Voices, The Peoples News
January 25, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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“We’re in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone’s arguing over where they’re going to sit.”
– David Suzuki
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# Indigenous
Rekindling connections in the small flame of a qulliq. An Inupiaq writer welcomes the nourishing glow of a seal oil lamp into her home. A naniq is an Indigenous technology for heat, light and cooking. The naniq was the sole source of heat and light during the long winter months.
https://www.rasmuson.org/news/in-a-dark-month-the-warm-light-of-heritage/
# Border / Immigration
Retired border agent: Record amount of fentanyl confiscated in 2021 ‘only tip of iceberg’: While U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents and Texas Department of Public Safety officers seized record amounts of narcotics at the southern border last year, it’s only the tip of the iceberg
https://highlandcountypress.com/Content/Opinions/Opinion/Article/Retired-border-agent-Record-amount-of-fentanyl-confiscated-in-2021-only-tip-of-iceberg-/4/22/75471
# Covid / Pandemics
Poll: Majority of Democrats say the unvaccinated should be confined to home
One-third of Americans say they haven’t gotten the COVID-19 shots, majority of Democrats say they should be confined at all times, and or fined
https://www.oleantimesherald.com/news/nation/poll-majority-of-democrats-say-the-unvaccinated-should-be-confined-to-home/article_59f7e6f8-8c5e-5bdc-a472-60d3ecf724e0.html
Mask rules spark political games and a nasty environment in the House. Rules instituted by Democrats requiring lawmakers to wear masks at the Capitol are being routinely ignored by Republicans, underscoring the scorched-earth environment in the House when it comes to the coronavirus.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/590853-mask-rules-spark-political-games-and-a-nasty-environment-in-the-house
Fauci’s emails don’t prove a Wuhan conspiracy, but raise further questions. Why were U.S. scientists so quick to defend their Chinese counterparts over the potential origin of the Covid-19 virus?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fauci-s-emails-don-t-prove-wuhan-conspiracy-raise-further-n1269650
House Republicans Release Text of Redacted Fauci Emails on COVID Origins
https://theintercept.com/2022/01/12/covid-origins-fauci-redacted-emails/
Mark Zuckerberg violating own policy with early vaccine concerns: Project Veritas
Facebook bans claims that COVID-19 vaccination modifies DNA
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/feb/17/mark-zuckerberg-violating-own-policy-early-vaccine/
Facebook trying to censor posts from COVID-19 vaccine skeptics: Facebook is reportedly trying to silence COVID-19 vaccine skeptics by using an algorithm that targets and demotes their comments on the site, the latest in Big Tech’s woke censorship push.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/25/facebook-trying-to-censor-covid-19-vaccine-skeptics-report/
# Economy / Finance / Trade
The Math of Poverty: A Counter Proposal To Raising Taxes: There is a raging debate in the U.S. on how to pay for the COVID rescue, infrastructure, and national debt. The much-offered solution is to raise taxes. But is there a better, untapped source of new revenue?
https://insidesources.com/the-math-of-poverty-a-counter-proposal-to-raising-taxes/
Two sides, same coin: Suppressing votes, cutting rich people’s taxes. America’s national media typically pay little attention to the moves the nation’s state lawmakers make. Not this year. State legislative battles have emerged over recent months as a top-tier national story. And deservedly so.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2022/01/25/lawsuit-filed-after-texas-cop-hit-unarmed-man-with-patrol-vehicle/
# Education / Schools
Is Online Learning Creating a Virtual School-to-Prison Pipeline? Advocates and civil rights attorneys are examining the legal issues presented by virtual school disciplinary policies, noting that predominantly children of color and those with disabilities are disciplined the most. Others worry about privacy concerns regarding freedom of speech, and having an academic setting police someone’s home behavior
https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/012122_virtual_school_to_prison/is-online-learning-creating-virtual-school-to-prison-pipeline/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Electric vehicles drive up demand for ‘green metals’: The need for energy-transition metals breathes life into new mines in the West.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/electric-vehicles-drive-up-metals-demand/
# Environment / Climate / Interior
Agents of Change in Environmental Justice program accepting applications: Do you find that public voices in science are lacking diversity and want to help create change? We want to hear from you.
