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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-10-04

Voices, The Peoples News

October 4, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate

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# Education / Schools
2 Men Targeted A School Librarian Who Spoke Out Against Censorship.
They’re Not Facing Any Consequences. At a July school board meeting in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, middle school librarian Amanda Jones spoke out against book censorship. Like many other librarians across the country, Jones also received an explicit death threat via email, and her friends and family have received harassing messages as well.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/library-smears-lawsuit_n_63371f46e4b03e8038be31fb

# Employment / Labor
CEO Pay Has Grown by 1,460 Percent Since 1978, as Workers’ Wages Stagnate: Worker pay has only grown by 18 percent over the same period.
https://truthout.org/articles/ceo-pay-has-grown-by-1460-percent-since-1978-as-workers-wages-stagnate/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
A new report surveys how states are supporting communities in the wake of coal mine and power plant closures, and finds the best policies include retraining for workers and funding for environmental cleanup. The best policies to help coal towns weather the switch to renewables. A new report singles out Colorado, Illinois and New Mexico as trailblazers in just-transition laws. Could fossil strongholds Wyoming and West Virginia follow suit?
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/just-transition/the-best-policies-to-help-coal-towns-weather-the-switch-to-renewables?utm_medium=email

‘Their greed knows no bounds’: analysis shows ongoing price gouging by oil giants: “Big Oil is boasting record profits and dragging their feet to pass any lower costs onto consumers in order to keep padding investors’ pockets,” said Accountable.US.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/03/their-greed-knows-no-bounds-analysis-shows-ongoing-price-gouging-oil-giants

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemicals / Global
Ex-advisor to Pentagon Chief suggests US, UK might be behind Nord Stream Sabotage: “You have to look at who are the state actors that have the capability to do this. And that means the [UK’s] Royal Navy and the United States’ Navy <…> I think that’s pretty clear,” Macgregor said.
https://www.gospanews.net/en/2022/10/03/ex-advisor-to-pentagon-chief-suggests-us-uk-might-be-behind-nord-streams-sabotage/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Change” And Work With Google to Suppress Opposing Viewpoints: A United Nations official told the World Economic Forum on Thursday that they “own the science” on “climate change” and have partnered together with Google to suppress opposing viewpoints in search results.
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63374

New study suggests coal ash pollution more widespread than previously thought: The study found large amounts of coal ash in the sediment, or sand, of five recreational lakes across North Carolina.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/10/221003090559.htm

Empty ESG Pledges Ensure Bonds Benefit Companies, Not the Planet: Sustainability-linked bonds let companies borrow cheaply if they meet environmental, social, and governance targets. A Bloomberg News analysis found those goals are weak
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-10-04/greenwashing-enters-a-22-trillion-debt-market-derailing-climate-goals?srnd=green

The Minority Exploitation Game Called Environmental Justice: It should be no surprise that the monumentally misnamed Inflation Reduction Act is filled with provisions likely to accomplish something other than the advertised purpose.
https://dcjournal.com/the-minority-exploitation-game-called-environmental-justice/

New Air Monitors Among Major Impacts of ProPublica Toxic Air Pollution Reporting: Communities identified as “Sacrifice Zones” in a ProPublica analysis of toxic air pollution scored major wins this month. In one, the EPA will start monitoring the air. In another, a judge withdrew permits from a giant petrochemical complex.
https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-epa-air-monitors-louisiana-cancer-alley

# Environment / Climate / Global
‘Backed into a corner’: Duncan’s First Nation sues Alberta for cumulative impacts of industry: Lawsuit follows in the footsteps of B.C. Supreme Court’s precedent-setting Blueberry River decision, which could have profound impacts for oil and gas industry. A First Nation in northern Alberta is suing the Alberta government for infringement of Treaty Rights
https://thenarwhal.ca/duncans-first-nation-sues-alberta/

Biden to announce $60M to bolster flood protections in Puerto Rico: The funds will come from the recently enacted infrastructure law. The funding will aim to shore up levees, strengthen flood walls and create a new flood warning system to better prepare Puerto Rico for future storms
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/03/biden-flood-protections-puerto-rico-00059968

# General Information / Other News
Trump Worried After Ghislaine Arrest: ‘She Ask About Me?’: Trump raised Ghislaine Maxwell link with aides. The former president was reportedly concerned about an article saying Maxwell hoped Trump would protect her.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/04/trump-ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-maggie-haberman-book-confidence-man

Trump Sues CNN for $475M and Warns of More Lawsuits to Come: The former president said “the time has finally come” for his battle with the network.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/donald-trump-sues-cnn-claiming-defamation-seeks-475m/

Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi, “Israel is really dangerous.”: “The power of the Israel Lobby and of AIPAC is not cost free for the American public. The current $3 billion plus that Israel, with a thriving first world economy, receives in military assistance is on top of the $130 billion that it has received since 1949.”
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/10/03/former-cia-officer-philip-giraldi-israel-is-really-dangerous/

United States and Russia: Dangerous export of Democracy and dictatorship. The State Department wants our embassies to share this information widely as part of the Biden administration’s Summit for Democracy and to ensure that governments are not complacent about the Russian threat. In calling attention to this study, the Washington Post editorialized that “democracies must stand guard.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/10/04/united-states-and-russia-dangerous-export-of-democracy-and-dictatorship/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russian Lawyers Drowning in Requests for Help to Dodge Draft: Hundreds of thousands of people have already fled the country to avoid being sent to Ukraine.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-lawyers-drowning-in-requests-for-help-to-dodge-putins-draft

Russian Journalist Escapes House Arrest After War Protest: Marina Ovsyannikova was placed on a Russian fugitive list after her ex-husband reported she’d taken their 11-year-old daughter and vanished.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/03/russian-marina-ovsyannikova-ukraine-war-protest-escape-house-arrest

Putin’s Right-Hand Men Publicly Mock ‘Garbage’ War Failures: Some of Vladimir Putin’s most important allies are now brazenly calling out the Russian president’s war strategy.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/putin-allies-ramzan-kadyrov-and-evgeniy-prigozhin-mock-vladimir-putins-war-failures

# Gov / Politics / US
Biden to Set New Guidelines to Protect Reproductive Rights: The president will also speak about new grants to protect reproductive healthcare. The directive equips the Heath and Human Services department to expand coverage for patients seeking out of state care
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/03/biden-executive-order-protect-abortion-access

Election workers in seven states are experiencing unprecedented threats ahead of next month’s midterm elections, an increase from the already heightened levels of harassment since the 2020 election. Seven states, in particular, are being targeted, the FBI says.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/election-worker-interference-midterms_n_633c45f9e4b0e376dbfafd52?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Fringe%2010/4/22&utm_term=us-fringe

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) made an outlandish claim on Saturday at a rally for former President Donald Trump’s political action committee, Save America: Democrats not only want to kill Republicans, but they have already begun doing so. “We’re all targets now, though, for daring to push back against the regime,” Greene said at the event in Warren, Michigan.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-democrats-violence_n_633c1e07e4b08e0e60718bdb?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Fringe%2010/4/22&utm_term=us-fringe

Six Supreme Court justices, both liberal and conservative, did not immediately buy the case made by the state of Alabama that the court should overturn 40 years of precedent and gut the Voting Rights Act during arguments in the case of Merrill v. Milligan on Tuesday, instead effectively gut it by making it even harder to prove that a racial minority constitutes a geographically compact community.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/library-smears-lawsuit_n_63371f46e4b03e8038be31fb

Groups Pushing Right-Wing State Policy Are Raking In $152 Million Each Year: The revenue doesn’t include millions more in contributions to advocacy or litigation arms of the State Policy Network.
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/09/30/state-policy-network-and-affiliates-raises-152-million-annually-to-push-right-wing-policies/

Rubio vows to vote against Hurricane relief bill if it includes ‘pork’: U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., pledged to oppose efforts to add additional spending measures to a potential Hurricane Ian relief bill, saying he would vote against that kind of bill
https://newspress.com/rubio-vows-to-vote-against-hurricane-relief-bill-if-it-includes-pork/

# Law Enforcement
Mississippi’s Missing Search Warrants Prevent Scrutiny of No-Knock Raids: No-knock warrants authorize police to burst into someone’s home unannounced. Search warrants are supposed to be filed at the courthouse, but they’re missing from many of Mississippi’s justice courts. Some of those courts violate state rules by failing to require law enforcement to return search warrants and related documents. Other courts do keep search warrant records but won’t let the public see them, defying well-established jurisprudence about the availability of court records.
https://www.propublica.org/article/no-knock-warrants-missing-mississippi

Cop Who Died During Training Was Probing LAPD Gang Rape: The family’s attorney Bradley Gage is arguing that the death wasn’t an accident at all. “We have uncovered evidence that Houston Tipping may have been harmed and later died as the result of retaliation against a whistleblower,” the lawyer said in a press conference on Monday.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/6367300/cop-killed-training-exercise-gang-rape/

2 More Shootings Tied to Suspected California Serial Killer: Stockton police do not believe the seven attacks are hate crimes or gang related activity. Ballistic evidence connects last year’s unsolved shootings of a man and woman in Stockton and Oakland to the recent killings of five men, police said.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stockton-serial-killer-more-shootings-connected_n_633c5a35e4b03e8038c2bbda

# Legal / DOJ
‘Armed Rebellion’: Oath Keepers Trial Is Off to Fiery Start: Stewart Rhodes is accused of plotting to overthrow the government after his cronies showed up in force on Jan. 6. His lawyer says he plans to testify.
https://news.yahoo.com/far-militia-boss-thinks-woo-171545011.html

Supreme Court May Soon Roll Back Affirmative Action and Voting Rights: As Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson becomes the first Black woman to hear a SCOTUS case, civil rights are under attack.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/10/4/elie_mystal_new_supreme_court_term

# Media
A Bill Intended to Protect Journalists Could End Up Boosting Far Right Media: A bill crafted to give local news leverage over Big Tech has drawn fierce criticism despite bipartisan support.
https://truthout.org/articles/a-bill-intended-to-protect-journalists-could-end-up-boosting-far-right-media/

# Medical / Health
NIH to award over $200 million to support potentially transformative biomedical research projects: The 2022 NIH Director’s Awards enable exceptionally creative scientists to push the boundaries of biomedical science.
https://www.nccu.edu/news/nih-awards-high-risk-high-reward-research-grant-nccu

Key Alzheimer’s Test May Limit Treatment for People of Color: Getting access to a certain Alzhiemer’s drug requires a positive result on PET scans, which happens less frequently for Black, Hispanic, and Asian patients.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-key-alzheimers-test-may-actually-limit-treatment-options-for-people-of-color

Advocates Urge FDA to Ease Access to Abortion Pill for Miscarriage Management: Regulations around mifepristone make it hard for miscarrying patients to access it, especially in the current climate.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/doctors-urge-us-fda-add-miscarriage-management-abortion-pill-label-2022-10-04/

Acetaminophen Use for Fever in Children Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Recent studies have found an association between acetaminophen and immune system alterations like asthma and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes.
https://www.cureus.com/articles/84979-a-systematic-review-of-the-link-between-autism-spectrum-disorder-and-acetaminophen-a-mystery-to-resolve

Study Finds Aluminum in Vaccines May Raise Asthma Risks: New study sees possible link between aluminum in childhood vaccines and risk of asthma, but caveats abound
https://www.statnews.com/2022/09/27/possible-link-aluminum-childhood-vaccines-asthma-risk-caveats/

# Military / DOD
Pentagon shipping 4 more HIMARS, 32 howitzers to Ukraine: The Pentagon will soon ship four more of the US rocket artillery systems to Ukraine that officials have labeled as critical to that country’s battlefield success against invading Russian troops, the Defense Department announced Tuesday.
https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2022/10/04/pentagon-sending-excalibur-guided-artillery-more-himars-to-ukraine/

# Pharmas / Drugs
Many Antidepressant Studies Found Tainted by Pharma Company Influence: A review of studies that assess clinical antidepressants shows hidden conflicts of interest and financial ties to corporate drugmakers. After many lawsuits and a 2012 U.S. Department of Justice settlement, last month an independent review found that antidepressant drug Paxil (paroxetine) is not safe for teenagers. The finding contradicts the conclusions of the initial 2001 drug trial, which the manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline had funded, then used its results to market Paxil as safe for adolescents.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/many-antidepressant-studies-found-tainted-by-pharma-company-influence/

# Security
Trusting Iran Compromises Our National Security: Last month, the Department of Justice unsealed a case against an Iranian agent charged with plotting the assassination of former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton.
https://dcjournal.com/trusting-iran-compromises-our-national-security/

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-10-03

Voices, The Peoples News

October 3, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate

# Border / Immigration
The warden of an immigration detention center yelled profanities at a group of Mexican immigrants before killing one of them and injuring another with a shotgun, according to an arrest affidavit from the Texas Department of Public Safety. Suspects in migrant shooting went to a meeting after firing fatal shots, police report says. Michael Sheppard, one of the suspects, was the warden of an immigration detention center that was the subject of several human rights abuse complaints in 2018.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/30/texas-migrants-shooting-warden-sierra-blanca/

Texas brothers charged with manslaughter for shooting migrants getting water near border: Twin brothers in Texas has been charged with manslaughter for shooting at a group of migrants who had stopped to get water near the U.S.-Mexico border. One of the migrants died, and another was injured. One of the two brothers, Michael Sheppard, was the warden at a privately run immigration jail, the West Texas Detention Facility, which has been accused of abuse. He was fired after the attack.
https://www.kwtx.com/2022/09/30/authorities-texas-warden-brother-arrested-after-migrant-is-killed-near-mexico-border/

# Chemicals
Crucial misrepresentations about glyphosate continue to threaten agriculture. This scientist explains how the UN agency IARC likely manipulated the data: It seems that IARC’s judgment carried such cachet that few felt the need to actually read the 91 pages devoted to it and form an independent opinion of the report. A partial explanation for IARC’s largely unquestioned authority may be the fact that the agency is loosely affiliated with the World Health Organization.
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/09/27/crucial-misrepresentations-about-glyphosate-continue-to-threaten-agriculture-this-scientist-explains-how-the-un-agency-iarc-appears-to-have-deliberately-manipulated-the-data/?mc_cid=7947e0e5a0&mc_eid=c87bac2a19

Iowa joins 9 states in suing ag pesticide makers, alleging anticompetitive practices: The complaint, filed in a U.S. District Court in North Carolina, accuses the companies of using “loyalty programs” with pesticide distributors to exclude generic competitors from the market.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2022/09/30/iowa-joins-states-suing-corteva-syngenta-over-loyalty-programs-lawsuit/69528808007/

