Voices, The Peoples News
November 28, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Indigenous group pushed off island as Caribbean Sea rises: A community plans to move to a new Panama subdivision as climate scientists say their entire archipelago will be submerged in decades.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/100-old-community-forced-move-035754858.html
# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
Nebraska to Kill Almost 2M Chickens After 13th Bird Flu Case: The state ranks second among the most birds killed per state during this year’s bird flu outbreak.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/11/27/nebraska-bird-flu-outbreak-2022/9541669582975/
# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
10 People Died In An Apartment Fire In Xinjiang. Their Doors Were Locked From The Outside Because Of Covid Restrictions: An apartment building fire that left at least 10 people dead in Ürümqi, Xinjiang has been the focal point of outrage since Thursday night. The building residents had been under lockdown for more than 100 days before the fire broke out, and critics say the fire’s deadly impact was due to the stay-at-home measures that resulted in the building’s doors being locked.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stefficao/urumqi-xinjiang-fire-protests
# Education / Schools
At Washington State Special Education Schools, Years of Abuse Complaints and Lack of Academics: Northwest SOIL promised to help students with serious disabilities. But when school districts urged action, the state let the private school stay open and receive millions in tax dollars.
https://www.propublica.org/article/therapeutic-schools-northwest-soil-invisible-washington
Educator Jeffrey Duncan-Andrade: Teachers Must Fight Inequality, Not Create It: Schools typically see children as broken and try to fix them, but it’s our schools and society that is broken.
https://truthout.org/articles/educator-jeffrey-duncan-andrade-teachers-must-fight-inequality-not-create-it/
# Employment / Labor
Outrage as Starbucks Moves to Close First Unionized Shop in Its Home City of Seattle: “Starbucks and Howard Schultz believe they are above the law. They believe they can do whatever they want and get away with it,” said Starbucks Workers United. “This is unacceptable and will not stand.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/22/outrage-starbucks-moves-close-first-unionized-shop-its-home-city-seattle
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Biden gives Chevron permit to restart Venezuelan oil sales: The move could help ease global oil prices and speed the declines in U.S. gasoline prices.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/26/biden-chevron-permit-venezuelan-oil-sales-00070836
The Biden administration last week quietly approved plans to build the nation’s largest oil export terminal off the Gulf Coast of Texas. The Biden administration last week quietly approved plans to build the nation’s largest oil export terminal off the Gulf Coast of Texas.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/23/texas-oil-export-terminal-approval-biden-climate/
Why utilities resist simple upgrades to boost renewables: The use of a so-called dynamic line rating system will open the door for more power to flow onto the grid from western New York wind farms.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/why-utilities-resist-simple-upgrades-to-boost-renewables/?utm_medium=email
‘A Death Sentence’: Biden Blasted for Approving Oil Export Project: “It is peak hypocrisy for President Biden and Secretary Pete Buttigieg to shorten the fuse on the world’s largest carbon bomb by greenlighting additional oil export terminals right after lecturing the world about increasing climate ambitions at COP27,” said one critic.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/22/death-sentence-biden-blasted-approving-oil-export-project
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Alert as World’s Largest Active Volcano Erupts in Hawaii: It’s the first eruption at Mauna Loa since 1984.
https://www.yahoo.com/video/mauna-loa-worlds-largest-active-134111503.html
# Food Recalls / Alerts
10,500 toddler bottles and cups recalled over lead poisoning risk: Green Sprouts recalled the cups and bottles because the base can break off and expose a piece that contains lead.
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/28/1139345301/green-sprouts-sippy-cups-recall-lead-poisoning
# General Information / Other News
Department of Justice Opens Investigation Into Real Estate Tech Company Accused of Collusion with Landlords:
The DOJ will examine whether RealPage helped landlords coordinate rent increases. Questions also swirl around a 2017 merger deal with its largest competitor.
https://www.popsci.com/technology/doj-real-estate-tech-landlords/
# Gov / Politics / Global
China Is Regretting the Day It Made Friends With Russia: Russia was not the first Chinese partner to believe it would win a very fast war and found itself in a hole, but China wasn’t usually pulled into it with them.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/china-is-starting-to-really-regret-its-friendship-with-russia
# Gov / Politics / US
Anonymous Megadonors Propel Pro-Trump Think Tank: Its staff has grown from 21 people to more than 150.
