Month: October 2022

Voices, The Peoples News

October 7, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration
New York’s Sneaky Tactic to Stop Abbott’s Migrant Bus Stunts: Two more buses arrived in the city from Texas on Friday morning. This time, however, the NYPD Highway Patrol’s Motor Carrier Safety Unit was waiting.
https://www.theusexpressnews.com/new-yorks-sneaky-new-tactic-to-suppress-greg-abbotts-migrant-bus-stunts/

States deploy about 2,500 National Guard troops to U.S.-Mexico border: Nearly two dozen states are sending National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to help federal immigration officials grapple with an unprecedented surge of undocumented migrants
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/states-deploy-about-2-500-national-guard-troops-to-u-s–mexico-border/article_b043558a-440d-11ed-98b5-37b300fa8344.html

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
The Covid-19 Booster Has a Public Relations Problem: FDA review and an emergency approval as expected—AstraZeneca is undoubtedly facing another public relations debacle. The U.S. misstep comes on the heels of a rolling series of stumbles, fumbles and roadblocks in Europe. Its initial data reports left out explanations about dosage mistakes that spawned confusing data.
https://www.fiercepharma.com/marketing/again-astrazeneca-faces-public-relations-problems-as-regulators-push-back-wording-and

What happens when you get Covid a second or third time: More people are getting COVID-19 twice, suggesting immunity wanes quickly in some. Reinfections give scientists clues about how long protection lasts, and how well vaccines might perform. Reinfections hint that immunity against COVID-19 may be fragile and wane relatively quickly, with implications not just for the risks facing recovered patients, but also for how long future vaccines might protect people.
https://www.science.org/content/article/more-people-are-getting-covid-19-twice-suggesting-immunity-wanes-quickly-some

Are we missing COVID-19’s new symptoms? COVID-19 cases in the United Kingdom have recently risen 14% in what may be the beginning of an “autumn wave.” People there who turn up positive for COVID-19 are reporting that their first symptom is a sore throat. That is different from the first symptoms you may be alert to; fever and loss of smell are really rare now.
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2022/are-we-missing-covid-19s-new-symptoms/

# Education / Schools
Little Boy Says Teachers Taped His Mouth and Threw His Lunch Away, Ordering Him Not to Tell Parents:
His reply came as a shock to Hoda. She had never thought her son would go through something so cruel. He was a high-achiever who was always eager to learn new things, and his teachers had never complained about his behavior. Hoda was stunned to hear what Abdul said happened inside his classroom.
https://news.amomama.com/290571-little-boy-says-teachers-taped-his-mouth.html

Uvalde School District Suspends Its Police Force: District says activities have been halted ‘for a period of time’ amid investigation of response to May massacre
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/07/uvalde-school-district-police-suspended

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
U.S. Delivers Angry Rebuke of Massive OPEC+ Production Cut — And It Could Backfire for Saudi Arabia
https://www.bpfnews.com/index.php/en/commodity/103-energy/73110-u-s-delivers-angry-rebuke-of-massive-opec-production-cut-and-it-could-backfire-for-saudi-arabia

U.S.-Saudi relations take a hit as OPEC cuts oil production: Analysts say the decision by Saudi-led OPEC, and the Biden administration’s reaction, underscores the depths of a widening rift: Relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia reached a new low Wednesday, as Saudi-led OPEC voted to slash oil production amid a global run-up in energy prices.
The decision represented a win for Russia, which coordinates oil policy with OPEC and is seeking to bolster the value of its exports. It also comes a month before the midterm elections in the United States, where high energy prices are likely to be a central issue.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/u-s-saudi-relations-take-a-hit-as-opec-cuts-oil-production-2/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
Russia and Saudi Arabia agree to massive cuts to oil output. Here’s why it matters
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/05/1126754169/opec-oil-production-cut

Locals in the dark about oil auctions in DRC:  in some of the regions marked for auction, most people are unclear on the government’s plans and wary of what they might mean for local livelihoods. In a report released by Greenpeace Africa along with a group of international and Congolese NGOs, villagers living inside four of the blocks said they’d been told next to nothing about the auctions and that they feared oil drilling could harm the ecosystems where they farm and fish.
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/locals-in-the-dark-about-oil-auctions-in-drc-report/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
To stay or to go: Increased flooding forces towns to make hard choices: Increased rainfall and repetitive flooding strain aging infrastructure in many towns across the Mississippi River Basin. Staying put in the face of flooding can be dangerous and is growing increasingly costly. Property taxes are the largest source of tax revenue for local governments in most states, but property value declines as flood risk increases.
https://www.wwno.org/coastal-desk/2022-10-06/to-stay-or-to-go-increased-flooding-forces-towns-to-make-hard-choices

Scientists scramble to find reason for spate of whale deaths in Argentina: At least 15 whales have been found dead in recent days, and micro algae could be to blame
https://www.zmescience.com/science/scientists-explore-reasons-behind-spate-of-whale-deaths-in-argentina-050102022/

# Environment / Climate / Global
600 Million Metric Tons of Plastic May Fill Oceans by 2036 If We Don’t Act Now: Global plastic waste is expected to triple by 2060 as fossil fuel stakeholders pursue new revenue in petrochemicals.
https://truthout.org/articles/600-million-metric-tons-of-plastic-may-fill-oceans-by-2036-if-we-dont-act-now/

# General Information / Other News
Trump Erased Millions of Possible PPP Fraud Flags in Last Days in Office: Officials cleared nearly all potential fraud flags given to loans above $2 million just days before Trump left office.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-erased-millions-of-possible-ppp-fraud-flags-in-last-days-in-office/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russians Terrified as Putin Hunkers Down in Nuclear Bunker: For the first time, Russians are starting to believe that their isolated and out-of-touch leader really could launch a nuclear weapon. Solely a handful of individuals know the precise location the place President Vladimir Putin is celebrating his seventieth birthday in St. Petersburg on Friday, however critics say he spends increasingly more of his time remoted deep inside nuclear bunkers.
https://realnewshub.com/russians-terrified-as-putin-hunkers-down-in-nuclear-bunker/

Hijab rules have nothing to do with Islamic tenets and everything to do with repressing women: Imposing restrictions on women has been a way for many countries to demonstrate to the world what policies they want to pursue. The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was held by Iran’s morality police for not complying with the country’s hijab rules has drawn global attention to the repression of women in Iran.
https://theconversation.com/hijab-rules-have-nothing-to-do-with-islamic-tenets-and-everything-to-do-with-repressing-women-191475

How Israelis, Islamists dehumanize each other: Amid reports of Israeli army abuses during the recent war in Gaza, psychologists examine the state of mind that can lead to inhumane acts of aggression.
https://www.thestar.com/news/2009/03/21/how_israelis_islamists_dehumanize_each_other.html

‘End War in Ukraine’ Say 66 Nations at UN General Assembly:  The 66 nations that called for peace in Ukraine make up more than a third of the countries in the world and most of the Earth’s population
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/29/end-war-ukraine-say-66-nations-un-general-assembly

# Gov / Politics / US
Census data hides racial diversity of US ‘Hispanics’– to the country’s detriment: Countries across the Americas are tweaking their census to better understand their population, allowing them to create more responsive policies. The US still has a ways to go. In recent decades, many Latin American nations have officially recognized their Indigenous and Afro-descendent populations as distinct groups with unique histories, cultures, foods and languages.
https://theconversation.com/census-data-hides-racial-diversity-of-us-hispanics-to-the-countrys-detriment-191042

No Treats, Only Tricks: Republicans Try to Ruin Halloween With Fake Rainbow Fentanyl Threat: Republican senators are trying to convince parents that the cartels are in the house down the block, handing out synthetic opioids to kids
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/no-treats-only-tricks-republicans-195212248.html

Russia warns US of ‘direct military clash’ if more arms sent to Ukraine:     “We perceive this as an immediate threat to the strategic interests of our country.” Russia says the United States’ decision to ship more weapons to Ukraine poses an “immediate threat” to Moscow’s interests and hikes the risk of a direct military confrontation between Russia and the West.
https://parstoday.com/en/news/world-i185932-russia_warns_us_of_’direct_military_clash’_if_more_arms_sent_to_ukraine

# Law Enforcement
A Pennsylvania prison gets a Scandinavian-style makeover and shows how the US penal system could become more humane. A pilot project at a Pennsylvania prison is trying out lessons from Scandinavia that could offer some ideas for reforming US prisons. The United States has the largest number of people incarcerated  in the world – about 25% of all people imprisoned worldwide are in American prisons and jails.
https://theconversation.com/a-pennsylvania-prison-gets-a-scandinavian-style-makeover-and-shows-how-the-us-penal-system-could-become-more-humane-187834

# Legal / DOJ
Hunter Biden: reports say FBI has enough evidence for prosecution: Lawyer accuses federal agents of pressuring prosecutors with illegal leak about investigation of president’s son for alleged tax and gun purchase offences. “It is a federal felony for a federal agent to leak information about a grand jury investigation such as this one.”Chris Clark, Hunter Biden’s attorney, on media reports his client’s arrest is imminent.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/07/hunter-biden-reports-say-fbi-has-enough-evidence-for-prosecution

Justice Department Asking if Trump Stashed Documents in Trump Tower: Investigators have quizzed multiple witnesses about whether Trump is holding sensitive government documents at other properties outside Mar-a-Lago, including at his Manhattan tower and his New Jersey club
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-maralago-raid-fbi-tower-bedminster-1234607008/

# Marijuana / Hemp / CBD Oil
Biden Pardons Thousands Convicted of Marijuana Possession Under Federal Law: President Joe Biden is pardoning thousands of Americans convicted of “simple possession” of marijuana under federal law, as his administration takes a dramatic step toward decriminalizing the drug and addressing charging practices that disproportionately impact people of color.
https://apnews.com/article/biden-marijuana-government-and-politics-2d5e3d9e2cfbbbe3ee114536738894a8

# Medical / Health
Sex Educators On TikTok Are Trying To Empower People While Abortion Rights Are Under Attack: “When young people don’t have access to comprehensive sex education in schools, they naturally turn to other means, like their peers or the internet.”
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/sex-educators-tiktok-trying-empower-170102233.html

Young People Have Unanswered Questions About Abortion. Online Sex Ed Can Help: Young people today have seen very few victories for education, reproductive rights and social justice in their lifetimes, and have instead lived through numerous attacks on their very selves. Sadly, this moment, though a crisis, is not new for them.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2022-09-08-young-people-have-unanswered-questions-about-abortion-online-sex-ed-can-help