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Terrifying Russian Bat Virus Could Spark the Next Pandemic: Lab tests suggest the Khosta-2 virus thrives in human cells and is resistant to current coronavirus vaccines. We need better jabs to fight new animal viruses. The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over. In fact, it shows signs of lingering for, well, a long time. But even as politicians and health authorities struggle with how, if at all, to keep addressing the current pandemic, scientists are already anticipating the next one.
https://news.yahoo.com/terrifying-russian-bat-virus-could-225907485.html

Revealed: How scientists who dismissed Wuhan lab theory are linked to Chinese researchers: Despite declaring no conflicts of interest at the time, it has since emerged that the letter was orchestrated by British zoologist Peter Daszak, president of the US-based EcoHealth Alliance, which funded research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where the leak was suspected. However, The Telegraph can disclose that 26 of the 27 scientists listed in the letter had connections to the Chinese lab
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/10/revealed-scientists-dismissed-wuhan-lab-theory-linked-chinese/

UK scientist with links to Wuhan lab ‘recuses himself’ from inquiry into Covid origins: Dr Peter Daszak, president of the US-based EcoHealth Alliance, has “recused himself” from the inquiry by leading medical journal the Lancet after he failed to declare ties to the Wuhan Laboratory of Virology, which was conducting research into coronavirus in bats
https://www.nationandstate.com/2022/10/03/uk-scientist-with-links-to-wuhan-lab-recuses-himself-from-inquiry-into-covid-origins/

Scientists Square Off Over Covid, Wuhan, and Peter Daszak: A group of academics claim the president of EcoHealth Alliance has misled the public amid Covid origins investigations.
https://undark.org/2021/11/24/scientists-square-off-over-covid-wuhan-and-peter-daszak/

Dr. Anthony Fauci and his wife’s net worth grew by $5 million during the COVID-19 pandemic as thousands of US residents struggled financially, according to a government spending watchdog group.
https://nypost.com/2022/09/29/fauci-and-wifes-wealth-skyrocketed-by-5m-during-pandemic-analysis/

Top vaccine expert with FDA and NIH warns healthy young people not to get COVID-19 booster: ‘There’s not clear evidence of benefit’ versus risk: “You’re asking people to get a new product for which there’s no data,” Offit also told CNN. “Mice data [from eight mice] are not adequate to launch 100-plus-billion-dose effort.” The booster shot was authorized by the FDA despite not having been tested on humans.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/vaccine-expert-covid-booster-young

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Global
International Finance Capital Rebels Against British … Tax Cuts for the Rich? Bankers shoot down the Conservative Party budget plan. Bankers shoot down the Conservative Party budget plan.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/international-finance-capital-rebels-against-british-tax-cuts-for-rich/

# Education / Schools
Corporal punishment of students with disabilities in U.S. public schools: A 2008 American Civil Liberties Union /Human Rights Watch report found that corporal punishment in public schools is routine in many parts of the US, and that almost a quarter-of-a-million school children were subjected to this violent, degrading punishment in the 2006-2007 school year
https://www.aclu.org/impairing-education-corporal-punishment-students-disabilities-us-public-schools-html

Schools Should Ban Corporal Punishment and Teach Restorative Justice Instead: By instituting corporal punishment, school districts are exposing children to violence that causes long-term damage
https://truthout.org/articles/schools-should-ban-corporal-punishment-and-teach-restorative-justice-instead/

Old-school discipline doesn’t work any more, and shouldn’t: Why last year’s discipline reforms were the right move, and why we need to go further. Schools that buck the trend and continue to dole out punishment for minor ‘infractions’ end up producing the very thing they want to attack: bad behavior. The happiest schools are those that know when to turn a blind eye.
https://edsource.org/2022/old-school-discipline-doesnt-work-any-more-and-shouldnt/670966

This campus takes “learning environment” literally: At the University of the District of Columbia, sustainable infrastructure is part of the educational experience.
https://ensia.com/articles/university-district-columbia-sustainability/

Families of the Uvalde shooting victims are camping outside the school district’s office demanding action. “My son is dead because of the inactions of your school district, of the city, of all the police involved, starting with the school to the city to the state, they all failed,” said Brett Cross. “We did everything how they wanted to and nothing was done, so now we’re doing it our way. I guarantee I’m a lot more stubborn than they are.”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paigeskinner/uvalde-camp-out

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
California Gov. Newsom proposes windfall profits tax on Big Oil: Calls for windfall profits taxes have increased globally in recent weeks that would go directly back to California taxpayers.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/09/30/governor-newsom-calls-for-a-windfall-tax-to-put-record-oil-profits-back-in-californians-pockets/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
“And pray …. What will you tell them when they ask you why?” Author Unknown
Deforestation 101: Everything You Need to Know: Trees have been around for about 370 million years. Today, there are about three trillion trees and ten billion acres of forest on Earth. That may sound like a lot, but the planet has lost more than one billion acres of forest to deforestation since 1990. The biggest human causes of deforestation are farming, raising cattle and the uncontrolled cultivation of crops like rubber and palm oil.
https://www.ecowatch.com/deforestation-explained.html

‘Dangerously Low’ Mississippi River Level May Spark Transport Chaos For Farm Goods During Harvest: A drought is drying up parts of the Mississippi River, a major export channel for corn and soybeans. The waterway is responsible for at least half of the US corn and soybean exports. The shrinking water level, barge shortage, and skyrocketing shipping costs are terrible for farmers during harvest season.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/dangerously-low-mississippi-river-level-may-spark-transport-chaos-farm-goods-during-harvest

# Environment / Climate / Global
The guardians of the future: It’s time for Indigenous voices to lead the climate fight. As the climate crisis escalates, activists fighting to protect what remains of the world’s forests are at risk of being persecuted by governments, even at risk of death. For decades Indigenous activists have been sounding the alarm, but their warnings have too often been ignored. So, they organized.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/01/opinion/climate-change-indigenous-activists.html

# General Information / Other News
Free Stores Offer an Alternative to the Exploitative Capitalist Economy: A coordinated network of free store hubs could begin to act as a building block for moving beyond capitalism.
https://truthout.org/articles/free-stores-offer-an-alternative-to-the-exploitative-capitalist-economy/

Dem Senator Targets Gun Group Over Its Secret Gun Registry: Sen. Richard Blumenthal is wondering why the National Shooting Sports Foundation was keeping a list of gun owners.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/abortion-clinic-escorts-say-work-is-becoming-a-war-zone

9 NATO countries call to admit Ukraine as counteroffensive presses on: The leaders of Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania and Slovakia issued a joint statement backing a path to NATO membership for Ukraine.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2022-10-02/nine-nato-countries-call-to-admit-ukraine-as-counteroffensive-presses-on-7544389.html

Nearly 2,000 Environmental Defenders Killed in Last 10 Years: At a rate of every other day for the past 10 years, an environmental defender has lost their life protecting their home.
https://www.ecowatch.com/environmental-defenders-killed.html

Trump Demanded a Government Shutdown and Nobody Noticed
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/10/trump-demanded-a-government-shutdown-and-nobody-noticed.html

# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin Has Left the World No Other Option But Regime Change: The Russian dictator’s deranged “annexation” speech should make it clear to the global community of nations that his staying in power won’t provide “stability.”
Those desiring regime change in Russia should be careful what they wish for. Many western analysts are clearly hoping Putin’s disastrous Ukraine war brings his downfall. But the track record in these cases isn’t great
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/30/those-desiring-regime-change-in-russia-should-be-careful-what-they-wish-for

Russian Commissar Fired as Half of Drafted Men Sent Home: The setback is just the latest farce to blight the Kremlin‘s mass military mobilization.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-10-03/half-of-mobilised-men-in-russian-region-sent-home-commissar-fired-governor

Brazil’s Election Heads Into Second Round With High Stakes for Amazon Rainforest, World Climate. Brazil’s tense presidential election has gone into a runoff that will take place on October 30, 2022.
https://www.ecowatch.com/brazil-election-amazon-rainforest.html

National Archives Says It’s Still Missing Docs Trump Removed From White House: More than 11,000 government documents, 300 of which were classified, have been retrieved from Mar-a-Lago in 2022.
https://truthout.org/articles/national-archives-says-its-still-missing-docs-trump-removed-from-white-house/

# Gov / Politics / US
After U.S. soldiers were told to go on Food Stamps, Congress finds another $12 billion for Ukraine: News follows the Senate passing a 40 billion aid package in May, a 14 billion package in March. President Biden asked Congress for an additional 11.7 billion in aid for Ukraine, with Congress, in turn, seems to be jumping at his behest. As a reminder, earlier this month the Army told active-duty American soldiers to go on food stamps if they were unable to afford food thanks to inflation. Food stamps for American soldiers, endless billions for Ukraine. This is your country now.
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/after-u-s-soldiers-were-told-to-go-on-food-stamps-congress-finds-another-12-billion-for-ukraine/

Former Congressman Sentenced to Prison for Stuffing Pennsylvania Ballot Boxes: Former Abscam Congressman ‘Ozzie’ Myers is headed back to federal prison, this time for election fraud. The former politician was sentenced to 2 1/2 years behind bars after pleading guilty to bribing election workers to stuff ballot boxes in local elections.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/ozzie-myers-prison-sentence-abscam-philly-election-fraud-20220927.html

Reporter claims to have seen ‘steady stream of attendees heading for exits since about the 15-minute mark of this now hour-long’ speech: A reporter who was live-tweeting from the Macomb College Sports & Expo Center suggested the crowd was far from the arena’s full capacity of 6,600. One picture purportedly taken 10 minutes before the end of the rally showed sparsely populated seating towards the rear of the venue.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/video-shows-steady-stream-leaving-trump-rally-after-just-15-minutes/ar-AA12wBJN?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=fc1bde588b414ed3a02bede9f44ab255

Pat Toomey Blockades Biden’s Housing Nominees Amid Historic Rent Hikes: The Department of Housing and Urban Development is lacking vital staff during a crisis of housing affordability.
https://prospect.org/cabinet-watch/pat-toomey-blockades-biden-housing-nominees-amid-historic-/

Every Single Florida House Republican Voted Against Disaster Relief Funding: “That is a level of callous indifference and political opportunism that boggles the mind,” one Florida Democrat said.
https://truthout.org/articles/every-single-florida-house-republican-voted-against-disaster-relief-funding/

Grassroots Groups in Mississippi Are Pushing for Representation in Local Office: Mississippi has never elected a Black person to statewide office to this day.
https://truthout.org/articles/grassroots-groups-in-mississippi-are-pushing-for-representation-in-local-office/

# Law Enforcement
Hundreds of prison and jail deaths go uncounted by the federal government, report finds: The Justice Department is failing to adequately and efficiently collect data about deaths in state prisons and local jails, with at least 990 incidents going uncounted by the federal government in fiscal year 2021 alone, according to a newly released bipartisan Senate report.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/09/24/a-moral-disgrace-how-the-u-s-stopped-counting-deaths-behind-bars

GOP reputation as the party of law and order collapsing under the weight of Trump’s ‘anarchy and lawlessness’:
Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota, claimed that the Republican Party’s attempts to play the law and order card in the upcoming election is falling flat with voters who are inundated with new revelations of Donald Trump’s criminality on a daily basis. https://www.rawstory.com/trump-criminal-2658374880/

# Legal / DOJ
The Supreme Court is back in session, with new controversial cases that stand to change many Americans’ lives, here’s what to expect. Affirmative action, discrimination against LGBTQ people and election laws are some of the hot-button issues that the Supreme Court will tackle this fall.
https://theconversation.com/the-supreme-court-is-back-in-session-with-new-controversial-cases-that-stand-to-change-many-americans-lives-heres-what-to-expect-190819

The Supreme Court has chipped away at the Voting Rights Act for 9 years. This case could be the next blow.
The diminished Voting Rights Act has already played a key role in the 2022 elections via redistricting.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/27/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-00042478

More Rights in Danger as Supreme Court Term Begins: Threats to voting rights, affirmative action, the environment, and student debt relief take center stage.
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/03/1126041958/supreme-court-new-term

The Supreme Court May Well Legalize Election Theft This Term: The court’s rulings in two cases could drive a dagger through the heart of the democratic process. At issue is a legal theory that would give state legislatures unfettered authority to set the rules for federal elections, free of supervision by state courts and state constitutions.
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/30/1106866830/supreme-court-to-take-on-controversial-election-law-case

# LGBTQ
Some States Are Quietly Trying to Limit Health Care Access for Trans Adults: Although gender-affirming care for adults remains legal, attacks on youth care could open the door for restrictions. Legal battles have kept policies and bills at bay, but advocates sense they are in a ‘never say never’ moment.
https://19thnews.org/2022/10/transgender-healthcare-adults-limit-restrict/

# Medical / Health
Abortion Clinic Escorts Say Work Is Becoming a ‘War Zone’: From dead raccoons pelted at front doors to arson attacks, abortion clinics say they are seeing an uptick in violence and are demanding action.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/abortion-clinic-escorts-say-work-is-becoming-a-war-zone

They Were Entitled to Free Care. Hospitals Hounded Them to Pay: in recent decades, many of the hospitals have become virtually indistinguishable from for-profit companies, adopting an unrelenting focus on the bottom line and straying from their traditional charitable missions. And, as Providence illustrates, some hospital systems have not only reduced their emphasis on providing free care to the poor but also developed elaborate systems to convert needy patients into sources of revenue. The result … is that thousands of poor patients were saddled with debts that they never should have owed.
https://news.yahoo.com/were-entitled-free-care-hospitals-164551068.html

Gates’ GMO Mosquitoes as “Flying Syringes” to Vaccinate All! Test in Seattle with Human Guinea-Pigs after Italian Study: “We use the mosquitoes like they’re 1,000 small flying syringes,” explains University of Washington, Seattle physician and scientist Dr. Sean Murphy
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/10/02/gates-gmo-mosquitoes-as-flying-syringes-to-vaccinate-all-test-in-seattle-with-human-guinea-pigs-after-italian-study/

Abortion Doctors Under the Microscope: The task of defending reproductive rights from the ‘Dobbs’ ruling is being led by progressive doctors, but everyone has a stake in the outcome.
https://prospect.org/health/abortion-doctors-under-the-microscope/

14-Year-Old Denied Necessary Medication Thanks To Arizona’s Civil War-era Abortion Law: “14 year old Emma Thompson has debilitating rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis which has kept her in and out of the hospital for most of her life. She relies on methotrexate to help tame the effects of the disease.”
https://www.themarysue.com/arizona-teen-denied-meds-over-abortion-law/

