Bending to Trump. Here’s What He Thinks the Press Needs to Do Now. Federal anti-SLAPP legislation didn’t pass in 2022. Does it have a chance now? SLAPP suits formally, [Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation] are designed to prevent people from exercising their free speech. A common example is a person suing a media outlet after unfavorable coverage—attempting to bankrupt journalists from lawyers’ fees, even if, in the end, the outlet wins the case. Such suits are already illegal in 34 states. But, on the federal level, there’s no such legislation.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/trump-raskin-slapp-federal-law/
# Medical / Health News
Democratic Lawmakers Raise Concerns About Medicare Privatization Under Dr. Oz. Several Democratic lawmakers are raising new concerns about Dr. Mehmet Oz’s previous push to privatize Medicare as he’s on the cusp of overseeing the program.
https://www.chiefhealthcareexecutive.com/view/democratic-senators-wary-of-mehmet-oz-running-medicare-citing-past-push-for-privatization
“The Patient Had A Heart Attack And Died Before They Could Get The Approval”: Medical Professionals Are Sharing 19 Times They’ve Witnessed Insurance Companies Fail A Patient
https://www.yahoo.com/news/medical-professionals-sharing-infuriating-stories-173217042.html
More than 20,000 pregnancies in the United States end in stillbirth each year. These losses are not inevitable. At least 1 in 4 U.S. stillbirths is likely preventable.
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/before-a-breath-stillbirth-documentary-callout#:~:text=More%20than%2020%2C000%20pregnancies%20in,of%20stillbirths%20may%20be%20preventable
Leaked Video Shows Insurance CEO Gloating About Denying Care, Calling Critics Delusional. Following the assassination of his colleague Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth Group made some eyebrow-raising remarks. Witty addressed employees in a company-wide video in which he justified their practice of stamping out “unnecessary” health coverage.
https://futurism.com/neoscope/insurance-ceo-gloating-deny-care
# Military General News
Mystery NJ drones are coming from Iranian mothership offshore, congressman suggests: ‘Should be shot down.’ “We have information that a sea-based Iranian drone mothership is currently missing from port, and that its embarkation timeline would align with the appearance of the New Jersey Drones,” he wrote the president in a letter obtained by Agudath Israel of America news.
https://www.aol.com/news/mystery-nj-drones-coming-iranian-174145078.html
Pentagon shoots down Iran ‘mothership’ claim amid drone mystery. The drones, some reportedly the size of small cars, have been described as operating near military installations and critical infrastructure including Picatinny Arsenal and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. United States government does not have similar technology.
https://www.newsweek.com/drones-new-jersey-iran-jeff-van-drew-1999348
FBI says it has no answers for drones seen over New Jersey
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/northeast/fbi-no-answers-drones-new-jersey/
# Military / DOD / Militia
US intelligence warns Russia may use deadly new IRBM Oreshnik hypersonic missile ‘in coming days’
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/12/11/us-warns-russia-may-be-ready-use-new-lethal-missile-against-ukraine-again-coming-days.html
# Other Interesting Things
Researchers Finally Cracked the Source of Strange Ice Rings in Siberia’s Lake Baikal, Leaves Them Baffled. The rings were the result of methane gas rising from the lake floor.
https://knewz.com/world/researchers-finally-cracked-the-source-of-strange-ice-rings-in-siberias-lake-baikal-leaves-them-baffled/
# Pharmaceuticals
The FDA Hasn’t Inspected This Drug Factory After 7 Recalls for the Same Flaw, 1 Potentially Deadly. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals issued seven recalls for pills that didn’t dissolve properly, records show. All were made at the same factory in India. But the FDA still hasn’t stopped the company from shipping other pills made there to the U.S.
https://www.propublica.org/article/glenmark-pharmaceuticals-recalls-fda-oversight?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=river
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