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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-12-07

Voices, The Peoples News

December 7, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
U.S. commits $75 million to relocate three tribes threatened by climate change: The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs will grant three tribes $25 million each to relocate homes, schools, and critical infrastructure. In one of the nation’s largest efforts to date for communities that are facing an urgent threat from climate change, 3 Native tribes will receive $75 million to move away from coastal areas or rivers.
https://cleantechnica.com/2022/12/05/as-land-washes-away-native-tribes-start-to-receive-funding-to-relocate-inland/

# Border / Immigration
Denver Authorities Unsure Where Migrant Buses Came From: About 100 migrants arrived in Denver this week, but those interviewed by authorities are reportedly giving conflicting answers about where their trip originated.
City is unsure who sent immigrants from the southern border
https://www.denverpost.com/2022/12/07/denver-migrants-emergency-shelter/

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Baby in Health Officials’ Custody Over Anti-Vax Blood Case: The 4-month-old boy’s life-saving procedure had been blocked because his parents worried donors may have been vaccinated against COVID. New Zealand high court case has become a focus of protests from anti-vaxxers
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/07/health-officials-gain-guardianship-of-baby-whose-parents-refused-vaccinated-blood-transfusion

Monoclonal antibody treatments no longer work against new COVID variants. Why not?
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/12/07/monoclonal-antibody-treatments-no-longer-work-against-new-covid-variants-why-not/?mc_cid=12053505e0&mc_eid=c87bac2a19

How monoclonal antibodies lost the fight with new COVID variants: different monoclonal treatments have lost their efficacy against new variants of the coronavirus. The rise of Paxlovid antiviral pills earlier this year, further dented their appeal
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/11/20/1137892932/monoclonal-antibodies-covid-treatment

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Revealed: Nearly 100 potential PFAS-polluted sites in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia from fracking waste
A new map reveals at least 97 new locations that could have been contaminated by the industry’s use of “forever chemicals”
https://www.dailyclimate.org/fracking-pennsylvania-pfas-2658846325.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
The US, the EU, and other major global economies have agreed to a $60 maximum price cap for purchasing Russian oil. “This is a dramatic and unprecedented move by the US and its partners, especially given how dependent Europe was on Russian energy,” Vox’s Jen Kirby reports. With the agreed-upon price cap, “any country that wants to pay more for Russian oil can’t use operators or insurers from this coalition, which is a big share of the market.”
https://www.vox.com/world/2022/12/6/23490654/price-cap-60-russian-oil-european-union-ban-group-of-seven-united-states

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
UN Boss Calls Humanity a ‘Weapon of Mass Extinction’: “It’s time to forge a peace pact with nature,” António Guterres said.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/06/canada-leads-calls-to-reverse-nature-loss-as-cop15-opens-in-montreal

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Nanoparticles From Food Additives Can Reach Babies In The Womb, Cause Food Allergies: Nanotechnology has rapidly transformed food production, manufacturing, and processing in recent years, with the goal of enhancing food safety and health. However, new research suggests that their use in making foods safer could have unexpected health consequences for babies.
https://www.naturalblaze.com/2022/12/nanoparticles-from-food-additives-can-reach-babies-in-the-womb-cause-food-allergies.html

# General Information / Other News
Companies Owned by Former President Donald Trump: His businesses span hotels, condos, real-estate rentals, and licensing deals. We know considerably more now, although there is still much to know. Here’s what we know, and don’t know, about Trump’s business dealings, his successes and failures, and his financial health as he left the presidency.
https://www.investopedia.com/updates/donald-trump-companies/

Trump Organization tax fraud convictions show downsides of private companies having no independent oversight or outside accountability: Publicly traded companies must have independent oversight and make regular financial and other disclosures. The Trump Organization has none of these safeguards.
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140756394/former-president-donald-trumps-company-found-guilty-criminal-tax-fraud

Donald Trump Is Not Going Away: Pundits have speculated the Trump era is ending. It may be at a low after the midterm elections, but the loyalty of his base is so entrenched Trump is likely to be influential for years to come. Examining the Trump phenomena from a behavior psychology viewpoint tells us why.
https://dcjournal.com/donald-trump-is-not-going-away/

More Classified Docs Reportedly Found in Trump Storage Unit: Three more sites were reportedly searched in recent weeks after a request from a federal judge.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3765703-items-with-classified-markings-found-in-trump-storage-unit-reports/

# Gov / Politics / US
This Is No Way to Keep a Republic: Most of us know Benjamin Franklin’s famous reply to lady asking if the Constitutional Convention gave us a republic or a monarchy. “A republic,” he said, “if you can keep it.” Now, in 2022, the question isn’t if we can keep it but if there’s even enough of the republic the Framers Republic gave us for us to keep?
https://dcjournal.com/this-is-no-way-to-keep-a-republic/

New Hampshire Dems Promise a Fight for First Primary Spot: President Joe Biden has endorsed South Carolina to host the first Democratic primary. New Hampshire is saying not so fast.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/12/02/democrats-iowa-new-hampshire-could-rebel-against-democratic-presidential-nominating-calendar/10816743002/

Walker Lost, but the GOP Is Still Poisoned by MAGA Loonies: Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock’s narrow re-election to the U.S. Senate is a relief, but Walker’s ridiculous candidacy showed how far the Republican Party has fallen.
https://news.yahoo.com/herschel-walker-lost-gop-still-035352681.html

‘Independent state legislature doctrine,’ now before Supreme Court, could reverse 200 years of progress in giving more say over elections to the people: A doctrine embraced by some conservatives could be adopted by the US Supreme Court. And if the court does, Americans’ political power will be dramatically limited.
https://theconversation.com/independent-state-legislature-doctrine-now-before-supreme-court-could-reverse-200-years-of-progress-in-giving-more-say-over-elections-to-the-people-186282

Biden wants to prevent a strong primary challenge. He shouldn’t get away with it. A president is not a party’s king, and he has no automatic right to renomination.
https://truthout.org/articles/biden-wants-to-block-presidential-primary-challenge-from-the-left-ahead-of-2024/

Even Joe Manchin Was Sick of Him Holding All the Power in the Senate: The Georgia runoff results mean a real majority for Senate Democrats.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/12/joe-manchin-georgia-runoff-raphael-warnock-senate.html

# Legal / DOJ
Missouri, Louisiana AGs release 359-page Fauci deposition in social media collusion lawsuit: A 359-page transcript of the deposition of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden, was released Monday by the two attorneys general who filed a lawsuit alleging government collusion with social media companies
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/missouri-louisiana-ags-release-359-page-fauci-deposition-in-social-media-collusion-lawsuit/article_298f96c0-74f5-11ed-ad8a-77dd9d368d03.html

# LGBTQ
Congress is set to codify marriage equality – but the Respect for Marriage Act has a few key limitations: The Respect for Marriage Act provides exemptions for religious groups, excludes people with disabilities, and could still lead to state-level discrimination laws.
https://theconversation.com/congress-is-set-to-codify-marriage-equality-but-the-respect-for-marriage-act-has-a-few-key-limitations-195709

# Medical / Health
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Hemgenix, the first gene therapy for the blood-clotting disorder haemophilia B. Its price tag of US$3.5 million makes it the world’s most expensive drug. Hemgenix is one-time gene therapy administered by IV infusion
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-23/world-s-most-expensive-drug-csl-hemgenix-hemophilia-approved-by-fda

# Medical Technology
There’s an ‘arms race’ in health tech. Who could be the next M&A target? CVS, Walgreens, Walmart and tech giant Amazon are ramping up their focus on providing medical services to gain bigger footholds in the healthcare market.
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/theres-arms-race-health-tech-who-could-be-next-ma-target

