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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-12-14

Voices, The Peoples News

December 14, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
The federal government has a long history of stealing land from tribes. Co-management is a step in the right direction,
we’re witnessing a monumental shift in federal land management. This national monument, unlike many others, sits entirely within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation on reservation trust land. In 2018, this park embraced a new structure: being managed cooperatively between the tribe, National Park Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs, a rarity in park management. This type of partnership is a model for U.S. agencies that are beginning to embrace tribal co-management of public lands.
https://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/news-analysis/government-tribes-co-management/

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
In El Paso, migrants are sleeping on the streets after thousands crossed the border last weekend
A Nicaraguan fisherman planned to spend the night in a parking garage with other migrants, then a good Samaritan offered him a place to sleep. The city is struggling to handle a sudden influx of migrants that has overwhelmed local resources.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/13/hundreds-of-migrants-forced-to-sleep-on-streets-of-el-paso/

# Chemicals
Why the U.S. Is Losing the Fight to Ban Toxic Chemicals: From a powerful chemical industry that helped write the toxic substances law to an underfunded EPA lacking in resolve, the flaws in the American chemical regulatory apparatus run deep.
https://www.propublica.org/article/toxic-chemicals-epa-regulation-failures

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Injury Compensation Implications of Adding Covid-19 Vaccines to CDC Vaccination Schedule: The addition of COVID-19 vaccines to the CDC’s recommended childhood vaccination schedule may signal the beginning of a federal effort to include these vaccines in the federal vaccine injury compensation program’s (VICP) vaccine injury table (VIT).
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/20/cdc-advisers-recommend-adding-covid-shots-to-routine-schedules-for-kids-adults-00062739

DeSantis’ Death Squad Is Pushing Vaccine BS to Win Over GOP: The Florida governor is so determined to take Donald Trump’s place that he is selling COVID misinformation and putting his own supporters at risk.
https://www.businessinsider.com/desantis-latest-anti-covid-vaccine-action-draws-contrasts-with-trump-2022-12

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Walmart Will Charge You for Bags at Over 200 Stores, as of Jan. 1. Customers who don’t bring their own reusable bags will have to pay 10 cents per paper or plastic bag at the register
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/walmart-charge-bags-over-200-191200649.html

Hedge Fund Manager Ken Griffin Sues IRS Over “Unlawful Disclosure” of His Tax Information to ProPublica: The Citadel founder was among dozens of ultrawealthy Americans spotlighted in our Secret IRS Files series, which used a trove of agency data to reveal how billionaires avoid paying taxes and use their money to influence tax policy.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2022/12/13/billionaire-ken-griffin-sues-irs-over-leak-exposing-taxes-paid-by-25-richest-americans/?sh=597556394565

America’s Highest Earners and Their Taxes Revealed: Secret IRS files reveal the top US income earners and how their tax rates vary more than their incomes. Tech titans, hedge fund managers and heirs dominate the list, while the likes of Taylor Swift and LeBron James didn’t even make the top 400.
https://projects.propublica.org/americas-highest-incomes-and-taxes-revealed/

The Fed Keeps Throttling the Economy: Powell’s astonishingly ignorant response to easing inflation pressures
The Federal Reserve Board’s policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee, as expected, raised short-term interest rates another half-point.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/10/federal-reserve-recession-inflation-financial-crisis-tooze.html

# Education / Schools
Washington State Proposes Reforms for Special Education Schools: Education officials investigation showed state failed to address complaints about abuse, lack of academics.
https://www.propublica.org/article/therapeutic-schools-northwest-soil-washington-reforms

An 11-year-old graduated from university with a bachelor’s in physics. He wants to make humans immortal. He even had time to drop out of one university and enroll in another.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/an-11-year-old-graduated-with-a-bachelors-in-physics-he-wants-to-make-humans-immortal/

# Employment / Labor
Union Leader: Stellantis Will Send Electric-Vehicle Jobs to Mexico: 1,350 union workers are losing their jobs at an Illinois plant, an early signal about the staying power of green manufacturing jobs in the United States.
https://prospect.org/labor/stellantis-will-send-electric-vehicle-jobs-to-mexico/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
The Tennessee Valley Authority’s incentive structure keeps residents hooked on fossil fuels: The federally owned utility company could be leading the clean energy transition. Instead, it’s poisoning the countryside.
https://newrepublic.com/article/169464/tennessee-valley-authority-jeff-lyash

A recent, almost two-week-long gas leak in Pennsylvania created enough methane emissions to cancel out the emissions reductions associated with about half the electric vehicles sold in the U.S. last year.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/28/nord-stream-methane-gas-leaks-may-be-biggest-ever-with-warning-large-climate-risk

Republican officials in West Virginia, Texas, Louisiana, Florida and other states have withdrawn billions of dollars from global asset manager BlackRock because of its support for reaching net-zero emissions.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2022/12/10/23496712/esg-gop-climate-corporate-responsibility

House Committee report shows how Big Oil has been gaslighting us all along: The fossil fuel industry has done everything it can to gaslight the public into believing that we are all equally responsible for causing the climate crisis and that the industry was working hard to solve it.
https://www.desmog.com/2022/12/12/house-committee-report-shows-how-big-oil-has-been-gaslighting-us-all-along/

Internal Documents Reveal Big Oil’s Plan for Profiting Amid Climate Pressures: The largest oil and gas companies are leveraging the climate crisis to further entrench their domination of energy markets.
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/oversight-committee-releases-new-documents-showing-big-oil-s-greenwashing

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
As salt coats snowy roadways in winter, freshwater ecosystems pay a heavy price: Keeping paved surfaces clear of snow and ice comes at an accumulating cost to lakes, streams, and drinking water supplies.
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/winter-2022/as-salt-coats-snowy-roadways-winter-freshwater

Florida ag commissioner wants to ban land sales to foreign entitities: Florida’s new Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson wants to restrict the sale of The Sunshine State’s farmland to foreign countries after increasing concerns about what foreign buyers, namely Chinese companies closely affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are doing with the agricultural land once they purchase it.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/florida/florida-ag-commissioner-wants-to-ban-land-sales-to-foreign-entitities/article_c649fce8-7b09-11ed-8be2-4b1091fa8b6a.html

# Environment / Climate / Global
The Arctic is becoming wetter and stormier, scientists warn: In their annual assessment of the region and its climate, researchers highlighted new signs of a huge transformation underway. The NOAA report determined the past year has been the region’s sixth-warmest year on record, and the Greenland ice sheet lost ice for the 25th consecutive year.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3773938-climate-change-driving-warmer-wetter-stormier-arctic-conditions-noaa/

# Gov / Politics / Global
China’s War Against Taiwan Has Already Started: How Beijing tries to make a democracy submit without putting up a fight
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/taiwan-china-disinformation-propaganda-russian-influence/672453/

# Gov / Politics / US
At a donor conference in Paris, countries and international groups pledged over $1 billion in aid to Ukraine, AP reports. Additionally, the US is considering sending a small number of troops to Ukraine, according to senior US officials.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-government-france-b25c89ae62e715531a7470fdc8e489d2

US poised to approve Patriot missile battery for Ukraine: U.S. officials say the Biden administration is poised to approve sending a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-government-and-politics-ba8468e34e3c7eb78bdc47393c417ecb

Rev. Barber Tells Senate Dems to Bring Voting Rights, Minimum Wage, Abortion Bills to Floor: “You can’t say the rules keep you from doing something when you have the power to change the rules,” says Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/13/rev-barber-tells-senate-dems-bring-voting-rights-minimum-wage-abortion-bills-floor

Conservative Activist Poured Millions Into Groups Seeking to Influence Supreme Court on Elections and Discrimination: Newly obtained records show how Leonard Leo, an architect of the right-wing takeover of the courts, has been funding groups pushing to change elections and anti-discrimination laws.
https://www.propublica.org/article/leonard-leo-scotus-elections-nonprofits-discrimination

State Lawmakers Considered Over 70 Bills to Give Politicians More Power in 2022: Conservatives are trying to make it so that their abortion bans, among other things, aren’t subject to court rulings. These bills all appear to be related to the right’s current quest to hand total power to politicians while stripping away other officials’ ability to keep them in check, representing an attack on the concept of checks and balances in state government.
https://truthout.org/articles/state-lawmakers-considered-over-70-bills-to-give-politicians-more-power-in-2022/

# Law Enforcement
“The Death Penalty Is Immoral”: Oregon Governor Commutes All Death Row Sentences: “Justice is not advanced by taking a life,” Democratic Gov. Kate Brown said.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-death-penalty-is-immoral-oregon-governor-commutes-all-death-row-sentences/

# Legal / DOJ
The Special Counsel Investigating Trump Is Wasting No Time: A new subpoena is the latest step showing that the DOJ’s man in charge is aggressively pursuing his target.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/12/trump-investigations-subpoena-special-counsel-jack-smith-doj.html

Inside the Jury Room for the Trump Org Criminal Trial: Jurors thought a Trump Organization lawyer was insulting. They knew the employees were liars. And the defense team’s jingle fell flat.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-jury-room-for-the-trump-organization-criminal-trial

Trump Organization convicted in executive tax dodge scheme: A jury found two corporate entities at the Trump Organization guilty on all 17 counts, including charges of conspiracy and falsifying business records. Trump himself was not on trial. The verdict in state court in New York came after about 10 hours of deliberations over two days.
https://www.northernnewsnow.com/2022/12/06/trump-org-jury-seeks-clarity-deliberations-continue/

# LGBTQ
Texas’ Republican AG Wanted License Info of Trans Residents: “This is another brick building toward targeting these individuals,” Austin attorney Ian Pittman said.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2022/12/14/report-texas-ag-ken-paxton-sought-data-on-transgender-texans/

# Media
Publishing is not a crime: Twelve years after WikiLeaks exposed the dirty secrets of U.S. diplomacy in a massive publication of State Department cables, co-founder Julian Assange remains in a high-security British prison awaiting extradition to the United States. He faces espionage charges that could add up to 175 years in U.S. prison.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has the power to drop the case against Assange immediately. Instead, the Biden administration has continued the effort at prosecution begun under former President Donald Trump.
https://truthout.org/articles/publishing-is-not-a-crime-the-new-york-times-joins-the-fight-to-free-assange/

# Medical / Health
Maternal, Infant Death Rates Were Already Higher In States That Now Ban Abortion: “Making abortion illegal makes pregnancy and childbirth more dangerous and threatens the health and lives of all women of reproductive age,” said report coauthor Laurie Zephyrin, M.D.
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/states-abortion-bans-maternal-and-infant-death-rates-are-dramatically-higher-study-finds?itm_source=parsely-api

# Military / Global
New Commander, New Goals for Russia in Ukraine: The new state-of-emergency laws introduced by the Kremlin in October are aimed at being able to provide a strategic defense of the “captured objectives” rather than all-out warfare to the bitter end.
https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/88301

Dangerous ‘situation in Kosovo resembles Ukraine Donbass crisis’ before the conflict. Russian Envoy, Pristina’s attitude towards Serbs seems to be similar to that of Kiev towards Donbass, Moscow’s ambassador to Belgrade believes
https://www.gospanews.net/en/2022/12/13/dangerous-situation-in-kosovo-resembles-ukraine-donbass-crisis-before-conflict-russian-envoy-said-on-rt/

Putin makes real Nuclear threat; US yawns: Such a change would align Russia’s nuclear posture with Washington’s own strategic doctrine and, at one stroke, make the world far more dangerous.
https://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2022/12/11/putin-makes-real-nuclear-threat-us-yawns/

Russia Primes Nuclear Bomb 12 Times More Powerful Than Dropped on Hiroshima: The mass circulation paper’s report outlined some of the missile’s specifications, which include a launch weight of 46,000 tons, an operational range of up to 12,000 kilometers (7,456 miles) that can strike the U.S. or anywhere in Europe, and a payload of up to 500 kilotons.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-missile-yars-icbm-hiroshima-bomb-1766933

# Nuclear
What to know about DOE’s fusion milestone: Experiments at a U.S. government lab may have provided “proof that the physics work.” But future fusion reactors might turn to a different technology for replicating the energy that powers the sun.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/13/fusion-breakthrough-doe-energy-00073631

Nuclear-fusion lab achieves ‘ignition’: Scientists at the world’s largest nuclear-fusion facility have for the first time achieved the phenomenon known as ignition, creating a nuclear reaction that generates more energy than it consumes. The breakthrough at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) has excited the global fusion-research community
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/nuclear-fusion-lab-achieves-ignition

The One Thing Everyone’s Ignoring About the Fusion Discovery: One of the year’s most monumental scientific achievements is indebted to decades of research into weapons of mass destruction.
https://news.yahoo.com/one-thing-everyone-ignoring-fusion-095819172.html

# Pharmas / Drugs
States Challenge Biden to Lower Drug Prices by Allowing Imports From Canada: Buyers in the United States pay among the highest prices in the world for brand-name pharmaceuticals. Drugs are generally less expensive in neighboring Canada, where the government controls prices.
https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/states-challenge-biden-lower-drug-prices-allowing-imports-canada

# Science
Protein-folding AI tackles next big challenge: Researchers are repurposing AlphaFold, an artificial-intelligence (AI) system that predicts protein structures, to tackle ever-more-complex challenges in the field. Two years ago, the deep-learning algorithm, developed by DeepMind, swept a competition in which amino-acid sequences were used to predict proteins’ 3D shapes, which are important for determining their function. This year’s competition added harder problems, such as protein–drug interactions and multi-protein complexes. AlphaFold methods aced most tests, but still struggled to predict complexes containing antibodies.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04438-1

The best science images of 2022: An almighty eruption, the cosmos remastered, swirling cells and more.
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-04372-2/index.html?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=b0206d83a8-briefing-dy-20221214&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-b0206d83a8-43812897

# Social
The Federal Program to Rebuild After Hurricane Katrina Shortchanged the Poor. New Data Proves It. For years, low-income residents of New Orleans have said the state’s Road Home program paid them less to rebuild their homes compared to wealthier residents. They were right.
https://www.route-fifty.com/public-safety/2022/12/federal-program-rebuild-after-hurricane-katrina-shortchanged-poor-new-data-proves-it/380785/