Abortion Bans Are Making It Harder for Some Cancer Patients to Get Chemotherapy: Now, some people have to travel out of state for their requisite abortions before getting cancer treatment.
https://truthout.org/articles/abortion-bans-are-making-it-harder-for-some-cancer-patients-to-get-chemotherapy/

Transplanting poop is the new frontier for fighting life-threatening intestinal infections: What was once regarded as a fringe treatment is now proving to be a crucial tool.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/transplanting-poop-is-the-new-frontier-for-fighting-life-threatening-intestinal-infections/

# Pharmas / Drugs
Steil Leads 116 Republicans on a Letter Demanding Biden Take Action on Fentanyl: Today, Congressman Bryan Steil (WI-01) led 116 Republicans on a letter to President Biden urging the Administration to take immediate action to stem the fentanyl scourge coming from China and across the southern border, and support making fentanyl related substances Schedule 1 classification permanent.
https://steil.house.gov/media/press-releases/steil-leads-116-republicans-on-a-letter-demanding-biden-take-action-on-fentanyl

# Science
3D map reveals DNA organization within human retina cells: NIH scientists shed light on how genetic architecture determines gene expression, tissue-specific function, and disease phenotype in blinding diseases.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/3d-map-reveals-dna-organization-within-human-retina-cells

How dormant bacteria come back to life even after millions of years of ‘slumber’: New research found spores can count environmental signals without expending metabolic energy, constantly monitoring for the right time to awaken.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/how-dormant-bacteria-come-back-to-life-even-after-millions-of-years-of-slumber/

# Technology / Medical
Nobel-winning quantum weirdness undergirds an emerging high-tech industry, promising better ways of encrypting communications and imaging your body. These technologies – some under development and some already on the market all rely on the non-intuitive quantum phenomenon of entanglement.
https://theconversation.com/nobel-winning-quantum-weirdness-undergirds-an-emerging-high-tech-industry-promising-better-ways-of-encrypting-communications-and-imaging-your-body-191929

How click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry are transforming the pharmaceutical and material industries. One click chemistry-based drug is currently undergoing phase 2 clinical trials. Bertozzi is a scientific adviser of the company developing the drug. Click chemistry, as the name suggests, is a way of building molecules like snapping Lego blocks together. It takes two molecules to click, so researchers refer to each one as click partners.
https://theconversation.com/nobel-prize-how-click-chemistry-and-bioorthogonal-chemistry-are-transforming-the-pharmaceutical-and-material-industries-191995

# Technology
The FCC Shouldn’t Pull the Plug on Broadband for Rural America: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is about to make a decision that could disrupt internet connectivity for hundreds of thousands of rural Americans.
https://dcjournal.com/the-fcc-shouldnt-pull-the-plug-on-broadband-for-rural-america/

Why Mastering Language Is So Difficult for AI: Scientist and author Gary Marcus argues that deep learning, a form of artificial intelligence that finds patterns in massive datasets, is not as promising as the hype. But now, people are finally willing to consider hybrid models that combine deep learning with more classical approaches to AI.
https://undark.org/2022/10/07/interview-why-mastering-language-is-so-difficult-for-ai/

Digital Maps Require Greater Government Oversight:  To prevent unwanted abuses, the United States should take an active role in regulating certain aspects of digital maps, especially with respect to their GPS navigation and advertising practices. We rely more on mobile navigation apps than we realize. It’s a mistake to overlook them when regulating Big Tech.
https://undark.org/2022/10/06/opinion-digital-maps-require-greater-government-oversight/

Apple Leads Smartphone Industry Into Anti-Consumer, Environmental Hell: Apple’s domination of the U.S. market has enabled anti-consumer and environmental issues to be overlooked or ignored.
https://truthout.org/articles/apple-leads-smartphone-industry-into-anti-consumer-environmental-hell/

# Veterans / VA
House of Prayer, a Church Accused of Squeezing Veterans for Benefits, Stripped of GI Bill Eligibility: A church former members have described as a cult has lost its GI Bill eligibility after two decades of allegedly bilking Bible school students out of millions of dollars of veterans benefits.
https://darik.news/northcarolina/house-of-prayer-a-church-accused-of-squeezing-veterans-for-benefits-stripped-of-gi-bill-eligibility/719290.html

# Water
More water restrictions likely as California pledges to cut use of Colorado River supply: With the Colorado River in crisis and reservoir levels continuing to decline, officials with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California said they plan to endorse mandatory conservation measures next year to begin rationing water for cities and local agencies that supply 19 million people across six counties.
https://www.waternewsnetwork.com/more-water-restrictions-likely-as-california-pledges-to-cut-use-of-colorado-river-supply/


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Voices, The Peoples News

October 6, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration
The Number Of Desperate Immigrants Who Die While Trying To Get Into The US Keeps Rising, “There’s no hope on the horizon,” one nonprofit director told BuzzFeed News. There have been 748 immigrant deaths at the border, CNN reported. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has not officially released the numbers and declined to provide them.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/immigrants-us-border-deaths-rising

# Children / Youth
Researchers find elevated lead levels at child care facilities across N.C: Aging buildings and plumbing fixtures are the main culprits, according to a study that included data from thousands of facilities.
https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2022/10/06/researchers-find-elevated-lead-levels-in-n-c/

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
‘Breathless’ explores COVID-19’s origins and other pandemic science: Echoes of what had happened nearly 20 years earlier, thousands were infected and at least 774 people died before the SARS outbreak was brought under control, sent ripples of anxiety throughout the virology world. Scientists of all backgrounds rushed to understand the new scourge, dubbed SARS-CoV-2.  Hospitals around the world were soon overwhelmed, and daily life for billions of people was thrown into disarray.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/breathless-book-covid-19-pandemic-coronavirus

CDC V-safe Data: Hundreds of Thousands of Americans Sought Medical Care After COVID Vaccination:  The reports were made to the CDC’s V-safe program, a new vaccine safety monitoring system to which users can report issues through smartphones. The CDC released the data to the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) after being sued over not producing the data when asked by the nonprofit.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-vsafe-data-americans-medical-care-covid-vaccination-et/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=44f7bd60-be97-4484-958f-eb5df2a187cd

New study reveals possible brain mechanisms behind COVID-19 delirium: Researchers from King’s College London have shown that when brain cells are directly exposed to blood taken from COVID-19 patients with delirium, there is an increase in cell death and a decrease in the generation of new brain cells. Delirium represents a state of confusion indicating that, in these patients, the COVID-19 infection had impacted the brain.
https://neurosciencenews.com/covid-delirium-neurogenesis-21579/

Why is monkeypox losing chunks of genes? In some samples of the monkeypox virus, large chunks of the genome seem to have disappeared or moved to entirely different spots in the sequence. It’s too early to tell whether the mutations are beneficial, neutral or harmful to the virus. Scientists are monitoring the situation carefully to understand why the alterations have appeared, and what they might mean for the global monkeypox outbreak.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03171-z

# Education / Schools
Affirmative action bans make selective colleges less diverse – a national ban will do the same: America’s selective colleges and universities become less diverse if the Supreme Court shoots down affirmative action in higher education, an expert on the subject warns.
https://theconversation.com/affirmative-action-bans-make-selective-colleges-less-diverse-a-national-ban-will-do-the-same-189214

Student Debt Cancellation Plan Is Flatly Unconstitutional: When President Biden was asked at a 2021 town hall event about canceling student debt, he doubted it could be done without working through Congress: “I don’t think I have the authority to do it by signing with a pen,” the president said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/27/bidens-student-debt-relief-faces-first-major-legal-challenge-00059050

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
More than three-quarters of American households should have smart meters installed by the end of the year, but almost none of the devices are fulfilling promises of saving customers money, a study finds. 97% of smart meters fail to provide promised customer benefits. Can $3B in new funding change that? Less than 3% of 2009’s taxpayer- and ratepayer-funded smart meters now deliver full customer benefits, a recent study shows.
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/97-of-smart-meters-fail-to-provide-promised-customer-benefits-can-3b-in/632662/

‘Utility redlining’: Detroit power outages disproportionally hit minority and low-income areas: A recent report finds that DTE Energy has generally disinvested in its distribution grid in low-income and minority neighborhoods while spending more resources in wealthier, predominantly White areas.
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2022/oct/06/detroit-power-outages-impact-minority-low-income-neighborhoods

White House officials say they’re disappointed with an OPEC+ decision to cut oil production, saying the U.S. will release more fuel from its stockpiles to keep prices from spiking.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3674878-biden-disappointed-by-opec-decision-to-cut-oil-production/

Mississippi regulators adopt a new rule to incentivize rooftop solar for residents and schools, despite the objections from the state’s Republican governor and large utilities. Some lower-income customers who pay most of the cost of installing a system such as rooftop solar panels could receive a $3,000 rebate from their power company. Incentives are also available to 85 of the state’s 142 public school districts.
https://apnews.com/article/business-mississippi-tate-reeves-climate-and-environment-government-politics-abe293ac2671db8de45ee12f6db88b0a

A secretive legal system lets fossil fuel investors sue countries over policies to keep oil and gas in the ground: Experts are concerned that a legal mechanism called investor-state dispute settlement could affect countries’ moves to cut fossil fuel emissions. A new barrier to climate action is opening up in an obscure and secretive part of international trade law, which fossil fuel investors are using to sue countries if policy decisions go against them.
https://theconversation.com/a-secretive-legal-system-lets-fossil-fuel-investors-sue-countries-over-policies-to-keep-oil-and-gas-in-the-ground-podcast-191804

Gas flares are leaking five times as much methane than previously thought: The flares burn off methane at 91 percent efficiency. Achieving 98 percent efficiency would be like taking nearly 3 million cars off the road.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gas-flare-leak-methane-burning-climate

The Political Impacts of Rising Gas Prices: Unexplained refinery shutdowns and snap decisions by oil-producing nations can reverberate in the midterm elections.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/political-impacts-of-rising-gas-prices/

New analysis shows Big Oil’s continued and future price gouging: Oil prices dipped below $80 a barrel for the first time since January 2022, but consumers are paying 13 percent higher than the last time oil was this low.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2022/10/06/new-analysis-shows-big-oils-continued-and-future-price-gouging/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
In Rebuke to West, OPEC and Russia Aim To Raise Oil Prices With Big Supply Cut: Saudi Arabia and Russia, acting as leaders of the OPEC+ energy cartel, agreed on Wednesday to their first large production cut in more than two years in a bid to raise prices, countering efforts by the United States and Europe to choke off the enormous revenue that Moscow reaps from the sale of crude.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/oct/05/opec-and-its-allies-move-to-slash-oil-production-b/