# Science
Part I: 14 days or 28 — What should the standard be for research on lab-grown human embryos?
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/09/27/part-i-14-days-or-28-what-should-the-standard-be-for-research-on-lab-grown-human-embryos/?mc_cid=7947e0e5a0&mc_eid=c87bac2a19
Part II: Science and the courts clash over different views about human life and on what limits should be set on human embryo laboratory research
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/09/28/part-ii-science-and-the-courts-clash-over-different-views-about-human-life-and-on-what-limits-should-be-set-on-human-embryo-laboratory-research/

# Security
Former NSA Chief Signed Deal to Train Saudi Hackers Months Before Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder: The agreement between IronNet, founded by Alexander, and the cyber school, faced no scrutiny for its association with Qahtani, after the brutal killing of Jamal Khashoggi he reportedly orchestrated just a few months later. Alexander officially inked the deal with the Prince Mohammed bin Salman College of Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Advanced Technologies, a school set up to train Saudi cyber intelligence agents, at a signing ceremony in Washington, D.C
https://theintercept.com/2022/09/26/keith-alexander-saudi-hackers-khashoggi/

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-10-02

Voices, The Peoples News

October 2, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate

# Border / Immigration
3 more counties want Texas to declare invasion at southern border; total at 32: Three more counties are the latest to express support for Texas declaring an invasion at the southern border, bringing the total to 32.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/3-more-counties-want-texas-to-declare-invasion-at-southern-border-total-at-32/article_4ff88148-4118-11ed-bf9d-df044917715b.html

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Two doses of COVID-19 vaccine make you 44% more likely to be infected, a study from Oxford University has found, contradicting the basis of global vaccine policy, which assumes vaccination significantly cuts incidence and transmission. The study, published in the Lancet, looked at all infections reported in England among adults registered at a medical practice from December 8, 2020, to November 17, 2021, meaning it spanned the Alpha and Delta periods.
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/09/28/vaccination-increases-infection-risk-by-44-oxford-study-finds/

# Economy / Finance / Trade
Walmart Is Temporarily Closing Hundreds of Stores Right Now
https://bestlifeonline.com/walmart-temporarily-closing-stores-hurricane-news/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Exxon’s Long-Shot Embrace of Carbon Capture in the Houston Area Just Got Massive Support from Congress
But many analysts and environmentalists remain deeply skeptical, maintaining that capturing carbon emissions as a climate change fix is at best a sideshow.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25092022/exxon-houston-ship-channel-carbon-capture/

Methane emissions may be five times higher than previously thought: Global emissions of methane from existing gas infrastructure may be up to five times higher than had been believed, a new study has found.
https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/3667259-study-methane-emissions-may-be-five-times-higher-than-previously-thought/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Feds Will Spend Billions to Boost Drought-Stricken Colorado River System. Money from the Inflation Reduction Act will fund “short-term conservation” measures including removing water-intensive lawns around cities and improvements to make infrastructure less leaky.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28092022/feds-will-spend-billions-to-boost-drought-stricken-colorado-river-system/

Peter Dykstra: With Ian, treat climate like an ‘active shooter’, and let’s treat climate deniers as accomplices.
https://www.ehn.org/ian-climate-change-2658360982.html

Marco Rubio, Rick Scott urge Senate leaders for money to rebuild state. Then don’t vote for it. The vote was 72-25. Scott, however, voted against it, while Rubio was not present for the vote, according to the U.S. Senate roll call.
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2022/09/30/marco-rubio-rick-scott-urge-senate-leaders-money-rebuild-state-hurricane-ian/8138004001/

# Environment / Climate / Global
Satellites detected tens of thousands of fires burning in Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland. The lack of rains in 2020 deepened a drought that allowed wildfires and burns intentionally set to clear land for farms and ranches to explode over an unprecedented amount of land in Brazil’s Pantanal wetland that year
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30092022/brazil-pantanal-wetland-wildfire-propoganda-bolsonaro/

The last days of an outback town where every breath can be toxic: Once a symbol of economic prosperity, Wittenoom is now a ghost town, polluted by decades of asbestos mining.
https://ground.news/article/the-last-days-of-an-outback-town-where-every-breath-can-be-toxic_87b159

China’s fishing operations raise alarms worldwide: With its own coastal waters depleted, China has built a global fishing operation unmatched by any other country.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/26/world/asia/china-fishing-south-america.html

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Billions in USDA Conservation Funding Went to Farmers for Programs that Were Not ‘Climate-Smart,’ a New Study Finds. The Environmental Working Group urges retrofitting two conservation programs to help counter climate change, with nearly $12 billion in new funding coming from the Inflation Reduction Act.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28092022/usda-conservation-funding-climate-smart-agriculture/

Recycled human urine, also known as ‘peecycling,’ may soon be used to fertilize crops: Let’s address the elephant in the room: the thought of our pee interacting with plants that will eventually produce food that we eat sounds nasty. But it only sounds nasty because we assume that our food is grown with cleaner processes that don’t involve waste, and that assumption is dead wrong. “Human waste is already being used to fertilize foods you find in the grocery store.”
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/what-is-peecycling-human-urine-fertilizer/

California’s water emergency: satisfying the thirst of almonds while the wells of the people that harvest them run dry: Broiling heat in the middle of the worst drought in 1,200 years has strained the state’s underground water supply, pitting the Central Valley’s $20 billion agriculture industry against many of its own workers.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2022/09/22/california-farms-pump-water-to-feed-crops-amid-extreme-heat-and-drought-but-residents-wells-are-running-dry/?sh=1622cd346eac

# General Information / Other News
Long Time Coming: The Second Sino-American War: Ben Seattle: The United States and China have long been on a collision course in the Asia Pacific
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/09/25/long-time-coming-the-second-sino-american-war/

Trump escalates attacks on McConnell with ‘DEATH WISH’ post: In a post on his Truth Social website, Trump asked if McConnell had supported the unspecified bills “because he hates Donald J. Trump, and he knows I am opposed to them. He has a DEATH WISH,” Trump added.
https://www.yahoo.com/video/trump-intensifies-attacks-mcconnell-death-053221482.html

Plastics industry searches for a ‘circular’ way to cut plastic waste and make more plastics: Environmentalists smell a ruse, saying the industry’s talk of “advanced recycling” is nothing more than a fancy approach to a dirty business, incinerating plastics.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30092022/the-plastics-industry-searches-for-a-circular-way-to-cut-plastic-waste-and-make-more-plastics/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin Has ‘Nothing Left to Maneuver’ in Ukraine as Russia Flees Lyman: Despite recent shows of strength and Putin’s attempt to declare annexation of four territories, the Russian army recently faced a major new setback as Ukrainian forces recaptured Lyman, a city in the breakaway Donetsk region, on Saturday.
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-has-nothing-left-maneuver-ukraine-russia-flees-lyman-gen-1748190

Putin calls an additional 120,00 citizens up for military service: Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree setting out the routine autumn conscription campaign, calling 120,000 citizens up for statutory military service. TASS quoted the defence ministry as saying the autumn conscription was “not in any way related to the special operation”, Russia’s official term for its military campaign in Ukraine.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-09-30/russias-putin-signs-decree-on-routine-autumn-conscription-tass

China distances itself from Russia and calls for peace in Ukraine: “We call on all parties to achieve a ceasefire and stop the war through dialogue and negotiation, and to find a solution that takes into account the legitimate security concerns of all parties as soon as possible,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin on the 21st of this month. “We also hope the international community will create the conditions and space for this.”
https://www.newsweek.com/china-trying-rescue-russia-ukraine-debacle-opinion-1747282

Russia withdraws troops after Ukraine encircles key city: After being encircled by Ukrainian forces, Russia pulled troops out Saturday from an eastern Ukrainian city that it had been using as a front-line hub. It was the latest victory for the Ukrainian counteroffensive that has humiliated and angered the Kremlin.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-kidnapping-government-and-politics-cce973f2c43dc0d85883d46642fc970c

Presidents of nine Eastern European countries condemn Russian annexation of Ukrainian territories: The countries also backed a path to membership for Ukraine in the defense alliance, according to a joint statement.
https://www.politico.eu/article/nine-nato-countries-condemn-russia-annexations-in-ukraine/

# Gov / Politics / US
Petition Filed With the U.S. Supreme Court Against Dominion, Facebook and CFCL in ‘A Case of Great National Importance’: A group of individuals filed a class action lawsuit against Dominion Voting Systems, Facebook, CTCL and Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, which is now going to the U.S. Supreme Court. This group claims that the defendants worked together with government employees in a concerted and coordinated effort to change the results of the 2020 Presidential Election in ways that go against the U.S. Constitution
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/exclusive-petition-filed-us-supreme-court-dominion-facebook-cfcl-case-great-national-importance/

Trump Baselessly Undermines the Credibility of Every Future U.S. Election: ‘I Don’t Believe We’ll Ever Have a Fair Election Again’: For the past two years, former President Donald Trump has relentlessly — and baselessly — attacked the credibility of the 2020 election, which he lost to President Joe Biden. But now, the 45th president is going after the credibility of all future U.S. elections.
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-baselessly-undermines-the-credibility-of-every-future-u-s-election-i-dont-believe-well-ever-have-a-fair-election-again/

# Military / Global
Putin Suffers Most Humiliating Ukraine Defeat Yet: Thousands of Russian troops may be trapped after a rapid-fire Ukrainian counter-attack fought to encircle a key strategic city on the very day Putin claimed to be annexing it.
https://news.yahoo.com/putin-suffers-most-humiliating-ukraine-122830461.html

# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
New commanders are slated to take the helm of the Space Force and U.S. Strategic Command following unanimous votes of approval by the Senate.
https://www.defensenews.com/news/pentagon-congress/2022/09/30/here-are-the-new-leaders-of-space-force-and-us-strategic-command/

SpaceX and NASA Might Team Up to Save the Hubble Telescope: A new service mission to lift the aging telescope, repair failing parts, and upgrade old ones could add 20 years to its lifespan.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-spacex-to-study-hubble-telescope-reboost-possibility

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-09-30

Voices, The Peoples News

September 30, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate

# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
New bird flu strain threatens North American wildlife: Thousands of seabirds, geese, eagles and vultures are dead, as wildlife health experts recommend a revolution in disease management. Rresearchers have so far documented infections in 51 species, including bald eagles and great horned owls. That’s more than twice the number of species known to have been infected during the last North American HPAI outbreak, in 2014–15.
https://www.science.org/content/article/record-avian-flu-outbreak-threatening-north-america-s-birds-virus-here-stay

# Border / Immigration
Republicans Are Lying About Fentanyl to Scare Voters: By scapegoating migrants as a source of drugs at the border, demagogues obscure facts with a cloud of xenophobia
https://truthout.org/articles/republicans-are-lying-about-fentanyl-to-scare-voters/

# Chemicals
Why getting PFAS out of our products is so hard, and why it matters: Found in products like food packaging, clothes and firefighting foam, PFAS have contaminated drinking water sources nationwide since becoming commercially available in the middle of the last century, building up in the environment where they won’t break down for a very long time.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/pfas-are-everywhere-what-can-we-do-to-change-that

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
The Private Market Is No Place for Covid-19 Countermeasures: The U.S. will stop funding vaccines but says it wants equitable access. That’s not possible in a predatory system. Top: Officials recently announced Covid-19 ‘countermeasures’ – meaning vaccines, tests, and treatment would transition to the commercial market sooner than previously planned, with program funds set to run out as early as January 2023. Like handing over henhouse security to a fox and expecting more egg production in return.
https://undark.org/2022/09/29/the-private-market-is-no-place-for-covid-19-countermeasures/

Long COVID has forced a reckoning for one of medicine’s most neglected diseases: Many cases of long COVID are effectively ME/CFS by another name. The exact number is hard to define, but past studies have shown that 5 to 27 percent of people infected by various pathogens, including Epstein-Barr virus and the original SARS, develop ME/CFS. Even if that proportion is 10 times lower for SARS-CoV-2, the number of Americans with ME/CFS would still have doubled in the past three years. “We’re adding an immense volume of patients to an already dysfunctional and overburdened system,” Beth Pollack, scientist at MIT
https://bioethics.com/archives/65704

The Story Behind One of the Most Influential Scientific Articles in History: It took 15 months and a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to reveal that each of the five authors of ‘The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2’ — the seminal article concluding COVID-19 didn’t escape from a lab had expressed private concerns about engineering or the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s store of novel coronaviruses.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-lab-origin-story-scientific-article-rtk/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=860f34cb-4036-4ddb-8ad2-b49ad0da72c7

The More COVID Shots You Get, the More Likely You’ll Get COVID. Here’s Why: Scientists warn that repeated COVID-19 boosters may result in lowered immunity through a process known as “original antigenic sin,” or “immune imprinting” — making you more susceptible to symptomatic infections.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-booster-lowered-immunity-infections-cola/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=860f34cb-4036-4ddb-8ad2-b49ad0da72c7

# Education / Schools
In a surprise announcement Thursday, the Biden administration released a change to its plans to forgive student loans that will now exclude several million previously eligible Americans.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/student-loan-debt-forgiveness-changes-biden

The Department of Education on Thursday tightened eligibility criteria for President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan as GOP-led states sued to block the relief. The department said those with privately owned federal student loans, including Federal Family Education Loans and Perkins Loans, can no longer apply for Biden’s student loan forgiveness, backtracking on a previous announcement that said those borrowers could consolidate their loans into federal Direct Loans to obtain relief money.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/29/biden-administration-scales-back-student-debt-relief-for-millions-amid-legal-concerns-00059522

# Employment / Labor
Low-paid workers are unionizing. Corporations are spending a ton to stop them. A record number of workers are trying to form labor unions, a Center for Public Integrity analysis shows. Corporate America is alarmed.
https://publicintegrity.org/labor/low-paid-workers-are-unionizing/

Major government unions lose over 200K members: The top four public labor unions in the U.S. lost hundreds of thousands of members since a 2018 Supreme Court case that ruled government employees could not be forced to pay a union to keep their jobs. The Commonwealth Foundation released the report, which found that the top four public labor unions, AFT, AFSCME, NEA, and SEIU, lost nearly 219,000 members altogether since the Janus v. AFSCME ruling.
https://headlineusa.com/major-government-unions-lose-over-200k-members/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
‘Their Price Strategies Are Bearing Fruit’: Oil and Coal Profits Surge 340%: A leading economist urged policymakers to “address corporate profiteering as a driver of inflation by reining in megacorporations and addressing the unsustainably high prices facing families around the country.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/30/their-price-strategies-are-bearing-fruit-oil-and-coal-profits-surge-340

