Voices, The Peoples News
December 20, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Federal court halts plan to end Remain in Mexico Policy: The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas has stayed a Biden administration rule terminating the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), otherwise known as the “Remain-in-Mexico” program, requiring it to remain in effect
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/federal-court-halts-plan-to-end-remain-in-mexico-policy/article_5a85114e-7fde-11ed-85dd-5b0a64f099c5.html
# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
US Mother’s Tragedy: “So My Newborn Alexander Died days after Receiving Unauthorized Vaxxed Blood in a Transfusion”: Cornelia Hertzler stated that doctors noticed a blood clot in her infant boy “within a few hours after” a general blood bank transfusion. The baby died of large blood clot after doctor ignored the parents’ request for an unvaxxed transfusion.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/12/20/us-mothers-tragedy-so-my-newborn-alexander-died-days-after-receiving-unauthorized-vaxxed-blood-in-a-transfusion/
Risks of Pulmonary Embolism, Myocarditis, Blood Clots. FDA Disturbing Surveillance Data Finally Released:
FDA has routinely been using screening methods to monitor the safety of COVID-19 vaccines and to evaluate potential adverse events of interest (AEI) related to these vaccines. Concern has continued to grow over a small, but growing number of cases of a rare, but serious blood clotting disorders associated with the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine. The clotting disorder is called thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS)
https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/coronavirus-vaccine-blood-clots
CDC Director: Covid vaccines can’t prevent transmission anymore: The director for the CDC publicly acknowledged in a CNN interview that the COVID-19 vaccine is not effective at preventing transmission of the virus. In a segment on CNN with Wolf Blitzer, Walensky said that while the vaccines are doing very well to protect against serious illness and death, what they cannot do anymore is stop transmission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5PWsMkhGDE
Governors cite Medicaid costs in asking Biden to end COVID public health emergency: Twenty-five governors signed a letter to President Joe Biden asking him to end the federal public health emergency in April, saying Medicaid costs are costing their states millions
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/governors-cite-medicaid-costs-in-asking-biden-to-end-covid-public-health-emergency/article_09dbf4ae-7fe5-11ed-a6aa-7b5ab40d3c0d.html
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Report: Majority of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, many blame rising inflation: Recently released survey data reports that the majority of Americans are feeling the pain of inflation and living paycheck to paycheck
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/americans-living-paycheck-to-paycheck-many-blame-rising-inflation
# Education / Schools
The School That Calls the Police on Students Every Other Day: An Illinois school for students with disabilities has routinely used the police to handle discipline, resulting in the highest arrest rate of any district in the country. In one recent year, half of Garrison School students were arrested.
https://www.propublica.org/article/students-police-arrests-illinois-garrison-school
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Fracking waste gets a second look to ease looming West Texas water shortage: Aquifers beneath the Permian Basin are slowly running out. Recycling “produced water” should help to slow the decline.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19122022/fracking-west-texas-water-shortage/
Pennsylvania lets polluter resume drilling in protected zone, outraging residents in fracking’s ‘ground zero’: Order was quietly signed on the same day that residents celebrated the energy company’s plea deal on charges of environmental crimes.
https://capitalandmain.com/pennsylvania-lets-polluter-resume-drilling-in-protected-zone-outraging-residents-in-frackings-ground-zero
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Making The Connections To Facilitate Responsible Waste: Modern societies generate a great deal of trash, and even in the developed world the waste-handling system struggles to deal with it.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensavage/2022/11/15/making-the-connections-to-facilitate-responsible-waste-management/?sh=68bddb787aa5
Is there a practical way to utilize mixed “plastic waste? Plastic waste is a huge issue but recycling is limited because of practical and economic limitations: Heat and bacteria recycle mixed plastics into useful chemicals
Two-step process converts mixtures of plastic into small molecules, but could be challenging to implement at scale.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03271-w
The U.S. is one of two countries not part of a global agreement to protect land and water and address biodiversity loss, largely due to Republican opposition.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/climate/biodiversity-cop15-montreal-30×30.html?utm_medium=email
Why the US won’t join the single most important treaty to protect nature: America’s absence from the Convention on Biological Diversity hurts global efforts to avert extinction, experts say.