# Military / DOD
How AI is rising up the ranks of the military: Why it matters: Military dominance in the future won’t be decided just by the size of a nation’s army, but the quality of its algorithms.
https://www.axios.com/2021/10/23/ai-future-united-states-military

National Security Commission Warns Pentagon of Falling Hopelessly Behind in the AI Arms Race while calling for new investments to foster innovation. Failure to do so would relinquish America’s role as a primary player in AI, while exposing the nation to serious new threats, including a diminishing of U.S. military advantage, unchecked disinformation campaigns, increased cyberattacks, and the erosion of democracy and civil liberties, according to the new report.
https://gizmodo.com/national-security-commission-warns-pentagon-of-falling-1839646571

Marines’ updated amphibious concept calls for disruptive technologies: The lab said in May it was working on a Concept for 21st Century Amphibious Operations at the behest of the commandant of the Marine Corps. Traditional amphibious operations also needed to be modernized.
https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2022/12/06/marines-updated-amphibious-concept-calls-for-disruptive-technologies/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dfn-wb-1

# Military / Global
Ukraine war pushes Poland to train civilians as soldiers for a military mighty enough to challenge Russia: The Polish Ministry of National Defense’s new “Train with the Army” project is an initiative born out of the anxiety over the war in neighboring Ukraine. Weekend courses for thousands of Poles began in October and, due to popular demand, will continue into January.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2022-12-06/poland-russia-ukraine-military-training-8313063.html

# Science
Harnessing the brain’s immune cells to stave off Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases: Microglia, immune cells disguised as brain cells, are known as the janitors of the brain. Dialing up their usual duties just enough could provide an avenue to treat neurodegenerative disease.
https://theconversation.com/harnessing-the-brains-immune-cells-to-stave-off-alzheimers-and-other-neurodegenerative-diseases-193606

# Technology
Inside the Big Tech Arms Race to Build the Most Deceptive AI: If you can’t trust Siri, who can you trust? Beyond being able to dominate us in a heated game of Diplomacy, AI trained in this way can potentially be used to help us solve complex issues.
https://www.yahoo.com/video/inside-google-meta-arms-race-203422819.html

Here’s what you need to know about the new AI ‘arms: “Whoever becomes the leader in AI [or artificial intelligence] will become the ruler of the world,” Vladimir Putin once famously said.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-ai-arms-race/

Interpreting U.S.-China AI development as an “arms race” or a winner-takes-all competition fundamentally misunderstands the transnational nature of AI development and technological interdependence.
https://www.newamerica.org/cybersecurity-initiative/reports/essay-reframing-the-us-china-ai-arms-race/problem-1-arms-race-framing-is-winner-takes-all/

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-12-06

Voices, The Peoples News

December 6, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
Cherokee Nation wants to send a delegate to the House – it’s an idea older than Congress itself: The right is explicitly laid out in the same treaty that led to the Trail of Tears. “The Treaty of New Echota is a living, valid treaty, and the Delegate provision is intact because it has never been abrogated,” Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin wrote in testimony submitted to the House Committee on Rules on Nov. 16, 2022. “As the Supreme Court has made clear on multiple occasions, and as the landmark McGirt decision reaffirmed, lapse of time cannot divest Indian nations of their treaties and treaty rights.”
https://theconversation.com/cherokee-nation-wants-to-send-a-delegate-to-the-house-its-an-idea-older-than-congress-itself-191738

White House Announces Public Safety Initiatives Ahead Of Tribal Nations Summit: The Biden administration plans to make new commitments to tribal leaders during the two-day Tribal Nations Summit including new actions meant to strengthen public safety and address the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous people.
https://thecrimereport.org/2022/11/30/white-house-announces-public-safety-initiatives-ahead-of-tribal-nations-summit/

Grand Jury Indicts Two For Murder, Evidence Tampering In Oklahoma Indian Country: The following individuals have been charged with violations of United States law in indictments returned by the Grand Jury. The return of an indictment is a method of informing a defendant of alleged violations of federal law, which must be proven in a court of law beyond a reasonable doubt to overcome a defendant’s presumption of innocence.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndok/pr/federal-grand-jury-b-indictments-announced-november-2022

# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
Purina Recalls Pro Plan Vet Diet Product Due to Mislabeling: You can identify the mislabeled product by the UPC (38100 17599), production code (22581159 L4TR6) and “Best Before Sept 2024” date on the bottom of each can.
https://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-recall/purina-pro-plan-en-vet-diet/

# Archaeology
Large and mysterious object unearthed on Florida beach: There’s been intense speculation in the local community on just what the object, believed to be between 80 to 100 feet in length, actually is.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mysterious-structure-florida-beach-volusia-county-hurricane-erosion/

# Children / Youth
McDonald’s Franchisee Hit With Child Violations at 13 Stores: The franchisee of the stores had to pay a large fine after breaking labor laws which saw children overworked.
https://www.newsweek.com/multiple-mcdonalds-restaurants-caught-violating-child-labor-laws-1764973

At the McDonald’s location at 100 Davis Boulevard in Pittsburgh, investigators found a violation of child labor standards where a minor under the age of 16 was allowed to operate a deep fryer that was not fitted with a device to automatically lower and raise baskets.
https://www.newsweek.com/multiple-mcdonalds-restaurants-caught-violating-child-labor-laws-1764973

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Our Next Best COVID Drug Has Been Hiding In Plain Sight: A common liver drug shuts the door on COVID before it can infect our cells.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/next-best-covid-drug-hiding-165037095.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Buffalo Mass Shooting Victim Patented Hydrogen System for Cars –Beyond his day job, Salter spent the past decade developing a car engine fueled on water: A fuel system is provided for generating hydrogen and oxygen for use in an internal combustion engine to improve combustion efficiency of the engine and to decrease emissions from the engine…It is estimated that the method of utilization of the sludge generated during electrolysis as a fuel increases the efficiency of energy production of electrolysis by approximately 60%.”
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/83857/buffalo-mass-shooting-victim-patented-hydrogen-system-for.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
Indigenous Argentineans Resist Becoming “Sacrifice Zone” for Ecocolonialism: The Global North’s demand for lithium threatens a new chapter of colonial dispossession.
https://truthout.org/articles/indigenous-argentineans-resist-becoming-sacrifice-zone-for-ecocolonialism/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Fact check: Fossil fuels are No. 1 climate change cause, not animals: The percentage of global emissions produced by animal agriculture is “much smaller” than the percentage produced by fossil fuels
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/12/05/fact-check-fossil-fuels-no-1-climate-change-cause-not-animals/10764976002/

Communism will make the weather better: Oxfordshire County Council, which is run by Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party, secretly decided to divide-up the city of Oxford into six ‘15 minute’ districts in 2021 soon after they were elected to office. None of the councillors declared their intention of imprisoning local residents in their manifestos of course, preferring to make vague claims about how they will ‘improve the environment’ instead.
https://www.visionnews.online/post/oxfordshire-county-council-pass-climate-lockdown-trial-to-begin-in-2024

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
A Wisconsin town tried to stop factory farm pollution. Then got sued. A tiny town in Wisconsin faces a lawsuit from an industry heavyweight, a growing trend when citizens try to regulate CAFOs in their backyards.
https://grist.org/accountability/what-happens-when-citizens-try-regulate-factory-farms/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russia blames Ukraine for air base attacks and quickly retaliates: The Kremlin accuses Ukraine of striking two air bases and has retaliated with a barrage of missiles in several Ukraine regions. AP reports that the attack has caused mass blackouts and water and heating shortages.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-united-states-europe-european-union-a1a82a936964ee01b86e3502e16e9ff4

