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December 27, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
White House Accuses Texas Guv of ‘Abandoning’ Kids to Freeze: A White House spokesperson says Abbott’s alleged actions endangered hundreds of migrants sent to Kamala Harris’ home in subfreezing temperatures over the holidays. The White House condemned Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) for dropping the latest busload of immigrants, which includes children, outside of Vice President Kamala Harris’s residence on Christmas Eve. The White House claimed that the move was a “cruel, dangerous, and shameful stunt,” according to CNN
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/white-house-texas-governor-latest-immigrant-drop-off

# Chemicals / Drugs
US health agency accused of bowing to drug industry with new opioid guidance: Dr Kenneth Scheppke, Florida’s deputy health secretary, was so disturbed he issued a public statement accusing the CDC of “tossing aside” the limits used in the previous guidelines released six years ago. Scheppke told the Guardian he is concerned that the move could cost lives as the US continues to grapple with the worst drug epidemic in its history, driven by opioids.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/17/cdc-accused-opioid-guidelines-drug-industry-pressure#:~:text=The%20Centers%20for%20Disease%20Control,the%20dangers%20of%20opioid%20prescribing.

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
New ‘Twitter files’ allege Biden administration worked with Twitter to control COVID conversation: A new batch of “Twitter files” released Monday allegedly indicates the Biden administration worked with Twitter to control the public conversation about COVID, which included censoring accounts skeptical of the vaccine
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/new-twitter-files-allege-biden-administration-worked-with-twitter-to-control-covid-conversation/article_fc7aa0b6-8553-11ed-885c-d35c7adc40e8.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
‘This makes my brain hurt’: Connecticut used disaster aid to rebuild million-dollar homes: Owners of 62 homes worth at least $1 million received recovery grants after Hurricane Sandy when HUD weakened rules meant to make needy people the priority
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/27/connecticut-hurricane-sandy-recovery-00074134#:~:text=Energy%20%26%20Enviornment-,’This%20makes%20my%20brain%20hurt’%3A%20Connecticut%20used%20disaster%20aid,priority%2C%20POLITICO’s%20E%26E%20News%20found.

Joe Biden’s Top Economic Advisor Believes Social Security Cuts May Be Inevitable:
KEY POINTS
*Social Security is staring down a greater-than $20 trillion funding shortfall over the next 75 years.
*President Biden proposed a four-point plan that’s designed to raise additional revenue for America’s top retirement program.
*However, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen believes a dual approach that also includes reduced spending will be needed to shore up Social Security.
https://www.fool.com/retirement/2022/12/24/joe-biden-advisor-social-security-cuts-inevitable/

# Education / Schools
Louisiana Communities Organize to Defend Libraries From Far Right Censorship: A far right battle against libraries that started in Lafayette is now unfolding across the state.
https://truthout.org/articles/louisiana-communities-organize-to-defend-libraries-from-far-right-censorship/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
How long until Alaska’s next oil disaster? The compromise that passed the Inflation Reduction Act has Alaskans braced for catastrophe. Shadows of oil in Peru: Shipibo people denounce damage, contamination left by company: The Seldovia Village Tribe, other Cook Inlet residents, and concerned people around the country submitted scathing critiques through the public-comment process. The probability that development would lead to another large spill was officially estimated to be one in five; critics argued that the risk was far higher.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/12/alaska-inflation-reduction-act-lease-sale-258/672464/

Local Opposition to Solar Project Leads to Cancellation in Ohio: A 400-megawatt solar array planned for the village of Williamsport, Ohio has been canceled following strong opposition from local residents and elected officials. The canceled project will mean a loss of renewable energy as well as $3.6 million per year of tax revenue that would have gone back into the local community. The project, called Chipmunk Solar, was developed by EDF Renewables. But local campaigning lead the company to formally withdraw its application in a filing on Thursday.
https://www.ecowatch.com/solar-project-ohio-cancelled.html

# Foodie Tips, Tricks and How To’s
11 Winter Root Vegetables For Fresh Produce All Season: Looking for some root vegetables you can grow in the wintertime? There are quite a few cold-hardy winter veggies that will help your garden provide fresh produce all winter long.  In this article, gardening expert Jenna Rich looks at her favorite root vegetables for winter gardens.
https://www.allaboutgardening.com/winter-root-vegetables/

# Gov / Politics / Global
This Gym Owner’s Double Life Helped Wreck Putin’s War Plans: A Ukrainian gym owner and a group of his regulars told The Daily Beast how they helped drive Russian forces out of Kherson by moonlighting as informants.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gym-owner-doubled-as-ukrainian-informant-to-help-liberate-kherson-from-russia?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon

Israel’s New Government: The most underreported story in the Middle East. Israel’s Netanyahu looks to vote in new government on Thursday
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-netanyahu-looks-vote-new-government-thursday-2022-12-26/

Israel’s new government would make Herzl roll over in his grave: Haters of Israel insist the Jewish state is a fascist country, while Netanyahu’s return to power, coupled with outrageous statements by his partners, only act as fuel to the fire of that claim
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rjm4yl00ks

Israel’s New Government Agrees Not to Sign Istanbul Convention on Violence Against Women: Incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and the far-right Religious Zionism party have reportedly agreed that ‘the government will not approve Israel’s accession to the Istanbul Treaty’
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-new-government-wont-join-istanbul-convention-against-domestic-violence

# Gov / Politics / US
Biden releases most JFK assassination records, but withholds thousands:  As Oswald interacted with DRE and became known as an activist who supported President Castro, the Pentagon was formulating a plan called Operation Northwoods to stage a false flag attack in the United States to blame on Cuba and justify a military confrontation to make up for the aborted Bay of Pigs fiasco two years before. The records and the CIA’s deceit over Joannides’ ties to Oswald spans decades and came to light only after the records act began to unearth information about him.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/dec/15/jfk-assassination-documents-released-national-arch/
See also: Concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on intelligence agency corruption and the Kennedy assassination from reliable major media sources.
https://www.wanttoknow.info/intelligenceagencynewsarticles
Key excerpts of little-known, yet highly revealing news articles on the John F. Kennedy assassination from the major media.
https://www.wanttoknow.info/kennedy-assassinationnewsarticles

Joe Biden Can’t Quit the Saudi “Pariahs”: Two years into Biden’s presidency, it is crystal clear that the Saudis have nothing significant to fear from the U.S. government. For decades, Democratic and Republican administrations have propped up the Saudi monarchy, lathering it with weapons sales and intelligence sharing, all while normalizing the draconian, antidemocratic grip on power held by the monarchy.
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/14/biden-saudi-arabia-mbs/

Comeuppance for the unindicted, domestic, rogue terrorist, and ex-president: “I disrupt foes like any warlord,/ Back me or face the next civil war.”
https://www.nationofchange.org/2022/12/27/comeuppance-for-the-unindicted-domestic-rogue-terrorist-and-ex-president/

Raskin says electoral college is a ‘danger’ to democracy and should be abandoned: “We should elect the president the way we elect governors, senators, mayors, representatives, everybody else: Whoever gets the most votes wins.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/electoral-college-democracy-raskin

# Law Enforcement
The First Big Strike of 2023 May Happen Behind Prison Walls: The new year is set to kick off with a statewide strike by incarcerated workers in Pennsylvania. Prisoners will conduct work stoppages, hunger strikes, and spending boycotts in the hopes that their list of 10 demands is met. Vox’s German Lopez has explained the treatment of incarcerated Americans, the reasoning behind the strike and its technicalities in detail.
https://www.vox.com/2018/8/21/17721874/national-prison-strike-2018-13th-amendment-attica

# Legal / DOJ
‘Bye-bye, baby’: Experts affirmatively conclude ‘yes, it’s happening,’ Trump is getting indicted: Legal experts Andrew Weissmann, Maya Wiley and Basil Smikle all agreed that it’s officially the beginning of the end of Donald Trump. It’s an expectation that has been heard before, but even with the previous special counsel, there was a “policy” that the Justice Department would protect the president.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bye-bye-baby-experts-affirmatively-conclude-yes-it-s-happening-trump-is-getting-indicted/ar-AA15GQD8?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=a55a829ee0ed4d15bdbf1b920f90d2f2

# LGBTQ
2022 Quietly Set the Stage for a Massive Rollback of LGBTQ Rights: From statehouses to the Supreme Court, LGBTQ rights were under steady attack by Christian nationalists this year. Anyone with even a passing interest in LGBTQ equality likely is familiar with the explicit legislative and judicial attacks on the community’s rights in 2022. After all, we saw widespread media coverage of the 36 states that introduced over 300 anti-LGBTQ laws or policies this year.
https://truthout.org/articles/2022-quietly-set-the-stage-for-a-massive-rollback-of-lgbtq-rights/

# Medical Alternatives / Herbology
The Power of Peppermint: 15 Health Benefits Revealed: Modern scientific investigations have now confirmed that this remarkable plant has over a dozen healing properties. Peppermint oil has a wide variety of uses. For example, it can be used as:
*A remedy for a variety of conditions, including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), nausea, and other digestive issues, as well as the common cold and headaches
*A topical application for relief from itching, muscle pain, and headache
*A flavoring agent in foods and products such as mouthwashes
*A fresh, pleasing scent added to soaps and cosmetic products
https://www.healthline.com/health/benefits-of-peppermint-oil#uses

Seniors Who Drink This Type of Juice Every Day May Have Stronger Memory: Tart juice made from Montmorency cherries, the most common type of tart cherries grown in the United States, has long been used to treat a variety of health problems such as gout or sleeplessness. A recent study conducted at the University of Delaware finds evidence that a daily serving of cherry juice may improve cognitive functioning and performance in older adults.
Adults between the ages of 65-73 enjoyed improved scores on memory and cognition tests after drinking Montmorency tart cherry juice every day, the study shows.
https://studyfinds.org/tart-cherry-juice-memory-seniors/

# Medical / Health
Millions Harmed by Medical Misdiagnosis in U.S. Hospital Emergency Rooms: The care given in emergency departments came under fire yesterday with the release of a government study saying that 250,000 Americans die every year due to misdiagnoses.
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/misdiagnoses-eds-lead-250000-deaths-year-study

Life-Saving Organ Transplants Denied to Unvaccinated People: The idea that a person in need of a life-saving surgery would be denied that procedure by a doctor or a hospital administrator simply because the individual opted out of getting a COVID-19 shot seems surreal.
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-unvaccinated-people-are-being-denied-organ-transplants

# Military / Global
South Korea responds in force to North Korean drone intrusion near Seoul: The incident marks the first time since 2017 that a North Korean drone was detected in South Korean airspace.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2022-12-26/north-korea-drones-seoul-plane-crash-8546813.html

# Water
Natalie Koch: Arizona is in a race to the bottom of its water wells, with Saudi Arabia’s help: Arizona lawmakers must reform the state’s groundwater laws before it’s too late. Thanks to fresh scrutiny this year from state politicians, water activists and journalists, the Saudi agricultural giant Almarai has emerged as an unlikely antagonist in the water crisis. The company, through its subsidiary Fondomonte, has been buying and leasing land across western Arizona since 2014. This year The Arizona Republic published a report showing that the Arizona State Land Department has been leasing 3,500 acres of public land to Almarai for a suspiciously low price. The case has prompted calls for an investigation into how a foreign company wound up taking the state’s dwindling water supplies for a fee that might be as low as one-sixth the market rate.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4118999/posts

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Voices, The Peoples News

December 26, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Archaeology
Huge 2,000-year-old Mayan civilization discovered in northern Guatemala: A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S., working with a colleague from France and another from Guatemala, has discovered a very large 2,000-year-old Mayan civilization in northern Guatemala. In their paper published in the journal Ancient Mesoamerica, the group describes using LiDAR to conduct a survey of the area.
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-huge-year-old-mayan-civilization-northern.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly-nwletter