https://www.vox.com/22434172/us-cbd-treaty-biological-diversity-nature-conservation
# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Group shaping US nutrition receives millions from big food industry: Documents reveal the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has a record of quid pro quos with a range of food giants, owns stock in ultra-processed food companies and has received millions in contributions from producers of pop, candy, and processed foods linked to diabetes, heart disease, obesity and other health problems.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/09/academy-nutrition-financial-ties-processed-food-companies-contributions
The corporate capture of the nutrition profession in the USA: The involvement of unhealthy commodity corporations in health policy and research has been identified as an important commercial determinant contributing to the rise of non-communicable diseases. In the USA, health professional associations have been subject to corporate influence.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-health-nutrition/article/corporate-capture-of-the-nutrition-profession-in-the-usa-the-case-of-the-academy-of-nutrition-and-dietetics/9FCF66087DFD5661DF1AF2AD54DA0DF9
The meat industry has created a false dichotomy that pits people against animals: Factory farms are harmful to animals, the environment, local communities, and public health. We need a more logical and just food system.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/12/20/the-meat-industry-has-created-a-false-dichotomy-that-pits-people-against-animals/
# General Information / Other News
A Fast-Growing Network of Conservative Groups Is Fueling a Surge in Book Bans: The materials the groups object to are often described in policies and legislation as sensitive, inappropriate or pornographic. In practice, the books most frequently targeted for removal have been by or about Black or L.G.B.T.Q. people, according to the American Library Association.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/books/book-bans-libraries.html
# Gov / Politics / Global
Russia Can Finally See That Putin’s ‘Days Are Numbered’: The war in Ukraine has destroyed Putin’s aura of infallibility back home, and even the Kremlin seems to have realized this is the beginning of the end.
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2022/12/19/russia_can_finally_see_that_putins_days_are_numbered_871127.html
# Gov / Politics / US
The War Caucus Always Wins: Congress will soon vote on a record-shattering $857 billion defense spending bill that authorizes $45 billion more than Biden requested. Included in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2023, finalized on December 6, is the establishment of a multiyear no-bid contract system through which Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, and other weapons manufacturers are being empowered to expand their “industrial base” and business.
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/07/ukraine-weapons-russia-china-ndaa/
McConnell Hails ‘Strong Outcome’ for GOP as Omnibus Excludes Poverty-Cutting Child Tax Credit: “Our child poverty epidemic is a choice made by the so-called pro-life party,” said Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee. Government funding package includes $858 billion in military spending and leaves out a Child Tax Credit expansion that Democrats and progressive advocates demanded.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/20/mcconnell-hails-strong-outcome-gop-omnibus-excludes-poverty-cutting-child-tax-credit
# Law Enforcement
Tennessee Men Charged For Plot to Kill FBI Investigators: An unsealed court filing on Friday charged Edward Kelley and Austin Carter with conspiracy, retaliating against a federal official, interstate communication of a threat and solicitation to commit a crime of violence against
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/17/january-6-capitol-attack
# Legal / DOJ
The Jan. 6 committee is asking the Department of Justice to prosecute Trump for his role in the insurrection: “We’ve never had a president of the United States stir up a violent attempt to block the transfer of power. I believe, nearly two years later, this is still a time of reflection and reckoning,” Rep. Bennie Thompson said.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/clarissajanlim/jan-6-committee-trump-criminal-charges-justice-department
House Jan. 6 Committee refers Trump for criminal investigation: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2020, riots at the U.S. Capitol on Monday voted to refer multiple criminal charges against former President Donald Trump to the Justice Department for potential prosecution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJ1_jInedM
Former Fort Worth Police Officer Found Guilty of Manslaughter of Atatiana Jefferson: A jury found Aaron Dean guilty of manslaughter for shooting Jefferson while she babysat her nephew in her mother’s home in 2019
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/15/fort-worth-police-officer-atatiana-jefferson/
# LGBTQ
# Marijuana / Hemp / CBD Oil
Voters in Five Texas Cities Approved Decriminalizing Marijuana, now City Officials are Standing In The Way.