The  response from the Biden administration and the domestic oil and gas industry was swift after OPEC+ ministers announced on Wednesday an agreement to further reduce the cartel’s oil exports by two million barrels of oil per day (bopd). “OPEC says no, SPR options all but gone. The White House has one option left and it is the one option they should have never turned away from in the first place, the US-based oil and gas industry. Life comes at you pretty fast…”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2022/10/05/big-opec-oil-production-cut-provokes-pointed-responses/?sh=4f6b9d3d1643

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
EPA’s chemical safety rule tests the Biden administration’s commitment to environmental justice: “Cure never happens, prevention never happens in a community where people are sacrificed for others’ gain.”
https://www.ehn.org/epa-environmental-justice-2658403944.html

EPA is ‘falling behind’ on power plant rules, report says: If the rules are issued in the waning days of Biden’s first term, a future Republican-controlled Congress could overturn them using the Congressional Review Act.
https://ground.news/article/analysis-epa-is-falling-behind-on-power-plant-rules-report-says

Florida’s waterways contaminated post-Ian, posing environmental and health risks: After a Category 4 hurricane the scale states that, ‘most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months.’ Experts warn significant and varying health concerns will also arise in the wake of a hurricane’s devastation.
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/hurricane-ian-impact-the-unexpected-health-effects

Climate change could turn some blue lakes to green or brown: As temperatures rise, more than 1 in 10 of the world’s blue lakes could change color, reflecting holistic shifts in lake ecosystems.
https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate/climate-change-could-turn-once-picturesque-blue-lakes-into-murky-green-or-brown/

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
This is the Great Reset: USDA Now Asking People to Register Their Vegetable Gardens for National Database:  In a move that has many folks scratching their heads, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has renewed its push for the People’s Garden Initiative which now includes registering vegetable gardens nationwide.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/the-state/usda-now-asking-people-to-register-their-vegetable-gardens-for-national-database

# General Information / Other News
Q&A: Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and Growing Inequality: Recovery gets complicated by uneven insurance coverage, haphazard emergency programs, and a reluctance to admit that rebuilding in vulnerable places is too risky.
https://prospect.org/environment/climate-change-natural-disasters-growing-inequality/

Trump’s Latest Revenge Fantasy: Purge the National Archives: The former president is telling confidants that the nonpartisan agency is full of “woke” operatives, and promising vengeance if he retakes the White House in 2024
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-national-archives-maralago-fbi-1234606476/

Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mess just got 10 times messier and 20 times stupider
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-s-mar-a-lago-mess-just-got-10-times-messier-and-20-times-stupider/ar-AA12G6sX?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=579c9f0d9d4845fa8ad863819257bb97

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russian forces launched a missile attack in Zaporizhzhia, killing at least one person and destroying residential buildings. Zaporizhzhia has faced an uptick in civilian attacks in recent weeks, with experts fearing this will only escalate now that President Vladimir Putin has signed his annexation plans into law.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/oct/06/russia-ukraine-war-ukraine-retakes-more-settlements-in-kherson-zelenskiy-says-un-nuclear-chief-heads-to-kyiv-live

Putin’s ‘Victorious’ Land Theft Is Already a Confusing Mess: Top Russian officials are beginning to admit that the Kremlin doesn’t even know where the borders of its newly illegally annexed land are.
https://realnewshub.com/putins-victorious-land-theft-is-already-a-confusing-mess/

Russia’s Elites Are Starting to Admit the Possibility of Defeat: The longer the conflict rages and the more resources the Russian regime throws into the furnace of war, the more isolated Putin may become in his bid for nuclear escalation. Troops melting away and Russians fleeing abroad to avoid mobilisation doesn’t augur well for Putin’s latest gamble
https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/88072

# Gov / Politics / US
With midterm elections weeks away and control of Congress and statehouses across the country on the line, a key question hangs in the balance: Who gets a say in the outcome? Despite the promise of “one person, one vote,” the answer to that question differs dramatically from state to state.
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/elections/who-counts/who-counts-in-voting/?utm_source=Watchdog&utm_campaign=c8cd0bbf55-Public%20Integrity%20Who%20Counts%20Email%2001%2010_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffd1d0160d-c8cd0bbf55-100375721&mc_cid=c8cd0bbf55&mc_eid=dc62c7adba

Blake Masters Is the Most Dangerous Candidate in America: What makes Arizona’s GOP Senate hopeful such a threat is that unlike a lot of other far-right politicians, he really believes what he’s saying. He needs to convince skeptical voters that he’s not actually as extreme as they think, and that all the crazy things they heard him say over the past year were just misrepresentations made up by Democrats and the media. But Masters is just as far outside the ideological mainstream as he let on during the primary.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blake-masters-most-dangerous-candidate-000107726.html

A progressive nonprofit group is suing Bexar County over its decision to close more than 40 polling places ahead of November elections. The group, the Texas Organizing Project, claims the county has approved about 130 fewer polling places than is required by Texas law.
https://www.sacurrent.com/news/civil-rights-group-sues-bexar-county-over-closed-san-antonio-polling-places-30017732

Outsourced censorship: Feds used private entity to target millions of social posts in 2020: Biden administration gave millions in tax dollars to groups after election, records show. Election Integrity Partnership says it had 35% success rate getting tech platforms to label, remove or restrict content.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/biden-administration-rewarded-private-entities-got-2020-election

Insane in the membrane: Biden to fork over $625 million more from U.S. taxpayers to Ukraine; mobile rocker launchers included in aid package. The package is the first aid package since Russia’s most recent declared annexation of Ukrainian territory and the second Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) since Ukraine made large battlefield gains in mid-September.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-send-mobile-rocket-launchers-ukraine-625-mln-aid-package-officials-2022-10-03/

Nearly 300 Republican Midterm Candidates Embrace Trump’s Big Lie, Analysis Finds: The sheer number of candidates who doubt the election is a dire show of the Republican Party’s embrace of fascism.
https://truthout.org/articles/nearly-300-republican-midterm-candidates-embrace-trumps-big-lie-analysis-finds/

Feds Think They Have Evidence to Charge Hunter Biden: Federal agents believe they can charge Biden with tax crimes and lying about a gun purchase, but it’s unclear if Delaware prosecutors will do so.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-prosecutors-believe-enough-evidence-184109402.html

# Law Enforcement
2 die at Harris County jail as critics blame unsafe conditions for highest death toll in years: The Harris County jail is facing its highest capacity in more than 10 years, leading activists to blast unsafe conditions. Two recent deaths have brought the total number of people who have died in custody this year to 21, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
https://www.reformaustin.org/public-safety/harris-county-jail-death-toll-rises-to-21-just-this-year/

# Medical / Health
Toxic air pollution particles found in lungs and brains of unborn babies: Particles breathed by mothers pass to their vulnerable fetuses, with potentially lifelong consequences.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/05/toxic-air-pollution-particles-found-in-lungs-and-brains-of-unborn-babies

Losing amphibians may be tied to spikes in human malaria cases: Missing frogs, toads and salamanders may have led to more mosquitoes and potentially more malaria transmission. In the 1990s and 2000s, Costa Rica and Panama experienced spikes in malaria cases. The spread of the fungal disease chytridiomycosis was a slow-motion disaster, leading to a decades-long wave of amphibian declines globally may have contributed to the uptick of this human disease.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/amphibian-loss-human-malaria-cases-mosquitoes#:~:text=In%20the%201990s%20and%202000s,uptick%20of%20this%20human%20disease

Norovirus link to Crohn’s disease may point to new therapies: A new study may have solved a mystery surrounding Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel illness where immune defenses, meant to attack invading microbes, instead mistakenly target the body’s own digestive tract. Norovirus, a common infection that causes vomiting
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/10/221005111916.htm

Novel treatment effective for bladder cancer, study in mice shows: An epigenetics drug currently being used for the treatment of blood cancers and rare sarcomas can stop the growth of bladder cancer by activating the immune system, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study done in mice.
file:///C:/Users/19364/Downloads/2022-10-treatment-effective-bladder-cancer-mice%20(1).pdf

Large study of thoracic aortic aneurysm backs guidelines: A large, new Kaiser Permanente study provides high-quality evidence that most of the 33,000 patients diagnosed each year in the U.S. with a thoracic aortic aneurysm, a bulge in the part of the main artery that runs through the chest, are not likely to experience an aortic dissection and may not need open-heart surgery.
https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/our-story/health-research/news/large-study-of-thoracic-aortic-aneurysm-backs-guidelines

Peering into single cells reveals key processes in acute kidney injury: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequent complication associated with various diseases and particularly affects patients on intensive care units. However, the mechanisms underlying AKI are incompletely understood.
file:///C:/Users/19364/Downloads/2022-10-peering-cells-reveals-key-acute.pdf

22 Common Medications That Can Be Bad Long-Term: [As a note, never stop taking medication without speaking to a doctor first. Stopping certain medications suddenly can have serious side-effects.]
https://discover.alot.com/article/vertical/slideshow/22-common-medications-that-can-be-bad-long-term/15624?camp_id=163682&utm_campaign=163682&utm_content=two+top+pics&utm_source=fb&utm_medium=Cloned+Ad+Set+1

# Science
There are type O, type A, and type B, but what if scientists have yet to discover a rare blood combination or compound? Doctors recently found a new blood type in a UK hospital after operating on a woman who unexpectedly lost her newborn child. Unidentified antibodies were found in the mother’s blood, leading scientists to investigate the unfamiliar cells more deeply. It’s led to the discovery of a new blood type, labeled Er.
https://www.sciencealert.com/discovery-of-a-new-rare-blood-type-could-save-the-lives-of-future-newborns

A way to snap molecules together like Legos wins 2022 chemistry Nobel: Click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry allow scientists to build complex molecules in the lab and in living cells.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bioorthogonal-chemists-bertozzi-meldal-sharpless-win-2022-chemistry-nobel

Quantum experiments with entangled photons win the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics: Three pioneers in quantum information science share this year’s Nobel Prize in physics. Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work using entangled photons to test the quantum foundations of reality
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/explorers-of-quantum-entanglement-win-2022-nobel-prize-in-physics1/

Dogs and people treated side-by-side: At a cancer research centre in Virginia, veterinarians and physicians work together to develop therapies for canine and human use. For example, researchers are testing brain-cancer treatments in dogs and then will test the same approach in humans. “It just so happens that the molecular, genetic, clinical similarities of canine and human brain tumours is pretty remarkable,” says veterinary neurologist John Rossmeisl.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02025-5?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=bb8b4e597f-briefing-dy-20221006&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-bb8b4e597f-43812897

Chladni figures: the mysterious patterns in ‘The Rings of Power’ title sequence have some serious science behind them: Some of the shapes have a special meaning in the saga, but believe it or not, the shapes are not restricted to the Lord of the Rings universe, the ‘raw’ shapes can actually show up in the real world as well, and there’s no magic here, just science. They’re called Chladni figures.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/physics/chladni-figures-the-mysterious-patterns-in-the-rings-of-power-title-sequence-have-some-serious-science-behind-them/