# Gov / Politics / US
Disenchanted NYC Councilman Switches Parties, Turns to GOP: The former Democrat cited rising crime statistics and progressive criminal justice reforms as the biggest reasons behind his decision to leave.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/05/new-lines-push-nyc-democrat-ari-kagan-to-gop/

Ukraine Aid and Stealth Bombers: Pentagon Lays Out Consequences if Congress Can’t Pass a Budget Deal – Politico
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/03/pentagon-congress-budget-deal-weapons-00072068

McConnell Caves to Pelosi, Schumer, Allows JCPA Media Cartel Bailout Bill to Be Included in Defense Package. The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) is a bill to enable further collusion between the media industry and Big Tech. Other congressional leaders acquiesced to lobbyist pressure and agreed to include the JCPA in the base text of the NDAA.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/12/05/sources-mcconnell-caves-to-pelosi-schumer-allows-jcpa-media-cartel-bailout-bill-to-be-included-in-defense-package/

Biden’s decision to grant Saudi crown prince immunity is a profound mistake: After being repeatedly humiliated by Prince Mohammed, Biden continues to appease an autocrat who disdains him. That decision effectively ends one of the last efforts to hold the prince accountable for Khashoggi’s assassination by a Saudi hit team inside the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul in October 2018.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/21/bidens-decision-to-grant-mbs-immunity-is-a-profound-mistake

“Military Intervention Will Birth Military Occupation,” Haitian Activist Warns: The previous military occupations of Haiti “all brought disease, hunger, poverty and destruction,” says David Oxygène.
https://truthout.org/articles/military-intervention-will-birth-military-occupation-haitian-activist-warns/

Biden Wants to Block Presidential Primary Challenge From the Left Ahead of 2024: The 2024 Democratic presidential candidate should be chosen by voters, not imposed by the Democratic National Committee.
https://truthout.org/articles/biden-wants-to-block-presidential-primary-challenge-from-the-left-ahead-of-2024/

Georgia Breaks Voting Records in Senate Runoff Election: The election between Warnock and Walker has seen a record number of early votes, especially in communities of color.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/georgia-senate-runoff-election-day-turnout-top-1/story?id=94593358

# Law Enforcement
Texas Man Pleads Guilty After Plotting School Bombing: The twisted wannabe-killer was only caught because neighbors called the cops after he blew up an Xbox in his backyard last summer.
https://www.newschannel10.com/2022/12/05/amarillo-man-pleads-guilty-use-weapon-mass-destruction-after-threatening-blow-up-high-school/

Racism, gruesome errors, and botched executions; Inside America’s four-person, 48-hour execution spree: Even for the US, one of few countries that still uses the death penalty, last week was exceptionally violent, with four executions planned in the span of 48 hours. The killings were marred with errors, accusations of racism and discrimination, and claims of innocence. “Mental health is not a political issue. There are people on both sides of the aisle who can identify with loved ones suffering from mental health issues,” she said. “We can address why our death row has 110 people on it, starting with mental health.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/death-penalty-execution-arizona-united-states-b2230860.html

# Legal / DOJ
Trump Had Hidden $19.8 Million Loan From North Korea-Linked Company As President: The loan from Daewoo, a company with ties to North Korea, should have been reported in public financial disclosures
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/05/donald-trump-daewoo-loan-financial-disclosure

Musk’s ‘Twitter Files,’ Revealing Censorship of Hunter Biden Laptop Story, Is a ‘Distraction,’ White House Says
https://nypost.com/2022/12/05/jean-pierre-says-not-healthy-for-elon-musk-to-release-files-on-censorship-of-hunter-biden-laptop-story/

Disgraced lawyer Avenatti gets 14 years in the slammer for stealing millions: The disgraced attorney was also ordered to pay more $7 million in restitution to his victims in a ruling that comes nearly six months after he pleaded guilty to fraud charges.
https://people.com/crime/michael-avenatti-sentenced-to-14-years-for-tax-fraud-and-swindling-millions-from-clients/

FBI hero paying the price for exposing unjust ‘persecution’ of conservative Americans: In his whistleblower complaint to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz … Friend lays out multiple violations of FBI policy involving J6 investigations in which he was involved. He says he was removed from active investigations into child sexual exploitation and human trafficking to work on J6 cases sent from DC. As a result, he believes his child exploitation investigations were harmed.
https://nypost.com/2022/09/21/fbi-hero-paying-the-price-for-exposing-unjust-persecution-of-conservative-americans/

Twelve-person jury returns guilty verdict against former president’s company after being sent out on Monday to deliberate. Jury finds Trump Organization guilty of tax fraud on all counts: The company was convicted of providing untaxed perks to some executives.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/06/trump-organization-guilty-verdict-tax-fraud

A Judge In Texas Is Using A Recent Supreme Court Ruling To Say Domestic Abusers Can Keep Their Guns:
On Nov. 10, 2022, a judge in the Western District of Texas struck down the federal law that prohibits access to guns for people subject to domestic violence protection orders.
https://theconversation.com/a-judge-in-texas-is-using-a-recent-supreme-court-ruling-to-say-domestic-abusers-can-keep-their-guns-195273

Angola Will Remain a Slave Plantation: Billy Sinclair, who spent 40 years in the Louisiana prison system, reflects on the state’s recent failure to pass a constitutional amendment that would have banned involuntary servitude and slavery.
https://thecrimereport.org/2022/11/23/angola-will-remain-a-slave-plantation/

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a redistricting case, and it is no arcane dispute about district lines or partisan balance. North Carolina Republicans have asked the court to embrace a fringe legal theory with no basis in American history that would upend American democracy, eviscerate voting rights, make combating partisan gerrymandering impossible and empower anti-democratic election subverters. It argues that the Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution provides state legislatures the sole authority to set the “time, place, and manner” of federal elections.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-court-to-hear-arguments-in-north-carolina-redistricting-case

# LGBTQ
Texas Just Re-Elected My Trans Son’s Worst Bullies: Parents of trans kids, like myself, need our neighbors to help us stand up to the GOP politicians imposing policies that would tear our families apart. Their recent victories gave them a mandate to double down on their cruelty, and I’m terrified.
https://www.yahoo.com/now/texas-just-elected-trans-son-094019968.html

Anti-LGBTQ Hate Is Forcing Drag Queen Events To Prepare For Attacks: After the mass shooting at Club Q, family-friendly drag events across the U.S. are on high alert.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/drag-story-hour-protests_n_638e4d5de4b0411f9e7b7e75

# Media
Al Jazeera Sues Israeli Forces at the International Criminal Court: The lawsuit comes after an investigation that Al Jazeera uncovers new evidence in the death of Shireen Abu Akleh.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/al-jazeera-files-lawsuit-international-criminal-court-over-journalists-killing-2022-12-06/

# Medical / Health
Policing Pregnancy: Wisconsin’s ‘Fetal Protection’ Law Forces Women Into Treatment or Jail: Officials investigate about 400 pregnant people a year for alleged ‘unborn child abuse’ under Act 292 in Wisconsin. Critics say that can do more harm than good.
https://www.news-journal.com/policing-pregnancy-wisconsin-s-fetal-protection-law-one-of-the-nation-s-most-punitive-forces/article_d91748e4-133d-5f91-8dcc-c18616f442e9.html

# Military / DOD
U.S. Altered Rocket Launchers It Gave to Ukraine: The Pentagon reportedly modified its Himars rocket launchers so Ukrainian forces would be unable to fire into Russia and risk escalating the conflict.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-altered-himars-rocket-launchers-to-keep-ukraine-from-firing-missiles-into-russia-11670214338

