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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-10-16

Voices, The Peoples News

October 16, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration
D.C. Attorney General Opens Investigation Into Republican Governors’ Shipping of Immigrants to the Capital:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and others have been sending thousands of immigrants to Washington, D.C. Karl Racine, the district’s attorney general, is investigating whether immigrants have been deceived.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/14/abbott-migrants-washington-investigation/

US shift on Venezuelan migrants fuels anxiety in Mexico: Jose Lara got a call asking if his shelter had room for Venezuelan migrants who were among the first expelled to Mexico under an expanded U.S. policy that denies rights to seek asylum.
https://apnews.com/article/health-latin-america-mexico-immigration-covid-67b24ae4d99a44a14fbfe6ce0d9edcc7

# Children / Youth
Police Need Warrants to Search Homes. Child Welfare Agents Almost Never Get One: Each year, child protective services agencies inspect the homes of roughly 3.5 million children, opening refrigerators and closets without a warrant. Only about 5% of these kids are ultimately found to have been physically or sexually abused.
https://www.propublica.org/article/child-welfare-search-seizure-without-warrants

Mandatory Reporting Was Supposed to Stop Severe Child Abuse. It Punishes Poor Families Instead: After the Sandusky child abuse scandal rocked Pennsylvania, the state required more professionals to report suspected child abuse. That led to a strained child welfare system and more unsubstantiated reports against low-income families.
https://www.propublica.org/article/mandatory-reporting-strains-systems-punishes-poor-families

# Chemicals
Toxic PFAS pollution is likely at more than 57,000 US locations: Toxic PFAS have likely contaminated roughly 57,412 locations across the U.S., according to a new study.
https://www.ecowatch.com/pfas-sites-united-states.html

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Alex Berenson tells RFK, ‘I Can Now Bring a Claim Directly Against the White House’: Alex Berenson didn’t initially have a strong negative feeling about the COVID-19 vaccines, that changed after he saw the lack of safety and testing done on them.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/alex-berenson-white-house-rfk-jr-podcast/

# Economy / Finance / Trade
Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why. Texas-based RealPage’s YieldStar software helps landlords set prices for apartments across the U.S. With rents soaring, critics are concerned that the company’s proprietary algorithm is hurting competition.
https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent

When Private Equity Becomes Your Landlord: Amid a national housing crisis, giant private equity firms have been buying up apartment buildings en masse to squeeze them for profit, with the help of government-backed Freddie Mac. Meanwhile, tenants say they’re the ones paying the price.
https://www.propublica.org/article/when-private-equity-becomes-your-landlord

This New Jersey Agency Prioritizes Tourism Over Housing, Pushing Vulnerable Residents Out of Their Homes:
The state’s Casino Reinvestment Development Authority is supposed to put casino taxes back into the community. Some of its deals have made housing options worse, not better, for Atlantic City’s vulnerable residents.
https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/this-new-jersey-agency-prioritizes-tourism-over-housing-pushing-vulnerable-residents-out-of-their-homes/article_7275fe90-4a59-11ed-8cac-131964796c5d.html

# Education / Schools
Black Pledges Faced Violent, Racist Threats from White Frat Brothers, Lawsuit Claims: A former Middle Tennessee State University student is taking a fraternity to court, alleging he was subjected to racist hazing that included threats of kidnapping, hanging, bounding, and the playing of “slave music.” The plaintiff said he and the only other Black pledge were subjected to these cruel and unusual practices by members of Kappa Sigma.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/black-pledges-faced-violent-racist-171603195.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Oil Industry Moves to Overturn Historic California Drilling Protection Law: The industry’s ballot push to roll back newly enacted safety zones would delay implementation for nearly two years, until voters decide the law’s fate in 2024
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10102022/oil-industry-california-drilling-protection-law/

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Global
Alaska snow crab season canceled as officials investigate disappearance of an estimated 1 billion crabs: An estimated 1 billion crabs have mysteriously disappeared from Alaskan waters in two years, officials said.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fishing-alaska-snow-crab-season-canceled-investigation-climate-change/

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Kroger announced Friday that it plans to buy Albertsons in a nearly $25 billion deal that could change the US retail industry and impact how millions of customers buy their groceries. The retail industry has consolidated in recent years, and merging would give the companies greater scale to fend off competition from Amazon (AMZN), Walmart (WMT) and other retail giants. Traditional supermarkets have been pressured by these companies and others – discount chains such as Dollar General (DG) and Aldi, warehouse clubs like Costco (COST), and online grocers.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/two-of-the-largest-supermarkets-in-america-are-merging/ar-AA12Xt1E?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=9abb229b6dec406788ac515b3e51e2d3

# General Information / Other News
Biden uses Antiquities Act to establish new national monument in Colorado: President Joe Biden signed a proclamation on Wednesday that establishes Colorado’s Camp Hale as a national monument
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/biden-uses-antiquities-act-to-establish-new-national-monument-in-colorado/article_4f89b504-4a57-11ed-a996-13fd0d1ec0c4.html

Former Trump attorney: Trump doesn’t want to be President. He wants to be dictator
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-trump-attorney-trump-doesn-t-want-to-be-president-he-wants-to-be-dictator/vi-AA1303W9?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=67fec8e39656495b895e6d40f0400792&category=foryou

Trump insider with ties to the Secret Service facing new scrutiny after latest Jan. 6 revelations: During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday morning, Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig claimed her sources state that the Jan. 6 committee will seek to re-interview two former Secret Service officials with close ties to Donald Trump after new revelations about the insurrection have come to light.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-insider-with-ties-to-the-secret-service-facing-new-scrutiny-after-latest-jan-6-revelations/ar-AA12ZURl?ocid=mailsignout&li=BBnb7Kz

# Gov / Politics / Global
‘Russia in big trouble’: Putin sent crushing Ukraine defeat warning as battleplan crumbles: Russian troops have been rocked by heroic Ukrainian counter offences that have severely derailed Putin’s war plan.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1681944/russia-news-vladimir-putin-army-troops-alies-ukraine-war-update

# Gov / Politics / US
How Ron DeSantis Blew Up Black-Held Congressional Districts and May Have Broken Florida Law: DeSantis’ move, secretly aided by GOP-linked national operatives, came over the objections of the Republican-controlled state legislature.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/563143-how-ron-desantis-blew-up-black-held-congressional-districts-may-have-broken-florida-law/

Michael Fanone: ‘Trump was not commander in chief on Jan. 6. Nancy Pelosi was’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/michael-fanone-trump-was-not-commander-in-chief-on-jan-6-nancy-pelosi-was/vi-AA12Yq73?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=9abb229b6dec406788ac515b3e51e2d3&category=foryou

Chomsky: 20 Years After Iraq War Vote, U.S. Continues to Flout International Law: October 16 marks the 20th anniversary of the vote to authorize the war on Iraq, which killed more than 800,000 people.
https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-20-years-after-iraq-war-vote-us-continues-to-flout-international-law/

# Law Enforcement
An Out-of-Town Cop Came After Me ‘in My Own Driveway’: Retired MLB player Doug Glanville believes in patience, empathy, and the long game when it comes to social justice, even when ugliness lands on his own doorstep.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/doug-glanville-an-out-of-town-cop-came-after-me-in-my-own-driveway

# Legal / DOJ
A court just ruled collective punishment is legal in America: A family faced eviction because a family member who didn’t live with them committed a crime. This is the law of the land in some American towns. Welcome to the topsy-turvy and cartoonishly malevolent world of “crime-free housing.” Benign in name, these laws are corrosive in reality.
https://news.yahoo.com/court-just-ruled-collective-punishment-033947247.html

U.S. reveals more classified records may be missing in Trump probe
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/trump-doj-motion-documents

DOJ reveals it has additional evidence against Trump that has not been presented in court filings
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/doj-reveals-it-has-additional-evidence-against-trump-that-has-not-been-presented-in-court-filings/ar-AA12Yxsx?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=67fec8e39656495b895e6d40f0400792

Trump testifying live before Jan. 6 committee would require ‘negotiation’: In a rare move, the House panel voted to subpoena the former president. The House Jan. 6 committee investigating last year’s Capitol riot would need to negotiate with former President Donald Trump if he were to offer to testify live in response to the panel’s subpoena, Rep. Adam Kinzinger said
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-testifying-live-jan-committee-require-negotiation-kinzinger/story?id=91553525

# LGBTQ
Voter ID Laws Will Make It Harder for Trans People to Vote in the Midterms: More than 64,000 trans people may face barriers to voting because they live in states with strict photo ID requirements.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/09/voter-id-laws-stop-nearly-200000-transgender-people-voting-2022-midterms/

# Military / DOD
Man conned US military into buying $20M in fake uniforms and gear from China, feds say: The U.S. military was conned into buying $20 million worth of fake, unsafe uniforms and gear by a man who is now going to prison, prosecutors say.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/york-man-charged-supplying-counterfeit-184711329.html

# Military / Global
150 US Nuclear Weapons in Europe but Moscow Holds more Atomic Warheads in the World and the New Powerful Russian Sarmat ICBM. According to the Federation of American Scientists, Moscow has 5,977 nuclear warheads
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/10/15/150-us-nuclear-weapons-in-europe-but-moscow-holds-more-atomic-warheads-in-the-world-and-the-new-powerful-russian-sarmat-icbm/

First Russian soldiers arrive in Belarus for joint force: Belarus’s ministry of defence says that the mission is ‘exclusively’ to strengthen the protection of its borders.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/15/first-russian-soldiers-arrives-in-belarus-for-joint-task-force

# Pharmas / Drugs
Biden Calls For More Drug Price Reductions: With the midterm elections looming and Medicare open enrollment kicking off this weekend, President Joe Biden on Friday highlighted some of the health care cost savings made available through the Inflation Reduction Act he signed into law in August, while calling on his administration to look for more ways to reduce the cost of subscription drugs.
https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/newsletter/20221014-Biden-Presses-More-Action-Lower-Drug-Prices

Georgia companies to pay nearly $7M to settle fraud case involving military health care system: For years, a Georgia pharmacy ran a lucrative scheme, government prosecutors alleged. It skirted federal restrictions on the sale of compounded pain creams to members of the U.S. military’s health system, making millions of dollars in profits.
https://sannyasnews.com/georgia-companies-to-pay-nearly-7m-to-settle-fraud-case-involving-military-health-care-system/

# Social
White family leaves Black boy with 80% of his body burned: Jayceon Charles visited his friend, at his house. Somehow, Charles ended up getting burned. When this happened, the friend’s guardians did not notify 911, nor Charles’ parents. Instead of getting the little boy help, they tried to hide what happened.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/family/white-family-leaves-black-boy-with-80percent-of-his-body-burned-after-visiting-them-and-the-boys-family-launches-supernumberjusticeforjayceon-campaign/ar-AA12YzLY?li=BBnbfcL

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-10-14

Voices, The Peoples News

October 14, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration
Florida to continue flying noncitizens in U.S. illegally north: Florida will continue transporting foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally north for at least another eight months, according to a state contract and purchase orders reviewed and first reported by the Sun Sentinel. They are being transported by Vertol Systems Co., a comprehensive transportation service provider, which was granted a contract by the Florida Department of Transportation. Transportation services are to continue through June 30, 2023, according to the contract.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/florida/florida-to-continue-flying-noncitizens-in-u-s-illegally-north/article_5f169ae4-4a45-11ed-98d8-37389f69cda2.html

DeSantis’ Own Goal: Martha’s Vineyard Migrants to Get Visas: The Bexar County Sheriff said he had submitted certification documents to grant the migrants nonimmigrant visas.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3687353-texas-sheriff-certifies-that-migrants-flown-to-marthas-vineyard-were-victims-of-a-crime/

# Chemicals
Sports Bras Contain High Levels of Toxic Chemical: Wearers could be exposed to a dose 22 times the safe limit.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/sports-bras-contain-high-levels-of-toxic-chemical-bpa-study-shows

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
COVID: The Huge Lie! During EU Hearing Pfizer Director Admits Vaccine was Never Tested on Preventing Transmission: In COVID hearing, #Pfizer director admits: #vaccine was never tested on preventing transmission. ‘Get vaccinated for others’ was always a lie. The only purpose of the #COVID passport: forcing people to get vaccinated. The world needs to know!”
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-pfizer-transmission-european-parliament-950413863226

31,470 Deaths After COVID Vaccines Reported to VAERS, Including 26 Following New Boosters: VAERS data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show 1,437,273 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID-19 vaccines, including 31,470 deaths and 261,738 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and Oct. 7, 2022.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-deaths-covid-vaccines-boosters/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=fad5ab74-e6e4-4dc0-8989-6e8579edb5f0

Over 1000 New Injury Cases Including 7 More Deaths Following New COVID Bivalent Booster Shots. The U.S. Government’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) maintained by the FDA and the CDC was updated today, and 1,064 new cases were added to the database this week, including 7 new deaths, following the newly launched COVID-19 Bivalent booster shots from Pfizer and Moderna.
https://healthimpactnews.com/2022/over-1000-new-injury-cases-including-7-more-deaths-recorded-this-week-following-new-covid-bivalent-boost-shots/

UK Documentary Exposes Lies Behind ‘Safe and Effective’ COVID Vaccine Narrative: A new U.K. documentary, “Safe and Effective: A Second Opinion,” details how U.K. citizens were subjected to psychological pressure to comply with COVID-19 vaccination governmental policies under the “dubious mantra” of “safe and effective.”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/safe-effective-second-opinion-documentary-covid-vaccines/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=fad5ab74-e6e4-4dc0-8989-6e8579edb5f0

# Economy / Finance / Trade
Core US Inflation Rises to 40-Year High, Securing Big Fed Hike: A key gauge of US consumer prices advanced to a 40-year high in September, underscoring persistent, elevated inflation that’s squeezing households and pushing the Federal Reserve toward another aggressive rate hike.
https://www.livemint.com/news/world/core-us-inflation-rises-to-40-year-high-securing-big-fed-hike-11665654920293.html

Inflation is No. 1 concern for struggling small businesses: Newly released polling data shows inflation is a top concern for small businesses as prices continue to rise
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/inflation-is-no-1-concern-for-struggling-small-businesses/article_b8678c90-4a43-11ed-8c11-93515ceda1ec.html

Biden takes heavy fire, defends himself after inflation data shows continued price increases: President Joe Biden came under fire from Republican lawmakers and economists Thursday after newly released inflation data showed consumer prices continued to rise in September
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/biden-takes-heavy-fire-defends-himself-after-inflation-data-shows-continued-price-increases/article_e879a480-4b0c-11ed-9482-d76e7fdfc3f1.html

America Is Unleashing Its Economic Arsenal: The US controls the world’s foremost reserve currency and is more economically self-sufficient, and insulated, than most global peers.
https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/america-unleashing-its-economic-arsenal-against-china-russia

# Education / Schools
Schools spending federal relief money on employee bonuses: School districts across the country are spending federal COVID-19 relief money on bonuses to employees saying their employees earned it for their work during the pandemic
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/schools-spending-federal-relief-money-on-employee-bonuses/article_dbf3e728-4b09-11ed-b10c-1b7941dd26e9.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
The mystery lurking in California’s $8 gas prices: Some analysts say the most recent spike in California prices is only part of a much longer, and potentially more destructive, trend.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/10/14/california-mystery-gas-prices-surcharge/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Warming winters are increasing fertilizer runoff and polluting waterways, a new study finds: A new study finds as winter weather warms across the Midwest, fertilizers that once froze are now finding their way into streams and rivers. Nearly half the country’s waters could see an increase in toxic agricultural runoff.
https://grist.org/article/study-warming-winters-will-thaw-frozen-manure-further-polluting-u-s-waters/

# Environment / Climate / Global
Microplastics found in 75% of fish in New Zealand, report shows: Government’s oceans review also presents grim picture of species under threat of extinction including seabirds and mammals.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/13/microplastics-found-in-75-of-fish-in-new-zealand-report-shows

# Gov / Politics / US
What Does the Constitution Say About the Right to Vote? much of the government’s authority to protect voting rights stems from amendments adopted following the civil war and legislation passed during the civil rights movement. But thanks to a voting-rights skeptical U.S. Supreme Court and the Senate’s failure to pass new voting legislation, this authority has been severely weakened. There was no right to vote in the original U.S. Constitution.
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/what-does-the-constitution-say-about-the-right-to-vote/

The right to vote is not in the Constitution: The framers of the Constitution never mentioned a right to vote. They didn’t forget. They intentionally left it out.
https://theconversation.com/the-right-to-vote-is-not-in-the-constitution-144531

The Tragedy of the Islamic Republic and the Progressives’ Dilemma: The events in Iran have made the imperial powers of the West salivate at the prospect of a “regime change.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/10/14/the-tragedy-of-the-islamic-republic-and-the-progressives-dilemma/

Joe Manchin Impoverished 4 Million Children When He Killed Child Tax Credit: Working people don’t stand a chance in a nation that despises the poor and caters to those with power.
https://truthout.org/articles/joe-manchin-impoverished-4-million-children-when-he-killed-child-tax-credit/

# Law Enforcement
Florida prison guards broke inmate’s neck, then left him paralyzed and starving to death in his cell: “Ridley, 62, was lying on his bunk paralyzed, his neck dislocated, a catastrophic injury suffered after corrections officers tackled him to the ground face first on Sept. 8, 2017,” reported Nicholas Nehamas. “A little more than a month later, he would be dead, having been manhandled, mocked and ignored by prison staff, even as he begged for help. ‘My neck is broke,’ Ridley said, according to a video taken by officers shortly after his injury and obtained by the Miami Herald. ‘I’m paralyzed.'”
https://www.rawstory.com/craig-ridley-prison-abuse/