https://www.ehn.org/environmental-justice-fellowship-2656446972.html
Supreme Court takes EPA case that could narrow Clean Water Act. An Idaho couple that already won once at the high court brings the case that businesses and home builders hope will limit the EPA’s power.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/591023-supreme-court-to-review-which-wetlands-get-federal-water
Efforts to dim Sun and cool Earth must be blocked, say scientists. Initiatives to inject billions of aerosol particles into the stratosphere to deflect solar rays and cool Earth are too risky to go forward
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/01/efforts-to-dim-sun-and-cool-earth-must-be-blocked-say-scientists/
California redwood forest returned to native tribal group
https://dothaneagle.com/news/national/california-redwood-forest-returned-to-native-tribal-group/article_97f6faab-faec-54c3-9b5d-27a7f80ff6d7.html
Lowcountry land conservation groups join to preserve the region. The descendants of Native American tribes on the Northern California coast are reclaiming a bit of their heritage that includes ancient redwoods that have stood since their ancestors walked the land.
https://dothaneagle.com/news/national/california-redwood-forest-returned-to-native-tribal-group/article_97f6faab-faec-54c3-9b5d-27a7f80ff6d7.html
Original caretakers: Indigenous groups team up with conservationists to protect swaths of US. Environmental organizations and tribes have been coming together to protect the natural world, and a key part of this teamwork has been land transfers
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/03/original-caretakers-indigenous-groups-team-up-with-conservationists-to-protect-swaths-of-us
# Global Politics and other news
The pitfalls of Russia’s plan to rewrite history in Ukraine: After a series of negotiating sessions with the Russian Federation, there is growing suspicion that Putin is looking for an excuse rather than a solution. His gun remains pointed firmly at Ukraine as his cyber warriors test their malware and his spies wander throughout looking to provoke.
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/590772-the-pitfalls-of-russias-plan-to-rewrite-history-in-ukraine
First part of $200 mln U.S. defense aid arrives in Ukraine. The first shipment of the United States’ $200 million security support package for Ukraine arrived in Kyiv, the U.S. Embassy said on Saturday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/first-part-200-mln-us-defence-aid-arrives-ukraine-2022-01-22/
The Kremlin said today it is watching the U.S. military actions with great concern.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-says-watching-us-actions-over-ukraine-with-great-concern-2022-01-25/
Israel Buying 3 More German Subs…Rigged for Nuclear Cruise Missiles. The Israeli Ministry of Defence has reached an agreement with German ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) on the purchase of three Dakar-class submarines.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/01/24/israel-buying-3-more-german-subs-rigged-for-nuclear-cruise-missiles-pentagon-9-11/?mc_cid=f70d9f8eb5&mc_eid=3f7488d454
Israel planning mass Jewish evacuation from Ukraine – media: Israel is said to be contemplating a mass airlift of those eligible for Israeli citizenship in the case of a Russian invasion
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-said-preparing-for-potential-mass-immigration-from-ukraine-in-case-of-war/
Reporting live from Ukraine: What’s happening at the Russian border now? BuzzFeed News joined the crew of Maritime Guards of the Border Guard Service of Ukraine during a patrol of the Sea of Azov.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/russia-incursion-ukraine-sea-azov-navy
# Gov / Politics
Newt Gingrich and the GOP’s Creeping Authoritarian Streak. The former House speaker said the Jan. 6 committee could face “jail” when Republicans are back in power. This is banana republic stuff.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/newt-gingrich-and-the-gops-creeping-authoritarian-streak
McConnell says he made ‘inadvertent omission’ in voting remarks amid backlash
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Friday defended his record on civil rights and race relations, blasting criticism sparked by voting remarks he made earlier this week, where he said he made an “inadvertent omission.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/590880-mcconnell-says-he-made-inadvertent-omission-in-voting-remarks-amid-backlash
Biden ratchets up pressure on Russia. President Joe Biden and Western allies are signaling a stiffened stance in the showdown with Russia, piling on pressure designed to deter Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine in a strategy that nevertheless risks quickening a dangerous cycle of escalation.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/24/politics/joe-biden-ukraine-russia-republicans/index.html
Court Rejects Alabama GOP’s Congressional Map That Marginalized Black Voters
Justices wrote that the map “likely” violated the Voting Rights Act by creating only one majority-Black district.
