Voices, The Peoples News
January 1, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Cartels / Trafficing
Experts warn Trump’s plan to name cartels ‘terrorists’ could open door to military operations in Mexico. President-elect’s latest suggestion threatens to escalate tensions between the U.S. and Mexico
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-mexican-cartels-terrorist-organizations-b2672186.html
Lawler contends US must face depopulation ‘reality’ amid H-1B visas debate
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3271880/lawler-us-depopulation-reality-h-1b-visa-debate/
See also: The H-1B program applies to employers seeking to hire non immigrant aliens as workers in specialty occupations
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/immigration/h1b
Knife-wielding Tren de Aragua gangbangers are repeatedly attacking border crossings in desperate move to force their way into US before Trump takes office
https://www.aol.com/knife-wielding-tren-aragua-gangbangers-113808272.html
Armed Tren de Aragua gang members attacking US border crossings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlSYkqisEg
Mexican immigration agent killed by Venezuelan migrants near Texas crossing where Tren de Aragua threatened to attack Texas troops
https://nypost.com/2024/12/31/world-news/migrants-accused-of-killing-mexican-border-agent-who-asked-for-id-papers/
Drone discovers ‘narco tunnel’ between Arizona, Mexico
https://www.newsweek.com/drone-drug-tunnel-us-mexico-border-2007897
Migrants allegedly beat Mexican agent to death
https://www.yahoo.com/news/migrants-allegedly-beat-mexican-agent-190536258.html
# Business / Industry / Corporations / Global
Chinese Companies Have Sidestepped Trump’s Tariffs. They Could Do It Again.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/trade/exports/insights/chinese-companies-have-sidestepped-trumps-tariffs-they-could-do-it-again/articleshow/116845821.cms?from=mdr
On December 26, 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an order in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. et al. v. Garland et al., that effectively pauses beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements established by the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA).
https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2024/12/corporate-transparency-act-nationwide-injunction-in-place-again
# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
New breed of nearly invincible bed bugs that are 20,000 times tougher to kill is discovered
https://www.mentalfloss.com/genetic-mutations-make-bed-bugs-hard-to-kill
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Billionaire Bill Ackman says he expects Trump to privatize the nation’s two largest government-owned lenders
https://www.newsbreak.com/trending/top/Ackman-Predicts-Trump-to-Privatize-Lenders
Congress Passes Social Security Reform That Could Help Few, Harm Many
https://www.newsbreak.com/videos/3736867566194-congress-passes-social-security-reform-that-could-help-few-harm-many?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3MzU2NzYxNDM3MzE%3D
House Passes H.R. 82, the “Social Security Fairness Act of 2023”
https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/legis_bulletin_122324.html
Also: Social Security Fairness Act
https://www.afscme.org/about/downloadable-asset/118th%20Social%20Security%20Fairness%20Act%20030323.pdf
Republican proposes senior tax exemption as Democrats contemplate raising rates
https://www.aol.com/republican-proposes-senior-tax-exemption-212700225.html
Social Security Full Retirement Age to Increase in 2025: Starting with those age 62 in 2025, increase the normal retirement age (NRA) 1 month every 2 years until the NRA reaches 69. Also increase the age up to which the delayed retirement credit may be earned at the same rate (from 70 to 72). No change to earliest eligibility age.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/solvency/provisions/retireage.html#:~:text=C1.6-,Starting%20with%20those%20age%2062%20in%202025%2C%20increase%20the%20normal,change%20to%20earliest%20eligibility%20age
Schmitt on H-1B program: ‘American workers have been left behind by this economy’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/eric-schmitt-h-1b-visa/2024/12/29/id/1193241/
# Education / Schools
Anytime can be the right time to explore STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). Explore our favorite experiments, engineering challenges and demonstrations with these fun hands-on STEM activities! Materials are easy to find, most activities take an hour or less, and the STEM learning is limitless.