# Legal / DOJ
Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas Former President Donald Trump: The unanimous decision followed a hearing that also revealed the former president secretly ordered troops withdrawn from Afghanistan and Somalia before the 2020 election.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/13/jan-6-committee-trump-threat-00061454

Trump news – live: Trump sends furious letter to Jan 6 panel after members vote to subpoena him
Panel voted unanimously to seek former president’s testimony in last session before midterm elections
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-subpoenaed-response-jan-6-hearing-latest-b2202585.html

Jan. 6 Committee Gave Us Some Bad News About Secret Service: Rather than presiding over an intelligence failure, they actually actively enabled the insurrection to take place, with some among their ranks content to look the other way.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3686920-secret-service-messages-show-the-knew-crowd-outside-jan-6-rally-was-armed/

The “Big Lie” Will Persist Unless Trump Is Held Accountable for January 6: The House select committee investigating January 6 voted to subpoena Trump for testimony.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-big-lie-will-persist-unless-trump-is-held-accountable-for-january-6/

Trump’s ‘Treasonous’ 1/6 Crimes Proved Beyond Reasonable Doubt: The public hearing held on Thursday by the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots provided “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” of Donald Trump’s “treasonous crimes” in attempting to retain the presidency, legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-treasonous-january-6-crimes-proved-beyond-reasonable-doubt-glenn-kirschner-capitol-riot-1751971

# Media
Texas Law Restricting Social Media Censorship Likely Headed to Supreme Court After Federal Appeals Court Hits Pause. The ruling Friday from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals likely means the case, which could have wide implications for online speech, will go before the U.S. Supreme Court again.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/16/texas-social-media-law/

# Social
Minneapolis officials confirm evictions, clearings of 3 homeless encampments: The City of Minneapolis evicted three encampments of unhoused people, leaving over 100 people displaced without tents and blankets as a cold front swept the region. SWAT teams forced residents of the Near North, Van White, and Cedar-Franklin encampments to leave their tents as city workers bulldozed and threw away their belongings.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minneapolis-officials-confirm-evictions-clearings-of-3-homeless-encampments/

Out of prison but still trapped: Examining The ‘Afterlife’ Of Incarceration: For people serving time in jail or prison, it may seem like punishment ends on the day of release. But in fact, thousands of restrictions dictate the terms of life after incarceration.
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/24/980671402/out-of-prison-but-still-trapped-examining-the-afterlife-of-incarceration

# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
SpaceX Wants Pentagon to Fund Starlink in Ukraine: “We are not in a position to further donate terminals to Ukraine, or fund the existing terminals for an indefinite period of time,” an executive wrote.
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-elon-musk-fund-starlink-ukraine-asks-pentagon-pay-2022-10

# Technology
Gates Foundation pledges $200 million for international digital IDs: “Of all the other means of identifying and tracking subjects, digital identity poses perhaps the gravest technological threat to individual liberty yet conceived,” said [CLG Founder] Michael Rectenwald.
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202209/gates-foundation-commits-200m-to-digital-id-and-other-public-infrastructure

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-10-13

Voices, The Peoples News

October 13, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate

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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
Animals are in trouble. The number of vertebrate animals on the planet fell by nearly 70% the past 50 years: From the rainforests to the open ocean, the abundance of vertebrates is in freefall, declining over two-thirds between 1970 and 2018, according to the report. Two years ago, the figure was 68% and four years ago 60%. Many scientists believe we are going through a sixth mass extinction, the largest loss of life on Earth since the dinosaurs.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/global-wildlife-populations-have-fallen-nearly-70-in-half-a-century-13102022/

# Border / Immigration
The Biden administration announced plans to turn most Venezuelan migrants crossing the southern border back to Mexico, while also creating a pathway to bring as many as 24,000 “qualified” Venezuelans into the country.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/12/biden-migrants-venezuela-us-mexico-border/

VIDEO: Texas DPS, Texas National Guard apprehend human smugglers, gang members at border: Law enforcement officers working through Operation Lone Star continue to interdict criminal activity at the Texas-Mexico border, including apprehending human smugglers and gang members.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/video-texas-dps-texas-national-guard-apprehend-human-smugglers-gang-members-at-border/article_ba9b04fe-4a27-11ed-b82c-0f222d95d4a2.html

The Texas Border County at the Center of a Dangerous Right-Wing Experiment: Officials in rural Kinney County, Texas, are pushing Gov. Greg Abbott to take ever more extreme action against migrants and asylum-seekers.
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/12/kinney-county-texas-operation-lone-star/

# Chemicals
US firms exploiting Trump-era loophole over toxic ‘forever chemicals’: A new study finds that chemical companies are dodging a federal law designed to track how many PFAS plants are pumping into the environment.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/12/pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals-trump-era-loophole

# Economy / Finance / Trade
Republicans Plan to Use Debt Limit Leverage to Cut Social Security, Medicare: Republicans in the House are planning to use a potential showdown next year over raising the federal debt limit to make changes in Social Security and Medicare, Bloomberg’s Jack Fitzpatrick
https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/newsletter/20221012-Republicans-Plan-Showdown-Over-Social-Security-and-Medicare-Report

# Education / Schools
Teachers Nationwide Want to Reduce Class Sizes for More Reasons Than COVID: The push to reduce class sizes is gaining momentum. Can the pandemic be a portal to the end of overcrowded classrooms?
https://truthout.org/articles/teachers-nationwide-want-to-reduce-class-sizes-for-more-reasons-than-covid/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
“Election Interference”: Oil Price Hike Is Saudi Arabia’s October Surprise Against Biden: “The Saudis are working to get Trump re-elected and for the MAGA Republicans to win the midterms.”
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/11/mbs-saudi-oil-biden-october-surprise-election-interference/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
The West is losing 1.3 million acres of sagebrush steppe each year: A new report aims to advance transforming rangeland conservation across 13 states and 115 million acres.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/north-sagebrush-the-west-is-losing-1-3-million-acres-of-sagebrush-steppe-each-year

Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970, report reveals: Huge scale of human-driven loss of species demands urgent action, say world’s leading scientists.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/13/almost-70-of-animal-populations-wiped-out-since-1970-report-reveals-aoe

Gas drilling is disrupting animal migration: Scientists are investigating why large animals like the mule deer of Wyoming go where they go, and how humans can get out of their way
https://www.wired.com/story/gas-drilling-is-disrupting-animal-migration/

Bees face many challenges, and climate change is ratcheting up the pressure: Honey bees, wild and native bees face threats from parasites, pesticides and habitat loss. Shorter winters, more extreme weather and more habitat destruction won’t help.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bees-face-many-challenges-climate-122317288.html

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
How inflation and drought are making it harder to feed West Texans in need: “I don’t know if we’ve ever seen this happen before, where we have pushed a whole new group of people into poverty,” Libby Campbell said. Nearly 4 million Texans struggle with hunger and food insecurity, according to the nonprofit organization Feeding Texas. The problem is especially prevalent in rural areas and has only been exacerbated since the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/2022/10/13/an-inverse-tsunami-how-inflation-and-drought-are-making-it-harder-to-feed-west-texans-in-need/

# Foodie Tips, Tricks and How To’s
40+ Dirt Cheap Meals (w/ meal plan!) to Make When You’re on a Budget
https://www.unexpectedlydomestic.com/dirt-cheap-meals/

# General Information / Other News
143 UN Countries Vote To Condemn Russia’s Annexation of Ukrainian Territory: Five countries voted against the resolution, Russia, and four other dictatorships: North Korea, Syria, Belarus and Nicaragua.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/12/russia-ukraine-annexation-un-vote-00061558

# Gov / Politics / Global
It’s time to take Kim Jong Un and his nuclear threats seriously: A recent barrage of nuclear-capable missile tests and a change in law setting out the conditions for a nuclear strike show that North Korea’s leader is intent on reunification on his terms.
https://theconversation.com/its-time-to-take-kim-jong-un-and-his-nuclear-threats-seriously-192073

Kyiv Joining NATO Will Start World War III: Russian Official: The threat of armageddon comes after the Ukrainian president announced a fast-track application for entry into the military alliance.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/admission-ukraine-nato-can-lead-third-world-war-russian-official-2022-10-13/

Israel Authorizes Military to Kill Palestinians With Drones in the West Bank: The family of assassinated journalist Shireen Abu Akleh filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court against Israeli leaders.
https://truthout.org/articles/israel-authorizes-military-to-kill-palestinians-with-drones-in-the-west-bank/

# Gov / Politics / US
It’s taking more time to cast a ballot in US elections, and even longer for Black and Hispanic voters: A 2014 US Presidential Commission set a guideline that voters should not have to wait more than 30 minutes to cast their ballots. In some voting districts, it’s taking longer than an hour.
https://theconversation.com/its-taking-more-time-to-cast-a-ballot-in-us-elections-and-even-longer-for-black-and-hispanic-voters-191711

Biden’s Broken Promise To Avoid War With Russia May Kill Us All: The irresolvable dilemma facing Western leaders is that this is a no-win situation. Only courageous peace talks can bring this terrifying conflict to an end.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/11/bidens-broken-promise-avoid-war-russia-may-kill-us-all

US Rejection Of Moscow’s Offer For Peace Talks Is Utterly Inexcusable: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Moscow was open to talks with the the U.S. or with Turkey on ending the war in Ukraine, claiming that U.S. officials are lying when they say Russia has been refusing peace talks.
https://mronline.org/2022/10/13/u-s-rejection-of-moscows-offer-for-peace-talks-is-utterly-inexcusable/

Cynthia McKinney: An Objective Look at U.S. Foreign Policy: We focus on the realities of the international power struggle unfolding in real time, specifically addressing the role of the U.S. in the tensions and its capacity to reduce them. We are looking for paradigm-shift ideas for improving the prospects for peace. Her responses below of are exactly as she provided. Members of Congress don’t call the shots; they are mere actors
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2022/10/06/cynthia-mckinney-an-objective-look-at-u-s-foreign-policy/

Biden Is Now All-In on Taking Out China: The U.S. president has committed to rapid decoupling, whatever the consequences: The United States has waged low-grade economic warfare against China for at least four years now, firing volley after volley of tariffs, export controls, investment blocks, visa limits, and much more. But Washington’s endgame for this conflict has always been hazy. Does it seek to compel specific changes in Beijing’s behavior, or challenge the Chinese system itself?
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/10/12/biden-china-semiconductor-chips-exports-decouple/

Joe Biden Just Provided Putin With the Off-Ramp Needed to Avoid Nuclear War but it’s not clear if Putin will take it. These comments came ahead of the publication of the Biden administration’s new National Security Strategy (NSS) on Wednesday, which directly addressed potential nuclear threats from Russia as well as competition with China over the next decade.
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-just-provided-putin-off-ramp-needed-avoid-nuclear-war-1751426

# Legal / DOJ
Jan. 6 Panel’s Final Hearing Likely To Focus On Trump’s State of Mind: “We’re going to bring a particular focus on the former president’s state of mind and his involvement in these events as they unfolded,” a committee aide told reporters Wednesday.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3685474-jan-6-panels-likely-final-hearing-to-focus-on-trumps-state-of-mind/

Jan. 6 Committee to Share New Evidence of Trump’s Role in Capitol Insurrection
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/10/13/headlines/jan_6_committee_to_share_new_evidence_of_trumps_role_in_capitol_insurrection

Jan. 6 Panel Plans to Subpoena Trump for Testimony: Rep. Bennie Thompson said Thursday that the committee would be voting on “further investigative action.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2022/10/13/jan-6-panel-live-news-us-committee-holds-9th-public-hearing

# Medical / Health
The DOJ created a pro-abortion task force to crack down on pro-lifers
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-doj-created-a-pro-abortion-task-force-to-crack-down-on-pro-lifers

Two children, victims of incest, denied abortions in Florida since the state instituted its 15-week ban in July, Planned Parenthood said. Florida’s ban has no exceptions for rape or incest, and violators of the law could face up to five years in prison. One in middle school and one a young teen. “The cruelty of forcing a very young person, who has already survived a horrible case of violence, to give birth, takes away their rights to bodily autonomy, and it is really turning a blind eye to what is happening in our society,” she said.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annabetts/abortion-florida-ban-incest

# Military / DOD
The U.S. and its allies are aiming to provide Ukraine with an integrated air defense system that will give enhanced protection to high-priority parts of the country, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley said.
https://www.legion.org/news/257114/nato-countries-pitching-fast-track-preparation-air-defense-system-ukraine-milley-says

# Nuclear
Sinister Putin Plot Spirals With Abduction at Nuclear Plant: Russia has been accused of kidnapping another top employee of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as part of a menacing pressure campaign against Ukrainian workers there.
https://news.yahoo.com/sinister-putin-scheme-spirals-kidnapping-085130869.html

# Technology
NASA announces an experimental cooling technology that could benefit space missions as well as unlock ultrafast electric vehicle charging on Earth that could fill batteries in as little as five minutes
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3685583-nasa-suggests-new-space-cooling-technology-could-charge-electric-cars-in-5-minutes/

Kids Are Having Fatal Heart Attacks While Playing Video Games; “Families and healthcare teams should think about safety precautions”: Research has determined that exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) from cell phones, smart watches and wearables, virtual reality (VR) headsets, and other sources of wireless “Wi-Fi” radiation (including 5G) is biologically harmful.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/11/video-games-could-trigger-deadly-heart-problems-in-kids-study/

Acupuncture and EHS/Microwave Illnesses; Taking Another Look at Electrical Pollution
https://www.libertywellness.ca/are-electronics-and-wifi-making-us-sick-take-a-look-at-the-effects-of-electromagnetic-radiation-emf-and-radiofrequency-radiation-rf-on-your-health/

# Veterans / VA
Tricare to reduce number of network pharmacies for its beneficiaries this month: A new contract from prescription-drug benefit manager Express Scripts will force nearly 15,000 pharmacies out of the Tricare network by the end of this month.
https://newsroom.tricare.mil/Articles/Article/2832307/changes-coming-to-tricare-retail-network-pharmacies

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October 12, 2022
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# Indigenous
Biden’s promise to tribes faces test in Great Lakes: As many tribal lands face mounting pollution threats and the blunt force of climate change. The Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa has for millennia used its own knowledge and practices to protect the Kakagon River and the internationally recognized wetland it feeds, the largest remaining natural bed of wild rice or “manoomin” in the Great Lakes.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/bidens-promise-to-tribes-faces-test-in-great-lakes/

# Economy / Finance / Trade
‘The Worst Is Yet to Come,’ IMF Warns: The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday reduced its outlook for global economic growth and warned that there are still challenges ahead, including high inflation, central bank tightening, the war in Ukraine and the lingering Covid-19 pandemic. “As storm clouds gather, policymakers need to keep a steady hand,” the IMF said in its World Economic Outlook report.
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2022/10/11/world-economic-outlook-october-2022

Medicare Advantage Has a Fraud Problem: Most of the large insurers involved in Medicare Advantage have been accused of various kinds of fraud, according to an analysis published by The New York Times, raising serious questions about the ability of the program to reduce costs and provide services more efficiently than the conventional Medicare system.
https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2022/10/11/Medicare-Advantage-Has-Fraud-Problem

The big reason Florida insurance companies are failing isn’t just hurricane risk – it’s fraud and lawsuits
https://news.fiu.edu/2022/the-big-reason-florida-insurance-companies-are-failing-isnt-just-hurricane-risk-its-fraud-and-lawsuits

Republicans Plan Debt Crisis to Force Cuts to Medicare, Social Security: The debt limit, the maximum amount the government may legally borrow, is currently at about $31.4 trillion and will likely be reached in 2023. Congress will have to vote to raise, suspend, or eliminate that cap to avoid what economists say would be catastrophic default on obligations.
https://americanindependent.com/house-republicans-budget-control-act-debt-ceiling-social-security-medicare-medicaid/

Treasury department probing DeSantis’ migrant stunts: The probe is reportedly part of an audit into how states used federal COVID relief funds. The Treasury letter marks the first time authorities have acknowledged they’re looking into the transports.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/12/desantis-migrant-flights-markey-00061370

# Education / Schools
The recent Uvalde school board meeting was divided; “I am disgusted by this community”: Monday night’s school board meeting saw a divide among residents. Some were outside supporting and cheering on Uvalde School District Superintendent Hal Harrell, while the families of the victims of the May 24 mass shooting were inside demanding accountability from him.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/recent-uvalde-school-board-meeting-183647960.html

# Employment / Labor
“Dubious At Best”: Contract Rejection Revives Railroad Strike Fears: The threat alone carries hefty political ramifications for Democrats also grappling with inflation and a possible recession.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/11/railroad-workers-rejection-contracts-strike-00061285

Workers Make $1.3 Million More Through Their Careers When They’re in a Union: This is more than the lifetime salary premium that typically comes with a college degree, researchers found.
https://truthout.org/articles/workers-make-1-3-million-more-through-their-careers-when-theyre-in-a-union/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
The Titans of Plastic: Pennsylvania becomes the newest sacrifice zone for America’s plastic addiction. In the months that followed, the construction project would require remediating a brownfield, rerouting a highway, and constructing an office building, a laboratory, a fracked-gas power plant, and a rail system for more than 3,000 freight cars. The purpose of Shell’s massive complex wasn’t simply to refine gas. It was to make plastic. Shell ranks in the top 10 among the 90 companies that are responsible for two-thirds of historic greenhouse gas emissions. Its Potter Township cracker plant is expected to emit up to 2.25 million tons of climate-warming gases annually, equivalent to approximately 430,000 extra cars on the road.
https://www.ehn.org/the-titans-of-plastic-2657986993.html