Air Force clears hurdle with 1st hypersonic weapon amid ‘new arms race’ with Russia, China: The weapon, called the Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW, is an air-to-ground missile powered by a rocket motor that can travel as fast as Mach 8, or eight times the speed of sound. It’s built to be carried by the B-52 Stratofortress.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2022-12-05/air-force-hypersonic-weapons-china-8312739.html

# Military / Global
Shock as Nuclear Airbase Just 150 Miles From Moscow Is Hit: Deadly explosions rocked two bases deep inside Russia in a blistering new setback for Putin, who is already sustaining huge losses on Ukrainian territory.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/explosion-at-nuclear-airbase-just-150-miles-from-moscow-opens-stunning-new-phase-of-war

The Israeli-made Lanius is a tiny racing drone that could scout and kill enemies while using artificial intelligence: After being sent into battle, Lanius’s algorithm can make a map of the scene and scan people, differentiating enemies from allies, feeding all that data back to soldiers who can then simply push a button to attack or kill whom they want. For weapons critics, that represents a nightmare scenario
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/18/killer-racing-drone-weapons/

# Science
Alzheimer’s tied to cholesterol, abnormal nerve insulation: Researchers found evidence that the Alzheimer’s-related gene APOE4 disrupts cholesterol management in the brain and weakens insulation around nerve fibers.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03724-2

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-12-05

Voices, The Peoples News

December 5, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration
Illegal entry into the US has a racist history. Lawyers are fighting against it in court: Landmark Decision Finds “Illegal Reentry” Charges Are Racist In Origin, Discriminatory In Practice
https://immigrantjustice.org/staff/blog/landmark-decision-finds-illegal-reentry-charges-are-racist-origin-discriminatory

Feds often hand migrants over to state police rather than process immigration claims: State police often rely on federal immigration officials to lock up migrants on state trespassing charges, according to a new complaint by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas. The collaboration contradicts federal and Texas officials’ attacks on each other’s immigration policies.
https://www.kwtx.com/2022/12/03/feds-often-hand-migrants-over-state-police-rather-than-process-immigration-claims-complaint-says/

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Psychotic Disorders Reported After mRNA COVID Shots
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9006421/

Monoclonal Antibodies No Longer Effective Against New Strains of SARS-CoV-2
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/101833

Boy’s Death in Ireland Three Weeks After Getting Pfizer mRNA COVID Shot a “Significant Public Concern”: The death last year of a 14-year-old Irish teen three weeks after he received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has sparked a “considerable investigation” that will include requests to Pfizer for safety information, officials involved in an inquest into the teen’s death said this week.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/joseph-mcginty-death-pfizer-covid-vaccine-investigation/

Vaccinated people make up majority of COVID deaths: “For the very first time, vaccinated people make up a majority of COVID deaths. It’s an analysis of data. The data came from the CDC. For the first time, a majority of Americans dying from the coronavirus received at least the primary series of the vaccine. It’s a continuation of a troubling trend that has emerged over the past year.
https://www.messenger-inquirer.com/features/health/vaccinated-people-now-make-up-a-majority-of-covid-deaths/article_cbc61b3c-ae46-515a-bae8-819ccebf9bd9.html

Prison COVID Policies Fell Short. Incarcerated Activists Fight for Their Lives. Incarcerated organizers are still in fight mode against lethal COVID policies.
https://truthout.org/articles/prison-covid-policies-fell-short-incarcerated-activists-fight-for-their-lives/

# Education / Schools
Abandoned? Meet a Student Suing Yale for Pressuring Those with Mental Health Needs to Withdraw: A group of current and former Yale students is suing the Ivy League university over what they say is “systemic discrimination” against students struggling with mental health issues.
https://truthout.org/video/students-sue-yale-for-pressuring-those-with-mental-health-needs-to-withdraw/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Thousands of people are without electricity in North Carolina after an act of “intentional vandalism” caused a mass blackout. Power might not be restored until Thursday, according to a spokesperson for Duke Energy, the company whose substations were damaged.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/moore-county-power-outage-crime

A former coal-fired power plant imploded last week in New Jersey is poised to become a $1 billion battery storage facility.
https://www.miningjournal.net/news/2022/12/coal-fired-plant-imploded-in-new-jersey-for-battery-array/

Los Angeles Bans New Oil Drilling, Will Phase Out Current Wells: The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously on Friday to ban new oil and methane gas drilling, and phase out existing wells within 20 years.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/los-angeles-bans-new-oil-wells-plans-to-close-existing-ones/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Building Steam in Lithium Valley: Imperial County, one of the most depressed areas in America, has a clean-energy fortune stored deep in an underground reservoir. Can it be extracted, and will downtrodden residents see the benefits?
https://prospect.org/environment/building-steam-in-lithium-valley/

In America’s rush to build the nuclear arsenal that won the Cold War, safety was sacrificed for speed.
https://www.propublica.org/article/uranium-mills-pollution-cleanup-us

# General Information / Other News
EXPOSED: Donald Trump and his secret multi-million dollar foreign debt: Documents revealed in the New York Attorney General’s trial of the Trump Organization that the company held nearly $20 million in liability from the company listed as ‘L/P Daewoo.’ A joint licensing deal between the South Korean conglomerate and not yet-President Trump outlined an arrangement that would see the two split fees related to a project intended near the United Nation’s New York City headquarters – Trump World Tower.
https://occupydemocrats.com/2022/12/04/exposed-donald-trump-and-his-secret-multi-million-dollar-foreign-debt/?fbclid=IwAR1lZxYir2l8qqPBzrcGSPpW-x29ey1p7Mq1r65k75sghBK9hK53prpkBpY

What did Donald Trump say about terminating the US Constitution? In his latest attempt to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election, former President Trump took to Truth Social over the weekend to call for the termination of the Constitution of the United States of America.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/05/trump-terminate-constitution-00072230

# Gov / Politics / Global
Ukrainians saved babies from Russians with fake medical docs: Russians were suspected of seizing orphan children and sending them to Russia, so staff at the children’s regional hospital in Kherson city began fabricating orphans’ medical records to make it appear like they were too ill to move. “We deliberately wrote false information that the children were sick and could not be transported,” said Dr. Olga Pilyarska, head of intensive care. “We were scared that the Russians would find out, but we decided that we would save the children at any cost.”
https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/russia-at-war/ukrainians-hid-orphaned-children-from-russian-deportation/

Putin Just Began His ‘Inevitable’ Barrage of Mass Missile Strikes: Russia launched a fresh barrage of missile strikes against Ukraine on Monday, days after Russian President Vladimir Putin said that such strikes had become “inevitable” in the war.
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-began-inevitable-barrage-mass-missile-strikes-1764713

North Korea executes two teenagers for ‘evil’ crime of watching foreign films: Two teenagers have been executed by firing squad in North Korea for watching and distributing South Korean films. Witnesses were forced to watch as the boys, aged 16 and 17, were killed immediately after being sentenced for the crime on an airfield in Hyesan.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11503103/North-Korea-executes-two-teenagers-firing-squad-watching-South-Korean-movies.html

# Gov / Politics / US
Biden Administration Says Legal Immunity for Saudi Crown Prince Was Unavoidable. Privately, They Weren’t So Sure. The National Security Council and DAWN, a nonprofit founded by Jamal Khashoggi, met expressly to discuss the question.
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/01/saudi-prince-mbs-immunity/