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/stem-activities
20 End of year science activities
https://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/articles/20-end-of-year-science-activities/?srsltid=AfmBOoo-vcYo8c9KvIhSlaU3SQeSpiBPZoCsXD5GEIr5RQEFKlftWhCX
17+ Fun and Easy Science Experiments for Kids
https://www.splashlearn.com/blog/kids-science-experiments-to-make-learning-engaging/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Global
Ukraine halts transit of Russian gas to Europe after a prewar deal expired
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-gas-transit-supplies-gazprom-7775fea34a7be9723b991d835a7ebd6f
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM [Bureau of Land Management]
Government buys Grand Teton National Park land for $100 million to protect from developers
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/experience/national-parks/2024/12/31/wyoming-grand-teton-national-park-kelly-parcel/77357410007/
Huge US underwater volcano set for imminent eruption after ‘swelling’ warning. Axial Seamount, situated a striking 470 km off the Oregon coast and well beneath sea level, is showing tell-tale signs of being ready to burst in 2025. Scientists herald this advanced notice of an impending eruption as “pretty unique” and an impressive accomplishment.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14237183/underwater-volcano-west-coast-erupt-2025.html
Outgoing Biden Interior Department announces flurry of new wilderness protections
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5059879-biden-admin-proposes-environmental-protections/
Scientists Horrified by What They Found Under the Doomsday Glacier. It’s never good when a report on a glacier includes the phrase “vigorous melting.” Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate and could be on an irreversible path to collapse, spelling catastrophe for global sea level rise
https://www.good.is/scientists-who-drilled-deep-into-doomsday-glacier-startled-by-what-they-found-beneath-its-concerning
# Foods / Things that impact your health
Top 9 Cheapest and Healthiest Green Veggies
https://www.dfdrussell.org/cheapest-and-healthiest-veggies/
# General News
Pennsylvania Amish Build 12 Houses In Less Than Two Days For North Carolina Hurricane Victims
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2024/12/25/amish-from-pennsylvania-built-homes-in-boone
Elon Musk Assumes New X Identity Linked to White Supremacists
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3736877347334-elon-musk-assumes-new-x-identity-linked-to-white-supremacists?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3MzU2NzYxNjQzMTY%3D
Fact Check: Texas Banned Shariah Law in December 2024? No, But 2017 Bill Was Described as ‘Anti-Islamic’: In 2017, Texas passed a bill regulating foreign legislation in “certain family law cases” but it did not specifically mention Shariah law.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/anti-shariah-law-texas/
Anti-Sharia Bill Dead, but Sentiment Alive. Third time not a charm for foreign law ban in Texas
https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2015-05-22/anti-sharia-bill-dead-but-sentiment-alive/
New Jersey drones mystery ‘just the beginning’ with huge announcement ‘in 30 days’
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/drone-crisis-just-beginning-expert-34403108
# Gov / Politics
Congress just committed a ‘New Years Eve ethics massacre’: Schuman accuses both Republicans and Democrats on the committee of passing rule changes that make corruption easier to get away with. “Under the cover of the New Years’ holiday, Ethics Committee Democrats and Republicans pulled a fast one, legalizing a money laundry blatantly corrupt.”
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/congress-just-committed-a-new-years-eve-ethics-massacre-watchdog/ar-AA1wM1FY
Trump plan ‘would provide legal framework’ for unilateral attacks in Mexico: Foreign policy experts are warning that President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to designate drug cartels as terrorist organizations could give him authorization to launch military strikes inside of Mexico.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/trump-plan-would-provide-legal-framework-for-unilateral-attacks-in-mexico-expert/ar-AA1wM52X?ocid=avres007
US imposes new sanctions on Iranian and Russian entities for election influence
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2024/12/31/us-sanctions-iranian-russian-entities/77353399007/
Mike Johnson Gets More Terrible News as Republican Skepticism Grows: Mike Johnson’s bid to hold on to the speaker’s gavel just got a whole lot more difficult.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-johnson-gets-more-terrible-161549727.html
North Carolina governor commutes 15 death row sentences in final day in office. Roy Cooper’s historic clemency action comes a week after Biden’s resentencings shielded dozens from execution
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/31/north-carolina-governor-commutes-death-row-sentences
# Gov / Politics / Global
Russia rejects Trump’s Ukraine peace proposals
https://nypost.com/2024/12/30/world-news/russia-rejects-trump-teams-proposed-peace-deal-for-ukraine/
