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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-02-11

Voices, The Peoples News

February 11, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
Montana’s anti-Indigenous politics aren’t going away: The now-dead proposal to ‘investigate’ reservations was neither the beginning or the end of combative attitudes towards tribal nations in the state. In early January, the Montana State Legislature’s 2023 session started with a bang. That first week, Sen. Keith Regier, R-Kalispell, brought a draft resolution calling on the U.S. Congress to “investigate alternatives to the reservation system,” using language rife with misinformation and the stereotypes typical of anti-Indigenous groups. After pushback from the state’s bipartisan American Indian Caucus, tribal nations and his own constituents, Regier said he would not introduce the legislation, adding that it had been written by a local constituent
https://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/montana-s-anti-indigenous-politics-aren-t-going-away/article_53833ea5-38e4-55ad-90a5-68b30611b4ca.html

# Indigenous / Global
Nearly 80% of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest has been deforested, but researchers have found a way to safeguard what’s left: Give Indigenous communities legal title to their territories. Land rights granted by the government make a difference, allowing forests to slowly begin healing, researchers find.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06022023/brazil-atlantic-forest-indigenous-communities-deforestation/

# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
Ropen: A Living Dinosaur or a Figment of Faith? After numerous expeditions into the wilds of Papua New Guinea, Paul Nation believed he finally made the discovery of a lifetime in 2006. The Texas-born cryptozoologist, explorer, and “living-pterosaurs investigator” came to the South Pacific Island nation to coordinate a search for a nocturnal flying creature known as Ropen. And on this fateful expedition, he believed he finally caught them on videotape.
https://exemplore.com/cryptids/Ropen-a-Living-Dinosaur-or-a-Figment-of-Faith

Has the mythical dragon finally caught on camera? As much as we would all love it to be true, it’s almost certainly CGI – but that hasn’t stopped the video from spreading virally around the internet and social media with plenty of even stranger theories connected to it. Alleged dragon video claims footage is from China, it’s probably CGI but everybody wants it to be real.
https://exemplore.com/news/dragon-flying-china

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Senators want border wall finished: South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds is one of seven senators sponsoring the WALL Act, which eliminates illegal immigrant tax subsidies and uses the funds to finish the wall at the Mexican border
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/senators-want-border-wall-finished/article_dd496d54-a98d-11ed-bcf8-23afd1261756.html

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
CDC Data Reveal Multiple COVID Jabs Can Knock Up to 24 Years off a Person’s Expected Lifespan: The latest health data from the government of New South Wales (NSW) in Australia confirms something we have been warning you about for quite some time now: covid “vaccines” produce vaccine-induced AIDS (VAIDS), which in turn sheds many years off a person’s life – and progressively more so with the passage of time.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-02-09-cdc-data-covid-vaccines-24-years-aging.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
The Twilight of the Deficit Hawks: President Biden’s willingness during the State of the Union to hold Republicans accountable for wanting to cut social spending is indicative of one optimistic trend: The era of bipartisan deficit hawkery is coming to a close. Read David Dayen on how the paradigm on social programs in Washington has shifted. Democrats have stopped being the willing partner in a great conspiracy to slash social insurance.
https://prospect.org/economy/2023-02-10-democrats-budget-deficit-hawks/

Republicans Have Wanted To Cut Medicare And Social Security For Decades: “Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset every five years,” President Joe Biden said at Tuesday’s State of the Union. President Biden drew a raucous response from Republicans during his State of the Union address on Tuesday night when he said some GOP lawmakers want to cut Social Security and Medicare. “Anybody who doubts it, contact my office. I’ll give you a copy of the proposal,” he said as Republican lawmakers jeered.
https://thehill.com/finance/3850036-republicans-social-security-medicare-debt-ceiling/

# Education / Schools
Will the Education Culture War Backfire on Republicans? The GOP’s culture war on K-12 education is a false pretext for the same old agenda of undermining public schools. But according to new polling, parents have vastly different priorities. Conservative screaming about wokeness is a substitute for the old priorities of school vouchers and weakening of public education. Polls show that parents don’t agree.
https://prospect.org/education/2023-02-08-republican-public-school-culture-war/

9-year-old Black prodigy has already begun college, but schools often fail to recognize highly talented Black students: Anti-Black bias and lack of teacher referrals are keeping Black students out of gifted school programs, a scholar suggests. The latest example is David Balogun, a 9-year-old Pennsylvania boy who recently became the second-youngest person to graduate from high school, which he did after taking classes remotely. David, whose parents own and run a psychiatric clinic, has also already begun taking courses at a community college.
https://theconversation.com/9-year-old-black-prodigy-has-already-begun-college-but-schools-often-fail-to-recognize-highly-talented-black-students-154330

School Voucher Programs Are Hurting Special Needs Students They Claim to Help: Arizona’s school vouchers have stripped millions from public school budgets. Now Texas legislators want to follow suit. Advocacy Groups File U.S. Supreme Court Brief Warning That School Vouchers Harm Students With Disabilities
https://thearc.org/blog/advocacy-groups-file-u-s-supreme-court-brief-warning-that-school-vouchers-harm-students-with-disabilities/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
A Bus-Sized Robot Will Soon Be Mining the Ocean Floor: Miners plan to use massive, robotic machines that operate like super-charged vacuum cleaners. Once lowered thousands of feet to the ocean floor, they begin sucking up precious minerals, as well as the top 5-30 centimeters of the seafloor and any marine life that gets in the way. The process has been likened to clearcutting a forest and then siphoning off all the nutrient-rich soil. Even worse, the thick layer of ocean floor that the mining machines would suck up and pump out would create a massive plume of debris, similar to an underwater sandstorm, that could harm life for hundreds of miles in every direction.
https://singularityhub.com/2019/03/29/a-bus-sized-robot-will-soon-be-mining-the-ocean-floor/

In recent years, the climate impact of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, has gotten increasing attention. It’s the main component of fracked gas and a byproduct of oil, and can leak into the atmosphere at various points in the production and transportation of these fossil fuels. Growing body of research suggests offshore oil’s methane pollution is underestimated. Previous efforts to regulate offshore methane emissions stalled, despite role in helicopter crashes.
https://www.desmog.com/2023/02/07/gulf-mexico-offshore-oil-methane-pollution-helicopter-crashes/

Leaked video footage of ocean pollution shines light on deep-sea mining: Company rebuts claims by scientists that ‘uncontrolled and unscientific’ practices highlight dangers of going ahead with seabed. Video footage from a deep-sea mining test, showing sediment discharging into the ocean, has raised fresh questions about the largely untested nature of the industry, and the possible harms it could do to ecosystems as companies push to begin full-scale exploration of the ocean floor as early as this year.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/06/leaked-video-footage-of-ocean-pollution-shines-light-on-deep-sea-mining
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyvetFS-rls

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
Russia to Cut Oil Output in Response to Western Sanctions, Pushing Up Prices: Moscow plans to lower production by about 5% in rare move outside of alliance with OPEC: U.S. gas prices have been up and down throughout the year and now more uncertainty is on the horizon as a European Union embargo on Russian oil imports kicks in along with a price cap on crude out of Russia. WSJ explains how these moves could impact prices at the pump for Americans.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-to-cut-oil-production-sending-prices-higher-5697a8e8

Lawsuit Targets Shell’s Board of Directors Over Energy Transition Plans: Shell’s board of directors officially has been served with a world-first lawsuit aiming to hold its corporate directors personally liable for alleged mismanagement of climate risk. The lawsuit, filed Thursday by UK-based environmental law organization ClientEarth, contends that Shell’s strategy to address climate change and manage the energy transition fails to align with the objectives of the Paris Agreement and leaves the company in a vulnerable position as society shifts away from fossil fuels.
https://www.desmog.com/2023/02/09/clientearth-lawsuit-uk-shell-board-directors-energy-transition/

Canada’s New Oil And Gas Strategy: Green Promises at Home and More Exports Abroad: Top Canadian oil and gas companies are moving “aggressively” to cut their greenhouse gas emissions domestically so that they can sell more of their climate-warming products abroad.
https://www.desmog.com/2023/01/30/canadas-new-oil-and-gas-strategy-green-promises-at-home-and-more-exports-abroad/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=canadas-new-oil-and-gas-strategy-green-promises-at-home-and-more-exports-abroad

Flightradar24 confirmed Hersh Investigation on Nord Stream Sabotage: NATO Planes over Sites During Baltops Exercise
On the cover image the US P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft by Sputnik International ITALIAN VERSION During the NATO Baltops 22 exercise last summer, US and German navy aircraft regularly circled over the sites of future explosions on the Nord Stream pipelines, according to Sputnik’s analysis of Flightradar24 data.
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2023/02/11/2851765/nato-planes-regularly-circled-sites-of-nord-stream-blasts-during-baltops-exercise-analysis-finds

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Global
China key player in U.S. farm exports while facing ban on buying land: China played a big role in a record-setting year for U.S. farm exports in 2022 as the United States’ largest importer. U.S. agricultural exports reached $196 billion in 2022 with China importing a record $36.4 billion, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
China’s role as a key importer of U.S. agricultural goods comes at a time some states are proposing banning its citizens, companies and the government of China from being able to buy any land in the U.S.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/china-key-player-in-u-s-farm-exports-while-facing-ban-on-buying-land/article_27bc0200-a95e-11ed-9fd2-4f06bbde2cbc.html

Climate change makes its presence felt in the Amazon’s shrinking fish: Studies show that the effects of climate change can already be seen in Amazonian fish, which are growing smaller and less abundant in wetlands and streams; female fish are also reproducing at a younger age. A project by the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) is documenting these impacts through the perspective of Indigenous communities, and has found that they match what the scientific data already show.
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/climate-change-makes-its-presence-felt-in-the-amazons-shrinking-fish/

# Food Recalls / Alerts
How Worried Should You Be About Mercury in Your Tuna? CR tested popular canned tuna like Bumble Bee, Chicken of the Sea, and StarKist. Here’s how much tuna is safe to eat. CR’s food safety experts caution that our current tests, along with our previous work and research from other groups, suggest that pregnant people may be best off avoiding tuna altogether.
https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/how-worried-should-you-be-about-mercury-in-your-tuna-a5041903086/

400 Types of Prepared Foods Recalled: The products, sold under dozens of brand names, may pose a listeria risk. The Food and Drug Administration just announced a substantial recall of over 400 types of ready-to-eat sandwiches, salads, wraps, snacks, yogurt and related products. This is due to a possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
https://www.eatingwell.com/article/8028330/ready-to-eat-salad-sandwich-recall-possible-listeria-contamination/#:~:text=The%20Food%20and%20Drug%20Administration,a%20possible%20Listeria%20monocytogenes%20contamination.

# Gov / Politics / Global
The Side of Russian News No American Hears Of: Russia is carrying on as the world turns and not pouring trillions into arming the Taliban, and desperate Yemenis, sending Syria more tanks to attack Israel or Turkey, and certainly not asking Russians to pay for wars in countries no Russian can pinpoint on a map.
https://journal-neo.org/2023/02/03/the-side-of-russian-news-no-american-hears-of/

Russia’s Second, Silent War Against Its Human Capital: One of the key sociopolitical problems of Russian society is that seventy-year-old political leaders are deciding for young people how they will live and what they will die for. Moscow Is Waging a Second War at Home. The country’s militarization creates all of the conditions for a long-term demographic crisis.
https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/88983

# Gov / Politics / US
What the First Amendment really says; 4 basic principles of free speech in the US: Not many people educated in American schools, whether public or private, including lawyers, teachers, talking heads and school board members, appear to have a working knowledge about the right to free speech embedded in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
https://theconversation.com/what-the-first-amendment-really-says-4-basic-principles-of-free-speech-in-the-us-197604
First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/
First Amendment Fundamental Freedoms: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-1/

Biden Forges a New Democratic Paradigm: During this week’s State of the Union address, President Biden exhibited empathy, strength, and mastery of political improvisation as he prioritized economic relief to America’s working class, the kind of rhetoric that just might get him re-elected
https://prospect.org/politics/2023-02-08-biden-state-of-the-union-democratic-party-economy/

There is a dirty little secret Democrats don’t want to admit to: It was old-school Reagan Democrats that made Donald Trump president in 2016 – On Election Night 2016, the “Blue Wall” was surprisingly breached. It shocked political pundits and cost former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the election when Donald Trump won Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. It shouldn’t have come as a complete surprise, actually.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-dirty-little-secret-that-made-donald-trump-president/ar-AA17mHKN?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=3ed77182fba942a7b07c5f3e87b06918

Texas Councilwoman Started Asking Questions, and Got Arrested: A blue folder left by an outgoing police chief set off mass resignations. And that was just the beginning. Godley has grown into a municipality of about 2,000 that was outwardly much like many others—until late last year, when the resignation of the police chief was followed by the departure en masse of the city administrator, the city attorney and the city secretary. City Hall itself shut down and remains closed due to a staffing shortage.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/godley-texas-became-a-twisted-version-of-parks-and-recreation

Second Republican Council Member Shot Dead a Week After Unsolved Murder of Colleague: A New Jersey council member was shot and killed in his car Wednesday, according to local authorities, just a week after a state councilwoman was murdered in a similar fashion.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/02/09/new-jersey-republican-councilmember-shot-killed-russ-heller-eunice-dwumfour/

11 House Republicans Led by Matt Gaetz Introduce ‘Ukraine Fatigue’ Resolution to Halt U.S. Military and Financial Aid to Ukraine | 9 Feb 2023 | Over the past year, the United States has spent over 110 billion to secure the Ukrainian border from the Russian invasion special operation.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/11-house-republicans-led-matt-gaetz-introduce-ukraine-fatigue-resolution-halt-us-military-financial-aid-ukraine/