Nuclear Power Isn’t Clean — It Creates Hellish Wastelands of Radioactive Sewage: Nuclear power carries with it an unbearable price tag: nightmarish contamination and the threat to survival itself.
https://truthout.org/articles/nuclear-power-isnt-clean-it-creates-hellish-wastelands-of-radioactive-sewage/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Big Pharma flooding Puerto Rico with toxic waste: Dead livestock, cancer, arsenic in your water. The report, released Tuesday, paints a disturbing picture, holding US pharmaceutical corporations at least partially responsible for Puerto Rico’s disproportionately high rates of asthma and cancer. The sum of its findings: a pattern of environmental racism resulting in more than a dozen Big Pharma related Superfund sites, with the complicity of federal and local authorities.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/10/big-pharma-is-flooding-puerto-rico-with-toxic-waste/

Extreme heat + air pollution can be deadly, with the health risk together worse than either alone: High heat and air pollution are each problematic for human health, particularly for vulnerable populations such as older adults. But what happens when they hit at the same time? https://www.fastcompany.com/90783202/heat-waves-air-pollution-combine-health-impacts-worse

Biden Designates Camp Hale in Colorado as His First National Monument: Camp Hale, a former military training site during World War II, is joining the nations list of National Monuments and is President Joe Biden’s first National Monument designation. The new Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument protects more than 50,000 acres of land in Colorado
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/10/12/biden-creates-camp-hale-continental-divide-national-monument-colorado/10472453002/

# Foodie Tips, Tricks and How To’s
How To Eat A Pine Tree (And Other Conifers) Most conifers are not only edible, they’re also medicinal. Every part is useful including the bark, needles, resin, nuts, and cones.
https://practicalselfreliance.com/edible-pine/?4788116719

# General Information / Other News
66 Countries at the UN General Assembly Urge Ukraine-Russia Negotiations: As the war in Ukraine appears to be escalating, there are growing calls for the U.S. to push for diplomacy.
https://towardfreedom.org/story/archives/europe/end-war-in-ukraine-say-66-nations-at-un-general-assembly/

The Washington Post is reporting the Biden administration has ruled out the idea of pushing Ukraine to negotiate with Russia to end the war, even though many U.S. officials believe neither side is, quote, “capable of winning the war outright.”
Video and Transcript: https://truthout.org/video/66-countries-at-the-un-general-assembly-urge-ukraine-russia-negotiations/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=35054481-f75d-48ed-b27d-14f137987e8d

Trump uses donations to Save America PAC to pay legal bills: Trump donors think they’re giving to “save America,” but they’re paying Trump’s legal bills. More than 60% of spending by Trump’s Save America PAC is going to his legal battle over stolen classified documents
https://www.salon.com/2022/09/21/donors-think-theyre-giving-to-save-america-but-theyre-paying-legal-bills/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russian intelligence has arrested eight people allegedly in connection to the Kerch bridge explosion: No one has formally taken responsibility for the bridge blast, but high-level Ukrainian officials have cheered on news of its destruction.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/12/russia-detains-eight-suspects-over-crimea-bridge-blasts

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has lost power for the second time in five days: Nuclear experts from around the world are raising concerns about the threat of nearby shelling on the power plant’s safety.
https://www.axios.com/2022/10/12/ukraine-nuclear-power-cut

Kremlin TV Exposes the Real Goal of Putin’s ‘Revenge-Bombs’: Putin’s top cheerleaders have unwittingly revealed that the latest Russian atrocities were not just about vengeance after all.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-state-media-exposes-the-real-goal-of-vladimir-putins-revenge-bombs-in-ukraine

# Gov / Politics / US
Noted Republican Tulsi Gabbard Has Left The Democratic Party: Tulsi Gabbard, the former lawmaker from Hawaii whose total flameout in the 2020 presidential primary led her to look for any shreds of political relevance she could find in right-wing culture wars, announced she was leaving the Democratic Party on Tuesday.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/tulsi-gabbard-leaves-democrats

Washington State GOP Pays White Nationalist Pro-Nazi Blogger: Add it to the list of ways in which Washington has a far-right problem. It’s no secret that Washington State has The problem of white nationalism, but there is one group that has become increasingly and alarmingly associated with these extremists: the Republican Party of Washington State.
https://unlimitedd-ttech.com/2022/10/12/washington-state-republican-party-pays-white-patriot-pro-nazi-blogger-grayson-arnold/

Senate Races Reach New Heights of Nastiness In Final Campaign Stretch: Democratic and Republican strategists as well as nonpartisan experts say the vitriol on the campaign trail has been remarkable, observing that while negative campaign tactics are nothing new, the 2022 battle for the Senate has taken it to a new level.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3681963-senate-races-reach-new-heights-of-nastiness-in-final-campaign-stretch/

Americans actually agree on something, they want products free of harmful chemicals: As we near midterm elections, a new poll has done the unthinkable: found an issue that doesn’t divide us.
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-10-11/most-u-s-voters-want-products-free-of-harmful-chemicals-poll

Challenges to voters are growing before the midterms – and have a long history as a way of keeping down the Black vote: On Nov. 8, the US may experience a surge of voters intimidated by Election Day challenges to their right to cast a ballot.
https://theconversation.com/challenges-to-voters-are-growing-before-the-midterms-and-have-a-long-history-as-a-way-of-keeping-down-the-black-vote-192217

What will the US do if Putin goes nuclear on Ukraine? Threats give question growing urgency: If Russia drops a nuclear bomb of any size on Ukraine, the dilemma facing the U.S. will be imposing costs severe enough to meet the magnitude of the moment while averting the kind of nuclear showdown feared during the Cold War.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3674322-how-the-us-might-respond-to-a-russian-nuclear-attack-in-ukraine/

Nevada GOP Candidate Vows to “Fix” Elections to Reinstate Trump as President: Nevada’s Jim Marchant pushed election-denial conspiracy theories in his own congressional election loss two years ago.
https://truthout.org/articles/nevada-gop-candidate-vows-to-fix-elections-to-reinstate-trump-as-president/

Racism, Lies and Hypocrisy Are Now Seen as Electable Qualities in GOP Candidates: From Trump’s racist attacks to Herschel Walker’s lies, the GOP is remaking itself as a party where truly anything goes.
https://truthout.org/articles/racism-lies-and-hypocrisy-are-now-seen-as-electable-qualities-in-gop-candidates/

The Most Important Midterm Elections Have Nothing To Do With Congress: Hundreds of races in state legislatures that have fueled the GOP’s hard-right turn could determine the future of abortion rights, and U.S. democracy itself.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/state-legislative-races-2022-midterms-democrats-democracy_n_63458fa5e4b0e376dc06640d

# Legal / DOJ
Far Right Supreme Court Justices Reject Appeal of Man Condemned by Racist Jurors: Three of the jurors in Andre Thomas’s murder trial expressed opposition to the idea of interracial marriages.
https://truthout.org/articles/far-right-supreme-court-justices-reject-appeal-of-man-condemned-by-racist-jurors/

A Connecticut jury has found that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay $965 million to several family members of those killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting for spreading lies that the shooting was fake. Multimillion-dollar verdicts keep stacking up against the Infowars host, who used his platform to falsely claim the Sandy Hook shooting never happened.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alex-jones-sandy-hook-verdict-connecticut_n_633ddfd6e4b03e8038c52b11?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Politics%2010/12/22&utm_term=us-politics

Trump Must Sit For Deposition In Defamation Lawsuit, Judge Rules: Former President Donald Trump will have to sit for a deposition next week in a lawsuit filed by a writer who says he raped her in the mid-1990s.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/12/judge-trump-deposition-defamation-lawsuit-00061471

Judge sentences entire Texas family that participated in the Capitol riot: A Texas mom who took her family into the Capitol riot doubled-down on Trump’s election fraud lies as she asked a federal judge for leniency
https://www.businessinsider.com/munn-family-capitol-riot-sentencing-federal-court-2022-10

# LGBTQ
U.S. State Department pushes ‘gender transition’ for kids as states consider bans: The U.S. State Department’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Strategic Plan has sparked controversy for including taxpayer-funded “gender transition care” for employees and their children
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/u-s-state-department-pushes-gender-transition-for-kids-as-states-consider-bans/article_c7cae25c-48ab-11ed-82bc-d753e28c7232.html

Speaker Wishes Death on LGBTQ People at School Board Meeting: A man was caught on camera telling the board that members of the LGBTQ community “deserve death.” According to the person who posted the video of the speaker on TikTok, the man spoke just before a trans sophomore and despite his grim words, “the school board sat there and did NOTHING.”
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/speaker-says-lgbtq-students-deserve-death-school-board-meeting/

# Media
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Faces Outrage Over New Postal Service Price Hikes: DeJoy told consumers to expect USPS prices to continue rising “at an uncomfortable rate” for the foreseeable future. “We can’t let the Postal Service sabotage itself by driving industries out of business and driving consumers away from using the mail,” said one critic.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/12/dejoy-faces-outrage-over-new-postal-service-price-hikes

# Medical / Health
Male birth control options are in development, but a number of barriers still stand in the way: There hasn’t been a new form of male birth control since the 1980s. More contraception options for all partners could help reduce the rate of unintended pregnancies.
https://theconversation.com/male-birth-control-options-are-in-development-but-a-number-of-barriers-still-stand-in-the-way-186537

# Military / DOD
Army prepares for dispersed warfare with high casualties: Fighting in Ukraine continues to show senior Army leaders and thinkers the value of two things that the service hasn’t been doing at scale for a long, long time, reconstitution and long-range, large-unit dispersion.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/2022/10/11/army-prepares-for-dispersed-warfare-with-high-casualties/

# Science
Mindbending Experiment Fused Rat Brains With Human Neurons: After eight months, the human cells had been fully incorporated into the rat’s brain.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mindbending-experiment-fused-rat-brains-with-human-neurons

# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
Scientists Shocked As Black Hole Spews Out Something They’ve Never Seen Before: The new study opens the opportunity to study the effects of magnetic fields in black hole feeding.
https://interestingengineering.com/science/nasa-sees-for-the-first-time-ever-something-coming-out-of-a-black-hole-while-it-feeds

# Technology / Medical
Big Tech’s Cars Could Help Gov’t Spy on Abortion Patients: Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook are getting into the auto game, which means law enforcement will have more tools to spy on vulnerable people.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/big-techs-cars-could-help-the-government-spy-on-abortion-patients

# Veterans / VA
President Joe Biden signed into law a bipartisan bill that will direct more than $442 million in upgrades to Veteran Affairs health care facilities in Texas. The improvements will include a 30-bed long-term care facility for spinal cord injuries in Dallas and a new health care facility in El Paso.
https://accuratenewsinfo.com/dallas-el-paso-veterans-facilities-will-get-442-million-in-upgrades/

# Water
As Rio Grande shrinks, El Paso plans for uncertain water future: With a megadrought persisting in the Southwest, El Paso and other cities on the Rio Grande are scrambling to find alternative sources of water
https://e360.yale.edu/features/el-paso-texas-rio-grande-water-drought

California’s opening bid won’t solve the Colorado River crisis alone: California’s offer to conserve some of its share of Colorado River water over the next few years won’t solve the looming water and power crisis in the West — but it might be enough to kickstart negotiations among the states on a deal that could.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/11/californias-opening-bid-wont-solve-the-colorado-river-crisis-alone-00060851

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-10-11

Voices, The Peoples News

October 11, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
Governor voids territorial orders targeting Native Americans: New Mexico’s governor has voided four pre-statehood proclamations that targeted Native Americans during what was a tumultuous time across the western frontier. About two dozen advocates for Native American communities gather in downtown Santa Fe, N.M., Monday, Oct. 10, 2022, when most government offices were closed in commemoration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a state holiday. Protesters left paint splashed across a monument to 19th century trapper-turned-soldier Kit Carson, outside a federal courthouse. Carson is revered and reviled as a pivotal figure in the settlement of the American West and deadly military campaigns against Native Americans including the Navajo. Demonstrators chanted, “This is Native land,” and “1680,” in reference to the year of the Pueblo Indian Revolt that drove Spanish settlers out of the region for a dozen years. Signs and banners also called for justice concerning missing and murdered Indigenous women
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2022-10-10/governor-voids-territorial-orders-targeting-native-americans

My Childhood Was Stolen, Says Linda Raye Cobe, Indian Boarding School Survivor: Linda Raye Cobe discusses the growing movement of survivors seeking to heal from the “Indian boarding school” system.
https://truthout.org/articles/my-childhood-was-stolen-says-linda-raye-cobe-indian-boarding-school-survivor/

# Border / Immigration
Texas GOP leadership declares Texas being invaded: The executive leadership of the Republican Party of Texas has declared an invasion at the Texas southern border. It’s also calling on Gov. Greg Abbott to do what no governor of Texas has ever done before: declare an invasion and protect Texas and Americans from what it says are transnational criminal organizations creating an imminent threat to their lives. [Good grief, these people won’t be happy until we in a full blown civil war. js]
https://highlandcountypress.com/Content/In-The-News/In-The-News/Article/Texas-GOP-leadership-formally-declares-Texas-is-being-invaded/2/20/83938

5th Circuit hands Texas another win on immigration, ruling DACA is unconstitutional: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Texas federal judge’s ruling that the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is unconstitutional
https://tennesseeconservativenews.com/5th-circuit-hands-texas-another-win-on-immigration-ruling-daca-is-unconstitutional/

“A failure on all our parts.” Thousands of Imigrant children wait in government shelters. A system intended to protect young immigrants while they wait for new homes has instead been overused, leading to prolonged stays in federal custody.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-children-shelters-office-refugee-resettlement

# Economy / Finance / Trade
America’s gross national debt has now exceeded $31 trillion; “We’re on the edge of the first ‘OK. were, and we are now past ‘OK’. The deficit path is certainly too high.” As interest rates rise, the administration is less inclined to buck its negligence.
https://biz.crast.net/opinion-americans-are-foolishly-ignoring-the-threat-of-a-debt-crisis/

# Education / Schools
Uvalde School District Supt Resigns at Board Meeting: The resignation was met with mixed emotions, as many community members are still calling for accountability in the wake of the Robb Elementary mass shooting.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/uvalde-school-chief-plans-to-resign-after-community-outrage

# Employment / Labor
‘A Huge Deal’: Major Rail Union Rejects White House-Brokered Contract Proposal: Maintenance workers voted against the tentative agreement reached last month and said without a fair contract, a work stoppage could begin as early at November 19.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/10/huge-deal-major-rail-union-rejects-white-house-brokered-contract-proposal

One More Pro-Worker Move From Biden: The Labor Department says if you make your living driving for Uber, Lyft, or FedEx, you’re an employee, not an ‘independent contractor.’ Notoriously, the federal minimum wage doesn’t amount to very much. It’s been stuck at a pathetically low $7.25 an hour for well over a decade, though many states have set their own minimum considerably higher. (In California this year, it’s at $15.50.)
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/one-more-pro-worker-move-from-biden-labor-department-rule/

Biden’s personal recovery plan: Pump up unions, squeeze Big Business: The president is hoping his political fate, and the Democrats’ standing among the white working class, can be saved by lifting up organized labor.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/11/biden-working-class-unions-00031759

The Conservative Astroturf Organization Rolling Back Child Labor Protections: The National Federation of Independent Business has been active in passing new laws allowing teenagers to work long and late hours in three states.
https://prospect.org/labor/conservative-astroturf-organization-rolling-back-child-labor-protections/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
How fossil fuel firms use Black leaders to ‘deceive’ their communities: Black community members have been asked to rubber-stamp harmful projects for decades, activists say. The Virginia Reliability Project (VRP) is a proposal by the Canadian fossil fuel company behind the Keystone XL pipeline to expand and upgrade gas infrastructure through tribal lands, fragile waterways and underserved neighbourhoods in south-east Virginia. Almost 50% of the population along the VRP route live below the poverty line and more than half are people of colour.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/10/i-feel-used-how-fossil-fuel-firms-court-black-leaders-to-support-pipelines

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Will the Farm Bill be the next big climate package? Midterm elections might decide the fate of the next Farm Bill as Republicans vow to block any “climate buzzwords.” Republicans have already vowed to strip climate funding from the bill.
https://grist.org/agriculture/midterm-elections-future-farm-bill/

Climate change means all cities are in the water-rescue business now: Floods are growing more frequent and intense due to global warming. Experts say rising to the challenge won’t be easy.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-10/climate-change-means-all-cities-are-in-the-water-rescue-business-now

# General Information / Other News
The Globetrotting Con Man and Suspected Spy Who Met With President Trump: Tao Liu’s criminal odyssey took him from money laundering in Mexico to a massive scam in China to Trump’s exclusive New Jersey golf club. Investigators believed he may have infiltrated U.S. politics as part of a Chinese intelligence operation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/liu-tao-trump-meeting-china-investigation