Donald Trump Calls for “Termination” of U.S. Constitution: (The Borowitz Report) Donald J. Trump clarified his call for the termination of the United States Constitution by indicating that he would abolish the entire document except for the Fifth Amendment.
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-calls-for-termination-of-constitution-except-fifth-amendment

Does Elon Musk have a right to destroy Twitter? Do we really think that the super-wealthy should be allowed to control so much wealth and wield so much influence? Billionaires are presumed to be free from responsibility because they own what they’ve had a hand in destroying. So under the rules of capitalism, they have a right to do whatever they want with their money. Right? Wrong.
https://robertreich.org/post/702473374572675072

Blinken vows US support for Israel despite differences with incoming government: Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. will not shrink from its unwavering support for Israel despite stark differences with Prime Minister-elect Benjamin Netanyahu.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/blinken-vows-u-s-support-for-israel-despite-unease-over-new-government

Arizona Certifies Election Results: Arizona certified the results of the 2022 midterm elections, putting a Democrat as governor, secretary of state and in both U.S. Senate seats for the first time since 1950.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3762234-arizona-certifies-2022-election-results-amid-threat-of-more-gop-challenges/

# Legal / DOJ
Manhattan DA Hires Former DOJ Official to Take on Trump Case: Matthew Colangelo has personal experience investigating the former president, having led countless lawsuits against him.
https://www.salon.com/2022/12/05/manhattan-da-hires-top-ex-doj-official-went-after-to-lead-renewed-investigation/

New York Mayor’s Plan to Round Up Homeless People Is a Trauma-Inducing Horror: It is a horrific rights violation to give police the power to forcibly hospitalize people for being homeless.
https://truthout.org/articles/new-york-mayors-plan-to-round-up-homeless-people-is-a-trauma-inducing-horror/

# Medical / Health
Even Abortion Ban States Push for Further Restrictions on Reproductive Health: Anti-abortion lawmakers must decide if they will push new abortion bans, a subject of debate among some abortion opponents, if they will amend existing bans to allow for abortions in cases of rape of incest, or if they will move to other reproductive health issues such as contraception. Abortion opponents have struggled to agree on all of them, especially with total abortion bans proving unpopular among voters.
https://truthout.org/articles/even-abortion-ban-states-push-for-further-restrictions-on-reproductive-health/

# Military / DOD
Navy seizes 50 tons of ammo and rocket fuses from boat that set sail from Iran: Iran is being accused of continued “unlawful transfer of lethal aid” after the U.S. 5th Fleet says it seized more than 50 tons of ammunition rounds, fuses and propellants for rockets from a fishing trawler in the Gulf of Oman.
https://maritime-executive.com/article/u-s-navy-seizes-50-tons-of-ammunition-in-the-gulf-of-oman

USAF is Now Ready for Atomic World War (AWW): Top Secret B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber finally Revealed:
Top secret B-21 Raider stealth bomber finally revealed in high-powered ceremony. The B-21, the first new bomber for the Air Force in over 30 years, “looks imposing, but what’s under the frame and the space-age coatings is even more impressive,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said.
https://breakingdefense.com/2022/12/top-secret-b-21-raider-finally-revealed-in-high-powered-ceremony/

# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
James Webb Telescope spots a rare sight on an extraterrestrial body: clouds. The exoplanet’s atmosphere also contains methane and carbon dioxide. Astronomers spotted evidence of silicate-rich clouds around a brown dwarf nearly 20 times the size of Jupiter. The finding confirms some earlier theories about these odd planet-like worlds.
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-exoplanet-sand-clouds

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-12-04

Voices, The Peoples News

December 4, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
Corn Nourishes the Hopi Identity, but Climate-Driven Drought Is Stressing the Tribe’s Foods and Traditions:
Most Hopi grow corn with only the precipitation that falls on their fields, but two decades of drought have some of them testing the waters of irrigation and hoping they can preserve other customs with their harvests
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27112022/corn-nourishes-the-hopi-identity-but-climate-driven-drought-is-stressing-the-tribes-foods-and-traditions/

# Border / Immigration
DOJ Tried to Hide Report Warning That Private Border Wall in Texas Could Collapse: The report confirms a ProPublica and Texas Tribune investigation that found the privately built fencing could collapse during major flooding. The federal government resisted making the findings public for more than a year.
https://www.propublica.org/article/border-wall-texas-doj-arcadis-webuildthewall

# Children / Youth
Grieving Mom Says Athena Was Killed By ‘Sick, Cruel Monster’: The seven-year-old girl’s heartbroken mother said she wants “the world to know my baby, my first baby, my first true love, the reason I breathe.”
https://www.talktalknews.co.uk/p/texas-mothers-heartbreaking-death-to-7-year-old-athena-strand.html

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
A Review of Criticisms of a ProPublica-Vanity Fair Story on a COVID Origins Report on the origins of COVID-19 released by the Republican oversight staff of a Senate committee. The report was the product of a far-reaching investigation into the question of how the pandemic began, and we wanted to give readers an inside view of the team’s work and share independent experts’ views of its findings.
https://www.propublica.org/article/editors-note-a-review-of-criticisms-of-a-propublica-vanity-fair-story-on-a-covid-origins-report?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=river

CHD Attorneys File Federal Lawsuit to Stop California’s AB 2098 Intended to Punish Doctors Who Stray From the Approved COVID-19 Narrative: The suit alleges that the new law violates physicians’ First Amendment and free speech rights by prohibiting them from sharing information with their patients if it is inconsistent with what the law refers to as “contemporary scientific consensus” and the “standard of care.”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/press-release/chd-attorneys-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-californias-ab-2098/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Fitch Ratings warns recession could trigger property tax hikes: Fitch Ratings said the outlook for state and local governments was “deteriorating.” An expected recession could put pressure on state and local governments to raise property taxes
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/credit-rating-agency-warns-recession-could-trigger-property-tax-hikes/article_7d2f4f14-726b-11ed-8fa6-cbd7dd618957.html

# Education / Schools
“Kids Seem to Be a Paycheck”: How a Billion-Dollar Corporation Exploits Washington’s Special Education System: Universal Health Services collected more than $38 million in tax dollars for special education services that families and former teachers say it largely didn’t provide
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/how-universal-health-services-exploits-washington-special-education-system/

# Employment / Labor
‘Put Up or Shut Up,’ Says Sanders as Progressives Move to Add 7 Sick Days to Railway Deal: “If you can’t vote for this,” said the independent Vermont senator, “don’t tell anybody that you stand with working families.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/30/put-or-shut-says-sanders-progressives-move-add-7-sick-days-railway-deal

‘All of Rail Labor Is Going to Suffer’: Workers Furious Over Biden Move to Preempt Strike: “This is a legacy-defining moment for Joe Biden,” said Railroad Workers United. “He is going down as one of the biggest disappointments in labor history.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/29/all-rail-labor-going-suffer-workers-furious-over-biden-move-preempt-strike

Railroad Workers Slam Biden for Siding With Bosses to Avoid Strike: Frustrated railroad workers consider allying with a third party after a push for paid sick leave failed in Congress.
https://truthout.org/articles/publishing-is-not-a-crime-the-new-york-times-joins-the-fight-to-free-assange/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
What’s the effect of the Russian oil price cap and EU embargo? Western governments are aiming to cap the price of Russia’s oil exports in an attempt to limit the fossil fuel earnings that support Moscow. The cap is set to take effect Monday, the same day the European Union will impose a boycott on most Russian oil, its crude that is shipped by sea
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/2/eu-agrees-to-60-russian-oil-price-cap

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making: Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. It didn’t happen. Now they’re trying a new tactic: buying out homeowners to avoid finishing the job.
https://nmindepth.com/2022/the-toxic-legacy-of-uranium-mining-in-new-mexico/