# Law Enforcement
1 dead, 2 injured in shooting at Southern California agricultural nursery: Three people were shot, including one fatally, at an agricultural nursery in Southern California, authorities said. A motive is under investigation. Investigators working to determine the relationship between Gutierrez and the victims, though they believe he is the father of the female victim, the sheriff said. ”
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/multiple-people-injured-shooting-southern-011339465.html

Jury finds dad guilty of capital murder for driving son away from Garland store after allegedly shooting, killing 3 teens: Richard Acosta Jr. was accused of being the getaway driver for his son, Abel Acosta, after Abel allegedly shot and killed three teenagers at a Texaco. The jury deliberated for about four hours in the murder trial for Richard Acosta Jr., who was accused of being the getaway driver for his son, Abel Acosta, after Abel allegedly shot and killed three teenagers at a Texaco convenience store in December of 2021.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/crime/richard-acosta-capital-murder-trial-jury-deliberating/287-558070f5-6b43-4b9c-bc10-d582adac9346

Will Ukraine Fatigue Among US Lawmakers Bring Kiev Militarization to End? “President Joe Biden must have forgotten his prediction from March 2022 suggesting that arming Ukraine with military equipment will escalate the conflict to ‘World War III.’ America is in a state of managed decline, and it will exacerbate if we continue to hemorrhage taxpayer dollars toward a foreign war.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3511525-the-west-cannot-allow-ukraine-fatigue-to-overcome-us/

# Medical
What is REACH? In the waning days of the Trump Administration, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) launched a pilot program called Medicare Direct Contracting. This under-the-radar program invited third-party middlemen to “manage” the care of Traditional Medicare beneficiaries. It also created a financial incentive for these middlemen to frustrate patients and deny medically necessary care. Thanks to the efforts of thousands of activists, Direct Contracting became thoroughly discredited and the Biden Administration was pressured to address the program. Unfortunately, their response was to simply rebrand Direct Contracting as Medicare REACH, a program that retains the worst elements of its predecessor and in some cases is even more generous to industry. Dr. Ed Weisbart explains the dangers of REACH
https://protectmedicare.net/what-are-dces/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=d7c83238-639f-412c-90af-15ea22177fa2&utm_source=phpList&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MPEN+e-Newsletter+No.+2023-02-11&utm_content=HTML

Rep. Schrier proposes bill to strengthen Medicaid for improved health care for children: U.S. Representatives have introduced the Kids’ Access to Primary Care Act that will expand access to Medicaid by increasing reimbursement rates for doctors and expand eligibility for enhanced rates to additional providers.
https://auburnexaminer.com/rep-schrier-introduces-bipartisan-bill-to-expand-access-to-primary-care/

Extent of fraud in pandemic unemployment insurance still not clear: U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pennsylvania, said the cost lands squarely on American taxpayers. “We wait too long to look into what’s happening with hard-working American taxpayers’ money,” he said during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing. “All this fraud lands on the same shoulders that it always lands on and that’s our taxpayers.”
https://660amtheanswer.com/news/national/extent-of-fraud-in-pandemic-unemployment-insurance-still-not-clear

# Medical Science
German Doctors Are Attempting to Reverse Death and Resurrect Humans: Ten dead people are the lucky test subjects. The waiting list for Tomorrow Biostasis, a cryopreservation startup based in Germany, is in the hundreds. And the company already has about 10 cases with some bodies preserved in a lab. What comes next is the real issue.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a42789703/german-doctors-attempting-reverse-death-resurrect-humans/

# Military / DOD
NORAD monitoring another ‘high-altitude’ object over Canada – report –Military aircraft “currently operating” in the area. The incident marks the third time in eight days the U.S. has shot down an object over North America.
https://justthenews.com/government/norad-monitoring-another-high-altitude-object-over-canada-report

‘Object’ shot down over Alaska penetrated US airspace before being detected – U.S. official –Shoot-down of ‘object’ over Alaska follows similar incident involving a Chinese surveillance aircraft over continental US last week
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/object-shot-down-alaska-penetrated-us-airspace-before-being-detected-us-official

Claims of U.S. Involvement in Nord Stream Attack Draw Scrutiny: American journalist Seymour Hersh has self-published a bombshell report suggesting that the Nord Stream pipeline attacks were carried out by the U.S. government, using a NATO minehunting exercise as cover. Russia and China have embraced the allegations and called for a closer investigation, while the Biden administration and U.S. security services have denied involvement.
https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/claims-of-u-s-involvement-in-nord-stream-attack-draw-scrutiny

# Military / Global
Russian army massively hit energy facilities in Ukraine: All the assigned tasks were carried out by the Russian military. The assigned objects were hit. The impact helped to stop the work of a number of energy-intensive industries of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine. The Russian military was able to block the transfer of weapons, shells and manpower reserves to the NVO front line.
https://apnews.com/article/kyiv-russia-ukraine-war-government-0a206ad866d5e19899c752d988a1a3be

# Pharmas / Drugs
Dan Cohen Exposes Dr. Peter Hotez’s Big Pharma Connections: WATCH Dan Cohen’s SHOCKING Investigation into Fauci Underling Peter Hotez. For Redacted, Dan Cohen examines how Peter Hotez came to prominence thanks to Fauci, Bill Gates and the Clintons, and how he has served as a deceptive political creature throughout the COVID era.
https://uncaptured.substack.com/p/watch-dan-cohens-shocking-investigation

# Technology
Has artificial intelligence developed consciousness? Artificial consciousness: what is it and what are the issues? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is pervasive today. Across all aspects of technology, AI is increasingly playing a part. But, arguably, most AI is essentially just sophisticated automation rather than true “intelligence.” In this “explainer” article we look to the distant future of artificial intelligence: artificial consciousness. What is artificial consciousness and when can we expect it?
https://www.futureofworkhub.info/explainers/2021/4/14/artificial-consciousness-what-is-it-and-what-are-the-issues

Alphabet shares dive after Google AI chatbot Bard flubs answer in ad: Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) lost $100 billion in market value on Wednesday after its new chatbot shared inaccurate information in a promotional video and a company event failed to dazzle, feeding worries that the Google parent is losing ground to rival Microsoft Corp
https://www.communicationstoday.co.in/google-shares-lose-more-than-100-billion-after-bard-flubs-answer-in-ad/

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-02-09

Voices, The Peoples News

February 9, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
Toxic water project sparks controversy with Navajo neighbors: Missed cues grow Native distrust around a New Mexico research project on oil well wastewater. The company was researching “produced water,” a toxic byproduct of oil and gas development, as part of a program to search for new methods of treatment and disposal of the industrial waste.
https://capitalandmain.com/toxic-water-project-sparks-controversy-with-navajo-neighbors

# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
Nestlé Purina PetCare Company is voluntarily recalling select lots of Purina Pro Plan Veterinary Diets EL Elemental (PPVD EL) prescription dry dog food due to potentially elevated levels of vitamin D.
https://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-recall/purina-recalls-pro-plan-vet-diet-product-due-to-elevated-levels-of-vitamin-d/

Recall of certain bags of Royal Canin Veterinary Feline Renal Support F dry cat food: Bags were mislabeled.
https://www.petful.com/recalled/royal-canin-veterinary-feline-renal-support-f/

# Children / Youth
New Legislation Takes Aim at Hidden Foster Care: A ProPublica-New York Times Magazine story exposed a system with few legal protections for families. A first-of-its-kind bill aims to provide parents with free counsel when child protection workers try to move their kids without going to court.
https://www.propublica.org/article/shadow-foster-care-washington-children-parents?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=river

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Pfizer Hiking Covid Vaccine Prices Against Weaker Demand Speaks Volumes About U.S. Healthcare
As the U.S. plans to relinquish its role as the predominant purchaser of the Covid-19 vaccine to the commercial sector, vaccine manufacturers Moderna and Pfizer have announced plans to hike the price of the vaccine by over 400 percent. The decision would increase the price from $26 to $110-130 per dose, despite it costing only $2.85 to produce. Pfizer and Moderna made record-breaking profits from the Covid-19 vaccine, but taxpayers funded the development of the Covid-19 vaccines in 2020 through Operation Warp Speed and the CARES Act. The new total for wrongful payments is nearly $30 billion higher than a previous rough estimate of $163 billion. The updated number is based on applying the Labor Department’s latest estimate of the improper payment rate for the unemployment insurance program overall — 21.52%, up from 18.71% last year — to the $888 billion in total federal and state unemployment benefits paid during the pandemic.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-expects-price-covid-vaccine-110-130-per-dose-2022-10-20/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Watchdogs say unemployment fraud likely topped $191 billion: Slightly more than $1 out of every $5 distributed in unemployment insurance payments during the pandemic could have been improper, mostly fraud
https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2023/02/09/Wrongful-Pandemic-Unemployment-Payments-Topped-191-Billion-Watchdog

How the Wealthy Save Billions in Taxes by Skirting a Century-Old Law: Congress outlawed tax deductions on “wash sales” in 1921, but Goldman Sachs and others have helped billionaires like Steve Ballmer see huge tax savings by selling stocks for a loss and then replacing them with nearly identical investments.
https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-files-taxes-wash-sales-goldman-sachs

Did Joe Biden And Republicans Actually Agree On Social Security And Medicare During His State Of The Union Address? Most presidents stick to their carefully-honed State of the Union text, but for several minutes last night, Joe Biden was winging it. Biden then veered off his prepared remarks. “So folks, as we all apparently agree, Social Security and Medicare is off the books now, right? They’re not to be touched?” he said. Both sides of the chamber applauded, and Biden gave a thumbs-up as several Republicans joined Democrats in standing.
https://news.yahoo.com/did-joe-biden-republicans-agree-212525276.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Growing body of research suggests offshore oil’s methane pollution is underestimated: New technologies are allowing for actual measurements of oil and gas methane pollution like never before, whether from leaks or intentional flaring
https://lailluminator.com/2023/02/08/growing-body-of-research-suggests-offshore-oils-methane-pollution-is-underestimated/

‘Monster profits’ for energy giants reveal a self-destructive fossil fuel resurgence: While 2022 inflicted hardship upon many people around the world due to soaring inflation, climate-driven disasters and war, the year was lucrative on an unprecedented scale for the fossil fuel industry, with the five largest western oil and gas companies alone making a combined $200bn in profits.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/09/profits-energy-fossil-fuel-resurgence-climate-crisis-shell-exxon-bp-chevron-totalenergies

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
Imperial Oil wastewater leaking for nine months: AER has ordered the company to contain the leak and fix the problem at Kearl oilsands project. Imperial must “provide an updated source control and containment plan detailing the actions required in the short term to effectively intercept and contain the substance from the releases prior to spring freshet, on or before 4:00 p.m. on Feb. 10,” says the environmental protection order.
https://www.burlingtontoday.com/national-news/regulator-gives-imperial-oil-weeks-to-plan-fix-for-months-old-oilsands-tailings-leak-6509400

Podcast: Moths vs. mines in Ecuador’s astounding biodiversity hotspot: The Intag Valley in the tropical Andes region of Ecuador is among the world’s most biodiverse places in the world, with more than half of its species found nowhere else. This rich cloud forest has also been targeted by mining companies seeking its vast mineral resources, like copper. Local communities have been organizing to protect the region from such threats for decades, in what has become the longest-continuing resistance to mining in Latin America.
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/podcast-moths-vs-mines-in-ecuadors-astounding-biodiversity-hotspot/

# Environment / Climate / Interior
Cancer Alley is real, and Louisiana officials helped create it, researchers find: The moniker describes a winding, 130-mile stretch along the river that is dotted with more than 200 industrial facilities including oil refineries, plastics plants, chemical plants and other factories that emit significant amounts of harmful air pollution.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08022023/louisiana-cancer-alley/

A solution to the climate crisis: mining the moon, researchers say: Astrophysicists propose geoengineering solution to climate warming, although skeptics still urge ‘massive’ fossil fuel cutbacks. Proponents of a “moonshot” idea to deal with global heating have been handed a new, very literal, interpretation by researchers who have proposed firing plumes of moon dust from a gun into space in order to deflect the sun’s rays away from Earth.
https://www.newsweek.com/firing-moondust-space-create-sun-shield-could-combat-climate-change-1779826

# General News
State Dept Outlines What Was Found on the Downed Spy Balloon: Its features indicate that it could collect communications and “operate multiple active intelligence collection sensors.” The balloon, recovered off the coast of South Carolina, had “multiple antennas” and other components “clearly for intelligence surveillance,” a State Department spokesperson said Thursday. The antennas were likely capable of collecting and geo-locating communications, they said. The balloon also had solar panels that generated enough power to “operate multiple active intelligence collection sensors.” And the balloon’s manufacturer appears to have a direct relationship with China’s military.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/state-department-outlines-what-it-found-on-the-downed-spy-balloon

# General Recalls / Alerts
4.9 Million Fabuloso Cleaner Bottles Recalled: The recalled bottles may include a bacteria that could infect immunocompromised people. Some Fabuloso cleaning products were recalled Wednesday over a risk of bacteria contamination, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/08/1155542758/fabuloso-recall-possible-bacteria-contamination

# Gov / Politics / Global
Moscow Is Waging a Second War at Home: The country’s militarization creates all of the conditions for a long-term demographic crisis. One of the key sociopolitical problems of Russian society is that seventy-year-old political leaders are deciding for young people how they will live and what they will die for.
https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/88983?utm_source=ctw&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=titlelink&mkt_tok=ODEzLVhZVS00MjIAAAGJ132elyXQj7qZgwdD-w5EwNZpJWXlU8a9znau1i1mDDbSDtrv3pigFSQr25K8q_jfkFV-RpNbFOyVbxuusyQXb3rKqPOzP5dBlGl73VM

# Gov / Politics / US
Point: ‘Only in America,’ Not ‘Once Upon a Time’: America is the greatest nation on earth because it is the freest nation. We often say the “sky’s the limit.” However, Native Americans, Blacks, women, immigrants, and religious minorities were excluded from the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
https://dcjournal.com/point-only-in-america-not-once-upon-a-time/