Trump’s PAC spends big on paying his legal bills,- while leaving GOP candidates in the cold: According to the Post’s analysis of financial disclosures, the PAC “has spent more money since he left office on lawyers representing the former president and a pair of nonprofits staffed by former Cabinet members than it has on Republican congressional campaigns.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-pac/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Sides Playing With Fire in the Northern Pacific: It’s getting harder to think that Kim Jong-un is just play-acting when he rams through a law saying North Korea can unleash a nuclear warhead whenever he feels threatened. And it’s also getting harder to assume the Americans and South Koreans will never translate the lessons of their war games into real live action.
https://dcjournal.com/sides-playing-with-fire-in-the-northern-pacific/

Top Russian Judge Killed in Crimea Bridge Explosion: Crimea Mystery Shock twist in Crimea bridge blast as top Russian judge involved in sensitive Gazprom case is killed in explosion
https://www.the-sun.com/news/6416394/crimea-bridge-shock-twist-top-russian-judge-dead/

# Gov / Politics / US
Humanity’s leading voices in the fields of science, healthcare, law and journalism are warning us about the greatest threat our world ever faced. ‘We have evidence the pandemic is a crime against humanity’, say hundreds of lawyers & scientists. During pandemics the WHO becomes a one world government, overruling the constitutions and laws of all the nations in the world.
Video: https://www.stopworldcontrol.com/

What happens to weapons sent to Ukraine? The US doesn’t really know
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/politics/us-weapons-ukraine-intelligence/index.html

Is the U.S. giving Ukraine some weapons secretly? A senior Pentagon official said the U.S. had been quietly supplying the Ukrainians with High-speed Anti-Radiation missiles used for targeting radar systems for some time. But the risk, both current US officials and defense analysts say, is that in the long term, some of those weapons may wind up in the hands of other militaries and militias that the US did not intend to arm. “It drops into a big black hole.”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2022/08/22/is-the-u-s-giving-ukraine-some-weapons-secretly-00053079

How Ron DeSantis Blew Up Black-Held Congressional Districts and May Have Broken Florida Law: DeSantis’ move, secretly aided by GOP-linked national operatives, came over the objections of the Republican-controlled state legislature.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/563143-how-ron-desantis-blew-up-black-held-congressional-districts-may-have-broken-florida-law/

Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama is being roundly condemned for racist rhetoric, including calling the descendants of enslaved people criminals. The crowd at the rally greeted Tuberville’s hateful misinformation with applause.
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2022/10/10/tommy-tuberville–marjorie-taylor-greene-push-racist-rhetoric-at-trump-rallies

It’s no secret that the West is trying to overthrow the Russian government – John Bolton was just saying it out loud. In Ukraine in 2004, National Endowment for Democracy’s programs radicalized local youth and funded protest movements, bussed paid demonstrators into Kiev, created opposition media outlets to agitate for upheaval, provided offshore training to activists, and paid local pollsters to publish surveys indicating significant anti-government sentiment.
https://www.rt.com/news/564214-its-no-secret-that-west/

GOP planning ‘catastrophic default’ if Democrats refuse to cut Social Security and Medicare: Top House Republicans are planning to threaten to shut down the U.S. Government by refusing to raise the debt ceiling next year in a scheme to force Democrats to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, should they win the House in November critics warn, pointing to a Bloomberg report. U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), chair of the Joint Economic Committee Democrats, an advisory committee created by law, blasted House Republicans, warning they “plan to hold the U.S. economy hostage with the threat of a catastrophic default to try to force cuts to Social Security and Medicare.”
https://www.alternet.org/2022/10/gop-plans-catastrophic-default-democrats/

Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic nominee for governor of Texas, said Tuesday that he is “open” to “compromise” with Republicans on abortion rights legislation that would undo the current, total ban on the practice, even if that compromise restricts abortion more than he would like.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beto-orourke-open-to-abortion-rights-compromise_n_6345ac83e4b0e376dc0699e6

Ukraine Isn’t the Only Place Nuclear War Could Threaten to Erupt: The U.S. and China must initiate diplomatic talks focused on preventing nuclear escalation over Taiwan.
https://truthout.org/articles/ukraine-isnt-the-only-place-nuclear-war-could-threaten-to-erupt/

# Law Enforcement
Racially Charged, America’s Misdemeanor Problem: Released in 2021, America’s Misdemeanor Problem exposes how our country’s history of racial injustice evolved into an enormous abuse of criminal justice power. 13 million people a year—most of them poor and people of color, are abused by this system.
https://theurbannews.com/arts-entertainment/2022/racially-charged/
Free on Youtube. [after the ads] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm2PxE0HMr4

Whistleblower: 665 People Have Left FBI Over Misconduct in 20 Years: The review found 665 FBI employees, including 45 senior-level officials, resigned or retired between 2004 and 2020 following a misconduct probe
https://apnews.com/article/business-personnel-sexual-misconduct-chuck-grassley-merrick-garland-9ca9ea18036814bdf12e8c62a20e08d9

‘New Information’ Leads Cops to Missing Teenage Girl: Chloe Campbell, 14, had been missing for 10 days when cops revealed she had been found alive.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-information-leads-boulder-police-to-missing-teenage-girl-chloe-campbell-found-alive?via=newsletter&source=CSAMedition

Man, 21, ‘shoots homeless family of five including pregnant mom sleeping in car’: Stamat allegedly fired at a vehicle as a father and a pregnant mother were sleeping inside with their three children, ages nine, four and three. The mother was struck in the head but suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was recovering at a hospital. The father and children were unharmed.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/09/florida-man-arrested-after-homeless-family-shot-at-pregnant-mom-struck/

Commercial Bail Industry ‘Exploits’ U.S. Legal System: Bail bond companies earn billions in profits while providing little benefit to the public, charges a new policy paper released by the Prison Policy Initiative
https://thecrimereport.org/2022/10/07/commercial-bail-industry-exploits-u-s-legal-system-paper/

Texas Shooting Spree Suspect Tied to More Dead Bodies: Texas police say they believe two dead bodies found in an oil field are linked to a Baytown crime spree. A crime spree body count pinned on a Baytown man whom police shot and killed grew by two more victims, investigators said on Monday.
https://abc13.com/baytown-shooting-spree-ron-welch-related-crimes-bodies-found-oil-field/12312637/

# LGBTQ
# Marijuana / Hemp / CBD Oil
Greg Abbott Rejects Biden’s Plea to Pardon Texans With Marijuana Convictions: More than half of Texas voters support legalizing marijuana in the state, a recent poll found.
https://truthout.org/articles/greg-abbott-rejects-bidens-plea-to-pardon-texans-with-marijuana-convictions/

# Media
The Puppets and the Puppet Masters: The judicial proceedings against Julian Assange give a faux legality to the state persecution of the most important and courageous journalist of our generation.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/10/puppets-and-puppet-masters

# Medical / Health
Chilling Audio Provides Rare Glimpse Into Abuse at Troubled Illinois Residential Facility: No one was charged when staff were caught on a 911 tape threatening violence against a Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center resident who has developmental disabilities. New reporting shows a culture of cover-ups at the facility.
https://www.rawstory.com/chilling-audio-provides-rare-glimpse-into-abuse-at-troubled-illinois-residential-facility/

American Oncology Network to be publicly traded On NASDAQ. It will be the second U.S. provider to go public, following the Oncology Institute. Separately, The New York Times covers researchers’ efforts to produce anti-cancer vaccines
https://khn.org/morning-breakout/american-oncology-network-to-be-publicly-traded-on-nasdaq/#:~:text=It%20will%20be%20the%20second,cancer%20vaccines%2C%20among%20other%20news

The “Problem” Isn’t Disabled Bodies, it’s the Violent Structure of Our Society: Medical conceptions of disability are fueling interlocking systems of oppression, theorist Christine Wieseler argues.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-problem-isnt-disabled-bodies-its-the-violent-structure-of-our-society/

# Military / DOD
Transgender women who were born male are still required to sign up for the Selective Service in the event of a military draft. The policy, which has already been in effect for some time, gained new attention after the Selective Service System issued a reminder for men between the ages of 18 and 25 to register for the service. “Parents, if your son is an only son and the last male in your family to carry the family name, he is still required to register with SSS,” the SSS said in a now-viral tweet sent on Friday.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trans-women-born-male-military-draft

Parents up in arms over transgender policy for US military draft: US policy states that transgender women who were registered as males when they were born must register for the military draft with the Selective Service, while transgender men who were recorded as female when they were born don’t have to sign up for the draft.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/parents-arms-over-transgender-policy-195205858.html

# Science
Genetically engineered bacteria make living materials for self-repairing walls and cleaning up pollution: The walls of your house could someday be built with living bacteria. Synthetic biologists are engineering microbes into living materials that are cheap and sustainable. With just an incubator and some broth, researchers can grow reusable filters made of bacteria to clean up polluted water, detect chemicals in the environment and protect surfaces from rust and mold.
https://theconversation.com/genetically-engineered-bacteria-make-living-materials-for-self-repairing-walls-and-cleaning-up-pollution-191411

What’s next for ancient DNA studies after Nobel Prize honors groundbreaking field of paleogenomics
https://theconversation.com/whats-next-for-ancient-dna-studies-after-nobel-prize-honors-groundbreaking-field-of-paleogenomics-191899

# Security
How a Chinese American Gangster Transformed Money Laundering for Drug Cartels: Xizhi Li pioneered a new method that enriched Latin American drug lords and China’s elite. A DEA investigation found the Chinese government may have been involved. As the agents tracked Li’s activity across the Americas and Asia, they realized he wasn’t just another money launderer. He was a pioneer. Operating with the acumen of a financier and the tradecraft of a spy, he had helped devise an innovative system that revolutionized the drug underworld and fortified the cartels.
https://www.propublica.org/article/china-cartels-xizhi-li-money-laundering

Regarding UFOs:
‘Science needs to investigate the unknown,’ says prominent Pentagon scientist: “If you’re supposed to be a trained scientist or engineer, you’re supposed to be asking these questions, you know, instead of running away and hiding from these questions. I think the perception has changed,” Travis Taylor has a doctorate in aerospace systems engineering, a doctorate in optical science and engineering, a master’s degree in physics, a master’s degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering, and a master’s degree in astronomy. He has a 20-year career supporting NASA, the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, and other customers.
https://www.mysterywire.com/ufo/ive-seen-more-ufos-than-i-can-count-dod-scientist-says/

# Water
The Supreme Court is poised to redefine protected waters: The justices could remove federal protection from 80 percent of the Southwest’s streams, gutting the Clean Water Act.
https://undark.org/2022/10/11/supreme-court-clean-water-act/

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-10-10

Voices, The Peoples News

October 10, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate

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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is among the top 100 books banned
in America. The reason is in one of many passages. This is from chapter 25:

“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow
here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all
our successes. The fertile Earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks,
and the ripe fruit. And the children dying of hunger must die because
a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the
certificates – died of malnutrition – because the food must rot (if not sold
at a profit)…. and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath.
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy,
growing heavy for the vintage.”
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# Indigenous
Decolonizing regenerative cattle ranching: Native farmers want newcomers to know there’s nothing novel about caring for the land that grows our food.
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/decolonizing-regenerative-cattle-ranching

The quest to recover Indigenous languages in the U.S., Effort to recover Indigenous language also revitalizes culture, history and identity: Linguists have estimated that prior to European settlement, there were 300 Indigenous languages spoken in what is now the United States.
https://www.krqe.com/news/national/effort-to-recover-indigenous-language-also-revitalizes-culture-history-and-identity%EF%BF%BC/

Native Americans’ decadeslong struggle for control over sacred lands is making progress: Native Hawaiians see Mauna Kea mountain as sacred. Scientists use its summit for research. A new policy called co-management may help resolve this land conflict and similar ones across the US.
https://theconversation.com/native-americans-decadeslong-struggle-for-control-over-sacred-lands-is-making-progress-189620

Land acknowledgments meant to honor Indigenous people too often do the opposite, erasing American Indians and sanitizing history instead: Land acknowledgments state that activities are taking place on land previously owned by Indigenous peoples. They’re popular, but they may harm more than they heal, say three anthropologists.
https://theconversation.com/land-acknowledgments-meant-to-honor-indigenous-people-too-often-do-the-opposite-erasing-american-indians-and-sanitizing-history-instead-163787

# Indigenous / Global
Landmark climate ruling in Australia: The United Nations Human Rights Committee ruled last week that Australia failed to protect people living on four islands in the Torres Strait from the effects of climate change, and has ordered it to pay for the harm caused. It is the first successful claim of its kind.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03186-6#:~:text=The%20committee%20ruled%20that%20the,and%20traditions%20to%20future%20generations

# Chemicals
Making the connection between PFAS and fossil fuels: Besides emitting actual PFAS, the factories that manufacture and work with the substances emit potent greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.
https://www.themainemonitor.org/making-the-connection-between-pfas-and-fossil-fuels/

Pesticides have been linked to a host of environmental and public health harms, from the insect apocalypse to cancer.The trillions of pieces of plastic that end up in Earth’s oceans each year are wreaking havoc on the hundreds of thousands of marine organisms who live there. Mammals like whales and smaller organisms like fish ingest plastic particles, which contain toxins that stay in the animals’ bodies and are passed along to the organisms that feed on them
https://www.ecowatch.com/plastics-oceans-acidity.html

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Florida Surgeon General Reports an 84% Increase in Cardiac-Related Deaths Among Males 18-39 Within 28 Days After mRNA Vaccination
https://medicaldialogues.in/medicine/news/84-percent-higher-risk-of-cardiac-related-death-among-males-18-39-years-with-mrna-vaccine-analysis-sparks-fear-against-pfizer-moderna-vaccine-100336

FDA Withholds Autopsy Results of Those Who Died After COVID Shots: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it’s barred from releasing the results of autopsies conducted on people who died after getting COVID-19 vaccines, but a drug safety advocate said the agency could release the autopsies with personal information redacted.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-autopsy-results-covid-vaccine-deaths-et/

Another Study Confirms COVID Vaccine Alters Menstrual Cycles: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) in a release. “Changes following vaccination appear to be small, within the normal range of variation, and temporary.”
https://people.com/health/new-study-shows-covid-19-vaccine-did-cause-changes-to-peoples-menstrual-cycles/

Canadian Woman Dies Seven Minutes After Getting COVID Booster: A sixty-nine-year-old woman died on Sept. 14, 2022 in Saskatoon (Saskatchewan), Canada seven minutes after getting a booster dose of a COVID shot at a Shoppers Drug Mart.
https://thevaccinereaction.org/2022/10/canadian-woman-dies-seven-minutes-after-getting-covid-booster/

# Economy / Finance / Trade
U.S. Is Overcome With Debt and Death. Let’s Fight Inequality to Stop This Crisis. It is not debt cancellation that the nation can’t afford — it is widening inequality that is too costly.
https://truthout.org/articles/us-is-overcome-with-debt-and-death-lets-fight-inequality-to-stop-this-crisis/

Recovery Is Not Quite Dead, this will only whet the Fed’s appetite for more punishment: The stock market promptly lost several hundred points, since the better-than-expected news on the jobs front means that the Fed is even more likely to raise interest rates another three quarters of a point when the Fed’s Open Market Committee meets again in early November.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/economic-recovery-not-quite-dead/

# Education / Schools
National School Lunch Testing for Glyphosate, Pesticides, Heavy Metals, Hormones and Nutrients Revealed:
Moms Across America announces a nationwide project measuring pesticides, heavy metals, veterinary drugs, hormones and nutrient test results of 43 school lunches gathered from public schools in 15 states in the United States. Thirty million genetically modified school meals are served daily in America to our children.
https://www.momsacrossamerica.com/national_school_lunch_testing

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
World bank continues financing fossil fuels despite climate crisis: A new report finds that while the multilateral development bank tries to position itself as a climate leader, it still supports gas pipelines, refineries, and gas export terminals.
https://www.desmog.com/2022/10/06/world-bank-financing-fossil-fuels-climate-crisis/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
A new troubles in the Baltic: While 14 million tons of methane gas/carbon dioxide continue gushing to the Baltic Sea’s surface, Swedish and Danish crisis teams are working around the clock investigating how the four sabotage leaks were achieved.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/pressure-defunct-nord-stream-2-pipeline-plunged-overnight-operator-2022-09-26/

Inexpensive device that can harvest energy from a light breeze and store it as electricity: Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a low-cost device that can harness energy from wind as gentle as a light breeze and store it as electricity.
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-inexpensive-device-harvest-energy-breeze.html

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Global
In the Midst of an Energy Crisis, Top UK Ministers Want to Ban Solar Panels on Farmland: Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Ranil Jayawardena opposed placing solar panels on agricultural land and would take action by changing how land is earmarked. The same day, the Press Association reported that Prime Minister Liz Truss was also against using farmland for solar installations.
https://www.ecowatch.com/uk-solar-farmland.html

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Onshore algae farms could feed much of the world while reducing the environmental impact: It’s a promising new type of farming, but there are many hurdles in the way.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/onshore-algae-farms-could-feed-the-world-while-reducing-environmental-impacts-10102022/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russia bombs Kyiv and other major cities in massive attack on Ukraine: The assault was seen as retaliation for a deadly blast that damaged a key bridge linking Russia with Crimea, an explosion that Russian President Vladimir Putin called an “act of terrorism” by Ukraine.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/10/russia-bombs-kyiv-and-other-major-cities-massive-attack-ukraine