Katrina Survivors Were Told They Could Use Grant Money to Rebuild. Now They’re Being Sued for It. After Hurricane Katrina, struggling homeowners said, they were told not to worry about the fine print when they received grants to elevate their homes. Now the state is going after them because they did exactly that
https://www.propublica.org/article/katrina-survivors-grant-money-lawsuits?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=river

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-12-13

Voices, The Peoples News

December 13, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration
More than 1,500 migrants waded across the Rio Grande from Juárez into El Paso on Sunday night in one of the largest mass crossings ever in the region. The crossings come at a time when local shelters are at max capacity.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/12/el-paso-migrants-released-border/

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
One Billion Dead: The Death Jab:
Post-vaccination COVID-19 deaths: We gotta ask: exactly how many people did the alleged SARS COV 2 virus actually kill? Scientists are beginning to question whether COVID has actually killed anybody at all. https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/we-gotta-ask-exactly-how-many-people-did-the-alleged-sars-cov-2-virus-actually-kill/

# Education / Schools
Thousands of youths in high school forced to join the JROTC: Students are being placed in the military program without electing the classes on their own. In some Texas schools, at least 75% of students in certain grades are enrolled in the program. “They told us it was mandatory.”
https://buffalonews.com/thousands-of-youths-in-high-school-forced-to-join-the-jrotc/article_99b5916d-74bb-5b3d-bb8a-13da99c89fb0.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Calls Grow to ‘Stop Building New Oil Pipelines’ as Data Shows Severity of Keystone Leaks: With its latest leak of nearly 600,000 gallons in northern Kansas, the sprawling Keystone pipeline system has now spilled more crude oil in the United States than any other pipeline, according to a new analysis
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/13/calls-stop-building-new-oil-pipelines-grow-data-shows-severity-keystone-leaks

‘Corporate greed at its worst’: top US utility giants reap $14 billion in profits as households suffer: “Utility companies have chased higher and higher profits and enriched investors rather than keep prices stable for working families.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/13/corporate-greed-its-worst-top-us-utility-giants-reap-14-billion-profits-households

Pipeline company wants to quietly expand gas shipments in the Pacific Northwest: TC Energy’s upgrade of its GTN XPress pipeline would result in a huge increase in methane gas volumes to the region. But it would undermine climate laws already on the books.
https://www.desmog.com/2022/12/08/tc-energy-gtn-xpress-pipeline-expand-gas-pacific-northwest/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tc-energy-gtn-xpress-pipeline-expand-gas-pacific-northwest

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Alaska’s Arctic waterways are turning orange, threatening drinking water: Scientists think climate change may be the culprit. “It seems like something’s been broken open or something’s been exposed in a way that has never been exposed before.”
https://www.hcn.org/articles/north-water-alaskas-arctic-waterways-are-turning-orange-threatening-drinking-water#:~:text=The%20prevailing%20hypothesis%20is%20that,making%20the%20water%20more%20acidic

‘The treeline is out of control’: How the climate crisis is turning the Arctic green: Reindeer pulling sleighs in Breivikeidet, Norway. Photograph: Morten Falch Sortland/Getty Images. In northern Norway, trees are rapidly taking over the tundra and threatening an ancient way of life that depends on snow and ice
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jan/20/norway-arctic-circle-trees-sami-reindeer-global-heating

As permafrost thaws, the ground beneath Alaska is collapsing: As the climate warms, the ancient ice that used to cover an estimated 85 percent of Alaska is thawing. As it streams away, there are places where the ground is now collapsing. Many of the valley’s spruce trees lean drunkenly. Sometimes, only a thin layer of soil covers yawning craters where the ice has vanished, what Hasson calls “ghost ice wedges.” Its absence has already fundamentally changed how, and where, people can live.
https://grist.org/science/alaska-permafrost-thawing-ice-climate-change/

# Environment / Climate / Global
‘Panic’ sets in as armed groups occupy, deforest Colombian national park: Authorities say illegal cattle ranching, coca growing and land-grabbing are driving deforestation, much of it done at the hands of armed groups affiliated with FARC dissident factions. Local communities have also reportedly been threatened by these groups.
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/panic-sets-in-as-armed-groups-occupy-deforest-colombian-national-park/

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
How food became a weapon in America’s culture war: First came the politics of right-wing grievance. Then came the new foodie culture. Together, they combined to create one toxic food fight.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/food-culture-wars-1990s/

# Gov / Politics / Global
China operating over 100 police stations across the world with the help of some host nations, report claims: Anon-governmental organization that documented dozens of undeclared Chinese “overseas police service centers” in September has now confirmed the operations of dozens more, a new report said on Monday. Undeclared consular activities outside of a nation’s official diplomatic missions are highly unusual and illegal. “What we see coming from China is increasing attempts to crack down on dissent everywhere in the world, to threaten people, harass people, make sure that they are fearful enough so that they remain silent or else face being returned to China against their will,” said Safeguard Defenders Campaign director Laura Harth
https://www.newsweek.com/china-overseas-police-service-center-public-security-bureau-safeguard-defenders-transnational-crime-1764531

Prominent American “Anti-Racist” Jews Are Funding Racist Gangs Attacking Arabs In Israel: Whatever superficial differences they project to the public, liberal Jews and more virulent Kahanist Jews retain their racial synergy and solidarity against Gentiles, whether its oppressing whites in America or beating and killing Arabs in Israel, they are thick as thieves.
https://alethonews.com/2021/05/09/prominent-american-anti-racist-jews-are-funding-racist-gangs-attacking-arabs-in-israel/

India on High Alert as China Clash Sparks Fears of Escalation at Border: Aclash between Indian and Chinese troops has resulted in New Delhi putting its forces on alert, according to reports. Tensions have remained high between China and India for years as the two superpowers skirmish over border disputes.
https://www.newsweek.com/india-china-border-clash-high-alert-escalation-latest-update-1766646

Viktor Bout, the arms dealer the US swapped for Brittney Griner, joins Russian ultranationalist party and could run for parliament: On Monday he became a member of a far-right, ultranationalist party that backs the war in Ukraine.
https://news.yahoo.com/viktor-bout-arms-dealer-us-113225818.html

Xi in Saudi Arabia: China Ejecting America From the Middle East: As a result of the “pioneering trip”—Xi’s characterization in his op-ed appearing in Saudi media—Beijing could eject America from the region, China might take over Washington’s place there, and the renminbi appears set to end the dollar’s reign as the world’s reserve currency. The Chinese Communist Party could also rescue its quickly failing economy. Xi’s trip, in short, highlights what could end up being the most damaging setback for America’s global standing in the three decades since the Cold War.
https://www.newsweek.com/xi-saudi-arabia-china-ejecting-america-middle-east-opinion-1766569

# Gov / Politics / US
U.S. Government Quietly Declassifies Post-9/11 Interview With Bush and Cheney: A U.S. government panel quietly released a newly declassified summary of an Oval Office joint interview conducted with President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney about the September 11 attacks. The interview, carried out by members of the 9/11 Commission, was not recorded and the summary document constitutes the only known official record of the meeting.
https://theintercept.com/2022/11/10/september-11-bush-cheney-interview/

Congress aims to close off presidential election mischief and fraud with simple and bipartisan solutions: Weaknesses in the law governing how elections are run and votes counted in Congress contributed to the Jan. 6 insurrection. An election law scholar analyzes Senate legislation to fix those problems. When people cast votes, they’re actually voting for a group of people called “electors.” Groups of these presidential electors meet in December. They send their votes along to Congress, which counts them in January. The presidential candidate who gets the majority of electoral votes is, finally, declared the winner.
https://theconversation.com/congress-aims-to-close-off-presidential-election-mischief-and-fraud-with-simple-and-bipartisan-solutions-196204

Kyrsten Sinema is putting Democrats in a bind with her decision to declare herself an independent. Democrats are pushing ahead anyway. Sinema’s move away from the Democratic Party is unlikely to change the power balance in the next Senate. Democrats will have a narrow 51-49 majority that includes two independents who caucus with them: Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/09/politics/kyrsten-sinema-leaves-democratic-party/index.html

Republicans Seek to Sabotage Year-end Spending Bill: On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve is expected to again hike its benchmark interest rate, though this time by a more modest 0.5 percentage points, signaling a shift after four straight 0.75-percentage-point increases. Fed Chair Jerome Powell is slated to hold a news conference that could provide further indications about the central bank’s outlook.
https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/newsletter/20221212-Interest-Costs-National-Debt-Are-Soaring

Prizatization of Medicare: Labor leaders provide cover for Medicare privatization. What’s left out of both the Democrat talking points and the AFL-CIO’s 2022 national resolution on healthcare is any acknowledgment that the real threat to Medicare and healthcare today is the decades-long tax-subsidized privatization supported by both major parties.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/12/13/labor-leaders-provide-cover-for-privatization-of-medicare/

Behold the cult marriage made in hell: party can’t win with Trump, can’t win without him: When does the GOP declare the obvious, that Trump is the monumentally flawed cancer at the center, his and the party’s worst enemy?
https://www.nationofchange.org/2022/12/13/behold-the-cult-marriage-made-in-hell-party-cant-win-with-trump-cant-win-without-him/

Ilhan Omar defends Qatar’s slavery while trashing America (again): Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) hasn’t made the news for trashing the United States in some time, so she decided the World Cup was the perfect opportunity to return to her favorite habit. In the process, she decided to defend Qatar’s use of slave labor.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ilhan-omar-defends-qatars-slavery-while-trashing-america-again

More Confidential Documents Found At Trump Storage Site: Discovery appears to confirm DoJ’s suspicions that former president possessed additional government records, sources say https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/07/trump-classified-documents-found

# Law Enforcement
Cop Smiles after Violently Beating Homeless Army Vet: Attorneys for Dalvin Gadson, a 29-year-old veteran, are calling for an investigation following the release of a photo of Gadson’s bloodied face after he was beaten by police officers. According to a Newsone report, the cops were also photographed smiling with bloody knuckles as Gadson laid on the ground.
https://www.theroot.com/cop-smiles-after-violently-beating-homeless-army-vet-1849887277

# LGBTQ
Biden signs historic same-sex marriage bill at White House: The Respect for Marriage Act passed the House on Thursday in a 258-169-1 vote, with 39 Republicans joining all Democrats in supporting the measure.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3767773-biden-signs-historic-legislation-to-enshrine-marriage-equality/

# Media
Qatar World Cup became Journalists’ Tomb! Third Sudden Deaths: British Roger Pearce Passed Away
https://www.gospanews.net/en/2022/12/13/qatar-world-cup-became-journalists-tomb-third-suddenly-deaths-british-roger-pearce-passed-away/

Simon says (and says, and says, and says) Welcome to West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration. It is not unusual during the White House briefing for reporters toward the back of the room, who are not routinely called on, to shout out a question.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2022/12/12/simon-says-and-says-and-says-and-says-00073476

# Medical / Health
Alzheimer’s tied to cholesterol, abnormal nerve insulation: Researchers found evidence that the Alzheimer’s-related gene APOE4 disrupts cholesterol management in the brain and weakens insulation around nerve fibers.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/alzheimer-s-tied-cholesterol-abnormal-nerve-insulation

A notorious Trump judge just fired the first shot against birth control: In retrospect, it was inevitable that this particular judge would come for contraception.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/13/23505459/supreme-court-birth-control-contraception-constitution-matthew-kacsmaryk-deanda-becerra

# Medical Technology
Machine learning approach detects brain tumor boundaries: Data from thousands of patients with glioblastoma worldwide were used to develop an accurate model for detecting tumor boundaries.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/machine-learning-approach-detects-brain-tumor-boundaries

# Military / DOD
Air Force conducts first launch of prototype hypersonic missile: The U.S. Air Force said it conducted the first test launch of a fully operational prototype of its hypersonic Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon.
https://www.defensenews.com/air/2022/12/12/air-force-conducts-first-operational-launch-of-arrw-hypersonic-missile/

Biden admin wants to boost efforts to track US weapons in Ukraine, may send another handful of troops: Senior U.S. officials stressed that any new U.S. troop presence in Ukraine would be limited and modest, likely in the single digits
https://www.yahoo.com/now/biden-admin-wants-boost-efforts-190000419.html

# Sports
‘Life no longer as we know it’: war in space would have devastating effects, military experts say: Asked what the end game could be, she said, “Life as we know it would no longer be as we know it.” Attacks on satellites can take out GPS systems, banking systems, power grids, first responders’ communications, and impact on military operations.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/29/life-no-longer-as-we-know-it-war-in-space-would-have-immediate-effects-expert-says

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-12-12

Voices, The Peoples News

December 12, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous / Global
# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
Meet the largest spider in the world: a tarantula the size of a puppy: It doesn’t cast a web, but the goliath frogeater has plenty of tricks up its eight sleeves.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/meet-the-biggest-spider-in-the-world-a-tarantula-the-size-of-a-puppy/

Bees can count, and they do so left to right, just like most of us: These crafty little fellows are not bad at math.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/biology/bees-can-count-and-they-do-so-left-to-right-just-like-most-of-us/

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Top Oncologist: Cancer in patients exploding after COVID shots: The well-established link between the Covid-19 mRNA shots and blood clots, myocarditis, heart attacks and strokes is reason enough to stop the vaccine, argues a London oncologist.
https://www.therighting.com/daily-news-stream/2022/11/29/top-oncologist-says-cancer-in-patients-exploding-after-covid-shots

COVID Trend That Spelled Big Trouble in 2020 Is Back: We could be looking at a new surge of COVID deaths with over-65s now more vulnerable to infection with waning immunity and a low uptake on booster jabs.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/covid-trend-spelled-big-trouble-095436788.html

NYC Health Officials Urge Residents To Mask Up Amid ‘Tridemic’: A ‘tridemic‘ of flu, RSV, and Covid-19 cases have led New York City health officials to ‘strongly’ recommend that people wear ‘a high-quality mask, such as a KN95 or KF94, or an N95 respirator’ indoors and in crowded outdoor settings.
https://headtopics.com/us/nyc-health-officials-urge-new-yorkers-to-wear-masks-amid-rise-in-tridemic-cases-32696008