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Will the Supreme Court gut the Clean Water Act? The justices could remove federal protection from 80% of the Southwest’s streams. Industrial polluters asking the Supreme Court to exclude most wetlands and streams from Clean Water Act protections
https://earthjustice.org/features/sackett-epa-supreme-court-water

River Deltas Are Running Out of Land: Estimates of many deltas’ stabilities in the face of sea level rise were overoptimistic. Millions of people live on river deltas, occupying land that exists in the delicate balance between a river’s push and the ocean’s pull. Deltas are inherently transient, but according to a new study, many may be even more precarious than once thought, with unexpectedly high levels of land loss threatening to submerge these low-lying landscapes.
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/river-deltas-are-running-out-of-land/

More Than Half of Palm Species Threatened With Extinction, Study Finds: It’s hard to imagine a world without palm trees. Members of the recognizable Arecaceae family drop coconuts onto white-sand beaches, pierce their fronds through the greenery of rainforests and line glamorous boulevards from Los Angeles to Miami.
https://www.ecowatch.com/palm-species-extinction.html

Mississippi Accused of ‘Intolerable’ Racial Discrimination in Jackson Water Crisis: The NAACP has filed a federal complaint with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) alleging violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and accusing the State of Mississippi of “gross mishandling” of the Jackson water crisis, a press release from the NAACP said. The complaint cited an extensive history of neglect and refusal to provide federal funding that amounted to racial discrimination.
https://www.ecowatch.com/mississippi-water-crisis-racial-discrimination.html

# Environment / Climate / Global
George Monbiot: Environmental destruction is part of Liz Truss’s plan: The prime minister’s ideology encourages the extraction of as much income as possible from nature before abandoning it.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/30/environmental-destruction-is-part-of-liz-trusss-plan

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Global
New push to limit PFAS farm contamination in Australia: Chemical contamination concerns have sparked new limits that could end the mass disposal of human waste on farms that feed the nation.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/push-limit-pfas-farm-contamination-031542445.html

# General Information / Other News
Trump Believed He Could Sue Congress to Stop Congressional Impeachments: “I’ll just sue Congress. They can’t do this to me,” Trump reportedly said in 2019.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-believed-he-could-sue-congress-to-stop-congressional-impeachments/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Why It Matters That MBS Is Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia Now: The king’s son has been running the country for a while. But the change is not merely aesthetic. New role likely to grant prince sovereign immunity in case concerning journalist murdered in Saudi Arabian embassy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/27/mohammed-bin-salman-named-prime-minister-ahead-of-khashoggi-lawsuit

Ukraine Makes ‘Accelerated’ Application to Join NATO: It came on the same day Putin claimed to have annexed large swathes of Ukraine.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/30/ukraine-accelerates-bid-to-join-nato-after-russias-annexation

‘Dangerous Escalation’: Putin Condemned Over Illegal Annexation of Ukraine Territories. “Now more than ever,” said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, “we must work together to end this devastating and senseless war.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/30/dangerous-escalation-putin-condemned-over-illegal-annexation-ukraine-territories

# Gov / Politics / US
House Passes Funding Plan Hours Before Shutdown Deadline: The funding will holdover until Dec. 16, when Congress will face the same issue again.
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/29/1125749481/government-funding-bill-senate-vote-continuing-resolution

Senate Approves $12.3 Billion in New Aid to Ukraine in Stopgap Spending Bill [I wonder what they are getting in return for all these billions of dollars being sent over there?] Latest round of spending on the war comes as Kyiv makes gains on the battlefield. President Joe Biden still has not used the remaining $2.1 billion in presidential drawdown authority to transfer weapons to Kyiv that Congress already approved in the Ukraine aid bill it passed in May. The authorization has an expiration date of Sept. 30. The Republican portrayal of that money as unused aid gone to waste is in dispute, though, as White House officials argue the new funding request builds on the old batch.
https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2022/09/29/republicans-push-biden-to-use-21-billion-ukraine-aid-set-to-expire/

# Law Enforcement
Why Is a Neighborhood Street “Unsafe for Pedestrians or People Riding Bikes?”: An 8-year-old cycling was killed by a driver at a quiet intersection. Who’s really to blame?
https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-is-a-neighborhood-street-%E2%80%9Cunsafe-for-pedestrians-or-people-riding-bikes%E2%80%9D.638277/

# Legal / DOJ
DOJ Needs to Get Out of Its Own Way in Trump Investigations: DOJ’s defense of the ex-president in the E. Jean Carroll lawsuit contradicts Trump’s own lawyers and compromises the Mar-a-Lago probe.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/justice-department-needs-own-way-211257789.html

Staff Walkouts, Botched Cases, Texas AG’s Office in Disarray: In one instance, Paxton’s staff had to drop a slew of human trafficking cases because, in part, they had lost track of a victim.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-ag-ken-paxtons-office-is-reportedly-in-disarray-with-staff-walkouts-and-botched-cases

The Supreme Court May Soon Gut What’s Left Of The Voting Rights Act: Alabama Republicans’ argument for a race-blind approach to redistricting could lead to the “biggest decline in Black and Latino representation in generations.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/merrill-v-milligan-voting-rights-act_n_63371ab9e4b04cf8f3629bc2

# LGBTQ
The Precarious State of School GSAs: LGBTQ+ Rights. LGBTQ+ students are finding new roadblocks to either starting or continuing after-school clubs in a highly-politicized school landscape. In American Bully, Them reports on how anti-LGBTQ+ panic and political agendas are playing out in classrooms, libraries, and school board meetings nationwide — and why we should all be fighting back.
https://www.them.us/story/school-gsas-lgbtq-club-under-attack?utm_source=Watchdog&utm_campaign=192f08c5e2-Watchdog_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_30_09_&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffd1d0160d-192f08c5e2-100375721&mc_cid=192f08c5e2&mc_eid=dc62c7adba
More from this ongoing series: https://www.them.us/american-bully-series

The struggle of trans and gender-diverse persons: Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity
https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/ie-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity/struggle-trans-and-gender-diverse-persons

# Medical / Health
Midterm elections in these six states could change abortion access for millions of people. Listen up, here’s the breakdown of how abortion policies could be upended across the nation in just two months.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/06/25/post-roe-america-roundup-00042377

Reproductive Rights. A faction of self-proclaimed “abolitionists” are seeking to make abortion laws more restrictive and the consequences of having the procedure more punitive than ever before. They were adamant that a woman who receives an abortion should receive the same criminal consequences as one who drowns her baby.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/20/politics/abortion-bans-murder-charges-invs

Mastriano: Biden DOJ ‘Trying to Intimidate’ Conservatives Through Arrest of Catholic, Pro-Life Father: “It’s to send a message, this is intimidating and scary that the DOJ, together with the FBI, sadly, has been weaponized against the average citizens of Pennsylvania. Someone has to hold up a BS flag and say, ‘Stop.’”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/09/26/mastriano-biden-doj-intimidate-conservatives-arrest-pro-life-father-pennsylvania/

Nursing Home Sued After Seniors Drank Deadly Cleaner: “The toxic chemical essentially melted the lining of Trudy’s digestive tract,” the 93-year-old’s family allege.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/family-sues-ca-care-home-residents-died-drinking-dishwashing-liquid

12 complaints made against San Mateo’s Atria Park prior to senior dying from dishwashing liquid: We dug into the latest records from California Department of Social Services and confirmed Atria Park in San Mateo has been investigated at least nine times by state officials since 2017.
https://abc7news.com/atria-park-san-mateo-dishwasher-liquid-senior-death-complaints-abuse/12183993/

Hospital Pulls Ad After Critics Complain It ‘Normalized’ Myocarditis in Kids: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital pulled a 30-second ad about myocarditis in children after Children’s Health Defense and numerous doctors accused the hospital of normalizing and trivializing the condition.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/newyork-presbyterian-hospital-normalize-myocarditis-kids/

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-09-29

Voices, The Peoples News

September 29, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
New infectious threats are coming. The US probably won’t contain them: If it wasn’t clear enough during the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become obvious during the monkeypox outbreak: The United States, among the richest, most advanced nations in the world, remains wholly unprepared to combat new pathogens.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/infectious-threats-coming-u-probably-122416974.html

# Education / Schools
National school lunch testing for glyphosate, pesticides, heavy metals, hormones and nutrients revealed: Asheville, NC – 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.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/press-release/national-school-lunch-testing-for-glyphosate-pesticides-heavy-metals-hormones-and-nutrients-revealed/

# Employment / Labor
Newsom Reverses Course and Signs Farmworker Union Bill After Grassroots Pressure: The California governor has signed a law that makes it easier for farmworkers to participate in union elections.
https://truthout.org/articles/newsom-reverses-course-and-signs-farmworker-union-bill-after-grassroots-pressure/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
The Supreme Court is expected to define waters of the United States — with potentially huge implications for the Southwest’s streams.
https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2022/06/sackett-v-epa-and-the-definition-of-waters-of-the-united-states/

Chemicals linked to birth defects are being dumped in Pittsburgh’s rivers: More than 50 years after the passage of the national Clean Water Act, industrial polluters still regularly dump toxic chemicals. Pennsylvania’s waterways see particularly large releases of chemicals like compounds of nickel and chromium, which are linked to reproductive harm, including reduced sperm count, birth defects, miscarriages and premature births.
https://www.ehn.org/water-contamination-chemicals-2658354078.html#:~:text=It%20found%20that%20western%20Pennsylvania’s,defects%2C%20miscarriages%20and%20premature%20births

The Climate Dystopia Is Already Here: Greenhouse gas emissions are a clear and present danger to American society.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/climate-dystopia-is-already-here-hurricane-ian/

# Environment / Climate / Global
The central banks of the U.S., EU and UK have all been linked to deforestation and ecosystem destruction in Brazil. That’s the finding from a Global Witness report released Wednesday called “Bankrolling Destruction,” which outlines how the U.S. Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England bought bonds from three agribusiness companies accused of land-clearing in Brazil: Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM), Bunge Ltd Financial Corp and Cargill, Inc.
https://www.ecowatch.com/central-banks-funding-deforestation.html

# Gov / Politics / Global
Intel Warning: Concerns Grow Over Political Stability in Europe Related to Ukraine Crisis. Today Big Unrest in Prague (Update) Earlier this month, an estimated 70,000 demonstrators descended on Prague’s central Wenceslas Square to protest the country’s pro-Western government.
https://thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-2022-september-22/

Moscow is moving ahead with plans to annex occupied regions of Ukraine, possibly as soon as next week.
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/kremlins-plans-annex-southeastern-ukraine-go-effect

Draft Dodgers Slam Putin’s War After Finally Escaping Russia: Newly escaped Russians who “didn’t want to die” in Ukraine are now sharing what they really think about Vladimir Putin and his disastrous war.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/draft-dodgers-slam-putin-war-084800080.html

Sergey Poletaev: Is Russian talk of using nuclear weapons just hot air or are Moscow’s warnings serious?
https://defconwarningsystem.com/

Putin’s threats make Erdoğan’s moves harder to predict. The Kremlin’s new strategy is a game changer for Turkey, and for global affairs. In an increasingly unpredictable global environment, expect Turkish foreign policy to be just as elusive. https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/88001

A cornered Putin is becoming almost impossible to stop. What the West must do to increase pressure on Moscow.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/experts-react-putin-rolls-the-dice-on-escalation-in-ukraine-what-will-happen-next/

# Gov / Politics / US
The War On Germany Just Entered Its Hot Phase: That war, hidden behind the U.S. created Ukraine crisis, is designed to destroy Europe’s manufacturing advantage compared to the U.S. It is more likely though to strengthen the economic position of China and other Asian economies.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/the-war-on-germany-just-entered-its-hot-phase.html
See also: The U.S. Is Winning Its War On Europe’s Industries And People
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/the-us-is-winning-its-war-on-europes-industries-and-people.html

The Restore The Republic Act: A bill proposed by a member of “We The People.” George Washington once acutely stated that “the truth will ultimately prevail where there are pains to bring it to light.” Our nation’s story is a tale of courage and cowardice. Light and Darkness. My story is intimately intertwined with it.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/09/29/restore-republic/?mc_cid=fefc108b85&mc_eid=3f7488d454

Right-Wingers Are Waging Civil War Inside Libertarian Party: State parties are splintering and candidates are bailing. One side calls their foes sore losers, the other calls them alt-right.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/libertarian-party-is-fighting-a-civil-war-over-its-right-wing-mises-caucus

Mastriano Called for Prosecuting Abortion as Murder. He’s Not the Only One. Criminal penalties for abortion are widely unpopular, but that hasn’t stopped Republicans from pursuing them.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gops-mastriano-backed-murder-charges-women-getting-abortions-rcna49748

Millions of Americans Would Approve of Using Violence to Put Trump Back in White House: Around 15 million U.S. adults also say it’s justifiable to use violence to stop Trump from being prosecuted.
https://truthout.org/articles/millions-of-americans-would-approve-of-using-violence-to-put-trump-back-in-wh/

# Law Enforcement
As Millions Evacuate, Incarcerated People in Ian’s Path Are Left Behind: Advocates pushed authorities to evacuate what they say are as many as 176,000 incarcerated people who are in danger.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/9/29/florida_prisons_hurricane_ian_evacuated_evacuation

Proposed federal legislation would establish independent oversight over federal prisons: Proposed bipartisan federal legislation would establish independent oversight of the nation’s 122 federal prisons and require the Department of Justice’s inspector general to report its findings and recommendations publicly.
https://www.nolangroupmedia.com/proposed-federal-legislation-would-establish-independent-oversight-over-federal-prisons/article_15720cd7-adcb-5e3e-8271-dadd877033e5.html

# Legal / DOJ
Judge Warns of DOJ’s Gift to Trump That Could Keep on Giving: “I think it’s a legitimate concern. What the judge is getting at is the very real possibility of unforeseen consequences,” said Vermont Law School professor Jared Carter.
https://www.pehalnews.in/judge-warns-of-justice-departments-gift-to-trump-that-could-keep-on-giving/2467065/

Ginni Thomas Arrives on the Hill to Testify to Jan. 6 Panel: The panel wants to grill Thomas on her communications with several top officials over the 2020 election. Wife of Justice Clarence Thomas is questioned about former President Donald Trump’s push to overturn the 2020 election
https://rollcall.com/2022/09/29/ginni-thomas-appears-before-house-panel-probing-jan-6-attack/

# Medical / Health
From COVID to Monkeypox, Our Health System Failed. We Need Medicare for All. Medicare for All would go a long way in correcting the racial disparities we are seeing in monkeypox treatment.
https://truthout.org/articles/from-covid-to-monkeypox-our-health-system-failed-we-need-medicare-for-all/

