Voices, The Peoples News
January 15, 2025, PM
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Tribal Lenders Say They Can Charge Over 600% Interest. These States Stopped Them. Online lenders tied to Native American tribes argue that they aren’t subject to state lending laws, but they backed away from operating in six states where attorneys have acted forcefully to protect consumers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/states-tribal-lenders-high-interest-rates
# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs
Venezuela Immigration Now a Weapon Against the US
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/4443814-how-venezuelas-dictatorship-is-weaponizing-the-us-border-crisis/
United States to Resume Removals of Venezuelans Who Do Not Have a Legal Basis to Remain in the States
https://www.state.gov/united-states-to-resume-removals-of-venezuelans-who-do-not-have-a-legal-basis-to-remain-in-the-united-states-to-venezuela/
This New Immigration Bill That’s About to Pass Is a Horrifying Trojan Horse
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/laken-riley-act-immigration-bill-trojan-horse.html
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Trump is on a collision course with the bond vigilantes
https://politicalhotwire.com/t/donald-trump-is-on-a-collision-course-with-the-bond-market-vigilantes.291294/
What Will Trump Do to the US Economy? Donald Trump has made a wide range of economic promises, many of which threaten to blow up the deficit and fuel inflation. But powerful institutional, political, and economic constraints, together with Trump’s capriciousness, have spurred disagreement about how worried we should be.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/what-will-trump-do-to-the-us-economy
Could Bond Vigilantes Hostage US Policy Makers? Rising Bond Yields Threaten To Spoil The Party. The skidding US Treasury market is moving oppositely to China’s plunging bond yields (rising bond prices) and also against latest economic trends.
https://capitalwars.substack.com/p/could-bond-vigilantes-hostage-us
Bond vigilantes could make a comeback if Donald Trump follows through on some of his promised policies
https://moneyweek.com/investments/bonds/will-bond-vigilantes-come-for-donald-trump
U.S. Reps. Jason Smith (R-MO) and Ron Estes (R-KS) are seeking information from the Social Security Administration commissioner on how beneficiaries will receive their benefits from two repealed programs.
https://financialregnews.com/u-s-reps-smith-estes-seek-information-from-social-security-administration-on-repealed-programs/
# Education / Schools / Global
Gov. Brian Kemp is proposing an additional $50 million for school safety grants, but his plan falls short of the increased counseling resources school officials want after four people were shot and killed at Apalachee High School in Winder in September
https://pro.stateaffairs.com/ga/legislature/kemp-school-safety-package
Hochul pitches plans for universal ‘free’ school meals. The governor also wants to make some community college programs free. But she didn’t touch the thorniest issue: the school funding formula.
https://nysfocus.com/2025/01/15/hochul-state-of-state-2025-education
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Supreme Court declines to hear from oil and gas companies trying to block climate change lawsuits
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-climate-change-oil-gas-companies-7548dbfe5cb38a9174330602cbef42c2
# Food General News / Recalls / Alerts
USDA documented insects, slime and ‘general filth’ at Boar’s Head plants, records show
https://apnews.com/article/listeria-boars-head-deli-meat-65c4016aea0fc9e8505350ebc7b41e39
Coca-Cola Bends the Knee to Donald Trump. Four years after criticizing January 6, Coca-Cola has reversed course and decided to honor Trump instead.
https://www.newsweek.com/coca-cola-donald-trump-inauguration-bottle-jan-6-criticism-2015086
FDA bans red dye No. 3 in foods, decades after additive found to cause cancer in rats
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/15/red-dye-3-fda-ban-food-additive-linked-cancer/
# Gov / Politics
Texas Governor Greg Abbott Breaks Federal Protocol
https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-raise-flags-texas-trump-inauguration-2014066
Texas has a powerful new House speaker in a blow to the GOP’s hard right
https://apnews.com/article/texas-house-powerful-new-speaker-4d9daceb85d38b13bbde8d924ab120cd
Trump Just Laid a Brutal Trap for Dems, and They’re Walking Into It. As some Senate Democrats try to amend the awful Laken Riley immigration bill, will the party unite to force Republicans to accept changes? The prognosis is not great.
https://newrepublic.com/article/190213/democrats-laken-riley-act-surrender-trump-worse
Paul Manafort Is Back to Wreck the World. Trump’s one-time aide-de-camp and bagman for corrupt foreign regimes is returning to his old stomping grounds, rolling back precious progress against a world of kleptocrats.
https://newrepublic.com/article/190164/paul-manafort-trump-foreign-agents
Inaugural Committees Are an Extortion Racket. Abolish them, and corporations might even say thank you.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/inaugural-committees-extortion-racket-110000136.html
The Sheer Weirdness of an Illegal Inaugural. Trump’s team may have violated some of the few campaign finance regulations that still apply to inaugural committees.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/sheer-weirdness-illegal-inaugural
Trump’s Rage at Jack Smith Weirdly Escalates as MAGA Threats Darken. As Trump’s anger at Jack Smith only grows and his pick for defense secretary signals ugly times ahead, a historian explains why Trump-MAGA may not be as invincible as they now appear.
https://newrepublic.com/article/190235/trumps-rage-jack-smith-weirdly-escalates-maga-threats-darken
A Year of Empty Threats and a ‘Smokescreen’ Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza. Israel repeatedly crossed Biden administration’s human rights red lines. U.S. continued to send weapons. Exclusive records and interviews reveal what happened inside the State Department.