“Midterm spending spree”: Cost of 2022 federal elections tops $8.9 billion, a new midterm record: “The ever-escalating spending race between political parties means the price of admission to Congress keeps climbing,” said OpenSecrets Executive Director Sheila Krumholz. “But all of that money had hardly left American voters more or better informed. “This midterm spending spree was preceded by years of lax campaign finance regulations and oversight following the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United, and I anticipate more federal election spending records will be smashed in 2024,” Krumholz said.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/02/midterms-spending-spree-cost-of-2022-federal-elections-tops-8-9-billion-a-new-midterm-record/

Major Republican Donor Network Seeks Alternative to Trump: “Americans for Prosperity has been one of, if not the most, influential money groups on the conservative side for the last decade and a half,” Sarah Bryner, director of research and strategy at OpenSecrets, told VOA. In the latest sign that Donald Trump may have difficulty earning a third consecutive nomination for president by the Republican Party, Americans for Prosperity, a major conservative interest group and source of campaign donations, has announced it will seek to endorse a 2024 candidate other than the former president.
https://www.voanews.com/a/major-republican-donor-network-seeks-alternative-to-trump/6951005.html

# Law Enforcement
The FBI Paid a Violent Felon to Infiltrate Denver’s Racial Justice Movement: Mickey Windecker encouraged violence, accused activist leaders of being police cooperators, and tried to draw demonstrators into elaborate stings. Windecker was a fed. The FBI paid him tens of thousands of dollars in cash to infiltrate and spy on racial justice groups during the summer of 2020.
https://theintercept.com/2023/02/07/fbi-denver-racial-justice-protests-informant/

# Media
Black Reporter Attacked and Arrested Covering Ohio Train Derailment News Conference
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/2/9/headlines/black_reporter_attacked_and_arrested_covering_ohio_train_derailment_news_conference

# Military / DOD
U.S. carried out Nord Stream bomb attack under top secret plan led by Joe Biden, report claims: U.S. Navy divers planted C4 explosives that caused $500 million damage to Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Germany [an act of war], sensational report claims. Putin’s Nord Stream pipeline after Ukraine invasion? Bombshell report claims Navy divers carried out mission to kill Russia’s gas stranglehold on Europe in audacious mission overseen by president. U.S. Navy divers planted C4 explosives that caused $500 million damage to Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Germany
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11727691/U-S-carried-Nord-Stream-bomb-attack-secret-plan-led-Joe-Biden-report-claims.html

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-02-08

Voices, The Peoples News

February 8, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Border chief: Mexican cartels use drones to identify law enforcement locations: In the past year, there have been more than 10,000 drone incursions flown by Mexican cartels operating in Mexico and in Texas in the Rio Grande Valley Sector of south Texas, Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Gloria Chavez testified Tuesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. The cartels are using the drones to identify where state and federal law enforcement officers are to avoid them and engage in criminal activity, she explained.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/border-chief-mexican-cartels-use-drones-to-identify-law-enforcement-locations/article_e66a262e-a70f-11ed-a14d-7ffdb573219f.html

Border chief: Majority illegally entering Tucson Sector are single military age men: What’s portrayed on national television about large family groups with small children claiming asylum at the southern border isn’t what’s happening in the Tucson Sector of Arizona, Border Patrol Chief John Modlin testified on Tuesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. “The most notable factor that sets Tucson apart from the rest of the southwest border is the migrant demographic. It is not what you see on the news,” he said.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/arizona/border-chief-majority-illegally-entering-tucson-sector-are-single-military-age-men/article_72f46972-a708-11ed-8cc0-274e06d58d06.html

Border patrol presentation reveals plan to release illegal crossers en masse into U.S. communities: Roughly six weeks before testifying Tuesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Chief Border Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez held a meeting with local law enforcement in Weslaco, Texas, describing the administration’s plan to release en masse illegal foreign nationals into the U.S. when Title 42 ended.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/border-patrol-presentation-reveals-plan-to-release-illegal-crossers-en-masse-into-u-s-communities/article_1dca09e8-a6e5-11ed-844b-1b75d227eada.html

Lack of border security is impacting local Arizona law enforcement: As a former law enforcement officer from Southern Arizona, I have seen first-hand the direct impact failed border policies have on local communities and police departments: Due to lack of federal resources and policy changes made by the Biden administration, Border Patrol agents have been pulled away from the line of defense where they would normally be interdicting cartel operatives and smugglers, to instead process foreign nationals. As a result, local police agencies are engaging in more drug interdiction cases on top of their normal caseload.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/arizona/op-ed-lack-of-border-security-is-impacting-local-arizona-law-enforcement/article_a570f186-a654-11ed-885e-3724cd5b9317.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
What is the World Economic Forum? The World Economic Forum (WEF) plays a significant role in guiding international developments in the interests of the business community. They invite the most powerful people in the world to an annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss their dreams of the future. These are dreams where the powerful stay powerful, and the underclasses continue to toil and suffer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za4Q8WXI4vQ

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Deep Seabed Mining Plans Pit Renewable Energy Demand Against Ocean Life in a Largely Unexplored Frontier
As companies race to expand renewable energy and the batteries to store it, finding sufficient amounts of rare earth metals to build the technology is no easy feat. That’s leading mining companies to take a closer look at a largely unexplored frontier – the deep ocean seabed. A wealth of these metals can be found in manganese nodules that look like cobblestones scattered across wide areas of deep ocean seabed. But the fragile ecosystems deep in the oceans are little understood, and the mining codes to sustainably mine these areas are in their infancy.
https://www.ecowatch.com/seabed-mining-renewables-ocean-life.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
BP scales back climate targets as profits more than double: BP now plans to increase its oil and gas production over the next seven years. Energy company faces calls for toughened windfall tax as it reaps rewards from high gas prices
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/07/bp-profits-windfall-tax-gas-prices-ukraine-war

# Environment / Climate / Interior
California’s pesticide notification system aims to protect public health. Will it work? Activists were instrumental in achieving the landmark program. They worry it won’t go far enough to shield rural communities and farmworkers from pesticide harm.
https://www.ehn.org/pesticide-drift-2659335062.html

Even with legal protections, extreme heat and wildfire take a toll on farmworkers: Nearly half of workers in California say their farms are not in compliance with safety codes for extreme weather, survey finds. Mass shootings at two California mushroom farms last month drew national attention to the dismal working and living conditions imposed on California farmworkers. Surveys of California Terra Garden and Concord Farms, where the assailant had worked, revealed families living in trailers and shipping containers, using makeshift kitchens and portable toilets. State and federal officials have opened investigations into the farms, where workers reported earning below minimum wage.
https://grist.org/equity/even-with-legal-protections-extreme-heat-and-wildfire-take-a-toll-on-farmworkers/

He Paid $1 Million For Destroying Wetlands. Now He’s Fighting Clean Water Rules In Congress: Rep. John Duarte (R-Calif.) paid a hefty fine for plowing federally protected streams and wetlands on his farm. He now sits on the House subcommittee with jurisdiction over water resources.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-duarte-clean-water-rules-wotus-wetlands_n_63e3e3cfe4b01a436398d66d

# Gov / Politics / US
State of the Union Erupts as Biden and GOP Trade Barbs. McConnell Says ‘State Of Our Union Is Under Chinese Surveillance’: “Over the last several days, the country learned that on President Biden’s watch, the state of our union is apparently under Chinese surveillance from our own skies,” McConnell said in a Tuesday speech. “It’s ludicrous to suggest that Canada and the United States had no choice but to let this thing traipse across the continent from coast to coast.” McConnell slammed the Biden administration’s past military budget requests and warned of looming problems with China.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/mcconnell-state-of-union-under-chinese-surveillance

Mr. Sanders Goes Away From Washington: The new chair of the Senate HELP Committee plans to hold numerous field hearings to bring attention to issues in health care, labor, and education.
https://prospect.org/politics/2023-02-08-sanders-senate-help-committee/

Republicans Are Angry at Joe Biden for Accurately Describing Plan to Sunset Social Security: In early 2022, Florida Sen. Rick Scott, the chair of the Republican Senate campaign arm, released what he called an “11 Point Plan to Save America.” One year later, one specific dim element of that plan—a proposal that all laws, including Social Security and Medicare, would expire in five years unless reapproved—is still coming back to haunt Republicans.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/republicans-angry-joe-biden-rick-scott-social-security-plan.html

# Military / DOD
US Hybrid War on Iran Stalling? Will the neocon decision to fight Russia, Iran, and China all at once go down as one of the most boneheaded strategic moves in history? Empire poised to lose on two fronts at once, but at least we shot down that *&#! Chinese balloon!
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2023/02/07/us-hybrid-war-on-iran-stalling/

Balloon incident shows ‘deep distrust’ between US and China, could yield ‘treasure trove’ of intel, experts say:
The Pentagon said it’s a spy balloon, but China said it was a weather balloon. Officials expect the debris collected offshore will reveal more information about it. Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover portions of a Chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Feb. 5, 2023. A U.S. fighter jet shot down the balloon over U.S. territorial waters Feb. 4, 2023. Active-duty troops and Reserve, National Guard, and civilian personnel along with partners from the Coast Guard, Federal Aviation Administration and FBI took part in recovery efforts.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-02-07/chinese-spy-balloon-debris-9068493.html

# Military / Global
Zelensky Nightmare by 25 thousand Ukraine Troops! Army Discipline Crackdown Sparks Fury on the Front: By Veronica Melkozerova; originally published by Politico. All links to Gospa News articles have added aftermath for relevance to the topics covered. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy refused to veto a new law that strengthens punishment for wayward military personnel on Thursday, rejecting a petition signed by over 25,000 Ukrainians who argue it’s too harsh.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2023/02/07/zelensky-nightmare-by-25-thousand-troops-ukraine-army-discipline-crackdown-sparks-fury-on-the-front/

Russia Controls One Third Bakhmut, Ukraine Losses Unsustainable, US Arms Deliveries Dwindle: Ukraine continues to crumble, and we should blame the power that is ruling both the Biden government and much of the Zionist empire. Decent Ukrainians didn’t sign up for this.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2023/02/07/russia-controls-one-third-bakhmut-ukraine-losses-unsustainable-us-arms-deliveries-dwindle/

# Social
Note: [This is something I would like to do on my little 1/2 acre. Money is always the stopper. There just isn’t enough to go around anymore.] For the housing market’s greenest buyers, ‘Earthships’ are taking off: Long dismissed as hippie havens, off-grid communities are getting a fresh look as wasteful construction practices come under scrutiny. “We build according to six principles,” Reynolds sums up his philosophy. “Passive thermal heating and cooling, power from the sun and wind, contained sewage treatment, building with recycled and natural materials, harvesting rainwater, and growing your own food.” These principles also explain why the architect with the gray tousle-head calls them earthships: Just like on a ship, the inhabitants have almost everything they need, independent of their surroundings.
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/earthships-taos-new-mexico-sustainable-construction/

# Technology
Twitter Kept Entire ‘Database’ of Republican Requests to Censor Posts: Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” focus on Democrats, but former administration officials and Twitter employees say Trump’s team and other Republicans routinely demanded posts be taken down
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-s-twitter-bias-claims-upended-as-remarkable-report-reveals-republican-requests-to-censor-posts/

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-02-07

Voices, The Peoples News

February 7, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
‘Plant A Tree For Me’: Leonard Peltier reflects on hitting 48 years in prison; “The United States has kept me locked up because I am American Indian,” said the ailing Indigenous rights activist who Biden could free, but hasn’t: Monday marks 48 years in prison for Leonard Peltier, the Indigenous rights activist who the U.S. government put behind bars after a trial riddled with misconduct and lies, and who definitely doesn’t belong there. The FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office made a fall guy out of Peltier, now 78, when they convicted him of murdering two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. They never had evidence that he murdered anyone, and the amount of wrongdoing that took place in his trial is mind-boggling: Government prosecutors hid exculpatory evidence.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/leonard-peltier-prison-joe-biden_n_63e16682e4b0c8e3fc86b128?utm_source=cordial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp-us-reg-fringe_2023-02-07&utm_term=us-fringe

# Indigenous / Global
The ‘carbon pirates’ preying on Amazon’s Indigenous communities: Selling credits should fund forest protection, but unscrupulous firms are making deals where land stewards lose out, say local leaders. Indigenous communities are being taken advantage of in the unregulated sector, with opaque deals for carbon rights that can last up to a century, lengthy contracts written in English, and communities being pushed out of their lands for projects.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/21/amazon-indigenous-communities-carbon-offsetting-pirates-aoe

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Border patrol presentation reveals plan to release illegal crossers en masse into U.S. communities: Roughly six weeks before testifying Tuesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Chief Border Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez held a meeting with local law enforcement in Weslaco, Texas, describing the administration’s plan to release en masse illegal foreign nationals into the U.S. when Title 42 ended.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/border-patrol-presentation-reveals-plan-to-release-illegal-crossers-en-masse-into-u-s-communities/article_1dca09e8-a6e5-11ed-844b-1b75d227eada.html

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
‘Scientific and public health failure’: Fauci admits COVID shots didn’t have a chance of controlling the pandemic
https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2020/08/dr-anthony-fauci-covid-19-vaccines

‘Deeply disturbing’: US watchdog uncovers $5.4 billion in potentially fraudulent COVID-19 loans, obtained using over 69,000 sketchy Social Security numbers: The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) found that 69,323 potentially fraudulent SSNs were used to obtain $5.4 billion from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program. The shocking revelation dropped just days before a hearing by the Republican-led House of Representatives Oversight Committee on fraudulent pandemic spending was set to begin. “What PRAC has discovered is deeply disturbing,” said Sens. Rand Paul and Joni Ernst, who are demanding an investigation into COVID-19 loan fraud. “The extent of the fraud could be far greater.”
https://moneywise.com/news/coronavirus/investigation-uncovers-widespread-pandemic-funds-fraud