Archaeologists uncover oldest known projectile points in the Americas: Oregon State University archaeologists have uncovered projectile points in Idaho that are thousands of years older than any previously found in the Americas, helping to fill in the history of how early humans crafted and used stone weapons.
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-archaeologists-uncover-oldest-projectile-americas.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly-nwletter

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Florida’s Attorney General Ashley Moody has revealed new video evidence that shows officials from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lost track of 150,000 illegal immigrants who had entered the United States.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACSeTiElTnI

# Chemicals
The EPA is finally addressing 4 dangerous ‘forever chemicals,’ out of over 4,000: This video is part of our series “The Numbers That Defined 2022.”
https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/the-epa-is-finally-addressing-4-dangerous-forever-chemicals-out-of-over-4000/

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
What the World Should Really Expect From COVID in 2023: There’s one country that’s expected to have a very different experience with the virus than the rest.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/emerging-covid-pandemic-again-2022-12-07/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Tax Policy Is Helping Wall Street Gobble Up Single-Family Homes: Wall Street investors have concentrated their purchases of entry-level and single-family homes in communities of color.
https://truthout.org/audio/tax-policy-is-helping-wall-street-gobble-up-single-family-homes/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=ccd2ef61-dcbd-4334-8bf7-824c9b042b6f

How the government helps Wall Street landlords convert family homes to rentals: Housing prices have risen 24.8% since March 2020. As house prices rise, rents rise. Despite the ever-escalating number of those without the ability to buy or rent, someone, or some group, is able to sweep up all available units. As the average American moves from owner to renter to homeless, who is filling in the gap? Where is this demand coming from? Part of the answer: The wealthy investor who is buying up average priced single-family homes through equity/hedge funds and trusts.
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/how-the-government-helps-wall-street-landlords-convert-family-homes-to-rentals/

# Education / Schools
School Librarians Are in the Crosshairs of Right-Wing Book Banners and Censors: Right-wing groups are escalating efforts to remove books that address race, gender and sexuality from school libraries.
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1119752817/local-libraries-have-become-a-major-political-and-cultural-battleground

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
A Window into Louisiana’s Continued Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry
https://www.desmog.com/2022/12/21/gaslighting-louisiana-embrace-fossil-fuel-norco/

Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits: Following complaints, Oregon’s Public Utility Commission is investigating NW Natural’s meter testing program and billing practices.
https://www.desmog.com/2022/12/16/nw-natural-gas-utility-profits-whistleblower-complaint/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nw-natural-gas-utility-profits-whistleblower-complaint

Why Stop Smart Meters? Utilities across the country are installing so-called ‘smart’ meters.  As a result, bills are skyrocketing, health effects and safety violations are being reported, and privacy in our homes is being violated. Do we really need wireless smart meters? Decide for yourself.
https://stopsmartmeters.org/why-stop-smart-meters/

Smart Meter Fires and Explosions: The following is a compilation of reports from the US , Australia and Canada about fires, explosions, electrical problems or burned out appliances due to Smart Meter installations.
http://emfsafetynetwork.org/smart-meters/smart-meter-fires-and-explosions/

Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight: Oregon regulators face challenges, old and new, to holding gas companies accountable during high-stakes energy system transformation.
https://www.desmog.com/2022/12/16/nw-natural-opuc-gaps-oversight/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nw-natural-opuc-gaps-oversight

# Environment / Climate / Global
Children born today will see literally thousands of animals disappear in their lifetime, as global food webs collapse: But to date, science has vastly underestimated the true toll climate change and habitat destruction will have on biodiversity. That’s because it has largely neglected to consider the extent of “co-extinctions”: when species go extinct because other species on which they depend die out.
https://theconversation.com/children-born-today-will-see-literally-thousands-of-animals-disappear-in-their-lifetime-as-global-food-webs-collapse-196286

Brazil’s Pantanal is at risk of collapse, scientists say: Record fires, climate change, large-scale agriculture, deforestation and a proposed industrial waterway collectively threaten the world’s lands. A confluence of human activities in Brazil and worldwide, including deforestation and climate change, are heating and drying this watery landscape, threatening the entire ecosystem with drought, wildfires and habitat loss. Now, a plan to dredge and straighten the Paraguay River that feeds the Pantanal could serve as the death knell for this vast wetland ecosystem.
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/brazils-pantanal-is-at-risk-of-collapse-scientists-say/

Emperor penguin at risk of extinction, along with two-thirds of native Antarctic species, research shows:  Two-thirds of Antarctica’s native species, including emperor penguins, are under threat of extinction or major population declines by 2100 under current trajectories of global heating, according to new research that outlines priorities for protecting the continent’s biodiversity.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/1022907-two-thirds-of-native-species-under-extinction-threat-from-global-heating

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Global
Sowing Doubt: How Big Ag is Delaying Sustainable Farming in Europe: New analysis sheds light on key industry lobbying tactics at a decisive moment for the future of agriculture.
https://www.desmog.com/2022/12/21/sowing-doubt-how-big-ag-is-delaying-sustainable-farming-in-europe/

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Hundreds of Tyson Foods Employees Are Leaving the Company. Why the Mass Exodus? The company has said its planned office closures are part of an effort to consolidate its corporate employees in Arkansas
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hundreds-of-tyson-foods-employees-expected-to-depart-as-company-closes-offices-11671664258

# Foodie Tips, Tricks and How To’s
Best Organic Baby Formula: Top 5 Healthy Choices For Infants, Most Recommended By Experts: When it comes to baby formula, making the right decision for your infant can feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders.
https://www.naturalblaze.com/2022/12/best-organic-baby-formula-top-5-healthy-choices-for-infants-most-recommended-by-experts.html

# General Information / Other News
Trump Stirs Another Controversy as He Calls for Termination of the Constitution: On December 3, former President Donald Trump called for an end to the Constitution. Trump made the statement in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election and reinstate himself back into office. His claims continue to prove his denial of the 2020 election and push fringe conspiracy theories.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-stirs-another-controversy-as-he-calls-for-termination-of-the-constitution/ar-AA15FZ8N?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=63aafb4e03d5447ca4c8efadfa3e3362

Australia Concerned As People Dying At ‘Incredibly High’ Pace And It Can’t Tell Why: Australia’s peak actuarial body has asked the government to urgently investigate the country’s “incredibly high” 13% excess death rate in 2022.
https://www.benzinga.com/news/22/12/29988165/australia-concerned-as-people-dying-at-incredibly-high-pace-and-it-cant-tell-1

# Gov / Politics / Global
The Waltz of the Bloody Clowns: $6 billion per month in weapons is flowing in to “Ukraine” and being skimmed by the mobbed-up president’s partners. Arms trafficking by Ukrainian gangs has made it possible to diversify stocks placed on the market at unbeatable prices in the countries of the European Union.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/12/23/the-waltz-of-the-bloody-clowns/

China aims to rebuild US ties in diplomatic push for 2023: China said it will strive to “recalibrate” its relationship with the U.S. and increase communication with Europe as the country outlines its major diplomatic tasks for next year.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-25/china-aims-to-rebuild-us-ties-in-diplomatic-push-for-2023

# Gov / Politics / US
Iran punished for treatment of women: The U.S. initiates Iran’s expulsion from the UN women’s commission: The Islamic Republic of Iran was the first UN member ever to be expelled from the prestigious Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), tasked with protecting women’s rights and promoting gender equality
https://www.pressenza.com/2022/12/iran-punished-for-treatment-of-women/

House GOP using omnibus fight as ‘trial run’ for ploy to cut Social Security and Medicare, critics warn: “MAGA extremists in Congress are dusting off an old conservative playbook for when they seize power,” said one progressive watchdog.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-omnibus-social-security-medicare

Republicans Take Sides on January 6th Criminal Indictment Against Trump: Senate Republicans are stepping out of the way of the House Jan. 6 committee’s recommendation that the Justice Department prosecute former President Trump for crimes related to the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3781457-many-senate-republicans-arent-protecting-trump-after-jan-6-panels-nod-to-criminal-charges/

# Law Enforcement
Local Alabama Police Arrested 82-Year-Old Black Woman for Overdue Trash Bill: A society based on human needs would help a retiree with a trivial household problem instead of sending cops.
https://truthout.org/articles/local-alabama-police-arrested-82-year-old-woman-for-overdue-trash-bill/

Police Have No Duty to Protect the Public: This piece challenges a notion in our culture that is so accepted people rarely question it, and subsequently adds a new dimension to the discussion of police brutality. Though often unsaid in police reform debates, numerous court precedents have established that cops aren’t obligated to act in the interests of citizens.
https://prospect.org/justice/police-have-no-duty-to-protect-the-public/

Police Have No Duty to Protect You, Federal Court Affirms Yet Again: A federal judge ruled that the government agencies ” had no constitutional duty to protect students who were not in custody.” This latest decision adds to a growing body of case law establishing that government agencies, including police agencies, have no duty to provide protection to citizens in general
https://mises.org/power-market/police-have-no-duty-protect-you-federal-court-affirms-yet-again

# Legal / DOJ
“The Central Cause of January 6th Was One Man”: House Panel Urges Trump Be Banned from Public Office.
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol released its final 845-page report on the insurrection at the Capitol
https://freespeech.org/stories/the-central-cause-of-january-6th-was-one-man-house-panel-urges-trump-be-banned-from-public-office/

Jordan demands FBI turn over all communications with Twitter as probe of censorship heats up: House Judiciary Committee Republicans led by incoming Chairman Jim Jordan demanded Friday that FBI Director Chris Wray turn over records of all communications and payments the law enforcement agency had with Twitter, signaling aggressive investigations of social media censorship next year.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/jordan-demands-fbi-turn-over-all-communications-twitter-probe-censorship-heats

DOJ has been handed Trump evidence that goes ‘far beyond a call for heads to roll’: According to legal experts who have poured over the final report from the House select committee investigating the Jan 6 riot that forced lawmakers from both sides of the aisle to flee for their lives, the Department of Justice and, in particular, special counsel Jack Smith, have been handed a powerful document that provides a detailed roadmap that should lead to criminal indictments.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/26/january-6-capitol-attack-donald-trump-report

# Medical Alternatives / Herbology
Intermittent Fasting May Cure Type 2 Diabetes, Here’s 3 Reasons Why it’s So Healthy: Intermittent fasting, which many celebrities follow and champion publicly, could really be a cure for Type 2 diabetes. Researchers with the Endocrine Society say patients who ate intermittently ended the need for painful insulin injections.
https://studyfinds.org/intermittent-fasting-cure-diabetes/

# Military / DOD
Hundreds of thousands more U.S. service members exposed to toxic forever chemicals than DOD acknowledges, report finds: “It’s not just that they purposefully underestimated how many service members were exposed… it’s that they didn’t tell anyone.”
https://www.ecowatch.com/pfas-forever-chemicals-us-military-exposure.html

# Military / Global
China sends 71 warplanes, 7 ships toward Taiwan in 24 hours: China’s military harassment of Taiwan, which it claims is its own territory, has intensified in recent years, and the Communist Party’s People’s Liberation Army has sent planes or ships toward the island on a near-daily basis.
https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-politics-china-7ca84c323b8ed15253c9cb5c04789805

# Planetary
A startup says it’s begun releasing particles in the atmosphere, in an effort to tweak the climate: A startup claims it has launched weather balloons that may have released reflective sulfur particles in the stratosphere, potentially crossing a controversial barrier in the field of solar geoengineering. Geoengineering refers to deliberate efforts to manipulate the climate by reflecting more sunlight back into space, mimicking a natural process that occurs in the aftermath of large volcanic eruptions. In theory, spraying sulfur and similar particles in sufficient quantities could potentially ease global warming.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/24/1066041/a-startup-says-its-begun-releasing-particles-into-the-atmosphere-in-an-effort-to-tweak-the-climate/