# Gov / Politics / US
Did The United States Just Declare War on Russia, Germany, France, and The Netherlands? Indeed, the three gas supply routes to Western Europe have been cut off simultaneously, while at the same time a new gas pipeline has been opened to Poland.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article218167.html

Don’t Let Ron DeSantis Use Hurricane Ian to Cover Up His Right-Wing Agenda: Anything DeSantis does in the aftermath of this disaster should be viewed as performative gamesmanship for 2024.
https://truthout.org/articles/dont-let-ron-desantis-use-hurricane-ian-to-cover-up-his-right-wing-agenda/

Gavin McInnes Attempts to Stop Proud Boys’ ‘Civil War’: Facing revelations that their leader was a federal informant, the Proud Boys have erupted in recriminations.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gavin-mcinnes-attempts-to-quash-proud-boys-post-jan-6-civil-war

Proud Boys’ Jeremy Joseph Bertino admits to seditious conspiracy in US Capitol riot
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-07/proud-boys-member-admits-to-seditious-conspiracy/101511044

The Disgrace That Has Sparked Civil War in a Delaware Town: The town council funded a museum that insists on flying a symbol of racism. Democrats and one Republican mayor are fed up. The flag continued to fly despite fervent objections from civil rights organizations, including the NAACP, which noted that the white supremacist who killed nine at a South Carolina church in 2015 had posted photos of himself with the Confederate flag.
https://www.thelocalreport.in/the-disgrace-that-has-sparked-civil-war-in-a-delaware-town/

The Retreat of the MAGA General: How did Don Bolduc, a straight-shooting war hero, become the GOP Senate candidate in New Hampshire by embracing the big lie and calling Democrats the ‘enemy’?
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/don-bolduc-new-hampshire-senate-maggie-hassan-1234607733/

Democrats are operating a series of 51 ‘fake news’ websites pushing left-wing stories in toss-up states in a bid to turn the midterms in their favor, shocking investigation finds. A new report from Axios details 51 fake news websites that promote liberal political causes. All of the websites, which have popped up in the past 12 months, are based in what are considered to be swing states. Some of the publications are the Milwaukee Metro Times, the Tri-City Record and the Mecklenburg Herald
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11293487/Democrats-operating-series-51-fake-news-sites-pushing-left-wing-stories-toss-states.html

Khanna and Blumenthal Propose Bill to Cut All Weapons Sales to Saudi Arabia: The two Democrats proposed the bill after OPEC’s decision to slash oil production, which aims to keep gas prices up.
https://truthout.org/articles/khanna-and-blumenthal-propose-bill-to-cut-all-weapons-sales-to-saudi-arabia/

Republicans are making no secret of their plans to shut down the government if they regain power: As election day approaches, hopeful Republicans are making plans for what they’ll do if they gain power. According to MSNBC’s Steve Benen, they’re not interested in governing. “Rather, GOP leaders are likely to focus on gridlock, impeachment crusades, and extensive hearings into assorted conspiracy theories.”
https://www.rawstory.com/republicans-are-making-no-secret-of-their-plans-to-shut-down-the-government-if-they-regain-power/

# Law Enforcement
NY Rep. Lee Zeldin Says 2 People Shot in Front of His Home: New York congressman and Republican candidate for governor Lee Zeldin says his family is safe after two teenagers were shot outside his Long Island home.
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-10-09/ny-rep-lee-zeldin-says-2-people-shot-in-front-of-his-home

Prison Strikers Across Alabama Demand Change Despite Severe Retaliation: Thousands of incarcerated workers across the state are demanding an end to their inhumane treatment.
https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2022/10/society-has-shut-down-us-prison-strikers-across-alabama-demand-change-despite-severe

A man shot and killed a 21-year-old Dallas woman because he was angry that she’d won a basketball game against him, her family says. “This was supposed to be a friend of Asia’s. She’s eaten with the man,” Andrea Womack, Womack’s mother, told the outlet. “She’s fed him, and he turned on her and killed her in a vicious way.”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annabetts/woman-shot-texas-basketball-game

# Media
Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange held a massive transatlantic protest to demand freedom for the incarcerated journalist: Advocates say if Assange is successfully extradited to the U.S. other investigative journalists are at risk too.
https://ourcommunitynow.com/post/end-the-war-on-journalism-and-free-assange-thousands-demand-release-of-wikileaks-founder

# Media / Global
Ukraine is preparing a law on full control over the media, as the last vestiges of press freedom disappear in Kiev, A bill approved by the Verkhovna Rada will finally finish off freedom of speech in Ukraine: The main danger this bill presents is that it grants government agencies the authority to block internet resources without any court proceedings, and revoke licenses from broadcast and print media solely on the basis of complaints. This huge power would be vested in the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting.
https://www.rt.com/russia/564217-ukraine-vs-freedom-of-speech/

# Medical / Health
DeSantis Fired Him Over Abortion. Now He’s Firing Back. Tampa prosecutor Andrew Warren said he wouldn’t prosecute cases against women for having an abortion. Ron DeSantis wasn’t having it. Warren says that’s an assault on democracy.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-fired-andrew-warren-over-abortion-now-hes-firing-back

Abortions can resume in Arizona (for now) after an appeals court blocked the 121-year-old abortion ban:
The Arizona Court of Appeals has agreed to put the pre-statehood abortion ban on hold.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annabetts/abortion-ban-on-hold-in-arizona

# Military / DOD
US Army on track to field 24 systems in FY23 in bid for a modern force: The 24 key systems slated for fielding in fiscal 2023 are part of a total group of 35 the Army wants to get to troops by 2030, when it then would declare the service a fully modernized force.
https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/ausa/2022/10/09/us-army-on-track-to-field-24-systems-in-fy23-in-bid-for-a-modern-force/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mil-ebb

Task force seeks lighter Javelin missiles, robot dogs for infantry: A task force focused on soldier lethality is adding new initiatives to its portfolio, including a lighter Javelin missile, identifying how artificial intelligence can help squads, and looking into robot dogs as infantry battle buddies.
https://www.armytimes.com/home/2022/10/09/task-force-seeks-lighter-javelin-missiles-robot-dogs-for-infantry/

US, UK hold drone drill in Persian Gulf after Iran seizures: The U.S. Navy held a joint drone drill with the United Kingdom in the Persian Gulf, testing the same unmanned surveillance ships that Iran twice has seized in recent months in the Middle East.
https://www.defensenews.com/news/your-navy/2022/10/07/us-uk-hold-drone-drill-in-persian-gulf-after-iran-seizures/

Why the Pentagon is the world’s biggest single greenhouse gas emitter: A new book explains how the US military came to consume more fossil fuels than most countries, and what we can do about it.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/10/pentagon-climate-change-neta-crawford-book/

# Military / Global
Kids in Firing Line as Rattled Putin Revenge-Bombs Kyiv: Children’s playground among the targets hit in brutal Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian capital.
https://www.reuters.com/video/

# Science
Sunlight could turn CO2 into useful, everyday products: A computational model found that UV light can kickstart the reduction of CO2, which can then be converted into useful products like drugs, polymers, and even furniture.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/sunlight-turns-co2-useful-product-043273/

How the humble Sphagnum moss can become our protector against floods: Bio-engineering at its finest.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/moss-versus-flood/

# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
Stunning 3D view of Cat’s Eye Nebula reveals double star system at its heart: A recent high school graduate is responsible for the development of the new 3D model.
https://www.space.com/cats-eye-nebula-jets-3d-model

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# Border / Immigration
5th Circuit hands Texas another win on immigration, ruling DACA is unconstitutional: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Texas federal judge’s ruling that the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is unconstitutional. The program, created by a Department of Homeland Security memo in 2012, prevents some foreign nationals who were illegally brought into the U.S. as children from being deported. It initially applied to roughly 800,000 individuals.
https://highlandcountypress.com/Content/In-The-News/In-The-News/Article/5th-Circuit-hands-Texas-another-win-on-immigration-ruling-DACA-is-unconstitutional/2/20/83912

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Florida Surgeon General Reports an 84% Increase in Cardiac-Related Deaths Among Males 18-39 Within 28 Days After mRNA Vaccination –Florida Surgeon General now recommends against the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for males ages 18-39 years old.
https://medicaldialogues.in/medicine/news/84-percent-higher-risk-of-cardiac-related-death-among-males-18-39-years-with-mrna-vaccine-analysis-sparks-fear-against-pfizer-moderna-vaccine-100336

The FDA Misled the Public About Ivermectin and Should Be Accountable in Court, Argues the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) All three plaintiffs in the suit alleged the agency’s widespread and public attack on ivermectin caused them to be “pressured, unable to prescribe medication, and threatened with or subjected to professional discipline.’’
https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/news/national-organization-of-physicians-supports-lawsuit-against-fda-for-interfering-with-the-treatment-of-patients-with-covid-19/

# Economy / Finance / Trade
Senator files bill to restrain IRS ahead of plan to hire 87,000 employees: U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall has introduced two bills to restrain the Internal Revenue Service ahead of the agency’s planned expansion
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/senator-files-bill-to-restrain-irs-ahead-of-plan-to-hire-87-000-employees/article_a995c2b4-44e8-11ed-a36f-4f410eb64989.html

Pandemic Struggles Still Afflict Social Security, a Last Lifeline for Many: The long queues have raised tempers and safety concerns. One person fainted in line outside the office in Laredo, Tex. Others in Florida slept outside overnight to secure a spot for the next morning. Social Security’s remedy is to push customers to get help by phone or online, but fast service using those options, for many, is proving just as elusive.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Pandemic-struggles-still-afflict-Social-Security-17493514.php

# Education / Schools
GOP Would Undermine 40 Million Student Debtors to Gain Midterm Leverage: The legal challenge is part of a broader GOP strategy to delay debt forgiveness until after the midterms.
https://truthout.org/articles/gop-would-undermine-40-million-student-debtors-to-gain-midterm-leverage/

After 2 years of free school lunches, kids now have to choose between going into debt at the cafeteria or not eating at all. Lawmakers had the opportunity to renew the program again for this school year, but didn’t include it as part of their March spending package to keep the government open.
https://news.yahoo.com/2-years-free-school-lunches-114500003.html

# Employment / Labor
Jobs Market Cools, but Probably Not Enough to Slow the Fed’s Tightening Campaign: The U.S. labor market cooled a bit in September but continues to expand at an impressive pace.
https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/newsletter/20221007-Job-Market-Still-Too-Hot-Fed

‘Great resignation’? ‘Quiet quitting’? If you’re surprised by America’s anti-work movement, maybe you need to watch more movies: “It’s real hard to be free,” Jack Nicholson’s character in “Easy Rider” says, “when you are bought and sold in the marketplace.” Many workers today can relate: Stressful work environments, unfulfilling roles and the inability of paychecks to keep up with the rising cost of living have spurred some of them to reevaluate their relationship with their employers.
https://theconversation.com/great-resignation-quiet-quitting-if-youre-surprised-by-americas-anti-work-movement-maybe-you-need-to-watch-more-movies-191113

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
How fossil fuel corporations are trying to sue their critics into silence: The fossil fuel industry’s “lawfare” tactics are part of an overarching strategy to redefine free speech and escape accountability. A new bill aims to stop them.
In 2018, Krystal Two Bulls received notice that she was being sued for criminal conspiracy. Two Bulls, who is Oglala Lakota and North Cheyenne, has been organizing for environmental justice for much of her life. She was raised on the North Cheyenne Indian Reservation of Lame Deer, Montana, part of a community that had resisted coal developments for nearly 40 years. In 2016, she helped defeat Arch Coal’s plans to build a massive strip mining operation on the reservation’s border. The project would’ve been one of the largest coal mines in the United States.
https://www.desmog.com/2022/10/07/slapp-lawsuits-exxon-chemrisk-dapl-climate-change-raskin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slapp-lawsuits-exxon-chemrisk-dapl-climate-change-raskin

The Attack on the Pipeline and the Resurrection of the Morgenthau Plan as the Long Arm of Jewish Vengeance: Historically, the attack fit into the pattern of Anglo-American foreign policy. In spite of the fact the mainstream media were united in blaming Russia, only the Americans had the motive and the means. The evidence was circumstantial but irrefutable. Biden said in no uncertain terms that if Russia invaded the Ukraine, America would take out the Nordstream pipelines.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/10/08/the-attack-on-the-pipeline-and-the-resurrection-of-the-morgenthau-plan-as-the-long-arm-of-jewish-vengeance/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
Can Europe Afford To Turn a Blind Eye to Evidence of a US Role in Pipeline Blasts? US hostility towards Russian economic ties with Europe is not new. Long before Russia’s invasion, Washington had been quite openly seeking ways to block the Nord Stream pipelines.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/evidence-united-states-role-nord-stream-pipeline-blasts/282149/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
To grow coral reefs, get them buzzed: Zapped with solar electrical currents, some struggling reefs can self-repair with incredible speed, and even grow where none have existed before. In nature, coral grows at a creeping half-centimeter per year, but electrically charged reefs can grow up to 12 times faster.
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/coral-reefs-solar-powered-electrical-growth/

The Mediterranean Sea is so hot, it’s forming carbonate crystals: In the rapidly warming Eastern Mediterranean, water stratifies into layers, like a cake. That’s allowing carbon-spewing crystals to form.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-mediterranean-sea-is-so-hot-its-forming-carbonate-crystals/

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
14 Discontinued Canned Foods You’ll Sadly Never See Again: While it’s hard to imagine a grocery store without the canned-food aisle, not everything that comes in a tin has stood the test of time. We found some of the most interesting discontinued canned foods, and why they’re not on the shelves anymore. Read on and reminisce!
https://www.eatthis.com/discontinued-canned-foods/

# General Information / Other News
Why The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Became A Banned Book: ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ was banned because of its racist terminology
https://www.thelist.com/1045098/the-real-reason-the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-became-a-banned-book/?utm_campaign=clip

The Real Reason Of Mice And Men Became A Banned Book: There is an issue with language that was deemed profane. This profanity included racism, sexual content, and the characterization of mentally disabled people. However, when writing about two men — one of whom, Lennie, is mentally disabled — taking menial jobs across the United States during The Great Depression in the hopes of eventually achieving the American dream, the language conveyed the reality of the situation and portrayed the characters honestly.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-real-reason-of-mice-and-men-became-a-banned-book/ar-AA12KnPe?li=BBnb7Kz

Surprise, Surprise: Another Pro-Trump Rally Flops in D.C: Speakers bent over backwards to explain the low turnout, blaming “paid agitators,” the government, and would-be attendees’ spam folders.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-trump-rally-goers-blame-mysterious-bogeymen-for-latest-event-flop

Former President Trump has yet to concede the election, despite being certified in all 50 states and numerous failed legal objections, most recently in the conservative majority Supreme Court: Supporters gathered in protest of “the corruption and dishonesty that is taking place in Our Country,” according to the march’s website. “As We have done throughout Our Great History. We will Stand Together, as United Citizens, in the face of Evil, Censorship, Suppression, and Manipulation.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-supporters-gather-washington-dc-million-maga-march/

The $200m Trump Tower Lie That Could Exile Donald From New York: Jaw-dropping revelations about Trump’s NYC HQ. The ultimate symbol of eighties excess, Trump Tower is heavy on glitz and glamor, but beyond the gleaming façade lies a multitude of sometimes sordid secrets that read stranger than fiction.
https://www.loveproperty.com/gallerylist/112888/the-shocking-secrets-of-trump-tower

Trump plotted to trade Mar-a-Lago files for ‘sensitive documents’ about his 2016 campaign Russia ties: report
The report states, “Mr. Trump, still determined to show he had been wronged by the F.B.I. investigation into his 2016 campaign’s ties to Russia, was angry with the National Archives and Records Administration for its unwillingness to hand over a batch of sensitive documents that he thought proved his claims.”
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/10/trump-plotted-to-trade-mar-a-lago-files-for-sensitive-documents-about-his-2016-campaign-russia-ties-report/

# Gov / Politics / US
Biden says the US doesn’t want a new Cold War, but there are some reasons it might: The Cold War provided the US with strategic and defensive advantages; “We do not seek a Cold War,” declared President Joe Biden in front of world leaders gathered at the United Nations on Sept. 21, 2022. He continued that America was not asking “any nation to choose between the United States or any other partner.” But that’s likely not how everyone views the prospect of a new Cold War.
https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2022/10/biden-says-the-us-doesnt-want-a-new-cold-war-but-there-are-some-reasons-it-might-opinion.html

Jeffrey Sachs: ‘We Are on a Path of Escalation to Nuclear War, Nothing Less’: Columbia university economics professor Jeffrey D. Sachs appeared on Bloomberg Radio on Monday (October 3). His comments on the Nord Stream sabotage during this interview have been widely reported, but his full interview (8.5 minutes) is worth watching.
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2022/10/07/jeffrey-sachs-we-are-on-a-path-of-escalation-to-nuclear-war-nothing-less/

# Law Enforcement
Could This Profile Help Catch California Serial Killer? A number of experts have weighed in on who may be responsible for a series of murders in Stockton and Oakland—with one providing a very specific description of the perpetrator.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/stockton-oakland-serial-killer-planned-out-murders-experts-say?via=newsletter&source=Weekend

Texas police fires officer who shot a teen sitting in his car in a fast food parking lot: James Brennand confronted the 17 year old who was in a car that had evaded him a day earlier and began shooting when the car drove off.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/08/texas-police-fires-officer-shot-teenager