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Column: Mike Pence, would-be president, has a plan to kill Social Security. It will cost you: Former Vice President Mike Pence, airing out a never-fulfilled GOP promise “Give younger Americans the ability to take a portion of their Social Security withholdings and put that into a private savings account,” he proposed. “A very simple fund that could generate 2% would give the average American twice what they’re going to get back on their Social Security today.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/column-mike-pence-would-be-president-has-a-plan-to-kill-social-security-it-will-cost-you/ar-AA17bgN7

The White House is turning the tables on House Republican lawmakers when it comes to conservative-led spending proposals that Democrats warn could mean cuts to crucial programs like Medicare and Social Security. The Biden administration is already building on a strategy it deployed during the midterm election season in which it highlighted talk from multiple GOP congressional lawmakers about how they plan to use their new House majority to consider cuts to entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3807529-white-house-turns-talk-of-medicare-social-security-cuts-against-gop/

# Education / Schools
Disturbing new details in lead-up to boy, 6, who shot Virginia teacher Abby Zwerner: The 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot his first-grade teacher had a history of abusing others at school, and even choked another teacher “until she couldn’t breathe,” according to a legal filing. The earlier alleged attack was detailed in a notice of claim alerting the Newport News school district that the shot and wounded teacher, Abby Zwerner, intended to sue. The other teacher who said she’d been choked also confirmed the alleged 2021 attack, saying she reported it at the time to school officials without getting the support she’d expected.
https://nypost.com/2023/02/07/disturbing-new-details-in-lead-up-to-boy-6-who-shot-teacher-abby-zwerner/

# Employment / Labor
Zoom CEO Taking 98% Salary Cut as Company Lays off 1,300: The company cuts come as economic uncertainty have shackled the once-booming video calling business, CEO Eric Yuan said.
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/zoom-lays-off-15-percent-17755165.php

How worker ownership builds community wealth and a more just society: Community wealth building initiatives are taking hold in cities across the world, strengthening worker pay, local economies and democracy.
https://truthout.org/articles/worker-ownership-builds-community-wealth-and-a-more-just-society/

# General News
Bill would allow ‘physical force’ to ‘terminate’ suspected trespass: This story was updated with Rep. Barry Crago’s comments at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6: The Legislature has advanced a bill that legalizes use of physical force by a landowner or landowner’s agent to “terminate” what they believe is criminal trespass. Wyoming criminal trespass code to state: “A person who is the owner or legal occupant of land or a premises upon which a criminal trespass is occurring, or their agent, is justified in using reasonable and appropriate physical force upon another person when and to the extent that it is reasonably necessary to terminate what the owner, occupant or agent reasonably believes to be the commission of a criminal trespass by the other person in or upon the land or premises.”
https://wyofile.com/bill-would-allow-physical-force-to-terminate-suspected-trespass/

# Gov / Politics / Global
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un missing ahead of mass military parade; sparks health rumours: The scheduled parade will celebrate the 75th founding anniversary of the Korean People’s Army and is expected to be held on Tuesday or Wednesday. Kim Jong Un has used events like these to talk about North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile program.
https://newsable.asianetnews.com/world/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-goes-missing-ahead-of-military-parade-sparks-health-rumours-ajr-rpp0us

Putin Ally Says He ‘Won’t Hide’ Intention to Invade Poland: “After all, after Ukraine, Poland is on the map,” Ramzan Kadyrov said before announcing what seemed to be a made-up deadline for a Russian war victory. “What if, after the successful completion of the NMD, Russia begins to denazify and demilitarize the next country? After all, after Ukraine, Poland is on the map! I will not hide that I personally have such an intention,” Kadyrov said on Telegram.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-putin-ally-ramzan-kadyrov-says-he-will-not-hide-intention-to-invade-poland-anymore

# Gov / Politics / US
Biden the Unappreciated: Despite his historic achievements, the public doesn’t think he’s done much at all.
Joe Biden hasn’t been faring all that well in the polls for most of the past two years, but the one splashed over the front page of today’s Washington Post is the unkindest one of all.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-02-07-biden-unappreciated-polls/

A group of several dozen residents from New York’s 3rd Congressional District traveled to Washington on Tuesday to call for their congressman, Republican Rep. George Santos, to resign or be expelled from the House of Representatives.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/george-santos-expel-house_n_63e29a78e4b01a43639792ca?utm_source=cordial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp-us-reg-fringe_2023-02-07&utm_term=us-fringe

# Law Enforcement
Huntsville house party shooting suspects arrested: 22-year-old Joe Allen Lewis and 19-year-old Lynn Johnson, both of Livingston, TX, were taken into custody at the Huntsville Police Department Saturday afternoon.
Lewis was charged with Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, a second-degree felony, while Johnson was charged with Assault, a class A misdemeanor.
https://abc13.com/sam-houston-state-university-police-house-party-shooting-gun-violence-fatal/12770302/

# Legal / DOJ
Trump Charges in Georgia Over 2020 Could Lead to Bigger Fed Case:
Section B. Potential Crimes Violating Other Sections of Georgia’s Criminal Code ………………….. 148
1. False Statements and Writings (Ga. Code Ann. § 16-10-20) ……………………………148
2. False Swearing (Ga. Code Ann. § 16-10-71)………………………………………………….151
3. Influencing Witnesses (Ga. Code Ann. § 16-10-93)………………………………………..154
4. Forgery in the First Degree (Ga. Code Ann. § 16-9-1(b))………………………………..155
5. Criminal Solicitation (Ga. Code Ann. § 16-4-7)……………………………………………..158
a. False Statements and Writings (Ga. Code Ann. § 16-10-20)…………………………159
b. Forgery in the First Degree (Ga. Code Ann. § 16-9-1(b))…………………………….162
c. Violation of Oath by a Public Officer (Ga. Code Ann. § 16-10-1)…………………164
d. False Official Certificates and Writings (Ga. Code Ann. § 16-10-8)……………..166
e. False Swearing (Ga. Code Ann. § 16-10-71)………………………………………………167
f. Computer Trespass (Ga. Code Ann. § 16-9-93(b)) and Computer Invasion
of Privacy (Ga. Code Ann. § 16-9-93(c)) ……………………………………………………170
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/11122022_GA_Investigation_Report_SecondEdition.pdf

# Marijuana / Hemp / CBD Oil
Nevada Bill Could Remove Marijuana From Controlled Substances & Strip Pharmacy Board’s Control Over It: Judge Orders Nevada Board of Pharmacy to Remove Cannabis from State’s List of Schedule I Substances. Clark County District Judge Joe Hardy’s Sept. 14 ruling stems from a lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Nevada.
https://www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/news/judge-orders-nevada-board-of-pharmacy-to-remove-cannabis-from-schedule-i/

# Medical / Health
Biden Speech To Urge Cap On Insulin Costs, Narrowing Of Medicaid Gap: The president will call for finishing the reforms that the Inflation Reduction Act started. But legislative prospects for it are remote at best.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/06/biden-universal-insulin-price-cap-state-of-the-union-00081435

California Loses on Medical Censorship: The law’s goal is to enforce a public-health orthodoxy among doctors and silence dissenters. But as federal Judge William Shubb explains, the law’s definitions of “misinformation” and “contemporary scientific consensus” are unconstitutionally vague under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-loses-on-medical-censorship-gavin-newsom-doctors-coivd-misinformation-pandemic-medical-board-11675024552

Decisions by CVS and Optum Panicked Thousands of Their Sickest Patients: Many of the patients left in the lurch have life-threatening digestive disorders that render them unable to eat or drink. They depend on parenteral nutrition, or PN, in which amino acids, sugars, fats, vitamins, and electrolytes are pumped, in most cases, through a specialized catheter directly into a large vein near the heart.
https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/decisions-by-cvs-and-optum-panicked-thousands-of-their-sickest-patients/article_cee9033f-59fb-5fc0-9978-c63e9faf6818.html

The Worst Judge in America Could Outlaw the Abortion Pill Nationwide. It Gets Worse. A single judge could outlaw the abortion pill nationwide. And that’s not even the worst of it.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/abortion-pill-outlawed-single-judge-real-possibility.html

Texans brace for the end of nearly three years of pandemic Medicaid coverage: States have up to a year to determine who still qualifies for Medicaid, but the Texas Health and Human Services Commission has opted for an ambitious plan to complete the process in six to eight months. The truncated timeline has raised concerns among health advocates as the state agency faces staffing shortages and is tasked with redetermining health coverage for millions.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/02/07/texas-medicaid-expansion-covid/

# Military / DOD
Another year, another failed Pentagon audit: The Department of Defense underwent its fifth annual financial audit this year, and for the fifth time, it failed. This year’s audit involved a team of 1,600 analysts who visited 220 sites in person and 750 sites virtually as they reviewed the Pentagon’s $3.5 trillion in assets and $3.7 trillion in liabilities.
https://www.yahoo.com/now/another-another-failed-pentagon-audit-235617067.html

New Report Unpacks Dangers of Emerging Military Tech, From AI Nukes to Killer Robots: “While the media and the U.S. Congress have devoted much attention to the purported benefits of exploiting cutting-edge technologies for military use, far less has been said about the risks involved.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/new-military-technology

# Military / Global
Russia Loses 25 Tanks in Two Days As Video Shows Deadly Strike: Russian forces have lost 25 tanks in the past two days, according to the Ukrainian military.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-loses-25-tanks-two-days-video-deadly-strike-ukraine-general-staff-new-offensive-1779400

# Pharmas / Drugs
FDA Decision Allowing Unsafe Drug Imports Endangers U.S. Lives: The recent Amoxicillin shortage in hospitals demonstrates America’s dangerous dependence on imported pharmaceuticals. In addition to shortages, however, the U.S. is now confronting yet another challenge, medications from unsafe overseas factories.
The recent Amoxicillin shortage in hospitals demonstrates America’s dangerous dependence on imported pharmaceuticals. In addition to shortages, however, the U.S. is now confronting yet another challenge—medications from unsafe overseas factories.
https://dcjournal.com/fda-decision-allowing-unsafe-drug-imports-endangers-u-s-lives/

# Social
There Is Nowhere Safe When You’re Black; From the formation of America to the killing of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police, Black bodies have never been safe: For all the progress on civil rights made in the last couple of generations, Black people apprehended by law enforcement in 2023 have no real expectations of safety. When they get stopped by police for any reason, there are no reliable channels of reason and appeal. As the recent tragic, totally unnecessary death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee, proves, again, Black people aren’t safe anywhere.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-there-is-nowhere-safe-when-youre-black_n_63e17bb2e4b07c0c7e0bfe28

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-02-06

Voices, The Peoples News

February 6, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Millions in donations were sent for tornado relief. Survivors wonder where the money is: Most of the $12 million that Kentucky set aside to pay for survivors’ unmet needs remains untapped, leaving survivors wondering if that help will ever come.
https://kentuckylantern.com/2023/02/04/millions-in-donations-were-sent-for-tornado-relief-survivors-wonder-where-the-money-is/

White House-Linked Venture Capital Fund Boasts China War Would Be Great for Business: A war between China and Taiwan will be extremely good for business at America’s Frontier Fund, a tech investment outfit whose co-founder and CEO sits on both the State Department Foreign Affairs Policy Board and President Joe Biden’s Intelligence Advisory Board, according to audio from a February 1 event.
https://theintercept.com/2023/02/03/china-americas-frontier-fund/

# Education / Schools
Video Showing Prostitutes Soliciting Outside California School : Gov. Gavin Newsom has recently taken to boasting that California is a true bastion of freedom, unlike Republican states. So, what freedoms do Californians enjoy that they should be so proud of are protected by state Democrats? How about the freedom to solicit “sex work” outside a grade school?
https://abc7news.com/human-trafficking-prostitution-oakland-catholic-school-st-anthonys/12764548/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Pennsylvania advocates issue intent to sue Shell’s new petrochemical plant outside Pittsburgh for emissions violations: The complex in Beaver County “blew through” permit limits in its first few months of operation, the advocates say.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03022023/pennsylvania-petrochemical-plant-shell-emissions-violations/

# Environment / Climate / Interior
Colorado River crisis so severe lakes Mead and Powell are unlikely to refill in our lifetimes: Lake Mead, located on the Arizona-Nevada border and held back by Hoover Dam, filled in the 1980s and 1990s. In 2000, it was nearly full and lapping at the spillway gates. But the megadrought over the last 23 years, the most severe in centuries, has worsened the water deficit and left Lake Mead about 70% empty. Upstream, Lake Powell has declined to just 23% of full capacity and is approaching a point where Glen Canyon Dam would no longer generate power.
https://www.arcamax.com/currentnews/newsheadlines/s-2781450

# Gov / Politics / Global
China FM after US Shooting Down of Balloon: “A Serious Violation of International Practice. Right to Responses”:
China will resolutely safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the company concerned, and reserves the right to make further responses if necessary. The Foreign Ministry, led by Qin Gang (in the cover pics), issues statement on the US Claim of downing a Chinese Unmanned Airship on February, 5, 2023
https://www.gospanews.net/en/2023/02/05/china-fm-on-us-shooting-down-of-balloon-a-serious-violation-of-international-practice-right-to-responses/

Lies and truth about the “deportation” of children from Ukraine: At the same time, of course, Zelensky does not say where, how and under what circumstances the “deportation of children” takes place. As usual, false propagandists, he reports only part of the facts, silent about the causes and real actions and consequences of what is happening. The forced displacement of minors in Russia is part of Vladimir Putin’s project ‘to erase the Ukrainian identity and nation,’ say a group of intellectuals and child psychiatrists, including Bernard Golse and the anthropologist Véronique Nahoum-Grappe.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2023/02/05/lies-and-truth-about-the-deportation-of-children-from-ukraine/?mc_cid=2ecd9b377e&mc_eid=3f7488d454

