Voices, The Peoples News
January 24, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
– Jacques Yves Cousteau
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# Indigenous
Historically excluded from Colorado River policy, tribes want a say in how the dwindling resource is used. Today, 15 percent of Southern Utes living on the reservation in southwest Colorado don’t have running water in their homes at all.
https://www.circleofblue.org/2022/world/historically-excluded-from-colorado-river-policy-tribes-want-a-say-in-how-the-dwindling-resource-is-used/
Enbridge uses scoring system to track Indigenous opposition. On a color-coded map, land belonging to Native tribes that opposed the Line 3 pipeline were marked in red — areas of “threat” to the bottom line.
https://theintercept.com/2022/01/23/enbridge-pipeline-line-3-tracking-indigenous-protesters/
Alaska Tribes Are Fighting Back Against Plans to Open Colossal Gold Mine. Two Alaska Native corporations are working to develop what would be one of the world’s largest gold mines.
https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/proposed-alaska-gold-mine-worries-area-tribes
# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
Extremely Rare Pair of Twin African Elephants Born in Kenya. A pair of extremely rare twin African elephants have been born in Northern Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve.
https://www.ecowatch.com/twin-african-elephants-born-in-kenya.html
# Border / Immigration
Joe Biden Doesn’t Have an ‘Open Border’ Policy, so Why Do Republicans Say Otherwise?
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-doesnt-have-open-border-policy-so-why-do-republicans-say-otherwise-1672356
TSA allows illegal immigrants to use their arrest warrants as an acceptable form of ID.
https://policetribune.com/tsa-allows-illegal-immigrants-use-arrest-warrants-as-id-to-fly/
# Covid / Pandemics
‘The Final Variant Is Tyranny’: Thousands of anti-vaccine mandate protesters flaunt mask rules to descend on D.C. –A crowd of up to 20,000 gathered in Washington DC Saturday to protest ongoing vaccine mandates, including those in the Capitol. “Americans want democracy back, and this rally is a demand to get their democracy back,” keynote speaker Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/23/dc-anti-vaccine-rally-mandates-protest/
California would allow children age 12 and up to be vaccinated without their parents’ consent under a proposal introduced Friday by a state senator who said youngsters “deserve the right to protect themselves” against infectious disease.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/590809-california-bill-would-let-children-12-and-up-get-covid-19-vaccine
US to close borders to unvaccinated Canadian, Mexican truckers on Saturday –Mandate moving ahead as planned despite pushback from industry
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-to-close-borders-to-unvaccinated-canadian-mexican-truckers-on-saturday
Why Medicare Doesn’t Pay for Rapid At-Home Covid Tests. While there are ways for beneficiaries to get free tests, a Biden administration mandate that private insurers cover the cost of at-home tests — up to eight per enrollee per month — does not extend to Medicare, including Advantage Plans.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/20/medicare-doesnt-cover-at-home-covid-tests-how-to-get-them-for-free.html
Pandemic Accommodations Proved We Can Vastly Expand Disability Access If We Try. Significant accommodations were offered once the pandemic started affecting the capitalist class.
https://truthout.org/articles/pandemic-accommodations-proved-we-can-vastly-expand-disability-access-if-we-try/
We’ve battled COVID-19 for two years and counting, so what does yet another year of the pandemic mean for Texans? RSVP for this free virtual event.
https://register-covidyear3-series1.splashthat.com/mktg-newsletter?mc_cid=0f94512c9c&mc_eid=6f15633605
Feds limit use of antibody treatments. Florida’s surgeon general has accused the Biden administration of “actively preventing” the distribution of monoclonal antibody treatments for COVID-19, causing an “immediate and life-threatening shortage of treatment options.”