# Science
U.S. public not warned  monkeys imported from Cambodia carried deadly pathogens: Documents reveal that pathogenic agents, zoonotic bacteria and viruses, including one deemed bioterrorism  risk, entered U.S. but ‘no indication CDC has been transparent.’ Activists are calling for the US government to stop the importation of non-human primates for laboratory use
https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/us-news/us-public-not-warned-monkeys-imported-from-cambodia-spread-pathogens-viruses-cdc-articleshow.html

A protective probiotic for ALS found: A probiotic bacterium called Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus HA-114 prevents neurodegeneration in the C. elegans worm, an animal model used to study amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
By enabling the transmission of signals to muscles so that they contract, motor neurons, which are nerve cells, allow us to move our body at will. People with ALS see a gradual deterioration of their motor neurons. This makes them lose their muscular ability, to the point of total paralysis, with an average life expectancy of only 3 to 5 years after diagnosis.
https://neurosciencenews.com/als-probiotics-22116/

# Technology
Another Nightmare Before Christmas: “Smart Meter Catches Fire, Utility Company Denies Homeowners’ Damage Claim.” e now add a Maryland fire and company response (non-response) to the list of customer nightmares caused by the unsafe, insecure, unsustainable, unwise ‘smart’ grid ‘smart’ meters.
https://beforeitsnews.com/health/2022/12/another-nightmare-before-christmas-smart-meter-catches-fire-utility-company-denies-homeowners-damage-claim-3048406.html

# Veterans / VA
Spokane VA has reduced staff despite ongoing effects of troubled computer system as veterans wait longer for care: While the new electronic medical record system has been sold as an overdue update to the VA’s existing computer system, flaws in the Cerner system have left health care workers exhausted and demoralized, and the problems have also harmed scores of veterans, according to the VA Office of Inspector General.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/dec/25/spokane-va-has-reduced-staff-despite-ongoing-effec/

# Water
The water wranglers of the West are struggling to save the Colorado River: Farmers, bureaucrats, and water negotiators converged on Caesars Palace, in Las Vegas, to fight over the future of the drought-stricken Southwest
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-water-wranglers-of-the-west-are-struggling-to-save-the-colorado-river

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December 23, 2022
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Critics: Omnibus bill prioritizes border security overseas over U.S. border: Bill also prioritizes processing of illegal foreign nationals and transporting them throughout US
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/critics-omnibus-bill-prioritizes-border-security-overseas-over-u-s-border/article_d65ad654-816f-11ed-ac97-eb251c2b87cf.html

# Chemicals
Blamed for destroying crops and fraying community ties, the widely used herbicide also poses a threat to the plants birds need, experts say. The weedkiller dicamba is poisoning wildlife habitat. Will the EPA finally act?
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/winter-2022/the-weedkiller-dicamba-poisoning-wildlife-habitat

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Senate Clears $1.7T Government Funding Bill
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/22/senate-deal-government-funding-bill-00075143

# Environment / Climate / Global
The words of United Nations Secretary General António Guterres couldn’t have been starker: “We are waging a war on nature. Ecosystems have become playthings of profit. Human activities are laying waste to once-thriving forests, jungles, farmland, oceans, rivers, seas and lakes. Our land, water and air are poisoned by chemicals and pesticides, and choked with plastics. The addiction to fossil fuels has thrown our climate into chaos. Unsustainable production and monstrous consumption habits are degrading our world. Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction … with a million species at risk of disappearing forever.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/12/22/can_we_stop_the_sixth_extinction

# General Information / Other News
‘He knows he lost’: Cassidy Hutchinson testified that Trump acknowledged he lost 2020 election
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/22/trump-election-mccarthy-jan-6-hutchinson-00075200

# Gov / Politics / Global
Ukrainian NeoNazi Chief Zelensky Armed by Biden for the StarWars: US Patriot vs Russian Missiles Sarmat & Zyrcon: As Germany votes against the ban on Nazi propaganda at the UN But he condemns a 97yo granny because in youth she had been the SS secretary
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/12/22/nazi-hitlers-granny-convicted-at-97yo-kiev-neo-nazis-armed-by-biden-for-starwars-us-patriot-vs-russian-sarmat-zyrcon/

How China is Taking Advantage of Crisis Between West and Russia: China is just waiting the days until the conflict between Russia and the West escalates so it can further consolidate its position as a global power. Strategic links and influence in the economy and politics are deteriorating.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/12/22/how-china-is-taking-advantage-of-the-crisis-between-the-west-and-russia/?mc_cid=2f4a9fc6f7&mc_eid=3f7488d454

Why China Is Struggling to Deal With Russia’s War in Ukraine: China is one of Russia’s closest partners, but supporting the invasion of Ukraine would seriously damage Beijing’s ties with wealthy democracies and alienate Chinese citizens who oppose the invasion.
https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/china-russia-war-ukraine-taiwan-putin-xi

3 ways China and Russia are forging much closer: “China-Russia trade is booming because China is taking advantage of the Ukraine crisis to buy Russian energy at a discount
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-xi-looks-strengthen-energy-ties-with-russia-2022-11-29/

‘Great resignation’ appears to be hastening the exodus of US and other Western companies from Russia: Two scholars of corporate do-goodery suggest a hidden driver of corporate decisions to leave Russia is the global trend in which record numbers of workers are quitting their jobs.
https://theconversation.com/great-resignation-appears-to-be-hastening-the-exodus-of-us-and-other-western-companies-from-russia-180741

Putin Finally Calls Invasion a ‘War,’ Says He Wants It Over: The Russian president also mocked Kyiv’s new weapons from the U.S. as “quite old.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-zelenskiy-tells-us-congress-aid-is-not-charity-urges-more-support-2022-12-22/

# Gov / Politics / US
Could Democrats Really Elect a Moderate Republican Speaker? It’s a long shot, but not out of the question.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/could-democrats-really-elect-moderate-republican-speaker/

House GOP Using Omnibus Fight as ‘Trial Run’ for Ploy to Cut Social Security and Medicare, Critics Warn:
“MAGA extremists in Congress are dusting off an old conservative playbook for when they seize power,” said one progressive watchdog.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-omnibus-social-security-medicare

# Legal / DOJ
Damning Jan. 6 Report Rips Trump a New One: After 18 months of work, 1,000 witness interviews, and six criminal referrals, the full report was released. House committee publishes report three days after recommending criminal charges against ex-presiden
https://www.yahoo.com/news/jan-6-committee-finally-drops-025206996.html

# Water
Dwindling Colorado River could trigger water war between states: Diminished by climate change and overuse, the river can no longer provide the water states try to take from it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/colorado-river-water-uncompahgre-california-arizona

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Voices, The Peoples News

December 22, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Archaeology
# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Biden Is in Denial About the Crisis at the Border: The president can no longer pretend it isn’t happening, as thousands of people pour into the U.S. daily. But he can show leadership on an issue he knows plenty about.
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017f-d8bd-d522-ab7f-debd59400000

Arizona will dismantle shipping container border wall: The makeshift barrier was trespassing on federal land. The boxes, weighing nearly 9000-pounds, were topped with concertina wire and welded together, the Intercept reported. Arizona’s Department of Emergency and Military Affairs was involved in the rollout of the wall, which stretched four miles.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/arizona-agrees-to-dismantle-shipping-container-border-wall-after-federal-lawsuit/

# Chemicals
‘Huge win’: Court finds EPA approval of bee-killing sulfoxaflor unlawful: “Studies show that the widespread adoption of systemic insecticides has made our landscapes 48 times more deadly for pollinators like honeybees.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/21/huge-win-court-finds-epa-approval-bee-killing-sulfoxaflor-unlawful

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Cleveland Clinic: “Higher Risk of COVID-19 Infection among Vaccinated”: Israeli Study on SARS-Breakthrough, Killer according to CDC Data. US Cleveland Clinic:  “The greater the number of vaccine doses an individual has previously received, the greater the risk of contracting COVID-19”
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/12/22/higher-risk-of-covid-19-infection-among-vaccinated-cleveland-paper-explains-covid-breakthrough-killer-warning-by-cdc-deaths-data-and-israel-study/

New Study led by Doctor CDC USA. While Piedmont starts with the Fifth Dose
https://www.gospanews.net/2022/10/26/trivaccinati-piu-a-rischio-di-contrarre-covid-sintomatico-nuovo-studio-guidato-da-medico-cdc-usa-mentre-il-piemonte-parte-con-la-quinta-dose/

Koch-Funded Legal Group Fights to Protect COVID Misinformation: The group is suing California to protect the medical licenses of doctors who promote phony cures for COVID-19.
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/12/21/koch-funded-litigation-group-fights-to-protect-covid-misinformation/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
Japan reverses nuclear phaseout plan adopted after Fukushima: Japan adopted a new policy promoting greater use of nuclear energy to ensure a stable power supply amid global fuel shortages. Japan adopted a plan to extend the lifespan of nuclear reactors, replace the old and even build new ones, a major shift in a country scarred by the Fukushima disaster that once planned to phase out atomic power.
https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/japan-reverts-to-max-nuclear-power-to-tackle-energy-climate

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
A new Shell plant in Pennsylvania will ‘just run and run’ producing the raw materials for single-use plastics:  In company emails, Shell executives admit “we do have questions to answer” about the plastic waste the company’s new plant will produce over its 30-year lifespan.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21122022/shell-ethane-plant-plastics-pennsylvania/

Researchers just figured out how to filter indestructible “forever chemical” pollutants: A new study in the scientific publication Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters reveals a possible way to break down PFAS in water by using hydrogen and ultraviolet light
https://www.salon.com/2022/12/21/researchers-just-figured-out-a-way-to-filter-once-indestructible-forever-chemical-pollutants/

# Environment / Climate / Global
Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is among the largest glaciers on Earth and one of the single most important factors for future global sea level rise. Thwaites is surrounded by other massive ice sheets that cover west Antarctica. Since Thwaites sits in a giant, low elevation basin, if it melts, the rest of the ice will flow into the basin and melt, too. Add all that ice up and you get more than three meters of sea level rise.
https://www.yahoo.com/now/thwaites-glacier-melting-antarctic-monster-104832761.html

High number of mosquitoes found with mutation that resists insecticides: In Cambodia and Vietnam, 78 percent of sampled mosquitoes have a mutation that shows resistance to the common insecticide permethrin.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq7345

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Red 40 food dye in Jell-O, Doritos, and more causes ‘striking and alarming’ disease: The food coloring additive, known as Allura Red, FD&C Red 40, or Food Red 17, can raise the risk of inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn’s disease, and ulcerative colitis.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/red-40-food-dye-striking-alarming-disease-study

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russia Promises More Disasters and Dead Bodies in 2023: Moscow says it will bulk up its military as it doubles down on demented war plans.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-promises-more-disasters-dead-180605612.html

# Gov / Politics / US
Battle over omnibus spending continues as Congress faces shutdown Friday: Lawmakers have until midnight Friday to pass legislation to fund the government or face a shutdown as a potential vote on the $1.7 trillion, 4,155-page omnibus bill could happen later Wednesday
https://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-tries-to-get-omnibus-spending-bill-over-finish-line-11671656366

What the Pentagon doesn’t want you to know about China: Deliberate lies about China to drum up justification for more U.S. war spending needs to be urgently addressed. To encourage Congress to authorize the largest defense budget ever, the Pentagon just released its annual report on China, which dangerously misrepresents the country’s defense strategy. Such deliberate lies about China to drum up justification for more US war spending need to be urgently addressed. Escalating tension with China was a mistake, and building a colossal military budget is doubling down on this mistake.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/20/what-pentagon-doesnt-want-you-know-about-china

# Legal / DOJ
Why the Jan. 6 Committee Let Ginni and Clarence Thomas Off the Hook; When you’re a justice, they let you do it.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/12/january-6-report-summary-clarence-thomas-ginni-ethics.html