Some local leaders say they worry the changes violate state law, while residents who supported decriminalizing marijuana say the pushback disrespects democracy
https://www.weatherforddemocrat.com/news/voters-in-five-texas-cities-approved-decriminalizing-marijuana-now-city-officials-are-standing-in-the/article_f62356a2-7d8a-11ed-9e55-77dacde4a5b8.html
# Media
‘Publishing is not a crime’: media groups urge US to drop Julian Assange charges: The US government must drop its prosecution of the WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange because it is undermining press freedom, according to the media organisations that first helped him publish leaked diplomatic cables
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/28/media-groups-urge-us-drop-julian-assange-charges
# Medical / Health
Medicare Pay Cuts Will Hurt Seniors’ Care, Doctors Argue: Unless Congress acts soon, Medicare payment for physicians will be chopped by 8.5% and a golden opportunity to reform prior authorization—a major administrative burden for physician practices—may slip away. The AMA is urging physicians to contact their legislators and let them know this is unfair, unacceptable and unsustainable.
https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/medicare-medicaid/doctors-congress-stop-medicare-pay-cut-and-fix-prior-auth
Omnibus Deal Delays Some Medicare Pay Cuts, Moves Up Medicaid Cutoffs: Leaders in Congress have reached a sweeping deal to ease Medicare pay cuts to doctors, make major changes to post-pandemic Medicaid policy, and to help prepare for future pandemics.
https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/19/congress-reaches-major-health-policy-deal-on-medicare-medicaid-and-pandemic-preparedness/
Some Pharmacies Are Limiting Sales Of Children’s Meds As ‘Tripledemic’ Rages: In a statement, CVS said it is limiting the number of pain relief medications to two. Walgreens customers can buy six over-the-counter pediatric fever reducers, the company said in a statement.
https://sports.yahoo.com/walgreens-cvs-limit-sales-children-050521860.html
# Military / DOD
U.S. Warplanes Fly to S. Korea After Kim’s Sister’s Threats: Kim Yo Jong upped the ante after doubts were cast on Pyongyang’s ICBM arsenal.
https://qconline.com/news/national/us-flies-bombers-stealth-jets-as-kims-sister-threatens/article_f31fbe7e-d02f-5557-b9e1-70b4e0010d52.html
Chronology of U.S.-North Korean Nuclear and Missile Diplomacy: Those efforts have been replete with periods of crisis, stalemate, and tentative progress towards denuclearization, and North Korea has long been a key challenge for the global nuclear nonproliferation regime.
https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/dprkchron
# Security
How the Global Spyware Industry Spiraled Out of Control: The most sophisticated spyware tools, like NSO’s Pegasus, have “zero-click” technology, meaning they can stealthily and remotely extract everything from a target’s mobile phone, without the user having to click on a malicious link to give Pegasus remote access. They can also turn the mobile phone into a tracking and secret recording device, allowing the phone to spy on its owner
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/us/politics/spyware-nso-pegasus-paragon.html
# Technology
Google, YouTube pour millions into left-leaning nonprofit for new ‘Global Fact Check Fund’: Google and YouTube are pouring millions into over 100 fact-checking organizations as part of a new Global Fact Check Fund aimed at stomping out misinformation online. On Tuesday, Google and YouTube announced a $13.2 million grant to the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the left-leaning nonprofit Poynter Institute.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/google-youtube-millions-left-leaning-organizations-global-fact-check-fund
CIA Venture Capital Arm Partners with Ex-Googler’s Startup to “Safeguard the Internet”: Placing the company within the CIA’s tech pipeline also raises questions about Trust Lab’s view of who or what might be a “harmful” online, a nebulous concept that will no doubt mean something very different to the U.S. intelligence community than it means elsewhere.
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/02/cia-google-content-moderation-trust-lab/
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