https://nypost.com/2021/12/29/dr-joseph-ladapo-claims-feds-preventing-antibody-covid-treatments/
# Economy / Finance / Trade
New Schedule of Social Security Benefit Payments 2022
https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10031-2022.pdf
Labor, wage shortages threaten supply chains: Omicron has infected tens of thousands grocery and industrial food workers, battering employees and stopping up supply chains already disrupted by two years of the pandemic. That’s created a situation reminiscent of the health care industry: years of attrition in the face of the virus has led to a system teetering on the edge of breakdown.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/billconerly/2021/07/07/the-labor-shortage-is-why-supply-chains-are-disrupted/?sh=e6446a0301d5
# Education / Schools
George Orwell’s ‘1984’ Given A Trigger Warning In The UK, University Deems It ‘Potentially Offensive’: The University of Northampton has issued a harsh warning over potentially “offensive and upsetting” material contained in the famous dystopia by George Orwell, 1984. The novel, which describes the dangers of totalitarian rule and censorship, is now red-flagged
https://original.newsbreak.com/@chrissie-marie-1590467/2493666370450-george-orwell-s-1984-given-a-trigger-warning-in-the-uk-university-deems-it-potentially-offensive
Toxic PCBs festered at this public school for eight years as students and teachers grew sicker. The EPA and others warned about potential contamination as far back as 2014
https://www.propublica.org/article/toxic-pcbs-festered-at-this-public-school-for-eight-years-as-students-and-teachers-grew-sicker
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Gold rush returns to California. Demand for gold has risen in recent years. Not everyone is happy about that, especially some residents of Grass Valley.
https://undark.org/2022/01/24/the-gold-rush-returns-to-california/
Exxon Is Using an Unusual Texas Law to Intimidate Critics of Its Climate Denial. The oil firm claims its history of publicly denying the climate crisis is protected by the first amendment.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/18/exxon-texas-courts-critics-climate-crimes
# Environment / Climate / Interior
South Carolina lawmakers pass bill to help plastics melting industry of new “advanced recycling” facilities into the state, including a controversial plastic-melting method called pyrolysis.
https://www.postandcourier.com/environment/plastics-melting-bill-clears-sc-general-assembly-headed-to-mcmaster/article_e53bcf12-7a0d-11ec-8eae-b70626aa2bd4.html
Endangered Salmon Return to Bay Area Streams. After an 18 year absence, endangered salmon have returned to a Bay Area stream. A Salmon Protection And Watershed Network biologist spotted coho salmon in Montezuma Creek for the first time since 2004. The fish were also spotted in Larsen Creek for the first time since 2006 as well as in other tributaries of the San Geronimo Valley.
https://www.ecowatch.com/endangered-salmon-return-bay-area-streams.html
# Food / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Black farmers are rebuilding agriculture in coal country. Jason Tartt saw opportunity in the terraced hillsides of his native West Virginia, both for restoring the land and for other Black farmers.
https://civileats.com/2022/01/24/black-farmers-are-rebuilding-agriculture-in-coal-country/
Drought-resistant farming catching on in New Mexico. More farmers are using cover crops, soil additives and crops suitable for drip irrigation in order to weather the drought.
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/drought-resistant-farming-catching-on-in-new-mexico/article_bbb8197a-786e-11ec-851f-9fd56a9d6499.html
High Amounts of a Toxic Forever Chemical Found in Bloodstreams of West Virginia County Residents. A new report from the CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry noted high levels of a forever chemical called PFHxS in the blood of people in Berkeley County, West Virginia.
https://www.ecowatch.com/toxic-forever-chemical-bloodstreams.html
Miller fights aid for Black farmers: Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is challenging a federal debt relief program intended to help cover the debts of thousands of “socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers.” Miller is among the many white litigants challenging the program, having filed a suit in April as a private citizen.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/01/24/texas-black-farmers-sid-miller-lawsuit/?mc_cid=0f94512c9c&mc_eid=6f15633605
# Foodie Tips, Tricks and How To’s
How to Store 31 Fresh Fruits and Vegetables for Less Food Waste: It’s estimated that the average household wastes more than 30% of the food it obtains – a staggering statistic with both financial and environmental consequences.
https://www.ecowatch.com/how-to-store-produce.html
# General Information / Other News
Jan. 6 Investigator Fired From Job by GOP Attorney General. On leave from his position as UVA’s top lawyer, Timothy Heaphy was fired by the state’s recently elected attorney general. Both Heaphy and counsel Brian Walther, who was also fired from his George Mason University post by Miyares this week, are Democrats
https://www.axios.com/jan-6-investigator-fired-virginia-university-post-39210b4c-0554-4566-aa0c-4b2887b04e6e.html
U.K. High Court Rules Assange Can Request Appeal of Extradition to U.S.