Trump Tax Returns Release Reveals ‘Rampant Corruption’: Information gleaned from former President Donald Trump’s tax returns released by Congress this week helped demonstrate the “rampant corruption” of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during his time in office, according to former U.S. Attorney Glenn Kirschner, who is now an MSNBC analyst.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-tax-returns-release-reveals-rampant-corruption-kirschner-1769066

Former federal appeals court judge: Trump could be sentenced to prison: J. Michael Luttig, a prominent conservative attorney, thinks the crimes Trump may have committed in trying to overturn the election would require any judge to give him prison time.
https://news.yahoo.com/former-federal-appeals-court-judge-trump-could-be-sentenced-to-prison-224535748.html

# Medical Science
Obesity researchers discover new gene mutation in children: A research team at Leipzig University’s Faculty of Medicine has discovered a new mechanism that is associated with severe obesity in children. This genetic rearrangement leads to an unusual expression of a gene involved in hunger control and is not detected by most routine genetic tests for obesity. The findings were published in the journal Nature Metabolism.
file:///C:/Users/19364/Downloads/2022-12-obesity-gene-mutation-children.pdf

Artificial DNA kills cancer: Hairpin-shaped DNA binds with microRNA in cancer cells to trigger an immune response: Researchers at the University of Tokyo have used artificial DNA to target and kill cancer cells in a completely new way. The method was effective in lab tests against human cervical cancer- and breast cancer-derived cells, and against malignant melanoma cells from mice.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/12/221221090609.htm

# Military / DOD
Twitter Aided the Pentagon in Its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign: Internal documents show Twitter whitelisted CENTCOM accounts that were then used to run its online influence campaign abroad.
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-accounts/

# Science
NIH researchers use 3D bioprinting to create eye tissue: Technique provides model for studying genesis of age-related macular degeneration and other eye diseases. Scientists used patient stem cells and 3D bioprinting to produce eye tissue that will advance understanding of the mechanisms of blinding diseases.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-researchers-use-3d-bioprinting-create-eye-tissue

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Voices, The Peoples News

December 21, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
This School District Is Ground Zero for Harsh Discipline of Native Students in New Mexico: In Gallup-McKinley County Schools, wearing the wrong color shirt can get you written up for “gang-related activity.” Banging on a window is bullying. The district is responsible for most of New Mexico’s disproportionate expulsions of Native students.
https://www.propublica.org/article/gallup-mckinley-schools-native-student-discipline#:~:text=Gallup%2DMcKinley’s%20Discipline%20Rates%20Tower,to%202019%2D20%20school%20years.

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Human Rights Stain, Public Health Farce: Title 42 Tied to 13,000 Murders, Rapes, Kidnappings in Mexico: The Biden administration has asked the Supreme Court to temporarily keep in place Title 42 until after December 27. According to Human Rights First, over 13,400 accounts of murder, torture, kidnapping, rape and other violent attacks on migrants and asylum seekers blocked in or expelled to Mexico under Title 42 have been reported since President Biden took office.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/12/21/frustration_among_migrants_at_us_mexico

# Children / Youth
The “Death Penalty” of Child Welfare: In Six Months or Less, Some Parents Lose Their Kids Forever: Twenty-five years ago, Congress passed a law aimed at speeding up adoptions of children languishing in foster care. In the process, it destroyed hundreds of thousands of families through the termination of parental rights.
https://www.propublica.org/article/six-months-or-less-parents-lose-kids-forever

# Chemicals / Drugs
Researchers develop a fentanyl vaccine that could tackle overdoses and addiction: Fentanyl Vaccine Potential ‘Game Changer’ for Opioid Epidemic . Study Suggests New Vaccine Could Prevent Deadly Opioid from Entering the Brain
https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2022-news-articles/november-2022/11142022-fentanyl-vaccine-haile-kosten.php

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
U.S. Multimillionaires’ Wages Rose in 2021, While Bottom 90 Percent Got Pay Cut: The bottom 90 percent got a wage cut in 2021, but the top 0.1 percent got a wage raise of 18.5 percent.
https://www.businessinsider.com/lowest-earning-americans-got-pay-cut-while-richest-made-more-2022-12

# Education / Schools
A Texas superintendent ordered librarians to remove LGBTQ-themed books. Now the federal government is investigating. The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has opened what appears to be the first-of-its-kind investigation into the Granbury Independent School District after it banned school library books dealing with sexuality and gender.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/20/granbury-books-investigation-civil-rights/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
Russian Gas Pipeline to Europe Explodes: Three repair workers were killed yesterday when a section of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhhorod natural gas pipeline in western Russia exploded.
https://www.euronews.com/2022/12/20/three-killed-in-mysterious-explosion-at-russian-gas-pipeline-supplying-europe

Puerto Rican towns take big oil to court for fraud, racketeering, and damages: Big oil is accused of spreading conspiracy theories and many other things.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/puerto-rican-towns-take-big-oil-to-court-for-fraud-racketeering-and-damages/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
California Governor Declares Emergency in County Hit by Deadly Earthquake that unleashed a wave of destruction and left at least two people dead. Around 71,000 people were also left without power after the 6.4 magnitude quake struck the county early Tuesday
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-20/magnitude-6-4-earthquake-near-fortuna-calif

# Environment / Climate / Global
COP15 reaches ambitious plan for nature, now countries must accelerate action
https://www.conservation.org/blog/cop15-reaches-ambitious-plan-for-nature-now-countries-must-accelerate-action

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
New 3D printing ‘ink’ could make lab-grown meat even cheaper: 3D-printed meat is close to becoming cost-competitive.
https://www.zmescience.com/future/new-3d-printing-ink-could-make-lab-grown-meat-even-cheaper/

# General Information / Other News
Donald Trump Demands Reinstatement, Suggests Overthrowing Government
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-demands-reinstatement-suggests-overthrowing-government-1768621

# Gov / Politics / Global
The 5 Countries Lining Up To Take On America And The West: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have lofty aspirations to expand the group’s membership and shake up the America-led world order. Read on to find out what the BRICS group is doing to counter Western dominance, and how much of a threat it might be.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/the-5-countries-lining-up-to-take-on-the-west/ss-AA15u3y0?li=AAnZ9Ug

Peru Gives Mexican Ambassador 3 Days to Get Out Amid Crisis: Peru has responded with fury after Mexico offered asylum to the family of the ousted Peruvian president.
https://www.voanews.com/a/peru-orders-mexico-s-ambassador-out-as-diplomatic-spat-deepens/6885268.html

Officials Say Russia May Not Be Behind Pipeline Bombing: Despite months of analysis, a new report finds no concrete evidence has emerged pinning the attack on Moscow. An attack on gas lines under the Baltic Sea exposes the vulnerability of an already jittery Europe. Some officials suggested Moscow was to blame, but with little evidence, others urge caution.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/world/europe/pipeline-sabotage-mystery-russia.html

Taliban Bans Women From All Afghan Universities: The move follows an earlier order, issued in March, barring girls from returning to secondary school.
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/20/1144419844/taliban-bans-afghanistan-women-universities

Zelensky Expected to Visit Washington on Wednesday. Trip would be his first visit outside of Ukraine since Russia’s invasion in February
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-president-volodymyr-zelensky-expected-to-visit-washington-on-wednesday-11671577431

Why Russia Is Terrified of This New U.S. Weapons Delivery: The PATRIOT air defense missile could target Putin’s Achilles’ heel. The visit is to announce another tranche of aid to his country, but overwhelming focus from American and Russian commentators alike is the announcement that the U.S. will supply PATRIOT air defense missiles to Ukraine.
https://news.yahoo.com/why-russia-terrified-u-weapons-173013612.html

# Gov / Politics / US
Big changes to the retirement system are included in Congress’s end-of-year bill: What the bill would do
In a note Tuesday morning, Stifel Chief Washington Policy Strategist Brian Gardner explained how “the bill would expand retirement saving options by allowing a deferral on mandatory withdrawals, an increased catch-up contribution to 401(k) plans, and provide new options for small businesses to offer retirement plans to employees.”
https://news.yahoo.com/big-changes-to-the-retirement-system-are-included-in-congresss-end-of-year-bill-182514621.html

Is this winning? Western leaders can no longer hide the truth about Ukraine: The mainstream media and the Biden administration insist ad nauseam that Ukraine is winning against Russia. But the facts on the ground do not fit the narrative and the administration and media know it.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/is-this-winning/

Joe Biden Inches Toward War with Iran, Makes Israel Full Military Partner: Israel’s changed status comes as the U.S. military refocuses from the ‘war on terror’ to potential combat with the big four—China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran.
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-inches-toward-war-iran-makes-israel-full-military-partner-1768600

# Medical / Health
Millions to lose Medicaid coverage under Congress’ plan:  Millions of people who enrolled in Medicaid during the COVID-19 pandemic could start to lose their coverage on April 1 if Congress passes the $1.7 trillion spending package leaders unveiled Tuesday. The legislation will sunset a requirement of the COVID-19 public health emergency that prohibited states from booting people off Medicaid.
https://apnews.com/article/health-covid-304d921beee43d29f1862cd4d6ab5297

Why Eric Adams’ Most Popular Policies Are His Most Hated: Somehow, it’s become a scandal among activists and media that New York City’s mayor wants more severely mentally ill people living on the street to get evaluated for care.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-most-popular-policies-are-his-most-hated

Why Hundreds of Hospitals Are Suddenly Suing Their Patients: But one of the most shocking policies KHN found was that many hospitals began suing patients. During the investigation, KHN examined various documents, policies, interviews, and email and telephone inquiries from 528. Over two-thirds of the policies examined approved of hospitals suing patients or pursuing additional legal actions.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/why-hundreds-of-hospitals-are-suddenly-suing-their-patients/ar-AA15xnpl?li=BBnba9O

# Military / Global
‘We’re Just Meat’: Russian Military Keeps Killing Own Troops: We have “more losses from our own” than from the Ukrainians, a Russian soldier admits to his mother. Russian soldiers sent next door to kill Ukrainians are increasingly getting killed by their own military instead.
https://news.yahoo.com/just-meat-russian-military-keeps-191349406.html

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December 20, 2022
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Federal court halts plan to end Remain in Mexico Policy: The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas has stayed a Biden administration rule terminating the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), otherwise known as the “Remain-in-Mexico” program, requiring it to remain in effect
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/federal-court-halts-plan-to-end-remain-in-mexico-policy/article_5a85114e-7fde-11ed-85dd-5b0a64f099c5.html

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
US Mother’s Tragedy: “So My Newborn Alexander Died days after Receiving Unauthorized Vaxxed Blood in a Transfusion”: Cornelia Hertzler stated that doctors noticed a blood clot in her infant boy “within a few hours after” a general blood bank transfusion. The baby died of large blood clot after doctor ignored the parents’ request for an unvaxxed transfusion.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/12/20/us-mothers-tragedy-so-my-newborn-alexander-died-days-after-receiving-unauthorized-vaxxed-blood-in-a-transfusion/

Risks of Pulmonary Embolism, Myocarditis, Blood Clots. FDA Disturbing Surveillance Data Finally Released:
FDA has routinely been using screening methods to monitor the safety of COVID-19 vaccines and to evaluate potential adverse events of interest (AEI) related to these vaccines. Concern has continued to grow over a small, but growing number of cases of a rare, but serious blood clotting disorders associated with the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine. The clotting disorder is called thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS)
https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/coronavirus-vaccine-blood-clots

CDC Director: Covid vaccines can’t prevent transmission anymore: The director for the CDC publicly acknowledged in a CNN interview that the COVID-19 vaccine is not effective at preventing transmission of the virus. In a segment on CNN with Wolf Blitzer, Walensky said that while the vaccines are doing very well to protect against serious illness and death, what they cannot do anymore is stop transmission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5PWsMkhGDE