https://truthout.org/articles/court-rejects-alabama-gops-congressional-map-that-marginalized-black-voters/
Subpoenas Could Show Trump Admin’s Link to Openly White Supremacist “Groypers”
https://truthout.org/articles/subpoenas-could-show-trump-admins-link-to-openly-white-supremacist-groypers/
If Russia does invade Ukraine, here’s what to expect: How it would likely start: “If an incursion does come, most military analysts agree it won’t begin with a massive show of force — tanks rolling over the border or a sudden and devastating strike from the air. Rather, it would start with a more ambiguous, limited action that Moscow would use as justification for a wider intervention.”
https://www.vox.com/2014/4/8/5593620/heres-what-could-happen-if-russia-invades-ukraine
# Law Enforcement
‘Stunned for Life’: The Use and Abuse of TASERs on Children and Youth. Conducted Energy Weapons (CEWS) are too frequently being used by police on children and youth who are in distress or emotional crisis and, as a result, are exacerbating their trauma, warns a report by Strategies for Youth
https://thecrimereport.org/2022/01/20/stunned-for-life-the-use-and-abuse-of-tasers-on-children-and-youth/
Lawsuit filed after Texas cop hit unarmed man with patrol vehicle: A federal lawsuit was filed Monday after police dash cam video recorded a Texas police officer striking an unarmed suspect with his patrol vehicle. According to the lawsuit, the suspect suffered three fractured ribs, a broken leg, and a fractured spine. A grand jury decided not to file criminal charges against the officer.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2022/01/25/lawsuit-filed-after-texas-cop-hit-unarmed-man-with-patrol-vehicle/
Three PA Cops Charged With Manslaughter for Shooting Child: The three men were each charged with a total of 12 counts, including both voluntary and involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment after 8-year-old Fanta Bility was killed outside a high school football game in August, 2021
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073968659/3-officers-face-manslaughter-charges-in-the-shooting-death-of-an-8-year-old-girl
# Legal / DOJ
Three officers simply watched as George Floyd suffered a “slow, agonizing death,” prosecutors said. “They chose not to intervene and stop Chauvin as he killed a man. They chose not to protect George Floyd, the man they handcuffed.”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolefallert/george-floyd-killing-thao-lane-kueng-trial
Feds Are Blowing Their Chance to Seize Jan. 6 Rioters’ Guns. Half of the 720 rioters who attacked Congress in 2021 are getting misdemeanors—not felonies that would bar them from gun ownership.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-are-blowing-their-chance-to-seize-jan-6-rioters-guns
Trump Lawyer Took the Fifth to 146 Riot Panel Questions: John Eastman was the author of a notorious memo on reversing the 2020 election.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-eastman-pleaded-the-fifth-to-146-riot-panel-questions-says-report
How the Former President and His Allies Pressured DOJ to Overturn the 2020 Election
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Interim%20Staff%20Report%20FINAL.pdf
National Archives transfers contested presidential documents to Jan. 6 committee
The National Archives on Thursday evening released to the Jan. 6 committee hundreds of presidential documents that former President Trump sought to shield from the House panel.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/590870-national-archives-transfers-contested-presidential-documents-to-jan
What’s next for the John Does in Ghislaine Maxwell’s settled lawsuit. The judge overseeing a settled lawsuit against convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell now has to decide whether the identities of those mentioned in the suit will be revealed.