Detroit officers fired 38 shots at a 20-year-old Black man experiencing a mental health crisis, police say: A 20-year-old Black man diagnosed with schizophrenia, was experiencing a mental health crisis when he was killed this week after five Detroit police officers fired 38 shots at him in roughly three seconds, according to police.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/us/porter-burks-shot-detroit-police

# Legal / DOJ
NY AG’s massive fraud lawsuit will ‘financially destroy’ Trump and lead to him being ‘perp-walked’ for criminal charges, says Michael Cohen: New York’s attorney general filed a sweeping civil suit against Trump, his business, and his three eldest children. Letitia James said Trump “falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars” and “repeatedly and persistently manipulated the value of assets to induce banks to lend money to the Trump Organization.”
https://www.salon.com/2022/10/08/michael-cohen-ny-fraud-case-will-financially-destroy–and-may-put-him-in/

Likelihood of DOJ proving Trump’s guilt is ‘very high’ now that he’s been ‘caught red-handed’: Reacting to reports that the former president is suspected of still holding onto sensitive government documents that the DOJ is trying to get back, the attorney said the former president is increasing his legal peril with each passing day.
https://www.alternet.org/2022/10/doj-trump/

# Medical / Health
Diseases Which Mimic Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1598&context=mcvq

Respiratory viral infection: a potential “missing link” in the pathogenesis of COPD: Human rhinovirus, respiratory syncytial virus and influenza are the most commonly detected viruses during exacerbation. The role of persistent viral infection (adenovirus) has also been postulated as a potential pathogenic mechanism in COPD.
https://err.ersjournals.com/content/28/151/180063

COPD and Bronchiectasis: Similarities and Differences: It can be easy to mistake one disease for the other. Both diseases have symptoms of dyspnea (shortness of breath), chronic cough, potential for daily sputum production, and airflow obstruction.
https://lungdiseasenews.com/2015/01/26/copd-bronchiectasis-similarities-differences/

Medical guidelines that embrace the humility of uncertainty could help doctors choose treatments with more research evidence behind them: How doctors care for their patients is highly influenced by clinical guidelines. Recommendations based on anecdotal experience or poor data can harm patients.
https://theconversation.com/medical-guidelines-that-embrace-the-humility-of-uncertainty-could-help-doctors-choose-treatments-with-more-research-evidence-behind-them-183328

3 Weeks of Vitamin C Supplements Reduces Inflammation in Cystic Fibrosis Patients: Studies have connected vitamin C to reducing inflammation and making use of oxidized vitamin E that the body wouldn’t otherwise absorb.
The team found that after 3.5 weeks of daily vitamin C supplementation at a dose of 1,000 milligrams, the patients had lower concentrations of malondialdehyde (MDA), which is a marker of oxidative stress. Additionally, they noticed that vitamin E wasn’t leaving the bloodstream as quickly.
https://studyfinds.org/supplements-cystic-fibrosis/

# Military / Global
North Korea fires 2 more missiles after warning about US, South Korean naval drills: North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Sunday, the latest in its barrage of weapons tests in recent days, after the North warned against the U.S. redeployment of an aircraft carrier for a new round of drills with South Korean warships.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2022-10-08/north-korea-launches-missiles-after-us-south-korea-drills-7618951.html

“General Armageddon” to lead Russian Forces in Ukraine after Crimean Bridge Blast: Army General Sergey Surovikin, also known as ‘General Armageddon,’ who has been heading up the ‘South’ grouping of troops in Ukraine and Donbass, will assume overall command of Russian forces, the Defense Ministry announced on Saturday.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/10/08/general-armageddon-to-lead-russian-forces-in-ukraine-after-crimean-bridge-blast/?mc_cid=66333bf0c7&mc_eid=3f7488d454

Vladimir Putin to escalate assault on Ukraine after latest humiliation: Vladimir Putin is preparing to step up his assault on Ukraine after his bridge to Crimea was hit by a huge explosion, Western analysts believe.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/10/08/vladimir-putin-escalate-assault-ukraine-latest-humiliation/

# Nuclear
U.S. Buying $290M Worth of Anti-Radiation Drugs for Use in ‘Nuclear Emergency’: The Biden regime is buying up $290 million in anti-radiation drugs for use in “nuclear emergencies” amid escalating tensions with Russia [fomented by Biden, NATO, and Zelensky] and heightened threats of a nuclear war.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-buying-290m-worth-anti-radiation-drugs-use-nuclear-emergency

# Pharmas / Drugs
A Towering Documentary Wages War Against the Sackler Family: Laura Poitras’ searing new documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” chronicles Nan Goldin’s life of rigorous protest art and defining fight against the Sackler family.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/laura-poitras-all-the-beauty-in-the-bloodshed-documentary-wages-war-against-the-sackler-family

Senate Republicans Roll Out Bill to Repeal Democrats’ Drug-Pricing Reforms: Senate Republicans have introduced a bill that would undo drug pricing reforms recently enacted by Democrats, including allowing the federal government to negotiate some prescription drug prices and capping annual out-of-pocket prescription costs under Medicare at $2,000.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3678314-senate-republican-bill-would-repeal-dem-drug-pricing-law/

Drugmakers Face Penalties for Price Hikes Above Inflation: New law requires companies to provide rebates to Medicare for excessive increases: Pharmaceutical companies that raise the price of their products more than the rate of general inflation will have to pay Medicare a rebate for those outsize price hikes.
https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/advocacy/info-2022/drugmakers-penalties-price-hikes.html

# Planetary
Huge Ocean Beneath the Earth’s Surface Discovered By Scientists: You might think that the depths of the ocean are the strangest place on Earth, and we would have agreed with you. Except that we just found out that there’s almost certainly another ocean, a secret ocean, hiding right beneath our feet.
https://www.discovery.com/science/Massive-Ocean-Beneath-Earths-Surface

# Social
Criminals are using a new scam to steal home titles: Losing a few bucks to a scammer is one thing. But imagine losing your entire home! That’s about the worst-case scenario possible. Unfortunately, scammers are now targeting your home; if you’re not careful, you could fall into their trap. These schemes saw an uptick in cases reported during the financial crisis in 2008. Now, there’s been a sudden resurgence of this nasty plot, and it’s taken on a dangerous new tone. Keep reading for all the tricky details.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/taxes/criminals-are-using-a-new-scam-to-steal-home-titles/ar-AA12LhGV?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=0536d465b2c745809eda971187c6000d

# Technology
New PayPal rule: The company can take $2,500 from your account for sharing misinformation (UPDATE) A little less than a week before the midterm elections in November, a new PayPal account update will take effect that has sent the internet into an uproar, and also drawn condemnation from PayPal’s former president David Marcus.
https://bgr.com/business/new-paypal-rule-the-company-can-take-2500-from-your-account-for-sharing-misinformation/

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October 7, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate

# Border / Immigration
New York’s Sneaky Tactic to Stop Abbott’s Migrant Bus Stunts: Two more buses arrived in the city from Texas on Friday morning. This time, however, the NYPD Highway Patrol’s Motor Carrier Safety Unit was waiting.
https://www.theusexpressnews.com/new-yorks-sneaky-new-tactic-to-suppress-greg-abbotts-migrant-bus-stunts/

States deploy about 2,500 National Guard troops to U.S.-Mexico border: Nearly two dozen states are sending National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to help federal immigration officials grapple with an unprecedented surge of undocumented migrants
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/states-deploy-about-2-500-national-guard-troops-to-u-s–mexico-border/article_b043558a-440d-11ed-98b5-37b300fa8344.html

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
The Covid-19 Booster Has a Public Relations Problem: FDA review and an emergency approval as expected—AstraZeneca is undoubtedly facing another public relations debacle. The U.S. misstep comes on the heels of a rolling series of stumbles, fumbles and roadblocks in Europe. Its initial data reports left out explanations about dosage mistakes that spawned confusing data.
https://www.fiercepharma.com/marketing/again-astrazeneca-faces-public-relations-problems-as-regulators-push-back-wording-and

What happens when you get Covid a second or third time: More people are getting COVID-19 twice, suggesting immunity wanes quickly in some. Reinfections give scientists clues about how long protection lasts, and how well vaccines might perform. Reinfections hint that immunity against COVID-19 may be fragile and wane relatively quickly, with implications not just for the risks facing recovered patients, but also for how long future vaccines might protect people.
https://www.science.org/content/article/more-people-are-getting-covid-19-twice-suggesting-immunity-wanes-quickly-some

Are we missing COVID-19’s new symptoms? COVID-19 cases in the United Kingdom have recently risen 14% in what may be the beginning of an “autumn wave.” People there who turn up positive for COVID-19 are reporting that their first symptom is a sore throat. That is different from the first symptoms you may be alert to; fever and loss of smell are really rare now.
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2022/are-we-missing-covid-19s-new-symptoms/

# Education / Schools
Little Boy Says Teachers Taped His Mouth and Threw His Lunch Away, Ordering Him Not to Tell Parents:
His reply came as a shock to Hoda. She had never thought her son would go through something so cruel. He was a high-achiever who was always eager to learn new things, and his teachers had never complained about his behavior. Hoda was stunned to hear what Abdul said happened inside his classroom.
https://news.amomama.com/290571-little-boy-says-teachers-taped-his-mouth.html

Uvalde School District Suspends Its Police Force: District says activities have been halted ‘for a period of time’ amid investigation of response to May massacre
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/07/uvalde-school-district-police-suspended

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
U.S. Delivers Angry Rebuke of Massive OPEC+ Production Cut — And It Could Backfire for Saudi Arabia
https://www.bpfnews.com/index.php/en/commodity/103-energy/73110-u-s-delivers-angry-rebuke-of-massive-opec-production-cut-and-it-could-backfire-for-saudi-arabia

U.S.-Saudi relations take a hit as OPEC cuts oil production: Analysts say the decision by Saudi-led OPEC, and the Biden administration’s reaction, underscores the depths of a widening rift: Relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia reached a new low Wednesday, as Saudi-led OPEC voted to slash oil production amid a global run-up in energy prices.
The decision represented a win for Russia, which coordinates oil policy with OPEC and is seeking to bolster the value of its exports. It also comes a month before the midterm elections in the United States, where high energy prices are likely to be a central issue.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/u-s-saudi-relations-take-a-hit-as-opec-cuts-oil-production-2/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
Russia and Saudi Arabia agree to massive cuts to oil output. Here’s why it matters
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/05/1126754169/opec-oil-production-cut

Locals in the dark about oil auctions in DRC: in some of the regions marked for auction, most people are unclear on the government’s plans and wary of what they might mean for local livelihoods. In a report released by Greenpeace Africa along with a group of international and Congolese NGOs, villagers living inside four of the blocks said they’d been told next to nothing about the auctions and that they feared oil drilling could harm the ecosystems where they farm and fish.
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/locals-in-the-dark-about-oil-auctions-in-drc-report/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
To stay or to go: Increased flooding forces towns to make hard choices: Increased rainfall and repetitive flooding strain aging infrastructure in many towns across the Mississippi River Basin. Staying put in the face of flooding can be dangerous and is growing increasingly costly. Property taxes are the largest source of tax revenue for local governments in most states, but property value declines as flood risk increases.
https://www.wwno.org/coastal-desk/2022-10-06/to-stay-or-to-go-increased-flooding-forces-towns-to-make-hard-choices

Scientists scramble to find reason for spate of whale deaths in Argentina: At least 15 whales have been found dead in recent days, and micro algae could be to blame
https://www.zmescience.com/science/scientists-explore-reasons-behind-spate-of-whale-deaths-in-argentina-050102022/

# Environment / Climate / Global
600 Million Metric Tons of Plastic May Fill Oceans by 2036 If We Don’t Act Now: Global plastic waste is expected to triple by 2060 as fossil fuel stakeholders pursue new revenue in petrochemicals.
https://truthout.org/articles/600-million-metric-tons-of-plastic-may-fill-oceans-by-2036-if-we-dont-act-now/

# General Information / Other News
Trump Erased Millions of Possible PPP Fraud Flags in Last Days in Office: Officials cleared nearly all potential fraud flags given to loans above $2 million just days before Trump left office.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-erased-millions-of-possible-ppp-fraud-flags-in-last-days-in-office/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russians Terrified as Putin Hunkers Down in Nuclear Bunker: For the first time, Russians are starting to believe that their isolated and out-of-touch leader really could launch a nuclear weapon. Solely a handful of individuals know the precise location the place President Vladimir Putin is celebrating his seventieth birthday in St. Petersburg on Friday, however critics say he spends increasingly more of his time remoted deep inside nuclear bunkers.
https://realnewshub.com/russians-terrified-as-putin-hunkers-down-in-nuclear-bunker/

Hijab rules have nothing to do with Islamic tenets and everything to do with repressing women: Imposing restrictions on women has been a way for many countries to demonstrate to the world what policies they want to pursue. The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was held by Iran’s morality police for not complying with the country’s hijab rules has drawn global attention to the repression of women in Iran.
https://theconversation.com/hijab-rules-have-nothing-to-do-with-islamic-tenets-and-everything-to-do-with-repressing-women-191475

How Israelis, Islamists dehumanize each other: Amid reports of Israeli army abuses during the recent war in Gaza, psychologists examine the state of mind that can lead to inhumane acts of aggression.
https://www.thestar.com/news/2009/03/21/how_israelis_islamists_dehumanize_each_other.html

‘End War in Ukraine’ Say 66 Nations at UN General Assembly: The 66 nations that called for peace in Ukraine make up more than a third of the countries in the world and most of the Earth’s population
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/29/end-war-ukraine-say-66-nations-un-general-assembly

# Gov / Politics / US
Census data hides racial diversity of US ‘Hispanics’– to the country’s detriment: Countries across the Americas are tweaking their census to better understand their population, allowing them to create more responsive policies. The US still has a ways to go. In recent decades, many Latin American nations have officially recognized their Indigenous and Afro-descendent populations as distinct groups with unique histories, cultures, foods and languages.
https://theconversation.com/census-data-hides-racial-diversity-of-us-hispanics-to-the-countrys-detriment-191042

No Treats, Only Tricks: Republicans Try to Ruin Halloween With Fake Rainbow Fentanyl Threat: Republican senators are trying to convince parents that the cartels are in the house down the block, handing out synthetic opioids to kids
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/no-treats-only-tricks-republicans-195212248.html

Russia warns US of ‘direct military clash’ if more arms sent to Ukraine: “We perceive this as an immediate threat to the strategic interests of our country.” Russia says the United States’ decision to ship more weapons to Ukraine poses an “immediate threat” to Moscow’s interests and hikes the risk of a direct military confrontation between Russia and the West.
https://parstoday.com/en/news/world-i185932-russia_warns_us_of_’direct_military_clash’_if_more_arms_sent_to_ukraine

# Law Enforcement
A Pennsylvania prison gets a Scandinavian-style makeover and shows how the US penal system could become more humane. A pilot project at a Pennsylvania prison is trying out lessons from Scandinavia that could offer some ideas for reforming US prisons. The United States has the largest number of people incarcerated in the world – about 25% of all people imprisoned worldwide are in American prisons and jails.
https://theconversation.com/a-pennsylvania-prison-gets-a-scandinavian-style-makeover-and-shows-how-the-us-penal-system-could-become-more-humane-187834

# Legal / DOJ
Hunter Biden: reports say FBI has enough evidence for prosecution: Lawyer accuses federal agents of pressuring prosecutors with illegal leak about investigation of president’s son for alleged tax and gun purchase offences. “It is a federal felony for a federal agent to leak information about a grand jury investigation such as this one.”Chris Clark, Hunter Biden’s attorney, on media reports his client’s arrest is imminent.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/07/hunter-biden-reports-say-fbi-has-enough-evidence-for-prosecution

Justice Department Asking if Trump Stashed Documents in Trump Tower: Investigators have quizzed multiple witnesses about whether Trump is holding sensitive government documents at other properties outside Mar-a-Lago, including at his Manhattan tower and his New Jersey club
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-maralago-raid-fbi-tower-bedminster-1234607008/

# Marijuana / Hemp / CBD Oil
Biden Pardons Thousands Convicted of Marijuana Possession Under Federal Law: President Joe Biden is pardoning thousands of Americans convicted of “simple possession” of marijuana under federal law, as his administration takes a dramatic step toward decriminalizing the drug and addressing charging practices that disproportionately impact people of color.
https://apnews.com/article/biden-marijuana-government-and-politics-2d5e3d9e2cfbbbe3ee114536738894a8

# Medical / Health
Sex Educators On TikTok Are Trying To Empower People While Abortion Rights Are Under Attack: “When young people don’t have access to comprehensive sex education in schools, they naturally turn to other means, like their peers or the internet.”
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/sex-educators-tiktok-trying-empower-170102233.html

Young People Have Unanswered Questions About Abortion. Online Sex Ed Can Help: Young people today have seen very few victories for education, reproductive rights and social justice in their lifetimes, and have instead lived through numerous attacks on their very selves. Sadly, this moment, though a crisis, is not new for them.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2022-09-08-young-people-have-unanswered-questions-about-abortion-online-sex-ed-can-help

Abortion Bans Are Making It Harder for Some Cancer Patients to Get Chemotherapy: Now, some people have to travel out of state for their requisite abortions before getting cancer treatment.
https://truthout.org/articles/abortion-bans-are-making-it-harder-for-some-cancer-patients-to-get-chemotherapy/

Transplanting poop is the new frontier for fighting life-threatening intestinal infections: What was once regarded as a fringe treatment is now proving to be a crucial tool.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/transplanting-poop-is-the-new-frontier-for-fighting-life-threatening-intestinal-infections/