Governors cite Medicaid costs in asking Biden to end COVID public health emergency: Twenty-five governors signed a letter to President Joe Biden asking him to end the federal public health emergency in April, saying Medicaid costs are costing their states millions
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/governors-cite-medicaid-costs-in-asking-biden-to-end-covid-public-health-emergency/article_09dbf4ae-7fe5-11ed-a6aa-7b5ab40d3c0d.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Report: Majority of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, many blame rising inflation: Recently released survey data reports that the majority of Americans are feeling the pain of inflation and living paycheck to paycheck
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/americans-living-paycheck-to-paycheck-many-blame-rising-inflation

# Education / Schools
The School That Calls the Police on Students Every Other Day: An Illinois school for students with disabilities has routinely used the police to handle discipline, resulting in the highest arrest rate of any district in the country. In one recent year, half of Garrison School students were arrested.
https://www.propublica.org/article/students-police-arrests-illinois-garrison-school

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Fracking waste gets a second look to ease looming West Texas water shortage: Aquifers beneath the Permian Basin are slowly running out. Recycling “produced water” should help to slow the decline.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19122022/fracking-west-texas-water-shortage/

Pennsylvania lets polluter resume drilling in protected zone, outraging residents in fracking’s ‘ground zero’: Order was quietly signed on the same day that residents celebrated the energy company’s plea deal on charges of environmental crimes.
https://capitalandmain.com/pennsylvania-lets-polluter-resume-drilling-in-protected-zone-outraging-residents-in-frackings-ground-zero

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Making The Connections To Facilitate Responsible Waste: Modern societies generate a great deal of trash, and even in the developed world the waste-handling system struggles to deal with it.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensavage/2022/11/15/making-the-connections-to-facilitate-responsible-waste-management/?sh=68bddb787aa5

Is there a practical way to utilize mixed “plastic waste? Plastic waste is a huge issue but recycling is limited because of practical and economic limitations: Heat and bacteria recycle mixed plastics into useful chemicals
Two-step process converts mixtures of plastic into small molecules, but could be challenging to implement at scale.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03271-w

The U.S. is one of two countries not part of a global agreement to protect land and water and address biodiversity loss, largely due to Republican opposition.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/climate/biodiversity-cop15-montreal-30×30.html?utm_medium=email

Why the US won’t join the single most important treaty to protect nature: America’s absence from the Convention on Biological Diversity hurts global efforts to avert extinction, experts say.
https://www.vox.com/22434172/us-cbd-treaty-biological-diversity-nature-conservation

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Group shaping US nutrition receives millions from big food industry:  Documents reveal the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has a record of quid pro quos with a range of food giants, owns stock in ultra-processed food companies and has received millions in contributions from producers of pop, candy, and processed foods linked to diabetes, heart disease, obesity and other health problems.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/09/academy-nutrition-financial-ties-processed-food-companies-contributions

The corporate capture of the nutrition profession in the USA: The involvement of unhealthy commodity corporations in health policy and research has been identified as an important commercial determinant contributing to the rise of non-communicable diseases. In the USA, health professional associations have been subject to corporate influence.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-health-nutrition/article/corporate-capture-of-the-nutrition-profession-in-the-usa-the-case-of-the-academy-of-nutrition-and-dietetics/9FCF66087DFD5661DF1AF2AD54DA0DF9

The meat industry has created a false dichotomy that pits people against animals: Factory farms are harmful to animals, the environment, local communities, and public health. We need a more logical and just food system.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/12/20/the-meat-industry-has-created-a-false-dichotomy-that-pits-people-against-animals/

# General Information / Other News
A Fast-Growing Network of Conservative Groups Is Fueling a Surge in Book Bans: The materials the groups object to are often described in policies and legislation as sensitive, inappropriate or pornographic. In practice, the books most frequently targeted for removal have been by or about Black or L.G.B.T.Q. people, according to the American Library Association.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/books/book-bans-libraries.html

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russia Can Finally See That Putin’s ‘Days Are Numbered’: The war in Ukraine has destroyed Putin’s aura of infallibility back home, and even the Kremlin seems to have realized this is the beginning of the end.
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2022/12/19/russia_can_finally_see_that_putins_days_are_numbered_871127.html

# Gov / Politics / US
The War Caucus Always Wins: Congress will soon vote on a record-shattering $857 billion defense spending bill that authorizes $45 billion more than Biden requested. Included in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2023, finalized on December 6, is the establishment of a multiyear no-bid contract system through which Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, and other weapons manufacturers are being empowered to expand their “industrial base” and business.
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/07/ukraine-weapons-russia-china-ndaa/

McConnell Hails ‘Strong Outcome’ for GOP as Omnibus Excludes Poverty-Cutting Child Tax Credit: “Our child poverty epidemic is a choice made by the so-called pro-life party,” said Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee.  Government funding package includes $858 billion in military spending and leaves out a Child Tax Credit expansion that Democrats and progressive advocates demanded.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/20/mcconnell-hails-strong-outcome-gop-omnibus-excludes-poverty-cutting-child-tax-credit

# Law Enforcement
Tennessee Men Charged For Plot to Kill FBI Investigators: An unsealed court filing on Friday charged Edward Kelley and Austin Carter with conspiracy, retaliating against a federal official, interstate communication of a threat and solicitation to commit a crime of violence against
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/17/january-6-capitol-attack

# Legal / DOJ
The Jan. 6 committee is asking the Department of Justice to prosecute Trump for his role in the insurrection: “We’ve never had a president of the United States stir up a violent attempt to block the transfer of power. I believe, nearly two years later, this is still a time of reflection and reckoning,” Rep. Bennie Thompson said.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/clarissajanlim/jan-6-committee-trump-criminal-charges-justice-department

House Jan. 6 Committee refers Trump for criminal investigation: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2020, riots at the U.S. Capitol on Monday voted to refer multiple criminal charges against former President Donald Trump to the Justice Department for potential prosecution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJ1_jInedM

Former Fort Worth Police Officer Found Guilty of Manslaughter of Atatiana Jefferson: A jury found Aaron Dean guilty of manslaughter for shooting Jefferson while she babysat her nephew in her mother’s home in 2019
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/15/fort-worth-police-officer-atatiana-jefferson/

# LGBTQ
# Marijuana / Hemp / CBD Oil
Voters in Five Texas Cities Approved Decriminalizing Marijuana, now City Officials are Standing In The Way.
Some local leaders say they worry the changes violate state law, while residents who supported decriminalizing marijuana say the pushback disrespects democracy
https://www.weatherforddemocrat.com/news/voters-in-five-texas-cities-approved-decriminalizing-marijuana-now-city-officials-are-standing-in-the/article_f62356a2-7d8a-11ed-9e55-77dacde4a5b8.html

# Media
‘Publishing is not a crime’: media groups urge US to drop Julian Assange charges: The US government must drop its prosecution of the WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange because it is undermining press freedom, according to the media organisations that first helped him publish leaked diplomatic cables
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/28/media-groups-urge-us-drop-julian-assange-charges

# Medical / Health
Medicare Pay Cuts Will Hurt Seniors’ Care, Doctors Argue: Unless Congress acts soon, Medicare payment for physicians will be chopped by 8.5% and a golden opportunity to reform prior authorization—a major administrative burden for physician practices—may slip away. The AMA is urging physicians to contact their legislators and let them know this is unfair, unacceptable and unsustainable.
https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/medicare-medicaid/doctors-congress-stop-medicare-pay-cut-and-fix-prior-auth

Omnibus Deal Delays Some Medicare Pay Cuts, Moves Up Medicaid Cutoffs: Leaders in Congress have reached a sweeping deal to ease Medicare pay cuts to doctors, make major changes to post-pandemic Medicaid policy, and to help prepare for future pandemics.
https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/19/congress-reaches-major-health-policy-deal-on-medicare-medicaid-and-pandemic-preparedness/

Some Pharmacies Are Limiting Sales Of Children’s Meds As ‘Tripledemic’ Rages: In a statement, CVS said it is limiting the number of pain relief medications to two. Walgreens customers can buy six over-the-counter pediatric fever reducers, the company said in a statement.
https://sports.yahoo.com/walgreens-cvs-limit-sales-children-050521860.html

# Military / DOD
U.S. Warplanes Fly to S. Korea After Kim’s Sister’s Threats: Kim Yo Jong upped the ante after doubts were cast on Pyongyang’s ICBM arsenal.
https://qconline.com/news/national/us-flies-bombers-stealth-jets-as-kims-sister-threatens/article_f31fbe7e-d02f-5557-b9e1-70b4e0010d52.html

Chronology of U.S.-North Korean Nuclear and Missile Diplomacy: Those efforts have been replete with periods of crisis, stalemate, and tentative progress towards denuclearization, and North Korea has long been a key challenge for the global nuclear nonproliferation regime.
https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/dprkchron

# Security
How the Global Spyware Industry Spiraled Out of Control: The most sophisticated spyware tools, like NSO’s Pegasus, have “zero-click” technology, meaning they can stealthily and remotely extract everything from a target’s mobile phone, without the user having to click on a malicious link to give Pegasus remote access. They can also turn the mobile phone into a tracking and secret recording device, allowing the phone to spy on its owner
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/us/politics/spyware-nso-pegasus-paragon.html

# Technology
Google, YouTube pour millions into left-leaning nonprofit for new ‘Global Fact Check Fund’: Google and YouTube are pouring millions into over 100 fact-checking organizations as part of a new Global Fact Check Fund aimed at stomping out misinformation online. On Tuesday, Google and YouTube announced a $13.2 million grant to the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the left-leaning nonprofit Poynter Institute.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/google-youtube-millions-left-leaning-organizations-global-fact-check-fund

CIA Venture Capital Arm Partners with Ex-Googler’s Startup to “Safeguard the Internet”: Placing the company within the CIA’s tech pipeline also raises questions about Trust Lab’s view of who or what might be a “harmful” online, a nebulous concept that will no doubt mean something very different to the U.S. intelligence community than it means elsewhere.
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/02/cia-google-content-moderation-trust-lab/

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December 19, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
New York Bans Puppy Mills and Sale of Cosmetics Tested on Animals:
The law, sponsored by state Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Queens) and Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal (D-Manhattan), is aimed at cracking down on so-called notorious “puppy mill” breeders who mistreat animals that are sold to stores for resale. State lawmakers approved the puppy mill ban by huge bipartisan margins last spring despite efforts by pet stores and their political allies to bury the proposal. Pet store owners argued the ban would put them out of business, though they will now be able to charge animal rescue shelters rent to use their space for adoptions.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/15/ny-gov-kathy-hochul-signs-law-banning-puppy-mills-sales/

# Archaeology
# Border / Immigration / Migrants
‘They’ve Gotta Have Something in Place’: Critics Circle as Biden Admin. Prepares for End of Title 42. The imminent expiration of the immigration policy on Wednesday has prompted concern of a surge of arrivals at the southern border.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/18/immigration-border-biden-title-42-00074482

Community-Based Programs Offer Alternative to Detention for Asylum Seekers: Community-based programs for asylum seekers are grossly underfunded, while detention and surveillance are expanding.
https://immigrantjustice.org/research-items/report-better-way-community-based-programming-alternative-immigrant-incarceration

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Pfizer mRNA Vaccines; Risks of Pulmonary Embolism, Myocarditis, Blood Clots. FDA Disturbing Surveillance Data Finally Released: 4 serious adverse reactions sometimes lethal: pulmonary embolism, acute myocardial infarction, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and immune thrombocytopenia. These are the same side effects denounced by Gospa News in many scientific articles based on clinical researches or literary study.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/12/18/vital-pfizer-mrna-vaccines-risks-of-pulmonary-embolism-myocarditis-blood-clots-fda-disturbing-surveillance-data-finally-released/?mc_cid=63f1207a33&mc_eid=3f7488d454