Satellites detect no real climate benefit from 10 years of forest carbon offsets in California: Millions of dollars have gone into California’s forest carbon offset program, with little new carbon storage to show for it
https://theconversation.com/satellites-detect-no-real-climate-benefit-from-10-years-of-forest-carbon-offsets-in-california-193943

Scientists watched 202 ‘Shark Week’ episodes and found them filled with junk science: A recent study offers evidence that marine biology’s biggest stage is broken, and suggests ways to fix it.
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-shark-week-episodes-junk-science.html

Experts Warn ‘Doomsday Scenario’ for Colorado River Basin Possible in 2023: “The problem with massive projects like Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon Dam,” said one climate journalist, “is they were engineered for a climate that no longer exists.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/01/experts-warn-doomsday-scenario-colorado-river-basin-possible-2023

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Why Is Red Dye 3 banned in cosmetics but still allowed in food? Advocacy groups recently petitioned the FDA to stop its use.
https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-additives/red-dye-3-banned-in-cosmetics-but-still-allowed-in-food-a3467381365/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Israel and US hold drills targeted at Iran: The exercises come soon after the head of West Jerusalem’s military urged Washington to prepare for a future attack on Tehran. The Israeli military has conducted joint training operations with the United States, holding a series of air drills to simulate strikes on Iran just days after West Jerusalem pressed US officials to accelerate their “operational plans” against Tehran.
https://www.rt.com/news/567519-us-israel-drills-iran/

Edward Snowden receives Russian passport – lawyer, the American whistleblower has now become a full-fledged Russian citizen, his lawyer says: Former CIA and National Security Agency (NSA) officer Edward Snowden has received his Russian passport after having been granted citizenship by President Vladimir Putin earlier this year.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/12/02/edward-snowden-receives-russian-passport-lawyer-a79575

Agents of Influence: How Russia Deploys an Army of Shadow Diplomats: Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has appointed dozens of honorary consuls. Many have spread pro-Kremlin sentiment around the world.
https://www.propublica.org/article/honorary-consuls-russia-vladimir-putin

# Gov / Politics / US
A Billionaire Got the Chicago Mayor’s Support to Lease Public Land. Then He Wrote Her Campaign a $25,000 Check. After the donation from Joseph Mansueto, owner of the Chicago Fire soccer team, a city alderman asked for an independent investigation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-housing-abla-mayor-lightfoot-mansueto

Musk Says Twitter Suppressed Free Speech Under Orders From Government: Elon Musk suggested that Twitter was acting under government orders to suppress free speech, with his remarks coming hot on the heels of the release of a trove of documents that lift the lid on some of the social media platform’s censorship machinations around the 2020 presidential election.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3755038-musk-says-files-on-free-speech-suppression-will-be-published-on-twitter/

Released Twitter files show ‘election interference’ – Rectenwald to RT –The Democratic Party has kept a tight grip on the social network, the former NYU professor says: The release of Twitter files on the blocking of the Hunter Biden laptop story exposes the extent of the company’s ties to the US Democratic Party and its role in election meddling
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3760753-censorship-by-surrogate-why-musks-document-dump-could-be-a-game-changer/

Pennsylvania county that ran out of paper ballots doesn’t certify election: In 2020, the same county came under fire following the discovery of discarded Trump ballots, which county officials blamed on a “temporary seasonal independent contractor.” Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County has failed to certify the results of the Nov. 8 midterm elections by the Monday deadline. The Board of Elections split 2-2 on certifying the results, with one abstention.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/pennsylvania-county-ran-out-of-paper-ballots-fails-to-certify-results

Arizona Counties Threatened With Class 6 Felony Charges if They Won’t Certify the Rigged Election: Kari Lake has spoken out against the rigged and conflict-ridden Arizona Midterm Elections, which were certified by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and several other counties today. “I found out today that I have no choice but to vote ‘aye’ or I will be arrested and charged with a felony,” Ron Gould said during the Board of Supervisors Special Meeting on Monday.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/11/28/arizona-election-2022-canvass/69674992007/

Biden’s Secret Service rental vehicles burst into flames after he left Nantucket vacation: The Secret Service rented five vehicles from Hertz to carry the president and his family, and all five of them caught fire in the parking lot, according to footage first obtained by the Nantucket Current.
https://nypost.com/2022/11/29/bidens-secret-service-rental-cars-left-charred-after-catching-fire-in-nantucket/

What’s Really at Stake in a Politically Charged Supreme Court Case on Elections: Moore v. Harper could transform the law, but not in the way that many pundits, or even politicians, anticipate.
https://www.propublica.org/article/moore-v-harper-explained-scotus-elections

Fetterman Taps Person Who Literally Wrote the Book on Killing Senate Filibuster as Chief of Staff: “It will be invaluable to have a veteran of the Senate and a veteran of state politics in these key positions as we serve the people of Pennsylvania,” said the Senator-elect about two key hires for his new staff
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/02/fetterman-taps-person-who-literally-wrote-book-killing-senate-filibuster-chief-staff

# Law Enforcement
San Francisco police defend ‘killer robots’ plan. Debate on Killer Robots Rages as Robotics Companies Partner with Police and Military: Police in San Francisco defended their potential use of killer robots on Thursday, insisting they would be a “last resort” and only for very dangerous situations.
https://m.qconline.com/news/national/debate-on-killer-robots-rages-as-robotics-companies-partner-with-police-and-military/video_2dd07059-f39a-5b7a-9903-f3d892aab1f8.html

# Legal / DOJ
St. Louis Can Banish People From Entire Neighborhoods. Police Can Arrest Them if They Come Back. A St. Louis ordinance lets courts banish people from huge swaths of the city as a punishment for petty crimes. These neighborhood orders of protection often prevent people from accessing the services they need and raise constitutional questions.
https://www.propublica.org/article/st-louis-can-banish-people-from-entire-neighborhoods?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=river

The Horrifying Exposé of Sexual Abuse at a Shady Megachurch: HBO’s docuseries uncovers the abuse that several members say they suffered at the hands of the secretive institution’s leaders, and chronicles their fight for justice.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=188536440029468

# Media
Why the Media Makes Musk a Villain but Lets SBF Off Easy: Elon Musk is seen as a supervillain for using $44 billion of his own money to buy Twitter, but Sam Bankman-Fried is treated with kid gloves for losing billions belonging to others.
https://news.yahoo.com/why-media-makes-musk-villain-022837807.html

“Publishing Is Not a Crime”: The New York Times Joins the Fight to Free Assange: Leaders of Brazil and Australia are also urging dismissal of the U.S. charges against Julian Assange. Leaders of Brazil and Australia are also urging dismissal of the U.S. charges against Julian Assange.
https://truthout.org/articles/publishing-is-not-a-crime-the-new-york-times-joins-the-fight-to-free-assange/

The Continued Survival of Louis DeJoy: Trump-appointed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is still in office, thanks to the Biden administration’s inaction. Failure to nominate replacements for the Postal Service Board of Governors could give the postmaster general another year of job security.
https://prospect.org/politics/continued-survival-of-louis-dejoy/

# Medical / Health
Medical bills remain inaccessible for many visually impaired Americans: Across the U.S., health insurers and health care systems are breaking disability rights laws by sending inaccessible medical bills and notices, a KHN investigation has found.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/12/01/1139730806/blind-disability-accessibility-medical-bills