# LGBTQ / Gender
House Judiciary Subpoenas FBI Director Wray and AG Garland for Targeting Parents vs LGBT Propaganda at School: the subpoena, signed by Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), which forces Wray to turn over relevant documents to the House Judiciary Committee on March 1 at 9:00 a.m. ET due to the alleged “misuse of federal criminal and counterterrorism resources.”
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2023/02/05/house-judiciary-subpoenas-fbi-director-wray-and-ag-garland-for-targeting-parents-vs-lgbt-propaganda-at-school/?mc_cid=2ecd9b377e&mc_eid=3f7488d454

# Medical / Health
Thousands of Cases of Pulmonary Embolism Reported After COVID Shots: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) shows that, as of Jan. 20, 2023, there have been 3,855 cases of pulmonary embolism reported following COVID-19 shots. A pulmonary embolism is a blood clot that develops in a blood vessel in the body, often in the leg, and travels to the pulmonary artery in the lungs where it blocks blood flow.
https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/coronavirus-vaccine-blood-clots

# Military / Global
UK MoD Bakhmut Isolated, EU Struggles to Find Tanks, Russia Massively Increases Arms Production
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2023/02/05/uk-mod-bakhmut-isolated-eu-struggles-to-find-tanks-russia-massively-increases-arms-production/

Putin’s army pummels Kharkiv; Missile storm decimates key facilities: Two Russian missiles hit Kharkiv on Sunday, injuring five in the administrative capital of the Kharkiv region of Ukraine’s northeast. One of the missiles struck a residential building while the other hit an educational institute. Kharkiv regional governor alleged that a Russian S-300 missile fell near the apartment block. Watch this video for more battleground details
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrNZMQgfLeU

# Technology
Cybernetic Pandemic as Forecast by WEF! Massive Hacker Attack in EU and US Detected by Italian Cybersecurity Agency: A “massive hacker attack using a ransomware already in circulation” has been detected yesterday, on February, 5, 2023, by the Computer security incident response team Italy of the National Cybersecurity Agency. The international warning confirms the sinister prophecy made by the 2023 Report on global risks presented by the World Economic Forum in Davos in which the danger of cyber attacks on a global scale was ranked eighth.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2023/02/05/cybernetic-pandemic-as-forecast-by-wef-massive-hacker-attack-in-eu-and-us-detected-by-italian-cybersecurity-agency/

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-02-05

Voices, The Peoples News

February 5, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
“Acute Psychosis after COVID-19 Vaccination”: Croatian Study’s Alert relaunched by US MD McCullough. Unvaccinated patients have mentioned half-jokingly that COVID-19 vaccination in friends and family makes some of them “crazy.” Fear-driven vaccine ideology taking over common sense in some zealots, the building literature on neuropsychiatric symptoms is alarming. There are now 10 papers describing headache, fever, and a range of acute neuropsychiatric symptoms after both mRNA and adenoviral COVID-19 vaccination. The strong bias among editors and publishers has kept countless papers out of the mainstream medical media
https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/acute-psychosis-after-covid-19-vaccination/

Biden tells Congress he’ll end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11: House Republican plan to vote on resolutions this week that would end COVID-19 emergency declarations immediately. The COVID-19 national emergency is set to expire on March 1, while the public health emergency (PHE) will expire on April 11. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) wrote in a Statement of Administration Policy that Biden will extend both emergencies to May 11, at which point they will expire.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-tells-congress-hell-end-covid-19-emergencies-may-11

Senior Pfizer Employee Says Company Exploring Mutating COVID-19 to ‘Preemptively Develop New Vaccines’: A senior employee at Pfizer said in a conversation captured by the nonprofit journalism group Project Veritas, that the pharmaceutical company is looking into mutating COVID-19 in order to facilitate the development of new vaccines. “One of the things we’re exploring is like, why don’t we just mutate it ourselves so we could create–preemptively develop new vaccines, right?” Dr. Jordon Walker, a director of research and development at Pfize
https://www.theepochtimes.com/senior-pfizer-employee-says-company-exploring-mutating-covid-19-to-preemptively-develop-new-vaccines_5014254.html

MIT expert calls for immediate stop of mRNA COVID jabs; Evidence shows ‘unprecedented level of harm.’ mRNA vaccine is causing cardiac arrests and should be stopped immediately, they are causing “an unprecedented level of harm, including the death of young people and children,” said Retsef Levi, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “This is not a theory anymore.”
https://www.thehealthsite.com/news/covid-19-vaccine-mrna-vaccine-is-causing-cardiac-arrests-and-should-be-stopped-says-experts-950111/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Joe Biden Threatens Huge GOP Tax Plan: “I’m Going To Veto The Sucker”: For all the talk of tax-and-spend liberals, history tells us it’s both parties who favor taxing and spending. The difference between Republicans and Democrats is more a matter of who pays the taxes and how the money gets spent.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/joe-biden-threatens-huge-gop-tax-plan-i-m-going-to-veto-the-sucker/ar-AA177p00?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=9a1ab2d41d204399a6dd66117c540cca

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
After Two Decades of Controversy, the EPA Uses Its ‘Veto’ Power to Kill the Pebble Mine in Southwest Alaska:
The Biden administration’s move protects the world’s most abundant sockeye salmon run and a vital commercial fishery. Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican, said the veto “sets a dangerous precedent.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31012023/pebble-mine-alaska-epa-veto/

# General News
Donald Trump’s $95m Moldy Mansion Bought by a Russian Oligarch: Dmitry Rybolovlev has followed through with his plans of demolishing a massive Palm Beach mansion previously owned by Donald Trump. Rybolovlev purchased the 6.26 acre estate in 2008 for a record breaking $95,000,000. His plans changed with the discovery of mold, making the oceanfront home one of the nation’s most expensive tear downs.
https://www.priceypads.com/russian-billionaire-demolishes-trumps-former-95m-palm-beach-mansion-photos/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Ukraine is sinking, are western elites bailing out? As Ukraine’s battlefield losses mount, and it becomes more evident Russia will control the territory east of the Dnieper River, the flaws in Washington’s strategy will become more apparent and will be sharply criticized. What makes the RAND Corporation’s latest report on Ukraine so significant, is not the quality of the analysis, but the fact that the nation’s most prestigious national security think-tank has taken an opposite position on the war than the Washington political class and their globalist allies. This is a very big deal
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnythingGoesPictures/comments/10s4ck9/ukraine_is_sinking_are_western_elites_bailing_out/

# Gov / Politics / US
It seems the mighty Koch network is trying to jump into the 2024 GOP Presidental primary and will back one candidate. The kicker – the candidate won’t be Donald J. Trump: “The deep-pocketed network associated with billionaire Charles Koch is preparing to throw its money and weight behind a single Republican candidate in the 2024 presidential primary – in a move that could significantly reshape the GOP field.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-has-a-powerful-new-enemy/ar-AA178zuq?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=85a53163177e4189b0c9f314cb388117

# Legal / DOJ
As charges loom over Trump, prosecutors come under fire, a criminal justice expert explains what’s at stake: Prosecutors are supposed to be ministers of justice, immune from outside influence, but they’re also people with biases and vulnerabilities. So, when they’ve got high-profile figures like Trump screaming their names out in the national media, it has to increase the pressure on them and how they use their discretion and power. When a case plays out on the national stage, prosecutors may wind up paying attention not only to the specific facts of the case being featured in the spotlight, but also how it is being perceived by their constituents and portrayed by the national and local media.
https://www.yahoo.com/now/charges-loom-over-trump-prosecutors-131900038.html

# LGBTQ / Gender
Missouri lawmakers are “at war” with this 9-year-old trans, says dad: GOP lawmakers in the “Show Me” state have demonstrated their priority with at least 20 bills targeting the LBGTQ community. Ten are aimed at restricting transgender athletes in the schools. That’s in a state where only seven transgender students in K-12 are currently registered to participate. “There are more bills about trans kids playing sports than there are trans kids wanting to play sports,” Senate Democratic Minority Leader John Rizzo told reporters last week.
https://www.thebharatexpressnews.com/missouri-lawmakers-are-at-war-with-this-9-year-old-trans-says-dad/

# Military / DOD
Plan to send U.S. contractors to Ukraine revealed –A private project is seeking to hire 100 to 200 professionals to help Ukrainians with repairs on the battlefield | 3 Feb 2023 | Former U.S. military officers and private entities are raising m-ney to send Western maintenance personnel close to the frontlines in Ukraine
https://www.rt.com/news/570907-us-contractors-repairs-ukraine/

Moscow provides more evidence of U.S. biolabs in Ukraine, Kiev’s troops were among the test subjects for Pentagon-funded research, the Russian MOD says: Russia’s Defense Ministry laid out more evidence that U.S.-funded laboratories were working in Ukraine. Documents and materials recovered by Russian troops showed that Western pharmaceutical companies operating in territory under Kiev’s control conducted HIV/AIDS research on Ukrainian military personnel.
https://www.rt.com/russia/570714-russia-ukraine-pentagon-biolabs/

# Military / Global
Lavrov: Ukraine Will Lose More Land Because of US Long Range Rockets: Lavrov also said everybody sought an end to the current conflict in Ukraine but the West’s relentless support of Kiev was playing an important part in how Moscow approached the war.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2023/02/03/lavrov-ukraine-will-lose-more-land-because-of-us-long-range-rockets/

Pentagon says another Chinese spy balloon is traveling over Latin America: Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said ‘it is another Chinese surveillance balloon’. The balloon was recently over Montana, and the official said the government considered shooting it down but decided against using military force because of the potential risks.
When President Biden was briefed on the situation, he asked for military options, the official said.
The balloon was recently over Montana, and the official said the government considered shooting it down but decided against using military force because of the potential risks.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-another-chinese-spy-balloon-traveling-over-latin-america

Russia shows off its latest frigates carrying super-long-range anti-aircraft missiles: New World Order Agents are in deep trouble now. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday sent a frigate armed with the country’s latest Zircon hypersonic missile on a trans-ocean cruise in a show of force as tensions with the West escalate over the war in Ukraine. Russia touts that the Zircon missile can evade any Western air defenses by flying at an astounding 7,000 mph.
https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2023/01/05/russias-hypersonic-missile-armed-ship-to-patrol-global-seas/

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-02-03

Voices, The Peoples News

February 3, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
NotInvisible: Why are Native American women vanishing? Ashley’s disappearance is one small chapter in the unsettling story of missing and murdered Native American women and girls. No one knows precisely how many there are because some cases go unreported, others aren’t documented thoroughly and there isn’t a specific government database tracking these cases. But one U.S. senator with victims in her home state calls this an epidemic, a long-standing problem linked to inadequate resources, outright indifference and a confusing jurisdictional maze. Now, in the era of #MeToo, this issue is gaining political traction as an expanding activist movement focuses on Native women, a population known to experience some of the nation’s highest rates of murder, sexual violence and domestic abuse.
https://apnews.com/article/missing-in-indian-country-north-america-mountains-mo-state-wire-sd-state-wire-cb6efc4ec93e4e92900ec99ccbcb7e05

Native American Women Keep Turning Up Dead. Why Is Nothing Being Done? Showtime’s docuseries Murder in Big Horn is an urgent examination of the missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) epidemic plaguing America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4EVtS_77ps

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Merck’s Taxpayer-Subsidized COVID Pill Linked to New Virus Mutations, Study Finds: Merck’s oral antiviral pill for COVID-19, molnupiravir, marketed under the name Lagevrio, may be fueling the development of new and potentially deadly variants of COVID-19, according to the authors of a new preprint study.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/merck-covid-pill-virus-mutations/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Biden’s Top Economic Adviser to Leave White House: Why it matters: Deese’s departure from his role as director of the National Economic Council will create a high-profile opening in the Biden administration ahead of a high-stakes debt ceiling fight. Biden did not offer a timetable for Deese’s departure or provide details on a successor.
https://www.axios.com/2023/02/02/president-biden-nec-director-brian-deese

North America Faces Challenges With Decoupling Mineral Supply Chains: With 44 million tons of rare earths reserves, China is the largest producer of them. But shifting dependence from China is challenging.
https://gritdaily.com/decoupling-rare-earth-supply-chains-from-china/

# Employment / Labor
How corporations hope to eviscerate workers’ right to strike: Corporations so fear this kind of worker power that they’re asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rig the scales and help them kill future strikes before they even begin.
https://www.alternet.org/commentary/workers-strike/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
The Department of Energy’s loan programs office was ‘essentially dormant’, says Jigar Shah, its head – but now it’s ready to bankroll clean energy projects
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/03/us-clean-energy-transition-jigar-shah-interview

PG&E to stand trial over deadly California wildfire: Pacific Gas & Electric will face trial for manslaughter over its role in a deadly Californian wildfire.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64505596

Long-dormant geothermal energy: Archaeological evidence shows that the first human use of geothermal resources in North America occurred more than 10,000 years ago with the settlement of Paleo-Indians at hot springs. The springs served as a source of warmth and cleansing, their minerals as a source of healing. While people still soak in shallow pools heated by the earth, engineers are developing technologies that will allow us to probe more than 10 miles below the earth’s surface in search of geothermal energy. We invite you to study the timeline of the recent history of geothermal energy in the United States.
https://www.energy.gov/eere/geothermal/history-geothermal-energy-america

New project seeks to develop dormant volcano into power source: The U.S. Bureau of Land Management recently approved a project to tap into a volcano in the Cascade mountain range in Oregon. The company, Alta Rock Energy, will drill into Newberry volcano, which which has been dormant for some 1600 years.
https://theworld.org/stories/2012-10-15/new-project-seeks-develop-dormant-volcano-power-source