# Education / Schools
Segregating Disabled Children From Their Peers Doesn’t Help Them, Advocates Say: Classrooms that include students with diverse physical and intellectual capacities improve learning outcomes for all. They said the case could have implications for children with disabilities everywhere. But nearly a year later, the state of Georgia has done nothing to change or abolish the GNETS system. Also, the DOJ has not sued, as threatened in its initial letter, although the state has retained outside counsel.
https://centerforhealthjournalism.org/2016/07/13/georgias-system-segregating-children-disabilities-resists-calls-reform

# Employment / Labor
How a federal agency’s funding crisis imperils workers’ rights: Workers need a robustly funded and staffed NLRB now more than ever as employers invent new ways to subvert union drives and deny workers a voice on the job.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2022/12/12/how-a-federal-agencys-funding-crisis-imperils-workers-rights/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Fusion energy, the ‘holy grail’ of clean power, a step closer to reality: Scientists hit a key milestone in the quest to create abundant zero-carbon power through nuclear fusion. But they still have a long way to go. Nuclear fusion has been seen as the unattainable holy grail of clean energy for decades, but just in the last year it’s been seeming more and more within reach
https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/The-Holy-Grail-Of-Clean-Energy-Is-Closer-Than-Ever.html

Keystone Pipeline Dumps 14,000 Barrels of Oil Into Kansas Creek: The Keystone Pipeline dumped at least 14,000 barrels (588,000 gallons) of oil into a creek in Washington County, Kansas, forcing the shutdown of the pipeline. The full impact of the spill is still unknown, and cleanup efforts will likely be complicated by the fact that the spill impacted a waterway and because the sludgy tar sands transported by the pipeline is both extremely toxic and heavier than water, causing it to sink.
https://www.ecowatch.com/keystone-pipeline-dumps-14000-barrels-of-oil-into-kansas-creek.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
UK Approves First New Coal Mine in 30 Years: The UK has approved its first new coal mine in 30 years, against the counsel of the government’s own climate advisors. Michael Gove greenlights £165m project that will produce estimated 400,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/07/uk-first-new-coalmine-for-30-years-gets-go-ahead-in-cumbria

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Pesticide industry ‘helped write’ disinformation playbook used by Big Oil and Big Tobacco: New analysis sheds light on key tactics Monsanto used to distort science and spin the narrative in defense of its herbicide product.
https://www.desmog.com/2022/12/09/pesticide-industry-science-denial-monsanto-glyphosate-cancer/

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Global
Plant-based Meat Substitutes Lack Nutritional Quality of the Real Thing, Study Reveals: Meat alternatives like “impossible” burgers and other plant-based substitutes lack the nutritional value of the foods they’re replacing, according to researchers in Sweden. Their study found that meat substitutes contain proteins and nutrients which the human body can’t absorb
https://studyfinds.org/meat-substitutes-lack-nutrition/

# General Information / Other News
Donald Trump Is Out of Power, and Out of Luck: The ex-president is finally fair game for an entire legion of lawyers. In professional football slang, being a JAG means that a player is average, nothing special. A JAG lacks game-changing talent and unique status. A JAG is not a star. If a JAG makes too many demands, he’ll be kicked off the team and thrown out on the street. Trump is finally finding out that being a former president is not the same thing as being president.
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/08/trump-legal-investigations/

10 years after the Sandy Hook shooting, Alex Jones is being held accountable for spreading conspiracy theories – but those sorts of lies now plague the US: Conspiracy theories are powerful forces in the U.S. They have damaged public health amid a global pandemic, shaken faith in the democratic process and helped spark a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol in January 2021.
https://www.goskagit.com/opinion/conversation/10-years-after-the-sandy-hook-shooting-alex-jones-is-being-held-accountable-for-spreading/article_4257199f-7ea5-5d8a-9a67-21ab47131fcc.html

Leaked files: private spying firm targets global population with illegal spyware: A Washington DC-area Anomaly 6 firm is marketing illegal spy tech that can scrape an individual’s most sensitive personal data by tracking their smartphone. The British Ministry of Defence and GCHQ are potential buyers.
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/12/06/files-anomaly-6-firm-spyware/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Several U.S. Cities Have Increased Policing of Palestine Solidarity: Multiple U.S. cities have adopted a definition of antisemitism that silences Palestinians and expands surveillance.
https://truthout.org/articles/several-us-cities-have-increased-policing-of-palestine-solidarity/

# Gov / Politics / US
McCarthy Faces Debt-Limit Dilemma as House GOP Ratchets Up Demands Amid Speaker Bid: A group of seven hard-line conservative House Republicans who have withheld support from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) bid for Speaker laid out a list of demands for the House they expect from a Speaker.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3768571-seven-hardline-house-republicans-lay-out-speaker-demands-amid-mccarthy-opposition/

The secretive US Embassy-backed group cultivating the British left: The British-American Project (BAP), set up in the 1980s with US embassy funding amid CIA concern about ‘anti-American’ drift in the Labour Party, recently added senior Labour politicians to its secret membership rolls, Declassified can reveal.
https://declassifieduk.org/the-secretive-us-embassy-backed-group-cultivating-the-british-left/

Weaponising Antisemitism; How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Corbyn, and the recent victories of Palestine Action with Huda Ammori: The flag of Israel has been spotted in white nationalist displays of violence such as the insurgency of January 6, 2021. The Star of David was there. There were also white men wearing shirts that read “Camp Auschwitz,” “Arbeit macht frei,” and “6MWE” (a neo-Nazi slogan meaning “6 million wasn’t enough”). These are obvious expressions of antisemitism that reveal a strange and explosive interweaving with Zionism, or rather Israelism.
https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-currents/weaponizing-antisemitism/

Sanders Vows to Vote Against $858B Defense Bill, Calls for Medicare for All: “We have got to start protecting the needs of working families,” Sen. Bernie Sanders emphasized
https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-vows-to-vote-against-858b-defense-bill-calls-for-medicare-for-all/

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Jan. 6 Attack Would Have Been “Won” Had She Led It: The White House condemned Greene’s comment for going “against our fundamental values as a country.”
https://truthout.org/articles/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-jan-6-attack-would-have-been-won-had-she-led-it/

# Legal / DOJ
2 Ga. Men Exonerated by Podcast After 25 Years in Prison: Darrell Clark and Cain Storey were teenagers when they were convicted of their friend’s murder, despite circumstances indicating the victim had accidentally shot himself.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/10/us/georgia-men-exonerated-wrongful-imprisonment/index.html

# LGBTQ
After Club Q, we must build a movement for Queer and Trans Liberation: The Club Q shooting is part of a wave of fascist violence. Now’s time for a mass movement for LGBTQ liberation. After Club Q, how do we stop the system from taking more trans lives? Queer activist and movement lawyer Z Williams discusses what needs to be done to achieve liberation.
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2022/12/club-q-how-do-we-stop-system-from-taking-more-trans-lives/

This ‘Sneaky’ DeSantis Power Grab Might Be His Cruelest Yet: Republicans are going after trans people across America. But the potential 2024 contender from Florida is targeting people more efficiently than anyone else.
Along the way, DeSantis has been employing a power grab some fear will be adopted by other Republican governors, with disastrous results.
https://upstract.com/x/2fc60332d73a3d10

# Medical / Health
Strep A is surging: An unseasonal rise in group A Streptococcus (strep A) infections has killed 13 children in England and made many more ill. Strep A infections usually cause just a mild sore throat, but occasionally they can lead to scarlet fever and, rarely, to even more serious conditions, such as meningitis. Some researchers theorize that the off-season outbreaks are a result of past surges that spawned new strep strains, which happened before the pandemic.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04403-y

# Military / Global
Christians Persecuted by NeoNazi Kiev Regime: Another Ukraine Security Service SBU’s Raids in Orthodox Churches: Ukraine’s domestic security agency, the SBU, conducted a new series of raids on Orthodox Christian churches in northeastern Kharkov Region on Saturday (10 December 2022). The operation, which targeted 14 religious institutions, comes amid Kiev’s crackdown on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), the largest denomination in the country, over its alleged links to Russia.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/12/12/christians-persecuted-by-neonazi-kiev-regime-another-ukraine-security-service-sbus-raid-in-orthodox-churches/

# Nuclear
How a Nuclear site was allowed to poison its own workers: Over the years, hundreds of Hanford contractors have breathed in foul invisible fumes. For years, workers at Hanford, which turned out unfathomable amounts of plutonium for the US’s atomic weaponry, and is now home to the most expensive environmental clean-up ever, received mixed messages about whether or not they should wear respirators while working in areas that could potentially expose them to noxious, even radioactive fumes.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/12/09/how-a-nuclear-site-was-allowed-to-poison-its-own-workers/

# Security
Leaked List Shows Over 300 Oath Keepers Have Worked for Homeland Security: The Department of Homeland Security is theoretically tasked with protecting the public against threats like the far right militia group. 309 listed members of the extremist group reported having worked for various DHS agencies, including the Secret Service and Border Patrol
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/oath-keepers-worked-department-homeland-security-1234646005/

# Water
Indignation as Michigan judge drops Flint water charges against GOP ex-Gov Snyder: “The people of Flint deserve justice, and it’s unacceptable that the people responsible for Flint’s water crisis aren’t being held accountable,” said Food & Water Watch in response to the development.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/09/indignation-michigan-judge-drops-flint-water-charges-against-gop-ex-gov-snyder

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-12-11

Voices, The Peoples News

December 11, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
New Autopsy Report Reveals Those Who Died Suddenly Were Likely Killed by the COVID Vaccine: A major new autopsy report has found that three people who died unexpectedly at home with no pre-existing disease shortly after Covid vaccination were likely killed by the vaccine. A further two deaths were found to be possibly due to the vaccine. The report, published in Clinical Research in Cardiology, the official journal of the German Cardiac Society, detailed autopsies carried out at Heidelberg University Hospital in 2021.
https://brownstone.org/articles/new-autopsy-report-reveals-those-who-died-suddenly-were-likely-killed-by-the-covid-vaccine/

Hospital condemns girl to death over COVID jab: Mother of adopted 14-year-old pleads for help after Duke hospital refused to perform life-saving kidney transplant because she is not vaccinated. The Hickses argued with the medical team, pointing out that Yulia has already had COVID so has a level of immunity, but the doctors still refused
https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/news/unvaxxed-14-year-old-rejected-by-top-hospital-for-life-saving-surgery/

# Education / Schools
The Right Has Expanded Its Dark Money Strategy for Dominating School Boards: The far right built an elaborate new infrastructure for attacking public education in the run-up to the midterms
https://truthout.org/articles/the-right-has-expanded-its-dark-money-strategy-for-dominating-school-boards/

The Right Has Expanded Its Dark Money Strategy for Dominating School Boards: The far right built an elaborate new infrastructure for attacking public education in the run-up to the midterms.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-right-has-expanded-its-dark-money-strategy-for-dominating-school-boards/

School Board Meeting Explodes After Dozens of Teachers Quit: More than 50 staff members have resigned this year amid reports of being assaulted by students.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/09/staff-quit-school-district-over-violent-and-unruly-kids/

# Employment / Labor
Bernie to Biden: You Can Give Rail Workers Sick Days: The Vermont senator leads over 70 members of Congress urging the president to sign an executive order extending sick days for federal contract workers to the rail industry.
https://prospect.org/labor/bernie-to-biden-you-can-give-rail-workers-sick-days/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Petition Circulators Are Telling California Voters that a Ballot Measure Would Ban New Oil and Gas Wells Near Homes. In Fact, It Would Do the Opposite: The canvassers are backed by the oil industry in its quest to stop a new law that bans wells near residential areas and imposes new environmental controls. If petition circulators succeed in gathering enough signatures, the law would be blocked until the 2024 election.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30112022/californa-voters-petition-oil-gas-wells-homes/

Kansas residents hold their noses as crews mop up massive Keystone pipeline oil spill: “We could smell it first thing in the
morning; it was bad,” said Washington, Kansas, resident Dana Cecrle, 56. He shrugged off the disruption: “Stuff breaks. Pipelines break, oil trains derail.”
https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/national/kansas-residents-hold-their-nose-as-crews-mop-up-massive-u-s-oil-spill

Keystone pipeline shut after oil release into Kansas creek: Keystone shut the line at about 8 p.m. CT on Wednesday after alarms went off and system pressure dropped, the company said in a release, saying booms were being used to contain the creek.
https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/national/keystone-pipeline-shut-after-oil-release-into-kansas-creek

Momentum Accelerates for Houston Carbon Capture Hub: Eleven companies announced today that they are collaborating on a potential carbon capture and storage hub in Houston.
https://www.houston.org/news/momentum-accelerates-houston-carbon-capture-hub

Plain Talk: Nobel laureate says Biden canceling Keystone pipeline was ‘symbol’ that led to higher gas prices:
Dr. Vernon Smith is speaking this week at North Dakota State University’s Challey Institute as a part of the Menard Family’s Distinguished Speakers Series. His work has focused on natural resources
https://www.grandforksherald.com/opinion/columns/plain-talk-nobel-laureate-says-biden-canceling-keystone-pipeline-was-symbol-that-led-to-higher-gas-prices

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
‘No sacred cows’ as pipeline company TC Energy prepares for $3.7B asset sales: Calgary, Alberta-based TC is widely known for its Keystone oil pipeline, a critical artery for moving Canadian oil to U.S. refiners that dominated headlines over the past decade for an expansion
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/residents-hold-their-nose-crews-mop-up-huge-us-oil-spill-2022-12-10/

# General Information / Other News
Who Isn’t Included in COP and Biodiversity Conference Concerns? 5G, Wireless, and War: As the Solstice approaches, Christmas shoppers bound to earth are experiencing price increases for basic necessities like heat and food,- being blamed on variables including geopolitics, ‘climate,’ and the pandemic effect on the supply chain.
https://safetechinternational.org/who-isnt-included-in-cop-and-biodiversity-conference-concerns-5g-wireless-and-war/

‘No more kings’: Law professor explains how 3 judges ‘utterly demolished’ Trump’s Mar-a-Lago defense: Another day, another court ruling against Donald Trump; this time, a major blow to his defense in his Mar-a-Lago lawsuit!
https://www.alternet.org/no-more-kings-utterly-demolished/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Saudi Arabia and China Partner Moving Without USA and Israel: Since the creation of Israel, the US has been under a toxic spell. The influence of Israeli/Zionist over anything that has to do with the Arab and Muslim worlds.
https://www.veteranstodaynetwork.com/2022/12/10/saudi-arabia-and-china-partner-ignore-usa-and-israel-well-done-mbs/