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
McCarthy Faces Debt-Limit Dilemma as House GOP Ratchets Up Demands Amid Speaker Bid: A growing number of Republicans have signaled a willingness to force the country to default and set off a global economic crisis unless Democrats and President Biden accept changes to earned benefit programs including Social Security and Medicare.
https://retiredamericans.org/thank-you-for-signing-up/

What’s the Fed Doing to Fight “She-Flation?”: “Inflation is generally thought to impose a greater burden on people with lower wealth and incomes, leading some to declare it ‘the most regressive tax.’” Among the groups that inflation has hit particularly hard has been women.
https://dcjournal.com/whats-the-fed-doing-to-fight-she-flation/

# Employment / Labor
For Many Workers, the Holiday Season Is the Most Exploitative Time of the Year: As delivery workers support others’ holiday dreams, they urgently need support in their 2023 contract fights.
https://truthout.org/articles/for-many-workers-the-holiday-season-is-the-most-exploitative-time-of-the-year/

It’s Long Past Time for the U.S. to Implement Paid Family and Medical Leave: We must see low-income parents, caregivers and child care providers as human beings with essential needs.
https://truthout.org/articles/its-long-past-time-for-the-us-to-implement-paid-family-and-medical-leave/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
The Scorched-Earth Legal Strategy Corporations Are Using to Silence Their Critics: Energy and extractive industry giants are targeting environmentalists with racketeering charges.
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/16/corporate-rico-environmental-advocate/

‘Firmageddon’: Oregon conifers suffer record die-off as climate crisis hits hard: More than a million acres of state forest contain trees that have succumbed to stressors exacerbated by a multi-year drought.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/15/oregon-dead-fir-trees-conifers-climate-crisis

# Environment / Climate / Global
COP15: Nations reach ‘historic’ deal to protect nature. The plan will put 30% of the planet under protection by the end of the decade. Nations have agreed to protect a third of the planet for nature by 2030 in a landmark deal aimed at safeguarding biodiversity. There will also be targets for protecting vital ecosystems such as rainforests and wetlands and the rights of indigenous peoples.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64019324

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Global
Part I:  Analysis, Secret alliance: How Kenyan anti-GMO activists are scrambling to block President’s decision authorizing GM corn imports and local cultivation. The East African-wide famine and supply chain issues exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have reenergized the anti-GMO movement in Kenya.
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/12/13/part-1-analysis-secret-alliance-how-kenyan-anti-gmo-activists-are-scrambling-to-block-presidents-decision-authorizing-gm-corn-imports-and-local-cultivation/

Part II: Viewpoint, Kenyan protestors aggressively promote disinformation in campaign to scuttle GM crop imports and cultivation: Are anti-biotechnology advocacy groups honestly engaging in science in their attacks on genetically modified crops?
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/12/14/part-ii-viewpoint-kenyan-protestors-aggressively-promote-disinformation-in-campaign-to-scuttle-gm-crop-imports-and-cultivation/

U.S. Announces $2.5 Billion in Food Assistance for Africa: U.S. President Joe Biden announced billions of dollars in additional humanitarian assistance to address acute food insecurity in Africa, which is facing a bigger and more complex food crisis than ever before.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-12-15/u-s-announces-2-5-billion-in-food-assistance-for-africa

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
One of the most common food allergies people in the United States suffer from is being allergic to shellfish. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued a Class 1 recall alert for a product called InnovAsian Crispy Chicken with Almonds entrée because it has been discovered that this product is not labeled correctly. The Walmart recall is affecting stores across 28 states, and it is imperative that if you or someone you know has a shellfish allergy, they do not consume this product.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/a-health-related-walmart-recall-is-affecting-shoppers-in-nearly-30-states/ar-AA15swNw?ocid=HPCDHP&li=BBnb7Kz

# Foodie Tips, Tricks and How To’s
Things We Never Knew Our Microwave Is Capable Of Doing: Our microwaves have so many uses, many of us don’t know half of them. So in this article, we bring you some of the best uses for that wonderful appliance!
https://www.theecofeed.com/en/microwave-never-things-capable?ly=native_one

# Gov / Politics / Global
UK sending 1,200 troops to fill in as ambulance crews strike: Ambulance crews are due to strike on Wednesday, joining nurses, railway staff, passport officers and postal workers, who are all staging a series of walkouts in the coming weeks. The U.K.’s most intense strike wave for decades is a response to a cost-of-living crisis driven by soaring food and energy prices in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/britain-strikes/2022/12/18/id/1100956/

Xi of Arabia and the petroyuan drive: Xi Jinping has made an offer difficult for the Arabian Peninsula to ignore. China will be guaranteed buyers of your oil and gas, but we will pay in yuan.
https://thecradle.co/Article/Columns/19565

Israel’s far-right government removes the mask that enabled western complacency:     No other country can thumb its nose at international law as Israel does and not pay a price. Maybe the West will have to accept that there is no legal or moral difference between the occupation in Ukraine and the occupation in Palestine
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-far-right-government-mask-removed-western-complacency

# Gov / Politics / US
GOP Blocks Funding to Cut Child Poverty After Approving $858 Billion for Defense: The GOP is refusing to negotiate on reviving the expanded Child Tax Credit, which cut child poverty by over 40 percent. Republican House and Senate Budgets Would Harm Children and the Nation. The Republican-led House and Senate recently passed their respective FY16 budget resolutions with only Republicans votes. Both would cut spending on crucial programs for poor and low-income children to unprecedented levels while increasing defense spending and giving
tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans
https://www.childrensdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/fy2016-house-and-senate.pdf

Biden Moves Ahead on Trump Plan to Build Israel Embassy on Stolen Palestinian Land: Objections from the land’s rightful owners, including U.S. citizens, are going unacknowledged by the administration. The organizations argued that continuing with Trump’s decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem violates international law, specifically given Jerusalem’s special status as a city whose sovereignty is undetermined.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-plans-to-build-jerusalem-us-embassy-on-palestinian-land/282852/

# Law Enforcement
Over 25,000 People in Prison Await Decisions on Their Clemency Applications: Across the U.S., people in prison are hoping for compassion, and clemency, allowing them to rejoin their loved ones.
https://action.aclu.org/petition/biden-bring-25000-people-home-through-clemency

# Legal / DOJ
What to watch as Jan. 6 committee wraps up its investigation: The committee has called the Capitol riot an “attempted coup” that warrants criminal prosecution from the Justice Department. The committee’s chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said the referrals may include criminal, ethics violations, legal misconduct and campaign finance violations. Lawmakers have suggested in particular that their recommended charges against Trump could include conspiracy to defraud the United State, obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress and insurrection.
https://apnews.com/article/january-6-final-hearing-trump-what-to-watch-a9d0eb77311df5d0391735cd64afa8fb

Jan. 6 Panel Unanimously Refers Trump to DOJ for Criminal Charges: “The Justice Department must apply the same standard of law to Donald Trump as they would to any citizen,” said Rep. Adam Schiff, a committee member. “That’s what Attorney General Garland promised to do. And the country will hold the department to it.”
https://www.axios.com/2022/12/19/january-6-committee-trump-criminal-charges

Trump’s Giving Prosecutors Evidence to Use Against Him in Court: Former President Donald Trump may have provided evidence that could be used against him as House Democrats will soon decide whether to make his tax return documents public.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-tax-return-documents-social-media-comments-giving-prosecutors-evidence-use-court-1768211

# Media
DOJ Preps Charges Against Former ABC News Producer: The FBI had been tracking Meek for suspected criminal activity unrelated to his work as a journalist long before the April 27 raid, according to those sources as well as two others. Additionally, new details have emerged surrounding the matter.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/doj-preps-charges-against-former-130251924.html

# Media / Global
Attacks on Press Freedom Are an Attack on Democracy: The murder of 13 reporters this year has made Mexico the most dangerous country for journalists.
https://dcjournal.com/attacks-on-press-freedom-are-an-attack-on-democracy/

# Military / DOD
Not a Joke, the Pentagon Wants to Name a Warship the USS Fallujah: Why is the U.S. choosing to celebrate its most murderous and merciless battles in Iraq?
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/17/uss-fallujah-iraq-warship/

US Sends Infantry Unit To Base Just Miles Away From Russian Border:  US Embassy in Lithuania announced the Pentagon plans to step up troop deployments in the Baltic states, taking what was previously categorized as “episodic” troop deployments and turning toward a “persistent rotational presence” across the Baltics, including in Estonia – which shares two small stretches of land-border with Russia.
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-bolsters-troop-presence-just-kilometers-russian-border-estonia

For the 1st time, a Black female Marine is set to be a 2-star general: Brig. Gen. Lorna Mahlock is on her way to becoming a major general. President Joe Biden appointed Brig. Gen. Lorna Mahlock to the grade of major general, the Pentagon announced on Dec. 6, and the Senate confirmed her Thursday. Mahlock is the deputy director of cybersecurity for combat support at the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland.
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2022/12/16/for-the-1st-time-a-black-female-marine-is-set-to-be-a-2-star-general/

# Military / Global
North Korea fires first ballistic missiles in a month, South’s military says: North Korea on Sunday fired a pair of medium-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, South Korean military officials said.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2022-12-17/north-korea-ballistic%C2%A0missile-launch-8457348.html?utm_source=Stars+and+Stripes+Emails&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines&utm_medium=email

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December 18, 2022
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# Archaeology
Mysterious sarcophagi in Notre Dame have been opened, revealing this: The burning of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris was a day of incredible shock and sadness throughout France as well as the world. When archaeologists were asked to survey the damage caused by the fire, they stumbled upon some unique finds which had been hidden underneath the centuries old cathedral.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/mysterious-sarcophagi-in-notre-dame-have-been-opened-revealing-this/ar-AA15o2Zp?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=c5da9388f852452e82bd45272bad898e

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Gov. Ron DeSantis asks grand jury to investigate whether Floridians were misled by COVID shot firms – as he compares vaccine makers to opioid companies –The firebrand Florida governor is asking for a probe into leading vaccine makers –He is asking the state’s Supreme Court to gather a grand jury for the probe Florida is also launching its own public health committee to rival the CDC
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11534179/Gov-Ron-DeSantis-asks-grand-jury-investigate-Floridians-MISLED-COVID-vaccine.html

FDA Announces Recall of COVID-19 Tests Due to False Results: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday announced a COVID-19 test manufacturer is issuing a recall due to false test results.  The recall affects a total of 11,102 tests shipped to customers from July 26th, 2022 through August 26th, 2022. The test was granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on October 28, 2021.
https://www.cnet.com/health/medical/detect-recalls-covid-tests-over-increased-risk-of-false-negatives/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
‘A major problem’: The US surpasses $31 trillion in debt, made worse by rising interest rates, the number climbed to $31.3 trillion in December. This is who holds the IOUs
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/a-major-problem-the-us-surpasses-31-trillion-in-debt-made-worse-by-rising-interest-rates-and-this-is-who-holds-the-ious/ar-AA13UaKx?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=c5da9388f852452e82bd45272bad898e

New Study Reveals Billions of Dollars in Political Spending by US Trade Associations, Most of It on PR: Out of $3.4 billion spent by trade associations over 10 years, nearly $2.2 billion went towards advertising and promotion, with the oil and gas industry the biggest spender.
https://www.desmog.com/2022/12/14/trade-associations-spend-billions-climate-politics-fossil-fuels-brulle-downie/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
A Gary, Indiana Plant Would Make Jet Fuel From Trash and Plastic. Residents Are Pushing Back: Fulcrum BioEnergy says its “sustainable aviation fuel” will divert waste from Chicago-area landfills and reduce airline carbon emissions. But critics say there’s nothing sustainable about it, and even question its viability.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90826158/indiana-residents-pushing-back-plant-turn-trash-into-jet-fuel