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
Nearly 14,000 Nigerian farmers and fishers sue Shell for destroying their livelihoods with oil pollution: Individuals and institutions from two communities have filed claims against Shell, calling on the company to clean up the devastating pollution and compensate them for its effects.
https://www.ecowatch.com/shell-lawsuit-nigeria-farmers-fishers.html

Supercharging Green Public Power: The president’s signature climate bill is a huge deal for publicly owned electricity. But it will take work to unlock its potential. One of its most significant parts is an innocuous-sounding provision called “direct pay.” This refers to a change in how renewable-energy tax credits are administered.
https://prospect.org/environment/2023-02-03-supercharging-green-public-power/

# Environment / Climate / Interior
Wall Street Scooping Up Colorado River Rights in Bid to Profit From Historic Drought: Financial speculators are buying and selling rights to the Colorado River’s dwindling water resources in a bid to profit as historic drought conditions intensified by the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis lead to worsening scarcity.
https://www.commondreams.org/wall-street-drought-profiteers-colorado-river-water

In polluted cities, reducing air pollution could lower cancer rates as much as eliminating smoking would: Exposure to air pollution has a significant impact on rates of cancers typically associated with smoking, according to a recent study.
https://www.ehn.org/air-pollution-cancer-2659365270.html#:~:text=The%20study%2C%20published%20in%20the,with%20smoking%2C%20including%20lung%20cancer%2C

# Gov / Politics / Global
Sweden’s NATO problem is a
Also Turkey’s NATO problem; How Stockholm and Ankara can move past their turbulent month.
https://carnegieendowment.org/2023/02/01/sweden-s-nato-problem-is-also-turkey-s-nato-problem-pub-88929

Russia is beginning to tear at the fabric of New START. It allowed Washington and Moscow to behave predictably, but that most valuable feature is now in jeopardy. The US has just declared Russia to be in non-compliance with the New Start treaty, the last remaining legally binding measure between the two countries to control nuclear arms. The issues are straightforward: Washington has asked to restore on-site inspections, which both sides suspended during the pandemic, and requested a meeting of the treaty’s implementation body. Moscow has refused on both counts.
https://www.ft.com/content/98b638b9-bb13-4e24-9035-0e03624be95a

Top Russian Official Teases ‘the Next Ukraine’ in New Threat: The remarks come after months of warnings that Moscow is singling out a small European country. Russia’s top diplomat said the actions of Western nations could soon turn Moldova into the “next Ukraine,” according to TASS.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/top-russian-official-teases-next-192835625.html

# Gov / Politics / US
‘Death sentence for women and families’: US court blocks domestic violence gun ban: The court ruled that the law prohibiting people with domestic violence restraining orders from owning guns “fails to pass constitutional muster,” and that the ban is an outlier “that our ancestors never would have accepted.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/domestic-violence-gun-laws

# Legal / DOJ
FBI to Search Pence’s Home for Classified Documents: Justice Department is in talks with former vice president’s legal team about scheduling search
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-to-search-mike-pences-home-for-additional-classified-materials-11675356965

House Oversight Committee announces investigation into John Kerry negotiations with Chinese: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is demanding President Biden’s special climate envoy, turn over documents related to secret negotiations with the Chinese Communist Party that the Republican says “undermine the United States’ interests.”
https://nypost.com/2023/02/02/house-gop-launches-probe-into-john-kerrys-secret-negotiations-with-china/

# Medical / Health
Plastics a Big Factor in Rapidly Declining Sperm Counts: Sperm counts are declining worldwide, and at a rate more than double that since the turn of the century, according to one of the world’s leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists, who says endocrine-disrupting chemicals are likely to blame.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/sperm-counts-reproductive-development-plastics/

# Military / DOD
“US Don’t Have the Missiles to Stop China”: Warning by the Pentagon’s Warmonger Friend “Defense One.” The war in Ukraine made plain several well-known challenges with precision weapons: they are expensive, rely on complicated supply chains, and take time to build. With Russia’s invasion stretching into its second year and military leaders warning of a looming war with China, analysts, Congress, and defense officials are all arguing for dramatically increased spending on the sophisticated long-range missiles needed for war in the Indo-Pacific. Ramping up production of key missiles will take two years or more.
https://www.gospanews.net/en/2023/02/02/us-dont-have-the-missiles-to-stop-china-warning-by-the-pentagons-warmonger-friend-defense-one/

Arab and Israeli Positions on Ukraine War Continue to Frustrate the US: The refusal by US regional partners to do more to help Ukraine—aside from providing limited humanitarian aid—amounts to de facto political support for Russia and threatens to strain relationships with some of America’s key partners in the region, most notably Saudi Arabia and Israel.
https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/arab-and-israeli-positions-on-ukraine-war-continue-to-frustrate-the-us/

Pentagon Tracking Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon Over the U.S., Chinese spy balloon, live: China claims strong winds blew ‘research’ airship over Montana by accident. Beijing has claimed the giant airship spotted over the northern United States is conducting meteorological research
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/chinese-spy-balloon-montana-canada-latest-news-b2274997.html

Chinese Spy Balloon Is Not a Spy Balloon, China Says: Beijing says the whole thing is just a big misunderstanding.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-spy-balloon-china-montana-pentagon-today-2023-02-02/

US to send Ukraine longer-range bombs in latest turnaround: The U.S. will provide ground-launched small diameter bombs as part of a $2.17 billion aid package the U.S. is expected to announce Friday.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-politics-military-and-defense-0f550a262fb6178a7d91b8be6e2c601b

U.S. Secures Four More Military Bases Surrounding China: The deal allows U.S. to hold China’s influence at bay and monitor the Chinese in the South China Sea and around Taiwan.
https://www.yahoo.com/now/us-seeks-deal-philippines-bases-220642010.html

# Military / Global
Russia issues warning to Israel: Any attempts – implemented or even unrealized but announced, for the supply of additional, new or some other weapons, have led and will lead to an escalation of this crisis. And everyone should be aware of this.” Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov condemned the decision of the Israeli regime to send military equipment to Ukraine amid the special military operation launched by Russia on February 24. “We are carefully reviewing this information and will respond, accordingly, if it is confirmed,” Viktorov said.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Russia-Warns-Israel-Over-Providing-Military-Aid-to-Ukraine-20220422-0020.html

Russia’s War in Ukraine Shifts Dynamics in the Israel-Iran-Azerbaijan Triangle: From the start, the Russian invasion of Ukraine instantly went beyond the level of subregional clashes to a restructuring of relations among the major world powers—the United States, the EU, Russia, and China. It has also greatly influenced relations among Middle Eastern countries, where it has triggered the strengthening of various geopolitical and strategic alliances.
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/russias-war-ukraine-shifts-dynamics-israel-iran-azerbaijan-triangle

# Pharmas / Drugs
Fentanyl Found in Prescription Drugs From Mexico Pharmacies: A survey of pharmacies in northwestern Mexico found that the dangerous drugs were pressed into counterfeit pills and sold under the guise of legitimate labels. The Times investigation found that 71% of the 17 pills tested came up positive for more powerful drugs. A team led by UCLA researchers recorded similar results in a study last week, but this phenomenon has otherwise gone largely unnoticed. The new findings could represent a dangerous shift in the fentanyl crisis.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-02-02/mexico-pharmacy-fentanyl-laced-pills-meth

# Science
Researchers Successfully Split Seawater to Produce Green Hydrogen Without Pre-Treatment: Researchers have produced green hydrogen by splitting seawater, without the use of pre-treatments like reverse osmosis desolation, purification or alkalisation, in a new study. The team used an inexpensive catalyst to split seawater into oxygen and hydrogen, with nearly 100% efficiency.
https://www.ecowatch.com/seawater-split-green-hydrogen.html

# Veterans / VA
White House initiative leaves deported veterans in limbo: Critics say Biden’s initiative fails to stop veterans from being deported and bring back those living in exile behind enemy lines. Marcelino Ramos said he joined the U.S. Marines Corps at 17 because he felt a duty to serve and because a recruiter in a pressed-blue uniform promised him citizenship. Ramos, now 54, had no idea that the country he swore to protect would deport him.
https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/immigration/white-house-initiative-leaves-deported-veterans-in-limbo/

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Voices, The Peoples News

February 2, 2023
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# Indigenous
How an Adoption Case Could Unravel Tribal Sovereignty: The law was passed in 1978 to combat a history of forced family separation in the United States and prevent the removal of Native children from their communities. Host Jordan Smith and journalist Rebecca Nagle discuss the Indian Child Welfare Act challenge and why it could imperil all of Indian Law.
https://theintercept.com/2023/02/01/dissent-episode-three-tribal-sovereignty/

How a Tourist Attraction Displaying the Open Graves of Native Americans Became a State-Run Museum: Generations of visitors learned about the history of Native Americans in Illinois through the eyes of amateur archaeologist Don Dickson. Though the exhibit he built closed in 1992, the Dickson Mounds Museum is still grappling with his legacy. Still buried throughout much of Fulton County, according to archaeologists’ estimates, were at least 3,000 grave mounds and remnants of villages that belonged to Indigenous people and their ancestors. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how-a-tourist-attraction-displaying-the-open-graves-of-native-americans-became-a-state-run-museum/ar-AA16YYKS?cvid=a10e1f53ce7846b9b6d0ea31abcc9268

# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
Park Service Begins Shipping Yellowstone’s Wild Bison Off to Slaughterhouse: “This is no way to treat America’s National Mammal, which is sacred to so many tribes” said Nez Perce scientist James Holt, the executive Director of Buffalo Field Campaign. These unlucky bison, who had wandered into the Stephens Creek trap facility operated by the Park Service to enjoy some complimentary hay, at taxpayer’s expense, were on the way to a slaughterhouse.
https://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/park-service-begins-shipping-yellowstone-s-wild-bison-off-to-slaughterhouse

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Global
Nevada’s New Governor Vilified Lobbyist’s Influence in COVID Lab Scandal, Then Asked Him to Help With Budget: Gov. Joe Lombardo once called his predecessor’s support of an error-prone COVID-19 testing lab the “biggest scandal in our history” but then brought in the lobbyist who pulled strings to get that lab licensed to help prepare his state budget.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nevada-lombardo-northshore-covid-sisolak-willden?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=river

# Education / Schools
Idaho Lawmaker Wants Children to Work for Those Free Lunches: Idaho state Rep. Ron Mendive has a plan to help balance school budgets: put kids to work. “If we could find a way for the students to work to earn credits for their school lunch, I don’t think we’d see any of the waste we do in that program because it doesn’t mean much,” he said during an education committee meeting on Tuesday.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/idaho-lawmaker-wants-children-to-work-for-those-free-lunches

A school choice nightmare: Families getting government funding to switch from public to private school put their rights at risk: The harrowing story of a Maine family shows the potential perils families face when they transfer to privately run schools that are less subject to government oversight.
https://www.alternet.org/school-choice-nightmare-families-rights/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Who Sabotaged the Nord Stream Pipelines? The U.S. has no motive: Danish and Swedish seismologists measured what they say were explosions along the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which bring Russian gas to Germany and the rest of Western Europe. Those explosions released and probably will continue to release a substantial amount of gas from the pipelines. Jewish Neocon Victoria Nuland Confesses to Nord Stream Terror Attack: “Senator Cruz, like you, I am, and I think the administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea.”
https://spectator.org/who-sabotaged-the-nord-stream-pipelines/

Jewish Neocon Victoria Nuland Confesses to Nord Stream Terror Attack: US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland during a Thursday Senate hearing positively celebrated the destruction of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipelines. “Senator Cruz, like you, I am, and I think the administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea.”
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2023/02/01/jewish-neocon-victoria-nuland-confesses-to-nord-stream-terror-attack/

If we want companies to stop burning fossil fuel, why are we paying them for it? Subsidies for fossil fuel are preventing us from truly transitioning towards renewable energy. “Fossil fuel subsidies are a roadblock to a more sustainable future, but the difficulty that governments face in removing them is underscored at times of high and volatile fuel prices,” said Fatih Birol, the director of the International Energy Agency, which produced the analysis with the OECD. “A surge in investment in clean energy technologies and infrastructure is the only lasting solution to today’s global energy crisis and the best way to reduce the exposure of consumers to high fuel costs,” said Birol.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/if-we-want-companies-to-stop-burning-fossil-fuel-why-are-we-paying-them-for-it/

# Environment / Climate / Interior
Robobees Are Back, This Time In The Image Of A “Fairy” That “Could Help Save The Planet”: The original Robobee concept relied purely on solar power, new research is focusing on harnessing the power of both wind and light (even laser and LED) with a “fairy” robotic pollinator that was also inspired by dandelion seeds. Researchers in Finland say these dandelion-inspired smart robots could help save the environment, taking over for pollinators (like bees) who are disappearing from nature. Responsive polymer allows the creation of artificial, autonomously operating structures. In dark and calm weather, the fairy stays still. When there is enough light, the structure opens automatically allowing flying in the wind flow
https://www.naturalblaze.com/2023/02/robobees-are-back-this-time-in-the-image-of-a-fairy-that-could-help-save-the-planet.html

# Gov / Politics / US
New Jersey Councilwoman, 30, Shot Dead Outside Her Home: Eunice Dwumfour was found inside her car with multiple gunshot wounds, authorities said. She sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. She lived in the townhouse complex where she was killed, just steps from her home. She preliminarily appears to have been the target of the gunfire but a motive for the shooting was not immediately disclosed.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/new-jersey-councilwoman-shot-killed-targeted-attack-home/story?id=96844342

Republicans started the process Wednesday to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The House approved a procedural motion setting up a likely final vote to boot Omar on Thursday. The move is retaliation for Democrats having removed Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) from their committees in 2021 for threatening behavior toward colleagues.
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/02/1153472237/ilhan-omar-foreign-affairs-committee-vote-republicans-remove