Ukrainian court rules SS division’s symbols are not Nazi: The symbols of the SS Galicia Division, a notorious Ukrainian Nazi collaborator unit, are legal to use in the country | 6 Dec 2022 | Ukraine’s supreme court has ruled that the symbols of the infamous 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, also known as the 1st Galician Division, are not Nazi and therefore not banned in the country.
https://www.rt.com/russia/567782-ss-division-not-nazi-court/

# Gov / Politics / US
Supreme Court Appears Split on Whether to Allow Partisan Control of Elections: The case could cede control of elections to partisan state legislatures and end state court oversight of voting rules.
https://truthout.org/articles/supreme-court-appears-split-on-whether-to-allow-partisan-control-of-elections/

Top Adviser Believes Bernie Sanders Will Give 2024 “A Hard Look” If Biden Doesn’t Run: The independent Vermont senator has previously sought the Democratic nomination for president in 2016 and in 2020. Shakir served as Sanders’s campaign manager in his last failed bid for the White House. The longtime Sanders adviser noted that the senator is “very aware that he’s older now,” but felt confident that he would consider a third presidential run.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/09/bernie-sanders-will-take-a-hard-look-at-2024-if-biden-doesnt-run-adviser-says/

Democrats’ Kyrsten Sinema Nightmare Is Just Getting Started: She was doomed in a primary. But there’s precedent for a politician everyone seems to hate sticking around, and having lots of power. She’s not the first senator to switch parties, Jim Jeffords of Vermont defected from the GOP 20-plus years ago, giving control of the Senate to Democrats.
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/10/1142034532/sinemas-break-with-the-democratic-party-may-not-help-her-as-much-as-shed-like

# Legal / DOJ
January 6 Committee Considering Criminal Referrals for Trump and 4 Others: The committee’s final report will include a “public presentation,” Committee Chair Bennie Thompson said.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3768106-jan-6-committee-considering-criminal-referrals-for-trump-at-least-4-others-reports/

# Media
Prominent American journalist Grant Wahl has died in Qatar after collapsing while covering the World Cup, sparking an outpouring of shock and grief across the sports world. He was 49. He “collapsed” while covering Friday’s Argentina-Netherlands match, a witness told CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/09/football/grant-wahl-death-world-cup-qatar-intl-hnk/index.html

# Medical / Health
Type 2 Diabetes Cases Among Young People Skyrocketing Due to Rising Obesity Rates: By Study Finds The number of young people developing Type 2 diabetes has soared over the past 30 years, driven mainly by rising obesity rates, a new study shows. Data from over 200 countries and regions reveals the rise is particularly affecting women under 30.
https://studyfinds.org/young-people-type-2-diabetes/

# Military / DOD
Top Recipient of War Industry Money to Head GOP House Armed Services Committee: Rep. Mike Rogers, now set to influence military budgets, took more defense sector money than any other lawmaker in 2022.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/12/incoming-gop-house-armed-services-and-defense-appropriations-chairs-top-recipients-of-defense-sector-contributions

US sends Ukraine another $275 million in military aid, including anti-drone systems: Included in the new aid package are more generators to help Ukrainian troops through the winter, more ammunition, Humvees, ambulances, medical and field equipment, and new air defense capabilities.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-send-ukraine-anti-drone-air-defense-aid-worth-275-million-2022-12-08/

# Military / Global
Debunking Lies About the War in Ukraine:
* Lie #1: The war started on 24 February 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine. Ukraine’s war is that it started on 24 February 2022, instead of during 20-26 February 2014. Even Ukraine’s President acknowledges that it is false. For some reason, the leaders of Ukraine’s ‘allies’ (especially the U.S.) do not acknowledge it.
* Lie #2: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 was illegal. Zelensky is a U.S.-NATO stooge. This entire problem is a problem of U.S. imperialism. Ukraine is America’s proxy. Russia is defending itself against U.S. aggression.
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/11/30/debunking-lies-about-the-war-in-ukraine/

# Pharmas / Drugs
Paxlovid and Pfizer Vaccine Expected to Skyrocket in Price Next Year: Millions of those least able to afford the drug and at the highest risk of severe illness may have to pay full price.
https://khn.org/news/article/paxlovid-covid-sticker-shock-insurance/

# Water
Michigan Judge Drops Flint Water Charges Against Ex-Gov Snyder, Sparking Outrage: Thousands of Flint, Michigan residents were poisoned by contaminated water on the Republican governor’s watch.
https://truthout.org/articles/michigan-judge-drops-flint-water-charges-against-ex-gov-snyder-sparking-outrage/

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-12-09

Voices, The Peoples News

December 9, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
As acidification threatens shellfish along North America’s Pacific Coast, Indigenous sea gardens offer solutions. As seawater acidifies, clams and other shellfish are struggling to grow and survive.
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/clamshells-face-the-acid-test/

# Border / Immigration
Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy was used to separate thousands of immigrant parents and their children: If defense attorneys could prove it was unconstitutional and inherently racist, a judge would strike the entire thing, potentially affecting hundreds of cases. “We regularly see people who receive years in prison for what is essentially glorified trespassing.”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/racist-lawmakers-immigrantion-laws-attorneys-tactic

Nearly 2,000 migrants, including about 500 in the past five days, have been released to the streets of El Paso — just as local governments and nonprofits brace for the end of a controversial public health law that could bring the humanitarian crisis at the border’s doorstep to a head.
https://elpasomatters.org/2022/12/08/el-paso-migrant-street-releases-surge-as-biden-sends-title-42-back-to-court/

New route for illegal entry into U.S: Vermont: While record numbers of foreign nationals continue to enter the U.S. through the southern border every month, one of the tiniest states by geography and population is also being impacted by the surge: Mexican cartels are now flying foreign nationals from all over the world to Quebec from Mexico City. Cartel scouts help them make their way from Canada into northern states illegally, they said. Vermont, which is seeing record-breaking illegal entries, has a population of roughly 645,545 people.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/vermont/new-route-for-illegal-entry-into-u-s-vermont/article_efc9f600-772a-11ed-8dbd-7b366fbbaef9.html

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Very Dangerous Covid Boosters Authorized by FDA for Babies as 6 months. Despite a Disturbing Study on Bivalents: Pfizer: “An application to extend Pfizer and BioNTech’s Omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent COVID-19 vaccine marketing authorization in the EU to include children ages 6 months through 4 years is under discussion with the European Medicines Agency (EMA)”
https://www.gospanews.net/en/2022/12/09/very-dangerous-covid-boosters-authorized-by-fda-for-babies-as-6-months-despite-a-disturbing-study-on-bivalents/

# Education / Schools
What the UC Strikers Need to Do Differently: Go off-campus, says a veteran strike and bargaining maven, and visit the offices of regents and legislators. And sit down and settle in there.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/what-the-uc-strikers-need-to-do-differently/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Keystone Pipeline Shut Down After 22nd Spill: The company said it had shut down the pipeline after oil spilled into a creek near a Kansas town of about 1,000 people.
https://truthout.org/articles/keystone-pipeline-shut-down-after-22nd-spill/

# Environment / Climate / Global
Biodiversity: Ocean ‘dead zones’ are proliferating: An ongoing decrease in oxygen levels underwater is an important component of the loss of marine life. More than 400 “dead zones” – where aquatic life can no longer survive – existed in the world’s oceans in 2007, according to a study led by a scientist at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, compared to 150 in 2003. Deprived of essential oxygen, these marine areas span 245,000 square kilometres and threaten vertebrate animals, with more than a third of marine mammals affected.
https://www.france24.com/en/environment/20221208-biodiversity-ocean-dead-zones-are-proliferating

# General Information / Other News
Newly Found Secret Trump Documents Could Trigger New FBI Search, Experts Say: In recent weeks, lawyers for Trump found at least two items marked “classified” at a storage unit in West Palm Beach.
https://truthout.org/articles/newly-found-secret-trump-docs-could-trigger-new-fbi-search-experts-say/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=737609a0-b4e0-4917-a985-3e12bea56a7e

# Gov / Politics / Global
Why Is Russia Insisting That Poland Wants to Annex Parts of Ukraine? The outlandish claims have evolved from the conjectures of controversial politicians to direct statements by senior officials. In the Kremlin’s twisted logic, Ukraine is an artificial construct, and only Russia—as the successor of the country that once granted Ukraine its current borders by seizing land from its neighbors—can now ensure the inviolability of Ukraine’s western territories.
https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/88585

Peruvian President Pedro Castillo Is Ousted and Arrested: The events are the latest in an “enduring crisis” in Peru going back to dictatorship in the ’90s, says Peruvian scholar.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/07/peru-president-detained-pedro-castillo-coup

# Gov / Politics / US
How a Jim Crow-era strategy blocked 4.6 million people from voting in 2022: Disenfranchising people with felony convictions was a tactic by white supremacists after the Civil War to prevent Black men from influencing elections. Why are 48 U.S. states still doing it?
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/elections/who-counts/how-a-jim-crow-era-strategy-blocked-4-6-million-people-from-voting-in-2022/

Noam Chomsky: “We’re on the Road to a Form of Neofascism”: The ground is well prepared for neofascism to fill the void left by class war wrought by neoliberalism, says Chomsky.
https://truthout.org/articles/noam-chomsky-were-on-the-road-to-a-form-of-neofascism/

Near record-high numbers of young people voted during the midterms, signaling a possible shift, or exception, in voting trends
https://theconversation.com/near-record-high-numbers-of-young-people-voted-during-the-midterms-signaling-a-possible-shift-or-exception-in-voting-trends-194957

MAGA Is Eating Itself After GOP’s Midterm Disaster: We are starting to see evidence that those on the far right are jockeying for position in a potential post-Trump world.
https://news.yahoo.com/maga-eating-itself-gop-midterm-094400189.html

Climate foes push Great Reset conspiracy theory: Welcome to the conspiratorial world of the “Great Reset” theory. Its followers claim that government officials want to impose draconian lockdowns similar to the worst days of Covid-19 in order to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The conspiracy theory holds that a global elite is planning to shut down society and restrict personal freedoms, such as eating meat and driving gas-powered cars in their zeal to address climate change. The Great Reset has been boosted by climate deniers, right-wing media and conservative think tanks that oppose regulations on fossil fuels.
It all began in June 2020 during the depths of Covid-19 lockdowns.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/climate-foes-push-great-reset-conspiracy-theory/

Arizona senator leaves Democratic Party, declares to be independent: U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona says she’s left the Democratic Party and will be unaffiliated with either major political party.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/09/sinema-arizona-senate-independent-00073216

# Legal / DOJ
How financial barriers stifle formerly incarcerated people: Barriers to reentry are particularly relevant in Philadelphia, where nearly a quarter of residents live below the poverty line. Difficulty accessing banking, a lack of credit, court fines and fees and dismal employment opportunities are common challenges. Together they can have devastating consequences for individuals and families, researchers say.
https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/finance/how-financial-barriers-stifle-formerly-incarcerated-people/

# LGBTQ
Same-Sex Marriage Will Finally Be Written Into Law: The House passed a final version of the bill Thursday, sending the measure to Joe Biden’s desk.
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/29/1139676719/same-sex-marriages-bill-senate-vote

# Marijuana / Hemp / CBD Oil
POTUS Signs Law Amending Federal Rules Governing Cannabis Research and Drug Development: Under the new law, the Attorney General is provided with a 60-day timeline to either approve or deny applications from scientists wishing to conduct human trials with cannabis.
https://hightimes.com/news/biden-signs-bill-to-expand-medical-cannabis-research/

# Medical / Health
Vitamin D Supplements May Provide Powerful Brain Boost That Prevents Dementia: Vitamin D deficiency may be associated with an increased risk of dementia, according to a recent study published in TheAmerican Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Boosting low vitamin D levels to normal ranges could help protect the brain against a loss of thinking skills as people age, the study authors wrote.
https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20220620/dementia-linked-to-vitamin-d-deficiency-study-says

Clashes Over Access to Birth Control Could Divide GOP’s Fragile House Majority: After the Supreme Court tossed Roe, 195 House Republicans voted against the Right to Contraception Act.
https://truthout.org/articles/clashes-over-access-to-birth-control-could-divide-gops-fragile-house-majority/

What is voluntary sterilization? A health communication expert unpacks how a legacy of forced sterilization shapes doctor-patient conversations today: The term voluntary sterilization, referring to the choice to receive permanent birth control, arose as a contrast to the involuntary, or forced, sterilization that stems from the eugenics movement.
https://theconversation.com/what-is-voluntary-sterilization-a-health-communication-expert-unpacks-how-a-legacy-of-forced-sterilization-shapes-doctor-patient-conversations-today-194796

An Autopsy After Stillbirth Can Provide Crucial Answers: After a stillbirth, some doctors do not offer patients postmortem exams, and some patients decide against them without fully understanding the potential benefits. Now, researchers and national obstetric groups are calling on doctors and hospitals to offer systematic stillbirth evaluations.
https://www.propublica.org/article/stillbirths-autopsy-placenta-exams-pregnancy

# Technology
We Are Living in a Digital Police State. You Can Thank Big Tech: The Department of Homeland Security and Silicon Valley have dumped money and new surveillance technology into local police departments across the country.
https://truthout.org/articles/we-are-living-in-a-digital-police-state-you-can-thank-big-tech/

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-12-08

Voices, The Peoples News

December 8, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
These bumblebees like playing and it’s the sweetest thing: Bumblebees roll wooden balls just to have fun. A new study suggests bees may experience pleasure and joy when playing, which would indicate more complex cognitive behavior than previously thought. In mammals, play has also been documented as an important behavior, in insects, playing has been far less studied.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/these-bumblebees-like-playing-and-its-the-sweetest-thing/

Biden Administration Announces News Steps to Strengthen Tribal Co-Stewardship of Public Lands; Department of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland spoke recently at the 2022 White House Tribal Nations Summit: “As the United States works to honor our treaty and trust responsibilities to protect Tribal sovereignty and revitalize Tribal communities, we must also protect access to resources for subsistence, and cultural and spiritual practices.”
https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/biden-harris-administration-announces-news-steps-strengthen-tribal-co-stewardship

# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
Purina Pro Plan is recalling certain cans of Veterinary Diets EN Gastroenteric Low Fat (PPVD EN Low Fat) prescription wet dog food. Some of the cans were mislabeled.
https://www.petful.com/recalled/purina-pro-plan-veterinary-diets-en-gastroenteric-low-fat/

# Children / Youth
For Black Families in Phoenix, Child Welfare Investigations Are a Constant Threat: One in three Black children in Maricopa County, Arizona, faced a child welfare investigation over a five-year period, leaving many families in a state of dread. Some parents are pushing back.
https://www.propublica.org/article/for-black-families-in-phoenix-child-welfare-investigations-are-constant-threat

Child Welfare Experts Say New Mexico Can’t Put Kids in Homeless Shelters Just Because It Lacks Other Beds:
An experts’ report found that New Mexico’s child welfare system has housed foster kids in homeless shelters and other inappropriate settings, corroborating an investigation by ProPublica and Searchlight New Mexico.
https://www.propublica.org/article/report-confirms-new-mexico-fosters-teens-homeless-shelters

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Recent Studies Suggest COVID-19 Vaccinated People are Infecting Unvaccinated. French Study, McCullough Analysis & Pfizer Paper: Confidential Pfizer Documents & New Study confirm COVID ‘Vaccine Shedding’ has been occurring with shocking & dangerous consequences. Ever since the roll out of the experimental COVID-19 “vaccines” there has been abundant anecdotal evidence of “vaccine shedding,” where individuals who received one of the experimental mRNA injections were somehow also infecting those around them, even those who were unvaccinated.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/12/07/recent-studies-suggest-covid-19-vaccinated-people-are-infecting-unvaccinated-french-study-mccullough-analysis-pfizer-paper/?mc_cid=f0f85309c8&mc_eid=3f7488d454

Bill Gates Revealed, the Real COVID-19 Agenda: The true beneficiaries of Gates’ philanthropic endeavors tend to be those who are already rich beyond comprehension, including Gates’ own charitable foundation. Four health organizations, working closely together, spent almost $10 billion on responding to Covid across the world. But they lacked the scrutiny of governments, and fell short of their own goals, a POLITICO and WELT investigation found.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/global-covid-pandemic-response-bill-gates-partners-00053969

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
Whistleblower: Enviva claim of ‘being good for the planet… all nonsense’: Statements by the whistleblower have been confirmed by Mongabay’s own observations at a November 2022 forest clear-cut in North Carolina, and by NGO photo documentation. These findings are especially important now, as the EU considers the future of forest biomass burning as a “sustainable” form of renewable energy.
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/envivas-biomass-lies-whistleblower-account/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
The uncertain future of old-growth forests in North Carolina: The recent decision to harvest 26 acres that encompass an old-growth patch of forest on a 3,500-foot mountaintop – the Southside Project – underscores what some say is the widening incongruity between the U.S. Forest Service’s mission, climate change crisis and the public’s will.
https://carolinapublicpress.org/57909/the-uncertain-future-of-old-growth-forests-in-north-carolina-part-one/

Democrats ditch Manchin’s ‘dirty deal’ after opposition from climate activists: A last-ditch effort to force through legislation that would weaken environmental protections and fast-track energy projects has failed.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/07/joe-manchin-legislation-energy-fast-track-democrats-defense-act

# Environment / Climate / Global
Tiny Vanuatu uses its ‘unimportance’ to launch big climate ideas: “Through no fault of its own considering its negligible contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions (0.0016%), Vanuatu is already experiencing devastating effects of climate change,” the plan states. It wants a top international court to weigh in on whether nations are legally bound to protect against climate risks.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/tiny-island-nation-lays-out-big-plans-for-climate-change/

Melting ice created the perfect storm for a rapidly acidifying Arctic Ocean: The Arctic Ocean has grown more acidic at a surprising rate in recent years, three times faster than the rest of the global ocean.
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/melting-ice-created-the-perfect-storm-for-a-rapidly-acidifying-arctic-ocean/

# General Information / Other News
Trump Doesn’t Respect (or Even Understand) the Constitution: The ex-president has shown throughout his life that he’d happily toss constitutional rights aside if he could, while also claiming rights for himself that don’t exist.
https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-doesn-t-respect-094643248.html

Classified Docs Found at Trump Storage Unit With ‘Swords and Wrestling Belts’: Lawyers for the former president turned over more sensitive documents to the FBI after conducting an independent search of his properties
FBI searching Mar-a-Lago in August and finding more than 100 additional classified documents, the Department of Justice believed that the ex-president was still in possession of government records that were not his to keep. And, as it turns out, that hunch was right!
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/12/donald-trump-classified-documents-swords-wrestling-belts

# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin Preparing to Flee When Russia Implodes, Ex-Aide Says: “The leader’s entourage has not ruled out that he will lose the war, be stripped of power, and have to urgently evacuate somewhere.”
https://news.yahoo.com/putin-preparing-flee-russia-implodes-162403585.html

# Gov / Politics / US
President Vladimir Putin warned the Russian public that the war in Ukraine “might be a long process.” Many are concerned that the Kremlin will announce another partial military mobilization in the coming months
https://nypost.com/2022/12/07/putin-warns-risk-of-nuclear-war-continues-to-grow/

Biden administration signs off on $425M in arms sales to Taiwan: The Biden administration has approved two separate arms sales to Taiwan worth more than $425 million as China has stepped up its threats and aggression toward the island.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3765425-biden-administration-signs-off-on-425m-in-arms-sales-to-taiwan/

Congress unveils defense budget: Today, after months of negotiations, Congress unveiled its compromised defense budget, which includes a repeal of the COVID vaccine mandate and a pay raise for troops.
https://www.defensenews.com/congress/budget/2022/12/07/congress-reveals-plan-to-increase-defense-budget-by-8/

Sanders eyeing Yemen war powers resolution vote ‘hopefully next week’: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said he could introduce a war powers resolution soon that would block U.S. support for the war in Yemen led by Saudi Arabia.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3765425-biden-administration-signs-off-on-425m-in-arms-sales-to-taiwan/

Republicans Who Want to Move On From Trump Look to Georgia: Herschel Walker’s defeat in the Georgia Senate runoff completes the state’s rejection of former President Donald Trump but not the Republican Party.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/trump-move-on-republicans-georgia

# Law Enforcement
The Cienfuegos Affair: Inside the Case that Upended America’s Drug War: Two years ago, the DEA arrested a Mexican general, hoping to lay bare the high-level corruption at the heart of organized crime. Then the case fell apart, and took down U.S.-Mexican cooperation on drug policy with it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/mexico-drug-cartels-cienfuegos-case-dea?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature

12-Year-Old Faces Murder Charge for Deadly Hit-and-Run Crash: Police arrested the boy Wednesday in connection with a hit-and-run that killed an 82-year-old woman.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2022/12/07/12-year-old-accused-of-murder-in-dallas-hit-and-run-that-killed-82-year-old/

# Legal / DOJ
Supreme Court Hears Case That Could Upend Federal Election Rules: Republican politicians advance theory that could shift power away from courts in determining election rules and maps. The United States Supreme Court engaged in tense arguments on Wednesday in a Republican appeal that could transform the country’s elections by giving politicians more power over voting rules and curbing the ability of state courts to scrutinise their actions.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/7/us-supreme-court-hears-case-to-determine-authority-over-elections

# LGBTQ
Shangela Is the Fearless Drag Queen America Needs Right Now: The “Drag Race” legend, who made history on “Dancing With the Stars,” on her fight to bring drag to the mainstream and promote joy—especially as the LGBT community is under attack. It’s sobering to think that the same jazz routine that landed her a perfect score of 40 on national television could land her in jail in the state of Tennessee, if pending legislation passes.
https://news.yahoo.com/shangela-fearless-drag-queen-america-093955117.html

Drag queens are fearing for their lives as right-wing extremist attacks intensify: Just weeks since five people were killed at a gay bar in Colorado Springs the night of a drag event, performers across the country are determined for the show to go on, but fear what could happen next. More than 124 drag events were threatened or protested in 2022, according to a report published by GLAAD last month; this past weekend alone, shows in Ohio, New York, Florida, and North Carolina were targeted.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/drag-queen-right-wing-attacks

Tennessee GOP files bill to ban drag performances in public spaces: Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson, a Republican, has introduced legislation to prohibit drag entertainers from performing on public property or at private functions where their performance may be viewed by a minor.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3729828-tennessee-gop-files-bill-to-ban-drag-performances-in-public-spaces/

# Media / Global
“We’re Coming for You”: Italy’s Neofascists Target Journalists as They Assume Power: Italy’s new prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, has inspired a surge of far-right threats and attacks against journalists and critics.
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/07/italy-giorgia-meloni-journalists/

# Medical / Health
How to Research Your Hospice (and Avoid Hospice Fraud): A guide for readers, patients and caregivers. When done right, hospice offers Medicare beneficiaries an intimate, holistic and vital service, one that allows them to experience as little pain as possible and to spend meaningful time with loved ones.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-research-your-hospice-and-avoid-hospice-fraud

They Trusted Their Prenatal Test. They Didn’t Know the Industry Is an Unregulated ‘Wild West.’: As regulators stay on the sideline, a growing industry expands its reach but leaves some pregnant patients feeling misled and heartbroken.
https://bioethics.com/archives/66996

New oral compound may help prevent and treat osteoporosis: Parathyroid hormone can stimulate bone formation, and analogs of the hormone are often prescribed to patients with osteoporosis; however, these medications are only effective when administered by daily injection.
https://www.massgeneral.org/news/press-release/new-oral-compound-may-help-prevent-and-treat-osteoporosis

7-Year-Old Texas Boy Dies of Bat Bite: In the months following the bite, the boy suffered a bevy of symptoms, including seizures and delusions, and was at one point misdiagnosed with shingles.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/7-year-old-texas-boy-dies-of-bat-bite-in-rare-rabies-case-cdc-says
See also: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7149a2.htm

# Medical Technology
This Bot Can Predict the Side Effects for Brand New Drugs: It could cut down on drug mortality rates from adverse reactions.
https://www.genengnews.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-model-accurately-predicts-patient-response-to-drug-compounds/

# Military / DOD
The War Caucus Always Wins: The new $857 billion defense bill lines the pockets of contractors and pushes the U.S. toward a new Cold War. The Dominant Political Story emanating from Washington, D.C., these days centers around the battles between the Trumpist movement and the bipartisan “adults in the room” caucus
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/07/ukraine-weapons-russia-china-ndaa/

# Technology
Apple will finally let you encrypt iCloud backups, increasing your security against hackers, law enforcement, and Apple itself. Encrypting data “end-to-end” means that the digital key required to unlock it is only stored on someone’s device. iPhones and iPads have been encrypted for years, but backups of these devices to iCloud have not.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/7/23498580/apple-end-to-end-encryption-icloud-backups-advanced-data-protection

FTC Sues to Block Microsoft’s Acquisition of Blizzard $69B merger: The lawsuit is a roadblock in Microsoft’s effort to acquire gaming industry titles like Call of Duty and Candy Crush. The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued to block Microsoft’s planned $69 billion takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard, saying it could suppress competitors to Microsoft’s Xbox game console and its growing games subscription business.
https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-microsoft-corp-activision-blizzard-inc-game-consoles-e4772c9594fc72fac6b511b393655e5b

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-12-07

Voices, The Peoples News

December 7, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
U.S. commits $75 million to relocate three tribes threatened by climate change: The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs will grant three tribes $25 million each to relocate homes, schools, and critical infrastructure. In one of the nation’s largest efforts to date for communities that are facing an urgent threat from climate change, 3 Native tribes will receive $75 million to move away from coastal areas or rivers.
https://cleantechnica.com/2022/12/05/as-land-washes-away-native-tribes-start-to-receive-funding-to-relocate-inland/

# Border / Immigration
Denver Authorities Unsure Where Migrant Buses Came From: About 100 migrants arrived in Denver this week, but those interviewed by authorities are reportedly giving conflicting answers about where their trip originated.
City is unsure who sent immigrants from the southern border
https://www.denverpost.com/2022/12/07/denver-migrants-emergency-shelter/

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Baby in Health Officials’ Custody Over Anti-Vax Blood Case: The 4-month-old boy’s life-saving procedure had been blocked because his parents worried donors may have been vaccinated against COVID. New Zealand high court case has become a focus of protests from anti-vaxxers
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/07/health-officials-gain-guardianship-of-baby-whose-parents-refused-vaccinated-blood-transfusion

Monoclonal antibody treatments no longer work against new COVID variants. Why not?
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/12/07/monoclonal-antibody-treatments-no-longer-work-against-new-covid-variants-why-not/?mc_cid=12053505e0&mc_eid=c87bac2a19

How monoclonal antibodies lost the fight with new COVID variants: different monoclonal treatments have lost their efficacy against new variants of the coronavirus. The rise of Paxlovid antiviral pills earlier this year, further dented their appeal
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/11/20/1137892932/monoclonal-antibodies-covid-treatment

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Revealed: Nearly 100 potential PFAS-polluted sites in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia from fracking waste
A new map reveals at least 97 new locations that could have been contaminated by the industry’s use of “forever chemicals”
https://www.dailyclimate.org/fracking-pennsylvania-pfas-2658846325.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
The US, the EU, and other major global economies have agreed to a $60 maximum price cap for purchasing Russian oil. “This is a dramatic and unprecedented move by the US and its partners, especially given how dependent Europe was on Russian energy,” Vox’s Jen Kirby reports. With the agreed-upon price cap, “any country that wants to pay more for Russian oil can’t use operators or insurers from this coalition, which is a big share of the market.”
https://www.vox.com/world/2022/12/6/23490654/price-cap-60-russian-oil-european-union-ban-group-of-seven-united-states

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
UN Boss Calls Humanity a ‘Weapon of Mass Extinction’: “It’s time to forge a peace pact with nature,” António Guterres said.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/06/canada-leads-calls-to-reverse-nature-loss-as-cop15-opens-in-montreal