# Security
Amazon Wants Surveillance Robot In Every Home: Amazon has a new plan for snooping into your private life and it’s much cuter than the Alexa. This week Lee Camp introduces you to Amazon’s robot home assistant, the Astro. Unlike the Alexa, you can’t just stick the Astro in a corner because it can follow you around the home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_mYtxqzOZg

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# Border / Immigration
Ex-Counterintelligence Agent Helped DeSantis Scheme to Send Migrants to Martha’s Vineyard: Lawyers and migrants confirmed identity of woman
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ron-desantis-martha-s-vineyard-flight-b2191226.html

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Australia Bill Opens The Door to Forced Vaccinations: Western Australia, one of the most radical states Down Under, has proposed a bill that grants COVID-19 officers authorization to strip people from their homes and vaccinate them against their will. The “Emergency Management Amendment” legislation passed last year.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8629747/

# Economy / Finance / Trade
U.S. National Debt Tops $31 Trillion for First Time: The total public debt outstanding is now just over $31.1 trillion, according to data from the Treasury Department. Debt held by the public, which excludes intragovernmental borrowing, stands at roughly $24.3 trillion. The latest high mark in the nation’s debt burden prompted a fresh round of warning from budget watchdogs, particularly given rising interest rates, which have been driven to levels not seen in years by the Federal Reserve’s efforts to rein in inflation.
https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/newsletter/20221004-US-Debt-Tops-31-Trillion-First-Time

# Education / Schools
Parents like their public schools, no matter how much the charter school movement tells them not to: Branding public schools as “failed” institutions is more about politics than education.
https://www.alternet.org/2022/10/parents-like-their-public-school/

# Employment / Labor
‘Unreal’: Amazon Suspends 50 Employees Who Refused to Work After Fire Broke Out:  “We will not tolerate any unsafe workplace and we will not tolerate intimidation.”
https://www.rawstory.com/unreal-amazon-suspends-50-employees-who-refused-to-work-after-fire-broke-out/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Utility Companies Claim to Embrace Renewables, Yet Are Planning New Gas Plants: Despite the passage of nearly $370 billion in renewable energy funding, utilities are squandering the opportunity.
https://truthout.org/articles/utility-companies-claim-to-embrace-renewables-yet-are-planning-new-gas-plants/

EV charging stations approved for 50 states plus DC and Puerto Rico, covering 75,000 highway miles: States will have access to $1.5 billion in federal monies to build the chargers.
https://www.ecowatch.com/ev-charging-stations-us.html

Gas Prices Could Soon Be on the Rise—Again: The OPEC Alliance’s plan to cut oil production could send gas prices back up after months of falling, as Biden hopes to alleviate that by releasing stocks from the U.S. reserves.
https://fortune.com/2022/09/12/why-is-gas-price-falling-will-increase-janet-yellen-risk/

Khanna Tells Biden to Cut Off Weapons to Saudis as OPEC Agrees to Slash Oil Supply: “President Biden should make it clear that we will stop supplying the Saudis with weapons and air parts if they fleece the American people and strengthen Putin by making drastic production cuts.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/05/khanna-tells-biden-cut-weapons-saudis-opec-agrees-slash-oil-supply

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Greenpeace Campaigners Disrupt Liz Truss Speech to Denounce U-Turn on Fracking: Activists taken away by security after holding up banner reading ‘Who voted for this?’ “Nobody voted for fracking … nobody voted to trash nature, nobody voted to scrap workers’ rights,” said one organizer.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/05/greenpeace-protesters-disrupt-liz-truss-speech-at-tory-conference

# Environment / Climate / Global
Biden Pledges $60 Million to Help Protect Puerto Rico From Hurricanes: In a visit to Puerto Rico Monday, President Joe Biden pledged an initial $60 million to help the U.S. territory prepare for hurricanes and other storms that have been made more extreme by the climate crisis
https://www.ecowatch.com/biden-puerto-rico-hurricanes.html

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
‘Nearly doubled’ foreign investment in U.S. farmland comes under scrutiny: A coalition of 130 lawmakers sent a letter to a top federal watchdog raising the alarm about a spike in foreign ownership of U.S. farmland
https://www.crowrivermedia.com/national/news/nearly-doubled-foreign-investment-in-u-s-farmland-comes-under-scrutiny/article_c4441648-b3e6-5cb9-ac7f-6ff7e306af00.html

Tiny Plastic Particles are Climbing the Food Chain from the Ground Up: Nanoplastics are making their way into our food, and likely accumulating in our bodies as a result, according to a recent study. Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland have created a fingerprint-based technique to detect tiny plastic particles in organisms.
https://www.sciencealert.com/study-shows-how-microplastics-can-easily-climb-the-food-chain-should-we-be-worried

# General Information / Other News
45 Historical Misconceptions We All Believed: As historical knowledge passes on from generation to generation, it’s easy to get caught up in the lies. Misinformation passes on like a virus and unless you really read up on this stuff, you are bound to take in some of the falsehoods. And then it can be difficult to discern from what you know and what you think you know.
https://living.alot.com/entertainment/40-historical-misconceptions-we-all-believed–17078

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the annexation of four eastern Ukrainian regions into law, AP reports. This is despite Ukrainian forces retaking more of these territories in the last several days, and widespread international rejection of Russia’s sham referendum.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-international-law-donetsk-9fcd11c11936dd700db94ab725f2b7d6

Putin’s Dueling Foot Soldiers Are Now Killing Each Other Off: Amid very public infighting between Russian groups, the Kremlin is reportedly trying to keep a lid on a Wagner mercenary shooting dead a lieutenant-colonel.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/vladimir-putins-dueling-foot-soldiers-in-ukraine-are-now-apparently-killing-each-other-off

Putin Crony Drafts Russian ‘Kill List’ of Western Officials: “Those who are with us will be fine, and the rest we will kill,” said one of Vladimir Putin’s most prominent mouthpieces while promoting his idea on Russian state television. Prominent pundits, routinely seen on Kremlin-controlled state television, flatly reject the very idea of ​​negotiations, and none of them dare to suggest a Russian withdrawal from Ukraine to end the war. Instead, they double down, and propose killing leading Westerners responsible for helping Ukraine defend itself against Russian invasion.
https://www.ampgoo.com/putin-crony-says-he-drafted-russian-kill-list-of-western-officials

# Gov / Politics / US
Biden Affirms U.S. Support for Japan After North Korea Missile Launch: U.S. President Joe Biden reinforced Washington’s ‘ironclad commitment’ to Japan’s defense during a phone call with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida following North Korea’s launch of a ballistic missile, the White House said. The two leaders jointly condemned the missile test, and confirmed they would work closely with South Korea and the international community to coordinate an immediate and longer-term response, the White House said in a statement.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/biden-affirms-us-support-japan-after-north-korea-missile-launch-2022-10-04/

What Will It Take for GOP to Condemn Trump’s Death Threats? The ex-president’s racist and violent rhetoric has now turned against his own party. And Republicans are still too scared to fight back.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3672713-the-memo-trumps-death-wish-attack-on-mcconnell-sets-alarm-bells-ringing/

The Far Right’s Violent Rhetoric Is Escalating, and Includes Talk of ‘Civil War’: A recent study found that millions of Americans believe the use of violence to further political aims is justified.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-far-rights-violent-rhetoric-is-escalating-and-includes-talk-of-civil-war/

Florida Struggles in the Wake of Deadly Hurricane as DeSantis Wages Culture Wars: The Florida governor’s focus has been on enacting anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ policies.
https://truthout.org/video/florida-struggles-in-the-wake-of-deadly-hurricane-as-desantis-wages-culture-wars/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=e08eba0f-8db6-4322-964d-1c9906daba0b

The GOP’s Hatred of Cities Has Hit an Ugly New Low: The GOP’s rhetoric about urban life, “disgusting and violent!” “Soaked in blood!” has really gotten out of hand. “Chicago is living the purge, when criminals ravage at will, and the cops stand down,” Bailey told reporters last month, making a reference to the horror franchise in which murder is legal for one night a year.
It’s like the entire party is running for police commissioner of Gotham City.
https://slate.com/business/2022/10/republicans-cities-darren-bailey-jd-vance-tom-cotton-donald-trump.html?via=rss

Why Nancy Pelosi Sabotaged Wildly Popular Bipartisan Legislation: Scroll through the right TikToks and you’ll find a cottage industry of would-be financial advisers who are obsessed with the money moves of lawmakers.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/10/congressional-stock-market-ban-nancy-pelosi-sabotage.html

A 23-year-old man who allegedly assaulted a police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was later paid by the Virginia Republican Party to campaign for now-Gov. Glenn Youngkin, HuffPost has confirmed. Joseph Brody allegedly entered Nancy Pelosi’s office during last year’s insurrection. Months later, he campaigned for Virginia’s now-governor.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joseph-brody-january-6-rioter-arrested-glenn-youngkin_n_633da1fee4b03e8038c4ba98

If Republicans win back control of Congress in November, buckle up for many, many investigations. HuffPost went through House Republicans’ “Commitment to America” campaign document, public statements by party leaders and other accounts of investigation plans, showing a list of almost two dozen targets. And if one includes all the topics House Republicans have at least formally expressed an interest in looking into, the number of probe or hearing targets rises to more than 70.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-probe-hearing-targets-congress_n_633c8c52e4b02816452e9e87?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Politics%2010/5/22&utm_term=us-politics
See Also: Here Is The House GOP’s Hit List If Republicans Retake Congress
https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-gop-hit-list-republicans-212449006.html

# Legal / DOJ
Trump Takes Mar-a-Lago Documents Case to Supreme Court: The court has given the DOJ a week to respond to the filing, indicating it doesn’t see an urgent need to hear the case. Trump’s request would put about 100 potentially classified documents back into the special master review.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/04/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-intervene-in-mar-a-lago-documents-case-00060300

“There’s Going to Be a Fight”: Oath Keepers Trial Reveals Plan to Use Violence to Keep Trump in Office:
The Oath Keepers trial, in which senior leaders of the right-wing extremist group are accused of plotting violence at the January 6 insurrection, began Monday
https://freespeech.org/stories/theres-going-to-be-a-fight-oath-keepers-trial-reveals-violent-plans-to-keep-trump-in-office/

# Medical / Health
This CDC Scientist Couldn’t Access Monkeypox Treatment. Why? It took three doctor visits, and a desperate call to a colleague for a Black scientist to get treatment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/monkeypox-transmission-treatment-cdc-scientist