The Energy Department Hails a Breakthrough in Fusion Energy, Achieving a Net Energy Gain With Livermore’s Vast Laser Array: The project’s director said the lab is “a few decades of research” away from a commercial power plant.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13122022/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough/

Manchin’s Permitting Reform Could Lead to More Oil Spills Like Keystone’s, Safety Experts Warn: With Republicans taking control of the House in January, the fossil fuel industry sees a new opportunity to revive an effort to streamline pipeline environmental reviews.
https://insideclimatenews.org/todaysclimate/manchins-permitting-reform-could-lead-to-more-oil-spills-like-keystones-safety-experts-warn/
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
The collapse of insects: The most diverse group of organisms on the planet are in trouble and the consequences could be dire. Habitat loss, pesticides and climate change are threatening insect populations worldwide. Insects play critical roles in pollinating plants we eat, breaking down waste in forest soil and forming the base of a food chain that other, larger animals, including humans, rely upon.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/02/24/1082752634/the-insect-crisis-oliver-milman

Lessons for the Next Resistance: Veterans of the EPA knew it would face unprecedented attacks under Donald Trump. We banded together and did something about it.
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/lessons-for-the-next-resistance/

Which wetlands to protect? Supreme Court will soon decide: The U.S. loses about 60,000 acres of wetlands a year. An upcoming Supreme Court decision could settle decades of legal ambiguity about which wetlands should get federal protection under the Clean Water Act, bringing major changes to how these vital ecosystems are managed.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/us-supreme-court-wetlands

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Global
Climate Change is Driving Millions to the Precipice of a ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’: Researchers have long warned of the negative impacts that climate change will have on the world’s staple crops. But a recent spike in hunger and famine are revealing the instability of a global food system that is ill prepared for shocks, whether from war, pandemics, severe storms or drought.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11122022/kenya-somalia-africa-famine-hunger-climate-change/

# General Information / Other News
US, Germany and Italy alongside Ukraine in opposing UN anti-Nazi Resolution: The UN General Assembly adopted the Russian proposal, which the collective West opposed
https://www.rt.com/news/568335-un-nazism-axis-us-ukraine/

Tucker Carlson Shocked When High-Level CIA Source Confirms CIA Killed JFK: “The Answer Is Yes. I Believe They Were Involved” – Top Intelligence Source Tells Tucker Carlson the CIA Was Involved in Assassination of John F. Kennedy (VIDEO) But one thing is clear. It is now time to revive past proposals to abolish the CIA altogether made by Senators Bernie Sanders, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and others.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/answer-yes-believe-involved-top-intelligence-source-tells-tucker-carlson-cia-involved-assassination-john-f-kennedy-video/

Trump issues threat in ‘our country is sick’ attack on the DOJ and the FBI: The ex-president’s cries of a witch-hunt by law enforcement, echoed by his allies, have imperiled officers’ physical safety
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/11/trump-mar-a-lago-witch-hunt-fbi-doj-safety

Trump May Face 25 Years in Prison, Be Blocked From Future Office: Kirschner
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-may-face-25-years-prison-blocked-future-office-kirschner-1767910

# Gov / Politics / Global
Isolating the Murderous Iranian Regime Is Just and Necessary: To stop Iran’s indiscriminate executions of protesters, a coordinated international response, including the recall of ambassadors, needs to happen right now.
https://news.yahoo.com/isolating-murderous-iranian-regime-both-043244978.html

Russia Can Finally See That Putin’s ‘Days Are Numbered’: The war in Ukraine has destroyed Putin’s aura of infallibility back home, and even the Kremlin seems to have realized this is the beginning of the end.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/russia-finally-see-putin-days-010335807.html

# Gov / Politics / US
Global tax deal risks having US half in, half out: Democrats’ razor-thin majority in the US Congress may make it impossible for Washington to fully sign on to a budding international agreement.
https://www.politico.eu/article/global-tax-deal-us-facebook-google-congress/

EU’s Tax Move to Swipe Revenue From US Unless Congress Follows: The Tax Landscape for US Multinationals is About to Get Messier Now That the EU Has. The latest Tweet by Bloomberg states, ‘The tax landscape for US multinationals is about to get messier now that the EU has adopted a 15% minimum tax for big companies while Congress shows no sign of getting on board …’
https://www.latestly.com/socially/business/the-tax-landscape-for-us-multinationals-is-about-to-get-messier-now-that-the-eu-has-latest-tweet-by-bloomberg-4597778.html

This is Great Reset terrorism that must be nipped in the bud: Oxford Introducing Traffic Restrictions for Privately Owned Cars After 2023: “Traffic filtering” involves stopping vehicles from moving through selected checkpoints by leveraging a network of preexisting automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras. While locals will be eligible to purchase permits that will allow them to drive between the zones “up to 100 days per year,” exceeding this limit will result in fines.
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/cars/oxford-introducing-traffic-restrictions-for-privately-owned-cars-after-2023-44498004

# Law Enforcement
It’s Too Easy for Abusive Prison Guards to Keep Their Jobs: Two new scandals have rocked the already beleaguered Federal Bureau of Prisons. Corrupt and predatory officers are a big part of the problem.
https://www.yahoo.com/now/way-too-easy-abusive-prison-041716898.html

# Medical Alternatives / Herbology
This Little Weed is one of the Most Useful Medicines on the Planet: This little weed pops up in gardens, on lawns and even in driveway cracks. Those bushy green leaves and small, stalk-like buds are part of the miraculous plantain. Plantain is one of the most medicinally powerful “nuisance” plants.
https://gardeningsoul.com/this-little-weed-is-one-of-the-most-useful-medicines-on-the-planet/

# Medical / Health
Post-Roe v. Wade Fears Realized As Trump Judge Approves Contraception Suit: 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

# Military / DOD
DOD says it will stop treating civilians in Indo-Pacific for chronic health conditions: Civilian employees of the Defense Department in the Indo-Pacific will face even more difficulty securing on-base health care next year.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2022-12-16/dod-civilian-health-care-acute-chronic-8439422.html

U.S. troops deployed near Russian border –Estonia’s defense ministry has announced the arrival of an American infantry company as part of NATO’s presence in the country
https://www.rt.com/news/568395-us-troops-deployed-estonia/

# Social
Google Goes Full-on Racist, Will Start Marking the Race of Business Owners: Remember the old “Whites Only/Colored Only” signs on water fountains and bathrooms in the old Jim Crow South? Thanks to Google, that kind of open, in-your-face racism is back with a vengeance. Google is so concerned that you not be racist that it is doing the most racist thing a major corporation has done at least since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964:
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/12/15/google-goes-full-on-racist-will-start-marking-the-race-of-business-owners-n1654000

# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
Pentagon has received ‘several hundreds’ of new UFO reports: The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) was set up in July and is responsible for not only tracking unidentified objects in the sky, but also underwater or in space, or potentially an object that has the ability to move from one domain to the next.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/12/17/pentagon-has-received-several-hundreds-of-new-ufo-reports.html

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December 16, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
Forest equity, What Indigenous people want from carbon credits: In a world where carbon credit markets are taking advantage of Indigenous people and their forests, the United Nation is losing its leadership on combating climate change, says Indigenous leader Levi Sucre Romero.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/110883299

# Indigenous / Global
The promise and peril of Canada’s approach to Indigenous protected areas: Canada needs to protect more land. There’s 500,000 square kilometres in proposed Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas. So what’s the holdup?
https://thenarwhal.ca/indigenous-protected-areas-ipca-hurdles/

# Archaeology
# Border / Immigration / Migrants
What the Left and Right Get Wrong About Texas Migrant Crisis: The right throws around the word “invasion” so much that it has lost its meaning. To them, it means anytime a migrant steps across the line without permission to enter the United States. By that definition, our country has been in a constant state of “invasion” since 1848 when it stole half of Mexico at the barrel of a gun and converted the seized territory into eight U.S. states.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/left-wrong-texas-migrant-crisis-093256485.html

Abbott calls for investigation into groups assisting with illegal entry into US: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has called for an investigation into the role non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are playing in helping foreign nationals illegally enter Texas from Mexico
https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/abbott-calls-for-investigation-into-groups-assisting-with-illegal-entry-into-us/article_6b9f4952-7be4-11ed-9b35-3b422552ae8d.html

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
The Biden administration is again making free COVID-19 tests available to all U.S. households as coronavirus cases are up across 90% of the country.
https://apnews.com/article/white-house-reveals-winter-covid-plans-test-kits-2b015ef4e3c97520a3981c47d00467c3

As it prepares to disband, Michigan task force on COVID racial disparities leaves a healthy legacy: Task force members are looking back on the work they’ve accomplished and the groundwork they’ve laid for continued progress. This dramatic reduction in disparities involved creating more opportunities for testing within communities, connecting people of color with primary care providers, improving contact tracing and isolation strategies, promoting safe reengagement, and utilizing trusted community leaders in the broadcast of reliable COVID-19 information.
https://www.flintside.com/features/task-force-covid-racial-disparities.aspx

# Education / Schools
Video of college student arrest raises questions about use of police on campus: Arrest of student who got in dispute with professor raises questions about the role of campus police.
https://theconversation.com/video-of-college-student-arrest-raises-questions-about-use-of-police-on-campus-196699

# Employment / Labor
Feds settle with Colorado trucking firm in discrimination case: The U.S. Department of Justice reached a settlement with a nationwide trucking company based in Colorado for discriminating against non-U.S. citizen workers.  The department began an investigation of Navajo Express after a non-U.S. citizen filed a complaint alleging the company refused to accept valid documentation proving permission to work. The company also allegedly demanded a different document from the applicant.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/feds-settle-with-colorado-trucking-firm-in-discrimination-case/article_fe554cdc-7ca8-11ed-b06f-efaeae528380.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Will the Senate ban uranium mining in the Grand Canyon? Before the legislative slate is wiped clean on Jan. 3, senators needs to pass the Grand Canyon Protection Act. The Senate has only a few weeks left to pass the Grand Canyon Protection Act, which would permanently ban new uranium mines on more than 1 million acres of federal public lands near the Grand Canyon. The bill has already passed the House twice.
https://www.sierraclub.org/arizona/blog/2022/12/uranium-mine-gears-near-grand-canyon-national-park

# Foodie Tips, Tricks and How To’s
Are strawberries berries? Uhm, not really. But bananas are berries, and it gets weirder: The discrepancy in berry nomenclature arose because people called certain fruits “berries” thousands of years before scientists came up with a precise definition for the word, said Judy Jernstedt. Usually, people think of berries as small, squishy fruit that can be picked off plants, but the scientific classification is far more complex, Jernstedt said.
https://www.livescience.com/57477-why-are-bananas-considered-berries.html

These Easy Tricks Will Make Anyone An Expert In The Kitchen: We’ll show you different tricks to make your meals tasty and beautiful. These hacks will save you time and energy in the kitchen, so why not give them a try?
https://toptiphacks.com/en/trick-guide-to-be-a-kitchen-expert/

# General Information / Other News
Trump Family Legal Woes Are Now an International Problem: Although Trump resigned as the director of the Irish company after saying he “couldn’t care less,” Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, remain as directors of TIGL. The Trump family and the former president’s company are already at the center of a number of ongoing lawsuits in the United States.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-family-legal-woes-ireland-golf-course-1767801

# Gov / Politics / Global
Kremlin TV Stars Combust as Russians Admit War Is Aimless: Putin’s media darlings are promptly melting down as more Russians realize they “don’t understand what they’re doing” in Ukraine.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kremlin-tv-stars-combust-russians-094351911.html

Is Japan Getting Ready for a War with China? It Looks Like It: The threat of Chinese aggression is producing a quiet revolution in Tokyo’s statecraft, and officials are pushing the nation to get ready for a fight.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2022-11-06/why-japan-is-gearing-up-for-possible-war-with-china-over-taiwan