https://www.propublica.org/article/biden-blinken-state-department-israel-gaza-human-rights-horrors
# Gov / Politics / Global
Why does Trump want Greenland? Former Denmark ambassador explains
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-trump-wants-greenland-canada-panama-canal-explained.html
Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire deal to pause the war in the Gaza Strip, the United States and Qatar, raising the possibility of winding down the deadliest and most destructive fighting between the bitter enemies.
https://apnews.com/live/israel-hamas-ceasefire-updates
# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
White Customers Put Black Man Accused Of Stealing In Chokehold: Witnessing another situation where a white man hems up a Black man in what could’ve been a fatal restraint
https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-mob-ganging-black-man-184813926.html
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
The Right-Wing Judge on a Mission to Destroy ESG Retirement Planning. The notorious Reed O’Connor is back with another one of his patented-troll decisions, this time threatening to upend the world of socially conscious investing.
https://newrepublic.com/article/190212/reed-oconnor-esg-investment-blackrock
# Medical / General News
Widow of a Black man found hanging in Alabama, challenges official suicide ruling. They said he committed suicide with his hands tied behind his back.We heard that one before.
https://www.newsbreak.com/normbond-1843108/3761269216179-widow-of-a-black-man-found-hanging-in-alabama-challenges-official-suicide-ruling
# Military General News / Global
Ukraine launches one of the largest missile and drone attacks of war into Russia
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/14/ukraine-launches-largest-air-attacks-on-russia-since-start-of-war
WW3 fears stoked by Russian general who threatens ‘inevitable’ strike on NATO country. Andrey Gurulev, a reservist general and hardline MP, said on Russian state TV that it is “inevitable” that Russia will eventually strike the UK with missiles that will “wipe it off the earth”
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/russia-uk-bomb-ww3-nato-34485731
Russian president Vladimir Putin wants you to believe that NATO is responsible for his February 24 invasion of Ukraine, that rounds of NATO enlargement made Russia insecure, forcing Putin to lash out. This argument has two key flaws.
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/what-putin-fears-most/
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has raised anew difficult questions of escalation management between nuclear powers. The United States made clear its support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and independence even though Ukraine is not a member of the NATO and not a formal ally of the United States.
https://sais.jhu.edu/kissinger/programs-and-projects/kissinger-center-papers/escalation-management-ukraine-response-russias-manipulation-risk
# NASA / Space Force / Space X
A NASA astronaut may have just taken the best photo from space—ever. During his third stay in orbit, Pettit is absolutely killing it.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/a-nasa-astronaut-may-have-just-taken-the-best-photo-from-space-ever/
SpaceX launches 2 private lunar landers to the moon
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-launches-2-private-lunar-landers-to-the-moon-photos
LA fires leave Deep Space Network mission control empty. Los Angeles fires leave NASA’s Deep Space Network mission control empty for 1st time in 60 years. Despite the evacuation of its Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, no space mission data has been lost, NASA says.
https://www.space.com/the-universe/los-angeles-fires-leave-nasa-deep-space-network-mission-control-empty-for-1st-time-in-60-years
# Other Interesting Things
The devilish mystery of Robert Johnson, the man who sold his soul to become a blues legend, it was a wild story but not a particularly uncommon one.
https://americansongwriter.com/robert-johnson-legacy-duress/
World’s rarest insect returns after a century of absence. There are plenty of other animals that have miraculously come back from the brink of extinction, and one such animal is the Lord Howe Island stick insect (Dryococelus australis), one of the world’s rarest insects.
https://www.thetravel.com/worlds-rarest-insect-found/
# Pharmaceuticals
FTC report exposes big pharma middlemen inflating drug prices by up to 7,736%. Report reveals big pharma middlemen inflating drug prices, reaping billions in excess revenue.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-releases-second-interim-staff-report-prescription-drug-middlemen
How Big Pharma Reaps Profits While Hurting Everyday Americans. The pharmaceutical industry leverages Washington’s culture of corruption to increase profits while everyday Americans suffer from high drug prices.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/big-pharma-reaps-profits-hurting-everyday-americans/
What the “Big Pharma” Accusation Gets Right (and Wrong) About the Drug Industry. Valid criticism of the pharmaceutical industry often snowballs into demonization, leading conspiracy theorists to promote an alternative that is simply hypocritical.
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-critical-thinking-health-and-nutrition/what-big-pharma-accusation-gets-right-and-wrong-about-drug-industry
# Social Media / Internet
Elon Musk Faces Fresh Heap of Legal Trouble Over Twitter. Musk is facing a new lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
https://newrepublic.com/post/190243/elon-musk-sec-lawsuit
# Space / Global
“Three Gorges Dam In Space”: China Reveals Plans To Build Giant Power Station In Earth’s Orbit. “The energy collected in one year would be equivalent to the total amount of oil that can be extracted from the Earth.”
https://www.iflscience.com/three-gorges-dam-in-space-china-reveals-plans-to-build-giant-power-station-in-earths-orbit-77633
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
TikTok reportedly plans ‘immediate’ Sunday shutdown in the US if it’s banned / The US federal ban will go into effect Sunday without a Supreme Court intervention.
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/15/24344299/tiktok-shutdown-us-ban-supreme-court
Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it. Microsoft has a serious problem on its hands, thanks to competition from … itself?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-has-a-big-windows-10-problem-and-only-one-year-to-solve-it/
# Veterans / VA
Veteran endures Social Security ‘nightmare’ waiting years for payments after being told staff ‘lied’ about crucial date. AN American veteran was forced to wait years to receive his Social Security disability benefits, enduring a back-and-forth nightmare.
https://www.the-sun.com/money/13295559/veteran-social-security-nightmare-disability-payments-staff-lied/
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