$80,000 and 5 ER Visits: An Ectopic Pregnancy Takes a Toll Despite NY’s Liberal Abortion Law: An ectopic pregnancy in the fallopian tube is never viable. But following the June reversal of Roe by the Supreme Court, reproductive health experts say treatment may be dangerously delayed as some states move to limit abortion services.
https://khn.org/news/article/ectopic-pregnancy-new-york-abortion-law/

Biden Announces Abortion, Reproductive Health Protections Under Title IX
https://khn.org/morning-breakout/biden-announces-abortion-reproductive-health-protections-under-title-ix/

Study links in utero ‘forever chemical’ exposure to low sperm count and mobility: PFAS, now found in nearly all umbilical cord blood around the world, interfere with hormones crucial to testicle development.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/05/pfas-sperm-count-mobility-testicle-development

Impact of environmental toxin exposure on male fertility potential: Synthetic chemicals surround us. Some are benevolent; however, many are known to cause disruption of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis and impair spermatogenesis. More than 80,000 chemicals are registered with the United States National Toxicology Program and nearly 2,000 new chemicals are introduced each year.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7807371/

# Military / DOD
Rain of American Armaments for Ukraine. Huge Arsenal donated to Kiev by the Pentagon for US War against Russia: Today the Department of Defense (DoD) announced approximately $1.1 billion in additional security assistance for Ukraine under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI). This USAI package underscores the U.S. commitment to continuing to support Ukraine over the long term.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/10/04/rain-of-american-armaments-for-ukraine-huge-arsenal-donated-to-kiev-by-the-pentagon-for-us-war-against-russia/

Following Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the United States embarked on a long-term commitment to provide Ukraine with the tools and equipment it needs to defend its sovereignty. Since that time, more than $14.5 billion in assistance has been committed to Ukraine.
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3154210/department-moves-quick-to-replenish-weapons-sent-to-ukraine/

# Science
Wax Worm Saliva Can Degrade Stubborn Plastic Within Hours, Scientists Find: What began as an infestation could be a surprising nature-based solution to the plastic pollution crisis. In 2017, scientist and amateur beekeeper Federica Bertocchini found some unwanted intruders in one of her hives, wax-moth larvae that feed on beeswax. She took the worms out of her hive and placed them in a plastic bag. However, it turned out that the polyethylene (PE) prison would not hold them.
https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-degradation-wax-worms.html

# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
Russian Cosmonaut Launches to Space Station With SpaceX Crew: The integrated crews are essential for ensuring the International Space Station has enough hands on deck.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russian-cosmonaut-hitching-ride-with-spacex-part-next-space-station-crew-2022-10-05/

# Water
Safe Tap Water Is a Human Right. But from Michigan to Mississippi to Tribal communities in the West, millions of Americans don’t have it. The water drips lethargically from the tap, if at all. Its appearance shifts from chemical brown sludge to ghoulish clouds. The accompanying stench is revolting. Fundamentally, we must recognize water as a universal human right, rather than a commodity reserved for the few.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/05/safe-tap-water-human-right?utm_source=daily_newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter_op

‘Absolutely Shameful’: Michigan Judge Drops Flint Water Crisis Charges Against 7 Officials. “This means there are currently no criminal charges over 8 years later,” lamented one journalist. A Michigan judge on Tuesday dropped felony criminal charges against seven former officials in connection to the 2014 Flint water crisis that poisoned thousands of people and killed dozens.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/05/absolutely-shameful-michigan-judge-drops-flint-water-crisis-charges-against-7

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# Education / Schools
2 Men Targeted A School Librarian Who Spoke Out Against Censorship.
They’re Not Facing Any Consequences. At a July school board meeting in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, middle school librarian Amanda Jones spoke out against book censorship. Like many other librarians across the country, Jones also received an explicit death threat via email, and her friends and family have received harassing messages as well.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/library-smears-lawsuit_n_63371f46e4b03e8038be31fb

# Employment / Labor
CEO Pay Has Grown by 1,460 Percent Since 1978, as Workers’ Wages Stagnate: Worker pay has only grown by 18 percent over the same period.
https://truthout.org/articles/ceo-pay-has-grown-by-1460-percent-since-1978-as-workers-wages-stagnate/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
A new report surveys how states are supporting communities in the wake of coal mine and power plant closures, and finds the best policies include retraining for workers and funding for environmental cleanup. The best policies to help coal towns weather the switch to renewables. A new report singles out Colorado, Illinois and New Mexico as trailblazers in just-transition laws. Could fossil strongholds Wyoming and West Virginia follow suit?
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/just-transition/the-best-policies-to-help-coal-towns-weather-the-switch-to-renewables?utm_medium=email

‘Their greed knows no bounds’: analysis shows ongoing price gouging by oil giants: “Big Oil is boasting record profits and dragging their feet to pass any lower costs onto consumers in order to keep padding investors’ pockets,” said Accountable.US.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/03/their-greed-knows-no-bounds-analysis-shows-ongoing-price-gouging-oil-giants

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemicals / Global
Ex-advisor to Pentagon Chief suggests US, UK might be behind Nord Stream Sabotage: “You have to look at who are the state actors that have the capability to do this. And that means the [UK’s] Royal Navy and the United States’ Navy <…> I think that’s pretty clear,” Macgregor said.
https://www.gospanews.net/en/2022/10/03/ex-advisor-to-pentagon-chief-suggests-us-uk-might-be-behind-nord-streams-sabotage/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Change” And Work With Google to Suppress Opposing Viewpoints: A United Nations official told the World Economic Forum on Thursday that they “own the science” on “climate change” and have partnered together with Google to suppress opposing viewpoints in search results.
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63374

New study suggests coal ash pollution more widespread than previously thought: The study found large amounts of coal ash in the sediment, or sand, of five recreational lakes across North Carolina.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/10/221003090559.htm

Empty ESG Pledges Ensure Bonds Benefit Companies, Not the Planet: Sustainability-linked bonds let companies borrow cheaply if they meet environmental, social, and governance targets. A Bloomberg News analysis found those goals are weak
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-10-04/greenwashing-enters-a-22-trillion-debt-market-derailing-climate-goals?srnd=green

The Minority Exploitation Game Called Environmental Justice: It should be no surprise that the monumentally misnamed Inflation Reduction Act is filled with provisions likely to accomplish something other than the advertised purpose.
https://dcjournal.com/the-minority-exploitation-game-called-environmental-justice/

New Air Monitors Among Major Impacts of ProPublica Toxic Air Pollution Reporting: Communities identified as “Sacrifice Zones” in a ProPublica analysis of toxic air pollution scored major wins this month. In one, the EPA will start monitoring the air. In another, a judge withdrew permits from a giant petrochemical complex.
https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-epa-air-monitors-louisiana-cancer-alley

# Environment / Climate / Global
‘Backed into a corner’: Duncan’s First Nation sues Alberta for cumulative impacts of industry: Lawsuit follows in the footsteps of B.C. Supreme Court’s precedent-setting Blueberry River decision, which could have profound impacts  for oil and gas industry. A First Nation in northern Alberta is suing the Alberta government for infringement of Treaty Rights
https://thenarwhal.ca/duncans-first-nation-sues-alberta/

Biden to announce $60M to bolster flood protections in Puerto Rico: The funds will come from the recently enacted infrastructure law. The funding will aim to shore up levees, strengthen flood walls and create a new flood warning system to better prepare Puerto Rico for future storms
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/03/biden-flood-protections-puerto-rico-00059968

# General Information / Other News
Trump Worried After Ghislaine Arrest: ‘She Ask About Me?’: Trump raised Ghislaine Maxwell link with aides. The former president was reportedly concerned about an article saying Maxwell hoped Trump would protect her.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/04/trump-ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-maggie-haberman-book-confidence-man

Trump Sues CNN for $475M and Warns of More Lawsuits to Come: The former president said “the time has finally come” for his battle with the network.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/donald-trump-sues-cnn-claiming-defamation-seeks-475m/

Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi, “Israel is really dangerous.”: “The power of the Israel Lobby and of AIPAC is not cost free for the American public. The current $3 billion plus that Israel, with a thriving first world economy, receives in military assistance is on top of the $130 billion that it has received since 1949.”
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/10/03/former-cia-officer-philip-giraldi-israel-is-really-dangerous/

United States and Russia: Dangerous export of Democracy and dictatorship. The State Department wants our embassies to share this information widely as part of the Biden administration’s Summit for Democracy and to ensure that governments are not complacent about the Russian threat.  In calling attention to this study, the Washington Post editorialized that “democracies must stand guard.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/10/04/united-states-and-russia-dangerous-export-of-democracy-and-dictatorship/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russian Lawyers Drowning in Requests for Help to Dodge Draft: Hundreds of thousands of people have already fled the country to avoid being sent to Ukraine.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-lawyers-drowning-in-requests-for-help-to-dodge-putins-draft

Russian Journalist Escapes House Arrest After War Protest: Marina Ovsyannikova was placed on a Russian fugitive list after her ex-husband reported she’d taken their 11-year-old daughter and vanished.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/03/russian-marina-ovsyannikova-ukraine-war-protest-escape-house-arrest

Putin’s Right-Hand Men Publicly Mock ‘Garbage’ War Failures: Some of Vladimir Putin’s most important allies are now brazenly calling out the Russian president’s war strategy.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/putin-allies-ramzan-kadyrov-and-evgeniy-prigozhin-mock-vladimir-putins-war-failures

# Gov / Politics / US
Biden to Set New Guidelines to Protect Reproductive Rights: The president will also speak about new grants to protect reproductive healthcare. The directive equips the Heath and Human Services department to expand coverage for patients seeking out of state care
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/03/biden-executive-order-protect-abortion-access

Election workers in seven states are experiencing unprecedented threats ahead of next month’s midterm elections, an increase from the already heightened levels of harassment since the 2020 election. Seven states, in particular, are being targeted, the FBI says.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/election-worker-interference-midterms_n_633c45f9e4b0e376dbfafd52?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Fringe%2010/4/22&utm_term=us-fringe

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) made an outlandish claim on Saturday at a rally for former President Donald Trump’s political action committee, Save America: Democrats not only want to kill Republicans, but they have already begun doing so. “We’re all targets now, though, for daring to push back against the regime,” Greene said at the event in Warren, Michigan.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-democrats-violence_n_633c1e07e4b08e0e60718bdb?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Fringe%2010/4/22&utm_term=us-fringe

Six Supreme Court justices, both liberal and conservative, did not immediately buy the case made by the state of Alabama that the court should overturn 40 years of precedent and gut the Voting Rights Act during arguments in the case of Merrill v. Milligan on Tuesday,  instead effectively gut it by making it even harder to prove that a racial minority constitutes a geographically compact community.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/library-smears-lawsuit_n_63371f46e4b03e8038be31fb