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Nanoparticles From Food Additives Can Reach Babies In The Womb, Cause Food Allergies: Nanotechnology has rapidly transformed food production, manufacturing, and processing in recent years, with the goal of enhancing food safety and health. However, new research suggests that their use in making foods safer could have unexpected health consequences for babies.
https://www.naturalblaze.com/2022/12/nanoparticles-from-food-additives-can-reach-babies-in-the-womb-cause-food-allergies.html

# General Information / Other News
Companies Owned by Former President Donald Trump: His businesses span hotels, condos, real-estate rentals, and licensing deals. We know considerably more now, although there is still much to know. Here’s what we know, and don’t know, about Trump’s business dealings, his successes and failures, and his financial health as he left the presidency.
https://www.investopedia.com/updates/donald-trump-companies/

Trump Organization tax fraud convictions show downsides of private companies having no independent oversight or outside accountability: Publicly traded companies must have independent oversight and make regular financial and other disclosures. The Trump Organization has none of these safeguards.
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140756394/former-president-donald-trumps-company-found-guilty-criminal-tax-fraud

Donald Trump Is Not Going Away: Pundits have speculated the Trump era is ending. It may be at a low after the midterm elections, but the loyalty of his base is so entrenched Trump is likely to be influential for years to come. Examining the Trump phenomena from a behavior psychology viewpoint tells us why.
https://dcjournal.com/donald-trump-is-not-going-away/

More Classified Docs Reportedly Found in Trump Storage Unit: Three more sites were reportedly searched in recent weeks after a request from a federal judge.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3765703-items-with-classified-markings-found-in-trump-storage-unit-reports/

# Gov / Politics / US
This Is No Way to Keep a Republic: Most of us know Benjamin Franklin’s famous reply to lady asking if the Constitutional Convention gave us a republic or a monarchy. “A republic,” he said, “if you can keep it.” Now, in 2022, the question isn’t if we can keep it but if there’s even enough of the republic the Framers Republic gave us for us to keep?
https://dcjournal.com/this-is-no-way-to-keep-a-republic/

New Hampshire Dems Promise a Fight for First Primary Spot: President Joe Biden has endorsed South Carolina to host the first Democratic primary. New Hampshire is saying not so fast.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/12/02/democrats-iowa-new-hampshire-could-rebel-against-democratic-presidential-nominating-calendar/10816743002/

Walker Lost, but the GOP Is Still Poisoned by MAGA Loonies: Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock’s narrow re-election to the U.S. Senate is a relief, but Walker’s ridiculous candidacy showed how far the Republican Party has fallen.
https://news.yahoo.com/herschel-walker-lost-gop-still-035352681.html

‘Independent state legislature doctrine,’ now before Supreme Court, could reverse 200 years of progress in giving more say over elections to the people: A doctrine embraced by some conservatives could be adopted by the US Supreme Court. And if the court does, Americans’ political power will be dramatically limited.
https://theconversation.com/independent-state-legislature-doctrine-now-before-supreme-court-could-reverse-200-years-of-progress-in-giving-more-say-over-elections-to-the-people-186282

Biden wants to prevent a strong primary challenge. He shouldn’t get away with it. A president is not a party’s king, and he has no automatic right to renomination.
https://truthout.org/articles/biden-wants-to-block-presidential-primary-challenge-from-the-left-ahead-of-2024/

Even Joe Manchin Was Sick of Him Holding All the Power in the Senate: The Georgia runoff results mean a real majority for Senate Democrats.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/12/joe-manchin-georgia-runoff-raphael-warnock-senate.html

# Legal / DOJ
Missouri, Louisiana AGs release 359-page Fauci deposition in social media collusion lawsuit: A 359-page transcript of the deposition of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden, was released Monday by the two attorneys general who filed a lawsuit alleging government collusion with social media companies
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/missouri-louisiana-ags-release-359-page-fauci-deposition-in-social-media-collusion-lawsuit/article_298f96c0-74f5-11ed-ad8a-77dd9d368d03.html

# LGBTQ
Congress is set to codify marriage equality – but the Respect for Marriage Act has a few key limitations: The Respect for Marriage Act provides exemptions for religious groups, excludes people with disabilities, and could still lead to state-level discrimination laws.
https://theconversation.com/congress-is-set-to-codify-marriage-equality-but-the-respect-for-marriage-act-has-a-few-key-limitations-195709

# Medical / Health
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Hemgenix, the first gene therapy for the blood-clotting disorder haemophilia B. Its price tag of US$3.5 million makes it the world’s most expensive drug. Hemgenix is one-time gene therapy administered by IV infusion
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-23/world-s-most-expensive-drug-csl-hemgenix-hemophilia-approved-by-fda

# Medical Technology
There’s an ‘arms race’ in health tech. Who could be the next M&A target? CVS, Walgreens, Walmart and tech giant Amazon are ramping up their focus on providing medical services to gain bigger footholds in the healthcare market.
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/theres-arms-race-health-tech-who-could-be-next-ma-target

# Military / DOD
How AI is rising up the ranks of the military: Why it matters: Military dominance in the future won’t be decided just by the size of a nation’s army, but the quality of its algorithms.
https://www.axios.com/2021/10/23/ai-future-united-states-military

National Security Commission Warns Pentagon of Falling Hopelessly Behind in the AI Arms Race while calling for new investments to foster innovation. Failure to do so would relinquish America’s role as a primary player in AI, while exposing the nation to serious new threats, including a diminishing of U.S. military advantage, unchecked disinformation campaigns, increased cyberattacks, and the erosion of democracy and civil liberties, according to the new report.
https://gizmodo.com/national-security-commission-warns-pentagon-of-falling-1839646571

Marines’ updated amphibious concept calls for disruptive technologies: The lab said in May it was working on a Concept for 21st Century Amphibious Operations at the behest of the commandant of the Marine Corps. Traditional amphibious operations also needed to be modernized.
https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2022/12/06/marines-updated-amphibious-concept-calls-for-disruptive-technologies/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dfn-wb-1

# Military / Global
Ukraine war pushes Poland to train civilians as soldiers for a military mighty enough to challenge Russia: The Polish Ministry of National Defense’s new “Train with the Army” project is an initiative born out of the anxiety over the war in neighboring Ukraine. Weekend courses for thousands of Poles began in October and, due to popular demand, will continue into January.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2022-12-06/poland-russia-ukraine-military-training-8313063.html

# Science
Harnessing the brain’s immune cells to stave off Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases: Microglia, immune cells disguised as brain cells, are known as the janitors of the brain. Dialing up their usual duties just enough could provide an avenue to treat neurodegenerative disease.
https://theconversation.com/harnessing-the-brains-immune-cells-to-stave-off-alzheimers-and-other-neurodegenerative-diseases-193606

# Technology
Inside the Big Tech Arms Race to Build the Most Deceptive AI: If you can’t trust Siri, who can you trust? Beyond being able to dominate us in a heated game of Diplomacy, AI trained in this way can potentially be used to help us solve complex issues.
https://www.yahoo.com/video/inside-google-meta-arms-race-203422819.html

Here’s what you need to know about the new AI ‘arms: “Whoever becomes the leader in AI [or artificial intelligence] will become the ruler of the world,” Vladimir Putin once famously said.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-ai-arms-race/

Interpreting U.S.-China AI development as an “arms race” or a winner-takes-all competition fundamentally misunderstands the transnational nature of AI development and technological interdependence.
https://www.newamerica.org/cybersecurity-initiative/reports/essay-reframing-the-us-china-ai-arms-race/problem-1-arms-race-framing-is-winner-takes-all/

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-12-06

Voices, The Peoples News

December 6, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
Cherokee Nation wants to send a delegate to the House – it’s an idea older than Congress itself: The right is explicitly laid out in the same treaty that led to the Trail of Tears. “The Treaty of New Echota is a living, valid treaty, and the Delegate provision is intact because it has never been abrogated,” Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin wrote in testimony submitted to the House Committee on Rules on Nov. 16, 2022. “As the Supreme Court has made clear on multiple occasions, and as the landmark McGirt decision reaffirmed, lapse of time cannot divest Indian nations of their treaties and treaty rights.”
https://theconversation.com/cherokee-nation-wants-to-send-a-delegate-to-the-house-its-an-idea-older-than-congress-itself-191738

White House Announces Public Safety Initiatives Ahead Of Tribal Nations Summit: The Biden administration plans to make new commitments to tribal leaders during the two-day Tribal Nations Summit including new actions meant to strengthen public safety and address the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous people.
https://thecrimereport.org/2022/11/30/white-house-announces-public-safety-initiatives-ahead-of-tribal-nations-summit/

Grand Jury Indicts Two For Murder, Evidence Tampering In Oklahoma Indian Country: The following individuals have been charged with violations of United States law in indictments returned by the Grand Jury. The return of an indictment is a method of informing a defendant of alleged violations of federal law, which must be proven in a court of law beyond a reasonable doubt to overcome a defendant’s presumption of innocence.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndok/pr/federal-grand-jury-b-indictments-announced-november-2022

# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
Purina Recalls Pro Plan Vet Diet Product Due to Mislabeling: You can identify the mislabeled product by the UPC (38100 17599), production code (22581159 L4TR6) and “Best Before Sept 2024” date on the bottom of each can.
https://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-recall/purina-pro-plan-en-vet-diet/

# Archaeology
Large and mysterious object unearthed on Florida beach: There’s been intense speculation in the local community on just what the object, believed to be between 80 to 100 feet in length, actually is.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mysterious-structure-florida-beach-volusia-county-hurricane-erosion/

# Children / Youth
McDonald’s Franchisee Hit With Child Violations at 13 Stores: The franchisee of the stores had to pay a large fine after breaking labor laws which saw children overworked.
https://www.newsweek.com/multiple-mcdonalds-restaurants-caught-violating-child-labor-laws-1764973

At the McDonald’s location at 100 Davis Boulevard in Pittsburgh, investigators found a violation of child labor standards where a minor under the age of 16 was allowed to operate a deep fryer that was not fitted with a device to automatically lower and raise baskets.
https://www.newsweek.com/multiple-mcdonalds-restaurants-caught-violating-child-labor-laws-1764973

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Our Next Best COVID Drug Has Been Hiding In Plain Sight: A common liver drug shuts the door on COVID before it can infect our cells.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/next-best-covid-drug-hiding-165037095.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Buffalo Mass Shooting Victim Patented Hydrogen System for Cars –Beyond his day job, Salter spent the past decade developing a car engine fueled on water: A fuel system is provided for generating hydrogen and oxygen for use in an internal combustion engine to improve combustion efficiency of the engine and to decrease emissions from the engine…It is estimated that the method of utilization of the sludge generated during electrolysis as a fuel increases the efficiency of energy production of electrolysis by approximately 60%.”
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/83857/buffalo-mass-shooting-victim-patented-hydrogen-system-for.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
Indigenous Argentineans Resist Becoming “Sacrifice Zone” for Ecocolonialism: The Global North’s demand for lithium threatens a new chapter of colonial dispossession.
https://truthout.org/articles/indigenous-argentineans-resist-becoming-sacrifice-zone-for-ecocolonialism/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Fact check: Fossil fuels are No. 1 climate change cause, not animals: The percentage of global emissions produced by animal agriculture is “much smaller” than the percentage produced by fossil fuels
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/12/05/fact-check-fossil-fuels-no-1-climate-change-cause-not-animals/10764976002/

Communism will make the weather better: Oxfordshire County Council, which is run by Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party, secretly decided to divide-up the city of Oxford into six ‘15 minute’ districts in 2021 soon after they were elected to office. None of the councillors declared their intention of imprisoning local residents in their manifestos of course, preferring to make vague claims about how they will ‘improve the environment’ instead.
https://www.visionnews.online/post/oxfordshire-county-council-pass-climate-lockdown-trial-to-begin-in-2024

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
A Wisconsin town tried to stop factory farm pollution. Then got sued. A tiny town in Wisconsin faces a lawsuit from an industry heavyweight, a growing trend when citizens try to regulate CAFOs in their backyards.
https://grist.org/accountability/what-happens-when-citizens-try-regulate-factory-farms/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russia blames Ukraine for air base attacks and quickly retaliates: The Kremlin accuses Ukraine of striking two air bases and has retaliated with a barrage of missiles in several Ukraine regions. AP reports that the attack has caused mass blackouts and water and heating shortages.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-united-states-europe-european-union-a1a82a936964ee01b86e3502e16e9ff4

# Gov / Politics / US
Disenchanted NYC Councilman Switches Parties, Turns to GOP: The former Democrat cited rising crime statistics and progressive criminal justice reforms as the biggest reasons behind his decision to leave.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/05/new-lines-push-nyc-democrat-ari-kagan-to-gop/

Ukraine Aid and Stealth Bombers: Pentagon Lays Out Consequences if Congress Can’t Pass a Budget Deal – Politico
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/03/pentagon-congress-budget-deal-weapons-00072068

McConnell Caves to Pelosi, Schumer, Allows JCPA Media Cartel Bailout Bill to Be Included in Defense Package. The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) is a bill to enable further collusion between the media industry and Big Tech. Other congressional leaders acquiesced to lobbyist pressure and agreed to include the JCPA in the base text of the NDAA.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/12/05/sources-mcconnell-caves-to-pelosi-schumer-allows-jcpa-media-cartel-bailout-bill-to-be-included-in-defense-package/

Biden’s decision to grant Saudi crown prince immunity is a profound mistake: After being repeatedly humiliated by Prince Mohammed, Biden continues to appease an autocrat who disdains him. That decision effectively ends one of the last efforts to hold the prince accountable for Khashoggi’s assassination by a Saudi hit team inside the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul in October 2018.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/21/bidens-decision-to-grant-mbs-immunity-is-a-profound-mistake

“Military Intervention Will Birth Military Occupation,” Haitian Activist Warns: The previous military occupations of Haiti “all brought disease, hunger, poverty and destruction,” says David Oxygène.
https://truthout.org/articles/military-intervention-will-birth-military-occupation-haitian-activist-warns/

Biden Wants to Block Presidential Primary Challenge From the Left Ahead of 2024: The 2024 Democratic presidential candidate should be chosen by voters, not imposed by the Democratic National Committee.
https://truthout.org/articles/biden-wants-to-block-presidential-primary-challenge-from-the-left-ahead-of-2024/

