Voices, The Peoples News
January 7, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Gangs
Gov. Healey orders inspection of state-run shelters following migrant arrested with fentanyl, AR-15 at a Revere hotel. House Republicans also demand answers after Leonardo Andujar Sanchez arrested
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/01/06/gov-healey-orders-inspection-of-state-run-shelters-following-migrant-arrested-with-fentanyl-ar-15-at-a-revere-hotel/
Afghans arrive in the Philippines to complete visa processing for resettlement in US. Their arrival comes as part of an agreement between the Filipino and U.S. governments.
https://www.voanews.com/a/afghans-arrive-in-the-philippines-to-complete-visa-processing-for-resettlement-in-us/7925603.html
A caravan of migrants has left Tapachula, Mexico, on foot, attempting to cross the U.S. border before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. Sources say the majority of the caravan is from Venezuela. Mexican immigration authorities have stepped up efforts to deter and block the caravan from reaching Mexico City. Dubbed “Operation Carousel,” officials are negotiating with these caravans to travel to other Mexican states.”
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/migrant-caravan-tapachula-mexico/
As TdA expands in 22 states, Texas law enforcement continue crackdown
https://gazette.com/news/wex/as-tda-expands-in-22-states-texas-law-enforcement-continue-crackdown/article_fe6b69ca-ce4b-5d7c-86a5-2c1dd2d9363a.html
# Children / Youth
Kids Are Huffing Galaxy Gas Until They Get Tremors, Limps and Losing Bowel Control. Flavored nitrous oxide is the newest drug to sweep America’s youth and it sounds like folks are already developing debilitating addictions and alarming side effects.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kids-huffing-galaxy-gas-until-201254734.html
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
National debt to increase $196 billion after Social Security Fairness Act signed
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_da7263e2-cc5e-11ef-bdce-bbab9a224583.html
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Federal employee unions are trying to block Trump’s agenda. Federal employee unions are trying to block Trump’s agenda
https://thehill.com/regulation/labor/5044129-trump-fight-federal-workers-contract/
Pro-Trump Pundit Says Elon Musk Is Trying To Distract From Fact He ‘Sided With Foreign Workers Over American Workers’
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/pro-trump-pundit-says-elon-musk-is-trying-to-distract-from-fact-he-sided-with-foreign-workers-over-american-workers/
It’s the third working day of 2025 – and some CEOs have already made the average worker’s yearly salary
https://www.indy100.com/news/ceo-earnings-average-uk-salary
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
House GOP sets sights on expanding oil drilling and weakening federal land protections
https://www.ehn.org/house-gop-sets-sights-on-expanding-oil-drilling-and-weakening-federal-land-protections-2670750571.html
Mining concerns put Arizona community’s water future at risk
https://www.dailyclimate.org/mining-concerns-put-arizona-communitys-water-future-at-risk-2670757119.html
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Congress Is Setting Up for a Public Lands Sell-Off. On Friday, the House of Representatives for the 119th Congress approved a rules package that reintroduces a provision making it easier for lawmakers to cede control of federal lands to local authorities. That, in turn, could result in vast swaths of the West being opened up to drilling or auctioned off to private owners, according to critics.
https://heatmap.news/sparks/house-rules-public-lands
Climate change worsens global water cycle, driving extreme droughts and floods
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/01/250106133458.htm
# General News
Senate Budget Committee Investigation into Nazi-Linked Credit Suisse Accounts Yields Extensive New Findings, Reveals Bank’s Historic Pattern of Obstruction. Independent Ombudsperson’s Interim Update to Committee at Close of 118th Congress Provides New Details, Promises Comprehensive Final Report
https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/senate-budget-committee-investigation-into-nazi-linked-credit-suisse-accounts-yields-extensive-new-findings-reveals-banks-historic-pattern-of-obstruction
Trump Actually Seems Serious About Buying Greenland and Canada. Donald Trump is starting to take his preposterous joke seriously.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-actually-seems-serious-buying-142707866.html
# Gov / Politics
Team Trump Admits Jack Smith Found Evidence of Vast ‘Criminal Conspiracies’
https://apnews.com/article/trump-jack-smith-election-supreme-court-0b9969b480036bb1f7c61a73980d406c
Also: Breaking down evidence in newly unsealed filing in Trump election case. The filing cites previously unknown accounts offered by Trump’s closest aides to paint a portrait of an “increasingly desperate” president who, while losing his grip on the White House, “used deceit to target every stage of the electoral process.”
https://apnews.com/article/trump-jack-smith-election-supreme-court-0b9969b480036bb1f7c61a73980d406c
Trump threatens to fire presidential archivist to prevent future classified docs charges
https://time.com/7205121/trump-promises-to-replace-national-archivist/
Trump’s attorneys reviewed draft of final special counsel report and want it blocked from public release
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/07/trump-special-counsel-report-blocked
Trump Struggles to Staff Ranks After Using Loyalty Tests to Vet Candidates
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-struggles-staff-ranks-using-224500350.html
Columnist warns America is in the middle of a decade of ‘dangerous instability.’ The emerging political violence in the United States is indicative of a more serious threat to American democracy, and the country appears to have reached a turning point, wrote the Atlantic’s Stephen Marche.
https://www.rawstory.com/political-violence-2670751308/
Stephen Colbert Gives Trump Supporters A Serious ‘Reality’ Check About Jan. 6
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/stephen-colbert-gives-trump-supporters-113504697.html
Trump escalates plans to acquire Greenland after resident pleads: Trump’s push for Greenland grows stronger after resident urges, ‘Buy us. Buy Greenland’, criticizing Danish exploitation. Donald Trump, after a Greenlander’s plea to ‘buy Greenland’, pushed for US ownership, claiming it would benefit the island. His son, Donald Trump Jr., is set to visit Greenland.