Groups Pushing Right-Wing State Policy Are Raking In $152 Million Each Year: The revenue doesn’t include millions more in contributions to advocacy or litigation arms of the State Policy Network.
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/09/30/state-policy-network-and-affiliates-raises-152-million-annually-to-push-right-wing-policies/

Rubio vows to vote against Hurricane relief bill if it includes ‘pork’: U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., pledged to oppose efforts to add additional spending measures to a potential Hurricane Ian relief bill, saying he would vote against that kind of bill
https://newspress.com/rubio-vows-to-vote-against-hurricane-relief-bill-if-it-includes-pork/

# Law Enforcement
Mississippi’s Missing Search Warrants Prevent Scrutiny of No-Knock Raids: No-knock warrants authorize police to burst into someone’s home unannounced. Search warrants are supposed to be filed at the courthouse, but they’re missing from many of Mississippi’s justice courts. Some of those courts violate state rules by failing to require law enforcement to return search warrants and related documents. Other courts do keep search warrant records but won’t let the public see them, defying well-established jurisprudence about the availability of court records.
https://www.propublica.org/article/no-knock-warrants-missing-mississippi

Cop Who Died During Training Was Probing LAPD Gang Rape: The family’s attorney Bradley Gage is arguing that the death wasn’t an accident at all. “We have uncovered evidence that Houston Tipping may have been harmed and later died as the result of retaliation against a whistleblower,” the lawyer said in a press conference on Monday.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/6367300/cop-killed-training-exercise-gang-rape/

2 More Shootings Tied to Suspected California Serial Killer: Stockton police do not believe the seven attacks are hate crimes or gang related activity. Ballistic evidence connects last year’s unsolved shootings of a man and woman in Stockton and Oakland to the recent killings of five men, police said.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stockton-serial-killer-more-shootings-connected_n_633c5a35e4b03e8038c2bbda

# Legal / DOJ
‘Armed Rebellion’: Oath Keepers Trial Is Off to Fiery Start: Stewart Rhodes is accused of plotting to overthrow the government after his cronies showed up in force on Jan. 6. His lawyer says he plans to testify.
https://news.yahoo.com/far-militia-boss-thinks-woo-171545011.html

Supreme Court May Soon Roll Back Affirmative Action and Voting Rights: As Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson becomes the first Black woman to hear a SCOTUS case, civil rights are under attack.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/10/4/elie_mystal_new_supreme_court_term

# Media
A Bill Intended to Protect Journalists Could End Up Boosting Far Right Media: A bill crafted to give local news leverage over Big Tech has drawn fierce criticism despite bipartisan support.
https://truthout.org/articles/a-bill-intended-to-protect-journalists-could-end-up-boosting-far-right-media/

# Medical / Health
NIH to award over $200 million to support potentially transformative biomedical research projects: The 2022 NIH Director’s Awards enable exceptionally creative scientists to push the boundaries of biomedical science.
https://www.nccu.edu/news/nih-awards-high-risk-high-reward-research-grant-nccu

Key Alzheimer’s Test May Limit Treatment for People of Color: Getting access to a certain Alzhiemer’s drug requires a positive result on PET scans, which happens less frequently for Black, Hispanic, and Asian patients.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-key-alzheimers-test-may-actually-limit-treatment-options-for-people-of-color

Advocates Urge FDA to Ease Access to Abortion Pill for Miscarriage Management: Regulations around mifepristone make it hard for miscarrying patients to access it, especially in the current climate.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/doctors-urge-us-fda-add-miscarriage-management-abortion-pill-label-2022-10-04/

Acetaminophen Use for Fever in Children Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Recent studies have found an association between acetaminophen and immune system alterations like asthma and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes.
https://www.cureus.com/articles/84979-a-systematic-review-of-the-link-between-autism-spectrum-disorder-and-acetaminophen-a-mystery-to-resolve

Study Finds Aluminum in Vaccines May Raise Asthma Risks: New study sees possible link between aluminum in childhood vaccines and risk of asthma, but caveats abound
https://www.statnews.com/2022/09/27/possible-link-aluminum-childhood-vaccines-asthma-risk-caveats/

# Military / DOD
Pentagon shipping 4 more HIMARS, 32 howitzers to Ukraine: The Pentagon will soon ship four more of the US rocket artillery systems to Ukraine that officials have labeled as critical to that country’s battlefield success against invading Russian troops, the Defense Department announced Tuesday.
https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2022/10/04/pentagon-sending-excalibur-guided-artillery-more-himars-to-ukraine/

# Pharmas / Drugs
Many Antidepressant Studies Found Tainted by Pharma Company Influence: A review of studies that assess clinical antidepressants shows hidden conflicts of interest and financial ties to corporate drugmakers. After many lawsuits and a 2012 U.S. Department of Justice settlement, last month an independent review found that antidepressant drug Paxil (paroxetine) is not safe for teenagers. The finding contradicts the conclusions of the initial 2001 drug trial, which the manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline had funded, then used its results to market Paxil as safe for adolescents.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/many-antidepressant-studies-found-tainted-by-pharma-company-influence/

# Security
Trusting Iran Compromises Our National Security: Last month, the Department of Justice unsealed a case against an Iranian agent charged with plotting the assassination of former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton.
https://dcjournal.com/trusting-iran-compromises-our-national-security/

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# Border / Immigration
The warden of an immigration detention center yelled profanities at a group of Mexican immigrants before killing one of them and injuring another with a shotgun, according to an arrest affidavit from the Texas Department of Public Safety. Suspects in migrant shooting went to a meeting after firing fatal shots, police report says. Michael Sheppard, one of the suspects, was the warden of an immigration detention center that was the subject of several human rights abuse complaints in 2018.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/30/texas-migrants-shooting-warden-sierra-blanca/

Texas brothers charged with manslaughter for shooting migrants getting water near border: Twin brothers in Texas has been charged with manslaughter for shooting at a group of migrants who had stopped to get water near the U.S.-Mexico border. One of the migrants died, and another was injured. One of the two brothers, Michael Sheppard, was the warden at a privately run immigration jail, the West Texas Detention Facility, which has been accused of abuse. He was fired after the attack.
https://www.kwtx.com/2022/09/30/authorities-texas-warden-brother-arrested-after-migrant-is-killed-near-mexico-border/

# Chemicals
Crucial misrepresentations about glyphosate continue to threaten agriculture. This scientist explains how the UN agency IARC likely manipulated the data: It seems that IARC’s judgment carried such cachet that few felt the need to actually read the 91 pages devoted to it and form an independent opinion of the report. A partial explanation for IARC’s largely unquestioned authority may be the fact that the agency is loosely affiliated with the World Health Organization.
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/09/27/crucial-misrepresentations-about-glyphosate-continue-to-threaten-agriculture-this-scientist-explains-how-the-un-agency-iarc-appears-to-have-deliberately-manipulated-the-data/?mc_cid=7947e0e5a0&mc_eid=c87bac2a19

Iowa joins 9 states in suing ag pesticide makers, alleging anticompetitive practices: The complaint, filed in a U.S. District Court in North Carolina, accuses the companies of using “loyalty programs” with pesticide distributors to exclude generic competitors from the market.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2022/09/30/iowa-joins-states-suing-corteva-syngenta-over-loyalty-programs-lawsuit/69528808007/

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Terrifying Russian Bat Virus Could Spark the Next Pandemic: Lab tests suggest the Khosta-2 virus thrives in human cells and is resistant to current coronavirus vaccines. We need better jabs to fight new animal viruses. The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over. In fact, it shows signs of lingering for, well, a long time. But even as politicians and health authorities struggle with how, if at all, to keep addressing the current pandemic, scientists are already anticipating the next one.
https://news.yahoo.com/terrifying-russian-bat-virus-could-225907485.html

Revealed: How scientists who dismissed Wuhan lab theory are linked to Chinese researchers: Despite declaring no conflicts of interest at the time, it has since emerged that the letter was orchestrated by British zoologist Peter Daszak, president of the US-based EcoHealth Alliance, which funded research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where the leak was suspected. However, The Telegraph can disclose that 26 of the 27 scientists listed in the letter had connections to the Chinese lab
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/10/revealed-scientists-dismissed-wuhan-lab-theory-linked-chinese/

UK scientist with links to Wuhan lab ‘recuses himself’ from inquiry into Covid origins: Dr Peter Daszak, president of the US-based EcoHealth Alliance, has “recused himself” from the inquiry by leading medical journal the Lancet after he failed to declare ties to the Wuhan Laboratory of Virology, which was conducting research into coronavirus in bats
https://www.nationandstate.com/2022/10/03/uk-scientist-with-links-to-wuhan-lab-recuses-himself-from-inquiry-into-covid-origins/

Scientists Square Off Over Covid, Wuhan, and Peter Daszak: A group of academics claim the president of EcoHealth Alliance has misled the public amid Covid origins investigations.
https://undark.org/2021/11/24/scientists-square-off-over-covid-wuhan-and-peter-daszak/

Dr. Anthony Fauci and his wife’s net worth grew by $5 million during the COVID-19 pandemic as thousands of US residents struggled financially, according to a government spending watchdog group.
https://nypost.com/2022/09/29/fauci-and-wifes-wealth-skyrocketed-by-5m-during-pandemic-analysis/

Top vaccine expert with FDA and NIH warns healthy young people not to get COVID-19 booster: ‘There’s not clear evidence of benefit’ versus risk: “You’re asking people to get a new product for which there’s no data,” Offit also told CNN. “Mice data [from eight mice] are not adequate to launch 100-plus-billion-dose effort.” The booster shot was authorized by the FDA despite not having been tested on humans.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/vaccine-expert-covid-booster-young

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Global
International Finance Capital Rebels Against British … Tax Cuts for the Rich? Bankers shoot down the Conservative Party budget plan. Bankers shoot down the Conservative Party budget plan.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/international-finance-capital-rebels-against-british-tax-cuts-for-rich/

# Education / Schools
Corporal punishment of students with disabilities in U.S. public schools: A 2008 American Civil Liberties Union /Human Rights Watch report found that corporal punishment in public schools is routine in many parts of the US, and that almost a quarter-of-a-million school children were subjected to this violent, degrading punishment in the 2006-2007 school year
https://www.aclu.org/impairing-education-corporal-punishment-students-disabilities-us-public-schools-html

Schools Should Ban Corporal Punishment and Teach Restorative Justice Instead: By instituting corporal punishment, school districts are exposing children to violence that causes long-term damage
https://truthout.org/articles/schools-should-ban-corporal-punishment-and-teach-restorative-justice-instead/