# Law Enforcement
Tyre Nichols’ death underscores the troubled history of specialized police units: The officers charged in the murder of a Black man in Memphis, Tenn., were part of the elite SCORPION squad. Such units have an ugly history. Memphis Police Department’s SCORPION team. A rather tortured acronym for “Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods,” SCORPION is a crime suppression unit – that is, officers detailed specifically to prevent, detect and interrupt violent crime by proactively using stops, frisks, searches and arrests. Such specialized units are common in forces across the U.S. and tend to rely on aggressive policing tactics.
https://theconversation.com/tyre-nichols-death-underscores-the-troubled-history-of-specialized-police-units-198851

The specialized division of the Memphis police department unit operated with an annual budget of more than $28 million a year from the time of its creation in 2021 until it was disbanded over the weekend. The Memphis police unit, Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods, or SCORPION, is part of a trend in policing in which highly armed groups of police are dispatched to “high-crime” areas that tend to be home to Black and brown residents.
https://theintercept.com/2023/01/31/tyre-nichols-memphis-police/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

# Legal / DOJ
Judge Gives Trump Lawyers Second Chance in NY Trial Showdown: Though Trump’s legal team has been exceedingly evasive, a New York judge is giving them more time to cooperate ahead of the crucial trial involving his businesses.
https://abovethelaw.com/2023/02/donald-trumps-lawyers-argued-there-is-no-such-thing-as-the-trump-org-the-court-was-not-amused/

Santos’ Brazil Lawyer Did Time for Gang Execution: The GOP lawmaker, who speaks fluent Portuguese, reportedly ducked a newspaper’s questions by saying he doesn’t speak Portuguese.
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2911729752554/george-santos-brazil-lawyer-did-time-for-gang-execution-report

# LGBTQ / Gender
Tennessee is considering banning gender-affirming care as child abuse. Doctors, parents, and advocates are speaking out. The bill is the first time a state has attempted to create criminal penalties for gender-affirming healthcare of minors. The bill known as SB 1 would not only ban trans minors from accessing puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy and undergoing surgery, it would also ban the use of telehealth and force all children currently undergoing treatment to stop by March 2024. The bill and its equivalent in the Tennessee House of Representatives are scheduled for more committee meetings next week.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lilkalish/tennessee-transgender-gender-affirming-care-abuse

# Marijuana / Hemp / CBD Oil
This hempcrete won’t get you high but it can make your dream green home affordable: Australia has been facing a construction material crisis since mid-2020. It’s not the only place struggling with this type of crisis, but in Australia, the situation is particularly dire. In the first episode of Adelaide university’s own podcast series, The Discovery Pod, professor Rachel Burton explained that fibers found inside the stem of the hemp plant can be used to make a strong concrete-like material called hempcrete. This green construction material is prepared by blending the hemp fibers with water and lime. Interestingly, hempcrete can be easily turned into bricks, boards, building insulation material, and sound-proofing panels.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/this-hempcrete-wont-get-you-high-but-it-can-make-your-dream-green-home-affordable/

# Medical / Health
“We’re Still Gonna Say No.” Inside UnitedHealthcare’s Effort to Deny Coverage to Chronically Ill Patient: After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.
https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis

Do You Have Insights Into Health Insurance Denials? In the United States, having health insurance does not guarantee that you will receive the care you need. Every year, insurance companies reject tens of millions of claims from people seeking all kinds of medical services, ranging from surgeries to MRIs. Insurers deny tens of millions of claims every year. ProPublica is investigating why claims are denied, what the consequences are for patients and how the appeal process really works.
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/insurance-denial-health-care-investigation

Lawmakers Pledge to Fight for Comprehensive Action on Stillbirths: A ProPublica investigation found the U.S. lagging other developed nations in reducing the number of stillbirths. Lawmakers say increased funding will be key to any improvement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/lawmakers-pledge-to-fight-for-comprehensive-action-stillbirths

Bernie Sanders Has Some Big Health Care Plans, And It’s Not Just Medicare For All: One of this year’s more intriguing political developments is a change at the helm of the Senate health, education, labor and pensions committee, where Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is taking the gavel. It represents a milestone of sorts for American politics, and for Sanders himself. The Vermont senator outlines his agenda for the Senate health, education, labor and pensions committee, and explains why he thinks it can become reality.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-interview-health-agenda_n_63daac87e4b01a436391d0b5?9z7&utm_source=cordial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp-us-reg-politics_2023-02-01&utm_term=us-politics

# Medical Science
Man wakes up after 12 years of coma: “I was aware of everything”: When he was 12, Martin Pistorius came home with a sore throat. It didn’t seem like much, but his condition quickly deteriorated. He was soon unable to move or even talk, and eventually crashed into a coma that would go on to last 12 years.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/man-coma-wakes-up-14012015/

# Medical Technology
Attacking the ‘You Are the Product’ Economy: The FTC takes action against GoodRx for sharing personal health data with advertisers. The old adage about the internet platform economy goes like this: “If something is free, you are the product.” Facebook, Google, and other sites invite users into a world and try to keep them there as long as possible to target ads, conducting mass surveillance that tracks your every waking move. And this has been effectively sanctioned through a disinclination to enforce various privacy rights and laws
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-02-02-goodrx-online-medical-privacy-ftc/

# Military / Global
North Korea Threatens U.S. With ‘Overwhelming Nuclear Force’: Kim Jong Un’s regime accused America of “reckless” moves. The North Korean foreign ministry said the stepping-up of military drills from South Korea’s allies could turn the Korean Peninsula into a “huge war arsenal and a more critical war zone.” It said North Korea is prepared to respond to any short-term or long-term military challenge with nuclear force.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3840751-north-korea-warns-us-of-overwhelming-nuclear-force/

Another Ukrainian Stronghold Besieged by Russia: Russian troops continue attempts to break through the Ukrainian defense in Verkhnekamenskoye. The Russian advance poses threat for the Ukrainian garrison in Seversk. The deliberate offensive of Russian troops continues on the main battlefields on the Donbass fronts. The most hot spots remain Bakhmut to the north of Donetsk and Ugledar to the south.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2023/02/01/another-ukrainian-stronghold-besieged-by-russia/?mc_cid=cc2b9eac43&mc_eid=3f7488d454

Russia claims to have taken full control of Mariupol: Russia claimed to have captured Mariupol on Friday in what would be its biggest victory yet in its war with Ukraine, after a nearly three-month siege that reduced much of the strategic port city to a smoking ruin, with over 20,000 civilians feared dead.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-prisoners-of-war-71d0dfb842caaaad30b92671637c1f3b

# Nuclear
Russia is violating the last remaining nuclear treaty with the US, according to Washington: Russia’s refusal to allow the US to inspect its nuclear arsenal could reignite pressure for the US to develop new nuclear weapons. The U.S. State Department told Congress on Jan. 31, 2023, that Russia is not complying with the countries’ last remaining nuclear arms agreement, which was renewed for five years in 2021. Russia has denied these accusations and accused the U.S. of violations as well.
https://theconversation.com/russia-is-violating-the-last-remaining-nuclear-treaty-with-the-us-according-to-washington-199063

# Water
Biden administration is caught between California and its neighbors in Colorado River fight: California countered water plan offered by neighboring states that upholds its senior rights to river. After months of behind-the-scenes negotiations, California has an answer to six other western states sharing the Colorado River: Get lost! The proposal California offered Tuesday makes no significant concessions to demands from its neighbors, asserting higher priority senior water rights to the largest share of the river that have been enshrined in an agreement dating back decades.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/01/biden-administration-california-colorado-river-00080694

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-02-01

Voices, The Peoples News

February 1, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
Montana’s anti-Indigenous politics aren’t going away: The now-dead proposal to ‘investigate’ reservations was neither the beginning or the end of combative attitudes towards tribal nations in the state. After pushback from the state’s bipartisan American Indian Caucus, tribal nations and his own constituents, Regier said he would not introduce the legislation, adding that it had been written by a local constituent (Regier did not respond to a request for comment from HCN). Tthe latest episode in a long history of anti-tribal sovereignty activity in Montana, emphasized the proximity between anti-Indigenous organizers and state legislators.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-politics-montanas-anti-indigenous-politics-arent-going-away

Alaska whaling communities pilot a project to keep traditional ice cellars frozen: ‘You can’t put half a whale in a little home freezer.’ At least 1,000 people, out of a population of about 11,000, were considered food insecure in the North Slope Borough in 2020. Stabilizing ice cellars could help alleviate food insecurity concerns and maintain centuries of traditional and cultural practice. Now, they aim to use a simple and reliable technology to do just that.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/north-climate-change-alaska-whaling-communities-pilot-a-project-to-keep-traditional-ice-cellars-frozen

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Merck Covid Drug Linked to New Virus Mutations, Study Says: Merck & Co.’s Covid-19 pill is giving rise to new mutations of the virus in some patients, according to a study that underscores the risk of trying to intentionally alter the pathogen’s genetic code.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/merck-covid-drug-linked-to-new-virus-mutations-study-says/ar-AA170cuh?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=f0536e7d3cf84c4290ec2e7dce18703d

6.7 Million Children Could Lose Health Coverage as COVID Protections Expire: GOP efforts to end pandemic emergency orders early would create “wide-ranging chaos” across the health care system. The Biden administration is bracing for disruptions across the health care system as federal COVID-19 pandemic emergency orders expire this spring, leaving patients facing new out-of-pocket costs and putting millions of adults and children at risk of losing health insurance coverage.
https://truthout.org/articles/6-7-million-children-could-lose-health-coverage-as-covid-protections-expire/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Administration expected to endorse limited drilling in Alaska project: An environmental review expected soon would effectively signal that the Willow project proceed, according to people familiar with the report. The so-called Willow project, which has long been criticised by activists, has the potential to unlock 600m barrels of crude oil, the newspaper reports. It adds that “opponents say the decision undermines the Biden administration’s promises to cut fossil-fuel use in order to limit the damage from climate change”
https://www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/us-administration-expected-to-endorse-limited-drilling-in-alaska-project/

A tax break for big polluters is also starving public schools in Texas: In less than a decade, the northern coastline of Corpus Christi Bay, in San Patricio County, Texas, has been developed from a greenspace of wetlands and dunes into a miles-long corridor of petrochemical and industrial facilities, their cracking towers rising hundreds of feet into the air. Dominating that cyborg skyline is the tower flare at the Corpus Christi Liquefaction facility, owned by gas giant Cheniere. The plant’s three operational “trains,” which came online in 2019, produce 16.5 million tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per year for export to hungry markets in Europe, Asia, and other international destinations. There are plans to add seven smaller trains at the facility, equivalent to another 11 million tons of capacity.
https://capitalandmain.com/a-colossal-giveaway-a-tax-break-for-big-polluters-is-also-starving-public-schools-in-texas

# Environment / Climate / Interior
Planting more trees in cities could cut deaths from summer heat, says study: European research finds that increasing urban tree coverage to 30% can lower temperatures by 0.4C.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/01/planting-trees-cities-cut-deaths-summer-heat-study

Public lands are not neutral. We must grapple with their racist roots: Analysis of data from the U.S. Forest Service shows that white people make up 95% of the visitors to national forests (77% to national parks), despite many forests being located near communities where people belonging to minorities are the majority. On the managing side of the equation, things are not too different: at almost every meeting or excursion I attend for my job, I am the only Latine person represented and very rarely are there people of color present. The people driving the decisions in the environmental movement, especially around nature conservation, are mostly white and male.
https://www.ehn.org/public-lands-environmental-justice-2659274278.html

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
Grand Forks halts project after Air Force deems Chinese company’s land purchase ‘a threat’: Grand Forks, North Dakota, will deny building permits to a Chinese-based food manufacturer that purchased land near an Air Force base. Chinese food manufacturer Fufeng Group announced the purchase of 370 acres of land for a wet corn milling plant in 2021. The site is 12 miles from the Grand Forks Air Force Base.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/grand-forks-halts-project-after-air-force-deems-chinese-companys-land-purchase-a-threat/article_5c63fa34-a1a8-11ed-8cdf-ff52e8ac91c3.amp.html

# Gov / Politics / US
George Santos Recuses Himself from House Cmtes Pending Investigations as His Treasurer Resigns: She’s making it clear: She’s not with the Santos campaign. Rep. George Santos’ campaign treasurer officially resigned on Tuesday, a move that caps a mini-drama surrounding a reported federal investigation into his campaign’s finances and also carries a practical price—without a treasurer, his political committees cannot legally receive donations or make expenditures.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-santos-treasurer-resigns-amid-campaign-chaos

Kevin McCarthy Appoints 3 Election Deniers to the House Ethics Committee: The new chair of the committee signed on to a lawsuit from Texas that sought to discount millions of votes in 2020.
https://truthout.org/articles/kevin-mccarthy-appoints-3-election-deniers-to-the-house-ethics-committee/

# Law Enforcement
13-year-old Karon Blake cried “I am a kid” as he was fatally shot. Jason Lewis, a DC Parks and Recreation employee, faces one count of second-degree murder. His attorney said his client maintains he is innocent.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/karon-blake-13-killing-man-charged-murder

At least 11 people were injured in a drive-by shooting in Florida minutes after a school bus dropped kids off at home. The shooting occurred as Florida Republicans are set to pass a bill legalizing concealed carry without a permit. “We have reason to believe that this was a targeted event, that this was not a random act,” police said. “I was hoping it was firecrackers but I didn’t see any smoke,” one mother told Fox 35 Orlando. “It’s just so surreal; it’s scary. Everybody’s kids just got off the bus. Kids were still walking home right here. So it’s a blessing nobody’s kids got hurt.”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/clarissajanlim/lakeland-florida-drive-by-shooting