https://www.cbs58.com/news/whats-next-for-the-john-does-in-ghislaine-maxwells-settled-lawsuit
MSNBC’s Ari Melber catches admissions on air of Trump campaign advisor Boris Epshteyn. When Melber pressed Epshteyn over reports regarding the fraudulent electors plot, Epshteyn admitted the Trump campaign’s basic plan but insisted those involved were “alternate electors.”
https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/maga-confession-trump-lawyer-admits-fraudulent-electors-plot-131436613579
The Blame Game begins to raise its head inside Trump world. Previously, Phil Waldron was best known for circulating a 38-page PowerPoint presentation that urged Trump to declare a state of emergency in the wake of the election
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/01/24/the-blame-game-begins-to-raise-its-head-inside-trump-world/
DOJ Rule Offers Release to Thousands of Federal Inmates: A new rule recently published by the Justice Department allows more people to participate in a program that grants prisoners the opportunity to earn shorter jail terms, through the First Step Act
https://www.newsweek.com/doj-transfer-thousands-federal-inmates-out-prisons-part-first-step-act-1669227
# Media
Amazon’s Still Selling Lots of Nazi Books. The global giant says it bans “content that we determine is hate speech,” but has never specified how it defines “hate speech.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/amazons-still-selling-lots-of-nazi-books
# Medical / Health Care
After Year of Vaccine Profiteering, Pfizer Hikes Prices on 125 Drugs: “Drug corporations can do this because we let them—unlike other nations that use their purchasing power to get a better deal,” said David Mitchell of Patients for Affordable Drugs.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/13/after-year-vaccine-profiteering-pfizer-hikes-prices-125-drugs
Makary: Health-care reform includes prescribing less medication, treating whole person. Doctors prescribed 2.4 billion prescriptions 10 years ago; last year, around 5 billion as the opioid epidemic and drug overdoses reached record highs
http://www.brenhambanner.com/news/state/makary-health-care-reform-includes-prescribing-less-medication-treating-whole-person/article_0d89e4fb-b041-53fc-8383-062f9b67fe5b.html
Young Dad Denied Heart Transplant for Refusing to Be Vaxxed. Brigham and Women’s Hospital said he was removed from the transplant list because his unvaxxed status could affect his “survival after transplantation.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dj-ferguson-denied-heart-transplant-because-he-refuses-to-get-covid-vaccine
# Murmers of war
War May Loom, but Are There Offramps? “There are still diplomatic options, ‘offramps’ in the lingo of the negotiators, and in the next several days the Biden administration and NATO are expected to respond, in writing, to Mr. Putin’s far-reaching demands.”
https://politicalwire.com/2022/01/25/war-may-loom-but-are-there-offramps/
# Security
Biden to meet with national security team this weekend on Russia-Ukraine. President Biden will meet with members of his national security team while spending the weekend at Camp David amid ongoing tensions between Ukraine and Russia.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/590793-biden-to-meet-with-national-security-team-this-weekend-on-russia
# Technology
Major airlines warn of “catastrophic disruption” to travel and shipping from 5G debut set for Wednesday by Verizon and AT&T
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/5g-airlines-disruption-warning-verizon-att/
The tech tools set to shake up science: From fully finished genomes to quantum simulation, Nature explores seven key technologies likely to have an impact on science this year.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00163-x
Experts Are Ringing Alarms About Elon Musk’s Brain Implants. Neuralink took a huge step closer to human trials. Scientists have lots of nervous questions.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-neuralink-inches-closer-to-human-trials-and-experts-are-ringing-alarms
# Veterans / VA
Veterans For Peace Urges U.S. to Rejoin Iran Deal and Negotiate With North Korea
Veterans For Peace is also calling on Biden to pledge “no first use” of nuclear weapons.
https://truthout.org/articles/veterans-for-peace-urges-us-to-rejoin-iran-deal-and-negotiate-with-north-korea/
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