Old-school discipline doesn’t work any more, and shouldn’t: Why last year’s discipline reforms were the right move, and why we need to go further. Schools that buck the trend and continue to dole out punishment for minor ‘infractions’ end up producing the very thing they want to attack: bad behavior. The happiest schools are those that know when to turn a blind eye.
https://edsource.org/2022/old-school-discipline-doesnt-work-any-more-and-shouldnt/670966

This campus takes “learning environment” literally: At the University of the District of Columbia, sustainable infrastructure is part of the educational experience.
https://ensia.com/articles/university-district-columbia-sustainability/

Families of the Uvalde shooting victims are camping outside the school district’s office demanding action. “My son is dead because of the inactions of your school district, of the city, of all the police involved, starting with the school to the city to the state, they all failed,” said Brett Cross. “We did everything how they wanted to and nothing was done, so now we’re doing it our way. I guarantee I’m a lot more stubborn than they are.”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paigeskinner/uvalde-camp-out

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
California Gov. Newsom proposes windfall profits tax on Big Oil: Calls for windfall profits taxes have increased globally in recent weeks that would go directly back to California taxpayers.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/09/30/governor-newsom-calls-for-a-windfall-tax-to-put-record-oil-profits-back-in-californians-pockets/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
“And pray …. What will you tell them when they ask you why?” Author Unknown
Deforestation 101: Everything You Need to Know: Trees have been around for about 370 million years. Today, there are about three trillion trees and ten billion acres of forest on Earth. That may sound like a lot, but the planet has lost more than one billion acres of forest to deforestation since 1990. The biggest human causes of deforestation are farming,  raising cattle and the uncontrolled cultivation of crops like rubber and palm oil.
https://www.ecowatch.com/deforestation-explained.html

‘Dangerously Low’ Mississippi River Level May Spark Transport Chaos For Farm Goods During Harvest: A drought is drying up parts of the Mississippi River, a major export channel for corn and soybeans. The waterway is responsible for at least half of the US corn and soybean exports. The shrinking water level, barge shortage, and skyrocketing shipping costs are terrible for farmers during harvest season.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/dangerously-low-mississippi-river-level-may-spark-transport-chaos-farm-goods-during-harvest

# Environment / Climate / Global
The guardians of the future: It’s time for Indigenous voices to lead the climate fight. As the climate crisis escalates, activists fighting to protect what remains of the world’s forests are at risk of being persecuted by governments, even at risk of death. For decades Indigenous activists have been sounding the alarm, but their warnings have too often been ignored. So, they organized.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/01/opinion/climate-change-indigenous-activists.html

# General Information / Other News
Free Stores Offer an Alternative to the Exploitative Capitalist Economy: A coordinated network of free store hubs could begin to act as a building block for moving beyond capitalism.
https://truthout.org/articles/free-stores-offer-an-alternative-to-the-exploitative-capitalist-economy/

Dem Senator Targets Gun Group Over Its Secret Gun Registry: Sen. Richard Blumenthal is wondering why the National Shooting Sports Foundation was keeping a list of gun owners.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/abortion-clinic-escorts-say-work-is-becoming-a-war-zone

9 NATO countries call to admit Ukraine as counteroffensive presses on: The leaders of Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania and Slovakia issued a joint statement backing a path to NATO membership for Ukraine.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2022-10-02/nine-nato-countries-call-to-admit-ukraine-as-counteroffensive-presses-on-7544389.html

Nearly 2,000 Environmental Defenders Killed in Last 10 Years: At a rate of every other day for the past 10 years, an environmental defender has lost their life protecting their home.
https://www.ecowatch.com/environmental-defenders-killed.html

Trump Demanded a Government Shutdown and Nobody Noticed
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/10/trump-demanded-a-government-shutdown-and-nobody-noticed.html

# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin Has Left the World No Other Option But Regime Change: The Russian dictator’s deranged “annexation” speech should make it clear to the global community of nations that his staying in power won’t provide “stability.”
Those desiring regime change in Russia should be careful what they wish for. Many western analysts are clearly hoping Putin’s disastrous Ukraine war brings his downfall. But the track record in these cases isn’t great
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/30/those-desiring-regime-change-in-russia-should-be-careful-what-they-wish-for

Russian Commissar Fired as Half of Drafted Men Sent Home: The setback is just the latest farce to blight the Kremlin‘s mass military mobilization.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-10-03/half-of-mobilised-men-in-russian-region-sent-home-commissar-fired-governor

Brazil’s Election Heads Into Second Round With High Stakes for Amazon Rainforest, World Climate. Brazil’s tense presidential election has gone into a runoff that will take place on October 30, 2022.
https://www.ecowatch.com/brazil-election-amazon-rainforest.html

National Archives Says It’s Still Missing Docs Trump Removed From White House: More than 11,000 government documents, 300 of which were classified, have been retrieved from Mar-a-Lago in 2022.
https://truthout.org/articles/national-archives-says-its-still-missing-docs-trump-removed-from-white-house/

# Gov / Politics / US
After U.S. soldiers were told to go on Food Stamps, Congress finds another $12 billion for Ukraine: News follows the Senate passing a 40 billion aid package in May, a 14 billion package in March. President Biden asked Congress for an additional 11.7 billion in aid for Ukraine, with Congress, in turn, seems to be jumping at his behest. As a reminder, earlier this month the Army told active-duty American soldiers to go on food stamps if they were unable to afford food thanks to inflation. Food stamps for American soldiers, endless billions for Ukraine. This is your country now.
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/after-u-s-soldiers-were-told-to-go-on-food-stamps-congress-finds-another-12-billion-for-ukraine/

Former Congressman Sentenced to Prison for Stuffing Pennsylvania Ballot Boxes: Former Abscam Congressman ‘Ozzie’ Myers is headed back to federal prison, this time for election fraud. The former politician was sentenced to 2 1/2 years behind bars after pleading guilty to bribing election workers to stuff ballot boxes in local elections.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/ozzie-myers-prison-sentence-abscam-philly-election-fraud-20220927.html

Reporter claims to have seen ‘steady stream of attendees heading for exits since about the 15-minute mark of this now hour-long’ speech: A reporter who was live-tweeting from the Macomb College Sports & Expo Center suggested the crowd was far from the arena’s full capacity of 6,600. One picture purportedly taken 10 minutes before the end of the rally showed sparsely populated seating towards the rear of the venue.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/video-shows-steady-stream-leaving-trump-rally-after-just-15-minutes/ar-AA12wBJN?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=fc1bde588b414ed3a02bede9f44ab255

Pat Toomey Blockades Biden’s Housing Nominees Amid Historic Rent Hikes: The Department of Housing and Urban Development is lacking vital staff during a crisis of housing affordability.
https://prospect.org/cabinet-watch/pat-toomey-blockades-biden-housing-nominees-amid-historic-/

Every Single Florida House Republican Voted Against Disaster Relief Funding: “That is a level of callous indifference and political opportunism that boggles the mind,” one Florida Democrat said.
https://truthout.org/articles/every-single-florida-house-republican-voted-against-disaster-relief-funding/

Grassroots Groups in Mississippi Are Pushing for Representation in Local Office: Mississippi has never elected a Black person to statewide office to this day.
https://truthout.org/articles/grassroots-groups-in-mississippi-are-pushing-for-representation-in-local-office/

# Law Enforcement
Hundreds of prison and jail deaths go uncounted by the federal government, report finds: The Justice Department is failing to adequately and efficiently collect data about deaths in state prisons and local jails, with at least 990 incidents going uncounted by the federal government in fiscal year 2021 alone, according to a newly released bipartisan Senate report.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/09/24/a-moral-disgrace-how-the-u-s-stopped-counting-deaths-behind-bars

GOP reputation as the party of law and order collapsing under the weight of Trump’s ‘anarchy and lawlessness’:
Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota, claimed that the Republican Party’s attempts to play the law and order card in the upcoming election is falling flat with voters who are inundated with new revelations of Donald Trump’s criminality on a daily basis. https://www.rawstory.com/trump-criminal-2658374880/

# Legal / DOJ
The Supreme Court is back in session, with new controversial cases that stand to change many Americans’ lives, here’s what to expect. Affirmative action, discrimination against LGBTQ people and election laws are some of the hot-button issues that the Supreme Court will tackle this fall.
https://theconversation.com/the-supreme-court-is-back-in-session-with-new-controversial-cases-that-stand-to-change-many-americans-lives-heres-what-to-expect-190819

The Supreme Court has chipped away at the Voting Rights Act for 9 years. This case could be the next blow.
The diminished Voting Rights Act has already played a key role in the 2022 elections via redistricting.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/27/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-00042478

More Rights in Danger as Supreme Court Term Begins: Threats to voting rights, affirmative action, the environment, and student debt relief take center stage.
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/03/1126041958/supreme-court-new-term

The Supreme Court May Well Legalize Election Theft This Term: The court’s rulings in two cases could drive a dagger through the heart of the democratic process. At issue is a legal theory that would give state legislatures unfettered authority to set the rules for federal elections, free of supervision by state courts and state constitutions.
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/30/1106866830/supreme-court-to-take-on-controversial-election-law-case

# LGBTQ
Some States Are Quietly Trying to Limit Health Care Access for Trans Adults: Although gender-affirming care for adults remains legal, attacks on youth care could open the door for restrictions. Legal battles have kept policies and bills at bay, but advocates sense they are in a ‘never say never’ moment.
https://19thnews.org/2022/10/transgender-healthcare-adults-limit-restrict/

# Medical / Health
Abortion Clinic Escorts Say Work Is Becoming a ‘War Zone’: From dead raccoons pelted at front doors to arson attacks, abortion clinics say they are seeing an uptick in violence and are demanding action.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/abortion-clinic-escorts-say-work-is-becoming-a-war-zone

They Were Entitled to Free Care. Hospitals Hounded Them to Pay: in recent decades, many of the hospitals have become virtually indistinguishable from for-profit companies, adopting an unrelenting focus on the bottom line and straying from their traditional charitable missions. And, as Providence illustrates, some hospital systems have not only reduced their emphasis on providing free care to the poor but also developed elaborate systems to convert needy patients into sources of revenue. The result … is that thousands of poor patients were saddled with debts that they never should have owed.
https://news.yahoo.com/were-entitled-free-care-hospitals-164551068.html

Gates’ GMO Mosquitoes as “Flying Syringes” to Vaccinate All! Test in Seattle with Human Guinea-Pigs after Italian Study: “We use the mosquitoes like they’re 1,000 small flying syringes,” explains University of Washington, Seattle physician and scientist Dr. Sean Murphy
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/10/02/gates-gmo-mosquitoes-as-flying-syringes-to-vaccinate-all-test-in-seattle-with-human-guinea-pigs-after-italian-study/