Why has Russia rejected Trump’s Ukraine truce plan? Vladimir Putin and top Russian diplomat Sergey Lavrov have said a deferral in Ukraine’s NATO entry won’t be enough.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/30/why-has-russia-rejected-trumps-ukraine-truce-plan
# Law Enforcment / ATF / FBI / CIA
FBI seizes its largest ever cache of homemade explosives from alleged extremist’s farm
https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/fbi-largest-cache-homemade-explosives-virginia-vvwkj5n5h
2 security guards shot after confronting shoplifting suspect in Los Angeles
https://www.yahoo.com/news/2-security-guards-shot-confronting-184626983.html
A Black inmate’s fatal beating at New York prison ignited outrage: Here’s what we know about the case
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/new-york-prison-death-robert-brooks-b2672132.html
NYC jail staff blocked medics from treating 23-year-old woman with a possible case of scarlet fever who died weeks later
https://apnews.com/article/rikers-island-death-charizma-jones-1c6886fdededfe2d73db3ce74333c56a
Ten dead after driver rams truck into New Year’s Eve crowds at ‘speed & fires weapon’ in New Orleans ‘terror attack’
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2025/01/01/10-dead–30-injured-after-car-plows-into-a-crowd-in-new-orleans
# Media
New law in Texas requires parental consent for children to use social media
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/state/2024/09/13/scope-act-texas-hb-18-social-media-children-personal-data-online-judge-robert-pitman-block/75178891007/
# Medical / Health News
Frantic hunt for ‘unknown abuser’ breaking babies bones at Virginia hospital after seven infants in NICU are found with fractures
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3736689958656-frantic-hunt-for-unknown-abuser-breaking-babies-bones-at-virginia-hospital-after-seven-infants-in-nicu-are-found-with-fractures?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3MzU2NzYyODgzMjQ%3D
# Military General News
Guantánamo Detainee Held Without Charge for Over Two Decades Is Repatriated. There are now 26 detainees remaining, the majority of whom have never been charged and have been approved for release. The move came as the Biden administration faced pressure to clear the notorious military prison of all uncharged detainees before Donald Trump takes office.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/guantanamo-detainee-repatriated
# Military / DOD / Militia
U.S. amplifies strikes on Yemen’s Houthis as tensions with Israel flare. The latest round of strikes occurred as the United States and its ally Israel struggle to halt a campaign of regional assaults by the Iranian-backed militant group.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-strikes-houthi-targets-yemen-warships-attacked/
# NASA / Space Force
US prepares to de-orbit International Space Station amid China competition
https://jang.com.pk/en/28368-us-to-deorbit-international-space-station-amid-space-rivalry-with-china-news
# Other Interesting Things
Archaeologists Found 115,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Where They Shouldn’t Be. They might just rewrite the history of human migration.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a63304852/ancient-human-footprints-discovered-migration-history/
# Space / Solar / Lunar / Atmosphere / Astronomy
How Voyager 1 is still bringing us surprises from the very edge of our solar system
https://www.the-independent.com/space/voyager-1-surprises-nasa-solar-system-b2669118.html#:~:text=Out%20there%2C%20they%20are%20used,that%20would%20otherwise%20be%20impossible
What Voyager Found at The Edge of The Solar System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOKGaCGdZeQ
Gravity Mapping Detects Large Hidden Structures Under Surface of Mars. The Red Planet may not be as geologically “dead” as once believed.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/hidden-structures-under-mars-surface?utm_term=Futurism%20//%2012.31.2024&utm_campaign=Futurism_Newsletter&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence / Science
Scientists Want To Entangle Human Brains With Quantum Computers To Learn About Consciousness
https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-entanglement-in-neurons-may-actually-explain-consciousness
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence / Global
Self-driving ‘humanoid robot’ with AI and remote control capabilities will start building cars as soon as 2026. The third generation of GoMate was unveiled by the state-owned Guangzhou Automobile Group at an event in Shanghai.
https://aibusiness.com/automation/humanoid-robot-to-build-cars-for-chinese-automaker#close-modal
Unitree’s B2-W robot dog gets an epic upgrade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ue2pLsBkCM
What Makes Unitree B2-W the Most POWERFUL Robot Yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPMIWeW4yOU
# Transportation / Travel
Real ID required for travel starting in 2025. Starting May 7, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will enforce the use of REAL ID at airports and some federal facilities.
https://www.dps.texas.gov/section/driver-license/federal-real-id-act
# Weather
Map shows where Arctic blast will arrive today – and there’s more to come
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/map-shows-arctic-blast-arrive-883172
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