As former President Donald Trump struggles to convert donors and consolidate his base, a nonprofit think tank chock full of political allies is reporting stronger than expected support, anchored by a handful of anonymous megadonors.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumpworld-think-tank-barely-paying-035312150.html
# Law Enforcement
New Proof That Police Use Civil Forfeiture To Take From Those Who Can’t Fight Back: For years, police and prosecutors seized cash, cars and even homes and then took the property for themselves. Worse still, new data show that the police preyed on people in minority and low-income areas—in other words, people who could least afford to fight back.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2021/10/25/new-proof-that-police-use-civil-forfeiture-to-take-from-those-who-cant-fight-back/?sh=cc6789c34e84
How Civil Forfeiture Makes It Harder for Cops to Do Their Jobs: Every year, law enforcement officers seize billions in cash and property. Mostly, these seizures take place without any proof of criminal conduct and are based solely on suspicion, and they typically lead to government ownership of those assets
https://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit-3/
# Medical / Health
Endgame: How the Visionary Hospice Movement Became a For-Profit Hustle: Half of all Americans now die in hospice care. Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an industry rife with fraud and exploitation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/hospice-healthcare-aseracare-medicare
$35 Insulin Caps for Medicare Patients Is Not Enough: In 2021, nearly 1 in 5 U.S. adults with diabetes rationed their insulin. Most are not covered by the new price cap.
https://truthout.org/articles/educator-jeffrey-duncan-andrade-teachers-must-fight-inequality-not-create-it/
Without Abortion, Doctors in Texas Are Forced to Witness Horrible Outcomes
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/07/26/1111280165/because-of-texas-abortion-law-her-wanted-pregnancy-became-a-medical-nightmare
# Military / DOD
Pressure builds to step up weapons tracking in Ukraine: Legislation would require greater scrutiny of the $20 billion in military aid President Biden has sent Ukraine, and it has bipartisan support.
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2022/11/28/pressure_builds_to_step_up_weapons_tracking_in_ukraine_867047.html
Hey FDA, Free the Birth Control Pill! The Food and Drug Administration might finally allow “the pill” to be sold over the counter, but there’s a catch.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hey-fda-free-birth-control-094130792.html
US to send anti-drone machine guns, air defense munition to Ukraine: The Pentagon will send Ukraine up to $400 million in artillery ammunition, weapons and supplies in its latest drawdown package to help the nation defend itself against Russia.
https://www.technology.org/2022/11/24/heavy-machine-guns-against-drones-u-s-to-provide-150-units-of-these-formidable-weapons/
# Military / Global
Russian missiles have damaged nearly half of Ukraine’s power infrastructure: As Ukrainian power grids take continuous beatings from Russian attacks, critical medical systems in the country suffer. ”
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-hails-chinas-opposition-nuclear-threats-2022-11-15/
Putin’s Secret Recruits Allegedly Stranded, Starving and MIA: Roughly 100 foreign fighters recruited by Vladimir Putin’s private army have been left for dead in Ukraine, two sources in touch with the group told The Daily Beast.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/wagner-group-recruits-from-the-central-african-republic-allegedly-abandoned-in-ukraine
# Pharmas / Drugs
Pfizer Sinks $100 Billion in COVID Profits Into Developing, and Marketing, More Drugs
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-100-billion-covid-profits-develop-market-drugs/
# Science
Scientists Revive ‘Zombie’ Virus After 50,000 Years Trapped in Siberian Permafrost: Researchers documented 13 never-before-seen viruses that have been lying dormant, frozen in thick ice, over tens of thousands of years.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/26/scientists-revive-zombie-virus-after-50000-years-trapped-siberian-permafrost
# Social
What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S: Gun violence is a leading cause of premature death in the US, responsible for more than 38,000 deaths annually.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/
“I Don’t Know Where I’m Going to Go”: HUD Displaces Even More Residents in This Small City: HUD already closed four public housing complexes in the Cairo, Ill., area. Now the federal agency is set to demolish a high-rise, gutting the city of some of its last affordable housing.
https://fox2now.com/news/illinois/i-dont-know-where-im-going-to-go-hud-displaces-even-more-residents-in-this-small-city/
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