# Science
There are a lot of questions and misunderstandings that surround gene editing, especially as the world still works to understand the technology. While gene editing and gene modification oftentimes are used interchangeably, it is imperative to understand that the two technologies are not the same.
https://seedworld.com/how-gene-editing-myths-impact-regulations-and-future-technology/?mc_cid=664cdeaf03&mc_eid=c87bac2a19

# Water
The Cold War Legacy Lurking in U.S. Groundwater: For the first time, ProPublica has cataloged cleanup efforts at the 50-plus sites where uranium was processed to fuel the nation’s nuclear arsenal. Even after regulators say cleanup is complete, polluted water and sickness are often left behind.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-cold-war-legacy-lurking-in-us-groundwater/ar-AA14RdJ3

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-12-02

Voices, The Peoples News

December 2, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration
DeSantis Sued Again Over Martha’s Vineyard Migrant Flights: Three immigrant rights groups argue the program was unconstitutional and created an incoherent definition of “unauthorized alien” that did not comply with federal immigration laws.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/president-xi-admits-the-chinese-people-have-had-enough-of-his-covid-lockdowns

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Florida targets BlackRock for its climate and social policies: Florida’s financial officer say he will bar Blackrock from managing $2 billion in state treasury funds because of its ESG policies.
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/florida-pulls-2-billion-from-blackrock-in-largest-anti-esg-divestment/

How four decades of tax cuts fueled inequality: As average people struggle, the wealthy and big businesses benefit.
https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/how-four-decades-of-tax-cuts-fueled-inequality-james-b-steele

Trump Was ‘Explicitly Sanctioning Tax Fraud,’ Prosecutor Says: The 76-year-old Trump hasn’t been charged but remained the focus of closing statements by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office on the final day of a criminal tax-fraud case against the Trump Organization.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/02/donald-trump-was-aware-of-companys-tax-fraud-prosecutors/

# Employment / Labor
Senate Votes to Impose Contract on Rail Workers, Rejecting Paid Sick Leave: Joe Manchin and 42 Republicans voted against the will of tens of thousands of workers
https://newrepublic.com/feeds/168326/ticker

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Gordon sues Biden administration over oil and gas contract cancellations: The governor has filed a second federal lawsuit against the Department relating to a Bureau of Land Management decision to pause oil and gas lease sales. In a statement, the governor called the litigation timely and vital to the interests of people living in his state
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gordon-sues-biden-over-oil-and-gas-contract-cancellations

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
Chinese Solar Manufacturers Cheated to Avoid Duties, Government Investigation Finds: A Commerce Department investigation found that Chinese companies shipped solar panels through Southeast Asian countries to circumvent U.S. trade law.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/chinese-solar-manufacturers-cheated-to-avoid-duties/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Old-growth trees more drought tolerant than younger ones, providing a buffer against climate change: A new analysis of more than 20,000 trees on five continents shows that old-growth trees are more drought tolerant than younger trees in the forest
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/12/221201123148.htm

# Gov / Politics / Global
Xi Admits China Has Had Enough of His COVID Lockdowns: The private comments were reportedly made as Beijing continues to refuse to publicly acknowledge the demonstrations calling for Xi’s resignation.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3201901/chinese-president-xi-jinping-believes-frustrated-students-are-behind-covid-protests-eu-officials-say

Indonesia Set to Criminalize Sex Outside of Marriage: The new crime will be punishable by up to a year in jail.
MPs expected to pass new criminal code that will also make insulting the president a crime
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/02/indonesia-set-to-make-sex-outside-marriage-punishable-by-jail

# Gov / Politics / US
The Shocking American Links to Putin’s Deadly War Machines: A closer look at Russia’s killer drones in Ukraine has come with some unsettling revelations.
https://news.yahoo.com/shocking-american-links-putin-deadly-100015322.html

Philly City Council Backs Permanent Curfew for Teens: Everyone under the age of 18 would have be home by 10 p.m. Forever. The bill, if signed by Mayor Kenney, would also require anyone 13 and younger to be home by 9:30 p.m.
https://www.phillyvoice.com/philadelphia-10-pm-curfew-teens-permanent-city-council-passes-gun-violence/

Cities want noncitizens to vote on local matters. GOP sees a target: They pay taxes and are essential to their communities. Some cities are giving them a say on local issues.
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/elections/who-counts/cities-want-noncitizens-to-vote-on-local-matters-gop-sees-a-target/

# Pharmas / Drugs
Purdue Pharma, manufacturer of OxyContin, and its owners the Sackler family, will pay up to $12 billion as part of a settlement with 23 states for their responsibility in starting, and sustaining, the opioid epidemic.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/12/01/science-for-hire-a-look-at-the-dark-side-of-the-scientific-pharma-and-military-industrial-complexes/?mc_cid=748171c245&mc_eid=3f7488d454

Science for Hire: A Look at the ‘Dark Side’ of Scientific, Pharma and Military-Industrial Complexes, a documentary produced by Gary Null, tackles some of the most critical scientific issues threatening the health and well-being of the U.S. public.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/science-for-hire-gary-null-cola/

AG Moody, others warn of ‘frightening’ new trends of fentanyl distribution: Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is continuing to warn Floridians about an unprecedented increase in the number of counterfeit pills flooding the market containing deadly amounts of fentanyl. On Thursday, she pointed to a recent U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration public safety alert reported on by The Center Square that found that six out of 10 fake prescription pills tested by the agency contain a potentially lethal dose of fentanyl, up 50% from their testing results last year.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/florida/ag-moody-others-warn-of-frightening-new-trends-of-fentanyl-distribution/article_ea22d4f4-71c8-11ed-9d2d-cf0422fd092e.html

# Social
Elon Brings One of America’s Most Prominent Nazis Back to Twitter: Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin has publicly indicated that the goal of his operation and adherence to white nationalist ideology is to “ethnically cleanse White nations of non-Whites and establish an authoritarian government.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/elon-brings-one-america-most-190033546.html

Twitter Hate Speech Has Exploded Under Musk, Researchers Say: The findings come after Kanye West used the platform to post a swastika inside the Star of David. Use of N-word on Twitter jumped by almost 500% after Elon Musk’s takeover as trolls test limits on free speech, report says
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-sparked-n-word-use-jump-2022-10

# Water
U.S. Department of Justice Sues City of Jackson Over Water Crisis: The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a proposed order in federal court to appoint a third party manager to oversee the public drinking water system in Jackson, Mississippi, following a months-long crisis that saw 180,000 of its residents without clean and safe drinking water.
https://www.ecowatch.com/jackson-mississippi-water-crisis.html

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-12-01

Voices, The Peoples News

December 1, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration
Number of Immigrants Under Punitive Surveillance Quadrupled on Biden’s Watch: Surveillance technologies like ankle monitors and cellphone apps are not harmless “alternatives” to immigration jails.
https://truthout.org/articles/number-of-immigrants-under-punitive-surveillance-quadrupled-on-bidens-watch/

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
How COVID Shots Harm the Immune System and May Cause Neurological Disease: Emerging reports of rare neurological complications associated with COVID-19 infection and vaccinations are leading to regulatory, clinical and public health concerns.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01556-7

# Education / Schools
Point: Discrimination in Education Cannot Be Justified: For an alternate viewpoint, see “Counterpoint: Americans of Every Race Deserve a Fair Shot; Affirmative Action Provides One.” The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard arguments about using race and ethnicity in admissions policies.
https://www.limaohio.com/columns/2022/11/22/point-discrimination-in-education-cannot-be-justified/

Counterpoint: Every American Deserves a Fair Shot; Affirmative Action Provides One: For an alternate viewpoint, see “Point: Discrimination in Education Cannot Be Justified.” Most agree we all deserve a fair shot in life. But too many Americans are denied that chance because of their skin color.
https://www.limaohio.com/columns/2022/11/22/counterpoint-americans-of-every-race-deserve-a-fair-shot-affirmative-action-provides-one/