Ohio man dies after being shot by police as he was cleaning out late grandmother’s apartment: An investigation is underway after a 28-year-old Ohio man died Tuesday, one day after he was shot by police who believed he was a burglary suspect, as his family says he was cleaning out his late grandmother’s home.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ohio-man-dies-after-being-shot-by-police-as-he-was-cleaning-out-late-grandmother-s-apartment/ar-AA170qKY?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=f0536e7d3cf84c4290ec2e7dce18703d

# LGBTQ / Gender
Utah passes bill banning transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming health care: The bill “prohibits surgery for all transgender youth and disallows hormone treatment for transgender minors who have not been professionally diagnosed with gender dysphoria.”
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/29/1152388859/utah-ban-gender-affirming-care-transgender-youth

Man Charged with Hate Crime and Obstruction and Second Man Charged with Obstruction Offenses Following Murder of Transgender Woman in South Carolina: A five-count federal indictment was unsealed charging two South Carolina men with hate crime and obstruction offenses.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-charged-hate-crime-and-obstruction-and-second-man-charged-obstruction-offenses-following

# Medical / Health
Can Medicare Advantage Be Contained? The Biden administration is increasing audits of abuses, a good start, but not enough. Medicare Advantage is a lucrative private insurance product masquerading as part of Medicare. It’s actually an HMO for seniors, offered by every major insurance company, using the trusted Medicare brand and relying on Medicare payments. By the end of this year, more than half of all people enrolled in Medicare will be in Medicare Advantage.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-02-01-medicare-advantage-privatization/

# Military / DOD
Russia Finds 20,000 Docs Outlining US Biowar Plans for Ukraine: The Russian military has accumulated a collection of over 20,000 documents related to the US military-biological program in Ukraine, RCB Troops Chief Igor Kirillov has revealed. Russia’s attempts to convince the world that its invasion of Ukraine is justified have mostly fallen flat in the U.S. But a recent disinformation campaign has gained some traction.
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/22/1087991730/russia-claims-u-s-labs-across-ukraine-are-secretly-developing-biological-weapons

U.S. dismisses Russian claims of biowarfare labs in Ukraine: The United States on Wednesday denied renewed Russian accusations that Washington was operating biowarfare labs in Ukraine, calling the claims “laughable” and suggesting Moscow may be laying the groundwork to use a chemical or biological weapon.
https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-demands-us-explain-biological-programme-ukraine-2022-03-09/

Ukraine war: Fact-checking Russia’s biological weapons claims: The US provides technical support and, according to the US Embassy in Ukraine, “works with partner countries to counter the threat of outbreaks (intentional, accidental or natural) of the world’s most dangerous infectious diseases.” There is no evidence that they work to produce biological weapons. In January, the US said its programme does the opposite and in fact aims to “reduce the threat of biological weapons proliferation.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/60711705

# Water
Amid Fears of Contamination, Japan Will Soon Dump Treated Water from Fukushima Nuclear Plant into the Pacific: The government said it is the best way to deal with tritium and trace amounts of other radionuclides in the water. “Releasing the treated water into the sea is a realistic solution,” Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said at a Cabinet meeting endorsing the plan. “We will do our utmost to keep the water far above safety standards.” A Japanese government official later clarified that details of the release need to be worked out and approved. Gradual, trial releases could start in 2 years and might take 40 years to complete.
https://www.science.org/content/article/japan-plans-release-fukushima-s-contaminated-water-ocean

Sinema leans on California to join Colorado River water pact: As six states wait for California to join its Colorado River Basin water use agreement, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema called on the state to be willing to seal the deal
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/sinema-leans-on-california-to-join-colorado-river-water-pact

25 GOP governors ask Biden administration to hit pause on broader clean water rule: Twenty-five Republican governors oppose a revised federal rule regulating U.S. waterways, citing uncertainty from an undecided U.S. Supreme Court case related to the rule. The governors sent a letter to the Biden administration on Monday asking it to delay the implementation of the revised Waters of the United States rule since the U.S. Supreme Court is currently considering Sackett v. EPA. The revised WOTUS rule, released on Dec. 30, reinstates pre-2015 water protections under the federal Clean Water Act. The rule was scaled back under the Trump administration, which triggered lawsuits from environmental groups.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/25-gop-governors-ask-biden-administration-to-hit-pause-on-broader-clean-water-rule/article_bf9106d6-a1a0-11ed-8a80-efd78c6da98e.html
See also: Final Revised Definition of “Waters of the United States”
https://www.epa.gov/wotus/revising-definition-waters-united-states

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-01-31

Voices, The Peoples News

January 31, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
A Victory for Abolitionists: ICE-Run Immigration Prison Shuts Down Today: It took nearly a decade of exposing the patterns of abuse and neglect at the facility in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Berks is the fifth immigration prison contract to end under the Biden administration, signaling the growing consensus that ICE’s immigration detention system does not need to exist, and a movement of communities across the country is organizing to end it.
https://truthout.org/articles/a-victory-for-abolitionists-ice-run-immigration-prison-shuts-down-today/

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
A Federal Judge has blocked California law that would punish doctors for providing treatment or advice that promotes COVID “misinformation.” Bill Gates made millions off the COVID vaccine, admitted that the vaccine is ineffective against preventing transmission, providing long-term protection, and aligning with rapidly developing variants. Several analysts and commentators were critical of Gates, not due to disagreement with the statements he made in Australia. They argued that he had previously heavily invested in mRNA vaccines at the same time he encouraged a global COVID-19 vaccination campaign and supported mandatory vaccination.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bill-gates-profits-biontech-effectiveness-covid-vaccines/

The BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 reprograms both adaptive and innate immune responses
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.03.21256520v1

We are overcounting covid deaths and hospitalizations. That’s a problem: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States is experiencing around 400 covid deaths every day. At that rate, there would be nearly 150,000 deaths a year. But are these Americans dying from covid or with covid? Infectious-disease physician Shira Doron said, the proportion of those hospitalized because of covid were as low as 10 percent of the total number reported.
https://resiliencesystem.org/opinion-we-are-overcounting-covid-deaths-and-hospitalizations-s-problem

COVID-19 Drugmakers Pressured Twitter to Censor Activists Pushing for Generic Vaccine: BIO, which is financed by companies such as Moderna and Pfizer, provided Stronger with $1,275,000 in funding for the effort, which included tools for the public to flag content on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook for moderation.
https://theintercept.com/2023/01/16/twitter-covid-vaccine-pharma/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Crypto Firm FTX’s Ownership of a U.S. Bank Raises Questions: “The fact that an offshore hedge fund that was basically a crypto firm was buying a stake in a tiny bank for multiples of its stated book value should have raised massive red flags for the F.D.I.C., state regulators and the Federal Reserve,” said Camden Fine, a bank industry consultant.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/business/ftx-cryptocurrency-bank.html

The Debt Ceiling Benefits the Rich and Powerful, Says Economist Richard Wolff: In addition to reaping the benefits of tax cuts, corporations and the wealthy can become lenders to the U.S. government. House Republicans are pushing for major spending cuts as part of any deal to raise the federal government’s $31.4 trillion borrowing limit. “It’s 99% theatrics,” says Wolff, professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of The New School. Wolff also discusses the economic impact of the Ukraine war.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017801560

# Education / Schools
DeSantis to Defund Diversity Efforts at Florida Universities: He claimed diversity efforts were “hostile to academic freedom” while simultaneously saying students will be forced to take courses on western civilization. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday that he plans to defund diversity, equity and inclusion programs in every Florida university, another move in his push to upend higher education in the state.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-desantis-defund-dei-florida-universities_n_63d9633de4b04d4d18e8b9c3

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Revealed: how US transition to electric cars threatens environmental havoc: If Americans continue to depend on cars at the current rate, by 2050 the US alone would need triple the amount of lithium currently produced for the entire global market, which would have dire consequences for water and food supplies, biodiversity, and Indigenous rights. Lithium mining is, like all mining, environmentally and socially harmful. More than half the current lithium production, which is very water intensive, takes place in regions blighted by water shortages that are likely to get worse due to global heating.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/24/us-electric-vehicles-lithium-consequences-research

99% of U.S. Coal Plants Cost More to Run Than Replace With New Renewables, Study Finds: It would be cheaper to build new renewable energy capacity than it is to continue operating nearly every existing coal plant in the U.S., a new report from Energy Innovation finds. Of the country’s remaining 210 coal-fired power plants, more than 99% cost more to run than it would cost to replace them with new renewable energy, up from 62% in 2019.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/30/us-coal-more-expensive-than-renewable-energy-study

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
BP Says Ukraine War and IRA Could Spur Energy Transition: When Russia’s invasion of Ukraine led to gas shortages and soaring prices, it was used by both governments and fossil fuel companies to justify more oil, gas and coal development. However, one oil major predicts the longer-term consequence of the invasion will be to speed the transition to renewable energy. “The increased focus on energy security as a result of the Russia-Ukraine war has the potential to accelerate the energy transition as countries seek to increase access to domestically produced energy, much of which is likely to come from renewables and other non-fossil fuels.”
https://www.ecowatch.com/bp-ukraine-war-energy-transition.html

# Environment / Climate / Interior
History of DDT ocean dumping off L.A. coast worse than expected: After exhaustive historical investigations into the barrels of DDT waste reportedly dumped decades ago near Catalina Island, federal regulators concluded the toxic pollution in the deep ocean could be worse and more sweeping than what scientists anticipated. Officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency determined that acid waste from the nation’s largest manufacturer of DDT, a pesticide so powerful it poisoned birds and fish, had not been contained in hundreds of thousands of sealed barrels
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-history-ddt-ocean-dumping-la.html

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Global
Why leftist GMO rejectionists should take notice of Cuba’s emergence as biomedicine and ag-biotech innovator.
This past Christmas was not the best of times for Cubans. It was difficult to find food such as chicken, meat, milk and eggs and other basic supplies in state stores. This long-standing shortage has worsened in recent years, exacerbated by the COVID-19 health crisis and disruptions in the global food economy caused by the war in Ukraine
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2023/01/31/viewpoint-why-leftist-gmo-rejectionists-should-take-notice-of-cubas-emergence-as-biomedicine-and-ag-biotech-innovator/

# General News
The Medics Are Also to Blame for Tyre Nichols’ Death: As a former paramedic of 25 years, an EMS educator and author, and a former law enforcement officer, I see these cases through a different lens than most. When looking at these videos, as difficult as it is, I try to look past the violence and assess the actions of the first responders that did not intercede to prevent the act from occurring. The case of Tyre Nichols is rife with instances of both EMS and police failing to attempt to save the dying man’s life. The video shows several figures off to the side for long stretches, not actively engaging, simply watching, meandering and occasionally talking with the victim who is clearly in distress.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/01/30/prosecute-medics-tyre-nichols-00080213

Two emergency medical workers who treated Tyre Nichols and a fire truck driver on the scene have been fired for violating their department’s policies. The response by EMTs at the scene and the apparent lack of urgency with which they treated Nichols have prompted an investigation by the city fire department.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/clarissajanlim/tyre-nichols-emt-fire-department

# Gov / Politics / Global
Ukraine Had Lost the War Long Before it Began: From one week to the next, Ukraine was without a Navy and without an Air Force, destroyed at the outset in late February, early March 2022.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2023/01/30/ukraine-had-lost-the-war-long-before-it-began/?mc_cid=b55eef1915&mc_eid=3f7488d454

War against Ukraine has left Russia isolated and struggling, with more tumult ahead: At the time, Putin insisted his forces were embarking on a “special military operation,” a term suggesting a limited campaign that would be over in a matter of weeks. The reality has been far different.
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/31/1145981036/war-against-ukraine-has-left-russia-isolated-and-struggling-with-more-tumult-ahe

# Law Enforcement
The Year Just Started and Cops Have Already Killed At Least 7 Unarmed People: Fatal Police Shootings Of Unarmed Black People Reveal Troubling Patterns. The deadly shootings of unarmed Black men and women by police officers in the U.S. have increasingly garnered worldwide attention over the last few years. Tens of thousands of people across the country have taken to the streets to protest police brutality of Blacks by mostly white officers.
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/25/956177021/fatal-police-shootings-of-unarmed-black-people-reveal-troubling-patterns

Family of Double Amputee Killed by Police Demand Answers: “He’s out of his wheelchair, he’s amputated in both legs at the knee, and he’s moving away from the officers,” a community activist said.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/family-of-anthony-lowe-double-amputee-killed-by-huntington-park-police-demand-answers

# LGBTQ / Gender
Florida Megachurch Moves to Expel LGBTQ Members: Jacksonville First Baptist Church is requiring members to sign an anti-LGBTQ pledge, vowing adherence to “biblical sexuality.” Megachurch forces all members to sign statement opposing LGBTQ+ rights. The church’s senior pastor used anti-LGBTQ+ disinformation to explain why all church members must sign or resign.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/01/megachurch-forces-all-members-to-sign-statement-opposing-lgbtq-rights/

# Medical / Health
Government Lets Health Plans That Ripped Off Medicare Keep the Money: Medicare Advantage plans for seniors dodged a major financial bullet Monday as government officials gave them a reprieve for returning hundreds of millions of dollars or more in government overpayments, some dating back a decade or more. The health insurance industry had long feared the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would demand repayment of billions of dollars in overcharges the popular health plans received as far back as 2011.
https://khn.org/news/article/cms-audits-medicare-advantage-plans-can-keep-hundreds-of-millions-in-federal-overpayments-maybe-more/

# Technology
Big Tech is firing employees by the thousands. Why? And how worried should we be? In the last year, more than 70,000 people globally have been laid off by Big Tech companies, and that doesn’t count the downstream effect of contractors (and other organisations) losing business as budgets tighten. What exactly led to this massive shakeout? And what does it mean for the industry, and you?
https://theconversation.com/big-tech-is-firing-employees-by-the-thousands-why-and-how-worried-should-we-be-198418

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