Kaiser Permanente Therapists Keep Striking, Citing Dangerous Delays for Patients: Clinicians say patients routinely wait months between appointments, and therapists are given unmanageable workloads.
https://truthout.org/articles/kaiser-permanente-therapists-keep-striking-citing-dangerous-delays-for-patients/

# Military / DOD
The Pentagon announced Wednesday it will contract with industry for $1.1 billion in military aid to Ukraine, including 18 High-Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems and other arms to counter drones Russia has been using against Ukrainian troops
https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2022/09/28/new-ukraine-aid-will-buy-18-himars-and-weapons-to-disrupt-drones/

# Science
This robotic pill clears mucus from the gut to deliver meds: A whirling robotic pill wicks mucus from the gut, allowing intravenous drugs such as insulin to be given orally, experiments in pigs suggest.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2340045-robotic-pill-that-delivers-drugs-to-gut-could-end-insulin-injections/

# Veterans / VA
Veterans Affairs physicians will begin screening all department patients for military-related toxic exposures starting in November, the latest step in efforts to understand the scope and severity of injuries caused by burn pit smoke and other battlefield toxins.
https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2022/09/28/va-to-screen-all-patients-for-toxic-exposure-issues/

# Water
Rainwater everywhere on Earth unsafe to drink due to ‘forever chemicals’, study finds: Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large family of human-made chemicals that don’t occur in nature. They are known as ‘forever chemicals’ because they don’t break down in the environment. They have non-stick or stain repellent properties so can be found in household items like food packaging, electronics, cosmetics and cookware.
https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/08/04/rainwater-everywhere-on-earth-unsafe-to-drink-due-to-forever-chemicals-study-finds

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-09-28

Voices, The Peoples News

September 28, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate

# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
Why are wild horses brutally uprooted from public lands while private livestock can stay? The Bureau of Land Management is misleading the American people about the nation’s wild horses and burros.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/09/22/why-are-wild-horses-brutally-uprooted-from-public-lands-while-private-livestock-can-stay/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Global
85 Percent of the World Will Likely Live Under “Deadly” Austerity Measures Next Year: As 143 countries pursue harsh cuts to social programs, experts say “austerity is the worst possible choice.”
https://truthout.org/articles/85-of-the-world-will-likely-live-under-deadly-austerity-measures-next-year/

# Education / Schools
Students at almost 100 schools in Virginia hosted a walkout over new anti-trans school policies. The proposed policy put forward by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin would heavily restrict the rights of transgender students in public schools. “This is a step away from the right direction,” one high schooler told BuzzFeed News.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annabetts/virginia-students-walkout-protest-anti-trans-policies

University of Idaho says staff can offer condoms for STDs, not birth control: Memo warns employees they should not speak in support of abortion following state ban on procedure
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/27/condoms-abortion-students-university-of-idaho-memo-birth-control

To Confront the Climate Crisis, Universities Must Refuse Fossil Fuel Industry Funding: Every research dollar, lab hour, and project report that is beholden to or biased by fossil fuel industry influence is a missed opportunity to address the climate crisis.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/27/confront-climate-crisis-universities-must-refuse-fossil-fuel-industry-funding

Los Angeles Teachers Are Burned Out and Priced Out of Living in Their City: The local teachers union lists unaffordable housing, large class sizes and over-testing as contributing stressors.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/3621204-teachers-in-los-angeles-are-burned-out-and-priced-out-report/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemicals / Global
Russian Gas Pipelines to Germany Blown Up: It Sure Does Look Like Someone Blew Up a Major Gas Pipeline Connecting Europe and Russia. Nord Stream 1 and 2, had been turned off or were never fully operational since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in March, but had held tons of idled pressurized natural gas. That has since been spewing into the Baltic Sea, with one of the largest explosions off the Danish Coast.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/09/someone-probably-blew-up-a-russian-gas-pipeline-to-europe.html

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
U.S. seeks allies as split emerges over global plastics pollution treaty: The United States is seeking to form a coalition of countries to drive negotiations on a global plastic pollution treaty
https://news.tv5.com.ph/foreign/read/climate-crisis-us-seeks-allies-as-split-emerges-over-global-plastics-pollution-treaty

As the Supreme Court considers the fate of American wetlands, Annie Proulx’s Fen, Bog, and Swamp offers an elegiac love letter to overlooked ecosystems. “The history of wetlands is the history of their destruction.” People have always been hanging nature’s sponges out to dry, until the land is firm enough to support a farm or a strip mall. It has been going on so long that attaining any perspective on the losses requires stepping back thousands of years
https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-a-wetland-worth/

EPA Launches New Environmental Justice Office: The agency announced the formation of the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights on Saturday, a move it said was in keeping with President Joe Biden’s environmental priorities.
https://www.ecowatch.com/epa-environmental-justice-office.html

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
USDA secretary says he is working on ‘made in the USA’ labeling for beef; cattlemen want faster action: A group of cattle ranchers is pushing hard for reforms on country-of-origin-labeling, known as COOL, and the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture says he is already working on the situation. R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America is out with a new poll of voters that the group says shows “overwhelming” support for mandatory legislation
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2022/09/usda-secretary-says-he-is-working-on-made-in-the-usa-labeling-for-beef-cattlemen-want-faster-action/

What are ultra-processed foods and why are they so bad for you? Ultra-processed foods are extra tasty concoctions that we eat every day. Ultra-processed foods are made mostly from substances extracted from foods, such as fats, starches, added sugars, and hydrogenated fats. They may also contain additives like artificial colors and flavors or stabilizers. Examples of these foods are frozen meals, soft drinks, hot dogs and cold cuts, fast food, packaged cookies, cakes, and salty snacks. Processed foods are essentially made by adding salt, oil, sugar, or other substances. Examples include canned fish or canned vegetables, fruits in syrup, and freshly made breads.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/what-are-ultra-processed-foods-and-are-they-bad-for-our-health-2020010918605

# General Information / Other News
Burning books (or rather book companies): Think of this as the modern capitalist version of burning books, though as with those fossil-fuel companies, it is, in reality, more like burning the future.
https://tomdispatch.com/burning-books-or-rather-book-companies/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Intel Warning: Concerns Grow Over Political Stability in Europe Related to Ukraine Crisis. After Big Unrest in Prague: Earlier this month, an estimated 70,000 demonstrators descended on Prague’s central Wenceslas Square to protest the country’s pro-Western government. Some Czech leaders have blamed Russian propaganda as the impetus for the demonstration, characterizing the protest as “pro-Russian” and against national interests.
https://thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-2022-september-22/

Brazil’s Election Will Be Decisive for Indigenous People, the Environment, and the Climate Crisis: A reversal of Bolsonaro’s destructive policies is essential to to protect people and planet.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2339421-brazilian-election-will-determine-the-future-of-the-amazon-rainforest/

Get Out Now, U.S. Tells American Citizens in Russia: The embassy in Moscow issued an urgent ‘security alert’ amid widespread panic over Putin’s military draft. Russia may refuse to acknowledge dual nationals’ U.S. citizenship, deny their access to U.S. consular assistance, prevent their departure
https://ru.usembassy.gov/security-alert-for-u-s-citizens-in-russia/

# Gov / Politics / US
The 2022 midterm elections are Nov. 8, and there’s a lot at stake. Every seat in the House of Representatives is available, as well as 35 Senate seats and 36 governorships. Here’s a state-by-state guide on voter registration deadlines.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paigeskinner/state-voter-registration-deadlines-2022?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=09/28/2022%20Incoming%20newsletter&utm_term=News%20confirmed%20list

‘People Power Has Won The Day’: Manchin Dirty Deal Defeated: The win was the result of “hundreds of national and grassroots organizations, along with concerned Americans from coast to coast, working together for the health and safety of frontline communities and a livable future for the planet,” said one campaigner.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/27/people-power-has-won-day-manchin-dirty-deal-defeated

The big scrub: GOP candidates strip the MAGA from their campaign websites. Republican candidates used to tout their pro-Trump, anti-abortion rights positions on their websites. Now they’ve gone missing.
https://www.axios.com/2022/08/31/republicans-midterms

Manchin ends pipeline push, easing path for spending bill: Sen. Joe Manchin pulls his energy permitting reforms from a government spending bill amid opposition from Democrats and Republicans.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-health-covid-government-congress-3562f84c020707d0f0764c3b7d62bb41?utm_medium=email

Chomsky: U.S. Must Join Global Call for Negotiations as Russia Escalates Actions: There’s no certainty negotiations would result in peace, but as Chomsky says, there is only one way to find out: Try.
https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-us-must-join-global-call-for-negotiations-as-russia-escalates-actions/

End this lunacy NOW: Biden approves an additional $1.1 billion in security assistance for Ukraine: The Biden regime announced 1.1 billion in additional security assistance for Ukraine on Wednesday, bringing the U.S. commitment to more than 16.2 billion since Russia’s invasion special operation in late February. The announcement of the upcoming aid package, the 22nd such installment, follows referendums held in four Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/28/biden-approves-1point1-billion-in-security-assistance-for-ukraine.html

# Law Enforcement
Woman Gave Birth Alone on Dirty Jail Floor, Lawsuit Claims: Nurses dismissed her cries for help and jail staff laughed, the plaintiff alleges.
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2022-09-27/lawsuit-says-woman-gave-birth-alone-on-maryland-jail-floor

# Legal / DOJ
Secret Service took the cellphones of 24 agents involved in Jan. 6 response and gave them to investigators: Senior leadership at the Secret Service confiscated the cellphones of 24 agents involved in the agency’s response to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol and handed them over to the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general [Where’s the cellphone seizures of those who leaked the Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade to stoke riots all summer?]
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3662757-secret-service-took-phones-from-24-agents-involved-with-jan-6-report/

States ask appeals court to reinstate 2020 antitrust lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc: The lawsuit, which was originally filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), alleged that “Meta used its monopoly power to buy potential competitors and curtail competitive behavior.”
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3650763-states-doj-ask-court-to-revive-antitrust-lawsuit-against-meta/

Oath Keepers leader seditious conspiracy trial begins: Jury selection began Tuesday in the trial of the founder of the Oath Keepers extremist group and four associates charged with seditious conspiracy, one of the most serious cases to emerge from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/sedition-trial-begins-for-oath-keepers-leader

# Medical / Health
U.S. district judge is weighing whether or not to issue a preliminary injunction in favor of abortion funds that help Texans pay for abortions out of state. The group of nonprofits argues that statements from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have made them so fearful of criminal and civil penalties they have ceased their work.
https://www.rawstory.com/texas-ags-office-sends-mixed-signals-about-whether-it-can-fine-nonprofits-that-pay-for-abortions/

# Military / Global
What are tactical nuclear weapons? Here’s what they mean for the war in Ukraine: What are tactical nuclear weapons? An international security expert explains and assesses what they mean for the war in Ukraine. Putin has characterized the war in Ukraine as an existential battle against the West, which he said wants to weaken, divide and destroy Russia.
https://theconversation.com/what-are-tactical-nuclear-weapons-an-international-security-expert-explains-and-assesses-what-they-mean-for-the-war-in-ukraine-191167

# Water
Texas the Biggest Culprit in Toxic Waterway Discharge in U.S., Report Finds: A new report from nonprofit Environment America analyzed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data and found that Texas is the No. 1 state in the U.S. for discharging of toxic pollutants into streams, rivers and lakes. The company released 2.7 million pounds of nitrate compounds into local waterways in 2020.
https://www.ecowatch.com/texas-toxic-pollution-waterways.html

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-09-27

Voices, The Peoples News

September 27, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Facebook shuts down 100,000-member group for using carrot emoji to refer to covid vaccines, because no discussion of vaccine injuries shall be allowed: BBC News (United Kingdom) is on a crusade to stamp out all online references to covid “vaccines” that are negative – including those that use a carrot emoji to bypass social media censors.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-09-22-facebook-bans-group-carrot-emoji-covid-vaccines.html

Pfizer CEO gets Covid for second time in six weeks. Albert Bourla is quadruple vaccinated with his own company’s jab. Due to drug overdoses and COVID-19 deaths, life expectancy in the U.S. has dropped for the second straight year.
https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/covid-19-tracker-pfizer-targets-variant-specific-vaccines-fall

1.4 Million Adverse Events After COVID Vaccines Reported to VAERS, Canadian Woman Dies 7 Minutes After Bivalent Booster Shot: A healthy Canadian woman suddenly dropped dead seven minutes after receiving a booster shot, yet it was declared a death by natural causes. VAERS data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show 1,418,220 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID-19 vaccines, including 31,074 deaths and 258,480 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and Sept. 16, 2022.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-covid-vaccines-canadian-woman-dies-bivalent-booster-shot/

Where did the coronavirus pandemic start? Two studies point to late 2019 at the Wuhan market: After all this time, questions regarding the origin of the pandemic still linger, but evidence seems to suggest a common point of origin.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715

# Economy / Finance / Trade
“President Biden isn’t forgiving student loans, he’s charging hardworking Americans $400 billion.”
https://twitter.com/RepMMM/status/1574468459076808704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The truth behind “self-made” billionaires: Billionaires are not made by rugged individuals. They’re made by policy failures. And a system that rewards wealth over work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcfm2Zn-IpQ

Favre is the highest-profile figure caught in the Mississippi welfare scandal, in which the state funneled $77 million of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to people with political connections. But there’s an even bigger scandal here: Nationwide, most TANF money doesn’t go to poor people in the first place. Just 22% of program funds went to cash assistance in 2020
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brett-favre-mississippi-welfare-scandal-tanf_n_6331ffb3e4b0e2478905e595

# Education / Schools
850 more unvaxxed NYC teachers, aides fired for not complying with mandate: The city Department of Education has axed another 850 teachers and classroom aides, bringing the total to nearly 2,000 school employees fired for failure to comply with a vaccine mandate increasingly struck down in court.
https://nypost.com/2022/09/17/850-more-unvaxxed-nyc-teachers-school-aides-fired/

Biden’s Student-Loan Forgiveness Plan Could Cost $400 Billion: Though, the office also said its estimates are “uncertain,” as it cannot accurately predict how much student loan debt will be repaid after Biden’s plan takes effect. The estimates also do not include loans issued after June 30.
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/27/1125272287/student-loan-forgiveness-cost-billion

# Employment / Labor
Biden Promised “Good-Paying Union Jobs,” But It Will Take Organizing to Get Them: Activists are poised to leverage and expand the Inflation Reduction Act’s provisions to protect workers’ rights.
https://truthout.org/articles/biden-promised-good-paying-union-jobs-but-it-will-take-organizing-to-get-them/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib is demanding that leaders of the seven largest banks in the U.S. agree to halt funding any new fossil fuel production.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/oil-industry-no-logic-to-tlaibs-demands-that-banks-fund-no-new-fossil-fuel-production/article_f55c1e5e-3de6-11ed-b25f-07181c72095b.html