# Employment / Labor
The Eyes of Amazon: How the Tech Giant Secretly Watches Employees’ Every Move From Afar
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-amazon-monitors-employees-ai-cameras-union-surveillance-spy-agency-2021-4

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Fracking Firm Agrees to Pay a Small Town’s Water Bills for 75 Years: A fracking company has been convicted 14 years after polluting water wells in Dimock, Pennsylvania.
https://truthout.org/articles/fracking-firm-agrees-to-pay-a-small-towns-water-bills-for-75-years/

Landmark Deal: Fracking Company Admits Criminal Responsibility, Will Pay $16.29 Million to Build Pennsylvania Water System: Coterra Energy (formerly Cabot Oil & Gas), the gas-drilling company made famous by the documentary “Gasland,” will pay $16.29 million to connect the homes of residents in the rural Pennsylvania community of Dimock to a clean water source.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fracking-polluted-water-dimock-pennsylvania/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Montana judge won’t halt Go. Greg Gianforte’s aggressive wolf hunt: The decision came as part of a lawsuit from environmental groups filed after the deadliest year for Yellowstone wolves since their reintroduction. Despite tens of thousands of public comments demanding a more measured approach to wolf management, the state has continued to pursue a campaign of large-scale population reduction.
https://theintercept.com/2022/11/30/wolf-hunt-montana-judge/

# Environment / Climate / Global
How to Move a Country, Fiji has a radical plan to escape rising sea levels: Standard Operating Procedures for Planned Relocations. It is the most thorough plan ever devised to tackle one of the most urgent consequences of the climate crisis: How to relocate communities whose homes will soon be, or already are, underwater.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/08/how-to-move-a-country-fiji-radical-plan-escape-rising-seas-climate-crisis

# General Information / Other News
Tax returns reveal finances of former Trump aides’ ‘dark money’ group bankrolling divisive ads ahead of 2022 midterms: The America First Legal Foundation, a “dark money” group run by former Trump officials, raised millions during its first year in operation.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/12/tax-returns-reveal-finances-of-former-trump-aides-dark-money-group-bankrolling-divisive-ads-ahead-of-2022-midterms

# Gov / Politics / Global
Deaths Back Home Leave Russians Furious with Putin: While Ukrainians suffer the misery of power cuts and no heating due to missile strikes, people are also freezing to death back in Putin’s broken Russia.
https://news.yahoo.com/deaths-back-home-leave-russians-094945515.html

Bibi Is Putting Israel on a Collision Course With U.S: Benjamin Netanyahu’s embrace of dangerous far-right extremists may create a crisis with its most important friend.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/benjamin-netanyahu-is-putting-israel-on-a-collision-course-with-us-by-embracing-far-right-extremists

Iranian players may be out of the World Cup, but they stole the show anyway: Iran’s players are risking more than any other team to condemn injustice at a World Cup clouded by human rights abuses and suppression of dissent. Would Iran’s leaders punish players who carried the nation to its proudest athletic achievement in generations?
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/albertsamaha/iran-usa-world-cup-protests

# Gov / Politics / US
Speaker Sendoff: Pelosi Granted New Title and Capitol Room: “She has dedicated her life to the dignity of the American people, to the defense of our Democracy, and always foremost, to the children and the posterity of our Nation.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/house-democrats-honor-pelosi-as-baton-passed-to-jeffries

Congress Seat Could Flip if Officials Don’t Certify Election: GOP officials in Arizona’s Cochise County’s are stonewalling on certifying the election, and it could imperil a Republican candidate’s victory in the midterms.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/republican-controlled-arizona-county-refuses-to-certify-2022-election

Hakeem Jeffries is the next head of the House Democrats, becoming the first Black person to lead a party in Congress
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/30/hakeem-jeffries-elected-house-minority-leader

Walker-Warnock U.S. Senate race in Georgia most expensive in 2022 cycle as runoff intensifies
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/11/walker-warnock-u-s-senate-race-in-georgia-most-expensive-in-2022-cycle-as-runoff-intensifies/

Can France and the United States Get Over Their Petty Squabbles? Macron’s state visit is a chance for Washington to realize the value of its independent-minded ally.
https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/11/30/what-makes-france-so-aggravating-to-united-states-is-also-what-makes-it-so-valuable-pub-88520

# Law Enforcement
Elderly Woman Arrested for Not Paying $77.80 Trash Bill: Police said they were obliged to arrest the 82-year-old woman but insisted that she was “treated respectfully” by officers.
https://www.wtva.com/news/national/82-year-old-woman-arrested-for-not-paying-77-trash-bill/article_c117a210-d698-5b76-8311-143c23a0c49b.html

Boy, 10, Killed Mom When She Refused to Buy VR Headset: The boy did not cry or show remorse over his mother’s death, his aunt reportedly told police.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/01/boy-10-shot-mom-dead-because-she-refused-to-make-amazon-purchase-cops/

# Legal / DOJ
Ron DeSantis’ Controversial Power Grab Gets Its Day in Court: The right-wing Florida governor axed a liberal prosecutor in August over his stance on abortion. A federal judge could rebuke him this week by reversing that decision.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-governor-ron-desantis-controversial-andrew-warren-power-grab-gets-its-day-in-court

Senior US official Elizabeth Rood says that the government “has put a significant proposal on the table” regarding Russia’s release of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan. However, the Guardian reports, Russia has yet to offer a serious response.
https://www.ksl.com/article/50527202/officials-us-still-talking-to-russia-about-griner-and-whelan-release

Houston voted to give firefighters equal pay with police in 2018. Now, it’s up to Texas Supreme Court
One justice told the city it is “on a knife’s edge” in trying to argue against pay parity.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/houston/article/firefighters-pay-parity-supreme-court-17615660.php

Oath Keepers Founder Guilty of Seditious Conspiracy for Plotting to Violently Overthrow U.S. Gov’t
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/29/rhodes-oathkeepers-sedition-verdict-jan6/
See also: What is Seditious Conspiracy?
https://www.voanews.com/a/what-is-seditious-conspiracy-/6857549.html

# Medical / Health
Air pollution causes almost half of all stillbirths, over 1 million a year: First global analysis follows discovery of toxic pollution particles in lungs and brains of foetuses
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/29/air-pollution-million-stillbirths-study

Gardasil’s Long Shadow of Autoimmunity Confirmed Again: Girls and young women experiencing complications from Merck’s Gardasil HPV vaccine show symptoms and biological markers of autoimmune conditions, according to a new study published in The Journal of Autoimmunity.
https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/health-healing/gardasil-s-long-shadow-of-autoimmunity-confirmed-again/

# Technology
‘Vassal to the Chinese Communist Party’: Apple blasted for limiting AirDrop function for Chinese protesters: Chinese iPhones limited the receiving options from non-contacts to a maximum of 10 minutes. The receiving preference automatically returns to “off” or “contacts only” once the 10 minutes have passed. There was no time limit previously.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/apple-blasted-limiting-airdrop-function-china-protests

The Dark Era at Stake if Congress Allows Internet Censorship: Americans need to find common ground now perhaps more than ever but curtailing free speech online is not the place to start. The new Congress inherits a nation divided. Americans are insecure in their status and uncertain of their futures. And as an equally divided Congress searches for possible common ground, bipartisan proposals to punish online platforms for the nation’s ills appear ascendant.
https://www.yahoo.com/now/dark-era-stake-congress-allows-094836380.html

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