Georgia Breaks Voting Records in Senate Runoff Election: The election between Warnock and Walker has seen a record number of early votes, especially in communities of color.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/georgia-senate-runoff-election-day-turnout-top-1/story?id=94593358

# Law Enforcement
Texas Man Pleads Guilty After Plotting School Bombing: The twisted wannabe-killer was only caught because neighbors called the cops after he blew up an Xbox in his backyard last summer.
https://www.newschannel10.com/2022/12/05/amarillo-man-pleads-guilty-use-weapon-mass-destruction-after-threatening-blow-up-high-school/

Racism, gruesome errors, and botched executions; Inside America’s four-person, 48-hour execution spree: Even for the US, one of few countries that still uses the death penalty, last week was exceptionally violent, with four executions planned in the span of 48 hours. The killings were marred with errors, accusations of racism and discrimination, and claims of innocence. “Mental health is not a political issue. There are people on both sides of the aisle who can identify with loved ones suffering from mental health issues,” she said. “We can address why our death row has 110 people on it, starting with mental health.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/death-penalty-execution-arizona-united-states-b2230860.html

# Legal / DOJ
Trump Had Hidden $19.8 Million Loan From North Korea-Linked Company As President: The loan from Daewoo, a company with ties to North Korea, should have been reported in public financial disclosures
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/05/donald-trump-daewoo-loan-financial-disclosure

Musk’s ‘Twitter Files,’ Revealing Censorship of Hunter Biden Laptop Story, Is a ‘Distraction,’ White House Says
https://nypost.com/2022/12/05/jean-pierre-says-not-healthy-for-elon-musk-to-release-files-on-censorship-of-hunter-biden-laptop-story/

Disgraced lawyer Avenatti gets 14 years in the slammer for stealing millions: The disgraced attorney was also ordered to pay more $7 million in restitution to his victims in a ruling that comes nearly six months after he pleaded guilty to fraud charges.
https://people.com/crime/michael-avenatti-sentenced-to-14-years-for-tax-fraud-and-swindling-millions-from-clients/

FBI hero paying the price for exposing unjust ‘persecution’ of conservative Americans: In his whistleblower complaint to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz … Friend lays out multiple violations of FBI policy involving J6 investigations in which he was involved. He says he was removed from active investigations into child sexual exploitation and human trafficking to work on J6 cases sent from DC. As a result, he believes his child exploitation investigations were harmed.
https://nypost.com/2022/09/21/fbi-hero-paying-the-price-for-exposing-unjust-persecution-of-conservative-americans/

Twelve-person jury returns guilty verdict against former president’s company after being sent out on Monday to deliberate. Jury finds Trump Organization guilty of tax fraud on all counts: The company was convicted of providing untaxed perks to some executives.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/06/trump-organization-guilty-verdict-tax-fraud

A Judge In Texas Is Using A Recent Supreme Court Ruling To Say Domestic Abusers Can Keep Their Guns:
On Nov. 10, 2022, a judge in the Western District of Texas struck down the federal law that prohibits access to guns for people subject to domestic violence protection orders.
https://theconversation.com/a-judge-in-texas-is-using-a-recent-supreme-court-ruling-to-say-domestic-abusers-can-keep-their-guns-195273

Angola Will Remain a Slave Plantation: Billy Sinclair, who spent 40 years in the Louisiana prison system, reflects on the state’s recent failure to pass a constitutional amendment that would have banned involuntary servitude and slavery.
https://thecrimereport.org/2022/11/23/angola-will-remain-a-slave-plantation/

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a redistricting case, and it is no arcane dispute about district lines or partisan balance. North Carolina Republicans have asked the court to embrace a fringe legal theory with no basis in American history that would upend American democracy, eviscerate voting rights, make combating partisan gerrymandering impossible and empower anti-democratic election subverters. It argues that the Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution provides state legislatures the sole authority to set the “time, place, and manner” of federal elections.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-court-to-hear-arguments-in-north-carolina-redistricting-case

# LGBTQ
Texas Just Re-Elected My Trans Son’s Worst Bullies: Parents of trans kids, like myself, need our neighbors to help us stand up to the GOP politicians imposing policies that would tear our families apart. Their recent victories gave them a mandate to double down on their cruelty, and I’m terrified.
https://www.yahoo.com/now/texas-just-elected-trans-son-094019968.html

Anti-LGBTQ Hate Is Forcing Drag Queen Events To Prepare For Attacks: After the mass shooting at Club Q, family-friendly drag events across the U.S. are on high alert.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/drag-story-hour-protests_n_638e4d5de4b0411f9e7b7e75

# Media
Al Jazeera Sues Israeli Forces at the International Criminal Court: The lawsuit comes after an investigation that Al Jazeera uncovers new evidence in the death of Shireen Abu Akleh.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/al-jazeera-files-lawsuit-international-criminal-court-over-journalists-killing-2022-12-06/

# Medical / Health
Policing Pregnancy: Wisconsin’s ‘Fetal Protection’ Law Forces Women Into Treatment or Jail: Officials investigate about 400 pregnant people a year for alleged ‘unborn child abuse’ under Act 292 in Wisconsin. Critics say that can do more harm than good.
https://www.news-journal.com/policing-pregnancy-wisconsin-s-fetal-protection-law-one-of-the-nation-s-most-punitive-forces/article_d91748e4-133d-5f91-8dcc-c18616f442e9.html

# Military / DOD
U.S. Altered Rocket Launchers It Gave to Ukraine: The Pentagon reportedly modified its Himars rocket launchers so Ukrainian forces would be unable to fire into Russia and risk escalating the conflict.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-altered-himars-rocket-launchers-to-keep-ukraine-from-firing-missiles-into-russia-11670214338

Air Force clears hurdle with 1st hypersonic weapon amid ‘new arms race’ with Russia, China: The weapon, called the Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW, is an air-to-ground missile powered by a rocket motor that can travel as fast as Mach 8, or eight times the speed of sound. It’s built to be carried by the B-52 Stratofortress.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2022-12-05/air-force-hypersonic-weapons-china-8312739.html

# Military / Global
Shock as Nuclear Airbase Just 150 Miles From Moscow Is Hit: Deadly explosions rocked two bases deep inside Russia in a blistering new setback for Putin, who is already sustaining huge losses on Ukrainian territory.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/explosion-at-nuclear-airbase-just-150-miles-from-moscow-opens-stunning-new-phase-of-war

The Israeli-made Lanius is a tiny racing drone that could scout and kill enemies while using artificial intelligence: After being sent into battle, Lanius’s algorithm can make a map of the scene and scan people, differentiating enemies from allies, feeding all that data back to soldiers who can then simply push a button to attack or kill whom they want. For weapons critics, that represents a nightmare scenario
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/18/killer-racing-drone-weapons/

# Science
Alzheimer’s tied to cholesterol, abnormal nerve insulation: Researchers found evidence that the Alzheimer’s-related gene APOE4 disrupts cholesterol management in the brain and weakens insulation around nerve fibers.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03724-2

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-12-05

Voices, The Peoples News

December 5, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration
Illegal entry into the US has a racist history. Lawyers are fighting against it in court: Landmark Decision Finds “Illegal Reentry” Charges Are Racist In Origin, Discriminatory In Practice
https://immigrantjustice.org/staff/blog/landmark-decision-finds-illegal-reentry-charges-are-racist-origin-discriminatory

Feds often hand migrants over to state police rather than process immigration claims: State police often rely on federal immigration officials to lock up migrants on state trespassing charges, according to a new complaint by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas. The collaboration contradicts federal and Texas officials’ attacks on each other’s immigration policies.
https://www.kwtx.com/2022/12/03/feds-often-hand-migrants-over-state-police-rather-than-process-immigration-claims-complaint-says/

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Psychotic Disorders Reported After mRNA COVID Shots
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9006421/

Monoclonal Antibodies No Longer Effective Against New Strains of SARS-CoV-2
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/101833

Boy’s Death in Ireland Three Weeks After Getting Pfizer mRNA COVID Shot a “Significant Public Concern”: The death last year of a 14-year-old Irish teen three weeks after he received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has sparked a “considerable investigation” that will include requests to Pfizer for safety information, officials involved in an inquest into the teen’s death said this week.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/joseph-mcginty-death-pfizer-covid-vaccine-investigation/

Vaccinated people make up majority of COVID deaths: “For the very first time, vaccinated people make up a majority of COVID deaths. It’s an analysis of data. The data came from the CDC. For the first time, a majority of Americans dying from the coronavirus received at least the primary series of the vaccine. It’s a continuation of a troubling trend that has emerged over the past year.
https://www.messenger-inquirer.com/features/health/vaccinated-people-now-make-up-a-majority-of-covid-deaths/article_cbc61b3c-ae46-515a-bae8-819ccebf9bd9.html

Prison COVID Policies Fell Short. Incarcerated Activists Fight for Their Lives. Incarcerated organizers are still in fight mode against lethal COVID policies.
https://truthout.org/articles/prison-covid-policies-fell-short-incarcerated-activists-fight-for-their-lives/

# Education / Schools
Abandoned? Meet a Student Suing Yale for Pressuring Those with Mental Health Needs to Withdraw: A group of current and former Yale students is suing the Ivy League university over what they say is “systemic discrimination” against students struggling with mental health issues.
https://truthout.org/video/students-sue-yale-for-pressuring-those-with-mental-health-needs-to-withdraw/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Thousands of people are without electricity in North Carolina after an act of “intentional vandalism” caused a mass blackout. Power might not be restored until Thursday, according to a spokesperson for Duke Energy, the company whose substations were damaged.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/moore-county-power-outage-crime

A former coal-fired power plant imploded last week in New Jersey is poised to become a $1 billion battery storage facility.
https://www.miningjournal.net/news/2022/12/coal-fired-plant-imploded-in-new-jersey-for-battery-array/

Los Angeles Bans New Oil Drilling, Will Phase Out Current Wells: The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously on Friday to ban new oil and methane gas drilling, and phase out existing wells within 20 years.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/los-angeles-bans-new-oil-wells-plans-to-close-existing-ones/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Building Steam in Lithium Valley: Imperial County, one of the most depressed areas in America, has a clean-energy fortune stored deep in an underground reservoir. Can it be extracted, and will downtrodden residents see the benefits?
https://prospect.org/environment/building-steam-in-lithium-valley/

In America’s rush to build the nuclear arsenal that won the Cold War, safety was sacrificed for speed.
https://www.propublica.org/article/uranium-mills-pollution-cleanup-us

# General Information / Other News
EXPOSED: Donald Trump and his secret multi-million dollar foreign debt: Documents revealed in the New York Attorney General’s trial of the Trump Organization that the company held nearly $20 million in liability from the company listed as ‘L/P Daewoo.’ A joint licensing deal between the South Korean conglomerate and not yet-President Trump outlined an arrangement that would see the two split fees related to a project intended near the United Nation’s New York City headquarters – Trump World Tower.
https://occupydemocrats.com/2022/12/04/exposed-donald-trump-and-his-secret-multi-million-dollar-foreign-debt/?fbclid=IwAR1lZxYir2l8qqPBzrcGSPpW-x29ey1p7Mq1r65k75sghBK9hK53prpkBpY

What did Donald Trump say about terminating the US Constitution? In his latest attempt to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election, former President Trump took to Truth Social over the weekend to call for the termination of the Constitution of the United States of America.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/05/trump-terminate-constitution-00072230

# Gov / Politics / Global
Ukrainians saved babies from Russians with fake medical docs: Russians were suspected of seizing orphan children and sending them to Russia, so staff at the children’s regional hospital in Kherson city began fabricating orphans’ medical records to make it appear like they were too ill to move. “We deliberately wrote false information that the children were sick and could not be transported,” said Dr. Olga Pilyarska, head of intensive care. “We were scared that the Russians would find out, but we decided that we would save the children at any cost.”
https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/russia-at-war/ukrainians-hid-orphaned-children-from-russian-deportation/

Putin Just Began His ‘Inevitable’ Barrage of Mass Missile Strikes: Russia launched a fresh barrage of missile strikes against Ukraine on Monday, days after Russian President Vladimir Putin said that such strikes had become “inevitable” in the war.
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-began-inevitable-barrage-mass-missile-strikes-1764713

North Korea executes two teenagers for ‘evil’ crime of watching foreign films: Two teenagers have been executed by firing squad in North Korea for watching and distributing South Korean films. Witnesses were forced to watch as the boys, aged 16 and 17, were killed immediately after being sentenced for the crime on an airfield in Hyesan.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11503103/North-Korea-executes-two-teenagers-firing-squad-watching-South-Korean-movies.html

# Gov / Politics / US
Biden Administration Says Legal Immunity for Saudi Crown Prince Was Unavoidable. Privately, They Weren’t So Sure. The National Security Council and DAWN, a nonprofit founded by Jamal Khashoggi, met expressly to discuss the question.
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/01/saudi-prince-mbs-immunity/

Donald Trump Calls for “Termination” of U.S. Constitution: (The Borowitz Report) Donald J. Trump clarified his call for the termination of the United States Constitution by indicating that he would abolish the entire document except for the Fifth Amendment.
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-calls-for-termination-of-constitution-except-fifth-amendment

Does Elon Musk have a right to destroy Twitter? Do we really think that the super-wealthy should be allowed to control so much wealth and wield so much influence? Billionaires are presumed to be free from responsibility because they own what they’ve had a hand in destroying. So under the rules of capitalism, they have a right to do whatever they want with their money. Right? Wrong.
https://robertreich.org/post/702473374572675072

Blinken vows US support for Israel despite differences with incoming government: Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. will not shrink from its unwavering support for Israel despite stark differences with Prime Minister-elect Benjamin Netanyahu.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/blinken-vows-u-s-support-for-israel-despite-unease-over-new-government

Arizona Certifies Election Results: Arizona certified the results of the 2022 midterm elections, putting a Democrat as governor, secretary of state and in both U.S. Senate seats for the first time since 1950.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3762234-arizona-certifies-2022-election-results-amid-threat-of-more-gop-challenges/

# Legal / DOJ
Manhattan DA Hires Former DOJ Official to Take on Trump Case: Matthew Colangelo has personal experience investigating the former president, having led countless lawsuits against him.
https://www.salon.com/2022/12/05/manhattan-da-hires-top-ex-doj-official-went-after-to-lead-renewed-investigation/