Here’s who a Line 5 spill in Lake Huron could affect: Line 5 is still a point of cross-border contention: Enbridge says the pipeline is safe, while a Michigan study shows oil from a spill could reach Manitoulin Island and beyond. Here’s what Lake Huron locals and visitors think https://thenarwhal.ca/line-5-lake-huron/

Time to charge the true cost of fossil fuels: The laws of physics establish the rules on planet Earth. When scientists state that an increase in average planetary temperatures of 2 degrees Celsius will lead to irreversible climate catastrophes, this is not an opinion; it is based on well-established principles of climatology. Fossil fuel products have never been priced to include the true costs to society of the disease, death or planetary disruption they cause.
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/3660282-time-to-charge-the-true-cost-of-fossil-fuels/

The U.S. Senate is expected to vote tonight on a spending bill that includes Sen. Joe Manchin’s energy permitting reforms. The GOP leader said in a floor speech Tuesday afternoon adding the West Virginia Democrats’ permitting plan to the bill amounted to a “poison pill.” Republicans have spent years discussing the need to speed energy projects, but McConnell said Manchin’s effort is insufficient.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/27/manchin-energy-plan-senate-vote-funding-00058984

A Company Behind the Mountain Valley Pipeline Is Showering Schumer With More Donations Than Manchin:
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is the single largest recipient of campaign funds from NextEra energy, whose pipeline project could get fast-tracked with the deal Schumer recently brokered.
https://newrepublic.com/article/167869/mountain-valley-pipeline-nextera-schumer-manchin

Trump tried to open Alaska lands to resource development, what will Biden do? The Bureau of Land Management is taking comments on whether it should open about 28 million acres to oil, gas and mineral extraction. The Tanana Chiefs Conference, a consortium of 37 federally recognized tribes, many of them in the affected region, says the previous administration already failed the consultation test. The conference passed a resolution last year, noting that the road “will have a negative impact on Native subsistence ways and lands,” and that “mining for mere financial gain poses new threats to the survival of our natural and cultural resources.”
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2021/how-joe-bidens-green-climate-agenda-threatens-the-alaskan-wilderness/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Green group influencing Biden admin has deep ties to Chinese government: The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a major U.S. green group that has influenced Biden administration policymaking, has deep ties to the Chinese government.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/green-group-influencing-biden-admin-deep-ties-chinese-government

Video: EPA targets ‘cancer alley’ discrimination: Federal officials are investigating whether Louisiana regulators are discriminating against Black residents by failing to control air pollution in a region some call “cancer alley.”
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2022/09/26/epa-targets-cancer-alley-discrimination/8118893001/

Houston mayor: Chemicals in soil in Fifth Ward will change cleanup plans: After cancer-causing chemicals were found in Fifth Ward soil, Houston mayor says cleanup plans are inadequate. The city’s health department found dioxins in soil samples along the fence line of a Union Pacific rail yard. Mayor Sylvester Turner said during the 2022 Texas Tribune Festival that plans to clean up the contamination should now include relocating residents.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/24/houston-fifth-ward-dioxin-union-pacific-rail-yard/

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Giant Food Companies Stampede To Raise Insects For Food: Innovafeed has secured big funding to build a bug factory in Illinois and pledges to “place sustainable development and social impact at the heart of its business model and thus reinforce the global positive impact of the industry.” I haven’t talked with anyone who wants to eat insects instead of real vegetables, meat, dairy, etc. What do you think? ⁃ TN Editor
https://www.technocracy.news/giant-food-companies-stampede-to-raise-insects-for-food/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Ukraine: What the Corporate Press Refuses to Say: Ukraine has been part of Russia for centuries.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/09/26/ukraine-what-the-corporate-press-refuses-to-say/

New Zealand Prime Minister Calls for a Global Censorship System: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is the latest liberal leader to call for an international alliance to censor speech. Unsatisfied with the unprecedented corporate censorship of social media companies, leaders like Hillary Clinton have turned from private censorship to good old-fashioned state censorship.
https://jonathanturley.org/2022/09/25/new-zealand-prime-minister-calls-for-global-censorship-system/comment-page-1/

Italy holds snap election amid crisis over energy and inflation –Right-wing candidates are expected to win the most votes: “It’s an attack on democracy, and, above all, blackmail,” Salvini said.
https://www.rt.com/news/563495-italy-vote-2022-parliament/

Snowden gets Russian citizenship: President Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to US National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden, Russia’s TASS news agency confirmed on Monday.
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2022-09-26/putin-grants-russian-citizenship-to-edward-snowden

Tuesday is the final day for Ukraine regions occupied by Moscow to vote on whether to join Russia; the referendum is viewed by Ukraine and Western powers as a sham, and is believed to be used as pretext for Russia to annex these areas. BBC reports allegations of election officials intimidating voters by going door to door with armed guards.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/voting-begins-in-rigged-referendum-to-join-russia-in-occupied-parts-of-ukraine

Revealed: how UK targeted American civil rights leader in covert campaign: The effort was the work of a secret unit known as the Information Research Department, based in London and part of the Foreign Office, which created and distributed literature from fake sources as part of a broader effort to destabilise cold war enemies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/13/revealed-how-uk-targeted-american-civil-rights-leader-stokely-carmichael-covert

1-2-3-4; We Don’t Want Your F—ing War! Ukraine, Vietnam, and the Necessity of Draft Evasion: Credit where credit is due. Putin has accomplished in less than a week what it took years for Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon to do, drive young men across the border (in that case, Canadian) rather than fight an immoral and failing war.
https://newrepublic.com/article/167869/mountain-valley-pipeline-nextera-schumer-manchin

# Gov / Politics / US
Democratic National Committee Edited Bylaws to Let it Overrule Convention: The amendment removes the authority over DNC decisions from the national convention, which includes thousands of members, and places it instead with the smaller national committee of just under 500.
https://theintercept.com/2022/09/14/dnc-overrule-convention-bylaws/

A Modern Day “Literacy Test” That Threatens Our Democratic Rights: The myth of election fraud has fueled a barrage of new voter restrictions in the last two years. Some states have passed new laws that make voting harder for people who struggle to read, a continuation of one of the most sustained and brazen suppression campaigns in America.
https://greenlining.org/blog-category/2013/a-modern-day-literacy-test-that-threatens-our-democratic-rights/

Doug Mastriano said women who violated abortion ban should be charged with murder: Trump’s pick for governor said in 2019 that he believes women who get abortions after a “fetal heartbeat” is detected should be treated as murderers
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/doug-mastriano-abortion-ban-women-charged-murder-1234600885/

# Law Enforcement
FBI raids home of Catholic pro-life speaker, author with guns drawn as his terrified kids watch: “The kids were all just screaming. It was all just very scary and traumatic,” Ryan-Marie Houck described. A well-known pro-life author, sidewalk counselor, and father of seven was the latest victim of a U.S. Department of Justice-sponsored SWAT raid and arrest, for supposed “FACE Act” violations, at his rural home as his children looked on “screaming.”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/09/25/fbi-agents-raid-home-arrest-pro-life-advocate-in-front-of-wife-and-children/

# Legal / DOJ
Crimes against humanity: UN report on China activity in Xinjiang leaves little room for interpretation: We’re witnessing these crimes before our very eyes, and you’re probably buying stuff from companies that benefit from this. According to a new report, China’s treatment of the Uyghur minority leaves no room for interpretation. The report features mentions of torture, rape, mass detention, forced labor, and widespread surveillance, and a lot of companies are taking advantage of it.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/crimes-against-humanity-un-report-on-china-activity-in-xinjiang-leaves-little-room-for-interpretation/

MAGA Derek Zoolander Convicted for Role in Capitol Riot: John Strand rejected a plea deal and waged an online campaign for vindication. Now, he faces a possible 24 years in prison
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/john-strand-male-model-convicted-jan-6-riot-1234598601/

# Military / DOD
Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychological operations: The Pentagon has ordered a review of US psyops on social media. In July and August, Twitter and Meta disrupted pro-US influence campaigns on their platforms. Now, the White House is concerned.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/19/23360688/pentagon-review-military-influence-operations-social-media

# Social
‘Green Gentrification’ Can Force Out Long-Term, Lower-Income Residents: Making neighborhoods more “green” through environmental infrastructure and other green investments such as open space parks, rain gardens, permeable pavement and rainwater harvesting can result in an area being perceived as more desirable, which can lead to rents and property values going up. This, in turn, leads to lower-income residents being pushed out — a process called “green gentrification.”
https://www.ecowatch.com/green-gentrification-housing.html

Jared Kushner’s Firm to Pay $3.25M for Deceiving, Cheating Tenants in Baltimore: The company hounded low-income tenants with a barrage of lawsuits, eviction notices and late fees.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/27/2125550/-Under-the-Radar

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-09-26

Voices, The Peoples News

September 26, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Differentiating between COVID misinformation and evolving science: The Western scientific enterprise is built upon the idea that a hypothesis’s power lies in its explanatory capability. It can never be fully “proven” but can be disproven. The hypothesis that fomites could transmit COVID was replaced by the hypothesis that it was spread primarily as a respiratory virus, which could explain more of the infections. The fomite hypothesis was not wrong or misinformation; it was midinformation.
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/09/19/differentiating-between-covid-misinformation-and-evolving-science/

Deep Investigation on Moderna’s Artificial human gene like SARS-Cov-2. Huge Plot EU, China, US Darpa, Fauci & Gates:
This study is grafted on the enormous suspicions and intrigues on the tests on chimeric superviruses carried out by Fauci himself between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the University of North Carolina summarized in the dossier prepared by the American doctor David E. Martin who first detailed these very dangerous “dual use” vaccine-bioweapon trials (then confirmed by Russian experts)
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/09/25/deep-investigation-on-modernas-artificial-human-gene-like-sars-cov-2-huge-plot-eu-china-us-darpa-fauci-gates/

Biggest Coverup in the History of Science: Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul joined ‘Kennedy’ to discuss his recent clash with Dr. Fauci over the origins of COVID-19 and his promise that Republicans will investigate Fauci over his handling of the pandemic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afckus4RRbI

New Discovery Can Kill COVID With ‘Hugs’—but There’s a Catch: A global team of scientists has found a molecule that can essentially “squeeze” the COVID virus to death. But can we get it to work on humans?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/scientists-identify-molecule-that-can-kill-covid-with-hugs-but-theres-a-catch

# Economy / Finance / Trade
A Welfare System Built to Exclude Will Never Reduce Poverty in the US: To fix its broken welfare system, the U.S. must move away from its fixation on fraud, exclusions by design, and the stigmatization of people in poverty.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/23/welfare-system-built-exclude-will-never-reduce-poverty-us

# Education / Schools
Pennsylvania school district bans Girls Who Code book series: The books are four of more than 1,500 unique book titles that have been banned by schools across the country after conservative pushes to censor books. According to a report released by Pen America in April, 138 school districts across 32 states have banned books from their classrooms and school libraries.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/26/pennsylvania-book-ban-girls-who-code

One of Higher Ed’s Worst-Kept Secrets Is Out. It’s Even Grimmer Than We Knew: Out-of-state students are funding flagship universities, and piling up debt in the process.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/one-of-higher-eds-worst-kept-secrets-is-out-its-even-grimmer-than-we-knew/ar-AA12bWGg?li=BBnb7Kz

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Do Americans want too much from EVs? Americans are thinking too much about occasional long trips when considering an electric vehicle, leading automakers to focus heavily on expanding new cars’ ranges, analysts say.
https://energynews.us/newsletter/do-americans-want-too-much-from-evs/

General Motors will invest $760 million at a Toledo, Ohio, manufacturing plant to build drive units for electric trucks, the automaker’s first U.S. drivetrain facility that will be repurposed for electric vehicles
https://electrek.co/2022/09/23/gm-invests-760m-ohio-plant-build-drive-units-ev-trucks/

# Environment / Climate / Global
New Island Rises in South Pacific After Volcano ‘Awoke’: NASA has confirmed the existence of the island, which is growing by the day. A submerged volcano on the seamount known as the Home Reef in the central Tonga Islands has awoken after 16 years of deep sleep to poke its head out of the blue. On 10 September 2022, lava and rock fragments began to ooze into the ocean 25 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Late Island, while plumes of steam and ash burst through the surface of the waves.
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-island-has-arisen-in-the-pacific-following-underwater-eruption

Increase in Strong El Niño Events Linked to Loss of Arctic Sea Ice: Sea ice forms in the Arctic and Antarctic in winter and retreats in summer, but it doesn’t disappear completely, at least not yet. The floating frozen seawater has a surprisingly strong influence on weather patterns and ocean circulation in the polar regions and beyond.
https://www.ecowatch.com/arctic-sea-ice-melting-el-nino.html

# General Information / Other News
Take Trump’s ‘Warning’ of Violence for What It Is, a Threat: The ex-president and his MAGA militias have made good on their promises to “fight like hell” before. You’d be a fool to believe they won’t do it again.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/take-donald-trumps-warning-of-violence-for-what-it-is-a-threat

Nice Democracy You’ve Got Here. Shame If Something Happened to It: Donald Trump’s newest defense strategy is laced with menace. The line between imagination and delusion is thin, as Donald Trump’s initial reaction to an FBI search at Mar-a-Lago in August demonstrated. In the first days afterward, the former president saw the search as a political gift, not a blow: a chance to rally his base https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/trump-threats-violence/671458/

Disinvestment Poses as Great a Threat to Libraries as Book Bans: It’s time we reversed the decades of structural attacks that render libraries unable to serve communities effectively.
https://truthout.org/articles/disinvestment-poses-as-great-a-threat-to-libraries-as-book-bans/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin’s Top Cheerleaders Panic Over Russian Army ‘Mutiny’: Two of Putin’s most strident supporters are freaking out about the disastrous mass mobilization efforts, which they fear could lead to a major revolt against the war in Ukraine.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/putins-top-cheerleaders-panic-over-mobilization-mutiny

# Gov / Politics / US
Liz Cheney says she will do whatever it takes to keep Donald Trump from the White House, even if it means leaving the GOP: The top Republican on the House Jan. 6 committee urged voters to prioritize preserving democracy over policy differences during this year’s midterms https://www.axios.com/2022/09/25/liz-cheney-trump-2024-republican-party