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/24/1075323349/julian-assange-appeal-us-extradition
Georgia to impanel grand jury in probe of Trump bid to overturn 2020 election. DA requests subpoena power to compel testimony from witnesses, such as Brad Raffensperger, who Trump asked to ‘find’ 11,780 votes
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/20/georgia-trump-special-grand-jury-2020-election
# Global Politics and other news
What’s going on with Russia and Ukraine? The British Foreign Office announced on Saturday that it had exposed a Russian plan to install a friendly government in Ukraine, backing previous U.S. assessments of the situation
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-hatching-plot-to-replace-ukraine-government-u-k-says-11642890601?mod=hp_lead_pos3&utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=46482
# Gov / Politics
Joe Biden is considering deploying several thousand U.S. troops, as well as warships and aircraft, to NATO allies in the Baltics and Eastern Europe, an expansion of American military involvement amid mounting fears of a Russian incursion into Ukraine, according to administration officials.
https://menafn.com/1103581754/Biden-Weighs-Deploying-Thousands-of-Troops-to-Eastern-Europe-and-Baltics
The State Department has ordered family members of government employees at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv to leave the country, while also allowing non-essential staffers to depart amid growing worries of a Russian invasion.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/24/us-orders-families-of-embassy-staff-out-of-ukraine
US threatens use of novel export control to damage Russia’s strategic industries if Moscow invades Ukraine. The Biden administration is threatening to use a novel export control to damage strategic Russian industries, from artificial intelligence and quantum computing to civilian aerospace, if Moscow invades Ukraine, administration officials say.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-threatens-use-of-novel-export-control-to-damage-russias-strategic-industries-if-moscow-invades-ukraine/ar-AAT44c4
Republicans Aren’t the Only Ones Diluting Citizens’ Votes. While America’s growing diversity hasn’t delivered Democrats the political success they’d counted on, Republicans are still fighting to diminish the power of the “wrong” voters.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-arent-the-only-ones-diluting-citizens-votes
Putin’s Making NATO Stronger, Whether He Starts a War or Not. The Russian leader may have thought NATO was in disarray and the U.S. in retreat, but we’ve already seen it’s quite the opposite.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/putins-making-nato-stronger-whether-he-starts-a-war-in-ukraine-or-not
# Law Enforcement
My Son Was Incarcerated at 13. Six Years Later, It’s Clear the State Failed Him.
Amid a pandemic, the conditions at youth prisons have become all the more inhumane.
https://truthout.org/articles/my-son-was-incarcerated-at-13-six-years-later-its-clear-the-state-failed-him/
# Legal / DOJ
Outrage as Newt Gingrich says Capitol attack investigators could be jailed
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/24/newt-gingrich-capitol-attack-committee-jail
Cheney and Kinzinger fire back at Newt Gingrich’s call for them to be arrested if GOP takes House. The only two Republicans on 6 January select committee have been remorselessly targeted from the right since voting for Trump’s impeachment
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/cheney-kinzinger-gringrich-capitol-riot-b1999483.html
# Medical / Health Care
The Doctor Didn’t Show Up, but the Hospital ER Still Charged $1,012
https://khn.org/news/article/the-doctor-didnt-show-up-but-the-hospital-er-still-charged-1012/
Indiana Lawmakers Threaten Action Over High Hospital Costs. Fix high hospital costs or we will act, Indiana legislators warn healthcare systems
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fix-high-hospital-costs-act-102807319.html
Abortion Rights Defenders Are Calling on Legislators to Codify Roe. Progressive lawmakers say the Women’s Health Protection Act would protect abortion rights.
https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2022/01/20/our-fates-are-intertwined-abortion-rights-activists-warn-roes-fall-will-hit-blue-states-1406288
Workers at a Wisconsin hospital sought new jobs with higher pay — then the hospital sued to stop them from leaving. 1 in 5 healthcare workers quit their job during the pandemic, some due to poor work environments.
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2494343279430/judge-grants-hospital-s-request-to-stop-workers-from-taking-better-jobs
# Military / DOD
Pentagon readies 8,500 US-based troops for possible Eastern Europe deployment as tensions with Russia simmer
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/24/us-troops-eastern-europe-deployment-00001485
# Military / Global
Japan allocates $56 million toward developing electric railgun for missile defense
Japan is pushing ahead with efforts to field an electrically powered railgun capable of firing projectiles six times the speed of sound and defending against hypersonic missiles.
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2022/01/05/japan-railgun-counter-hypersonic/
# Water
How a toxic chemical ended up in the drinking water supply for 13 million people.
Officials found a gap in state and federal regulations that allowed an unsafe chemical to end up in an essential water supply.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/21/new-jersey-toxic-drinking-water-527621
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