# Pharmas / Drugs
Steil Leads 116 Republicans on a Letter Demanding Biden Take Action on Fentanyl: Today, Congressman Bryan Steil (WI-01) led 116 Republicans on a letter to President Biden urging the Administration to take immediate action to stem the fentanyl scourge coming from China and across the southern border, and support making fentanyl related substances Schedule 1 classification permanent.
https://steil.house.gov/media/press-releases/steil-leads-116-republicans-on-a-letter-demanding-biden-take-action-on-fentanyl

# Science
3D map reveals DNA organization within human retina cells: NIH scientists shed light on how genetic architecture determines gene expression, tissue-specific function, and disease phenotype in blinding diseases.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/3d-map-reveals-dna-organization-within-human-retina-cells

How dormant bacteria come back to life even after millions of years of ‘slumber’: New research found spores can count environmental signals without expending metabolic energy, constantly monitoring for the right time to awaken.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/how-dormant-bacteria-come-back-to-life-even-after-millions-of-years-of-slumber/

# Technology / Medical
Nobel-winning quantum weirdness undergirds an emerging high-tech industry, promising better ways of encrypting communications and imaging your body. These technologies – some under development and some already on the market all rely on the non-intuitive quantum phenomenon of entanglement.
https://theconversation.com/nobel-winning-quantum-weirdness-undergirds-an-emerging-high-tech-industry-promising-better-ways-of-encrypting-communications-and-imaging-your-body-191929

How click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry are transforming the pharmaceutical and material industries. One click chemistry-based drug is currently undergoing phase 2 clinical trials. Bertozzi is a scientific adviser of the company developing the drug. Click chemistry, as the name suggests, is a way of building molecules like snapping Lego blocks together. It takes two molecules to click, so researchers refer to each one as click partners.
https://theconversation.com/nobel-prize-how-click-chemistry-and-bioorthogonal-chemistry-are-transforming-the-pharmaceutical-and-material-industries-191995

# Technology
The FCC Shouldn’t Pull the Plug on Broadband for Rural America: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is about to make a decision that could disrupt internet connectivity for hundreds of thousands of rural Americans.
https://dcjournal.com/the-fcc-shouldnt-pull-the-plug-on-broadband-for-rural-america/

Why Mastering Language Is So Difficult for AI: Scientist and author Gary Marcus argues that deep learning, a form of artificial intelligence that finds patterns in massive datasets, is not as promising as the hype. But now, people are finally willing to consider hybrid models that combine deep learning with more classical approaches to AI.
https://undark.org/2022/10/07/interview-why-mastering-language-is-so-difficult-for-ai/

Digital Maps Require Greater Government Oversight: To prevent unwanted abuses, the United States should take an active role in regulating certain aspects of digital maps, especially with respect to their GPS navigation and advertising practices. We rely more on mobile navigation apps than we realize. It’s a mistake to overlook them when regulating Big Tech.
https://undark.org/2022/10/06/opinion-digital-maps-require-greater-government-oversight/

Apple Leads Smartphone Industry Into Anti-Consumer, Environmental Hell: Apple’s domination of the U.S. market has enabled anti-consumer and environmental issues to be overlooked or ignored.
https://truthout.org/articles/apple-leads-smartphone-industry-into-anti-consumer-environmental-hell/

# Veterans / VA
House of Prayer, a Church Accused of Squeezing Veterans for Benefits, Stripped of GI Bill Eligibility: A church former members have described as a cult has lost its GI Bill eligibility after two decades of allegedly bilking Bible school students out of millions of dollars of veterans benefits.
https://darik.news/northcarolina/house-of-prayer-a-church-accused-of-squeezing-veterans-for-benefits-stripped-of-gi-bill-eligibility/719290.html

# Water
More water restrictions likely as California pledges to cut use of Colorado River supply: With the Colorado River in crisis and reservoir levels continuing to decline, officials with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California said they plan to endorse mandatory conservation measures next year to begin rationing water for cities and local agencies that supply 19 million people across six counties.
https://www.waternewsnetwork.com/more-water-restrictions-likely-as-california-pledges-to-cut-use-of-colorado-river-supply/

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October 6, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate

# Border / Immigration
The Number Of Desperate Immigrants Who Die While Trying To Get Into The US Keeps Rising, “There’s no hope on the horizon,” one nonprofit director told BuzzFeed News. There have been 748 immigrant deaths at the border, CNN reported. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has not officially released the numbers and declined to provide them.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/immigrants-us-border-deaths-rising

# Children / Youth
Researchers find elevated lead levels at child care facilities across N.C: Aging buildings and plumbing fixtures are the main culprits, according to a study that included data from thousands of facilities.
https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2022/10/06/researchers-find-elevated-lead-levels-in-n-c/

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
‘Breathless’ explores COVID-19’s origins and other pandemic science: Echoes of what had happened nearly 20 years earlier, thousands were infected and at least 774 people died before the SARS outbreak was brought under control, sent ripples of anxiety throughout the virology world. Scientists of all backgrounds rushed to understand the new scourge, dubbed SARS-CoV-2. Hospitals around the world were soon overwhelmed, and daily life for billions of people was thrown into disarray.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/breathless-book-covid-19-pandemic-coronavirus

CDC V-safe Data: Hundreds of Thousands of Americans Sought Medical Care After COVID Vaccination: The reports were made to the CDC’s V-safe program, a new vaccine safety monitoring system to which users can report issues through smartphones. The CDC released the data to the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) after being sued over not producing the data when asked by the nonprofit.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-vsafe-data-americans-medical-care-covid-vaccination-et/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=44f7bd60-be97-4484-958f-eb5df2a187cd

New study reveals possible brain mechanisms behind COVID-19 delirium: Researchers from King’s College London have shown that when brain cells are directly exposed to blood taken from COVID-19 patients with delirium, there is an increase in cell death and a decrease in the generation of new brain cells. Delirium represents a state of confusion indicating that, in these patients, the COVID-19 infection had impacted the brain.
https://neurosciencenews.com/covid-delirium-neurogenesis-21579/

Why is monkeypox losing chunks of genes? In some samples of the monkeypox virus, large chunks of the genome seem to have disappeared or moved to entirely different spots in the sequence. It’s too early to tell whether the mutations are beneficial, neutral or harmful to the virus. Scientists are monitoring the situation carefully to understand why the alterations have appeared, and what they might mean for the global monkeypox outbreak.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03171-z

# Education / Schools
Affirmative action bans make selective colleges less diverse – a national ban will do the same: America’s selective colleges and universities become less diverse if the Supreme Court shoots down affirmative action in higher education, an expert on the subject warns.
https://theconversation.com/affirmative-action-bans-make-selective-colleges-less-diverse-a-national-ban-will-do-the-same-189214

Student Debt Cancellation Plan Is Flatly Unconstitutional: When President Biden was asked at a 2021 town hall event about canceling student debt, he doubted it could be done without working through Congress: “I don’t think I have the authority to do it by signing with a pen,” the president said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/27/bidens-student-debt-relief-faces-first-major-legal-challenge-00059050

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
More than three-quarters of American households should have smart meters installed by the end of the year, but almost none of the devices are fulfilling promises of saving customers money, a study finds. 97% of smart meters fail to provide promised customer benefits. Can $3B in new funding change that? Less than 3% of 2009’s taxpayer- and ratepayer-funded smart meters now deliver full customer benefits, a recent study shows.
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/97-of-smart-meters-fail-to-provide-promised-customer-benefits-can-3b-in/632662/

‘Utility redlining’: Detroit power outages disproportionally hit minority and low-income areas: A recent report finds that DTE Energy has generally disinvested in its distribution grid in low-income and minority neighborhoods while spending more resources in wealthier, predominantly White areas.
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2022/oct/06/detroit-power-outages-impact-minority-low-income-neighborhoods

White House officials say they’re disappointed with an OPEC+ decision to cut oil production, saying the U.S. will release more fuel from its stockpiles to keep prices from spiking.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3674878-biden-disappointed-by-opec-decision-to-cut-oil-production/

Mississippi regulators adopt a new rule to incentivize rooftop solar for residents and schools, despite the objections from the state’s Republican governor and large utilities. Some lower-income customers who pay most of the cost of installing a system such as rooftop solar panels could receive a $3,000 rebate from their power company. Incentives are also available to 85 of the state’s 142 public school districts.
https://apnews.com/article/business-mississippi-tate-reeves-climate-and-environment-government-politics-abe293ac2671db8de45ee12f6db88b0a

A secretive legal system lets fossil fuel investors sue countries over policies to keep oil and gas in the ground: Experts are concerned that a legal mechanism called investor-state dispute settlement could affect countries’ moves to cut fossil fuel emissions. A new barrier to climate action is opening up in an obscure and secretive part of international trade law, which fossil fuel investors are using to sue countries if policy decisions go against them.
https://theconversation.com/a-secretive-legal-system-lets-fossil-fuel-investors-sue-countries-over-policies-to-keep-oil-and-gas-in-the-ground-podcast-191804

Gas flares are leaking five times as much methane than previously thought: The flares burn off methane at 91 percent efficiency. Achieving 98 percent efficiency would be like taking nearly 3 million cars off the road.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gas-flare-leak-methane-burning-climate

The Political Impacts of Rising Gas Prices: Unexplained refinery shutdowns and snap decisions by oil-producing nations can reverberate in the midterm elections.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/political-impacts-of-rising-gas-prices/

New analysis shows Big Oil’s continued and future price gouging: Oil prices dipped below $80 a barrel for the first time since January 2022, but consumers are paying 13 percent higher than the last time oil was this low.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2022/10/06/new-analysis-shows-big-oils-continued-and-future-price-gouging/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
In Rebuke to West, OPEC and Russia Aim To Raise Oil Prices With Big Supply Cut: Saudi Arabia and Russia, acting as leaders of the OPEC+ energy cartel, agreed on Wednesday to their first large production cut in more than two years in a bid to raise prices, countering efforts by the United States and Europe to choke off the enormous revenue that Moscow reaps from the sale of crude.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/oct/05/opec-and-its-allies-move-to-slash-oil-production-b/

The response from the Biden administration and the domestic oil and gas industry was swift after OPEC+ ministers announced on Wednesday an agreement to further reduce the cartel’s oil exports by two million barrels of oil per day (bopd). “OPEC says no, SPR options all but gone. The White House has one option left and it is the one option they should have never turned away from in the first place, the US-based oil and gas industry. Life comes at you pretty fast…”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2022/10/05/big-opec-oil-production-cut-provokes-pointed-responses/?sh=4f6b9d3d1643

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
EPA’s chemical safety rule tests the Biden administration’s commitment to environmental justice: “Cure never happens, prevention never happens in a community where people are sacrificed for others’ gain.”
https://www.ehn.org/epa-environmental-justice-2658403944.html

EPA is ‘falling behind’ on power plant rules, report says: If the rules are issued in the waning days of Biden’s first term, a future Republican-controlled Congress could overturn them using the Congressional Review Act.
https://ground.news/article/analysis-epa-is-falling-behind-on-power-plant-rules-report-says

Florida’s waterways contaminated post-Ian, posing environmental and health risks: After a Category 4 hurricane the scale states that, ‘most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months.’ Experts warn significant and varying health concerns will also arise in the wake of a hurricane’s devastation.
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/hurricane-ian-impact-the-unexpected-health-effects

Climate change could turn some blue lakes to green or brown: As temperatures rise, more than 1 in 10 of the world’s blue lakes could change color, reflecting holistic shifts in lake ecosystems.
https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate/climate-change-could-turn-once-picturesque-blue-lakes-into-murky-green-or-brown/

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
This is the Great Reset: USDA Now Asking People to Register Their Vegetable Gardens for National Database: In a move that has many folks scratching their heads, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has renewed its push for the People’s Garden Initiative which now includes registering vegetable gardens nationwide.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/the-state/usda-now-asking-people-to-register-their-vegetable-gardens-for-national-database

# General Information / Other News
Q&A: Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and Growing Inequality: Recovery gets complicated by uneven insurance coverage, haphazard emergency programs, and a reluctance to admit that rebuilding in vulnerable places is too risky.
https://prospect.org/environment/climate-change-natural-disasters-growing-inequality/

Trump’s Latest Revenge Fantasy: Purge the National Archives: The former president is telling confidants that the nonpartisan agency is full of “woke” operatives, and promising vengeance if he retakes the White House in 2024
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-national-archives-maralago-fbi-1234606476/

Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mess just got 10 times messier and 20 times stupider
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-s-mar-a-lago-mess-just-got-10-times-messier-and-20-times-stupider/ar-AA12G6sX?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=579c9f0d9d4845fa8ad863819257bb97

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russian forces launched a missile attack in Zaporizhzhia, killing at least one person and destroying residential buildings. Zaporizhzhia has faced an uptick in civilian attacks in recent weeks, with experts fearing this will only escalate now that President Vladimir Putin has signed his annexation plans into law.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/oct/06/russia-ukraine-war-ukraine-retakes-more-settlements-in-kherson-zelenskiy-says-un-nuclear-chief-heads-to-kyiv-live

Putin’s ‘Victorious’ Land Theft Is Already a Confusing Mess: Top Russian officials are beginning to admit that the Kremlin doesn’t even know where the borders of its newly illegally annexed land are.
https://realnewshub.com/putins-victorious-land-theft-is-already-a-confusing-mess/

Russia’s Elites Are Starting to Admit the Possibility of Defeat: The longer the conflict rages and the more resources the Russian regime throws into the furnace of war, the more isolated Putin may become in his bid for nuclear escalation. Troops melting away and Russians fleeing abroad to avoid mobilisation doesn’t augur well for Putin’s latest gamble
https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/88072

# Gov / Politics / US
With midterm elections weeks away and control of Congress and statehouses across the country on the line, a key question hangs in the balance: Who gets a say in the outcome? Despite the promise of “one person, one vote,” the answer to that question differs dramatically from state to state.
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/elections/who-counts/who-counts-in-voting/?utm_source=Watchdog&utm_campaign=c8cd0bbf55-Public%20Integrity%20Who%20Counts%20Email%2001%2010_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffd1d0160d-c8cd0bbf55-100375721&mc_cid=c8cd0bbf55&mc_eid=dc62c7adba

Blake Masters Is the Most Dangerous Candidate in America: What makes Arizona’s GOP Senate hopeful such a threat is that unlike a lot of other far-right politicians, he really believes what he’s saying. He needs to convince skeptical voters that he’s not actually as extreme as they think, and that all the crazy things they heard him say over the past year were just misrepresentations made up by Democrats and the media. But Masters is just as far outside the ideological mainstream as he let on during the primary.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blake-masters-most-dangerous-candidate-000107726.html

A progressive nonprofit group is suing Bexar County over its decision to close more than 40 polling places ahead of November elections. The group, the Texas Organizing Project, claims the county has approved about 130 fewer polling places than is required by Texas law.
https://www.sacurrent.com/news/civil-rights-group-sues-bexar-county-over-closed-san-antonio-polling-places-30017732

Outsourced censorship: Feds used private entity to target millions of social posts in 2020: Biden administration gave millions in tax dollars to groups after election, records show. Election Integrity Partnership says it had 35% success rate getting tech platforms to label, remove or restrict content.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/biden-administration-rewarded-private-entities-got-2020-election

Insane in the membrane: Biden to fork over $625 million more from U.S. taxpayers to Ukraine; mobile rocker launchers included in aid package. The package is the first aid package since Russia’s most recent declared annexation of Ukrainian territory and the second Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) since Ukraine made large battlefield gains in mid-September.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-send-mobile-rocket-launchers-ukraine-625-mln-aid-package-officials-2022-10-03/

Nearly 300 Republican Midterm Candidates Embrace Trump’s Big Lie, Analysis Finds: The sheer number of candidates who doubt the election is a dire show of the Republican Party’s embrace of fascism.
https://truthout.org/articles/nearly-300-republican-midterm-candidates-embrace-trumps-big-lie-analysis-finds/

Feds Think They Have Evidence to Charge Hunter Biden: Federal agents believe they can charge Biden with tax crimes and lying about a gun purchase, but it’s unclear if Delaware prosecutors will do so.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-prosecutors-believe-enough-evidence-184109402.html

# Law Enforcement
2 die at Harris County jail as critics blame unsafe conditions for highest death toll in years: The Harris County jail is facing its highest capacity in more than 10 years, leading activists to blast unsafe conditions. Two recent deaths have brought the total number of people who have died in custody this year to 21, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
https://www.reformaustin.org/public-safety/harris-county-jail-death-toll-rises-to-21-just-this-year/

# Medical / Health
Toxic air pollution particles found in lungs and brains of unborn babies: Particles breathed by mothers pass to their vulnerable fetuses, with potentially lifelong consequences.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/05/toxic-air-pollution-particles-found-in-lungs-and-brains-of-unborn-babies

Losing amphibians may be tied to spikes in human malaria cases: Missing frogs, toads and salamanders may have led to more mosquitoes and potentially more malaria transmission. In the 1990s and 2000s, Costa Rica and Panama experienced spikes in malaria cases. The spread of the fungal disease chytridiomycosis was a slow-motion disaster, leading to a decades-long wave of amphibian declines globally may have contributed to the uptick of this human disease.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/amphibian-loss-human-malaria-cases-mosquitoes#:~:text=In%20the%201990s%20and%202000s,uptick%20of%20this%20human%20disease