Florida, Texas Dial Up Their War on Immigrants: Gabrielle Gurley wrote about how the Martha’s Vineyard episode wasn’t just a political stunt about the border. Abbott and DeSantis made clear their hatred for migrants and Democratic-controlled parts of the country.
https://prospect.org/justice/florida-texas-dial-up-their-war-on-immigrants/

Koch Network Showers Fascist Election Deniers With Campaign Cash Ahead of Midterms: “His choice is not unlike the choices that most German industrialists made in the Weimar Republic,” one critic said of billionaire Charles Koch.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/23/koch-network-showers-fascist-election-deniers-campaign-cash-ahead-midterms

Zero GOP Senators Vote to Curb Dark Money’s Stranglehold on Democracy: “Instead of voting for the DISCLOSE Act and cracking down on the dark money in our democracy, Republicans blocked it,” said Sen. Patty Murray. “Shameful.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/22/zero-gop-senators-vote-curb-dark-moneys-stranglehold-democracy

Investigation into congressional stock trading reveals massive corruption red flags: The current Congress has a laughably low approval rating of just 17%. It seems near impossible for the public view of our elected officials to drop any lower. The Times dug into the stock trades that members of Congress made from 2019 to 2021. They found many cases in which politicians or their close family members made stock trades in circumstances in which they could have had insider knowledge.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/investigation-into-congressional-stock-trading-reveals-massive-corruption-red-flags

# Law Enforcement
Video shows train hitting Colorado police car with person handcuffed inside: Yareni Rios-Gonzales hospitalized after officers fail to pull her from car they had parked on tracks
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/24/colorado-train-hits-police-car-woman-inside-video

# Legal / DOJ
Oklahoma Lawmaker Calls for Investigation of Prosecutors Who Convicted Richard Glossip: Glossip faces a December execution date as Oklahoma lawmakers call attention to even more disturbing revelations that had come to light: including evidence of prosecutorial misconduct so alarming that state Rep. Justin Humphrey called for an investigation into the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s Office.
https://theintercept.com/2022/09/23/richard-glossip-execution-investigation/

Former DOJ official says special master telling Trump to ‘put up or shut up’
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3660603-former-doj-official-says-special-master-telling-trump-to-put-up-or-shut-up/

Jan. 6 Panel Subpoenas WI House Speaker Over Trump Call: Robin Vos has, in turn, sued the panel to try and block the subpoena from being enforced.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3661898-wisconsin-house-speaker-sues-to-block-subpoena-from-jan-6-committee/

# Medical / Health
In the post Roe v Wade world, what changes should a biology textbook writer make to address the medical repercussions of Dobbs? The proposal was seen by many as an attempt to deflect growing concerns that Republicans are out of step with most Americans who want to preserve some version of choice in every state.
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/09/20/viewpoint-in-the-post-roe-v-wade-world-what-changes-should-a-biology-textbook-writer-make-to-address-medical-repercussions-of-pregnancy/

Genetically modified herpes virus delivers one-two punch against advanced cancers: A new genetically engineered virus has delivered a one-two punch against advanced cancers in initial findings from a phase I trial.
https://www.icr.ac.uk/news-archive/genetically-modified-herpes-virus-delivers-one-two-punch-against-advanced-cancers

Resistance-breathing training found to lower blood pressure: A team of researchers with members from the University of Colorado, Arizona and Alma College, has found that resistance-breathing training can lower blood pressure as much as some medicines and/or exercises. The study is published in the Journal of Applied Physiology.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/3656403-resistance-breath-training-could-lower-blood-pressure/
See also: A multi-trial, retrospective analysis of the antihypertensive effects of high-resistance, low-volume inspiratory muscle strength training https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/japplphysiol.00425.2022

Arizona Can Enforce A 121-Year-Old Abortion Ban, A Judge Ruled: “By allowing this law to go into effect, Arizona has put the lives of pregnant people and their doctors at risk,” the ACLU of Arizona said. The law, which dates back to 1901, has no exceptions for rape or incest, with the only exception being to save the pregnant person’s life. The ban also carries a penalty of two to five years in prison for abortion providers.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annabetts/abortion-pre-roe-ban-takes-effect

# Military / DOD
How Militaries Are Transforming Agricultural Tech Into Deadly Weapons: When you think of military planes, you probably don’t think of the humble crop-duster. But this familiar technology has become a key part of the aerial arsenal of countries around the world.
https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/crop-duster-agricultural-tech-military-conflict.html

# Pharmas / Drugs
The Truth About Rainbow Fentanyl: It was never meant for kids, it’s not aimed at their Halloween basket, but it does represent a real threat for casual drug users. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine. Just two milligrams of fentanyl, which is equal to 10-15 grains of table salt, is considered a lethal dose. Without laboratory testing, there is no way to know how much fentanyl is concentrated in a pill or powder.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/truth-rainbow-fentanyl-151236754.html

An animal tranquilizer poisoning the heroin supply has drug policy experts worried: A tranquilizer used for animals is appearing more frequently in street drugs across North America, alarming drug policy experts and harm reduction advocates alike. When injected, the mixture of xylazine and fentanyl, sometimes called “tranq dope,” can also produce grisly injuries, such as lesions or open skin ulcers. Because they can be extremely painful, some individuals who use drugs will continue to inject into these open sores and wounds for relief. However, that can make things worse, causing the wounds to necrotize, or essentially rot on the body, often requiring amputation. Sometimes, it can even result in death.
https://www.salon.com/2022/09/25/an-animal-tranquilizer-poisoning-the-heroin-supply-has-policy-experts-worried/

Nearly 15,000 Pharmacies Leaving Tricare Next Month: Thousands of independent and community pharmacies are poised to be dropped from Tricare ‘s pharmacy network next month in a move advocates say could leave patients in rural areas with few options to get prescriptions filled.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/09/23/nearly-15000-pharmacies-leaving-tricare-next-month.html

# Science
Researcher discovers a muscle that can promote glucose and fat burning to fuel metabolism for hours while sitting: From the same mind whose research propelled the notion that “sitting too much is not the same as exercising too little,” comes a groundbreaking discovery set to turn a sedentary lifestyle on its ear: The soleus muscle in the calf, though only 1% of your body weight, can do big things to improve the metabolic health in the rest of your body if activated correctly.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-muscle-glucose-fat-fuel-metabolism.html

Scientists finally find a way to recycle plastic indefinitely: Most plastic products can’t be recycled back into their original form. It’s time to change that.
https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/scientists-finally-find-a-way-to-recycle-plastic-indefinitely/

# Social
We Are Proud Boys: Far-Right Gang Normalized Political Violence, Embraced by GOP as Legit Discourse
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/25/we-are-proud-boys-review-republicans-fascist-trump-andy-campbell

# Veterans / VA
Vets benefits poised for biggest cost of living boost in 40 years: Veterans could see their benefits boosted by the biggest margin in four decades after Congress on Thursday finalized plans to guarantee that veterans’ checks see the same cost-of-living boost as Social Security payouts.
https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2022/09/23/vets-benefits-poised-for-biggest-cost-of-living-boost-in-40-years/

VA Research Verges on Breakdown Without Congressional Action: A reinterpretation on funding sources for VA researchers affiliated with academic institutions is imperiling irreplaceable studies of veterans’ health.
https://prospect.org/health/va-research-verges-on-breakdown-without-congressional-action/

# Water
As more info on lead in Jackson’s water comes to light, parents are in the dark on their children’s health: Residents in Jackson are accustomed to boiling water, so they can bathe or cook with it, but with lead, boiling water increases the concentration.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/25/us/jackson-mississippi-children-lead-exposure/index.html

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-09-25

Voices, The Peoples News

September 25, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate

# Chemicals
# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
BILL III, Virus & Vaccines Emperor, Lobbied US-EU Govts with $8.3 Million Through His NGOs: Intrigues, secrets and mysteries not yet revealed by the big investigation by Politico and Welt journalists on Gates’ Lobbying to US and EU Governments. The investigation by American and German journalists is for now only a stone against the pigeon house because it would be interesting to know who, according to their sources, are the American and European officials or politicians who have received part of $8.3 million to support Gates’ plans and of its NGOs.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/09/23/bill-iii-virus-vaccines-emperor-lobbied-us-eu-govts-with-8-3-million-through-his-ngos/

# Education / Schools
Parents attack nonbinary teacher at school board meeting: In southern Oregon this week, a battle over pronouns spilled from social media into a school board meeting where parents and other “concerned citizens” demanded the ouster of a nonbinary first-grade teacher. The unidentified teacher was recently hired to teach first grade at Griffin Creek Elementary School in Medford, Oregon
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/09/parents-attack-nonbinary-teacher-school-board-meeting/

# Employment / Labor
$45.6 Billion in US Pandemic Unemployment Insurance Was Stolen By Fraud, Says Labor Dept: IG Criminals have fraudulently stolen 45.6 billion in unemployment benefits from U.S. government programs meant to assist Americans who lost their jobs during the pandemic.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/22/unemployment-fraud-coroanvirus-pandemic/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Sen. Kaine says Mountain Valley Pipeline provision in Manchin bill ‘could open the door to serious abuse and even corruption’: The bill would require the federal government to issue outstanding permits for the project within 30 days, including authorizations from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect endangered species, from the Bureau of Land Management to allow the pipeline to cross the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia, and from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to approve its remaining crossing of federal waters. The legislation says that none of those actions would be subject to review by the courts. Additionally, it would transfer any legal action related to the pipeline or challenges to the act itself from the 4th Circuit to the D.C. Circuit.
https://www.virginiamercury.com/blog-va/kaine-says-mountain-valley-pipeline-provision-in-manchin-bill-could-open-the-door-to-serious-abuse-and-even-corruption/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Trouble bubbles up in newly formed Alaskan lakes. Scientists are worried. Lakes appearing in Alaska because of melting permafrost are “belching” methane into the atmosphere, a scientist working with NASA said. These lakes, called thermokarsts, are so full of the climate-damaging gas that it can be seen bubbling to the surface.
https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-trouble-bubbling-up-in-newly-formed-alaskan-lakes-and-scientists-are-worried

# Environment / Climate / Global
How close is the Amazon tipping point? Forest loss in the east changes the equation: Scientists warn that the Amazon is approaching a tipping point beyond which it would begin to transition from a lush tropical forest into a dry, degraded savanna. This point may be reached when 25% of the forest is lost. In a newly released report, the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) estimates that 13.2% of the original Amazon forest biome has been lost due to deforestation and other causes.
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/how-close-is-the-amazon-tipping-point-forest-loss-in-the-east-changes-the-equation/

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Why is corn syrup in so many American infant formulas? “When we look on the scale, it’s roughly two out of 100 children who received this formula with corn syrup solids were obese compared to those who received the other formulas. And that was consistent at ages two, three, and four years,” Goran explained. “Of WIC participants, roughly 15 out of 100 will be obese by the time they age out of eligibility” at age four, said Christopher Anderson
https://undark.org/2022/09/19/why-is-corn-syrup-in-so-many-american-infant-formulas/#:~:text=Infant%20formulas%20are%20nutritionally%20complete,consume%20breastmilk%20or%20standard%20formula.%E2%80%9D

Formulas for toddlers are a burgeoning business in the United States: Sales of the drinks more than doubled in recent years as companies convinced parents that their little ones needed the liquid boost. But many experts warn that these products, designed for children ages 1 to 3, fill no nutritional needs beyond what is available in a typical toddler diet, are subject to less regulation than infant formula, and are expensive.
https://khn.org/news/article/formula-infants-toddlers-federal-standards-nutrition/

FDA warns about Mother’s Touch baby formula that does not conform to standards: On Sept. 16, 2022, Mother’s Touch initiated a recall of its Mother’s Touch Baby Formula because the product did not conform to the FDA’s infant formula standards. This week the FDA emphasized the problem in a public alert.
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2022/09/fda-warns-about-mothers-touch-baby-formula-that-does-not-conform-standards/

# General Recalls / Alerts
Condoms, toothpaste, denture cream among 47 more products recalled from Family Dollar for improper storage: Dozens of over-the-counter products, including eye drops and nasal spray, were recalled because they were stored improperly. No adverse events or illnesses have been reported so far. The recalled products were shipped to stores from May to June.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/shopping/2022/09/19/family-dollar-recall-colgate-toothpaste-trojan-skyn-condoms/10427516002/

# General Information / Other News
Former President Trump launched a fresh attack on New York attorney general Letitia James: Trump attacks ‘racist’ New York AG Letitia James for her $250 million ‘witch hunt’ lawsuit, claims she is the fraud and wouldn’t have sued him if it wasn’t for her ‘really bad’ poll numbers in her reelection campaign. ‘I never thought this case would be brought, until I saw her really bad poll numbers. She is a fraud who campaigned on a ‘get Trump’ platform,” Trump said. “James is spending her time fighting for very powerful and well represented banks and insurance companies instead of fighting murder and violent crime.”
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2022-09-21/trump-lashes-out-at-new-york-attorney-general-over-lawsuit

# Gov / Politics / Global
Conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas: A Visual Explainer: The armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine started in 2014. This visual explainer shows both the human cost of the war from 2014-early 2022 and the relationships between diplomatic efforts at de-escalation and patterns of fighting and loss of life.
https://www.crisisgroup.org/content/conflict-ukraines-donbas-visual-explainer

The consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for international security – NATO and beyond: February 24, 2022, is likely to engrave itself on the history template of the contemporary world. Russia’s unprovoked, unjustified and barbaric invasion of Ukraine is not only a manifestation of a huge security danger that has shattered peace in Europe.
https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2022/07/07/the-consequences-of-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-for-international-security-nato-and-beyond/index.html

# Gov / Politics / US
US has launched 469 wars and interventions since 1798: The Congressional Research Service published a comprehensive report regarding US wars and military interventions around the world from 1798 to our time. It showed that in the period after 1991 until now, there have been 251 military interventions where the overwhelming majority consists of illegal use of force on the part of the United States. The list of countries targeted by the U.S. military includes the vast majority of the nations on Earth, including almost every single county in Latin America and the Caribbean and most of the African continent.
https://mronline.org/2022/09/16/u-s-launched-251-military-interventions-since-1991-and-469-since-1798/

House GOP Rolls Out Agenda With a Fake Lincoln Quote: The House Republican conference thought their agenda was quoting Abraham Lincoln. It was actually quoting a Lehman Brothers ad from the 1980s.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a41357812/kevin-mccarthy-commitment-to-america/

House Democrats Call on DOJ to Investigate DeSantis for ‘Cruel Migrant Flights’: The lawmakers are alleging that the Florida governor and other officials involved may have violated federal law. The group of 50 were not only promised housing and employment — immigration law experts say they were given bad advice that could actually jeopardize their immigration status as they seek to remain in the U.S.
https://news.yahoo.com/calls-grow-investigate-desantis-over-214516633.html