https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/trumps-greenland-acquisition-push-intensifies-after-resident-urges-buy-us-we-dont-get-our-riches-11736259048225.html
Trump Jr arrives in Greenland after dad says US should own the territory. During his first term as president, Donald Trump expressed an interest in buying the Arctic island. He was rebuffed then, as he has been now. When asked about Trump Jr’s visit to Greenland, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told Danish TV that “Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders” and that only the local population could determine their future.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yv10knyd9o
US in negotiations with Taliban to swap Americans in Afghanistan for prisoner in Guantanamo
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1269646-us-in-talks-with-afghan-taliban-to-swap-detained-americans-for-guantanamo-prisoner
# Gov / Politics / Global
Musk Completely Derails UK Political Establishment, Accuses PM’s Party Of Pakistani Rape Gang Cover-Up. Elon Musk ignited a political firestorm in the UK after accusing Prime Minister Keir Starmer of being complicit in grooming gangs’ “rape of Britain.”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/06/elon-musk-keir-starmer-grooming-rape-gang-islamic-cover-up-prime-minister-labour/
‘I find it worrying’: European leaders fire back after Elon Musk’s hostile X posts. Starmer has joined the leaders of France and Germany in responding to a series of hostile posts by Musk backing far-right political parties and attacking leftwing politicians in Europe.
https://nationalpost.com/video/fa60f19a-cc64-11ef-8530-32073a9663ca/european-leaders-hit-back-at-elon-musk-following-his-hostile-posts
“We’ve seen this playbook before”: British PM says Elon Musk is spreading “lies and misinformation”
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/06/weve-seen-this-playbook-before-british-pm-says-elon-musk-is-spreading-lies-and-misinformation/
# Law Enforcment / ATF / FBI / CIA
Miami Police Body Camera Video Of US Olympian Fred Kerley’s Violent Arrest Seems To Contradict Cops’ Story. Arrest footage renews familiar questions about police use of force
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2025/01/04/fred-kerley-arrest-footage-police-use-of-force/77443113007/
# Medical / Health News
Father of hospital NICU attack victim says babies had one thing in common, they wee all boys. Virginia nurse Erin Strotman charged with child abuse, malicious wounding after newborns suffered ‘unexplainable’ bone fractures
https://www.foxnews.com/us/father-hospital-nicu-attack-victim-says-babies-had-one-thing-common
Americans’ rage at insurers goes beyond health coverage – the author of ‘Delay, Deny, Defend’ points to 3 reforms that could help
https://theconversation.com/americans-rage-at-insurers-goes-beyond-health-coverage-the-author-of-delay-deny-defend-points-to-3-reforms-that-could-help-246598
# Medical Technology
Health insurers limit coverage of prosthetic limbs, questioning medical necessity
https://bioethics.com/archives/95453
# Military / Malitia / Bioweapons / General News
US transfers 11 prisoners out of Guantánamo Bay
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/7/us-transfers-eleven-yemeni-detainees-from-guantanamo-bay-prison-to-oman
# NASA / Space Force
Ex-NASA astronaut probes ‘military link’ after shock near-miss with ‘two metallic orbs flying at 150mph’ at 9,000ft. He credited ‘dumb luck’ with his survival that day
https://www.the-sun.com/tech/13218529/ex-nasa-astronaut-ufo-military-link-metallic-orbs/
Elon Musk Trying to Scrap NASA’s Moon Program. “The Moon is a distraction.”
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-scrap-nasa-moon-program
# Other Interesting Things
Unexpected shift of ancient ‘Wheel of Ghosts’ structure has archaeologists baffled. Recent research has revealed an unexplained shift in one of the stones that form the wheel’s central axis which means it hasn’t consistently lined up with celestial bodies.
https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/wheel-of-ghosts-astronomical-purpose
# Pharmaceuticals
Pharmaceuticals could be an overlooked source of PFAS contamination. The medications we rely on daily may be leaving a toxic legacy in our water, as wastewater treatment plants struggle to filter out fluorinated chemicals linked to serious health risks.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/06/climate/forever-chemicals-pfas-drinking-water-drugs-wellness/index.html
# Science
Scientists Finally Solve the Mystery Behind Basketball-Sized Octagons They Kept Finding on Arctic Seafloor
https://www.iflscience.com/scientists-kept-finding-octagons-on-the-seafloor-now-they-know-why-69751
# Social
‘Absolutely disgusting!’ rages woman over eviction notice for 900 families leaving them with ‘nowhere to go.’ Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park will be redeveloped into an affordable housing facility.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/13229226/eviction-notice-lil-abner-mobile-home-park-sweetwater/
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence / Global
Top secret ‘living lab’ robot city of the future built near volcano will welcome first human residents later this year. Toyota has been building its Woven City since 2021 which will serve as a test ground for driverless cars, smart homes and robotics.
https://www.the-sun.com/tech/13233734/toyota-woven-city-futuristic-robot-humans-moving-in/
# Veterans / VA
VA to waive co-pays for Whole Health medical services, aims to assist Veterans in becoming more actively involved in their health care and continue to seek services through these important programs.
https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2025/01/06/va-to-waive-co-pays-for-whole-health-medical-services/
# Water
Water disputes and sewage woes test U.S.-Mexico diplomacy
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/16/nx-s1-5075171/water-treaty-mexico-united-states
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