Norovirus link to Crohn’s disease may point to new therapies: A new study may have solved a mystery surrounding Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel illness where immune defenses, meant to attack invading microbes, instead mistakenly target the body’s own digestive tract. Norovirus, a common infection that causes vomiting
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/10/221005111916.htm

Novel treatment effective for bladder cancer, study in mice shows: An epigenetics drug currently being used for the treatment of blood cancers and rare sarcomas can stop the growth of bladder cancer by activating the immune system, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study done in mice.
file:///C:/Users/19364/Downloads/2022-10-treatment-effective-bladder-cancer-mice%20(1).pdf

Large study of thoracic aortic aneurysm backs guidelines: A large, new Kaiser Permanente study provides high-quality evidence that most of the 33,000 patients diagnosed each year in the U.S. with a thoracic aortic aneurysm, a bulge in the part of the main artery that runs through the chest, are not likely to experience an aortic dissection and may not need open-heart surgery.
https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/our-story/health-research/news/large-study-of-thoracic-aortic-aneurysm-backs-guidelines

Peering into single cells reveals key processes in acute kidney injury: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequent complication associated with various diseases and particularly affects patients on intensive care units. However, the mechanisms underlying AKI are incompletely understood.
file:///C:/Users/19364/Downloads/2022-10-peering-cells-reveals-key-acute.pdf

22 Common Medications That Can Be Bad Long-Term: [As a note, never stop taking medication without speaking to a doctor first. Stopping certain medications suddenly can have serious side-effects.]
https://discover.alot.com/article/vertical/slideshow/22-common-medications-that-can-be-bad-long-term/15624?camp_id=163682&utm_campaign=163682&utm_content=two+top+pics&utm_source=fb&utm_medium=Cloned+Ad+Set+1

# Science
There are type O, type A, and type B, but what if scientists have yet to discover a rare blood combination or compound? Doctors recently found a new blood type in a UK hospital after operating on a woman who unexpectedly lost her newborn child. Unidentified antibodies were found in the mother’s blood, leading scientists to investigate the unfamiliar cells more deeply. It’s led to the discovery of a new blood type, labeled Er.
https://www.sciencealert.com/discovery-of-a-new-rare-blood-type-could-save-the-lives-of-future-newborns

A way to snap molecules together like Legos wins 2022 chemistry Nobel: Click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry allow scientists to build complex molecules in the lab and in living cells.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bioorthogonal-chemists-bertozzi-meldal-sharpless-win-2022-chemistry-nobel

Quantum experiments with entangled photons win the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics: Three pioneers in quantum information science share this year’s Nobel Prize in physics. Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work using entangled photons to test the quantum foundations of reality
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/explorers-of-quantum-entanglement-win-2022-nobel-prize-in-physics1/

Dogs and people treated side-by-side: At a cancer research centre in Virginia, veterinarians and physicians work together to develop therapies for canine and human use. For example, researchers are testing brain-cancer treatments in dogs and then will test the same approach in humans. “It just so happens that the molecular, genetic, clinical similarities of canine and human brain tumours is pretty remarkable,” says veterinary neurologist John Rossmeisl.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02025-5?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=bb8b4e597f-briefing-dy-20221006&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-bb8b4e597f-43812897

Chladni figures: the mysterious patterns in ‘The Rings of Power’ title sequence have some serious science behind them: Some of the shapes have a special meaning in the saga, but believe it or not, the shapes are not restricted to the Lord of the Rings universe, the ‘raw’ shapes can actually show up in the real world as well, and there’s no magic here, just science. They’re called Chladni figures.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/physics/chladni-figures-the-mysterious-patterns-in-the-rings-of-power-title-sequence-have-some-serious-science-behind-them/

# Security
Amazon Wants Surveillance Robot In Every Home: Amazon has a new plan for snooping into your private life and it’s much cuter than the Alexa. This week Lee Camp introduces you to Amazon’s robot home assistant, the Astro. Unlike the Alexa, you can’t just stick the Astro in a corner because it can follow you around the home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_mYtxqzOZg

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October 5, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate

# Border / Immigration
Ex-Counterintelligence Agent Helped DeSantis Scheme to Send Migrants to Martha’s Vineyard: Lawyers and migrants confirmed identity of woman
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ron-desantis-martha-s-vineyard-flight-b2191226.html

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Australia Bill Opens The Door to Forced Vaccinations: Western Australia, one of the most radical states Down Under, has proposed a bill that grants COVID-19 officers authorization to strip people from their homes and vaccinate them against their will. The “Emergency Management Amendment” legislation passed last year.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8629747/

# Economy / Finance / Trade
U.S. National Debt Tops $31 Trillion for First Time: The total public debt outstanding is now just over $31.1 trillion, according to data from the Treasury Department. Debt held by the public, which excludes intragovernmental borrowing, stands at roughly $24.3 trillion. The latest high mark in the nation’s debt burden prompted a fresh round of warning from budget watchdogs, particularly given rising interest rates, which have been driven to levels not seen in years by the Federal Reserve’s efforts to rein in inflation.
https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/newsletter/20221004-US-Debt-Tops-31-Trillion-First-Time

# Education / Schools
Parents like their public schools, no matter how much the charter school movement tells them not to: Branding public schools as “failed” institutions is more about politics than education.
https://www.alternet.org/2022/10/parents-like-their-public-school/

# Employment / Labor
‘Unreal’: Amazon Suspends 50 Employees Who Refused to Work After Fire Broke Out: “We will not tolerate any unsafe workplace and we will not tolerate intimidation.”
https://www.rawstory.com/unreal-amazon-suspends-50-employees-who-refused-to-work-after-fire-broke-out/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Utility Companies Claim to Embrace Renewables, Yet Are Planning New Gas Plants: Despite the passage of nearly $370 billion in renewable energy funding, utilities are squandering the opportunity.
https://truthout.org/articles/utility-companies-claim-to-embrace-renewables-yet-are-planning-new-gas-plants/

EV charging stations approved for 50 states plus DC and Puerto Rico, covering 75,000 highway miles: States will have access to $1.5 billion in federal monies to build the chargers.
https://www.ecowatch.com/ev-charging-stations-us.html

Gas Prices Could Soon Be on the Rise—Again: The OPEC Alliance’s plan to cut oil production could send gas prices back up after months of falling, as Biden hopes to alleviate that by releasing stocks from the U.S. reserves.
https://fortune.com/2022/09/12/why-is-gas-price-falling-will-increase-janet-yellen-risk/

Khanna Tells Biden to Cut Off Weapons to Saudis as OPEC Agrees to Slash Oil Supply: “President Biden should make it clear that we will stop supplying the Saudis with weapons and air parts if they fleece the American people and strengthen Putin by making drastic production cuts.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/05/khanna-tells-biden-cut-weapons-saudis-opec-agrees-slash-oil-supply

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Greenpeace Campaigners Disrupt Liz Truss Speech to Denounce U-Turn on Fracking: Activists taken away by security after holding up banner reading ‘Who voted for this?’ “Nobody voted for fracking … nobody voted to trash nature, nobody voted to scrap workers’ rights,” said one organizer.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/05/greenpeace-protesters-disrupt-liz-truss-speech-at-tory-conference

# Environment / Climate / Global
Biden Pledges $60 Million to Help Protect Puerto Rico From Hurricanes: In a visit to Puerto Rico Monday, President Joe Biden pledged an initial $60 million to help the U.S. territory prepare for hurricanes and other storms that have been made more extreme by the climate crisis
https://www.ecowatch.com/biden-puerto-rico-hurricanes.html

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
‘Nearly doubled’ foreign investment in U.S. farmland comes under scrutiny: A coalition of 130 lawmakers sent a letter to a top federal watchdog raising the alarm about a spike in foreign ownership of U.S. farmland
https://www.crowrivermedia.com/national/news/nearly-doubled-foreign-investment-in-u-s-farmland-comes-under-scrutiny/article_c4441648-b3e6-5cb9-ac7f-6ff7e306af00.html

Tiny Plastic Particles are Climbing the Food Chain from the Ground Up: Nanoplastics are making their way into our food, and likely accumulating in our bodies as a result, according to a recent study. Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland have created a fingerprint-based technique to detect tiny plastic particles in organisms.
https://www.sciencealert.com/study-shows-how-microplastics-can-easily-climb-the-food-chain-should-we-be-worried

# General Information / Other News
45 Historical Misconceptions We All Believed: As historical knowledge passes on from generation to generation, it’s easy to get caught up in the lies. Misinformation passes on like a virus and unless you really read up on this stuff, you are bound to take in some of the falsehoods. And then it can be difficult to discern from what you know and what you think you know.
https://living.alot.com/entertainment/40-historical-misconceptions-we-all-believed–17078

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the annexation of four eastern Ukrainian regions into law, AP reports. This is despite Ukrainian forces retaking more of these territories in the last several days, and widespread international rejection of Russia’s sham referendum.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-international-law-donetsk-9fcd11c11936dd700db94ab725f2b7d6

Putin’s Dueling Foot Soldiers Are Now Killing Each Other Off: Amid very public infighting between Russian groups, the Kremlin is reportedly trying to keep a lid on a Wagner mercenary shooting dead a lieutenant-colonel.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/vladimir-putins-dueling-foot-soldiers-in-ukraine-are-now-apparently-killing-each-other-off

Putin Crony Drafts Russian ‘Kill List’ of Western Officials: “Those who are with us will be fine, and the rest we will kill,” said one of Vladimir Putin’s most prominent mouthpieces while promoting his idea on Russian state television. Prominent pundits, routinely seen on Kremlin-controlled state television, flatly reject the very idea of negotiations, and none of them dare to suggest a Russian withdrawal from Ukraine to end the war. Instead, they double down, and propose killing leading Westerners responsible for helping Ukraine defend itself against Russian invasion.
https://www.ampgoo.com/putin-crony-says-he-drafted-russian-kill-list-of-western-officials

# Gov / Politics / US
Biden Affirms U.S. Support for Japan After North Korea Missile Launch: U.S. President Joe Biden reinforced Washington’s ‘ironclad commitment’ to Japan’s defense during a phone call with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida following North Korea’s launch of a ballistic missile, the White House said. The two leaders jointly condemned the missile test, and confirmed they would work closely with South Korea and the international community to coordinate an immediate and longer-term response, the White House said in a statement.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/biden-affirms-us-support-japan-after-north-korea-missile-launch-2022-10-04/

What Will It Take for GOP to Condemn Trump’s Death Threats? The ex-president’s racist and violent rhetoric has now turned against his own party. And Republicans are still too scared to fight back.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3672713-the-memo-trumps-death-wish-attack-on-mcconnell-sets-alarm-bells-ringing/

The Far Right’s Violent Rhetoric Is Escalating, and Includes Talk of ‘Civil War’: A recent study found that millions of Americans believe the use of violence to further political aims is justified.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-far-rights-violent-rhetoric-is-escalating-and-includes-talk-of-civil-war/

Florida Struggles in the Wake of Deadly Hurricane as DeSantis Wages Culture Wars: The Florida governor’s focus has been on enacting anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ policies.
https://truthout.org/video/florida-struggles-in-the-wake-of-deadly-hurricane-as-desantis-wages-culture-wars/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=e08eba0f-8db6-4322-964d-1c9906daba0b

The GOP’s Hatred of Cities Has Hit an Ugly New Low: The GOP’s rhetoric about urban life, “disgusting and violent!” “Soaked in blood!” has really gotten out of hand. “Chicago is living the purge, when criminals ravage at will, and the cops stand down,” Bailey told reporters last month, making a reference to the horror franchise in which murder is legal for one night a year.
It’s like the entire party is running for police commissioner of Gotham City.
https://slate.com/business/2022/10/republicans-cities-darren-bailey-jd-vance-tom-cotton-donald-trump.html?via=rss

Why Nancy Pelosi Sabotaged Wildly Popular Bipartisan Legislation: Scroll through the right TikToks and you’ll find a cottage industry of would-be financial advisers who are obsessed with the money moves of lawmakers.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/10/congressional-stock-market-ban-nancy-pelosi-sabotage.html

A 23-year-old man who allegedly assaulted a police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was later paid by the Virginia Republican Party to campaign for now-Gov. Glenn Youngkin, HuffPost has confirmed. Joseph Brody allegedly entered Nancy Pelosi’s office during last year’s insurrection. Months later, he campaigned for Virginia’s now-governor.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joseph-brody-january-6-rioter-arrested-glenn-youngkin_n_633da1fee4b03e8038c4ba98

If Republicans win back control of Congress in November, buckle up for many, many investigations. HuffPost went through House Republicans’ “Commitment to America” campaign document, public statements by party leaders and other accounts of investigation plans, showing a list of almost two dozen targets. And if one includes all the topics House Republicans have at least formally expressed an interest in looking into, the number of probe or hearing targets rises to more than 70.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-probe-hearing-targets-congress_n_633c8c52e4b02816452e9e87?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Politics%2010/5/22&utm_term=us-politics
See Also: Here Is The House GOP’s Hit List If Republicans Retake Congress
https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-gop-hit-list-republicans-212449006.html

# Legal / DOJ
Trump Takes Mar-a-Lago Documents Case to Supreme Court: The court has given the DOJ a week to respond to the filing, indicating it doesn’t see an urgent need to hear the case. Trump’s request would put about 100 potentially classified documents back into the special master review.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/04/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-intervene-in-mar-a-lago-documents-case-00060300

“There’s Going to Be a Fight”: Oath Keepers Trial Reveals Plan to Use Violence to Keep Trump in Office:
The Oath Keepers trial, in which senior leaders of the right-wing extremist group are accused of plotting violence at the January 6 insurrection, began Monday
https://freespeech.org/stories/theres-going-to-be-a-fight-oath-keepers-trial-reveals-violent-plans-to-keep-trump-in-office/

# Medical / Health
This CDC Scientist Couldn’t Access Monkeypox Treatment. Why? It took three doctor visits, and a desperate call to a colleague for a Black scientist to get treatment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/monkeypox-transmission-treatment-cdc-scientist

$80,000 and 5 ER Visits: An Ectopic Pregnancy Takes a Toll Despite NY’s Liberal Abortion Law: An ectopic pregnancy in the fallopian tube is never viable. But following the June reversal of Roe by the Supreme Court, reproductive health experts say treatment may be dangerously delayed as some states move to limit abortion services.
https://khn.org/news/article/ectopic-pregnancy-new-york-abortion-law/

Biden Announces Abortion, Reproductive Health Protections Under Title IX
https://khn.org/morning-breakout/biden-announces-abortion-reproductive-health-protections-under-title-ix/

Study links in utero ‘forever chemical’ exposure to low sperm count and mobility: PFAS, now found in nearly all umbilical cord blood around the world, interfere with hormones crucial to testicle development.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/05/pfas-sperm-count-mobility-testicle-development

Impact of environmental toxin exposure on male fertility potential: Synthetic chemicals surround us. Some are benevolent; however, many are known to cause disruption of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis and impair spermatogenesis. More than 80,000 chemicals are registered with the United States National Toxicology Program and nearly 2,000 new chemicals are introduced each year.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7807371/

# Military / DOD
Rain of American Armaments for Ukraine. Huge Arsenal donated to Kiev by the Pentagon for US War against Russia: Today the Department of Defense (DoD) announced approximately $1.1 billion in additional security assistance for Ukraine under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI). This USAI package underscores the U.S. commitment to continuing to support Ukraine over the long term.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/10/04/rain-of-american-armaments-for-ukraine-huge-arsenal-donated-to-kiev-by-the-pentagon-for-us-war-against-russia/

Following Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the United States embarked on a long-term commitment to provide Ukraine with the tools and equipment it needs to defend its sovereignty. Since that time, more than $14.5 billion in assistance has been committed to Ukraine.
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3154210/department-moves-quick-to-replenish-weapons-sent-to-ukraine/

# Science
Wax Worm Saliva Can Degrade Stubborn Plastic Within Hours, Scientists Find: What began as an infestation could be a surprising nature-based solution to the plastic pollution crisis. In 2017, scientist and amateur beekeeper Federica Bertocchini found some unwanted intruders in one of her hives, wax-moth larvae that feed on beeswax. She took the worms out of her hive and placed them in a plastic bag. However, it turned out that the polyethylene (PE) prison would not hold them.
https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-degradation-wax-worms.html

# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
Russian Cosmonaut Launches to Space Station With SpaceX Crew: The integrated crews are essential for ensuring the International Space Station has enough hands on deck.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russian-cosmonaut-hitching-ride-with-spacex-part-next-space-station-crew-2022-10-05/

# Water
Safe Tap Water Is a Human Right. But from Michigan to Mississippi to Tribal communities in the West, millions of Americans don’t have it. The water drips lethargically from the tap, if at all. Its appearance shifts from chemical brown sludge to ghoulish clouds. The accompanying stench is revolting. Fundamentally, we must recognize water as a universal human right, rather than a commodity reserved for the few.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/05/safe-tap-water-human-right?utm_source=daily_newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter_op

‘Absolutely Shameful’: Michigan Judge Drops Flint Water Crisis Charges Against 7 Officials. “This means there are currently no criminal charges over 8 years later,” lamented one journalist. A Michigan judge on Tuesday dropped felony criminal charges against seven former officials in connection to the 2014 Flint water crisis that poisoned thousands of people and killed dozens.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/05/absolutely-shameful-michigan-judge-drops-flint-water-crisis-charges-against-7

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