Charles Murray, White Trash, and Madison Grant (Part I): In his book Coming Apart: In other words, those “poor rural white degenerates” were not “white” enough. By the 1850s, “North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, and Virginia kept poor whites at bay by retaining property qualifications for holding office.”
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/09/24/charles-murray-white-trash-and-madison-grant-part-i/?mc_cid=94eea91ef6&mc_eid=3f7488d454

DeSantis pushing Christian nationalism has Florida newspaper warning of white supremacy: Florida governor Ron DeSantis campaigning for president by pushing Christian nationalism was the focus of a new editorial published online by the Miami Herald on Saturday afternoon. “Is America a Christian nation? The United States is a secular nation with no official religion, so the answer is No,” the editorial board wrote. “But to Republicans such as Florida Gov. DeSantis, simplifying the answer to a Yes is a powerful tool. They’ve found a political gold mine in pitting Christians against the so-called evils of the left, gay and transgender people and teachers accused of pushing a ‘woke’ agenda.”
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article265851981.html

Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman rallied in Philadelphia on Saturday as he looks to beat Dr. Mehmet Oz in the race for Senate. During the visit, the first since launching his bid to the Senate in February 2021, Fetterman gathered some 600 people, evenly split between White and Black voters. The vote of Black communities in Pennsylvania will be key for the Democratic candidate to win the state’s Senate seat. Fetterman continues to hold his lead over Republican rival Dr. Oz in the Senate race, according to recent polls, despite recent scrutiny over his health.
https://www.newsweek.com/john-fetterman-chances-beating-dr-oz-crowds-rally-1746064

Trump fans do QAnon symbol again at rally despite security trying to stop them: Donald Trump embraces QAnon again at North Carolina rally as ties to violence raise concern. The FBI has investigated QAnon for violence and domestic extremism for years, and warns its followers will likely “act as a catalyst” for future attacks, including against the U.S. government
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/09/23/trump-embrace-qanon-concern-violence/10434619002/?gnt-cfr=1

Full Mace: ‘There’s a lot of pressure on Republicans’ to have an impeachment vote on President Biden: Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) talks about her vote against the House version of an electoral reform plan, and her views on a potential impeachment vote against the Biden White House, during an exclusive interview with Meet the Press.
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/full-mace-there-s-a-lot-of-pressure-on-republicans-to-have-an-impeachment-vote-on-president-biden-149215301515

# Legal / DOJ
Trump’s team was happy — until the 11th circuit derailed them on Wednesday: “The most serious parts of that criminal investigation — the obstruction of justice element and the violation of the Espionage Act, the willful retention of national defense information — those are really, really serious potential charges. The fact the Justice Department has those materials means that Trump’s effort to delay this has been effectively stymied.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-11th-circuit-2658333308/

Letitia James’ fraud case will force Trump to ‘throw his kids under the bus if he needs to’: Speaking with host Alicia Menendez, Johnston, who has an extensive background analyzing Trump’s financial shenanigans over the year, stated he has no doubt that the former president would make his kids the fall guys if push comes to shove. https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-kids-2658334385/

# LGBTQ
Watch: Nazis and Proud Boys clash with anti-fascists outside Texas church hosting drag queen bingo: Under the blazing sun outside, the scene at First Christian Church felt chaotic – and angry. More than 100 people traded insults for hours with counter-protesters across Morton Road. The protesters believed it was wrong for adults to expose their children to drag queens. The counter-protestors believed it was important to create a space that felt safe. Some on both sides hid their faces. Some on both sides displayed big guns.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/Protesters-bring-guns-and-insults-to-drag-bingo-17465007.php

# Media
Western Media continues to Ignore how Ukraine is Using NATO Weapons to Kill innocent Civilians in the Donbass: The civilian death toll keeps growing as some EU citizens rise up against their governments’ support for Kiev
https://www.rt.com/russia/563180-kiev-shelling-donbass-civilians/

Western media and politicians prefer to ignore the truth about civilians killed in Donetsk shelling: When Kiev’s guilt in attacks on a maternity hospital cannot be denied, it’s simply brushed under the carpet.
https://mronline.org/2022/06/18/western-media-and-politicians-prefer-to-ignore-the-truth-about-civilians-killed-in-donetsk-shelling/

# Medical / Health
Reusable contact lenses more than triple risk of rare preventable eye infection: People who wear reusable contact lenses are nearly four times as likely as those wearing daily disposables to develop a rare sight-threatening eye infection, finds a study led by UCL and Moorfields researchers.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220923090948.htm

# Nuclear
Chomsky: The U.S. and Israel Are Standing in the Way of Iran Nuclear Agreement: U.S. and Israel are blocking progress on a deal, says Chomsky, and the real goal should be to abolish nuclear weapons.
https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-the-us-and-israel-are-standing-in-the-way-of-iran-nuclear-agreement/

# Science
Genetically modified herpes virus delivers one-two punch against advanced cancers: A new genetically engineered virus has delivered a one-two punch against advanced cancers in initial findings from a phase I trial.
https://www.icr.ac.uk/news-archive/genetically-modified-herpes-virus-delivers-one-two-punch-against-advanced-cancers

How an addicted brain works: Addiction is now understood to be a brain disease. Whether it’s alcohol, prescription pain pills, nicotine, gambling, or something else, overcoming an addiction isn’t as simple as just stopping or exercising greater control over impulses. This is what’s at play when you hear about reward “systems” or “pathways” and the role of dopamine when it comes to addiction. But what does any of that really mean?
https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/how-an-addicted-brain-works

# Technology
Meta Warned Workers To Shape Up: Now It’s Firing Them At Random Using An Algorithm: [This article was originally published on Aug. 19, 2022.] Meta, formerly known as Facebook, in June told its employees that it planned to not only reduce its hiring target, but it was going to “turn up the heat” on employees via stricter performance management with the intention of weeding out underperforming employees.
https://www.techinvestornews.com/Mobile/Latest-Mobile-News/meta-warned-workers-to-shape-up-now-its-firing-them-at-random-using-an-algo

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September 23, 2022
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# Education / Schools
Virginia Commonwealth University will change its fraternity rules and pay $1 million after a 19-year-old pledge died. Students will now be required to complete 12 credit hours at VCU before they can join a fraternity or sorority, alcohol will not be allowed at any event with new members, and Feb. 27 will be recognized as a hazing prevention day.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paigeskinner/adam-oakes-hazing-agreement-vcu__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWqt62nmk$

Two Powerful Unions Have Come Together to Fight the Right’s Attack on Higher Ed: The two unions representing teachers and university professors are fighting for academic freedom and shared governance
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/two-powerful-unions-have-come-together-to-fight-the-rights-attack-on-higher-ed/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWvZ031OK$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Humans are dosing Earth’s waterways with medicines. It isn’t healthy: Medicines, chemical formulations that alleviate much human suffering, can also be significant pollutants, with active ingredients often excreted from the human body and entering waterways. However, the intensity of this contamination and of its impacts has not been well researched.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/humans-are-dosing-earths-waterways-with-medicines-it-isnt-healthy/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWv9UnL9g$

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators: Cause of Michigan’s worst water pollution is too much waste spread on too little land.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.circleofblue.org/2022/world/powerful-industrys-torrent-of-manure-overwhelms-state-regulators/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWpN67UDp$

# General Information / Other News
As Bad as the World Looks Right Now, It’s Actually Worse: If the average person paid closer attention to what was really being discussed at the UN, or had the opportunity to listen in on some of the behind-the-scenes conversations as some of us are obligated to do, they would come away from the experience shaken not stirred.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.yahoo.com/bad-world-looks-now-actually-085236602.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWjEsL2OM$

Calls by Zelensky and Biden for UN reform are supported by people around the world, new survey: Echoing his calls for UN reform earlier this year, Zelensky lamented that much talk about UN reform in the past has led nowhere. He called for an expansion of representation to those who remain unheard.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/calls-by-zelensky-and-biden-for-un-reform-are-supported-by-people-around-the-world-new-survey-191108__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWg-wrxRk$

Why This Is More Dangerous Than the Cuban Missile Crisis – Helen Caldicott: The military confrontation between the US and Russia puts our very existence in more danger than ever before.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/06/07/why-this-is-more-dangerous-than-the-cuban-missile-crisis-helen-caldicott/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWtvLo3Ny$

“That’s Pretty Extreme”: A day in the town that came up with a jaw-dropping solution to banish homeless people.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/09/homeless-housing-problem-lakewood-trees-town-square.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWtm_IZqa$

# Gov / Politics / Global
Four Moscow-occupied regions in Ukraine are slated to vote on joining Russia starting Friday. The votes in Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and Donetsk are universally viewed as a sham by Ukraine and Western powers.
It’s likely Russia will use sham elections as pretense for annexing areas of Ukraine. Voting begins today, and will continue until Tuesday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/2022/09/23/1124663135/russia-annexation-ukraine-referendum__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWtjhumsA$

From “Special Operation” to “Defensive War”: Russian leadership seemed to think that the best course of action was to retain the appearance of ordinary life. Now all of that could change.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/87974__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWoqiX0aD$

More Storm Clouds Gather Over Armenia, Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan’s military action has jeopardized peace talks. The latest round of brutal violence seems aimed as much against Russia as against Armenia.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/87976__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWoDIqNmJ$

The Dirty Little Secret That Could Kill This Putin Fugitive: He’s one of Russia’s most wanted men, and the one Putin fears the most. In an interview, Milov says the proverbial bottom line of Putin’s ham-fisted control over the 10 or so energy companies responsible for overseeing Russian oil and natural gas can be easily translated into English, Russian, or Klingon.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yahoo.com/now/dirty-little-secret-could-kill-085547391.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWps_tkJy$

# Gov / Politics / US
Midterms reveal white nationalism’s potency: Midterms reveal white nationalism’s potency. “We must be honest with each other and with ourselves,” Biden said. “Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal. Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/white-nationalism-is-a-political-ideology-that-mainstreams-racist-conspiracy-theories-184375__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWtpjtuxW$

Russia’s and China’s surveillance states, and America’s surveillance capitalism, are they really so different? Important and useful reporting. Pardon me if I ask an impertinent question: Why aren’t we hearing about corporate surveillance of employees in the United States? Or corporate surveillance of Americans in general? Or how corporate surveillance is being used by the US and state governments? If Russia’s and China’s surveillance states are far more dangerously intrusive than America’s surveillance capitalism, shouldn’t we know more about how the same or very similar technologies are being utilized here?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://robertreich.substack.com/p/russias-and-chinas-surveillance-states*details__;Iw!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWjKAJm2w$

House Passes Bill to Correct Flaws in Certification of Presidential Elections: The bill had the support of nearly all Democrats and just nine Republicans in the House.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/house-passes-bill-to-correct-flaws-in-certification-of-presidential-elections/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWvkB2kBT$

Far-right Republicans are itching for a government shutdown: Rep. Kevin McCarthy May Face Big Problems If GOP Wins Narrow Majority In House. The volatile Freedom Caucus is itching to shut down the government and could throw McCarthy out of his leadership position.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kevin-mccarthy-freedom-caucus_n_632de156e4b0e2478902c32a__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWvZC-DoY$

# Legal / DOJ
Judge Cannon’s Mar-a-Lago Ruling Just Got Benchslapped: The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals took a sledgehammer to the Trump-appointed judge’s misreading of the law. There are Trump judges and Trump-y judges. In a per curiam ruling, the panel laid waste to Judge Cannon’s refusal to exclude classified documents seized at Mar-a-Lago from the special master review process, as well as her ban on the FBI using them in its ongoing criminal investigation.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://abovethelaw.com/2022/09/benchslap-eleventh-circuit-rips-trial-judges-ruling-in-trump-warrant-case/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWj880hYC$

Amended Autopsy for Elijah McClain Shows New Cause of Death: Five former police officers and paramedics involved in the incident are scheduled to be arraigned on Nov. 4: A New Elijah McClain Autopsy Shows He Died Of Complications From Being Injected With A Sedative While Forcibly Restrained, “I believe that Mr. McClain would most likely be alive but for the administration of ketamine,” a forensic pathologist said in the new findings. The five face 32 charges, including manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide. Their arraignment is set for November.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annabetts/elijah-mcclain-new-autopsy-findings__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWjVwedZg$

# Medical / Health
She Wanted An Abortion. Now The Embryo Is Suing Her Doctors: The ‘wrongful death’ suit could usher in a new threat for abortion providers and women nationwide
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/abortion-arizona-personhood-roe-wade-1234598516/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWuS4elY5$

UHC2030: The United Nations’ Global Public-Private Partnership For Healthcare: Agenda 2030 was first outlined with General Assembly Resolution 70/1 (A/Res/70/1). In October 2015, this Resolution committed the UN to Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In UN parlance, “sustainability” is misleadingly used as a synonym for transformation. Nothing about the SDGs is as it first appears.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.naturalblaze.com/2022/09/uhc2030-the-united-nations-global-public-private-partnership-for-healthcare.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWgYZpCMy$

Monoclonal antibodies may be HIV game-changer: HIV therapies currently need to be taken regularly for life – longer-lasting antibody treatments could one day offer an equally effective one-shot alternative
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/hiv-therapies-currently-need-to-be-taken-regularly-for-life-longer-lasting-antibody-treatments-could-one-day-offer-an-equally-effective-one-shot-alternative-189867__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWlmnoS-V$

# Military / DOD
The Navy Accused Him of Arson. Its Own Investigation Showed Widespread Safety Failures: After the USS Bonhomme Richard fire, investigators found missing fire hoses, a broken sprinkler system and other systemic failures. The Navy is still accusing a sailor of arson, against the advice of a military judge.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/bonhomme-richard-fire-safety-lapses__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWjSH06zC$

# Science
Algae With a Secret Surprise Fought Off Deadly Pneumonia: Scientists found a way to turn microscopic plant life into weapons against bacterial infections in mice.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://finance.yahoo.com/news/algae-secret-surprise-fought-off-201425243.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWsrCWUcU$

# Water
Vermont effort successfully reduced lead in schools, officials say: Almost all Vermont schools and child care programs have addressed lead in their drinking water systems thanks to a state program https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://vtdigger.org/2022/09/22/a-multi-agency-state-effort-has-successfully-reduced-lead-in-schools-officials-say/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3noXvCn9M-GrNrVABJ-jwQowoJdORJQrS_gvEuzNmF9lVVCz42tB8fsKRJNGpXbJ1aMe-JPBouvOoy5kzbopFzoPWpfSkwJL$

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