Abortion Doctors Under the Microscope: The task of defending reproductive rights from the ‘Dobbs’ ruling is being led by progressive doctors, but everyone has a stake in the outcome.
https://prospect.org/health/abortion-doctors-under-the-microscope/

14-Year-Old Denied Necessary Medication Thanks To Arizona’s Civil War-era Abortion Law:  “14 year old Emma Thompson has debilitating rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis which has kept her in and out of the hospital for most of her life. She relies on methotrexate to help tame the effects of the disease.”
https://www.themarysue.com/arizona-teen-denied-meds-over-abortion-law/

# Science
Part I: 14 days or 28 — What should the standard be for research on lab-grown human embryos?
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/09/27/part-i-14-days-or-28-what-should-the-standard-be-for-research-on-lab-grown-human-embryos/?mc_cid=7947e0e5a0&mc_eid=c87bac2a19
Part II: Science and the courts clash over different views about human life and on what limits should be set on human embryo laboratory research
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/09/28/part-ii-science-and-the-courts-clash-over-different-views-about-human-life-and-on-what-limits-should-be-set-on-human-embryo-laboratory-research/

# Security
Former NSA Chief Signed Deal to Train Saudi Hackers Months Before Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder: The agreement between IronNet, founded by Alexander, and the cyber school, faced no scrutiny for its association with Qahtani, after the brutal killing of Jamal Khashoggi he reportedly orchestrated just a few months later. Alexander officially inked the deal with the Prince Mohammed bin Salman College of Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Advanced Technologies, a school set up to train Saudi cyber intelligence agents, at a signing ceremony in Washington, D.C
https://theintercept.com/2022/09/26/keith-alexander-saudi-hackers-khashoggi/

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# Border / Immigration
3 more counties want Texas to declare invasion at southern border; total at 32: Three more counties are the latest to express support for Texas declaring an invasion at the southern border, bringing the total to 32.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/3-more-counties-want-texas-to-declare-invasion-at-southern-border-total-at-32/article_4ff88148-4118-11ed-bf9d-df044917715b.html

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Two doses of COVID-19 vaccine make you 44% more likely to be infected, a study from Oxford University has found, contradicting the basis of global vaccine policy, which assumes vaccination significantly cuts incidence and transmission. The study, published in the Lancet, looked at all infections reported in England among adults registered at a medical practice from December 8, 2020, to November 17, 2021, meaning it spanned the Alpha and Delta periods.
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/09/28/vaccination-increases-infection-risk-by-44-oxford-study-finds/

# Economy / Finance / Trade
Walmart Is Temporarily Closing Hundreds of Stores Right Now
https://bestlifeonline.com/walmart-temporarily-closing-stores-hurricane-news/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Exxon’s Long-Shot Embrace of Carbon Capture in the Houston Area Just Got Massive Support from Congress
But many analysts and environmentalists remain deeply skeptical, maintaining that capturing carbon emissions as a climate change fix is at best a sideshow.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25092022/exxon-houston-ship-channel-carbon-capture/

Methane emissions may be five times higher than previously thought: Global emissions of methane from existing gas infrastructure may be up to five times higher than had been believed, a new study has found.
https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/3667259-study-methane-emissions-may-be-five-times-higher-than-previously-thought/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Feds Will Spend Billions to Boost Drought-Stricken Colorado River System. Money from the Inflation Reduction Act will fund “short-term conservation” measures including removing water-intensive lawns around cities and improvements to make infrastructure less leaky.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28092022/feds-will-spend-billions-to-boost-drought-stricken-colorado-river-system/

Peter Dykstra: With Ian, treat climate like an ‘active shooter’, and let’s treat climate deniers as accomplices.
https://www.ehn.org/ian-climate-change-2658360982.html

Marco Rubio, Rick Scott urge Senate leaders for money to rebuild state. Then don’t vote for it. The vote was 72-25. Scott, however, voted against it, while Rubio was not present for the vote, according to the U.S. Senate roll call.
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2022/09/30/marco-rubio-rick-scott-urge-senate-leaders-money-rebuild-state-hurricane-ian/8138004001/

# Environment / Climate / Global
Satellites detected tens of thousands of fires burning in Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland. The lack of rains in 2020 deepened a drought that allowed wildfires and burns intentionally set to clear land for farms and ranches to explode over an unprecedented amount of land in Brazil’s Pantanal wetland that year
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30092022/brazil-pantanal-wetland-wildfire-propoganda-bolsonaro/

The last days of an outback town where every breath can be toxic: Once a symbol of economic prosperity, Wittenoom is now a ghost town, polluted by decades of asbestos mining.
https://ground.news/article/the-last-days-of-an-outback-town-where-every-breath-can-be-toxic_87b159

China’s fishing operations raise alarms worldwide: With its own coastal waters depleted, China has built a global fishing operation unmatched by any other country.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/26/world/asia/china-fishing-south-america.html

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Billions in USDA Conservation Funding Went to Farmers for Programs that Were Not ‘Climate-Smart,’ a New Study Finds.  The Environmental Working Group urges retrofitting two conservation programs to help counter climate change, with nearly $12 billion in new funding coming from the Inflation Reduction Act.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28092022/usda-conservation-funding-climate-smart-agriculture/

Recycled human urine, also known as ‘peecycling,’ may soon be used to fertilize crops: Let’s address the elephant in the room: the thought of our pee interacting with plants that will eventually produce food that we eat sounds nasty. But it only sounds nasty because we assume that our food is grown with cleaner processes that don’t involve waste, and that assumption is dead wrong. “Human waste is already being used to fertilize foods you find in the grocery store.”
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/what-is-peecycling-human-urine-fertilizer/

California’s water emergency: satisfying the thirst of almonds while the wells of the people that harvest them run dry: Broiling heat in the middle of the worst drought in 1,200 years has strained the state’s underground water supply, pitting the Central Valley’s $20 billion agriculture industry against many of its own workers.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2022/09/22/california-farms-pump-water-to-feed-crops-amid-extreme-heat-and-drought-but-residents-wells-are-running-dry/?sh=1622cd346eac

# General Information / Other News
Long Time Coming: The Second Sino-American War: Ben Seattle: The United States and China have long been on a collision course in the Asia Pacific
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/09/25/long-time-coming-the-second-sino-american-war/

Trump escalates attacks on McConnell with ‘DEATH WISH’ post: In a post on his Truth Social website, Trump asked if McConnell had supported the unspecified bills “because he hates Donald J. Trump, and he knows I am opposed to them. He has a DEATH WISH,” Trump added.
https://www.yahoo.com/video/trump-intensifies-attacks-mcconnell-death-053221482.html

Plastics industry searches for a ‘circular’ way to cut plastic waste and make more plastics: Environmentalists smell a ruse, saying the industry’s talk of “advanced recycling” is nothing more than a fancy approach to a dirty business, incinerating plastics.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30092022/the-plastics-industry-searches-for-a-circular-way-to-cut-plastic-waste-and-make-more-plastics/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin Has ‘Nothing Left to Maneuver’ in Ukraine as Russia Flees Lyman: Despite recent shows of strength and Putin’s attempt to declare annexation of four territories, the Russian army recently faced a major new setback as Ukrainian forces recaptured Lyman, a city in the breakaway Donetsk region, on Saturday.
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-has-nothing-left-maneuver-ukraine-russia-flees-lyman-gen-1748190

Putin calls an additional 120,00 citizens up for military service:  Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree setting out the routine autumn conscription campaign, calling 120,000 citizens up for statutory military service. TASS quoted the defence ministry as saying the autumn conscription was “not in any way related to the special operation”, Russia’s official term for its military campaign in Ukraine.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-09-30/russias-putin-signs-decree-on-routine-autumn-conscription-tass

China distances itself from Russia and calls for peace in Ukraine: “We call on all parties to achieve a ceasefire and stop the war through dialogue and negotiation, and to find a solution that takes into account the legitimate security concerns of all parties as soon as possible,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin on the 21st of this month. “We also hope the international community will create the conditions and space for this.”
https://www.newsweek.com/china-trying-rescue-russia-ukraine-debacle-opinion-1747282

Russia withdraws troops after Ukraine encircles key city:  After being encircled by Ukrainian forces, Russia pulled troops out Saturday from an eastern Ukrainian city that it had been using as a front-line hub. It was the latest victory for the Ukrainian counteroffensive that has humiliated and angered the Kremlin.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-kidnapping-government-and-politics-cce973f2c43dc0d85883d46642fc970c

Presidents of nine Eastern European countries condemn Russian annexation of Ukrainian territories: The countries also backed a path to membership for Ukraine in the defense alliance, according to a joint statement.
https://www.politico.eu/article/nine-nato-countries-condemn-russia-annexations-in-ukraine/

# Gov / Politics / US
Petition Filed With the U.S. Supreme Court Against Dominion, Facebook and CFCL in ‘A Case of Great National Importance’: A group of individuals filed a class action lawsuit against Dominion Voting Systems, Facebook, CTCL and Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, which is now going to the U.S. Supreme Court. This group claims that the defendants worked together with government employees in a concerted and coordinated effort to change the results of the 2020 Presidential Election in ways that go against the U.S. Constitution
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/exclusive-petition-filed-us-supreme-court-dominion-facebook-cfcl-case-great-national-importance/

Trump Baselessly Undermines the Credibility of Every Future U.S. Election: ‘I Don’t Believe We’ll Ever Have a Fair Election Again’: For the past two years, former President Donald Trump has relentlessly — and baselessly — attacked the credibility of the 2020 election, which he lost to President Joe Biden. But now, the 45th president is going after the credibility of all future U.S. elections.
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-baselessly-undermines-the-credibility-of-every-future-u-s-election-i-dont-believe-well-ever-have-a-fair-election-again/

# Military / Global
Putin Suffers Most Humiliating Ukraine Defeat Yet: Thousands of Russian troops may be trapped after a rapid-fire Ukrainian counter-attack fought to encircle a key strategic city on the very day Putin claimed to be annexing it.
https://news.yahoo.com/putin-suffers-most-humiliating-ukraine-122830461.html

# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
New commanders are slated to take the helm of the Space Force and U.S. Strategic Command following unanimous votes of approval by the Senate.
https://www.defensenews.com/news/pentagon-congress/2022/09/30/here-are-the-new-leaders-of-space-force-and-us-strategic-command/

SpaceX and NASA Might Team Up to Save the Hubble Telescope: A new service mission to lift the aging telescope, repair failing parts, and upgrade old ones could add 20 years to its lifespan.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-spacex-to-study-hubble-telescope-reboost-possibility

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