New York Mayor’s Plan to Round Up Homeless People Is a Trauma-Inducing Horror: It is a horrific rights violation to give police the power to forcibly hospitalize people for being homeless.
https://truthout.org/articles/new-york-mayors-plan-to-round-up-homeless-people-is-a-trauma-inducing-horror/

# Medical / Health
Even Abortion Ban States Push for Further Restrictions on Reproductive Health: Anti-abortion lawmakers must decide if they will push new abortion bans, a subject of debate among some abortion opponents, if they will amend existing bans to allow for abortions in cases of rape of incest, or if they will move to other reproductive health issues such as contraception. Abortion opponents have struggled to agree on all of them, especially with total abortion bans proving unpopular among voters.
https://truthout.org/articles/even-abortion-ban-states-push-for-further-restrictions-on-reproductive-health/

# Military / DOD
Navy seizes 50 tons of ammo and rocket fuses from boat that set sail from Iran: Iran is being accused of continued “unlawful transfer of lethal aid” after the U.S. 5th Fleet says it seized more than 50 tons of ammunition rounds, fuses and propellants for rockets from a fishing trawler in the Gulf of Oman.
https://maritime-executive.com/article/u-s-navy-seizes-50-tons-of-ammunition-in-the-gulf-of-oman

USAF is Now Ready for Atomic World War (AWW): Top Secret B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber finally Revealed:
Top secret B-21 Raider stealth bomber finally revealed in high-powered ceremony. The B-21, the first new bomber for the Air Force in over 30 years, “looks imposing, but what’s under the frame and the space-age coatings is even more impressive,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said.
https://breakingdefense.com/2022/12/top-secret-b-21-raider-finally-revealed-in-high-powered-ceremony/

# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
James Webb Telescope spots a rare sight on an extraterrestrial body: clouds. The exoplanet’s atmosphere also contains methane and carbon dioxide. Astronomers spotted evidence of silicate-rich clouds around a brown dwarf nearly 20 times the size of Jupiter. The finding confirms some earlier theories about these odd planet-like worlds.
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-exoplanet-sand-clouds

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2022-12-04

Voices, The Peoples News

December 4, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
Corn Nourishes the Hopi Identity, but Climate-Driven Drought Is Stressing the Tribe’s Foods and Traditions:
Most Hopi grow corn with only the precipitation that falls on their fields, but two decades of drought have some of them testing the waters of irrigation and hoping they can preserve other customs with their harvests
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27112022/corn-nourishes-the-hopi-identity-but-climate-driven-drought-is-stressing-the-tribes-foods-and-traditions/

# Border / Immigration
DOJ Tried to Hide Report Warning That Private Border Wall in Texas Could Collapse: The report confirms a ProPublica and Texas Tribune investigation that found the privately built fencing could collapse during major flooding. The federal government resisted making the findings public for more than a year.
https://www.propublica.org/article/border-wall-texas-doj-arcadis-webuildthewall

# Children / Youth
Grieving Mom Says Athena Was Killed By ‘Sick, Cruel Monster’: The seven-year-old girl’s heartbroken mother said she wants “the world to know my baby, my first baby, my first true love, the reason I breathe.”
https://www.talktalknews.co.uk/p/texas-mothers-heartbreaking-death-to-7-year-old-athena-strand.html

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
A Review of Criticisms of a ProPublica-Vanity Fair Story on a COVID Origins Report on the origins of COVID-19 released by the Republican oversight staff of a Senate committee. The report was the product of a far-reaching investigation into the question of how the pandemic began, and we wanted to give readers an inside view of the team’s work and share independent experts’ views of its findings.
https://www.propublica.org/article/editors-note-a-review-of-criticisms-of-a-propublica-vanity-fair-story-on-a-covid-origins-report?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=river

CHD Attorneys File Federal Lawsuit to Stop California’s AB 2098 Intended to Punish Doctors Who Stray From the Approved COVID-19 Narrative: The suit alleges that the new law violates physicians’ First Amendment and free speech rights by prohibiting them from sharing information with their patients if it is inconsistent with what the law refers to as “contemporary scientific consensus” and the “standard of care.”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/press-release/chd-attorneys-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-californias-ab-2098/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Fitch Ratings warns recession could trigger property tax hikes: Fitch Ratings said the outlook for state and local governments was “deteriorating.” An expected recession could put pressure on state and local governments to raise property taxes
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/credit-rating-agency-warns-recession-could-trigger-property-tax-hikes/article_7d2f4f14-726b-11ed-8fa6-cbd7dd618957.html

# Education / Schools
“Kids Seem to Be a Paycheck”: How a Billion-Dollar Corporation Exploits Washington’s Special Education System: Universal Health Services collected more than $38 million in tax dollars for special education services that families and former teachers say it largely didn’t provide
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/how-universal-health-services-exploits-washington-special-education-system/

# Employment / Labor
‘Put Up or Shut Up,’ Says Sanders as Progressives Move to Add 7 Sick Days to Railway Deal: “If you can’t vote for this,” said the independent Vermont senator, “don’t tell anybody that you stand with working families.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/30/put-or-shut-says-sanders-progressives-move-add-7-sick-days-railway-deal

‘All of Rail Labor Is Going to Suffer’: Workers Furious Over Biden Move to Preempt Strike: “This is a legacy-defining moment for Joe Biden,” said Railroad Workers United. “He is going down as one of the biggest disappointments in labor history.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/29/all-rail-labor-going-suffer-workers-furious-over-biden-move-preempt-strike

Railroad Workers Slam Biden for Siding With Bosses to Avoid Strike: Frustrated railroad workers consider allying with a third party after a push for paid sick leave failed in Congress.
https://truthout.org/articles/publishing-is-not-a-crime-the-new-york-times-joins-the-fight-to-free-assange/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
What’s the effect of the Russian oil price cap and EU embargo? Western governments are aiming to cap the price of Russia’s oil exports in an attempt to limit the fossil fuel earnings that support Moscow. The cap is set to take effect Monday, the same day the European Union will impose a boycott on most Russian oil, its crude that is shipped by sea
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/2/eu-agrees-to-60-russian-oil-price-cap

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making: Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. It didn’t happen. Now they’re trying a new tactic: buying out homeowners to avoid finishing the job.
https://nmindepth.com/2022/the-toxic-legacy-of-uranium-mining-in-new-mexico/

Satellites detect no real climate benefit from 10 years of forest carbon offsets in California: Millions of dollars have gone into California’s forest carbon offset program, with little new carbon storage to show for it
https://theconversation.com/satellites-detect-no-real-climate-benefit-from-10-years-of-forest-carbon-offsets-in-california-193943

Scientists watched 202 ‘Shark Week’ episodes and found them filled with junk science: A recent study offers evidence that marine biology’s biggest stage is broken, and suggests ways to fix it.
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-shark-week-episodes-junk-science.html

Experts Warn ‘Doomsday Scenario’ for Colorado River Basin Possible in 2023: “The problem with massive projects like Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon Dam,” said one climate journalist, “is they were engineered for a climate that no longer exists.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/01/experts-warn-doomsday-scenario-colorado-river-basin-possible-2023

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Why Is Red Dye 3 banned in cosmetics but still allowed in food? Advocacy groups recently petitioned the FDA to stop its use.
https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-additives/red-dye-3-banned-in-cosmetics-but-still-allowed-in-food-a3467381365/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Israel and US hold drills targeted at Iran: The exercises come soon after the head of West Jerusalem’s military urged Washington to prepare for a future attack on Tehran. The Israeli military has conducted joint training operations with the United States, holding a series of air drills to simulate strikes on Iran just days after West Jerusalem pressed US officials to accelerate their “operational plans” against Tehran.
https://www.rt.com/news/567519-us-israel-drills-iran/

Edward Snowden receives Russian passport – lawyer, the American whistleblower has now become a full-fledged Russian citizen, his lawyer says: Former CIA and National Security Agency (NSA) officer Edward Snowden has received his Russian passport after having been granted citizenship by President Vladimir Putin earlier this year.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/12/02/edward-snowden-receives-russian-passport-lawyer-a79575

Agents of Influence: How Russia Deploys an Army of Shadow Diplomats: Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has appointed dozens of honorary consuls. Many have spread pro-Kremlin sentiment around the world.
https://www.propublica.org/article/honorary-consuls-russia-vladimir-putin

# Gov / Politics / US
A Billionaire Got the Chicago Mayor’s Support to Lease Public Land. Then He Wrote Her Campaign a $25,000 Check. After the donation from Joseph Mansueto, owner of the Chicago Fire soccer team, a city alderman asked for an independent investigation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-housing-abla-mayor-lightfoot-mansueto

Musk Says Twitter Suppressed Free Speech Under Orders From Government: Elon Musk suggested that Twitter was acting under government orders to suppress free speech, with his remarks coming hot on the heels of the release of a trove of documents that lift the lid on some of the social media platform’s censorship machinations around the 2020 presidential election.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3755038-musk-says-files-on-free-speech-suppression-will-be-published-on-twitter/

Released Twitter files show ‘election interference’ – Rectenwald to RT –The Democratic Party has kept a tight grip on the social network, the former NYU professor says: The release of Twitter files on the blocking of the Hunter Biden laptop story exposes the extent of the company’s ties to the US Democratic Party and its role in election meddling
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3760753-censorship-by-surrogate-why-musks-document-dump-could-be-a-game-changer/

Pennsylvania county that ran out of paper ballots doesn’t certify election: In 2020, the same county came under fire following the discovery of discarded Trump ballots, which county officials blamed on a “temporary seasonal independent contractor.” Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County has failed to certify the results of the Nov. 8 midterm elections by the Monday deadline. The Board of Elections split 2-2 on certifying the results, with one abstention.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/pennsylvania-county-ran-out-of-paper-ballots-fails-to-certify-results

Arizona Counties Threatened With Class 6 Felony Charges if They Won’t Certify the Rigged Election: Kari Lake has spoken out against the rigged and conflict-ridden Arizona Midterm Elections, which were certified by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and several other counties today. “I found out today that I have no choice but to vote ‘aye’ or I will be arrested and charged with a felony,” Ron Gould said during the Board of Supervisors Special Meeting on Monday.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/11/28/arizona-election-2022-canvass/69674992007/

Biden’s Secret Service rental vehicles burst into flames after he left Nantucket vacation: The Secret Service rented five vehicles from Hertz to carry the president and his family, and all five of them caught fire in the parking lot, according to footage first obtained by the Nantucket Current.
https://nypost.com/2022/11/29/bidens-secret-service-rental-cars-left-charred-after-catching-fire-in-nantucket/

What’s Really at Stake in a Politically Charged Supreme Court Case on Elections: Moore v. Harper could transform the law, but not in the way that many pundits, or even politicians, anticipate.
https://www.propublica.org/article/moore-v-harper-explained-scotus-elections

Fetterman Taps Person Who Literally Wrote the Book on Killing Senate Filibuster as Chief of Staff: “It will be invaluable to have a veteran of the Senate and a veteran of state politics in these key positions as we serve the people of Pennsylvania,” said the Senator-elect about two key hires for his new staff
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/02/fetterman-taps-person-who-literally-wrote-book-killing-senate-filibuster-chief-staff

# Law Enforcement
San Francisco police defend ‘killer robots’ plan. Debate on Killer Robots Rages as Robotics Companies Partner with Police and Military: Police in San Francisco defended their potential use of killer robots on Thursday, insisting they would be a “last resort” and only for very dangerous situations.
https://m.qconline.com/news/national/debate-on-killer-robots-rages-as-robotics-companies-partner-with-police-and-military/video_2dd07059-f39a-5b7a-9903-f3d892aab1f8.html

# Legal / DOJ
St. Louis Can Banish People From Entire Neighborhoods. Police Can Arrest Them if They Come Back. A St. Louis ordinance lets courts banish people from huge swaths of the city as a punishment for petty crimes. These neighborhood orders of protection often prevent people from accessing the services they need and raise constitutional questions.
https://www.propublica.org/article/st-louis-can-banish-people-from-entire-neighborhoods?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=river

The Horrifying Exposé of Sexual Abuse at a Shady Megachurch: HBO’s docuseries uncovers the abuse that several members say they suffered at the hands of the secretive institution’s leaders, and chronicles their fight for justice.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=188536440029468

# Media
Why the Media Makes Musk a Villain but Lets SBF Off Easy: Elon Musk is seen as a supervillain for using $44 billion of his own money to buy Twitter, but Sam Bankman-Fried is treated with kid gloves for losing billions belonging to others.
https://news.yahoo.com/why-media-makes-musk-villain-022837807.html

“Publishing Is Not a Crime”: The New York Times Joins the Fight to Free Assange: Leaders of Brazil and Australia are also urging dismissal of the U.S. charges against Julian Assange. Leaders of Brazil and Australia are also urging dismissal of the U.S. charges against Julian Assange.
https://truthout.org/articles/publishing-is-not-a-crime-the-new-york-times-joins-the-fight-to-free-assange/

The Continued Survival of Louis DeJoy: Trump-appointed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is still in office, thanks to the Biden administration’s inaction. Failure to nominate replacements for the Postal Service Board of Governors could give the postmaster general another year of job security.
https://prospect.org/politics/continued-survival-of-louis-dejoy/

# Medical / Health
Medical bills remain inaccessible for many visually impaired Americans: Across the U.S., health insurers and health care systems are breaking disability rights laws by sending inaccessible medical bills and notices, a KHN investigation has found.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/12/01/1139730806/blind-disability-accessibility-medical-bills

# Science
There are a lot of questions and misunderstandings that surround gene editing, especially as the world still works to understand the technology. While gene editing and gene modification oftentimes are used interchangeably, it is imperative to understand that the two technologies are not the same.
https://seedworld.com/how-gene-editing-myths-impact-regulations-and-future-technology/?mc_cid=664cdeaf03&mc_eid=c87bac2a19

# Water
The Cold War Legacy Lurking in U.S. Groundwater: For the first time, ProPublica has cataloged cleanup efforts at the 50-plus sites where uranium was processed to fuel the nation’s nuclear arsenal. Even after regulators say cleanup is complete, polluted water and sickness are often left behind.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-cold-war-legacy-lurking-in-us-groundwater/ar-AA14RdJ3

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