# Gov / Politics / US
Lifting the Veil, an Investigative History of the United States Pathocracy: “The United States and its allies had been deliberately proliferating radical Islam for decades, only to later spend trillions fighting the enemy they created, thus generating huge war profits for Wall Street moguls.”
https://www.wanttoknow.info/mk/liftingtheveil

The waste and fraud of the “war on terror,” the most obvious evidence for the waning influence of the United States is the current economic crisis: The United States ruling class has enjoyed lone superpower status since the collapse for the Soviet Union in 1991, although it has done everything possible to ensure it replicates the mistakes that ran the Soviets into the ground.
https://isreview.org/issue/82/waste-and-fraud-war-terror/index.html

Ron DeSantis Is a Case Study in the Threat of Fascism in the U.S: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has pursued white supremacist policies with deep roots in the Jim Crow era.
https://truthout.org/articles/ron-desantis-is-a-case-study-in-the-threat-of-fascism-in-the-us/

House Committee wraps up historic investigation into oil industry: The latest tranche of documents caps off a nearly two-year investigation that appears set to come to an end with Republicans taking control of the House of Representatives in January.
https://www.desmog.com/2022/12/14/house-oversight-historic-investigation-oil-industry/

# Medical / Health
Help is coming for RSV: The vaccine makers Pfizer and GSK are racing to get approval for the first-ever jabs against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which has been hospitalizing young children in the United States and Europe at an alarming rate. This week, both companies moved closer to regulatory approvals, and they could each see the first-ever approvals for an RSV vaccine in 2023. Pfizer isn’t far behind, with an early stop for the trial of its vaccine given to pregnant women to protect infants and eyeing an approval filing by year-end.
https://www.fiercepharma.com/marketing/pfizer-gsk-prep-battle-they-look-create-worlds-first-ever-rsv-vaccine-market

# Medical Technology
Anti-cancer CAR-T therapy reengineers T cells to kill tumors, and researchers are expanding the limited types of cancer it can target: Immunotherapy has the potential to eliminate tumors, but works best for select patients. Engineering T cells to bypass cancer’s defenses could help expand treatment eligibility to more patients.
https://theconversation.com/anti-cancer-car-t-therapy-reengineers-t-cells-to-kill-tumors-and-researchers-are-expanding-the-limited-types-of-cancer-it-can-target-196471

# Military / DOD
US to begin training hundreds of Ukrainian troops every month: Starting in January, 500 Ukrainian troops a month will travel to Germany to train with the U.S. Army, the Pentagon announced Thursday.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2022/12/15/us-to-begin-training-hundreds-of-ukrainian-troops-every-month/

Senate backs big land transfer for Nevada military complex:  The U.S. Senate has voted for a massive expansion of a northern Nevada naval air training complex that will transfer of a huge swath of public land to the military.
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2022/dec/16/senate-backs-big-land-transfer-for-nevada-military/

# Military / Global
Russian Strikes Hit Power Plants, Forcing Freezing Blackouts: At least two civilian deaths were also reported in the missile blasts, Ukrainian officials reported.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-europe-business-power-outages-cb6c8c74e39fb6ff2f51a9579ef401c4

Russia Claims It’s Being Attacked by Drones Made in the U.S: State media says the drones were used to target energy infrastructure deep inside Russian borders.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/oct/30/russia-ukraine-war-live-us-accuses-russia-of-weaponising-food-after-moscow-suspends-grain-deal

# Social
Science built up the idea of race. Can it ever be torn down? On first hearing, in May of this year, that a gunman had murdered 10 people in a Buffalo supermarket, most Americans likely registered it as another tragic installment in a serial epidemic of gun violence — and it was that. But when the motives of the shooter later surfaced in a bigoted manifesto, the crime took on the aspect of a different incurable disease. That his victims were all Black was not happenstance; it was the point.
https://race.undark.org/

# Sports
# Technology
Developers Found Graves in the Virginia Woods, Authorities Then Helped Erase the Historic Black Cemetery:
The cemetery’s disappearance cleared the way for the expansion of a Microsoft data center, despite layers of federal and state regulations nominally intended to protect culturally significant sites.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-authorities-erased-historic-black-cemetery-virginia

# Water
The nation’s largest water supplier has declared a drought emergency for all of Southern California, clearing the way for potential mandatory water restrictions early next year that could impact 19 million people.
https://napavalleyregister.com/news/state-and-regional/nations-largest-water-supplier-declares-drought-emergency/article_c1d60dc6-e757-5b48-ab86-aa75b670c922.html

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December 15, 2022
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# Indigenous
Testing for ‘forever chemicals’ lacking for tribal water systems: A study by researchers at the PFAS Project Lab found the EPA has sampled tribal water systems at a lower rate than non-tribal systems.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2022/12/14/testing-for-forever-chemicals-lacking-for-tribal-water-systems/69726206007/

Toxic Salmon Reporting “Deeply Troubling,” Lawmaker Says, Demanding Changes to Protect Pacific Northwest Tribal Health: Citing an investigation into toxic contamination in salmon, state and federal lawmakers across the Pacific Northwest are calling for policy changes and more funding but are lacking details on next steps.
https://www.propublica.org/article/toxic-salmon-columbia-river-basin-lawmaker-response

# Children / Youth
Child Welfare Experts Say New Mexico Can’t Put Kids in Homeless Shelters Just Because It Lacks Other Beds:
A team of experts monitoring child welfare reform in New Mexico has found that foster kids have been placed in homeless shelters and other inappropriate settings
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2850084472735/child-welfare-experts-say-new-mexico-can-t-put-kids-in-homeless-shelters-just-because-it-lacks-other-beds

# Chemicals
As Workers Battle Cancer, The Government Admits Its Limit for a Deadly Chemical Is Too High: The U.S. agency that is supposed to safeguard worker health has all but given up on setting limits to protect them from dangerous chemicals. Meanwhile, workers are dying.
https://www.propublica.org/article/goodyear-niagara-rubber-plant-ortho-toluidine

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
VITAL! WHO Scandal: Covid-19 Investigative Group’s French co-chair Worked in Wuhan Bio-Lab which Enhanced the SARS Viruses: Anthony Fauci and by Bill Gates to conduct chimeric experiments on coronaviruses with enhanced virulence in China), had also been the one who had inspired the letter of 27 scientists from The Lancet magazine who denied the thesis of the artificial origin of SARS-Cov-2 after the research of some Indian biologists who “were forced to retract it”, according to the late virologist Luc Montagnier.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/12/14/vital-scandal-into-who-the-french-co-chair-of-covid-19-investigative-group-worked-in-wuhan-bio-lab-which-enhanced-the-sars-viruses/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Federal Reserve hikes rates again: The US central bank has hiked interest rates again, and warned more rises will be necessary to rein in the rapid pace of price increases. Forecasts from the Federal Reserve showed the bank’s key interest rate could stand above 5% a year from now.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/after-raising-interest-rates-again-federal-reserve-warns-more-hikes-likely-in-2023

# Education / Schools
Discipline Crackdown Freaks Out Parents in Florida Schools: A terrifying sheriff, a right-wing school board, and explosive meetings have some fearing the worst for their kids.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/discipline-crackdown-in-brevard-county-schools-is-freaking-out-parents

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Pennsylvania lifts ban on gas production in polluted village: The agency’s agreement with Houston-based Coterra Energy Inc. is dated Nov. 29,  the same day Coterra pleaded no contest in a high-profile criminal case accusing the company of allowing methane to leak uncontrolled into Dimock’s aquifer. State officials denied that Coterra was allowed to plead to a misdemeanor charge in exchange for being allowed to drill for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars worth of gas.
https://apnews.com/article/business-pennsylvania-state-government-climate-and-environment-politics-778fffd63ac1db58ab7df86fe1958ffa

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Feds list whitebark pine as threatened under Endangered Species Act: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service granted the whitebark pine protections under the Endangered Species Act. Significant threats continue to challenge this keystone species of the American West
https://www.fws.gov/press-release/2022-12/whitebark-pine-receives-esa-protection-threatened-species

As Arctic gets warmer and wetter, Alaska is slammed by extreme events, report says: The 2022 Arctic Report Card highlights Alaska’s heavy rains and snows, flooding, tundra wildfires and other events tied to climate change.
https://alaskabeacon.com/2022/12/13/as-arctic-gets-warmer-and-wetter-alaska-is-slammed-by-extreme-events-report-says/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin Shrugs-Off Washington’s Provocations and ‘Sticks to Business’: Last week’s drone attacks on Russian military bases represent a serious escalation in Washington’s proxy war on Russia. One of the attacks involved an airfield that is located less than 200 miles from Moscow. Naturally, the incident rankled Russian President Vladimir Putin who convened an emergency meeting of his Security Council to explore the options for retaliatory strikes. We have no doubt that Russia’s Top Brass recommended tit-for-tat missile strikes beyond Ukraine’s borders as a form of equal payback.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/putin-shrugs-off-washington-provocations-sticks-business/5802142

ICC Wanted to Investigate Israeli War Crimes. Nearly two years have passed since the International Criminal Court (ICC) began investigating war crimes committed in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza.  Now It’s Caving to U.S. Pressure. Two years after launching an investigation of war crimes in Palestine, the ICC is still dragging its feet.
https://truthout.org/articles/icc-wanted-to-investigate-israeli-war-crimes-now-its-caving-to-us-pressure/

Vladimir Putin has reasserted his nuclear threat against the West by appearing to prepare for combat use a massive nuclear missile that is capable of hitting both the US and UK.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/14/putin-readies-massive-nuclear-missile-capable-of-hitting-us-and-uk/

# Gov / Politics / US
Congress considers omnibus as deadline approaches: Lawmakers are expected to pass a continuing resolution this week, possibly Wednesday night, ahead of a Friday deadline to give a few extra days to hammer out the details of a full-year omnibus spending bill
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress-considers-omnibus-as-deadline-approaches

Why Congress Can’t Stop the CIA From Working With Forces That Commit Abuses: The Leahy Law prohibits the U.S. military from providing training and equipment to foreign security forces that commit human rights abuses, but it does not apply to U.S. intelligence agencies.
https://www.rawstory.com/why-congress-cant-stop-the-cia-from-working-with-forces-that-commit-abuses/

The Americans Started the US War with Russia: Biden was brought to power by the national security state to launch a war against Russia.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/12/09/the-americans-started-the-us-war-with-russia/

# Military / DOD
Military: The Night Raids; CIA-backed operations killed countless Afghan civilians, and the U.S. hasn’t been held accountable. A reporter returns to investigate her past and unravel the legacy of the secretive Zero Units.
https://www.propublica.org/article/afghanistan-night-raids-zero-units-lynzy-billing

Government officials say that the US is poised to send “Patriot missiles” to Ukraine. These missiles are the country’s “most advanced ground-based air defense system.”  The White House had refrained until now from offering these missiles to Ukraine. The officials said a directive could be approved as early as this week.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/us/politics/ukraine-us-patriot-missiles.html

What the heck is a Patriot missile? A typical Patriot battery includes a radar system, a power generation supply, and a command and control station connected to several launch stations. With its sophisticated radar system it will be able to engage eight targets at a time. The transfer of the advanced air defense system is something Ukrainian officials have been demanding since shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in late February.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-patriot-missiles-game-changer-ukraine/story?id=95222548

# Veterans / VA
Veteran’s Affairs (V.A.) Can Actually Do a Lot for Veterans: The V.A. is important, but often misunderstood and underutilized, service for U.S. Veterans. We’re going to discuss the criticisms of the V.A., what benefits it provides, and how the V.A. can be remarkably effective in helping Vets
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/12/14/veterans-affairs-va-doing-good/?mc_cid=acf6e60df8&mc_eid=3f7488d454

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